* PAHHTWO SATURDAY, 4 THE DAILY TIDINGS EDITORIAL a n d FEATURE PAGE C. J. READ, A SH LA N D D A IL Y T ID IN G S The people who are interested in the develop­ ment of their Jiome towns are realizing more and more that one of the most important steps to pro­ gress is to make these* towns attractive to the eye. To obtain this quality of attractiveness calls for ageneral cooperation on the part of the people. No small group of persons can accomplish it alone. People must feel a desire that their community shall be on a Somewhat higher level than the aver­ age. , The business men must desire a neat and sub­ stantial appearance for the business eenter. Build­ ings that show lack of care, store windows that look behind the times, sidewalks that are out of repair, mar the appearance of iiich a town, and the busi­ ness men should insist that such conditions be im­ proved. Real estate people and builders' have much to do with the attractiveness of a town. If they put up dwellings in a cheap and unfinished way, leaving the ground of these new places in a rough condition when the houses are sold, these raw neighborhoods detract from the town’s attractiveness. But if such development is done smoothly and completely, with good looking streets and sidewalks and tree plant­ ing, then a fine touch of progress is given. The householders all have to contribute by the care given to their individual homes. Every owner should feel that it is up to him to contribute by keeping up his place, repairing all defects and constantly adding some new touch, of beauty. The home renter should not feel satisfied to let the place rnn down under his care, but should take pride in acting as if he belonged in the neighborhood. And then to add the final touch of attractiveness, well maintained park spaces are needed, which shall be made fine displays of trees and shrubbery. A town wliere these standards prevail has a secure and con­ stantly more prosperous future ahead of it. Playless Children A Boy’s Club speaker of Boston remarked that there are 60,000 boys of school age in that city whose living conditions deprive them of a boy’s nor­ mal chance for play. Also that the boy living in congested districts has three or four times as much chance to get into serious trouble, as on«? where normal activities for boys are possible. It seems amazing that a famous city like Boston will permit 60,000 of its hoys to come up without having normal chance for play. Activities for girls are needed just as much. But in most of the great cities conditions are the same, and in the majority of the smaller ones, there .is a failure to give the boys and girls a fair chance at the activities be­ longing to their age. When you coop children up in towns at u time when (heir nature calls them to do active things, you take a chance that something in them will ex­ plode and cause trouble, unless outlet for normal play is provided. The Steps of the Housewife The acerage housewife takes 20,000 steps daily, according to l)r. Lilyveld, director of the National Association for Foot Health. Some of these married women who are satisfied their vanity while doing housework, by wearing fancy shoes built for style rather than comfort, would better not that those 20,000 steps will mount up to about 7,000,000 in a year, not to speak of any they may take at the dances. If they want good fee tfo r the rest of their lives, they would better wear shoes that would make those millions of steps come easily. The human body is built ou the feet as a founda­ tion, and if people neglect or abuse them, they will lie much like the building whose foundation wall is giving away. Prince William of Sweden says America is slow in the air. Maybe in it, Prince, but certuiuly not with it! Boston police bunned nine books as indouenL-. The publishers are encouraged by tills auspicious be­ ginning. Maybe President Coolidge is beginning to be­ lieve that, after all, Mr. Greeley wasn’t so very far away from the truth. A Cleveland hairdresser offers a sli«in|>oo to person who finds her lost dog. Is that u re- S—or a warning! . X A WARGH M^BtLFr mm GOBH m a 'K i n SOU RuB 1W' OFF! OOSAIH in K MlNSTOiUS TAKES A h u u . b a ih JiE> c u i — N05N M A - U S S E N ^ t XNILU S A PROMI6E tKHQT T * RUB B O - Z J ' N H W . M Ö l H E . R S * G e T , G R A '* < PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO, NEWS EDITOR By Williams OUT OUR WAY / Attractivé Cities W. H. PERKINS, M ANAGING EDITOB f lU r NOT HAME- mou ) AbW CLEAN BED •irte. WAH v o u WAfeH MOJR&6XF) SfOU DARE i b ¿ jump o u r of t h is > 'TuB again a n o t u - M tN e m fc u u O tf s o u l I t u PROMISE < MOTRiNer! ... ¿V*1 J ’ lip q p M ÎP A R H H B fe S T Q j U fr B T ? moved to the Xdlth Cochran Apt. of troublesome polaoss that eanso the distressing ockoo. Mrs. Black Monday. Fred Cook returned to Tennant of Petersburg, V «., says: , “ Bo- Tuesday, where he Is driving a faro I took Poloy P ills diaretlc, I coaid not. stoop over nor raise truck tor Cliff Dunington. My. and Mn. V in t Wenegars- a * without great pain. Now BY JOHN MABIN er and daughter, Pansy* Mrs. since taking them I have none." Caretaker at Crater Lake Wenegarder’s mother, M n . Bart- Ask for Foley Pills diuretic. A let of Springfield, Colo., arrived prompt Improvement w ill amply T h n n d a y to visit their o l d repay you. Satisfaction guaran­ friends. M r. and Mrs. G. F. Ham ­ teed.— Sold everywhere. — No. f . ilton. »•. „ A * the Jackal* of the eosrt fol­ Mrs. M arlon Beeson has been low the king In all things of his substituting several weeks In the pleaure, so follows the coyote the Medford schools. Gray Phantom. Mr. and Mn. Fred Cook on« 'Tonight as I was out measuring nounce the arrive) of a 7 and one the snow at sundowh, I heard a half pound boy on March 18, to pack of them down on the flats, be called Freddie Lyman Cook. on the southwest side of the M r. and Mrs. H. McIntyre and m ountain.* I hurried to the top daughter, Rowenta, of Orants of the nearest h ill hoping to catch Pane spent the week-end at the C. sight of the Gray Phantom In the W. Long home. openings below. Qn reaching the M r. and Mn. Fred Brandt of top of the hill, I stopped and list­ Medford/ spent Sunday with M r. ened. The noise of the coyotes and M n . Marlon Tryer. varied w ith the rise and fa ll of M r. B. B. Cook of Klam ath the ’wind. I t was hard to tell Falls ‘ who has been home since Just the direction they were Tuesday returned to Klam ath takng, it was plain they were Falls Saturday. Lithia Springs Hotel traveling and not h av in g 'a con­ M r. M iller, who has a young Messantae Moor cert In some open glade as they pear orchard east of Talent moved Beauty Parlor sometimes do. For v t lm e I was to the J. Norris house Saturday to tempted to go down, then the be near his work. A PKBMA51WT WAVE thought came, “ I ’t-not your quar­ I f correctly administered, is an M r. and Mrs. Throckm artin of rel and the Phantom is well able Medford were callers at the L. O. Investment in good appearance that is well worth while. I t w ill to take care of himself. A t times Pealand ranch Sunday. Impart new loveliness to your the noise seemed to be drawing hair. nearer, then I happened to think; Now ig the time to receive HELPS A PAINFUL ACHING yonr wave for th a > /p rln g and I was on the ridge on which the BACK summer. A ll w orkyb done by an o fh y Phantom always traveled In Lumbago and a stiff, aching expert who has years of exper­ his going and coming, and a ience in permanent waving. creepy feeling raced up and down back suggest at ones the need of Phone ns now for an appoint­ my back. W hat If he should come a good diuretic to stimulate kid- ment. hey secretions and rid the system Phene 0 1 * Georgia Young this way? I looked over my Gboulder at the Lodge— it seemed s long way away. I stood my ground and watched the flats be­ low. Abont a quarter of a mile away, out across the fis t, came the Gray Phantom. His gate was part walk and part tro t; he wasn’t hurrying a bit; Sure of himself; every Inch of his gray coat, the HIGH QUALITY PAINTS IS ALWAYS robe of a forest king. The limp in ECONOMICAL his right hind leg was plainly visible, yet every movement was. a rhythm of grace. Whenever the coyotes came too close, he wonld simply pause and they would stop, sit down, point their noses at the sky and howl. ’ This was the noise that I heard. A few minntes and he pased from sight, the King and the jackals of his court. W o rk— Worked on lamps. W eather — Day clear; wind northeast; snowfall since last ob­ servation, 0.00 in.; precipitation, 0.00 in.; enow on ground, 151 in.; Tempi H. 2«, L. 18. R. 10, M. 21. Crater Lake In Winter Time For Best Results and Lowest Cost, use AND Your blade of the gay nineties used to pay court to his lady. Nowadays he pays the court costs and alimony — Alimony Is derived from the the pygmy, meaning “all the money” you can get— A Michigan man was too jeal­ ous to let his wife go out for groceries, she charged. Ev­ ery time she brought home a cucumber he saw green— A Chicago man commltteed suicide because his wife wouldn't believe him. But no general mobilization of the marines to stop a national wave of this sort is expected st this w riting.— The Chicago judge who has heard 22,000 divorces ought to conduct a column of boxing gossip for the Congressional Record— In some parts of Africa a man must k ill 5 Jaguars to m arry two wives — W hat’s that for practice? President Coolidge is re­ ported to have a slight sprain In bis right wrist. “Justice,” say the farmers. The general assembly in an eastern state is consider­ ing taxing amusements. If this is carried along further perhaps the various state leg­ islatures can be made to pay th e ir way. Love: Just one Sndthéf. quarrel after Blunder: The raw material out of which experience is manufact­ ured. Credit: Something the banks are glad to give those who don’t want It. Human Nature: The wall that prohibition has so far failed to climb over. Miracle: An event that must be at least 300 or 400 years old before anybody w ill believe it. Forty: The age at which scan­ dal is no longer any good to an actress as an advertising medium. Het Heck says: “After a man gits to be 40 his hardest job Is to keep his chest from alippln' down below his waistline." .rge mahog LONDON any colored cockroaches, bred at the soo as feod for the lizards and frogs, recent­ ly engaged In a th rillin g counter offensive against a. keeper. H e deelded they were m ultiplying at too rap­ id a rate, and set a bait to capture them. When he de­ scended into the sultry depths of the cellar, the cock­ roaches swarmed a ll over him. The keeper beat a hasty retreat. M O UNT VE R N O N , Iowa— Babies are coming bigger in Mount Vernon. M r. ", and Mrs. H olly Jester became the parents Wednesday of a 15 pound girl. The day be­ fore a 18 pound boy arrived a t the home of M r. and Mrs. Sam Chambliss. S. ft We HOUSE PAINT Gso. Trefren, C liff Payne and H. O. W olcott of Ashland called on Marlon Tryer Saturday. The Camp’F ire girls held their las meeting at the home of Mar« garett Higgsns. Mrs. Graham, a sister of H. S. Gleim, returned to her home la San Francisco, M ar. 17, after sev­ eral wedks’ visit at the Gleim home. Mrs. Genoway took the Botany class on a field trip Friday after­ noon. Mrs. G. W . Long was an Ash­ Medford — ; Owen-Oregon saw­ mills, being doubled In capacity, land visitor Wednesday a. m. Mr. B. E. Evans attended the w ill pay 81,000,000 a yeak In School Masters Club held la Med- wages. fqrd Saturday. C lifford and Truas Smart o f Goldendale, W n., arrived Monday by motor for a visit at the home of J. Hubbart. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Homes W A U K E S H A , Wls.,— The postal law which requires m ail men to confiscate any­ thing fouad ln rural mall boxes except those things which went through the post­ al department w ill be enforc­ ed In Waukesha. Bread, m ilk, eggs, butter, handbills and automobile parts have been found in these boxes. • .('jBItiBVTIHHBIS TURNING THE PAGES BACK ASHLAND ASHLAND A SH LA N D 10 Years Ago 20 Years Ago 30 Years Ago Even then, you couldn’t hire Dobbin for less than $ 2 .5 0 a day — say 25 cents an hour. Yet an hour's work for an electric motor using one horsepower o f electricity usually costs only 7 or 8 cents. Most household appliances use tiny motors o f only i / io or 1/8 o f a horsepower. You can run them hours for seven or eight cents. - And they are faster than Old Dobbin ever dreamed o f being, when he wa$ a colt. « K . J. Hicks started his teamp C. B. Kingsbury, of the Barron precinct, was In Ashland the last today at hauling ore from the of the week. He Is just now re­ Ashland mine to the m ill. covering from an Injury to his hip two months ago when he was severely kicked by a horse. J. W . Kinney, brother of A. E. Kinney of the hardware store, was driving a cart down the h ill Mrs. Homer Billings returned in front of C. H. Veghte’s resi­ recently from a ten weeks’ visit d u e « Wednesday evening when Mrs. M. F. Eggleston and with ralaUves In Leon, Iowa. hie horse stopped upon a loose daughter. Miss Ruby Palmer, left stone that rolled and caused him Saturday tor Newport and will to plunge desperately in order to spend the summer there. avoid a fall. M r. Kinney was not E. M. Fowler, partner of O. F. seriously hart. Carson. Is here from British Co­ lumbia and brought with him his sister. Dr. Lillian Fowler. Among the recent «arrivals in f , c. Tolman, Jr., is having Ashland were Charles Moore and family. Mr. Moore resided here some prospect work done Upon the Prof. Irv la s Vining and 30 years ago and farmed the wells coal claims located by his father Phillips returned Monday ranch south of this city for sever­ a year or two ago down near the nlng from the oast. Rogue river. > al seasons. M r. and Mrs. W illiam Myer and daughter Bernice, Judge C. C. Gall and Miss Edith Moody visited w ith the Hodges fam ily at Gold H ill Sunday. / Remember how they used to hitch Old Dobbin to a windlass and drive him 'round and 'round— lifting hay and doing heavy chores? SPECIAL Johnson Electric Washing Machine Guaranteed A-l Shape XL ELECTRIC Station GUY GOOD Phone 82 Official R. 0. A- Station . Electricity is the cheapest service you can buy. THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY