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. _ ______ 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. PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND .PRINTING CO. J. READ, MANAGING BOTTOB OUR WAY Ktep YOUR \ 27 MotfiHs «BUT l j H E P E AFTER! 1 « I ’LL LEA9M1H4S a ’fHtuer wnHoo-r Ik AMU/ AOMICE J ijnk FROM -tWE. i/ M I Í K g AVLERS' t A VÆ LI By W illiam s AU. 'P ü M P - F W I WDW SAH J In China It is fashionable to make a lot of noise while eating, to indicate aatlafac- ASgUL d t OMT .p a llja 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. TURNING THE PAGES BACK 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. ' x 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. 3 om P. 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»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 (Please T urn To Page F ive) 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-