THE DfllhY TIDIftQS EDITORIAL
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William G. Shepard, after an exhaustive survey
of prison, conditions htroughout the United States,
has concluded that life for the average felon behind
the “ cold, gray walls” of our penal institutions not
only is far from something from which men shrink
in dread, but, puite on the contrary, is a pretty ideal
existence if one isn’t too particular about how his
family on the outside is faring. The criminal, Mr
Shepherd declared, has it comparatively “ soft.”
There are movies for him in the evening, and lectur­
es and concerts. There are athletic events on certain
gala afternoons, when the boys may romp in the
sunshine, even as the lambs are said to gambol on
the lea. The convicts have the best of food, proper­
ly prepared and regularly served.
This applies mainly to men convicted of major
crimes, such as murder, rape, larceny, banditry, etc.
The life led by these gentlemen is not to be confused
with the unhappy existence of certain violators of
the prohibitory law where farmer boys have been
known to suffer through several weeks in a stuffy
jail on bread and water for the offense of drunk­
enness or carrying a pint on the trip.
For instance of how the convicts in our state in­
stitutions come to love the old homestead to which
they have been sentenced seems to be afforded in
Iowa where a convict had to be forcibbly ejected
because his time was up. He had been sentenced
to five years for larceny by enbczzlement, but good
behavior, alas, had reduced his sentence by more
than a year and his time expired Monday. AAdvised
that he was a free man, the convict cooly reminded
the officials that he had been sentenced to five years
and that he was going to remain where he had been
put, despite the cruel leniency of the law. So they
threw him out into God’s great outdoors. Willy-
nilly they threw him out to freedom, though it
should break his heart
And so—:hut there really isn’t any more to write.
And now the -American •eonfectionery industry
is raising a fund of more than a million dollars
ffr a three-year advertising “ campaign” in which
the food value of candy will he stressed. The one
sure way to America’s heart, wise business men
have learned, is through the advertising columns
of his newspaper. As one industry after another
another has discovered this fact, prosperity has
settled upon it, and enriched its owners.
“ Eat More Canday for Energy” will be the
new slogan, which, the candy-makers fondly hope,
will rival “ Say it With Flowers” and “ Eventually
Why Not Now f ” The psychology of the American
the philosophers who pen the ads believe, is to yield
to iteration and reiteration. For those who can’t
read, or for the busy folks wh ohave time only
to glance at pictures, the appeal is to the eye.
So we have lovely girls insinuating the merits of
cigarets, bathing beauties suggesting^ the beauty
of form and gracec of performance of automobiles.
And fo rlh e ambitious folks of the world, those who
struggle undauntedly to better themselves, who
yearn for more exclusive social prestige, we have
the lure of ads containing both.pictures and text
appeal that reveal the triumph of the men who read
aud who discuss, as
Elbert Hubbard’s g scrap book, and
masters, everything from Plato to the federal re­
serve hank act.
It is all very interesting and thrilling, espec­
ially since it has succeeded so well. The appeal of
a given ad may miss one reader entirely, and the
work of the copywriter and artists may seem to
him flat and without character, hut there are hun­
dreds of thousands of other folks who will he en­
tranced, and who will buy and buy and buy. Ad­
vertising is the simplest formula the modern age has
discovered, to win. success.
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A legion delegate, who had lost his memory,
found otet who he was at the recent Philadelphia
convention. We though delegates usuàllly forgot
who they were at conventions.
Four Texas rangers have been detailed to clean
up the naughty little town of Borger. Three of
them were sent along to help in the obsequies, we
take i t
Racks were instruments of
iys. They are closely related
lllie weildg of a Saturday
otball game is in progress on
torture in ancient
to the ruke which
afternoon while a
the hack lot.
queen is here aud everybody's happy, iu-
ir. Mellon, whose favorite rate, 6 jwr cent,
OUT OUR WAY
PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING 00.
W. H. PERKINS, N ew Editor
C. J. BEAD, Managing Editor
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How K n o t t e d
Deugiee a n d
Dorothy Were,
What Others Say
(Roseburg News-Re view)
Quite a number of univer­
sities throughout the east
are discouraging the practice
among students, of taking
'’automobiles to school.” I t
Is claimed the students who
flivver around do not get as
high grades as those who use
their pedal extremities. .W e
think the disclosure is quite
right. Also, that too many
automobiles are In evidence
on the public school grounds
of this and other states.
(Eugene Guard)
Economy was- a chief pre­
tense of Governor Hartley,
of Washington, In his act of
discharging Henry Suxzallo
from the pyesldency of the
University of Washington.
Now the first act of the dean
who was Installed as acting
president is to put In a req­
uisition for sixty-eight new
teachers.
(Corvallis Gazette-Times
The Portland police seem
to be In doubt as to whether
or not a woman could k ill
hereelf, crawl Into a trunk,
pack clothes on top of her
dead body, put the tray in
on top of the clothea and
shut down the lid. They may
have some reason for doubt­
ing it but we can’t think
what it la.
AND
LONDON,
(U P h —To
es­
cape the tremendously heavy
burden of death-duties the
Duke of Devonshire h a s
turned his fam ily estates in­
to a company under the title
Tomorrow Is a
wait for fun.
long time -tn
c
of Chatsworth Estates, Ltd.
He is the seventh deke <who
has ,taken this
Few of ub know what
don't want until after we get
a
Big ankles and pimplen a¡ro
woman’s
greatest
protection
against sheiks.
the
By turning his estate into
company a landcfwner
avoids
excessive
taxation
now imposed on large pri­
vately owned landed estates,
and
When a m in ’ «onstders
fer,” It means h<> is waitin.
step In
last few years.
avoids
death
duties
when he dies.
u to lower ih j price.
Men are often like a poroui
olaeter-—they sink tight to idvas
that Time has punched full
of holes.
BUENOS A IR ES , ( U P ) —
Luis Lopez, 18, an orphaned
newsboy, bought a tablet of
bichloride of mercury with
his last th irty centavos and
told the druggists that rats
bothered him Inordinately.
He
swallowed the
tablet
whole and this enabled him
to survive and tell tha police
that he had no place to
Hez Heck says: ” Eph Swope
Buys he can’t cut down expenses
any more until his son gits big
enough so Eph kin wear the boy'a
cld pants.”
sleep or eat and wanted to
commit suicide because he
owed another newsboy seven
pesos. The rain had spoiled
the newspapers'he hoped to
sell In order to redeem his
debt.
Just as we c.»t'h up with
cation expenses the empty
bin sets us bact rgsln.
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
ASHLAND
10 Years Ago
ASHLAND
20 Years Agi
ASHLAND
30 Years Agi
Miss Josephine Saunders has
Miss Msmmle McWilliams, who
E. C. Sherman and wife visited
returned from Reed College at
Point relatives over Sun-
haa
been
visiting
her
parents
Mr.
Central
Portland and has taken up her
duties as supervisor of the Child­ and Mrs. F. O. McWilliams for a day.
ren's playground.
month, left Thursday night for
CstoxUo, Cal.
A. F. H a n t moved his family
to Ashland Saturday for the w int­
Attorney G. C. McAllister re­
er and they are living in J. E.
turned Sunday from a sojourn of
Pelton’s cottage, near the depot.
about two weeks on hie a lfa lfa ,
M r. H u i\i w ill spend mnoh of his
ranch of ISO acres la th e ’ W lV > Mrs. J
time at the Dead Indian ranch
Hams croak district. Ha haa been the meml
during the winter.
engaged In preparing tt for irrlg a- church cl
tion wRh water from Glade oroek. evening I
M r. E. O. Snyder and daughters
Msses Lucille and N ellie, leave to­
morrow for their eld home in A l­
bany, Ore. They go by automo­
bile. Mias Lucille Barner accom­
panied them and w ill be their
guest fo r two or throe weeks.
Mrs. Snyder aad Mice Naomi w ill
follow by train, the la tto r’e health
not permitting traveling at pre-
rent. M r. and Mrg. Elmore will
• t the Snyders.
wonder«, but a o
fa c t,; WOB.
dew that really,
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hap-
pened, a fairy­
land In actual
truth, and they were enjoying i t
They had thought of this Jour­
ney for ee long that it almoet
seemed beyond belief that they had
actually taken it and that their
long-looked-forward-to and prom­
ised visit to their beloved Unde
John was at last about to begin.
Here they were in a big Station.
Unde John was there to meet
them and he bad shown them*how
he had found out ell about their
train from the booth they called
'•Information. Bureau.” H e had
waited on a bench while upon a big
blackboard was written the trains
doe to arrive and the time gt which
they would arrive.
He had welted in line with many
other people and how excited
Douglas and Dorothy were when
they caught sight of him.
They had been right on time. “To
think that these trains and tracks
never get mixed and are hardly
over late,” said Douglas. How
thrilled they were at t ie entrance
to the city. They heard of trains
arriving and going out all the time.
“I can see how people would
want to come,” said Dorothy, “but
not how anyone would want to
leave here.”
“We shall start our adventures
this very day,” said Uncle John.
“Now we are going In a train with
many cars which runs along on
tracks right through the ground.”
“Ugh,” shivered Dorothy. " It will
be dark end Fll hate i t Let's have
■nether adventure firs t”
“No,” said Uncle John, “It won’t
be dark at atL In fact It will be
bright enough to read story books
while sitting in the cars if you
wish te de ee. You’ll find lots of
people reeding.
“See,“ said Uncle John, “when
you get there I f what I have said
Is not eo.”
They were going now toward
some stairs. “The trains are even
lighter than these stairs and this
platform,” said Uncle John, as they
approached the platform at the foot
of the stairs.
Oh, what a big, busy, bustling
cavernous place it was.
There
were trains stopping, there were
some going whlsxlng past as if they
were running away. Douglas and
Dorothy with Uncle John got Into
one of the long rows of trains
which had stopped and almoet were
trampled upon by several people.
What a rush they were all In 1 How
different from the country I The
cows could rflways wait a few min­
utes to be milked.
Bnt at once they were off again.
A banging of doors, after the guards
had called out to everyone to
“Watch Your Step.”
They had never had any one say
that to them In the country.
It
.was
nice
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th in k
th a t
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everything was
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so thrilling and
II
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dangerous that
one
had
te
watch e v e r y
step In the city.
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l A b V te E
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That
was
a
most wonderful
feeling for two
children to have
.b e e n n e a r a
d ty before in
all their lives 1
Now they were
off.' And every
once In a while
t h e y stopped,
w h ile
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people
rushed oft a n d . b t o n ,
guards c e l l e d
p a p ers and
o ut t h e eta-
Magexlnee.
tlons.
Then they went rushing madly
through semi-dark tunnels which
they looked at through the front
platform of the first car. Dotted
all along were queer, mysterious
lights, purple, red, green, blue, all
signals tor the motorroan.
" It would be rather fearful If
anything happened to the motor-
men in one of theae dark tunnels,”
said Douglas.
“Oh. what a thought," said Dor-
othy, who w |a both terrified and
fascinated by the subway.
“You needn’t worry about that."
said Unde John.
“Should “nr"
thing happen to the motorroan, or
should he drop Me hands, the ebrg
would ell automatically stop—and
Max Pracht le ft for Roseburg
last evening to attend to some
work in the line of his duties as
special «gent of the land depart­
m ent M r. Pracht, Is recovering
, Mrs. P. Dunn who has been
from his tllneas bnt is compelled
making her home with her son, to use his crutches yet.
Judge Dunn and fam;:y la Jack­
sonville for the pest year Is oc­
cupying her home in Ashland
Lowell Roach, who met with an
t means of their own accord,
again. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schaum- accident on the railroad by which
it te a modern wonder.“
lo fla l. whe have been oecupytaft he lost a foot seme months ago,
te la har absence., taking, the M il­
lion residence on Granite street.
RVBHCRiBK FOR T H E TID IN G S.
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tor, Patiaaoa, L /dta ratania from
Play to tha uattay boma o í her lm-
her own da votad admirar, John La-
vina. sita r direuretog affaira wlth “John ate ’em alive 1 w e ll! W eHl”
"How soon will the Indians have
Dudlay, malta» ap hia miad te aa
lato polttloa.
to get off the reservation ?” asked
Lydia.
“Oh, in a year or so I John’s got
by an old squaw from the nearby to get a hill through congress, you
reservation. Lydia glvas her food. know«**
!i*£g?ry» small daughter of Dave
“Oli.” Lydia gave1 a great algh
Marshall, tha town’s banksr. Joins
of relief; a year or so was a very
s s w y f e ’
S M s a i s long time. She decided to forget
the Indiana’ trouble and rejoice In
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t h e r e a lla on Arooa to oomplaln. Levine’s triumph.
Charlie Jackson wee taciturn for
blaming Lydia for the mtahan.
CHAPTER III.—Lydia explains a weak or so, then he played bril­
tha resident and asserts that ba- liantly In the Thanksgiving football
eauae Margery Is cenatdared “atpck game and at the banquet which
UP she. Is not a popular playmate. followed he was his old and genial
Marshall arranges for Lydia to
)
teach Margery to awlm and other­ sell
w ise become “aaa of tha crowd."
A fter Christmas Lydia began se­
Lavina tells Amos hla plan to taka riously to consider how she could
timber from tha Indian reaervatloa
and ultimately have It opened for
aattloment.
,
CHAPTER TV. — Patlansa suc­
cumb» to aa attack of diphtheria,
leaving Lydia feeling that her treat
in God la loot and her sm all world
has collapsed She Anda comfort hi
the loving kindness of John La­
vina. Lydia learns that a note of
Amos', backed by Lavina and bald
by Marshall, la due and cannot ha
hk
boy, Charlie Jackson, telle Lydia of
numerous wrongs done hie people,
mainly by Marshall and Levine.
Lydia defends ber friend vlgoreu *
ly. Meeting Levine la Lydia’s house,
Charlie Jackson threatens aad en­
deavors te attack him.
CHAPTER VII.—Levine Is shot by
an unseen aseasaln. Recuperating
at the Dudley cottage, he learns
the real extent of Lydia's TonellneoS
and her shaken faith la Ood. The
man and girl dnter late a oompdet
to start a “search for Ood" togeth­
er. Leviae, recovered, begins hla
campaign for ooncreas.
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(N ow go OB w ith th e story)
nut jonn Levine did wait, stand­
ing with his hand against his lips,
his heed bowed, till he heard the
gate dick. Then he HfteiLhls face
to the stars. “God," he whispered,
“why do You make roe forty-five
Instead of twenty-five 7"
One Saturday Afternoon She Went
to Call on Ma Norton.
earn the twenty-five dollars that
her share In the camping trip would
cost. One (In January) Saturday
afternoon she went to call on Ma
Norton.
’’Who’s going to chaperon yon
children?" she asked Lydia.
"Miss Towne."
The Klectlen.
“Who of the hoys and girls are
T R A IN ED on election day, a cold
November drizzle. The nay was golngr
a legal holiday and even the saloons “Charlie and Kent and Olga and
were closed. Yet Lake City was I. Margery’s crazy to go, only her
mother hasn’t given In y e t If she
foil of drnnken men by noon.
There were a great number of does go, we’ll ask Gustos Bach too.”
“It would be nice for you to have
rndlaos to town that day, big dark
fellows in muddy moccasins and the camping trip, dear,” said ma.
faded mackinaws, who stood about “You’ve had so little to do with
watching the machinations of the children of your own age. I sup­
pose you’re worrying over the
whites without audible comments.
Toward night the rain stopped money end?"
Lydia nodded. “That’s what I
and Lydia begged her father to
take her Into town to see the pa­ wasted to talk to you about Every,
rade that would be Indulged In by spring you get some ooe to help you
tha victorious party. Nine o’clock dean house. I f you’ll do It Easter
found the two at the square with vacation, this, year, aad let me
a great waiting crowd. There were help, why, that would be a couple
very few women In the crowd. of dollars, wouldn’t tel"
Ma Norton looked at the slender
Thorn that Lydia saw were painted
and loud-voiced. Amos , told her little figure and thought of the
vaguely that they were “hussies” heavy carpet beating, the shoving
and that she was not to let go of of furniture, the cleaning o f Mat­
big arm for an Instant.
tresses that the stout eld eetfired
Lydia didn’t know what a hussy aian hustled through fot hgr «very
was. but she didn’t want to stir spring. Then she recalled toe Uttle
SR Inch from her father's side be­ figure that bed nightly trudged two
cause, of .her fear of drunken men. miles delivering milk rather then
I f wee close on ten o'clock when take Billy’s school books as a gift.
the sound of .a drum was heard And Ma Norton smiled a little rue­
from the direction of the Methodist fully as she said:
“All right, you can help
in­
church. Blnny Bates, the barber,
in a Stovepipe hat. mounted on a stead of old Job and ID nay you
much excited horse, rode up the dftnte Atshlleatore »»
(Continued Tomorrow)
street Blnny wee a Levine man
and the erowd broke Into cheers
and catcalls.
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After Blnny came the band, play­
ing for dear life, “H all the Con-
D A IL Y B IB L E PASSAGE
quqripg Hero,” and after the band,
twy Stol two, a great number of
’’Jehovah, In trouble have
citizens #t?h kerosene torches.
they visited thee..’ they ponr-
A fter the torches came the trans-
ed out a prayer when thy
pstendez: “Levine Wins!” “The
chasten tog was upon them.”
Reservation Is Ours." “Back to
Isa. no: IS .
'
the Lend, Boye!" “We’ve Dropped
the White Man’s Burden.”
H o f many • of us leave the
And foilowtog the transparencies
Instinct ot prayer dormant un­
came a surprise for crowd and pa-
til a crisis calls It Into ac*
nadbre atlfce. Cleee.on the heels of
tlvlty. CeasMer how Inade­
the lest white man strode Charlie
quate aueh a use e f prayer la.
ackson. with a sign, “The Land
“Aad Jehovah spahe unto
I GWTOl Yen Have Robbed U s!”
Moees face to face, as a man
end after Charlie perhaps a hun­
■peaketh veto hie friend.” ,
dred Indiana, tramping silently two
Exodus 88:11 .
by fW .
For a moment. the. crowd W U
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