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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-05-20
JUSTICE FOR THE FOSTER-PAR,
ENTS OF OUR CHILDREN

II is strange that the generous.
hearted American people, who pour
ed out their riches so prodigally in
response to every patriotic, every
charitable appeal, and who accorded
such enthusiastic and liberal sup
port to every measure and to every
group that helped win the war
should have neglected to properl!
encourage and reward the services
of one of the noblest professions in
the field of human activities-a pro-
fession that in lofty ideals, in un-
selfish principles, in sacred response
bilities, stands side by side with the
ministry of the Gospel itself
We wish to bespeak, with what
ever power and authority we may
have and with such words as may
be granted to us. some measure OF
consideration for the foster-fathers
and mothers OF our children-the
school teachers OF the United States
of America.
There is no class of workers of
which We demand so much. We
commit into their keeping the minds,
the bodies, and the very souls OF
our children in the tender and for
native years OF their lives, and they.
receiving these children, can indeed
be said to hold in the hollow Of
their hands the future OF America.
We expect these devoted men and
women TO watch over and care for
our sons and daughters as tho they
were their very own. TO drill them in
the arts and sciences, to train them
for business and for citizenship, to
instruct them in manners and in
morals, to do for them those things
We should do had we the training
and the leisure.
No class has assumed so heavy, SO
trying a burden and a responsibility
with such willingness as these con-
secrated men and women. No class
has performed their increasingly
heavy tasks more devotedly, more
conscientiously and with less
thought of self. No class served
their country more whole-heartedly.
more Loyalty, during the trying and
tempestuous times of war, day by
day pursuing their round of duty,
day by day helping the young people,
and thru the children the parents,
TO see the struggle in its true light,
thus securing the cooperation Of the
community in every measure under
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-05-20
!. taken by the Government to win the


taken by the Government to win the
war.
Truly they have made the nation
their everlasting debtor. Truly had
they not done their work so well
this republic would not outlast the
span of generation.
What then have the teachers re-
ceived at our hands in return? They
have received little Of honor and
somewhat less of pay. Other classes
have prospered; other classes thru
powerful organizations have secured
generous wages. The teachers have
no spokesman, however, to demand
even the simple justice of a living
wage, so to them we give their petty
prewar pittance, so meager, so pitt
fully inadequate, that ii places "a
burning brand of shame and disgrace
upon this nation.
The men and women who are max
ing the Americans Of tomorrow are
being treated with less considera'
tion than the janitors who sweep
out the buildings in which they are
employed; they are earning on the
average, less than the wages given
to the scrubwomen employed in the
public buildings of the United States
Government. Normal-school gradu-
ates receive less salary than street.
sweepers; high-school principals and
superintendent less than section
foremen; country school teachers less
for instructing the farmers children
than he pays his hired man to feed
his hogs.
In a certain town Of Illinois, for
instance, the average wages of fif-
teen miners for one month was $217,
while the average monthly salary Of
fifteen teachers in the same town
was $55. In another town a miner,
who, by the way, was an enemy alien,
drew more than s2.700 last year,
while the salary of the high-school
principal in the same town was s765,
We welcome with all our hearts the
long-belated recognition that is be-
ing given to the man who works
with his hands. We believe that
this same workingman will be the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-05-20

first to poin hands with US in asking
better pay for those who teach hi
children.
No wonder there are fifty thous
and vacancies in the teaching forces
of the schools. No wonder the ranks
are being filled with weak men and
with immature women who merely
use the profession as a stepping
stone to something better. No won
der there are thirty thousand teach
ers in the United States who have
had no schooling beyond the eighth
grammar grade. Small wonder, in.
deed, that seven million of our
school-children are being trained by
teachers, mere boys and girls them
selves, who had no professional edu-
cation whatever.
When We consider that the 740,-
900 teachers of America are paid an
average salary of $3.50 year; when,
moreover, we consider the fact that
living costs have actually advanced
103 per cent since the beginning of
the war, thereby cutting the buying
power of these insignificant salaries
in half, We can easily determine that
only fool or 4 martyr would choose
teaching as a profession, or would
long remain in II unless these ter
rible conditions were swiftly rene
died.
What a crime is this? What an in
dictment! What an objectionable
sin at the doors of an enlightened
people who now find themselves at
the head and forefront of the democ-
racies of the world? How can we
better prepare for the great under
takings of reconstruction than by set
ting ourselves Immediately to rene
dying this perilous condition. In
these trying and chaotic times when
the world is beset by unrest by an
archy, by revolution, by the devils
brood of appalling evils that follow
in the train of war, We must make
sure that the foundations of our re-
public are set on a rock that it may
stand against. the flood.
The peace and security Of the
world of the future will be in the
safe keeping of the generation now
in our schools. These boys and girls
must weave up the raveled sleeve"
of civilization. Their hands must
minister to the wounds of the ma
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-05-20

ers OF foresight, of vision, broad
minded men and thoughtful women
who will see-nay, perhaps have long
since seen-the critical and compell-
ing Importance Of this problem. We
are directing this appeal to them.
We urge theem to compare the sal
aries OF their teachers with the wag-
es of those who are doing work of
equal value. There will be a chal-
lenge in the facts that will stir the
community to action.
Let each community invest in
schools so that 1t may thereby in
vest in trained manhood and wom-
hnhood that can play their part in
the great period of rebuilding and
reconstruction that lies before us.
Let each community set for its goal,
as far as is practicable, a minimum
wage of at least $1,000 a year for
the teachers of America. This would
cost the nation perhaps as much as
We have spent so gloriously in but
one week of the Great War.
We are not pleading merely for
the welfare of some single profess
sion; we are not pleading for a spe-
cial class; we are pleading for Ameri-
ca: for her larger, her brighter, her
richer future, for the fulfillment of
her glorious promise. We are plead
ing for coming race of men and
women who shall be qualified to
make complete the work of our fore
fathers who founded this nation and
dedicated it to liberty, and who will
bring to full fruition the new VIC
tories that We have won in free
dom's cause. We are pleading for a
wider teaching Of the principles, the
purposes, and the ideals of this ma
tion that all men shall know her
and shall have equal access
to her opportunities; that the light
Of Americanism will so shine that
II will flood every home, every heart,
in our great land.-Literary Digest.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-05-20
James Barrett, Prop. Phone 1888

tions, Their minds must meet and
solve the difficult and crucial prob
lens that will be their inheritance.
Their hearts must be so imbued with
the horrors of war and with the pow
erty and anguish that inevitably fol-
low in its wake that they in their
time will enter upon it only as a
last resort in national self-defense, or
in support of some great principle of
humanity.
Never has there been a more ur-
gent need for high-minded, great
hearted, splendidly trained, 100 per
cent American instruction to drive
home the vital lessons that these
times hold. Never has the future of
the nation been so clearly committed
into the hands of the teachers. And
vet thousands of men and women of
aDlllty VINO would prefer to teach
are reluctantly leaving their chosen
calling, forced by the hard necessi-
ties of their very existence.
The teachers ask no largess at the
hands of fortune. They enter their
profession for service, not riches.
But they invest years and money in
preparation for their life-work and
the knowledge they gain is shared
with others who themselves use it
to their own profit. Teachers, then,
by every right and in all Justice ex-
pect a return that will permit them
and their dependents to live decently
and in comfort.
In every community reached by
The Literary Digest there are read
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-05-20
SEATTLE MAYOR WILL
SPEAK IN NEW YORl

Mayor Ole Hanson, Of Seattle, will
be the principal speaker at ban
quet of the National Manufacturers
association in New York May 81.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-05-20

Work started on highway between
Echo and Stanfield.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
WITH THE WOMEN

The boys are not the only ones who
arc coming home these days with gold
chevrons on their sleeves and taIes of.
the great war on the tins of their
tongues. There are women and girls
returning also and many of them have
seen much more service than some Of
their brothers.
Miss Dee Van Balkon is one of these
she mas peen IN war service since the
outbreak of the war. Her career is n
most interesting one and ON account
of her unusual accomplishments is nv
no means typical Miss Van Balllon is
a lingutst, glob-trottcr, pianiste and
wireless operator IN the signal corps
Of the army At the very outbreak Of
the war she Joined an ambulance sery
lce Of tn Canadian army as driver and
went u the front. In her spare time
she atudeu wireless. In the fall of
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12

1916 she came to New York to take a
res and then returned to France a
year latcr 10 take charge of The for
elgn service telephone girls.
While abroad she served at Chau-
mont and Colombcy- les Bellies, where
the American aviation headquarters
were. She is now back in this country
for another rest, but instead of stay
ing quietly at home she has returned
to Camp Upton and is acting as an
cntelt9inor for the returned soldiers.
She is being greeted every time she
appears at the base hospital or in the
welfare buildings of officers and men
whom she met in France. At these
entertainments she confines herself to
popular songs and modern ballads and
telling stories based on her years SER
vice abroad. She wears two gold SER
vice stripes on her left sleeve.
Miss Van Balkom was born in SUI
matra, where her father was tobacco
planter She has travelled all over
the world, living at various times in
London, Amsterdam, Australia and To-
ronto,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
JOHN HANLON TRIAL
SET MONDAY FEB. Il
Vale Waits With Interest Case
Destined to Be Sensational +;
Defendant Accused of As
sault With Intent to Kill.

Vale, Feb. 1.-THE trial of John
llanlon, charged with assault with in
tent to kill because of the sensational
shooting alfray Jan. I, 1919, when ne
shot three times at X. W. Swagler,
prosecuting attorney of Malheur coun-
ty, has been set for Monday, Feb. II,
before Judge Dalton Biggs of this jul
dicial district. One of the shots took
effect in the right wrist, one bullet en-
tered the left thigh and one in the
right side. Swagler has recovered.
A hard legal battle will be staged
when the trial comes up. Attorneys
John IL. Norris and p. Monroe Smock
of Payette, will defend llanlon. w. II.
Brooks and J. w. McCulloch, two for
MGR prosecuting attorneys of the east
ern Oregon district, will serve as spe-
cial prosecutors in this case.
The case is a peculiar one. Briefly
it is about like this: 1lanlon who does
tcaming in construction camps claims
he was robbed Of several hundred dol
lars in Jordan Valley, oregon, by a
Basque last summer. lie filed com
plaint in Jordan Valley before justice
OF the peace. but the evidence he had
was not sufficient to hold the Basque
Then Iianlon brought the casc to the
attention of Prosecuting Attorney
Swagler of Ontario, who brought the
case before the grand jury. A number
of witnesses were examined but the
grand jury failed to return an indict-
ment against the Basque. This was On
Jan. G, 1919 The next morning Ham
lon stood at the head of the court
house stairs at Vale, armed with a re-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
MOUNTAIN HOME

Mountain Home. Feb. III. G. Kidd
and +. Tinsley of Bruneau were
Mountain Home business visitors Sat-
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cowan were in
Mountain Home few days from their
big ranch at Tindall on business as
well as pleasure.
i. Charlton and John b. Chattin
were business visitors from Chattin
flats.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Blackwell of
Glenns Ferry were weekend visitors
in the city.
A. +. Launmcll of Hot Springs was
looking after special business affairs
Saturday in the city.
Miss Wipifred Bunncy and Bert
Thorpe of Boise were guests OF Mr..
and Mrs. James u. Warner and Mrs.
Lsaacs Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. L. X. Klngaman of Glenns
Ferry spent Saturday in Mountain
Home.
i. e. Martin of Boise was Il bust
ness visitor the later part of the week.
Robert GRUMPY of salt Lake was Il
weekend visitor in the city, a guest
Of the Hotel Mellen.
w. Baker of Portland was n Noun
tain Home business visitor the latter
part of the week.
II. Cline. manager of the Glenns
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
Nature Gives a Cry for Help
That S. S. s. Can Answer
With the Right Treatment.

This is the season when the
damp, cold, changing weather
Of winter inlensifics HE pains
and other disagrccablc symp-
toms Of rheumatism.
rheumatism never comes by
accident. 1t is in the blood and
system before Il pain is felt
The symptoms of this dis
ease are almost unnoticcd at
first, 50 insidionsly do they
steal over the body; gradually
the little pains and stiffness in
crease until they develop great
Inconvenience day by day, and
IF neglected or improperly
treated will become chronic.
Not only is rheumatism the
most painful of all diseases,
with lis swollen, stiff Joints,
throbbing muscles and sting
ing nerves, but it is a formid-
able and dangerous trouble.
Every day The poison re-
mains in the system the disease
gets a firmer hold and the pa
ticnt is soon left Il helpless
cripple.
or course, il this painful dis
ease was on the surface only,
you might reasonably expect to
get relief by the use Of lotions.
liniments and other local APP
plicatlons. But The source OF
the disease issill your blood, the
Tiny disease germs find lodg-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
High School Notes
EXPECT FAST BALL TEAM

II is now certain that tile followers
of basketball in Boise will be given
some fast lively, outside games in the
next few weeks The announcement
comes from the local high school, III
the form of schedule for early games,
the first TO be this coming saturday
evening at the high school gymnasium
with the Meridian school team, Those
who followed the game last year know
that the Meridian high had n fast team,
giving the local boys n hard ran. The
high school squad has been in hard
training for the past month now and
should be able TO convince the Meridian
boys that when II comes TO iaske tball
Boise is no sloucher. Tho Boise team
held the championship of southern Ida :
no last year. and with several of the
old men back this year they should
be able to handle all corners.
The other games so far on-the sched-
ulc are: Feb. 81, Wciser liSn school at
Weiser; Feb. IS, the same team here;
March /. Caldwell high mt Caldwell;
and March Is, they are scheduled to
play here; rs Vet no team has been
picked to play ON March Games are
also pending with the Nantpa and Twin
Falls high schools, but nothing dGfin-
lite can be given out about these as yet
CADETS HEAR KELLOGG
The high school Cadet Corps instead
Of their regular drill during the noon
hour Tuesday, heard a very interesting
talk given by Lieutenant Kellogg. The
address was along a military line, OK
planning the mode of conduct towards
officers, and of the benefits OF
discipline. Lieutenant Kellogg is q I'm
] iversity of Nebraska man, who joined
tho army at the beginning of the war,
! and received his, training at the Camp
| Pike Officers Training Camp. Instruc-
tor Fletcher of the Cadets hopes to be
able to induce Lieutenant Kellogg 10
! come before the Cadets again and talk
/ to them, as such talks are very in
structing and interesting to the boys.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
lRMAN CANNON FOR
SOLDIERS MEDALS
Adamson Bill Would Honor Men
Who Entered Service of
Their Country-Commission
to Select Designs.

II Idaho secured German cannon,
captured in battles in which her native
sons engaged, all who entered the SER
vice of their country from this state
will be awarded an honor medal made
therefrom. Provision is made for this
in the Adamson bill, introduced in the
house of representatives.
This measure provides in part:
The governor, secretary Of state
and state treasurer of the state of
Idaho be and hereby are constituted a
commission to devise and adopt a de-
sign or designs for appropriate badges
of honor to be bestowed by the state
of Idaho upon every soldier. sailor ana
marine in the military forces Of the
United States in the war With Ger
many, who, at the time of entering
the service was Il citizen of the state
of Idaho and who was honoraby dis
charged from such service or who is
now in the service.
Said commission shall within 100
days of tbs passage and approval OF
this act, devise or adopt such design
or designs MS to tie members thereof
shall seem fit ana proper to mark APP
| propriate badges of honor with which
to decorate the men entitled TO same,
Aand to proceed forthwith to have
struck from metal in cannon captured
rom German troops in battle IN which
IDAHO soaiCrs took part n sufficient
lumber of such badges of honor to
,estow ont each on every honorably
discharged soldier, sailor and marine
the service during the war with
lori ,t ,,r,. t.,, ~
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
Is Your Blood Starving
For Want Of Iron?
Iron 10 Red-Blood Tood-Nuxated Irol
Helps Put Roses Into the Cheeks Of
Women and Strength and Energy
Into the Veins OF Men.

III you were to 60 without eating until you
become weak, thin and cmaciated. you could
not do more serious harm to yourself than
when you let your blood literally starve for
want Of iron--iron that gives it strength and
power to change food ir.o living tissue,
muscle and brain. Without plenty of iron
an the blood, no matter how much or what
you cat, your food simply passes through you
without doing you any good-you don't get
the strength out of it and instead of being
filled with youthful strength and energy ycu
are weak, nervous and all rundown. If you
are not strong or we'll you owe 1t to yourself
20 make the following test See how long
you can walk or how far you can walk
without becoming tired. Next take two five
grain tablets of ordinary Nuxatcd Iron three
times per day after meals for two weeks,
then test your strength again and see how
much you have gained. Numbers of nervous,
rundown people who were aiIing all the
while have most astonishingly increased their
strength and endurance simply by taking
iron in the proper form. But don't take the
old kinds of iron simply 10 save few cents.
You must take iron in form that can be
easily absorbed and assimilated like Nux-
ated Iron il YOU want it TO do YOU any good.
otherwise il may prove worse than useless.
You can procure Nuxatcd Iron from your
druggist on an absolute guarantee of satis,
faction or your money will be refunded.
JOY Drug stores, Ballou- Latimer CO
Ltd, Whiteheads Drug store.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
Land Board Proceedings

Boise, Feb. 1.-THE state board of
land commissioners Of the state Of
Idaho met this day pursuant to ADJ
journment.
The Idaho Irrigation company sub
mitted estimate of expenditures for the
season of 1919 for the Big WoJd River
Reservoir :; Canal Co, Ltd. 1t was
moved by Superintendent Of Pubic In
struction Miss Redhcld, seconded,
voted upon and unanimously carrird
that the maintenance charges Of the
Big Wood River Reservoir ~ Canal
company be advertised for period Of
two weeks in the RiclfHcld Recorder
and that Feb. II, 1919, be set for date
of hearing any protests against such
charges.
The trustees of the independent
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
KEEP LOOKING YOUNG
It's Easy-H You Know Dr..
Edwards Olive Tablets

The secret of keeping young Is to feel
young = to do this you must watch youl
liver and bowels - there's no need Of
having sallow complexion - dark rings
under your eyes - pimples - bilious
look in your face - dull eyes with no
sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety
per cent of all sickness comes from in.
active bowels and liver.
DR.. Edwards, a well-known physician
In Ohio, perfected a vegetable com.
pound mixed with olive oil to act on
the liver and bowels, which he gave ia
his patients for years.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the .substi.
tute for calomel, are gentle in their action
yet always effective. They bring about
that exuberance of spirit that natural
buoyancy which should be enjoyed By
everyone, by toning up the liver and clear.
ing the system of impurities.
You will know DR.. Edwards Olive Tab
lets by their olive color. LOG and Csc PEI
box. All druggists.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-12
WHY MAKE THE
ANNUAL STRUGGLE
WITH RHEUMATISM?

ment there and multiply by
the millions, scattered by
means Of the blood circulating
throughout your entire system.
In order to get permanent
relief from this dreadful dis
case, the blood must be puri-
fled, and all Irritating matter
removed from the circulation.
No remedy does this so
quickly as S. S. s., the best
blood purifier on the market
today, that has stood the test
Of time with sixty years Of sue
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S. 5. 5. not only contains
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but solvent qualities, and, be-
ing purely Vegetable, will not
iniurc the system as do medi-
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other mineral ingredients.
While cleansing The blood of
all poison, ii builds up the sys-
tenn and relieves the sufferer
OF the nagging pains of Rheu-
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that is SO useful in repairing
The damage done by blood dis
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Don't wait for your trouble to become
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today and purge the blood of every
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We maintain a medical department
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and our chief Medical Advisor, who is
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ease Address Medical Directors ISL
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