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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1932)
PACE FODTt THE EVENING HERALD. KT.AMATH FALLS. OREGON .Tuniinrv SO, 1932 Editorials News of Other Days Place Names Women's Features Education Faces Crisis FUNDS, NOT FUNCTIONS CUT Japan and Her Good Faith Procedure Not Wisely Taken There is no occasion for surprise at the reports emanating from Portland and Eugene to the effect that the state's higher educational structure is threat ened by a financial crisis. That such would be the ultimate outcome was ap parent months ago when the legislative appropriation was partially vetoed and the remainder subjected to referendum action that removed it from the use of the institutions. In a nutshell, the situation is this. The institutions in the past have re ceived their state support from a straight millage income?, pro-rated among them, and from a special legis lative appropriation, in which the big gest item has been the support of the university medical school at Portland. Student fees havi provided the re mainder. Now, the millage income is reduced by tax delinquencies. The special appropriation made by the last legislature, $1,181,000, has been re duced by $500,000 through veto, and the remainder made unavailable and a good portion of it cancelled outright by referendum action. Student fees are reduced by smaller attendance. Inasmuch as the medical school drew its state support entirely from the special appropriation, that institution became a burden on the other units when the special appropriation was cut off. It has been largely a burden on the campus at Eugene, where rigid re trenchment was made necessary to squeeze out funds to keep the Portland school going. Now, it comes home hard to the folks up at Portland when it is disclosed that unless there is relief by the end of 1932, either the Portland school and its supplementary activities will have to close down, or vital functions at Eugene will be cut off. The medical school is one of the outstanding institutions of its kind in America. It does a dis tinct service in Oregon, and particularly in Portland and Multnomah county through its supplementary institutions such as the out-patient clinic and the Doernbecher hospital. To close it down seems unthinkable, and yet Then there is the possibility of rais ing student fees at Eugene to help take up the slack. Those fees already are high enough, and it will be unfortunate if this is resorted to. In this situation, there arises cause for questioning our procedure in this matter of higher education. It beaame apparent a few years ago that re organization. and unification would be necessary. Reduction of the burden on the people was to be the goal. And yet, instead of reorganizing and eliminating first, thus reducing the re N quirements for funds, we first cut off the funds. That left the institutions or ganized to function on the basis of larger support but receiving drastic re ductions. The result has been that the savings have been spread out over all the activities, reducing their effective ness. The fund reduction did not force the reorganization, as many expected it to do. The state board of higher education is in a delicate position. It is likely Not Much Credit Given Assurances In spite of Japan's assurance that she has no intention of moving toward Nanking after the conquest of Shang hai, United States ships have been ordered to stand by to evacuate Amer ican citizeft from Nanking. It is ap parent that Japan's assurances are be ing taken none too seriously any more. The wires carried an item just after the forceful occupation of Shanghai be gan, in which a foreign diplomatic rep resentative expressed amazement at the turn of events. He said the Japanese military authorities had informed for eign officials the night before that there was no intention to use force for several days. In line with the same sort of thing was the Japanese action in issuing a new ultimatum after the Chinese in Shanghai had acceeded to the first de mands of the Japanese military. The history of the whole series of events leading up to the present crisis is full of similar examples. They help form the basis of a world opinion that is strongly unfavorable to Japan. The Insanity Dodge Criticized Winnie Ruth Judd't defense hat fallen back on the old dodg of insanity to eave the pre cious neck of the dafandant. Har paranta tall of girlish eccentricities and seek to establish hereditary taint In tha family. Whether they can convince the Jury remaina to be Been. Of course we are apt to conclude that only an Insane peraon could conceire and execute such a fiendish crime aa the defendant ad mitted, the murder of her two friends, the deliberate earring up of them and with their bloody remaina packed in trunk and auitcase, attempting a set away to destroy the evidence. We naturally surmise It the work of a maniac. Mrs. Judd la Insane In the same way that Hickman was. 8he knew right from wrong and deliberately plotted the crime. In the same sense, most murderers are lnaane. Yet that does not prevent them from being menacea to society and meriting the punishment the law provides for public safety. Such emotionally unbalanced persona, elearlv consciona of their acts, remain a menace, whether In prison or asylum. Eliminating the extreme penalty merely encouragee othera similarly constituted, who believe they can alto get away with It. Salem Capital, Journal. District Attorney Gillenwaters of Klamath county told the state district attorneys' association it ought to do something beside pass resolutions to justify its existence. If all groups that do nothing more than that would dis band, most folks would find lots more time to spend at their work and at home. A report from Salem shows that foods now cost the Oregon housewife two per cent less than three months ago. Of the 42 foods on which retail figures are gathered, 81 reflected a de cline. Money may be hard to get in these days, but it certainly goes a long wav when you pet it. to be condemned by some one for what ever it does. But the sooner it moves to a definite program of reorganization and elimination of duplication, the sooner it will p'ovide the state with the most effective higher educational service. Speaking of the Weather By Churl, Kilzliugh Talnian of the U. K. Weather Boreas Statistics of climate are merely digests or summaries of past weather, but they indicate. In a general way, the weather of the future. There Is a common impresalon to the effect that conservative meteorologists do not engage In long-range weather forecasting, except, perhaps. In an experi mental and academic way, with out reference to any direct ap plication of their forecats - to human affairs. This Idea is hard ly consistent witH the fait that nearly every big meteorological establishment In the world com piles and lilies cilmatlc statistics, which are used at a means of anticipating the weather of the distant future and are Intended chiefly for that purpose. For example, the Department of Agriculture published a few years ago, as a aertion of the beautiful Atlas of American Agri culture, tome elaborate charts allowing the average dates of the last "killing" frost In aprlng and the first In autumn In all parts of the 1'nited States. These charts are merely a record of what lias happened In past yeara. They enable farmers and fruit growers to know approximately when, in any locality, frotta are due. In a aimilar way, engineers. In designing Hewers, assume that heavy rainfaila in the future will not greatly exceed In Intensity those of tha part aa recorded In the climatic atatistict of the lo cality; doctors send their patient! to places where beneficial clima tic conditions have hitherto pre vailed un the assumption that aiihsiantlnlly the same condition will continue and so on. it U chiefly because of uch (radical considerations that me teorologists maintain weather ob servations on a vat scale through out the world and publish rec ords or digests of all these ob servations. There are many placet In Europe and a few In our own country where weather rec ords have been kept contlnuoualy for more than a century. Some of thete records are of formidable site. One of the start ling sights to be seen In the Weather Bureau library at Wash- I lngton is a file of volumes con- taming daily measurements of rainfall made in India. Kach volume, prcentlng the figurea for a single year, ia a big as an unabridged dictionary and weighs about It pounds. Although nearly the whole sur face of the globe, Including both poles, hat now been reached by explorers, there are mill three terrestrial regions In which a great deal of exploring remains to be done. One of these ia the interior of the globe, another the bottom of the ocean, and a third the upper levela of the atmos phere. The greatest dlatance any hu man being has yet been able to put between himself and his na tive planet Is less than 10 miles, and was lci than eight milet he fore 1'rofeH.ior I'ircard made bit renin rkablu ascent last May. Tiie atmosphere Is, however, supposed to extend upward aome thousands of miles nobody knnwa Just how far. Through the greater part of lu vertical ex tent It contains very little mat ter. Air, like all gases, la highly compressible. The lowest part of the atmosphere, pressed down from above, la relatively dense. With Increased altitude the den sity falls off so rapidly that at a height of three and a half miles the air Is only about half as dense as at sea level. Above about five miles It Is too rnra for brandl ing; hence norlal travelers who go higher must carry a supply of oxygen with them. At the 60- fall In temperature goes on until, at the lop of the troposphere, the thermometer reada (0 to 70 de grees below aero, Fahrenheit, In middle latltudea. and much low er over the equatorial regions. In the stratosphere there la no such vertical change In temperature at least at far up a measure ments have been made. Health Talks When the standi below and In front of the ear aw. II suddenly with the appearance of fever and without any other adequate explanation, the condition It probably mumps. The exact cause of this dis ease la not known, but It la quite certaluly Infectious. Contact with rasea of the disease results promptly in the appearance of other oasea. The contact may be with the secretions from the nose and throat directly or by c intact with arttclee contamin ated by such secretions. The altease usually appears from It to 2 days after euch a contact. In moat tnstancee a person who haa had mumps once la not likely to have the disease again, but casea do occur rarely a sec ond time In the same Individual. Itecordt Indicate that mumps Is one of the most Infectious of all such dlaeasee. Children from five to 15 are Store likely to be Infected than are othera, but casee frequently occur among grown-ups, particu larly In dormltorlea or Institu tions. Mumps la teen most com monly In the spring and winter, tut may occur at any aeaton. Men are Infected more frequently than are women. Fortunatelv the compltratlona of mumps are not aerloua. except in rare caaea in which seconds ry Inflammation ot the aex glanda occura. e e When mumpa develops, the prtlent should a,t once be kept away from other people, particu larly young children, during the time when the glands are swol len. In the prevention of mumps, the blood of people who have recently had the disease uay be Injected, but the pro cedure la not commonly practiced because the disease Itself la not ordlnarllv aerloua. Certainly the handkerchiefs and any other ap parel that la lolled with the noae atd throat aecretlona of the ratlente should be boiled and tuua freed from the menace of conveying the Infection. SIDE GLANCES J.c.nra.r 11 ' IPn- filth ill IT wmm tat, yi Yv per. isji ev m .vki mc -- , ) i ' ' ... . -u this point. The compiler of these notes la Inclined to believe that the flrtl theory la probably the rorrect one, although the matter la of course open to argument. I'tiaslhly It waa named for both reasons. Earlier Days January to, 114. A alight little man, extremely nervoua, and weighing In the uelghliurhuod of lit pounds, shackled and manacled, waa brought from Mineral, Ida., last last July In the custody ot a man nearly three times his else; he eaa committed to the county Jail to await a hearing on a charge of forgery, and after two grand Juries had been In aesslon tlon of about seven months for a crime he did not commit, he was turned loosa about a thousaud miles from borne. reunllesa, after an Incarcera tion ofabo ut eaten seven months for a crime he did not cuntinll, he was turned loose alioula thou, saud miles from home. According to 1), II. Campbell of I he Klamath Valley Warehouse company, the farmera of Klam ath county will have a good op. pnrtunlty to dispose of all thnir aurplua potatoee at a very good price. A carload betougltig to C. II. Daggett waa shipped to Oakland Friday and other sblpmentt are la follow, The annual report of the po lice Judge of the city of Klam ath Kails for the year 1111, which waa published today, la an excellent allowing of the financial condition of the city. For the first time In Ita history Klamath Falls la on a real cash basis. It warrants are the ssme aa cash. "Kemember. Parker, you're to write me each evsniug and tell me everything he's been up to." We Observe From comment on the street that the merchants appreciate the efforta of the street depart ment to clear gutters ot Ice Saturday morning. Fashion Tips mile level the atmosphere Is. ac cording to calculation, lets than one 75-thouandth as dense as at sea level, and at the 30-mlle level, about one two-millionth aa dense. This la a pretty good vacuum, though far better are produced nowadays In certain In dustrial operations. Kven at an altitude of 200 mile a well known Kngllh authority. Dr. J. H. Jeans, calculates that there are still something like 300. 000 molecules of atmospheric gases . per cubic centimeter as-compared with 30,000,000,000,000,000,000 In the same volume of air near the earth s surface. Up to heights of !0 mllea or ; so, the atmosphere has been ex plored by means of small bal loons, carrying no human passen ger, but a small set of self-registering Instruments. At greater helghta It Is studied by observa tions of the aurora ("northern light"), shooting stara and their trails, various optical phenome na, the transmission of radio sig nals, and In other ways. Since the year 1902 It has been known that the atmohphere Is di vided Into at least two layera. or shells, having different ehsracter latlcs. At the bottom la a layer called the "troposphere," (liter ally, "turning sphere"), in which j the air has npward and down ward movements and change of temperature associated therewith, and which enjoya a monopoly of storms, ordinary clouds, rain snow and other manifestations that are generally classified aa "weather." Thla layer has an averue depth of between aix and seven miles. Above it Ilea a re gion rilled the "stratosphere" ("spread-out sphere"!, where the winds move only horliontally, and therefore, as the name Im plies, occur In layera. This re gion extends to an unknown height. In the troposphere the temper ature of the air decreases rapid- ly with Increase In height; so j that, for example, aeronauts al ways encounter frigid weather a 1 few mllea above the earth. Tills; Any time la a good time to make beauty resolutions. The New Tear la an especially appro priate time. You might keep taem! It la not enough merely to say. "I will be as beautiful aa possible in 1931!" You might hypnotise yourself Into thinking you were, without doing a thing to make yourself that way. ton ahould be practical about New Year's beauty resolutions. Say out loud Just bow much time cu Intend devoting to your daily beauty rituals. Figure out how much you can spend. Decide whether yon prefer to have your hair treated or whether you should get a facial. If yon are short-changed by Fate, thla new year. If yon can afford both weekly, and a manicure thrown In. ao much the better. To get yourself Into a beauty routine, your New Year'a resolu tions should consider not only your face, your hair, your nails, hut your general appearance, which means your figure. Speci fically, whether yon are thin enough and lithe enough. It It not sufficient Just to be thin to day. Being lithe Is really more important. Suppose you allow yourself a half hour dally for beauty. Nights might take SO minutes and mornings 10. If yon have money enough to get treatmenta. these are In addition to your own routine, of course. The 20 minutes at night should Include m facial, with cleansing, a little patting, more massage for under the chin, a few strokes around the eyes with muscle oil and at least 10 atrokee of vour hair with a good atlff-brlstled brush. Also push back your cuticle with a bit of good, thick oil or cream. After you have learned to do all thla with no waste motion, yon will find It Is easily In cluded In 20 minutes devotion to the goddeea of beauty. You may learn to speed np enough to get at least five minutes of exer cises. These are all-Important. The 10 minutes la the morn ing should be practically all exercises. If you have done a thorough Job the night before, your nails, hair and face will be Just about ready to show the world after a cold shower, a bit ot cream alapped on and aome astringent. Some People Say The courageous thing to do Is for the government to stop bor rowing and balance Ita budget and live within ita Income. Ogden Mills, under-eecretary ot the treasury. The only way to get on Is to stick to your Job. Sir Alfred Yirrow. English marine engineer and shipbuilder on bis soth birthday. Klamath Names PKSCIIl'TM KIM (From Oregon Olographic Names, by Lewie A. MrAnhur). Lewis and Clark discovered the Deechutee river on Tuesday, Oct ober 21. 1S. and referred to It by Ita Indian name Toworne hlooks. During the fur trading period the stream waa known as the Hlver of the Falls, or lllvl ere da Chutes. As a remit of the modern tendency to simplify geographic names. It Is now uni versally written Desrhutee. The Klamath Indiana apparent ly referred to the Deschutes at Kolamkenl Koke. Koke waa a general name for stream, while kolam referred to a wild root used for food, possibly a species of aralla. Kent waa a suffix meaning pla.-e. A literal trans lation would be stream ot the place where the kolam grew, be side being known aa Riviere dee Chutes, the atream was also known as Hlvlare aux Chutes. There are two theories a to why this stream was known aa the Itlver of tha Falls. The first theory and the one that aeems to have the most weight behind It. la that the name wee applied because the river flowed Into the Columbia river Just above the Chutes or The Dalle. It waa convenient to refer to the trlbu tary river by mentioning the name of the place where It Join ed the larger stream. The sec ond theory Is that the River of the Falls was named h-.,... of the Indian trails used by the fur tradera crossed It at what la nT ,kno"B Sherara bridge. ' and there are prominent falls at Klamath Glass Co. 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