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i« i ß « /-.-vw ^*» w ASH LAND D A IL Y T ID IN G S (E stab lish ed In 1 8 7 6 ) P ublished E very E ven in g E xcept Sunday by THE ASHLANb PRINTING CO. 4 HJXX 4 «■» J XA M **H liti- --•> A ohl AKD DAILY t w IX u s S uBÌff m lawgL . . ■M M iffî .i ¿¿i - • foreign city. Chicago is the sixth largest German city ini addition a grandstand having a the world. The northwest is 100 per cent American. It is seating caPacit>’ of 2,500 will be r 'b u ilt. — really aggravating to have those fellows up in Vancouver Construction will start next even talk such a wav Spring, according to Dr. Hardy. COMMUNITY SUICIDE? I k t R. Oreer ....... ..................................................................................Editor IJeorge Madden Green ..................................................... Business Manager Óì PICI AL CITY PA PER ...........’....... ...........................-..... Telephone 89 i R egister Cars— to Fifteen out-of-state cars were From the facts given in a press report, we are understand that once more a mob has hanged, shot, drag- reglstered at the local bureau at | u ered a t th e A shland, Oregon P ostoffice as Second C lass M all M atter the cham ber of Commerce rooms ged and burned the wrong person. This time it was at Saturday. Seven were reported Subscription P rice, D elivered in City 1 Friday which is a little above the Ot •» Month ............................................................................................ 5 .65 Charleston, Misouri. ffl-^ee Months ___;.......................................- ....................... .............. 1.95 The mob was angry at a grand jury . Some months average 3.75 El* Months .....__...........__....... - ...................... — ............. ........ • U>. •» Year ............................................................................ .................... 7.50 ago, there was a crime, involving some negro’s attack on! B y Mail and R ural R ou tes white woman. Forty negroes were arrested, and in a Month ............................................................................ ............... $ .65,' Tfc’-ee Months ........................................................................................ 1.95; due course of the law taken before the gland jury. There i BJ\ Months .................................................. ................. 3-50 no ---------- indictments. 50; were ----- -- ---- There was no punishment for a O m Year ................................. .............................................................. —- j crime about which there was no question except as to DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATES who did it. The community was resentful. But the com ® : Sle Insertion, per inch ................................................................... ? .30 Y early C ontracts munity .lid not hang, shoot, drag or burn itself. Neither .27% O ne insertion a w eek .............................. ........................................... did it do these things to the members of the grand jury. .25 ’l-v 0 insertions a w eek .......................................................................... .20 Da ly insertion ......................................................................................... They just waited. When, in the course of time, there was R ates for Ix*gal and M iscellaneous A dvertising another man accused of another <*rime, it did not wait F i :st insertion, per 8 point line ...................................................... J .10 .05 J 5 * h subsequent in sertion , 8 point lin e .................................... upon the grand jury to bring a charge. 1.00 ta» d ef T hanks ......................................................................................... The citizens, in the form of a mob, hanged, shot, drag .02% Ob ituaries, per line ............................................. .......................... ged and burned the new man. WHAT CONSTITUTE A ADVERTISING This is either funny or atrocious, excusable, or la “ All fu tu re events, where an admission charge is made or a CCi action taken is Advertising. mentable, according to one’s previous mental experiences. No discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders. But it is a summary of the facts as given. DONATIONS The man who lost his life was not a victim of the mob. No donations to charities or otherwise will be made in advertis ing or job printing— our contributions will be in cash. Not at all. He was the victim of the community, in its DECEMBER 28 failure to make its own system of justice function. We FINDING THE RIGHT V\A\ . Seek ye the Lord while he advocate tile Ivnchillfi’ of CTaild itiries_ w ild o f n s n m / be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked u " u l i \ m ix in g 01 g r a n d j u r i e s WHO 01 US fo.sake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let I might not be, in the course of time and tile friendly notice him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; a n d ' of a superior judge, a member of a grand jury ? Hanging to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.— Isa’ah 55:6, 7. PRAYER:— May each of us, O Lord, be enabled to seek first might be too severe a penalty for the general crime of th e Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and then all other I cing a grand juryman. to ugs will be added unto ua. A community that cannot control its own justice, so as to lynch victims or offenders in regular form, should PASS IT ON Ivncli itself. The story is told of Benjamin Franklin that once tjj . jii a time he loaned a man $10 with the provision that A GIRL WORTH WHILE • lfc-„ man loan it at some future date to some other needv • Miss Annie Menuskin of Chattanooga recently wrote xu.'-11 with the same injunction. There is a good deal of philosophy in this and 300 letters on her typewriter without making a mistake. it showed Benjamin Franklin 'up at his best. It is easy She has also taken as high as fifty words a minute from ci. nigh to receive, hut it sometimes hard to give, and ^et dictation direct to the machine. That’s a pretty good tt at is the foundation of the Christmas spirit. Long ago record, isn’t it? But the interesting part of the story is that she is 5¥e were told it is more blessed to give than, to receive, ai 1 yet in our selfishness we have turned that around totally blind. She was educated in the Nashville School ui-d made ourselves believe that it is more blessed to re for the Blind, where she finished the high school course el ve than to give. A man who lias received a favor by at the age of 18, and besides her skill as typist she is pissing that favor 011 to another opens the way for the an accomplished pianist. After finishing a business course, she found difficulty IL Ik of human kindness to circulate through the human rr e. in securing a position, because no one believed that she could do the work under the handicap of blindness. But she would not be thwarted in her determination to suc GREEN AS LABOR LEADER The new president of the American Fédération of ceed and she lias now been for several years a public Labor goes into office with every expectation among his stenographer in a leading hotel, where she is kept busy. Whenever we who are in full possession of our facul a; sociates, that he will lead 011 in the direction of labor Oi ganization development that was so skillfully pursued ties are disposed to whine about the unkindness of fate, by his predecessor. we ought to think of what this little blind girl lias ac If there is any apprehension, it is due to a vague fear complished—and be ashamed of ourselves. o1 any new man. If lie is the right man for the place, at a'!, he will not he an echo of the Gompers methods. Yet, How fine it would be to be innocent again, so that il he is the right man, lie is not apt to depart materially everything would seem naughty and thrilling.. ii >m them. One thing that wakes the American up is the fact It will be difficult for him at times to choose between his relations, intimate as they have been, with the United that he’s three laps behind a charge account. ?x .ne Workers, an organization composed of much more rr lical elements than many of the other 'unions. He will To cover the purchase price of the block it is understood th a t have to acquire a working relation with the mass of the m ajority of the funds now in American workingmen, who are little interested in the the club treasury will be used and philosophy of economic determinism. They do want what 5 per cent bonds will be issued ?y earn, in the course of their co-operation with their for the rem ainder. Members of the club are expected to subscribe e: »plovers in productive industry. to these bonds. One thing is to be noted, from the contacts of the E. w federation president It is very likely that lie will SAN FRANCISCO, Ded. 22.— At present the California Club has a membership of about 200 irk, as did Mr. Gompers, for a resaonable co-operation Tennis, as a popular sport, is ta k men and women. This m em ber OI this country with world efforts at constructive peace. ing California virtually by storm. ship, however, is expected to be 1 ‘i will have no foolish isolationist notions about Ameri San Francisco, especially, greatly increased with the com seems recently to have been pay pletion of the new clubhouse and can politics. ing more than the usual C alifor PLANNING FINEST TENNIS STADIUM YESTERDAY AND TODAY IN OIL , nia homage to the t queen of sports. In response to popular demand ,for adequate p u b l i c tennis grounds, a hug£ municipal ex hibition and tournam ent stadium was completed a few weeks ago in In 1859, the total crude oil produced ip the United Slates did not exceed 2,000 barrels. By 1869, production h J increased to 4 million barrels per annum—less than 2 days’ production today. Today we consume about 1,000,800 barrels of crude! Golden Gate Park here in addi per day, with only about 5 months’ supply in storage. tion t0 the tennis facilitles ai- ready existing in the park. I11 1882, we exported $44,523,000 of petroleum pro And now come a few gentle ducts. hints from Dr. Sum ner Hardy, president of the California Lawn Li 1922, this jumped to $330,900,000. In 1882, entire capital in petroleum industry was Tennis Club th a t his club plans the construction in San Francis 14,000,000. Today it is about $8,000,000,000—an aver co of a tennis plant which will be se e increase per year of $197,150,000. second to none on the Pacific In 1882, it cost about $3,400 to drill a well. 3268 Coast, or in the United States for Molls were drilled in that year. All but 179 were pro th at m atter. Already Dr. H ardy’s organiza ducers—only 5 1-2 per cent loss. tion has purchased an entire city In 1922, 24,642 new wells were drilled. 5406 were dry block in this city, and it is under bi les— a 22 per cent loss. The average depth of the mod stood th a t the projected tennis em wel is over 2800 feet against the 1600 feet of the plant will be built on th a t site. The block is bounded by Scott, earlier wells. , The total cost of « -5 5 0 ^ 0 ,0 0 0 barrels of crude pro-1 «‘S? Z » S " i d Hl 1. WHS $ 8 3 4 ,1 /3 ,0 0 0 . 1 h e p r o d u c e r s r e n liz e d ride by street car from the world- only $775,000,000—-a loss of $59,273,000 to the producing famous Ferry Building. ¡bianch of the industry. Total CO9t of the project win In 1882, only 3.2'per cent of the export value of pe- w"’. '' ’25#,0°<’- ti oleum products was naptha. Today naptha represents ‘ caU fornte d” b la a t prea- t-t per cent. ent located on the northw est cor- ner of the block it has purchased. << the additional courts. , The five tennis courts which now occupy part of the newly a c quired block will be increased by five more. Dr. Hardy said, and the old club house will be re placed by a new two story stru c tu re, modern in every detail. In Chev. Touring .. ....$250 Chev. Coupe ........... $650 See the 1925 Advance Six Nash Touring at our Showroom Automotive Shop VERY FOOLISH There is a very foolish set of men in Vancouver, B. C. Of course they do not represent anything like the popula- n up there, hut they are making a good deal of noise just now because a British vessel was illegally searched IT. Portland. They announced that they would set up F claim to Washington and a part of Oregon as British territory There is no influence that could be brought in this W »rid to compel this territory to go under foreign rule. Il the United States government this morning should ferde Oregon and Washington to Great Britain by way of Canada, they couldn’t raise an army over there big enough Jtc force us in. or an army here big enough to drive us ont. Ip fact the the best Amreicans in the- world live in these j tv o states. They have the highest conception of their | ¡duties as Americans and are uncorrupted with the influ- jBi.ce of royalty in the old world. New York is almost a For Christmas We are especially prepared to make up wonderful gifts in any design, or style and our facilities are such th a t we can make deliv ery in this city or any other city in the country. WIN A HAM FREE! December 24th, we will give away several Ar mour Hams to the parties guessing the number of articles in the beautiful colored cards in our win dow7, showing the various activities and products of The Armour Plant. i u< «xlay, bete in ber ü3, ltfll4 - ■ Leave Tuesday— health artd to be near their chil Mr. and Mrs. Janies Doran and dren, Mrs. C. C. Cole and Vernon daughter, Alice of Ashland street Doran. leave Tuesday for Oakland, Calif., where they expect to locate. Mis- Santa Claus has a Victrola for Doran has been employed in th e J you. Stop in and see about it. Hargrove Millinery Shop for sev-1 Open evenings. Easy payments, eral months. The Dorans own J The Rose. 95— 2t niSht a f«ot of snow fell in Stage coach pass arid the plow was found property in Ashland but are niov- i _________ necessary to keep the road open. ing on account of Mrs. D oran’s ' J. G. Bromley, district engineer of the highway departm ent, to day stated th at he hoped to keep the highway open despite the snow.— G rants Pass Courier. Plow At Work— A snow plow is at work on the Sexton m ountain in an endeavor to keep the Pacific highway to the north open during the present snow storm which is quite severe in the m ountains. During the EVERY STREET IN ASHLAND I Has Its Share of the Proof That Kidney Sufferers Seek. Backache? Kidneys weak? Distressed with urinary ills? W ant a reliable kidney rem edy? Don,’t have to look far. Use w hat Ashland people recommend. Every street in Ashland has its cases. H ere’s one Ashland m an’s ex-1 perience. Let E. Carlon, 159 Helman St., I tell it. He says: " I used D oan's, Pills for attacks of kidney tr o u - ! ble. My back was so weak and { lame I could hardly stoop or lift anything and I felt dull and run down. The action of my kidneys was irregular, too, but Doan’s ! Pills soon fixed me up in good shape. The aches and pains left and I felt b etter in every way.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan’s Pills— the same that Mr. Carlon had. Foster-M elburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo. N. Y. to us for quick and effi cient glass service. Largest stock of glass in the city. J. O. BIGG In Cut Flowers we have the fol lowing: Carnations, Mums, Roses, Snapdragons, Narcissus, Sweet Peas and Violets. Your Pet DESERVES THE BEST Bring or send it to The Medford Veterinarian Hospital Dr. E. C. MeCULLOCH, Graduate Veterinarian Corner Fifth & Grape Sts. S ymphony L awn Phone 369 MEDFORD, Oregon W R IT IN G I will he at The East Side Pharmacy in Ash land every Wednesday, 12:30 to 7 p. m. Cull there or phone 51. -*i PAPER. A G IF T D E N O T IN G GOOD JU D G E M E N T McNair Brothers 2>rug Star* , BASKETBALL ASHLAND H. S. VS. CENTRAL POINT H.S. at ASHLAND ARMORY TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23 7:30 p. m. ADMISSION 25c Good Preliminary E V E R Y B O D Y GOME Holly W reath« and Cut Holly. In Pot P lants we have: Poin- settas, Cyclemen, Begonias, Nar cissus, Prim ulas, and all kinds of ferns. Best Quality— Lowest Prices My flowers can be had at L ane’s, Holmes and The Rose or Telephone 120. Ashland Greenhouses uSally Ann” is the name hundreds of bakery bread users rem ember w li e n ordering bread. Lithia Bakery PAYING FOR LOSSES IS NOT ALL Of course insurance pays for your losses. But this agency offers you more than that—it offers to spend time and effort to make your property safe from loss, to elimin ate your risks and haz ards. This agency of the H artford Fire Insurance Company offers to protect you in «very way possible from the inconven- ience of fire, as well as from th e financial loss th a t a fire would cause. Billings Agency Estab. 1883 Real E state & Real Insurance 41 E. Main St. Phone 211 The Best CHRISTMAS GIFTS ^x Dodge Delivery ....$275 Cliev. Touring ....• $ 75 " Bring Your Window Frames Used Car Bargains Chev. X Sedan ........... $700 ÏJ ) Waffle Irons Vacuum Sweepers— Royal, American, Hoover Toalster Curling Irons Electric W ashing Machines Electric H eaters Electric Irons New House Lighting Fix tures Percolators Urn Sets ASHLAND ELECTRIC SHOP Lest We Forget ANY a mistake or loss has ■come by forgetfulness. No man can remember all the time. But an institution can. This bank watches vour interest for you and looks after your money and is on tlie job even7 minute. M COSTS NOTHING to make a guess. Come and look at the exhibit in our window. Make your guess and win one of these fine hams for the Christmas dinner. The Citizens Bank of Ashland EAGLE MARKET Ashland, Oregon Good Will and Good Cheer Go Together Good cheer and good will go together. Swift & C om pany p u ts its good will into acts of service, w hich extend from year’s end to year’s end, and are not confined to holiday seasons. City hom es th a t had to depend upon th e country cousin for holiday fowl, and country hom es th a t h ad to shoot wild gam e on th e w ing to m ak e a feast for th e assem bled fam ily clan — both now d raw upon Swift & C om pany’s vast supplies of delicious, fine-flavored roast beef an d steak s and Premium Milk-Fed Chickens Golden West Fowl Premium Hams The system of the old days was good—for those times—but today’s method is infinitely better. W ith the enormous increase in num ber of homes throughout the land, only a big organization, such as Swift & Company, can assemble and distribute enough fine holiday meats to make good cheer for everyone. Ideals are of no avail unless translated into action. Swift & Company’s ideals of ser vice go into practice every day. Look for the m ark “U. S. Insp’d & P ’s’d” on fresh meats and “Prem ium ” and “Gol den W est” identifying tags on poultry. Ashland Local Branch, Cor. First and A Sts. F. Crouch, Manager