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PAGE TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Thursday, May 30, 1012. Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert K. Git km-, - Editor and Owner W. H. CJillis, - - - City Editor W. E. Humes, . Business Manager SIBSCIUPTION HATES. One Year $ 2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months . 50 Payable in Advance. . TELEPHONE 39 Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat ter. Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. Ashland, One., ThiirsLi,v, May SO, '12 THAT DOLLAK HILL. A farmer out in Oregon, About five years ago, Went into town one day to spend Some of his hard-earned "dough." And in a merry jest, . To show his printing skill, He printed his initials on A brand-new D-O-L-L-A-R B-I-L-L,. He spent that dollar that same day Down at the village store. He thought 'twas gone forever then, And he'd see it no more. But long before the year rolled by, One day he went to fill A neighbor's order, and received That same one D-O-L-L-A-R B-I-L-L. Once more he spent that dollar bill In his own neighborhood. Where it would do himself and friends The most amount of good. Four times in two years it came back, As some bad pennies will. And each time he'd go out and spend This marked one D-O-L-L-A-R B-l-L-L. Had he been wise, that dollar might Be in his town today, But just about two years ago He sent it far away. The people who received it then I know have got it still, For 'twas to a mail order house He sent his D-O-L-L-A-R B-I-L-L. No more will that marked dollar come Into that farmer's hands, And never more will it help to pay The taxes on his land. He put it where it never can Its work in life fulfill. He brought about the living death Of that one D-O-L-L-A-R B-I-L-L. Sample Case. OFFICIAL IXMIBY POSTAGE. A new form of lobby seems to have been developed In Washington. The ordinary lobbyist must pay postage, but the new lobbyist franks his mat ter to the voters. Circulars and let ters are being sent broadcast by the state department at Washington, over the signature of the acrtng sec retary of state, in an attempt to se cure the aid of the public in forcing congress to add $9 4,000 to the ap propriation for the consular and dip lomatic services. The average lay man, of course, even after reading the letter and circulars, knows noth ing about the justice of the claim. The appropriation committee of the house can usually be depended upon to appropriate sufficient money for the running expenses of the govern ment. Most people believe that the appropriation committee have been too lavish in the past. Now comes the state department, however, us ing the franking privilege, and at tempts to stir up public demand for additional appropriations. There is such widespread abuse of the frank ing privilege that sometimes we be lieve it should be absolutely abol ished. NOT FOLIAWING "D.l. One of the oddities of this presi dential campaign is the fact that Maine was carried for Roosevelt by Fred Hale, boh of ex-Senator Hale of that state. Old Senator Eugene Hale was for years one of the most reactionary members of the senate. When his son wrote to Roosevelt saying he wished to work for him in Maine, Roosevelt was much amazed. He was more amazed when young Hale went after his father's old ma chine and in less than six weeks put it on the scrap heap and brought In a full delegation for Roosevelt. The S. P. has completed surveys for a new line extending from east ern Washington through eastern Ore fion, directly south to Mojave, Cal. WOULD IT PLEASE LINCOLN? The idea that Abraham Lincoln might prefer as his memorial an in dustrial school where poor children could learn how to support them selves and become decent citizens, in stead of two million dollars' worth of marble arch, is responsible for a bill introduced by Representative William C. Sharp of Ohio. The mar ble arch idea has gone rather far and there is a continuing appropria tion of $2,000,000 already author ized by congress. It is possible, how ever, to divert part or all of this sum and make the Lincoln memorial something which Lincoln would have approved. - The growth of the industral school idea in the United States is quite a recent thing. The first school was established at Columbus, Ga., under the auspices of the state board of education of Georgia, by J. P. S. Neligh, at one time superintendent of education for Nebraska and later connected with the Blaine Model school in Chicago. Mr. Neligh, who is now at the head of the settlement work in Washington, known as Neighborhood House, spent five years in Georgia and left behind him there one of the most remarkable schools in the country. His idea of a school is to make it a sort of com bination of the home, the social cen ter, the school house, the farm, the factory, the business office every thing which contributes to livelihood and the support of life and its proper pleasures. It is Mr. Neligh's idea that boys and girls should learn in the early grades something about all the activities in which they are to be engaged in making homes or sup porting homes. Girls should learn to cook and sew and bake, including the chemistry of foods; boys should know how to farm, build, take care of stock, do typewriting, stenogra phy, manage horses, weave, do car pentering, ironwork and other Indus, trial trades. It is his idea also that the school should always afford pleasure and post-graduate informa tion to the parents; that it is wrong to drop everything at the end of the eighth jgrade or at the end of the high sebum and never again enter the BtWd building or think of it with pleasure. BOYCOTTING ITS NEWSPAPER. The merchants of Gold Hill are pursuing a sure policy not to build up the town. They are boycotting their newspaper because it is fear less in attacking wrongdoing. Rex Lampmnn is one of the brainiest ed itors in southern Oregon. He is ag gressive and fearless, and L properly encouraged will put Gold Hill on the map. A little while ago the princi pal bf the Gold Hill schools lost his tenir and flailed a student out rageously. The parents had him ar rested and he was convicted in the lower court. It created a sensation in the community. The case was ap pealed and in order to allay public sentiment the school board entered into an agreement with County At torney Mulkey to quash the suit and the school man left town between two days. The newspaper believed, in the light of the facts, the school teacher should have been punished ! for his unwarranted conduct, and said so. A few citizens demanded that he retract. He refused and the boycott ensued. The boycotting mer chants say they will make Lampman walk out of town. We do not believe they will succeed. If we know any thing about Rex Lampman, and we think we do, he is more likely to make some of them walk out. The ! safety of the country lies largely in the honest, fearless expression of the press. An attempt to throttle it by boycott should not succeed. In Chicago there is a case of dia mond c ut diamond. One of the Chi cago judges has ordered another Chicago judge arrested and thrown in jail for contempt. The row is the result of a political scrap. Judge Owens of the county court took j charge of the democratic convention i in violation of an injunction ordered from the superior court, and now the superior court has ordered not only the judge of the county court but the chief of police and sheriff and a num ber of others sent to jail for con tempt. They really have some hot 'politics in Chicago. Give the women of Oregon a square ! deal. They want the ballot. Why? Because those who obey laws should have something to say as to their making; those who pay taxes to sup port government should be represent ed In the government; those who have charge of the home and the children must be able to protect them. Headed by the "Hungry Seven Band" and displaying banners im ploring the erection of a new central school building, the students of the Roseburg high school recently parad ed the business streets. JANE ADDAMS. Not long ago the papers were full of a rather foolish discussion, start ed by some one In the east, as to who were the ten greatest women. The answers were various. Some voted for "lady writers." Others voted for women who happened to be born queens. Still others voted for society leaders. Personally we vote for Jane Addams of Hull House, Chi cago, one of the greatest women in America. Here is a modest person whose heart beats for all humanity, whose soul is In sympathy with every man, woman and child that is "up against it." The sight of dingy streets does not frighten her away; she is not afraid to call the young thug her brother, nor to whisper "sister" to the woman of the scarlet letter. She stands for love of her fellow-beings. She is always seeking to do good. She is constantly wiping away tears and bringing balm to bruised hearts. The world is constantly better for her being in it. She not only preaches, she acts. She not only pro fesses a religion, she lives one. The half cent will be just what the porter's whisk-broom act is worth. YOUTH. Youth is the first course in a meal which lasts longer and gives more pain than a lodge banquet. It is something which a . man sheds along with his self-esteem and college yell. The peculiar thing about youth is that the person who has it tries to leave it behind as fast as possible, while those who have shaken it off try to coax it back with a short skirt and no sleeves of any consequence. Youth may be said to start from the eventful, day when a boy leads a safety razor up to a feeble imitation of a mustache, and usually ends when the face is lined with wrinkles which couldn't be smoothed out with a tailor's goose. Youth takes every man's word at par and will sign a note with anybody whose collateral consists mainly of perfumed bunk. After this happens a few times, youth gains caution and doesn't sign any thing that conceals any fine print except the marriage docket, and sometimes this hides a joker or two. Youth is usually quite full of play and animal spirits, most of which keeps father busy trying to catch up with the adding machine at the bank. There is nothing vicious about youth except its clothes, which are like a snowflake on the river one moment seen, then gone forever. Middle age has very little sympathy with youth, as a rule. Fond fathers who gal loped through college on high gear, and never earned the price of a morn ing paper until they were 25, are sometimes disappointed because youth doesn't buckle in as soon as it is out of the high school and do a man's work for a boy's wages. The man who looks back on his boyhood without being able to remember any thing but hard work and plenty of it, has missed something which he can never make up, no matter If he lives longer than Methuseleh and all of his progeny. Give youth its fling. As it is, it is liable to get out of the hey-dey into the humdrun before you wished it had. SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN A SUF FRAGIST. In reply to a letter asking him his position on the equal suffrage ques tion, a prominent suffragist of Port land received the following answer from Senator George E. Chamber lain: "I beg to own receipt of your favor of the 30th ultimo, asking for a fa vorable word from me in reference to the equal suffrage amendment to the Oregon constitution, soon to be voted upon in our state. In reply, permit me to say I did not know that there was or ever has been any uncertainty as to my position on this question. As long ago as 18S0, when I was a member of the Oregon legislature, it was my pleasure to vote to submit to the people an amendment to the constitution ex tending the right of suffrage to the good women of our state. "While 1 was attorney general I j rendered an opinion favorable to women, acting upon which there have been, time and again, women appointed notaries public in the state. Later, when 1 was governor, I was the first to recognize women in ap pointments to important places, and named Mrs. Waldo as a member of the board of regents of the Agricul tural College. Each time the ques tion has been submitted to the public 1 have voted for extending to women the right of suffrage. 1 will afford me pleasure to aid the movement in any way I can in the coming con test, and you have my permission to quote me as entirely friendly to the proposed constitutional amendment. With kindest personal regards, I am, "Yours very sincerely, "GEO. E. CHAMBERLAIN." MINNESOTA FOR WILSON. Majority of Democratic Caucuses Thene Indorse Jerseymun. St. Paul. Returns show that Woodrow Wilson was indorsed at the democratic caucuses held Monday in a majority of the counties of Minne sota. Champ Clark failed to carry a district in the state except the fourth, in which he will be given solid delegations from Ramsey, Chi cago and Washington counties. If the unit rule prevails at Duluth, how ever, as now seems probable, all of Minnesota's 24 delegates to Balti more will go instructed for the New Jersey governor. On the face of the returns Wilson has 662 Instructed delegates, Clark 193, Bryan 37, and 66 uninstructed. Ktt;;::::::!:i:8n;::;::::si8i:tn: im i 1 1 1 i n St The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen ? IxHisons of the Tittuiic Disaster. A tragedy so terrible and which might have been averted, naturally calls out bitter denunciation against the business men whose management Is responsible. That all such denun ciations, even the bitterest, are ex cusable in so far as they afford relief to overwrought so-row or anger or horror, no one with a spark of the human in him would deny. That they are useful in so far as they tend to make ocean travel safer in the fu ture, few would wish to dispute. But to all who have eyes to see or ears to hear, this Titanic disaster will carry a deeper lesson than the neces sity for better safety appliances at sea; it will arouse higher emotions than anger at any person or class. The Inexcusable destruction of those fifteen hundred human lives was not all from greed. Though greed may have played a part along with many another impulse, it could have been only on the surface. Greed does not run deep. This was proved by the truest of tests at the climax of the tragedy. The democratic im pulse most distinctly human of all human characteristics, braver than greed and more absorbing than self ishness came uppermost then. At that supreme moment, when human souls were on trial, the appeal to brotherhood was intuitive and over whelming. Riser's inspiring verse gives us the picture: "Christian and Jew, and humble and high, Master and servant, they stood at last, Bound by a glorious brotherly tie." "At last!" But why oaly at last? Was the spirit of brotherhood absent before? Had greed crowded it out? Had consciousness of race or class made it insensible to every emotion but fear of death? This cannot be. Fear of death could not awaken a sense of brotherhood, fear of death could not make way for a democratic spirit to rise supreme not if that sense, not if this spirit, were less powerful among human passions than selfishness. Were the democratic spirit indeed non-existent or paral yzed, were selfishness normally in supreme command, selfishness would be strengthened, not weakened, by fears of death and hopes of escape. No; not selfishness but democracy is the power that moves mankind at every crisis. Selfishness has no hold which the basic sense of democracy cannot loosen; none which it does not loosen in fact whenever the test comes. Yet there is an unhappy sig nficance, unintended, it may be, but true, in Riser's words "at last." Is it only "at last," then, only when Death duels with life, that the brotherly tie becomes the tie that binds, the democratic instinct the in stinct that triumphs? It may seem so. Daily tragedies to which the Titanic disaster is by comparison a trifling incident make it seem so. These tragedies are due to the laws under which we live; they are the frightful price that all have to pay for the luxury of some; but as to them, where Is the brother ly inspiration to drive away greed, where the democratic instinct to de throne the instinct of self love? Well may the question be asked, and hard enough may the finding of the answer be. But if the answer be hard to find, isn't it because it is so simple and so near the pot of gold at the foot of the garden tree? Isn't it there in every human heart, but unawakened? If selfishness stub bornly prevails in the face of every day industrial tragedies, may the reason not be that the philosophy of selfishness holds so many university chairs, is preached in thin spiritual disguise from so many pulpits, and gets tremendous emphasis in much socialist teaching, while so few stir ring appeals are Tiiade to the great human instinct of democracy? It cannot be from any lack of the democratic instinct that beneficiaries of privilege are selfishly indifferent to the heartslckening perennial trag edies of our industrial life. These folk are like all other folks; they have the same mixed impulses of selfishness, generosity and fairness. Not very different can any of them be from those of their own class who went down with the Titanic. If they are careless of the awful industrial tragedies, or cold toward them, it must be because their democracy is not awakened. On that doomed ves sel, along with their brethren of all classes there, those children of privi lege, face to face with the tragic, were as democratic and as brave as any. But the industrial tragedies those they do not feel, those they do not see, these are unreal to them, these they face, if they lace them at all, only as conditions for charitable relief and not as preventable disas ters of the soqial seas. The thrilling fact never stirs them, that they them selves flourish luxuriously upon the very tragedies that submerge their brethren In an ocean of servitude and poverty. What they lack Is not democracy but imagination. Let the privileged see the indus trial tragedies they thrive upon, make them realize the tragical cost of their selfish luxury, and their icy greed will melt in the heat of their democracy. Real as their selfishness is, truly as it helps to make poverty and crime, it is no more basic or con trolling with their class than with any other. Men of the kind who go bravely to death in sinking ships when rescue appliances are inade quate for all, will as bravely give up their Industrial privileges, once they understand that privilege for some spells disaster for others. Let their imaginations be fired, and they will feel their brotherhood and think of its responsibilities. Their sense of democracy will do the rest. And their imaginations can be fired, but not through calls to a war of classes, however peaceable in form. They must be fired by appeals to the dem ocratic sense of brotherly rights and PAINT will not be had at a lower price this season. Oils and turpentine both have an upward tendency. Now is the time to buy. We can furnish you paint at almost any price from $1.25 up. A full line of the latest patterns in wall paper WE WILL CONTRACT YOUR PAINTING AND DECORATING LET US FIGURE YOUR WORK WM. O. DICKERSON NEWELL SANDERS. Recently Appointed U. S. Sena tor From State of Tennessee. I Teachers' Examinations. Notice is hereby given that I will hold the regular examination for teachers' certificates at Jacksonville, Ore., as follows: Commencing Wednesday, June 19, 1912, at 9 o'clock a. m., and continu ing until Saturday, June 22, at 4 o'clock p. m. Wednesday forenoon : United States history, physiology, writing. Wednesday afternoon: Physical geography, reading, composition, methods in reading, methods in arith metic. Thursday forenoon: Arithmetic, history of education, psychology, methods in geography. Thursday afternoon: Grammar, geography, American literature, physics, methods in language, thesis for primary certificate. Friday forenoon: Theory and practice, orthography, English liter ature. Friday afternoon: Oregon Echool law, botany, algebra, civil govern ment. Saturday afternoon: General his tory, bookkeeping. Questions in theory and practice will be taken from Colgrove's "The Teacher and the School." Questions in methods will be taken from White's Art of Teaching. All teachers who intend to write upon this examination are requected to notify me as soon as possible J. PERCY WELLS, County School Superintendent. duties as apposed to undemocratic privilege and the unbrotherly classes that privilege produces. j Spray x, : -A. 1 fT -A . A FN. Tt y- H IT STOP THE WORMS Better Spray Zinc Arsenite 20 CENTS This new Arsenite Compound kills the Codling Moth X wniiuut uaiuau iu uie ioiiage 01" iruil. Better Spray Neutral Arsenate of Lead 8 to 10c lb, according to 6ize of package. TOBACCO EXTRACT BLACK LEAF 40 85c to $12.50 per can. Garden Hose 7 to 12c per ft., guaranteed, rubber and cotton PROVOST BRU iti .1. .Ti ' ... I I I , i i r I I f i I t i Portland, Orecon ' ' Realdent and Day School for Girl, in- rharg. of Bnter of St. John Baptiit (Episcopal) Colltf late, AcKj.mlc ml El.m.nlrT DapartsuaU, Hull, Art, Elocvtlon. Oymnailam. For catalog addrow THE SISTEK SUPERIOR Office it St. Helena Hall Granite City Express A. F. Abbott, Pro). Handles Freight, Household Goods and General Druy Work Office with Rose Bros., Ashland, Ore. Office phone 213R. Res. phone 252R F. H. FITCH Architect Rooms 5 and 0, First National Bank Building. I'hone 180. ASHLAND. OREGON. V. V. IIAWLEY Contractor and Builder Remodeling and repairing, etc. 23 years' experience. Address P. O. Box 174 or TKLKPHONE 30. Phone 129 27 Main St. C. H. GILLETTE Real Estate, Loans, Rentals, Conveyancing SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. FOR SEWING MACHINES AND SEWING MACHINE SUPPLIES SEE E.J. MHHMN Independent Dealer 280 E. Main St. Phono 113 nSHLHND Storage and Transfer Co. C. F. BATES, Proprietor. Two warehouses near Depot Goods of all kinds stored at reasona ble rates. A General Transfer Business. Wood and Rock Springs Coal Phone 60. Office with Wells-Fargo Express. ASHLAND. OREGON. Telephone your social items to Miss Hawley between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. each day. Call phone 39. jMorjul! t A POUND