/»* f ? f ; TRE DflIUY TIDINGS EDITORIAL a n d pE ESTABLISHED IN 1876 G J. HEAD, ASHLAND D A IL Y T ID IN G S OUT OUR WAY Every day the news^pers are filled with dis­ patches of civil war in Nicaragua, United States interference to protect the lives of nationals of this and other nations, debate in the senate over the wisdom of onr Pan American policy. Unless we are up on our geography we know little or nothing of the small country oyer which there is so much ado. Being curious to know more of the little nation we took' the trouble to dig out the old geography and we leaned: “ Nicaragua, bounded by Honduras on the north and Costa Bica on the souUi, has an area of 49,200 square miles and a population, according to the last available figures, of 638,119. ’ The capital is Managua, a city of 60,342 souls, and the largest city is Leon,' with about 70,000. . Two mountain, ranges traverse the country. .On the plateaus life is fairly pleasant, but on the coast and in the lowlands it is altogether too hot. * “ The dry season runs from December to April and the rainy season from May to November in the western section of the country, but in the eastern part it rains all the year around. “ Nicaragua exports coffee, cabinet woods, rub­ ber, sugar, bananas, gold, silver and hides. She grows tobacco, eotton, cacao, maize and wheat. Her principal items of food are maize and beaus. “ Agriculture and mining are the chief indus­ tries. Ooxn is the principal crop, but most of it is eaten at horn?. Sugar production is greater than in any other Central American state. Coffee representa 27 per cent of total exports and sugar 22 per cent. Production of gold varies. It arose to a high mark of 20 per cent of the export total in 1915. “ The education system is not so bad. Free primary education is compulsory for children be­ tween the ages of 5 and 14. Facilities are good for free higher instruction.” , And that’s altout all there is to know of the country over which all the hullaballo has been Guantanamo in all worked up. With all the war­ ships going to Nicaragua, the convention bureau fears Cuba won’t get the maneuvers this"year. West Point cadets can smoke openly now. Their girl friends often were inconvenienoed when the boys bad no fags between dances. After coming within 40,000,000 mile« of the earth Mare ifi receding again. Rut the State De­ partment had better look out—you never can tell. The world*« moot truHting man has l>een found. He lost four $50 and two $20 bills on a New York street the other day and advertised for them. PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO. By Williams E M = M W ; î ’ m GLAD To S I B MOO AQrAiM ^TO O 1 ARE m V MOO O O m m û T b S u m OAW SCHOOL AWM teOOE. A prepared statement from Arnold , Bennett Hall, president of the University of Oregon just received today carries the rather startling informa­ tion that every Oregon student who attends this (great institution of learning is compelled to pay out in feès the sum of $109.46. This is a surprising and disappointing situation. A state owned school who finds it necessary during the years of advance­ ment to finance itself partly by assessing students* an inverted tuition, under the innocent and polite title of fees. *• , We who have been brought to look upon our state schools as being free to those who can present the necessary scholastic standing, wake ùp to find that onr boys and girts are compelled to pay in “ fees,” that which nearly amounts to the usual tuition charges of out-of-state schools. There is something radically wrong with onr general financial structure when we are unable to properly finance a state school from state funds assessed for that purpose, when we have to resort to charging foes for every conceivable purpose in order that onr school may keep up the high stand­ ard set by other institutions. Either the men who are Responsible for the finances of the state univer. sity are terribly short sighted in not protecting the students and Dad and Mother at home from this vicious system of having to dig up for that which should be financed by state wide taxation, or, the funds that can be raised for this purpose are so lim­ ited that they do not fullfill the mission for which they were intended. . Whatever may be the cause for such a situation, it is unjust and unfair, and will mean as the years go by that many boys and girls, who are rightfully entitled to a higher education will be barred because of the “ fee” system. Nicaragua W. H. PERKINS, news editor MANAGING EDITOR f — F t» — » ì BOYS ARE GUESTS OF SPONSORS 1 BuMneaa Session is Held After Dinner Meeting ^ GOOO GO«H GAMES. IF MA GOTTA SUCW HOUR MhUM1 SOCV< -fa ' oTneQ owe. J ( CA m -TMA SEE SUES Thirteen employed boy* ot the city M t down to a banquet siren by 6 . F. C anon and C. J. Read, sponsors of the 1 . I f. C. A* Em ­ ployed Boys’ d u b , In Pioneer hall last evening Everyone pres­ ent pronounced it the beet of the Beason, and a .rla ta s vote of thank* was voted thq sponsors. Other* , in attendance at the dlaaer «eve: Evas Campbell, E arl N utter. H ash OiUmore, Hs^ry May, Russell Herbert, Rus­ sel Frost. M elvin Kyner, Roland ' Parka, W illiam A n*tln, Oene O’Grady. Ted Caldwell, H a rry E l- hart, Vogel F ranklin and W . P. W alter. Prior to the dinner those present Indulged in boxing and hand ba}l, some fast matches be­ ing held In both event*. A short business session was held at which time a committee consisting of Evan Campbel), Hugh OiUmore and Roland Parks was oppolnted to provide for the meeting next week at which time L. H . Han­ sen w ill assume leadership of the club. Interest la growing In this club and it promises to be one of the live organisations In the city, according to those la charge. I )<3H am W haws whh \ f a ‘ OWE. SOLARE , The vast field was jnwetloa I « « A —4b- totted now as they slipped a jEris with poplar Itoed gravai .drtvewi W » . TU» ward thp taala road oateid • toara «te strange eoatraet to the vfvM . Fenge/W, of the attoraooo the totora be eideUara ■ e r/ A /fer lo t oostly eqalpage*. F ar across the tha Qato- (hare «eld. stasis Me ba She dusk ’ behind a land silhouetted against the after­ t trees to glow, grooms were leadtna the Ive dub’s tired Mftle polo ponies to hard earn­ ed west and onto to thefr distant kmdscftp* I stables. Only twe er. three ears raaaalneA I still parked. They belonged to iy k heart; those of the pteyera who lingered i bleakness jovially over' the “ninth" chukker Mllag tors, I In the clubhouse. Usually the life ot each a party, autetun of a n f Were Ranny would have been sorely out rapping to of place to there at preeeaA. Ha swung the big ear eat upon a of their the smooth concrete of the Jericho Turnpike and morosely headed > cityward, toto the dying Ught of the day. What Others Say D A N V IL L E , 111.,— A guest In the Crescent hotel was awakened by the thud of » ehoe on the flo o r above. He failed to hear the other shoe drop, apd sensing some­ thing wrong, he told the clerk. They broke Into the room aad found W illiam M lnn*ra, a painter, seated la a chair, daad. One shoe was still on his foot. EVANSTON, 111.,— Police­ man Henry W hite noticed that Mike H ick’s girth had increased since a year ’ ago aad remarked the tact. “ I t has aad It hasn’t,“ said Mike. “ How would you like a little drlnkT’’ He opened his overcoat, tapped a tiny faucet attached t * * metal cask about his waist and filled a glass. , “ I t ’s good moon and only two btta,** he told fleer. B at he had picked the wrong patron. BIGGLESWADE, AND Loafer: One whose chief per- plexty Is what to do between meals. Inventor: One who originates new things for other asea to get rich on. Hope:-A force* that keeps the sale of hair-restorers bust developers. Good Judgment: W aiting until a woman stops crying before deciding whst to do. Honesty: About the only thing left that can’t be produced cheap­ er by machinery. Eag., W ith one dissenting vote the board of guardians has agreed to engage a hair­ dresser to shingle the wom­ en Inmates of the local poor hones. Tha one objector H e i Heck says: “ A lia r can’t git much o’ anywhere without a good workin’knowledge o’ arith­ metic.’* Newberg— High school will Many ’ of the Inmates of the county ja il landed there because they werq seeking to escape hard work by soma method each «e boattagging. A few days’ hard work On •the cohnty roads may con­ vince them that perhaps, af­ ter all, they were mistaken to their calling.— Oregon Ob­ server. Eastern Oregon’s winter weather may be hard on the trial budget bat tbe enow it provides - promises a fatta* valley pocketbook next fall when harvests are over.— L a Grande Observer. That “good-will flig h t” of A m erica* svlatera to Central sad South America doesn’t appear to have engendered any alarm ing ameant at good w ill In Mexico or Nic­ aragua.— 8 t Helens Mlat. " The n o w mahea It si pery aad sloppy, but J think what R means next summer’s Irrigation. Ben Bulletin. McMinnville— Plans made built hold 10-weeks night farm school new creamery to , be here. *6 « ,» 1827 season. fo r for TURNING THE PAGES BACK ASHLAND ASHLAND ASHLAND Hargadine ft Woods, w h o Mrs. Susie L. Allen has nol Mrs. George Jenkins and Mrs. bought the Murphy Bros, meat been able to be In her real es­ Bella Boner Jeft this ijeek for m arket a short time ago, have tate office for the past week, be­ California. ing detained at home with Illness, shut up thetr shop or reported Wednesday that they would cloeo their business. The fresh meat M r. aad Mrs. M. E. H arrto Miss Blanche Logan la at home nod a stator of M r. Harris are in Ashland after an absence of on hand was sold to the other here from Gaselle, Siskiyou three years, the latter two of market, but Mr. Nell rays that county, aad w ill locate. The which she has been traveling the report that Pelton ft Nell Harris* hayw been residents of throughout the United 8tates bought oat th e ir business la or­ Gaselle tor over 36 years. and CaAada with the Baird the­ der to does the shop Is not atrical company, playing a lead­ trna. ing role and scoring a marked Granite from the Blair quarries success In the profession. sernth of Ashlaad is being coaetd- James Chisholm was at Med erad as * possible material for ford yesterday ob a business trip Mrs. O, D. Crandall has re­ construction of the new poet- turned from a visit with friends effiae in Portland. In Central Point aad Medford. John D. BockefeJler recently gave a Sunday school pupil o f 1865 a dime. Virtue has its reward Klamath eoaaty, whore , ho eventually. drive an auto stage. J. R. Toser and wife of Ash­ F. H. Carter has returned from land are vlsRlng with R. A. A l­ will a vacattoa of several weeks epeat ford and other friends to Klam­ on the coast. ath county. Cecil Grises left yesterday tor Rumor Has it That Soldiers Are Being Prepared *T appreciate yoop'coming with of sprlnr- de forever sour me, Clay, old rowdy, when you of ladlffer- might ju *t as well have stayed to there"—Indicating the clubhouse with n jerk ef hie thumb has* ever his shoulder—“with mors ehaeyfal company.” "Bother year appreciation, old son. I f there's anyone whs under­ stands yon it’s L Come, now, tell Paara doetatoa, lot herself go!" . » • M X paneed, wistfully contem- “ Beware' of false prophets, which come to yon In sheep’» .ptettog the space where Abner’e eeeentfal pattern — r - ^ f i Q l i T i’Mdeter had been narked, and the clothing, bat Inwardly they road Where patently lt had sped ty that She liked, (orhaae m*V* are ravening wolves. Ye shall iBWay With the precious freight of know then* J>y th e ir frnlto. ■ e etaanch affection. Ito men gather grapes • of ftroaeiRhr he continued: ttkorao, og, figs of thistles7“ M/tod. ft hurts to think of se M att. 7:JB, Id. flae a woman he Joan throwing her» In the final SRalyels we are aU to be known by the kind of fru it we yield. That man ’ o Æ aSh “ n w* r# • om* w°rih or that woman who is living while blighter who-had vamped a- double life need have no har, same chap with a t laagt oaa gr worry as to whothor they are g e ttln f away with It dr’ not; Confined to Hoaeo— they shaU ho graded la the Visitor Prom gathertand— final anatjeb by the fru itfu l­ Faal Mara of the Overlan V. H. Cornuit of Sutherland, ness of their lives, and such Shoe Shop on Main street, is con Ore., Is spending a few days la lives do not yield heavily for fined to his home on Granite 81. Ashlaad looking after ànsi»»« the Kingdom o f Oodi today with Illness.