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Tuesday, January 2 7 , 192Ä
A SH LA N D D A IL Y T ID IN G S
In íegard to the numerous proposals which have beeu Tbe building is of Romanesque
pnade from time to timé as to government ownership o r architecture> patterned after old
- government eontr-ol of the petroleum industry, , J u d g e " .
X e T l X
of tba University of Illinois, was This interval of time between
declared/a positive success today, sounds, when there is no carrier FOSMER POLITICIAN
a fte r a second series of tests,
GUILTY OF MURDER
wave in the air, makes possible!
P ublished E very E ven in g E xcept Sunday by
which
bore
out
the
results
of
the advantages noted.
Pil
‘
.
hues of buff and pink, as were the
THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO.
E \ ERETTE, Wash., Jan. 26.__
previous tests' held over a period
historic
The
elimination
of
“
fading"
is
“
I
believe
the
fact
that
individual
ownership,
the
fact
buildings
which
are
its
I
of
more
than
a
year
Percy
Tyler, Parm er-Labor party
iu-rt R. Greer •-
Editor
an added feature of the new nominee for Congress two years
Advantage* claimed for ,
George Madden Green ..............................» ¿ ^ Z Z Z ^ B ^ n ^ s Mànager that the proprietor of each tract of land is the owner of prototypes. It joins the new 1,000!
broadcasting system which now ago, and chairman of the griev
14-story Dexter - Horton I system over the system now
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any petroleum underneath the surface, with freedom to room,
b a n k ’building
seems
possible, but is not claim ance committee during the recent
a
t
Third
and
Col-
general use include increased
> - tered a t th e A shland, Oregon P o sto ffice as Second Class Mail M atter
tease or develop it at his will, has been the chief contrib-j amhia streets.
ed
for
it because tests in that railroad strike, was today found
sending, efficiency, more selective
Subscription Price, D elivered in Citv
held
have
not gone far enough. In gui.ty of m urder In the first de
utmg factor in building up this great industry*of ours.j A main dinins room seating 700 tuning at the receiver, with
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? .65 it is truly an American industry, for no matter where on! persons; other sma,ler dining greater possibility of tuning out the last series of tests instru- gree by a ju ry which returned
tre e Months __
1.95
rooms, large lounging room, audi-j local stations, opportunity
to m ents which measured accurate- the verdict after an all night de-
u.’e Yeaih’..""";i....................................... 3J5 die globe oil is produced, Americans are there. Our lead-
torium
seating 400 persons, equip- i cover greater distances, and the ! J ” 6
.
of audlbillty-oi both libeiation. Tyler shot and killed
„
B y Mail and Rural Routes...
......... 7 J>0 crship is recognized and our practices 'are followed. Mv ped -with a motion picture booth ! elim ination of ail sorts of sounds!
riCr Wave systp,u aild the his wife who had divorced him. A
•e Month
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and
stage,
are
among
the
features
which
are
impre39ed
on
the
c
a
rrie
ri
Rew
n°
n' carrier a s te rn were set second verdict specified that the
conviction
is
that
if
our
government
had
owned
the
oil,
the
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of the building. Q uarters are a r wave anti which only perfect' moti- ! "D “ “ '’í ' “ " “ ° ‘ 1 »» ”» " » <">»■ death penalty should not be in
b:x Months ..................
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restrictions upon development and the lack of incentive ranged for the Seattle Transpor
1 Station WRM, the
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flicted.
would have been such that we woul^ not know today the tation club, M erchants’s exchange, illation at the transm itting end radiophone, with which university's
the
experi
and perfect detection at the re
DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATES
value or uses of petroleum or how or where to find it.
mental wort; j- ta rrie d on. These
Seattle Real E state board and the ceiving end can elim inate.
cH.gl» Insertion, pe • Inch ..................................
Letterheads, statements, t o
$ .30
instrum
ents
showed
the
usual
fad
American
Association
of
Engin-'
“ We usually think of petroleum production as some
,
Y e a rly C ontracts
',our order at the Tidings Office.
The suppressed carrier, or non-
eers.
Cue Insertion a week ...........................................
ing when the cht system was us We have a good Job printing de-
i
carrier,
system
differs
from
the
thing
which
fluctuates
most
violently,
but
the
fact
is,
i * o Insertions a week .......................
David Whitcomb
«J x . 1’ecently re* I present type of broadcasting in ed, but did -ivt vary a particle oartment.
belly insertion ....................... .......................................... ’’ ........
as compai cd with consumption, it flutuates no more than elected president
of the vuuu.uei
cham ber Ulat the carrjer
„ • waves gO out OnJy m Iren the nca carrier was em-
R u les for Legal and M iscellaneous A dvertisin';
ployed.
of
commerce
after
one
of
thn
moRt
u
.
do
many
other
staple
products.
A
table
of
the
world’s
r- rs t Insertion, per 8 point line .....................................
$
Every ad has a message.
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■ when a note is sounded or a syl-
succssful
adm
inistrations
in
the
'
i
h
,
,,
.
3
Each subsequent insertion, 8 point line .........
production
and
consumption
from
1859
to
the
present
i h a m h o r ’c n
I
us
in
p
ie
jahle
Rpoken
Between
notes
or
ard of Thanks .........................................
.................. “ ............
j ’ 00
ch am b ers 41 years of existence, spoken
e situarles, per line
.02% would show that at no period has production been out of win preside’ ¡ t ? h “é d è d i c Z ^ Z i ! SP° ken w° rds the carrier wave
(E stab lish ed ln 1 8 7 6 )
hue with consumption in any extraordinary percentage, banquet. He win leave ~-----
•— ! 8 not g0 throygh the air That
next Tues-
is, the sound and the wave on
with a delegation on
un the
me ! > , . ,
,
ompare petroleum with cotton, which depends not at all day
stream ship PnM lde.t McKinley to ¡ 7
' rides leave the broad- -
RUBBER GOODS
upon new discovery zones. Within the last five years we v l.lt Japan, China and the Pbll-f
" aPParatlls simultaneous. | .
have seen a difference of more than 25 per cent between lippine islands.
Hot \\ ater. Bottles, e a c h ........................ $1.00 $3.00
DONATIONS
Nu donations to charities or otherwise will be made in advertls world’s production and consumption in a single year.
• og or job printing— our contributions will be in cash.
Fountain Syringes ...............................$1.50—¿3.50
Similar illustrations could he made^of corn, sugar and
Rubber Gloves ...............................50c—75c—$1.00
SHEW ME THY WA1S, O Lord; teach me thy paths, Let in- other products which depend upon cultivation of the soil,
tegrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on th e e - -Psalms rain and sunshine.”
PASTRIES
25:4, 21.
Rubber A prons............................. •........... 75c—$1.00
that will please you
MORE CONVENIENT
Rubber Sponges ..........................................15c—25c
“ PLAYING U P’’ THE NEWS
The fact is that we have so much more government
The duties of newspapers regarding the publishing
Baked Fresh Daily
.Jiffy .Junior Pants and Rubber Sheeting
of facts about crime will continue to be the topic of wide now than we had 25 years ago that it takes several times
the amount of money to run it than it did them Qf course URBANA, 111., Jan. 27. — The
discussion, just as newspapers are universally read and
we would not he content to go hack to the old days. Prac non-carrier wave system of radio
Toilet Goods—
so thoroughly affect the daily lives of our people.
Books and
Drug Sundries
broadcasting,
developed
by
H.
A.
Litliia
Bakery
tically all of our government is useful. But we must be
Stationery
hetlier the newspaper is more educative or more content to draw the line somewhere.
Brown and C. A. Keener, members
of the electrical engineering staff
reflective of the life of the people among whom it circu
The present legislature is offering more and more
M in i u m
lates is a problem. Both sides of this question are taken
government.
Some
of
it
may
be
needed,
but
other
parts
■I LS
by the people who are defending as well as those who are
of it can wait for better times. The fact is that we have
attacking “ the press.” Newspapers are told in one
got about all the government.we can pay for now, and to
breath that they have no influence and in the next are
get more is adding burden upon burden. We need a bet
told that their influence should be exerted for good, by
a suppression of their own duty of telling the news. And ter distribution of the burdens of government, but can do
without more government for a while—until we can catch
while some newspaper men take seriously their duty of our breath at least.
selecting ’ and elaborating the news because of its moral
influence, others take refuge behind the opinion that their
TO MEET AND ADJOURN
own acts arc merely the result of subtle suggestions from
The. governor of Washington has made a very sen
the mass of people for what they want, and that this subtle
sible proposal. It is one that is practiced in California
suggestion is an excuse for Ihe yielding to all sorts of per ile proposes that all the bills in the legislature except thè
sonal impulses.
emergency measures, be introduced, printed, and then
The newspaper that strengthens itself and strength the legislature adjourn for a definite period to study over
ens its position in the community in which it circulates tiie various hills and decide what is good for the state. It
must not yield to the demand for the suppression'of news is a plan with a good deal of merit in it.
accounts, nor must it go to the other extreme of idolizing
or even of disproportioning the mental or spiritual im-
J heretofore, may publish whatever
portance of criminals.
he pleases, but publications which
his editors decline to assume the
A story in one of tbe San Francisco papers recently,
responsibility
for must be stam p
m treating of a prisoner held for a notorious murder,
ed as such and bear his signature.
freaks -up the interest of its readers in this crime by utter
The publisher may also make him
ly distorting the mental processes as well as the propor
self the chief editor of his own
paper, but in this case he is fully
tionate importance of this prisoner. It “ plays up” the
responsible
for what he writes and
news instead of giving it. Some newspaper men may try
BERLIN, Jan. 27. — German can he called to account for it.
io excuse themselves to their critics for this sort of-thing pressmen
“ In order to wipe out corrupt
will probably soon en
they never fool themselves. Their own language con- joy the benefits of a “journalis ion of the press, provisions are
\ icts them of distorting the news, and distorting it in the tic code” in the shape of an made to banish 'press agent stuff
wrong way. Papers should be firm enough in their dutv “ E ditors’ Protection B ill’ which or advertisem ents from the edi
the German Government is pre torial columns of a paper. Editors
to resist proposals that they distort the news at all, even pared
to introduce a t one of the transgressing these provisions will
in a moral way. .Theyxshould have sense enough and they first sessions of the new Reich- be punished accordingly."
It is predicted th a t the an
should he sufficiently impressed by public opinion, not tag.
nouncem
ent of the “ E ditors’ Pro
to go to the other extreme of distorting the news in.a vic The main objects of the new
which, in its present form, tection Bill” will be followed by a
ious way under the guise of “ freedom of the press” aiid is hill, w ithout
precedent since the ex sharp controversy between the
s*.
of “ ' giving the people what they want.”
Publishers’ Union on one side and
istence of newspapers are:
WHAT CONSTITUTES ADVERTISING
All future events, where an admission charge is made or
collection taken is A dvertising.
No discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders.
CALLEO A SUCCESS
ELH ART’S
GERMANY ID LEI
1. To preserve the freedom of the E ditors’ League and the Gov
the press as an institution de- ernm ent on the other.
LET JUDGES SELECT JURORS
The original d ra ft of the bill is
The order that lias been made by Chief Justice Taft, , voted to public service.
said
to date back as far as the
2. To protect the editor' as a
of the supreme court of the United States, directing the servant to public opinion against tim e when Hugo Stinness was
universal adoption in federal courts of the rule that judges any abuses on the part of ■ the considered the “ power behind the
shall examine jurors as to their qualifications, is a pro- publisher tending to promote pri th ro n e,” of num erous newspaper
undertakings, and the bill in its
i ceding that should have a profound effect upon court vate interests.
3. To wipe out corruption of present form undoubtedly aims
procedure generally.
the ipress by banishing “ press a t dealing a sm ashing blow at the
True, this has been within the power of judges, gen agent or advertisem ent stuff’’ predom inant political influence
gained by big capitalists. In the
erally. It has been a power exercised in certain instances, from the editorial columns.
opinion of the Government this
At
a
Berlin
press
meeting
a
by federal jurists.
Government spokesman enlarged influence will sooner or later re
But it has been resisted, as a question of <*>urt reform, on the necessity of such a law sult in a general corruption of the
press, the chief functions of which
by the very inertia of court methods, and by the general as follows:
“ Constitutions of all civilized should be a true servant td pub
tendency in the state courts to consider the court as an
countries provide for the freedom lic opinion and not to promote
arena, in which the judge is nothing but a referee, and the of the press as one of the funda private interests.
contestants themselves, through their attorneys, deter mental privileges of their citizens
mine pietty much what is to happen. Agreement between to voice their demands and wishes
the litigants as to their rights has come in many ways, to through their papers. To suppress .
public opinion has always been
nean specifically that the habits of thought of the lawyers considered
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bad statesm anship.
have a primary right of way rather than the convenience However, nothing has been done
of the courts or the purpose of speedy and effective justice. so far to safeguard this freedom
While the inertia of the legal profession has alwav rg w ithin a newspaper undertaking
been bulwarked behind «be defense that lav criticisms
are “ ignorant” and that within the bosom of the law
there lies a knowledge of what is best in the conduct of
justice, it is to the eternal credit of the legal profession
as a “ profession,” not as a vocation, that the ,men high
in the ranks are leaders in the cause of reform. In this
respect national bar associations are much better that
state associations;, state associations much better than
local associations. Men like Chief Justice Taft are among
the leaders in tbe demand that the courts and the pro
cesses ot law shall be usable for expeditious justice as well
as justice that looks with a microscope for the last possible
chance of a reversion of verdict.
.
¿ «
*■* c
tru th in his paper against the will
and b etter knowledge of his edi
tors.
“This is where our bill steps in
and proposes a remedy. Accord
ing to the principles of civil law,
no employe enjoys privileges as
to the conduct of business which
his employer pleases to decide
upon. He runs the risk of being
kicked’ if he acts against the or
ders of his ‘boss” .
“ Thia, should be different with
a public. A responsible editor is
not purely a business undertak
ing, but an institution devoted to
serve the public. A responsible
SEATTLE, Wash,, Jan. 27.
The Northwest and B ritish Col
umbia joined hearts and hands
.here Saturday in dedicating Se
a ttle ’s new quarter-m illion dollar
Chamber of Commerce building.
From over Oregon, W ashington,,
Idaho and British Columbia came
business men and city officials to
take part in the opening of the
fine new building and fu rth er the
spirit of unity among N o rth w est’
communities.
The “ states ban
quet” will symbolize the unified '
Northwest.
i
The big special train from P ort
land, carrying 100 or more busi
LOOSE TALK ABOUT OIL
• , odltor ls not merely „ cmploye
ness men and civic leaders, was
1 nic li.ts bc.cn much loose talk regarding the vital' b’3 publisher, but a servant to heartily welcomed when it rolled
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problems affecting the petroleum industry of the country ! pub ic °Pinion- o«r bill therefore in early Saturday morning. The
■ i ’ • in regard - to current conditions
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’ proposes to bestow certain ‘privi Portlanders, led by President An
especially
which have re
leges. upon editors, enabling them drews of the Chamber of Com
sulted from a long period of over-production, the govern to
perform their im portant func merce, made th eir headquarters
ment’s patent suit, the question of taxes, nationalization tion, be it even against the ex at the Olympic hotel. They spent
and governmental regulation of the industry and the fluc plicit orders of the publishers, as the day as guests of the local
tuations in crude oil prices, according to Judge Amos L . ronn as they realize th a t these chamber.
orders are imperiling public in-J
Setting a record for financing
Beatty, president of the Texas Company.
terest.
and construction, the new home
“ Politicians,” said Judge Beatty, “ have howled toi “ It is wrong to assume th a t of the
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Seattle chamber
of Com-
the tune of gasoline trust. All that is pure bunk and it 8uch a ParasraPh is liable to en -jm erce was th e subject of much
courage anarchy in a n ew spaper; favorable comment upon the many
will he known as such in the course of time.’>
’trd ertak in g . The publisher, as | visitors here for the dedication.
Better Gasoline?
Try it and see!
O amount of conversation can make a gas
oline good or bad.
Thousands of enthusiastic and exacting motor
ists up and down the Coast say that “General”
Gasoline is the best they have ever used.
N
But, “General” can’t mean anything to you unless you
try it. It can’t start your engine quickly on the coldest
morning; can’t send your car along with even, clean com
bustion; can’t give you maximum mileage and pow er—?
¡UNLESS YOU HAVE IT, IN YOUR TANK.
Give “General” a fair show. Drive today to the near
est Independent Dealer displaying a Green-and-White Sign.
“Fill up your tank and let your engine decide!”
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