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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1925)
. . . . -w -m. T-rTTTT OI If I AM ATI ft . . . . Trt-r-r-r TrT A 1 X A TTT I A A I I V U N 1 r ALLS; rw :nrrrriAT PAPF.R FOR I'tUlr lYllVli 1X1 lyrVXJU X ' J., f f FRIDAY, DECEMBER ij CITY OF KLAMATH FALLS .4, Independent Republican Keeper Conducted in the Intents of Ml Klath County; Without Guile. Subsidy or Perfidy Hope Springs Eternal : Klamath Adventurd "Let ut hare faith that right makei might, and in that faith let u to the end dare to do our duty we understand it." Ahraham Lincoln. Compiled by K. W. HARWOOD ' (Copyright hy Klurrinth Publishing Comn , , (All Rlirhta Rcierved) : EPISODE X. Microbes and Us The Social Line of Immunity The habits of a germ are peculiar. For instance, he is particular about the company he keeps. He is a discriminating character. He will play with members of a Forum. But he is shy about Rotarians. It is a very fine, bit of favoritism he shows here, 'it is quite understandable, of course, that he should gallivant around with church peo ple. At the same 'time eschewing the com pany of film fans. If anything, the germ is a climber. With deadly innocence he seeks the com pany of school children in his idle hours. No money could get him near a prize fight. There are those who remember the flu. Darned if the only place a germ wouldn't go was into a saloon. How ridiculous humans must appear to a cultured germ. Builders of Klamath Which People Promote Progress? The lives of pioneers in the great Klamath country indicate that they liked it here and honestly believed it was a good place in which to live. They were builders, rather than ex ploiters. Exploiters are the people of questionable value to the life, of a community. In no wise are they interested in its future. It is their game to make their money and get out. True, at times they are forced to remain, having grabbed too greedily more than they could readily turn to profit. The exploiters are not builders. They are never agriculturists. Speculation is the first and last purpose. Buy low and sell high is their creed. They produce nothing. They block genuine progress by utter devotion to the immediate present. Exploiters are an affliction to any community. A community over-burdened with exploit ers does not and cannot achieve its destiny until it throws ihem off. The advent of a few families from Inyo has meant more to the gen uine progress and development of the Klamath country than a legion of exploiters. o In his annual report, Dr. Work, secretary of interior, shows that the reclamation fund of $200,000,000 intended to revolve or be funded in ten years, has not revolved in twenty years, despite a lump appropriation of $20, 000,000 in 1 908. And that repayment to the government was only nine and one-half per cent after twenty year3. Under their con tracts water users in 1924 were to pay $3, 869,000 on construction charges. Of this $2,066,000 is uncollected. It cost $2, 1 07,000 to operate and maintain irrigation works, of which $959,744 was unpaid June 30. Heart & Home Problems By Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson WOMAN WANTS TO I.KAVK II Kit Hl'SllAM) AND ( Hn.ll -Kilt HIM Dear Mra. Thompson: How Is a man to know the woman of to day. I am a man well up In years. I married a real young girl five yenrs ago, and I was hap py, for I truly loved her and I thought she loved me, but In a couple of years we parted through troubles and a quarrel I had with her mother. She left me and went back home to live with her moth er. I was heart-broken for a time hut when I saw her going out with other men and having a good time, then and only then for spite I commenced looking around for other company that would suit me. Now here Is the problem. How is a man to know? I met a woman 29 years of age, and we commenced going together, and kept on until we got real friendly. We even planned how soon' we would get married after I got my divorce, which I got last month. And then a few days after It was granted I foum! out that the one I had been no friendly with wa a married woman. Now, Mrs. Thompson, please don't call me a cad nor a prude, for I did not know she was married, as she lives in a smnll town near here, and as she was over two or three times a week I had no occusion to visit her in her home town, fine would drive over here to visit her mother or sinter, nnd then she would let me know she was in town and then I would call on her, and wo were, as I thought, Iho best of friends. Hut when I found out that she had n husband and a dear littlo girl nearly two years old, then I gave her up. Hut, oh, how It did hurt. Now, Mrs. Thompson, I want to know If I did right. She has written mo two or three letters saying she cannot Rive mo up, hut, wants to leave her husband nnd let him get a divorce. Hut 1 told her no, to stny with tho father of lu,r child and I would get along some way. Hut It hurt to love and lose. Please advise me. EASY COOli FELLOW. You are taking the honorable coarse. I)o not pay any attention to her letters, and refuse to sen her again. And do not lei these two unforlunatc'experlencvs make you a woman-hater, for you have been unlucky In your associations with the sex. It Is always for a man (or a woman) to see the home and know something about the people of the person with whom he Is In love, before he con siders marrying her. MARGIE: Your trouble, it ap pears. Is that you are bashful and rather "quiet." Cultivate some enthusiasms and learn to meet persons without shyness. Go over In your mind the list of your ac quaintances, pick out those whose company you enjoy best and fig ure out why. From this you should be able to measure your own failings In companionship and be able to remedy them. had been driven too fast; and tho owner stoutly In.intcd that he had been progressing at tho rate of only sli miles an hour. "Why. your honor." he said, "my englno was out of order and I was going very slowly because I was afraid It would break down completely. I glvo you my word, sir, you could have walked as rust as I was running." "Well," said tho magistrate, after due reflection, "you don't appear to havo been exceeding the speed limit, but at the same time you must have been guilty of something, or you wouldn't be here. I fine you ten dollars for loitering." "I sen where the I'ollre Gazette Is to start an embroidery page." "Yes, that is becaua there are so many women In tho barber shops now." 1IH.-II mv 1 oil III lunum liriHIHTS, Dan Clliil . ........ i.. I i: .l ' vllnv rami' uht iu i.onv itivvr, wiry mailt) Ihmr home with J. Flunk AdaniM. Ho wan fumed for hit nnd until the Van Rrimnivr could get wititi made tht'tti welcome, i - . i... , f i i mu tan iirimnit'rsj nuu enjoyed sonic of th. irrigation. The UlK, mont of the day nnd U iiiifht, win liriKntion. Adams soon became n J Kuuiniem on mo mhiiiuui are warm mid dry pn't'iptisiioil. aTersailiR iu to u Inches. Is llihl. Kow rrops could be rslrd for a certainty without outer lirsln, alfalfa and Iho hardier vegetables could bo grown to abundanie with water. Adiiiiis relates that his steeping nnd waking dreams were of a great country full uf fruitful small farm replacing loo great rough country then roverrd with suge brush. The Van llrlmmers made good mates for Adams. They had the money, but Adams made up the difference with his untiring Ini tiative and knowledge of the country. "Old Man" Howard was brought In from Jacksonville Iu do soma surveying by the Van llrlmmers. No reclamation engineer had en tered the country there waa not so much as a surveyor lo be bad locally. . Howard ran a prelimi nary survey nu the west side of Lost river, with Intended head lake on the river, but gal Do where with It, Howard's bill was !I0. Tho plan to Irrigate had been gener ally discused and was no secret. Kveryona within reach of the ditches was to havo profiled by water If watwr was obtainable. The Van llrlmmsrs asked settlers for contributions. "What fur?" waa tho response. "If we want to hire a surveyor wa ll hire him ourselves." Com munity spirit waa at Ita lowest flight on the Klamath. The Van llrlmmers swallowed hard, but they paid the 1240. They hired no more surveyors, but want to work with a carpen ter's spirit level and straight edge held on a tripod. This was made to serve their purpose. Adams and tho Van llrlmmers had an Idea that the "Llttlo" Klamath, as old-timers called Lower Klamath lake, waa higher than Tulo lake. There appeared to he no practl.nlilo opportunity to get mater out of the river, he- cause of Hie la. k ol Jsasable ridges. I; n In lie the rain tnit ath Lake a. hln lake, tbn reit Would lively eaay. It was a laomrslh In the Van llrlinrntn proved lo be tin was the only out tak confidence. The flBd, spirit level were slav able. A dlffsrem Iween the elevsllug Klamath and Tule Uk Very quietly Ada Van llrlmmers et filings on every p!w could find vacant, such tracts as sou Id eglcal for ditch build ways. And there was pies public lend In thaw Adams filed ai (hi Ixwt river and tht Yi filed on tbe wtst iljj several months before ready to show their bn (ContlDutd toaoi The Iter. Mr. Rail vacations! fluhloi Irlnj rifled lo hesr a To using words thai bid i blue tinge. "My boy," k rJ "don't you knev tiit if never bile If Jos I man - "I know I tla't t II." replied the yoituf getlcally. "bat I Ihosrj could get some lltllt few words I know, take my pole sad can do. A scientist on Mil he made from nerrn eoal dealer Jus) Uaitln l.sSslle Tost. ' A deposit of Iroo or discovered lit f'eylon IN mated to contain 100.1 Dinner Stories Tho ship dmlnr of an Kngllsli liner ' notified the . death watch steward, an Irlnhman, that a man had died In stateroom 45. Tho usttul Instructions to bury the body were given. Some hours later the doctor poeked Into tbo room and found that the body was Htlll there. Ho culled the Irish man's attention to tho mattor, and the latter replied; "I thought yon said room it. I wlnt lo that room and noticed wan of thlm In a bunk. 'Are ye dead?' says I. 'No,' says he, but I'm pret ty near dead,' "So I buried him." In certain remote sections of West Virginia Micro Is no liking ' for antomoblllsts, us was evidenc ed In tho case of a Washlngtonlun who waa motoring In a sparsely settled region of the stato. This gentleman was hnlcd bo foro a local maitlslrnto upon the complaint of a constnble. Tho magistrate, a good natured man, waa not, however, absolutely cer tain that tho Wushinglonlnn's car Some Pages from , 'r Victor KPKKfT W ' IMPOKTAXT ' IVVK.VTIONH We owo the discovery and coloni sation cf America mainly to tho In spiration and persistence of Colum bus. II ii t other developments In Kuropc also wero Important factors. These were: J. Invention of the mariner's compass, 2. Invention of gunpowder. 3. Invention of the printing press. 4. Tho desiro of a new nll-wnler route to Indlu. The compass gnvo greater certain ty lo navigation. flnnpowder provided 'an nffectlvo means of subduing unfriendly na tives. The printing press was spreading knowledge nnd Information and had aroused an enormous curiosity on the part of the p0po as to coun tries and lands other than those In which (hey lived. I Kurnpn enjoyed an extensive and highly profitable trade, not only with -India, but with China and Jap. an. Precious atones, spices, silks nnd ' many other articles of commorro were brought- by ships nnd caravans from Aslu in Bout hern Kurnpn. Venice and Genoa had been en riched l y this trade. Then In 14B3 the Turks tock Ccmstnntlnople, and Immediately began raid, on the American History MORGAN , ' - ' Commerce of Kuropa with Asls. Traffic between Europe and Asia was matin so perilous and uncertain , that the profits began to slip away. That Is why Europe began to torn Its eyes In soma other direction. II had no thought of giving up Ihe Asi atic trade. Hut It wanted to carry It on by soma other , and safer route, or course, notwithstanding the fart that trade was carried on be tween Kiiropo and Asia, the pcoplo of lha two regions had only meager knowledge of each other. European monarch! wero con stantly hcnrlng stories of tho fabu lous wealth or China and the Indies. Particularly wore there stories of a ruler called Prestor John, who was believed to have a kingdom ut most Immense wealth somewhere Jn Asia. Marco Polo, one of the most fas cinating characters In history, hod returned, to Europe after spending much llino In China and Ildla. and , his stories of the soiilth of the Kast further whetted the desire for more knowledge and, freer Intercourse with theso fabulous lands. This was the condition of the Eu ropean mind when Columbus' ap peared upon Ihe stage of. history with his proposal to roach the East i by sailing West. ., Tho next Installment toll ' ' f Columbus before Queen J' ) ' Isabella . !i
