THE D flIb Y TIDINGS EDITORIALI and FEATURE PAGE ^PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO C. J. BRAD, M anaging Editor A SH LAN D D A IL Y T ID IN G S OUT OUR WAY By Williams j ì ì ì i n A ! HW The Incredible Tunney Will Irwin has interviewed Gene Tunney, and ant of the interview with the heavyweight champion of the world has ooipo a picture of an incredible mauler, a bruiser who lives because of his ability with punches, displaying an acquaintance with lit­ erature and art that would confound the average state university graduate, including, We believe, ,the Nebraska candidate for Tunney’s belt, .Monte Munn. The Dempsey who fell before Tunney was a Dompsey softened by easy living from the wealth that the prize ring had yielded him. The Dempsey who won the championship was the kind of heavy­ weight king authorized by tradition -— something of a bum and outcast, a battler who knew little more than to give and take sound blows. It is true that Corbett had come up from the ring to become “ Gentleman Jim,” an actor with more than a fair amount of skill, and with an ability to write sent­ ences that ran as straight and simply to their period as an uppercut to the chin. He was the exception. But Tunney—is he the produet of a new age? In spite of all the ridiculous publicity that has smothered him, surely tftere is some glimpse of the true nature of the man when he says to Will Irwin: “ You see, certain brilliant men are blind on the spiritual side. Wells, though be believes in God, is practically an agnostic. ^He doesn’t perceive spirit­ ual values. . But he ties up history for me—puts one era in relation to another as no one has ever done before- And then there’s the vivid style. He makes me see things.” There is a certain naive simplicity in Tunney, found in his professed belief of miracles, and his one reversion to the slang of pugs, when he inserts the emphasizing “ see?” in his talk. But a champ­ ion who is caught by the allegory of “ Les Miser­ a b le ,” who enjoyed “-The Way of A11 Flesh” be­ cause “ of its original philosophy;” who apologizes for his fondness for Dumas, who is learned in the history of religion, who has read Gibbons’ “ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” clear through; who thinks it too bad that Jean-Jacques Rousseau ever lived and wrote; who calls Leonardo da Vinci his favorite painter and Caruso in “ Pagliacci” his in­ effaceable memory of a war-leave visit to Paris— such a champion is unhelieveable. Yet it is true. W ill Irwin says so, and Irwin is a good reporter—which is to say he is accurate, truthful, faithful in presenting this picture. Do we want the Tunney type of champion? Or isn’t prize fighting for the purpose of giving relief to our cave instincts, and don’t we want to go to •the ringside to see blood spout and hear the thud of bruising fist and watch the conflict of giants who resemble our cave-men ancestors? When we go to baseball games do we not prefer the home-run socking Ruth to the master-minded pitcher who passes him? Are not sports the modern expression of that side of man’s personality that, in ancient days, permitted him to seize a club and go out and buffet nature for a square mealf or a bride, or just, perhaps, for the animal pleasure of buffeting? A New Motor Fuel From the time almost that gasoline was first utilized as a source of power by the invention of (he internal combustion engine there has been talk of a substitute. As time goes on the feeling becomes stronger that some day necessity will comjiel tbe invention of this substitute. The earth’s groat reser­ voir of gasoline lias not yet lieen tapped at all its Iioints- Its whereabouts and its capacity are uot even known, but it is widely believed that there is a defin­ ite limit to the supply which may be reached at most any time. For this reason chemists have been experiment­ ing with this and that, attempting to find the fluid which combines just those properties that make gasoline an ideal motor fuel. Now a Rnssiau inventor living in Fraileé is said to have discovered the combination. He calls his new fuel makbonite carburant and extracts it from coal tar. According to tbe report the French navy is so well satisfied with the new fuel that it baa l>een adopted as tbe official fuel for torpedo boats and hydroplanes. It is said to possess the added advantage of being non-inflamablo outside a motor, but the paradox is not explained. Next to tbe test of whether it will do the work in a standard motor a substitute fuel must meet the test of whether it can l>e produced at a price to com­ pete with gasoline. The report of this new French motor fuel does not mention the cost at which it can be produced, but it might easily enough meet the tests in France and fail to do so in America, where gasoline compared with the cost in Euroj»e is com- R mr of e iL u t s A Ai- m V o P ./faese «TAiRS ÍM -i^/o MlMUTtS.SOu’LL kGfcf A Re AV- , | \ e«MSATiOM l y F E ttC T ^ is J e E M ftA S H Ö M » IA l- V O v /B F ? ,Ÿ A t A NA- NA- NA - IVI AW B E .-fa lò MnMttaHCEttttsaaesaMMMi LYDIA of the Pinea Kiddies’ Evening Story POnOQÇQOOCOOOOOOOOOOCXXX» T he Bffid ftpve ft «g» OhrigtmM moraine and the stov» * m hehgvtog bad&. It wouldn’t go. I t w m warted and seemed to he all right, and Honor* WilWs ) A im V A SWELL. SEW SASH u m « harina badly Bui realty tost Its h o u l N A M -J^-F E eL ^ S E T T E R ' m SCRAItHiM WDUft k © A C «! > SöMeirfö’ we ' o iu k e .löTt-wkove w Û C P U /itliA k V ô « I M * SV NS* scavici. mc I What Others Say AND (Eugene Guard) Already one hears «popu­ lation as to whether new state income tax legislation w ill ba attempted In the forthcoming session of the legislature: W hy, for good­ ness sake, should there I be As womens* dresses go up i bo such an attempt? Two years do the prices. ago the voters repealed tbe income tax by a substan­ tial m ajority. The Pierce Every religion but your own crowd at once began to seems preposterous. threaten that a more drastic law on the subject would be substituted for the one re­ pealed, and this year they Bad judgment Is responsible for made their attempt. The nearly all bad luck. people rejected tbe proposed law even more emphatically than they repealed the old Those who want little find one. W hy talk now of try­ easy to get a big supply of ft. ing ft aagln Immediately? Are not the voters to he cred­ ited w ith knowing their own minds. When a mtfn is in a hurry to sell something, take your time (Newport Journal) about buying It. Can U. B. U ’Ren, “ fa­ ther” of the Oregon primary law, and the Portland Jour­ To have many things Is desir­ nal, Its most pretentious de­ able, but to appreciate a few fender, offer any valid excuse things is real joy. for the further existence of the law, after their treatment of ft during the past few months I t seems to us the Hes Heck says: “ I don’t care law should be either fixed or bow good the eyesight* may be, scrapped. There are too we all occasionally see things that many flaws in it for reliable ain’t there.” service. N E W YO R K — Harvey Krause of Philadelphia pi­ loted American planes dur­ ing tbe W orld W a r and nev­ er got a scratch. Hare to attend a social gathering of form er flyers in Greewlch ^Tillage, Krause slipped and fall to the sidewalk, fractur­ ing his skull. IRON. R IV E R , Mich. — Sheriff-elect James A. Dickie haB announced something “ new” for prohibition en­ forcement. His deputies w ill form a secret organisa­ tion. “ I won’t tell anybody who they are and I ’ll fire any deputy who Isn’t effic­ ient,” Dickie said. CHICAGO — Safety first Is the policy of Chicago’s gang - harassed citlsenry. Louis Bruzo, slightly under the influence of ' alcohol, bumped against the door of the home of Edward Goats, 80. Thinking a burglary was being attempted, Goats fired a shot through the door, wounding Bruzro in the leg. H A VA N A , 111., — Boating after pecans and hickory nuts has become a new pas­ time near here as the result of floods which inundated groves of the nut trees with six feet of water. * TURNING THE PAGES BACK ASHLAND ASHLAND ASHLAND 10 Years Ago 20 Years Ago 30 Years Ago Dr. Geo. E. Jarvis of this city attended the Southern Oregon Medical Association meeting in Roseburg Tuesday And delivered an address on the subject, "Vago Visceral Reflexes In Diagnosis.” A good attendance of physicians from throughout the stats were at the convention. Joe H urt left today on a trip to Modoc county, Cal. B utler Walked* of Sprague river has been in the valley the p o t week. “ Doc Funk*' Tolman has a car which Is guaranteed to give the casual beholder the blind stag­ gers. The car, which Is a Ford. Is stripped down and painted a checkerboard black and white. Doc has achieved an accompllsh- iqsnt. In having a car which would be easily recognised among a thousand. The license number would not M seceasary to Identi­ fy him if a si eed cop detected him exceeding the speed lim it. ■ «♦o o o o o o o n o oo o o o o oo o o o o « David Payne, a former resi­ dent and son of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Payne of this city, arrived last week from Nevada, where he has been residing for several years past, on' a visit to relatives here, after an absence of eight years. A wall equipped CratJr Lake party started from Barrons yes­ terday for an excursion to the t o k . section. In the party were U. B. Barron and family, Mike Tucker and wife, the Misses Pat­ terson, daughters of 8. Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Vining who and Homer Barron. They expect have been visiting relatives In to,be out several days. Ashland and elsewhere in the Northwest for several months, A jo lly party of young people hfft Saturday on their return leave Ashland today for a two home to Los Angeles. week?’ outing at Pelican Bay. The party la made up as follows: Misses Lou Brown and Fannie A p ril— A party of Ashlanders Ralph of Ashland, Belle W illis of consisting of the Misses Esther Roseburg and Messrs J. A. W h it­ Sllsby, Daisy Mlngua, Mabel man o> Medford, John Olweil of Campbell and Edna Bryant, left Central Point and C. W . Sher- yesterday for San Francisco to a a n p f Portland. Mrs. L. Gljlet- attend the Grand Opera. ta w ill chaperone them. WNU Servios keoator Alvord: He baa a lot of m- fltoPto M O M fo« H M to n ftnd la Lydia'» Up» were set tightly m she plodded along the snowy road. •'Billy,” »be said, finally, "are yon MarohaUI^ * * * * * * * * WUb DBT* Tm doing |t because Tm ashamed of what New Englanders bare done with their heritage -And rm doing it tor yog. To mage a name for you. Ton are going to marry me, some day, Lydia.” •Tm not,** she said flatly. BHIy laughed. “You can’t help yourerif, honey. It*» fate for both of us. Gems along botnet You’re shivering." "When yon talk that way I bate youl” ^»claimed Lydia, bat JMlly only laughed again. (Continued from yesterday) The commissioners eat for months and In that time they exposed to the burning son o f publicity the muck of thievery and dishonor on which Lake City’s placid beauty was b u ilt Marriage after marriage . of squaws with Lake Q ty dtlsens waa unearthed, most of these same citi­ zens also having a white family. Hundreds of tracts of lands that had been obtained by stealing or hr fraud from full blood« were ll» te i Bags of candy, bits of jewelry, bolts of cotton had bean exchanged for pine worth thousands of dollars. I t was a nerve-racking period for Lake City. Whether purposely or not,’ the net did not begin to close round John Levine till toward the end of the hearing. Nor did Levine come home until late In the sum­ mer, when the commission bad been sitting for some months. In spite of a sense of apprehen­ sion that vfould not lift, the year wes a happy one for Lydia. In the first place, she went to three col­ lege dancing parties during the year. In • the second place, Kent asked her to go with him to the last party and, to Ljffila’s mind, a notable conversation took place at that time. “Thanks, Kent,** said Lydia, care­ lessly, “bnt Tm going with Billy.” "B illyI Always B illy!" snorted K ent "Why, yon and I were friend» before we ever heard of Billy? “Tee," returned Lydia calmly. "You've always liked me as I have yon. But you’ve always been ashamed of my clothes. I don’t certain hour for Christmas dinner. C H A P T IR XIV No one ate very much breakfast Christmas morning. Everyone Just The Investigation Begins. Mved an appetite to» Christmas T YD IA admitted to herself that dinner. * - * for years something within her And the stove w m m horrid aa had been demanding that she take a It eeuld be. I t smoked and wouldn’t stand on the Indian question, some­ burp, it went out »gala sad ha< to thing to which Charlie Jackson and be »tortod once more. Billy had appealed, something Then something happened. It which Kent and John Levine had happened, though no one knew hew Ignored. Yet neither Charlie nor or why. . Billy bad really forced her to a But the Fairy W antons Secrets declBloa. knew tor «be had ■come to the roe- B it by M t she went over her cue. , thinking life, beginning with her There had come a rush order to flr»t recollection of Charlie Jack- Fairyland. • son In the class on civil government, It had been brought by tbJk Snow and aU that was feminine and Flake» as they had whirled around blind devotion In her fought des­ outside the window and then perately with aU that education rushed off to Fairyland. and her. civic-minded forefathers “Fairies, fairies,” the snowflake« had given her. had cried as they whirled «bout, Coming home from her last reci­ “there Is a kitchen store that Is tation, one mild afternoon, she stopped st the gate and looked up Into the pine tree. And there with the lowing of the Norton herds and the hoarse call of the crows min­ gling with the soft voice of the pine and the lapping of the lake, she made her decision. For clearly as though the pine had put ft Into words, something said to Lydia that It w m not her business to decide whether or not the Indians de­ served to live. I t was her business to recognise that in their method of killing the Indians, the whites had been utterly dishonorable, That her refusing to take a »tend cenld net exonerate them. And finally, that by closing her eyes to the fact«, because of for love for Levine, she was herself shifting the general ta in t “You Mustn't Be So Chooritas.” I t w M Lydia’s first acknowledg­ ment of her responsibility to Amer­ behaving very badly. Can’t some­ ica, and It left her a little breath­ thing be done about It?” less and trembling. Stis turned “I ’U go at ones,” the Fairy Won­ back to>the road and made her w»J drous Secrets said. swiftly to the Norton place. So off she went, carried In a . “»¿»X.* «be said, panting, W beautiful snow carriage by the cheeks bright and her yeUqw hair snowflakes. blowing, “I ’m against the Indian The air got rather heavy with grafting." snow m the Fairy Wondrous Se­ B lllr put e»t his hand, solemnly, crets wpg making her trip. and the two shook hands# For all People said ft looked dark and Billy was four years older than that the hills were going to be deep Lydia, they both were very, very with snow and that the sky and air young. So young that they believed were full of snow and that there that they could fight single-handed really would be a vary heavy snow­ the whole world of Intrigue and storm. greed In which their Kttle commu­ But la realfty It w m the snow nity was set. And yet, futile as carriage carried by many of the they may seem, ft is on young de­ snowflakes in which was tbe Fairy risions such as these that the race creeps upward! Wondrous Secrets. "What are you going to do, Aftfer they bad taken her back again ft still, snowed but it WM BlllyT' asked Lydia. “I ’m going to get a government much dearer and the whole sir did not seem to be so filled with «now. Investigation started, somehow," he The Fairy Wondrous Secrets replied " It’ll take time, but TO jet^lt. It'll be lovely muckraking, talked to the atom “Stove,” she said, “ft 1» Christ­ " I hate to think of It,” she said mas Day. You mustn’t be so cheer­ less, so stubborn, so hard-hearted. unsteadily “Llezle Is miserable, "You must burn with warmth today. W ill yon tell your mother, end glow m you help to make tbe Billy, and ask her to come over to turkey Just M tender as it can be, see her this evening? I mustn't and m you help to eook the vege­ stop any longer now.” "All Right," Bald Kent Soberly. Poor old Lizzie was miserable. tables and to finish the plum pud­ Indeed. For years, she had strug- blame you a bit, but you can imag­ ding." fd against rheumatism, but now ine how I feel »bout BUJy, who’s “But r » old and tired and worn had bound her, hand and foot taken me, clothe« or no clothes.” oat, w ir y Woodrow Secrets,” said Ma Norton came over In the eve­ It was Kent's turn to flush. the Stove. “Hang It, Lyd, I ’ve been an In­ “I don’t feel cheerful. I feel old ning. Llssle was in bed shivering flashed and moaning with pain. fernal cad, that’s aU 1” and tired, and I can’t help ft if I'm and lfs wafted till Lizzie slept, then “And,“ Lydia went an, merciless­ not very good-natured.” ¿be told Lydia and Amos that Doc­ ly, ‘‘I ’ve got nothing to wear now "Ah, but Just do as I ask now,” tor Fulton bad better be called, and but the same old graduating drees. Fairy Wondrous Secrets said, “burn and glow tor tbe ChrlatmM dinner- Amos, with a worried air, started ’ I suppose you were hoping tor bet- tor town at once. Don’t be a cold stove? , Doctor Fulton shook his head "Stop M l” Kent shouted. *T de­ New tbe stove thought that after serve It, but I'm not going to take all, m It w m Christmas Day, it I ’m asking you tor jM t ope "Sha’a In for a rnn of rheumatic I t would not pohave to badly even If ft did tori old and tired and cross. tover. Gat soma extra hot water reason and that is, J*ve waked np So It started. to do its best and hotties and make up your mind lor to the fact that you’re the finest girl In tbe world. No one can hold after all the worry and fuse and a long siege, Lydia.” And ft was a long siege. Six a candle to you.”' four, the dinner did get eooked on Thera M st foe bottom of the Indian lp- ivory stauetta, representing the for Lyflls and Amos. , Daring »11 this time »he said restlgatlon. Kent accused Billy of figure of a woman, has been dug nothing to Billy about hl» muck­ «y T ° D* ■un<*kF afternoon up by Dr. Josef Beyer of tbo Vien­ raking campaign. He finished Ms na N atural History Musuem at law course In June snd entered ey- •Tm willing to take foe blame, leeator Alvord’s office as he had W iltondorf on tho Danube. planned. There WM another elec- Nice thing to do to your friends The statuette is believed to b» tton In the toll and John Levine amPnelghbors, Bill,” Kent went on. from 80,000 to 81,0000 years old. wm Mtumed to congress, this tlms “What the deuce did you do ft for?” almost without a strumna Billy shrugged his shoulders and uke a bomb, late In December Id nothing. Kent appealed to toll tlto new s that the IndlSB com- d a il y b i b u i 'dla. “Would you have gone to * PSrtles w|th him If you’d known "John bare witness of him. F U # t( he Was doing to his town, nn cried, saying, “This w m fte of whom I spoke, Me that ‘•Kent I knew It " said Lydia, cometh a fter me 1« pretorred after a'fiagM. i > _ * T o il knew ft | You let g tot of before me: for he woe hefere n el commission me.” Bt, Johp K IB . M M ly sentimentality ruin Lake appointed to «It <*• ’rort(1! Not Jesus to the saving and M t . iUly,*liow w y that. Think what's coming to lsfying One, and there la none 1*** d?n® Wifi* »©ugh." pther like Him. W hether you Then Pm glad yon whjla yefi’d go to Igdia or China, to Japan crisd Lydla. "OI or Afriq», It to Just as true as Isn’t abe Inrelr r. in Europe or America. (Continuad Tomorrow) C 8 SUBSCRIBE FOR T H E TIIHÑG N