ÍTljt1 Au¡ilautiiíiKrijtatrr OREGON Semi-Wet Id jr Paper Published at Ashland, Oregon form erly the Central Point and Ashland American O ffice at 372 East Main Street BUSINES AND NEW S PHONE 95 One Year AND WHAT HAVE W E DONE FOR THE POOR FILIPINOS ........................................ ....... ..... ............ .. ....... $2.00 ? Or a Romance and Adventure in and of the West Advertising Rates Given on Application Entered at the Postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, as Second Class Matter, under the Act o f Congress o f March 3, 1879 * Member S TA TE E D ITO R IA L ASSO CIATIO N Member N A T IO N A L E D ITO R IA L A SSO CIATIO N THE TRAINING OF YOUTH I By Rev. Hugh T. Mitchelmore) The training of youth- for life is not a new problem. It is as ancient as the family and as modern as today. W e need an enrichment o f the individual’s personality, the high utilization of his instinc tive powers and the achievement o f a free, but cooperative place in society. Education in America specializes on the impartation of information, the'storing up of the mind with mathamatical, grammatical, his toric and scientific facts. We must have that force back of these which furnishes meaning and purpose, goal and drive to all the rest— W e must have God. »■ ** The addition of God to our educational sys tem does not limit in the least the so-called se cular education. Instead of limiting we must liberate. True freedom is not “ a tightly buttoned up’ system of thought, bound up with prejudice against‘all things which will not fit into either spiritual or materialistic catagories. The spirit ual interpretation o f life is not averse to study in the scientific field, but insists there is a field of spiritual reality which is perceptable to the eyes of faith. Religion belongs to education. The state cannot give it. The church must do this primarily through the home and the stimulation of those ideals and practices of family religion which bal lasts the life of the youth with steadying spiritual conviction that no winds of temptation <Tr opinion can drive it to shipwreck. The church school must furnish the youth with the spiritual power which is necessary to fit them to live their best, to live clean, courageous, so cially useful lives. , If our youth fail to reach the best that may be their# then those who have the pow-er to teach, the family and the church, have fallen short of their highest possibilities. WILL PENDER REGAIN LIBERTY? The Daily News . John A. Pender, convicted of the murder of All's- Daisy Wehrman and her three-year old son at Scappoose, Oregon, September 4, 1911, and who was pardoned from the state peniten tiary September 11, 1920, is a convincing ex ample of the loose policy of paroling and pardon ing convicts from the state prison. October 26, the pardoned murdered w alked into a trap in Portland, and was barelv prevent ed from dealing death to a 15-year old girl who had been used to apprehend him, and after he had attempted to assault her. Since the recent arrest he has been identi fied by various women a s ! having assaulted them or of having been in neighborhoods where other dastardly crimes were committed similar to that of the slaying of Mrs. Wehrman and her little son. Developments have proved Pender one o f the most dangerous sexual perverts in the coun try. There is no longer any doubt but that it w as he who crushed the skulls of Mrs. Wehrman and the little innocent boy with a hammer, and thea riddled their bodies with bullets after he had assaulted the woman. The same fate would have been meted out to the 15-year old girl who was used to trap the fiend had not officers acted quickly. ♦The fiend in the guise o f a human being has been plying upon the public since his uncondi tional pardon in 1920. Several little girls have bee murdered since then and circumstances point the finger of suspicion at Pender. There is no telling the total o f his list of outraged victims. It was Osw ald West, who, as governor com muted a death sentence imposed upon Pender to life imprisonment. It was Ben Olcott who. as governor, issued a conditional pardon to Pender in 1920, following a recommendation of the 'tate parole board. What a sad mistake the former executives made when they permitted the fiend to live and turned him out to prey upon women and girls. It is with great relief that we leaim that Pender is to be returned to the peniten tiary to spend the remainder o f his life. But will he remain, in confinement the re mainder of his life? Is there, not strong possi bility that oversympathetic men and soo-sisters will secure his release 15 or 20 years from now? $ i il ft ' A / ,• /' By DAVID MARK <% 2 ,-* , / v/'y • t 216 Central Ave., Ashland, Oregon m “ Do you really think that the cials o f the precinct hold a special Court will decide in the State’s election within its borders for favor?” asked Miss Louise Leon three precinct laibor Commission ard, o f her companion and asso ers, constitutional provision and municipal I.aw, provided »1C utwuicy, .. - -----------------------1 ---------- - ------------ f -- having ----------- b r* ” ---------------------- ciate attorney, Donald W'aldo. I The question was asked on a ‘ »'“ t ‘ hey should, said laws had beautiful June afternoon on a bal- provided tha$ when such, officials cony on the east side o f the State elected and qualified their capitol building a' Sa’ -m. Ore-1 obligations, powers and duties gon. The speaker was u lady of wprp *uch ‘ h« ‘ ‘ hey should pro- attractive fuce and form. Her eyes vide work to those seeking work, were a dark brown Her complex- j The l'as,. was appealed to the Su- ion a light chin ful and Preme Court. The case elicited slightly dimpled, above which was Krea‘ interest within nnd without a mouth that when it twitched 'h e stute. The crux o f the conten- spellet! mischief. Her lips were Uon wa8- DoP8 organized society, tem ptingly attractive but free ** represented by the state, or any from sensuality. Her companion ,rac‘ ‘ona' l>ar‘ thereof, owe the was a man o f such phyqiue that I PeoPh‘ an opportunity to work? the most critical could find hut ^ 8 two hundred years before, the little to* criticize. — The two were n question agitating the eastern Am couple that would cause any*one erican people, was taxation with to look upon with admiration and out representation, so now the to give a second glance in passing. question agitating the people o f a western state was, Does the state Man and maid had a tired look, owe the people thereof the right as well they might The scene to work, without exploitation, Or pread o\it before them from the . . . , . . . snouiu should industrial Tree freedom he the W O M A N ’S P A G E | . balcony was It beautiful restful . . . , , . , . .. heritage of everyone? -B y - one. Looking east from where they Florence Riddick Boys set they could see the beautiful Oregon, a Son of his Father, the Copyrighted Salem prairie extending about PpoPlpt nn‘l o f his Mother society, Plymouth, Ind. * ............. .............. four miles to the opposite side be ■ insisted that his powers and du ing stopped on the left by a fringe ties were such that he should and F L O W E R BULBS o f trees that formerly was a fo r that he would do so through his est that divided the Salem and agents or representatives, the o ffi Some o f us resolve every spring Howel prairies nnd on the right cials. Henro the case in Court. that certainly next fall we will by the far famed Waldo Hills. Hence these characters introduc plant a profusion of bulbs and Further east could be seen the ed at the beginning o f this story. then, when fall comes, we get fir clad Cascade mountains rising; Donald ..... —" " Waldo ...... was ..... Assistant —,,v to b,u«y and neglect it. Now is the ties after tier until the fartherest. Attorney (.eneral, Miss Louisa ■time, and what joy they will be was his one» touched the eastern sky. On .... to us along about Easter time! The question and its decision both the northern and southern There are scores o f varieties of ends o f the line of vision stood, was with the Supreme Court. Ex tulips to choose from. The Dar sentinal like, the snow clad peaks citement was running high. The win is a wonderful variety. Nar o f Mount Hood and Mount J effer people had begun to feel the bless cissus is lovely planted under a son, looking much like glittering ing and benefit o f Industrial Free tree or along the edge o f shrub diamonds, » - as dom. Progress thereto been reflected the -------- they ----------- J . W..VVVI U lll\ " .................................. . had ................... “ vv" bery, where it will come up year glittering rays o f the western sun. sl° w- Hinderances many. In spite after year, just as if it naturaUy A scene more beautiful than | th« many hindrances the labor grew there. A few hyacinths, near the one thus spread out to the Question was being solved. Distri- the house foundation, will give a view o f the two seated high up in hution o f the products o f labor touch o f dignity. Then there are the eastern wing of the Capitol were more equitably and just. Dull the little crucuses, which come building would be hard to find CBr‘\ and the fear o f want, due to right up and bloom through the even on the western coast of the the uncertainity o f renumerative snow. They are to be scattered U. S. A. disappearing. I employment, ........ was — ----- ------ over the l^wn. We surely ought to win this happiness and freedom unknown One rule is to set the bulbs in | case for the State,” replied Donald before existed. The blessing o f the the ground twice as deep as, they Waldo. “ We social compact, have •' ~ * v n submitted u u m i i n ii t the in : — * • Government, “ ” * » • ■ • ■ • I v i n , v came iu m are thick. Some people put hardy best and strongest briefs, to the '*'rpc‘ to all. Self employment he tulips a foot underground and thus < ourt that it is possible to submit. | cau8P public or collective own- save themselves the trouble o f re Constitutionul provisions and con-! Pr*hip o f Collective used industrial moving them every year. A fter stitutionu! law are on outf side o f an^ commercial properties with the tulips have died down, th"y the case, also municipal laws, that t*,p'r use supplied abundance for simply set out pansies or sopie oth have been lately enacted, sustain every one. “ The meek were inher earth.” er flowers over them and then, our case. True enough we had lit- ¡ting ‘ the u-------” next spring, lo and behold, here tie precedents <*o offer, but what Where municipal, public initia the tulips are ouf, chirp as can little precedent the opposition had tion in industry and commerce be, ready to welcome the first rob to o ffer has beep made o f no had displaced private corporate in- in. avail or void because of recent iatipe industry and comtnerce the To set the crocus in the lawn, Constitutional Amendment. Nev blessing diseribed existed. Shall one merely cuts a slit In the sod, ertheless .the opposition is bitter the divine or legal, right o f the makes a hole in the soil and slips l and cruel A* the grave. I have got Exploiter go the way o f the divine the bulb under. The crocus, being , ten several letters, lately that do or legal right o f the king and small, does qot need to go very not conduce to sleep “ privilege” priest o f a former age? Shall the deep. The richer the soil, the bet dies hard,’ if die it must. Just what divine right o f the profiteer go ter the bulbs will do; but do not influence, dire threats made by the way ot the slave owner o f the purchased hirelings may effect past? These were the momentious use fresh manure on it« the Court Mind I do not know. Ex questions that the populace so an pediency backed by selfish inter xiously waited for the answer FAR FROM SCHOOLS ests so influenced the Court Mind this June after noon. In the fac in the famous or infamous, just tory and shop, they waited more Mothers, whose children find as you like, Dartmouth College anxiously if possible, than in the school a bit irksome, should re Case in 1819, that the Court ren field, Women «s well as men had mind them of places where( child dered a decision udverse to the tasted o f the blessing o f Indus ren live twenty-five or more miles State o f New Hampshire. Said de trial Justice. Equality o f oppor from school and arF thus deprived cision robbed the Government tunity in the labor or work world o f all the pleasant associations much o f its powers. Subsequent wnM »omething to tie too. It was a and activities o f school life. In decisions o f the court have robbed CHndi‘ mn new to modern civiliza some remote places. Outpost Cor governments, both Federal and I tion- In many Christian, co-oper respondence schools help such Mate o f powers that might have • tivp. Industrio-Commercial cities, I children through the first eight protected the people but have fa il-! ma,lp *uch because the provisions | grades. Our little ones may “ wish pd to do so, because o f said de- o f ‘ hpir Charters were such that the school house *would barn” or C,* '° n- | uP °n ‘ hpir. ‘ he charters adoption! some fate consign them a vacation The two persons described at *uch a city> Ppr*<»n or corporation | but a week at home with the meas the beginning o f this story were was born or created. They wrr¿ les is Hkely to make them see pro descendant» o f Pioneer families. ( hriatian persons because school in a different light. Mothers They were associates together. vision in the Charter included the can help by taking an interest lik assisting the Attorney General be- ^ ,,,dpn Rule as taught by Christ ing the teachers, and always ■ fore the .Supreme Court in a case Jesus. speaking an approving word to t that had come before the Court (T o he continued) everything which concerns school from the Circuit Court o f Multno lifs. The attitude o f the child to ------ , , — ..... m w url Brooks — Japanese gardeners mah County, coming to said ,,„ Court ward his school is very much a re- from Precinct No. 10. John Dg*, |*iv* ««'■load celery toward build- flectian o f what he hears o f it et, el had brought suit for $300,-1 JaP*oesc school. alt home. olive, If we are to judge from the past, that very thing will happen and a rapist and murderer again be released to prey upon helpless girls and women. r THE GRASS NIBBLERS “ I expect nothing from the middle class of hu manity. They are but so many sheep nibbling at the withered grass of life.” Thus Jim Tul|y, hobo poet, after wandering up and down the highways and by-ways that are this America. It is a poetic bit o f pessimism, a poetic bit of nonsense. Not that much of what he has to say in his observa tions on the republic is not true Much of what al most anybody says is true,including the more viol ent inmates of our institutions for the feeble minded. He believes we are money mad (where have we heard that before?) and that we are con trolled by bankers and lawyers and merchants and thieves. All in all, he draw's a dismal picture. But it is a misleading picture or, if it isn’t, then this is one heck of a country in which some 110,- 000,000 of people live and move and have their monthly installments. Regardless, however, of the degree of accuracy with which Mr. Tully has drawn up his indict ments, we bid him to take heart with respect to this grass-nibbling middle class of ours. Does the good fellow realize that the history of America and her progress is little more than the history of the “ great middle class?” Abraham Lincoln, for example, is a notable instance of \.hu. Lie great middle class can do when it takes a nation. The hobo poets weren’t expecting a darned thing of humble Abe Lincoln in the year 1859. But just look what they say about him today, in 1927. Out of the woods and underbrush, a typical represen tative o f the so-called lower stratum of our so ciety, one Andrew Jackson made his W'ay. This democracy of our is a direct outgrowth of the dreams and efforts of the great middle class. It has its weak spots, goodness knows, and what the politicians can do to it at times is a sight to See, but folks are moving along beneath its com paratively beneficient protection— moving along. The great middle class may nibble a lot of grass, but it isn’t withered grass. It is the long^stemmed, succulent life-giving herbage that builds brain and brawn and now’ and again, sets men’s souls on fire. We aren’t mad about money. Honest we arpn’t. A ll we care about is the things that money will buy. Americans are so notoriously great spenders that the sight of a flock o f our home grown tourists approaching the shores of foreign land sends the darts o f good cheer and parsimon ious anticipation shooting through that land like needles through a pin coushion. But criticism is good for us. There’s a whole lot for even as to learn yet. Really there is. LIFE AND GROWTH Luther Burbank held a philosophy o f life that brought inspiration and hope. He believed that growth and development! was not merely mater ial, that it was anincentive to the spiritual life. In one o f his last letters he w rote: “ Life is growth— a challenge to environment. If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each dav in some useful direction, then this splendid bal ance o f cosmic forces which we call life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction. ‘ - I . assistant. a Burn*— Leven» Hol<>¡ , doubled in size. to 000 damage against Precinct No. 1 — ------ 10 for failure to provide John I)oe* Umatilla County produced $15 - lie et el with emnloyment. JUDGE-1 0<,0.000 in crop* and products this ment in F a v o r of t h e >rp,r plaintiff was rendered and a court ----------- i Pendleton— James Maloney decree was given for payment of Grants Paso— Bulb growing de ranch, 900 acres, has crop of 48,- the amount asked for, aiao an ord-1 vsloping into great farm monry- ■ 000 bushels wheat. er demanding that the proper otfY- ' maker. “ 'AS