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PAGE SDC HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY, JANUARYjM J FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered u second class matter at the post office of Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 30, 1.06 under act of congress, Marcn s, ib MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS hie Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for publication ft all the local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL ' BY CARRIER 1 month t 1.35 1 month $ 1-35 6 months $ 60 6 months -10 1 year H1.00 1 year S16.20 By BILL JENKINS Sunday Is always a great day to pink, and over the years we've Itorked out a system that helps the ocess along a bit. When you have knotty problem to settle or are ill chewed ud over something split Jourself some kindling or go and tune a pair of shoes. Very soothing mental exercises hese, despite all the elbow grease bat goes Into the act. There's Just tomething about either one of these Ictions, like washing a car in sum- for, that seems to ease the mind id clear the way for calmer ought. Spring Is in the air: Fred Heil- a-onner called In with the first rob ot the year report, which left us ymled for a minute until we real- led he was kidding. Robins stuy re the year round. Honest they . We've been feeding 'em since 1st fall. A frog of some variety has taken residence In the stone wall oi basement and gives out with kg croaking call quite frequently. Ian that mean that spring Isn't Ir behind? BILLBOARD When people say that this is a world with many problems ahend they nren't Just kidding. Look: at all the major decisions coming up if you don t believe, it. Suppose Hawaii is awarded statehood? What are we gonna do with all the old 48-starred flags? And if and when they trigger the H-bomb what will writers do for a substitute for the "atomic cloud" shape that they have all grown so fond of? And with a brand new congress in ses sion we Are probably going to get a few new agencies. And who is go ing to be Able to remember all those initials? Read a story In this paper the other day 81 lines long and in those lines there were 22 governmental and union agencies mentioned by letters. I'll admit that I'm whipped already. Anyone know of a small ranch out of reach of automobiles that can be purchased? A bed day for plane crashes ac cording to thn news. We still main tain that the world was better off before we threw away the horse and buggy In favor of Mr. Ap person's Jackrabbit. ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL 5y KEN McLEOD They'll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Hatlo OIMABOLJT A j V PIMENTO AJBME---13 ( SQWEBOCr EMERGENCy - ,T Wa53jSis ?S-4 arises -who's doiws & TlISmxfYCZ THE PELIVERlrJO ?. ''MM wff. I JAMES MARLOW 'The bigger our cities grow, the lore clean water we need. And the bigger the cities grow, the fts clean water we actually have; larger cities mean more pol ion. It appears thAt our clvill- Dion Is working agalnRt Itself. brtunately. however, there Is An Iswer to this combination of prob Ins and the answer Is found in modern sewage treatment hnt. (Sewer systems for removing hu kn wastes are a little moro than (century old. The mighty sewers Babylon, Nineveh and Rome Ire built to handle storm and tderground drainage. Laws for me the use of sewers for remov- body wastes until as late as 05 In London; 1833 In Boston! BO in Paris. (With this fact in mind one can rwny it was tnat tne sewers oi ris and London became actual- the underground world that ki'ly day novelists delighted In ilng as a setting for tneir tnics intrigue and violence. Of lurse the waters were not clean t at the same time they did not rry the load of filth found In the fcdern sewage system, and sewer ts was no problem for tne innabi Sts. frhe modern sewage system be- in to develop and spread rapidly the latter Dart of the 19th cen- ry. Body wastes and other un billed materials from toilets thtubs. sinks and other outlets re carried by water through the limbing system of a house or aer buildings. These pipes led t larger pipes street sewers, nk sewers and so on, until fl- Illy the entire load discharged Into k nearest river or other natural terway. mis system of disposal oi me Istes of human occupation solved Sam Dawson NEW YORK Iff) Businessmen n tally today their gains and appointments after one year of hat has been widely tagged as a usinessman's administration." President Elsenhower, In listing at his administration has done fwhat It would like to do In the ling year, offers a ncorcboard. s look at It, from the business fcnt of view only. Businessmen generally applaud- many of tho administration's DR-rango alms and early accom- Ishmcnts killing price and wage jntrols, promises of tax reforms, fs in government spending, ana "sympathetic ear" for business oblems. Borne of them express disappoint fcnt that spending cuts weren't per, that the budget la as far it of balance today as It was a r ago (a budget deficit of nine lllon dollars at the start of 1854, t as there was at the start of nnd some businessmen, who at 'hi had hoped for a reduction In fcdrral debt, are worried be- hise lis ceiling may have to be limed instead. porno businessmen with strong InservRtive leanings may splut- littie at the continuation of lb lie housing programs. plany business firms will oppose 1 President's plea that sched d tax reductions for corpora- Ins be held up. tMunufneturers who think high Irise taxes on their products are RiresbinK sates will light the pro ved retention of these taxes on Kh things as gasoline, autos, li lor and tobacco. teomr justness quarters nave buctud foreign aid expenditures I 'j ; ve-away program." pbf. h... enhower Stale of the Un- i .rr.'age. however, contains ay Ihi gs that will hearten most inn" - .en. The promise that invt-i cuts In spending will e i: t budget closer to balance ii n e them. v rv lay find the bogey of a .-ine slump reduced by hi pro r.l n have nubile works Diana kid v.-U hi advance. vm 'resident's suggestion for a a .. a Vi1n hi ailn L .tin- to expand or modernise ti h cnalked up as a gain from one set of problems. Human wastes and other filth no longer collected to make pest-holes of the cities. But new problems were created be cause the basic problem of human wastes was not solved by the sys tem for the problem was merely moved from one place, the city, to the waterway. The waterways then became the pest-holcs rather than the city. Sources of drinking wa ter became polluted. Epidemics broke out. The health problem caused by wastes had been re moved from sight "driven under ground." But like many menaces, it became still more dangerous there. The sewage treatment plant be came the modern answer to this modern problem. The basic job of a sewago treatment plant is to re move body wastes and other pol luting material from the water which has carried them througn the pipes and sowers of the city, Dirty water Is treated at the plant before being discharged Into the natural waterway. There are two kinds of sewnge treatment. These are called, "pri mary sewage treatment" and ".sec ondary sewage treatment." The primary treatment removed about 36 per cent of the pollution load of sewage water. The secondary treatment following the primary treatment removes much more of the sediment load; it is also, of course, more expensive. Some cities need to have a sew age plant that combines both sys tems of treatment. For some cities the sanitary engineers have de clared that Just the primary treat ment is sufficient at the present time but eventually all cities will be required to Install both methods as their populations increase and the pollution lend builds up. The decision on the part of de signers of modern sewage treat ment pliuils as to whether a city .should install ono or both systems depends mainly upon two consider ations: the ability of the natural waterway to purify itself, and the use of which the water will be put after it enters the waterway. I greatly suspect that the engi neers, likewise have a good dcul of respect for the public resistance toward spending a dime to clean up its mess and so the only pri mary plant is installed in many an instanco when both systems of treatment are actually required. The theory of half a loaf being bet ter than none at all has many a practical application. Unfortunate ly, however, there is too little pub lie knowledge of the problems in volved and far too often the Im pression gained by the average public is that the engineers desire to Install some grandiose system that is actually a waste of public funds. Saving the living waters has now become actually a race against time. Modern waste treatment gives us the means of combatting pollution. But our cities and indus tries aro growing so fast that the amounts of wastes threaten to spoil many of our streams before treat ment works are in operation. Another problem likewise has been created in this rapid expan sion of population In our urban areas. Especially so for those cit ies that already have sewage treat ment plants. These com unities are beginning to discover that their plants are fast becoming inade quate to handle the sewage load de manded of them and espanslon of facilities is becoming an important consideration. The possession of a treatment plant Is of little comfort to the citizens If the sewage load la so heavy It rushes through the plant so fast the treatment is inef fective or the sewage load so heavy the city must dump raw and untreated human waste Into the river. "WASHINGTON All President i Eisenhower could be sure about today, when he handed Congress his suggestions for changing ' the Taft-Hartley labor law, was that he d make quite a lew people mad. Sight unseen, but because nis ideas on changes were described as moderate, Eisenhower was a cinch to displease union leaders who wanted the law wiped out and those businessmen who wanted It made tougher or not changed at all. The most he could hope was that a majority of businessmen and organized workers would con sider his proposals reasonable and good and that Congress would feel the same way and translate tnem into law. But he couldn't be sure before hand. And particularly he couldn't be aure that Congress, before quit ting next summer, would make any changes or, it It did, that they would be the ones he sug gested. What Eisenhower offered today represented the end of much stumbling around Inside the ad ministration and the President's own official family on the ques tion of amending Taft-Hartley. Last year congressional commit tees held weeks of hearings on the law, letting all interested parties labor, business and others have their say on what should or shouldn't be done. Wh.cn a committee Is consider ing legislation on a law as con troversial and basic as Taft-Hartley, It would be usunl for an ad ministration spokesman to state Its views and very unusual if one didn't. Last year no one from the ad ministration appeared. The job of testifying for the administration would have fallen to the secretary of labor, Martin P. Durkin. Durkln stayed away. The result: Congress didn't act T-H in 1953. Later, when Durkln M. J, rgftRi ttt Ttrj Com pitta Un oi n luteal Instrument kyl mafia ptanee rout baidwtn dula quit the Cabinet In September, it became pretty clear why he hadn't gone before the committee. The administration through last winter, spring and summer had been unable to make up its mind on what T-H changes it thought should be made. Durkin complained, on the day he resigned, that he had been working with Eisenhower's white House aides on suggested changes, thought they had White House ap proval, and then found out they didn't. Eisenhower said he had never broken his word to an as sociate. So between last September and now the Eisenhower people have whipped up a list of changes, prob ably fewer than Durkin wanted, which the President could say re presented his considered opinion. Nevertheless, the difficulties en countered by Eisenhower on this subject were fairly mild when com pared with those of former Presi dent Truman, under whose admin istration, when the Republicans controlled Congress In 1947, T-H was passed. Truman went a lot further than Eisenhower, He wanted T-H taken off the books, which was what union labor leaders wanted. But in the following years, when his Democrats ran Congress, he couldn't do anything either. During his administration when it was clear that enough Demo crats and Republicans in Congress were Joined together in opposing outright repeal organized labor might hnve been able to settle for some changes. But It wouldn't. And It got noth ing. Any changes this Congress might make won't end the dispute. Organized labor will certainly be In pitching next year for more changes. This is a quarrel which will prob ably go on for years since T-H Is at the very heart of management-labor relations. BRUCE BIOSSAT Our European allies understand pretty well that the postwar facts of life have made the United States the Inevitable leader of the free world. They are realistic enough to accept thin situation, but they have not actually digested u. So It Is that they grasp at every straw which nromises any renewal of their onetime dominance of world affairs. So It is. too, that they dwell so heavily upon their claims to wisdom In this field claims founded upon long practice in the arts of diplomacy. In contrast they see America as a brash youngster fumbling in piti ful Ignorance in the face of giant problems. Every error, every in consistency of policy, Is magnified with evident 111 temper, or with the gloating pi en s live of the oldster who wants to see the young man rail as proof of his elderly super iority. Psychologically, this sort of per formance la easy to appreciate. 11 is natural enough that men accus tomed to the power and responst. blllty and glory of world leadership should look with some resentment upon those who have taken over their high seats. Picking flaws In the newcomer's performance is the most obvious way to demon strate distaste for what has hap pened. The Europeans, in other words, are being human in their response to a vastly chaned world situa tion. Yet they are not being quite human enough. U they were, they would under stand better the origins of their own resentments, and act more sharply to curb them in the In terests of Improved relations. And if they were, they would realize that the great wisdom they profess ought to include tolerance and encouragement of the young- The Europeans have been run ning the affairs of the world for centuries. They liked doing it, be lieving It was rather a case of "to the manor born." The Americans, on the other hand, did not seek world lender ship but hnd it forced upon them. They were largely isolationists un til the war. And they have had a bare eight years in which to ac custom themselves to the tremen dously difficult responsibilities of their new role. It would be a miracle if any na tion were to assume global leader ship even In quiet times without committing many mistakes in a trial-and-error learning period. To expect a country to master the role without error In an' ordeal of crisis like the present age is fan tastic. Yet again and again the Euro peans seem to be Judging Amer ica's performance not as an eight year wonder but as a centuries-old pattern which It is not. They appear to be expecting that we should learn in this short span all the skills, all the seasoned respons es that they have practiced with a will since the modern age dawned. There is no compassion in lliis attitude. And we have always heard that compassion Is the hardy offspring of great wisdom. Hal Boyle NEW YORK lP Snow fell on New York City Monday and made it the wonderland everybody would like to live in. The soft flakes fell like the wandering hands of a child, heal ing old hurts without knowing how. This is the greatest city in the world, a city of many small cir cles and many a close-knit neigh borhood and . many a wondering loyalty. It is a city swept by storm and turbulence of living and the wind of voice. But the snow Is felling and New York City is beautiful. . . . And, oh, z wish you could see it now. . , From the Bronx to the Battery. . . and Brooklyn. . .And here in the mist ... A ride to Staten Island. . .Now look at your Statue of Liberty, lifting her Imperial torch against the everlasting snow. "It's a great place to visit, but I'd sure hate to live here," many a tourist says. . . But really you have to live with New York City for many years to know when is the right time to see her best. . . And I say, "now!". . .Come all ye people. . .See the tallest towers of our time in a cloak of snow, and the highest civilized icicles in the whole wide world. . . Come now. . .Come now. . .See how the snowflakes, one after another, none like the other, bring out and stir to new life the myriad children of the city, one after another, none like each other, and all are stirred and- all are melting. . . And none knows why. . , It is a storm thnt nature is hurling nt the city, and all storms harvest havoc. . .For every laugh in this world there must be a cry. and often two ... On Park Avenue a girl in a mink coat sticks out her tonguo and tries to catch a snowflake. . . On the Bowery a walking bum looks for a way to escape not one but a thousand flakes. . . To him they are noth ing but life's wet drum beats. He's seen other snows In other towns in other years before, and wants a place out of the wind's way. But in Times Square, the river of light where no neon sign is ever really lonely, the snow tousles a girl's head that should be ruffled, and a hand rubs in the snow there and thaws it, and laughter rings in two hearts and knits them against a time when snowfalls are forgotten and the miserable ice forms. Snow slows the pace of New York. . . It puts a shovel and a job in the hand that needs help. . . . It lifts people out of themselves. . . . It sews them into unity. Like mischief-minded elves they like to see the snow tie up their city. . . Knot It in massive traf fic jams. . . Wrap it into a hope less, happy jumble . . . And may be stay that way until the first Robin arrives and rescues the city by bending down and with one peck of his beak unbend the bow thnt holds it all in one. Well, maybe I do make too much of it. But thih is the first real snowfall we have had this year, and snow does excite us here in the world capitnl of concrete, just as the rain does when it is al lowed, come spring. Tell me, truly. Wouldn't you like to ko ice skating in Wall Street? Why not now . , . The perfect time. . . . With the wind blowing, the snow falling and the brokers brok ing ... And oh, if you have never Not only rellwes coughs colds but... V Ixmieni itlrky phlegm and thus l "Breaka-up" rauihinf aprlls. V Contains no narroiirs. No wnmiiriomnnv doctor have prmorilied FKRTUSSIN for roughs of cold, for all the family. DON'T MISS DREWS Manstore mi SALE Not juit o limited sole! Every shoe, boot in our stock it reduced to sove you money. Don't mist thii tale! ENTIRE STOCK Nunn-Bush and Edgerton SHOES ARE ON SALE SAVINGS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT DURING OUR STOREWIDE SALE Tremendoui loving, in suits, topcoats and hun dreds of itoms in men's and boy s wear at Drews Monitoro, 733 Main. Urea Repatriation Commission 5 Out January PANMUNJOM W The Korean repatriation commission, caught in a crosftire between the U. U. and Reds, today took up the critical Issue ot what to do with some 22,500 war prisoners who won't re turn to their homelands. It is facing a fast-approaching deadline midnight of Jan. 22 when anti-Red Chinese and Korean POWa are expected to begin mov ing out of their neutral zone camps with or without the commission's okay. At a 2-mlnute session. Ma). Oen. Jan Svenstrom, the Swedish dele gate, proposed that the commis sion back the Allied demand that the prisoners be released Jan. 23. He urged a quick discussion and decision. The delegates then adjourned for a day to study his proposal. The Reds insist the prisoners be held until their fate is discussed for 30 days by a Korean political conference. Preliminary negotia tions for the conference were broken off last month by U. S. Ambassador Arthur Dean af ter the Reds had charged the United States with perfidy. Since then, Communist leaders have urged the U. N. to call a special meeting to take up the problem. The Indian government an nounced today that It is formally requesting that the Assembly meet "at an early date' to discuss "An"' Indian Foreign Ministry source had said earlier a request was sent to the United Nations In New York yesterday asking that the Assembly meet Feb. 9. The government announcement called for the session to open be fore the repatriation commission is dissolved, which Is expected late in February. Approval of 31 of the 60 U. N. members Is needed to reconvene the Assembly. Meanwhile, American and South Korean units held a rehearsal of what they plan to do If and when the prisoners are freed and stream AA, Through A Power No One Can Pin Down, Saving Hopeless Addicts In Nation (Editor's Note This Is the sec ond In a series of articles dealing with the disease of alcoholism and what Alcoholics Anonymous is doing to combat it.) By LYLE DOWNING Down through the ages, King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table have been cited as a near perfect example of the equality of nian. The king, not wanting any big shot standouts among his cohorts, had a round table constructed so that all knights were equal. Alco holics, Anonymous. In this respect, resembles the Knights of the Round Table. Alcoholics Anonymous has only one requirement for membership an honest desire to stop drinking. AA has no dues or fees. It is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institu tion. It does not engage in any controversy and neither endorses nor opposes any causes. It has no officers and no "musts" for any of its members. The primary pur pose of all AAs is to stny sober and help other alcoholics to attain sobriety. FACTS ABOUT DISEASE As we stated in the first install' ment of this series, our purpose ts to present, objectively as pos sible, facts about the disease of alcoholism and what AA is doin? to combat it. -Anyone seeking aid in achieving sobriety can obtain immediate help by contacting eith er of the Klamath Falls groups of Alcoholics Anonymous. The or ganization is listed in the tele phone directory. One of the paradoxes of Alcuhui Ics Anonymous is that its best In formed members are at loss to pinpoint the power it has to brine about sobriety. More than 150.000 persons who were considered hope less drunks have been restored to hen 1th and happiness through the Aa program. A person seeking AA assistance should assume the same attitude toward the program as a sick per son has toward a doctor's pre scription. A doctor gives a patient a prescription which the patient in turn presents to a druggist. The prescription is written in Latin and the druggist retires among his bot t.cs to fill it. No one ever asks for a translation of a prescription nor seen New York when it is snow ing, well, maybe it is snowing in your town now. . .And you feel in your heart at this moment you wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world. To catch a snowflake is to seize a falling star and feel a coolness in your hand. And wherever you live, and whatever age you are, that is how it should be. demands from the pharmacist an analysis of the ingredients that go into the medicine. If the medicine effects a cure, the patient is satis fied. STEPS TO SOBRIETY There are 12 steps in the Alco holics Anonymous program which we will enumerate later. Just how following these 12 steps brings not only sobriety but eventually a de sire not to drink is somewhat of a mystery. It has been proven in 150.000 cases that anyone who ap proaches the AA program with an open mind and firm determin ation to quit drinking can beat the booze rap. Leading physicians are agreed that alcoholism is an illness, now rated as the nation's No. 4 health problem. The symptom of the dis ease is a compulsion or crnving for alcohol that leads a man or woman to drink Irrationally and to excess. Alcoholism has been described by leading researchers as a physical allergy coupled with a mental obsession. What this means Is that the alco holic has lost his tolerance for al coholhe can no longer handle It rationally. At the same time, the alcoholic is subject to a compel ling desire for liquor, even though he knows that the results of drink ing will almost certainly be disas trous. HEAVY DRINKER DIFFERENT There is a distinction between the heavy drinker and the alco holic. While the former may over indulge on occasions, he does not let alcohol disturb the pattern of his living or obscure his objec tives. It hns been definitely established that "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Eminent students of the problem concur in the belief that once a person crosses the invisible borderline between social drinking and compulsive drinking, he is never going to be able to drink normally again. Alcoholism may be arrested but it never can be cured. Lack of understanding of the alms and achievements of Aco holies Anonymous is keeping the movement from spreading more rapidly. We cite as an example the woman who was asked how her husband, a well-known drunk, was getting along in AA, She replied: "Alcoholics Anonymous is a won derful organization. The members only drink on meeting nights!" (Next the alcoholic employe.) toward the Allied line tTnn bulging South Camp. Work crews continued . week's efforts to renf- ' bridges and barricade sin.?! nnrl mine fields with t-i V to aid any southern flow! erated prisoners. uiner juuea troops, or a temnorary holding .. ticed with loudspeakers With thn KwiKn onH e...7 ...... " UHCQrl up with the Allies and therl mnnist Czechia nnri Reds, the five-nation repil mmmitsi(in nntnnllu i. ... 1 ..j lo uuq. . control by its Indian chairmJ Gen. K. S. Thimayya. C What action, u any, the will iat-e remains 10 be seen, J U. N. and neutral officers gal urif-rMilntprl thnt tho tni.. l -tiuiam have painstakingly avoids in trail .AVAral mnrs A H even indefinitely rather thii ciding irrevocably for one J The Indians reported thn Koreans who fled from the J ing for transfer to "neutral cid Slovakia or Pol and," J changed tneir minds and 1 uccii i.iuni.u ivj .iic camp I s e g r e g a t io n. The fad inem, oiieurjuiwicu iue Allied U that the two had decittsd to J the odd request in an U demonstrate there was no J ,-i incMa tho namn 1 Ice Proves Bad Good For Pair FLINT, Mich. 11 The la Byram Lake near here bothpej ana men pubsiuiy savea Ut 1 of two adventurous fishermtn terday. Norman Rllter, 34, and VcJ Hanks, 38. landed their pr piane on me ice. 'r ney luteal! fish through the Ice. At the plane's landing gave way. However, the p! wing tips caiiRht, prevengiij cran irom plunging into X of water. Ritter, the pilot, and H struggled out of the cochil the water and swam to salt? Youngster Caught In Cliff Crevice VICTORVILLE, Calif. IiB-A like rock formation held a IW old cumber captive for hours, 40 fcnt above the gd and a sheriff's posse had to the cliff to rescue him, Sheriff's Capt. James B. said the boy, Richard Fowl Apple Valley, felt himself yesterday while crawling; escarpment. He threw his il to one side, against the clilt slid feet-first into the crevlct. There he stuck. Deputy Fnd Lewis lassoed n rock above 11 nrd and climbed up Several airmen from a urn base also climbed up. ThcnlJ went on above Richard and drci a second line, which was hc beneath the boy's arms. Hie: was hoisted out and loweit: the ground, little the ora .his experience. Extra Work Made Easy Rent A Typewriter or Addinq Machine El.plrlt r Hand Lost month', rentol li applied to purchase pwj VOIGHT'S PIONEER OFFICE SUPPU S9 Mill. N"1 ilat-M 17 ffr During EMIL'S TUESDAY SURPRISE! v White King Giant Sixe 9 Kraft Cottage Cheese Maxwell House Coffee Holiday Margarine Scottie 400 Count Facial Tissue Federally Graded Good m Boneless - Our Own Cure Pt. 1 lb. ? 3 lbs. ea. Soap Gerber't Baku Eaa UUVJ I UUU 5 0nj Best Food fc riajuiiiiai-ic q, Delicious Apples ib Steaks Ib. Corned Beef Ib SUPER MARKET ' LA If t....H-..l(l ? o 9th and PINE No phone colli. P5' : bu..ue-M point of vUw, f. X
