S M n JS. JSST - - TRE DÄIhY TIDIHGS EDITORIAL a n d FEATURE PÄGE - C. J. READ, MANAGING EDITOR ESTABLISHED IN 1876 W. H. PERKINS, NEWS EDITOR PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO. ___________________________________ _________________________ A S HLAND D A IL Ÿ T ID IN G S ----------------------------------------------------/ ,, , ----------- .... Entered at the Ashland, Oregon Postoffice aa Second Class M a il M atter. OUT OUR WAY Abraham Lincoln (An Acrostic) ’ Again a grateful nation, your natal day reveres, Beloved martyr. Let the great heart o f you Rejoice, for through all the passing years A flaming light o f patriotism your memory will renew » •» I Holding high the banner, your "patient hands un furled. A new democracy your gift, to bond, and freemen too— May our nation lead in righteousness, the vanguard of the world, £ By W illiams U961M MA-HA FOLD rfOMtROMCEf ER IS IT T w ic e r — KUH ? WO—iT HAPPOMO o u t in TB1 STREET— H u h » WHWtCOMElM HERE, T Fix IT -GO l OO q T K u H -P eefuv im Kt' s i b « e . ? , some vnimmin ’-B ot - uh -A’A- i dow T like . T' ast OOMT DARE - OH- o H- aajeul K teKl, FIRST v / a fold IT OORUERWAyS UH ? GET WHuTTOH^eTy U-HGME’ o h — J X-lO Reduced to an economic formula human life re mains a much more important asset to a community than all its material possessions, it is asserted by the insurance department of the chamber o f com merce of the United States. To support its state ment if cites the estimate of one of the countrie’s outstanding statisticians that the value of the lives of the country’% citizens, based on their future earning power, is more than $1,500,000,000,000. This would be five times as great as the nation’s material wealth, valued today at $350^000,000,000.. “ The United S tates,” says insurance depart ment in a bulletin announcing a program upon which it has embarked with the cooperation o f the com mittee on administrative practice of the American public health association to enlist chambers of com merce throughout the country in health conserva tion, “ sustains a tremendous economic loss each year due to sickness and death. The average citi zen is said to lose about seven days each year due to sickness which would correspond to a loss of two per cent in useful industrial or commercial pro ductivity. A s our national income is more than $60,000,000 a year, it is apparent that this loss alone totals considerably more than a billion dollars annually. Added to this is. the cost of medical and hospital service, which has l>een estimated to be at least $10 per capita, or more than $1,000,000,000 each year. Sickness in the United States therefore involves a direct cost of more than $2,000,000,000 annually. A curious illustration of the ego prevading our so-called statesmen at W ashington is to be found in the solemn manner in which they debate the use o f the radio for the transmission of political speeches. Ju st now they have under consideration an amendment to a lan d in g bill forbidding the use of the government station at Arlington as a political stump. “ To permit such 'use of it m ight establish a dangerous precedent,” says one serious senator. These statesmen seem never to have observed the opertion of a receiving set. If they had they would have ascertained that not more thuu oue speech in 50,000 delivered over the radio is listened to. TherefÖre they could shout over the Arlington station till they die of old age without making the slightest impression upon a nation busy listening to some other and more appealing program. I f we eould find out what they taste like, some of us imagine we might like winter strawberries. An earthquake lasting thirty seconds oecurred in Scotland last week, hut noliody loosened up, . * TF-IE s . o . s * The so-called Mexican war* scare . blew over so fast our popular composers didn’t have time to look through the old masters for a patriotic tune. “ It is expectod Washington will have the radio situation well in hand before the proposed 42-letter alphabet become* necessary to lal»el new stations. . /sn'f It Odd? A new town in Oklahoma has been named Bowlegs. It ■asms the Charleston hadn't toand Its wag out there yet. Naming towns for lags is a good idea, though. Phila delphia might be called F a ll en Arches, in memory of the Ssequi. Naw York eould be re- ehristened either Bootleg, or, in honor of the night clubs, Clubfoot. i Charleston, B. C., might ba renamed Knock-knees. Twenty - eight thousand bottles of Canadian b e e r ware seized in Florida. W ith Canada wet, it seems that boose is just hound to get over into the border states. Some of us are able to make ourselves plain— oth ers needn't try to hatter Na ture. Folks Would Turn The Dials BT JO H N M A B IX - Caretaker nt Crater Lake Lodge IB, 1«BB.'# Being considered a day of rest I took advantage of it and slept until eight o’clock. I t was* then too late to start back; so I wand ered around the town and count ed the dogs. I made it very well until two of them began to fight and then I became so interested in that action of the owners that I lost cquat. “P O ffJ j e u . £H B W I F f atarris^tasne RMxi £ % Bfltarmr Bree. U ___p tevrlatlon of this novel. ___ «tata, /» a» , «re a swift pain. L e tt M l" ” » < s m « te s . S m » —— - — . - - - the . --------- • >sw» P hesitate«, rto tito » n s ldta. dM v STS/SÄS« ,1 « ¿ ä under an injunction Msrty to walk quiet- to MOMS th« , bther red exit lights glowed ta the he thickly car- Jtamsy, enHsitap P»tod corrigera, ghostly auW gilm - ä ä « sst -S’*** ■— **• tata««« «f «ntahtap Atawr « re- shlp a t »Uh •tal» <Har» ta Beany's room. H e w Speedwell of it now; ‘ ‘ Let this Union be not sundered ’ ’—you gave the - calm command; Invoked your soul to strive, achieve, to suffer and he strong. Nobly you upheld the burden, aid D ivine upheld your hand, Cancelled strife and hate and righted, m ankind’s most grievous wrong. Oh needs not honor’s bronze or marble, nor a name in. Hall of Fame Like our F lag now proudly floating, o ’er one happy glorious laud Name of yours Immortal Lincoln, shall eternal reverence claim. —Em ily Loomis W aite. Life, The Greatest Asset Crater Lake In Winter Time. W hat this country needs is either block stockings or nog - splachlng automobile tires. W e wonld get more justice if judges wars not lawyers. Opportunity is worthless if you don't know what to do w ith it. The one thing that everybody can do is tell you how to cure n cold. Whan times are hard, a man's first stroke o f economy is to ent down his w ife’s allowance. D E N V E R — F ran k A lito, a fru it dealer, was bitten on the finger by a scorpion while handling banes. Know ing that such a bite proves fetal in a m ajority of cases, he deliberately cat the .fing er off at the first join t. Then he calmly went to a physician and had the wound dressed. He is back on the job, handling more bananas, only with more care. K IN G S L E Y , III. — An hour a fter she obtained an uncontented divorce, Mrs. Ethel Li. B arry remarried. The new husband, H arry Kuhn of Oakland, the first was H a rry Barrie of • L in coln, Neb. The word "m other” loses its reverence when you see a woman smoking cigarettes while nursing her babe. I t is best to have a couple of marines on hand when there are so many thous ands of those rough for eigners. Hez Heck says: “ Innocence don't git you much o* anywhere when you take it Into business. Today's definition: College — A place where young people go to study suicide. (B aker H erald ) "The Woman Pays.” Tell that to Chaplin and Brown ing. McA'doo says he Isn’t aiming at the presidency. That needn’t keep-him from going after the Democratic nomination, however. TURNING THE PAGE5 BACK ASHLAND ASHLAND 10 Yean Ago 20 Years Ago F. L. Johns of this city was a Charon Staples, who Is a stu business visitor to Medford this dent at the C alifornia State morning. University at Berkeley, has been spending a few day« at home. He will return to school la the near r N. W. Hawn of Boise, Idaho, future. Is In this city and Is being shown around by Mayor Johnson. He Miss Agnes Elene George, who has Mrs. Hawn with him, and has been having a siege w ith the they came hack to look Ashland measles, has gone to her home In over fcs a future home.' He has Jacksonville to recuperate. She been general caretaker of sup will have an indefinite vacation plies for all the Grand Masonic from her position with Deuel \n d lodges of the state of Idaho. Hubbs in this city. ‘ Mrs. James Archibald, after spending a week with her father, George Stevenson on Factory St., returned .to her home at Browns boro last Saturday evening. / ASH LAND 30 Years Ago W, W. Walters of the mining firm of W alter and Johnson, left Tuesday for a trip through the mining counties of California on business for some investors. Rev. J. 8. Smith of the M. E. church and Rev. O. W. Bieck of the Baptist church started today, for Los Angela« to represent the Southern Oregon Chautauqua As sociation In a meeting of the Pa cific coast general assembly. F. O. M cW illiam s of this city, was over to Jacksonville recently, where he let a contract fo r run ning a IS foot tunnel on the A. P. Ball has gone to Jose Gold Standard mine, toeated near phine county, expecting to go to Jacksonville. work In a sawmill at M erlin noon. I Monday, December 20, 1020 Breakfast was over at * seven and I shouldered my pack and started up the read, didn't any other way to travel. I got CHAPTER Xli - - - ------------------ The captain’s uatrlmmed soggee- »hlch «Upped her how« with gusty up the road about a mhe and I tUn, delivered in that drawling • » « * » whan they were tilted out of heard a Ford panting behind me. nnsai voice which bad been —nLipiZ | Gie black waters, am d Plunged her _ An early rising garage man had brittleness by many spumy winds deep on each trough dive. A light, aeea me pass by and went and whiped from many far ssas, brought squally rain combed her. an with awakened h(s Ford, by the sounds Banny's attention and hope slmul- the potato of a liquid raha, , , ^ b,ner'8 <* bla WM Ucked and Utaoneiy to the forefront again. it was making it didn't take to He thought it over, looking wide- lightless; bnt the low voice that the idea w ith pleasure. He eyed from one to another of hie re responded to Captain Marty's mnf- fled knock aad command to open landed me at the aaow line at flective compeaioa«. GUy Variek sought to spar and gave no hint that Ito o v w r had seven thirty, bid me good by and encourage hie decision: -W h y not, been sleeping, M erry Xmas aad was soon lost to Banny, old eonT W hat difference -Whom, and what, have I to makes the manner of catching, thank tor tke honor of this rather me in the fog down the road im f I admit that the hell, signal- -? n c o m m o n --rU ita tto n r I rubbed the frost o ff the skis, h lag his caddlshpeas to the world, I Abner, when the light " and stuck my toes In the straps wna a ripping s ta rt— if It had work turned on and the four men had en and started my seventeen mite ed to schedule. ueuina I t didn’t Yet tered and closed the door behind hike back to the rim . Teu never things have so happened that be them. Despite his effort to main- tain a hmsen, 1 front, his thin k of tke length of your jour yond a ll doubt you have the goods voice quaked and his face Eace wds on him I * Clay held np the piece ney, nt least you don’t let your c f doth, torn from Abner's eoat blanched. mind dwell upon It, If you do you aad added with an apologetic grin, ''"I want to aee your hlaser—the' ooat you wore during this evening." very likely turn around and go “No pan intended, of course." "Variek 1« right," put In Stivner, said Ranny ooldly, Ignoring his back. In the absence of mile almost gaily. Since his own affair qnendoas qaafftion. boards, deformed trees, rcyiks "Yon get to the devO oat of my room!" retorted Abaer. and hills, or, turns in the road Ranay, looking quickly around, become the mile posts. saw the blaser through a half-open They may not be placed exactly door of the wardrobe aad drew K o u t He held It aloft, while d a y at the end of the mile, but a few calmly measured the fragment of feet in seventeen miles is nothing cloth to ft. to quarrel about. These are the ^ T h « match was perfect, undenia- only markings along the road for • There was a serious glint in the the first three miles, and it is ta ta Of d a y , stivapr, aad Captain best to confine your thouglrts Msrty, While Banny’s face began to w ithin the lim its of the m ark ooler with • alow hat terribly «toaattamaage. ft passed and the next on ahead. Abaer, asbea aad desperate as he A t the South Entrance I called saw the dttlag aad realised that he the operator at the Fort to let was trapped, snatched the coat away from Ranay. her know that I was in the park "Get out ef here, all o f yea,- he and headed toward the Lodge. shrilled. “Stivner, what sort of The morning was crisp and the way Is tils to treat coe of your snow had a light-crust. There guests? Captain. I appeal to you as an officer to prob was a chance of it staying so till this Jealous tool’s susg after I had passed Anna Springs, “Them ain't any ta- the fog hanging low, almost to Abner was left alone with the volved. Those are just plumb i eight and storm. the tree tops. fa c to r drawled the captain. Abaer, beside himself, acted with ' I didn't hurry and I didn’t of the heart had been absolved the coaaiag lssttaot of a trapped linger. My stride. If I didn’t run from oempllcity he regarded the snlmaL W ith a swift aad unex Into sticky snow, would land me thing an no end of a lark. "I think pected motion he switched off the at the rim nine hours after I had the notion of giving somebody a light and made a break tor the door ride in a towed dory la a bully in the confusion. left the Fort. Tim s enough to one." Ranny, by now, had reached the punch the clock and take the AU the pent-up Stivner guffawed, then went on: boiling point weather. Had I known what was "It's the first red-blooded, hhlr- rages of months agslpst this man to happen to me a few hours la on-tbe-chest, stunt that Tve ever who had come between him end his known to he proposed in polite so wife, and who had so insolently ter I would have hurried a little. ciety. Reminds me of my lumber- flaunted his hold over her so that As I came to the Garden of the Jack flays, when a deceived hus aU the world knew Ranny’s uaea- Gods I sized up the north wall of band could trip his rival headfirst vlable status, erupted In a frenzied moment , the canyon. The sun was shining into the rotary saw, or drop a tree He lunged after Abner; collared en him, and no questions asked, now and snow balls that had the and gouging oat ayes was a mere him. form of jo lly rolls were pealing pleasantryI• When Captain Marty reswitched Captain Marty chuckled, and the lights it was to reveal Banny off the snow near the top. I thought of maay hardshelled porta. couldn't make it, the crust wai But M arty’s breed take their fun and Abner locked In a fighting, clawing, kicking elutek of savage out. I stopped out fast enough to quietly, with few words; so, while ry. Abner fought with the insane make three Julies an hopr,* to heartily in the spirit of frolic which rage born of deaperata tear; but he pervaded his bops, he merely oom- was child's play in the strong make up for the three added men Led : , hands of Ranny, who subdued him, miles. , “Taln’t that there’s real danger lifted him up bodily, and bore him I stopped at Anna Springs and about this. It ’s just a right smart out of the cabin, up the stairs, out made a cup of coffee and ate my way of showing a man up. Tossing lata the rain of the open deck end around behind the M il of this yacht, liinch. I tried to call Central but og a night that threatens to fresh along it toward« the atant Captain M arty hurried on ahead, something was wrong, I could en np tolerably, will give him the and under his directions two star hear her but I could not make best opportunity in the world to tled sailors loitered a dory. The captain was prankful, hut her hear my ring. I didn’t fool pine ever his sins. And I ’ll reckon it ’ll work np more than—aa—appe net a potential murderer. “Lash it with the phone long as I expect tite— in Bis Inners!" stoutly, mind you, men," he order ed snow some time before night Rsnny wan sold. AH he had need ed. " If It Broke away on at night The skis continued to go w ith ed to inspire renewed enthusiasm like this it would mean— death." tor his scheme to fix Aimer tor Screaming maledictions, Abner out a great deal of shoving bnt good and all, was the moral hack- was stowed la the boat, which was I kicked them a little just the tag of his companions. He had allowed to drift about twenty yards la the foamy wake— Just to the rim same, the sky was getting black that, obviously: "We’ll go to his cabin, confront of the circle of'light thrown by the In the southwest and the clouds him with this evidence, and 111 stern lantern— betore it was made were hurrying a little faster. wring the truth from his neek—” fast. - —end then the captain and I, by A t the last, la Clhr had pitched the I t was between the tw o u and virtue of our authority en the high box of dog og biscuits into the dory three mile signs that the trees be w ill hold k summary court- beside Abner. gan to moan and the first snow martial." 8tivner*s sens« of fun Then Abner was left alone with flakes of the storm fell, and I was effervescing, due pertly to his the alght add the «to m , in the dan sense o f fair play in the msa-and- gerously bobbing cork of a dory, slowed down, knowing that I was game, bnt mostly to the while the ya«ht forged drankenly1 too late. I stopped and rested, warming reaction of the many ooek- en through tumbling seas. "Have an eye to him once In a took a smoke and pnt on my coat tafis he had drunk at dinner, and and ..m ittens. I would need all highballs since then, during the so while,** Captain M arty softly w a rn -, cial evening. The full effect of this ed the watch. the strength I bad when I reach expensive inspiration had risen to Descending atone to his cabin _________ his head oa the exciting wtags'of after that, Ranny sdt tor perhaps ed the fla t below the Lodge. By the time I started on the ^ ' ’ ita s ^ th e ^ ’m time that his an-hour plunged in deep brooding— in morose reflections. Ho felt wind was coming In strong gnsts yacht had ever bean the scene of poignantly the emptiness of Joan’s from all directions, it was the o«>«r than the ordinary cabin. Even ta their most qnarrel- . . . I insipid, banal cruise. But here was sdme hours ha had always felt, back-lash, or swirls from Gar th» food' his strong, fundamentally heretofore, the comfort of knowing field. The trees were swaying atavistic »»tore craved. This wesk- she was physically near. The and great bunches of snow began ead Justified the hundred dull par knowledge had always carried its own promise and hope. that had goes before! to fa ll from their limbs and hit ties 7 "Somebody's going to ride tn the Perhaps h« had b«en bitter, asi the snow with so great a force dory!" he Insisted sententlously. nine, hasty. He would e«ek Joan that it made you think it wouldn’t -B might have been you, Forbes, it this vary minute, apologize, apd try be nice for one to mlas the snow w fl hadn’t come clean with me to reason out with her a bSais tor about Mrs. Clemoneau. But -It’s toooaclliatlon, tor a new start. and hit your head. bettor to «taka Gratmaa the goat. (Tq Ito oonttauad) When I came to Government Camp there was a temptation to •d, bo I headed into the fla t above to drifts of soft snow that almost shovel out the door of the rang put me on my ear, but my akls er cabin and spend the night the camp. The wind got a good were working flhe. They were there. But when would It quit? shot at me here. I t was almost M ight as well go on, I wasn't tlr- dark at time« and I would run in (Please Turn to ag e 6)