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AtH1 2. 1(41 THE NFWS A KIT THE HERA1.TV KLAMATH KALIS. OREOON PAGE FOUR SIDE GLANCES The Snake Takes His Toll News THE KLAMATH NEWS K.1-AMATH NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Publishers Behi Editor Managing Editor FRANK JENKINS MALCOLM EPLEY . ., . , ... -, Manda b The Klamath r-UDiisnea mu r ,K : j oi ......i. Klam- News Publishing Company at Esplanade and Pine streets, mam- ath Falla, Ortson . . BvPaulMallon. Represented nationally by .. wrST.HflLUDA CO. Inc. San Francisco. New York. Detroit. 6-rUe. LoTAngiloV St liu Portland. Chicago. Vancouver. BC CopTea of The New, and Herald together with complete Information about the Klamath Falla market may be obtained tor the asking at any of these office Entered a second data matter at the port office at Klamath Falla. Oregon. November IS. 1931 under act of March 3. 1879 WASHINGTON. April S3 Barred doors could not con ceal the shock of house ways and means committee members at the secretly submitted new treasury tax program. Chairman Doughton actually stamped up Member Aadit Bureau Circulation Telephone 3124 and down the floor talking to himself while the Morgenthau .. scasrxiPTios eTE , onvui hp moo i kiumu. ntu m auiia ctr. MM w ctnn, pwt mrmlk aides were telling congress what ratea to Impose on whom. Other members of the committee were f(.-d by curttr pit I KUsuk. Ut. autooa CouU Dllwr y mau. www IWI-wd by MIL moalht . similarly upset and worried. Minna ar mh. Only a few days before, may Wiiiiiliil (Including republicans) had all w1, Traffic Problems flTH state convention underway here and travel ' .ii .hmn'mr th effects of the BPrina- upturn. traffic problems of the next few days are going to be more " I... .ni Th.w. will be an unusually heavy volume of pedestrian traffic, while vehicle traffic in the downtown area in busy periods seems each weekend to be setting a new record. u.i:t All of this places a burden of unusual responsibility upon local motorists and the city police department Only .u l .,-.,,.. nH rourteav can orderliness be main- tained. and the need for traffic direction by the author- ities may require some special measures. There is need for avoidance of the congested areas by motorists who do not have to go there. W e have observed over a period of years that people seem determined to drive into jammed Main street intersections, even though they could nicely go around them Why not. on this week end, experiment with the possibility of keeping the family car Oil Hie main aiem, ,i V- CI It is possible that mucn gooa couia oe reumiM" by placing policemen in the centers of the'busiest inter- tt .k rioH tn direct traffic in lieu of stop BCvUUIlo Ul Ma7u K- and go signals. We know that the police deparuneni nas none too many men for regular assignments, but the traf fic situation has become a problem that demands specia attention at certain periods ana no umcr uutv. method presents itself now. Welcome, CE r PITTING Christian Endeavor is the youthful enthus iasm that has successfully undertaken the big rock insignia project on the hill east of town in greeting to the (hundreds of young people expected this weekend for the state CE convention. . A state CE convention Is quite an undertaking. It re quires careful advance organization and months of pre paration. It necessitates recruiting widespread community cooperation in housing and entertaining the delegates. All of this has been efficiently done, and now the time has arrived for the convention itself. We are sure it will prove to be all our Christian Endeavorers have been hoping it will be a'period of constructive work in behalf of the Christian faith and of wholesome entertainment. We believe Klamath people will like the eager young people who' will be here for the convention, many of them to ttytf in-local homes. And all signs point to glorious spring weather for the convention period, and warm hos pitality onihe part of Klamath people. Convention visitors, we hope, will have time to see the Interesting sights hereabouts, such as Crater lake and the Lava Beds, and they carry home with them as convention closes a favorable impression of the .Klamath country and its people. All Quiet Along the Seine? a E can onlv euess at what Koes on in the countries W which lie beneath the German yoke; we are not al lowed to find out the whole truth. Little scraps of in formation must be pieced together to form the best pic ture we can draw. Here Is such a scrap: From Vichy comes word that Paris police have issued warrants against 6200 house own ers, business men, and janitors because the walls of their buildings have been placarded with anti-German and pro Free French slogans and propaganda. ' First, note the severity of the measures. If you have anything to do with control of a house, you are held re sponsible for what somebody comes and paints on it in the night. Second, 6200 houses is a lot of houses. Some body, a lot of somebodies, must still be active in Paris for the cause of Free France. SOMETHING WBOHG CHILOQUIV, Ore. (To Marmaduke, Unhappy Octopus, Fails to Survive Frozen Sleep SEATTLE, April 24 VP) Marmaduke, the Waterfront Aquarium' prize octopus, has passed oil Innocently a victim of a frozen sleep treatment, bis remains lund went on. "I had hopes the real Marmnduke would 9ppear, in all his former beauty and vigor. But we must have over estimated the time needed for frozen sleep. "We returned hiir. to Puget have been consign.' to Puget wUh 5jmple yet ,m oouna. i.r xiagiui a. mm ,ive ceremonies A thaf, left propria, eplaui u. I ij , poignant memorv marmaauKe was pining away several morths ago nearly dead, the unlucky one In one of those triangles with two other octopi. Haglund and his waterfront friends decided there was a "bare chance" frozen sleep might re vive him. He was frozen in a 500-pound block of Ice. As a last-minute thought, a hose was inserted to see that Marmaduke got some air. A tentacle wts left hanging out "so we could give him a hand shake of sympathy occasionally to ihow he wasn't fcrgotten." 'That was my idea," Haglund asserted. Last weekend Marmaduke and his frozen couch got in the way and the fisheries people thought he should be revived by now, any way, so they hauled him down to the aquarium and left him on Ivar, doorstep ' Hun dreds of peuple came to sea him. "The hot sun of the past couple of days melted the Ice," Hag- Five Volunteers Leave Wednesday For Army Service Five men, all volunteers, left Klamath Falls Wednesday night for induction into the U S army at Portland. Ail wen sent to fill Call 7 under the Selective Serv ice act. Following are the men from Board 1: Raymond G. O'Rourke, 17S6 Fargo street; Gcorg. B Hanson, 833 Walnut street. Board 2 men: Robert P Martin Fort Klam ath; John E. Williams. Klamath Falls; Edwin D Fox, 521 Oak street. Klamath Falls. All we hope Is t.iat the Ger man troops in North Africa get a good kick In the panzers one of these days the Editor) That something is wrong with our world is clear to everybody. Our great and wonderful civilization the greatest and most wonderful that has ever been is afflicted with frightened, apparently in curable maladies. We used to talk of progress; who talks of it now? We used to predict a golden age; but who predicts it now? Ask certain high authorities what the reason is for this strange decline and weakness and they will tell you that the cause lies in nationalism. The nations are angry. Each seeks to overawe and bully the others. Dictators who have arisen to power by promising their people impossible victories and achieve ments fan the flame of hatred We live in an era of ill will Armies and navies are larger than ever before and will be even larger by the time 1943 has rolled to Its restless close. A strange expectancy prevails an expectancy of the second world war. How the nations will be aligned, what part sub marine and aerial warfare will play, to what extent gas will be effective against civilian popula tions, and who will come oui victor from the carriage, lew profess to know. Yet if we ask otners, iney wm tell us it is not nationalism which is wrecking our world, but the economic crisis; for bit ter as is the hatred between the sreat nations of the earth today, it is equaled by the bitterness between classes. We have the poor and the rich. There is no harmony between mem ana their outlooks are as different their backgrounds. Capital denounces labor as radical and destructive, and labor denounces capital as intolerant and oppres sive. Scanning the columns of the papers we sometimes think that there may be something of truth and of justice in each charge. But, regardless of that, the haves and have-nots are locked In a great struggle. So cialism and communism are be coming wide-spread, and so, at the other end of the scale, is fascism. Men have lost sight of the dis tinction between right and wrong. The home how little It means today! Immorality abounds, and only goodness is scorned, and because home and the family are disregarded and men and women everywhere seek only their own pleasure and their own lust, our world Is plunging downward. Yet there is an even deeper significance the strange events in the world around us, the rising tide of armaments, the death strug gle In our social order, the wan ing influence of morality and the oncoming flood of vice and crime In our towns and cities, small and large. It was not always thus. There was a time when it seemed as though humanity was treading a broad path that led onward and upward. Civilization had pro duced its fairest fruits. Science and invention were making our world safer and more agreeable I for all who were In It Educa tion and sociology were labor ing to destroy ignorance and eradicate unfair economic dis tinctions. And that was not very long ago. In the period immedi ately following the World war it seemed as though progress to higher levels was inevitable. But the glory faded. Our world sank back into the com fortable mire of selfishness There are men and women try ing to gain an easy living in the life of crime. They do not hesi tate to shoot down our police of ficers in cold blood to gain their point. I sometimes wonder if human wisdom has failed and we may be drifting into the Dark Ages of the ISth century. H. HINMAN MARSH, Box 11, Chiloquin, Ore CANAL DANGER KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (To the Editor) The recent nar row escapes of two youngsters by drowning in the canal only shows the need for it to be fenced in. through town at least Is there any reason why this hasn't been done by the govern ment, or has this question ever been discussed? We live fairly close, and It Is a source of constant worry to me, as well, as I know, to many other mothers. Children Just will venture near it despite warn ings. Why, I don't know, except perhaps, because they have been told not to. I would like to hear others on this as well as an editorial from you. MRS. C. A. LARSON, 624 Mitchell Street, City Editor's Note: Both fencing and covering the canal through the city have been frequently discussed through the years. Covering was given up as Im practical, but fencing still re mains as a possible solution to the safety problem. draw eight million year unless the act was rescinded also. Lakevlew Townsend Club. Klamath Sends 411 To Ashland Festival Klamath Falls Is well repre sented a, the annual Southern Oregon muMC fostiw undri way Thursday in Ashland More than 1300 grade school s'lidents from Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties took part in competi tions during the day. Ten teach ers with 411 student! made the trip from Klamath Physical education and music supervisors also attended. HE AIMS TO PLEASE CHICAGO, UP) Service John Servas' middle name. Manager of a house and gar den exposition, he got up at 7 a. m. to show a Texas woman through the exposition because she had to board a plane and couldn't make the usual 1 p. m. opening time. promised to restrain their per sonal viewpoints for amicable cooperation to raise S3.S00.000, 000 more by a general one-third increase in taxes. What floored them was the failure of Mr. Morgenthau's new dealers to stick to the general figure. The one-third Increaw turned out to be a sevenfold In crease In one Instance at least (A committeeman worked out one" rate, claiming It would in crease certain Income taxpayers from $11 to $77). One hundred per cent Increases In excise taxes were frequent, including the tax on automobiles. A 86 per cent Increase on gasoline was suggested. There was even soma sugges tion of more reforming. A crack down on banks and Insurance companies, to make them pay taxes on their tax exempt bonds, seemed to be offered In a com plicated way that all committee men could not fully understand at first hearing. Mr. Doughton's official excuse for barring the doors waa that he did not want to stir up and frighten the taxpayers because the treasury program was only tentative. Fact is Doughton had In his sleeve another plan devised by the non-partisan expert of the Joint congressional committee on taxation. These experts have been working with Mr. Morgen thau's new dealers, apparently seeking an agreement on a pro gram both could support. When agreement was found Impossi ble, the alternatives had to be presented to the committee. But the democrats under Mr. Doughton's wise leadership voted to keep the doors closed apparently In hopes the treasury new dealers would see their mis takes and revise their plan be fore presenting It In public. "If we are down to the money you keep In your shoe, maybe we should cut our trip abort and go home. TOWNSEND NEWS LAKE VIEW, Ore., (To the Editor) Lakevlew Townsend club meeting place has been changed from tne Women's clubhouse- in Bullard canyon to Araner hall, where the first meeting will be heir on May 1- We will have a basket social and invite old and young to unite with us in p.-nmoting the only definite economic salva tion DroDosed for Both, since $200 a month as a maximum any aeed person over 60 years could receive and must circulate monthly from proceeds of 2 per cent gross Income tax. Oregon's last legislature re fused to memoralize congress for its enactment into law. But did pass and act to pay poor old circuit Judges who had served 17 years at $6000 per year, $200 per month, aa well as those be coming incapacitated after six years. Too bad the governor veined it. California legislature raised pensions for aged and blind which would effect 18,000 aged and maimed $15.00 per month, Federal social security board definitely informed California h act must be srlcken from records and conform to federal laws. Some 450.000 Indianans de manded boost In retirement com- nensatlon. Legislature raised oensions to $40.00 per month, federal social security board no tified Indiana they would witn- OFFENDER First serious offender against Leon Henderson's new edict barring further Increase In prices la the treasury depart ment. Mr. Morgenthau's pro posed hikes up to 100 per cent In excise taxes will increase the cost of gasoline, cigarettes, liquor, automobiles and many other dally consumed products But Mr. Morgenthau is not like ly to be Indicted by the defense commission or even receive a letter from Mr. Henderson. The new deal economists explain It this way: The Increased taxes are on what the government calls lux ury goods. The government It self Is. therefore, only the worst price Increasing offender, In lines upon which the economists want to hold down consumption in war-defense times. The moderate one-third In crease tn corporation t a x a a should not Increase prices (this Is still the new deal economists talking) because the corpora tiona will merely pay the In crease out of net earnings, as they are paying the recent union wage increases. It is officially doubted that profits of corpora tlons will be decreased by the tax Increase because of ex panded operations. These taxes are not the end The treasury economists devised them aa expedients for the In terim period until the country reaches full production and env olovment. At that time, they say, it will become economically necessary to levy taxes at me source of Income or impose a system of forced savings. This will be done not only to ununce the war but to keep the 1 n creased national Income out ol the buying market In which II would compete with government defense buying. The talk runs toward figures of 10 to 20 per cent as a tax on payrolls or a payroll seizure In forced savings. It will probably be necessary next winter If the world situation runs along as at present Under no conditions will a sales tax be countenanced. The only word Mr. Roosevelt passed to the congressional tax makers was that he did not want the new money raised by thai means. The admtmslraUun con siders a sales tax (except on luxuries like cigarettes and ga ollne) Inequitable, although II would accomplish with one stroke their two purposes, first to restrain buying, and also to raise money. The bullfinch, an European bird, Is a member of the family to which the English sparrow belongs. Christian Science "Doctr.ne of Ato.i'ment" was the subject of the Letson-Scrroon I In all Churches of Cnrist Scient- j 1st on Sunday, April 20. The Golden Text was, "All things are of God who hath ! reconciled us to nimself by Jesus Christ, and hMth given to j us the ministry of reconcilia tion" HI Ci-r. 8:18). Among the citations which comprised the Lrson-Sermon was the following trim the Bible: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 1 will make a new covenant with tht house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. And they shall teach no more every man h'S neighbor, and every man his brother, say ing. Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, salth the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jer. 31:31.34). The Lesfon-Sermon also in cluded the following correlative oassages from the Christian Science textbook, ' Science and Health with Key to the Scrip tures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Every pang of repentance and suffering, svery efr'ort for re form, every good tnought and deed, will help us to understand Jesus' atonement foi sin and aid its efficacy; but if the sinner continues to pray and repent, sin and be sorry, he h.s little part In the atonement, In the at-one-ment with God, for he lacks the practical repentance which reforms the heart and enables man to do the will of wisdom." (p. 19 Young Englishmen once wore handkerchiefs, edged with gold, in their hats as gifts from young women. "IF MORE OLD PEOPLE would use ADLERIKA they would feel better. I'm 70 and have had it on hand for 14 years." (L. M.-So. Dak.) For QUICK bowel action and relief from bloating gas, try ADLER IKA today. At Your Drug Store. 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