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ASHLAND, OREGON,
POPULATION INCREASES
Oonnty Seat to
is Mow up to
SALEM , Jan. 21.— A house
bill by Briggs of Ashland author
ising the removal of the county
seat from Jacksonville to Med
ford, Is now in the senate for eon-
Le&der» A re Busy T rying to sldertaion. Two bills by Briggs
passed the house today, one au
S ell Themselves to
thorising the regents of the State
Possible Soldiers
Normal school to sell certain
lands in Jackson county, and the
FIE L D IS COMPETITIVE
other relating to provisions of
Competition is so Keen That initiative and referendum rights
of people In various counties.
Many Blighting Remarks Are
Made About Men
Request Resignation
SALEM , Ore., Jan. 81.— Sena
tor Joseph introduced a resolution
W ASHING TO N, Jan.
31.— A
In the senate today asking Sena-1 I crisis
has been reached in prohlbi-
tor Norblad to resign as chair-1 Itlo n enforcement Secretary of the
mah of the fish investigating com Treasury Andrews said today. The
mittee because of alleged disqual entire situation has been put up
ifications.
to congress and It Is up to that
He said that Norblad had body to go ahead.
served as an attorney and <n of-1
He said tbs passage of the re
ficial of a packing concern and I
organisation
bill was necessary Id
was hampering the probe by his I
refusal to call certain witnesses I putting the prohibition unit under
one bead, and the medicinal whis
that were requested by Repre key b ill was necessary to prevent
sentative Mott.
Both * Norblad I
bootleggers from connterfletlng
and M o tt are from Clatsop conn- standard brands and at the same
time assure a pure supply fo r
medicinal purposes.
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P E K IN G , Jan.
31.— (U P )—
Slogans have come In fashion ev
en In supposedly backward China,
and every Chinese leader is bus
ily trying to "sell himself" by the
most approved advertising meth
ods.
t
In such a keenly competitive
field. It is not surprising t h a t
cruel remarks are frequently to
be heard concerning * the quality
of the goods back of the various
high sounding labels. -»
W n Pel-fu, strong backer of the
last official president of this now
headless republic, was a m ilitary
man first, last and all the. time in
spite of his thorough and classi
cal education, and his slogan was
"Forcible
Unification."
H e
preached the gospel of pulling the
country together whether It rel
ished the experience or not, and Unmasked Bandits Success
he ruined a good many (honeands
fn l in Robbery at Moon
of dollars worth of railways In
Today
charging to and fro In knightly
fashion. His slogan still
rings
out in somewhat diminished tones
from time to time, bnt W n him
self is definitely eclipsed.
Chang Tso-lln, known as "the
W arlord o f Mnkdsn," for a long
time contented himself w ith this
title as expression of his. ideas.
He has. been a feudal warlord.
Now', liowsvsr, be" finds h itastlf ’
called on to enter the. propaganda
battle and he is acquitting himself i
nobly.
1
"Smash the Bads" m ight
be I
taken as the keynote of the 1
-Chang Tso-lln sales*talk.
Like I
many other good folk in the 1
worid, Chang’s idea of a Red is i
a man on the other side. Chang I
knows what the Russians are, bp- -
cause he is always in trouble with I
them over the Chinese Eastern I
Railway issue In the northern
part of his domains, he also I
knows that Canton has Russian (
advisors this, coupled w ith the •
fact that the Cantonese are j
against him, Is quite enough. Fine ;
points of communism, socialism, ,
Bolshevism, Chinese Nationalism, I
are all wasted on Chang, and '
quite rightly so from his view- £
point because he Is out to win ,
and, like any other advertiser, he r
wants his goods to sell better than 5
the other chap’s.
a
Chang’s latest evidence of his c
growing appreciation of the value
of a good label la in his christen- j,
ing of the united Northern army v
as the "Aankwochun," or Paaclfl- n
cation-of-the-County-Arfay, a title
patently patterned after Feng Yu- u
halang’s catchy "Knomlachun”
or People’s Army.
«1 f
W hen,Feng Yu-hsjang became p
known as "the Christian Gener- ,
a l” he achieved the best stroke o
of publicity of his career. That j<
title brought a rather obsenre man e
clear out into the lim elight before
8. Using fractions of kerosene
his time, and when Feng’s sensa In motor fuel.
tional coup was staged by which
4. Using Diene engines to re
he turned against his erstwhile place those in service today.
chief W n Pel-fu and captured
The professor said the amount
Peking behind W n ’s back, he had of gasoline obtained from the
already, largely through mission crude nt present was three times
ary aid, established a world repu as great as 60 years ago, and
tation.
could be doubled if necessary.
Now, curiously enough, Feng
" It to practicable to obtain some
appears definitely to have turned many cracking stocks gasoline
against the missionaries who «era yields of 40 to 70 per cent,” he
formerly his friends. Apparently said, "and there to no question
he retains his own special brand hot what gasoline yield from the
of Christianity bnt he says that crude can be increased to a point
It requires no .Russian aid to fa r above its present value the
show him that the Christian moment It Is economically advis
church Is on the side of capital able to do so."
ism, while he desires to throw la
his lot with the Cantonesd on, the
INVEBTIGATE CONTRACT
side of Chinese equality; national
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.— The
ism and freedom from the foreign senate today authorised the In
'Feng always has been a grezt
user of slogans, which he paints
on buildings and walls wherever
he goes. Hto mea usually display
(Please Tarn to Pago 3)
W ASHINGTON. Jen. 81.—
The total population estimate
of the United States for July 1,
1927, was elven by the United
States Census bureau today as
118,828,000. The estimate for
January first 1920, was 108,-
710,082. The Oregon popula
te n for July flyst, 1927, was es
timated at 890,000, as compar
ed with 783,2899, January at,
1920.
Ten I f en Are
Annual
Pear T hat Mew T ears’ Cele
bration W ill be D is- *
astrous One
Report on the P ast Tears
Activities WU1 Be
Presented
AMERICAN
OUTLINE
A R RESTED
Jananese Are M odeling In
dustrial A ctivities After
America
NEW
PLA N S
Li thin Water and Other Matters
of Importance Will he
Discussed
Newspapers recently carried an
SHANt
•’
BY J. H. F U LL E R ,
( Interesting Interview with H arry sands of
The Forum for Tuesday noon
Beach of the Japan Advertiser, a the Impel
L will give the Park Board oppor-
, former Ashland boy, who has fore th<
f tunlty to present their report
( spent some time In that country, Soqth Cl
for the past year, to outline plans
( and who gave first hand informs- the celeb
for the year and to discuss such
( tion, as to the standing enjoyed Year mig
1 matters as the Llthla waters and
by Americans in Japan. The In- foreign d
e other items of Interest.
terview as It appeared In a Port-
Kent 7
Among Jackson County people
! land paper was as follows: *
the Amer
noted at Salem the past week
"Although the Americans are neae Cou
8 were Judge C. M. Thomas, Coun-
the smallest percentage of white British w
1 ty Assessor J. B. Coleman, and
population in Japan, , they are failure tc
Prof. G. A. Briscoe.
| highest In favor among the Jap- hours lai
A disposition to deal fairly
anese and Japan is modeling her ducted 1
’ with the educational Institutions
Industrial, civic and commercial Francis 2
1 of the state was shown by the
life along American lines,” says the same
' Ways and Means Committee in
Coach W a lter Hughes o f th»
Normal school has given h iJje Harry Beach of the Japan Adver- before th
' granting the maintenance neces-
tiser, who was in Portland Thurs- and thres
* sltles of these nstltutions for the
charges some extra
intensive
day visiting his brothers, A. Y. The insia
f biennium of 1927-28. The Ash-
training, because he is doubly
* land Normal School will be en
anxious to score a victory over the Beach, In the assessor’s office, American
and F. W . Beach of the North- leased ha
Medford hoys and thus even up a
abled to add two instructors to
nnavaillm
few old scores from the days west Hotel News.
the faculty, to landscape and lm .
Beach htoi Juet returned from said to hi
when
he
coached
the
local
W
O
J
prove
the grounds and carry on
Educational E xpogitioa W ill
six months In Japan for the £ d - per’s supi
school teem.
, the program so ably Inaugrated
be H eld a t Corvallis
cause.
Phoenix high school w ill play vertlsek.
and administered by President
N ext Month
"A ll of the Japanese animosity .
’ Churchill up to the present. I t
the Normal second teem in A
toward Americans 19, so far as I
HONG
The prelim
; Is to be hoped that sufficient
O R E G O N A G R IC U LT U R A L prelim inary game.
could
ascertain,
ehiefly
newspaper
Chinese
revenue w ill be obtained so that
COLLEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 31.— inary w ill start at 7:30 and th *
Representatives
from
Ashland main game w ill start immediately animosity, Just as much of the an- steamer
, the building program may be
tl-Japaneae expression over here Honk Koi
continued, and a dormitory for
high shcool have been Invited to thereafter.
is newspaper propaganda rather help statl
' girls and a gymnasium with audi
attend the fourth annual Educa
than an expression of the real ing folio'
torium may also be constructed
tional exposition at O. A. C. Feb
popular attitude.
meagre si
ruary 18. 19 and 20. The expo
at the earliest possible date.
“ I t Is the British'who are most the maste
sition is Intended to give educa
During the past week President
hate*. In Jtapan^ JaLphon^s they sengers hi
tional guidance to high school
Kerr
of the Oregon Agricultural
And out t in t yon are not British. 1 pirates n<
students planning to eater insti
1 College and Dr. Hall of the State
then you are "ace high” with elgn vesse
tutions of higher learning.
University were seen frequently
them.
aid.
I The college proposes to atlmu- <
at the Capital. The University Is
—
Comes ,1 "J | a n i i rebuilding from
I late btudent thinking to the end
asking tor a library and hospital
thA eaktttRuake In American style, t r a f f ic SIGNALS GIVEN
rthat more careful, consideration I
Pay is Made Upon Basis of building.
but
It,
w
ill
take
10
years
to
ob-
'
I w ill 'he given the selection of 4 I
The Tenants W eekly
A t the Crescent City Harbor
PROMINENT PLACE
literate the marks of that grant
Loonrse which the student plans
Pay
Bill
celebration in Grants Pass
At the entrances to their exhib
Ito pursue than would otherwise J i Today Is tbe;-beglnaing of the catastrophe. So closely are th?
last Friday night we were much
second, semester la the Ashland Japanese
following
American it in the Eleventh Annual Pacific
MOSCOW, (U P ) — In Russia
I be the case. Through lectures. I
[ tfubyft schools ;|nd according to .Methods that everybody Is study Automobile Show In the Exposi I rooms are rented by the yard and gratified at the large representa
I demonstrations, exhibit« a n d I
tion from Ashland.
The occas
fdsprge A. Riiseoe, superintend
I round table discussions the expo-1 ed* ,ef publle instruction ,n this in g English, and within 20 years tion Auditorium, San Francisco, I paid for on the basis of a ten- ion was truly noteworthy and Is
I sitlon plans to indicate in a def-1 idlty. there is an Increase fn the it w ill be spoken freely a 1 1 the California State Automobile I ant's weekly wage., Bolshevism the realisation of a dream of
Association la using two of Mrs. (has evolved a rent law unparal- years, which will mean much to
u nite way the w o rk .to which a I | re tiflra tlo p e of-About 60 students through the Japanese empire.”
Everything In Japan at present V. Phillips Carter’s traffic sig I leled anywhere else.
curriculum leads.
!
all this section. A big map over
J. R. Jewell, dean of the school I dvar.thoae of- (hat semester.
Is at a standstill because of the nals to attract attention to their 1 The Commissar of Health es the state at the jubilee meeting
Tbp. majority? o f these students death of the mikado. Beach said. exhibit.
tablished a minimum space nec
of education at the University o ff
showed a railroad starting from
are enrolled • in the first
six
Mrs. Carter Is the daughter of essary for a wholesome life for
Arkansas, has been obtained as
“ The careful and universal ob-
Crescent City and running via
<rddea w ith only a few in the
Mrs. L. A. Phillips of East Mate one person. This Is called the
the principal speaker.
H ig h
Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland
high school.. • r
.
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street .Ashland.
"minimum norm." Anjr worker
school Instructors w ill meet w ith [
and Klamath Falls, due east to
is entitled to this living space, and "Chicago, a very wisely drawn map
Dean Jewell to discuss special
pays for It In proportion to his and to us a perfectly satlsfhctory
problems such as the Platoon I
salary.
School system. Conferences for 1
routs. When that day comes the
When two or more persons live
men students w ill be,held In the I
Rogue River Valley will attract
together, all earning money, the people who never even hear of It
different schools. Women s tu -|
rate of rent for their room Is now.
dents w ill m eet'in small groups!
fixed by the largest salary earned
with successful women graduated
We note the old livery barn on
by one of Its Inhabitants. This
from O. A. C.
the property recently purchased
makes the "nepmen," or private with tip Root fund Is being rapid
Every school on the campus
bnslnesa men, extremely nnpopn- ly wrecked. Next the bungalow
will be' open for Inspection. There
las as tenants, because It drives
w ill be displays ot work, activi
will go. W hat a splendid place
up the rent of all In their apart for an out-door stadium with an
ties and accomplishments of stu
ments to the higher level of their annual musical ev^nt calculated
dents ' In the different courses.
Incomes-
The small group conferences w ith
to draw from a large area. W ith
But the "nepmen" are popular the co-operatiop of the Normal
professors in the departments In I
among cooperative house-building School this could be a real ao-
which the students are most In
organisations, of which there are complishment for coming sum
terested are expected to guide
now 460 In Moscow. To make mers.
them In the selection of courses
both ends meet on the small pay
to which they are best fitted.
ment of 860 reqnired-of members
Representatives w ill be enter
of cooperatives, one-tenth of the
tained while on the campus by
available living space in coopera
fraternities and dubs.
Special
tive houses usually is sold or
entertainments have been arrang
rented to non-members. Natural
ed for that week-end. A horse
ly, "nepmen" are preferred be
show, athletic events, and con
The high school
basketball
cause, compared to others, they
certs are Intended to entertain be
team got hold of a T arta r Satur
have
such
a
large
amount
of
tween the more serious events.
day night when they met defeat
money.
*
at the hands of the ML Shasta
Besides what they can get from
Basketeers by a score of 38 to 81.
the "nepmen," the housing coop
The game wps fast, with the vis
eratives are assisted by state
itors taking an early lead and
funds, which are generally loaned
maintaining R throughout the
to them at two per cent Interest,
game. The locals seamed to lack
with repayment
In
forty-five
their usual team work aad ac
[ W ith the Pickwick stages mak
years.
curate basket shooting which has
ing the Ashland hotel their Ash
The "minimum aorm " official
characterised their victories here
land headquarters, all of the stags
ly declared able to support one
tofore this season. The Mt. Shasta
lines now have q central stopping
life In good condition is fixed at
team presented a brand o f basket
place. The hotel to la 4 position
about seven by seven feet, which
ball that to rare oa a high school
to furnish -Information as to
can under certain conditions he
floor
with accurate sbootlag and
schedules, rates, aad other stage
Increased to about tea by ten
exceptional team work.
transportation Information, which
feet. Many concessions and ex
The second team of the high
greatly facilitate« matters locally
ceptions are made, such as for
school defeated the H t Y Tuptor
Insofar as this means of travel laj
students, whose rent Is only five
ed boys la a fast game by f score
concerned.
;
cents per month for. each “mini
of 18 to IS.
mum aorm " they occupy.
The Why of the Squawk of the South
Mt. Shasta Winner
In a Close Game
Stages Now Have
. A Central Depot
vestigation by the public lands
committee, of the contract be
tween forestry officials and Fred
Oregon exports for third quar
H errick of 8t. Marios, Idaho, for
the purchase of eight hundred and ter of 1986 wore worth 938,-
ninety m illion feet of timber Ip 378,876, 810,118,866 mors than
for same period in 1666. - — —
Grant county, Oregon. r . - - ‘
Contrai Point — West Coast
Clap Products Company Iscorpor
•tea w iy p 946,600 capital.