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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
A PROJECT which, we are sure,
Mary McComb would heartily ap
prove, has been started since her un
fortunate death.
What is proposed is that those who
wish to pay a special
tribute to the mem
ory of this woman,
who served compe
te n 1 1 y as Klamath
county librarian from
1934 until her death,
should contribute to
a memorial fund to
purchase books for
the library to go on
a "Mary McComb
shelf."
The fund would be
used to purchase
books for the library which Miss Mc
Comb would have liked to obtain, but
for which money was lacking.
This would make a most appropriate
memorial, in keeping with the dignity
and major interests of the woman
whose memory is to be honored.
Those who wish to give to the fund
may send their contribution to Miss
Waldron, in care of the county library.
We are sure there will be a hearty re
sponse to the suggestion,
The sheriff says he is going to try to
provide some specials on Christmas for
residents of the county jail, but that
doesn't alter the fact that the county
Jail is a good place to stay out of on
Christmas and any other day. The city
jail, which the grand jury has again
denounced, is even a better place to
stay out of, if you follow us,
It doesn't look as if we are going to
have a white Christmas, but it cer
tainly appears that the Klamath coun
try is going to have Christmas weather
that will justify plenty of conversa
Advertising
Br DELBERT ADDISON
Harald and News Advertising
Manager
THIS paper will be published the
next two weeks in a radical man
ner . . . with ,;..st the one thought In
mind of fulfilling an obligation to our
subscribers. F ', ' . '"719.
This obligation Is
interpreted as "giv
ing them the news."
And that raises a
question in this de
partment of just what
a subscriber does ex
pect when he lays his
subscription dollar on
the line.
Technically, the ad
vertiser pays to get
has message to the
subscribers (and ADDISON
therein pays the lion's share of the
cost of publishing the paper.) Techni
cally, then, the subscriber pays only to
get the news. It's our thought that aft
er reading tonight's issue, the sub
scriber will not be quite satisfied . . .
like after sitting down to a vegetable
plate.
WHAT THEY LIKE
FOLLOWING a trucker's strike in
New York when papers went sev
eral days without advertising 1012 peo
ple were asked, "Do you like the news
papers without advertising?"
The least enthusiastic group was
"men over 45." Only 64 of them
would be unhappy if advertising were
left out of papers. But the lack of sup
port in this group was more than made
wp for by ''women from 25 to 45."
They gave advertising in newspapers
a vote of better than 91 per cent. (Put
this beside the fact that women do 85
per cent of all retail buying.)
Some of these women said:
"I want to know what's for sale."
"Papers look sick without advertise
ments." "The ads cheer wp the paper."
"Ads are more entertaining than the
funnies." (We presume that this is a
favorable comment.)
This morning's mail brings a card
from "A Subscriber." Unsigned com
ments generally go in the waste bas
ket, but let's read this one and then
call it a day:
"Mr. Editor How does one find the
dbda number m your paper. The P
per is getting worse all the time. No
crossword, no nothing but aas.
A Subscriber."
Motion's Column
By PAUL MALLON
A ASHINGTON, Dec. 23 Numer-
VV oils republican comments have
leaned lightly, or not at all, on the
prospect of labor legislation growing
out of the prospective republican ma
jority conference hero December 30.
While the avenues of public discussion
in press and radio have concerned
themselves particularly about legisla
tion to curb the unions, the official re
publican sources have been notably
quiet
Programs of proposed action had
been laid down by various groups, but
the incoming senators who will do the
job have not done much of the talking
aloud.
This is not due either to lack of in
terest or evasion. Privately the best
republican authorities concede that la
bor legislation is the No. 1 item of
business on the calendar. In general
they naturally lake the position that
correction of the situation which the
country has gone through was the
primary popular force which was be
hind their election.
The discussion, therefore, is likely
to center upon methods but not meth
ods beginning the same old arguments
all over again, which led, for instance,
last session to the veto of the Case bill.
The genuine prospects are for going at
least as far as the Case bill and fur
ther.
TWO PHASES
THE people whose comment would
matter most have indicated to me
that the question may be broken up
into two legislative packages. A repeal
of the most popularly resented features
of the Wagner act, might possibly come
in me nrst package, these authorities
say. There would not be much con
troversy, for instance, about repeal of
the provision preventing an employer
from speaking to an employee on the
subject of labor, or other phases of
Uiat nature.
But the election result demanded
much further action to prevent catas
trophes to national methods of com
mon, everyday living in simple, com
mon justice and fairness. On this there
will be some new ideas. One idea I
am citing this merely as an example,
for it may or may not go through is
to find some legislative means to put
strikes on a local or state-wide basis.
This newly developed theory of industry-wide
strikes which paralyze an
entire nation have put a good many
men in a position to tie up the country.
If strike action could be broken
down to a state level, the unions might
still well be able to obtain justice with
out ruining the entire national econ
omy. Now the trouble about this may
come not from the unions, but from
the employers. If they are forced to
meet certain conditions in one state of
sad disadvantage to their business,
they perhaps will not welcome the ad
vancement of such an opportunity for
legislation. But there will be new ideas
along this line and the matter is cer
tainly being subjected to serious study,
not from the standpoint of punishing
the unions or inflicting damages upon
tnem, but of protecting the nation. The
idea of drafting miners to work, for
instance, might hardly be considered
feasible or acceptable.
TAX REDUCTION
OTHER matters of secondary but
major importance include next a
substantial tax reduction on personal
incomes, no matter what you have
heard to the contrary. Of course, an
other round of strikes could prevent
the government from obtaining the ex
pected revenues and put the treasury
in such a position that tax reductions
would be impossible, but there is
nevertheless talk that a tax reduction
would inspire personal effort and be
an incentive to encourage work and
production. The republicans are also
talking among themselves seriously
about combing the federal bureaucrats
and cutting them down to size, which
will hardly be an unpopular idea of
legislation except in Washington.
Little prospect apparently exists of
any "tampering with the tariff." The
world has moved so far in advance in
systems of finance and trade that tar
iffs are a secondary question. Inci
dentally, some republicans tell me that
M was the Taft administration which
originated the idea of reciprocal tariffs
which the Roosevelt administration
later took up. In any event, the coun
try is not threatened at the moment
by imports. Every nation in the world
seems to want our goods but is in no
position to sell us any. Therefore, there
seems to be no emergency about that
subject.
So while the discussions have been
conducted with large vacant spots
the fact of which may have been in
terpreted by some the prospect of
action is od, serious and sensible.
SIDE GLANCES
ecu, iw rt Mk uMt. we. T. m 'a .. i ht, art. J
"This It going to be a much nicer Christmas for Pop he
won't have any cardboard train to put together!"
Boyle's Column
Bingo Proves To Be Good
Come-On For Joints
Br HAL BOYLE
ACROSS THE RIVER FROM
CINCINNATI. Dec. 23 T
The little old lady in tho black
hat sat alone at the tabic.
She seemed out of place in
this dimlit "night club" that
would hove confused Immeas
urably one of the picturesque
gamblers who "cut the kyurds"
on the old river steamers.
For in those halcyon days
cumblimt was strictly a man's
diversion. But the new illegal
tambling emporiums clustered
n northern Kentucky have cozv
attractions designed to take dol
lars from every member of the
family strong enough to work a
slot machine lever. Women with
walking children are welcome.
Here money - nanny people
from four states Ohio. Ken
tucky, Indiana and Illinois
gather to gamble or sin to their
heart's desire. They have cre
ated a multi-million dollar "easy
money" market for shrewd mob
sters from Detroit, Chicago and
Kansas City hard-eyed men
with silk voices and silk neck
ties who have turned a state
and local crime into a big busi
ness operation.
Country Clubs
Their "night clubs" and
"country clubs" serve good
Scout Plans Final
For Festivities
Completing details of the Girl
ScouIk' part in the Junior cham
ber of commerce holiday pro
gram, Mrs. L. A. Murphy, com
missioner of the Girl Scout coun
cil, and Mrs. W. L. Tcrwilligcr,
music chairman, met with the
chamber of commerce program
committee last week.
A section of the platform to be
erected near the community
Christmas tree on the courthouse
lawn will be reserved for Girl
Scouts, and those participating
will be given mimeographed
sheets of songs to be sung.
Girl Scoutn are reminded of
the change of time. Originally,
the program was set for 7:15
tonight, Monday, but Scouts are
to report at 7 p. m.
PARENTS HOWL, BUT
CHILDREN LOVE IT
EUGENE. Dec. 23 UP) Their
five children haven't comment
ed, but Mr. and Mrs. William
Halberg don't like it at all.
The live Halberg children
haven't been able to get to
school this year. The Twin Oaks
school, in which district they
live, docsn t provide transporta
tion; the Le Bleu school, which
has a school bus, is too full to
take the children: and there isn't
any public transportation avail
able.
A petition is being circulated
to include the area where the
Hnlberts live into the Eugene
district.
high-priced meals, they have top
floor shows and dance bands to
entertain the guests, long well
stocked bars, and batteries of
nickel-to-flfly-ccut slot machines.
And in a room off the bar
dice gnme, roulette and black
jack run wldo open. The chips
go up to ten bucks.
Tho husband of the little old
ladv in the black hat was in
this main "big money" room.
But tho thoughtful management
of this department store
gumbllng den wasn't neglecting
her. No, her turn was coming.
She waited patiently In the
dining room, smiling vaguely
when the audience roared at the
comedian's off-color jokes
jokes she never understood.
When the lights came up. how
ever, men passed through the
room selling bingo boards. Her
eyes lighted up. She pulled a
dollar from her small black
purse and bought a board.
This was what sho had been
waiting for, the game the own
ers thought up to pacify the
wives.
A tall pleasant-voiced young
man climbed to the stage and
began rotating a wire cage and
calling out the numbered mark
ers as they came out.
Biiuro Prisa
The faded cheeks of the little
old lady crimsoned as she ear
nestly covered the numbers on
her board. Several (25 prizes
were won by others. Near the
close of number-calling for the
$300 prize, she was close to win
ning. She became excited. Her
black hat slid to one side of her
white hair. She had only one
number to make, when someone
yelled "Bingo!"
The old lady sighed in dis
appointment. But she had had a
good time. She sipped a little
water, got up and went out to
collect her husband, her sweet
ld face smiling with the mem
ory of the money she had al
most won. Armored In her last
century innocence, she had no
Idea that she and the scores of
other wives In the room were
nothing more but "come-on
sirls" for tho management.
"The house probably doesn't
make a penny off the bingo," a
Cincinnati friend told me, "but
it keeps the ladles occupied
while their husbands are betting
their shirts off in the other
room."
Two Hurt In
Highway Plunge
HOOD RIVER, Dec. 23 UP)
A driver and passenger were In
a hospital here today with in
juries received when their auto
mobile plunged on the Colum
bia River highway near Onconta
tunnel but wedged between
trees at the top of a steep slope.
Police said Frank Reed, 2(1.
Bonneville, suffered fractured
ribs nnd Mrs. Lajuan Farmer,
21, Cascade Locks, head and
bade injuries.
The World
Today
Br DaWITT MacKENZlE
AP foreign Affairs Analyst
When one looks over the cur
rent newspuper headlines it dors
seem difficult to revoncllu them
11 1 tho idealism of On r.urth
l'cuce. Good Will Toward Men"
which the Chrkitimis svuson rep
resents, and if your correspon
dent were un iinrcgt'iicrated
vronge ha probably would try
to rub in that misanthropic
thought.
Strife, und rumors of strife en
circle tho globe. There are halt
a dozen -situations winch could
develop into another world war
If Hlven half a chance. Just gel
out your maps und take u look.
High-ranking Chinese govern
ment and communist leaders In
i'eiping ugree that all-out civil
war Is Imminent. That easily
could be, und with about a fifth
of the world's population In an
upheaval, the rent of the globe
would be in terrible clanger.
French troops are enuuged In
f lei co battles with rein-Is In
Indo-Chlna. The situation In In
dia between tho rival Moslems
and Hindus remains tense after
much bloody communal conflict
growing out of the search for a
way of Implementing Urltuln's
offer of Independence.
Iran Revolt
Tho Iranian (Persian) govern
ment claims to have In hand the
red revolt in Azerbaijan prov
ince on the fxivlet Union border.
But tlie situation remain tense
and explosive. Palestine is
aflame, and will remain so until
the Jewish-Arab conflict Is ad
justed. Greece chnrgrs that
Moscow dominated Yugoslavia,
Albania, and Bulgaria are plan
ning to lake away Greece Mace
donia by force, and Athens wel
comes the decision of the United
Nutlons security council to send
a commission to Investigate.
1 hen. more dangerous than
any of these other threats are
tho great differences lying be
tween Russia and the western al
lies. There we hove Involved the
Big Three upon whose shoulders
rests the weight of world pence.
hull, while recognizing the
very real dangers, I don't bo
lieve that black pessimism
should be given tho right-of-way.
In many respects we ore get
ting echoes of the first World
War. It would be foolish, of
course, to over-simplify the situa
tion by saying that history is
merely reiieating itself. There
are new and mighty elements
which didn't follow the previous
war. However, the point to note
is that trial and tribulation
were bound to follow the end of
the late conflict,- Indeed, we are
lucky that things are no worse.
RumIi stumbling Block
Our worst fears arise from the
differences between Russia and
the western democracies. Three
months ago Premier Stalin de
clared that he saw no real dan
ger of a new war and expressed
the belief that the Soviet Union
and the western powers could
live peaceably in the same
world. This was In answer to a
question by Alexander Werth,
Moscow correspondent of the
London Sunday Times.
In seeming support of this the
sis we have seen a decided sof
tening of the Russian attitude In
the United Nations negotiations.
(Not overlooking that Soviet
"ultimatum" to a U. S. naval
ship to get out of Daircn harbor.)
President Truman has voiced a
similar view and so have other
allied statesmen, Including Brit
ish Foreign Minister Bevln.
Founder Of Resort
Town Passes
NELSCOTT, Dee. M IIP)
Charles P. Nelson, 72, one of the
1028 founders of this const resort
town, died yesterday at his home
here.
Nelson had cooperated with
Dr. W. R. Scott of Portland In
planning the townsite and later
was active in development of the
Oregon coast highway and the
Salmon river route.
Six High Schools
Move Notch Ahead
PORTLAND, Dec. 23 P)
Six additional Oregon high
schools have moved Into the
"A" school classification for the
state basketball play this season,
Greater enrollments nt Cen
tral Point, Roedsport, Newport
Wlllnmlnn, Sherwood -and Sac
red Heart of Salem moved the
schools into the abovn 150 stu
dent class which rates "A" lank