ASHLAND TIDINGS
Thursday, November 14, 1 912.
PACK TWO
Ashland Tidings
SEMLWEEKLY.
ESTABLISHED 1876.
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Bert R. Greer, - Editor and Owner
B. W. Talcott, ... City Editor
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Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Nov. 14, '12
OUR POLICY.
The city election will be held in
December, at which time four new
councilman, a mayor and a recorder
will be elected. Besides that, as
usual and unfortunately, the wet and
dry ii,oue will be before the people.
The Tidings will stand first, last and
all the time for-a dry town, but it
recognizes the folly of making that
the sole issue regardless of the busi
ness qualifications of the men who
Beek the offices. The matter as to
whether Ashland shall be dry or wet
during the next year will be settled
by each individual elector at the
polls. If the individuals elected to
the several offices are good citizens,
and none other should be elected,
they will observe their oath to en
force the ordinances whether such
ordinances conform to their personal
views of not, and if the city votes dry
to use their best efforts for the prac
tical and effectual enforcement of the
law. It is our opinion that more at
tention should be given to the selec
tion of city officials who will exer
cise the very best judgment in con
ducting the affairs of the city We
think that under thoroughly compe
tent management the business of the
city . of Ashland can be conducted
with better results with one-third
saving in expense. To bring about
such a saving is a material benefit to
every taxpayer and should not be
overlooked by the voter at the polls,
nor be allowed to be overshadowed
by any other issue.
As to the individuals who shall
seek the honors: There is and should
not be any partisan consideration in
the coming election. Each candidate
should be tried out strictly on his
merits. Ashland is not so large but
that each voter will have a general
knowledge of the fitness of each can
didate and will be as competent as
the Tidings to make his selection
from the aspirants at hand. For that
reason the Tidings will neither ad
vocate nor oppose any individual who
stands for a city office this year. Our
advertising columns will stand open
to all of them at the regular rate,
five cents the line, and whatever in
formation any of them desire to
bring to the attention of the elector
ate through the medium of the Tid
ings will be printed at that rate.
This policy will apply as well to
all other matters and issues at the
coming election, except that the Tid
ings will advocate a dry town.
THE POSTAL BYNKS,
J
The postal savings banks should
be added to the list of those "danger
ous and socialistic experiments"
which turn out to be neither danger
ous nor socialistic.
Congress passed the law creating
these banks only after the natural
conservatism of lawmakers had been
overcome, only after the opposition
of bankers, fearing a rival, had been
quieted. Today any member of con
gress would consider himself foolish
to raise the point of "socialistic ex
periment" against the postal banks.
We believe that bankers find as lit
tle to criticise in them as they find
to criticise in the government run
ning the postal system which, by
the way, was once a "dangerous pre
cedent," too.
There has been no wild scramble
on the part of saving persona to put
Vncle Sam in charge of their money
Incidentally, private savings banks
have a reason to feel flattered over
the faith the public has shown in
them. Yet the postal banks have ac
quired several millions of dollars in
deposits. It is believed that moBt of
thlB money has come from the teaket
tle, mattress and stocking banks,
money that would not have been
available for the country's business
at all unless the postal banks had
been founded. Instead of hurting
private savings banks by causing a
transfer of deposits to Uncle Sam's
institutions, the postal banks have
merely prevented the hiding and
hoarding of unproductive money.
WESTERLUND FOR SPEAKER,
Hon. J. A. Westerlund of Medford
is being mentioned for speaker of the
Oregon house of representatives at
the coming session. Mr. Westerlund
is entering upon his second term as
representative from Jackson county
and will undoubtedly have a strong
following for the speakership, as he
has a large acquaintance throughout
the state and a record as a forceful
member of the last house. Mr. W'est
erlund led the fight against the
umes interests which resulted in the
closing of the Rogue river to com
mercial fishing, and has other impor
tant legislation to his credit. He will
have the undivided backing of the
county regardless of locality, so far
as it can influence the membership of
the legislature, and in view of the
fact that it is over thirty years since
Jackson county had the speakership
he should have no trouble in landing
the plum.
AVHAT'S WORTH WHILE?
Esther Cleveland, daughter of the
late Grover Cleveland, is to enter so
ciety now at the age of 19, says a
Washington dispatch.
Rather a contrast, is it not, to so
many of our young folks who become
accomplished society queens before
they are out of short clothes?
To some people it is a charming
sight' to see a pack of 12-year-olds
arrayed in the monkey clothes of
grown-ups, the boys in starchy,
sawed-off little dress suits, the girls
in their frilly and fluffy ball gowns.
Other people have a longing to take
them out into the back yard and roll
them in the diit. Probably the
youngsters would enjoy it quite as
well.
Are there any hobble-skirted high
school girls who today are guilty of
doll playing? Or are they too full
of their courtly love affairs, or too
engrossed by the formal afternoon
suggested by the formal afternoon
call, to give thought to such infan
tile trifles?
The tradition is handed down that
t was once customary for young folks
in their early teens to go to bed at
from 9 to 10 o'clock. Now the fresh
men are much mpre apt to have a
night key than prosy Dad.
Far be it from this newspaper to
suggest that young folks should not
have a good time. That is not the
point. The point is whether they
shall get all the joys of childhood
while they are still children
There will be only one time in
their lives when they can get out
with the boys and their jack-o'-lan
terns Hallowe'en. There will be
many years for them to prance about
the slippery dance floor in their glad
domes. Yet, tne time will come
when the evening lamp and the
newspaper with the kinky paragraphs
will look better than fifteen miles
around the ballroom while the band
plays bunny-huggy tunes.
Into some such train of thought
was the editor led by the announce
ment of Miss Cleveland's debut. She
has played the game of childhood and
got all there was out of it, like a
sensible girl. Now may all the ro
mance and star-shine of youth be
hers!
THE WEAKER SEX.
The weaker sex is a term applied
to women by men who never startle
anybody by earning more than $8 a
week. It is generally used to open
and close a debate showing how much
better a woman can stand twelve
hour a day In the rear ot a corn
broom than eight hours behind the
counter. It is a very convincing ar
gument with people who are not ac
customed to think in relays. Since
women began to take all the prizes
in scholarship and the fine arts, in
cluding the culture of the pigeon
toed bull pup, we don't hear quite bo
much mellifluous yapping about the
weaker sex as formerly. In St. Paul's
time women were not allowed to
speak in the churches, which account
ed for the large male attendance, but
all this ha3 been changed and now
the melodious voice of womanhood
mingles with the dulcet tones of the
reed organ at all of our prayer meet
ings It is no trouble at all for a
man who has lived off his wife's
money from the time that he fol
lowed her up the aisle in a hand-me-down
frock coat to bleat about the
weaker sex until the veins in his fore
head stand out like a whipcord pat
tern. Some women are very obsti
nate and would rather make their
own living than marry the first man
that begins to circle around in a bou
tonnaire and a fresh shave. This
has embittered a good many men who
are looking for free board and lodg
ing, in exchange for an honored name
and a collection of dishonored checks.
The only time a woman is weak is
when she marries somebody who is
too tired to tackle anything but the
night key and a baseball score. The
woman who can persuade a big, hulk
ing breadwinner to spend a little
money at the bakery and a little less
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The Home Circle
jj Thoughts from the Editorial Pen jj
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
You have said a lot about the fel
low who causes two blades of grass
to grow where one has grown, but
what about the man who makes a
mile of good road take the place of
half a mile of hog wallow?
Many a mother who knows all
about the work of missionaries in the
interior villages of the Fiji Islands
hasn't the remotest idea what her 17
y ear-old son is doing down town till
midnight. What's more, she doesn't
seem to think it's her business to
know -
A young woman in Illinois has re
signed her position as teacher in the
public schools for the purpose of go
ing as a missionary to Africa. Why
should she go so far when Chicago is
bo near, and where there are more
heathen to the square yard than there
are in Africa to the twelve square
miles? Strange ideas of missionary
work these school marms have.
Who is the greatest woman in all
history? One hundred and fifty
school teachers recently answered the
question, and with enthusiasm and
unanimity the judges awarded the
prize to the one who made this re
ply: "The wife of a farmer of mod
erate means who does her own cook
ing, washing, ironing, sewing, brings
up a family of boys and girls to be
useful members of society and has
time for intellectual improvement."
In-every city there are movements
which call for the expenditure ot
money. Some of these are of dis
tinctly public character and are paid
for through taxation, others are of
semi-public character and lor them
the funds must be raised through
voluntary contr'butions. These must
come from the men who are doing
the business of the place and who
have the money. There is no other
way. The man who has the money is
the man who must pay the bills, if
they are to be paid. Most enter
prises of a public nature which have
for their object the betterment of
conditions, business or otherwise, in
a city, will directly or indirectly re
turn more than the money expended
to those who pay it.
The' boy who has the freedom of
THE PRIVILEGE OF VOTING.
There are some queer contrasts in
this life. Here are the Greek shoe
blacks and banana peddlers, drawing
their hard-earned dollars from the
savings banks, giving up little trades
into which they have put days' toil
and nights' longing, setting sail for a
land to which they have no tie but
sentiment.
In the maelstrom of war their lit
tle money savings will be engulfed,
and most of them will never return
alive. They are giving their all for
a mere idea, that the fatherland with
which they have merely a tie of remi
niscence may be free.
Thus did our fathers, too. But
now that we have acquired liberty,
about one-fourth of our citizens are
indifferent to the freedom bought
with all this price. They won't spend
fifteen minutes to help keep the gov
ernment what it was intended to be.
It is worse than that, for another
fourth only bother to vote on presi
dential year, and won't stir them
selves to see that the city and. state
governments are likewise maintained
in accordance with the principles of
freedom and equality. -
And our political battles are so
very drastic. The conflict that has
waged in this country this year is a.
veirtable clash of Titans. Mr. Roose
velt's phrase, "We stand at Arma
geddon and we battle for the Lord,"
is a true picture of every man who
stands up in his boots and votes or
speaks according to an honest con
viction. One would think that a man with
any spirit, with any lust of battle in
his heart, any admiration for manly
hearts engaged in the shock of strug
gle, would be standing on his tiptoes
to watch so thrilling a combat, if in
deed he can refrain from casting
himself into the fray to give and take
with no other foeman.
"We are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time,"
wrote an old hymn writer. 'Tis true.
Old systems of thought are falling
into decay; man is arising to grasp
hia heritage. Yet in all this clash
and conflict and upheaval, many of
us on election day stood asleep at our
civic post, fingering our greasy dol
lars all day, too selfish to walk down
to the polls and play our parts like
men. .
at the pool hall never has to hunt
around for an argument when the
weaker sex proposition cornea up.
the street after nightfall without bus
iness or permission is cultivating a
dangerous habit. Any place where a
boy has no business is no place for
him, be it on the street, in stores or
in the livery barn. A boy that is all
right will prefer hU home, friends,
books or newspapers to the class
found on the street. Business men
of all kinds look upon the boy loafers
as the "deadbeats" of the future
Boys, if you will adopt the right hab
its while boys, you will, in manhood,
be useful to the world, but will be a
source of comfort to your parents
and friends, and then you will have
the satisfaction of logking back upon
a well-spent past.
No Money Required.
"It takes money to run a newspa
per." Exchange.
What an exaggeration! What a
whopper! It doesn't take any money
to run a newspaper. It can r.un with
out money. It is not a business ven
ture. It is a charitable institution.
a begging concern, a highway robber.
The newspaper is a child of the air,
a creature of a dream. It can go on
and on and on, when any other con
cern would be in the hands of the
receiver and wound up with cobwebs
in the windows.
It takes wind to run a newspaper;
it takes gall to run a newspaper. It
takes scintillating, acrobatic imagina
tion, half a dozen white shirts and a
railroad pass to run a newspaper.
But money heavens to Betsy and six
hands round whoever needed mon
ey in conducting a newspaper? Kind
words are the medium of exchange
that do the business for the editor
kind words and church social tickets.
When you see an editor with money,
watch him He'll be paying his bills
and disgracing his profession. Never
give money to an editor. Make him
trade it out. He likes to swap.
Then when you die, after you have
stood around for years and sneered
at the editor and his little Jim Crow
paper, be sure that you have your
wife send in for three extra copies
by one of your weeping children, and
when .she reads the generous and
touching notice about you, forewarn
her to neglect to send 15 cents to
the editor. It would overwhelm him.
Money is a corrupting thing. The
editor knows it, and what he wants
is your heartfelt thanks; then he can
thank the printers and they can
thank the grocers. Give your job
work to a traveling man, and then
ask for half rates forchurch notices.
Get your lodge letter heads and sta
tionery printed out of town and then
flood the editor with beautiful
thoughts in resolutions of respect and
cards of thanks. They make such
spicy reading, and you are so proud
of your local paper when you pick
it up filled with these glowing mor
tuary articles.
But money scorn the filthy thing!
Don't let the pure, innocent editor
know anything about it. Keep that
for sordid trades peopel who charge
for their wares. The editor gives his
bounty away The Lord loves a
cheerful giver. He takes care of the
editor. Don't worry about the ed
itor. He has a charter from the state
to act as a doormat for the commun
ity. He will get out the paper some
how, and stand up for the town and
whoop it up for you when you run
for office. Don't worry about-the
editor he'll get on. The Lord knows
how but somehow.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION.
United Stutes Will Hold Competitive
Examination nt Giants Pass
for Stenography s.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that a stenog
rapher and typewriter examination
will be held in Grants Pass Novem
ber 26, 1912. Sufficient male eligi
bles have not heretofore been es
cured to, meet the needs of the ser
vice. All qualified persons are urged
to apply for and take this examina
tion. Vacancies exist at $900 per
annum in the position of male type
writer in the U. S. land office service
at Billings, Mont, Glasgow, Mont.,
and Havre, Mont. Also one male
stenographer and typewriter office
chief fourth field division, Helena,
Mont., and one male typewriter in
the Puget Sound navy yard at $2.80
per diem. There are frequent calls
for male stenographers and typewrit
ers at salaries ranging from $900 to
$1,200 per annum.
For application and full informa
tion apply to the local secretary,'
board of civil service examiners, post
office building, this city, or to the
district secretary, postoffice build
ing, Seattle, Wash.
Tonight.
Tonight, if you feel dull and stu
pid, or bilious and constipated, take
a dose of Chamberlain's Tablets and
you will feel all right tomorrow. For
sale by Foley's Drug Store.
Sixteen thousand Europeans and
665 Maoris have obtained old age
pensions in New Zealand in the last
year. About 35,000 old age pensions
have been granted in all.
PureloiintainWaterlcc
Do Not Throw Your Apples Away
on a glutted market. Put them in. cold storage for better prices.
Your potatoes will not sprout or grow soft 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.
ASHLAND ICE AND STORAGE CO.
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TO PEN STATE EDICT
Pioneer Woman Cause Leader's
Handwriting to Become Part of
the Archives of Oregon.
Salem, Ore., Nov. 3. Governor
West said today that when the time
comes to issue the proclamation de
claring woman's suffrage in effect in
Oregon he will go to Portland to the
home of Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunway,
requesting her to write out the proc
lamation in her own handwriting and
he will sign it.
The proclamation will thus become
a part of the archives of the state in
the handwriting of the pioneer worn -
an suffrage leader of the state.
The law requires that within 30
days after the election, or as soon
before that as possible, the secretary
of state shall canvass the votes on
the measures in the presence of the
governor and the executive shall ( ble for them to line up their rates in
forthwith issue proclamations declar-1 stantaneously as the bill affects the
Ing such laws in effect
The governor said today he in
tends to hurry the issuance of the
proclamations as much as possible
that the women may have an oppor
tunity to vbte in what city elections
are held in the state this year.
Brewery Guilty.
Roseburg, Ore., Nov. 11. The cel
ebrated case of the state against the
Roseburg brewery ended in the cir
cuit court here this morning when I
the original plea of not guilty was I
withdrawn and guilty substituted.
The five directors and the manager I
were fined $250 each, and the cor-1
noration S500. Thpir nttnrnt.- nv. !
ter Rice, notified the court that to ! y , f"1"8, throUgh SCho1- The
preclude in future the question ofi'8 h,me ? " a ranch 80me dis'
the intoxicating quality of the brew- J UaHa WaHa' and laCk
ery's beer no more of its product
would be sold in Roseburg. Last
September the trial of the case re
sulted in no verdict, the jury stand
ing 6 to 6.
Cause of Insomnia.
The most common cause of insom
nia is disorders of the stomach and
constipation. Chamberlain's Tablets
correct these disorders and enable
you to sleep. For sale by Poley's
Drug St'ore.
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RATE BILUS CARRIED
Measure Boosted By Medford Mer
chants Carried at November
Elections Now a Law.
Salem, Ore., Nov. 11. The state
railroad commission has notified the
larger carriers in the state that the
Medford traffic bureau rate bill has
apparently carried and, if so, it is in
force, and that the carriers, are liable
to a penalty for every shipment they
make not in conformity with , the
rates prescribed by the law.
"I don't care to discuss the merits
of the bill," said Clyde B. Atchison,
1 state
I cause
railroad commissioner, "be
that feature is now entirely
closed by the affirmative vote of the
people. The commission expects to
enforce the law in case the carriers
do not voluntarily comply with its
provisions. It is manifestly impossi-
entire traffic structure of the state.
The carriers have promised to inform
us as promptly as possible what line
of policy they decide upon."
TREAD THE MILKY WAY
Two Walla Walla Boys Work Their
Way Through High School By
Selling Milk.
Spokane, Wash., Nov. 12. Some
boys may have a path of roses in
getting their education, but Preston
j and Audley Hanson, members of the
Walla Walla (Wash.) high school
football team, are treading the milky
ul imius Beiiuusiy nanaicappea mem
in their ambition to get an educa
tion. They solved their problem by
taking with them to Walla Walla two
cows from their father's farm. Each
morning and evening they milk the
cows and deliver the milk to regular
customers, securing money in this
way to pay their expenses. Business
is so .good they are considering
bringing in some more cows.
Scale receipts at Tidings office.
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