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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1947)
run mm" Editor M41O0LM mil ManmilnJ Editor elaaa matter at UM aeatomca of Klamats August ZU. liJ, ubw Hare l Un iUHW-RUTlOW HATS 8; SaTinssa as E 2$ z as iSuesf Editorial t 1 E have, we think, about as great an in WV tcrest as anybody's in western reclama tion this is not because we own land that Jve want to see watered but simply because we want to see the west developed and because U believe that it is to newly irrigated lands that the country must look for the food that kvlll be in demand In coming years both tor Come consumption and to meet its foreign obli gations. (Yes, we believe that we have foreign obligations to meet.) f Feeling as we do we regret to observe tne Inanner in which the argument for reclamation Impropriations is developing. It seems to us Stat name calling and political maneuvering are Siot the sort of thing that is likely to develop favor for western projects. Rather should those Jkho are working for this federal aid concentrate , securing a better understanding of the west ft reclamation and of its place in the national conomy. critieizing eastern ncmbers of congress for their (assumed) nig gardliness give attention to the historical back K 2 Z reclamation. Too few rememberth.t SoV nearly two-thirds of its life federal recla mation was a """"rsTtim'e3 Sew take notice that now, for the first time, he unrestrained spending of the Roosevelt era Ks being examined and that it has become neces sary to re-Justify the reclamation program and to secure its acceptance as a proper object for ihe use of funds produced by taxation. t For more than 30 years after the initiation of She federal reclamati-.nl program fie funds that were used came not from taxation or from bor-i-owing but from western resources. When used tor project development they were to be re Sid bv the water users but without interest, fcn repayment they were to go into a revolving fund and thus become available for re-use. In She depression period relief and make-work funds were allocated to reclamation and then. Jn the free-spending days, when an unbalanced fcudgct was the annual rule, appropriations fiased on taxation and borrowing were voted regardless of the non-interest feature. Today congress is in republican control and the party has pledged itself to do what Presi dent Roosevelt regularly said he would do but never did balance the budget. That means the close scrutiny of every money request and in reclamation it means reexamination of the interest fee money question made doubly im-rv-fant by the fact that interest is b-'ng paid on $250 billions of debt. A good case can be made fcr interest free ey for water user r "" n thot-'h the source of that money is tax funds but the case '"-eds making by western senators- and repre sentatives. Oregon's Wayne Morse, for one, might much better engage himself in such an cbrt than to talk about liberals and reaction aries and wilfully keep out of step -ith the leaders of the party under whose banners he was elected. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON PALM BEACH, Fla, March 11 What might be called a new intelligentsia is loosely springing ud around the country. The smart boys have made such a failure of planning the past few years, they have not been able to offer anything except the same old arguments in the same old words. They are not trying to think in fresh exploratory fields for solutions to the fresh problems of the world, but are wallowing in the old grooves of words such as "fascist" (a party now extinct or without power), "com munist" a word without real' meaning because there is little communism in Russia), "tories" (a nearly ancient term from Britain used by Bill Green), and so on. Here at a luncheon were, an artist, a real estate dealer, a construction engineer, an army officer, a newspaper man, an advocate of psychic Dhenomena and some other plain men who long since gave up the groovists and started out to do some thinking for themselves. A composite resume of their questions and answers on cur rent news ran about like this: Q. Is Russianism likely to conquer the United States (not to use the word communism)? A. The business man said it would after the first year of our next depression. He said un fortunately Russianism is the only formidable opposition movement to Christian society today, and at the first sign of failure of Christian so ciety to provide what the people want, it would come over this country. The others did not agree, or were doubtful. The newspaperman said Russianism would never succeed in this country, but that if we came to another de pression, some sort of Christian dictatorship or totalitarianism might spring up to meet the de mands of the people for retention of their ideals. It would be like Russianism only by depriving the people of individual liberty, as exhibited in freedom of speech, press and religion. No Affirmative Program Q What is Russianism which is masqucrad , ing as communism? A. It has no affirmative program. It is pure ly antagonistic movement. It exists in an in efficient way solely by opposing everything rather than by its own accomplishments. It is not advocated because it has made a better air plane, or better automobile. In accomplishment it has proved itself grossly inferior to capitalism. It is therefore a negative movement actually without a doctrine. Indeed it preaches a lack of idealism to accomplish purely revolutionary ends. Q. What would the U. S. be like the day after Russianism started? A. In the first place it will never start, and in the second, who can say what a negative movement would do when pressed with the necessity for affirmative action. It simply has no program. q. Has capitalism a chance of survival under this staggering war debt? A: Capitalism has given human beings their greatest improvement in all tne nistory oi me world. By inspiring individual initiative, it has provided the average man with electric lights, automobles, radios, modern plumbing things which are greater ordinary ben "' o fe than the non-capitalistic nations have achieved, par ticularly Russia. Even in a depression, our capitalistic standard of life would be so much higher than any other, the people will never abandon it the one system which has made them great solely by inspiring individual in itiative. Unless the capitalistic reward for ef fort is maintained, human progress will stop. Q. What of the federal debt and its S5 bil lions annual interest charge? A. The interest charge is not really S5 bil lions. This is merely the budget figure. It does not include the taxes the government collects on its bond interest by subjecting the interest payments to taxation, or the interest it pays it self on the bonds it holds. The net annual charge truly may be only half of $5 billions. In any event, all you need to finance and retire this debt is good business. Good business pays the taxes. If this country ever gets to a point where it cannot retire its debt, or meet its in terest payments, it can resume the downward path of finance in the Roosevelt administration which allowed government to issue money against its own bonds. SIDE GLANCES May Blow Itself -a Then Russianism or communism has not VJC. much chance? A. It has a chance only to conquer people who do not know it. It has nothing superior to offer. No alive person would fall for it. The world will find other ways. It hopes to conquer us in our first failure, but it is more likely to blow up itself in its own next depression and failure to meet needs of its peop'. It is always subject to counter revolt'''"' des-"... ic efforts to safeguard Itself. Discussion broke up on that note. I could not help believing when I walked away from this gathering that I had come in contact with a new intelligentsia. I had seen similar evidence of it elsewhere around the T- smr-- --'-. 2 days are the people who have made a success of therm-' ves and their lives in the way they have chosen. Unfettered by the common political phobias ol the day, plain people are seeking and finding genuine intelligence. Telling The Editor Letter printed faera mart nat be mare than 504 werda In length, mart be written lecibtr an ONE SIDE al the paper enlr. and moat e airned. Cantrtbatlana fellewlnp; ibeaa rales ara warmly welcemed. ; - MORE ON TAYLOR BONANZA, Ore., (To the Edi tor) I wrote to this column a few days ago and more or less brought up the question of who was dissatisfied with the Tay lor Grazing act. 1 am a member of the partner ship of John McFall and Sons, and the county assessor's office has a map of our holdings. It can readily be seen that our holdings join the Tule lake val ley, Langell valley and Poe val ley. We are cattlemen, grain farmers and staunch republi cans. We are free of debt and controlled by no organization. Joe Micka is, in my opinion, barking up the wrong tree when he blames the Taylor grazing act because he can't sell his feed. Some years ago the Malin community voted a herd law and I will bet two to one he voted yes. Most of the farms there aver age 40 to 80 acres and usually have two votes. We have some 7000 acres and had four votes, so had a lot of our ranch voted in the dist-ict. We have some 45 miles of four wire fence but naturally trees fall over it or hunters forget to close the gates and stock gets out. They are promptly taken up and we have to pay the farm er a bounty to get them back. We can't buy hay from a Ma lin farmer because he would not be allowed to feed it on his prop erty. The sheepmen put out of bus iness by the Taylor grazing act didn't buy feed from anyone and for the most part didn't pay taxes. The sheep and cattlemen alike who owned grazing land have been in most cases alio ted a fair share of the -public do main. I would still like to know ex actly what started this cascade against the Taylor grazing act, but I am 100 per cent for it. Yours respectfully, JESSE A. McFALL; If nnrn fa nlantarl itilnUl. either in rows op broadcast it can De narvested as hay. 1 RADIO PROGRAMS TUESDAY EVE, KFLW 1450 kc. 6;lM Hporlf Lineup ' -:15 Home Town Newi World News Bummtry fi::tl Klamath Tbcatre Guide C:lft Conservation I'rorram" 7:00 Proudly We Hull 1:13 Malcolm Entey ruOKkip t-arrell Show ABC 7:13 Music of Manna Han 8;U0 Lum and Abner ABC 11:15 Stand By For Adven. K:0 Dark Venture ABC 9:00 Boston Symp. Orcb. ABC 8:1,1 0:30 Boston Brm. Orch. ABC :4S " 10:00 Stardust Melodies I0:0 Freddy Martin Orch. ABO 1l:00Nlfht Newt Summary' 11:03 SIfD Oft 11:15 litis MARCH 11 KFJI 1240 kc. (iabrlel Heallcr MBS Quia Show It M 4 met. 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News MBS Mel Ventner'i Plot.. MBS Let's Dance Here's to Veterans News Concert Hall Muslo As Von Like ft Orrln Tucker Orch. MBS Sterling Young Orch. MBS News MBS KFJI 1240 kc. eont tan iv mca aajmec nei. tea a a aar, dr. 3-ti "George It going to ba busy on his income tax tonight, , but I told him only the Joneses were coming over and i you'd excuse him!" STATIC By KELLY ROBERTS Our friends think that we're slightly nuts at times because our favorite reading is the classified columns of Writers Digest amd the Saturday Review of Litera ture, two erstwhile journals of the literati whose classified col umns vary from the sublime to the ridiculous in content. A single line at the top of one column serves to illustrate a point: "Here they go. Watch them run. Mollie. Help. Jim." What docs it mean? Wc don't know. Maybe it's code. Who needs the help, Mollie or Jim? Just as erratic but more poetic is the line at the bottom of the page, "Little Joe married a nov elist. Then she went away. Hey!" We wonder who paid for that and why. A third single line ad seems just plain catty, "Aleen Wetstein hasn't stolen any of my copy for years, now." We won der whether Aleen took that as a compliment or a slam. Here's a "distinguished gen tleman with European back ground" who wants to hear from a "talented young lady writer" for "prospective collaboration." He might be a count, or just another phony. Here's a man with business senset "Fool your friends send them letters post marked Los Angeles. 25c a let ter." Good way to fool your wife too! Another guy advertises as a professional humorist: "Humor written to order." Come now, no one can be that funny. Two more men seek "com panions." The first says, "A Robert Browning for an Eliza beth Barrett." Poetic, ain't it? The second is a little more horsy. He wants a "riding companion. Will pay all expenses Bnd buy beginners habit." Chee, kids, a bargain. Finally, leading us Into our next subject is the ad reading: "Songs published. Have your lyrics set to music and published for only five dollars." Yep, the "Song Sharks." a a a We received a letter yesterday morning from a group which is attempting to combat the song sharks. It reminded us that many persons in our own areas are being taken by the song publish ing racket. The writer of the letter advances the idea of a songwriters' organization as the only way to stop the sharks. "You can tell them not to waste their money, but human nature is a funny thing . , ." We agree. There are a number of reputable song publishing houses in this country who make their profit from publishing and selling songs, if they're good. These publishing houses don't charge to publish a sung, they pay for the "right to publish" the song, if they think a song will muke them any money, they'll buy It; if not, they'll re ject it. If a song can't be sold to a reputable publisher, throw it away, but don't throw your money after it. Toss it my way if nothing else. Vet Criticizes National Housing CHICAGO. March 11 A be-mcdalcd ex-infantryman, de scribed as the "most decorated" veteran of World War II, told the national public housing con ference today that the federal government "surely Is capable of solving a comparatively small thing like decent housing." In an address prepared for the opening session of the three-day conference, Audie L. Murphy, 23, of Farmersville, Tex., called him self a victim of the lack of hous ing" and asserted that "if the national government can declare a world war for us, recruit mil lions of men to wage it, and mobilize billions in resources to win it surely it is capable of solving a comparatively small thing like decent housing." The recipient of the Congres sional Medal of Honor and 16 other awards spoke as a repre sentative of the American vet erans committee. SENATOR "FAIR" SALEM, March 11 ilP) The condition of Sen. Austin Dunn. Baker,- who was taken to a hos pital yesterday Bfter becoming ill in his hotel room, was de scribed as "fair" today by hos pital authorities, who said doc tors have not yet learned the nature of his ailment. FOR SALE. SEED , POTATOES Crown la Utah, 5200 Ft. ELEVATION, VIRGIN SOIL. iafaavVMMMMV','NN Tie World Today Br DtWITT MavKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst The consensus la thnt there's small likelihood the Dig Four will ba able to achicvo the muln object of their present Moscow conference the framing of the all-important German trcuty up on which the ik'iuc and re habilitation of Europe so large ly depend. Why the pessimism? Well, the Moscow newspaper New Time pins it down rather neat ly when It says that a satisfac tory German settlement must follow, not precede a satisfac tory settlement by the allies of their mutual relations. Com menting on this viewpoint, the reserved London Times says: 'This is timely and realistle. Unless the tono of discussions, as reflected in much current comment from nil sides, can be changed, there is a danger that final and unanimous decisions about Germany may never be taken at all." That mukes sense, ulthough it's wrapping an altogether grim situation in soft language which might well be more blunt. The Big Four certainly will be put ting the enrt before the horse if they try to write the Ger man treaty before they clear up the differences between Rus sia and the western democracies differences which long ago passed the danger mark. The main hope for the con ference would seem to rest In the possibility that the four fureign secretaries might de velop a showdown which would clarify misunderstandings. There have been signs that such a tabling of cards might be brought about by the very de termined men who are facing each other across the confer ence table. The troubles between Russia and the western allies finally have reached the stage of "fightin' talk" "when you call me that, smile." The Muscovites charge the "capitalistic pow ers" (meaning America and Uritain) with trying to encircle and restrict tho Soviet Union. They go further and accuse Uncle Sam of using the secret of the atomic bomb to gain world domination. And the westeri, powers on their part have watched with suspicion, and frequently with formal protests, as country after country has been communized and pulled within Moscow's rapidly spreading zone of In fluence which already has made the Soviet Uhion the dominant power of the great eastern hemisphere. At first the west ern allies accepted this expan sion as realignment designed for security purposes only, but the onward rush of tho red tide has created suspicions of designs for unlimited expansion. Thus the battle between com munism and western democracy has divided the world against itself. 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