PAGE SIX
HERALT) AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, KKMUJAnV 13, in.r2
FRANK JENKIN8
Editor
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By DEB ADDISON
Listening to the panel of experts
on the Build the Basin program on
how to improve the value of sports,
you detected one continuing thread
that tied all the 'statements and
questions and answers together.
That one matter of most impor
tance, on the value of sports, can
be expressed In one word, partici
pation. Also, hearing Harold Hendrlck
con's long recitation of sports ac
tivities and all Uie others that were
brought up in the course of the
program, the only conclusion that
could be reached was that there is,
right now, tremendous partici
pation in sports by all kinds of
boys and girls, men and women.
If It's true, as all Uie panel
members agreed, that there Is
value in taking part in sports, then,
we're rich.
The schools physical education.
Intra mural and interscholastic
sports programs (augmented by
the city's 4-year-old recreation pro
gram) are all-inclusive. Any child
or young man or woman can take
part to the extent of his ability
and inclination.
But forgetting schools for a min
ute (and forgetting the greatest
sports of all, hunting and fishing),
let's scratch our heads and see
what there is in other sports and
recreation activity.
Well, there are 13 square danc
ing groups; there s the Victory and
City League basketball; there's
rkating and skiing; there's sled
ding and tobogganing: tbere are
nearly 2000 boys taking part in
Boy Scout, Cub Scout and Explor
er activities; there are the Girl
Scouts and Camp Fire Girls, the
Brownies and Blue Birds.
There must be 20 or 30 active
Sunday Schools, and there are all
the many divisions of the many
fraternal groups. There are about
a thousand young' people active in
4-H and FFA programs.
These come immediately to
mind. Tbere are many more.
Some young people even work.
Yes they do. We have 80 or 90
newsboys and a dozen street sell
ers who do good jobs and make
good money.
Some youngsters manage to find
time to take music lessons and
other such things on their own
hook.
If this column has any criticism
of organized sports and recreation
programs it's just that there's too
much ot it; it's too hard to shake
the kids loose for a little construc
tive work at home.
There are many people wha say
that we should have a community
center a recreation center for
young and old alike.
Fine. The community has invest
ed about $138,000 in just such a
center the YMCA building and
site. We say "building and site"
because, as far- as athletic sports
go. that's about what it is now.
Properly equipped, it would be a
complete community center with
all those things you've been talk
ing about.
It's very simple. All you have to
do is pitch in and help equip it.
A side issue, and one that brings
up more talk than anything else
along this line, is the matter of a
swimming pool. (The county has
three pools and innumerable lakes
and streams for swimming, but the
need for another pool is ex
pressed.) If, as suggested, a tax levy were
approved for a community swim
ming pool, why not build it on the
Y site, and contract with the local
Y board to operate it and ulti
mately buy it.
This would complete the commu
nity center, and would eliminate
the need for another operating con
cern. There were two requests brought
up on the Build the Basin panel
for adult sports which now are
lacking and which could not be in
cluded in the community rpntr.
CauqliihxHvi ClmndA
These are for more baseball andment of the thyroid gland, near
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Msnsglng Editor
the post office of Klamath Falls, Ore,
venr 1 11.00
more roH.
Ralph Carroll brought up the
matter of American Legion .tumor
baseball. We can't speak for the
Legion, but imagine that some
thinking Is being done. The plight
of professional baseball is well
known. The Gems management
can be depended upon to do every
thing possible to bring its big in
vestment back to a going concern.
Reames, of course, provides an
excellent private golf course.
Whether the enlargement of Realties
or the building of a public golf
course is the answer, we wouldn't
know.
As a shot In the dark, how about
you people who are interested in
the promotion of Eldorado Heights
taking a look at the land just, be
yond lor a public goll course . . .
a facility for the public, plus a
boost to a real estate promotion.
If there is anyone who actuallv
welcomes the appearance of gray
hairs either early or late in life,
with the possible exception of a
confidence man, I have yet to hear
of it.
Q Do vou know what will re
store gray hair to its original col
or? Is there some vitamin that
will do it? If so, please (tell me.
miss E.M.
A So far. there appears to be
no vitamin or drug which will re
store the pigment of hair in human
beings.
Quite a lot of excitement was
caused several vears aeo when a
vitamin known as pantothenic acid
was reported to restore the hair
color in gray foxes, but this ap
pears to have no similar effect in
human beings.-
Vegetable rinses and dyes can
be used, of course, but the latter
should be employed with treat care
since there have been cases of pois
oning from some of the dyes for
merly on the market, and occasion
ally, a person is sensitive even to
one of the less dangerous dyes
now used.
Q Is it possible for a little bov
seven years old to have asthma,
and if so, is there anv treatment
which will cure it? Mrs. G.L.B.
A Asthma is no respecter of age
and children can get it as well as
grownups.
An effort should be made In the
case of this little boy to find the
substance or substances to which
he is sensitive, and either remove
him from contact with these sub
stances, try to desensitize him, or
employ some other treatment.
Asthma should not be allowed to
run on without an effort being made
10 laenuiy uie cause.
W wnat could be the cause of
losing the eyebrows entirely? Is
this unusual, and can anything be
done to restore the growth again?
Mrs. W.B.M.
A Fortunately, this is unusual.
The most probable cause is a dis
ease known as alopecia areata, or
baldness in spots. The cause of this
condition is not known, but the hair
usually grows back after a time.
Q Nearlv all antacid nowders
for the treatment of ulcers of the
stomach contain sodium. Isn't so
dium harmful to one who has hieh
blood pressure? S.G.
A Probably a person who is so
unfortunate as to have ulcers of the
stomach as well as high blood pres
sure, should be treated with one of
the antacid substances which does
not contain sodium.
Q Could a person get cancer
from cows by drinking unpasteur-
izea mils Mrs. L.M.
A Not so fan as I know, thouch
other diseases, of course, such as
undulant fever, tuberculosis, and
septic sore throat, can be spread
by unpasteurized milk.
Q What are the svmDtoms when
a person has a non-toxic goiter?
M.P.
A The usual symptom is enlarg-
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OLD JOE W1LUNSHORSE
A LIFT? MFMRFTP!
TAMPA, Fla. Lfi Arc you find
ing it harder to meet American
women on their own level?
I am. And with me the reason
is very simple. I no longer can
look them in the face. I have to
look up to them.
They are getting that tall.
What are they feeding girls these
days anyway "grow-fast?"
Everywhere you travel in this na
tion you notice that the younger
feminine generation is shooting up
like corn stalks under a hot July
sun.
Is a new race of American ama-
zons In the making? It could be,
pardner, because the All-America
lass today isn't onlv as nrettv and
slender as a willow tree. She can
reach right up and chin herself on
us ntgnest branch.
That is as true in Florida It
is m California. It is gospel fact
in the four cities which brair most
often they have "the prettiest girls
in the world" Atlanta, Dallas.
Kansas City and New York. Every
where the damsels tower taller ev
ery year.
Maybe that's Just a reflection of
the American credo that we have
to have everything bigger and bet
ter. But foreign visitors, notably
Frenchmen, for some time have
been appalled at the altitude our
ladies are attaining. And certain
disadvantages are becoming appar
ent to the native male. too.
For In the battle of sexes in the
United States men have been stead
ily losing ground.
They have been told women are
made of finer stuff, have more cul
ture, can endure more suffering,
live longer, and control more mon.
ey than they do. Only in the field of
neigm nave they been able to say
iu wuuien. grow-up. ma.
But that is exactly what the oals
are now doing, and they threaten
to reauce man to his final inferiori
ty. He is on the way to becoming
a paie saieime or womannood. cir
cling around the flower of his
cnoice line a tame bee.
jnis sad certainty became ap
parent to me during the parade
here the other day highlighting the
Gasparilla Festival, one of the
Southland's greatest fetes.
I was dressed in pirate regalia,
trudging along feeling pretty vil
lainous. But as I passed a high
stepping high school drum major
ette, she looked over and said:
"Hi. Stumnv!"
Well, that melted all the piracy
in me. Why, I am five-feet-nine
inches fall and I can remember
when girls her age used to call me
the base of the neck, In front. The
symptoms of toxicity such as ner
vousness, rapid pulse, and high bas
al metabolic rate, are absent. Oc
casionally, the gland is enlarged
below the neck so that it cannot be
readily seen or felt.
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things like "Tarzan." Anvwav, one
girl did once, and what if she was
near-sighted? From Tarzan to
Stumpy in 20 years what a conic
down I
My theory Is that the modern
girl had better curb her Alpine
growth or she will outshtidow the
average American man altogether,
forcing the poor, inhibited soul to
court midgets to keep, his own
vanity Intact.
A rose with the longest stem Isn't
necessarily the one most admired.
Who wants to no throuuh lifo car
rying bandaids for a gal who Is al
ways bumping her forehead in door
ways?
Naturally we have to raise a crop
of tall ones to keep our college
basketball players happy, but that
is no excuse for all the fair sex to
try to grow clear out of sight.
as tne old French provero goes:
When a wife can look down up-1
on her husband s bald head, she
talks to him more about dandruff
than romance.
Cross Burned
For Governor
BATON ROUGE, La. Wi Un
identified persons fired a seven
foot cross on the Governor's man
sion lawn here Monday night.
And Gov. Earl Long's comment
was "they're not scaring me."
Firecrackers tied to the burning
cross set off a popping roar that
awakened the Governor.
Firemen, police and detectives
swarmed to the scene about 11
p.m.
"I raised the front window and
looked out to see what was going
on, ine Governor said.
"A mansion guard ran out with
a broom and knocked the thing to
the ground, but he couldn't put it
out."
"That's the fourth one. In 60
days." Long added.
Asked what he thought It was
all about. Long replied.
"I'll be darned if I know .
never belonged to the Klan."
Police Chief Fred Parker. Jr.
said Louisiana's capital city has
had no Klan activity since the mid
dle ma) s.
"Just some prankster or practi
cal Joker." he asserted.
Four firemen put out the blaze
witn a nandpump.
D"ET2LHJ
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No ttttltr how Mnr rem nt its 7 on hmrm
trlfd for Itrhfng of tcioma, pnoriitu,
lnfetlon, ithlttt's foot or whaftfer
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ntUcBtic. No ailr appraranco. Safo for
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WONDER SOAP malta or Money
ttfaitdotL Tmly wondorfal proparatioBa.
Sold m Klamath Falli by Payleu and
waia-reen unit stores: or your home
town dnifglst.
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Coal Fumes'
Value Studied
By HOWARD W. 1ILAKKSL1E
B1RMINOHAM, Ala. The
smoke front hot, simmering and
boiling coul will' make good drink
ing (ethyl) alcohol.
Also perfumes, gasoline, medi
cines, rubber, clothes, plastics and
scores of other synthetic chemi
cals. The smoke Is tho result of light
ing a fire In a seam of under
ground coal, and then boiling, In
stead of consuming most of the
coal. The quality of this conl
smoke Is all-unportant, and how to
get It Is the subject of a two-dny
symposium hero at the first Inter
national conference on the under
ground gasification of coal.
Two of the fumes alreudy pro
duced by these underground fires
are carbon monoxide and hydro
gen. They are the basic materials
(or the nfr(iima nnH all tt, ,
the miracles to come from smoke
Dr. Carl Bordenca. of the Konih.
em Research Institute, at Birming
ham, explained that the synthetic
methods and catalysts already ex
ist for making all these conver
sions. As soon as the engineers
are able to produce these gases In
useful quantities. Dr. Bordenca
said, new industries will become
possible.
He said the alcohol made from
the coal fumes may compete In
cost with fermintatlon and petro
leum alcohols-.
RESIGNING
PORTLAND W) D. L. Marlctt,
for the past seven years assistant
administrator of tho Bonneville Ad
ministration, will resign Feb. 29.
Sol. E. Schultz, chief engineer,
will succeed him temporarily.
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EDITOR'S NOTE; This In tho
first of lour stories an the voters'
struggle to pick a president,
WASHINGTON For 105
years the voters have been In n
long and not very energetic strug
gle to get a word In edgewise In
picking a president. Tills electlun
year Is a good time to see why.
The bi men who met lit Phila
delphia In 1787 to make the Con
stitution saw to It the people
couldn't vote directly for the nrenl.
dent. Wo atili don't. We have In
vote for electors who vote for the
President,
We can't even choose the candi
dates. The professional politicians
seo to that. They do it for us its
thry will once aguln at the Repub
lican aud Democratic national con
ventions In Chicago tills summer.
iliose do conservatives of 1787
agreed with George Mason of Vir
ginia who thounht "It were as un
natural to refer the choice of a
proper character for their chief
maulstrate to the neonle as It
would be to refer a trial ot colour
to a blind man."
The only point they conceded was
In letting us vote directly for the
iHMnhitru nf tl, llrnMM nt T)n,itt.
.sentiitlvcs. Until the constitutional
amendment of 1013 we couldn't
vote for Senators. The state legis
latures picked them.
And the 56 men worked out a
plan It's In Article Two, Section
One, ot the Constitution which, It
was expected, would let Congress
Itsclt pick the president 19 times
out of 30. Each state would select
groun of electors who d vote lor
president.
If the electors In each state voted
for "favorite sons," as It was
thought thev would, any one can
didate would have a time getting
a majority of the electoral votes.
And when no one did. tne iiouso
of Represcntatlvea would choose
the president from among tho lop
runners.
Actually, it worked out that way
onlv twice: In 1800 Uie House chose
Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr
when both lied In electoral votes;
and In 1834 the House named John
Oulncv Adams over Andrew Jack
son when neither got an electoral
majorltv.
But on the Important question
who'd elect the electors, and now?
the 85 constitution-makers left
that up to each slate legislature
to decide.
In those earliest days, when only
one-seventh of the adult males had
the right to vote, a few legislatures
kent the rinht to themselves.
Eventually but It wasn't until
Civil War days, and the 8outh
Carolina legislature was the last
to yield all the legislatures let the
people vote for electors. This
chance came as more people voted
and the big political parties
emerncd.
There had been no parties as we
know them up through Washing
ton's first two terms. The parties
finally took over the naming of
electors for whom the mass of the
people could vote on election day
So now the electors of the party
cettlnir the bluaest vote In each
state vote for that party's presi
dential candidate.
This would seem to mean the
electors have become mere rubber
stamps, which they are most of
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the time, and harmless parts nf an
old-fashioned election system which
wo have been too lazy to chungo,
11 Isn't quite true.
Under the constitution the num
ber of electors In each alale Is
limited to Its total number u( Hen
atom and Representatives In Con
gress. So It's possible became the popu
lation of some stales la greater
than In others, for a candidate to
get a greater popular vote
total vote for electors than the
man who wins the election because
ho got more electoral votes.
It's happened and could happen
again. In I WW the popular vote for
Glover Cleveland was 6,640,320 to
S.h:iu,8JS for Benjamin Harrison
who won the presidency because
ho got 333 electoral voles to 1U8
for Cleveland.
And, although the electors almost
always vote for their winning
party's candidate, there's no law.
except In a few states, which nuya
they have to.
So far we haven't shown enough
energy to change this ridiculous
and outdated system which, some
time may let a little grnip of elec
tors, chosen by the people, vote
contrary to the people's choice fur
j l rj Ule-tit
To abolish thin ytem would bo
a now, ice low piocriui, rniulr
Inff a constltullonnl amrniliiirnt.
There's been lulk ol It. But no ac
tion. It's not an liwtic thin year. In
Wl more attention la brum Klvrn
iinotlier question: How to strip the
polltlcBl bosses ol some ol their
control over cho.ilnu prr.ililentlul
eunrilrinte and lettlna the peplc
express some preference?
AAUW Luncheon
Meet Saturday
The American Association Uni
versity Women rcKUlnr luncheon
meeting; Is rcheiluied Sulurdav,
11:30 p.m. In ino 1'ellcun l'nrty
Hoom.
Mrs. Don Ziimwnlt, music chair
man, has arraiiited lor Murmiret
tlerber to sliur snvcrcil selections.
Mrs. Lyrnvlune Fish. KUII8
lenrher. will apenk on "Business
Cycles."
Decorations will be under the
supervision of Mr- Clay Burrell
and Mrs. Wesley McNee Jr.
Cull Dorothy Proctor, 2-3337 for
reservations.
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Disease Hopef
On Molecules
PORTLAND Ifl Dr. Llnu.
PhiiIIiik thinks science imiy soon
discover that dlsoaso and cure
are a mailer ol molecules.
PuuIIiik, head ol the chemistry
department at Ciilltornla Instltul
ol TechnuloKy. told a Heed Coleu
uuillcuva hcru Tuesday that, "an
noon as thin undeistaudlnii of Ilia
molecular nature, ol disease aud
Uie molecular action of certain
diiiHN Is available to him, tha re.
search man will be able to tackle
rilneuse In a scientific and strnliilu
forward manner. Then, wn aim
have a truo science of medicine,"
li ""''li
Paulina; la native of Pnrllnnfl
and a former Orenon mate uoi'
Icko atudrnl.
Graham Says
Man Drifting
WASIIINOTON Ml Peoiile In
Ihn time of Jesus Christ were "Just
like the men In Wushlnttlon,'' Evan.
Itellsl Hilly Oruhum said, except
thev missed a chance nt salvation
without knowinu It.
An estimated 8.000 persons at
the National Cluard Armory Tues
day miilit heurd the young preacher
continue:
"The blood of thin city won't be
on my hands. For lour solid weeks
I ve preuched the gospel here, nil
I want to tell you Ihrro'a one tm
men won't be lortflven as long us
the world lusts. 'Unit's turnlnu
down Jesun Christ when they had
the chance to accept him."
Clraham'n cupltul crusade, begun
Jan. 10, ends next Uundny,
Naval Reserve
Inspected
Capl. C. P. Kernclmer, U S. Navy
flew Into Klnmuth Kails Monday
ufternoou, Inspected Die local Naval
licserva Armory at Ihc airport, and
spoke before tho regular Wavy re
serve meelliui.
He explained the means by which
reserve pilots can obtain flight
Uulnlng. He suggested men Inter
ested contact l.t. Comm. John Ster
ling here III Klnmuth Kails.
I?ov Thompson. Florida Slate Un
Iversity halfback, returned six klrk
offs lor an average ot 37 8 yards
during the '11 grid season.
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