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w GOD IS GOOD— Praise ye the Lord, O give thanks unto the
Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever. Psalm 106:1.
P R A Y E R : O Lord, Thon a rt goqd; Thy gentleness hath made
me g re a t
Oregon’s First Million
‘G t’s the first million that’s the hardest”
According to a reasonable and conservative estimate
of Secretary of State Kozer, Oregon has already
passed the million mark in population or is at least
gratifyingly near that statistical goal.
,
This conclusion is reached after careful study
and analysis of the school population and its i l
lation to the total over a period of years. If the
ratio of a little over 32 per cent, the average from
1910 to 1920, still holds true, the 1926 school census
of 256,884 should imply a total population of 997,-
098 for the state.
There is always something intellectually and
emotionally satisfying in round numbers. The very
word “ million” has a particularly happy ring of
solid achievement and assured success. As ap
plied to Oregon’s population, it becomes a substan
tial capital, a foundation to build on, a place of
leverage like that platform from which Archi
medes purposed to move the world. One good mil
lion of clean-cut, high-class American citizens of
the best stock in the world.
Now that we have so far arrived, we may con
fess that we hav4 been a little slow about it. There
may be some difference of opinion as to the factors
which have tended to retard Oregon’s development,
but all must agree that Oregon has never suffered;
from lack of natural resources or commercial op-
The greatest lack has been and is still, in spite
of our probable million, people—just people to bring
into use, the state’s natural wealth, to develop and
increase it and to. spend it to create a livelier in
terchange of interior and foreign commerce.
Perhaps the main reason that «Oregon has been
slow in advertising its attractiveness has been that
Oregonians themselvm have been too self-satisfied
and content. They were so «sure that Oregon’s
mousetrap was flawless that they relied on the
assurance attributed to Emerson that the world
w ouldbeat its own path to this Western door.
Emerson was a great man, but he knew little
about modern advertising methods as airplane or
radio. No matter how excellent an article may be
today, it will never get among the best sellers by
hiding in the woods.
It is now up to Oregon’s million to invite, en-
oourage and helpfully welcome more people, more
capital, more factories, more payrolls. Nothing suc
ceeds like success. One good million deserves an
other, and Oregon has plenty of room for both—
and the* some.
Let’s get odr second million in a hurry,—Port
land Telegram.
Stop To Think
Thomas H. Deming, editor of the Warren, Ohio
Tribune-Chronicle, says:
♦ “ That stopping to think is about the best
and safest thing yon can do. Did you ever stoy to
think that our failure to do so has perhaps caused
more trouble and woe than anything else in the
world! Our ability to think was given to us for a
purpose. Like any other Organ it must be used if it
is to live. Ignore it, don’t use it and your ability
to stop and think will cease to function.
“ How many pseeders would now be living if
they had only exercises this attribute? .
“ The ability or habit or whatever you desire
to call it, of stopping to think before going forward
is the break or safety valve upon human actions.
“ How many heart breaks, how much woe, how
much trouble the world would escape if Gossips
stopped to think before spreading about their poisong
“ How much better off most of us would be i f we
stopped to think W ore spending foolishly money we
have worked for.
»
“ Too many of us are prone to rush in where
wiser men reflect, top and think. A little reflect
ion may show you the mistake in the coarse you con
template.
“ Stop and think. You will find it great char-
acted discipline.”
Vnderwood being ont of tbe presidenUal tace
thig yenr the 24 gentlemen from Alabama muet Infini
a uew nong.
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AND
A men’s h at
than his brow.
to often hlgheg
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Brewing used to be an art- but
now It bas become a crime.
Bad experience la prebably
worth more to us than good ex
perience.
I t ’s the law of gravitation
keeps the garter-makers in
ineas.
This Day h i
. Fistiami
“ Mud guards for women,*' are
said to be the Jätest styl ln
New York. A'nd that, bretbre i, Is
what spats wer« for both 1 Bies
B Y DOG R E ID
In
England,
u n til
Aster :ans
somehow got the notice t 1 s t
Seventeen years ago t o d a y
they were badges o fa rla to c icy. m arked the tragic death of one
of the most picturesque charact
— Eugene Register.
ers that ever donned a poxing
«h
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glove, When W e lle r A. Dipley shot
A German princess of <1 latto
and killed Stanley Ketchel, m id
m arry a man of 2 f. I t muBt b a1 dleweight champion of tha world
casa o f real love, for the t Ite at (fttnway, Mo.
Dipley alleged
of a German princess is
iot the champion had made Improper
worth a wagen load of pa er advances toward his wife,
-
marks.— Corvallis Gazette-Tim sa.
T h e champion was botn at
Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept.
Iff
1887,
and
christened
Stanislaus
October Is bringing its rej u-
lar Influx of a n g l e r s to 1 tie Kleeal. He was of polish descent
Rogue. The Rogue w ith its w< n- and assumed the name of qnsfi|
derful steelhead fishing is a r< al
asset to Grants'Pass and a ll of
You don’t get the reel th rill of southern Oregon.— Grants Pass
happiness un til you share it w ith Courier.
others.
Now they propose to straigh-
Now, then, If Mellon could only tefl tha Mississippi river.
We
do fo r th efleshy women what he always thought there were an
has done fo r the national debt.
awful lot of s’s in it.— Oregon
City Snterprlse.
Hex Heck says: “ I calculate at
least 99 per cent of what they
The vacation often begins when
call ’artistic temperament* con
you
get back from the hectic
sist o’ laziness.”
life at the summer resort.— S11-.
verton Tribune.
W e have a constitutional right
to the pursuit ot happiness, hut
W h at “society owes” to you
no assurance that we shall ever
catch up w ith It.— St. Helens Is the Interest on the capital >>u
Invest in it.— Multnomah Hera d.
Mist.
/ W ith harvesting hardly began
in W allow a county when the
rainy season sat in, that' countj
reports the worst damage to
crops In many years, w ith much
grain spoiled.-— Union Republi
can.
ASHLAND
20 Years Ago
$lskiyou News: Miss Eva Ed
gar ta now a permanent fixture at
Mount Shasta hospital. In com
ing to Yreka she bought h round
trip ticket from Ashland to Mon
tague, thinking her situation was
only a temporary positlpn, but Dr-
H all states that she has decided
to remain on the Job.
C. W . DeCarfow, tha S h a
postmaster and rancher, wae
Ashland thia week.
f A. C. Dtxon, wife and children,
le ft Tuesday on their retur*i to
th e ir heme at Eugene.
Mrs. M . J. Coolidge departed
on today’s southbound tralp io r
Sacramento, Cal., to spend the
w inter there.
D. L. M in kler, C. A.
W ining
and Guert McCall went out
to
Hunt*« In- Dead Indian Saturday
after b it game,
i
Jitneys ea the Ashland - Med
ford highway are getting to be
Fred Oeddard, eon of H. H.
more numerous than doga la aa Goddard, of Talent precinct, has
Indian village.
become a student at the Morse-
P ra tt Institu te, at W hitewater,
C. H. Glllbtte. deputy supreme
J. C. D uaa, 8. P. brakeman. Wisconsin, where ho w ill pursue
commander, K . O. T. M-. went
and wife, returned yesterday from a course of study.
le w s to Gold H U I Butarday eve-,
a' visit w ith Mrs. Dnnh’s mother
nlng on official business-
in tke east-
Travelthg men that, come to
Ashland rem ark that we have a
very a retty towp. Yes, we have
a p m t y town, and by the anm-
ber of tru *a ll» 8 men that come
hers regularly we know fhal we
must h are a business town.
/
P. A- Nelson, the S. P. train:
than form erly of this city, who
bow has a run between Sacramen
to and Dunsmuir, w ith his home
In the California capital city,
made a flying * trip to Ashland,
this week Kneeling his old friends
here.
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MBA fan»«« Writqr
W A S H IN G TO N — Aft««' bussing
around (o r seievai days »0 discov
er t)i« re a l meaning of tbe ap
pointm ent of Dw ight M orrow as
n b u u 4 o r to Mexico, your, cor
respondent is able to rep ort that:
1— The appointment. signifies a
new method o( dealing w ith Mex
ico which aims to supplant con
servative bungling w ttb conserve-
tire intelligence.
8— The appointment is deplor
ed by one group In the Depart
ment of State and by tboee Am er
ican o il interests wbicb h a r e
worked behind the scenes to fo
ment trouble between the t w o
govern meats.
3— The appointment is g ratify
ing to the government of Mexico.
Although there are few things
to be said against. President Cool
idge’s choice, it should be under
stood that the denials th a t the
United States and the Morgan
banking firm are sending a Joint
repreeeatatlve to Mexioo may be
•wallowed In a •aline solution.
There may be load yelpa and
whoops la the next Congress over
this phase o f the m atter.
The Morgan firm ’s chief in ter
est in Mexico lies in the fact that
it Is the collection agent for more
than h alf a billion dollars
in
Mexican bonds held in this coun
try and abroad. Under the Pani-
Lam ont agreement,', Mexico
Is
BftXing nearly 016.000,000 a yes*
in interest and it presumably w ill
ba p art of M orrow ’s job to sea
that this interest keeps coming.
Ha also w ill be Interested In lay
ing any possible groundwork for
Mexico’s eventual payment of tke
enormous principal.
In attempting to analyse our
Mexican policy, past and present.
It must ha remembered that there
are two great classes of foreign
Investment in Mexicq— the finan
cial and industrial. T h eir In ter
ests do not alwey run parallel.
-p F lrs t, there are the owners of
oll«wells, mines, lumber and land.
I l Is t o t necessarily to the advant
age A these Investors to operate
in a strong, prosperous Mexioo.
Beeond. there is the sort o f In-
feraat in Mexico which Morrow
represents.
There is Mexico’s
public debt, something mbre than
’88flfl.O60.OOO, owed to foreign in-
"Bibows” Crawley, former pugi
list and many times hostage of tbs
state on divers charges, stood at
his bar watching with pleased coun
tenance the arrival of his patrons.
The babbling bar was already
packed with the men from the
docldsldsa, niggers, Lascars, whits
toughs end yetlou; man. The ton
cant seats wars already filling. and
husky waiters stood near tbs tables,
with solicitous smiles. The River*
side was little more than a cava ot
harmony, but I t bubbled with life
Crdudey^was a large man with
well filled belt, he Joked.
"Bet I guess that It was worth
while. eh? There’» a lot of money
there, an’ I ’ve got more in my
pocket Tomorrow It’s going to a
baa*, aad perfume soma flay
be
able to qalt the sea and live a de-
asst life,"
*1 hops you can. son, hot If you’re
oboe a sailor you lout ckn't live
without the sea sad the old pale
that yea need to know. We got
lots here that talk as you do, hut
they never leave the sea, they nev
er will.” Cribblns remembered the
h ouie w hen he had longed for the
roll of a deck beneath his feet
W ith Mood stirred by his few
drinks, Hurricane Haley wanted
store m s sad action than "The
Sh y could give.
. .
"Where asm a fsttow have a good
tlm i ih this darned town? Anyone
would think that you were dead
men around here.**
"W hy don’t you try tha Mission
across the street«** laughed Crib*
bins.
*T m la no mood for religion to*
rn
ley K etchel upon his advent
the realm of padded glovee.
Ketchel gained fame as one ot
the greatest middleweight fig h t
ers of a ll titoe, by virtue of victor
ies over practically all of the best
men in the game during his day,
and his hectic ring battles with
B illy Papke, the “ T w in "
Sulli
vans. Joe Thomas, Hugo K elly
and others are still fresh la the
memory o f old timers.
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
ASHLAND
¡to
John Kagg, wife a a d *o n s ' of
Shasta valley, CaJ., visited
the
ramtly ot Judge T J. Howell of
Ashland over Bunday. Mr. Kegg
owns oh® of the largest hay farms
in Shasta valley.
florid features and a mop of beer
red hair. He had reasons for
ng in high spirits. Business
was good not only at tbs Riverside,
hut thope nefarious anglas that a
far-seeing saloon keeper can taka
advantage of bad bean vary plenti
ful of lato. His greatest acquisi
tion, thsubest stroke In his career,
had been when*be managed to ge'
bold of Polly, the Prisco B ra t She
had provéa a great drawing sard.
She was Just what the man wmttod-
Sha seemed to Just breathe "the Joy
of Mvlug. ’
Polly danced because she loved
to finoee. She needed no urging,
her legs Just couldn't keep still,
sad when she danced It was the
kind of stuff they knew. She was
horn on the Frisco docks, sad its
denlsens loved her. W ith her wide,
odd laugh, her symmetrical lege
and the liquid fire that seemed to
run under her skin Polly, the Fris
co Brat, was a t present queen of
the waterfront
No one knew an awful lot about
her antecedents. People do not
pry Into one another’s affairs la the
«
1 she loved to done«.
(Please turn to page fir e )
by
A R T H U R D EA N , Sc., D.
(Copyright John F. D ille Co.)
PERFECTLY AWFUL
I f hindsight is bad business
foresight always good!
is
“ Do you ever run out ot
ideas?" asked a correspondent. *1
should think you would.”
Undoubtedly intending to
ha
sympathetic the questionlag lady
has frightened me. Today I have
too much foresight.
H ere 1 was w riting away a t the
rate oF eight hundred wordA a
day six days In tha week
and
three hundred and twelve times
a year, each day giving, mors or
less, a new Idea, only to be stop
ped by, “ Do you-ever get out of
ideas?"
Three hundred and
twelve
Ideas a year and doing this for
the next th irty years makes »860
ideas.
Great Scott!
Are there
that <nany ideas about boys, girls,
dads and mothers?
"Nine thousand, three hundred
sixty ideas in the n e x t ' th irty
years stated In eight hundred
words means 7,488,000 or t h e
equivalent of one hundred and
fifty
books of fifty
thousand
words each. Using up three pen
cils a day, including those chewed
up by Marco Polo and his off
spring and borrowed by “tost a
m inute’* fflepds, I shall have to
beg, borrow or steal 88,080 pen
cils.
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A t tha rate letters come to my
desk and You Anow t like to re
ceive these letters— I shall In the
next 80 y e a n receive 8,888.800
letters.. I f each one-contains on
tha average of three questions
uad tw e new ideas I shad have
8,888,080 questions which I muet
answer and 8,770,780 ideas which
I must use. I t each o f t h ese Idea«
Is lim ited in its expression to fo r
ty-five words I must’ read 88»,-
(Please ih ra to pago five)
age two Aomen were fighting.
“A kali of a nerve you’ve got,
ling my itpetlek. after the dirty
1eks tout you’ve been playing,
rase people ain’t got ao shame."
“8hat up yer Utile tramp. You
ight to ask the privilege before
sr speak to a ja d x . Tar flirty llt-
streets around the dock«. Fat Mrs.
Kenny, who claimed that she had
known Polly as a baby and gained
much free gin by doing so, said
that even aa a kid Polly had loved
to dance. She had danced In the
streets of Frisco to the accompani
ment of hand organs, mouth organs,
whistling, anything that savored ot
music. 8hs also said that the only
semblance of a guardian that Polly
bad ever had. was a mother she
adopted and who quickly turned
into gin the few odd pennies that
the girl brought home.. Her father
they knew. I t was easy to keep
tabs on him, for the greatest part
of his time was epeat In studying
prison conditions as a guest ot the
State. About her mother nothing
was said, hut It la not unusual to
have no-mother In the dockside ot
Frisco. Polly herself seamed to
remember one who died when she
was a child, and the trip to the
cemetery was tha only time that
she remembered laavtog the streets
where she bed been born.
Entirely dependent on herself,
she danced for a livelihood, drifting
from place to plaoe, Just a floor lit
tle wastrel at fl rst. Now dancing at
Wing Fungs fo r a group of paaty
CWnlw, new at London Gene’s,
where the Lasoars congregated, afie
at last attracted the attention ot
bar own kind and came back to the
alleys around her home to he a
character,* maker la acquaintance
and In the ways of tha*world.
Of morals she had none; she was
• Wtarulda,
A Uttia fiat shot op. aa two eyes and after {he filth and alleys and
the yellow men Crawley’s Was a
suet of Paradiae. She was very
proud of her advancement, for here
She affeeted a style all her own
In drees, using as model* the'vari
ety aetreenes whom .she saw in eld
magaslnes, but her legs were
Heaven-sent. Ged gave them to
her.
«
When Crawley tried out PoUy ha
knew that he was Inviting trouble
,f
* I * 4 aueeeee. for there
was Blonde Bessie, who had held
down headline honors slpce the
epeaing d»y. Re knew her Jeal
ousy, het- savage temper, but be
also knew that She waa becoming
fat aud-laxy and that »he Wae no
longer a aw gaet Hie patrons
frightened attendant pleaded hatted youth, life, vitality. Bome-
thlng to rouse them from their tor
por, something to eend them back
be fled for help. /
to their lodging houaea aafl toae-
frients with reawakened emotions
He amen pretentious than the and ambitions. And as Crawley sat
loons and dockside drinking
ge.WBtohlag the erewd poeriag
toes. The Riverside offered en-
tolament to Its patrons. It was
very prosperous establishment.
(To be continued).
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