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S e m i- W e e k ly Paper Pu b lis h e d « I A shlan d, O r e g o n
couver, B. C. and are visiting for
Formerly the Central Point and Ashland American
some time with Mrs. Weedon’s
Office at 372 East Main Street
brothers, Rudy Connor and Lee
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Connor and families.
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Mr. and Mrs. Minor Barton and
fumily of Dryad, Wash., arrived
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Fntered at the Poatoffice at Ashland, Oregon, as Second Class Sunday and visited Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Matter, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
Connor until Tuesday, when they
Member S T A T E E D IT O R IA L A S S O C IA T IO N
left for Tuscon, Ariz.
M e m b e r N A T IO N A L E D IT O R IA L A S S O C IA T IO N
Mrs. Glenn Saltmarsh of Little
‘‘Ashland Has It", the slogan adopted by the Lith- Applegate came over Saturday ev
ian Committee is one that can be used most efefctive- ening to spend Sunday with her
ly. It opens opportunities to parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Ham
Ashland
get before the strangers in ilton Sunday was Mr. Hamilton’s
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this city the many natural ad- birthday.
Mrs. Elia Patterson, Mrs. Ed.
advantages that Ashland does Jacobs,
Willie Jacobs and Tom
have. It provides a means to sell our own people up Edmundson returned Thursday of
on the resources of this community, and it is doubly last week from Stockton, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lamb of
valuable because of the phsycology that can be used
Klamath Agency arrived Saturday
in connection with it. The arousing of natural
evening and visited until Sunday
ity by the simple statement that “Ashland Has It”, evening
u* the home of Tom Lnmh.
the fact that people are very human and will natur Miss Velma Mason went home with
ally ask the question “Well, what have they?” should them for a two weeks visit.
be the means of conveying to many in an effective Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Maharrv
and family went to Chiloquin last
manner just what we do have. «t* ,
However there is one possible danger, the town Saturday where Mr. Maharry has
wag, the one who can see no good in anything, the work.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bowman and
one who thinks he is building up by tearing down, party returned. Sunday evening
can put the reverse upon the good intent of the com from Crescent City via Bandon.
mittee By their selection. Any effort to do this should Mr. and Mrs. James Dopp spent
be met with a vigorous protest by interested citizens. Sunday evening at the C. W. Long
For there are those who will think they are witty, home.
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Proctor have
when they attempt to place the wrong interpretation both
been quite ill with Flu the
on it.
past week. They were taken to
Ashland Tuesday and are staying
W. G. Ide, manager of the State Chamber of Com with friends.
merce recently declared that the middle west was Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rooks,
have been visiting for sev
discussing Oregon in a mo.st who
eral weeks in Medford were in
Getting Our
favorable manner, and that Talent Tuesday afternoon calling
House In Order
he expected a decided influx op Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tryon.
of settlers from that territory. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Turnbaugh
He based this assertion upon the fact that those who of Chiloquin spent the week-end
were coming into this state were doing so because with relatives in Medford They
were in Talent Monday calling on
they had been told by others that Oregon presented friends.
good possibilities. If this fact be true then it behooves Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Pratt of Dal
Southern Oregon in general,and Ashland in particular las, Texas and Mr. and Mrs. T.
H. Pratt of Los Angeles visited
to get “Our house in order.”
We have something to offer the new comer in Friday and Saturday with Mr.
J. F. Webster.
Southern Oregon we have just as much or more to and Mr. Mrs.
and Mrs. C. W. Holdridge
offer him, as has other sections of the state. But un and Doris returned Sunday from
less we offer it to him, he will not come, for the com a motor trip to Seattle. Miss Lu-
petition is too keen, other communities are busily en cile Holdridge who has been visit
gaged in presenting their attractions in as favorable a ing in Seattle the past month re
manner as possible, and if we are to compete then turned with them.
and Mrs. Roy Hi’.l and Mrs.
we, should emulate them in so far as it would be con L. Mr.
C. Hill motored to Lake of the
sistent. '
Woods Friday returning home Sat
Merely as a suggestion along this line, in our opin urday evening.
®hp Aöhlanö Srgiatpr
curios
A sect is defined by Webster in books have been softened and re
its first meaning as “a way or moved.
mode of life, hence a faith in ier-
The procedure leading to the
Good,
tain prerepts for the guidance of adoption of the text book resolu
life; a religion; a faith,” and in its 1 tion does not justify the unkind
Old-Fashioned
second as “those attached to a cer accusation by Shipley that the at
tain opinion or set of opinions.” titude of the board constituted a
Buttered
Evolution is held by many excell- : “political device” or his pointed
ent authorities to be a religion complaint that no member of the
in its contradiction of the biblical board is a scientist.
belief of creation. The followers
TO M AK E STENCIL
“ Whereas, this state board of of the evolutonary sect in their '
education is in receipt of numer anti-biblical propaganda are no j The ingenuous housewife may
a
ous communications, and argu less earnest anr enthusiastic than make her own stencils. Use
ments both written and oral, re- j the so called fundamental religion -1 heavy parchment paper and put
the pattern on this with carbon
presenting various and difefrent I ists.
schools of thought on the subject : Evolution suggests, if not teach paper. With a sharp pointed knife
es, the animal o rigin of man,which cut out the design. If you plan to
of evolution; therefore, be it
“ Resolved, that it is the policy is diametrically anti-religious. The use two or three colors, make sep
Easy to have it
of this board to list no books that | teaching of evolution as a fact is arate cutouts on separate pieces
thus
prohibited
by
the
state
con
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of
parchment
patterns,
cutting
out
i.ow w’ith an
teach evolution other than as a
stitution.
only the parts colored one color
theory.”
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In a joint letter signed by nine \ on one piece of paper, and only I
CORN-
The state board of education
has no authority to do the thing California college presidents, in those colored the other color on
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the piece of paper. Designs may be j
o f which it is publicly accused by cluding the presidents of the Uni- j
selected
from wall paper patterns.
Shipley, that is order the teacher versities of California and of I
Priced at only—
The
simpler
patterns are likely to
Stanford
university,
which
led
to
to teach evolution either as a fact
be
more
successful.
or a theory. The schooj law, as the adoption of the text book re
was
* narted by the legislature provides solution of April, 1925, it
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quite definitely what subjects stated that in 12 debatable science
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shall be taught. The state board books that had been submitted for reaches production of carload a
day.
has authority only to “adopt rules approval, “evolution is presented
and regulations not inconsistent as a theory and not as an estab
with the laws of the state for its lished fact,” also that "the theory
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own government and for the gov of evolution could scarcely be
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ernment o f the schools.” The pre omitted from any text book
sent board has not attempted by biology or astronomy or geology.”
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Devoted as the evolutionist au
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jects that may or may not be thors are to their theories, they
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taught in the high and grammar are still broad enough and their
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schools.
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publishing houses keen enough to
The state constitution provides defer measurably to the beliefs of
that no sectarian or denomination Christian religionists and through
al doctrine may be taught. The the solicitude of the present poli
teaching of evolution as a fact tically minded and unscientific
would be a violation of this pro board of education extremely of
Invest
in
Neces-si. t i es
first!
vision.
fensive assertions in biological text
because he wa* told last week
both privately and during regular
public session of the board that
the only ruling was as to text
books. He was promised publicly
that the exact wording of the
rule would be promptly mailed to
him. But ip bis eagerness he would
not w ait.'This is the resolution
that was adopted by the
state
board in April, 1926.
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MAKING HISTORY
Everyone has enjoyed reading the
stories of the early days of Ash
land which the Register recently
published. It is well that old-tim
ers who are still among us should
write out their memories so that
early-day history shall not be lost.
The Pioneer W ay
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Other interesting items in the Reg
ion there should be an exhibit of local farm products
ister tell of the happenings of our
T EA CH ER S NOT GAG GED
sotne place, preferably in the Chamber of Commerce.
own day, the development of local
At Grants Pass, one entire room is taken up with this
industries,
the size of the year’s
Chico Enterprise: The amount
form of advertising. It is difficult for a new comer to of ignorance that prevails as to the
harvest, and various opportunities
visit the .Chamber of Commerce there or at Medford teaching of evolution in the pi”.-
in the Ashland section.
without getting an impressive view of products the lic schools is as amazing as it is de
soil will produce. But in Ashland, its different, there plorable.
While this bank has had a part in
Even the official representative
is not one single place where the products of the soil
Ashland’s history since 1884, its
evolution, Maynard Shipley,
are .on exhibit, there is not one finger lifted to prop of
history-making is not all of the
oresident of the Science League of
erly placed before strangers that which we have to America, Inc., who addressed the
past for it is helping to make this
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sell to a new comer.
present day history through coop
state board of education in San
If a merchant was to attempt to do business by get Francisco last week urging that
eration with local enterprise.
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ting off some place in a dark room with no display body to change its ruling so that
windows, he would be considered foolish by his fel evolution can be taught as a fact
We are glad to serve you.
and not a theory, is either woeful
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low business men, and the chances are, he would not ly igilprant or designedly ignorant
last thirty days. Yet we want to .sell Ahland to people, of the true situation.
and we are attempting to do business without a dis Shipley writes to the Daily
News and to the Bulletin, both of
play window, to show our wares.
ASHLAND LUMBER CO
F i r s t N a t i o n a l B a n k
How do we expect to sell anything if we don’t at least San Francisco, and his letters
384 Oak St.
At Ry. Crossing
Phone 20
published on July 4, pro
use methods that business houses have tried and were
ASHLAND
OREGON
testing against the alleged ruling
found successful in disposing of their own merchan of the state board “that no teach
dise- Our problem of .selling this vicinity to outside er (not text books) in California
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people is not one bit different than that problem whch would be permitted to speak of
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daily confornts the man with a room full of mer evolution as an actual develop
chandise, but we expect to get results when we make mental process of nature.”
no effort to merchandise our resources in a business Shipley knows, or should know,
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like manner.
It was stated recently in the sheriff’s office that
SOUTHERN OREGON’S MOUNTAIN RESORT
ear registrations at this time was largely from foreign
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cars. These people are coming into Jackson county,
AT THE
but not into the Ashland vicinity. For this state of af
fairs we have no one to blame but ourselves. Wishing
At beautiful Lake of the Woods, nestled
for more people to settle on our lands will not produce1
among the trees on Rainbow Bay, is the ideal
results. It takes work and a lot of it.
spot for your summer vacation and week-end
trips, i urnished cabins, running water and
Miss Klin Hamilton and Karl
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campers supplies are only a few of the things
Hamilton are packing fruit in
you will find for your convenience at this
Medford.
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pleasant mountain retreat.
many friend«. Gam*** were play
Mr. Voss of Long Beach. Calif.,
Beauty
Economy
Durability
“ Lake of the W oods Chalets”
ed and the picnic supper served ia visi*'"* -• *v. home of Mr. and
in true Camp Fire style. Mr. and Mr*. I.. V. New berg. They were
old friend* in Kimberley. Ida.
Mra. Guy Hamilton and Mr. ami
Miss Kleanor Kindberg of San
Mr*. H. Lowe were chaperone*.
Diego. Calif., who is studying
Mina Ruth Ilackler left Monday medicine at the U. of O. i* spend
evening for Chicago where *hc ha* ing the summer at the home of
accepted a position with a light op her uncle. Mr. L S. Ilackler.
era company. She has signed a
Mr*. Lloyd Lacey and two child
two-year co ntract. Mia* Ilackler ren of Bray, Calif., are visiting
has a wonderful voice and her at the home of her parents Mr. and
musical ability has been recogniz Mrs. L. S. Hacklar.
ed in musical circles here in the
Miss Madge Hackler, who ha*
Rogue River valley. Herr many been visiting her parents the past
friend* wish W «iter** in her ten days will return to Portland
new work. H im Martha Spenker of • this week end.
Medford has also signed a con
Mrs. Hamilton of Aahland
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tract with the same company and staying at the home of Mr. and
left for Chicago last week.
Mrs. Wm. High at present.
Mias Anna Evan* la «pending
Mr. and Mrs.
Rudy Connor
the week at Chiloquin.
have rented Mrs. N. Oatman'a
Lithia Springs
Hotel
i .E*ce!Irnt. fl3hi"K. d im m in g and boating make life at the
lake a glorious diversion from the dull strain, and worries
u. mess. ring your family— forget *uch troublesome
equipment a . tent, and staple gro ceries-an d enjoy an out
ing at the Chalets.
11:30 A. M. TO 2 P. M.
AND
5 TO 8:30 P. M.
$1.00 PER PLATE
Other Service If Desired
Lithia Springs Hotel
How To Find It
“ Lab* af the Wood*
CKa-
lata” are situated
at
the
North ead of the Lake. From
Ashlaad side, 39 mile* it 1*
2 1-2 mile* from first tight
of water, from Klamath tide
40 milo*. road i* at first sight
af water. Watch for •if ns!
Swimming— fishing, furnish
ed or unfurnished cabins.
row boats, motor boats,
campers supplies, store, gas
and oil, cold drinking water
excurision launch, “ Duplex”
cabin, reasonable rates.
Ashland, Oregon
Lake of the W oods Recreation Co., Inc.