ASHLAND DAILY TW1XG8
ASH LAND
D A IL Y
T I D IN G S . velopment
of the automobile aud it is Already expressing
itself in wore stringent laws to punish drunken drivers.
(EstabUshed in 1876)
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'caught driving automobiles while intoxicated.
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Gasoline is undoubtedly going to settle the prohi-
l-ert R. Greer ......................................................................................... Editor j hition question for all time.
George Madden Green ..................................................... Business Manager: ,
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GOMPERS AND CONGRESS
Samuel Gompers’ pleasure, expressed Friday at the
$ .65iEl Paso convention, in the personnel of . the coming
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' tion of a President—what more natural than to find satis-
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opinions are swathed in a cloud of uncertainties.
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But the basic fact that men like Gompers put a value
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upon the work of each individual congressman and ex­
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press that estimate is very praiseworthy. It will be better
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for the United States when there is more of it. We do not
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believe in the American Federation of Labor going into
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La Follette. All that is asked is that Mr. Gompers state
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“All future events, where an admission charge is made or a plainly why is he for La Follette or some one else, and
Cd lection taken is Advertising.
then let his fellow .members in the federation judge for
No discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders.
themselves. But when he uses .his political position to
DONATIONS
No donations to charities or otherwise will be made in advertis- get his fellow officials to line up for La Follette, and then
iug or Job printing— our contributions will be in cash.
uses the force of the organization for La Follette—he is
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not injuring either the Republican party, as was shown
CONGRESS SHOULD TAKE OFFICE SOONER
in the election, nor is he hurting the country. He is just
On October 29th, the British electors went to the
doing one of those futile things that may injure the Amer­
polls and elected a house of commons with an over­ ican Federation of Labor. And we say in all sincerity
whelming Conservative majority.
that the American Federation of Labor is a valuable in-
Next month this house of commons will meet to take
p
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e stitution whose injury might delight certain foolish anti-
, p its work of legislation, of carrying out the mandate of )a,)or per80Dage8> but would be a gad blow to industry and
-he leope.
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!to social happiness in the United States.
Ik e newly-installed government will be in fid charge
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°f Congress overnight, if th a t body were misguided
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enough to pass'« statute that did not foursquare with his
That is a sensible .and democratic method of pro­ 1 judgements.
cedure.
On the whole, there is more political wholesomeness
But in America, what happens?
lor Mr. Gompers, or anyone else, to express a mature
Congress also will meet in December, hut it will not judgment upon what Congress has done, and then leave to
1 e the congress chosen last week, but the congress clios- the rank and file of us as citizens to judge of the vote of
< n in November, 1922.
each, congressman, as well as the vote as a whole.
It will represent, not the wishes and desires of The
This policy of getting experts—men like Gompers in
People now, but the wishes and desires of The People two bis way>
president of tbe United
cha^ ber of
ears ago.
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Commerce in his way, and men of standing and attain-
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ment in their several w ays-to »ivc opinions ^ o u t the
. oohdge should unexpectedly call it in special sess.on,effeet of official
. fter March 4th next, will not he even organized until „„ te8ts to the a8piratioll8 of offiee seekOT8 ¡g
We
December, 1925.
should have more of it.
This can be considered in no way helpful to efficient
administration of the nation’s affairs; nor to making the
The theory seems to be that the higher,the tariff the
government reflective of popular sentiment,
quicker we can get rich soakifig one another.
The inauguration of the new administration and the
new congress should follow closely on the election as in
An efficient man is one who can take time to do
England.
things necessary to health, and- yet not starve.
An amendment to this effect is now before congress.
It has received the approval of the house and should also
Highways are safe in the days of horse sense. Appar­
i e passed by the senate. It provides for the inauguration
ently the sense was credited to the right party.
( f the new president and the meeting of the new congress
simultaneously in January immediately after the elec­
The real housing problem is to make a neighborhood
tion, thus doing away not only with the long delay, but seem desirable, even though people can afford it.
••»Iso with the anomolou8 situation of a legislative body,
r
; 'ready voted out of office, continuing to legislate for the
It
is
fine
to have knowledge, but there is so little of
country.
it you can work into an ordinary conversation.
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NO COMFORT FOR OREGON W ETS
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EFFORT TO MAKE
NEW GAS RESOUS
Manufacture of home fermented wine or cider with
ft kick will not be any safer in Oregon than it has been.
Acquittal at Baltimore of Representative John P. Hill,
who was charged with violation of the Volstead law, does
rot help the wets of this state. Here in Oregon we have
u bone-dry state prohibition law with teeth. Its enforce­
ment is in the hands of state and count officials and the NEW YORK, Nov. 18. — Pic­
ture yourself being slowly poison­
federal government has nothing to do iyitli it.
ed by a gas so deadly that physi­
Wets generally will gain some degree of comfort cians cannot combat it — and
from the Hill verdict. Judge Soper, before whom Hill faced with the fact that you »will
was tried, held that home-made wine or cider made for be gradually driven insane, until
home consumption were not limited in alcoholic content at last seized with a raving mad­
from which the only relief is
to the one half of one per cent provided hv the Volstead ness
suicide!
act. That provision he held to be illegal, so far as it
Then you will realize the aw­
concerned effort to apply it to drinkables made at home. ful fate which waits for victims
But he made it equally clear that such drinkables must here of tetra-ethyl lead gas pois­
not be actually intoxicating. The jury was to he the oning, contracted by workers who
the dread chemical com­
judge, lie said, as to whether the Hill cellar products were handle
pound in the manufacture of a
intoxicating. The jury decided that they were not. Hill’s type of gasoline that prevents
cider, we gather from the dispatches, contained 2.70 per “knocking” of engines.
Scientists and manufacturers,
cent alcohol and his wine 11.64 per cent alcohol—pretty
have
known for gome time of the
stiff non-intoxicants.
The Volstead act has been weakened by the Soper
iulings and the Hill verdict. They will have a tendency CUT THIS OUT —
IT IS WORTH MONEY
to “ lift the lid” in states which have no prohibition laws
of their own. Oregon is not one of these. And neither in Send this ad and ten cents to
Oregon nor in the country at large is there any general Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield Ave.,
Chicago, 111., writing your name
weakening of the sound determination both to keep prohi­ and
address clearly. You will re­
bition and to enforce it. Prohibition is here to stav.
ceive a ten cent bottle of FOLEY’S
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for coughs, colds and hoarseness,
also free sample packages of
FOLEY PILLS, a diuretic siimu-
lent for the kidneys, and FOLEY
CATHARTIC TABLETS for Con­
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wonderful remedies have helped
millions of people. Try them. Sold
everywhere. _
A writer in a metropolitan newspaper takes the posi-
tion that gasoline lias forever settled the prohibition
amendment, including the Volstead act.
His logic is good, in the light of the facts. There are
more than fifteen million registered automobiles and mo­
tor trucks in the United States, one for every seven per­
sons.
Is there any sensible person who will admit that any
one of these fifteen million drivers should he permitted
to drink? We scarcely think so.
Where extra care in
The locomotive engineer, who under railroad rules
handling
and discipline of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin­
eers, is not allowed to drink intoxicating liquor, was
never under any greater strain than the man driving
an automobile in city traffic or on crowded country
highway.
Hee needs a cool head, a clear eye and a steady hand
to protect not alone his own life, but the lives of those enables us to give better
v*ho ride with him.
cuts
The power of the influence of public opinion is begin­
ning to have its affect because at least half of the people
Eagle Market
i ide in automobiles and they are demanding that drivers
of machines shall abstain from strong drink.
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Phone 107
The influence for sobriety will grow with the de-
MEATS
danger in handling the compound
but public attention was first at­
tracted to the subject when thirty-
five workers were stricken last
month in the development plant
of the Standard Oil Company at
Bayway, N. J. Five were driven
insane and died within a short
time.
The others are under observa­
tion at the Reconstruction Hos­
pital here. They have seen the
victims die one by one, and, with
terror clutching at their hearts,
they lie on their cots waiting,
waiting, waiting — never know­
ing when they will become mad­
men — placed In straitjackets
until death ends Their sufferings.
The victims’ only hope of re­
covery lies in Dr. Maximin Touart,
who has, discovered a form of
treatment which he believes will
save them. By giving them so­
dium bromide as a laxative with
Injections of» hyposulphite of soda
to dissolve the lead In their sys­
tems, he hopes to prevent further
deaths.
Tetra-ethyl lead was invented
to take the “knock” out of gaso­
line. Normally gasoline tends to
explode too violently in a cylin­
der. Mixing the chemical com­
pound with the gasoline makes the
explosion less violent and applies
the force against the piston more
evenly. It is used where gaso­
line is manufactured and where-
ever gasoline is exploded In an
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Two Dodge Tourings
1922 Maxwell Touring
Ford Coupe
Reo Truck
Chevrolet Sedan
Chevrolet Coune
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Instant Service on Ray-
bestos Brake Lining
Automotive Shop
Chevrolet and Dodge
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engine.
been made in the following buildings ($1,164,534), clothing]
Therv Is wisdom in reading xdS,
For a time it was feared that amounts:
($591,517), non-ferrous metals ,
- =.--- - j —
Textiles, $100,347,715.
garage mechanics and motorists
($256,061), and textiles ($240,-
Rolling stock, $98,488,618.
who handled gasoline might be
228).
Clothing, $88,008,6S2.
poisoned, but scientists disproved
The total of goods sold during
the idea. The compound was i Subsistence, $62,241,236.
the first quarter of the current
Non-ferrous metals, $60,908,- year is $2,577,725.
dangerous only when handled in
846.
concentrated form they said.
B IIL T FOR
When tetra-ethyl lead is a b -; Chemicals (acids and explos­ Sheridan — North Pacific Com­
ives)
$45,884,468.
sorbed into the nervous system it
pany already has 10,000 pounds
passes rapidly into the nervous : Ferrous metals, $41,827,954. cured walnuts from 300 acres.
tissues and is taken up by the j Retail stores, $37,785,485.
ceils of the nerve centres. In- I ' Land and buildings, $35,464,- fhe Tiding’s Ads Bring Results
AND
saqity is a form of disorder of the 132.
Animals, $22,315,551.
nervous system in which the cells
Machine tools, $16,541,564.
involved are those in thought and
Machinery and equipment, $15,-
reasoning. Thus a victim is
driven slowly insane as the lead 562,079.
Sales of surplus hardware,
poisoning gains headway:
The poisoning is hard to com­ small arms and small arms am­
will drive out the
airplanes,
leather,
bat, because it cannot be discov­ munition,
dinginess in y o u r
ered until the danger point has building material, motor and mo­
house
been* reached. A workman who tor supplies, railway materials,
has appeared to be in perfect lumber, nonmetallic scrap, medi­
health may be stricken suddenly cal, hospital and laboratory sup­
and die before a remedy can be plies, artillery and artillery am­
Our Phone 82
munition, ships, barges, electrical
given him.
Main - 1‘laza
Ashland
containers,’
Thomas Midgely, Jr., the in­ equipment, packing
ventor of ethyl gas, said the com­ oils, greases, office and household
pound had caused two deaths in equipment, fuel, tractors and I
the plant of the General Motors trench warfare material, each
Chemical Company at Dayton, amounting to several million dol­
Ohio, within the last year. He lars, have also been made.
During the first quarter of the
said forty others had been stric­
ken there, and that workmen in current year the largest sales
The very latest in men’s shirts—elephant gray
the Du Pont plants had been poi­ have been made of land and
broadcloth, standjup collar, snappy, dressy, warm,
soned to a lesser degree from
serviceable. Sec them in our window.
handling the compound.
Scientists believe, however, that
90 fatalities will result if the gas
is handled carefully. They urge
that the greatest precautions be
taken wherever it is used.
Biggest Little Store in Town
B A T T E R IE S
Fords, Chevrolets
Smaller Cars
Kalsomine
$13.00
Murphy Elec. Co.
J. O. RIGG
‘Tom Mix”
OUR
U S WAR DEP’T SELLS
PA RT
The Army Goods Store
in helping you to keep
house and enjoy life is in
taking the
Washing problems
IN SURPLUS GOODS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.— Just
to what extent the War Depart­
ment is in business in the sale
of surplus army supplies, and the
gigantic amounts of such goods
held by the Government still for
sale, is revealed in figures made
public today showing that surply3
stocks have been sold for $974,-
993,671. In addition, goods val­
ued at $359,069,467 have been
transferred to other departments
making the grand total of $1,-1
334,063,138.
Sales of wool and woolen goods !
have brought the largest returns, |
$252,954,670 worth having been
sold up to September 30. That ;
amount is 25.9 per cent of the!
total still on hand, indicating that
such suppliés will be sold by bid
for several years still to come. ;
Sales of other ' supplies have
off your hands.
The old day of “ Blue
Monday ” a n d It a c k-
breaking Tuesday can he
wiped off the calendar of
toil at. your home. Do
something else more en­
joyable on these days,
and let us worry about
keeping the family’s wear­
ing apparel clean.
Onr modern methods
and quick service assure
complete satisfaction and
economy.
Every Dollar spent here helps
to make Ashland a greater and bet­
ter city in which to live.
Every Dollar spent here helps
you or your neighbor some day.
Every Dollar spent here makes
a better store—better stores mean
better stocks and lower prices be­
cause of increased volume of busi­
ness.
Phone 165
Ashland
Laundry
FOLEY PILLS REACH­
ED THE SORE SPOT
Mrs. Ellen Reighard. South
Fork, Pa., writes: “I had been
suffering with my kidneys and
nothing seemed to touch the ach­
ing spot until I procured FOLEY
PILLS, with wonderful results.”
FOLLY PILLS, a diuretic stimu­
lant for the kidneys, gently and
thoroughly flush and cleanse the
kidneys and help to eliminate j
poisonous waste matter. Try a
bottle today and you will be well i
pleased with the relief obtained.
The use of FOLEY PILLS in­
creases kidney activity. Sold
everywhere.
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TRADE IN ASHLAND
First National Bank
Ashland, Oregon
Nurses Stop for No Barrier in Waging
Unrelenting Warfare Against Disease
r
W. L. Douglas
SHOES
for the men
who want quality and
wear
OVERLAND
Shoe Shop
TH E RED CROSS NURSE TYPIFIES TH E HUMANITARIAN WORK OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
THROUGHOUT THE NATION.
oo
N the welter of battered
communities struggling to
emerge from disaster: In
_____ the back reaches of Iso­
lated settlements amoug
people denied the simplest facili­
ties for ordered existence; In the
rural settlements, as In the great
cities, the Red Cross nurse Is ever
in service. It Is not strange, there­
fore. that probably 75 per cent of
Americans, when they think of Red
Cross, visualize the great humani­
tarian organization in the figure of
the Red Cross nurse.
For forty years she has gone
about ber self-sacrificing tasks
newspaper story after another
tells of the activities of hold-up without thought of material reward
men, despite every effort of the —doing all for others, in war and
in peace. She Is always on active
police.
duty in the battle against disease
The holdup man studies his and to establish preventive meas­
victim’s habits, and calmly plans] ures whose goal is the making of
to “stick him up” when the time) a healthy, stalwart citizenship. In
is ripe.
thousands of communities the Red
Cross nurse Is striving for public
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enlightenment In health, is taking
into schools and homes the lessons
You stand no chance of resist-l
of
hygiene and the simple though
ing his unexpected attack but you]
can provide to recover the value effective means of caring for the
of the watch, ring, studs or cash sick, while under the government
she Is on duty with the Army,
he takes.
Navy, U. 8. Veterans Bureau and
This Agency SELLS In­
the U. 8. Public Health Service.
surance and .GIVES Ser­
The Red Cross roll carries the
vice.
names of 40,630 nurses, 900 having
enrolled during the last year. The
work of the Red Cross nurse Is In
Intimate contact with the people
Estab. 1883
as individuals, yet that work is
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rarely spectacular although it
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Phone 211
forms the vivid background of
Billings Agency
health advancement In the United tion that the Red Cross nurse has
States she bas carried the gospel a usefulness and an Influence in
of health to the far corners and has this work now well understood, and
given tremendous impetus to health that ahead lie years of creative in­
education especially in the rural dustry of Inestimable value to the
areas. In more than 2,000 coun­ community.
ties the Red Cross nurse has been
Through teaching in the schools,
engaged to establish public health in classes of mothers, by practical
nursing services, a work which demonstrations, talks and home
has required more than 4,000 nurses visiting, and the introduction of hot
and resulted in the permanent lunches for school children, the
foundation of such nursing services Red Cross nurse as nutrition in­
and the absorption of them by mu­ structor opens new fields for the
nicipal and county authorities in organized Chapter forces to pro­
hundreds of places, 75 of these ser­ mote this Important program. The
vices being taken over by the tax­ nurse instructor spreads under­
payers during the last year.
standing of the fundamentals of
The policy of the American Red nutrition as well as of the dietary
Cross is opposed to duplication of values of food materials. In the
services rendered by any other or­ I past year 135,500 children and
ganization, but it has found in the 13,200 adults were taught nutrition
rural field that cultivation along by the Red Cross, 35,600 homes
public health lines is still very were visited, and in 1,160 schools
meagre. An adequate service of ' hot lunches were adopted as a atim-
one public healtb nurse for every 1 ulus to physical and mental fitness.
2,000 population indicates the vast Educators Warmly Praise the Work
extent of this field throughout the
In inviting the people to Join the
entire country. This is a develop­ American Red Cross during the en­
ment work not of a year or two rollment period from Armistice
years, but of a decade through the Day to Thanksgiving Day, Nov. IL
combined effort of both official and 27, or to renew their memberships,
voluntary agencies having an In­ the Red Cross places before tbs
terest in health.
country thia nursing service as but
For the long haul up the grade one of its unceasing endeavors in
to a nation-wide and permanently behalf of humanity. The healthiest
supported service for the public individual, as well as every indi­
healtb the Red Cross has set a vidual who knows from experience
high standard for urban and rural the gradations down from e perfect
nursing. The “hauling power" of health equipment, la urged to sup­
more than 3,500 Red Cross Chap­ port by his allegiance the Ameri­
ters Is being exerted everywhere can Red Cross as a simple duty tq
with greater spirit in the reallzar himself end his feU$y man.