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
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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 .
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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,