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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
' FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS
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By BILL JENKINS
Just in case we gel too carried
away with our sparkling new
world of today it might be a good
idea to go back and take an oc
casional peek into the past.
We reprint here the lead story
in the January 10 edition of the
Klamath Falls Express from 1895.
And well worth while It is, too.
RAISING OK CATTLE
The principal industry in this
country at present
TEN THOUSAND HEAD
A YEAR ,
Louis Oerber gives some timely
advice to those engaged in
the business
Much has been said and a good
deal of complaint made during the ,
year Just passed aoout beef cattle
being low in price. But if our
stock raisers will just stop and
consider that with wheat selling at
86 cents a hundred, wool from tj
to 8 cents, hops down to 6 cents,
aranes from 7 to dollars a ton
and horses nearly worthless, they
will discover that every article
mentioned was raised at a loss to
the oroducer.
The geography and topogniphy
of Klamath county Is most admit'
ably adapted for the raising of
the finest quality of beef In the
world; all the essential qualities
are to be found here the nu
tritious bunch grass, the fine
mountain water and an abundance
of shade and pure air. Yet much
can be done to Improve the bus
iness. I am atrongly of the opinion that
there is much Inbreeding In this
country. Cattle raisers should
change their males every two
years.
For quality and size and sym
metry, there Is nothing which sur
passes the cross of the Durhnm
and the Devon. The Hcrcfords are
a most excellent beef family, pro
vided they are not Inbred too
much. Cattle raisers should weed
out at least thirty percent of their
yearling heifers, picking out the
ones which will be most likely to
make good matrons and spay the
balance: by so doing you will sell
one-tlilrd more beef cattle every
year.
Small growers in particular,
should winter their stock well; by
so doing they will be marketable
by July; and when in condition
sell them. The large cattle raisers
cannot do this and generally we
see a glut In the market during
the fall months. The number of
beef cattle 'bought In Klamath
county during the year 1894 by the
California buyers. J. C. Mitchell,
J. D. Carr &; Son. C. Swanson.
and Ine writer, and a few small
lots driven by different parties
will reach the respectable number
of 8.500 head.
These consisted principally ol
two and three year old steers.
spaved hellers, and dry cows. The
average price paid was about $17
per head. "Will cattle advance?
has been the question put to the
writer daily during this season
My opinion Is that they will not,
and if the cattle raisers will take
Into consideration the prices paid
to our laboring men In the large
cities who consume this most use.
ful Item of food, he will see that
if beef went up to prices realized
veers ago the consumption would
fall olf, and but a precious few of
the rich could afford to have meat
on their tables.
My advice Is to our stock rais
ers Improve your herds with new
blood; winter them well and when
in condition sell them at a fair
figure. I think it Is a fair estimate
to say that the cattle industry
is as good as any at the present
time and with judicious manage
ment will pay reasonable Interest
on the Investment. It certainly
brings In about 85 or 90 percent
of all the revenue brought into
this country.
L, Gerber
Horse Fly Valley
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ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL
by KEN McLEOD
"Water," Is the one word and a
resource that will be the most hotly
contested of all resources under
the pressure of expanding popula
tion. The people of the Klamath
Basin are well aware of Uie grow
Ing pressures developing in cen
tral, southern and northern por
tions or California. They were
greatly excited over "The Ladder
to the North" description of the
ambitions of the Bureau of Reclam
ation to serve those alleged re
quirements. Out of this concern de
veloped an Oregon Commission to
study the water requirements of
the Klamath Basin In Oregon, that
has been quite taciturn when it
comes to keeping the Oregon pub
lie Informed over the fast devel
oping crisis. California, however,
has not been so shy and a large
amount of Information comes from
the typewriters of the publicists of
the State-Wide Water Resources In
vestigation. U Is very evident from the pub
lished reports emlnating from
this source that in the ultimate
end California must depend upon
waters from the Klamath River, if
the goal of 17,000.000 acres of Irri
gated land is to be reached, along
with an astounding demand for wa
ter coming from the tremendous
population the State will possess
by the time this goal of Irrigation
development has been reached.
So far, I have not seen any
"timetable" that would envision
the thinking of economists upon
this subject though they are quite
ready to admit a population ol 20
to 36 million by 1975. The coming
two decades are going to be very
dynamic ones and It will. In all
probability, depend upon Just how
last population builds up that the
pressure of population will speed
the course ol action in Uie field of
aater development.
As this column has pointed out,
riot all the pressure for water de
velopment has been due to Uie hon
est demands of population expan
sion. The lush profits that could be
made Irom the development of
ctmon ana otner crops have been i
of tremendous Importance In de- ;
veloplng political pressures to ;
speed development. A second great I
pressure stems from the fact that
with water, Jand can be sold lor
much more than it is worth at j
present without water; the people i
riding In this "band-waRon" have
no Intention to earn a living as i
farmers or even "agriculturalists."
They are merely dealers m real !
estate posing In a rural garb. The I
third group which is most ocal j
im iuciuiuc laea mat the land
should be broken up into small
farms so that the rural population
can be Increased and more fami
lies become self sustaining bv liie
upon the land. This group has no
sonslderatlon for economics we
hare land, we have people, let s
rive the land to Uie people It s
lust as simple as that.
Back In the horse and biigitv
tays, or at least when Main Street
m a Saturday afternoon had more
lorse drawn rigs tied up than
toneless carriages, the prevailing
bought in the sunny southland
ras: "What this country needs is
o be broken up Into 40 acre farms
nth a happy contented family on
eh farm." The gasoline tractor
as a luxury, you spent most of
'our time putting In new bearings,
xlng broken gears, fish-plating
he frame, or Just plain everyday
lown to the earth russln', ending
ip by finishing the job with a
earn of mules, forty acres was a
lot of land those days, yet even
then, when a dollar was worth 100
honest cents, the Ideal was recog
nized as false as it would be today
If we said: "What the Klamath
Basin needs, is to broken up into
farms not over 40 acres in size
with a happy, contented family on
each fafm."
It may be true that there arc
many successful small farms but
their success depends upon their
ability to be a specialist but because
few may be able to succeed It
does not follow that this could be
the pattern for everyone yet this
Is what the idealist proposes In
many a starry-eyed settlement pro
posal. All there factors, however, work
together for the rapid expansion of
land for agricultural crops and
water development. The engineers
of the California State Water Re
sources Board have done much
work In planning for the future for
water is the biggest business of
the State. In 1950 the 7,000.000 acres
of crop land under irrigation in
the state required 22,160.000 acre
feet of water. Consumptive uses in
tile same year for all purposes
were estimated to be 24.900.000
acre-feel. When California gels her
17.000,000 acres under Irrigation
FRANK TRIPP
Well, I asked for it and I got
it. The works from folks who
think I'm nuts about the Fourth of
July; oldsters who don't think it
important to restore Young Amer
ica's day, like The Fourth used to
be.
Some letters read like my
Fourth of July column advocated
wholesale slaughter of children
via every known means from ar
senic to atom bomb. Between the
lines, most of the diS3euters Just
seek their own comfort Icar the
return of that 4 a.m. cannon crack
er under their bedroom window.
None of them appeared to
catch the idea that we have
robbed our children of an impres
sive means by which to instill in
them an undying love and under
standing of their country, and why
they are free.
That Is the trouble with re
formers. They destroy something
because of Its faults, then fall to
replace the virtues which it
possessed. Exactly that happened
to the kids when fireworks were
taken away from the Fourth of
July.
For a century or better nobody
got hot and bothered about the
din or dangers of the ancient and
accepted celebration of Indepen
dence Day, The hurrah survived
the days of cautious and exacting
people, of generations which didn't
take to the roads and murder five
or six hundred on the highweys of
a holiday.
All went well and The Fourlh
stayed glorious until the develop
ment of explosives advanced
from gunpowder to dynamite and
TNT; until a tiny flrecrucker, the
size of a thumb, became as pow
erful as a rock - blaster's charge.
So, the Jittery launched a final
ly successful crusade to ban the
whole works because a part of it
was, admittedly, dangerous.
We successfully control a lot of
things at their source of manufac
ture and distribution without elimi
nating them entirely. We save the
parts that serve a purpose and
are safe.
As long as I can buy a lead
pencil, I'll make it write that
kids didn't have to be deprived
the land will require 45,500,000
acre-feet of water and for all pur
poses it is estimated the State's
water demand will be 56,230,000
acre-feet. The estimated mean sea
sonal runoff (including Uie Klam
ath) is about 70.800.000 acre-feet.
This of course varies with the sea
son from a high of 135.347.000 acre
feet in 1937-38 to a low Of 16.347,000
acre-feet in the dry 1933-34 sea
son. In addition to these amounts
should be added the State's rights
to 5.362,000 acre-feet per year from
the Colorado.
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of their greatest enthusiasm,
next to Christmas, because a nan
of their noisemakers became le
thal. The good old gunpowder fire
cracker, that we used to tie by
the bunch to dogs' tails, even ex
ploded - in our hands, never
brought' more than a thrashing
as penance. The harmless pin
wheels, roman candles, little rock
ets and flower pots, that so often
dudded, posed no more burn haz
ard than Uie kitchen stove or a
tea kettle.
That an occasional kid tried to
make a cannon out of a length of
gas pipe and got into trouble didn't
put the kibosh on our greatest day
of summer and leave us flat. The
import of the day, its source and
glory became a part of us be
cause we participated.
When I saw our kids, trying to
celebrate The Fourth with flags
and sparklers, I felt so so'.-'-y for
them that I was tempted to loan
them my shotgun. Huskies who
scale the cliffs like squirrels, spend
hours on the lake bottom as frog
men, compete on:' rough seas in
sailboat races, swish powerful out
boards around the lake like toys
and earn five bucks a day pick
ing berries, still couldn't buy a
gadget to celebrate that made
more noise than the spank of
their bellies under their spring
board. Give ' 'em back something to
rescue the Fourth of July from
the state of boredom something
that'll make noise, and lots of it.
And let the old codgers who
can't take it hie themselves to
their storm cellars; there to cele
brate in gloom and solitude the .day
that they once made equally
"miserable" for the elders of
their time.
Somehow, let's give The Fourth
back to Uie kids and reap a har
vest of patriots. God knows, we'll
need 'em.
Telling the Editor
Sam Dawson
MORE MORSE
By EULALIE WOODWARD
Dear Mr. Reed. I have just see'd
, Your poem In the paper;
Can't Imagine why you've not
known
That he always cuts those capers.
Windy Wayne Is just the same
As In Uie days of yore
In those days, I heard him
praised,
In fact I heard it more.
I used (o read it every day,
In Jenkins' dally news.
No matter what he said or did
You never got the dues.
He used to ride an elephant
And grazed him in tall grass
It seems absurd, now you're dis
turbed That now he rides an ass.
He Uien wore a big brass hat
Sat on the "upper" side.
His voice was loud, while In that
crowd, '
As he traveled far and wide.
0 yes he roars, same as before
1 surely agree with that,
He hasn't changed, just rear
ranged The hat band on his hat.
POET'S CORNER
NEW YORK l-You know about
the farmer's daughter. But how
about Uie salesman's wife?
The way she reacts to her hus
band's irregular hours to those sud
den calls out of town, can lead
to tiffs at home. Unhappy home
life can put a salesman in a most
tinselling frame of mind.
In this competitive era, perhaps
companies are underestimating Uie
power of the salesman's wife.
They may train the salesman
carefully, yet undo it by failing
to brief the wife on the nature
of his work, the reason for Irregu
lar hours, Uie value of sales con
ferences ("they're more than just
cocktail parties").
A poll of 13,513 salesmen s wives
across Uie land, made over a two
year period by the Research In
stitute of America, shows them
picking the salesman's job as the
most frustrating. Only a per cent
of them would advise their sons
to follow in their dad's footsteps.
Many wives complain about long
separations and say: "Have him
near home at least one week a
month." One adds; "We can't
afford two cars and when he is
on the road, I'm stranded."
Of life with the salesman at
home, the wives offer this com
mon complaint: "The crush of pa
per work at night takes time. that
should be spent with his family.'
A third of the wives ask for
better cooperation and understand
ing of their husband's work by
his employers.
Some wives want to go along
on the selling trips. Many ask to
be included in the serious sessions
of a sales conference. One notes
that at the home office, "secre
taries are Included in social func
tions but never the wives."
The -wives, rate their husbands'
job in comparison with other kinds
of work this way: The greatest
number choose engineering work
as providing the most security and
newspaper reporting as the most
interesting (but they gave It a se
curity rating of exactly zero).
They credit salesmanship with
paying the most money and giv
ing the highest rewards in accord
ance with ability and efforts.
More than half of the wives
think salesmen encounter discour
aging experiences more often than
other employes. Less than half
would like to see their husbands
spend Uie rest of their lives selling.
HUSH PRUETT
.Although our early Autuat day
seem long, they are definitely
shorter than' tilt ef June 11 ky
about $0 minutes at latitude .11 4-.
iress, and shorter yet f a r t a t
north. But It 1 still summer and
officially will be until September
23. .
Venus, gorgeous In the western
twilight sky, is now setting almost
due west two heurs after sunset.
This splendid )latiet will be our
"evening star" for about three
months yet and will eontlnuoualy
grow brighter until mld-Oviber.
Keen eye can now epot it as a
white dot high In the west before
sundown. On Sunday . evening Ve
nus and the crescent moon will ap
pear quite near each ether.
Yellow Saturn 1 the non-twinkling
object now in the southwest
one hour after sunset. Its faithful
companion of all year, the distant
star Spice, If twinkling net fr west
of Saturn. Saturn It a little the
brighter of the two.
Red Mars it still brilliant low
in the south as soon as the eky It
well darkened, but Is new only M
as bright as a menth ago due to
increasing distance from ui, It will
remain a nice object ill this month.
Jupiter and Mercury are very
close together in the dawn sky.
They rise In the east-northeast to
minutes before sunrise. Jupiter It
Uie brighter ef the two.
Tor the identification of the
brighter stars let us observe the
Newspaper Guild
Holds Mtttlngs
LOS ANGELES l Two hun
dred delegates representing 27,000
members In the .United States and
Canada convene Monday for the
formal opening of the CIO-Amer-lean
Newspaper Guild 31st annual
convenUon.
Mayor Norrls Poulson welcomes
the delegates after the-invocation
by James Frsnels Cardinal Me
Intyre, archbishop of Los Angeles.
George Meenes, president ef the
Los . Angeles Guild, presides.
The opening address scheduled
was by Uie ANO president, Joseph
F. Collis, assistant managing edi
tor of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Ree-ord.
heavens about one and one hut
heurs after sunset. The red star
Antares, the heart of the celestuj
Scorpion, Is conspicuous somewhat
to the east of Mars. (The nam,
"Antares" means "the rival Z
Man.") Very high in the
erangt Arcturua shines at the low
tr end of the atar arrangement
known at the Kite. ... eM
Almost in the tenlth, white Vea
Is splendid as Uie ornament of ui
Harp of Orpheus. Lower and to.
Wtrd the ' northeast, Deneb, of
somewhat lesser brightness, holds
ftrth at the head of the Northern
vross, very jiign in uie southeast
Altalr. with a dimmer star on each
aiae ox u, wnuvs in uie constellt
Hon the Eagle.
Note the Big Dipper sliding bowl
Iirsit uwwn uis not uiwesiero sky
Later in the night it will be low
In the north and moving eastward
Clearing the horizon in the east is
the large Square of Pegasus mads
up ef four moderately bright stars
and blancing on one corner. High
in me nonneasi ine rather awk
ward W of Cassiopeia, consisting of
zive stars, is easily spotted.
Readers sometimes ask if the
planets are in trie same positions
in the heavens on Uie same dates
from year to year. By no means.
Even Saturn, Uie most distant nt-ked-eye
planet, is shifted a little
after a year. Mercury, Venus, and
Mars seem to run wild among thi
fixed stars.
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