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July 16, 1033 PAGE FOUR THE KLAMATH NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THE KLAMATH NEWS KLAMATH NEWS PU- CO publishers FRANK JENKINS Editor Pabltshed vry orB'" e.pt Monday by Tb. K'"ih New Publishing ?'" 101-111 South Fifth WMl Klamath Falle. Oregon. Official paptr of City of Klam ath ralla and Klamath county. Entered as second class mstter ,i, postoftlce at Klamath Falli. Oregon. November I J. 1911. under act of March 1. It. 9. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier. Q1DQLU Delivered by carrier, year Deltvored by mall. -. . nnnnhi mnnia . . Dollvor'ed by mall, outside county, year - Subscriptions payabl In advanca, Represented nationally by M. C. MOOENSSN CO, INC, San Francisco New York. Detroit, Seattle Loa Angeles Coplea of the Newa and Her ald, together with complete In formation about the Falls market, may be obtained for tha asking at any of these offices. Member Audit Bureaw Clrtnlstloa Telephone 190 A Really Commendabl) Sen-rice. y-yN Monday renlng, the Lea- J (u et 'Women Voters will ., a meeting at tha Rain bow theatre tor tha purpose of tmnartial discussion of the meaa- area to he roted on at the spe cial election on July 11. This meeting will bo more than Just open to the puoiie. Tha nubile la URGED to anena. Tha purpose of tha League la to provide Intelligent ana accural": unlanatlon of all the measures, so that Totera who are In doubt may make up their minds as to how they want to cast their Bal lots. Tha Initiative and the refer endum are. anything hut perfect Thr are cumbersome and ex pensive. Measures presented un der them hava to be taken or left, as is, with no opportunity for change or amendment. But we have both the initiative and the referendum, aa a definite nart of our system of govern menL' and are not likely to dis card them. So the thing to do Is to use them as effectively and aa constructively aa possible. The way to do that la by thoughtful and impartial discus sion and consideration of the measures presented on the bal lot. aa that people may arrive at a thorough understanding of all the laws that are proposed and so may vote Intelligently. If tha neonle of Oregon under stand fully the measures that are to be voted on, there need be no worry aa to their decision. Tha League of Women Voters la to bo commended for Its pub lic spirit In arranging Monday jrvanlnr'a meetlne-. Providing. impartial Information upon which tha voters may base In telligent judgment is a real eer vice. Where) la Disarmament Failure Driving Us? AS tha world disarmament conference puts off until October tha task of reaching soms sort of sgreement. Secre tary of tha Navy Swanson an nouncea a plan to build the C. S. cavy up close to treaty strength; and once again It be comes painfully evident that the Job of cutting down the world's military establishments is el' most Impossibly difficult. There are more men under arms today than there were in tha spring of 1914. The world's annual expenditures for nation' al defense are far higher today than they were In 1914. The suspicions, fears and Jealousies which led up to the war in 1914 are duplicated today by emo tions equally strong and equally dangeroua. Last winter Gen. Douglas Mc Arthur, U. S. army chief of ataff. compiled figures on the world's armies. He showed that Europe, Japan, China and the United States are keeping a total of 6,107,638 men In uni form. To do this, and to main tain their navies, air fleets and border defenses, these nations are spending around $4,000,000, 000 a year. Before tha war those armies numbered 4,083,000, and the total military expenditures were about. 11,500,000,000 annually, Thosa facts In themselves are dismaying enough. But when you contrast them with the high promises all world statesmen made their people during and Immediately after the war, the situation becomes even more discouraging. Wa were told, then, that the nations of the world would make a new effort to keep the peace. Tha League of Nations would help settle disputes; there would be non-aggression treatlea, arbi tration agreementa and what not to make war lets likely; tha frightful sacrifices of tha World War would he Justified by the fact that no such war could ever happen again. Into the Versailles treaty was written tha pledg that the World War vlctore would dis arm Just aa sooa as they pos sibly could. And today disarmament looks farther away than vr, armies are bigger than erer, and more gold than erer before la being laid on tha altar of the god of war. What's the answer? Will we stumble blindly along until at last ws trip Into a worse war than tha last one or will we finally Insist that statesmen lire up to their promises and fire us the disarmament they hare promised T War On Racketeer NOT least significant of re cent developments la the fact that tha Crusaders, origin ally orgsnlied to fight prohibi tion, hava bow converted them selves Into aa organisation to make war on racketeers. Because of the Intimate hook up between the prohibition law and tha racketeer, any group which works tor the repeal of prohibition haa got to give aome attention to th racketeer prob lem. There la no question but that the racketeer baa dona a great deal to awing public sentiment against prohibition. Justly or otherwise, the 18th amendment haa been blamed tor bis exla tence. But wo should bo mak ing a tremendoua mistake It we took It for granted that all we need to do to abolish him la to aboltsb the 18th amendment. That would help, of course. The bootleg racket waa first of tha large-scale rackets. snd from the very start It was the moat lucrative. But no one who reada the daily newspapers and sees ever-recurring headlines about the "milk racketeers," the "dry cleaning racketeers," the "labor racketeers." the "gam bling syndicates," and so on, can be so naive as to suppose that the boose racket stands alone. During the decade that began in 1920 the worda "organized crime" took on a very real and definite meaning. Before that, big cities had had scattered groups of criminals operating independently, and they had had more or less loose groups of hoodlums who worked )tx gangs: but thera never had been any genuine centralisation of any carefully - planned organisation. The powerful and cohesive un derworld gangs that curse our cities today are creations of the last dozen years. In part these groups owed their birth to prohibition but only in part. They are even more Indebted to the fact that through many years we had let venality, favoritism and self-Interest rule our city politics. The ward leader, the corrupt alder man, the crooked political boss these men presided at the racketeer's birth, and they con tinue to shelter tha racketeer today. That la why tha Crusaders' action la so encouraging. Re pealing prohibition will only be a first step In the war on rack ets. To pretend that It will do the whole Job would be to de lude ourselves In a tragic and expensive manner. A Dog'a Life And Ours. A CITIZEN set out the other day to buy a dog; and he remarked that mankind loves dogs because dogs hava so msny human virtues. That Is the way ws commonly look st It; but It Is quits pos sible that the real reason we love dogs Is because they have so msny human frailties. Everyone who baa ever owned a dog knows that a dog can win his master's affections most surely by displaying qualities that aren't ordinarily classed as virtues. A dog can be a brag gart, a bluffer, a Falstaftlan kind of coward, afraid of his own shadow, but hiding It by a great show of loud-voiced valor; he can be Jealous, deceitful, ar rogant, designing and stupid: and In most cases we lor him all the more for it. To be sure, he also wins ne by his fidelity. But what really wraps our hcartstrlnga about him la usually our realization that he Is, like ourselves, a frail vessel filled with the minor vices of an Imperfect world. In French Indo-Chlna the wom en wear trousers, men wear skirts, and children are glveu numbers Instead of names. Federal land holdings In the United States are estimated to contain nearly 100 billion tone of coal. Some H. 000. 000 balea of cot ton were ginned In th United States In 1911. WASHINGTON NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS a a ' a The Inside Story From The Capital a e a a By PAI L MAI.LON (Copyright, liJJ, by Paul Mellon) Nonchalance WASHINGTON, July IS Former Prealdent Hoover la doing more than playing with bla war mementos out at Palo Alto. Casually the big boya of tha republican party are dropping In to aee him. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania la there now. The news got out soma daya ago. Ha explained he was making the trip to aee tha annual hl-JInka at Bohemian Grove. The Idea that there could be any politico Involved waa aolemnly pooh-poohed. You can Imagine his amass ment when he finds ex-8enator Smoot of Utah knocking at the Hoover door abont the same time. Mr. Smoot gave np hl-JInklng a long time ago. Ha haa a better excuse for going. It seems he must see his banker friend, Henrv Robinson, at Loa Angeles and will stop at Palo Alto on the way back. Thar will be other Bl-JInkera present. Including Mr. Hoover's Washington weather vane, Law rence Rlchey, and ex-poetmaater general Brown, the master mind of the last republican campaign. They will not miss Ogden Mills. He has recently been there. His excuse was the best. His father's will reo. u I res him to remain In California two weeks each year. But the will doee not mention Palo Alto. Mr. Mills selected the spot himself. They will also not misa ex Senator Watson of Indiana, but tor a different reason. Ha waa not invited. Strategy The meeting of the mtnda at the home of tha forgotten man la apparently to consolidate re publican atrategy. Mr. Hoover has been writing some confldentlsl letters to his friends here. No one will admit it officially but Senator Reed corresponded with the former president frequently during the laat aesslon ot congress. Minor ity Leader 8nell received at least one letter. Also, the ex president has been kept closely in touch with developments thru Mr. Rlchey. There seems to be no ground for the rumors now being whisp ered around that Mr. Hoover Inspired Mr. Snell to make that attack on the democratic bud get policy. Indeed, those who speak for him here, whisper that he favors a policy ot strictest silence regarding the democratic recovery program. e If that Is Mr. Hoover's policy, the wiser hesds here sgree with it. They believe it would be a mistake to start sniping at any of Mr. Roosevelt's policies. They know that time will afford them greater opportunities for poli tical activity than any they have had so far. For that reason thev are not all 'in all In accord with repub lican chairman Saunders' policy of holding sectional committee meetings. Neither do they look with favor on recent agitation to oust Saunders. It was started here recently by ex-Senator Wat son and his friends who have no love for their fellow Indlanlans. What will come out of It all is nothing. see Liquor The word has been passed to the chosen few that liquor will be back on the morning of No vember 8. That Is the date confidentially fixed by Investigators who hsve been canvassing the situation In the statea. It la not being made public because It Is not yet ab solutely certain. The prediction Is based on the expectation that five states will ratify repeal of the eighteenth amendment finally on Norember 7. These fire would put the re pealer over the top. More than 32 states are expected to ratify before that date. e Nectar This will be big news to busi ness. It means that the net worth tax and hers levied at tho last session of congress will If Those Government Control Measures Work Out -- i M I never go Into effect. They will be repealed automatically when liquor revenue atarta rolling In. Every business with capital slock outstanding will be affect ed. They would have been taxed 10 centa on each 11.000 ot its net worth. Campaign The larger banks are quietly perfecting a strong organisation against the Glass law. Another confidential meeting will b held Here shortly, it will be bigger than th preliminary meeting re cently held. By tall, they may hav a full fledged national cam paign under way. Thev are counting on help from the smaller banka out In the country which may not be able to qualify for th deposit guarantee. see Notes No on here believe Mr. Hoo ver has any personal ambitions for 1930. It appeara that what he la striving to do la to keep the party machinery In the hands of the right people. Or those he considers to be the right peo ple. Watson haa more backing than you know In bla effo.-t to put Saunderi among the unem ployed. Th younger malcon tents here are with him. They want action. The association against the prohibition amendment will be disbanded when the amendment la repealed . . . Most officials in the organization are agreed on that. The word "super" as applied to Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet la In accurate. It la a secondary cabi net. In the Hoover daya it would have been called a cabinet com mission. Now it is a council In official parlance. The democrats have studiously avoided use ot the word "commission" every where. Editorials on News (Continued From Page One) which was colorless, bulls built their own price structure." WHY? Well, they believe con ditions are improving, and they are hastening to ANTICIPATE the Improvement. That seems to be about the only answer that will aatlsty. 0 MUCH for stocks. Now a word as to commodities: The Coast representative of a large Eastern clothing house has Just received this message from his sales manager: "I have Just returned from New York, and conditions there were beyond all my expectations. I don't want you to sell any goods at the pre sent time at all, except to some one who Is a regular account ot ours and to whom we have sold before. We will not sccept any business from new accounts, as it would be worse to sell people snd not deliver than not to havs sold at all." COUNDS Ilk th old days, doesn't ltT What makes It sound MORE like the old days Is the fact that HOW ABOUT STABILIZIWa THIS AnROUMD 75. HUH? ( I 75. HUH? J sen i every merchant In tb country I receiving, almoat vry day, notices of INCREASES In the price ot merchandise. All of a sudden, there are more buyers than sellers, and ao prices GO UP. Prlcea ALWAY8 go UP when there are more buyers than sellers. see VffHAT will com ot It BUT " Will th kit go too high and then fall backt Nobody knows. But thla much ta certain: Un less buying power, which In the main depends upon wages, keps pac with rising prices, ths bub ble will buret. see JT CAN'T b otherwise. People can't go on paying high price unleas they hsve somsthlng to pay them with. And If people CANT PAY high prlcea because ot lark ot earning power, market will disappear and busi ness will crash. e e CPEAKINO of the commodity markets, hers Is an Interest Ing little sidelight: Tha price of ry passad tho dollar mark recently, rlstnt 15 centa a bushel In three daya. That la a pretty atltt Increase. e W7HAT Is responsible for It? Two thing seem to be. Beer, they say. is creating an added de mand for ry bread. Then It ap peara that there will be no pro cessing tax on rye. Price la affected chiefly by sup ply snd demsnd, and a lot of things affect supply and demand. INCIDENTALLY, a farmer here In the Klamath country held over 1500 aacka of rye from last year. Tha price last year was around 80 cents a sack, and now he can get 90 centa. He did pretty well by holding. Unlucky Thirteen No Hoodoo For S. P. The unlucky number IS has been no hoodoo to tha safe han dling of passengers on Southern Pacific trains. This hurdling ot a Jinx was revealed today In the announce ment by J. H. Dyer, vice pres ident of the railroad, that the company has completed 13 years without having a fatality among Its passengers due to a steam train accident on lta 9,000 miles of lines In six western statea. In establishing this remark able record In the aafe handling of passengers, the railroad bas transported 489.634,990 persons during the 13 years sn accumu lative distance of 19.517.948, 155 miles, or the equivalent ot 783,790 times around the earth. Dyer stated. The fact that the operation of every train over the railroad's main trunk lines Is protected by automatic block signals, a pre caution In which Southern Paci fic leads all other railroads In the world. Is declared by Dyer to be an Important factor In making the safety record pos sible. Student Pastor To Speak At S. A. Hall Rev, Joseph Redoin, student minister of the Presbyterian de nomination, will give an evange listic address tonlglu at 8 o'clock at the local Salvation Army ball, following the regular Saturday nijtht open air service which will take place corner Sixth and Main streeta at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. Bedoln Is working In Klamath Falls during his school vacation at the Pioneer Print shop on Suth Riverside. Friends are Invited to hear him tonight. Adjutant and Mrs, Ford and com rades of the local corps will as sist In the song service to be held before the main apeaklng. Over 760,000,000 "book" matches will be handed out at the Chicago World's Fair. SIDE GLANCES by George Clark 'vVtV" ass a ear eer vt Y a isis st il hki. "You've simply got to break ruining our lawn." Some People Say The world auffers less from Ig norance than from failure to act upon what It knows. Dr. Frank H. Vlietelly, lexicographer. ' I hava always had talth In women and they have always dressed properly, and therefore we have no restrictions (on type of suits women bathers shall wear at city awlmmlng pools). Lionel Kvana, park commission er, Youngstown, Ohio, We need a new party ot moral Ideas, a party that stands for the policy of prohibition. Mrs. Klla lloole. former president, W. C. T. U. e I am renouncing Hollywood completely; for 350,000 followers ot Mohammed, economic prob lems do not exist. Rex Ingram, movie producor, convert to Mo hammedanism. A 40-hour week In Industry generally would not scratch the surface of our Job ot putting a large number of unemployed back to work. Hugh 8. John son, national recovery admin istrator. Any religion that doea not help to keep people young has something deeply the matter with It. Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Earlier Days (From Files of The Klamath Republican, July, limit) "No proxies go," said Chsrles DeLap, deputy county clerk to a young man from Fort Klamath Wednesday, when asked to It sue a license for a young swnlu who was too busy to corns down. Chllders' big brick kiln Is s pretty hot number Just now, hut will soon be ready to cool otf. On last Saturday about 11 ot the good people of Pokegsma, Including the baseball team, rami to Keno for a good time. The Keno ball team gave them a free dance Saturday evening. Wise Cracks Evicted from his studio for non-payment ot rent, a Wash ington, D. C-, sculptor became so angry that he smashed all his statues with a hammer. Very likely, he reached the conclusion that his profession was a bust. Pennsylvania thief waa arrest ed when he attempted to pawn a 1,900 watch for a measly 115. He should hav known that time 1 precioua. An erroneous Improsslon that Mary Plckfnrd Intends to remove to Texas to live probably arises from th fact that after her di vorce from Doug she will be In the lone star slate. e The average doctor knowa 15.000 words, says a lexicog rapher. Two that we wish ours could torget are "Pleas remit." "There Is only one thing to be said when a husband persists In omlng home late at night," de clares a woman writer. The trouble Is. however, that most wives don't realise this. Sprague River ..... VT.K.1,n.-l.t mnA , nuns mnrKm" ( Miss Klolse Hrown of Algoma j ere visiting Mra. Alao Tllton. Miss Drown Is Mrs. Tllton's nloca. Clnro Cnston, of General Point are visiting Mr, and Mrs. Archie Pankey and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Pan key. A chang In th course of the Missouri river left the town of Carter Lake, Iowa, on th Ne braska side and It la Impossible to enter th town by land with out first passing throughOmaha. The 10th meridian west of Greenwich la generally nsed as the official dividing line between tho eastern and westorn hemispheres. her ot eating grass. She la Artificial respiration and first aid treatment administered by a physician and members of the fire department Friday night saved the life ot Robert Ray, of apart ment 9. I.lnda Vtats. when he was overcome by smoke. According to Fire Chief Har den, the fire In Kay's spartmetil waa probably caused by a cigar ette, or a spark from a cigarette dropped In the ctishlona of an overstuffed davenport. Ray was asleep on a bed near the davenport, and was overcome by the smoke without awakening. The alarm waa aent Into the fire department shortly after 11 o'clock, when Ray waa carried Into the fresh air, end a physician called. Ho retained conscious ness after artificial respiration had been administered, and his condition was reported to be sat isfactory Saturday. The Ray apartment and furni ture waa considerably damaged by fire and smoke, which, how ever, spread no further. The loss was completely covered by Insur ance, according to data obtained by the fire department. Man Rearrested On Liquor Charge Pat Sullivan, released from the city Jail Friday night after serv ing a five-day sentence on charge of drunkenness, was re- arrenleit nn the aurtiA ,-niint . era) hours after his release. He was given a fine of tit or a Jail sentence of 7 14 days In po lice court Saturday, and was re committed to jail upon failure to pay the fine. Mike Walsh, charged with dis orderly conduct In connection with an alleged street fight Frl dny night, was scheduled to ap pear in police court for trial Saturday afternoon. Maurice Roach, Jim Skyler, Pater McDonald and John O'Brien, were all committed to Jail to aerve five-day aentences on chargea of being drunk. X)ART STAR WINS CHICAGO, July 15. (P) Jack Medlra, 18 year old University of Washington freshman, won the national amateur 440 yard free style awlmmlng championship In the World's Fair lagoon today In th fast time ot 4:51.8. Cranberries were originally called crane-herrlct; the fruit Is borne on a curved stalk which suggests th neck of a crane. 'I I: m FOR U. S. JOBS 001 In order to comply with th provisions of Hi notional In dustrial rscnvry act It will be necessary that all persons em ployed upon any work that la financed by federal funds he registered. Th selection and extent of public, work projects will lis determined largely by the labor needs ot Hie com munity where public work proj ects are available. Registration for employment will begin Im mediately at Hi office ot th federal bureau of labor and gov ernor' relief office. Room D. In th court house, A check up ot all persons who hav previously registered Is desired. The pres ent registration doea not Imply Ihat the applicant fur work la on tha direct relief list. Labor conditions tor those era ployed under the publlo works hill snd th national recovery act haa been outlined as fullows: Section 10( (a) All contracts let tor construction projects and all loans and grama pursuant to this title shall contain auch pro visions as are necessary to In sure (1) that no convict labor hall be employed on any auch project; (1) thnt (except In executive, administrative, and supervisory positions), so tar as practicable and feasible, ao Indi vidual directly employed on any such project shall be permitted to work more than to hours la any one week: (3) that all em ployes shall ha paid Just and reasonable wages which shall be compensation aufflclenl to pro vide, for the hour of labor as limited, a stsndard ot living In decency and comfort; (4) that In tha employment of lahor la connection with any auch pro ject, preference shsll he given where they are qualified, to ex service men with dependents, and then In the following order: (a) to cltlsens of the United States and aliens who hava declared their Intention of becoming citi zens, who are bona-flile resi dents of their political sub-division or county In which tha work la to be performed, snd lb) to citizens of the United States and allena who have de clared their Intention of becom ing citizens, who are bona-fld residents of the state, territory, or district In which th work I to be performed: provided, that these preferencea shall apply only where such labor la available and qualified to perform tha work to which the employment relates, and (6) that the maximum of human lahor shall be used In lieu of machinery wherever prac tlrahle and consistent with sound economy and public advantage. CHICAGO, July 15. OP) Aroused by action ot two na tional printing groups In adopt ing yesterday a lower minimum wage scale for women than for men In their code to he present ed to the national administra tion, the National Federation of Huslnes and Professional Wo men'a clubs today telegraphed a protest to President Roosovlt. "We enlist your Interest In seeing that these codes assur equal pay for equal work and equal opportunity for equal ability regardless ot sex," ths protest said. It was signed by Mrs. Oellne MarDonald Bowman of Rich mond, Va., national president, and the hoard of directors. It was the tlnal act of ths 1931 biennial gathering. INLANDER WINS. ARLINGTON' PARK, Chicago. July in. IP) Inlander won the ann.ooo Arlington Classic liy a length and a hnlf today, with (nlrlen Way second, and War (lory third. Kl'OENE HOT EUGENE, July 16. (API Eu gene aweltered under a hot sun which sent the mercury up to 98 degrees this sftornoon. It was ths wsrmest day ot th sea son. 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