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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1925)
EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Monday, nceoinbrr 7, 1925 Pntfe Six Issued Daily, except Sunday, by Company. ( Mtioc : 1J9 X. Eighth E.J. MURRAY ... W. M. PERKINS . Eritcrcd as second class matter at the post office at Klamath I'nlls. Oregon, under act of March 3, 1S79, Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use 01 re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ami also the local news published therein. All rights of re-publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. T.hc Evening- Herald is the official paper of Klamath County. Monday, December 7, 1925 THE LOWER LAKE CRIME In all the history of the United States reclamation Service there has never been more arbitrary or unwar ranted abuse than that meted out to the Klamath drain age district of this county-. On November 30th, 1917, the United States Reclamation Service carried a deficit of $290,000.00, in round numbers, charged against the lands of the lower Klamath lake. The government had absolutely nothing to show for this $290,000.00, except possibly a few preliminary survey?, and superficial soil tests. At this time the Klamath Drainage district en tered into its contract with the government whereby the government agreed to close the gates in the straits at Ady and keep them closed to Che end that the Klamath drainage district could proceed with the reclamation of its lands by the method of evaporation and drai the same as that used for the reclamation of the Tule lake land. In return for the act of closing these gates and keep ing them closed the Klamath drainage district agreed to pay the United States $104,893.15. The bargain was a hard one. The district got absolutely nothing for its $100,000.00, except the mere act of closing these gates. Not one dollar's worth of canal lines, pumps, or pro perty of any description. In view of the great work to be undertaken the- district should not have been called upon to pay anything.' In fact they were taking up the burden of the very work the government had fallen down on. But the district submitted to the terms of the con tract and has sirfce made its payments and lived up to the contract in full. Now let us see what the government has done on its part. In place of cooperating in a whole-hearted way with the district and helping it in its great work; in place of aiding and befriending these people who took up the burden of paying into the United States recla mation fund the $100,000.00 that been squandered and lost, the Interior department has continually harassed the district with investigations, investigations that have been a farce and have accomplished absolutely nothing except the needless expenditure of more money by the government and funds of the district that have been sorely needed to cany on the real work of reclamation. These investigations that have undermined the efforts of the farmers of this district to finance their construc tion work. The recent spectacle of a committee of soil experts standing in a field of grain and writing a report to the effect that the soil was not suitable for agricultural purposes is typical of the "investigations" that have been held by the Interior department. With the continual threat of the government to open the gates in the straits at Ady and flood the lands, it has been a tremendous task to sell the. bonds of the district so as to carry on the construction work. Only the steadfast backing of the governor of the State of Oregon and the state securities commission and the un derlying faith of the friends of the district have made it possible for the district to cany on. Surely there are enough obstacles and .discouragements connected with carrying forward a work of this great magnitude with out being harassed and undeimined by the one party who should be your friend. The most dastardly part of the whole affair is that under the contract with the United States, the govern ment would have no right to open the gates in the straits at Ady if the soil we.re absolutely worthless. Even the attorneys for the United States reclamation service have admitted that the question of the fertility of the soil does not enter into the conditions of the con tract at all. The government agreed to close the gates at the straits and keep them closed, the only qualifica tions being: 1. That the plan of reclamation of the dis trict should be practical. 2. That the plan should be ac complished in reasonable compliance with the provisions of the contract with the United States. 3. that the plan of reclamation should not interfere with the proper re7 clamation or use of the public lands. That the plans are practical is admitted. At an un usually heavy expense they have been prepared by the district's engineer, revised by Stevens, & Koontz, consult ing engineers of Portland, and approved by the state engineer of the State of Oregon. It is also admitted that the plans are being accomplished in reasonable compli ance with the provisions of the contract. The district has bonded itself in the amount of $200,000.00, and is pushing the construction work as fast as conditions will permit.' Neither doe's the plan of reclamation interfere with the reclamation of the public lands. As a matter of fact in order to meet the terms of the contract, the district has many heavy expenditures to enlarge its can als so as to be abje to carry irrigation water for the public lands in California andthus reclaim them. The director of the United States reclamation service The Hern Id Publishing Street, Klamath Kails, Oregon, Publisher ... News Editor on his tour through the west continually prated about the "sanctity of contracts." With the history of he struggles of the Klamath drainage district lv tore us it. is a little hard to understand just What lie uieans by the 'sanctity of contracts." Fortunately the reclamation of this great body of land is going steadily forward in spite of the undermining work of the Interior department. The Stale of Oregon is hack of this project. The public lands in the toiw Klamath lake were originally sovereign state lands and belonged to this great commonwealth. They were only ceded to the United States by the Act of 1905 In trust to be used for reclamation and agricultural purposes under the terms of the reclamation act, The United States has not only not used these lands for reclamation and agricultural' purposes but ;s now doing all in its power to keep citizens of this state from reclaiming them for agricultural purposes. It has certainly breached its trust, under the act of 1905. and the State of Oregon should take whatever steps are necessary to bring these public lands again under tiie domination of the State. CHRISTMAS SEALS Tuberculosis Christmas-seals are again for sale on the candy-counters, cigar-stands, and hoteWesks of the coun try. Millions of them, too, are pouring into our homes bv mail, with the request that we purchase the little stickers and so further strengthen the campaign against one of the world's greatest scourges. This year the Christmas-seal comes of age. It is just twentv-bne years since an obscure postal clerk in Den mark 'conceived the idea of a decorative scamp to be placed on Christmas mail as a means of i ;:i ;ng funds for a hospital for tuberculous children. A few years later the first Christmas-seals that were sold in the United States raised $3,000 for the purchase of a sanitorium site in Delaware. Last year L25O.OOO.00O se.-jls were printed for the National .Tuberculosis Association and their side brought approximately $-1,500,000 into the coffers of the 1500 organizations affiliated with the national body. . During these vears the Christmas-seal has helped to finance hundreds of local, State and national campaigns to secure hospitals, sanatoria, clinics and dispensaries. At least-20,000 public health nurses are at work in the schools and homes to educate children and parents in the rules of healthful living. In this way minor physical defects are detected and, because of early treatment, a physical breakdown in later life with tuberculosis or some other serious disease is often prevented. Every large city nowadays has its open-air schools, preventoria and nutrition classes where the children of tuberculous narents and others below par are brought to normal weight and strength. Approximately 3,000 such insti tutions are in this country at present. The Christmas seai has made possible the Modern Health Crusade,' the iarget childhealth movement in the world, through which 8,000,000 schoolchildren have been taught daily habits tf cleanliness, diet, exercise and rest so that they may develop into robust men and women. Ou- participation in the annual Christmas-seal sale is an investment in individual and community health More than that, we become a part of the message of hope which the seal cirjres to the many thousands Who otherwise become victims of a preventable and curable disease. In all truth, the mission of the Christmas-seal is joyous health. ' Outside Concern Fleeces Klamath Falls Residents A salesman, who stales he repre sents a photographic convent, lias fleeced several Klamath Falls resi dents Into purchasing articles tuej? did not order, according to reports received today. mCL&z&Mt mm A aio.to him -"mow wou vh? i:zy i m. 7 i w ., jumk ( Tho galea man, It is laid, approach I es the prospocfjye eualomur with a I proposition t make on enlargement of some prized canters snap shot. The i order is taken, and later, after the salesman has departed, the enlarge ment rcunr.K. and also an expensive frame and i:las for which the cus tomer Is billnl anywhere between ?30 and ?6l extra. One customer who ordered enlarxementa hns refused outright to nay for the frames and dotios the company to prosecute him. Out Our Way f f SOMORAOE AMD 'wo- he rtAO a Slue banc omt? the' lower Part of hic FACE, TMEW HAD JOST CRD:.' ME TO TrtROvAl OP KAW HANDS WHEM HE STEPPED IM "THE ' PliSoU Ct-IARUE V f OlO WOK GlT A Good look ATTrt' V FEU.EP? who oow?: VTrtisj DOOFf . SAlO GlT Both STEWARTS WASHINGTON i ... WVBHlKOTON, The Kiitniland. Br i ' II has caused deal 61 llk lll'IV it, 'daubtloia, throughout tho Wllra ', country. comment mi It la l.utlu American I diplomatic olrclts sound! !il to a j North American. II lennis oqunlly odd to tlu l.ntln Amorlcun linn inch w rumpus elunild have been mlsed nviir a wlilto mnti's marriage to u wu itiitii with a null' negro Ulooil In her total. Laifh Americans long resident In tbl rnllud fclntcs. n be sure, are' aware of tin' hnrd nnd fnst racial lines drawn hire, if Mr". fchlnolnhd er wore n full blooded negroes per haps they themselves would agree that ihe madi a rather inappropriate wife for a t'utirnsliin. To object, how ovor to a union between pure white nud Just a ilush of color strikes them .ii snper-iltilcky. Hut mnnltign between a youth of Leonard Kip llhlnolnndor's racial po rttlon nml a sorvuut girl! Ah. unite different. Tho Untiii American con Unseal recognises that una bail mea alliance from the Rhlnclandor gland point. It can't that (bo former Alice Jones' imall fraction of African ancestry slfntflea much. "If." ta on.' secretary of legation from south of the oquntor remarked to rac, 'young Rhuolandor can't live with his -wile In America, why does not he take In r to some part of the world where American color preju dices don't exbt?" "lie could locate, nay, in Ulo do Juiierlo anil become a Hrnllian. Hi and his wlfu would be In perfectly good standing socially. They might be the parents of n future president." Woman Injured by Accidental Shot .MEDFOKD, Ore.. Dec. 7. Mrs. Minnie Norman of Jacksonville, Ik under a doctor's care with a rifle shot in the leg as a result of the, accidental explosion of a Run in the hands of hor son blovd, at thai hem yestorday. Mrs. Norman v.i'.l recover. See that Your Car Receives the proper crank case service ami .it will serve you bet ter at less cost. (IFA'KKAL FIRESTONE a ti il OLDFIELD Klamath Tire House "Cap" Calkins Klamath Ave. &. 6th St. Firestone, Oeneral and Oldtleld Tires. HE OlOKif SHOOT AT THE HOOMOER OME-HE JUST TO HIM - MOW WOU AmOTHEW VMERc. GOME BEFORE REALIZED VJHAT HAPPEMIWCa. WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING Bits of News From Towns Throughout the Statu FROM ALL OVER OREGON PICTVIUM QV t'AMI'lS Throo scmoi or the Orison cam mil ocoilpylug a half page in (n't rotogravure iicuon appeared in the November Issue , r The Wiley llulle tin, published In New Vork. The vliw.i were f th I'l DOOr slnlll", Johnson Hull, ami Hie ihtraPCl to bomtuerula Kail. Ciu Wiley Bullolln la fjublriheil by John Wiley and Hum. (up . ill. entitle publishers mid Is distributed in cOllcgl profossui'ii and users of p.iialneag hooks. In the section with tho nconia of tbl Oregon carnptll were pictiirit ul Syracuse I'ulverslty, Lnilslaua Slattt I'nlverslly, Ohio Htutu Co. Ig and the MaiMChulOttl Atrl cultiiial College. This section alio taolqded pleturw of fa.-uiiy Ineni- beta of outstanding insillutlcnii of learning In the Called Status. --Ore-on Kmernld. . Tv UUDPOKO rtOYS T.) the Kdltor: Jeaio Dreutor ind Hani Holmor, two well-known Mldt rd l iys, stai' red in a traditional foolbuli kg ml) at West Point on Thanksgiving da. The game was bctueu the goat i. ebmpoaed of the' lust twenty-two in .mi of the rliiss of 1937. and tbl KngliU'en, ostnpond of thl first Iwoniy tw) men or the elans of (PIT, Needless to say, lire slur played on lite tioat team and li timer did like WIN on tho Hnglueer Iojiii. The game Is traditional and moit Importunt becaOM It genera!! pre dict! tho results cf the Army-Navy gr.me. If tho (loats win, then the Army Is llhldQled to win also. This your, the gouts won by an Imprie hln- se re of ti to II. and the Army nca In Iti annual battle with the Navy at the Polo (ir.itr.ds In New York. r Tie lio.il-Kimlucer game wus hard fought and marked by sood footbill. In tho first half, the Goats tcok the Knglnoers by sur prise and sored three louihdowils. The Bntloier loam Improved per eoptlbly in the secjnd half it w. nltn isi Intpoaiibll to gain through the line. )biae played a whig of u game as the Host center. Ills pas slug wai aeinrU ami i.ls defunulvo work was only equalled by that of II Minor, tho Knglnecr's left tackle. Dressier broke through and stopped the Engineer backs for losses lluio and time again. Tho sole purpose of the KuglnetV offense was Id tahe out Uressler. Hans smouceil all the off tackle plqyu and end runs that cankl In It 1 4 direction. In fact, tltu dofeoslvo avork of those III.-.. ri..., . 1 I . ' . I ll.ilh ,1 I. m i... and niado It Impcaslblo for either team t" gain, except by passing. ft Is Indeed a remarkable coin I denco that anions the Iwintj'-two men nsuemhlcd from all over the United -Itntcs and Its possession', that tblll iwi men from (ho town Of Medford should be selected in play In thin historic encounter. This fact aroused much cnimcii' among the members of the cOrps of ciidet'i. The cheering r.ectirns soon t ink up tho cries "Como on Jcsce!' or "Ho your stuff Hanul" Jesse and Uana eet'tainly showed that they had reni Oregon light and determination. Let us all hope thai Ihoy Will take this fight unit delernilnatlcn wllh them Int. i Until Sam's army. JOIJ.V It. LdvBLLs Cailel Corporal Class of 1 927. V.'em Point, Nov. 28. Vjtedfbrd Trlhiinc. COAOHK0 W8WI For tho pui'iiosu of outlining a ucbetlulo for the coming season a meeting of all high school coaches of boys nud glrll linsketbiill teams Will he Inld In Coqulljl, Hnlitrduy morning at 10 o'clock, J. P Crurn er, presldeat (,f the OdOl COUUt ath lotlc aSiaclation, announced today. Cc-Qlllllo high school won the county champtopshlp last year but Al'ligo won the district champion ship anr participated In the stmo tournament fit Salem, Member. i of the county association are Murahfleld ..i' Hi Bond, yoqulllo, dandpfl, Myr t U- Pdlfit, l'liver... Coon Itlver und Arngo. ,.'e :t"ni Lane, westorn DOUJlaJ, ami nirlliern Coos OOlltitlBI httvd or ganized (or thu' winter with nig games for each team In the liingun, which comprises Maplnton, fjftkllldp, Omltb Itlver. Ilecdsport nnd Flor (fhee, They alart playing on Decem ber 12. Marnhfldd Now. vjfnrjfM oir t wcioit IM). CIlBSOh, (III ymii's old, Curry Bounty eoi'il mill iir and runner, died of cancer In Hie Kelzer Ijnspllnl at fthoh tndaK He entered tho liospltal nhoiit a week ago. Pur' (he punt two eari, Mr. Clea S'Ui bail been ong'ged In road iiin IfBStipg work III Clin' counly, bill lately h" had rutlrotl id bin farm near Pprl Orf rd wliiro he iniaiid u tarmldgj Two brothers, Waller CI. i of i mur, ill., and William Oil of Llucyiti. Neb . ttro tin only kpown relatival',-- afnrihflcld Njwi. V.M Till H KI'IO.N Judge W. j, Unit, Who tilld vi'i lerday was a Irue piioU of thl tronttir (rreed which kept conquer- Ing every new i.".teru IHflidlrnlM from tho lull loam land! Of Illinois to the PaeljEU i last. Judge Itiihi eftin told of (ho idognn made by hla grandfather: "When ever I can't wake up In thl morning ami ihool al hoist two door from my ttfdroom window it Is Utile to nine further west," Ills grandfather wus u pioneer of four states, Illinois, pawn, Califor nia' and Orogoa, Ills father as a a pioneer of Illinois and California. When Judge Hum was three ear old Illinois had bnepiOl tOO tame fjr bin father o tho fainll. packed their . possusnlens and young Wil liam In ox-wagon and cMWOd tho plains to Cnlltornlii. When Judge II not was about td Cnllfonilii had becomo 100 tonni and that was the reason f r his nil gralliin to rjooj bsy. IBM a r. in-'li' nnd uniettted leetfon if Ore gon, At Hint llnie It was one of tho lust stands of thl "lil we ib ami It was hounded by the Pacific ocean. - -Marshfleld News. Local Man Gets Patent on Labor Saving Machine A unique and pnfcticil invention, by which " In ner shoe shine may be secured nt u saving of labor and time, has Jiio bean perfde(id and the patent secured, according to an nouncement (his morning by the lu rentor, C IhkIcs. 62t Main ifreal Mr. Ingles calls bis labor saving dlTlCI the eleitrlcal shoe shining brush. Its principal feature II n ro tary spreading brush, which Is pro pelled by a quarter burse power mo tor at the rate of 2U09 revolution!! o minute. The motor weighs but four anil one half pounds. Mr. Ingles plans to have r.ovorul o( the machines manufactured next iprlnjj and hummer. A California machine company w ill supply the mo tor! and lite Acme Motor company will Instull the rotary brush and put the machines together. Roundtable of Scout Leaders Meeting Held Rooming Is getting pretty well or rjttnliud In Klamath Kails at Iho preiinl tlino, Tile Scout Leaden tlOUndtabU) In creating a lot of in terest nmom (he trout leaders and the nun nr., getting the training mid help that they need to handle their Jul. In the best way, Friday night then wire scout meeting held In various parts of tho county .in follows: Tump One of Klnmitth Falls wns under the leadership of .V. It. Ilor Innd, nsslstnut gcoutmanler, 8. P. I,. Bwanien Is getting some good pnlrol competition under way nnd tlie boys are advancing rapidly In (Icontcrafi. Howard Ilarnhlsel, onu 01' the RO.nnd Tllhbj's speclltl in struciors, was on hand and gave Instruction In semaphore signaling. The scout bxocutlVd wus present and delivered to the boys their drum nnd bugle equtplhent, ling and other properly, (leorge May was Ktjnod bugler, flonald Ulrloli, drummer. Troop (tile Is going right nhend. Troop Pour. under the lender ship' of Finnic Hosor, held n very good mooting, iloward Motoalt, specliil liiatrttotor or the Hound Ta ble, helped the hoys on their tett dorfoot subjects, apeojaiiiloi on ktiols. Millings were also held ut Iln- nanta under the loadorsntp of Jamil l.uebke nnd O. A. Klelor, and at ChlloqulS under the leadership of W. 0. Hiillonr, Frank Hell, and Do tote Crainhletl. Monday evening Ti'oop two boldti Its meoilng at the I'l'imhylorliui chiirch under the leuderHlilp of Percy Murray, Wllllnin Mttullor ami Dr. Colo. i Troop throe meets at tho Bacrcd Hea.il Academy under Wllllnm Can ton und D. It. Vaudi'iiburg. Tho ii t exoentitfl p'tahi to mil both troops, iirAnnfAOR .i.icfnhi-, ismc i:h A ni : rfiti f(. llcenne wan Issued Hnl 11 Md J' nftoriibbn to Charles K. l.uiik, beal iilesniun, and Muriel Newhlll, alio ol' thin c ity. The couple nt'e both well known und connected wlllv lo cal stores,
