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    PAGE SIX
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 12, 1082
FRANK JENKINS
BJItor
Entered aa second class matter at the post office of Klamath Falls, Ore.,
on August 20, 1900, under act of Congress, March 8, 1878
MEMBERS OP THE ASSOCIATED TRESS
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of ail the local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP tiews.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By Mall ... months 6.50 By MU year Ml. 00
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. By BILL JENKINS
I've been stabbed.
In the back.
By the Associated Press.
Having spent the better part of
several years trying to convince
people at large that robins are not
harbrlngers- of spruig but perma
nent 'residents I thought maybe a
little headway had been made.
Not so. -
Yesterday the AP carried a story
on tue wire wnicii read (shudder):
Omaha (AP) Not a pair of rob
ins. Due a pair or railroad rotary
snowplows will serve as harbring
ers of spring this month for resi
dents of West Yellowstone, Mont.
On Tuesday
So there you have it. Like Cae
sar, we are surrounded by enemies.
Oh death, where is thy sting?
Man's inhumanity to man Is not
best summed up in the grim and
bloody business of war.
It's to be found in a harmless
(not lethal, that is not quite) in
vention called an alarm clock.
There Is nothing else so nerve
shattering as waking up in the
dead-black that precedes morning
wondering It the alarm is about
to go off or if you can safely go
back to sleep. Luminous dials do
no good. You never can see 'em.
So you lie and suffer. And wait.
And suffer, and finally go to sleep
just ten seconds before the damn
thing goes off.
In case you're Interested you can
blame your early morning sleep
lessness on the Germans who first
Invented the alarm clock, although
the Americans took over the lea
dership of the field starting in 1900.
The first clocks were built as early
as 135 B.C. but had no alarm.
TJiey were water clocks. If you
wanted to be suner accurate vou
had a water clock and glass gad
get known as an hourglass.- You
could hardly hear the sand run
through it. Only the water drip
ping.
Anybody know where I can get
a good hourglass?
And a new job?
Another early morning menace
Is the breakable shoelace.
Goes in conjunction with clocks.
If you oversleep you'll almost
Invariably jerk too hard on the
fragile shoe anchor and snap it.
No wonder modern man's nerv
ous system is a shattered and
messy tangle.
I seem to have missed every
chance to score as a weather pre-
F
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NEW YORK W) The Red Cross
Is something the average man
takes on faith, just as he does
mother love or the wings of an air
plane In which he flies.
Unless he Is involved in a general
calamity, he may never see at first
hand what the organization does.
But he trusts the goals to which it
is pledged.
This year the Red Cross in Amer
ica is -trying to raise at least 85,
000.000 to carry out its widening
program, which last year included
the raising of 1,000,000 pints of
blood.
Just what is the Red Cross?
One of the most beautiful def
initions was penned long ago by
the late James A. Mills, famous
Associated Press foreign corres
pondent. Jim Mills, who died ten years
ago this month, roved five contin
ents in quest of news and was once
told by Mahatma Gandi, "When I
enter Heaven I expect to find you
waiting to interview me at the
gates."
As a young man Mills- served
with the Red Cross In seven Eu
ropean countries during and after
the First World War.
What he saw, then and later,
of the organization's international
work for the good of mankind led
him to write the following tribute
to it:
"I am the Red Cross. I was born
of the hearts of men. I am sus
tained by forty million souls. My
mission is of mercy, kindness and
charity. My bounds are the limits
of the earth. I am my brother's
keeper. I know neither color, race
nor religion. My creed is the creed
of service. My voice is the voice
of the American people. My goal
is the goal of a higher humanity.
My precept is the precept of God.
My reward is the gratitude of the
widow and -orphan, of the strong
and the sick, of the happy and the
bereaved.
"I go forth into the darkness of
the night; into the uncertainties of
the day. I penetrate the fields of
oattle. I defy the peril of shell and
bullet. I lighten the horrors of com
bat. I encourage and inspire the
soldier. I give him a thousand com
forts. I minister to those he has left
at home. I claim the wounded from
the battlefield; I bind their wounds
and ease their sufferings. I mark
the graves of the dead.
"I eradicate epidemics. I am the
foe of plague and pestilence. I miti
gate the horrors of floods and fires
and wrecks. I am the arch-enemy
of calamities. I triumph over - pov
erty, want and woe. I house the
homeless. I feed the hungry. I
clothe the naked. I protect the wid
ow and the orphan.
I am the friend and helper of
all nations. My hand and heart
encompass the globe, My legionar
ies I send to the uttermostparts of
the earth across the threatened
ocean, through war-swept territor
ies, over infested lands.
"I am the sentinel of the health
of the human race. My sympathy
HOTELS
OSBURN HOLLAND
fUGENE, ORE. MEDFORD
Thoroughly Modern
Itr. and Mrs. J. E. Earley
and Joe Earley
Proprietors
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
dictor.
I don't know when spring will
be here.
But maybe we can trust the
word of Don Fisher, custodian of
the Modoc Lava Beds. Don says,
and I quote: All signs at Lava
Beds national monument indicate
that spring is near at hand. Many
of the migratory birds are return
ing and squirrels aud marmots
have ended their hibernation. Ead
quote.
All I've got to say is "more
fools they." If I were a squirrel
(there are many who take issue
with that if) and had a warm bed
I wouldn't get out of it before the
Fourth of July.
Anyway, there's another nronhet
for you. Anybody else care to take
a crack at it?
It won't be long before an or
ganization will be in to sponsor a
drive to get out the vote.
Seems strange that we have to
do this every year. 'Specially in
view of the number of phone calls
received by this office during a
primary or an election wanting to
know the results.
If everyone that phoned also
went out and voted we'd have a
record breaking line at the polls.
Not that we object. We like it.
Shows interest on the Dart of the
public and we're glad to have the
calls and give out whatever infor
mation we have.
We'll say it now and leave It up
10 your own sense o: responsibility
later:
GO ON OUT AND VOTE. IT
.MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE!
Briefs from the research depart
ment: We read somewhere or oth
er tnat the reason skilled wait
resses (usually pretty) never solll
coffee (anybody seen a skilled
waitress lately?) while carrying it
is that they don't look at the
cup.
That is a downright He and the
man or woman who wrote It
snouid be nung up bv the thumbs.
I've tried it. Our coffee shop- is
upstairs and convoying a cup of
uuxiee aowu wose siairs IS like
packing a greased pig over a tight
rope.
The only thine I ever got by not
looking at the cup I was carrying
was 1) a badly stained pair of
pants (coffee stains are hard to
get out) and (2) a nasty bump
when I slipped on the stairs (I
was watching the new office girl)
and fell.
To heck with theories.
and succor are boundless. A doz
en nations return me homage; a
dozen potentates pay me ' tribute.
The people of the earth offer me
their prayers.
"My emblem is the cross sym
bol of supreme charity and of the
saviour of men. Before me. the
enemy stays his hands and bows in
reverence to my mercy.
"Behind me march ten million
soldiers, with hearts for any fate.
I challenge and triumph over death.
My strength and struggles are for
the living; my prayers and com
passion ior the dead.
"I am the saviour of life, the
assuager of death. I am my broth
ers keeper. I am the Red Cross."
Tough Day For
Women-Nylons
NEW YORK m Big scale
stocking- troubles beset women
shoppers Monday in the neighbor
hood of Pennsylvania Station their
nylons disintegrated before their
eyes.
There was no unusual smell In the
air, but it may have been the at
mosphere that caused the trouble.
About a fourth of the women
passing one street corner had
holes and runs in their hose.
"It's terrible," complained one
stenographer, "about 20 girls in
the office here have 10 or 12 runs
each. They all started after we
went out to lunch. The girls that
didn't go out to lunch don't have
any runs."
About a fourth of the 1,000 well
dressed women attending the In
ternational Beauty Show at the
Statler Hotel were astounded to
find runs and holes in their hose.
The city's Smoke Control Board
said Monday was a bad day lor
fumes in the city, because there
was little wind and a lowering at
mosphere to keep city odors close
to the ground.
AtmosDherlc attacks on nylons
have been reported in other cities
where heavy concentrations of sul
phuric fumes collected.
Wreck Victims
Still In Hospital
EUGENE CTI Twelve of the
19 persons injured Monday In a
bus collision near here, still were
in the hospital Wednesday.
Attendants said the condition of
all was good.
Among those still hospitalized Is
Kenneth B. Satron, Salem, one of
the bus drivers. Roy Vermillion,
Milwaukle, driver of the other bus,
was released.
Others still In the hospital: Mrs.
Celesta Baker, Euitenc; Mrs. Shir
lev Schneider, and two children,
Klamath, Calif.; kodcu duii,
Ethel Barman and Bdrt Taule.
Grants Pass: Emma Taylor, Rose
burg; Mrs. Fay C. Lelchty, Silver
ton. Expert
Gun Repairing
' and Reblulng
THE GUN STORE
They'll Do It Every Time
0S?E'S TO OUR CWLPRErJS TSAChtERS,
WETOIN'ES UNSUNS. WWO By IVOR MO
C COO EXAMPLE EXTOUKP THE
llODtME.' MOtV OFTENl ME
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Jhank
tSago Sidoglniiops
One need not
share the concern
of clerics for
the modern moral standards that
curse our country. Nor need he be
very oia 10 reinemoer wnen puu-
lie opinion exiled drab doers from
positions of trust: and when the
power of example caused men in
public life to watch their step.
We once had a vice president
who got himself on the hook by
ignoring the importance ot exam
pie in high places. Back then the
cocktail suffered disfavor beyond
' cocktail
ranks of the drys. It was a sym
bol of snobbish aristocracy with
the beer drinking common man.
Thus there was a double barb to
the hook that snagged Charles W.
Fairbanks. He became universally
uiown as - cocktail cnarue.
Conversely, one of our Presidents
was so conscious of the power, of
example mat ne never permitted
his picture to be taken while smok
ing. President McKinley said that
non-smoking fathers might not like
their children to see the President
smoking a cigar.
Alas the pendulum of moral con
duct has swung from prudish cau
tion to almost criminal abandon.
One most alarming phase of this
perverted standard is the example
that it parades before youth; its
mockery of the very words moral
ity and etnics. .
The generation is being taueht
that it is profitable and smart to
be eely and tricky: that it is cute
to ignore common man-to-man
honesty and slither through life
along the border line of integrity
and concern for others.
Once possessed by unholy am
bition, the evidence is abundant
that should a lad slip into what
is left' of dishonor, plenty of legal
technicalities exist- to clear him
of almost anything.
tie reads daily tnat he only needs
on-: of two things to make it safe-
money or political influence. He ob
serves that it is better to have
both, and that one begets the other.
He finds that money will buy po
litical influence, and with political j
iniiuence ne can get money.
The things that might deter him
he finds at low ebb; such as public
vigilance, which would expose him,
and unswerving Justice wnich would
punish him.
it seems quite safe to become
gentleman grafter, thief, plunderer,
even despot and get away with it.
if he can but get' on the inside.
Every newspaper tellls him of men
who gamble with crimes against
God and man and escape punish
ment through influence or money.
His objective blinds him to the
fact that righteous use of both
would cure most of our domestic
ills, build character in youth, save
our republic and its motto "In God
We Trust."
We have ceased to trust in God
when we flaunt His laws, desert
His standards, and set up our own
to humor our creed, under the
bogus alibi that "times have
changed."
Integrity never changes; honesty
is eternal. A thief is a thief: a
liar is a liar, regardless of the
immunity that money and influ
ence may buy them.
Americans need to set their
sights upon the sincerity of their
leaders, and the company they
keep. But they need also to take
inventory of where bad example
is leading their children, and the
nation.
Time was when all stood in awe
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be religious toiof Uncle Sam and his staturs. The
most wily of crooks steered clear
of entamilcnient with frderal iw
i Today the village constable seems
more respected than the Untied
Slates Marsha)
Looking beyond the confines of
his native heath, an honest born,
ambitious lad peers into his future
in search of opportunity. He sees
fortunes mude in shady wavs and
the schemers emerge unscathed;
m public llle. whitewashed by po
litical pals; in private enterprise
clearc.1 through weird interpreta
tion of loop-holed laws. A punch
drunk populace doesn't seem to
care. So a good boy goes wrong in
a money-mad fools' paradise.
That crooks can beat the rap Is
"jTtuuuti vi uie weiiare slate
I -Public apathy; a once proud peo-
pie. anesthetized b v
handouts.
. Such is the curse of laxitv .nd
bad example. They can spell the
cua ui national nonor and personal
integrity; sink a whole race to
Asiatic cunning, dishonesty and in
trigue: to the level which we spend
billions to avoid.
Greed for dollars and thirst for
power, betrayal of trust and the in
difference of the people are taxing
the wits of our children to distin
guish right from wrong; when they
see honesty penalized and unnun
lshed wrong flourish.
Next to our own characters and
actions, those of public figures and
business tycoons exert an inescap
v 'nfluence on the lives of our
children. They create an indelible
pattern.
Making jnartyred heroes out of
scalawags glorifies border-line
crime. Temporizing with truth
truth breeds liars... Tolerance of
graft breeds thieves. Public waste
breeds spendthrifts. Indlscrlmate
dole breeds paupers. Laxity of law
makes criminals.
Unfettered, the vile combination
can seal the doom of a great na
tion. McKinley may have been
prudish but not far wrong
Bids Called On
Dexter Dam Gear
PORTLAND W) Army engi
neers Tuesday asked for bids on
a turbine for Dexter Dam.
The proposed re-regulating dam
will be two miles downstream from
Lookout Point Dam. now under
construction on the southern part
of the Willamette River.
Dexter Dam, to be 80 feet high
and 2,1135 feet long, will have a
power capacity of 1,500 kilowatts.
Bids on the turbine will be
opened here April 10. Bids for
actual construction will be awarded
in January of next year.
KILLED
PORTLAND I A 66-year-old
man 'was fatally injured Tuesday
night when he was struck bv a car.
He was Olaf Gunderson of Port
land. Tne mishap occurred in a
suburban district.
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By JKAN OWENS V
Approximately $61 was raised bv
the students of KU for the Junior
Red Cross fund. J30.60 was given
by the students and twenty dollars
was donated to the fund by the
Latin club.
This fund-raising drive for the
Red Cross has been underway since
last week and wns completed to-'
day. Latin club members should
be commended for their large do
nation to this worthy cause.
State colleges will send repre
sentatives to KU Frlduv for con
ferences with the seniors. Thev
will answer questions and confer
with the students ns to what their
schools have to offer.
They will arrive about nine In
the morning and will spend a good
portion of the dav in conferences.
T.ast week delegates arrived
from the various private and nurs
ing schools to spenk of their school.
Questions concerning tuition fees,
courses and scholarships were dls
cuued. Slides of each of the camp
uses were shown.
"This week Is the last week In
which El Rodeos will be on sale."
was announced bv the members of
the annual staff today.
Subscription price Is $3 50 and
absolutely no more will be sold
after Friday's deadline.
If you haven't yet purchased
your book, it is more than advis
able to do so immediately!
A reminder to tune In KFJI at
7:15 tomorrow night for the schools
own radio show, the Klamath Snort
Album.
Hear the snorts news of all high
schools In the basin!
IN COMMAND
NEW YORK Ol Harry Man
ning. 55, United States Lines com-
modore, was named Tuesday to j television shows and from patrons
command the new 51,500 ton super-1 of such New York nltcrlcs as the
liner United States, largest and St. Regis Roof,
fastest ever built In America. For the present tour, the young
The vessel Is scheduled to make couple is transporting their own
Its maiden voyage from New York j two pianos. ,
to Le Havre and Southampton July Tonight's concert Is at the Pell
3. 'can Theater, 8 p.m.
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League Of
Cities Has
Meet Here
Klamath Falls Is not alone In lis
municipal irouuies, It became an
parent ax a regional meeting of
tne League ol Oregon Cltlrs held
lust night at Sari's.
Every town seems to have about
the sumo ones shortage of money,
nix imuuies, uuiiic, fiiiigo nreus
mid the like.
Some of Minn were aired at last
ulithl's session, which was attend
ed by virtually all city oltk-liils
of Klumath Falls and Chtlixiuln.
plus a Mil-Inkling of other persons.
j-nncipiii sprinter was wiuinm
Bowes. Portland Cltv Commission-
rr and President of the League ot
Oregon Cltlrs.
Discussion following Bowes' talk
was handled by Herman Kehrll ol
tne University uf Oregon, u Lruuuc
consultant.
About 40 persons weir present.
Bowei discussed the activities of
the Le:igur of Oregon Cltlrs to
ward providing Information and
trying to work out solutions to
civic problems, and pointed out
that he has appointed several com
mittees to make purtirular Kindles,
Including one to review legislative
proposals applicable to elites coin
ing uetnrn tne 11)93 Legtsiaiuie.
The League, he said, will have
a legislative representative, itav
mond C. Coulter, a former mem
ber of the I.rulshiture, who will
keep cltv officials advised ol de
velopments at Salem.
It will be up to cltv officials,
however. Instead of Coulter to push
leglslatnm the cities want, Bowes
in III.
Secret Dam
Meet Held
SALEM l.fl State agencies, con
cerned with the proposed construc
tion of the controversial Pelton
Dam. met with Oov. McKay here
Tuesday afternoon.
McKav declined to reveal what
took place at the meeting which
was attended oy Attorney uenerui
George Ncuner and members of
the Fish and Hydro-Electrlo Com
missions.
The Fish Commission has op
posed the dam on the grounds It
might reduce salmon runs In the
Deschutes and Lower Columbia
Rivers.
But the Federal Power Commls
slon said there were no salmon In
the Deschutes and alter hearings
last summer licensed Portland
General Electric Company to build
tne projeci.
The Hydro-Electric Commission
favors the dam.
McKay Is expected to have a
statement on Tuesday's meeting
within the next few days.
Concert To See
Pianist's Here
Virginia Morley and Livingston
Ocarharl, duo-pianists appearing
In Community Concert here to
night, have pleased widely varied
audiences, according to critics.
The man and wile team has won
acclaim In many ol the nation's
top concert halls. In weekly an
pearances on Fred Warlng's radlo-
HI SB
SENSATIONAL Power Steering lets
you turn the wheel with one finger.
Now, parking it child'! playl
u'"-fiMtt'-x
optional qulpmml.
ny i i,orti:N( i; o(ii,i;
. II i0 Waalilnitoii
Nvrr since you asked i-onders 16
submit guest editorials Id your pa
per I havo been thinking uf writ
lug one but do not know Just what
It should contain. However, I do
know' something I would like to
see left out of the eillloilals. That
la the Impression that evervbndy
uses alcoholic drinks. iKor chapter
nnil verso glance over the editorials
that have appeared since Christ
mas). I rend recently that half the pro
pie In the United Stales use no al
coholic drinks. This may, hnwover,
Include babies, who have no choice.
Our law enforcement officers
serin to assume that aloohol Is not
good fur children. Also there Is nil
Impression that Indulgence by
adults may lucirase traftlu hut
anls.
Some of those who abstain serin
In think such Indulgence Is wicked.
Some of us feel tliuf II la a stupid
wasto of money.
I have been told thai the reason
movies show so much drinking Is
to glvo movement, Unit when two
people meet It would he dull to
havo them let their hands droop,
So una olfritt the other either
smoke or n drink to keep action
In the picture.-Till should not be
nrri'ssiily In an rdltuilnl.
There mo 36 church buildings In
the city limits ol Klamath Falls.
A ZBSTY SUGGESTION
FOR YOUR LENTEN MENUS
On of 68 delightful cottage cheat rclpt In th
Cratw LoJt' cotton cha rclp book t
FREE for th asking. Drop In at Klamath Falls
Creamery, or phon 5101 and atk that a copy b
mailed to you.
CHS
KLAMATH FALLS
Distributer
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I have recently photographed then
for a booklet to be given to tin
lllntoilnal Society, Many o( tin
Kliuruhes conduct Hllllilu.v HchntiU
Home ol them use Hi liitariintlona,
lllllle Lessons, Uniform Series,
This lesson fur next Sunday run
cerns Paul's advice lo Timothy am
Is a "temperance" lesson,
Ho while I do not know how li
write an rilllurlnl, I hope you wi
think of my comments when ym
wrlto the next one.
WAIl DEAD
WASHINGTON, ll'i The Drfrnv
Department Wrdnrsday Identifier!
(List Nu. 510) 211 more Korean Win
rasuallles. Ol the Intnl. seven an
dead, M wounded mid five missing
In action.
( OMMIK TOTAL lIMI8
ftOMK lll The Italian Com
mllillst Party claimed Wrdnrsdn)
ll.OAI.OUD ineiiilirrs hava taken on
1052 membership cards, a drop o
three per rent from Iho prevloiu
year's enrollment.
Gtnaral BaMM
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NEW Solex Heat-Resistant Glass . . .
No-Shift Driving. Come in and ace this
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