THE DAILY TIDINGS EDITORIAL and FEATURE PAGE
ESTABLISHED IN 1876
C.
ASHLAND DAILY y iD IN G S lQ U T
Father* o f th e R. F. D,
When Perry 8. Heath .died at his home in Wash
ington, D. C., the other day, full of years and
honor, the newspapers found ready to hand hi« epi
taph, “ Father of t ie rural free delivery.” It was
the work performed by him, as assistant postmaster
general under McKinley, in prelimindty experimen-
talization and nursing the young service during its
infant years that the title was bestowed. If ever a
father had reason to be proud of one of his off
spring this father had of the child which he was per
mitted to see grow into robust maturity. /
The service which he inaugurated on a $30-000
appropriation'has expanded until it now‘ employes
more than a hundred million dollars a year. It
would be necessary to search diligently, however, to
find a man who would attempt to argue that it is
not worth all it costs, and more.
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It would be difficult to sum up all the benefits,
direct and indirect, which have accrued from the
establishment of this service. It was one of the most
imjiortant as it was practically the first of the big
changes to ameliorate the lonely condition of farm
life. It not only brought the farmer’s distant friends
measurably closer to him in time, but in bringing
him the daily newspaper it made it possible for him
to keep in immediate touch with his markets and
to keep abreast of the affairs of the world. Though
its benefits are now supplemented by such devices as
the rural telephone, the automobile and the radio
its importance is in nowise diminished.
The E. F. D. lias undoubtedly been a great fact
or indirectly in development of the good roads move
ment. Long before it was brought home to motor
ists that they needed roads if they were ever to get
anywhere in the new vehicle the rural letter carrier
was voicing his complaint about the fearful condi
tion of the highways. The digging him out of the
mud is no small element of lienefit to the public at
Little WiffieJ8 Alibi
“ To punish a child for stealing or lying is like
punishing him for having the measles or a sore
throat,” says a Chicago sociologist. This accords
very well with the juvenile disposition to shift the
blame when. the child is caught flagrante delicto.
Little W illie’« instinctive alibi, when pressed for, an
explanation of his own wrong doing, is that “ Tommy
made me.”
The professor seems to classify moral delin
quency and physical pathology as identical. There
is undoubtedly a measure of truth in the theory,
but there are so many points of divergence between
the phenomena of the spirit and those of the flesh
that it seems as preposterous to be dogmatic about
their sameness as to deny that there is any similar
ity between them.
If it ia intended to make a point against juvenile
discipline by punishment then the metaphor* whether
soientifically correct or not, fails. Little Willie may
not be wholly to blame when he steals or lies just
as he is not at all to blame when he catches the
measles or sore throat. Still something has to be
done about i t Remedies have to be applied in both
cases. The world takes on a dismal appearance to
him when he has to take a doae of oastor oil or have
his adenoids or tonsils removed- But these things
have to be done.
--
In spite of all the midnight oil burned in trying
to reduoe little W illie’s oonduet to a scientific basis
punishment seems to be »still the best remedy de
vised «to make bad hoys morally healthy. His little
skull lias to be dented with a sense of social con
sciousness and the best way seems to be to impress
liim with knowledge of the fact that he is likely to
suffer when his selfishness causes him to run counter
to the. social code, which we call morals.
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In China It is fashionable
to make a lot of noise while
eating, to indicate aatlafac-
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soup inhalers would be in the
height of style over thsre.-^-
M alheur Enterprise.
This may
be an awful
country; but In Paris the
men wear earrings.— K lam
ath Falls Herald.
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.—
Law: A popular method
making a bad thing worse.
of
,
Civilization: A m ere-m atter of
haircut and saxophone.
Liar: One whose imagination
consists largely of rubber.
Good
Times:
are either coming
Occasions
or have
gone by.
Headlines: The 6ne Indispens
able Ingredient required in com
pounding Fame.
Construction of a ra il
road to the coast Is once more
held up by-a shortage of lead
penoils.— Klam ath Falls H er
ald.— Medford Tribune.
Pessimist: One who carries his
past in front of him and his future
behind him.
In the fortunate
fam ily
tro ut w ill he on the menu
w ith fa ir regularity for the
next few months. — Bend
B ulletin.
Hex Heck says: “ Sober, second
thought, so fur as I've noticed,
Is nothin’ but an acute attack o’
cold feet."
H arry Manning, 28, was ar
rested on a charge of petty
larceny and when it develop
ed that hq was living with a
girl here, City Judge Jacob
Bernstein ordered the couple
to marnr.
Despite Meaning’s protest
the ceremony was performed.
I t now develops, on complaint
from authorities from Boston
where Manning had a wife
and four children, that the
judge had forced the young
man intb bigamy.
LONDON — Sidney Breg
man, a lawyer, has Just won
a suit to recover two 65 cent
neckties without paying the
legal 25 cents reward. The
package containing the ties
was picked up by a bus con
ductor.
Police requested Bregman
to pay the customary shilling
reward. He refused and fin
ally won the suit, y^hich cost
the chunty fl.OOO?
RU8HVILLB, 111., — A
quarter of a century ago
James Moore paid his funer
al expenses, selected his pall
bearers and personlly chose
the tombstone to be placed on
his grave. He died Monday
aged 84, but different pall-
w ill have to be se-
those he
lected because
preceded him In
named
death.
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ASHLAND
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
30 Years Ago
A Women’« Prison
The first federal prison exclusively for women
is to be opened soon at Alderson, West Virginia.
This institution lias t>een put as the result of agi
tation hy 14,-000 women’s clubs, and there the effort
will be made to reform the inmates by teachiug
them fanning, gardening, nursing- cooking, sewing,
etc.
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These women have come where they are large
ly becawae of a lawless love of excitement and ex
aggerated pleasure. Probably by this time tliey
1 c bad^ on. iderablt more exdtement than they
wanted. The garden, the sewing machine, the kitcl^en
range, etc., will look much better -to them than
when they were wild girls breaking loose from
home restraint.
Scientiets really aren’t any smarter than the
rMt rtf ns, bat they can think up more theories.
The Misses Suzanne end M ary
Homes of the district south of
Ashland werd among those who
attended the Christian Science
lecture at Medford lest evening.
returned
W . H. Ledgerwood and wife de-
vlth her parted for W hlteaker, Marian
t Jack- county, on Tuesday evening, to
spend the summer at their old
home In that county. They return
received here for the fall opening ,of the
d, who schools, where Mr. Ledgerwood to
»nver by engaged to teach again for the en-
mother, suing year.
B illie Briggs sends greetings tot
the Tidings force fro Hi Valparaiso,
lad.. Where he 1a now studying
law. BIlMe did some good work
oa the Tidings as a reporter and
wa are glad to hear from him.
M. Mayer, the pioneer tailor of
Ashland, who has been following
bfs trade In thia city for over 30
years, w ill this week become a
resident of Gold HUI.
Delbert Moore, living south of
Ashland hear the Homes crossing,
C. F, Sbepfiecd and »on Earl.
killed a big black bear on Tol- left yesterday for a California
man creek Monday«
THE MAG/C GARDEN’'
Copyrighted, 1 M T . Gen« Stratton-Porter,, Ine.
Copyrighted, 1216-37, by the McCall Co.
bp eoerteey Ot Film Booktaff Office, o t Anserlca
rem U m famoM photoplay. “The Magic Carden.
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i What Others Say j
Sehool children of the state
have been Invited to select a
state bird by ballot from
among the thrush, meadow
la rk, blue bird, sparrow and a
few others. W hile the entry
list is lim ited, our vote goes
aeverthless to the spring
chicken, well fried and cov
ered with gravy. — Eugene
,Guard.
Crater Lake
In Winter Time
1 SAID WAS»
M O M EU T^ W E D LlKe TO U\ZC Í M »
Chicago Is the Indian word
tor w ild onion. I t is the
American
word for wild
women, wild parties and gang
killings.— Wheeler Reporter.
1 OUI* «nUTTON-PORTER'S
visit.
I didn't g i up Garfield Peak a f
ter all. Last night a fter I bad
w ritten my report. I got to snoop
ing around the bonding and fonnd
that the mow bad pulled a win
dow open and a room waa fn ll of
snow. I w ill have to watch them
closer a fte r this.
I had quite a time getting the
window closed again, as there
were fifteen feet of snow resting
on the sash. I bad to go outside
and ’.ta r t digging at 'the save,
and go down to the second story
— that w a r where the window
was open. I started w ith a bole
eight . feet
across.
When I
couldn’t throw the snow out I had
to relay it. T h at is, throw It as
fa r as I could and then when I
I would climb up and shovel it
the rest of the way out. I Jest
nicely started on It and the wind
swltohed around to the northeast
and blew the snow back In the
hole about as feet as I could
shovel It out. That made me mad
and I went and got some boards
and made a wind b re a k .,-1 was
until noon getting th a t window
closed and the snow out of the
room. I t was then too late to go
up on the h ill, so I forgot about
it and went to w ork on the beds.
Today has been beautiful. Bv-
erythlng Is so white end glisten
ing, As the day advanced the
dark green of the trees m adejtself
, felt in the landscape. The dreary
days to come w ill sefem darker
than ever a fter .eo b rillia n t a day.
W o rk— Shoveled enow, painted
beds.
. .
W eather —
y clear,^"~wi»<l
northeast; snowfall since last ob
cotta op M r people. WMle thep
ore «earing the two ebtldren are to
each ptAer*« arsa» to <M garden,
aad When her /other arrives Ama-
ryttto moots Mm rnttb • look o/
Thh boy turned and took ono
look at him and then throw himself
full length la tbo hod ot striped
erase, end frantlcaUy palled the
mag blades together across hto
ears, so that he could not hear.
i t ttwk m o , a irir m m i , i a
alng on the p an ot a fairly agile po
liceman to ran her down and catch
her. H e was forced to carry her
bank. Ao they freerneesd the gar
den with her and carried her
around the boose a n d o n t to the
road, until the tost faint echo died
away, over sad over there earns her
«brill little cry: “Don't yoa mind,
John Guido! I ’D coma backl I'll
come back to youj"
By the time the automobile waa
reached, Amaryllis had learned
«bat While the touch of the police
man who waa carrying her ares
firm. U arse gentle. She had per
sisted to placing her fane against
the glass and screaming: “I’ll come
k a e k l“ at the top of her vote, until
long after the highway bad bees
reached and she knew no -one at
the Uttle house could hear her.
After they could not hear her.
she told the world. Somè way she
reinforced her soul by reiterating
servation, o.oo'in.;‘ precipitation,
0.00 In.; snow on ground, 230 In.;
had all that would stay up there,
Temp. H . 32, L, 16, R. 16, M. 24.
Sunday, March 20, 1027.
F or an hour the paint bruah
laid on the edge of the paint can,
the pklnt dripping unheeded on
the protecting tin. F o r an hoar
The Nameless One’s dismal walls
sounded through the empty halls
as he wandered from floor to
floor searching for his partner.
For an hour K night sounded his
hunger croak from the top of the
hemlock tree, begging food for his
mate and little ones.
The paint brush became dry.
Nameless tired of his bunt and
curled up In the sun and went to
sleep, and K night at last gave up
and flew away in search of a for
gotten place where he had stored
food In days of plenty. I t a ll went
unheeded, as unnoticed as the
shadows of the trees of the forest
where there are none.to see. The
caretaker had gone to church!
No great bell to remind him of
the time of worship, no silver
toned chimes to awaken a restless
feeling, no compelling feeling that
he must keep up w ith Brown or
Smith. But a call stronger than
all of these, a call as strong as
the voice of the diety Itself, that
awakened in this homely man a
feeling of worship. The C all— a
w inter’s reflection
on
Crater
Lake.
No collar-choked usher td look
askance a t his unwashed, unshav
en condition as he passed the en
try; no rustle of silk and satin,
hurriedly pulled aside to avoid
contact w ith rubber shoes and
hanging socks; no smirks or up
raised eyebrows as he passed In
to a pew unmarked w ith brass
plate, dedicating It to a penny-
Snatcher^of widows or owner of
sweatshops.
lío white robed priest eating the
body of a god,' no Mack-frocked,
weeping, sour-faced scourge of
mankind, yelling at the top o f his
voice of hell fire oae moment sad
the next sobbing of th e grace, the
kindness of his God in fro nt of
that white chancel.
It- .was y>e*church of the Out
M r. end Mrs. J. A. Gross ot tke
Depot hôtel errlved home fro n
thelr San Francisco trlp Tuésday. doors. the one In which yon first
worshipped,"the one that calls to
you now w ith Its peal of bells of
August Mickelson the shoo mas silence, end today It called me.
made a business trip to Siskiyou I climbed the side of Garfield,
and vicinity this week.
above the first tim ber, w ithout hat
or coat, without camera o r papeh
' Philip Mullen returned to the and listened to the organ e f the
Spencer satae, near Cole's, yester sohthwlnd, as it whispered and
the symphonies of
day, accompanied by hla nephew, thundered
Clarence Lane.
gather csfprna on kEp AkMB$ ptW
Europe and taking Amaryllto along
and trying 'to find bar mother; e l
trying to make some sort of plea
that would bring bar bask to bar
homo. Bat the iaora ba thought
of this, the more bopalaaa ba know
It was, because la tbo twelve years
th a t he had been married to Am«
aryUto* mother had loaned to
tbo depth« the UtUenees and tba
selfishness to her soul. and ba bad
very crave doubt, as to whether
there was any way In .which tba
Ingrained vanity, and creed, and
personal s a lta tio n In which aba
specialised, coaid ba overcome. I t
would have bean tba Ideal thine to
do, bat tblnc. in tbla world are
seldom ideal. 8o he laid that Idea
back on tba shelf with the tboaebt
that ha might better aead a person
al representative to see exactly
where tbo tody waa, and what aba
was doing, and to le a n for rare
whether the really was a saltable
person to have charge over any
thing so adorable as Amaryllis. ‘
Exactly when Peal Minton found
oat that Amaryllis was adorable
It woeld ba dlfflcntt to aay, bat oae
might basard a guess that ba fonnd
U oat when a dark haired boy of
such extreme beauty that be made
a startling apparition, dropped on
hto knees before her and stretahed
out hto arms to her and triad to a
broken voles i “Amaryllis, yoa w ill
kill me with year sweetness!“
Boms way, what he had seen and
what ha bad board set Paul Minton
to studying Amaryllis, to looking
at her Intently, and what bo saw
was a little girl, eane and normal,
beautifully developed, beaattfal ot
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she never had been privileged to
spend money herself. She oqly
knew that It waa a thing greatly
coveted because the nurses and
governesses and the housekeeper
and the butler were ell so eager
to relieve her ok I t She knew It
waa something they wanted very
much.
H er great adventure over, hair
capture made sure, swiftly being
carried back to the things she
loathed, all the naughtiness and
resentment la the heart ot Amaryl
lis boiled to the surface, and when
her father reached shaking hands
and wanted to take her la his arms,
she very promptly made ap the hor-
ridaat face she knew, embellished
with twisty, squinted ayes, a
wrinkled nose, and a wide opened
month from which a little red
tongue was thrust lost as ta r aa It
would go and waggled In defiance.
Beeanse she had no ether refuge,
she clung tight to the policeman.
Bo yon can very easily see that
between the little white boose on
the Island and hto apartments In
the big city. Mr. Paul Minton had
time a-plenty to do considerable
thinking. As e m atter of fact, he*
had already had three days of un
interrupted and agonising think
ing. He had suddenly discovered
that there was something in blood;
that there was something in par
enthood aad that however abomi
nably be had tolled to the past
toers might at least be hope for
the f ntore.
th e automobile had made half
the Journey before Amaryllis
Straightened her fa c e ^ n d leased
her yellow heed against the blue
ooat of the policeman to rest. The
Mae ot the police uniform to par
ticularly attractive was a baok-
ground for ean-colored curls end
deep bine ayes aad a delicately
flushed pink skin, aad from the bob
at Us heart Mr. Paul Minton
envied that policeman against
whom hto little girl leaned bar
head. He would have given S «tag-
He had thought of practically
everything there arse to think of
nlshed him the motive for thinking
deeply enough to realize «hat no
child resents being punished If It
knows that It baa bean fiaaghty
and deserves punishment.
The
blows that children -resent are the
blows of anger, ot Injustice, ot In
timidation, of hate. No child re
seats being corrected It It to thor
oughly convinced that It deserves
correction, ff It may rest afterward
on a breast that It folly under
stands to its loving refuge, tt there
are kisses and condolences and
promisee ot help to make the future
better. B at having bad no ex
perience, Paul Minton eonld not
possibly have known those things.
The first thing that arrested the
attention of Amaryllis wag when
her father leaned forward w ith to*
structlons to the chauffeur. They
were to be taken to Mr. Minton’s
apartment to the city. Amaryllis*
eyes widened suddenly. She begun
to think. She began to study Paul
Minton. Then she discovered th»
moat astounding fact that s ta r had
penetrated her young conscious
ness. He bad been crying. Hie
eyes were all swollen and red and
hto cheeks ware tear-ameary a »
aotly Uh« bars had been many a
time when she faced herself to the
m irror aad talked to the Uttle per*
eon there because she had got any
one else with whom to talk. Blowty,
Amaryllis* eyes widened; slowly
her month tell open. The pewerfut
big man. the handsome man. the
beautifully dressed man, the man
with the reedy laughter on hto Ups.
the man for whom eyery one stood
aside, whom ell the helpers about
the house feared to displease, the
man who earned the money to
make things happen to the big city,
the assn who had sorer taken her
where ha lived, waa oryfagl Bad-