-A- ♦. . * . ’WC'IA-'* TJ4E DfilhY TIDINGS PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO C J. READ. MANAGING MM m t t W M M I H ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS "THE MAGIC GARDEN" M W ! T tf’ o ic w 'iw * \M - T K A W onderful Transform ation For a good many years musical people and club workers have been advocating the observance of National Music Week—a week set apart and devoted to the best and most in music. It seems that the radio is making ever}7 week and month a time of music, transforming the lonely hours into harm­ ony and the isolated spots into humming, throbbing activity. ,* • And what the radio is doing to fill the silent moments with melody—not for one proclaimed Week but throughout the whole year (or until the bat­ tery runs down), suggests that the time may come when all such ‘‘weeks” may become yearsr Take Thrift*Week, Forestry Week, “ Be Good” Week, ‘‘Pay Your B ills” Week- and all of the other dis­ pensations conceived in the minds of forward-look­ ers and fostered and popularized upon a waiting and respective world by press, club and pulpit: what might transform every one of them that are good into year-round activities? Or better still, what can make them a real, part of ourselves, a second nature, 'so- that their observance • becomes a matter of course instead of a matter of form? That time should be welcomed by all thinking people. And such a time may come. If, with all of our institutions, the world is not getting better what hope is there left? We owe to science and jnvention a debt of gratitude for comforts and conveniences. and other material benefits that make life sweeter. But they are nothing without the moral consciousness behind them to adapt them to the moral and' cultural purposes of life. \ ^ /« fc jlh u r 1 by B u s i u o s e ! W o * i< » T C o m b if moo ÓOT M ôutf e s e s s u o r MOU S lfe P IM 1 BbMfrfe), Mart* it, leaf. H U H ? AMsvweR ed to Marshal Chiang Kai Shek by the representa­ tives of the United States, Great Britain, JApah, Italy and Franoe, The note included three demands: first, punishment of those guilty o f the Nanking outrage; secohd, a Written apology from Chiang with assurances of future protection of foreigners; third- complete reparations. Tho fitting and necessary under the circum­ stances, the note was no less than an ultimatum. In diplomacy, however, words and phrases have shades of meaning not generally recognized by the lay public. It is reasonable to suppose that this Chinese commander w iilm ake all possible effort to comply with the requests. But considering the lack of stability in China, the apparent powerlessness of even the leaders, the opposite is not impossible. The situation Will be saved, if at all, by the fact that five of the greatest world powers joined in the note. If Chiang does not comply there may be further trouble. But an ultimatum by any other name is just as portentous, and Chiang knows what he will face if he fails to give satisfaction. H om e Tow n A ffection Home is said to be the sweetest place on earth. But its sweetness depends on the sweetness of its environment. The people who got up the songs about the sweetness of home* probably lived in rural locations where everything was naturally lovely around them. But when they moved into toWns and cities, then their home did not always look 90 sweet. 80 if we are going to make our homes sweet today, we must have fine and attractive towns as a setting for them. That means a little work for you, Mr. and Mrs. Citizen! It means that you must take hold with your neighbors in community work, to improve 'unattractive developments, promote neat­ ness and order, and add attractions. today ta the first day that It has rained since November. It rained about tea mfoutata, »ad thah turned to staoW at 1 1 V e J o’clock. ThMB his been little dabs of wet enow all day. Yon cotld hardly sail It 1k storm tataleas youn Included the foe and'high wind. I Went to work tk b mdVhtng with a smile, thinking that I would finish the last coat of en­ amel on this botch of beds that hate been hanging tire all wlater. I woe itt sight of the end at nook, and As I salt to r touch I thought th at I had better take a look kt th e building to see If It was turn- , ing water, for a thaw Was pB. It was a good thing that f did. for the valleys m the addition had started to let the water la. Yes, I said more than my prayers, 1 had to get out on the root, right over the "big drink’* and the wind was blowing forty Saties pet. I set ga&s under the leaks till such k time as' I could get the gutters 'T h a t - A• Thornton, at the Thornton home. er»’ to r a lew day«. The good housewife has a thorough, bout of sweeping about every week. Yet her grout and good husband may think a once a year cleau-up for the back yard is sufficient. Mr. and Mrs O. E Elliot of Isaac C. Moore left on Mat Dunsmuir spent last Week-end evening*» train for Mank&to, with Mrs. U . Monroe. Minn., la response to a message from Mrs. Modce, who has decid­ ed to prolong her vli«t at her bid Beatrice Miller has Itet.urbed home. When those goods bought somewhere else or in a distant city, are offered in a home store for less money, do some of our superior people pass them by? from an extended visit with friends and relative* in Washing­ ton. Glad they discovered television. Now you can see over the-phone jm»t how mad your creditors get when you ask for more time. ( P .f t B .) *W »*»et» •*♦■♦«>»»» «A » » * » * R ig h t P l a c é C m E4 V -T im e J ohn MA b W égretakeí at orator U ka Lodge U ltim atum s thè word „$* ultimatum .. Mrs. M. F. wight |n d Mrs. F B. Burrsl, who have been visit­ ing thslr sister, Mb» 'A - Belle Mrs. W ill Dodge Is visiting her Anderson In Ashland, have re­ parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. turned to the Anderson farm aeui Talent. Hunt In* Portland. ytss Hattie Blsemore of Bams valley came up to Ashland last Sunday and le VHIting with her brother .J. E. Felton. Mrs. Adatoe and daughter Miss Minnie Preadmore arrived home from'California Wednesday where they passed the winter pleasant­ ly. Frank Hanseil. formerly a Tid­ ings typo, writes that He lias been promoted to he night clerk at the Russ IlooSe : q :',sn Fraa- clsce. -, more than the eouth, so I tried it first. I pried open k window on the fourth floor, and looked ont. This Is What I saw. A ws)lz Wf snow twelve feet high, flush with the corner of thé dormer. I looked at the roof and then down at that long, fine, white slide whose And Was hidden ita the tog below-, hut yen could hear the end every now and th en , a s the wind died down. . ' It is about six feet from the windowto the gutter, and there was Where I had to get. I got ottt the window and stood oa the ledge, h etd tn r on With one hand,. Î worked the shovel with the other till I had place seine two feet square dug Out. I then worked the shovel in the enow till it would hear toy Weight. Then I ret go of the casing and jumped. While In the air I thought of the chance of the snow sliding on the reef when I Ht; but after I had started I couldn’t tarn back. 1 liti ón my feet,-and stood up. Thei snow on the roof held, so I alta able to tell yon about it tonight. I shoveled a path over to the gutter and then started a tunnel­ ing -up the valley. A ll the trouble St the root leaking is caused by the snow starting to malt St the dons' of thè rotot, and the Water coming down to places where the gutter is dammed with ioe. It keeps backing up until it runs over the sides of the tin. I had to dig almost np to the top of the roof till I got all of these ice dams out. The last one gave me a ducking— It must have had tea gallons of water back of It and I was lying on my eide ta the gut­ ter and I think that I Stopped it SH. 1 cleaned out the valley and got back in the window and went to close It. It dropped with, a bang. About one-half second la­ ter I thought that the building and all was going In the lake. I looked out and the eaow next to the domer, some ten tons of it, had let go with'the bang of the window. Skell was just that much too late to catch me, hnt he tried again later. The south side wasn’t much trouble. The Ice was rotten and I knocked it loose with a board. When I had the Water rsUnlag free I thought that i f Bluet be time foHluhch. By wkteh saM four-thirty. I , wss toe late for. lunch, but I had lots bf time be­ fore supper, so I went out to measure the snow at the pel*. I got In the shelter of the building to put on my skia and waa last la the act of raising np when I heard a nolee above me, and as lack would have it I had my ski poles la my hand and I gave my­ self a shove. It was some Shove, let me tell you. I wasn’t quits so lucky that time, for s chunk of Ice hit me oa the right skoulder. I t is StlM ! numb. The noise! Oh! Yon see the west dormer unloaded, that la. there was about two tons Of snqw and ice slid -off and fell thirty feet, and when,I heard the Boise I was between It and the ground, j I (Please Turn to Page I ) I them with another light IVwm the window-siU he up both little haada end he them over and over again » waa not at all particular use ware Hght ktsae«. They laeea of weiahlp, of adora- ••00 of passionate hoy love, is very depth of a heart that So meaning either of toneU- ef hanger, slaee all hie life y »» Sr KSL^whiSSSS breathless people wen oolndlng hook and forth, henea« « Amaryllis waa lpe) ktad ab one knew When to