TRE DAILY TIDINGS EDITORIAL
C. J. BRAD, Managing Editor
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W. H. PERKINS, News Editor
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Kiddies9 Evening
Story
Amos the other. Beth looked a t
; Lydia w ith radiant frees. And she
could hot feel an answering glow.
“W e ll make this up to you, old
la d y ,* cried K e n t
-See I f wg
don’t " There was a little pause,
during whfch the ice boomed. Then,
-W e « , w hat happens next, now
you’ve settled a s e r asked Lydia.
‘ Something to eat," exclaimed
Arnoa. “I didn't eat ahy supper, i
swear I haven't eaten fo r months
w ith any relish. Lydia, make ns
LYDIA
of the Pines
Land Settlement Work
Progress in bringing new blood to Oregon’s
farm lands is marked by the annual report of the
land settlement department of the state and Uort*
land settlement department of the state and Port-
Lie, which shows that during the fiscal year end
ing September 30, 909 families have been located
on fartps in various parts of the state, and that the
money invested by these newcomers totals $2,-
999,718.
The program of the land settlement department
has been in operation for the past three and one-
half years, during which time 2,228 families have
bene placed on Oregon fanus directly through the
efforts of the department According to Mr. IdcÇ the
initial capital investment of this body of settlers is
$8,697,440.
In the work of securing the proper growth and
development of Oregon by getting its farm lands
occupied and used, the cooperation of realtors and
commercial clubs in the various counties of the
state is proving a great factor. That every section
of Oregon is organized for action to make this work
effective is shown by a portion of the annual report
which shows 28 counties accounting for the dis
tribution of these homeseekers. In 604 cases the
county of location has been reported by the local
commercial organization, and but 305 of the 909
families were not sa listed. These 305 wan»
by the department’s own records to have found
their homes in these 28 counties and the remaining
eight of the 36 counties of Oregon. Where the closest
cooperation hag been carried on by the local organi
zations with the Portland office, the greatest results
are shown.
Lane county took the lead in reporting new
comers for the year, its record showing 102, while
Marion ran second with 87 and Josephine followed
a close third with 79. Benton reporting 45 almost
tied with Jackson which listed 44. Clackamas ex-
Tha CArtatmoa R ule
F or weeks before Christmas
Polly had asked Santa Clans again
and again fo r a sled.
She had called up the chimney to
him and said : .
“Oh. dear Santa, please bring me
a new sled thia Christmas, I f yon
possibly can. ■
“I do hop« yon can, fo r I w ant
one, eo much.
“I ’d rather have a Med than any-
a
W ilW s
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F r ^ c k A ^ S t e k « Ca>
(Continued from yesterday)
" I’m sure you’d aay ao I f you
could aee It, Santa.
Oh, please do give me a Med I t
It ’» not asking too much.
“I ’d like a new one, lik e the other
children have."
T h a t was what Polly had asked
every evening up the chimney.
She would talk to Santa and tend
messages to his reindeer and tell
him again and again where abe
lived.
,
"Don’t forget, dear Santa, I live
In the white house. It*» next to a
stone house. And outside, you
know, It has two UtUe green posts
and there la a hedge In front, too.
“I know ydu never forget where
children live, but I'm Just telling
you to make sure.
“Oh, dear Santa, I do love you
so much.
Good-night."
Confessed Auto
Due ves Caught
By State Police
T h re e young auto thieves were
caught between Ashland and M ed
fo rd yesterday by C harley T a le n t,
H a te tra ffic o ffic e r. They a d m it
ted h avin g stolen th e F o rd car
they w ere d riv in g In Salem . They
gave the name« o f Fl6yd C a rrie r,
IB*; R ic h a rd M yers, 1 9 ; and L yle
x
t t v
. « i s r ;
Lydia stood long at the living-room
window which gave on the front
gate. The pine, Its . boughs pow
H a rrin g to n , 28. T h ey were taken
dered w ith snow, kept Its lonely
to the county ja il a t Jacksonville.
vigil over the cottage.
"Yea," whispered Lydia, Anally, A fo u rth young m an who was
“your bast friend has deserted yott, rid in g w ith th em
was released
but I guess I ’m keeping fr ith w ith
w hen i t was learned he had simp
K ent and dad, anyhow."
ly been given a l i f t by th e accom
Then she wept to bed.
F o r a day or so Lydia avoided m o d atin g auto thieves.
B illy Norton. B a t she was restless
and unhappy and found I t dtfflcnlt
to keep her mind oa her collage
work. F inally, she timed her re
M rs. K ester Gandee of Duna-
turn from the dairy school, one a ft m u ir, C al., fo rm e rly o f Ashland,
ernoon, to coincide w ith Billy's
home-coming from his office and visited w ith h e r m other, Mra.
she overtook him Just beyond the W a lte r James a t K la m a th P alla
end of the street-car line.
reeently.
" B illy t" called Lydia.
.. H e turned and waited fo r her
w ith a broad smile. "Btlly," aha
said without preliminaries, - I gave
In I”
“L y d ia !" be gasped.
I
*T couldn’t stand their pleading.
Prepared For Christmas Shopping
because they-saved throughout the year, week by
week, increasing their bank account.
It isn ’t too late for YOU to start.
FIRST
NATIONAL BANK
ASHLAND, OREGON
“Lydia I” cried B illy again, qnd
there was such a note of pain In
his voice that she turned her face
to his w ith the same dogged! look
In her eyes th at had been ex
pressed In her walk.
“Lydia, I can’t believe I t l "
" It ’s true," repeated Lydia. “I
couldn’t stand K ent and dad both.
And p a rtly J did If fo r Joljn L e -1
When Christmas came there was
vine’s memory.
I’m not trying to
Justify myself, B illy. I know that
I'm doing something wrong, but
I ’ve definitely made np my mind to
sacrifice my own ease of conscience
to dad’s happtnesa"
••YOU can’t do It I You aren't
built that way," exclaimed Billy.
“B ut I am doing It,” reiterated
Lydia.
“Look here," he cried, eagerly,
“do you expect to kfeep my respect
Billy’s Faoe In the Lantern Light and yet go on w ith t h l s r
Lydia did not reply fo r home
W ee Inscrutable.
time. They were nearing the cot
toward fifty and I guess It’s too tage, and she could see the pine,
late fo r me to begin over, anyhow. black against the afterglow, when
I ’ll pled along as I always have."
she said:
“Oh, daddy 1” cried Lydia, “don’t.
"W ell, I ’m not keeping my own
You aren’t a A lt self-respect and yet I'm . glad rm
making dad and K ent happy."
i
They' paused by the gate. B illy
“Well, we don’t mean to," Amoe looked down a t Lydia w ith a pus-
went on, “but I guess we have been sled frown.
pretty hard on you."
"Hdw about TDucIt Amor Patriae*
Amor weerlnese and gentleness now, Lydia T" be asked.
"Oh, I don’t know,” she sighed.
moved Lydia as no threats could.
Was she selfish? Was she putting "Good night, B illy."
“Good-by, L ydia,” said the young
her own desl/e for an easy con
science ahead of her father's hap- man heavily and he turned away,
[ plnesa? Amos went Into the kitchen leaving her standing at the gate.
• L ydia went over and over their
for a drink and Kent followed her
r to the window and took both her conversation th a t night feverishly
before she went to sleep.
She
, hands.
"Lydia,” he said, “I’m bwful tossed and turned and then, long
, sorry to press you so, but you’re be a fte r the Old living-room dock had
ing unfair and foolish, honestly you struck midnight, she slipped out
are. You used to let me look out o f bed and crouched on her knesa,
, for you In the old days—the old her hands clasped across her p il
dhys when I used to pull little Pa- low, her eyes on the quiet stars
tlence’s carriage with my bicycle— . th at glowed through the window.
"O God," she prayed, "O God, i f
. why can’t you trust me now?
. Come, dearest r-and next year You do exist, help me now I Don't
we’ll be married and live happy le t md lose B illy's respect, fo r X
’ ever after.”
don’t know how I con get along
thout I t G o d ! .God I M ake me
“Kent I" she cried with the
Ileve In You, for 1 must havs
breathlessness of a new Idea, “If I
should give In and agree to take Some One to turn to I You have
’ the land, would you go up there taken mother and little Patience
’ with me and turn It Into a farm?” and John Levine firpm me I Oh, let
.
Kent smiled at her pityingly. me keep B illy ! L et me keep him,
1 “Why, Lyd, there’s nothing In that I God, and make me Strong enough to
Why should we try to farm It! The keep on accepting th a t three hun
money Is In speculating with It I dred and tw enty acres. Amen."
S
’ could clear up a mint of money for
you In a couple of years. If you’ll
' give me the handling of It.”
But Lydia’s eyes were shining
; now. “Oh, but listen! You don’t
! understand. ML Levine drove the
Indians out, by fraud .and murder.
, Yea, he did, Kent. And yet, he had
big dreams about i t He must have
had. He was that kind of a man.
And If we should go up there and
turn those acre« Into a great farm,
and—and make It stand for some-
; thing big and right— perhaps that
would make up foy everything!"
“Lydia,’ said Kent “be sensible.
’ Gee, easy money on one side, and
a lifetime of hard work on the
other I Yet yon act as If there was
a choice.”
“Kent, can’t you understand how
I feel?" pleaded Lydia. “Have you
got a blind spot la your mind where
money Is concerned? Are all the
men In America monef crary like
the men In Lake City?”
“Sure,” replied Kent cheerfully.
“Oh. Lydia, honey, don’t be so
hard I Look at your poor old dad!
Think what it would mean to him.
Don’t be so doggone sanctimoni
ous!"
Instead of looking at her father
Lydia looked at Kent long and
wistfully. How dear he was to
her I What an Innllenable part of
her Ute he was I What was the use
of always struggling agntnst her
heart. Kent smiled into her face
Her lipa trembled and she hurried
to look at Amos, Suddenly Lydia
realised how gray and broken he
looked, how bent his shoulders were
with Work, and there swept over
her anew an Understanding of his
utter loneliness since her mofher’e
and Levine’s death».
With a little Inarticulate mur
ereet a o t ^ w lth m e^scattoretb
mur. abe ran across the room and
threw her arms about his neck.
“Oh. daddy," toe cried, ’Til do It!
T h e re Is no n e u tra lity in
H l agree to It I If only you’ll prom-
th a caase of O hrlat, w * a re
e ith e r fo r H im o r We are
against H im .
H e ra la one
place w h e re .w e cannot alt on
tha fence.
PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING 0 0 .
I hate myself, but dad looks ten
years younger 1"
a beautiful new sled fo r ro ily
■rhinh
tlffiuitm
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s tiw ir o
R i u n limsl
iin u l e u .
And there was a le tte r fo r her,
too, which said:
“D ear P o lly:
“I have heard a ll your messages
and your talks, and they have
pleased me eo much.
I also got
your adorable little letter, and
The number of families settling in each county
according to the report of the local orgtfhizations,
is as follows: Benton 45, Clackamas 38, Clatsop 3,
Columbia 19, Coos 6, Crook 3, Deschutes 15, Douglas
27, Hood River 2, Jackson 44, Josephine 79, Klamath
11, Lane 102, Linn 16, Marion 87, Morrow 4, Mult
nomah 30, Polk 2, Malheur 2, Tillamook 2, Lincoln
3, Harney'. 1, Umatilla 4, Union 1, Wallowa 3,
Washington 36, Yamhill 19 and Wasco 1.
The department ia Tiow in corresponderfce with
thousands Of farmers in the East, Middle West and
Southwest where the diversity of Oregon’s re
sources and desirability of her farm lands are now
becoming well known. During the past fiscal year,
the department handled 57,102 letters and inquiries
from outsiders, directed to the department, and
11,082 referred Jo the department by the railroad
companies. More than 47,000 pieces of literature
were mailed out from the Portland office, the local
the cablee from Paris and Rome. Mr. Hamilton
writes of the French finally becoming openly angry
upon their nation in the controlled press of Italy,
and more difficult to deal with, the occasional attacks
upon Frenchmen because they are Frenchmen. And
the Rome news is that the Fascist chieftains, includ
ing Mussolini himself, are preparing to remove the
fruits of violence by applying more violence.
The thought of war between France and Italy
is well-night inconceivable.. France would exhaust
every other resource for the preservation of her
dignity and rights, and would be aided by the states
men of the other great powers, who believe that
another serious war would take Europe to destruc
tion. And it is difficult to believe that Mussolini
would so completely lose his mind as to force a
war on France. True, Robert Dell reported lately
that the French statesmen did not'dismiss the dan
ger. True it is common talk throughout Europe
that the time will come soon when only a foreign
war may save Fascism from domestic revolt. But
if Mussolini warred on France, it would simply mean
that, facing failure, he had elected to make failure
colossal.
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Yet there remains the fact, certainly not lack
ing in dynamite, the Fascist Italy, having made
the reviling of France a habit for several years, is
now making bad treatment of individual French
men a too common practice. And on top of that is
the fact, also not lacking in dynamite, that the ton-
non in Italy is dose to the breaking •point.
H míbb I
-H o ld tip, Kent," hé said ‘la a
tired voice. “Don’t heckle her any
more. A fte r all, I ’m setting on
the letter’s 36.
The Excited Mussolini
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lee fra to to htoay!"
p
Amos dropped it s pipe. "Lvdla!
You d en t mean It | Why, my II.«.
I glrlf Lord. Kent I Isn’t she. Just
F AMOS w a t not happy a fte r
Lydia’s concession, a t least she
never had seen him to Interested
In l i f t as he was new. Nor had
Kent ever bean more considerate
o f Lydia.
A ll this, • L ydia told herself,
should have made her happy, and
t she was n o t B illy came to see
r as usual, and took her to an
occasional dance. B ut he wee net
the friend o f old.* And the change
was not In any neglect o f thing*
dobs, I t wee In h l* w ay o f looking
a t h e r; In his long sllapces when
he studied her face w ith a grieved,
naaled look th a t made her front!«;
i hla ceasing to ta lk over bla work
w ith her w ith any a ir o f comrade
ship, atjd most o f all In bla ceasing
to bully h e r—th a t inalienable ear
m ark o f the attitude of the loved
toward the beloved.
March waa long and bleak th at
yekr. b t t AorU came In M « w e e tl7
as a sliver bugle c o lt Lydia beard
the first robin call, on her way
home from college. She haA walked
np the road ahead o f Btlly. her
bldck scholar** gown fluttering.
Once ha would have ton to e v e r
take her, b at now he plodded along
a block behind, without a sound.
Lydia did not panto a t the cottage
gate. T he call o f the robin was
In bar blood and she swung on up
the road, past the Norton place and
Into the Woods. -
There was a log a t hand and she
sat down, threw her mortarboard
on the ground and rested, chin
capped la bar hand*, lipa parted,
e y ta te a r dimmed. She waa weary
o f thought She only knew th a t the
spiritual rightness w ith which she
had sustained h e r mind and body
thtongh *11 tha hard years of her
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