Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-01

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but it is the raw material thereof
Many a front-page story of yester-
day will be the forgotten detail OF
tomorrow, yet that is just the ques-
/ tion which no man, not even the
/ trained historian, can decide at the
moment and with unfailing accu-
racy. Wherefore it is wise to give
the incidents of each day the promi-
nence of their day, leaving time to
winnow out the grain from the chaff.
On the surface the past week has
been distinguished for its footprints
on the sands of crime. From San
Francisco, with its Diggs trial, to
New York, with the escape of Thaw
and the attempted assassination of
Mayor Gaynor, and across to far, off
Roumania, where anarchists sought
to eliminate the king and queen, the
criminal has been in the foreground.
Diggs, who was found guilty of white
slavery, gave a novel turn to his
unspeakable conduct by adopting an
excuse that has never been seriously
advanced under similar circum-
stances since the original Adam
apologized for our original sin.
There was no Mann act in the Gar
den of Eden, but whatever the pre-
else nature of the first mans Of
fense, he made it worse by blaming
the woman, and there have been
philosophers who have declared that
Adam was not banished for his fall,
but for the cowardly excuse he Of
fered. This was rough on Eve, as
it is also rough on the victim of
Maury Diggs.
Anarchists Are Active in Roumania.
Mayor Gaynor began his career of
office under the sensational circum-
stances of an attempted assassination
in which one Gallagher shot at him,
and now, as his term draws to a
close, comes the story of an effort to
dynamite him. If it were true that
only the great are marked for
slaughter by the anarchists, Gaynor
has claims to greatness greater than
those of most of his predecessors.
AS for the king and queen of Rou-
mania, the plan to kill them is all
the more difficult to understand in
view of the fact that the nation has
emerged from the Balkan imbroglio
in far better position than it was
at the close of the war with Turkey
Then it was declared by the king
that Roumania had been left with
only sufficient territory in which to
bury the national dignity, whereas
the recent peace pact gives her the
slice of northeastern Bulgaria which
she has so long coveted. On person.
al grounds, the effort to destroy
them is even harder to comprehend
The king himself is a colorless type
of affable monarch, but the queer
is one of the most beloved on
European throne. AS Garner
SYLVIA" novelist and poetess, she has
won countless thousands of admir-
ers in all parts OF the world, ant
even if the Roumanians fail to appre
ciate her international literary fame
and the bold advertisement which i
has given the country, they know O
her large heart and generous dispo
sition to the poor. To the anarchist
however, this counts for nothing
since the benevolent ruler, whether
king or president, is therefore al
the more Objectionable.
Idealists Start New Movement.
Certain it is that never before il
history was art so highly priced Of
so generally cultivated as il is today
The ancients may have surpassed III
in the quality of various art forms
but there is nothing to indicate thai
the masses were in a position to ap
preciate and practice the arts as il
the present. This is one of the facts
which makes it all the more surpris
ing to learn that Edmond Rostand
Maurice Maeterlinck and Camille
Flammarion have seen fit to star
a society ''to combat the materialisn
of the present age in earnest.
These men have banded themselves
with others to fight for "the highel
ideals in art, literature and scienc,
in the face of the decadence nov
threatening public taste" Jus
what they mean by materialism, AM
what is the evil in it, is. not stated
J and the curious circumstance is tha
no other three men could be select
, ed who would better illustrate tn
falsity of the contention that we ar
stepped in gross materialism. Fac
has made large sums of money ou
of popular appreciation of qualitie
} ideal to a degree. Rostand is tn
: most. imaginative of contemporar
dramatic poets; Maeterlinck has be
! come a household word for his eS
quisite mating of the realistic an
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