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- - TRE DAILY TIDINGS EDITORIAL
C. J. READ,
ESTABLISHED IN 1876
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W. H. PERKINS,
MANAGING EDITOR
OUT OUR WAY
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PUBLISHED BY THE ÁSHLAND PRINTING'CO.
NEWS EDITOR
By Williams
Crater Lake
in the
Winter Time
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Building Permits
BY JOHN HA I? IN
; Caretaker at C rater L ak e!
Lodge
.• Tfie other day we had an inspiration, \ve were
going to gather the material and write a story to
he published right after the first of the year on- the
building that had been done in Ashland during the
past year. We had noticed many new fionses go
ing up as well as several additions and changes,
which we knew had been made and we sort of fig
ured out that it would make a mighty good story,
if the home folks who have been drawing down the
corners of their mouths over business conditions,
knew just exactly how much Ashland had spent in
building. We figured that the showing would be so
good that those drooping corners would take an
upward tilt, that some of the gloomy brothers might
see a silver lining in their black cloud.
Well we started out, •went to the city hall
first, and there we made the rather startling dis
covery that Ashland does not require a building
permit before the erection of any type of building.
You can build what ever you want to in this city,
wherever you want to, and it is not necessary to
go through the formality of making a public re
cord of your activities along this line.
This was a surprising discovery, with all of the
building that has been going on here in the past
there is not one single record of the amount or type.
The Chamber of Commerce, has not been able to
keep an accurate record. The lumber yards and
the contractors all of course Jiave a record of
what they have participated i n individually, but
even the compilation of these will not show accur
a te ly what has been done in this city during the
past year. We understand that some time * ago
there was a movement on foot to pass an ordinance
requiring that a permit be secured, hut in the rush
of other and more pressing business this detail in
our city government became lost in the shuffle.
The Tidings would most respectfully like to
call this over sight to the attention of the city offic
ials. W e should like to be placed on record as
recommending that some f^eps he taken before
another year rolls around to secure this data, as
- W al l a s , t o TnnVo if m a n d a to ry tn weciire n p erm it
before starting any building activity. We do not
know of any instance wh(*re an ordinance of this
kind would have worked a hardship upon any one
in the past, ancfw e feel positive that it will not
do so in the future.
Now, as a new year is approaching, is a good
time to start keeping such a record. •
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In a recent
rotogravure
section of
the _ Louisville
Courier-Journal .appeared a
beautiful picture of “ Crater
Lake, California." For many
years California has been
taking our fancy fruits and
se n d in g th em o u t u n d e r C a li
fornia labels but we were
hardly prepared for this ap
propriation of our scenic
wonders.
Clatsop
county
should be warned and put
Cannon Reach, ant) Coxcomb
h ill under lock and key.
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ÍY -B E R T -tío S E s !
The smartest girl in school Is
ne v e r th e pr e tti es t.—-—---- -— -
A fresh shave and haircut make
the clothes look old.
How rarely a woman faints
when nobody is near by to see
her!
(Grants Pass Courier)
Relaxation For Health
Dr. William Gilbert Anderson, director of the
Yale gymnasium, is trying to educate his stqdents
to sit quietly a moment or two each hour, perm itting
every muscle to relax. If people were taught in
their youth to do thnt, Dr. Anderson maintains,
they would last longer and he much more efficient.
Exercises to keep fit is the more commonplace
advice. Both are good and both are necessary. In
this hustling America both arc generally neglect
ed, though exercise perhnps gets a little more a t
tention than relaxation.
Many a business man or woman who won’t
spare an hour a day for energetic and healthful
exercise won’t spend even 12 minutes a day re
laxing. It is a short-sighted zeal for making every
minute count th at in practice actually causes hours
to be wasted through decreased health and effic
iency.
Dr. Anderson’s advice ought to be more widely
uttered. Try his hourly moment of relaxing and
see what it does to you. At first it will come very
hard to persons accustomed to driving themselves
tensely.
Once the art is mastered, however, it
will bring unexpected good results. Many a knotty
problem or bad temper or business error will he
solved or prevented by the fresh mental and spirit
ual strength let in by that regular, brief period of
rest and poise.
An Old Mule
The most venerable and estimable mule in
'America Js dead. If Old Jim of Mountain View,
N. J., had his due, his race would bray a requiem
drowning 20,000,000 automobile lioms.
Jim was 40 years old, and for 36 of those years
had trodden the tow-path of the Morris Canal,
pulling heavily ladden barges. No one can say
what millions of tons of freight lie has moved anil
the p art he has played in the great industrial era
which virtually began with his birth.
W hat “ snooty” motor truck can show a record
comparable to J im ’sT
England has put a tax on betting. Such a coun
try! W e’ll bet Americans wouldn’t stand for any
thing like th a t
’<> Ml
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Speaking of warm weather
one local lady has picked
narcissus blooms from her
garden. In some instances
. rones arc still tn bloom" and
there are dozens of other
kinds of flowerB still bloom
ing.
Tomorrow’s troubles may be
sidestepped by doing things right
today.
The, la w 'is a game that
is
played from both ends, the middle
being you.
(Medford M all-Tribune)
The principal, of the Eu
gene high school seems to
have been suffering from the
delusion that he was running
the school. The superintend
ent of the Roseburg schools,
form erly of H errin, 111., has
resigned to assume the same
Job at Marshfield.
L E A V E N W O R T H , Kan. —
D ines in his m all, dimes In
his pockets and even dimes
in his food have caused a
LdffVenworth
man,
name
withheld by postal authori
tie s to call for help. A
w riter In a Comic magazine,
inspfintfirn found. ,wrote a
story of a triangle between a
king, his queen and an am
bassador, I t closed with: “ If
you want to know the moral
of thia story, send 10 cents in
cash to Box 137, Leaven
worth, K an .” The lessee of
box 137 had never heard of
the story of the jokesmith.
Others may not be smart, but
they always know what t h e y
would do if they were in your
place.
Hez Heck says,: “ I reckon no
body has a harder time glttin’ in
to heaven than a paper-hanger.”
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DIJON, Frarfce — W hen a
maiden of Meuilley went to
the town ball to obtain a
birth certificate and marriage
license, she learned that on
the rolls she was entered as
a boy and liable to m ilitary
service in the next class In
corporated In . the Frsmch
army.
LOS A NGELES — A new
form of piano technique has
been Introduced by Henry
Cowell, California composer.
Cowell uses his elbow, fore
arm and palm in striking the
keys.
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
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ASHLAND
10 Years Ago
20 Years Ago
30 Years Ago
M ike Wompck, prospector and
mining man, well-known In Ash
land, Is Jubilant over the passage
ot a bill granting him $1000 as
compensation for Injuries received
while Working on the Cratflk Lake
road.
Ray Sayle Is busy as a cran
berry merchant as local represent
ative of the California - Oregon
Power Co. He is putting in new
oqulpment at the company’s local
sub-statlctn, service Hues for fa r
mers In the Dunn neighborhood,
electrical equipment for the big
betels at the B lair granite quarry,
etc.
Mayor Johnson states that on
last Sunday he met Jim Rraden-
berg, a boyhood friend, In Ash
land, and the remarkable part of
this meeting was that M r. Rraden-
berg bad lived in this city for 35
years and this was the first time
ho had visited his old home.
'
Thos. Simpson report» that
while at his home in the'northern
part of the town, at dinner Tues
day, a defer was seen to cross the
Helman field from towards Bear
Creek and the household and the
neighbors were called
together
to see this unusual sight of a Wild
W. S. Morton, who has been a deer w ithin the corporate limits
resident of Modford tor a year or
of town.
two, has disposed of his property
there, and this Week moved to
Ashland with his family.
County 8chool Supt. Gns New
bury spent Tuesday and Wednes
day In . Ashland
visiting the
M r. and Mrs. W illiam
Storm
schools tn his official capacity.
came up from Oakland, Cal., to
visit with their daughter, Mrs. P.
S. Provost.
Mrs. J. G. H u rt and Mrs. Jos.
G riffin left Tuesday morning for
Sumpter, Baker county, Oregon,
summoned, there by news of the
critical Illness of their mother.
Mrs. E. K. Anderson left for
San Francisco yesterday on busi
Jtev. Rbbert Tweed
arrived ness for ths Ashland * Woolen
yesterday from his pastoral field MUla. The recent sharp advance In
at Soda Springs, Idaho, to spend a wool' while encouraging to the
three weffk’s vacation with his growers has its effect on the man
ufacturers.
fam ily In Ashland.
Tuesday, November 2, 1020
Do you know where I j»m just
now, by radio I mean? I am at
the Live Stock fîhow, in Portland.
TJianks K. G. W . I ’m having a
great time.
Good Intentions sometimes go
wrong. .You remember that I told
you that I was trying to get some
of the bears to stay with me this
winter. When I fixed the window
I forgot to take down a swinging
shutter that is on the inside. Last
night the yearling cub started to
investigate. He must have been
about half way inside when the
shutter dropped down on him. I
didn’t see it but I heard the noise
and saw the tracks and splinters
this morning. The first tracks
were like furrows of two small
plows, where he gotJils start. It
was oix feet to the next tracks,
the next-tw elve, those were thé
last that I could find. He must
have had hla w ln a s.. Th« re
mains of the shutter would not
make fire wood.
You know I have a confession
to make. I have been calling one
of my best friends a bum. He has
been around Were a month and I
didn’t know him. He pulled one
of his old stunts that I taught'
him two years ago and then I
tumbled, I made him do it over
and sure enough It was F ritz, the
’ brother'of Hans. Can you beat It,
two years and he still remembers?
W ell, from now on it w ill have to
be young F ritz and old F ritz. Gee,
th a t’s great Old F ritz is back!
I have sickness In the family.
The Nameless One has Indiges
tion, he a t e a whole woodrat for
dinner. I ’ll bet he feels like I did
after I had eaten a welsh rabbit
a , car tain fellow, made
week.
I am still working on the bat
teries. Run the Kohlers today.
Partly cloudy today, what little
wind that was blowing came from
the west. Temp. II. 56, L. 4 4, R.
1?, M. 50.
Copyright, 192«, Warner Bros. Picture*, In*.
^TRACKED BY T H E POLICE,” atarrlnp Rln-TIn-TIn,. Is s Warner
Bros, production of thia nov*l.
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BYROPBIB
• In Prance, a German war dog
give» her life to eave Jimmy Ford.
•fhO gratefully adopt» her puppy
and name» if Rln-Tin-Tin. He
»muggle» Rinty home after the
war. Murtagh, a crooked politi
cian, covet» Jimmy'» »weetheart.
Ruth Allen. Jimmy'» father, a po
lice lieutenant, i» myetefiouely
murdered. Jimmy join» the Force
to avenge Aim. Jimmy has an able
ally in Rin-Tin-Tin, now full
grown. Ruth, afraid Jimmy will be
asiigned to a feared poit, beg»
Murtagh'» influence to prevent thle-
Murtagh double crone* her. Jim>
my i» given the dangerou» beat;
Murtagh tecretly v ititt the under
world—
CHAPTER B—Continued.
To the right, to the left, up and
down the dirty cobble-stoned street
Murtagh had looked well and cau
tiously before dodging Into the al
leyway. Sure ’twould nevor do for
The Murtagh to be seen scuttliqg
Into back doors.
A slight turn at the blind end—
a niche where one might wait safe
from prying, passing eyes on the
street
A code signal with the
heavy point of his loaded cane on
an innocuous grating—tap , . . tap
. ; . tap . . . tap . . . tap, tap.
Diminish hla size and put a tall
on him, and you could not tell him
from a rat—this slinky fellow who
appeared as If by magic under the
grating, and pushod it up obsequi
ously, Murtagh stepped down . . .
down . . . and down, at the end, in
to the cellar of a warehouse, a vast
room with a subterranean passage
opening fro..: one end and running
under the waterfront street and
across to a secret gateway—or
“comeonln”—entrance at the fac
ing pier.
Now there returned to Murtagh,
as he stepped d o w * Into the evil
cavern and the evlller clrcle'of his
hcachmbn’s faces, all the swagger
and confidence and greasy bluster
CALIFORNIA 10 HAVE
’ RARE OH LIQUORS
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"Before noon-time there'll be
more police dog."
Clexfir Disguises Are Work
ed out to Deliver
Liquors Safely
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, —
Bourbon whiskey from Glasgow,
French Vermouth from Shanghai
and Swedish punch from Barce
lona will snuggle in California
Christmas stockings this year.
These and many other genuine
products of the world's stills left
their homelands as bonded liquor
undisguised, landed on the Pa
cific, coast as shingles and were
delivered a t back doors as pickles.
Rome journeyed around the world
avoiding taxes,
eluding coast
guards— and mellowing for Amer
ican palates.
Much of the liquor that is to
make Yule candles brlgther, al
ready has been landed; more Is
still coming in, despite a federal
drive against the >10,000,000 rum
ring” which is behind the illegal
Importations.
A federal grand Jury hepe has
Indicted nearly a half hundred
men and women for alleged con
spiracy ¿o violate
prohibition
laws. Of this number only nine \
have surrendered and It has been
admitted that most of the others
have taken refuge In Canada
where they are believed to be
planning still more unique and
‘ D A IL Y B IB L E PASSAGE
“And the Lord said Auto
him ,- Now do ye Pharisee*
make clean the outahle o f the
cup and the plattee; but your
Inward part is .f u ll of raven
ing and w ickedness.” Luke
11:30.
Jesus has no use for * the
outside Bhow or grand stand
play on the part of His fo l
lowers; Ha looks on the heart
of HIs followers. It Is a com
paratively easy m atter to be
a Pharisee and fool some of
our neighbors and friends, but
we do not feel Ood uor our
selves.
_
that bad earnod him the sobriquet
of “Dan the Dude.” There was tills
essential difference between the
Murtagh ot the Ward clubrooms
and tho Murtagh of the under
world. In the former his overtone
was unctuous; here It was steel
hard.
An 111-vlsaged and piratical group
of huskies slouched forward to do
homage. The Cabinet of Evil kow
towing to its Prime Minister. The
Executive Committee of the pre
cious Hudson Busters. In the back
ground tough face on tough face,
rowdy body on rowdy body, massed
like dumb serfs, watching, wor
shipping. Murtagh the Powerful—
the mystically powerful Medicine
Maker. 'The One who arranged
bails, who got them off with reprl
mands.
There was a great tension, a
restlessness, a subdued excite
ment amongst the Hudson Busters
this morning. That fact communi
cated Itself to the cunning Chief
tain Instantaneously. He snarled
at the foremost henchman—an ath
letic, businesslike man. with the
body of an Adonis and the face of
a satyr, the Secretary of State, to
outward appearanee, ot that Cabi
net.
“What the bell’s all the gloom
about. Bottleneck?”
He that was called “Bottleneck”
spat wrathfully at a hole where an
Inquisitive mouse had shown Its
sleek head for an Instant, then
rasped out of the corner of his
twisted lips. In the “hard guy’s”
characteristic way, to the man
whose chief aide and lieutenant he
wad;
•’Ain’t you hear? General Order
came up from the Commlsh him
self this A. M. for the bulls to set
a deadline down here. All ourboyk
has got to keep acrost Eleventh.”
Murtagh's face was clouded, an
gry-
“When did yon hear of this?
How Is It I didn’t get tipped off?
Why did you wait till now to tell
me. Instead of the minute yon
heard It,, so that I could have tried
to stop It?”
“Stop, belli The Mayor himself
couldn’t stop this Commlsh when
he gets that thick mtek mind of
his made up. And Captain O’Brien
Is up In the air about us. too. it's
war, Dan, war to the death be
tween us and the bulls from this
morning onl"
The other Cabinet members nod- ’
ded savagely, and crowded close;
the skulking lay member» began to
move around from all quarters,
forming a tense circle of which
Dan was the Intelligent, guiding
center and nerve force. AU ot a
sudden Dan began to laugh:
“Well, that’s a good one. I pick
'd out a swell day, when you boys
.la in the best of humors, to get
O'Biiec tq put young Ford- on thia
beat—Ford and that sharp toothed
mutt of his, R lnty!”
Audible excitement and anger
surged through the whole gang like
an electric ripple: “Jimmy Ford
and Rinty on thia beat! Say, that’s
the guy what swore he was going
to fasten his old man’s killin’ on
us.”
Hot exclamations from all sides.
Word darts, jabs, rages.
Murtagh exchanging significant
grins with bis more trusted cabinet
advisers and henchmen.
These
other dumbbells-—they did not
knpw everything. Too much risk
of squealers.
Murtagh «napped directions like
the good undorfleld general that ha.
wasi "No more rum running for a
few days. We’ve got to lay kinds
low until the smoke blows away..
Meantime git out on the street abd
rag young Ford. Cripple that mutt
of hla. Hire, taxis and run him
down. Anything. A little action
now. But be careful to work un
der cover. Beat I t ”
Presently Murtagh and his chief
aides were left alone. Half a dozen
perhaps.
Him that was named
“Bottleneck" first of all. Then one
“K iller Kid Twist,” so called from
his unusual dexterity at strangling,
people with a peculiar dislocating
jerk that he had discovered by
practicing on cats—and that left
his human victims with character-
Ist’c ally awry necks. Next, “Black
Mike.” He was the gorilla of the
gang. Beside him the next out
standing member of the Inner cir
cle was diminutive, puny; that was
the “Squeeze Kid,” the one to
whom -tectmrse Was had when the
Job In hand required physical
Jesuitry, and provided hut scant
Kid could worm through the barred
windows of moat banks.
To this choice coterie Dan the
Dude gritted with frank, cold re
sentment and fear: ~I’m sure
young Ford Is on to me, the same
as his old man was. Understand
this, now, you bozos. He’s got to
be bumped off quick, seef Besides,
the chance that he might get some
thing on us—I’ve got personal rea
sons.”
Grim acqulesence all around; a
meanful looking to “gats." Dan
continued:
"W alt an hour or so. Give the
other fellows time to get him rat-
•tied and npset, or to beat him up.
Then you’d ought to bo able to plop
him without making a mess or
leaflbg traces.
Tnere’d ’ be no
doubt about It at a lM f.it wasn't tor
that damned sharp nosed dog— ”
“A dog at 100 feet ain’t such a
hard target when me eyes are la
good shape. Look—” Like a flash
Black Mike whipped out his gun
and shot the bead off a lBckless
rat that had been prospecting
along a plateau of shipping cases
some fifty feet away.
’’You’re eyes seem to he fnno
tlonlng real sweet," grinned Mur
tagh.
"Ain’t It the truth?" chimed In
Bottleneck. “Well, lemme tell yon,
chief. Before noontime there’ll he
no more police dogs on the rolls of
the great New York police depart
ment, and one of the brightest
young cope will be gone out, too.
Mother and sweetie kin watch for
little Jimmy till their eyes pop out
today, for he ain’t gold’ home!”
CHAPTER •
Jimmy subconsciously felt tb *«
the atmosphere about him was
charged with suppressed uneasi
ness, with evil pnrpoae, aa he'
scoured the streets thto morning
with Rinty faithfully pacing beside
him. Streets bright -with sunshine
despite their tawdrlneas, their
careless, smelly Utter.
Those men and women whs were
going about their honest tm*In—
looked st him with Interest, at the
dog with admiration, but st both
with a sort of Impersonal pitying
Jimmy felt. One or two burly long
shoremen flipped casual, friendly
words at him.
"Watch your P*s and Q’s down ■>'
this neighborhood, young feQsK.
The Busters Is rough on new eops.-1 '
Jimmy took prtde In this positive'
element of danger. He glowed de
fiantly under It as a healthy man
might under a baleful sun. And'
he ts’ked to Rinty constantly—the
nervous, eager chatter of daredev-
llish youth.
“Look there, Rinty. Thersb a
bunch of hard ones. Rinds look as
though they’re waiting for ns. I
wonder If they belong to the Bust-
ers? Wish I knew all those rats
by sight. Maybe ru taka a chance '
and order them outside ot the dead
line anyhow. At Any rate, we ain’t
going to walk ont of their way.”
- (To be continued)
daring methods of smuggling liq
I Hood R lre r— High school ath-
uor Into this country.
lletlc field grading w ill cost >1,-
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