i 11,.,1 « ■ "RR 1 ' l l » , - » r. •M mhmxd naiur nmiras FRIDAT, November A. I f ——— - -. THE D fllb Y TIDINGS EDITORIAL and FEATURE PAGE - - ’ ESTABLISHED IN 1876 .S B L A N D D A IL Y Bw. H ÈERKINS, News Editor C. J. READ, Managing Editor " V T ID IN G S O U T OUR WAY .. L By Williams • wart T -fb s h a k e . sour h a m o S lR ’. SOU »ARB AS- FINE A'lWPC OF MANHQOO a s x v e t u t R LAID ESES OM1 A MAM \NllU SOUR COURAGE CAM SCALE "faE HEIGHTS \MTTH A UTrt-E START, AMD tfL L S E t < 0 'T ka T P a r t of r T i x w a u T "16 TR a h K mdu for vtha T voo . THOUGHT W A S PRoTECTiMfir MS’ D A U G H TE R ! ¿ .7 7 ■.Vf»-* Prom the press notices of Rupert Hughes’ new biography of Washington it seems safely predictable' - that the author is going to catch a lot more hell from those who are convinced that he is engaged in ’ a dastardly attempt to run down the father of his country. ; This Mr. Hughes will hotly deny, already has denied in*fact. He explained after the*rumpus caus ed by his talk at a meeting of the Sons of the Ameri can Revolution that he greatly admires him more ' for finding that he was of the earthy instead of the plaster saint of the «school text book. ’ b What’s in the book can of -course be Ifcnown otaly by reading it. News dispatches give only the slcetcU- iest kind of indication of its tenor. They suggest, however, that Mr. Hughes has dealt chiefly with the young man Washington rather than with the soldier' and statesman o f later years. They suggest also that the young man of Mr. Hughes’ biography was not altogether unlike many other normal young men who never got their portraits on dollar bills or post age stamps, a youth who fell head over heels in love with a young woman already married .and mooned about it a great deal, a youth who finally prudently picked a wife with a large fortune, a youth with the flirtatious instinrits of youth, and a youth who was as capable of making mistakes as any other. Mr. Hughes is hot a young whipper snapper as one critic has referred to him. He is a man of ma ture years Well into what is ordinarly considered middle age, a skilled investigator, an apt and charm ing writer and a man of Wide experience of the , world., To -charge him with maliciously wanting to defame the character of Washington seems silly. There is a school of historical and biographical writ ing which holds it justifiable on morhj grounds to suppress certain incidents in the lives of great men, but .none so far as we are aware which advocates . deliberately libeling such characters. There' is no sound reason for believing that those who rerid the veil of sanctity which covers ofllr heroes are actuated -by motives other than a desirp’to get at th£Jgfiked truth. It is possible that in this resentment at what he conceives to be the misinterpretation of Washington* by oonvehtiorial historians Mr.- Hughes has leaned rather strongly .in the other direction. That is for scholars of history to say, and to say not on a report of the book, but after a careful reading of it. When they have <«aid. it they have merely set up one ex-’ perf’s opinion against another’s. »«' ■ ■■ ' ■« ' I ■ — ■ I A , * Local Issues in National Affairs It is a queer commentary upon our national political system that in the campaign that ended with last Tuesday ’s elections, nearly eveiy successful candidate for the upper and lower houses of congress won not because they stood upon platforms contain ing planks of national importance, but rather because of issues that were purely local in their import. There are quite a-few very vital questions that congress must decide during the life of the next con gress, and yet these question; were hardly mention ed during the recent campaign. About the only 'question of national import that was made a part of the campaign was the matter of prohibition, and both Republicans and Democrats endeavored to sidestep it as much as possible. It was only in those places where “ wet” sentiment is „ overwhelming, like New York and Chicago, for in- ’ atance, that candidates did not try to straddle the question if the matter of prohibition can be called a political question at all, for prohibition is now a part of the Constitution and in spite of a lively ballyhoo on the part of the “ wets” congress has no power whatever to change the Constitution, and mighty little desire to attempt to nullify the eight eenth amendment to that document by repealing or modifying the Volstead act. It most be admitted that a vast majority of the *a®natorial contests were based upon issues that were^ not even, of statewide interest, but more nearly i. V countrywide. It is indeed a queer commentary upon I J* £ our party system of selecting our law makers, and . brings about a situation which may sooner or later result in difficulties. It must be admitted that the mental, caliber of onr senate and house of represen tatives is not of the highest True, there are still more thud able men in both houses. But, taken • whole, we are sorrow to say,* the average is but high. And this trend toward electing and representatives upon issues that have __ ____ whatever outside of the localities in Which the candidates reside, issues which, in the main, are even petty in those localities, is not con- “ to the best Vi State street, Chicago, hag been made a “ white may»” So many wrong persons were shot in the l e e e -e o o o i -w - (B en d Press) T h e c u rre n t papers carry a - story about a lady who has smoked the same pipe fo r 65 years and state th a t ahq ex presses the hope th a t she may smoke it another 65 years. T he public is Speculating on w hether the pipe w ilt last through.— Bend Press. About th e cheapest .form o f k ic k is listening to w orld series returns over the radio. Some o ( thp listeners declare It was also very satisfying. — Hood R iv e r News. P O R T L A N D , Nov. 4. — Mrs. M ary Shaw d id n ’t in tend to break the la w but l'hadvertentiy broke It 1U m ixing the laws of hospital ity and those o f prohibition, re told Federal Judge Bean. ' 'P ro h ib itio n officers visited h e r home and she served strdng drin k. T he m ixing of the two form s q I ' la w cost Mrs. Shaw |5 0 0 . ’ harden, *\ _ 10 Years Ago M rs. B. F. Rosencrani and Thursday a /te r spending the week at th e hom e,of her fa th e r W illia m F lip p e r, h t Gold H U I. Mrs. Cífrense Lane Geòrgie Coffee’s place Is taking as book keeper for the Ashland Transfer A Storage company during the latter’s absence on ga extended trip east. > None of the .Ashland stores carried white duck trouser« big enoagh to fit Frank Jordan, who playa the bass horn In the band, and the band boy« say: «’We will bars to give another dance to bay material far a pair for Frank." LYDIA of the Pines the When Rainy Days Came. H« Wülste <W by Frederlsk A stokes Oo.) WNU Servios rutTihn conarnons. n ia t nignr ne resumed a lulld flirtation with Olga that he bad dropped when school closed and Olga met him more than h a lf way. “Wouldn’t t h a t , come and get you 1" growled K ent to Lydia a « . -Charlie and Olga paddleu away In. the canoe, the next morping. “Say, Ly<f, let’s k ill time with a tramp up to the settlement for some gum. “All right, I e in stand It I f y o n * can. W ill you come along, Miss Towne V M I m Towne, who had been high ly edified by the morning's maneu vering. shook her hdad and settled herself In her , hammock. "No, eight-mile w alk fo r me. I'm taking a rest cure." CHAPTKR X THE STORY CHAPTER L— W ith her baby «la ter, Patience, Lyfila returns from play to the untidy hom e o f her Im poverished father, Arnoa Dudley, at L ake City. Her fath er’s friend, and her own devoted admirer, John L e vine. a fter d leou seln c affairs w ith Dudley, make« up h is m ind to co lato pollttoe. CHAPTER II. — Lydia, P atien ce and a Companion, K en t Moulton, p layin g by the lak e, are accosted by an old squaw from the n reservation. Lydia g iv es her M argery, sm all dau gh ter of Davo Marshall, the tow n ’s banker, loins them. In their play M argery fa lls Into the w ater. She 1« pulled out, unhurt but frightened, and taken home by L ydia and K ent. Her fa ther ca lls on Amos to complain, blam ing L ydia for the mishap. CHAPTER IIT.—L ydia explain* the accident and a sserts th at be cause M argery la considered “stuck UP” she le not a popular playm ate. M arshall arran ges for L yd is to teach M argery to awtm and oth er w ise become “one a t the crowd." L evine te lls Amos h is plan to take tim ber from the Indian reservation and u ltim ately have It opened for settlem en t. CHAPTER IV. — P atien ce su c cu m b . to aa attack o f diphtheria, lea v in g L ydia fe elin g th at her trust In Qo<! Is lo st and her sm all world ,h a s collapsed. She finds com fort In the lo v in g kindness of John L e vine. L yala learns th at a note of Am os’, baoked by L evine and hold by Marshall, Is doe and cannot be met. The child pleads w ith Mar shall, and for her sa k e he a grees to renew the note. CHAPTER V —G rievin g for the loss of little P atience, Lydia’s health falls. L evine, understanding the situ ation , g iv e s her a pup, w hich the lonely child tak es to her heart. R each in g the age o f fifteen, Lydia en ters high school, w here she at once realises th at her homemade frock and gen eral appearance of poverty set her apart from her b et- *— tor-dre»—-*----------- er-dreseed com panions. .C H A PT E R VI.— L evine Is elected ! heriJL 4. »<»to«n-vear-old Indian boy, Charlie Jackson, te lls L yd ls-tst num erous w rongs ddne hl« people, m ainly by M arshall« and Levfha Lydia defends her friend vlcurou«- ly. M eeting Levine In L ydia’s house. Charlie Jackson threaten s and en deavors to attack him .. ' ' T he Camp. Y D IA and Kent did not use the roads. I t was w ith the old fa miliar sense of make-believe adven ture that they started on what they called a beeline southwest And It was mid-afternoon before, hungry nnd leg weary, they reached the store that backed up against the Indian school. They bought sardines, crackers and cheese and ate them perched on a dry goods box near the hitch ing rack. “There I I feel happier,” said 'K e n t as he threw away the empty L sardine cans. “How are yon, old lady?” Lydia swung her feet contentedly. “ Fine! L et’s start back, W » H be there by supper time, I ’m sure we know the way now.” But alas for the vanity .o f ama teur woodcraftsmen I The late Jane dusk found them still thread ing the endless aisles of pine, their sense of direction completely ob scured by the sinking of the son. **8cared, L y d F inquired Kent as they paused for a moment's rest on a log. “No, bnt Fm awful hungry." Lydia drew a trifle closer on the log to K e h t “Supposing we have to stay her« all night I" She shiv ered a little. “Well, I ’d boUd a Are," paid Kent In a matter-of-fact manner that Lydia suspected was assumed, “and fix yon UP on a bed of nine needles. Theo Fd stand guard a ll night, like a little tin hero. I hope the folks won’t worry about ns. In the mean time, yon and I can have a good old talk, like the old days. Re member?" " “I remember 1 Kent, are yon afraid r *1 should say not I I like the woods at night, Don’t the ferii and the needles smett fine? Lyd, what’re yeM'gofingi’to de a fte r you finish high scheo( T‘ “Go on to the university. Aren’t yon?” “Dad wants me to, but I guess I ’ll go to work. Why waste fonr years learning a lot o f staff that’ll never earn me a cent? W hat do you want to go to the university for?” “Kent, I promised mother Td go. And I want to, anyhow. We're so poor, that I ’ll never be anything but a scrub woman i f I don't get edu cated.” Kent stirred uncomfortably. " I want to make money, quick." “I don’t see what the hurry Is. Is It Olga?” ‘*Ot coarse It Isn't Olga. She's all right to flirt with and a peachy looker, but you don’t suppoee a feh low want« to marry every girl he gets crazy about!” “I didn’t know,” said . Lydia, meekly. “Nobody was ever crazy about me.” •Y ou aren't that kind, thank heaven. You’re growing up the way when it was so obliging about be ing put out of» the wuy in the day CHAPTER VIL—L evine 4s shot by time. an unseen assassin . R ecuperating John D. and H enry have never The old, fanny-shaped quilt had at the D udley cottage, he learns been equaled as team workers. been put up w ith .it, and then the the real ex tea t o f L ydia’s loneliness her shaken fa ith In God. The funny shaped quilt bad been taken and man and girl enter Into a compact down. ter sta rt a “search for God” to g eth S E A T T L E , Nov. 4.— T act To be sure that had not been er. Levine, recovered, begins his cam paign for congress. Most folks go to the opera for less A m erican tourists who much of a compliment. Some of CHAPTER VIII.—L ydia Is unable try to “ high h a t" the French the sole reason of saying they the grown-up children 7 h e 'tru n d le to drive the hatred of Levine frort bed recognized had come up In went. are responsible fo r the an i C harlie’s heart, and despite h erself the attic, not lingering and admir her faith In her old friend Is sh a mosity exhibited In th a t ing and treating the attic* objects ken by the young' Indian’s stories. L avins has lon g realised that de ws country tow ard Americans. with affection as once they had spite their disparity In age he is * , a T his (s the opinion of P ro done,, but with so much hurry and p assion ately In love w ith the young Mean things can't be nndone rush, with even such hurried tones girl. fessor R. D. M cKenzie of the m erely by yonr being “ sorry” fo r (N ow go on w ith th e story) of voice. U n iv e rs ity , of W ashington having done them. “Mother.” they had said, In who has. returhed from a their grownup way, “we want to One dn£ they came to a wlck-i-np find some old rug jfor the motor world tour. that we can leave right out In the where there were three children besides the father and mother. Two Boys can be kepi on the farm car and no one w ill steal. of the children were half blind with P O R T L A N D . Ore., Nov. 4.— If some way can be found to keep “What about this old-thing? I t ’s eye trouble. The whole fam ily was awfully unwieldy, but maybe It sitting In the sun, about a pot of A sign, “ Dfeadly Gas Keep (he girls there too. w ill do.” o u t,” led police to Inquire fish. The grown-ups chatted eager J “You’ll find it very warm." their ly with Charlie, and he translated w hat was going On in a mother had said. And the big old for Lydia. ■ ■ house here. A fte r much in quilt bad been taken downstairs. I t would be m igh tly Interesting “They say It’s been a fearful w in The -trnndle bed felt sorry for the ter. They only had ten dollars this vestigation, I t was learned to know w hat scientists w ill say q u ilt I t was filled with moth holes year out of their government allow- th a t Spanish mothes 'w ere in 2926 when they dig up 1926 and It was not greeted with any once and they couldn’t get work. tyeing given a “ gas tre a t skulls. ♦. respect In spite <rf Its age, but The baby froze to deatfi or starved, m ent” ,. and humans who en still that was better’ than Just stay or both. W e’ll bring some food ing np in the attic with oflly the over to these folks, Lydia, because tered would meet w ith a lik e worn-out costumes and the carnet there are kids— eh?” fate. The moths had ravag He« H eck says: 'A novice with bags. " B u t Charlie, tvhat’s the govern ed' the place for several ’For, say what you w ill,” the ment allowance?” a gun a in 't got much chance w ith weeks, eating clothing, fu r trundle bed thought, “the carpet “Oh, didn’t you know?— and the kind o' com petitive he has to n itu re and even potted bags don’t know human nature and you’re one 'o f the white lords of meet in Chicago.” ' love and happiness and birthday creation, too! The government set plants. mornings and early Christmas aside this land for the Indians In mornings the way I do. I was solemn treaty with them, for ever brought np w ith children. The and ever. Then It deliberately sold carpet bags lack Imagination.” off a big block of it and deposited Oh, yet, then the" trundle bed the money at Washington. The was very lonely. Even the old Income from this wns to be given sphinlng-wheel had been taken to the Indian«. There’s over two downstairs. Not that the trundle million dollars there. But by the bed had ever cared for the spin time It’s filtered from Washington ASHLAND ASHLAND ning-wheel. Much too Industrious to the Indians, this Is the result.” q » ♦ t • f ’ for the trnndle bed. The trnndle He nodded at the half-starved bed encouraged sleeping apd rest group about the fish pot. and Idleness. B ut still It was an Lydia had had four days of this. other objact In the attic. As they made their way back to Now there was hardly anything the camp for supper «he said to left. In fact, a few modern trnnka him, In an unsteady voice, “Charlie, N orm »! Notes— Bennie Gates, W Î W . E rb , Jack T ru e, and T. had been brought upstairs, but I can’t stand it I Think of that Elsie James McDowell, W. B ryant are down In the Jose they were anoblbsb over nothing. It baby that froze to death. And all K ay M ow and Donald Helm s of phine bounty section on a pros was true they were taken down these beautiful woods are full of again and again and then brought half-starved Indians! What can I Ashland entered the training pecting trip. - back again. They traveled, true do about It, Charlie?” school laet week. enoagh. But they wouldn’t last "Ton can’t do anything. I t ’s toi, long. They weren’t, well made. late. .B u t I wanted yon to see. I S h e riff ¿gam es and Deputy J. The trnndle b^d knew. don’t care what girl understands as „"You’re Growing Up the Miss L ydia McCall who has And then! Oh. the trundle bed long as yon do. I think an awful OIK Ought to." been spending a Vacation In Oak- R. W ick were In the upper T ra il rejoiced. I t seemed almost too lot of you, Lydia.", Inhil, Berkeley* and St. Helena, Cteek country on o ffic ia l buslnes good to be true. I t was taken H e took Lydia’s hand and patted a girl ought to. I. know all «boat They took a little downstair. One side was taken off I t Lydia looked up at him, thrilled it.n Cal., returned home last evening. last week. Lydia sat staring Into the dark hunting trip on the side and and It sat In the best front hall by his bronze beauty and the note nets, thinking this ever. She w u and was used as a couch and a In his voice. G. F . B illings and wife retu rn killed tw o fine deer. resting place and y a s admired I “I f I were a white man,” said getting an amount o f comfort out (6k 1»M. Waatera N tw iM M r Unloa.1 ed home from th e ir eastern trip Charlie, “I ’d make yon love me ano e f the conversation that made her realise W w .oore a spot there had which extended “ way down marry me- But I ’m an Indian find been within her. sooner or later I ’ll go back to my W H- M ow at and J .C rit Tol- e a a f'-to M r. Billings* s a tire home “Kent," fisked Lydia, suddenly/ people. I ’m just making believe I “what's « hussyF In the state of Maine where he man, w ith (h e ir dogs, had a lively DAILY BIBUS PASSAGE can play the whlUuiaanls game for "H u h l" exdhiated Kent “W hat but aasuccessful chase a fte r a big has not visited fo r many years, “But when ye pray, ush not »y, ns4 a while.” He eyed Lydia wistfully. makes you ask t h a t r repetitions, aa i th e Jffiea- black bear on top of Buck Point, “But w e ll be friends, eh, Lydia I — “Election night there.were lots of do; for they th ia ft th a t • < Always? Even If I go back to the women, flashily dressed, around, onpmdte Soda Springs, last 8at-'| wlck-I-np, you’ll he my friend?” they shall be heard tor thair A deal was closed Saturday for urday. T he dogs and father said they were hussies ran B rain inch speaking." Matt. S tT .lF "(M l ycq, Charlie, always,” re And I saw Gustos flirting with one the eale by C. E. N tnlnger. o f his around and around In the th ick Prayer Is c o m m o n ucRh plied Lydia, earnestly, while there of them, and some of the senior brick building on th e east side of bruah- but the hunters were not flashed through M r head the half boys, too. Ahd 1 saw some o f the God. He Is not IntereatfiVfa F o u rth street, cofher o f B street, whlmslcnl thought "Queer kinds of best-dressed o f the Indians with words and vain - repeti. able to get a shot a t him a t a l l . , men want to'be friends with ate— ♦boni” . tlons: God looketh on a;man’s to Thos. McKinnls, a recent ar- There a re said to be several hear. Mr. Levine, Mr. Marshall and Char heart and does not listen so rival In Ashland fror Eastern lio n and up on.'Sarnp- lie. And they all hate each ether I” much to wh;t he utter« with (Continued Tomorrow) Oregon. bis mouth. . th” «P1*®««. Charlie wu* flu th erfin — Local cannery M id "»rflú- lerestnuuinM AJM ntahûarijigJÆ lia ¡Í3 6 .Ü Ü 0 9 M es fo r i * " ° 20 Years Ago children returned to Ashland last eeor r r j O ld Trundle Bed F or y e a r, the trundle bed., Rad been up I d „the attic. I t had been very huppy'up there, though It had known better days. - ' Lately it bad been growing very lonely.' That was when its old quilt had been taken away. ..The trundle bed could go back for years and yeurs. I t could even associate with the hair trunks and the carpet bags,* and the funny high hats and huge skirts thut were In the chest by the hair trunks. These were almost In a group by themselves for.«w hile, but there had been a time when the old wood en four-poster beds had eoroe up In the attic, too. They had gone down again, for as they had proudly said, they were once more In style. B ut the trundle bed and the car pet bags and the funny old clothes- stayed up In the attic all the time. The old. clothes were used by the children when rainy days came, but they had grown so old that even the children didn't play with them so much now. They tore so easily. T h e ir materials were all worn out. The trundle bed had been down stairs for* years nnd years. £)fie generation of children after an other had slept in it, and true to Its name tlje trundle bed had been trundled under the big bed dur ing the daytimes so that it took up no room. ; ‘ The trundle bed didn’t quite un derstand why It had.been put away % Isn't It Odd? A r the arteries brain softens. eeee— By MARY GRAHAM BONNER TURNING THE PAGES BACK ’ 4, Kiddies’ Evening Story i— OO^OOGOGOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOG What Others Say ASHLAND ♦O O O O O O O O O CO O O O O O O O O O CHXH ' »0 >»< (P o rtla n d Spectator) T he “ country e d ito r”, is so- called because he owns and edits his paper ^tufsida the “ big c ity ;” the M lto rs o f the big city are ra re ly . I t ever the owners of the papers they edit. I th in k the coun try editors have a g reater , sense of th e ir responsibility to th e ir readers.and a higher and more daring s p irit of in dependence th a ir have th e ir fellow -editors o f the city. To be able to say w h at you th in k w lth b nt Instructions as to w h at you m ust say I t Is, in my hum ble opinion, the th in g th a t fllAlngulshes the freem an fro m his shackled and m anacled- brother and fro m the beasts o f the field th a t perlbh. PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO. 30 Years Ago H J