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FACE TWO ASHLASD TIDINGS Modnay. November 25, 1913. Ashland Tidings SESII-WEEKLT. ESTABLISHED 18T6. ISSDtd UondaVS and Thursdays 1 issucu ai i Bert R. Greer, li. W. Talcolt, Editor and Owner J City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. j One Tear $2.00 fcix Months 1.00 j Three Months 50; Payable in Advance. , 1 1 LLtrliUiN L 09 i Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat ter. Ahiand, Ore., Monday, Nov. 25, I2 A SURFEIT OF IHJL1T1CS. Politics and political discussion is educative, and the American voter by this time ought to be entitled to his doctorate of advanced learning in this subject. The big metropolitan newspapers have been printing daily anywhere from ten to twenty columns about it, exclusive of paid advertising. In the smaller journals, not merely is much space given to general politics, but John Smith and Thomas Brown have been issuing fervid appeals to their neighbors, setting forth the reasons why they should be honored with legislative and other positions of trust. The amount of printing matter distributed during this campaign re- j garding politics is beyond the powers of "the human mind to understand. It is safe to s&y.that the average daily newspaper has printed seven columns of 1,200 words each for a period of 180 days, that the average weekly has printed five columns of 120 words each for 26 weeks. Mul tiply one total by 2,600, about the number of dailies, and the other by 18,000, about the number of week lies, semi-weeklies and tri-weeklies, and the astonishing total of 6,739, 200,000 words is shown from the newspaper press alone. I i This very conservative estimate does not include the enormous amount of paid newspaper advertis ing, the great amount printed in magazines and distributed in circu lars through the mail and otherwise. This would not allow for the general news of government activities, but simply the discussion of merits of candidates and platforms for the elec tion of 1912. Only a small amount of time is given by the ordinary men to read ing the entire newspaper. When you divide ten columns of finely printed matter up among the voters' hasty ten minutes, it is to be feared when Mr. Voter comes up before the exam- iners for his degree as doctor of poli tics, that he will fall down on some simple query. Much of all this stuff is very far from being educative. After you have read a column setting forth the reasons, usually largely personal and factional, why the republicans are going to lose or gain 500 votes in Jay county, you have not acquired one scintilla of information relating to the tariff, the trusts, or any other of our' big government problems. As a whole the discussion had un told value. Millions of voters know a lot more about the economic theory and the personalities of the great men of our times than they did six months ago. But like the boy who had been kept after school all the term to get extra lessons, they feel anxious to get out on the playground again, and will welcome other themes but politics in the head lines. POOL, BILLIARDS AND BOWLING, The moral evolution which these three games have passed affords an instructive spectacle to the social philoospher. There was a time, except in some of the large cities, when a young man who was seen punching shiny little balls over a green cloth was regarded with grave suspicion by the moral forces of the community. Occasionally there might have been some slight ground for this feeling. In country towns and even in many good sized cities these three games were closely associated with the flowing bowl and other vices. Of course these little diversions were as free from guile or stain as the deacon's contribution box. Yet it actually happened from their asso ciations, that the fellows who were using them. were often unable to get around to work the first of the week until Tuesday or Wednesday. In spite of the liberal feeling of our present days, there may be some conservative circles where these pas times are etill regarded with sus- picion. While no one would Assert that they are intrinsically harmful, yet certain timid moralists would ! argue that the boy who learns to play . j pool in the T. M. C. A. may wind up ! bj plaing U in the EaIoon- 1 The argument g a reminder of the ' way some conscientious people of j 'Jears ago used t0 feel about walk- ins sucua. lue iraumou lias ufti handed down to the writer that in ;a cer,aln towI man? years ago. it ; was proposed that the cemetery be opened on Sunday. It was argued by the liberals of t those days that the young people could not possibly meet with any harm in the solemn precincts of the j burial ground, and might even get ) some good from reading the Scrip-1 ture texts on the gravestones. To which the "unco' gude" in stern tirntcct ron icui that if tha VAimr ; , . . . , v people were allowed to walk in the ... ., ! cemetery, sooif thev would be walk- , , .v , ,j . . . ing in the fields' and the woods. So; the cemetery remained closed to this profane pastime for a few years. How absolutely this feeling has changed today! Now, the majority I of Young Men's Christian Associa- j tions have all or part of the games named above. Many churches find that their members may be quite as: 3 well off at the weekly social if they are punching balls into the pool pocket, as if they sat around the sides of the room hesitating which should speak first. DOVT MISTAKE LADYBIRDS FOR BEDBUGS. A writer in the current issue of Farm and Fireside says it is the ! plain duty of all of us to get to know insects by sigat, so that we may! know our friends when we see them. Following is an extract: "It is a sign of an up-to-date farm er to know his friends by sight. And because some insects are nuisances, people have come to believe that all insects are likewise. This is a great mistake. There are thousands of insects whose life activities are giv en over to helping mankind, and very little credit do they get for it from the ignorant. Among these beneficent insects are the ladybirds. These have done such a good work that finally they are being generally recognized as friends. The case of the ladybird called the Vedalia was so widely known that it has done ! much to bring about a popular un derstanding of the work of these in sects. In 1888 it seemed as if the orange-growing industry in Califor nia was to be destroyed through the attacks of the fluted scale insect, which had been introduced from Australia on nursery stock. The government sent an entomologist to Australia to discover what enemies this scale insect had in that country that kept it in check. As a result of his studies, the entomologist brought back some little red and black ladybird beetles. These were cared for and colonized on the trees, and after two or three years became thoroughly established and finally practically put an end to the fluted scale, thus Baving California millions of dollars annually. "Since the beetles must spend the winter in safety, they seek warm nooks and corners, and often come into our houses, and here they meet with hard treatment from foolish women folk, who mistake them some times for an unwelcome bedfellow. But the ladybird is very different in appearance from the bedbug, for it Is rounded and shining, while the bedbug is flat and has no wings at all. The ladybird is sometimes tak en for a carpet beetle, but this little rascal is smaller and is not shining. It has black, dull wing covers spot ted with white and with two scarlet dots, while the ladybirds are never scarlet." CUTTING DOWN SPEED. The abandonment for the time be ing at least of the 18-hour speed be tween New York and Chicago on the New Work Central and Pennsylvania roads may be significant of some re action against speed. Theoretically, these trains have been run to save business men a cou ple of hours time. One suspects, however, that the sporting desire for speed has sold more tickets on them than the economy of working time. Fast train running appeals to the same instinct that pleases the small boy in the snow country, who experi ences indescribable thrills of delight as, he coasts down some precipitous hill, while his parents at home mo mentarily expect to see him return by ambulance. ' The trains on the two first-class roads referred to may be substan tially as safe as any others. The worst of such railroading is that it tempts second-rate roads ill equipped for speed to attempt similar rec ords. When you reach your destination on a fast train you may have to wait around for hours for the time of your appointment to come. But with what pride you sit in the hotel smoking roqm and discourse to change acquaintances about those TO miles an hour of speed. You set all the elation'Df tha automobile scorch- er without any dangc of being run into court and made to give up $25 by some fussy justice. The great majority of eaginemen are splendid fellows, ooble examples of rourag., and responsibility. But there is always drifting element in the business of a rough rider tvpe. who handle a train about as they wouid a wlld broncho. i Railroad operation is only as safe as its weakest link. If the most in significant little crossroads branch line freight tra'n is operated by a ' daredevil, it may end in a heap of i wreckage that will ditch the fast ex- Press, even though the latter may be , . . . . . , y In the hands of a trained engineer as responsible as an ocean steamship . p ! captain. g TI Hnmo fivrla S I If v 1711716 LlClC H t H Thoughts from the Editorial Pen Once there was a woman who did things. Left with half a dofcen chil dren to support, she took in board ers. And siie made it pay. She gave satisfaction to her boarders, and she made a living for her children, be sides putting something aside each year toward the education she was determined they should have. Much of the actual work of the house was I done by herself, and all of the plan ning and marketing. From having led a sheltered exist ence, without previous knowledge of business, she was equipped, when finally the burden fell upon her, with nothing beyond intelligence and en ergy to relp upon. Yet she planned and managed, and showed marked executive ability, besides untiring ambition. She was ambitious, too, that the hard work she had to do should not rob her children of the intelligent comradeship to which they were en titled. So she kept abreast of the times. She read and studied, often far into the niehr. that nht mliht ha J able to talk 0 the 8ubject8 . wished them to be informed upon. Also, she kept up her music, and she kept her youth, and she never let herself slip into that soddenness which is so often the fate of the worker who follows the line of least resistance. It was not an easy path she set for the feet to follow. It was rugged and stony and hilly, and often she seemed too weary to keep on climb ing. Yet, when discouragement would try to get in an entering wedge, she would look at her chil dren and feel her strength renewed for the struggle. All this she did, in a town which had known her as girl and woman and no one recognized the work she was doing. To old friends she was only the keeper of a boarding house, in whom their interest had lapsed in fact, coincidental with their for tunes. For such is the way of the world. But she, with her face turned up ward toward the high goal she had set for herself the best development of her sacred charges, her children had not- time to notice that she walked alone, bo far as human friends were concerned. And then one day a wonderful thing happened to her, just as it happens to the princess of a fairy tale. A relative whom she had never seen left her a. fortune, because he did not have anybody, else to leave it to a quite substantial fortune, so that she was able to give up taking boarders. She bought a beautiful home and I don't know what all be sides. But the important thing was that she kept right on doing what she had been doing minus the hard work of keeping boarders she kept right on trying to mould the thought of her young, that they might make brave, honest, cultured, God-fearing men and women. Her friends of the olden time, be fore the period of her poorer days, did all that they could to hamper her high ambition. She had sudden ly grown so dear, so dear, that they did not want to leave her alone an hour, with her children and her ideals. They wanted her to drive with them in their automobiles now that she had one of her own. They wanted to entertain her in their beau tiful homes now that she had a beautiful home of her own. And how they did admire her! Rather, they admired her hats, her gowns, the furnishings of her house, her landscape gardening, her machine and all the gew-gaws her money had bought. The things that she had accom plished, the woman that she was the work she had done all these meant nothing to them. And the woman does she know what caused the sudden influx of attention? Does she appreciate the love and friendship which were with held during the days of her struggle with 'poverty? Her placid, unexcited acceptance of their homage, her serene aspect as she keeps right on doing the real things, leads one to think that she is as little moved by their interest as she was by their indifference. For 6he has her face set toward the light, and neither adulation nor neglect can cause her to turn aside. Neighboring. The next time you get hemmed in, actually sewed up in a crowd so that it seems impossible either to go forward or get back, you can work a trick that, if you do it heart ily, will open a path along which you may pass between smiling faces. The only thing it is absolutely neces sary for you to observe in using the formula is that unless you are sin cere and hearty about it, it won't work. Just say: "Neighbor, will you help me get through?" And add, jf you wish and it's the truth, "My work requires it." It never fails, that word "neigh bor" that we have so nearly lost from our daily use. It seems to call out an echo of the spirit of the help ing hand it stood for in the long ago, when neighboring was neces sary. "Get together" and "boost" and "everybody's doing it now" are slang, of course, but slang reflects what people are thinking about, after all. Nothing else is more expressive. This neighboring revival happened to come up for discussion when several girls who have little leisure con vened to "confabulate," as they call it, during the lunch hour. Some body wanted to know what "we," who must be bread winners, could do, just each one her mite, toward the general welfare. One said: "It would help a lot to get to gether the things and people meant for each other. Here I've been wor ried to death over some unmothered babies, and only just found out about a day nursery with all sorts of play things( nurses and good food, where the mother can leave them while she is at work. Will I get them togeth er? Well, will I? "The lady who gave and equipped and maintains this day nursery didn't realize it needed to be advertised. Lots of things happen like that and many good intentions go astray for lack of boosting, but if everyone of us boost every chance we get, it ought anyhow to make a dent, dodn't you think?" They all did think so, and then it was that Marion, who always has some queer quirk of an idea and a quaint way of her own in expressing it, said: "Let's start a revival in neighbor ing. Let's guess everyone we mee I I SMe 2Ssile 2 1 Going Out of the Men's Furnishing Business Big bargains of high grade merchandise in men's and boys wear are now being sold for less than it costs to bring the goods here.. If you have not taken advantage of the values we are of fering, it will pay you to do so at once. Note the prices quoted below. All Goods Sold for Cash Only Men's $3.00 Longley hats, all shapes and. colors, now on sale at $2.29. Men's felt hats in many styles, $1.50 values, now on sale at $1.00. Men's Cooper's gray wool Under wear formerly sold at per suit $2.50, now at $1.90. Men's linen collars, Arrow make, 15c values, now on sale at 10c. Men's flannel shirts., colors blue and brown, $1.50 values, now at $1.15. Men's cotton fleeced Underwear, regular $1.00 value, now per suit, 75c. The Store with a Rest Room ' 1 1 i 1 T PiireMountamWalerlce Do Not Throw on a glutted market. Put them in cold storage for better prices. Your potatoes will not sprout or grow BOft in cold storage. Get our prices, which are as low as in the east. WOOD AND COAL We have a limited amount of dry wood for sale, and the best Washington state coal for the lowest possible price for cash. Ani Aiun iff Aivin qtarace1 rn x uuuuanu ivij nil is ktviinuii vvr I TELEPHONE OS is as good a fellow as any of us, un til he does something that proves he isn't. Suppose we do make a mistake once in a while, who's harmed by that? Pretty nearly everybody is as good as he's had a fair chance to be. Lot's of people v.ill think us crazy, but let's smile right along and keep on being neighborly and I bet you they'll get to like it." TALKS ON ADVERTISING TO TID INGS READERS. (By Ralph Kaye.) We have thus far taken moral side of advertising. up the Before we get down to the specific cases let us work out a few imaginary ad vertisements, finding the real sell ing points and proper way to present them. The best way to do this Is to pick certain lines of. business and ascertain why people should patron ize them. I want the reader to understand ! that because any one talk does not i each should subscribe for a maga treat of his particular business the zine and share it with the others as a article is of no interest to him. Christmas present. This plan worked Even if you are In the clothing busi- out well." ness and we are discussing shoes, " the principle is the same. The main l"l-t-Bate Stores in Constantinople, object is to sell the goods irrespec-! Constantinople's principal depart tive of what they are. And if a cer-, nient stores are run on the same tain method sells shoes, you should Iines 88 the stores in New York or be able to find some suggestion in j Chicago. They do a great deal of that method that would lead to an j window dressing and interior deco idea to sell clothing, and vice versa. I ratinS- Advertisements are run in Will you co-operate with me to I French' Turkish and Greek newspa- the extent of giving your ideas in the matter? You know (as every business man knows) that by thinking over and criticising, the subject should be whipped into fairly presentable shape. With this present series I would like every reader to write his views of each subject or business taken Men's fine all wool Underwear, color . tan, formerly sold at per suit $4.00, now at $3.00. Men's Copeland-Rider Shoes in tan and black, formerly sold at $5.50, now cn sale at $4.40. Boys' Suits all reduced. Reductions range from $1.00 to $3.00. Boys' Shoes, all styles, are all re duced. Men's Union Suits, Vassar and Cooper make, are all reduced from 50c to $1.00. VAUPEL'S T 1 1 tl 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m n 1 1 , Your Apples Away up, to me in care of the Tidings. The publishers will forward it to me, and in future articles I will bring them out, giving credit to every communi cation quoted. If you will co-operate with me, much benefit is bound to accrue to all concerned, as the ex change of Ideas is bound to lead to something beneficial. Will you do it? The first business we will take up in the next Talk on Advertising is clothing for men. In the meantime before the talk appears run over in your mind, first, what prompts you to buy a suit of clothes, and, second, why did you buy them in the particu lar store you patronized? See if my views coincide with yours. One Present for Four People. In the December Woman's Home Companion appears a page made up of suggestions for Christmas gifts. One of the suggestions follows: "Four young lady teachers board ing at the same place agreed that Bnu lney nave sPial bargain days. Big Increase in Gas Production. Thirty years ago the value of natural gas produced in the United States was less than $500,000. In ,1911 there were nearly 30,000 wells, which produced 508,353,241,000 cu bic feet of gas, valued at nearly $75, 000,000. The Store with a Rest Room