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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.F.OON
TUESDAY, DECRMBKR 37. 1055
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I season and 85 per cent were i time on Ihcm In orations on corn
bought by women. munlsm, theoretical or actu.il.
By KEN McLEOD That nertlties nm from 41 to 84 ' He wanted to stir up hale for the
This Is the season of calendars ! Inches long, but the average is W;Wesl nd probably did. And when
I lie lamca wnn tne asihii leader
ship he didn't spend time theoriz
ing cither. He talked a language
when business offices are flooded I inches.
with Ilashy posters with some busi- xhat , survey estimated U.S.
ness name prominently exhibited men jose $48,000,000 from thclt
along with a calendar that is usual-! pockets each year Including $6,-
iy qimc uiuiurinui. nuir we I 000, 000 in taxis. Bu
through a stack of delicious blondes
and other scenes we may slightly
envy the Indian who was not both
ered with this seasonal ritual, in
attempting to get the new year in I
operation. j
knows the staggering amount that
wives take out of those same
pockets overnight.)
That here's a holiday warning
that 18 per cent of all hijjhway ! Khrushchev's trip a success
accidents occur in clear .weather..
that It will not be coerced into
making concessions.
It is reported also that Japan
is increasingly cool toward tin-
question or seeking closer rela
lions with communist China
not open to arguments: dollars and toyama to recognize the Commu
cents and Kussian aid. .,,st reiiime has notebly lessened
iinuiB m.iKii i in recent weeks. Nor Is there th
aid tney give. But I tney make hope which existed a few month
some menus in nsia in me process i tg0 0j closer trade relailons.
giving tnem a loot in me aoor. Tms ,s palUv due also to the
" j , visits of Japanese members
Perhaps down among the cul-1 nnd 2tt per cent of the nation's! ... .
tured tribes of Mexico and Central I drivers cause 80 per cent of the OllC lllli OlII'SllOII
...... t ' occments.
shame for they had developed .f' fhool children are gelling
methods of computin, time that 1 st"f I ' ; t0 Jj n'-lT"
Parliament, business men
news men to Red China. Their
ports have been critical.
Tney were not impressed by lift
m tne communis; paradise. AL
was carried lo a very advanced
stage. The Indians north of Mexi
co, however, were not bothered by
all this complexity of civilization
and used only the simplest system
of keeping track of time, The al
ternation of day and night, the
changes of the moon, and seasons,
formed the basis of their system.
The budding, blooming, leafing,
and fruiting of vegetation, the
springing forth and decay of an
nual plants, the moulting, migra
tion, pairing and other outward
manifestations expressed by ani
mals and birds were used to de
note the progress of the seasons.
The divisions of the day differed
among many tribes, some recog
nising only four diurnal periods
since they had no InRcrsol to bring
them a dollar watch so the day
was divided by the rising and set
ting of the sun. noon, and mid
night while full days were us
ually counted as so many nights
Or sleeps.
The accounting for the passage
of years, especially In the far
north, were reckoned as so many
winters or so many snows hut In
the southern part of the nation
where snow Is rare and the heat
of summer becomes the dominant
feature, the term for year had
some reference to this season or
to the heat of the sun.
Life was simple the people were
children of nature and so natural
things predominated in their ex
pressions of the passage of time.
(The Klamath people developed a
very interesting calendar embrac
ing the cyclo of months wllhln the
year. This calendar Is basically of
the type that counts Instead of
. describing or naming of the moons.
It has been described as a system
that does not enumerate but uses
the fingers of the hand for count
ing off the months. It is remarka
ble that the order of counting Is
irom the thumb to the little finger
the reverse of that used by almost
an otner Indian tribes.
The first month approximates
our August, The method of oc
casional correction necessary to
lit a 12-moon series Into a year
of 12 and a fraction moons Is not
known. This' difficulty Is known to
be recognized by the Indian people
lor some tribes did mnke an at
tempt to compensate for the sur
plus days In tne solar year. Carver
In 1796 writing of his travels among
the Indian tribes mentions tne fact
that the Sioux or the Chippewa
told him that when 30 moons
have wncd they add a super
numerary one, which they term
"the lost moon." Other tribes had
other methods, the Creeks recog
' nized twelve and a hall moons to
the year and added a moon at the
end of every second year.
Among the Klamath it Is said
that the year began with the first
new moon after the return from
the "wokas" harvest, It is there
fore quite possible that the cor
rectlon was made according to
season whenever the count got too
lar ahead of the actual seed gath
ering period; the last month of
the year which wns the month of
the return from the "wokas" harv
est camp may have been allowed
to stretch over one and a hnlf or
Pearly two moons.
Starting counting the Klamath
moons, one begins with the thumb,
this Is "t-hope" which corresponds
to our August and In the llle of
the people the berries were dried.
September follows, counted upon
the second or Index finger as
speluish" and was marked In the
life of the people as a month of
dancing. October comes counted
upon the third or middle finger
this was "tat-helam" the month
when the leaves fall from the trees.
The fourth or ring finger denotes
November, "kapchelam." this was
the month of snow, and the little
finger which follows was "kapcha."
our December and "heavy snow."
January follows and we start all
over again counting on our lingers,
again it is the thumb and the
term "t-hope" for the second time
but this time it represents a month
when the lakes are frozen. The
index finger next repeats "spelu
ish" but this time represents the
Juvenile squirming it was 'tested
by being hit 30,000 times with a
40-pound sandbag. .
. That there are about .250.000
vice presidents in U.S. industry
(is that all? Why they don't even
outnumber bird watchers!), and
the Bank of America is the cur
porate leader with 146.
That a majority of pipe smolc-
ers honestly believe that most
"sensible women" find them more
attractive than men who don't
smoke a pipe. (But whatever hap
pened to all the girls who took
up the smoking of pipes a year
nun' I.
That a million cigars are puffed
every business hour during the
year In this country.
That much of the bad temper In
business offices results from "vis
ual commutltls," a term the Na
tional Assn. for the Prevention of
Blindness has coined to describe
the eye strain suffered by com
muters who read on Jogging trains
and buses.
That some 100.000 children will
have-suffered eye accidents by the
end of 1B55 and now Is the time
to get rid of any sharp-pointed
toys your children got for Christ
mas. That If you make good grades In
school but later In Ufa fajled to
make as much money as you think
you should have you are a good
candidate for an ulcer complex.
That seniors In engineering
schools now receive an average of
four to five Job offers before they
receive their diplomas.
That in New Oulnea bachelors
still purchase a bride with human
heads. (Other people's heads that
Is. Only In America does a man
lose both his heart and his own
head in marriage.)
That a recent poll showed nearly
4 out of every 5 men over 20 fear
they are getting a receding hair-
line. , ,' . ,
That only per cent of bald
men believe baldness is a sign
of greater intelligence. (All I can
say aoout tne other 84 ner cent
Is they either are more modest
than I am or they don't know trie
facts.)
That turkey, once known as "the
Sick Man of Europe." now Is the
world's fourth largest wheat ex
porter, . t
That Andy Jackson was the first
President to travel by train, Theo
dore Roosevelt was the first to
to take an airplane ride, and
Dwlght Elsenhower is the . only
President to win a pilot's license.
mat today there are three wo
men clerical workers in American
business offices to everv man.
(If you want to meet the other sex
on company time, girla, get a Job
In a factory.)
Tnat Raymond Massev Is cred
ited with the observation, "most
of our suspicions of others are
aroused by our knowledge of ourselves."
That now Is a good time to nut
In a postal box those Christmas
cards your wife gave you to mall
two weeks ago.
By SAM DAWSON
NEW VORK W The New Year . they saw signs that Red Clii!
poses one Dig question: will me I might become a trade rival
cost of living go niriier?
On the face of It the pressures
all add up to Yes. But offsetting
the manufacturers raising prices
and those eager to do so are an
array of others cutting prices for
competitive reasons, plus the pros
pects of food price stability,
Metals are cast in a double role.
Rising prices of unprocessed
metals push higher (he prices of
consumer goods, or at least the
cost of making these goods out of
metals. But, equally Important,
metal shortages threaten to put a
more effective governor on the
ousiness Doom that credit re
straint has been able to do.
Metal shortages arc world wide.
Slowly rising production capacity
hasn't been able, so far, to help
much. The 'New Year promises
better.
Even the current slowing down
of the car makers' breakneck pace
hasn't done much more than take
a little pressure off the steel mills'
vice presidents in charge of de
liveries. Backlogs of orders from
other metal using industries keep
the mills going at 88 per cent of
capacity even in this holiday
riddled week.
Shortages have pushed metal
prices up slowly for months. Manu
facturers, with their material costs
up and their labor costs rising,
say they should hike prices on the
goods they sell the public. Some
already have.
That others have hesitated can
be traced to these factors: The
business boom has boosted sales
volume so high that the Increased
costs can be absorbed along the
way irom iactory to store, and
reduced markups still yield good
total earnings: and competition
among companies has reached a
stage where raising prices to fit
Increased costs could mean a loss
of sales that might prove dis
astrous. An example Is the home ap
pliance field. Rising cost of ma
terials has led to some price
hikes of finished products. But in
recent days, some of the major
producers have cut prices as much
as 30 per cent. Management cost
control has been given much of
the credit. The trade, however,
suspects, that Increasing competi
tion is just as important.
As long as there are metal
shortages on one hand, and boom
ing consumer demand for metallic
products on the other, the pres
sure for price inflation will be a
threat probably for several
months more. But many now ques
tion whether the expected increase
In the price of metals early In the
New Year necessarily will suck
other commodities Into a price-ris
ing spiral.
stead of , a customer.
XiMirili.s
Not So Smart
llu.s.siniiK Shift
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINOTON HI Russian lead.
crshlp has shifted this way: from
Intellectual Lenin and Trolsky; to
administrative Stalin: to nonin-
tellectual Khrushchev. Khrush
chev appears almost anll-lntelleo-
tual.
His distortion of history on his
Asian trip for example, the
charge that the West began World
War II was either contempt for
tacts and those who know better
of It was a twist of facts for prop
aganda. Khrushchev acts like an undis
ciplined peasant. Primitive is the
only description for the big drunk
he threw in Yugoslavia and his
emotional outbursts In Burma.
His performance Is bound to
raise this question In Western
minds: How did he get where he
is as secretary of the Russian
Communist party and. In effect,
tne big boss
Krom what ran he learned of
montn oi reDitiary, the month of i nun he got to the top in the Rus
rain and danclmt. Now we are Mn meatchopper by being tough.
back again to the middle finger. : capable in his assigned tasks, and
"tat-helam." the month of March ; shrewd. No one ever raises doubts
which to the people was the month i about his faith in communism and
ui sucser turning. "Kapi-neiam. us intimate victory
the ring finger again representing
the month of April, the month in
which the "Ipos" were gathered.
Now again we come to the little
linger, "kapcha," the month of
icmiw communists mav
someday give him the bounce if
he makes a mess of It for them by
his ht-JInks and his outbursts.
mere is nothing to Indicate that
May. again the people ar fiahlne I day Is soon or thst it will come
snd now drying the fish. Thus we ' t all.
have counted twice across the For. If Khrushchev acts like a
fingers and return to the thumb. Pohtican of low learning, he is
"t-hopo." again for the third time, not therefore to be dismissed or
this is the month of June the underrated in the field he staked
month of the "wokas" harvest. The i for himself on his trips abroad:
Index finger, 'speluish." ends the I setting good will for Russia .
year, the month of July when the He made a double appeal on his desire to
By CHARLES M. McCANN
It may prove that Soviet Rus
sia's action in blocking tne ad
mission of Japan to the United
Nations was not so smart.
Russia vetoed Japan's implica
tion for membership because Na
tionalist china velocd the applica
tion oi outer Mongolia.
Japan was humiliated and an
gered by the slap it received.
The first tendency in Tokyo,
naturally, was to blame the Na
tionalists. It is true Uiat if Nationalist
China had not cast its veto, de
spite the personal pleas 01 Presi
dent Eisenhower to Generalissimo
Chiang Kai Shek, Japan would
now be in the United Nations.
But advices indicate now that
the Japanese are increasingly in
clined lo put the blame where It
really lies. That Is. with the
Kremlin.
After all, Japan is a nation of
nearly 90 million people. It has
By EDWIN P. JORDAN. M D.
Neuritis Is best described
painful disorder of the nerves. The
inflammation of the nerve
nerves) is usually shown by pa
ano tenderness, disturbances
feeling or sensation, and often
certain amount of wasting of the
muscles.
One problem abouf neuritis Is
tnat there are many possible caus
es. The problem Is to try to find
Which one Is present In each in-
dividual sunerer.
Diabetes (especially If the con
dition has not been controlled by
fultable diet or insulin), and in
fections are among the common
causes.
Vitamin deficiencies, especially
tne lack oi vitamin B-l, also may
produce nerve pain.
Simple neuritis or Inflamma
tion of several nerves Is com
n-.on among the victims of chronic
alcoholism. Perhaps at least part
oi tne reason is tnat such persons
often substitute alcohol for a prop
erly oaianceo aiet c o n t a I n 1 n
enough vitamin B-l. This type
neuritis often can be much lm-
froved. or even relieved entirely,
oy giving extra vitamin B-l.
Neuritis is a symptom always
present in sningles, or heroes zos
ter. In this disease the cause of
the trouble is a virus.
8evere anemia can produce neu
ritis.
Poisoning with the heavy metals
sucn as arsenic, and many of the
substances used in Industry may
produce neuritis.
This incomplete list gives an
idea oi the problem in making
diagnosis.
Successful treatment Is almost
always difficult. Sometimes the
pain Is almost intolerable, particu
larly in people who have been
weakened by disease and in the
elderly.
Relief has sometimes been ob
tained by killing the involved nerve
by injecting alcohol, or by cutting
me nerve by an operation.
Of course, this does not get at
the bottom of the trouble but it
may be needed to ease the terrible
pain.
Among other questions on neurl
lis, Mrs. M. recently asked wheth
er change of weather could have
any effect on neuritis.
I think there is no doubt that it
does sometimes but not always.
Actually, changes in weather or
barometric pressure seem to have
much more effect on muscular
rheumatism or rather the dis
comfort from that condition than
it does on neuritis.
Although relief can be given to
most victims, many continue
suffer from neuritis in spite
everything which is tried.. On the
favorable side the most encourag
trig thing I can say Is that most
victims of neuritis do get over their
pain eventually.
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RENO. Nev. Civil Defense
Administrator Val Peterson, prom
ising federal aid to flood victims
in western Nevada :
We're not here to take over
but to help where we can. You're
going to have to do all you can
to help yourselves.
WASHINGTON David Eisen
howcr. the President's seven-year-
old grandson, on the White House
Christmas of the Eisenhowers
"Boy. did I have a time today."
PARIS termer French Prem
ler Pierre Mendes-France propos-
ueen one ot tne worlds greatest ling settling of the Algerian crisis
ijuwci.i auu ii w in oc again. oy conciliation
uuter .Mongolia is a political -we will not be able to stay It
fake. It Is an artillciallv created i North Africa or in ih. h rmm.
satellite of the Soviet Union. It I tr IPC Of 'Ha KVoni-li tlninn a Lrnn
nas no set oounusries. Authorities as we count on force, repression
-wuy v K,piiinuuii. - ano vioiaiice.
Nearly every member of the
I'""" nations wanted lo admit pabik n ,-,,.. t-,i.
Japan. Nobody, outside ol the six - Fame on tiw ri-m Mt,nni
communist memuers. reany want-, Chinese veto m the United Nations
vjuin .Mui.Buua in. on admission of Communist Outer
vwiy Miotun tvussia nave Dcen so Mongolia:
insistent on the admission of Out- -is it lenlisiir to mndH,- ihi
rr .Mongolia to tne united Nation China still is represented bv For
as the price ot Japan's admis-' mosa?"
sion.1 i .
One reason seems lo be that the CHICAGO Neri u n..,
Kremlin used the Nationalist veto president ol the National Safety
to keep Japan out for the present. ! council, on the holiday highway
concesslons in the long-drawn-out "We mav have dreamed of
K-KuuniiuiM, ior a nussian-j.ipan-i White Christmas but we have
or fHir uni). ,maoe it black with a record ol
Anotncr may nave occn ll-.al t -tenth, destruction n.i rfi.o..
wanted to coerce Japan into seek- the highway by which no Amerl-
HiK-ciuarr reiauons wnn commu- tan can he d hut h Hr..,
nist China. ! ashamed and fnrht.n.rf
A third lesson probably was a'
people return from the "wokas" I trip to Asia: m oneway to the lead- j Oriental device for covering' up ,111c opportunity to hern, ,.
harvest. These form the moons of : erstup. in another to ih. hrnH 'an .virion, i.i.-.i ...
me niamatn calendar.
I'spIp.s! Info
By HAL BOYLE
VFW YORK UP Things a
columnist mlchl never know U he
dldn t open his morniiiK mail
masses of the people.
In his wholesale blasts at the
I West in India and Burma, and in
his distortions of hlstorv. he was
not appealing to the Intellectual
leadership but to the uneducated
masses.
Thcv could understand his nlain
language and
a,nat -
em victory. Russian dipkimary
often h.is an Asiatic complexion '
In other wotds. the Kremlin ap
parently decided mat If it could
cliaintid with the operatic ruliur.-
of the United States and the area.
taients ot tne American people."
LONDON Th,.. n...
not get Outer Mongolia into the have scaled 8 060-foot Mt Francis
United Nations. It had to keep one of the hishost mountains in the
some other country out south polar Falkland Islands Th.
Kecenl adweca Horn Tokyo sav climbers, from the British base
That some. W million n-rklles! didn't act in dinlom.ti. .f.H I ... . i.V.,. .; T. .""fr.i S . ', "na- Anhur
er .old during th. Christmas ' .hlrt. Thar. wa. do need to ap.nd'tht mull of th. U.N, aciion and Jamea Rerun.
Hmdson, and
They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo
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Mild Weather
In Outlook
r B. THlv ASSOCIATED miiiS ,
Falny mild weather for late Dc
ccmbcr appeared the oullook fo:
most of the nation toda;'.
It was a little colder in the Mid
dle Atlantic states, with tempera
litres about 20 degrees lower than
24 nours earlier. Coldest ateas
were New Enylnnd and in Michi
gan with readings around 10 do.
grees.
The freezing line extended front
northern Norlh Carolina westward
through southern Kentucky, nortl
ern Missouri, central Kansas, case
cm parts of Nebraska and South,
Dakota and through central Mon.
tana. A warming trend was 19
prospect lor much of the Midwest.
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Victims Told
Of Hood Tax
WASHINGTON I UP) The In
ternal Revenue Bureau is rushing
special pamphlets to flood-stricken
California and Nevada today ex
plaining what losses are deducti
ble from income taxes and how
to compute them.
The pamphlets were first Issued
for victims of this summer's dis
astrous New England floods.
An Internal Revenue Bureau of
ficial disclosed last night that in
dividual help In making out re
turns for flood sufferers will be
given to the "fullest extent need
ed. This is a modification of an
earlier Internal Revenue stand
that it will cut to the -minimum
Its Individual help in making out
tax forms next year.
In addition to aid in making out
returns, the service also has ar-1
ranged to "flag" such returns
when it receives them and rush
payment-, of any refunds due.
Friendly
Helpfulness
To Everv
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Ward's Klamath
Funeral Home
Marquerite M, Ward
- and Soni
1 925 High Phone 3334
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