TRE DflIbY TIDINGS BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO. ESTA BUSHED IN 1876 A SH L A N D D A IL Y T ID IN G S Victims First duty of the country is to bring immediate relief to refugees from the great floods which thirty» states have poured down the valley of the Missis­ sippi. The second duty is to make a repitition of such disaster impossible. Secretary Hoover' says that it can be done by engineering works at a small fraction of what this year’s flood has cost Probably this great construc­ tive work can be done for what our politicians waste by inefficiency and graft in state and local governments. Aside from engineering works flood control means scientific reforestation. It is said that the Mississippi knew no floods while virgin forest» still covered thousands of square miles of the territory it drains. And while no practical amount of refor- ¿station alone will prevent a flood, it stands to rea­ son that it will help control them as well as bring other blessings to a nation which has frightfully wasted it« resources of timber. The tragic sufferers of the Mississippi floods are less the victims of the blind forces of nature than of roan’s willingness to take a chance, and for the' sake of n little present gain rick enormous future OUT OUR WAY Accioeur i set OAwe. Ncrf so t Yfadtoe in Ootttt B of r f fc LONDON. (IP)— Brlttofa estsoa- oaters ar< devoting a s s t of tkelr time bow to observations b f tbs latest tenant of Mother Barth's FHAIHWL ««elusive neighborhood. K flh S r L w /f e If the citizens of Ashland will work together now, they will accomplish so much that they will be aWe to play together in the years to come. OM Age Pensions The Pennsylvania Old Age Pension Com­ mission systems throughout the United States, concludes that they are inadequate in scope, their cost makes them impossible as a 'permanent policy and they do not accomplish the result hoped for ia ployee. The pension is too small and the age of re­ tirement so advanced that workers ’ beeome incom­ petent before reaching it. «In most cases pensions are forfeited by a man who leaves or loses' his work. As a means of reducing ïabfcr turnover they are most effective with the class least desirable to retain. As a disciplinary measure the commis­ sion admits the pension may have some effect with older employees, bpt not with the yonng and vigor­ ous worker. As a means of freeing the worker from tho dread of an unprotected old age they aro mani­ festly ineffective. Under most systems the em­ ployer has no legal claim and present plans amount to little more than a vague promise based on “ if everything goes right.” The commission asserts that there are prob­ ably altogether less than 90,000 men and women now in the receipt of industrial pensions through­ out the country. On the other hand, it is estimated that about 1,800,000 of the aged men and women of the United States are in need 'of some support. This fundamental fact should be sufficient to indicate how little these pension systems are cap­ able of meeting the needs of this body, of indigent aged. Suppose Suppose that this newspaper were issued with­ out a single advertisement? Wouldn’t the “ make-up” look plain and rather dull? Wouldn’t the readers be a little disappointed! Wouldn’t business drag? Wouldn’t the stranger in our city or in distant circulations think there was something wrong with the town! Wouldn’t other publishers think the editor of this paper a little slow! And wouldn’t we cuss? Prohibition’s greatest popularity io as a sub­ ject of conversation. • Every man goes to his gravp leaving books he wanted.to read and friend« he wanted to know. A third term in the Presidency must l»e a great life if your handshake grip doesn’t weaken. 2. Prom whom waa the west- - e ra w o rld savedla -th e b a ttle ot (a ) Cha)pna ’(h ) TonrsT 3 Name the t in t emporer ot Rome. 4. W ta t King of Sweden won great military fame tn the Thirty Y ean W ar 6 Under what c u r did Russia «•cure access to the sea on the Baltic 7 • To whom did Constantinople fall la 14537 7. What groat African general attached Roma .ite r crowing the Alps. 8. W hat religious - military movement spread its conquests around three sides of the Medi­ terranean Sea in the seventh and eighth centuries 7 9. W bat English general died at the capture of Quebec 7 10. What great event occurred In the year 39 A. D.T A bigamist is classed as a criminal hut lie’s at least got more downright courage than a lot of aingte-wifers. . Health to the result when you behave /yo u rself, and sickness when yon don’t. AU beautiful women are spoil­ ed, whleh probably explains why they are so charming. No one eaa climb up high until he brings himself down to the level ot common sense. When you butt Into another man’s troubles, you do Sot lessen his, but only add to your own. The mors initials there are at­ tached to « professional man’s name. the more,'It costs to hire 1. 315,000. 2. Everett Sanders. 3. Tea. Harlan Ptoke Stone. S.Wllliatn Howard Taft. 0. In case of a tie vote. 7. Nicholas Longworth. 8 Yea, by non-voting deputise. 0. 436. 10, Senator Borah. This can be said la favor of present styles: A woman doesn’t have to take off much to go to bed. Hss Heek says: ”» aerar TH a monument o* a bst» » iu . aer» either spats sr a wrtoi watch.*’ nuta. ' When Gene Tanney was In Los Angeles, Jack Demp­ sey Invited him over to hls hotel for breakfast. Steal­ ing the White House stuff. Anne Nichols gave Ed­ ward Payson Weston a life income. A few days later the aged walker was hit by a taxicab. I t ’d nice Weston will be able to hire a law­ yer, anyhow. TURNING THE PAGES BACK ASHLAND 10 Years Ago ASHLAItD . 20 Year» Ago the mining man. O. W. g. V. Carter took Irving Vining lay from a three sad a party of boys, R«M Harrell, returned ■ip to Ornate Pass. Pay Phillip«, Arthur Mansion and day’s bus Charlie Brady out to Beaver dam la Dead Indian last. Tassdsy, where the day w u spent fishing. A. W. Herbert of Corvallls b u purchased s two acre tra< t in thè Mysr addltlon wlth thè «xpeeta- G. N. Kramer returned Satur­ tlon of building upon,lt. r day from Newport with hls wife sad sou Pose. The Hiaaimiippi river used good judgment keeping out of Herrin; toom aeh wet opinmitiou. Mavbc all we needed was Aimee McPherson’s afctroraiK’e that the bobbed hear had come to stuv. N eal virtue doesn’t go around pounding a bass dram. H dm psfftms of prohibi­ tion continu«« to - spread, fo otfw ttl b a t k e n a x t thing ¡banned, Edna Perber told a (Yale audience the o t h e r ;nlght. W ell, maybe that’s the only way w e ll ever get around to home oooklng again. . . . The ban on food would Just suit some of the ladles who have quit eating, anyhow . . Maybe if some people had to take their soup In a speakeasy they’d not he so bolstrotnr about It . . . It to high time some­ thing were done about the men who go around over­ feeding th eir vesta . . . I f food prohibition does come, the ekleka cad forget their hip flasks and start string- la«: their belts with dongh- K. R. Dougkr ty. assistant post­ master at Salem. 1« vtsltlng at tho borne af R. JH. Grew. Mr. Dough­ erty says that be w u In love with tbe Ashland park, thought the Lithla water simply tbe best ever, but that there to one Ashland girl who h u all ot tbe other attrac­ tion« pat tdkether eclipsed. ASHLAND SO Yean Ago Th« northbound “flyer” paaeed through Ashland Monday after- nog ».hat n«r; v'abort >laya by how to commit salclde, A s al­ hersklf as her highest Meal, malted Representative Auahdr»j* Smith, leged In a salt for divorce filed the most striking figure among all and the Who’a Who for 1»£7. here recently. 1; ., I . wossbn evpr depleted la western l b » *■■■»; ' . m *11 i a «8 wihj A Cottage Grove —• Gordoa Mac- ftettom. Sea Francisco society, Klamath city hand M to ba CB politics, prise fighting, borne rac- aaley pays 916,000 for local steam lag, dueling, great legal court bat- laundry. tranced by a “Tag day” fund.