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m il action taken is Advertising.
No discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent Orders.__
Perhaps our biggest delusion
that of trying to get rich
thout doing any work.
Cash registers do not make
men honest, because honesty is
something that cannot be pro­
duced by machinery.
Hex Heck says
way the beautiful Indian child
T. cherish the picture of a men
,|lataoka got her nickname about
Who has not been, but is to
the time Captain John^S m I th
was captured tytd condemned to
dig. Little Mspaeke Hatred to Hie cheek is bronsed by * the
summer ten
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tbe Indian councils aid was
And bis smile is fair to see.
heavy-hearted.
Her great ten­
His word Is good end his heart
derne« w entdut to Joh^Smith,
is true
so fair, bo , friendly, to tine a
And he loves the old red. white
man! His bead had been'plat ed
end blue.
on tbe fwo greet etonea; Pow­
hatan had opened hie lips to
I vision him oft, and where e'er
commend the executioners to
he goes
strike when Mataoke slipped by
Olad voices give him a warm
then» end flung herself on the
hello.
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prostrate body of the helpless
The trust of the little ones he
prisoner.
She pleaded not in
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knows
vain with her stern father, Pow­
And respect of friend or foe—
hatan, to spare the White Cap­
For never the scarlet mark of
tain's life. When he was re-,
-
shame
leased he asked her name; but
Has marred his record or touched
it being an Indian custom never
hie name.
to tell a name, lest It give some I
magic harmful influ eqoa, I‘ow-
He walks the world in a kindly
hatan said that his denghter’B
way.
name was Pocahontas.
He laughs wheh the Jest is
She end Qsptain Smith be­
fair.
came affectionate friends. Po­
The wide outdoors la hie field
cahontas was loyal 'end faithful
of play
to the settlement at Jaipestown
And he loves the beauties
and many times saved the col­
there.
ony from misfortune. As she
He hears God's word in the
grew to womanhood one of the
whispering trees
settlers, Master John Rolfe, fell
And the song of birds and the
in love with her, for she was
lous mistake, a gal kin make
donations
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[ties or otherwise^ vrUl he.lRSde.1» advertís Is to git married before her graceful, altogether captivating;
I talk to him oft when thé night
father kin afford it."
contributions will be in cash.
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and she loved him in return.
to sun, x
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n a « » a a a « a » »
Chief Powhatan consented to the
I think of him day by day;
marriage end sent hie brother to He hasn’t arrived, but I pray
OCTOBER 14, 192B
A SUN AND SHIELD.— The L ord G o d I
give the bride away in the little
he will
Lord will give grace and glory: no good thin
church at Jamestown which thou­
When
his youth has passed
them that walk uprightly. Psalm
sands of tourists visit and will
awqy.
PRAYER:— May we, O Thou Giver or
vtolt till the end of time. A J^nd what is his name and who
gift, ever peek to possess Christ In pur hear
year later her little son, Thomas
wilt freely give us all things.
to he?
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was born.
Pocahontas learned The man that I . hope my son
rapidly and shortly became so
A LOUD SPEAKER
w ill be.”
Most women long for a home well educated that her husband
as a w ay o f sp eak in g fo< itse lf and tbe
The above verses, written • by
offortivp it becom es. The with costly furniture and phono­ took her to England where she Edgar A. Guest, well express an
m ore o iten it speaks, m e uiu iv
graph records which play on one was titled “Lady Rebecca,’’ and
m oral is to speak loudly and frequently.
royally feted as a foreign prin­ Ideal every father in Ashland
side only.
The onlv w ay a hack-sliding business can he revitaliz
cess. Among the ladies of the should share.
The laxlest man in town haa court none was a greater fav-(
od or a liv e Business kept alive is by con tin u ou sly ad ver­
We ask your help for the
tisin g . T h is has been dem onstrated tim e w ith ou t num quit selling coal and gone into ,orlte, for her dark beauty and local Y. M. C. A. and 8cout Or­
the ice business for the winter. gentle ways won all hearts. In ganisations who have been and
her. I t is an accepted faet.
London she saw again her old
ere now developing Just this
E very business enterprise is fa cin g th e stro n g est com
Two can live on love alone friend, Captain John Smith. sort of young men.
petition and only those that u se as their a id s th e m ightj
She reproached him for calling
The canvass for the funds to
her "Lady Rebecca” and asked
pow er o f ad vertisin g are able to k eep in fro n t in the ract
carry on the work the coming
When you see a man standing why he did not call her his year will be made during the
for patronage.
with his wife before a window child as he used to do. Poor next three days.
A d vertisin g is a loud speaker and th e m ore often 1
full of hats you know she to boss. Mantaoka, The, Prlnceee Poca­
We ask you to help ns with
is used, the louder it speaks. I t ch an ges readers into buy
hontas, Lady Rebecca! She fell
your Influence ns well as fl-
Music hath no charms to 111 with longing tor her native nanclally.
R eaders of a d v e r tisin g h a v e learned th a t advertised soothe the savage phonograph, ctAintry; and though ilbe' had
Signed
m erchandise is dependable because th e a d v ertiser risks player piano or squawking radio. the. greatest affection for her
Ashland Young Men’s
husband and dearly loved her
Christian Association.
h is reputation on th e statem en ts h e m akes to the public
Our neighbor’s new baby Reems son, her homesickness grew 'so
through the m edium o f th e p rinted page.
alarming that John Rulfe ar­
to have static.
ranged their return to Virginia
T h ey h ave learned from exp erien ce th a t continuous
where her early life lay. Before
Friday
to
considered
unlucky
ad vertisers a lw a y s g iv e th e b e st fo r th e price. Thtis con-
they could set sail a sudden
by
some
people,
but
then
every
fin n m is a d v ertisin g becom es an undeniable proof o f qnal-
day is considered unlucky by weakness came over her, the fell
Articles of timely Interest«
asleep, and at twenty-two. In are welcomed under this heed.
some people.
a foreign land, Lady Rebecca Communclatlons muet beer the
died and was buried in the lit­ signature of the author.
W EEKS GOOD ADMINISTRATOR
tle church at Gravesend.
John W . W eek s, secreta ry o f w ar for fiv e years, hftf
Her son Thomas was edu­
resigned. I ll health for som e m onths has m ade h is retire
cated in England but returned T H E C H A U TA U Q U A B U IL D IN G
Referring to the article In Sat­
m en t in ev ita b le. .
in his majority to Virginia where
urdays
Issue of The Tidings, in
Mr. W e e k ’s public exp erien ces,
many noble families have been
Chautauqua
cabinet, had been alm ost en tirely p olitical. H e had no
proud to claim as their ancestor reference to the
the little tomboy, the beautiful building, 1 wish to correct the
special w arranty for ta k in g th e p osition . A s a secretary of
Princess Pocahontas, the first statement aa to my saying that
w ar he ou gh t to be considered a fine secretary o f th e n avy,
woman
who made history in the th e filling In of granite on tho
th e P rlncees P»cahon taa
fo r W eek s w as a graduate o f th e U . S. naval academ y at
Virginia
Colony. Her life . was
A nnapolis, and all h is life had taken an active, if academ ic Mother of Thomas Rolfe; ancest full of romance, of adventure,
or of John Randolph of Roan
in terest in n aval affairs. H e had n ever lieen a busin ess
oke, of Wm. Henry Harrison, of gentleness, daring and cour­
It was she, said John
m an o f the con stru ctive typ e. H is vocation w as th at of
President of the United States, age.
Smith, who saved Virginia from
and
of
Mrs.
Edith
Bolling
Wil­
banker and broker.
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son, Mistress of the White famine, confusion and death.
Y et, d e sp ite a ll th ese supposed lim itations, Mr. W eek s
(Copyright, 1925, by Mary Oreer
House.
For Y our S u n day D inner
h a s been an e x cellen t secretary of war. P o ssib ly there
Conklin, (Syndicate) Great Brit­
lias been som e luck in th is. P erh ap s he has dodged p it- By MARV GREER CONKLIN ain rights reserved. Reproduc­ and y ou w ill realize th a t
it is cheaper and b etter to
fa lls, and p erhaps thorny and unpopular q u estions h a v e
“Child,” said Chief Powhata, tion forbidden.)
not arisen d u rin g h is term , as th ey m ight have. A n yhow , to bto tiny daughter, “why wll
let u s bake your cakes.
W eek s leave« th e cab in et and W ashington w ith the good you be such a little tomboy?
Gold Beach—Contractors sur­
w ill o f men w ho h a v e d ealt w ith him , as few cab in et The Indians took up the wen
tomboy end repeated It In th facing Roosevelt Highway, Chet
gutteral
Algonquin
speech- co-Winchuck section. -
officers have.
TOM
SIM S
SAYS
THE FORUM
floor would corredt the eooustlce,
and entM ly remove ' the echo.
This filling in ef gfuelte will
not - lb Any way derrect the
echQ, aa that trouble is ebore the
ground lin e; It ' will no doubt
help the trouble te some de­
gree In tbe center of tbe build­
ing by raising the listener up
more la line with the speaker
and wlU greatly improve the ap­
pearance of the
giving an even
floor.
The acoustics of the building
have xbeen a' great disappoint­
ment to ell and certainly should
he corrected. Now that the build­
ing has been acquired by tbe
dty, every cltixen end taxpayer
should be Interested in Its Im­
provement and putting It on at
least e self supporting, if not
a paying basis, and that can
be done with proper completion
and equipment.
This building
could be made one of Ashland's
best advertising assets; consider
tbe advantages and benefits to
onr dty by having a first class
Auditorium large enough to take
cafe of the largest conventions
end troupe; we would soon be
known as the “Convention City
of the West."
master builder under hto di­ that will reach pretty well dewp
rections. 1 w m elosely associated
with h l« durla< the oonetructleu
of the building, end but few and I t might solve the question
know better than the writer, the of acoustics- Il >?. Ike wall
deep Interest he took la that could be treated la a different
work, hie very heart and aoul way with burlap or some soft
wee wrapped. up la that wprk. material and a huge, liberty bell
Let ua dedicate the building to or something of that order Could
be suspended from the oeater.
their memory.
As regarda the acoustics, they
Should this dam of axperl-
are largely experimental, and be­ n w ta fall t o d r .
fore we engage la any permanent results, then expert advice ehbuld
improvement, it would be wiee be secured, to determine whet
to try some simple inexpensive to tlo.
experiment. If the rebound or
A. L. l4 » h . *
roloe echo cemea from the ce­
ment wall, that could he limited
to quite an extent by setting %
row of small fir trees around p ia
cement wall In the inside of
the building, and It the* rebound
comes from the roof It probably
would be well to try to hoist
an evergreen tree In the center
Recently, I was requested by
members pf the
committee
in
charge of the C. W. Root Fund
to give an approximate estimate
on the cost of balconies, [»eating,
and putting a floor in the build­
ing, with a view of the com­
mittee using that fund for the
completion of the Chautauqua
building, as a memorial to the
memory of those two good peo­
ple, C. W. Rot end Virginia
Root, who did so much for
Ashland, and so generously gave
their worldly possessions to our
d ty to beautify the seme. Noth­
ing could be more fitting and
proper then to nee that fund in
completing the Chanteuque build­
ing end dedicating It to their
memory. That building repre-
fraternal friendship
'RATESNAL M1END8HIF IS something
which most men cherixh.
, For there ixn’t a man, whatever be his
group, who isn't proud to be 'a member
Some men indicate it by a pin—other»
Always
Good Shoes
would prefer a watch charm of ring.
W hichever is h » choice, it will be
found in variety at
OVERLAND
Shoe Shop
AS. A. WHITE
ENDEB’S BLOCK
Or Wo Make Good
Greaf Mothers
TRY ONE OF
OUR CAKES
LITHIA BAKERY
A ll th is w hen it m igh t h ave been far otherw ise. F o r
one thin g, W eek s w as dam ned, to start w ith, by b ein g a
“ regular p o litic ia n .” I t w as supposed that, in office, he
w ould keep a m ain e y e o u t for th e votes. \ et, du rin g
h is term, there has never arisen a suspicion that he w as
u sin g the dejiartm ent for u lterior purposes. H e, a p o li­
tician, has had as clean a record as, for in sta n c e ,.S e c r e ­
tary W ork, a sp ecialist, has had in his departm ent.
It just hapjiened that WeekR w as a good ad m in istra­
tor, which S ecretary W ilbur o f th e n a v y jh a s show n th a t
he is not. M embers o f tbe cabinet should first of all, lie
good adm inistrators. I f th ey fere, and th eir c h ie f keep s
them out of p olities, they w ill lie a credit to the nution
A M A K E S H IF T
The French debt erunmission lias gone hom e w ith .ft I
m ak esh ift agreem ent that defers final settlem en t for fiv e
years and leaves the question o f foreign deb ts on open, de- I
batable ground.
J
Tbe debt cancellntionists can continue to spread th eir
propaganda, and the controversy with France, in stead o f I
co o lin g off, will undoubtedly liecomc a m ore v ita l ¡sane. I
H one for am icable settlem ent of t h e war debt question I
w a s felt on th is side of the A tlantic when E ngland and J
th e U n ited S ta te s reached a funding agreem ent. M any
sm aller Eurojw an pow ers follow ed the B ritish exam p le
and sign ed tlieir nam e on the d otted line.
B u t n ot F rance. The astu te financier, Joseph C aillanx,
ca m e to A m ericn w ith the idea o f drivin g a bargain that
w ould m ak e him strong jiolitically at home. F a ilin g in
th a t, he dodged r e sp o n sib ly by Returning with a com'
p rom ise w hich will not lie effective until it is affirm ed by
h is govern m en t..
In som e fcases a com prom ise is more to lie desired
th a n an op en break. And th is is such a case. A com plete
c o lla p se o f efforts to reach a final settlem ent would per­
hap s lia v e produced a strained situation that would have
been m ore d isa stro u s in resu lts than the present m ake­
shift.
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