ÁáttLAND DAILY Thursday, April 20, 1022 Ashland * © • ibout something else. No mun- ality west of Dublin can boast of Established IS Published Every Evening Except such a consistent record, says the Medford Mall-Tribune. Sunday By GEORGE E. ROBERTS THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO. _ F irst th ere was a court house war, (From the Monthly Bulletin Issued by The National City Bank of New York for April) OFFICIAL CITY A N D c d U N T f^ resulting in the construction of two court houses, then th ere was a news­ PAPER paper war„ with editors behind b ar­ TELEPHONE 39 H E general feeling in business circles is one of strengthening ricades shooting out copy via the E. J. BARRETT, Editor OTHER FACTORS INFLUENCING CONDITIONS confidence that the corner has Colt autom atic. Now, after a few been turned and that 1922 will be a Aside from the unsettled and extremely unsatisfactory state subscription Price Delivered in City weeks’ diversion with a lum ber'm ill b e tte r year than 1921. The improve­ ot the reparations question, European affairs have been pro­ One month ........................... .. . . $ .65 strike, sagging interest 1 b revived by m en t in fundam ental conditions and gressing in a manner to give encouragement in general feeling since the first of Three m o n t h s .............................. 1.95 a recall against Mayor Wiley, The Genoa Conference, although of vague import, should the year has been very m arked; in­ s'x months .................................. 3.75 accomplish something by bringing the high representatives of all charged with bootlegging affilia­ deed, from the middle of January to Europe together. One year .................................... 7.50 tions. Every now and then some the first of M arch optimism was M a il a n d R u r a l R o u t e s The disturbance in the textile industry of New England is p erh ap s over-pronounced, and a One month ..................................$ .65 courageous citizen ar-:es to suggest unsettled and spreading, with a likelihood of involving the entire m oderate reaction in some lines has textile industry of that section before it is settled. Three months .............................. 1.95 peace or at least a sh o rt period of naturally resulted. *1 he public has taken the impending coal strike very quietly Six months .................................. 3.50 arm ed neutrality. It is pointed out 1 T he stock m arket, which is refusing to believe that there will be any serious effects upon One year ..................................... 6.5C business. th at open w arfare, while stim ulating p ro m p t to reflect and even anticipate ADVERTISING RATES changes in fundam ental conditions, 1 he labor organizations may have more power than the em­ to the sporting instincts, pays no |has been creeping upward for the ployers, but both are subject to economic law. There is more to Display Advertising grocery bills. But the protest Is last six m onths in a slow but per­ the industr.al problem than a mere trial of strength between 81i) te insertion, each in ch ........... 30c soon lost in the uproar of another sisten t m ovem ent which suggests employers and wage-workers. Industrial peace and progress is - YEARLY CONTRACTS dependent upon a general understanding of this fact. ' faith th at better days are coming. civic riot. Display Advertising The unfavorable factor which continues to retard industrial | Railroad traffic, as indicated by One tim e a w eek.............................. 27 %c Of course this spirit is modern, »ecovery is the unbalanced relationship between values in the I the reports of car-loadings since the Two times a week....................... 25 in few portions of the world today is different industries, resulting from the uneven fall of prices and ■ first of the year, have been running Nveiy other d a y .......................... 20 wages. - r peace fashionable. But some day .ahead of last year, although Janii- Local Readers ! ary gross earnings were about 1 6 ---------------------------------- the worm will turn. When it does, Each line, each tim e .................... 10c per cent, below those of the same rise in prices of farm products To run every other dhy for one we suggest th at the court house prec­ It Although the exports of all meat m onth of 1921. On the other hand came so easily and naturally as to products in 1921 increased 3 per month, each line, each t im e .. 7c edent be followed. Instead of hav­ S57 M M ™ ® ° l 199 r° adS " Cre de,no" stTale ¿»'at the country had cent, in pounds over tnose ot ¡ M To run every issue for one month those of 1920, ing one city of K lam ath Falls, why 228 W 956 in T JanUario?i aM?;ins.’ been suffering from excessive pessi- hog products fared rer better than beef’ or more, each line, each tim e .. 5c S L 33? ’9; i January, 1921. v.lnch m.stn. and that in the natural order Cotton is about where it was at not have two? One m ight be chris­ Classified Column expenses reduCt'° n ,n Opera,,n(T ’lungs the economic situation, the beginning of M arch. As the One cent the word each time. tened K lam ath City and the other expenses. glVen reasonable time, would re- world has been living on reduced To run every issue for one month Falls City— although the titles are grading in all lines is on a short cover its equilibrium. Grain - prices prices consumption consum ption for f o r several s e v e r a l years it , , or more, %c the word each time. o rd er basis. Foreign buyers wish "i M arch lost a part of their Feb- very much needs to use more cot- im m aterial. But have two distinct Legal Rate to avoid the risks of exchange ruary gams but the reasons were ton, and the situation is disquieting, F irst time, per 8-point lin e ......... 10c civic corporations, put all of one fac­ fluctuations so far as possible, and obvious and there was no serious If the season should be bad for the tion in one unit, and all the others Each subsequent time, per 8- in the dom estic trade there is a iiro s- loss of confidence. The breaking of grow ing crop we may have very point line ..............................I . . 5c In the other, and then erect a Chin­ pect that in some lines, part.cu- P’o drought in the southw est and high prices for cotton Such an out- Card of t h a n k s ........................... $1.00 ese, sound-proof wall between them. larly clothing and textiles, prices im provem ent in the outlook for the come is very undesirable for it will Obituaries, the line ...................2% c m ay be lower. T here is general 'V inter wheat crop was the pi in- mean high' prices to ’consumer» Then there might be some chance of Fraternal Orders and Societies agreem ent, however, that both at cipal factor in the decline. For sev- with little com pensating benefit to Advertising for fratern al orders a normal and peaceful life, provided, hom e and abroad stocks have been eral .m onths the country had been rowers. or societies charging a regular initi of course, stringent and uncom­ w orked down to the minimum and bearing that the condition of the Prospects E ncouraging m ust be constant buying K ansas wheat crop was and ation fee and dues, no discount. Re* promising im m igration laws were es­ * th a t there , . critical ---- On the whole there seems to be ligious and benevolent orders will be to meet the dem ands for current getting worse every day. and then a good basis for believing that a eri- charged the regular rate for all ad tablished at every hole In the wall. eonsum ption. This is one respect canie snow and ram, and the pros- culture in all branches will have a »n which the situation is decidedly P « » »« now reported good for a better m arket for the next cron than vertislng when an admission or other xnore favorable than it was in »he large crop. I he world situation in for the last one. The farm er’s costs charge is made. CIVILIZATION latte r Part of 1920 and throughout wheat is closely balanced and any are declining, and we believe that There are now 115,000 miles of W hat Constitutes Advertising m ost ot 1921. im portant news is likely to have die necessary readjustm ent» to more than the usual effect. Aus- bring industry into balance require In order to allay a m isunderstand­ paved or surfaced highways In the T he steel industry hhs made m arked recovery, the U nited States tra l'? and A rgentina are both ex- that they shall continue to decline ing among some as to w hat consti­ United States— more than there are •tccI Corporation now operating at P °r !,ng !rccly New wheat from It is in the interest of all business’ tutes news and what advertising, or ever were in any other country about 70 per cent, of capacity and , ava'Ub!c w ith in a that the farm ers, the m ost num er- we print this very simple rule, which th e independent companies in tne m onth- a,,d the harvest is only three otis class in the country shall have is used* by newspapers to differenti­ in the world. They have all been •KKregate a t probably 60 per cent. „7 ?£L,n__tr” ’ ‘^ " u tr y . As the a fair show in the field. W ith ag ri- ate between them : "ALL future builty, too, within com paratively few W hen it is considered that produc- cn‘.1 ,h.e cr°P Vc ' r a p p ro a -lu - cultural production increasing in events, where an admission charge years. When the system provided tion capacity has increased about opinions about the supplies give way Europe the farm er cannot expect is made or a collection is taken IS lor in the federal highway act Is 50 per cent, since before the war. it to rcal" es-. »here have been two the prices of his products to go ADVERTISING.” This applies to i will be seen that this is far from a po?,,'.vS opinions as to whether or hack to the high level» due to the organizations and societies of every completed, the ag ricu ltu ral _ depart­ not this ~~............... country was selling it «e war, and if he has made mistakes of ■ state of stagnation. m ent reports, the improved mileage kind as well as to individuals. now gen- judgm ent by buying property at The implement industry, althnuyl, All reports of such activities after will am ount to 180,000 miles. will he enough to go high prices lie has lots of company j Still far from normal, is much better around they have occurred is news. The process will keep right on, ■ among people who are not farmers, than at this time last year, and that ‘ Corn All coming social or organization »• the case also with the automobile flucnccd and oats always are in- but he has a right to expect that m eetings of societies where no with accelerating sjieed, establishing ,0 with the I t m b ' m e ' Z i X m i h c ^ ' - ' ' ' — V ” “ r *"?“ • * « • industry, and even more so money contribution is solicited, initi­ new trunk lines across the continent 1 hr shall have a purchasing power in re. building industry. The figures for ation charged, or collecton taken IS and up and down, in a transportation » H a .t e r re r'rk a b lc per’ «' « » tra l market, are iatinn to other commodities and NEWS. p its ’ in 161 Cities aggregating -'„J '?Pt ° S,° raf c cap“c,t>’- ?nd »>’< services equal to system of ever-growing fineess and ^ >132.909,000 n ? . W 0 0 " i „ in " " F Februlrv ; b™ ^ ' ,!’ last ^ «»•, We ' ' / S do o "< n-oi'ISnk th m m ^ ' £ * 2 1 VC ™ r m ‘S * •!«' ?ot "i'-’i-» war' >» Entered a t the Ashland, Oregon, durability. $50,433.167 in February will t Postoffice as Second-class Mail Mat­ Im agine all this netw ork of good l»2l ? i ,i e (1 V" c