PACT TWO ASHLAND BATT.Y TIDINGS A S H L A N D D A IL Y T ID IN G S (E stab lish ed in 1 8 7 6 ) fctudy it, while others will deliberately misrepresent it to lhe People and cause dissension. Mondar, February 23, 1025 MEN AND WOMEN IN NEWS SPOTLIGHT P ub lished E very E ven in g Except Sunday by The president of the British Mining Association declared th a t wages constitute over 63 per cent ot the pit-mouth price and over tw o-thirds of the selling price. He held th at average earnings in 1923 were 63 per cent higher than in 1913, out of line with other industries, according to Lyon. By the May agreem ent the m iners received an increased share of the net proceeds, the minimum wage was increased and lower grades of labor were given improved position. The concluding months of 1924 shifted the burden to the owners when one coal audit after another showed th at they were operating at a loss,” Lyon said. At the very end of the year came the first tentative approach to a new conference between worker?) and owners to study the causes of the distress In the in­ dustry,’ and as the date of ex­ piration of the present agreem ent approaches, to form ulate a more equitable agreem ent to take its place.’’ The year of 1925 opens with a prospect much like th a t a year ago, except th a t Continental E ur­ ope holds out much brighter promise, according to the trade commissioner. If trade on the Continent revives, better demand for British coal will result. Cost of production is regarded the crux of the whole situation. Owners say costs are forced up to an uneconomic height by the agreem ent now in force. The trouble is not with the demand, but the margin of profit. THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO. VP TO WAR DEPARTMENT « art R. Greer ................................................................. Edito. Brieadier General William Mitchell’s out-spoken crit- ueorge Madden Green ..................................................... Business Managei • • ,, ,, ,. • i- , , . _______________________________________________ icism ot the Government’s air pokey may cost him a pro- i i.n J-'FICIAL CITY PAPER ..................................................... Telephone 39 j n o t i On Ib flt o tlio r w is c h o m io-lit I ia v a h a d b u t it a t loast tered a t th e A shland, Oregqn P o sto ffice as Second C lass Mail M atter 111011,11 naT OtlieiWlse lie migllt lia\G Had, hut It at least RERLTN, Feb. 32. — - will have awakened the nation to a realization of some of h a ir’s breadth Germany would Subscription P rice, D elivered in City have won everlasting freedom of 65 Gie things .that are going on in our defense moves. < ne Month seas for th ° world v seefaring 1.95 < nreo Months As assistant chief of the air service, General Mitchell the t i Months 3.75 nations. Her most formidable na­ 7.5 might to be in a position to know something about the val weapon, the U-bcats. had C«»o Year .. By Mail and R ural R outes ? .65 subject he is now discussing. His fearlessness in discuss- reached a stage of technical per­ • ¡ue Month ___ 1.9",mg it, m the face of what seems to be almost certain “ win- fection in the eleventh hour, when '1 aree Months ... 3.5 the Revolution suddenly sh atter­ h < Year*18 ............................................................................................ 6 6.5 5* lshinent” indicates that he may not be altogether wrong ed all hopes of fulfilling this world in many of his presumptions. • mission,” claims Commander DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATES It will be a rather unusual state of affairs if men are Johannes Spiess, subm arine vet- $ .30 t:ngle insertion, pe? inch ........................................................... Yearly C ontracts LORD: LET THY LOVINGKINDNESS AND THY TRUTH con - personal revenge, but for the betterment of the American as m asters of skilful defensive w arfare. TINUALLY PRESERVE ME.— Psalin 40:11. ¡war service. lie is deserving of compliment for the show­ mine Once more in agreem ent with ing of sincerity he has made. If it can he shown that all of Tirpitz, Spiess holds th a t the pro­ GREED AND THE GOLDEN RULE j the criticisms he has made are without foundation, he clam ation of “ unrestricted sub­ Greed in one or another of its differing manifesto-1 should not be retained in a position of responsibility. Lei marine w arfare” in 1917 came too ( lions and under one or another of its varying names isius find out whether they are without foundation first late. By this time England had already devised defensive meas­ the cause of most of the human strife and consequent hu-| before we hear ugly threats of “ punishment” and like ures, i?S£ S.UN3 VZtV. ISJEJ® man misery that there are in the world. The rest is caused talk ly constructed auxiliary craft like Herbert H, Asquith, leader of the Liberal Party In England ana Canadian Provinces the so-called “ Mystery Boats.” bv fear. If these could be effaced from human conscious-: former Premier, has been created*an Earl by King George. Dr. Sun Have Great W ealth Spiess gives a vivid description friYat Sen, head of the so-called South China Government, and one of •r.ess we should have a condition approximating perfection, j of how his own boat, in the North lithe leaders In the formation of the Chinese Republic, is seriously ill SOCIALISM OR REVENUE In each of us ami all there is, couchant or rampant, WINNIPEG. Ma%.. Feb. 22. — Seat, was on the point of torpedo­ 11 In Pekin. Captain. Roald Amundsen has asked the Norwegian Govern- ¡&ent to send the transport Pram to Spitsbergen in May, to act as a The value of all forms of farm greed in greater degree or lesser. In whatever measure ____ The declaration by President Coolidge before the na- ing the U-Deutscliland, the fa­ ¡relief ship for his proposed airplane flight over the North Pole. Mary we keep it, through our strivings, throttled and cowed tional inheritance and estate tax conference that the Gov mous subm arine cruiser which Pickford, screen actress, has retained Patrick Carrigan, former Justice products in 1924 in the prairie of the Nevada Supreme Court, to defend Dorothy Ellingson, sixteen- provinces of Manitoba Saskatche­ and in whatever degree we succeed in easting it out, in eminent should gradually withdraw from this field unless made two trips to the United year-old San Francisco girl who killed her mother when reproved for wan and Alberta totalled $384,- State?, when, at the last moment that measure do we bring ourselves into conformity with A formally adopts Socialism, will undoubtedly provoke the Deutschland signaled. “ We 019,138, according to the annual report of the Dominion Depart­ that very* great precept of the greatest teachei*, the Golden a great deal of discussion. are G erm an!” The Deutschland sions regarding its renewal or ment of Agriculture. There is no question but that both state and nation was m aking a trial cruise upon iiule, for the Golden Rule is the antithesis of the whole am endm ent would begin before Total value of grain crops was the end of 1924,” Lyon said. have seized upon estates as legitimate prey for all sorts of orders of the Berlin Staff, which code of greed and all its manifestations. $263,583,438. of this, wheat was had not informed the “ front com­ “Accordingly the industry has In the world of business greed is. manifested largely taxes. Everyone wants a hand in their distribution. The m and” at W ilhelmshaven. been in a continuous state of un­ valued at $215,450,123; oats, $11,093.146; barley $19,275,- in over-acquisitiveness, prompted by fear. There is fear question of whether such taxation is a fa ir taxation seems Spiess’s narrative of the out­ certainty a situation which must 59S; flax $12.171,925; and rye, that not enough profit will be made to provide next year’s io have been given little consideration. In some instances break of m utinies in the German react unfavorably upon the gen­ $4.911,138. eral morale. Wage disputes ari needs. There is fear that a competitor will get a greateiv estate taxation has forced the breaking «up of large inter­ Navy is also full of dram atic de­ Value of livestock passing tails. a sort of recurrent fever, with a t­ share of business than is rightfully his. There is fear that ests that hindered general development; in other instances, “ The powerful German battle through stockyards was $36,728,- WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.— The tack? coming closer and closer an insufficient reserve is provided against possible un- estate txation has really worked an injustice and unfair squadrons were Hmpiy ro ttin g in coal industry of the United States, together, and yet it seems diffi­ 595 compared with $31,757,104 properous conditions of the future. And so there is some -j derdship on beneficiaries, whom the law recognizes as the Jade Bight, because of Com- described recently by Secretary of cult to arrange a longer truce. in 1923. mander-in-Chief did not have the Commerce Hoover as one of the qmes manifestation of effort to acquire now as much as¡entitled to estate benefits, “ The constant th re a t of dis- pluck to challenge the British putes*causes a rush of stock sup­ few sore spots” in the commer­ possible and as rapidly, no matter at what cost of business; President Coolidge has suggested that there be a clear Grand Fleet in an action which cial fabric, is in infinitely bet­ plies, with resultant overstock if ethics ’ outline of public policy. It is a proper suggestion and might have turned out a serious ter condition than the same in- the strike doea not’ materialize. 'terE very Meal, steps should be taken to make clear just what the Gov­ blow to England’s supremacy. G reat Britain, one of the other Financing plans are disarranged and the peak .conditions are not COST OF GOVERNMENT ernment policy is to be. If the purpose of taxation is to This was the innerm ost cause great coal' producing nations. of the revolution,” says the com­ leveled out.” This inform ation wa? conveyed We are spending a lot of money on government— collect revenue, inheritance taxation at the present time mander. Lyon, however, feels th a t a t.o the D epartm ent of Commerce about ten billion dollars a year, which is $91 per capita, is excessive and in many instances almost confiscatory. Spiess, in -command of one of by Trade Commissioner Charles close and unbiased examination of It it is a form of socialism to force the breaking up'of the most powerful U-boats, was E. Lyon, of London, who said that the situation indicates th a t undue and in round numbers can be allocated as follows: estates into smaller units that should be made apparent, ordered to sink the battleship the “ British coal industry was alarm has been expressed and »Spent by the federal government .............$3,459,000,000 it is already having that effect. Thueringen w ithout notice, if the much depressed in 1924, suffering th at the trade probably will re­ Spent by the s ta te s ...................................... 1,526,000,000 m utineers did not surrender. from a num ber of adverse condi­ cover as the present difficulties They did surrender a few m inutes tions which seemed to grow pro­ are adjusted. Spent fcr local government ...................... 5,136,000,000 before Spiess was ready to dis­ gressively worse.” 5 et there are numerous swell restaurants that never You will see by the above that practically half of this charge the torpedo. Miners, producers and the pub­ amount is spent on local government. President Coolidge serve hooch unless patrons ask for it. “ Order could have been re­ P a s s it arou n d lic in England cr? not looking is setting a splendid example, but not as far-reaching as stored by energetic m easures, by after ev e ry meal. forw ard with anticipation to the N ow is th e tim e to buy spray G ive the fam ily An Arkansas man kept both a wife and a sweetie executing some dozens of mu­ wage local economy. The economv outlined bv President Cool- settlem ent of June 30. Tip? pum ps, plow s anil harrows, the benefit of its tineers on the spot. But the com­ idge affects only $45 of the $91. We must find some way happy. And yet they snv we have no great diplomats. mander-in-chief wage controversy of 1924 had two d rills and all kinds of farm aid to digestion. decided different­ phhses, one leading up to the im plem ents. F en cin g in every Cleans teeth too. < f affecting the entire amount. We are getting too much and sent the battle fleet to Keep it always settlem ent in May and the other sty le. H arness, collars, snaps, Correct this sentence: “ He’s .getting ready to cry ly government It is good, but it is .more than we have mon­ Keil, where, in the m eantim e, the in the house. r:i, covering the concluding months and pails. New and used Sew ­ again, said the young dad, “ let me hold him.” ' revolutionaries had gained the ey to pay for. of the year when the effects of the L BEÏÏER OFF THAN ENGLISH A NEW ALIGNMENT M S CHILD SHE GAVE m y of the child. Morz claims the child, basing upper hand ¡on land. “A powerful navy, undoubted­ ly the second-best in the w’orld was th u s knocked out by its own people and deprived of the chance to help in w inning the freedom of th e seas for the rest of the world after the m ilitary leaders of this nation had missed the charge to deliver such a de­ cisive blow by ruthless subm ar­ ine w arfare,” is the summary of the last chapter of Spiess’s book. It is true that Secretary Hoover is the most active his claim on a document dated man in America today, and so far as we can see there is March 7, 1916, by which Mrs. Kuzulis placed the child in his no man in the country doing more good than he is, but it custody. Mrs. Kuzulis longs to must be admitted that the farmers are resenting his atti­ SALEM, Mass., Feb. 23. — Is have her little daughter with her tude on many questions and are challenging his conclus­ m other love above the laws of the again, she said. ions. However, it looks to us as though Hoover was right, State? Because b f extreme (poverty, This is the qpe tion to be de­ He is insisting on the marketing end, and certainly no mat­ cided in the case of Mrs. Mary Mrs. Kuzulis says, she parted with ter how much cooperation we have or how effective farm­ Kuzulis, of Detroit, Mich., who ap­ her daugheer nine years ago. ing may be from the production end, unless thqre is a peared in Probate Court here be­ Both the m other and Morz have If the Soiythern Pacific will fore Judge Dowd and asked for m arried since then, and Mrs. marketing end there will be hard times. only give us a new depot we don’t Kuzuslis is now in comfortable retu rn of her little daughter, Secretary Hoover did not approve of the McNary- the circumstances. Stella was but two care w hat color they paint it.— Stella. llaugen act. He believed there were other ways of help­ All during court procedure years old when her m other was Red Bluff News. ' ______ ing the fanners. His idea prevailed in the selection of a Stella, now eleven years old and obliged to part with her. secretary of agriculture, and William M. Jardine, who has who does not rem em ber her Pending fu rth er in v estig atio n ,! There are many hits and mother, sat beside Ignatz Morz, a Judge Dow’d reserved his decls- ( misses, but not every Miss makes just been appointed to that position, is a man who bitterly Saugus farm er, present “ fa th e r” ion. j a hit. opposed this act, even in the face of its almost solid sup­ port by the farmers of his state. Mr. Hoover’s idea is ITALIAN PREMIER IN LION’S DEN practical. He believes the farmers’ market should be pro­ tected precisely as the manufacturers’ market has been y roteeted. \\ e must cut down our imports and increase our exports. He has an idea that it is possible by a tariff regulation to have a better balanced agricultural produc­ tion and at the same time give us a market abroad for any : urplus -we may have, 'that raises an issue, as vet nebu- *>ns, but likely to crystallize into a new alignment in American politics. The Hoover policy, when understood, will lie resisted by influences in the great consuming cities. The clamor there is for cheaper food products. Artful politicians have tried to make the farmer and the wage earner believe that they can give the farmers high prices for his products and the city consumer low cost of living and cheap farm products. That ideal state of af­ fairs, they have been saying, can be attained by eliminat­ ing the middleman and by a substantial reduction of the lreight rates. Some measure of relief may be hoped for in lower freight rates, but many of the attacks on the mid­ dleman is pure demagogy and nothing helpful can come of it. 1 he middleman is on his job because there is a de­ mand for his services. Of course he is self-appointed, but be is an instrument in transportation. Any transportation system devised that does away with the middleman must facilitate the handling by the production and get it quick­ ly to the consumption end. Anything that causes delay will not be accepted, even if it crowds out a whole lot of middlemen. The Hoover idea is one for permanent bene­ Here Is an unusual photograph of Benito Mussolini, Fascist Premier of Italy, pictured literally In a fit and not for temporary relief, as was the MdNary- lion s den. Ins enem ies declaring they have him figuratively in a political lion’s den. The lion was cub to Premier Mussolini, but it has now grown too large to keep in his home, so the Premier paya Jlaugen bill. 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