KLAMATH FALLS, ORE
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR
CITY OF KLAMATH FALLS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER n
Ah Independent Republican Newspaper Conducted in the Interests of All Klamath County: Without Quito usu, or uway
THE KLAMATH DAILY NEWS
"Let lit hare faith that right make might, and in
' -hat faith let us to the end dar to do our duty as wa
understand it" Abraham Lincoln.
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Stealing; (he Irishman's Staff
Sympathy for the Farmer.
Something More Would Be Helpful
That entirely too much sympathy is wast
ed on the farmer when he fails, was the ex
pression of a Klamath Falls resident. The idea
was further bolstered with the statement that
a large percentage of business houses in this
city have failed and that no public sympathy
was wasted on them.
This is no more than complaining of what
is a logical fact. There is little reasoning, how
ever, back of it. While Klamath has the sup
port of industry new, and will have for many
years to come, its greater progress must be
based on its agricultural development.
If the farmer should continue to fail to any
considerable extent on the Klamath it would
indeed be a serious matter. Forget, for a mo
ment, that this community has any other than
agricultural support. Everyone would then
be greatly concerned when a farmer failed. If
the farmer did nbt prosper no business, big or
little, could succeed.
When a business house closes its doors
nothing more may .be indicated than that the
farmer has already failed. Klamath will never
prosper in full measure until its idle acres are
r3tveicpul and ia depand-.barmet.j Aqd
when a farmer tries and fails no sympathy
extended him is wasted. It is far better though
that he be extended all the aid possible to pre
vent his failure.
The sympathy is poured out in full meas
ure' every time an abandoned form is encoun
tered. What more tragic picture!
A Joy Breaker.
Po:tof'ice in Con-piracy Against Holiday Fun
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Klamath Adventures
Something mean happens every Christmas
to mar its enjoyment. There came to the
writer a notice of a registered letter. All
gleeful he hurried to the post office, only to
be halted temporarily by a long line of men
and women with hands full of desirable cur
rency of the realm. Sure, folks did send money
through the mail to other folks. What could
be sweeter!
The writer at length got to the window
with his notice. Followed a thorough identifi
cation of himself, past and present. A bulky
envelope was passed through the window to
eager hands. Off in the corner it wa3 torn
open. It proved to be an invitation to pur
chase the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Down with mail order business! Down
with the post office department! Christmas
can never be what it wa3 intended while such
institutions exist.
Any interested party will find the regis
tered letter in one of the copious post office
waste paper repositories.
The planes of the war period may be ob
solete; So, apparently, is the discipline of the
war period.
Compiled by It. W. HAUWOOD
(Copyright by Klamath rubllnhini Coirmanvi
(All Right Rexervcd) V
EPISODE XVII
The Fight for Reclamation
At.,.,,. ! ion') i...
mvMi wv". imiv ujr no menus nn uimd
'Hentiment. in favor of the reclamation aervico cnteri
iuumam territory, ruuuc opinion wan greatly (1
rtifofltf fnr the roniinn Hint nrlvnto nnti..l - i 1
' i" aires!
veloping irrigation project.
Dozen of public meeting wero held to (IUcum
important mutter of irrigation, and the aubjert w
until l!0!i, long after a favorable report on the proje
been men. in 1V3 ny J una r,
Heart & Home
Problems
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By Mr. KllanM-th TnnmHMn
LOYKN POOR HOY. MOTIIKK
WANTS HF.R TO WKI MOXKV !
It's the old. old qnestlcft shall
1 marry for luve or money? this '
young woman ask me:
Dear .Mrs. Thompson: I hare
gono with a young fellow for over
a year and have grown to love ,
him very niurb. My mother op-
proved of our going together un- !
til aha met the friends of my ;
filfilers who havo more money than ,
xny friend has. 6he scolds mo '
for liking him because he hasn't
money and says that If we erer j
Set married I won't he able to ,
hure the things which I bare now. '
I come from a rather well-to-do
family. Don't you believe It Is
better to marry for love than for
money? Should I give up thn
fellow I really love for my
mother's sake, or should I try to
get along with what he eaa give
met - PEGGY.
Doth love and money are neces
sary to complete married hap
piness. Your mother may be en
deavoring to save you from hard
ships she had to undergo herself
in her early married days. Try
to understand her viewpoint. No
girl should marry a man who
hasn't soma money in the bank,
good health and fair prospects.
Tt takes a great deal of money to
Ret a homo started, and nothing
more Idiotic was ever uttered than
"Two can live as cheaply as one."
However, the measure and qual
ity of your own outlook on Ufa
havo a direct bearing un thn
amount of money necessary to
give you and your husband true
hupplness.
KICK MOTIIIiU'S "Hill" ISN'T
appiii:ciati:i
Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 nm
seventeen years and three months
old and am doing all the work at
home alone. My younger sister,
age 1.1, goes to school and does
no work at home whnlover. Do
you think this Is right? The folks
simply havo a fit If I want to go
with a boy. I have gone with hhn
several times agnlnst my mother's
wishes. My mother rags nt nte
ronttninlly nhout her food, at she j
Is siik all the litre. I h.i' to j
wait un her. I do not mind this
if h v.-otild ori!y murc-Sate It.
hut flie don't. !io sa I i!n't j
try to toak her fuod d'in As .
I am rik alnio-t all my time I
know my hous" is not as rt'-at a4
I would like to keep it. My lather
ti.k( my part In all the qunnvR
My mci'.her jives my I'Mer nw-.ey
at the end of each week, but
won't Ire me a cent and has a
Quarrel right away If dad do?.
He gives me onry without let
ting her know It. I quit It !h
school to do the work at home.
As I worked miut of tho sumrr.er
I buy my own clothes as I avd
my wages thru. Please adrlao
me what to do. I don't think I
ihouKl bo treated as a child. My
mother glvei mo no peace. II. II.
You wroto mo before about
your problem, II. II., end I can
only repeat what I told you then.
You must remember that your
mother's lllnesa probably lias put
her In a nervous stiff that Snakes
her easily Irritated. . Bit coin
plains about little things that she
would not notice if sha wore well.
You will have to practice patience
and take her criticisms without
letting It hurt you, remembering
that she really bn't responsible.
I think you should manage some
way to complete your education,
even If It maken a heavy demand
on tho time you aren't occupied In
waiting on your mother. Your
little sinter certainly should be
compelled to help you. I think
that If you would put it up to
your father In tho right way, ho
would agree. Forget the boy until
your re"ponslbililles aren't so
heavy.
rich, hut think what It Is 'to the
poor! One frosty November night
a young man entered a pool room
with his coat rollur turned up
and his hands In his trouser pock
ets. He had a duwncatl louk, and
auother youog ma slappi'd him
en the hack and said:
' 'Cheer np, Tom! Let's hare a
game of billiards. I'll pay.'
"But Tom shook his head.
" 'Thanks,' be said, 'but I don't
raro to play billiards, old man.'
"'Come on! Why not?'
" 'Well, yu see." said Tom
with a shivor, 'every tlnto I look
at the three hulls on the table
they make mi think of my over
coat.' "
A Denver school teacher is the
Inventor of a game Intended to
teach children arithmetic rapidly
nd make them enjoy their lessons.
Whistler, rhlet engineer tor the
Oregon ttKrlct of the r-Klama-tlon
service.
Neither wrie l.ie oid residents
of the community who favored
the government entering the ter
ritory, a unit on the method for
Irrigating Ihe territory. It Is
pointed out as remarkable (hat
they urged Ihe Clear lake reser
voir site on Whistler, and also am
II. K. (ireea, another engineer
who studied the country In Hoi.
The old-timers either Ignored or
overlooked the advantage of t'p
prd Klamath lake, according to
these rnglnevr.
Sentiment grew In tavur of gov
ernment reclamation and during
Ihe fall of ' many petitions
favoring government reclamation
were sent lo the secretary of Ihe
Interior and reclamation engin
eers. There were nearly three hun
dred signers to one petition urg
ing adoption of Ihe project. Names
of farmers, county officials, mcr
rhanta and professional men of
Klamath Palls, Merrill, llonania j
and elsewhere In the great Klatn i
ath country were on It.
The petitions said:
"Since Investigations have be
gun In this vicinity and Ihe plans
of the government reclamation
service are beginning lo be under
stood, the sentiment In favor of
such plans has grown and spread
until H now pervades the entire
area comprising the lilumnth
baidn.
"The people are a unit lo de
siring and asking government aid.
When we say this we desire lo
Impress upon your mind the fact
thnt 99 per rrnl of the people In
Klamath basin are a unit and are
clamoring for the assistance which
might ho rendered by I ho govern
ment tinder Ihe reclamation act."
A series of three meetings were
Ifld In l'jot, one nt Klamath
Palis on August 27, one at Mer
rill on August 29, and one at Ho
nnnrn on August 30, at v hlrh n
resolution was passed si
"lleaolvcd, that we. the
and land owners In Kltnu
In public meeting site-n
me purpose of ruaililtrf
matter of requesting tht
government lo construct
Hon works, are In fsvor
construction by the Me
eminent,"
There Is no doubt the
majority had been swoat
of reclatuatloa work by t
eminent. Dut how h4
accomplished? (iavertin
eganda bad done It.
Three private projects
the field. Costs under th
known. The farmers
that the-government roil
be much higher. The
mcnt engineers, either wllfl
without full knowledge
facts, did not hesitate lo
the farmers that lbs con
be held down and trouU
nienred.
(Continued Nsrt In
llananas are picked ehr
and ripen during ehlpm
.'looting this fruit oae In
sclfiri bananas got ripe
because of their fresh arpxl
Hanana (re really at tha
when they begin lo how
or brown along too sesmsj
skin and el eat mail
thai he item tod La el i
and not beginning to solti
And never let a ruddy,
Ikln deceive you Into
tasteless, pithy apples,
should be heavy la weight.
.is attractive In appearance
Things are looking 1H
Many people may bo able !
a few more miles out of IM
winter's chrthrs (iary M
i;no.
(;ruptlrolt and orsneJ
form In else, with smootlil
skins and small pores, an
rhnlce ones.
Dinner Stories
Felix Ismnn, thn rent estate op
erator, said at a banquet In Jack
sonville: "The boom In Plorlda and Cali
fornia In mis is a mnttor of cli
mate. The Aniericnn people nt
lust realise tho beauty of perpet
ual sunshine. A land where
there's no winter! What hnp
PIiicsh! "Winter Is a curso oven lo the
Some Pages from
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COM'MIII'S' LAST YOY.(il
The spring and summer of H91
were prohuhly the happiest In Ihe
life of Christopher Columbus, the
explorer who discovered America,
while searching for a water roulo
to India and the fur east.
Kveryone honored him.
In September he started amiln for
his Islands (these Islands wo know
as the West Indies.)
Hut his good fortune forsook him.
lie found tho men whom he I, mi
left in the hew country as colonics
at war with one another, nnd tho
natives far from friendly
i-estiieneo nnd dlseiisa
Columbus himself was III
Ills brother, llnrtholomew. nrrlv
ed from Hpaln nnd wss looked upon
ns an upstart.
When Christopher returned In
Hpaln In Hi.o, there was need f
nioro money nnd colonists. Home
one suggested that criminals bo
transported.
No longer vJna Columbus n hero
!e made his third voyage In 14A
having lost mo,t ,,, , prH '
. c.evis, the nul8 ,,,, nn
'""' r 1 1 II ni II t
rums.
chbli
nn wiis i. i .
At length thoso nt home In Btmln
became convinced mt ZJXZ
was no fit ruler for the eW lands
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American History
MORGAN
nnd they sent oyer a new Judge,
llohudlllu. It was uninrtunnla that
he arrived Just after thn cxcruiion
of soven Kpanlnrds. The gallows
were still standing In position nnd
lloliailllln ordered Ihe Columbus
brothers arrested and put In Irons,
lie did this nn scant, ono-slited evi
dence, It Is believed.
Hack lo Hpaln In iIIskhkk! I'nder
arrest! And although Columbus
quickly regained his freedom, ho
never won bark his political Influ
ence, It Is amaslng that ho never bo- ,
came discouraged or lost sight of his
nriglnul purpose. ' On his fourth and
' Inst voyage, he took with hm his
foiirleen-yenr-old ion, Ferdinand.
Columbus never found the strait
Hint ho believed lid through tho
mainland Inlo the Indian ocean. Ho
enme hack to Hpnln a broknn-honrt-ed
and disappointed old mnn. No r
longer a hero, no longer a friend of
royalty wns hel He had not found
his route to India. The gold ho had
expeetod lo unearth ttns not In his
hand. Ha died In 1604.
Hut all this Hmo, other countries
and other explorers had not been
Idle. They, loo, had heard of new
lands of wealth. They, too, had
hnrdy mariners waiting to launch r .
tholr Bhlps,
(Tomorrow! John Cabot of UnB
land puts fut lo era.)