AStttAND DAlLf ftittNOS
RBà L C ^ n
ASHLAND
D A IL Y
T I D I N G s lie^ 1*X)r^00^ adapted
(Established in 1876)
A\ edili stilij•, February
to the culture uf beets.
Vne oue croP—bkd tru ck farm ing—th a t requires
a g reat deal of hand labor—w hat m ight be called back
P ub lished E very E ven in g Except Sunday by
break in g labor.
THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO.
A large p a rt cf the work can be carried on w ith m a
1'» t R. Greer ......................................................................................... Editor chinery. like p rep arin g the soil, sowing the seed, and plow
George Madden Green .............................'....................... Business Manager
i n g out the beets when grown.
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C ultivation of the crop is also m achine cu ltiv ato r
K; :ered a t th e A shland. Oregon P o sto ffice as Second C lass M all M atter
¡work, a fte r the planting has been nursed to a size and
Subscription P rice, D elivered in City
I 65 diinned in the rows by hand.
l i e Month ...
'Ji.ree Months
195*
But th inning the beets in the rows and the first few
I , Months ...
3.75 '.•
7.50 tim es they are cultivated, and topping the beets a fte r
d . e Year ___
By Mall and Rural Routes
they are grown, is 'h a n d work.
Month ...
? .65
In m any of the su g ar beet states special labor
*lhtee Months
1.95
fc.x Months ............................................. .
......................................
3.50
brought in. like Russian, and Mexican labor, ’ w here
tb c ! i w
^ > ’-
l/B j Year
w
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ka
—
6.50
whole fam ily w orks in the fields
DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATES
Some states have labor conditions th a t oppose bring
t.i.g le Insertion, pe? inch ............................................................ $ .30
Yearly Contsacts
ing in any such labor and m ight as welL give up the idea
Cne Insertion a week ............................................................................. 27% of building su g ar refineries.
•i* o Insertions a week ....... ..................................................................... 25
Daily Insertion .................. ..............................................................
.20
It is the greatest crop in the class of m ixed farm ing,
R ates for L egal and M iscellaneous A dvertising
r 'rs t insertion, per 8 point line ................................................. I .10 ias a money crop and as a crop to prom ote stock raising,
ta c h subsequent insertion, 8 point line .................. - ............
-05 (hogs and dairying.
« ’ -d of Thanks ............................................................................. ..
v aitu aries, per line .............................................. ................ —.....
I
1.00
.02%
A STINGY REWARD
bery escaped in an autom obile
The payroll^ intended for em
In News Spotlight o f the Day
ployes of the Fenton Shot Com
pany, was being carried by Miss'
Louise Tunnell and Miss Clara
Rosser, who had ju st arrived at !
the factory building.
The la tte r was struck by one of
the bind its.
She was not ser-
iously hurt.
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HANDS
chilblains, frostbite—ju st ru b
on soothing, cooling, healing
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Safe Deposit Boxes
We afe »peased to announce that
we have ju st installed a new sec
tion of S A F E D E PO SIT BOXES,
• and th a t we are again in position
to extend to the public the conven
ience and safety offered by our
m odern vault equipped with com
plete B urglar A larm P rotection.
.
W by assum e the risk of leaving
your valuable papers subject to un
necessary* hazards. The cost of a
bqy is very m oderate.
It
DONATIONS
No donations to charities or otherwise will be made in advertls seems th a t he has developed a device for the precancel
im or job printing— our contributions will be in cash.
ing of stam ps, a device estim ated to accom plish an annual
saving of $250,OOCTto the G overnm ent. On recom m endation i
A BILL TO PRESCRIBE HIGH SCHOOL STUDIES
of the Com m ittee on E xperim ent, Research and Design p
The Eddy bill, which has passed the senate at Salem, ihe P o stm aster General has aw arded $1,000 to Mr. B read-'
would m ake eom pulsorv the teaching in high school of tn . The aw ard is the m axim um perm itted by law.
spelling, arith m etic and gram m ar, in place of some of the
B readen developed the device, w hich is used as an
less essential branches. It would ljm it the selection by attach m en t to ro tary presses, w ith the assistance of B lair
• D R . rREDErafeK COOK % DR.. WÄR1OW V BURTdXT
students of th eir own courses of study, but would not McKinzie, a m achinist in the B ureau of E n g ra v in g and
3e7o~> ETùET/- £>•
icov.
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abolish it.
P> rin tin g . The D epartm ent recognized M cK inzie’s assis-
The United States Senate has unanimously dismissed the con«
The idea ap p ears to be sound. I t cannot be said w ith Hance, but the law m dae no provision fo r an aw ard to him tested
election case against U. S. Senator Earle B. Mayfield, of Texas,
* ruth th a t the general run of boys and girls of high school!
In com petitive business th e ir w ork m ight have re and he has been officially declared elected. Dr. Marion Leroy Burton,
p r e s e n t of the University of Michigan, who nominated President
age are fully com petent to select th e ir own studies. T h e 're iv e d g reater aw ard, as they probably fijow . To save a 'Coolidge
at the Republican National Convention In Cleveland, O., Is
average,boy or girl ol high school age does not know w liat 'q u a rte r of a m illion dollars for any em ployer is im p o rtan t critically 111 at his home in Ann Arbor. The Federal Court of Appeals
In New Orleans has affirmed the conviction of Dr. Frederick Cook, of
is most essential N either can it be tru th fu lly said th a t and notable. A lthough the nam e of the com m ittee con North
Pole fame, convicted in Fort Worth, Tex. of using the mails to
tile hom lier essentials are so well ta u g h t in the gram m ar j cerned w ith the aw ard suggests th a t individual in tiativ e defraud in oil stock deals. Washington reports that Colonel William
J Donovan, of Buffalo. N. Y.. now U. S. Assistant Attorney-General,
schools th a t high school pupils do not need them . It is is not unusual in the postal service, the inventive enter- will be promoted to first assistant to the Attorney-General after Charles
a m a tte r of common know ledge th a t the average hijgh p rise'o f the two men cited is refreshing evidence th a t the Beecher Warren assumes charge of the Department of Justice.
school pupil of today is a poor speller, com pared w ith his com m ittee does have occasion to recognize and rew ard
men.”
prototype o f a generation o r so ago. Indeed, this w eak progress in behalf of the public interest.
Following Mr. T aft each suc
ness extends, in its effects upon m any students, to and
cessive year see the following
through college. One can only conclude from w itnessing
A village is a place w here everybody know s where
men end their term s as corpora
its prevalence th a t spelling is being inadequately tau g h t Io tak e the p edestrian a fte r it happens.
tion members: Edwin M. H err,
Alfred L. Ripley, Otto T. Ban-
in the schools below. A sim ilar condition prevails, a l
nard, John V. Farw ell and Vance
though in degree less m arked perhaps, in reg ard to some |
‘‘People who try to ru n the c h u rc h ” usually m eans
C.
McCormick.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. .10.
ot the other branches whose study S en ato r E d d y ’s bill (“ people who are w illing to do the w o rk .”
— Nominations for election to
would m ake com pulsory.
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Yale Corporation, the governing Women Messengers
This article is but one of many,
As for selection of th eir own courses by the s tu d e n ts !
body of Yale University, are al
Robbed of Big Payroll
which seem to indicate th at if ready reaching the university sec
of high schools, its fallacy is dem onstrated am ong stu- I
G reat B ritain h asn ’t alreadj su r
COLUMBUS. Feb. 1-0. — Pay-j
re ta ry ’s office here.
Six mem
dents past hi^li school age every year, fo r it is a ,m a tte r of i
rendered to the United States as bers of the corporation are by law ’ roll bandits held up two w om en!
«•ommon know ledge th a t m any college students abandon
the money controller of the world selected by graduates. The term j hank m essengers near the down- j
a f te r th eir freshm an year some or all of the studies th a t i
th a t th ere are grave fears th at of form er President W illiam Ho town district here, taking $2000.*
such
a surrender is on >he wav. ward T aft expires next June, and! The two men who staged the ro b -!
they bad chosen for them selves, and m ake a fresh sta rt
while it .is certain Mr. Taft will !
w ith others th a t th eir added discretion has shown them
be re-elected, Yale Alumni, W eek
to be suited to th e ir real needs.
LONDON, Feb. 11
England
The Citizens Bank of Ashland
Ashland, Oregon
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When you pass around
these big, light, fluffy,
brown—crusted dough
n u ts th a t ca n be so
easily made with
YALE WILL ELECT
OF ü S CONTROL
You are welcome to compare ly is urging th a t “ nomfnations
is in a hub-dub, aroused lest t h e ! my Automobile rates with any
United States has already become other rates in Jackson or Jose now should be as many and as
BAD FOR THE OPIUM CONFERENCE
the money m aster of the world. phine Counties; you can be the free as possible,” and asks th a t
In its insistence upon a declaration by the in tern a
“ good Yale tim ber be brought
Reports th at Great B ritain is
tional opium conference for lim itatio n of~the use of opium about to retu rn to a gold standard Judge. Phone 21. Yeo, of course. out especially from the youngdr
and narcotic d rugs to m edicinal needs, the A m erican del-* have caused a sudden commotion,
egation a t Geneva was en tirely rig h t. One cannot say as with outcries and warnings from
m uch for its w ithdraw al from the conference because of many sources th at G reat B ritain ♦ ♦
will soon be under the heel of ♦
ap p a re n t failure to obtain acceptance of its view. As long American financiers, if she is n o t; *
as men sit to g eth er and discuss th e ir differences there is already so..
hope of com posing them, no m a tte r bow serious the dissen
The United States controls the i
w
orld’s
gold supply, an<d when j
sions m ay «eem. When a p a rty to a conference w ithdraw s,
G reat B ritain retu rn s to a g o ld ,
then indeed is hope of agreem ent flown, so fa r as th a t
standard she will be under the
p a rty is concerned.
I control of those who hold the
INVITATIONS ............................................. 60c D oe .
Mr. P orter, head of the A m erican delegation to the strings of the w orld’s gold hags, it
NAPKINS .................................................18 for 10c
conference, said he w ithdrew because he had become con is argued. The pro and con of
NUT
CUPS ............, .........................4c, 5c, 10c, 15c
vinced th a t the purpose fo r w hich the conference was this question is being bitterly
PLACE C A R D S ................................. 30c to 50c Doz.
fought out in the colum ns of the
called—the definite lim itation of tra ffic in opium and English newspapers.
CREPE PAPER CAPS ...................
ioc each
other drugs—could not he achieved. D elegates of other
An amazingly frank article,
DECORATED CREPE 4.......................................25c
nations in the conference do not accept th is view. They printed in The Referee, a Sunday
,
Page and Shaw Box Chocolates
point out th a t rejection to d ate of the A m erican proposal | newspaper, has attracted some a t
was only by a sub-committee,. and th a t a p lenary sessioni tention.
Toilet Goods—
“ British Finance a Back Num- j
Books and
of the conference m ight conceivably have reversed the her,” is The Referee headline with !
Drug Sundries
Stationery
action com pletely. And so the delegates of the o th er n a a sub-heading reading “ Our ob
tions have received the A m erican w ithdraw al with d is solete methods are losing an em
pire.’’
appointm ent not untinged w ith resentm ent.
“ Mr. Bruce, Prime M inister of
B \ its w ithdraw al the A m erican delegation has given
A ustralia, protested to the Im per
tiie opium conference, which alread y was to tterin g , a ial Conference over a year ago
heavy push. If it falls and fails com pletely there will be against the submission of Britain
disposition by other nations—not alto g eth er u n justified to what he called the dependence
V A L E N T IN E S
lc to 50c
EVERYTHING FOR THE PARTY
BLEND
BRAND
FLOUR
you’ll be glad to admit that
you made them. And whether
you make bread, cakes, or
pastry you’ll find FISHER’S
BLEND equally good
B efore
y o u B u ild
or B uy
a. H o m e
,
insist on
fo r
ChecKSeal
Electrical
Wiring
every
purpose
ELH ART’S
—to a ttrib u te th e failure* to the w ithdraw al of the Amer- upon the Unlted States’” said The
ican delegation in tim e of crisis.
I Referee-
* -n
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.
BLEND'S
MAHf
Put It To Every Test ,You Can
Think of—Prove to Yourself that
I “ And a pitiful dependence it is!
| Dependence brought about by our
A POOR ARGUMENT FROM AN AMERICAN
; Inept and perilo n . » nance -
Manx silly and foolish reasons have been advanced brought about and persisted in to I
as to why the U nited S tates should not redeem its solemn our decline, and perhaps our fall.
“ The policy of the Bank of
pledge of independent ee to the Filipinos.
England, and of government after
B ut it has rem ained fo r Ju d g e Newton W . G ilbert,
governm ent — during and since
form er actin g governor of the archipelago, to advance the war.— is to make an old sys
th e flim siest of all.
tem work unmodified, in condi
In a recent speech in New York, lie declared th a t the tions which im peratively demand
I nited S tates m ust hold the islands lest “ it set th e world its modification.
‘ The old device of raising the
aflam e.”
bank rate will not work now,
And this is the line of reasoning the Ju d g e pursued: either to sto>p exports, or to a t
If the U nited S tates g ran t freedom to the Filipinos, tra c t imports, of gold. It will not -*ALES j
TIMES THOSE OF A N T OTHER B R A N D
it will encourage sim ilar asp iratio n s on the p a rt of the now affect gold, but it will injure
industry, fill the Gazette, create
peoples of the Dutch E a s t In d ie s
From them the infection of liberty would spread to unemployment, and add to the
dole tax.
India, leading there to arm ed revolt against B ritish rule;
“We do not need the gold! *We
and then by some process, which is as clear as the mud can get back to the gold standard
from Mt. Lassen, a general conflgration would result.
of value, and to legal tender fully
. W hat the judge actually argues is th a t Uncle Sam backed by gold, by a modification
should continue to he the task m aster of the islands in of our system of finance!
“ The steps to be taken in un-
ord er tliat o th er and ad m itted ly more oppressive ta sk
Ison th a t are necessary to restore !
m asters m ay rem ain secure and serene in th eir pjaces of our/m oney are th e steps necess-,
From Ashland
dom ination.
ary to restore our independence
T h at is a fine, a noble m ission fo r a country d ed i of America. These steps are:
“ The lim itation of legal tender
cated under God to the ideals of freedom and to the p rin
Daily to Portland ............................* .7:00 A. M-
to paper fully covered by g o ld :1
c ip le of governm ent of, for, and by The People.
Daily to E u g e n e ........ ......................12.00 Noon
the limitation, of the issue of such
paper to the equivalent of the
12:00 noon S tage connects to P o rtlan d
gold we have got; the establish
BEET SUGAR A LABOR PROBLEM
follow ing m orning.
ment of an elastic banking-credit
•A num ber ot w estern states are planning to encour currency; the intensive cultivation
We take passengers for all way points; for further
inform ation and tickets call Hotel Ashland office phone
age m ore beet su g ar production and find it is basically a of th e check system, and the issue
47.
la b o r problem .
of credit, practically interest free,
FARE ASHLAND—PORTLAND $8.20
Sm all tra c ts will tax the labor supply of alm ost anv under proper safeguards, for pro
ductive-purposes alone.”
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"All future events, where an admission charge is made or 3 j
(.< ilection taken is Advertising.
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No discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders.
of the stam p division of the Post Office D epartm ent.
Tidings ads bring results.
C A lU M ir
THE WORLD'S G R E A T E S T
BAKING POWDER
is in truth, the
<fKey to Better Baking”
Now is th e tim e to buy spray
pum ps, p low s and
harrows,
d rills and a ll kinds of farm
im plem ents. F en cin g in every
sty le. H arness, collars, snaps,
and pads. New and used Sew
in g M achines. A u to'R obes, etc.
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