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. ( ’• FICIAL C IT I PA PER ...........’.......................... .....~ ....T elephone 39 i 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 « 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. c V HAPPED HANDS chilblains, frostbite—ju st ru b on soothing, cooling, healing I V V a p o Owtr 17 Million Jar» R ub 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. J- DQKTÖtWJT. « 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. I---------------------------------- *----- --------------------- 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 ^ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu iiiiiiiiiiiin iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH ifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim i av 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, anp 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.” nnnn Y .a rty ♦ ♦ «- WHAT CONSTITUTES ADVERTISING R ichard B readen, of Berw yn, Met, w orks for the "All future events, where an admission charge is made or 3 j (.< ilection taken is Advertising. United S tates G overnm ent. He is assistan t superintendent 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