MONDAY, July SEELAND DAILY TIDINGS He then h^d to walk conildsreble diatene» home. A Continuous (MrtaMtoheA )n tSvaT “ M Evtoy Evening Except Sunday by ASHLAND P R IN T IN G to 00. vw&ost? Bert R. ™----- W. H. Perkins .... ------------------ ----- ----------------- ------ News Bdltor OFFICIAL CITY PAPER — uC. ..................., .............. J Telephone 89 Ip Chicago. Burope's slogan Just now Is . Say It with tehrs Id your eyes.* ’ Oakland, Cal. fell, Vandenberg showed great pluck as It required almost ber- 1 culean effort to pull the fork out. DISPLAY A D V E R nsih Single Insertion, per inch ___________ Political, Display, per inch —..................... __ . Yearly Coatrac One Insertion a week ------------------------- Two insertions a w e e k ...... ...... ....... ............ Dally insertion ...................................... Bates tor Legal and Miscellan Hirst insertion, per 8 point U n s ____ __ Bach subsequent Insertion, 8 point Hn« Card or Thanks ____ ji_________ __ Obituaries, per l i n e ........ .................... itt we BMOUOA . Dawes was talking so fast when Congress ended he hasn’t stopped yet. More millions for prohibi­ tion. Our coast line is a cost line. as prescribed by the "ritual” of this strange club. The three who attended the meeting were Peter Hall, Atwater, Minn'.; Charles Lockwood, Cham­ berlain, S. D.; and John C. Oaff, St, Paul Minn. The ‘Last Man's Club’ was or­ ganised in, July, 1885, by 34 vet­ erans of gallant company B, Min­ nesota infantry. Several years its membership remained intact but gradually as the years wore on some of the comrades were tak­ en by death. Yesterday there were" three. Next year there will be— ? 000 taken on American farms may he reduced were worked out by the Agricultural Committee of the Na­ tional Fire Waste Council, ,in collaboration with the In­ surance Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States which held its initial meeting at -A'bi cago on July 14. Insurance company officials, members of the staff of the National Chamber, agricultural publishers, farm bur­ eau representatives, agricultural engineers, representa­ tives of the Department of Agriculture and others con­ stitute the committee. A study of the possible safeguards against tire on farms was made.. It has been found, for exam­ ple, that thç maligned lightning rod, when properly in­ stalled, reduces the hazard from lightning to a minimum. BY CHARLES P. STEWART On^ insurance company reports only a sjnglç loss in forty NEA Service W riter years under such conditions, although lightning is the W ASHINGTON — Trust as ex­ cause of many farm fires. > * ■ ; f traordinary a senator a s Jam es Methods of stacking hay and grains to prevent spon­ A. Reed of M issouri to have an taneous comhnstioij,. construction o£.farm buildings and extraordinary secretary. The fact is th a t Hidklin Yates- houses to retard fire? ways and means of fighting fires on is far m ore than a m ere secretary, the farm and similar subjects were, considered, by tltc or even su per-secretary. H e conics committee. Fire losses on farms it is believed. nun pretty close to bein g an a ssista n t SOME BANKS offer absolute safety for the keeping of your surplus money. , •> $ Others offer you SAFETY—phis SERVICE. We take pride in the fact that we render many dif­ ferent kinds of service every day to our deposbprs. FIRST NATIONAL BANK' ASHLAND, OREGON Classified Ads urirng Results. Dwidends for YouFrom Electrical Development m apping ou t broad general pol­ icies. Y ates, as vice-president and general m anager, is in charge of -the com pany’s actual opera­ tions. For instance, everybody w on­ dered how in th e w orld Rer d m an­ aged to push that in v estig a tio n in to the late P en nsylvania R epub­ lican sen atorial prim ary electio n and keep up w ith h is regu lar S en ­ senator. Indeed, there are qnlte ate work a t-th e sam e tim e. a few fu ll sen ators who a ren ’t as The in v estig a tio n alon e ran Im portant as A ssistan t Senator three session s d a ily and far into Y afes. th e n ight. By Itself it looked as Reed is very proud of h is sec- , if-lt wa3 enough to keep th e Mis­ rotary, ar assista n t, and h e has souri senator m ore than fully reason to be. Y ates is a unique occupied w hile It lasted . Y et he possession and extrem ely v a lu ­ alw ays w as on hand in th e Sen­ able. > ate cham ber w hen th e so lo n s w erj R eed has so m any in terests tran sactin g busin ess, m ixin g into and such strenu ous ones, h e’s on everyth ing, d eb atin g and discuss­ so m any S enate com m ittees and ing and oratin g. Just as if he had su b-com m ittees and »special com ­ n oth in g else on h is m ind. m ittees, he con d ucts so m any in ­ How did he do It? v estig a tio n s. he m akes so m any The answ er is— H icklln Yates. speeches, h e’s Involved In so m any W hen R e e i w as appointed fig h ts, h is tim e is so occupied and chairm an of the slush fund inves­ over-occupied that there sim ply tig a tin g com m ittee, Y ates, as his isn ’t enough of him to go around. secretary, a u to m a tica lly becam e A s th e sayin g Is, he ou ght to be the’ com m ittee’s secretary. incorporated. H e w orked up the w hole Inves­ W ell, In effect, so h e is, with tigation. h im self as p resident, engaged in It w as his case, so to speak, pre- OUT OUR WAY STILLW ATER, M inn., Ju ly 21. — Three to tter in g veteran s of the Civil W ar, la st su rvivors of M in­ n esota’s fam ou s ‘L ast Man’s Club' cam e here yesterd a y to attend the annual m eetin g — a m eetin g w hich aray be »heir last. The banquet table w as set Just as it w as se t som e 10 years ago when the club w as organized, but ihstead o f 31 la u g h in g com rades gathered around th e t^ble three only were there. The other 31 ckairs w ere in place— 30 o f them »dvered w ith flo w ers and one of tljera draped in black in m em ory of E m il G raff of St. Cloud, F la., w ho died sin ce the la st m eeting. In th e cen ter of th e table sat the b ottle o f rare old burgundy w hich Is n ot to be opened u ntil tl,ere are on ly tw o survivors. That m ay be next year if one m ore veteran is "counted out" and if so the tw o rem aining w ill drink a to a st t o t h e i r fa llen com rades pared b y him as an o ffice law yer prepares a case, t,o turn over to the cou rt room sp ecia list w ho de­ velops it, through th e exam ina­ tion and cross-exam in ation of w it­ nesses. su m s up and dem ands a verdict on th e evidence. By Williams -ÍÍ4E-TÓ LO V E \ IN ÔVOAM éenû e -fiF F S - A - s — A W P A ttiL s o w o of love • Etwúr ~vvu hem AW4 c o w P uncher t u rti&H-rs vJUO K i M' S i Mûr OF LO VE AN D o AR£ De G NY I . AN LO U O “ ) P IS X tN D A WORK »S R E A D lM ' F E R ì A D iamond with A A H rrc H IO i f ! > - m THE EPHEMERAL STORE KEEPER The ephemeral «tore keeper who has been n thorn in the side of business has been elevated to the dignity of a civic problem, it is found by the Civic Development De­ partment of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. “ ’Mie ephemeral merchandiser is attracting attention all along the line,” it says in a statement ou the sub­ ject, “ because bis failures affect not ouly *lus coiiqietitor* who know the costs of doing business, but.also the manu­ facturer and the wholesaler. ‘‘The widespread a* ¡option of zoning regulations — there are now 435 zoned cities and towns, with a popula­ tion of more Ilian 27,500,000 —- lias given us a new method of .studying this problem that the retainers themselves have found uusolvuble. The practice in adopting a zon­ ing code is to assign’*vciy generous areas to eouuuercv so that there may, be no hindrance to legitimate expan­ sion. In hundreds of instances there has been rezoning l o t in spite of sueii rezoning expeneuce is showing that many of our comnieriial districts are too large. The result is a fragmentary, disorderly development which gives a general impression of cheapness ap» stumbled and/fell upon a pitchfork which penetrated his body clear througb ln the region of his grata, B. D. Ysndenberger, a rancher of Mud river, «« miles northwest of here, was taken to the Quesqel -hospital early this TACOMA, V »-, JuIX 1 <—Fk)jrd Sqjrers, Sumner, Wn., and Der- w w Bernard, Sen Praeeieeo, Ae- V A lG ,'rf LEADS-fO A FÜLL RACK wrJH A D ia m o m o H rieH -t a m u le does a H E A P o ' HEE HAWIN' < AFORE r f G»TS A LOAD OM I T S B A C K M Investment Merits Its Popularity '* ¿XPWiLLtAMS» 1 RM Stto ÑW tthber 8' J 1 I L t , . . 4^, °* P®°pk throughout the United States nave invested their sav- ings in the securities of electric light and power companies. N o t only individuals, bat die banks and insurance companies also rely on this great industry for a safe return on their investments. ¡i if These are sound reasons for this popularity. Public utility securities have a high reputa- far safety of principal and good return, They am backed by solid, enduring proper- * - i j valued HÇADU4 F tR TH’HALT£R f *».-/• ■ / * 4.