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PACE FOUk iRALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON FRIDAY. NOV. II, 1f4t JJcralb anb JJeto These Days rAJiK mount toiwv BILL JINKIKS llaaaau tailor As ADDISON Population And Things By DKB ADDISON PERUSAL of UM Bulletin of Commerce, put out by the U. B. department of commerce field aervk office In Portland reveal M startling facts. For instance, the American public spent 41 million dollar rent money for safety-deposit bone tn 194. Or, U. S. manufacturer told 3.663, 000,000 (that In billions) pounds of confectionery In 1M, or 113 poundi per person. It dldnt say now many tummyache were in voked. If that leave you cold, stay with u a moment, there mora dope on things closer to home. Here's tome on manufacturing in Oregon. Plant In Oregon added gffia million to the state's wealth through manufacturing In 1MT. This is a 330 increase orer value added in IMS. Tha great- cat growth in number of establithmenu was shown by the lumber and lumber products Industry, which was an Increase from &31 to 1390. Biggest gains came in Douglas, Lane. Linn. Jackson and Josephine counties. Estimated population increases from the 1M0 census to July 1, 1M, give Oregon an up of MJ'i, Washington an up of 7 and Idaho 12.8. Ore gon's estimated population now is 1,738,000, Wash ington's is 3,592,000, and Idaho's M2.000. U you feel confined, move to Idaho. You'll still get good potatoes. Now, here's a forecast for the future. The Pacific Coast Board of Intergovernmental Relations tays that tha population of Oregon in April 1M0 (why April. I don know) will be between IXS.000 and 1.23s,000; Washington will be between 2.507.000 and 1 .216,000; and California will be between 12.500,000 and 14,000,000. Looks like there'll be enough people south of tha border to eat up all the Klamath spuds. . WE find that there's a serious challenge to Klamath - Palls' unique position in heating homes and other buildings from hot water pumped from the ground. Charlie Stark at tha chamber passed along this Item from tha Natural Resources Notes of the U. 8. chamber. It says: "Iceland, noted for thermal springs and geysers as well as ice and cold. Is Just waking up to tha fact that underground heat can make up for its lack of coal and ou. Sine 1933 some 45 hot-water wells totaling 90.000 feet have been drilled and are producing 4200 gal per minute at a mean tem perature of 188 degree P. Tha not water I piped 10 mile to supply domestic beating for tha capital city of Reykjavik. Exploration work has disclosed there are many "heat fields" in tha country and test wells are being drilled for (team for heating and power purposes." i What other town is it, Boise? that heat with rater piped from a central hot spring. YouH hart to ask Charlie. I forget. ! How many people drove over the "hot grid" at tha Esplanade underpass when tha snow was on You take It for granted that it works, but. lust lika sticking your finger on the wet paint beside tha "wet paint" sign, it's fun to try it out. Caught In the Rounds: How many noticed the item last week that a Grants Pass man, Victor BoehL win run tor state grangemaster because he deplores "the tendency to seek more and more aid from - federal government which leads to more fed eral control, higher taxes and. ultimately, a lower standard of living." . . . Observed Wednesday eve ning: a hen pheasant flying over the Sixth street viaduct toward the SP roundhouse ... Ex-mayor Ed Ostendorf, back from a J!4 months, 27 states excursion, reports seeing and having lunch with Mac Epley in Long Beach. We forgot to ask who bought. Bays Mac claims to be working like a dog. Same eld kid! . . . How long will It take drivers to learn getting on the new right hand lane going north on California avenue? . . . Famous last words: Save the space for me. 111 have the copy tn before press time. By GEORGE E. SOUOLSKY 1 HAT used to be called Isolationism was YV policy of state, fully Incorporated In American tradition sine tha time of Oeorge Washington. It was routed by John Quincy Adams In these terms: ". , . (The United Slates) weU know that by once enlisting under other banner than her own. were they even the banners of foreign independ e lice, she would Involve herself beyond tha power of extrication, in all the war of Interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, tnvy, and ambition, which assume tha colors and usurp tha standard of freedom. Tha fundamental maxim of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to fore . Sh might become the dicta trea of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit . , Oeorge P. Kennan, often referred to a the brains of the Stat department, undoubtedly tha Mr. X. who wrote tha article for "Foreign Affairs" that announced the term Inst ton of our policy of appeasing Soviet Russia, and who as director of the policy planning staff of tha (tat department ha an Im portant voice in long-term decisions, speaking before the academy of political science, answered John Quincy Adams a of today' date. In the following terms: ". . . Today It is a grimmer type of political (ystem which face us serosa tha world and with tn expansion of which we are concerned. It 1 one directed at the vital of our power and our faith. We can no longer be so fastidious, or so restricted geographically. In our opposition to it, as were the men in Adam time in facing the problem of their day. There are time when we must obviously move to support the effort of other to resist attempt made to bring them into sub jection to such a political system." NEVER before In American history has this country faced another with the knowledge mat It had chosen the United States a Its ob jective enemy. Even Japan, when w were most concerned about her, had chosen China and Russia, rather than the United States, a the target of historic necessity. But now we have an enemy whose design is the ultimata destruction not so much of the United State a the American way of life. Kennan put It this way: "For It 1 by this possible progressive subjection, one by one. of other people who live between ourselves and the seat of world communism, that our adversaries believe our world can best be under mined and we ourselves best reduced to a position of helplessness and loneliness and Ignominy among tha nation of mankind . . ." IT 1 this which has been forcing upon us. even against tradition, an Intervention In the affairs of other peoples, which we are required to make good by huge expenditure of money, natural re sources, and labor. This goes against our grain. Our has been a tradition of live and let live. In our history, we have done business with republics and monarchies, with autocrats and presidents. We did not measure the vtrtures of our system against those of any other people. But we have also never faced the dangers of destruction before. . WE give foreign aid a a planned Insurance against defeat, but nobody can foretell whether Cie Insurance is any good at all. A polity based on so many uncertainties i difficult to pursue In a country like our, where group Identify themselves with cause, as, for Instance, those who ask for aid to Franco's Spain or for Chiang Kai-shek's China or for Israel. Kennan said: ". . . Since no two situation are alike, there Is a simple lack of logic In the voicerwhlch tell us that we should have some uniform pattern of foreign aid, and of our government that It do some par ticular thing in one area Just bee use It did some thing comparable somewhere else. There is nothing absolute or automatic about foreign aid. To attempt to standardise it application would not be con sistency it would be applied fallacy." AfHAT Kennan says becomes extremely lm Vy Portant because of the nature of his Job. Trie war, lend-lease, Teheran, Yalta, the United Nations, ERP. EC A, the North Atlantic alliance, European military aid all form a new pattern which we need to understand because we have to live with it Business Mirror Steaming Argument: Is 5c Coffee Still Good Business? , . . By RADER WINGET : (For Sam Dawson) NEW YORK Can a man get rich selling a cup of coffee for nickel? That argument right now 1 steaming up hotter than a cup of Java In January. Restaurant men, coffee dealers and customers don't need a cup of coffee to keep them awake while they debate the cost of serving It. Continued Increases in the price of coffee beans are causing the pinch on the nickel cup. Drought What started the whole thing eriglnally was not enough rain in Brazil. Brazil supplies us with 55 per cent of our coffee. The drought cut the supply. Other coffee grow er In South and Central America have their own production trou ble that reduced output On top of that, we drink three cup of coffee today for every two cup we drank before the war. That boosted demand. This kind of tug-of-war between supply and demand resulted in one thing a price Increase all along the line for coffee. The time-honored nickel cup of coffee is slowly fading into the limbo of forgotten things. The jump in price usually is from a nickel to a dime despite the fact that higher roasted coffee has add ed only a fraction of a cent per cup to costs. Nickel coffee vanished only yes terday in the senate lunchroom In Washington, except for heavy drinkers. Today it a a dime a cup or two cups for 15 cents. Nickel Champs But there are some staunch cof fee (erven In New York and else- FUNNY BUSINESS where who figure they make money at a nickel a cup despite the rise In the cost of coffee bean. But In order to make money they have to watch their step in buying supplies and In making and serving coffee. First off they get 60 cup to the pound. Right away In these argu ments over costs you hear the loud cry: "Do you call that atuff cof fee?" Nevertheless they get 60 cup to a pound of coffee costing an average of 60 cent. And again you get the crackback: "That's a steal. Mister. My coffee Is costing me 8S cents a pound and going up." Breakdown Anyway, 60 cup at 60 cent Is I cent a cup for the coffee Itself. Add to that one-quarter to one half cent a cup for sugar. Then there is cream. You can get by with less than 1 cent a cup for cream or cream mixed with milk. That brings the total to 2's cents a cup. Then there Is restaurant over head to be added. That's the most fertile area for arguments. The strongest is: "If you starve your help to death, you don't have any overhead. I pay my workers good wages." Singapore Counts Prostitutes SINGAPORE, 'AV-There tre 1500 prostitutes In this city of about a million persons. This is an official police estimate. Police Commissioner R. E. Foul ger. In his annual report listed: street-walkers180: about 180 broth els containing 920; miscellaneous ladles who use their own rooms and can be called to places of assign ment, 2400. - Foulger says brothels are raided consistently throughout the year and 103 juvenile have been de tained and handed over to the so cial welfare department. Soma are new arrivals from China. SIDE GLANCES am. imkisi smt atSMtim.sn BARUCITS MONEY NEW YORK, Nov. IS WV-Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch plans to leave his fortune to pro mote his pet project physical med icine. "It's a field very close to my heart," he told an interviewer yes terday. "I can't think of anything better to do with my money." "If it's so good, why has it been lying around for 25 ysars?" Boyle's Column The Poor Man's Philosopher Wants to Be a Motor Car By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (, If there Is such a thing as reincarnation if we are born again I want to be a motor car. Other souls may prefer to come back and inhabit the body of a lion, a dog, a cat or a sacred cow. But If my spirit ever wanders earthward again. I want It to dwell in the chassis of a sleek and shiny I'll purr in con- t Knuanil, For if the mo tor car isn't ex actly an object of worship In America, It la certainly a lead ing fetish. A fetish is an object o f unrea soning devotion which Is sup posed to help It owner gain from life whatever be want. That I a perfect description of the place of the automobile in our civilisation. . Idol In slightly more then a genera tion It has' gained a hold' an the people such as no stone or wooden Idol ever held on an African Hal Beyle ffELLIHG THE EDITOR ! Loiiors artau kr mmtt ool o ! : i.m.r immm SM mfc mmtt So J J vrllUl UliHT O.NS SIUS ml Ik ! I HK. ! Hmd nam sue ADPaass et , Z writer CootrlkktUkl f-ll-wlo Ikwe ( I ralM ar warmly weloooM. "George gets terribly nervous when he carves In front of guests, so he insists en privacy!" GOAL IN LIFE KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. (To the Editor) The greatest Issues con fronting our nation are that big business through mass psychology. high pressure sale method and easy payment have, during the last 25 years, taught the many millions of people who make up our low and medium wage earners to want everything. This has done everything but teach those mil lions the value of the almighty dollar, and today the only security people know Is that dollar. Big business ha by these meth ods condensed the greatest part of the nation wealth into too few hands, and Is constantly keeping millions of people so badly In debt that the only security they have Is a hand to mouth existence. No person can go on and on working a debt-paying machine and not have one cent left after paying his obligations each week-end and be a happy person. If we are ever to get away from the feeling of Insecurity, which Is everywhere today, we must find some goal In life to work for be side money, refrigerators, automo biles, utilities, etc That goal must have life In it even a real nice garden where millions of very in secure persons could earn at least a part of their living by putting In a little time with old Mother Nature. When we are learning to work with her, we are simply learn ing to work with God. We must get away from the kind of religion which teaches God Is to be found only In our churches, our prayers and our dreams of an eventful heaven at death. Besides all of this, w must learn to tee God In every tree, every blade of grass, and In every living thing on this earth. When people sea tha beautiful slds of that picture, they will then know they must live entirely In harmony with nature or God If they are ever to know the mean ing of real security which cannot be bought entirely with dollars. They are only a medium of ex change. H. A. THOMPSON, 1120 Pine. mm Relieve distress almost instantly Be sure to use... MM 4 WDH.- I tribe. 'And It appeal Is steadily In creasing. This year a record number of images of this four-wheeled demi god of our time will be turned out of the factories 8300.000. The automobile ha cost more Uvea In the United State than two world wan, and It has changed the face of our nation and the pattern of our lives. But the near-worship accorded It only grows stronger. Folks will do things for It they wouldn't think of doing for themselves. , Homage Cities that won't tear down slum areas to build better bousing will ingly do so to make an aerterial highway. Men who refuse to go Into debt to own a home cheerfully bor row money to buy a traveling nest of steel, chrome and rubber. Any number of people spend more money keeping their car In shspe than they do on their own bodies. A gent who live on hamburger and refreshes himself with bootleg com will stoutly Insist that his Ja loppy gulps only the finest high grade gasoline. - Insurance Manyt carry more Insurance on their cars than they do on their own Uvea. It costs $3 a day to keep a car in some Indoor Man hattan parking palaces, more than a good middle-class hotel room used to. In 1938 I paid $35 rent for a small apartment here with kitchen ette and bath. Some garages now charge $50 and up to care for a car 30 days and It doesn't even have cooking privileges. With this veneration of the auto mobile growing as It I. a man would be a fool to want to come back to America In some afterlife and waste his career as a mouse, an elk or a high-flying duck. No. the thing to aim for if you get a second chsnce is to be sn sutomoblle. That's my goal, and I have given the matter considerable thought. Recreation Boost Voted For Schools PORTLAND, Nov. IS WP) Port land high schools are going to hav social directors soon and recrea tion rooms where the students can party. So decided the school board last night, endorsing a proposal to School Superintendent Paul A. Rehmus. The social program was drafted In an attempt to provide plenty of recreation in place of the banned fraternities and sororities. The fraternity members had argued that they had no plsce to turn for social activities except to the Illegal or ganizations. The school board voted two week tgo to enforce the state law pro hibiting secret organisations In high schools. Paper Cleared In Libel Case WALLA WALLA, Nov. 1$ (P)A Jury deliberated only 25 minutes last night before finding that the Walla Walls Union-Bulletin, dally news paper, hsd not libeled Mrs. Agnes Christenson. The plaintiff sought dsmsges of $50,000, claiming thst the news psper's story of a city commission sction revoking her hotel license had "damaged her character and reputation and Impaired her health." i The World Today j I By DKWITT MACKENZIE I I AP rsreiga Affair Aaairst j & f -1 . There's more than appear on tha surface In the British socialist gov ernment's sensational compromise with Uie conservative whereby na tionalisation of Ui great steel In dustry will be delayed until after the next general election. This steel pro ject w a top 1 1 m In the n a tlonalltttlon program and tin government had been nx lou to achieve It before facing the voters again. Their sudden backflop means, as conservative leader Winston Churchill point Maekensi out, that the election will be "almost a referendum" on the proposition of nationalising steel. Naturally thl development ha Inspired the thought among torn observers thst It represent one of those patriotic gesture which John Bull characterises as "playing crick et" that is. good sportsmanship and a democratic, willingness to leave the decision to the people. It may Indeed be all of that, 'and we don't need to rob it of It glamour when we auggest that considerably more I Involved. Uncertain? I believe Prime Minister Attlee has mad thl gesture mainly be cause he no longer Is sure thst his party can control a majority of the voters. He apparently was confident a few months ago that he could win But the economic crisis has become so complicated and uncertain that public sentiment today can't be accurately gauged. And the con servative prospects are no more sure. So we find tha government making the sweeping gesture of saying to the voters In effect: "We hsd intended to take over the steel Industry before entering another general election. However, since this Is the most Important Item In our program and It la a controversial one. we hav decided to submit the matter to your judg ment. You shall decide whether you want to proceed with the program. Meantime parliament will have ap proved the measure authorising na tionalisation If you want It." Morrison Posh? A little bird (an English sparrow, to be exact) has whispered to me that Deputy Prime Minister Her bert Morrison probably inspired thl move. He la a powerful figure among the socialist leader and I credited with being a shrewd politi cian. What he la angling for ap pear to be the big mlddle-clsas vote of the nation, and so sr the conservatives, for thl I th now unpredictable element In the forth coming general election. That middle-class vow represent the balance of power. And the middle-class will know exactly what It is voting for. If it votes "yes." it will ensure a continuation of the sweeping soclsllst program. This of course means thst social ism will be on trial for Its life In England. Fire Station Sprinklers Spat Subject PORTLAND. Nov. 18 (Build ing code officials were In a tizzy today about the fire department. It seems thst the firemen, though sprinkler systems are required In large garages, aren't going to have a sprinkler system In their own new $400,000 central fire station. "What Is this station but a large garage with tire trucks and auto mobiles to be stored on the prem ises?" demanded the building code board of appeals when the fire sta tion plan were presented. The fire chief tnd fir marshal argued that, with so much fire fighting equipment right there, sprinklers would not be necessary. The board finally okayed the plans, reluctantly. "If the building doesn't stand up," warned Board Member Earl P. Newberry. "It will be th city own hard luck." Yancey Heads Shasta Grange At recent meeting of Shasta View grange, Carl Yancey was nsmed master to succeed Fred A. Lewis, who hss been serving for the psst year. 1 Other officers elected were: over seer, Clayton Wlard: lecturer, Bonl fsy Yancey: steward, Andy Berg loff: assistant steward, Thomas Stuart: ladr assistant steward, Christine Clark: chaplain, Dfcle Hoover; treasurer, Ada Barleen; secretary, Oeorge Kunzman; gate keeper, Ned Smith: Ceres, Louis IaSalle; Flora, Delphene Berg loff; Pomona,. Nellie Lewis; executive committee, Elton Flshhack, Dr. Alva Custer and Floyd Hoover, and pianist, Mrs. Florence Custer, Plsns are being made to hold Joint installation service with Mid land grange. The date Is tentatively set for Wednesday, December 7, at Midland grange hall. The Installa tion services will be open to th public and alt granger and friend are invited. ORDER OF VASA SWEDISH MEATBALL DINNER I00F HALL SATURDAY, NOV. 19th 5:30 to 8:00 P. ft. PUBLIC INVITED Adults 1JU Children tinder It 75e WHY WE SAY tM4l SToaies ft Those long black cigar known M tie lira were first made by Grorge Black o( Washington, Pa, They were drtlgncd lo meet the net-tit ol the Coneatoga wagon driver who drove from Wheel Ing lo Pittsburgh over the old National Pike. Single was derived front Cone t"g. ill lUIVSN to woi tmm Doctor Soy i Worry Is the Chief Cause Of Wakefulness at Night By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D. Many people who complain that they do not sleep well at night actually sleep much mora then they think they do. They are often wake ful on first going lo bed and this period often seems longer than It Is. Also the sleepless periods during the night from which many people suffer are likely to be comparative ly short. There ar very few disease which can caus sleeplesnes or In somnia. These usually produce other symptoms besides Insomnia and do not explain tit Inability to sleep which th ordinary person complains of so much. Worry Is th principal cause of Inability to go to sleep, st night and of wakefulness during th night Th mind, especially of those who earn their living by desk work, la often too active at night and make sleep difficult. People who get a lot of outdoor rxerclse suffer far let from Insomnia than moat city dwellers. The problem Is how to turn off the thought and worries of th dsy when going to bed at night. There ar wsys of helping to gel Into a "sleepy" tram of mind. Reading a book, entirely away from the usual occupation and one which Is not too exciting, 'Is often help ful. Many people find soothing mu sic a relaxing pre-bedtlme occupa tion. Handwork of torn kind help outers. Unfortunstely a great number of people who complain of sleepless ness try various drugs. This tend ency to use drugs ss a sort of crutch In getting to tloip snould be resisted. The sleep-producing druse hav their place but most of them are habit forming If taken over long periods. There r probably few people liv ing In cities who hv not at on time or another suffered from a certain amount of difficulty In sleeping. The fact that this diffi culty haa been only temporary with matt of us shows that ordinary In somnia Is not dangerous. No on ever die of simple Insomnls. Th Doctor Answer QUESTION: Would sn examina tion under a fluoroscop detect a tumor or growth of th brssst? answer: Not ordinarily. Gollup Poll Keep Our Troops in Japan, U.S. Voters Say in Survey Br oeorge galli p PRINCETON, N. J. Maintain. Ing an American defense force In Japan 1 strongly fsvored by American voters after a Japanese treaty of peace Is signed. According to recent reports. Gen eral Dougla MacArthur expect a peace treaty with Japan to be concluded In Tokyo early next year. He ha already aald that th Japa nese have lived up to th sur render term tnd sre now en titled to a peace pact. If thl pact is to call for com- nleta removal of American troops, Gallup stat department officials may hav difficulty "selling" the Idea to the American public While further discussion may alter th present viewpoint, a survey just concluded by th American Institute of Pub lic Opinion shows the following: General Douglas MacArthur says th Japanese hav met th term f surrender and are new entitled t a peace treaty, D yen think tha United Bute should or should not take ewr troop out f Japan and let her govern her self" Should t8 Hhonld net M Ne opinion 1$ A recent Associated Press dis patch from Manila quotes a high silled occupation source at saying that the proposed tresty Includes an Invitation to Japan to enter Into a pact with the United States under which she would be pro vided with military defenses. This could mean that American forces would sty on by Invitation. How Friendly I Japan? Th general attitude today toward th Japanese people I mixed. Opin ion her i closely divided on whether or not Japan would fight on our ild If there were to be another world war, with a slight margin In the affirmative. Thl Is shown In th following survey: If there la another world war. do yaa think Japan win ftM oa the aide of th l olled Bute ae galnal th failed BtaUr With a , Against a . U'ould remain neutral I N opinion . t$ Faith in Japanese goodwill It highest In the upper education levels, lowest among people who have had the leaat education. Here are the result by amount of schooling: t el. High Grid leg Behl Belli With as ist t U Against w t$ 14 4 Hlay neutral .... Ill No opinion ...... M It tt License Fee Trouble In Portland PORTLAND, Nov. It MPr-Port-land ran Into trouble with It new license fee today. Harold V. Ennor. chief license Inspector, reported that torn busi nessmen eren't paying them and f others ar paying leas than ex pected through technicalities In th . law. t Th city license bureau begs ' Issuing warrant for businessmen who "flatly refused" to pay th fee. "About a half doten took thl attitude," Ennor ssld. Short But sven when that It collected, Ennor said he feared th city might fall 11.000,000 short of anticipation. "Unless th license tee on groat business ar stepped up, I dont think we can make It," he said. Ht criticized the fact that many occu pations can pay a flat fee con tractors, for Instance, pay 130 an nually regardless of how much they earn, Ennor ssld the fees now tppeaf likely to yield $1,400,000. The city budget figured they would bring in I3J8SW0. ANNOUNCING Dr. Margaret K. Gregory Osteopathic Physician & Surgeon In Charge Of The Former McAtee Clinic 2903 South Sixth All Pair Facilities Available At Usual. Further Facilities Planned For Th Future.
