MW UBI ■ Muff THE DAILY TIDINGS EDITORIAL an d FEATURE PAGE PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO. C. J. R E A D , MANAGING EDITOR A SH LA N D D A IL Y T ID IN G S That Count On April 23, Clarence Darrow, the devil’s ad- vooate, and Wayne B. Wheeler, guiding genius of the Anti-8aloon league, propose to have it out in a public debate on prohibition. About all that can poeaibly result from this forsenic tilt, as we view it, is the addition of some thirty or forty thousand words to the 4,437,378,999 words already uttered, pro and oon- on the same subject Some of the more optimistic exponents of the cup that need to cheer have gone so far aa to pre dict that Mr. Darrow, being one of the biggest argu mentative gone now inhabiting the republic, will make Mr. Wheeler look like a poor fish, which, we * suppose, means a fish out of water—■ or, in other words, a dry fish. And, of course, if Mr. Wheeler is any kind of a fish—whioh by no means has been - proven, he is undoubtedly a dry one. But a man must have more than argument to make any material headway on a subject such as that under discussion. Any good Jeffersonian Demo crat will tell you that arguments don’t-elect presi dents, for instance. If they did, the Democrat will say- the Republican presidential dynasty would have i ended with Abraham Lincoln. Argument is a power ful weapon, potentially, but votes are the things that count. So it doesn’t make any difference whether Mr. Wheeler has the argument or whether he hasn’t— he has the votes, and votes, friends and fellow citi zens, not only made this country theoretically dry, but are keeping it so. By Williams OUT OUR WAY r a x on movm - stbp RM3HÎOPHERÇÎ O O - iF X HAP( a SACK OP -IhlS HULL B u GKW - r * * /o o ~ ò o -M o o k o o ô o v ü < 1 J l« 6 WANNA AST S A OME. QoesfoN FiRS A N Ä N H R M e M CS,6ft N O ~ r s ALL X A S T . ARB v a G onna pinch It is an interesting picture of the billionaire genius of motorffom which ifl disclosed by publicity given the accident in which Henry Ford suffered grave injury- escaping death only by that inexplic able fortuity which protects some motoriste and doesn’t others. It Is the picture of a p a n whose movements are mote or less shrouded in mystery, who co u r ts seclusion and yet who has been able to and has run around Detroit ana its environs in one« of the little can of his own manufacture unattended and unnoticed—a genius in concealment who dodges an annoying public curiosity by the very simplicity employed in his coming and going. The obvious appositeness of the casualty strikes one at once. When the greatest motor car manu factured: on earth suffers an accident such, as occurs daily on the public highway somewhere, the hand of fate seems to be in it. Although Detroit seemed determined to make an attempted assassination mys tery out of it, the natural presumption that it was an accident seems to prevail.^ . ' - NOSE ? 7 » s s X . ANSWER m e W i STÄRE MADE Character Training The question is discussed as to whose business it is to build people’s character. Educators would probably say it was primarily the business of sohools Z and colleges to impart information, and to teach thorough methods of work, while producing charact er is th. ebusiness of homes and churches. Meanwhile many of the homes pass tl^e buck to the churches and Sunday schools for character building, and these institutions have no legal con trol over children. If the American jieople want their children to come np straight, they have got to do most of the work of training them themselves. Leisure and Wealth The president of Colgate university thinks the revolt of youth from the old 'standards is due to leisure and wealth. <¥et there were always a l°t of them who were loafing around aimlessly. Their student activities keep them out of much mischief now. . • " J Increased prosperity is a force that does not pro mote the most steady going habits. With the family automobile standing in the garage, youth is offered a constant incentive to sporting life. But probably the reason why youth breaks loose, is not so much larger opportunities, as that the older folks have already given up trying to regulate them. A b soon as woman got her rights she began exercising them by wearing her dresses half way np to her waist. - ___ • In comparison with the old days some of the modern youth of twenty have already lived a hun dred. Ham is too high now to call a cheap actor one. Will the next campaign slogan be “ He kepi tig w st of China!’’ i iTAaf OlAersSay ATLANTIC CITY — B oys and girls of the jass period have brains notwithstanding bell bottomed trouser» and short skirts. R . M . West of the University of Minnesota, here for the meeting of ¿the American Association of Col lege Registrars, notes that students of today make at least as good marks as their predecessors and seem to suc ceed after leaving college. P H IL A D E L P H IA — Mrs. Rosd Btrken o f New Y ork has so many diamond she needs a bookkeeper to count ’em. She so testified in a suit which resulted in a verdict for |I7 B against her in favor* of Mrs. M argaret Hoffman. They were both ac quaintances of H erbert Stan ley, alias “Lord Beaver brook** who is serving time for swindling women of N E W YO R K — Edwhrd Jobaaon of Fuelph, Oont., is in Caruso’» shoe», literally and figuratively. Already hailed by John McCormack a» the greatest tenor of the day, Johnson appeared in a M etro politan p e r f o r m a n c e of “ A ida” wearing Caruso’s cos tumes— a g ift from tbe w i dow as a tribute to the are of her husband's successor. AND The Eugene Ouard thinks that prohibition Is a failure WeU, the saloon business was not an unmitigated success, a u i o s e s * The appetite runa when run in low gear. smoothest if anyone should ask yen. I t the dry regime has brought a£out an Improvement, w k g i olase It as a failu re even though It may have defects? Doing tbe right thing * is easy If there Is a nice profit in it * The reason history repeats it self is because human nature re peats too. The mistakes of enemies often save us from making the same mistakes ourselves. Todays* Suggestion: Suppose we try to devote the remaining space on earth to more babies rather than to more flivvers. A fter buying aomethlng expen- elvs, how forgetful most ot ua are about removing the price tag! Hes Heck says: “When the boat upsets, God le on the side o' the beat swimmer” «. Pendlrtoq — U m atilla County poor farm leased for private op eration. Grater Lake In Winter Time B Y JO H N M A B IN Caretaker a t Crater Lake ’ n -T wist ' n S qubezb Henry Ford’s Accident (M H Z STRATTONPORTSR'S Some people say democracy is a’ failu re, and they have facts to ge on. B u t what are "wTgoing to do about It— set up a king an£ a tot of Indo lent flunkies to rule ovflr ns? I f prohibition Is a failure, It is strange that the general ru n of people look better and dress better than they did 10 years ago. Men who for m erly cashed their p ar cheeks In saloons , don’t do th a t new. There la more money fo r groceries, cloth ing, for Installm ent payments «h automobiles aad naw fu r niture. Our universities aad colleges have twice the num ber o f students they had when national prohibition went Into effect. I f prohibition la considered a failure because the law Is not fu lly observed, - then what of the nareotle laws, the traffic laws and laws against stealing? There is considerable hank robbing, but 1» th a t any argu m en t why wo should make i t legal to rob a bank?— Pendleton East Oregonian! ASHLAND 10 Years Ago 20 Years Ago W . R. Yoekey & Co., report the Mrs. Charles Harrison and daughter of Dunsmuir are spend following sales fa r tbe past three ing s few days w ith the Ruger weeks; M r. Presley’s place on Helman street to M r. and Mrs. fam ily. Root of Washington; house and Lloyd Casebeer leaves this week lot of O. 8. B utler on Granite to r Taeocm, A rls., where he w ill Mr. and Mrs. Thompson of South fee iip work In the university Dakota; lot of Mrs. Rdper, fron t ing on M ain street, to Mrs. A. D. Helms; 10 acres of A. E. Im bler, adjoining the city to E. B. H u n t. 0 . 8. Butler and Atorney E. D. Briggs were at the court house In Jacksonville Saturday on business. E arl Jackson has accepted a po sition as clerk in Thornton and A rare incident happened the H ild reth ’s store. other day when C. W . Nims had to hire a plumber to disconnect his water pipes to extract a five Mrs. M. A. Barron returned inch trout from behind the water home yesterday from a short visit tap Inlet. . among Medford relatives. Wednesday, March • , 1 M 7 I have been wondering about the bears. About this tim e of year I am forever looking upon the side o f Garfield for tbe tracks of my friends. I know It Is early* in tbe season for them to come to the haunts of man, but there is the changing In their habits due to the contact w ith mankind. The days sts growing longer, the wind tempered, and when the smile of Liao is abroad in* the land, i t ereatest a restless feeling w ithin man and beast alike. I know that over there In 8un Creels Canyon there is now life, life that lo r the firs t tim e is look ing on a world of white. There it a gathering ef moss, a cutting of green branches, a padding and mauling of snow on the sunny lee side of the drifts. There are tiny weak whines, little weak coughs expressing likes and , dislikes, mingled w ith the grunts of com mands to be still. You and I have something to worry ourselves about. W h at are we going to call Jeff and Brownie when they come to ask our opin ion, e f their babies? As soon as her babies are old enough to climb a tree, Jeff w ill head for Qovt. Camp. I f she doesn’t find anyon'e there she w ill come up here. Then there is Muggens and Jlmlma w ill have a new fam ily this year. I expeet Hans as soon as the snow is crusted enough for her to walk on, for yon know she ASHLAND had a fam ily of three last year and w ill have to start rustling early. W ork— W orked ia basement, shoveled snow, worked on lamps. O. T k Brawn, of thia precinct, W eather — Day elondy; wind haa been looking a fter hie inter soathwset; snowfall since last ob- ests in K lam ath county the past servatioa, 1.1 in.; precipitation, week. .11 |a<; n o w on ground, 117 In.; Temp. M. >fl, L. I t , R. 7. M . l f l . l . Mrs. Jos. Robinson .and daugh ter departed yesterday for Red ding, Cal., where M r. Robinson now la and where they expect to iqeate. ' Miss M ary Jacobs spent Sunday at her home In Central Point, to attend the 'Jacohe-Morriss wed ding there yesterday. Judge Frank W illiam « and wife toft oa Moedey ■ eveaiag’s train te r Portland, « Copyrighted, 1 H 7 . Gene Stratton-Porter, Inc Copyrighted, l# 2 i-2 7 , by the McCall Co. by courtesy o f F ilm Booking Office* o f America ram the feraene photoplay. ‘‘The Magic Garden Teeaday. March S, 1SS7 boaprp tor seeseene to toe* bar. Mi I wonder what la wrong w ith ffs AmartfUs Jffafea raas msay my anew pole. Skell is doing his Aram X ebeafsar la «nest e / »op- beat to cover It up, Last month pktese. flbe meet« a bep la a per- flea, mbs ptapii tbe rtoMe bee««- he caste very near It— only missed ZeUp. fflc aeeM Is Joka Gvido it about eighteen Inches. Liao Forrester, Ms te tte r Is a painter, packed the snow down around .lt and Ms eio tter, asm dead, wo* a /amoas «taper. John Galdo hope« until the top waa about th irty in to do «M b Ms eloHa wbot Kit ches above the snow. Now Skell Is mother did w ith her voice. B e con- at It again— started In yesterday aof^aadorvtand wkp tbe pretty Hi- at noon and I think that he kept fi« p lrl sbcaM bo loaelp. at It all night. I know he was M il loatfaig daap Into Ms ayes, going strong this moaning. Per Amaryllis soldi “ffwo she conld haps If he hadn’t thrown so name I t aba wanted to. She eonld mueh snow In the building after some tomorrow night I t she would. I shoveled It out Sunday, he would have had the pole oovered by now. You know that I have been, telling you that when I put out feed for the K night fam ily that they always carry It away and hide it. Tonight I was going out to the snow pole and heard a rush of wings in the storm above my bead. I looked up and there came Knight himself, wings folded, bead out-stretched, coming like a bolt of lightning through the aald: “John Ouldo, bow's anybody going to *ba a good glrT w ith no- swirling flakes of snow. As he eody In aU thia world to love ’am?" neared the level of the tops of Aad Joke Outdo aald: “Ood the three big hemlocks he knows, little Hungry H eartl I don't!“ straightened out,, circled the Then Amaryllis made the moat trees and lit ou a lim b about half attractive suggestion. She said: “Maybe If you would the. way down, hepped along it till he came to the tru nk, pecked at take me to your house and keep me two or three days until they something a tim e or two,» and all got good aad scared—if any one came out w ith a h a lf of hotcake, would get soared about me—maybe and flew away toward Garfield w ith It, feeding the Mrs. I sup pose. More power to you Knight, If you can eat those botcakes a week or more old, When It Is all that I canujo to get them down when they just come o ff the grid dle. W eather— Day cloudy; wind southwest snowfall since last ob- •ervsfllon, 7.b, in.; precipitation, .11 la .; snow on ground i l l In.; Tamp. H . 29, L. I t , R. 11, M. l f l . l . TURNING THE PAGES BACK ASHLAND THE MAGIC GARDEN they wonUTflnd out whether they love me or not, and if the> did they would come and get me. And if they didn’t, why then, maybe, your nice father would love me. too, and tot mo go oa the walks with you and catch the little fishes and play In the water.“ Then Amaryllis smiled the most enchanting smile that ever she could conjure np when there were tears back In her eyes and a trem ble on her Ups. She smiled through tbe tears and looked hard at John Ouldo and 'waited. The boy thought it over and said: “I think you are rig h t I t woeld servo them Just the way they deserve. It'nobody’s taking care of you enough to keep yon from running away like this and coming peat a swamp where yon might have drowned yourself if you had gotten into the muck, if no body cares enough about yon to watch .yen any better than th a t they ought to have a good scare. I think yon are right about I t You come on with me. I can get you enough to eat to keep yon alive, and I dan take care of yea aU right aad we w ill lot them gat scared* aa long as there is any scare le ft la them. And maybe, after that they w ill know hotter how to treat a little gtrl who needs her mother aad h at father aad her brother.“ John Ouldo reached down Ma hand and Amaryllis laid hats fa It and trotted along beside Mm and go they wont fo r a tong, long dis tance. Amaryllla' beforp. By and by, sbo shut her 1 ips very tight hsnanas. aha would not tott Jahn GuldO that her feet hart. Btd aha eonld M t heap from limp ing aad finally ha saw what the The door that ia the hard est to keep the wolf from is the sedan. — Spriagfteld News. I f PreaMsat Coolidge ia to select Ma enmmer residence by means of movies showing views la dlfferetot states. It wo«hd sssm there would he no doubt as to the decision if Oregon gets busy and sends in only a fsw of the many beauty spots in the* state.— H illsboro in d ep en d en t. r or ran ob top of the fence; and all the bulbs spread and grew la elue- ter» and everything was wild and brae. Instead of a Mg. locked bronaa gate, an old wooden one hung on one binge and It was Just as wide open as It could get. Any one coaid ran through and reach the meadow. Then at the fa r end of tfaa garden there waa a house. “ The minute Amaryllis saw it she loved the house. I t was not a big house at all. I t waa a low, flat house w ith • veranda running around It that needed loads of spin dles In Its railing. The steps need ed straightening and everything needed paint. The bushes were wild MS4 the garden, and the brass grew long and waved In the wind like hair. I t was a quiet house, and a home-llke house. You could see aU of It without walking until you were tired. Inside It was a wonderful house. Thera waa one big room that smelled of pipes and tobacco, and there was a wide fireplace with heaps of wood beside U. end there waa a big piano. The boy laid the violin on top of th a t There were easy chairs end shelves full of books all around the w alls. On one side of this room there was a door leading to another room that waa nearly a ll glass.. In It there was a world of the moat wonderful books, and pictures and more pictures. Some of them stood up on easels, and som e of them hung on the walls, and many of them stood on the floors. Lots of them that stood on the floor turned their faces to the walls. I t was a wonderful room. One conld never become tired of It. Thera were doors that opened out of It Into the garden, and onto the back porch; and If one went flown m the kitchen John Onldo looked up a t the cfcck and aald: “When It le five Marte w ill come to oook my supper aad I w ill tell her that I am awfully hungry aad • want lots of supper. Then I w ill have enough for you too,“ Then John Onldo stood etui and thought things over. He sold: “B at 1 w ill have to toll Marte to come and stay all night aad sleep on the davenport betide y o u had, hecaaee a girl has to have a governeae or a name n r somebody to undreas her. Yon can have father's bed and sleep In Ms room end 1 w ill have my bed rod elee* In my roan.“ Amaryllis aald that was aU rig h t Now what should they dot And how long would R he until five o’clock, because she was awful hungry right that minute. John Onldo said there were two hours yet until five, and so he went to the cupboard aad cat a rtloe of bread and put butter en i t and honey from a gold oomb aad gave it to A M ryU to . Amaryllis sat up on the table wtth her little soiled feet towxtog down and ate the broad aad better aad drank a glass ef m ilk and thought that it waa a feast. The boy brought a basin and pot her feet In M and washed the stains aad hmlana dram Then w ith a aoft towel he wiped them dry aad held them against hie cheeks rod klawd the rosy, abused soles aad said: T a ao sorry, oh, «*»* yen toot your shoes!" y waa aof sorry that she had lost b ar Shoes e t aJL She did net like to wear shoes. She wanted h er feet on the ground like little children In pictures, prob- teeooin hor feet would get need to the ground aad then they would be to M ti lflte 0 » hay’s feet and they would not hurt aay mere. The bay went Into Ms room and dosed the door and left Amarylhs to eat her broad aad heaey. By and by whan he easts e a t ha was the most heantlfql boy «hat Amaryllle had ever dreamed about H q w o re dark blue velvet trousers, tong ones, d ear dewu to M m floor, and a dark bins Mouse and a llttla d ilr t e f gold silk with a collar that °rtp * ¿ i t over the eoat ooRar, and q tfla tha t burned up over th'e seat sleeves. There were shiny shoes taafher aad gold stock ings on Ms fe e t t