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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1926)
THE KLAMATH DAILY NEWS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON ' TUESDAY, FEBRUARY ,9, 1 926 Ah Independent Republican Newspaper Conducted In the Interests of- All .Klamath County: Without Guile, Subsidy or "Perfidy xi v 1 . v. -V- Can t Accuse-Congress of Not Earning Its Money II.' "Let ut Lt faith That right make plight,. and in that faithtlet a t the, end -dare, to devour djjty'aa.W understand it "Abraham Lincoln. f - -.-.' Docs Absence Make the Heart Gi'dw Fonder? OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY. OF KLAMATH FALLS City Management "Voter" Discovers It Might lie Good Every now and then The Oregon Voter carries some surprising utterances along with its usual load of good things. For instance, the following: 1 ! "' "Klamath Fails' city council has authorized the formation of a special commission of five to study the merits and demerits of the cityi manager plan of government. If there is any virtue in that plan of municipal administra tion, let's know about it. Klamath Falls is one of l.ie rapidly growing cities in the state. It may be on the threshold of becoming the Spokane of Oregon. If its present city gov ernment is creaking under the strain of ex pansion, a serious "study of the city manager plan is timely. If that city's present form of government is adequate, the study and report of the special commission will at least serve a valuable educational function." ' - While we appreciate the compliment he pays Klamath Falls, one expects such a man as is the editor of the Voter to know some thing of city management. And it would ap pear that he had written the above while look ing out the window. . Bar Secrecy New Policy of District Board Instructions have been given the new sec retary of the Klamath irrigation district by the directors to give the public access to the min utes of the board and such other matters as have been considered by the board. In short, the policy of secrecy is to be changed. It has been the custom in the past to hide the district activities, and this has been car ried to the point of the ridiculous. Even the budget, when published, was aborted for some twisted reason and shorn of $4,000. This was done, too, in a "co-operatively" owned paper, supposed to be published in the inter ests of the farmers, and the former secretary of the district is a director and editor of that paper. When public bodies keep their records a secret" from the public they do not inspire confidence, and many things are possible that are in the private rather than the public inter- ! est. That sadly corrupted budget as pub jlished is an example. :The correct budget j would have caused no comment, but the pub lic must be kept in ignorance of what is going j on, it is reasoned bj' those who would do such j a thing. , ' The irrigation district will lose nothing by '.the change of front, and the board of directors 'are to be commended. for their action. . ".: J The Department of Agriculture has start ed a drive to exterminate mistletoe which' . means that some folks just won't get kissed 'even on Christmas. ! (JWMmwM want ! rl Vl ' ' YOU BACK fmf i : I1 tife5 Where Eveiy One Must Look for Happiness The mun who formerly pub lijshed seed catalogues seems to he editing tourist inugazlnes now. Flint Journal. fly CUItK To one man the world Is bar ren, dull, nnd superficial; lo an other rich, interesting, anil full of meaning. Happiness Is a thins to he prac tised, like the, violin; and like the violin, difficult to master completely. . There are many whose very birth la a sentence of hard labor for life. But that does not apply to the poor only. The rich now work quite as hard, or even harder. There are many whose very money makes them miserable in whose life there is no rest, no calm, no peace. There is a story about a Persian king who being out of spirits con sulted his astrologers,' and was told that happiness could be found by wearing the shirt of a perfect ly happy man. The court nnd all the prosper ous classes in the world were searched In vain. No such man could be discovered. KIV.VUHD. At lust a lalmrcr coming from his work ill the fields was found to fulfill the condition; he was ab-. solutely happy. But, the remedy for the king's melancholy was as far off as ever. The happy man owned no short. i - Happiness cannot be bought with riches, neither can It be grasped by power. We ,arc told, ."Anthony sought for hnppiness In love; Ilrtitus in glory; Caesar in dominion; the first found disgrace, the second disgust, the last Ingratitude, and each destruction." t We do nqt need to look outside of ourselves for the spring of hap piness. If a man has not got the ele ments of happiness in himself, not all the beauty, the pleasures and Interests of the world can give It to him. i It is our own fault If we do not enjoy life. , Among the heavy liabilities of certain foreign nations Is no small amount of borrowed trouble. Philadelphia Public Ledger. After you've struggled for 30 minutes with tho range it's hard to believe that a clgnrette ever starts a fire. Konuoke World News. The old-time country editor will have his doubts about Kdllor Frank Munsey leaving an estate of 140,000,000 Iluker Herald. -Dinner Stories f 7 V , t-r : L A.travelex. who believed him self to be sole survivor of a ship wreck upon a cannibal isle hid for three days in terror of his life. Driven out by hunger, he discov ered a thin wisp of smoke rising from a clump of bushes Inland, nnd crawled carefully to study the type of savages about It. Just as he reached Ilia clump ho heard a voice say: "Why In hell did you play that card?" He dropped on his knees and, devoutly raising bis hands, cried: "Thank Cod they are Christians!" i . . r . A tramp went to a farm house, and sitting down In tho front yard began lo eat the grass. Tho housewife's heart went out to him: "Poor man, you. must In deed be hungry, Comn around to the buck.'i The tramp beamed and winked at the hired man. "There," said the housewife wien the tramp hove In sight, pointing to a circle of green gruss, "try that; you will find that grass so much longer." The radio Industry Is In Its in famy. That's why the darn thing kicks up such a racket when ypu haVe company. Ashland Tidings. II) MHH. KI.I. WI I doubt It It la true Hint "ab sence makes tha heart grow fonder," is often said. This correspondent uNo doubts It: leur Mrs. Thompson: I am a very nice girl of 20, nud thought ruther good looking, 1 aui in love with a young man about seven years my senior. Ho dossn't live here now. He went to where ho uow works about seven months ago. He hua always mituiiKcd lo spend utl the bollduy with me. Uut he neve; cuiiih the lust two bolldsya to see me. lie nuld lt was too rntd and stormy Hit drives through In his cur. Now I huven't heard f rum III ill for a week and always before I got oil" letter and often two or three a week from him. I have written him twtc sluce then.. It worries me so ni'il tiinkes me heartsick when 1 can't hear from him. We are enguifd to be married, I have gone with him year now. We had gone together four and one-half months when he said he loved me and asked me to marry blm. He gave me u diamond en gagement ring. He always arts like he loves me when we are to gether, too. The reason we have not married yet is my sweetie says he thinks It la best to wail, and I believe It la, too. Ho wan" to get a start and have place to tako me to before we get married.' Do you think he means It and really loves me? A party says tlmy, bet he Is trying to put m off and that he doesn't rare for me and doesn't Intexd to marry me. Do you think he is fooling- me? K. C. M. It Is not fair of you to ques tion tile young , man's fidelity without bolter evidence Unit his love for you is waning. H is selfish of you to complain because ho didn't come to see you on those holidays, when Jie thought it was too cold nnd stormy. And men often are railed upon to work so hard during a particular period that they are too tired In the live ning .to be In the mood to write to even their loved ones. However, It may be that the separation is causing him to love you less. I'd continue to write him cheery let ters, making the scolding light, until you ure sure be Las had a change of heart. KTII TIIOMI'HO!. HKIl I.DVrllH MrTlli:il IMi:.H not i.iki: in n. .i Dcur Mrs. Thompson: I nm 24 year old and buvu been going aleady wltb a young mun for four years. . One yenr ao this young man asked nin to imirry blm anil live with Ills people, to which I did nut approve. I truthfully luld blm that 1 knew I could not get . along with bis mother aud no root was large enough to rover two families. Hlnre that ' time his mother has disliked me nud says her sun inn nuvvr marry me. Now I love this young man and he says be cares for mo in spite of all his mother's talking about me, which Is practically all the time. Herein ly alio urged htm to go awny, hoping that we would forget each other, but be writes lo pie and wants me to write to him. Now don't you think If lie cares enough for nm thut he would get a home for me, and his inoibvr would al ways be welcome to roine there? My parents lull me I aiu foolish and I should go with other young men and forget him, because they do not want n-.o to cause any trouble with his mother. People tell me that know her thut she Is only jealous of me. Now, what shall I do? prZ'l.KP. You are right In your stand about wanting n home of your own, and you shouldn't budga an. Inch. It may be that he feels he Isn't able, to support a hi n rate, establishment, but you ought to be able to show him how by be ginning III an liiopcnslve place with simplo furnishings, you enn save money until you're uble lo afford something belter. Don't force blm to choose between his mother nnd you, but tactfully make it easy for htm to endure the criticisms his friendship fur you bring from her. You are old enough to know your own heart anil deride for yourself, so don't let your family worry you. fMrs. Thompson Is ntwnys anx ious to give as much assistance as possible lo persons who need her help, but certain rules are neces sary. Names of correspondents rnnnnt be divulged to others Ques tions relating to beauty prepara tions and heullh cannot be consid ered: The more pressing questions are nnswered first, ef m , !,at the same Impartial utlentioii Is given lo every letter. Don't be Impatient If your questions aren't answered 'Immediately. There may be many others ahea4 of you It is probable that mony queens , of tho kitchen share that .senti ment good-naturedly expressed by a (Scandinavian servant, recently taken into the service of a young matron of Chicago. Tho youthful assumer of house hold cares was disposed lo bo n trlflo patronizing. "Now, Lena," she asked earn estly, "are you a good cook?" . "Ya-as. 'in, I tank so," said the girl with perfect naivete, "If you vlll not try to help me." It's bard to tell the day of the week since tho housewives have taken to banging the clothes In doors. Columbia Mlssotirlnn. Some Pages from 9y VICfOR A XHW COLONY IS PI,.INTKI. You have beard bow the Pilgrims wore persecuted In Knglund and came to this country for freedom and for peace. And you have heard how 'the Quakers 'catno here to free themselves from cries of "Heresy!" ' Hut' you must not think that all the colonists who came to America came because they 'wero 'id-treated or because they were of a different religion from that of the king. People who loved novelty and ad venture began coming here because of tiie thrilling tales they heard of Indian fights and sudden wealth to bo found. I 1 The state that we call Maryland hud - already bean Included In tho Virginia grant but the king didn't mind granting the snme land to two different people npon different occa sions. The boundary lines were so very uncertain nnd the king 'sn far from the scene of action that he found that he could "get away" with this sArt'of thing rather nicely. Perhaps he didn't even know what he was doing, since' true, careful mops were almost unknown. ' ' Lord Ilaltlmore sent colonists to form a new Maryland Conony. At that time Mary was queen of Eng land 'and the colony was named for her, ' American History MORGAN L , .' V1. S The place chosen for tha colony was a high bluff overlooking the splendid Potomac. The feeling In Virginia ran high against the new colonists. 1 Thoyi thought them to be trespassers on land that was really a 'part of Virginia.' ' At' the same time,, perhaps 'they felt regrei that they; had never planted a set tlement rn so promising a pleco of ground. , And the newcomers hud come to stay. They spread out and multi plied. Their friends and perhaps their neighbors followed them over to he their friends nnd neighbors In the new land. When they unff rrrst landed they had come npon an Indian village. The wigwams were set along little paths for streets and them wero cornfields In the clenrlngs. Tho Marylnnders had an ryo for business. The men sought' tho Indian chiefs of the' village nnd' drove a good bnrgnlni' -Tbey bought the entire vil lage: as It stood:)- i-, '. ' Ho the Indians . packed ' their blankets .nnd their gny .dresses, strnpped-.'ithclr .-papooses o their bnrks nnd went off to birjld a new vlllugO' Inrther hack. In the forest. . M SN ftl, ,ei t OJk : i ". r tomorrowr ' first Mgnk' f Confiil , prntlon. 'l ' ir I