THE KLAMATH NEWS BMSfZ
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR
CITY OF KLAMATH FALLS
Am Independent Republican Newspaper Conducted In the Interests of All Klamath County: Without Guile. Subsidy or Perfidy
"Let u haw faith that right makes might, and in
that faith let u to the end dare to do our duty a we
understand it." Abraham Lincoln. -
Oregon Welcomes Mitchell
Militant "Billy" Mitchell Arouses Interest And
Appreciation Of Oregonians
Kidnaped from the Shasta Limited at
Hornbrook, California, Saturday, by a roister
ing crew of Grants Pass Cavemen, Colonel
' "Billy" Mitchell, recently deposed head of the
. United States air service, was given his choice
of being initiated into the Caveman order or
suffering death.
"I'd rather be killed," the militant colonel
is reported as saying, following his sally with
more good-natured banter that threatened to
break up the initiation. "
"I'd rather be killed," uttered this time in
. pure humor, is, nevertheless, a significant
. phrase typifying the man. Believing the ulti
mate safety of the country to be endangered
through incompetent management of the na
tion's air forces, Mitchell, then a brigadier
general, risked the loss of his position and
prestige, even honor and possible imprison
ment, that the country might have a chance to
weigh the facts concerning its power in the air.
;' No one can doubt that were Colonel
Mitchell ever confronted with the choice of
death rather than dishonor, or death rather
t-han spf Viia rniintrv harmpd. his choice for
t7re? - - J. r ' 1
neroiC sacrifice would be instant."
America has never lacked, and yet has
always need for, men of the stuff of which
Colonel Mitchell is made. They are its Nathan
Hales, its Stephen Decaturs, and its Richard
Hobsons. More specifically, Colonel Mitchell
is for the air forces what Admiral Sims was
for the navy in the recent war the "stormy
petrel" whose daring criticisms of higher au
thority forced swivel-chair war makers in
Washington to face the facts of a dangerous
situation.
Hats off to Colonel "Billy" Mitchell. Ore
gon will listen to what he has to say.
England's Agony
Both Sides Feel Empire Lives
The grea strike in England, matching in
industry the fateful moments of the war's start
in 1914; seems the work of organizers of in
ternational ability. Like the moves of the gov
ernments during the war, the strikers in grad
ually putting on pressure to strangle industry,
communication and transportation reveal the
work of traineed staffs of executives.
But balanced against this is the counter
strategy by which the government plans to
distribute food, keep the mails moving and
issue news by radio, just beginning to show.
Joined as they are in the strife, both sides
maintain their loyalty to England and assert
their belief that the thousand year old govern
ment will continue to function.
And all this recalls the stress of our own
Civil War when a prayer of thanks went up
over the word,
"The government at Washington still
lives."
Another Circe Who Changes Men Into Swine
tut.
Ever Since Eden
"1 am not the person I used to
be!"
We gate at onrself in mem
ory's mirror, and glady or sadly
it all depends upon what the
mirror tells us make this re
mark. And say nothing now or
original.
Such reflection has been going
on since the world began. Very
likely Eve said it first as she
stopped to primp a bit at some
crystal pool after a week or so of
wandering outside the gates of
Eden.
far, we must go further. We must
realize that everything we did
along the line the way we walk
ed, the way we talked, the Ideals
that were ours, were, after all,
not necessarily THE WAYS tho
rest of the universe must follow,
but really nothing more or less
than experiments to bring us
where we now are.. We must
grant those who follow after us
the right to experiment and to
discover their own method of
progression.
trirtions but by their own knowl
edge of what they want. I think
the situation will lead to a bet
ter balanced standard of ," sex
. morality ; nnd, on tho whole, s
higher one."
Time will tell. Dut until then
wo will do well to remember
this:
'Today is not yesterduy. We
ourselves change. How can our
works and thoughts. If they are
always to be fittest, continue al
ways the same? Change indeed
Is painful, yet ever needful, and
if memory have Its force and
worth, so also has hope."
Carlylo.
Dinner Stories
Suppose we are looking nt
somebody upon when experience,
has left its mark! What of It?
Would we wish back the unfur
rowed brow, the eyes so cool, so
shallow, the indecisive mouth of
our youth?
If we are wise, we will not.
These are symbols of life untried
and untested. Sure signs, all, that
there are yet to come the real
trials and temptations.
However joyous' youth may be,
maturity has Its compensations.
And she who has come to the
years of discretion unmarked by
the moments, has been allotted
the dwarf's part, has been denied
growth and development.
We live and we learn; we lose
or we gain; and as we dance we
pay the fiddler. But we do not,
we cannot, remain unchanged
through the years and what they
bring us.
We are mortal, and so utterly
Incapable of remaining stable,
with time withering and custom
staling everything about us.
At thirty we think differently
about the very same thing than
we would have thought at six
teen. At forty we seldom agree
with 'oursclf at thirty. And so
it goes, or so it ought to.
Unless we are narrow of mind
and of soul we do not cling to an
outworn code of thinking. If we
are honest we confess the grad
ual change within us.
Then when we hare gone this
For Instance, after having be
come a respected matron, why
should Madame so harshly con
demn the Flapper because the lat
ter scorns the conventionalities
she once deemed so essential?
The matron's Ideal is the "lit
tle lady" she now fondly imag
ines herself to have been as a
girl but probably wasn't! The
chances are ' that Madame was
naughty upon a time and very
possibly a little fool. But, prud
ishly protected as she was, she
managed to k,cep it under cover.
Miss Flapper doesn't try to.
She Is HERSELF, always and at
all times, frankly unashamed of
anything that she may do. It is
this "braienness" that appalls
Madame. , i
Yet just as Mrs. Matron came
out all right, so too ' will Miss
Flapper: And It may well be that
out of all today's reslessness and
daring rebellion will come a bet
ter civilization, a lens cramped,
more honest, coda' of morals.
This is what Mrs. Myrtle Cole,
dean of the North Dakota Ag
grlcultural College, has to say
upon the subject:
"Standards are undoubtedly
changing. Women ire assuming
the rights of men, finding out for
themselves what they want to
know. For a time It may bo the
survival of the fittest. But those
who do survivo will be fit In
deed, because they have been
protected not by artificial res-
The celebrated pianist was tell
ing a few tales at the dinner
party. "Yes," he said, "the fact of my
being a good pianist oncVssvod
my life from a severe flood I ex
perienced. "Oh, how was that?" queried a
voice.
"You see, when tho water
struck our house my wife man
aged to scramble aboard the din
ing room table and floated down
the stream until sho was res
cued." ,
"Yes, but where did you come
In?" queried the same voice.
"Welt, I accompanied her on
the piano," grinned the pianist
genially.
STEP BY STEP
(Contluurd from Page One)
ftiarkefsj;
entered unwillingly lulo the battle
between capital and labor. Hun Kramlwo, .May 8.
I Recruiting stations were flooded j POTATO HH
with volunteers and emergency serv- California rlvsrs. 14. It; Wash.
! Ices began aa the workers dropped Ingtoii gums. 1 3.74 (f 4.00: sweets,
their tools or failed lo report for's'o. 1, 6ill61ci No. I, to.
duty In the morning.
The labor leaders, who adjourned
a meet lux at daybreak singing tho
I ATTI.W
Cattle steady; slnsrs, good, ll.it
C$5 76; rows, good and choice,
"Itvd Flux," struck their first blow j (.86 (.76.
of the catastrophic general strike Calves, study: 10 lbs, and un
by ordering tho Jammliig" of tlo'der. .00f 10.00; over 1(0 lbs.,
government broadcasting stations.
Itiiillu Klglil Oil
III the absence of newspapers, the
govereniiienet had Intended to
broadcast news six times dally. The
. S0(f 11.00.
Hogs, steady; light, 114. ISO
14.76: medium. 113.16 0 1176.
Sheen, steady; lambs, medium to
I choirs. Ill 60OI13.I6; awes, 14.00
No,
! No.
electricians' union was ordered by w,
the trades union congress lo put "!
wireless stations out of comnilsnlnn ,'
as such times aa this was attempted.
There was little disorder In Lon
don, where rheerlug workers march
ed through the streets without mo-
ipeiauuii 117 urn iiuiien, uuui mi- ( .
grew tired nnd struggled home to , '
their beds. 1
Premier Baldwin's government
proved that It had prepared well for
I the national emergency by using the
royal air force to gather and trans-
I mil the malls, sending fleets of lor
ries rushinng to and from London
with milk and neceaary foodstuffs
and manning the paralysed rall
roada with volunteer crews.
wethers,, II 000110.10.
! ' IVHlmul. May 8
IIAIILKY
May ' "III
, No. a 44 lbs. May
' Asked
11.00
17.00
17.00
17.00
27.00
I, 4( lbs, June t
I, 4 4 lbs. April ....
1, 44 lgs. June
1, 44 lbs. Muy
WIIKAT
111k Bend bliieatcm, 11.41; hard
whllv, 11.43; soft white, 11.40;
western white. 81.401 hard win
ter, 11.40 northern spring, M0;
western red. I 40.
WOOL
Nominal; valley, fins half blood,
36c; medium three-quarters blood,
36c; coarse or thrvs-quarler blood.
Itoyul air force officers tookjjjc; braid, 33c. At valley points
charge of the malls-at midnight ami; prl0t (ra jc to 6c higher for Se
al! night long, motorcycle carriers lected stuck.
raced through the streets collecting
letters for transmission by air
plane. It there wus one unanimous sen
. tttnenl, It was that of confidence
; that Britain would function through
, out the strike.
! lti-rruiuHwnrm
Ilecrultlng officers throughout the
United Kingdom were swamped with
applicants after the announcement
of the failure of negotiations In the
', house of commons had been broad-
: cast. Hlval preparations of the gov
ernment and the workers continued
i throughout the night, warlike dis
patches being flashed by telegraph
and telephone to every quarter of
, the country, orders to the various
leaders regarding such things as
I collecting 'milk Or innlntulnliig or-
,! der.
I Everywhere throughout the coun-
try soldiers moved mysteriously and
. unobtrusively.
Buying price, currant receipts,
130 14c dosen; hennery writes.
16(1 30c; hennery pullets, 11c.
MUTT Kit
Selling price, box lots, creamery
prices: Firsts, citrus. 41c for plain
v.nnn.r, i h I fw f In ritu-ntint Af I SI
1 1 per cent; dairy buying price, 180. '
lected lota.
('IIF.F-HR
Selling price: Tillamook county
ripleta 17 Vic; loaf. Is fee; Oregon
rlpleta. not branded, 16c; Tilla
mook, f o b. triplets 16c; loaf, lc;
Coos county triplets, 10c; loaf, lOe.
i.ivk poi'iruv
Heavy hens, !7ctflc; light to
medium, 1(41 17c; broilers, HO
SOr; Pekln ducks, 17V 10c; color
ed, tie ti Sic; dressed turkeys. 40o
41 44c; live turkeys, 30c.
FAIRV1EW- MT. LAKI
Mr. and Mrs. Miinrns of Ktnm-
At Hyde Park, and at thousands nth Falls wore dinner guests of Mr.
of other points motor trucks by the
hundred, tho' score 'and the half
riozon were assemebled and tuned
up, ready to transport the morn
ing's milk and food.
The railway companies continued
secret preparations to, run aa many
trains aa possible, with volunteers.
"raipFgalore
(Continued from rge One)
house lawn as a result of having
In his possession Intoxicating li
quor. 'Charley was unable to pay
his flno of 1300 and oosta in
Spink's court..
In a raid early Sunday morning
on the Imperial hotel "Alaska"
John Johnson and John Nelson
wero taken in custody along with I business meeting, delielom
flvo gallons of alleged moonshine
nnd two cases of beer. Slate of
ficers Mcllride and Zimmerman and
federal officer Tld Shirley partici
pated In this rnld.
Arraigned befnro Justice Em-
anil Mrs. Hrntt Thompson April It.
Mnrshall Smith waa .a. week-end
viitor nt the Ben Hamilton home.
Johnny Stewart of Malln spent
Sunday at the home nf his undo,
Frank Stewart. I
Mrs. Viola Pollard left for Eugene
to Join her husband. Thvy will make
tlirlr borne In Hugene.
Mrs. Francis Lamb of Portland
was a guist of Mra. 8. K. Morrison
lest week. , '. i
Tho Ladles' Aid met last Wednes
day with Mrs. H. Senmn. They
elected their offlcors for the coming
yenr. Mrs. Van Myers, president:
Mrs. llnrry Booth, secretary; Mrs.
Vern Met'lellen. 'treasurer. The
nut meeting will be held In the
Ml. I.akl church May 10. After the
refresh
ments were served. Those prosont
wero Mrsdnmes Knlnr, West. Ham
ilton. Booth, Dltnn, Morrison, Mc
Clellnn, Vern MiClollsn, Koontz,
Wll, Chevne,.) Hchurbert, Ilussell,
llnrk, MrCluy, Johnson, Triplet,
milt, Johnson and Nolson pleaded , Haley, Illult, Myers and the hostess,
guilty and drew tines of liioo and , Mra. Hemnn.
1260 respectively. John Melln-
nls drew a $25 set back rn a pos
session charge from the same court.
Cretonne klmonas on sale at Bee
Bealn's Store for 11.00. A30 M4
A farmer l.ad a horse ho was
anxious to sell, and one day
whllo driving with one of his
summer boarders tho horse stop
ped so frequently as to lead the
other to ask:
"What alls your horse, that ho
stops so often? Is he balky?"
"No," replied the farmer, "he's,
all right. It's simply he's so
blamed afraid somebody will say ,
'Whoa,' and he won't hoar It,
that ho stops to listen."
Some tourUts nt an hotol In a
small Italian town were looking
through the menu when a pollto
water came to their assistance.
"Tho ham Is not, and tho
chicken never was," he explained,
"so will foil have your eggs tight
or. loose?"
UPPER SWAN LAKE
Most of the people from Upper
Swan spent Sunday at- tho lava
beds. Capt. O. C. Applcgato acted,
as guide.' , All report a vert enjoy
able day.
j Irving Nichols of Lower Swan was
a visitor In this community Thura-
day. j
A large number from Upper Swan
plan a basket dinner and picnic nt
'Cabin Springs for Sunday, May 11.
All friends are invited. . j
I Mr. and Mrs. Jean llnho and fnm-i
i lly have moved to Lost Itlver valley
I near Oleno, whero they will mako'
their home. I
A box social and program will lie
given at Swan school on Saturday,
May 16, 8 p. m. Special features
! will be the Ford Concert Wagon ,
and Paul Bunyon's radio. The Low
ler Swan school nnd community will
I co-operate. Women and girls plonsoi
'bring baskots. Proceeds go to pur
chase phonograph records. All whoi
I enjoy a good time are Invited to
come.
Itnlurns Homo Miss Dorothea
Wortley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. O. Wortley, has returned to her
j homo In Klamath Falls nfter an
absence of more than six months.
,Mlss Wortley has visited In Pitts
burgh, Kansas, and returned to
I Klamath Fulls tho southern route,
visiting In Los Angeles nnd Snn
Frarclsco. Sho Is bolng welcomed
homo by her ninny friends In the
younger set
Office (11.1 Mnln St.
Klnmatli Falls, Ore.
Ilmne ODD.
Office Klngo Depot,
Mcdfnrd, Ore.
Phone 800.
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Folders mulled on request. '
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Redding ........... g.10
Sacramento ,...11.70
San Francisco - M 16.00
Los Angeles M.7J
San Diego 90.01
Han Jose . 16.61
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Leaving Time Medrnrd, I, 10.61
a. m., 1:30 p. m.; Klamath Falls,
7:45 a. m., 1:00 and 1:46 p. m.
Wo use heated Ondlllao busses.