Alphabetics
Find Need
Is Scarce
NYA Radio School Rooty
To Btain In Klamoth. lut
Note Dearth Of 'Workers'
Br BOB LEONARD
W7IIAT with defense orders and
usual, but resignedly par
donable, governmental delay,
Mr. Jamu F. Kaller haa bacn
finding time hanging aomewhat
loosely on hla handa alnco tha
rat of tlx Is oxploalvo year of
niMl.
Mr. Kaller haa not minded It
so much for thero have bean
benchea to build, walla to paint
,vid switches to Inatall. There
has alo been ground work to
coyer from printed material.
Mr. Kaller la Beady
Now Mr. Keller la ready to
go ahead. Parte are arriving In
appreciable quantltiea, more are
expected aoon and It appeara all
la well.
Except for atudenta or rath
er, "youth workers."
Amiable, willing Mr. Keller
la the local radio aupervlaor for
the National Youth admlnlitre
turn which for the pait three
montha haa been working up to
establishing a radio training pro
ject here In Klamath Falls.
Mr. Keller la enthusiastic
about his Job. He believes in the
'.YA program of youth rehablll
"Ution. But it la beginning to
appear that events outside Mr.
Keller's control are threatening
to upset Mr. Keller's and Mr.
Roosevelt's plans.
Demand la Scarcer
- For the demand, aad to relate,
for the NYA'a services la scarce
and getting scarcer. There are
no longer the thousanda of
future-less, money-less, Increaa
logly aimless youths without
Jab and without a vocation there
were during Depression yev.ro.
(They're being awallowed up
by Uncle Sam'a army, or by de
fense-booming private Industry
They're finding their futures are
being decided for them willy
nllly and with hardly a choice.
nhether they know It or not
They're grabbing up Joba In
sawmills, in shipyards whether
Vt's .with -or' without a thought
crthe iutura but they're
crawling looming handwrit
ing on the wall temporarily, if
nothing else for the NYA
and kindred alphabetics.
' Unexcelled Opportunity
Locally, instead of scores of
applicants for the NYAs im
minent radio project, only a
comparatively few boys and girls
of acceptable age are signing up
fir the work.
? It's an unexcelled opportunity
for young Klamathltea with elec
trical communication leanings to
learn a trade at no cost but
tftere's a dearth of atudenta
'youth workers."
I Tha term "youth workers" Is
Bed advisedly aa is the word
project." Difficulties with com
mercial competitors have taught
1JYA officials they do not con
st, uct schools or classes and their
iim la not students they carry
on "projects" for which the na
tion's youth work for small
monthly sums, at the same time
learning how to perform their
Jobs.
, Six-Month Training
- I When they're finished they
have not "graduated" but are
eligible" to handlo Job In
private enterprise.
I Those who are working on the
new Klamath projet will get a
six-month basic training in con
struction of radio receiving sets,
public address systems, inter
communication hookups and
transmitting equipment. They're
Working in a basement workshop
lh the Klamath high school's new
gym under ideal conditions.
i To be eligible for an NYA post
souths, cither boys or girls, must
o between the ages of 17 and
34 and unemployed. Pay la
118 for 40 hours work each
month.
,l The project here Is under Joint
sponsorship. Paychecks coma
from the NYA. Equipment la
aplit between the NYA and the
state board for vocational edu
cation. At the conclusion of the half
Sea f period, the lads are rated
as amateur radio operators the
Work Includes code and are
qualified to handle radio con
struction and service work as
sin apprentice.
Where Is The Fault
t There's no lack of sudden and
rial opportunity when the
youths complete their stint. The
Aircraft industry la clamoring
ffcr trained installation men,
fjrlvnle industry, crowded with
army orders, is crying for tech
nicians, and police and forest
Service demands haven't slack
ened. I But there aren't enough young
Ocople to go around and
herein lies the fault?
4t's not with the NYA, which
KGtrl W frock .Yj-f
LONDON
NOCTURNE
By PAUL MANNING
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
TONDON, April 13 My Pal George aays buying those spring
flowers for Eileen and Maggie was tha hardest thing he ever
had to do.
He bought daffodils and violets. Daffodils for Eileen and
violets for Maggie.
Eileen had told him Just the other day that ahe liked daf
fodils because, since ahe became IT six weeks ago, they seemed
somehow more grown-up.
ViIY Pal George, who is It and a Somebody In London's larg
est air raid shelter because he is president of the Youth
club and chairman of the dance committee, aays that for nearly
a month the three of -them had been planning that dance inside
the shelter. Finally the floor In one bay of the shelter had
been cleared of bunks, colored paper streamers had been strung
around the alcove, and by knotting some stiff blue and red
paper around three hurricane lamps they had managed to have
suspended from the ceiling what looked like Japanese lanterns.
A four-piece orchestra of violin, accordion, banjo and saxophone
aat In one comer.
When My Pal George, Eileen and Maggie arrived, there was
a pleasant hum to the shelter. People were milling around, an
imated by the event and greeting each other Just as if they
hadn't all lived in that shelter every night for the past six
months. .Eileen and Maggie were very pretty In new frocks they
had . made themselves out of material purchased over period
of daya at several East End rummage sales.
piRST the orchestra played a Paul Jones, and everyone got to
mixing It Then It switched to a waltz and finally swung Into
Riding High.
It waa halfway through Riding High that the will of the air
raid alarm Bounded. But like every other night during recent
weeks, nobody paid any particular attention to the warning.
They Just continued swinging around the small floor, having one
swell time. First George would dance with Eileen and then he'd
dance with Maggie.
- Then Samuel Goldman, the shelter marshal, walked fast past
the dancers, looking worried. He told My Pal George that the
incendiaries were coming down fast. So George started to leave.
But Eileen and Maggie were right there, too because they were
volunteer members of the East End Flrcwatchers.
George aays they mentioned at the time that dance frocks
were a nuisance. But they went right out Into the fire bliU any
way, each carrying a small twenty pound bag of sand because
sand puts out Incendiary bombs quicker than a stirrup pump or
shovel.
e
Y Pal George aays he lost track of the girls after a few mln
utea because those fire bombs were coming down hot and
heavy and everyone waa working fast Sometimes they would
land in the middle of the street and to extinguish them was no
trick. Other times, though, a few would strike a warehouse and
crash down Inside the building. That'a when you would rush in
side in a fast-moving effort to locate the incendiary before it set
inflammable material afire.
That'a probably what happened to Eileen and Maggie, George
saya: They rushed Into a warehouse and were trying to locate
the Incendiary when a high explosive struck the building.
Nobody knew they were there. No one had seen them go in.
And when the raid finally ended and Eileen and Maggie failed
to show up back at the dance, no one knew where to look. . But
George got up a search party and they looked the rest of that
night for some sign of the girls.
They didn t find them that
nor the next.
But three days later, when
ging through a 20-foot mound of broken concrete and twisted
steel, they found Eileen and Maggie clasped In each other's arms.
THAT'S why My Pal George aays that, when he bought spring
flowers for Eileen and Maggie this last time, It was the hard
est thing he ever had to do.
Daffodils for Eileen, violets
GOOD HARVEST
CENTERVILLE, Tex., (AP
The rich soil on the L. V, Ney
land farm already has yielded
good crop $63.50 to be ex
act While working In the garden,
members of the family -unearthed
a cache of gold and sil
ver coins some dating back to
1832.
Now if their carrots only will
grow.
CIOARET INVENTED THUS
An Egyptian soldier, during
the bombardment of Alexandria,
In 1832, rolled some tobacco up
In a piece of Indian cartridge
paper, and thua was "Invented"
the clgaret.
is offering a foundation for the
future. It's not with private in
dustry, which is offering the
future.
It apparently lies with the
youths themselves who haven't
enough thought for the future.
night of course. Not that night
some air raid wardens were dig
for Maggie.
HERE'S SOMETHING
HOLLYWOOD, AP How
would you like to have a glam
orous screen actress strip off a
pair of her hose and give it to
youT
You can have 'em if you're
high bidder at a film colony
party April 20 at which Actor
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., will auc
tion the stockings of all ac
tresses present for British war
relief. .
IRONY
ORISKANY FALLS, N. Y..
(AP) Carleton Sykes went out
to secure signature on a peti
tion asking that the knitting
mill feeder stream be fenced
off.
. While he was working, his
two-year-old daughter, Sandra
Jean Sykes, toddled to the edge
of the stream, tumbled in and
drowned.
By means of a leaner air-fuel
mixture, modern cars save 18
per cent in fuel consumption as
compared to the cars of 1827.
Adult Educational Work
Reaches Hundreds Here
Klamath Grown-Ups Find Pleasure
Benefit In Continuing To Learn
Through Numerous Activities
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Nature provides us with a
will to learn new things, to aid
us In making our life fuller and
for the betterment of all man
kind. It is each individual's
privilege to take advantage of
opportunities offered and to gain
some help and inspiration from
them. Since the time of early
history educational opportunities
have been provided for all our
people young and old and it has
been the hope that through the
education of all that better con
ditions can exist and give us a
hope for the future.
In Klamath county we have
a great number of courses of
fered for the education of adults
and we find many people taking
advantage of them.
The extension courses from
Oregon State college offered
through the office of Mrs. Wln-
nifred Gillen, borne demonstra
tion agent probably contacts the
largest number of people. In
this field the courses stress the
training of leaders and helping
them with program material ao
aa to carry on projects in dif
ferent units of the county. All
extension courses through this
department are free and the co
operation of the personnel in
charge of this work is always
gladly given to all who are in
terested.
Unit Meetings
Eight unit meetings are held
once a month from October to
May. -This year the meetings In
cluded menu planning, table
service, mafn dish meals, two
meetings on weight control, and
one on the care of the hair, and
one on care of the feet and a
meeting on health emergencies
in the home.
A slip cover school was held
aa a special district meeting at
which leaders were trained to
teach the covering of furniture
with slip covers, and the leaders
then In turn will teach in their
own districts.
At present county wide pro
ject la "Mattress Making" with
the cooperation of the r.S.A.
and tha AAA. and other
agencies The material used is
the surplus cotton from the
south. This project Is for the
low Income family group and is
strictly a rural project -
A big project is the home
makers camp which is both edu
cational and recreational. Many
arts and crafts are taught in the
camp program.
One of the outstanding pro
jects is the course under Mrs.
Marius, extension specialist in
family relations.
The purpose of the courses
offered through the home dem
onstration agent is to educate
the people and to have leaders
trained to bring to them the
courses in which they are in
terested and are necessary to
aid in better living conditions.
The program is planned by the
women for their needs and the
needs of the community. In
May, two representatives from
each district meet and each tells
what their groups want and then
they vote on the year's, program.
University Classes
- Extension classes tor univer
sity credit are held on Wednes
day at 4 and 7:30 o'clock each
week at Fremont school. Per
sons may work toward a degree
as they may earn 12 hours credit
in the year. The same credit
is given here as for resident
work. Anyone is welcome to
take the courses for credit or
may audit them. These classes
have been held in Klamath Falls
during the past five years and
much interest has been shown
in them. The majority enrolled
are teachers but a number of
other people take the courses for
their, own particular advance
ment. Thia year Dr. Arthur
Taylor Is the instructor and the
enrollment for the fall term was
44 and for the winter term 42.
Plans are already being made
for next year's work. The
courses are chosen to please the
majority of those Interested and
to bring to Klamath Falls a
high type of educational pro
gram. ' -
A class for tha education of
aliens, who desire to become
citizens of the United States, is
held Thursday evening of each
week at Fremont school under
the supervision of Mrs. Edna
Ackley. The average attendance
in the class Is 20. There are two
classes finishing in the year us
ually one in April and the other
ono In October.
The Interest of all members
in the class Is evident and Mrs.
Ackley is understanding of the
people's problems. The wide, use
of words In the English language
makes It difficult for many, but
by - explanations and examples
And
the lessons are understood by
all. One of tha requirements in
this course is to study the Con
stitution of the United States.
The course in general follows
the same outline as the civics
Uught in our public schools. A
manual for citizenship is pub
lished by the Daughters of the
American Revolution and is
used as guide by applicants for
citizenship. The manual tells
how to register and make ap
plication and the procedure of
filing lor first and second papers.
Difficulty Noted
The affairs of Immigration
and emigration have been chang-
ed from department of labor to
the department of Justice and
so many changes in procedure
have been made: -
One great need In Klamath
county to aid in the education
of the alien is for an elementary
school to teach reading and
writing. Many desirable aliens
wish to become citizens but are
not able to read and write the
English language and so cannot
receive their papers. The dif
ficulty la that there is no funds
available for the alien education
program.
For several years c check was
made on Juvenile delinquency
and it was found to be very low
In the foreign born, and one
year none at alL All the classes
taught and the material used in
the program for the education
for citizenship tries to instill the
love for the United States, and
that laws are made to be re
spected and not to be broken.
Many classes for adult edu
cation are held In conjunction
with works progress adminis
tration program. The purpose
of the WPA program is that any
employable person who Is un
employed and In dire economic
circumstances needs help. The
type of help that can be given
him that will protect his morale
is useful employment in the
type work for which he is fitted.
Under this plan adult educa
tion Is sponsored by the state
department of education and
assumes responsibility for the
supervision of the work. Teach
ers are paid by the federal gov
ernment but the selection of the
teachers are by the county and
city school superintendents. In
the adult education program the
teachers are responsible for their
own class and each must keep
interest and attendance up or
the course will be dropped. Many
things can be done in Klamath
Falls if there is a demand for it
Many people are taking ad
vantage of the courses offered
and are learning worthwhile
skills and crafts to carry -on
hobbies or to further their own
particular interests. Following
are some of the courses given
in Klamath Falls. One of the
most popular is the shop class
at Fremont school from 4 p. m.
to 10 p. m. four days a week.
The drawing classes are held in
the Melhase building from 10
a. m. to 10 p. m. A sewing class
meets five days a week at the
armory and there are assistant
cooks helping in the cafeteria
learning cooking.
Klamath county has many
other study groups for adult edu
cation sponsored by organiza
tions such as the Parent Teach
ers associations, the American
Association of University Women
and the League of Women Vot
ers The many different educa
tional groups offered give peo
ple an opportunity to choose the
subject in which they are most
interested.
MERRILL Irene Lappat stu
dent in the Merrill high school
for her junior and senior years,
finishing with a four-year aver
age of 1.33, will deliver the vale
dictory address for the 1941
graduating class at commence
ment exercises to be held in the
high school gymnasium Thurs
day evening. May 13. Marjorie
Taber Bush, with an average of
2.06, will be salutatorian.
The program for this years
commencement has as yet not
been worked out. A junior
senior banquet will be held the
evening of May 0, followed by
the senior ball at Malin, with
the graduating classes of both
Merrill and Malin high schools
as hosts.
Baccalaureate services will be
held Sunday evening. May 11 in
the Merrill Presbyterian church
with Rev. Lawrence Mitchel-
more bringing the message.
The first Women's Rights con
vention was held In 1848.
Home From Hawaii
. ... . -kVl sTlltm
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Magulre returned to Klamath Falls re
cently after Maguire spent five yeara in the Hawaiian islands as
radio announcer and special events manager for KGU, Rational
Broadcasting company station at Honolulu. The voice of Ma
gulre baa been heard around the world on famous "Hawaii Calls"
programs.
Glamour Girls Blacked Out
By Serious Reality of 1941
By TOM WOLF
NEA Service Correspondent
NJEW YORK, April 12 Uncle
Sam has spoken the final
word on the subject of glamour
girls.
The word is "phooey."
No sooner had he rolled up
his sleeves for the serious job of
national defense than he handed
the black spot to the girls of the
gilded dead-pan.
So say the men whose busi
ness is beauty and whose models'
looks and manner set the pace
for Miss America. .
"Glamour has beep on the way
out for several years," said John
Powers, whose name is synony
mous with beautiful models. "To
day, it's through. The call now is
for natural, soft mellow faces.
It's for the typical American
girl the girl whom national
defense, after all, is going to
defend."
NEW TYPE OF
GLAMOUR GIRL
Mr. Powers says that this
typical American girl is self
reliant and vivacious. She has
a flair for. doing things. Without
these basic characteristics she
could not assume the natural
vivacious look which illustrators
and advertisers are, almost with
out exception, demanding today.
Harry Conover, himself once
a model and now head of his own
agency, was equally emphatic
'Ideal Woman' Seems Only
Handy Label In Germany
By RUTH MILLETT
TT doesn't pay for German
women to have too much
respect for men. Whenever they
do, they get pushed around.
They had so much respect for
the wisdom of their men they
let themselves be shoved back
into the kitchen, and they had
managed to get a toe-hold in
business, in the professions, and
even in politics.
Meekly they tried to pattern
themselves along the lines of the
ideal German woman ideal
according to the men. They stuck
to their homes, had babies for
the fatherland, and let their hus
bands shine in the role of "lord
and master."
LORD AND MASTER"
NOW A PARTNER
Then came the war, and the
men saw that women's hands
were needed for something be
sides rocking cradles that
they were needed to turn out
armaments.
So the men decided that it
was all right for women to work
in factories. The women did as
they were told.
Now that the army has taken
a great many "lords ana
masters" out of their homes, it
seems that German women have
to be encouraged to feel an equal
responsibility with their hus
bands for managing their fami
lies, and contributing to the
family income whenever the men
can t manage alone.
So, the German men have
thought up a new "ideal Ger
man woman." This one Isn't a
meek little creature whose life
is kitchen, children, church. This
one is a partner to her husband,
After Five Years
or
about the demise of the glamour
girt
. "Over 75 per cent of our ap
pointments today are made for
the weU-scrubbed'-American-girl
business," Mr. Conover said.
"This demands a new type of
girl one whom we call "vital
tiring.' Interestingly enough, she
has the same type of personality
and looks that has always been
demanded of men models. Men
have always had to look like
Ralph, the boy next door. To
day's girls must look like Ruth,
Ralph's sister. This doesn't mean
that they may not look sophistic
ated. But it must be a real soph
istication, one that comes from
within instead of one that is
painted on.
"Perhaps it is significant that
this new type of vital, healthy
model actually lives where her
real-life prototype lives in
the country. We've found that
most of our successful girls live
away from the city. Why, I
can't say. Perhaps it's more fresh
air; perhaps it's a different way
of life from that of city girls."
The girls themselves, adds Mr.
Conover, are delighted with the
change demanded of them. They
can wear more ca usual clothes
swagger clothes and tweeds for
the advertising pictures. Their
hair-dos . may be more casual,
easier to care for. And exagger
ated gobs of makeup are as passe
as the glamour girl whom they
made popular.
a full-fledged partner, sharing
responsibility equally with her
former "lord and master," and
also sharing equal rights.
"PUSHED AROUND
AGAIN BY MEN"
Have the German women won
a great triumph? No. They've
just been pushed around again
by men, because at the present
time this new "ideal woman"
seems to fit in better with the
plans of the men than the dis
carded "ideal woman."
This isn't any triumph for
German women, because it isn't
anything they won for them
selves. They've just been pushed
around again. And they'll prob
ably get just about as much out
of their new "equality" as a
businessman gets out of being
handed a title when he asks for
a raise. -
"I'M READY
HAVRE, Mont, (AP) Roy
Harada, American-born Japa
nese, deferred six months ago
when his father was ill and he
was needed at home, popped up
in draft headquarters.
"Thought you'd like to know
my father Is all right now,"
he smiled. "I'm ready for
you."
He was put in class 1-A.
MUTTON DAILY DIET
In the Falkland islands, mut
ton is called "365." Other meats
are very uncommon in these
sheep-raising islands, so mutton
is eaten every day of the year.
In 1940 there were 4,500,000
trucks on the nation's highways
nine times the number of
1918.
Hawaii Vast
Fort Decked
With Blooms
So Soys Klamath Man, Back
From Sojourn In Islands
By JAMES MORRISON
Possibility of Japan attacking
the Hawaiian islands Is remote
in the minds of the islanders,
according to Dick Maguire, local
boy who made good as a big
time radio announcer in Hono
lulu. "There's a lot of miscon
ception, I think," Maguire said
Saturday, "about the Japs at
tacking the islands. Everybody
here seems to think Hawaii la
practically under the shadow of
Fujiyama and that it would bo
an easy matter for the Japanese
to attack. But aa a matter of
fact there are about 6000 miles
of ocean separating them, and
Hawaii is in reality a vast fort
ress covered with flowers and
music" . .
Maguire returned recently to
Klamath Falls with his wife and
child after five years of radio an
nouncing in what ha calls the
garden spot of tha universe
Honolulu. He said he got his .
start mostly by chance. He had
always wanted to visit the land
of flowers, swaying palms and
moonlit musical nights, so be
hopped a boat and crossed tha
Pacific.
Arriving in the Islands eat a
Thursday, Maguire figured he'd
better find a Job. By Saturday
he had found employment at ra
dio station KGMB, Honolulu out
let for Columbia and Mutual net
works. After six months with
KGMB Maguire joined the staff
of KGU and worked tor NBC
four and a half years. For to
past two years he was program
manager and director of special
events broadcasts. . He 1 boa
known for his announcing on tost
famous Hawaii Calls programs
which are heard around the
world.
Tha wildest program I re
member was one time when an
Hawaiian waa attempting . to
swim from the island of Oatni
to another some 60 miles away,"
Maguire recalled. "Of course
we interviewed him when ha
was about to plunge into tha
choppy, shark-infested water.
Ail he could say waa 'Ugh' and
-No,' so I had to do all of the
talking. He did pretty well at
swimming, though. They had to
pick him up about half way
across."
"Ghost" Speaker
Another memorable broadcast
ing occasion for Dick happened,
as he put it "when Hitler was
first getting obstreperous." Tha
US army was having soma sort
of army field maneuvers and the
event was to be broadcast by
shortwave around the globe. At
a rehearsal Major General Her
on was perfectly at ease and
spoke his piece with dignity and
clarity. But when they actually
went on the air. Dick said, the
mike JuKiped eat and bit tha
general. He couldn't say a word.
Then it was that Dick Maguire
shaded his voice and spoke the
words of the general to the wait
ing world.
Perfect Climate
Climate in the islands is next
to perfect says Dick. It rains
hard only two or three times a
year and usually at night "I
was surprised to learn it rains
less in Hawaii than it does in
the Willamette valley," be said.
"I lost $5 on that" Dick saya a
standing joke for an islander to
spring on a comparatively cool
evening is to mention it's "two
below." That means it's two
below 70, for the temperature
seldom varies above 80 or below
70.
"That's why you hear so much
about the beach at Waikiki," ,
Dick said. "The temperature of
the air and water is always tha
same."
Dick admitted he had on sev
eral occasions tried the art of
surfboard riding, but that ha
didn't fare well. "It takes a na
tive to do that right" he said.
"The same goes for the hula. A
girl can spend a year or so tak
ing a course to learn the dance
well enough to perform for tha
folks back home, but she prob
ably moves her handa when aha
should be moving her feet" .
Dick met his wife, Millie when
she stopped at Honolulu on a
globe-girdling cruise in 1S37
with three other girls. Neither
she nor the others ever found
time to complete the voyage, for
all were married in the Islands.
The Maguires have a daughter,
Patricia, who was one-year-old
the first day at sea on their re
turn trip to the mainland.
Maguire doesn't know If ha
will return to radio broadcast
ing. He came home to Klamath
Falls to Join his father in busi
ness here and for the time being
he is here to stay.
CUTTINQ TONGUE NO HELP
The song of birds are produced
at the lower end of the windpipe,
so cutting the tongue to aid their
voice is not only useless, but
cruel.