HERALD AND NEWS. K.'AMATIl FALLS. OUMiON
THURSDAY, KIWHUAItV 14, lunj
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FRANK JENKINS
sVJitor
BILL JENKINS
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on August 20, 1006, under act of Congress, March 8, 187B
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By I) KB ADDISON
. Adult visitors at Fremont school
Monday had their eyes opened at
a noon-ume Slop m Airs, suena
Etone's room In junior high.
. Mrs. Stone, really as an "extra
curricular activity", has gathered
together a priceless collection of
Oregon and Kiamam country His
torical material. It includes rare
books, documents, maps and In
dian artifacts.
She is at work now indexing the
material for handy reference work.
She has hopes that all of It can
be made Into a library for general
as well as classroom use.
Such activities are the extra di
vidends that come with srettina
the right kind of people In the
school systems.
Hank Semon Is the exception who
proves trie rule.
The rule Is: Never return a man
to political office after he's served
few terms.
Old Henley is the exception be
cause, in 20 years as a state rep
resentative, he has resisted all the
constant presure to tie him down
and take him into the political machines.
One of the questions that is per
plexing many parents these days
was partially answered in our visit
to Mrs. Martha McLaughlin's first
grade room at Fremont.
The question is: How can young
sters do their homework, arithme
tic problems for Instance, while the
radio Is blaring in their ears?
We'd thought for a while that it
was an individual quirk: that be
ing trained to be a good listener,
to be aware - of what's going on.
was our own single track mind
peculiarity. But no, other parents
find this apparent dual ability in
their young'ns a matter of puzzle
ment too.
Well, let's get back to the first
grade. We find one group of pupils
uauiered in tne front ot the room
at work on an oral reading exer
cise. Others are at their desks
(the new movable kind) busily en
gaged on coloring projects. Still
another is at an easel, engrossed
in creating a water color scene.
Even with the 'disturbing influ
ence of strange grownups, and the
Principal, the work goes on with
out more than a flicker of hesita
tion. If they are aware of all that goes
on and still are able to concentrate
on the job at hand, then that ex
plains uie business of listening io
the radio and doing a homework
problem all to once.
It would be Rreat training for
newspaper people.
We herewith award the cut glass
earmuffs to Skeet O'Connell.
He said. "We could stand less
whistle tooting on the basketball
floor."
Has anyone ever heard of a
coach making an admission like
this before? Or Is it the result
of Skeet's concentration on snort
for sports sake in intramural piay
after long tenure as an lnter-
scholastic coach?
On second thouEht. cutting down
on whistle tootling would never do.
It used to be that the boys got a
breather after every o asset, in
walking back for the center jump.
Now the only time 'they get a
pause that refreshes is when the
game is stopped lor a ioui.
Don't let those pictures of the
members of the Build the Basin
nanel fool vou. There was a rea
son mat iwo oi wie. gcuueuieu
were pictured with their hats on.
We reier to Anarew . ttjuriy)
Bussman and Forrest L. (SKrn
head) O'Connell.
They'll Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
l lAWV TUIS CHARACTER. WE
BUS VY1IH Ins rvv-i-1
dfeHE'S ftJ4JE CHAH6ES
HJ& TUNE TO fnkAF-ruiki. , .J-
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QcunM Wjtxhlow
EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the
second of four stories on the voters'
struggle to pick a president.
WASHINGTON Wl Most people
don't take an active part in politics
because they are too bust making
a. living other ways, or lack interest.
But, since we have a two-party
system, and apparently want it,
someone has to run the parties.
There has always been a pollti-
cauy-actlve minority willing to do
the running. They range from the
humble precinct workers to the fat
necked bosses. Their reasons vary:
Some are earnest, considering it
a social responsibility; some want
power; and some have a lust for
loot
Historian Charles Beard noted
that from away back in American
mstory were nave always been
lew people who took over in a
caucus, a convention, or a smoke-
filled room.
He noted that the "Boston Town
Meeting, so celebrated in history
for its democracy," fell "Into the
hands of a caucus long before the
Declaration or independence.
They bark and the rest of us trot
like sheep.
This Irks sometimes, particularly
when we have to choose between
a couple of hand-me-down presi
dential candidates tossed at us by
the big shots.
But some of the politically-active
trot like sheep, too. This shows up
v a nauonai political convention
when a few men behind closed
doors decide on the presidential
candidate and the mass of dele
gates who think they're doing the
Dominating shout amen. That
makes them the real hill-billies of
politics.
Up to the end of Washington's
second term there bad been no big
political parties.
And when a successor to him had
to be chosen. It was done through
arrangements between national
and state leaders. The people had
no say. For years afterwards
presidential candidates were cho
sen by party caucuses in Congress,
even though the parties had taken
hape.
This method began to hit the
skids in 1824 when Congress turned
down Andrew Jackson. Four years
later he got into the White House
for two terms.
But he was so scorched by the
1824 deal that he urged Congress,
in eight annual messages, to set
up direct primaries to let the peo
ple pick the party presidential
candidates. Congress, of course,
dldnt, and still hasn't.
Since around 1840 the candidates
have been chosen by delegates
from all the states at the parties'
national nominating conventions.
Theoretically, that Is, for more
than once the delegates have been
only simple yes-men for the bosses,
represent the thinking of the peo-
ABC's
pie back home.
In most cases
the people back home have no con
trol over them.
In 1903 Robert Lafollette, twice
defeated for Governor of Wisconsin
by bossed state conventions, got
bis state's legislature to adopt a
primary law. By the time of World
War I, 18 states had adopted such
laws.
Their purpose: To let the peo
ple of those states express some
preference for party candidates to
be chosen at the national conven
tions and to elect delegates to the
conventions.
Sixteen states New Hampshire,
Illinois, New Jersey, New York,
Massachusetts, Ohio. West Vir
ginia, Oregon, Forida, California,
South Dakota still have primaries.
They're a hodge-podge, each a
little different from the other, a
few pledging the delegates to vote
at tne convention as tne people
who elected them desire, some giv
ing the delegates a free hand, some
urging them to be conscientious.
And the preferences among the
candidates, expressed by the peo
ple voting in the primaries, have
no binding effect at all on the con
ventions although they may show
how the people at home are think
ing and thus influence the convention.
In their "Growth of the American
Republic." Samuel Eliot Morison
and Henry Steele Commager have
comment: "The direct primaries
which had aroused the enthusiasm
of Lafollette, Theodore Roose
velt and Wilson proved a distinct
disappointment, for professional
politicians quietly lound ways to
control the primaries. . , "
The failure .of these hodge-podge
primaries among just 16 states
doesn't mean that a national law,
setting up a single primary with
teetn in it lor every state, woman t
be successful in letting the voters.
not the conventions, pick the candi
dates.
The professional politicians might
get their hands in this, too, and
ruin it but we could cross that
bridge when we came to it.
Congress, of course, would be
the key in setting up such a na
tional law. it s been urged to do
so many times. In 1012 the Demo
cratic and Progressive party plat
forms proposed such a national
primary.
So did President Wilson In his
first annual message to Congress
in 1913. so does President Truman
now.
And in the past few weeks, meas
ures have been offered in Congress
to establish by law such a nation
al primary In one way or other.
But don't bet anything is done
about it. This year, anyway.
The automobile makers and
dealers apparently are not worried
that people will stop buying cars
because they lack the money.
Looking at national Income totals,
they see nothing but rosy prospects
in that department.
But a couple of other things do
seem to be worrying them. One is
the great increase in traffic dens
ity which is making driving, par
ticularly In and around the larger
cities, a painful ordeal.
A man who has to crawl into
town in a bumper-to-buniper cara
van of cars and hunt maybe 15
minutes for a place to park may
question whether that kind of
transportation is worth what it
costs.
His weekend of "fun" often turns
out to be a worse experience, with
fancy parkways jammed to the
guard rails as he fights his way
in and out of the city.
The other thing is perhaps
largely a by-product of this traffic
swarm: the Highway fatality toil.
James J. Newman, chairman of
the Inter-Industry Highway Safety
Committee, forecasts a new high of
40.000 traffic deaths lor 1932.
He fears serious impact on the
automobile business if this rising
rate is not soon reversed.
FALLING BACK
It's a commonplace today that
highway and street maintenance
and new construction are not keep
ing pace with burgeoning traffic
and consequent expanded need.
Newman noted it is also true that
safety efforts are falling behind.
But all ot us know tne drastic
remedies required are not immedi
ately in sight. We who already
have cars have got to figure some
way to adjust to the present mo
toring chaos.
Otherwise we stand a good
chance of winding up as a digit
in the fatality statistics.
The highway safety experts and
many self-appointed worriers have
a vast compendium of advice to
throw out on this subject. A lot of
it is very sound, and deserves to
be heeded. But this is no place to
review their counsel.
What It comes down to, really,
is that driving in this perilous mo
toring age Is a job for a trained
man. It Is the amateurs, tne ones
who think of It as a grand lark.
who usually end up on a slab.
ine man who gets behind an
automobile steering wheel ought to
be as skilled, relatively, as an air
plane pilot. And he ought to ap
proach his driving task with the
same deep respect for hazard, the
same awe of his responsibility,
which the pilot brings to his Job.
NO RELAXING
The pilot knows any slight care
lessness, any momentary laDse
from . complete alertness, might
spell death lor him, his crew and
maybe 50 to 70 passengers.
A driver's burdens are not so
great; but the hazards he faces
are more numerous and more continuous.
In their worst year. 1847. all
commercial airlines suffered 248
fatalities. That's not In th Ipncnm
with highway tolls.
If a man is not prepared today
to handle a motor vehicle respon
sibility, to maintain endless vigil
ance while at the wheel, to treat
driving as a serious business, he
is not m to get behind the wheel.
Assuming he want tn liu in
draw his social security, he would
uo oetter to resort to public means
of transport. He'll ,b nafor .h
so will others.
Any reader between thm iin.
might have foretold the new "super-austerity"
measures which
have just fallen unnn th nivir
Briton, already groggy from more
than 12 years of shortages and
belWfghtening.
It has been evident for manv
months that Britain was entering
a new phase of its postwar eco
nomic history. The signs of bloom
ing health had disappeared. Re
armament didn't really make the
patient sick again; the truth was,
he had never gotten well.
so now the British are to im
port less coal and tobacco from
America; to build fewer motor
cars, television sets, houses, house
hold appliances: to begin paying
for medical services heretofore
free; to spend less money on for
eign travel.
Some 10.000 civil servants are
to be stripped from the govern
ment payroll.
Some of these measures are
aimed at checking the drain on
Britain's sliding dollar and gold re
serves, others at making more ma
terials available for armaments.
STANDOUT
One thing is supremely evident.
They all .spell contraction of the
civilian economy, and sonic of
them spell a narrowing of the total
economic base.
If these are meant as steps on
the road back to lasting recovery,
they are strides along a circuitous
route mat lor the moment, at least,
does not seem to be leading direct
to the goal.
For Britain's stature as a world
power was iounded upon a broad
base. That understructure has been
shrinking for a long time.
But it the process should pro
ceed much further, the country
would tumble Into the ranks of sec
ondary powers.
The hour has arrived for hie
choices that shall either accent
this sharply reduced status, or lay
the groundwork for the recanture
of some of Britain's old strength.
Prime Minister Churchill l.i an
incurable optimist and promoter
of empire. He believes Britain can
regain enough of its fabled power
to function as a balancing force
between Russia and the United
States.
But the nroofs must nnur bH.
duced by him.
The path oack to greatness can-
not be trod unless there is first
richer influx of raw materials.
BRITISH ROLE
The United States nnrn mnr. hi.
leaped into the breach with $300.
000,000 to be used for this nur-
pose. but In the long run Britain
must figure how to get sufficient
materials on its own. Else there
can be no solid recovery.
a inicxer now or materials can
mean widened markets for Brit
ish manufactures, more dollars
earned, more money to buy things
with in foreign lands, economic
expansion and a higher standard
of living which points the way to
enlargement of power.
nut as yet neither Churchill nor
any other Briton has come forth
with a plan which shows how
this vital fundamental advance can
be made.
And without that first biir stride.
all the other gains which may fol
low are piauuy oiocxea. ,
So the new "super-austerity" is
not evidence of progress toward
recovery. It is merely another and
more drastic "trimming of the
ship" in preparation for action.
me. real measure of Churchill
as a peacetime leader Is still to
come. I
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UNKMl'I.OYMKNT BENEFITS
KLAMATH FALLS I found out
some Information recently that 1
believe of Interest to many. It Ik
about the apparently now setup on
the stato unemployment Insurance
compensation hint includes all
workers for small concrriiH . . .
Unit is, all places employing lens
tlinn four persons.
'lite employer has the right to
fully cover all workers for merely
a few cents a week, or he run re
fuse and thus hi) help is not cov
ered or eligible for any benefits.
Now this seems hard for mn to
understand fully, One works Just as
long at steady employment ns an
other yet he Is not protected . . .
Those that quit, are llred, or
even laid off are otherwise eligible
for the Insurance except that there
has been no fund set up for thorn.
I believe there are many people
who aren't covered, have no right
to state help if suddenly unem
ployed. This bears looking Into by
the hundreds that work for the
spinll businessman.
Surely an understanding should
be reached for those steady work
ers who deserve that type of pro
tection Insurance.
Mm. Carol Deja
1616 Worden SI.
lhe Anierl-
Korca is the
TAMPA. Fill. ITI -can
Hunting man in
nation's Valentine today
But he is pretty much taken for
grunted. And the war he is en
gaged in is less on the lips of his
countrymen man tne subject oi na
tional politics.
Traveling about the country now
you cannot help being struck about
how much talk there Is about the
coming election, and how little
there Is about tlio conflict In Ku
rco. The weary months of truce ne
gotiations, the long and Intricate
quibbling over terms tor a cease
fire, have more and more eased
the Korean stalemate into the back
ground of the national conscious
ness. It is truly becoming a "forgotten
war". At least for the time being.
Many people bring up the subject
only as a springboard for a verbal
blast about "What's wrong with
Washington?"
The fresh question of "Who do
you really think will be in the
White House for the next four
years?" simply holds more nation
al interest than the seemingly
changeless situation in the faraway
rice paddles and bills of Korea.
That wry fact mast give the
American men stationed there a
blue feeling.
An officer's wife who recently re
turned with her husband from a
tour of duty in the Far East said:
"The war seemed very close and
real when we were stationed In
Japan. We kept busy working in
the hospitals where they brought
the wounded from Korea.
'When I first came home I was
mad at the lack of Interest shown
here In the war. But now days go
by. and I don t even read about It
myself. Isn't that a shameful thing
to nave to aamit?
It Is a terrible thing, but a very
normal human reaction, 'lhe farth
er away a war is. the longer It
orags on, the less you tmnk aoout
it unless you nave someone ocar
to you involved In It.
Among those who do oiscusa tne
war there is a growing, oewim
cred anger. There Is a kind of
vague clamor for more drastic ac
tion.
I th nk It's time for us to quit
being Russia's puppet," said a man
ufacturer. "Why don't we inarch In
to Manchuria and end nt
This bold attitude Is fairly popu
lar among civilian armchair gen
erals, frustrated by the twilight na
ture of the Korean action, me
American neonle are still used to
old-lashloned wars that had a begin
ning, a middle and an end wars
waged mightily and won as quick
ly as possible.
Tnev nave no appetite lor inr
Asiatic type of warfare, In which
time is of no great concern, ana
battles flare up and die Inconclu
sively away.
But this Is what we have In Ko
rea, and to llcht a series of these
nibbling, puzzling wars may be our
fate for a generation in our siow
grapple to halt the probing thrusts
of Communism in arms.
Why not march Into Manchuria?
HOME LIFE '
KLAMATH FALLS Tills ever-
present problem of making good
citizens of our children Is one lor
nil parents. The miilu purpose Is
to mould and tench youngsters
Irom the earliest age possible,
when habits are formed and made
into lifetime standards.
There Is so little done In super
vising tho little ones. Mv neighbor
hood orobablv Is typical of others
. . . from the lime the children
are ablo to walk they are put out
"to play."
Now this Is anywhere away from
their homes, including the busy
highway 97 district. Mealtime
conies and mothers are heard
screaming and shouting for their
offspring. They are fed well fur
the afternoon of running wild.
Next time they are called Is
after dark when bedtime rolls
around. There Is no Interest by the
parents In these children except
in the bare necessities of food and
clothes and a bed to sleep In.
Tins is a new and different kind
of child rearing than In mv day.
We played and enjoyed our life,
but with .some restrictions. Com
plete freedom wasn't ours: we even
had duties to keep us home. The
streets weren't our playground.
With a few playing facilities,
earh yard can be a child's king
dom. A parent with Interest Is
needed. Instead of laying a ground
work for restlessness and discon
tent, a parent should strive to
ward a normal and satisfying
home contentment . . .
MRS. '. D.
Many Infantry leaders feel It would
only mire us more deeply in a rut
ted oriental landscape, wnere we
might sulfer millions of more ca.v
uaitles without achieving a final
military decision.
They fear this would only widen
the area of stalemate and spread
our resources more thinly, opening
a wound we couldn't close without
a tremendous third world tfr.
The American soldier will have a
lonely time this Valentine's Day,
holding a nameless hill in a nan
forgotten war the folks back home
don't even like to talk about much
anymore.
Britain Sets
Pulp Ceiling
LONDON 11 The board ol
trade announced Wednesday
that the Uritlah government has
llxed felling prices which Import
ers may pay for Scandinavian
wood pulp.
Other European alatrs are tak
ing similar action to cheek the
atiuidy rlao In prices, which have
doublud since IIMU, a spokesman
said,
No Import licenses will be Is
sued to lliltlsh purchasers who at
tempt In pay mure than the maxi
mums set by the board of trade
order.
The ' maximum which may be
paid for the best quality chemical
pulp Is 86 pounds, $'JU4.40, a Ion.
Scandinavian suppliers are de
manding 110 to 116 pounds, $31)1 to
Vlii.
The celling for mechanical pulp
of which newsprint Is manufac
tured Is 39 pounds 3 shillings a ton,
SIIIU.4II, aualnst 46 pounds, I'J(I now
asked by the Scandinavians.
McNeil Prison
Hold Cohen?
LOS ANOEI.ES l.f Mickey Co
hen, dcfiosed mobster who used to
brag how he evaded tho penitenti
ary, was believed to be behind the
forbidding walls of McNeil Island
Federal Penitentiary In Washing
ton State Thursday.
The swaggering little gambler,
under sentence of five years for In
come tux evasion, has spent seven
months, four days in Jail here, none
of which applies to his penitentiary
sentence, lie has apiieaied the con
viction and Sentence but Wednes
day gave notice that he wanted to
gel on with the buMties of paying
his debt to society.
McNeil Island Prison aulhorlllrs
refused to say whether Cohen had
been received there, hut local
sources said he had bern s-nt
there by plane.
Austrian Peas
For NY Stock
PORTLAND Ml Five thousand
tons of surplus Austrian field peas
are going to be sold from Pacific
Northwest warehouses for use as
stock feed, the Commodity Credit
Corporation reported Wednesday.
That Is only part of the 85,000
Ions which the government holds.
It got the peas on lis support price
payment of $4. 60 a hundred pounds.
The mnrekt last fall ranged from
$4 20 to $4.40 and now there Is
prucllcally no Interest In the pea
ns cover crop iced, trade sources
report.
Ily .IK AN OWMNH
Slildi'iit body meeting will he
held III lhe aiKlllorliini Monday
morning for the purpose of pro
seutlng to the students Iho pro
posed new amendment,
Hells will be lung In order that
contusion and congestion will Ijh
relieved. Flint bell will bo rung
at 10:411, and at this time seniors
will be excused from homerooms
to go to the assembly. At II): 4.'.
and 10:40, lreshmeu.
The amendment to Article VII
of our constitution will read mi
that the varsity track "K ' shall
be an eight Inch block K with a
winged foot emblem outlined In Iho
center of the letter,
Also It will be rliuiiged to read:
III football and basketball the imr-
llclpiinl must play In one hall Urn
(liiarlers of games played. (Exam
ple: eight guinea sixteen cunt,
ters.) In case the fnotbul team
enters Into a stale championship
plnynlf series niter lhe regular sea
son has ended, a parllrlpnut enler
mg any portion ol such games or
games ihull receive his "K" upon
recommendation of the couch.
In ca.-.o the basketball team en
ters the stale chniiiplnnshlii play
off ns sponsored by the Slate Alh
letlc Association, a purticlpaiii
shall receive his "K" upon entei
lug nnv pin linn of any game upon
recommendation of lhe couch.
Students will vote on this l,v
secret ballot In Iheir huiueriHiins
during next week. The axaeikhly
Monday morning will help ucqulflit
students and teachers alike Willi
the plan.
(Hauls Puss cavemen will lour
nev here for the Iwo game series
with our Pellcuns tomorrow. Ai
last week was an open weekend,
students are more than anxious lo
see the Pels In action again.
A pep rallv will be held Friday
afternoon at 3:20 for everyone. Wi
are a.ked to go directly to Peli
can court and not to slop at our
lockers on the way.
Don't forget to hear Ray Hell
and Jerry Johnson Interviewed
over KKli nl 7: IS to-night on the
Klamath Sports Album I Chances
ure good that you may win two
Iree tickets to a basketball game
Entrys Filed
By Neubergers
SALEM Wl The Richard L.
Neubergers. The Oregon legls
Islure's husband and wife team,
tiled for reelection Wednesday.
They are believed to be the only
husband nnd wife serving In nnv
slate legislature. They live In Port
land, and are Democrats.
Neuberger filed for reelection lo
the Senate, while his wile filed for
another term in the House.
Other filings Wednesday:
District Attorney Donald E. llels
ler. The Dalles, for reelection
Circuit Judge Virgil II. Lnngiry,
Portland, for reelection.
Slute Rep. Henry Hemon, Kla
math Falls Democrat, for rrcUrc
Hon. 8tnte Rep. Joseph K. HnrvV.
Portland Republican, for reelec
tion.
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