TRE D fllüY TIDINGS EDlTORIflh an d FEATURE PAGE
W. H. PERKINS, N««s Editor
0. J. READ, Managing Editoç
ASH LA ND
D A IL Y
T ID IN G S
OUT OUR WAY
By W illiams
PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND «PRINTING 00,
LYDIA
of the pines
Kiddies’
What Price Education?
• Football looms large in the interest of the na
tion. It is associated almost wholly with 6ur in
stitutions of learning and is conceded the leader of
sports, both in college and high school.
This leads to a speculation as ¿0 the relative
position of the country’s sports and its education.
Education ig the very life of the nation—sports
its pastime, s The former, like our water and air,
is taken for granted and almost considered routine;
the latter is dramatic,»impulsive and full of motion.
We are not belittling the value of sports in the
life of people. We recognize their unifying influ
ence in our institutions. It is a healthful sigp when
our citizens grow in their love for outdoor play.
There is a tendency,however, to indulge in these
exercises and sports purely by proxy.
It is a fact that the nation’s expenditure for
spectacular sports makes the outlay for education
look insignificant.
We have recently completed
the World Baseball Series which approached a
million and a quarter gate receipts; our last big
prize fight, two million dollars. This latter figure
is but a fraction of the cost of the fight when the
other expenses of the fans are estimated.
The
American public paid this price for a two-man
combat that pasted a total of thirtynine minutes,
and yet in this country we spend but a billion and
a half dollars yearly to train twenty-three million
boys and girls for a fight that last an average of
approximately thirty-nine years.
relative value. A middle western metropolitan news
paper sold 50,000 more copies the morning after
the Dempsey-Tunney fight than it did the morning
after the election November 2nd. Sport news is,
therefore, looked upon as a matter of great import
ance by the newspapers, and, based upon public de
mand, naturally so. As a specialized subject* it
increasingly outranks the space of any other de
partment in the day’s news. When the Corbett-
Sullivan fight took place in 1892 a newspaper not
overly devoted to sports printed more than seven
columns about it during the two weeks immediately
preceding the contest In 1923, for a like period pre
vious to the Dempsey-Firpo battle, the same paper
used thirty-eight columns. In the Dempsey-Tunney
fight this year, the same paper used ninety columns.
No process of thinking oan lead us to oondude
that education has gained a corresponding em*
phasis. Nor will it, until we have a shiftnig of de
mand on the part of the pubUo.
We believe ip the manly ,art of self-defense,
Onr conception of the greatest self-defense, either
for the individual or the nation, ig education. It
costs less and gives mors.
C. F. Kettering, vice president of the General
Motors company, is a many sided' man, and every
side ig brilliant
Not the least brilliant is his
rhetoric ability.
“ Do not introduce the dangerous mental state
of completeness into your organizations,” he 'told
industrial executives of Detroit, meeting to observe
National Management Week. “ Let your men keep
open to change—steady, regular development.”
Herbert Hoover Is sponsor for National Man
agement Week. He thought there,were too many
types of the same article; too many types of bricks,
of various kinds of machinery, of automobile tires;
that this duplication ran all through industry caus*
ing needless ex cu se and waste of labor and ma
terial. He wanted standardization and his efforts
to achieve -it have met with much success. On this
point, Mr. Kettering said:
“ I do. not want you to Understand that I am
opposed to standardization—I know all that it has
done—but do not lock the front door.”
Wliat Mr. Kettering was warning against was-
such thorough standardization that progress would
automatically stop. New devices would he taboo.
There is a good moral in that thought, “ Do not
induce the mental state of completeness in your
consciousness,” it might be paraphrased. Be open
to new ideas and new impressions.
A New York }x>lieeinan caught a woodcock.
That is not the only rare bird ever eaught in New
York, however.
,
Our sympathy goes out today to the l>oy who
played hookey from school only to find out later it
was Haturday.
Yale has just found out how to make metal
foils less than a millionth of an inch thick. How
ever, this trick has been done with ham for years.
I
6 ItA U M
A
and
UO O »<
toy«
sad
Warren , «sited
for both books
and toys, too.
T h e» b sth
letter and Uttla
Betty couldn’t
write any let
ter at all, but
with
Bill Teeter
WMto
wrexe >
a Lester
Letter.
two
fine
b r o t h e r s It
4 U n t m a t t wM
er
too young to writ«,
The two brothers told Banta
Oaus what Betty wanted.
Little Dolly asked Banta for pre*
ants. tee.
Thia wue what she wrote ta Ban
ta:
•
“Dear Santa:
to*
-
W
“I hope you’re having a good time
making toyg and aren’t getting toe
W
tired.
.. ( 1
ft. 1
“I l l ten ye« what I’d Uke to
have, Santa.
l’T TÄ kB S'A -tUlRPt.
TÖ CATCH A T -U E F
What Others Say j
Mayor Baker of Portla’.rf
has Issued an order that no
more secret meeting« shall be
held by public committee«
and oommlaalones In that
city.. He takes the attitude
that the public has a right
to know the public business.
The policy 1« one that other
communities could a d o p t
w ith credit and profit.— •
Astoria Budget.
The Astoria Budget has
discovered that scales may
be used not only for weigh
ing fish, but for telling 1*3
age. But what Is really
needed te a kind of scales
that w ill do the same thing
fo r eggs.— Cervallls Gazette-
Times.
(COrvallis Gaxette-Times)
Swearing Is a poor aubstl-
tute for a vocabulary, but
beats "perfectly darling.”
(B aker H erald)
In a dispatch from Wash
ington, both
McNary and
B telver are listed as being
opposed to seating Vare and
8mlth,
the
senators-elect
who scandalised the country
w ith vast slush fund ex
penses in the primaries. The
report on our senators may
not be tFue. but it ought to
AND
Service paid for in advance Is
rarely satisfactory.
Easy money and hard work do
not grow on the same bush.
Quite often a girl thinks she
is in love when she is only jeal
ous.
Umbrellas, r.s much as Liberty,
have to be paid for by eternal vig
ilance.
Using other people's brains Is
just as good a way to get rich as
using your own.
When people
won't
associate
n t h us, hbw we do enjoy all the
scandal we hear X43ut them!
Hez
worst
comes
as the
Heck says: "Takin’
and makin’ the best o
as close to common si
average man kin get.”
N E W YO R K . Nov. 14. —
Mre. Mahelle K idd denies she
is 46 y e a n old and weighs
180 pounds. H er husband
ao declared -In answering her
suit fo r separation, and the
indignant wife rushed ¡Into
court w ith an affidavit.
“ I only weigh 180,’* she
protested, "and I ’m well, not
4ft.’*
LOS A NGELES — Charged
tor the second tim e w ith pos
sessing seven gallons of Illic
it liquor, Mamie Baldwin de
clared in court here, that she
used it for bathing, prescrib
ed by .her doctor. She was or
dered to pay a flue of 1760,
although officers supported
her alibi by testifying that
they found the hooch la a
bathtub.
KANSAS C IT Y , Mo., —
James Handy, 63, a deaf
mute, obtained a ^divorce
from bis wife, Mrs. Johanna
Handy, also a deaf mute on
the grounds that tha cursed
and nagged him through the
sign language. Tyro deaf
mutes corroberated Handy’s
testimony.
KANSAS C IT Y , Mo.,— W .
B, Roy, 43, fe ll Into a bath
tub of water and drowned be
cause parlysls had made his
arms practically useless.
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
' ASHLAND
10 Years Ago
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
20 Years Ago
. in d so,” Lydia’s voice trembled,
but she went on bravely, T m try
ing to understand—trying te see
bow I can make some thing good
Softs out of his poor lost life.
Somehow I feel as If that were my
Job. And—and the Idea helps me.
Oh, my dear John Levine!"
The two young people aat star
ing at the distant hllta.
“Don’t you see," Lydia buret out,
“that I ’ve got to do something, he
something, to make all the loss and
trouble of my life worth w h ite r
*1 understand," answered Billy.
Early In September, John Le
vine’s win was found. He had left
hla entire property, unconditionally,
to Lydia.
Amoe, a t first, was frantic with
delight. Lydia was appalled
“All my life.“ she half sobbed to
her father, T v e been fighting to
get sway from Indian lands. And
Mr. L evin e k new how I fe lt Oh,
how could he do thia to me!”
“Don’t talk like a foot Lydia I"
got to take teat land." "'
-
, Lyd*i * * " ttb her tWn haild.
etaaped hetero her en the table,
her d eer eyes fastened on her
father's face.
Amos loked down at hl« dangh-
tar tritoly. “Can’t you see what a
fool yon anal" he shouted. “The
land can never ge back to the In
diana. John took good care of
that If yon don't take i t some-
boi l . * ,! e wm> Can’t you seel"
i d? ,.“ LytWcx * * » " ■ » * »"*
thia, dad.” she «aid.
“But this la all I w ant » ’«what
I ’ve wanted fer yean, thia little Mt
of land. And yon haven’t any Idea
what that feeling la."
, L,ka, • fleeh Lydia aaw again
long aisles of pines, smelled again
the odor of the needles, heard
again the murmuring can of the
wind.
“Good Godl" cried a »we. toeslns
hla pipe on the table, “poverty's
hounded me all my life-poverty
and death. The only two people
who eared about me, Patience and
Levlne’ro gone.
Tat here’s the
chance for me to be Independent.
Here’s a chance for me to make np
for the failure I ’ve made of life.
A man with a little piece of prop
erty like this and a little hank ac
count Is somebody In the commu
nity. What do I care how I get It,
as loaTa I can hold tt? What's
a lot of dirty Indiana to stand be
tween me and my future? But
what do you c a r e r
“Oh daddy I Oh daddy! How
can yon talk ao to met“ groaned
Lydia. She put her hands over
her eyes for a moment, swallowed
a sob and then started for the
outer door. She caught her coat
from the nail and closed the door
behind her.
An Irresistible Impulse had car
ried her from the hodse.
She
wanted to see Billy. I t w m still
early and a lantern flickered In the
Norton barnyard. Bbe ran across
to the shed door. B lllu r a s whis
tling to himself as be Ixftkn to bed
down the cattle for the night
Lydlalooked nt him eagerly In the
dim light. How Mg and strong he
was I
"Billy!" she said, aoftly.
The young man dropped his
pitchfork and came toward her.
“What’s the matter, Lydia 1” he ex
claimed.
“Dad and Tve been having an
awful quarrel.“
“About the land?" asked BlUy
“I ’d like to have a little plant roared Amos.
growing la a pot and than I'd Ilka
“But don’t you nee how I feeir*
to have two tittle Mue vases like cried
Lydia. "“Don't yon see that
the ease I aaw up street Maybe
you have some Uke them la your all John Levine’s lands up there
are haunted by death—his own—
toy «hop.
. “They are Moe and not very big, and all the starved Indiana? Oh,
but I think flowers would look why did he do this to u m I I won't
have i t I tell yon I Td rather be
pretty In them.
poverty stricken all my life."
“Then I ’d Uke a big doll If Iconld
“Well, don’t worry too much
have One, Santa. I ’d love to have a
about that," said Kent.
“Dave
Mg doll.
‘T v e been doing so well ta my Marshall thinks there won’t be
spell lug lately, Santa. My Daddy anything left after the estate Is
says yon will be pleased ta bear settled, but the Indian lands."
that. But In thia letter my Daddy 1 “Oh, Kent, you aren’t having
Is helping me, ao there will not be anything to do with Dave Marshall,
any mistakes at all, for My Daddy are you?” exclaimed Lydia.
ftg M u b —_______. L "... ■■
“Kent flushed a little. “Well, his
never makes a mistake la spelling.
advice
can’t
hurt
me.
I
f
it’s
bad,
“O f course, if he did, yen would
know. I wouldn’t know. But you I don’t have to take IL Ton ought
would add I know you will see that te go out and see his farm, Lydia.
be Jest can’t make a mistake la They're getting the house a lt fitted
with modern convenleacea bangs*
spelling.
•1 don’t like arithmetic so well, going to make a model stock farm.'*’
“Bought with money earned by
but maybe I will like It better. I
the Last Chance I" said Lydia.
hope so.
,
Kent looked at her qulzxlcslly.
•The Mue vases are the color of
the sky when It’s blue.' Sometimes "A New England Conscience must
the sky Isn’t Mas, but the vases are be Something awful to owa, eh,
the color of the aky when It’s that L y d r
Lydia chuckled.
“It’s pretty liable to go over and aay things to
beautiful shade of blue—you know
bad,” the admitted, then ahe went your father and K en t r l l t e l l ’em
the shade I mean.
“I hope you won’t get too tired, on soberly, "bat I won’t take these both, some time, what I think of
Santa.
their bullying you this way.”
T f you give me a big doll, Tm go
A vague, warm sense of comfort
ing to name her Natalie. I think Kent cheerfully.
and protection was stilling Lydia’s
“Site’ll
keep
them,"
said
Amoe,
that’s a vary pretty name.
trembling. She rose and looked up
shortly, "or Lydia and n i have our Into his face gratefully. “I don’t
“Tour loving friend,
first real row."
“DOLLT."
see why you're so good to ms," she
Lydia looted at Kent thought said.
Then Worthy wrote Santa a let
fully. Since the day under the wil
ter and this la what he said:
“Do you want me to tell y o u r
lows, he had not made love to her, began the young man eagerly.
“Dear Banta:
‘Tm geing this afternoon up Slip yet she hnd the fe elin g thnt Kent
“N oI No!” Lydia began to move
pery H ilt to get a tree. We’ll put was devoted to h«r and she won hastily toward the door. “Don’t
dered
sometimes
why
he
liked
to
the pop corn and the decoration« on
come home with me, Billy, n i Just
I t ao yon'U not have te bother spend as much time with Margery run back alone.”
as with herself. Then she gave
about th a t
Billy's face la the lantern light
"We’U Just look for the presents herself a mental shake.
"Til obey to
T m going to tell you right now, was Inscrutable.
you’ll give. I know ye« will pick
that until I have to I ’m not going night Lydia,” he said, “but the
out just the things we w ant
“We’ve all written you so many to worry. Tm going to try to be time's coming, when I won’t” and
he picked np the pitchfork he had
letters I don’t want to aay the same happy In my senior year."
dropped.
things over too r - -
--------
With the sense of comfort and
many times or
_
protection sustaining her, Lydia
you may get us
went homeward under the winter
Cap and Gown
stars.
Kent’s, antoaobile was
HE fifteen dollars, after all, standing before the gate and
“But we’ll get
- \* y \
were disposed of In a highly Lydia's heart sank. I t was the
a nlco tree.
.
satisfactory manner. They paid
first time In her life she ever had
“Really, San-
-if I \
for Lydia’s cap and gown. Per been sorry >t the thought of seeing
ta, there Is no < V -J r 1^— d
haps there were other members of Kent.
place Just Uke \
y
f f \
the class to whom their senior In
He was sitting before the base
Slippery H i l l
V7
IJ I
signia meant as much as they did
tor a tree.
/
/ A I te Lydia, but that Is to be doubted. burner with her rather and Jumped
> to help her take her coat off.
“They l a v s
i
In a' way, Lydia’s conscience
e greeted her soberly.
—
a O H ft ft
1
W O (l( lP r i« l
smote her. She knew that her
“Your father’s been telling me
np there. They
Vf \
father was worrying over her atti about your discussion, Lyd,” he
always last so
M l
tude on her Inheritance, but she said. “You can't mean to stick by
long and don’t
1 1 tontlnued te avoid the Issue with your decision!"
drop right away.
L4
him while the «state was being
Lydia aat down wearily. “Oh,
“I must get
„
E ■settled.
Lydia was doing heavy Kent don’t you begin at me, too."
s t a r t e d new,
work In college. She actually had
“Now look here, Lydia,” began
Banta, b « I Just
.
(•tered all the classes In dairying K en t "let’s begin at the beginning
wanted to let
*-¡J ’* ■ •‘ ¡F
possible, while carrying her other and sift this thing o u t” and once
you know «bout Couldn’t W rite
college work. And she enjoyed the more he began his arguments on
the tree which we’re going to get. new
work amazingly.
the Indian question.
“Tour affectionate friend,
Early In December, the settle
“Don’t you see?” he ended finally.
“W O RTHY.*
**T
OO hrtxnr
to . replied
. ^ .1 8 ^ 1
ment of the Levine estate was com
“I B
see
how you fool
feel, «aa
yes,”
And thou at the end of tho lto> pleted. John’s method of “shoe-
Lydia.
"But
Just
because
you
can
tor he wrote this:
stringing** his property was dlsae- list what you call average Ameri
"Postscript.—I got the tree. M’s
trous as far as the size of Lydia’s can business deals that are
heritage went As nearly as she crooked, you aren’t Justified In be
could understand, one portion of ing crooked, are you?”
e estate was used to pay up the
Kent threw out his hand help
debtedness of another portion, lessly, and for a moment there was
until all that was loft was the silence In the rdom, then he said,
cottage, with a mortgage on i t and “Well, after all, there's nothing
three hundred and twenty acres of so selfish as yeur Puritans. Of
land on the reservation.
course, every on« hut yourselves is
The throe hundred and twenty wrong. And, of course. It doesn’t
acres on the reservation was under occur to yeu to sacrifice your own
a cloud. Part of it was land he had scruples to • do a thing that would
gotten from Charlie’s sister. All of mean so much to your father.”
It he had obtained from alleged full
Lydia looked at Kent quickly.
daily bible passage
Moods,
Tills was a new angle. He would
“Oh, daddy I" cried Lydia, “we have followed this opening at once
"I know thy works, that
can’t take it l Don’t you see ws had^not Amoe spoken for the first
thou art neither cold nor hot:
can’t r
I would that thou wert coM
(Continued Tomorrow)
“I can't understand why you act
Or hot. Ho then because the«
so like a fool,” began Amos, queru
art hdtewaate, and neither
lously. “And I can’t see why you
cold or hot, I will spue thee
set your Judgment up as better
out of my mouth.” Rev. 8:1ft.
Salem -—. n -s to ry First Na
than mine.
I swan—even your
mother never did that, except on tional Bank building wlnobosll
Ood needs men who are on
borrowing money. We won’t keep tional Bank building Bank build
fire for His cause, there Is no
the land. We’U sell It and have ing wUI seen be ready for use.
place la HI« program for the
the money to dear up the mort
half hearted or lukewarm. We
gage on the cottage.” n e took a
need to pray that Ood will
turn up find down the room. “I
set ue ea Are fe r Hie King,
can’t see what's happened to chil
Salem J— Souther
dren nowadays. In my dsy we
A. builds mile of
obeyed. Lydia, Pm not going to
«lacuaa thia aav louvee. Yna'va track.
T
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a
M r. and Mrs. H. G. Roberts and
ton Lee of the 461 ranch and Mr.
and Mrs. E. B. ,O«H of Bellview,
were Sunday visitors ot their
mother, Mrs. E. J. Roberts and
sister, Mrs. L. O. VaHWegen.
Emmett Beeson, the Talent fa r
mer, dairy man and orchardiat,
was an Ashland visitor Saturday.
He has twenty or .thirty acres of
young orchard coming oq that Is
said to be among the most
Ising In the valley.
W . J. Carter, Superintendent
and P. G.' Butler principal of the
Indian Agency school, came to
Ashland Monday and returned
yesterday. They were accompea
led by Mrs. G. R. Gallant and her
daughter, Maud, who w ill spend a
few weeks at the Agency.
'
Kenneth M cW illiams is employ
ed w ith a geverament reclamation
Mre. Mollie Stanley a n d
service survey crow In Klamath
county. George Ioenkewer is a daughter Bernie of Ashland w en •'
Fred Hansen le ft tor his home
visiting la Jacksonville this week,
fellow surveyor.
* In Napa, C«l., yesterday, going hr
the guests of Mrs. Stanley’s broth
private conveyance. I t is Mr.
er, Mr. John Rose.
Hansen's wish to , dispose of his
ly reported from the ooeaty m at
were the transfer! of land In Ash
land from O. C. McAllister to
Tom Bushong, A. B. Reives to
W alter Frulan, J. R. Tozer to C.
A. Ellason. One of the biggest
oeals of the past week was the
sale of farm lands from J. J.
Browp to W illiam W latt at 9S1,-
•0 6 .
Idapa property and ceme to Aah»
land to m ate his home.
Oeo. W. Barron has returned
from his trip to Southern Cali
fornia. He paid a visit to the Im
perial Valley region at the CaH-
fornia-Artzona- Mexico boundary
line, and purchased a fine J iff
acre irrigated farm there, which
he placed Geo. W . Haward, for
merly o( Ashland, In charge of.
/
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There was quite a heglra of
Ashland people to Geleettne on
■aturday. among whom were Mrs.
P. Duns. Mrs. W . H. Ledgerwood,
Mrs. Fields. Mrs. D. U Rice. Mrs.
U George-and Mrs. Strong.
t