TfA/NS MUST HAVE LIBRARY ,i Czechoslovakia Every City and VII- lags Should Possess Public Reading Rooms. ’ - _ It would be a fine thing for the United States if In the next seven years we could boast that every city, town and village in the country pos­ sessed a public library—with a reading room opea daily where local residents and strangers could consult reference books and read current periodicals But do not grow excited. We find no Indication at all that this will ever come to pass in the United States. To witness such a system of libraries it possibly would be necessary seven years hence to make a trip to Czecho­ slovakia, which has a law making es­ tablishment of such institutions com­ pulsory. The act was passed in 1919, and we are told that its provisions are being obediently and even enthusiasti­ cally carried out by the people. Many of the towns have exceeded the legal requirements. Larger places that were without li­ braries when the new law was passed were ordered to give the matter atten­ tion almost Immediately. Communi­ ties having at least 300 inhabitants are given until December 31, 1924, while those still smaller have until Decern- PAGE THREE ■ l1 " GRANTS PASS DAH.Y COURIER MffKMT. MARITI R, 1924. her 31, 1929. By January, llKk». uniter this arrangement. Czechoslovakia plans to have a public library within reach of every person in the land. This Is what you might call a form of compulsory progressiveness, but name it what you will. It is a loug step ahead from the standpoint of na­ tional education. It would be Interest­ ing to know how many towns of 5.000 and less in the United States have no public libraries. We venture a count would show more without them than thus provided. Chechoslovakia's library system doubtless will be a great force In furthering national en­ lightenment.—New Orleans Times- Picayune. Turf-Cutting Tool. A single-bladed chopping knife can be made into a turf cutter for edging lawns around walks and flower beds. It is only necessary to remove the wooden handle with which the chopper Is provided, and to drive the tang into a longer handle, which may be the handle from an old spade or similar Implement. To Supply Table With Vegetables ALFALFA RED CLOVER Coldframe Is Advocated aa Means of Providing the Crispy Greens. TIMOTHY GRASSES GRIMM ALFALFA Kitchen gardens were a necessary adjunct to the home in the earlier days but at present a kitchen coldframe it advocated as a means of supplylnf tlx family table with fresh lettuce, purs ley. radishes, cress, und other vegeta All kinds <>l Veiretable Nurds City Without Taxation. bles at periods of the year when It 1» The city of Long Beach. Cal., Is the in bulk and packngos too cold to grow these things In th« only city In the country without open gruuud. While It Is true that th« taxes. The municipality owns 290 oil coldframe may not give very good re wells on Signal Hill, at the edge of suits during the winter months, esj>e the city, and they are gushers, so the dully lit the northern part of the conn city Is so rich the citizens do not have try. yet In the early spring excellent to pay taxes, or will not after 1924. Northrupt, King & Co. 5c Package» results may be had from its use, no cording to the United Stutes Depart Wrong Color. inent of Agriculture. “Ton look blue, old man.” The construction of a coldframe li “Yes, I’ve just been done out of $500 comparatively simple, as the side wnlli In a curb stock." may be made of boards, brick, hollow “Then I must be color blind, tile or concrete. Where the construe green you are."— Boston Transcript. SPRAYS and FERTILIZERS tlon Is of boards, cypress lumber shoul« Sales books—Courier office. be used, und It Is a good plun to huxt the wulls made double and some dry straw or planing mill shavings packet in the space between them. Lf tin walls are of brick, they should b« plastered, both Inside and out, to inakt them air-tight. Hollow-tile wall» should also be plastered the same at Pitsonan Yfrau, Chief of the Abysiniai Imperial Guards, (Prepared by th* National Geographic So­ because if a slave hapjwns to be given brick. ciety, Washington« D. C.) one of the best types of constmctlor Abyssinia’s application for member­ to a resident of the country, there Is Is simply to put tn a little foundation i no known method by which he may be ship in the League of Nations has been then set up frames and tamp In well tabled by that body because slavery emancipated. If he is set free he is mixed concrete consisting of about with all Its horrors Is practiced as fla­ subject to capture and enslavement by three parts clean, broken stone oi grantly today In this native, independ­ someone else. gravel, two parts sharp sand und one Slavery Is Flourishing. ent, Christian state as It was 100 y irs part cement. The Ingredients slmutt If you have ever grown or bought In fact, so many of the people of the lie placed on a mixing board or In « ago on the west coast of Africa. some of those rough, scrawny par­ • Slavery Is only one phase of the gar­ outlying districts have been captured, box and thoroughly mixed white dry snips with a heart tough enough ish life of this topsy-turvy nation of chained together and taken in droves then water added gradually and th« to use for a whin, you will appre­ ciate the smooth skin, the rich, 11,000,000 black-skinned people, who into the great slave market at Jimma. mass turned three or four times unit sweet flavor and the tender heart of ¡are as obtuse and unusual as those In that It Is possible to march for mile It Is thoroughly mixed and Is of a con Gill’» Tender Heart Parsnip Alice’s Wonderland In Abyssinia cus­ after mile, day after day, through a •latency that can reudlly be tumped ut toms Identical with those of the pre­ once flourishing agricultural district It Is put into the forms. which has been developed by 30 historic Mke-dw-cJlera, a Christian without seeing a man, woman or child. years of careful selection. The size of coldframe to build wll Unlike «(her paranlpi the heart la tender Slaves are mainly captured from depend upon circumstances. Standart faith established before the German id e«r ("inch th«- i <»t* ar«- »month, hol­ and British barbarians were converted among the subject rares in territory coldframe or hotbed sash are 3 by < low crown, thick nnd heavy at tU« top. tapering abruptly, muklnK It raiiy to «11«. by missionaries, and a feudal govern­ bordering on Egypt which wns con­ feet In size and the frame inuy be con We have the »’«cluwive »< ■ f this character wll) been In nn even temperature for about nnd therefore the completion of thia [him comes his Sancho Panza, a black enlarging the opening to as great u di­ provide lettuce and other salad crops two weeks the young cnterjilllnrs are 400-mlle line and Its success huvo negro squire who does not even gain ameter as the lobe can be stretched. without the application of urtltlclul taken out Into She open, where they elicited considerable Interest. The the state of Don Quixote’s able assist­ They do the wine thing to their lower heal. Plants may be started In tha are placed on plunts that are protect­ power Is employed to supply several small towns nnd many ranches In this ant because he is a slave. But this lip. Ahysslnlans pay but little attention living room during February and plant­ ed from birds by long nets. slave Is more than a squire; he Is a to New Testament Injunctions. Instead ed In tin- bed In March, giving a sup- When they hnve become fully grown fertile vtillcy, but tile largest part of walking arsenal. In submissive silence they follow the old Mosaic law of nn ply of salad for the table during the this protective not Is removed, and It Is utilized for pumping water on the he carries the heavy matchlock rifle of eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth sjirlng months or until outdoor let­ soon they retire Into cocoons or roll desert. It Is distributed from four sub- his lord and knight. And around his It Is not uncommon to nmpufate a tuce, radishes und spinach can be themselves up Into leaves. These are stations -Banning. Conehella, Calipa­ South Sixth St grown. waist ammunition belts, fortunately hand or a foot of u detected thief. collected nnd stored In specially ven­ tria nnd El Centro, The valley pos­ without many cartridges. He also tilated boxes, when», In a very short sesses local power plants, but the rnjild Airplanes and epidemics are regard­ ORNAMENTAL BARBERRY bends under a load of knives, a spear, ed as evils of the same magnitude by time, butttertlles of wonderful hues are development of the country necessi­ tated an Increase of t1»o supply from a shield, perhaps a primitive sling, the native minister of war. Smoking evolved. Thunberg's barberry, one of the Jap­ some Idg plant outside. and a pack containing native bread is practically nonexistent, one king and other food for the noble knight. having rather successfully enforced anese barberries, Is a handsome orna­ Tantrum Headache May They pass and disappear down the the prohibition law by cutting off the mentili and defensive hedge plant. It Oldest Christian Church Easily Become a Habit trail behind a wild coffee bush. Thus lips of those caught using the weed. will grow four or five feet high nnd ns I* O. Murray, formerly comptroller many broad. It may be left without the black Don Quixote and his trusted Bars of salt and cartridges are the There Is nn explanation that applies squire enter the lists of battle, for currency of the Abyssinian*, salt be­ trimming or be trained Into a compact to mnny Individuals, men, women nnd of the currency In the United Htates We llave the Best. knighthood of a fashion still flourishes ing regarded ns very precious, The formal hedge. It bears an abundance children, who complain of mysterious Treasury department, who, during nnd of bright red berries that hold on the aches or pains, says Fred C. Kelly In since the war Ims been In almost every In Abyssinia. natives Hay of the spendthrift, "He Let us show you our stock land where relief was needed, has re­ I One traveler through the country eats salt” Curiously enough, they plant all winter, but does not harbor McNaught's Monthly. cently returned from work In Pales­ the wheat-rust fungus. said that he believed there were more have a practice that is modern with If a woman finds that by referring tine nnd Greece for the lied Cross and slaves In Its capital, Adis Abeba, than civilization, the taking of Anger prints. to n sick hendache she enn excite sym­ Knights of Columbus, and lie says that LIKE RICH SOIL there were freemen. Servants of Eu-1 Very few natives can read or write, ho pathy, even momentarily, she Is almost the Church of the Nativity, the oldest rojieans living In the country have a shipper will have the bill of goods to try the experiment again. < hrlstlan church In the world. Is still Annual flowers especially responding certain West F St. their own slaves, and sometimes it b for a caravan prepared for hlrn and She has not only the satisfaction of ob­ In a Un-- state of preservation, it la to rich soli : Castor-bean, scarlet sage, Impossible for Americans or other’for­ sign it, not with an X but with hla taining sympathy, but also of giving the chief center of Interest In all balsam and china bean. I eigners to keep from owning slave«, finger print Bethlehem. iuild Now P >rland Lumber Co Building Material Valley Lumber Co. Cramer Bros.