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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1925)
THE KLAMATH DAILY NEWS' Tug OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY OF KLAMATH FALLS An Independent Republican Keeper Conducted in the Intents of Ml Klamath County: Without Guile. Subsidy or Perfidy In the Public Eye Again Klamath AdvenW "Lei u he faith that right makes might, and in chat faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it." Abraham Lincoln. Compiled by It. V. HAHWnrm (Copyright by Klnmuth Publwhlng CotJ Lawful Ladders Credulous Flights Offer Least Resistance "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries of credul ities of mankind," quotes Christopher Morley from Conrad. Morley, whose random thoughts in his writings are many, interposes this: "Is it per missible to wonder what some newspaper owners would reply to that?" It is an easy matter to drift with the tide or play to popular prejudices in publishing a newspaper. Take the reclamation situation as it exists in the great Klamath country, for instance. The men who publish this newspaper and a few farmers believe that the majority of farmers are not the gainers by their attitude of animosity toward the reclamation service. They believe antagonistic tactics of the farm ers' representatives are not," and never will be, productive of results in securing such relief as may be necessary. And, what is more, the publishers of this paper know that some of these representatives now realize their ap proach has been wrong. It is a good sign. It v.'14-have Wef simple matter, foe this newspaper to have prodded on the farm ers in their antagonism to Dr. Work and Dr. Mead. But it would have been cowardly as well. It would have been climbing on the miseries of others. The cheap, poltroon method or publishing, of climbing on the cre dulities of mankind, is not the method of this newspaper. Women's Working Ways , Ones Upon a Time It Was 'Winning Ways" Doggone near every employed woman in Klamath Falls i3 a married woman. It is be lieved that statistics will bear out the state ment that more married women support, or help to support themselves, or help support their husbands in Klamath Falta than in any town or city in this country. Some of them who work even go so far a3 to have children in fact, quite a few support children. In Klamath Falls employed women marry and put in an appearance on the job next day smiling as usual, an insignificant white metal band marking the only change in the usual order. The first thing a stranger iri town re marks is the brigade of potential mamas in pants our bright appearing and good-looking box factory girls. Doggone it, are Klamath Falls women far in advance of the modern movement among women? Or are they victims of the peculiar economic aspects of this town? A little of both, perhaps. Why shouldn't there be low-brow liter ature? If an infant can't eat meat, must it starve? EPISODE VII. . Jeff Gets Boot! Tho kindly stranger the West war full 0f IB golden tlU)R untuned to Uttlo Je ff r Rtory of j Why bin mother and father wero dependent oJ or a noiei Keeper al ugtien, and how ho had get money from Winema ("Toby") Kiddle'a Klamath rexcrvation wa long ntory. The ntago wua making rmdy to depart from Yrekn. nnd It was thero Jeff wanted to go. 1 , . 1. - - . . It ciumon oi mo Rorrowiui story mo ftirnnger j jcrrs rial mi loosen mm in ins Heart & Home Problems . -r- ny Mr. Rthuihcth Thompson " tlruliihtrn himself mil and bp the ninn you ouht to be. A HAPPY WII'K Dinner Stories ADMITS Kt'Kl.MK TO "KICK M T HUSBAND AFTKR GKTTINt; HKyrK-sT Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am Just another wife seeking your ad vice. I am 45 years old and my husband is 60. lie is in love with a beautiful young girl. He is crazy about her. When he goes to the show he never sees tho pictures for looking at her. and he sits as close to her as he cnn. He Is mean to me. He never gives mo any money. I work out so I ran buy some clothes. I don't love him .nd I havo pulled the wool over his widow sinter's eyes so that she Is going to leave me her land when she dies and the rest to my children. Rhe Is doing that so he will stay with me, but she Is 60 years old and has heart trouble so sho can't live long, and wben I do get what she has I am going to kick him out and let some other man have me who ap preciates mo. Don't you think I should? I wish you would tell me if It is all right. Ho even bought tho girl a ring luxt Christ mas, but she returned il. Don't you think I should have it. Do you think I am too old to start life over again? With a man who Is loving and kind? I went to the show one night, and he would not walk b'ome with mo. I'OI.I.Y. I am afraid your sense of honor Is as deficient as your husband's. Possibly you doserve the bequest for sticking to your huxhand, but you should not want II at the price of deception and broken fuith. Young and beautiful kIHs do not fall In love with men of your husband's ago and clmj in stances. She Is no doubt annoyed by his attentions and would be Kind to be rid of them. I think you should Ink 9 action to torn him to support you and your chil dren, and abandon your schemes to get control of that hind by false pretense, and "kicking him out" for another. Your attitude Indicates that you havo not done all you might to help your husband .Uer,.M.rR. Thompson: I hnv ocen wanting to. write to you abont tho letter f Mrs. A. J. There are. of course, many happy marring'- and many unhappy. Mine huppens to have been th former kind. : Wo, havo been mar ried 11 years nearly, and have six children living, one dead. 1 sup pose that would pem drudgery to some women. But tho main point Is that we are happy. We haven't so much of worldly goods as some. We aro buylug our home. We havo "one" pockctbook and "both" of us carry it. !ly that I moan wljen one tieetU money that on spends what he or she needs and no arguments as to where or why. I am going on 27 nnd my him bum! is six years olrtt r. My mother U dead and my mother-in-law Is the "only rr. ithor I have.'.' That ex plains what. I think of her. My husband felt the name way. toward my mother before she died. At the iupltul as she passed away the nurses thought he was the oldest son instead of the son-ln-Inwi Another Mumbling block to . happiness In some families Is re ligion. It has patsed us by as ach la entitled to his own belief. My mother-in-law is Catholic, my husband Is not. My own mother was an Eastern star and dud a Masom I am not a Catholic, nor our children. Yet the priest comes twice a week to see my mother-ln-Inw. Knowing all I do now If I wero 10 again I'd do Just as I did then. I'd marry the man I loved and 'do yet more and : more every day. HAPPY WIKK A MOTIIKR. I'm glad to hour from a happy wlfo and mother. Of courso there are many more of lliem than tho letters of this column' would Indicate. Coorgo Clitrkv. oeetltbruWd gro minstrel, on one occasion when being examined as a wit ness, was severely Interrogated by a lawyer. ' "You aro In the minstrel busl- nous, I believe?" inaiilrvd the wrs . . reply. (,wl rail- lawyer. "Yes, sir." was the "Is not that rather Ing?" "I don't know but' what it Is, sir." replied Ihn minstrel, ."but It is so much better than my fath er's that I nm proud of It." The lawyer fell Into the trap. "What was your father's rail ing?" he Inquired. "lit was a lawyer," replied Clarke. ' eyes. "Well, sonny, lot's of buys corns thnjugh here with wild stories but I believe you are honest, snd telling the truth," he said. Al thai moment the stag driv er gathered up hta lines. "III! Walt a minute. Here's another passenger," railed the stranger. "Young Jeff's fare was paid out of a twenty dollar gold piece. The stranger pressed the rhange on htm, some fourteen dollars, but the boy refused to accept It. In sisting he would be among friends when he got to his father's pea-, pie near Yrvks. The strsnger forced him to lake a couple of silver dollars, patted him on the bark, and slipped the double eagle Into the side pocket of the black velvet coat Jeff was wearing. "Ia'I me know how yon come out, sonny," the strsnger told him, scribbling his name on a scrap of paper. He was William Parks, of Arburkle, California. Inside tho stage wss sn elderly couple, the only passensera beside Jeff. He wss worn out. At the Willow Creek station he awaken ed with his head on the lady's hip. Hhe told him It wss time to and Insisted on paying for. tils meal. Also, she made him tako n five dollar gold piece for future needs. : When Yreka was reached the hoy set nut st once to wslk the fourteen miles to the Itlddle rsnch, where he expected to get a horse. The ranrli had been loot ed. The Kiddles had been awsy alfhost two years. Frank Itlddle had left behind him a well-furnished home for those days, a blnksmlih shop full of tools, and fifty hend of horses. All that re mained In the house was s feather bed and a stove. The swinging doors of the shop showed omptl ness within. , Jelf learned that I.eo Mini, h Cherokee, hud driven off the horses. A long iiiiq came nsrk an dies that sa he hsd and thought they Ing to return, he horses and sold The boy wsnted Klamath reservation to wslk, hoping to some et the rim Hoover, sn 1 ti.l I. learned that he and overtook hiin gone s few miles ride bark with hr rould not find i were none to be told him to take boy looked al lh Rut he wanted to ervatlon. Another J ml Ion live Insisted that lung for so young alone. The Kiddles no mountains, and and In Deed of held f.o along and help mission. The norel of the plight of Hi more'she grieved, self sgslnat this' grief en the rldetolhj she put two qutrt brf key In ber drne lie kept warm sate lied two gallon Jl her saddle. The boy snd the set out for the Kl lion. (Cnntlnusd tod Tho old gentlm.i gelling Into s nrrl neglected to sW hi "Yon are not to ss when I was s l ed. in gentle rebuke. "No." was his rr fn,. .. n I ui hnovn was, of boy!" Auslialla has bern have to. 000. 000 ihc. try Inhabitant. Mr. Jones bad recently becomo the father of twins. The minis ter stopped him on tho street to congratulate him. "Well, Jones," ho said, "I hoar that the stork hns smiled on you." "Smiled on me!" repented Mr. Jones. "Ho laughed out loud at me!" Some Pages from TIIK r'HWT W II ITU AMKIIICA 0, VICIOI- e .MUX IN' Who discovered America? Christopher Columbus, In tho year HU2. Is the answer any of us would mnke. Yet there is a world of fact end fancy, claim nnd counter-claim whirling about that question. Thero Is a Welsh tradition that Prince Modoc, who commanded what answered for tho Welsh navy In lWO.came to these shores with ton ships, lundlng nt whnt wo roll Flor ida, nnd there establishing a colony. Thero Is an Irish myth that hnrdy seamen of that land visited tho shoros of America hundreds of years before. Columbus. Claims also havo been put forward In behalf of the Arabians, the Chi nese, the ancient Phoenicians and many other races. Most persistent of the before-Co-lumbus claims and Ihn only ones ro eelvlng a considerable recognition from scholars Is that In behalf of tho Norsemen, who were tho people we now know as the Norwegians Hwedes and Dunes.' They were a seafaring people, and Ihelr vikings, or pirate chieftains sailed fur and wide in their onol mauled, many oared vessels. There Is good ground for believing that Llnf Kricson, an Intrepid Norse sea rover American History -In the 11th century landed -Rt New foundland and at other points on the ' mninlnnd farther south. Hlghton Hock, found on the hanks of Tiiuton river In Ilerkley, Mass., bears strange Inscriptions. Danish scholars say these Inscriptions tell the story of a visit to America from a Norse chieftain and 1.11 men hun-. dreds of years before Columbus. Other students, however, regard tho markings ss merely those of the American Indlnn. The Newport Tower In Ithode. Isl and Is a stone structure of slntnlur shupe which It Is claimed was nrcct ed by the Norsemen. The towor Is put forth a proof that the Norse men hore established R colony many centuries before ls!)2. 'Other Inves tigators, however, Insist that the tower was erected by Oovornor Ilen edlet Arnold and thai hs refers to It In his will as "my stono-hiillt wind In his will of 167R as "my stone built windmill," a replies of. a aim liar structure he know ns Inly ,n his native Knglnnd. However, none of tho claims cnn dim Jn the least the lustro of Colum bus's name. For all practical pur poses Columbus discovered Amw'011 , and the authentic history of his j country begins with Coliimbnsf i Next Installment ijf llsVorc ! CollllllllUH
