'I'.JKSiiAV O- l'UfctH 2, 1955
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haitALl) Aixu Nfcvva, KLAAlAi ri ALLS. UttciUON
FRANK JENKINS
Editor
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Buena Stone came through with
a clipping from a San Francisco
paper the other day regarding: the
Uttorbug situation, which goes to
prove that almost all papers fea
ture the lltterbug campaign and
that almost all readers pay atten
tion to It. Bucna's suggestion In
' her accompanying- nolo read "May.
be what wo need." And she could'
n't have been rlghtcr.
The story, and picture, con
cerned a house painter by the
name of Richard Smith who was
caught dumping two barrels ol
rubbish in a ravine alongside the
Bkyllne Highway south of San
Francisco. He ran up against
South San Francisco Municipal
Judge Thomas Boccl Jr. who im
posed a $50 fine plus a sentence
of four hours of clean-up work
done in tho ravine under the
watchlul eyes of a court bailiff.
I strongly suspect that were
such measures put In effect in
our area we'd have much less Ut
tering than we have now.
In fact I seem to remember a
story from long, long ago of a
small town cop who was bothered
with the citizenry's Illegal park
ing. So he finally worked out the
system of letting the air out of
all four tires on an Illegally parked
car, tagging It, and then walking
off. It was good exercise and a
good lesson for the drivers to
have to pump up, or pay tu have
pumped up, their tires. And 11
stoppped all foolishness about
obeying or disobeying the parking
laws. They were strictly adhered
to after he started his campaign.
A letter from Loyd DcLap In
the mail the other day with an
other clipping, this one from the
Fost-Intelllgencer up in Seattle,
containing the Information that Lt.
L. C. Stlllwcll, assistant to the of
ficer in charge of the Seattle Navy
Recruiting Station, was principal
speaker at the opening of a new
recruiting station In Bellcvue. Lt.
Stlllwell Is also pretty well known
around these parts since he hap
pens to be a local boy. People
sure do keep up with the news
about tho horns town lads.
The Plumbing and Heating In
dustries Bureau has come out with
the Information that some 1.2A1
940 new bathtubs were sold dur
ing the first hall of this year.
Industrial research and Inven
tion are the two keystones that
make for the success of life in
our modern Industrial age, and,
Invention has been encouraged by
our pat-nt system. There arc
those, however, who would change
our patent system. Somehow these
people have an aversion to tlie
government granting a monopoly
for seventeen years to any Indi
vidual for making public an In
vention. These people seem to
think that the government Is giv
ing away something tn the Inven
tor. Actually, the theory ot pat
ents by Its very nature, brings
Into public knowledge a definite
Idea with a natural monopoly for
a period of years that otherwise
could have been preserved from
public view merely by seciecy.
Obviously, the commercialization
of many inventions would destroy
the secret; but in Ihe case ol
others lt would not. Thus In spile
of the government gramme legal
security for a number ol years
many Inventions ore retained as
"trade secrets" and not revealed
to the public through the patent
process. In secret the Inventor can
retain his naluial monopoly and
use it for his own benefits In
whatever way he might choose as
long as he does not disclose his
secret.
The situation the Inventor finds
himself In when he goes to the
government voluntarllv in rm
the bargain the government oilers
him, Blmply Is this: "Make your
invention puouc ana you ran re
tnln your monooolv for 17 vrr "
If the government decides to drive
a much harder bargain it Is per
missible to wonder how many In-
minors wouia volunteer to surren
dr their natural monopolies. Cer
lalnly those who make on Inven
nun wiin-n may oe exploited and
cpi secret win scarcely be ex
pected to do so. The results under
such conditions would be disas
trous.
Court decisions of recent vears
re very confusing In regard lo
patent monopolies, dike for in-
stance where the supreme court de
clared that Marconi's parents werj
Invalln tor lack of Invention alter
uiey had expired. In another de
cision the supreme court used the
term "flash of genius." as though
the method of making an inven
1lon was of more Importance than
the Invention Itself. Another covin
proclaims that an Individual can
make an invention; but If a grotto.
working together, perform the
Same act and obtain the same
result it is not an invent ion. Since
the complexities of Ihe modem
world are forcing more and more
inventions to be developed by two
or more individuals working to
gether, pooling knowledge In wide
ly separated fields by tins talk ol
lack oi invention is very discon
certing. To one who Is not versed In
all this legal play tn definition it
would appear rather obvious that
any Increase of control over our
environment, or any beneficial al
teration of lt, Is Invention. The
metnod by which such results are
obtained is of no Importance. The
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
the post office at Klamath Falls,
exclusively to the use for publication
This raises a question In our
minds as to what happens to the
old bathtubs' Or were all these
new tubs sold for .new houses
It seems unlikely.
The only use I've ever seen an
old batntuo put to was as a wa
tering trough for stock. But I sup
pose Ihere must be other ways.
Perhaps one could make a gigan
tic planter out of it and raise
exotic house plants. Or use It as
a spare bed in the guest room
The Bureau tries to pass lt ofl
by saying that the total sales ex
ceed the building figures, but that
tney Believe many oi me new
tubs are being used in 'second
bathroom" Installations. They even
come out and state that two bath
rooms In every home is becom
ing the standard for the middle
class.
I wouldn't know about that but
I do have a great deal of admir
ation for any outfit with nerve
enough to use the term "middle
class" in these touchy and class
conscious times.
If you have been criticised late
ly for your use of the (so-called
English language, be of stout heart
and face up to your foe with a
new weapon The American Peo
ples Encyclopedia.
An announcement from them
(from their press bureau which
happens to be the J. Walter
Thompson Company) Informs us
that the Caxton Club will bring
out this Fall another series, this
time the Crockett Almanacks.
Nashville Series.
Franklin J. Melne, editor of the
APE and a noted authority on
American literature say? that the
language of the almanacks should
make us all ashamed of the way
we write (and speak) today. He
quotes such examples as the "snm
singer who hollered so loud you
could hear him as far as a cata
mount." He also uses as examples
Ruch terms as a woman "buttcr
fanging" the daylights out of mess
or rattlesnakes and the time he
(Davy Crockett) was so "extlunc
toficated with the flu that he even
snored hoarse."
Hooray for Melne. If this sort
of thing keeps up long enough
we 11 finally gel the word "ain't
back In the American dictionary
as proper usage.
sttitude of, many present day
court decisions seems to be com
parable to a general deciding that
If a regiment takes a position
from an enemy no advance has
been made, whereas If an individ
ual does so lt Is a commendable
act and deserving of a medal
in court cases, a patent. This
action on the part of courts has
caused many research organiza
tions to refrain from taking out
patents If the courts do not con
sider their findings invention they
have much better protection un
der the law of "Trade Secrets."
Some few years ago the ene
mies of our patent system Wert
in the habit of proclaiming tha;
mere were great numbers ol "sup
pressed" patents. A "suppressed"
patent was supposed to be a pat
ent of value that was not being
"worked1' because ot some selfish
motive on the part of Ihe owner,
fuch as having an obsolete plant
that he would be forced to scran
if he put the patent to work. This
story has many variallons who
has not heard It directed against
the oil and the automobile indus
try as suppressing wondrous mvlh-
leal gasoline engines of tremen
dous efllclency?
Then these propagandists pro
pose new laws for forcing licens
ing as a corrective measure of
mis imaginary abuse of our oat
ent system. It Is of interest that
ihose who have sought to lint!
substantiation to these champs ami
have advertised for specialists to
revcai anonymously, giving the
serial number ot the patent, of
such wondrous Inventions that
have been "suppressed," have
never been able to find a case
that was Justified. There are no
"suppressed" patents.
There will be attacks mail
the patent system in the luture.
ns there have been In the nasi.
probably by individuals who have
little knowledge of their subject.
Assuming that no disastrous
changes are mode In our patent
system, certain trends In Ihe In
dustrial research field become ob
vious. Research. In spite ol all the
present attendant publicity, has
not yet come into Us own with
respect to many of the smaller
units of industry. The larger units
have been able, because of their
position, to pioneer general move
ments. This pioneer work was
possibly loo hazardous for th
small units to undertake; but now
mat tne rxpiomtorv work Is nret
ty well over there Is no longer
any reason why the smaller units
of Industry should not make full
use of Industrial research for their
own advancement and wnltare. In
tact, the time ta fast approach
ing when their security must de
pend upon It.
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'Why do you have two holes In
your nose? '
"Can you please take the wall
paper otf my apple?"
'What Is the longest thing In
the world? Are roads the longest
things in the world?"
These aren't queries asked on
a $64 ,000 quit show. No adult could
think up questions as intelligent
as these, not even for people try
big to win a big motor car for a
consolation prize.
They are Just ordinary ques
tion that popped Into the blonde-
red head - of Lena Jim palmer,
who is in the "question-asking
stage just about 4 years old
Leila Jim Is the youngest of
three daughters of Helen and
George Palmer, a young newspa
per couple. My wife, Frances, and
I feel very lucky to be godpar
ents of all Uiree of "those Pal
mer sisters," who are growing as
fast as morning glories. Nina is
8, Zona is 6.
Any home that has young chil
dren In lt Is a daily quiz show,
a program Interrupted only by
mer.ls or bedtime.
But the questions children ask
are much more searching than
those asked on television pro
grams. The answer to even a
SI 00.000 question on television is,
after all, a simple matter of in
formation that can be found by
looking in a reference book.
It has to be that way. If the
question didn't have a simple
clear-cut answer, everybody would
get confused and contestants would
start suing the sponsors to collect
the tlOO.,000.
The questions asked by small
children would ruin any TV quit
e.iow, stump any panel of experts
because they often can t be ans
wered simply and easily. A child's
queries reflect the collision of a
small mind with all the wonder
that lies about It.
Any child can ask a question
that would take a 70-year-old phi
losopher weeks to exploln or even
leave him dumbfounded. -As
children get older and shyer,
they cease to .ask these .llfe-prod-dlng
questions. They pull down the
curtain on their doubts and
thoughts, and we miss looking
through the little open windows by
which we felt we knew them.
Helen and George are wise par
ents. As each of their children
passed through the question-asking
stage, they jotted down the child's
questions.'
Later in life, at the right time,
each of the girls will be given a
record of what she wanted to
know at four.
Here ore some typical questions
asked in recent weeks by LciU
Jim:
"How can a puddle go away?"
"Did the weeping willows weep
that pond under them?"
How can Santa hear what you
wont for Christmas?"
"Do you lov? me even when I'm
bod?"
"Could you walk on water?"
"What is under wallpaper?"
"Do you get to be what you
want to be when you grow up?"
'Do your clothes still fit you
when you get bigger?"
"Which do you like best (and
you cant say both) cars or
houses?"
"When daddy was a little boy
did he want to be a daddy?"
"What do you have to takr
tilings out of your nose?"
"Will my name still be Leila
wnen I grow up?
"How do you Ret braids'"
"Could you put the whole world
inside this house?
"What can I say If I can't say
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Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON Iff! When the Big
Four foreign ministers open their
three-week meeting in Geneva
Thursday, they will be making an
other test of the so-called "spirit
ol Geneva. '
But it will not be the final test.
It will be just one more test. And
it probably will not be very suc
cessful although at the end of it
the diplomats can be expected to
Issue some pleasant bulletins about
progress of some kind.
If they make any progress lt will
be an achievement since the three
main problems they will discuss at
Geneva have been big problems a
long time and are not likely ol set
tlement this soon.
The air of optimism could be
breathed in easllv for a short time
after President Eisenhower met at
Geneva last July with Premier Bul-
ganin of Russia and the heads of
the British and French govern
ments. The world was astonished that
Russia and the West at Geneva
could not only get along so pleas
antly but that they could get along
at all. At Geneva all sides ex
pressed pious hopes and peaceful
intentions.
But, when It was boiled down.
all that happened at Geneva was
talk. Any concrete results of the
meeting there had to be shown by
deeds later. The Eisennower ad
ministration, as it faced tests of
the Geneva spirit, began to put a
damper on optimism.
Thp first tett come early in the
fall at the United Nations when
the United States and Russia had
their first chance, since Geneva,
to discuss publicly the President's
sensational aerial Inspection pro
posal made at Geneva.
In the U. N. the United States
mid Russia got nowhere. Now
comes the second test when Secre
tary of State Dulles meets this
week ot Geneva with Russia's For
eign Minister Molotov and the for
eign ministers of Britain and
France.
Eisenhower and the other three
members of the Big Four had
agreed their foreign ministers
would meet at this time to discuss
these three main problems:
(II German unification and Eu
ropean security; 2i disarmament:
3) improving relations between
the' West and Russia In trade and
exchange of visitors.
Almost since the end of World
Wnr II tho West ond Russia have
not been able to agree on the uni
fication of Germany. Russia is ex
pected nsiun to balk at Western
unification proposals, for various
reasons.
For example: It doesn't want a
united Germany In a military alli
ance wun tne wesi Dut wesi Ger
many Is already In such an alli
ance. If the West Germans and
Communist-run East Germans
voted now on unification and choos
ing a single government the vic
tory almost surely would go to a
non-Communist government which
would be allied with the West.
From the Russian viewpoint
Ihere seems no reason lo hurry on
this one. On the contrary, by hold
ing out the bait of a united Ger-
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ill
1 many If the Germans agree to
break loose from the West, the
Russians can hope at leust to dam
age. It not break up, the WesteVn
Hies now united In the North At
lantic Treaty Organization.
It seems impossible that the West
and Russia In the short time since
the Big Four meeting m Geneva
could agree on a European 3ecurity
organization that would satisfy the
Russians, if they want to be sat
isfied. At Geneva. Elsenhower suggest
ed this country and Russia ex
change blueprints on their military
establishments and permit each
other to check on those establish
ments from tlu air.
The Elsenhower administration
says this is a plan that should be
preliminary to any agreements on
disarmament. The Russians want
to talk about general disarmament.
This whole business is up in the
air, unlikely to be BOlved at
Geneva.
As for improving relations be
tween the Wc3t and Russia, per
haps some minor agreements can
be made II the foreign ministers
ever have time to discuss this
problem. The other two problems
may take all their time.
When he left for Europe last Fri
day Dulles wasn't .making any big
predictiens. The most he'd say was
that he hoped he and the other
foreign ministers could build "mod
estly" on what the Big Four began
in Geneva last summer.
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Mass Alert
WASHINGTON (UP Jet
fighters of the Air National Guard
scrambled into the air across the
nation today in a practice exer
cise to determine tne guard s
readiness to help m defending the
nation against enemy air attack.
The order for the Air National
Guard units to get into the air was
flashed by the Air Defense Com
mand headoua'ters in Colorado
Springs at 5:28 a.m. PST.
The signal went out to the Air
Guard's 23 wings and 73 squad
rons whicn have been assigned an
sir defense responsibility.
The exercise, called Operation
Slopwatch, is designed to establish
ihe time required to alert, man,
and employ the Air Guard's fight
er-interceptor squadrons alter a
.-tale of air defense readiness has
been declared.
The Air National Guard, which
formetly had a Tactical Air Com
mand assignment in event of war,
last July was assigned a primary
mission of air defense to supple
ment the regular Air Force.
The Air Guard fighter-Intercep
tor squadrons had been told eailier
in the month that a practice alrt
would take place sometime during
October but no spt-citic time or
dale was set.
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Bruce Biossat
A distinguished lawyer and for
mer national commander of the
American Legion. Ray Murphy,
has afforded us striking Insight into
how great organizations like the
Legion are sometimes maneuvered
into approving ill-considered reso
lutions on topics of national con
cern. At its recent Miami convention
Ihe LeRion by voice vote con
demned UNESCO, the United Na
tions Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, on grounds
it was Communistic, atheistic and
sympathetic to world government.
Murphy was chairman of a spe
cial Lesion committee ordered by
the 1953 and 1954 conventions to
Investigate these charges. He now
says that five or six member; cf
this group, including himself, then
had a bias against UNESCO on the
basis of what the Legion already
had said.
The committee set about probing
the matter, examining 23 specific
charges against the organization.
One, for example, was that Alger
Hiss fathered UNESCO.
In the course of its inquiry, the
committee visited Communist book
shops and scanned the files of the
Dally Worker, hunting for boosts
for UNESCO. They found none.
"After a thorough study." says
Murphy, "we changed our minds."
The group decided Instead thai
UNESCO was doing effective work
in reducing illiteracy in backward
lands, that it was trying earnestly,
though sometimes Ineffectually, to
lift general standards of health,
nutrition and education all over the
world.
Interestingly enough, a similar
committee named by the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States
had come to the same conclusions
about UNESCO: ."We looted for
evidence and we could not find it."
Last Mav. Murohy presented his
committee's findings to the Le
gion's national executive body In
a two-and-a-half-hour speech.
"At the endi" be says, "I re
ceived a rising ovation, which
was unheard of."
But Murphy and his group did
not "campaign" to put over their
report with the full convention at
Miami. It Is estimated that fewer
than 50 of the 3200 delegates ever
read the palnstnklngly prepared
document. There was no debate
on the subiect.
Instead, the convention proceed
ed to endorse a resolution which
denounced UNESCO on all the
counts Murphy's committee had
found to be false.
Murphv attributed this astonish
ing result to a "vociferous" and
tightly organized minority of ex
tremists whose views do not rep
resent the Legion rank and file.
In the absence of an organized
effort to support the committee's
findings, the extremists stampeded
the convention.
It's a sad lesson. Evidently fact
alone are not enough. They must
be vlgorouly championed, and the
rank and file must be willing and
eager to hear and accept them.-
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By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D.
Once in a while one runs onto
a person who says he or she has
never had any trouble sleeping.
More common to most of us is
the experience of sleeping well a
good deal of the time but having
spells when sleeplessness hits us
and we get up in the morning un
refreshed. A few people have
chronic insomnia more or less con
tinuously and this constitutes quite
a problem.
Fire Menaces
Texas Town
HAWKINS, Tex. Iff) A burning
oil and gas well shooting flames
100 feet high menaced the heart of
this east Texas lown today. Resi
dents prayed that no oil would
erupt.
The torch was fed by natural'
gas and could burn indefinitely
without causing much damage to
the town of around 2,000 persons.
But if oil. should appear and pres
sure of the gas drop, burning oil
could spread along the ground and
destroy everything in Its path. If
the pressure remained high, oil
would be blown into the air and
burned there.
The well Is only two blocks from
the business district and is dan
gerously near homes.
Hawkins is in the midst of the
huge East Texas oil field, and as
a cafe owner, E. T. Petty, said,
"There's a well on every lot."
The well blew out with a deafen
ing roar early yesterday afternoon.
It caught lire about & p.m., proba
bly from a spark from stones
striking together as they were
blown from Ihe hole under the tre
mendous pressure of the gas.
Experts were attempting to in
crease the flow of oil In the' 13-year-old
well, which had lo be
treated from time to time to keep
the oil flowing, when it erupted.
"We were there beside the sub
striicture 75 feci away when the
gas and mud began to blow out,"
said J. S. Garrett, an oil well drill
er. "A plug must have blown out
of the surface pipe."
Efforts to pump mud Into the
well to plug It failed. Late last
night, engineers shut down neurby
wells ana torced salt water into
them in hopes the water would
reach the producing sands and put
out the flaming well from under
neath. Homes in the Immediate vicinity
were evacuated and some resi
dents moved out their household
belongings. -
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Mrs. C. evidently falls In the lat
ter categor. She says "What causes
insomnia? I have had difficulty in
sleeping for ,the last 23 years, since
carrying my daughter and have
become a walking drugstore. If I
don't take sleeping tablets of one
kind or another I lie awake night
after night and get so weak I
stagger when I walk."
Such an exaggerated kind of
sleeping difficulty is hard to ex
plain. It is possible, of course, that It
started as a mild form of Insom
nia but that Mrs. C. has become
accustomed to the use of sleeping
tablets to such a degree that she
is unable to have' a restful night
without them.
This Is an unfortunate situation
nnd shows why lt is desirable not
to get In the sleeping pill habit U
one can possibly avoid lt.
Most insomnia is probably
caused by inability to throw off
the worries and cares of the day
time. The person who starts think
ing or the office within a few
minutes of turning off the light
at night is likely to develop chronic
sleeplessness. The longer this goes
on the worse it gets.
Undoubtedly, many people who
complain of insomnia sleep better
than they think they do. They
may be wakeful for short period's
two or three times during the
night, but really get all the sleep
they need.
Often they make things worse by
worrying about not sleeping. This
is unnecessary, as most people
can get nearly as much rest for
their bodily functions by lying
quietly and relaxing in bed as they
would if they were sound asleep
Since worry is, the principal
cause of insomnia. its manage
ment is apparent. Before going to
bed some occupation which takes
the person's attention away from
the daytime .cares is desirable.
This may take the form of reading
some book to one's self, or aloud,
preferably one which is rather dull!
Other people may relax better if
they do hard work of some kind.
The choice of pre-bedtime occu
pation should be made individually
on the basis of personal likes and
complete removal from the mental
activity which is the major source
of worry. , ,
Sometimes a worm drink Just
before retiring is helpful. Training
oneself in muscle relaxation has
been found practicable by many.
The drugs which induce sleep
should be ovoided in chronic in
somnia. Most of them are habit
forming and their effect wears bit
If used often. Alcohol to bring on
sleep should be avoided also.
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