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Thursday, November 21, 1012.
Ashland Tidings
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THIS COUNTRY (jl'ITE SAFE.
The few Americans who may be
of Congressman Hobson's way of
thinking iU be able to take comfort
from some of the things which Kiyo j
Sue Inui, vice-president of the Great I
Lakes International Arbitration So
ciety, said in his address before the
Youug Mens Christian Association
at Salem recently.
"How much money do we need to
wage war against the United States?'
Inui said he asked of a prominent
Japanese financier. "Why." replied
the latter, "no one would lend us
money to fight America." And a
military expert of whom he inquired
how many men would be needed to
invade this country responded, "The
two largest nations in the world
could not win against the United
States on land."
That is the case in a nutshell.
There is no desire on the part of this
country to boast of its power and
its resources. But it has both. If
we were sufficiently provoked, we
should fight and win. The day has
passed at any rate with respect to
the United States when the capture
of a capital city means the end of a
war. It is conceivable that a hostile
fleet might bombard New York, or
any other seaboard city, and land
'troops. Washington might be taken
as it was in IS 12 but that would
settle nothing.
The Uuited States is too vast a
country to be conquered, even if
parts of it were overrun. Headquar
ter could be established anywhere
that it might be found desirable, and
mobilization effected, munitions of
war manufactured and a campaign
waged which in the end would be
successful against any probable en
emy. Of course, as between the United
States and Japan, war is not to be
considered at all. Japan is not a rich
nation and just at present finds it
very necessary to make money. Not
only could that country not exrect
to profit by a struggle with America,
but such a conflict would divert Jap
anese effort from profitable fields.
MHO TAYS FOR ADVERTISING.
Oregon Statesman: Skeptics about
advertising have been know n to raise
the question as to who pays for all
this publicity, and even to allege that
its cost is loaded on the consumer.
This is logic of about the same
correctness as to say, when a store
makes an addition to its sales force
in order to handle its growing busi
ness, that the cost of the new sales
people is added to the cost of the
goods.
For advertising is simply a form
of salesmanship, and the most effi
cient kind.
The growth of business that a
store gets through advertising works
to the advantage of the public. In
every business are certain fixed
charges usually called "overhead
costs," for rent, saiary of manager,
if one is employed, interest on capi
tal invested and borrowed money, in
surance, etc.
It is usually the case that when a
business is increased, the overhead
costs do not increase very much.
Consequently they become a smaller
charge on every dollar of goods sold.
The cost of advertising is paid
through this increase of business
that reduces the overhead charges.
Furthermore, it tends to reduce
the proportional expense of sales
people. Good advertising should
double the work the salespeople have
to do. but the force of clerks is not
necessarily doubled. Much of their
time before was unoccupied, and
spent in listless loafing, as tiresome
to the clerk as it is unprofitable to
the employer.
If a merchant doubles his business
and increases his salespeople 50 per
cent to get the work done, a fourth
of the expense of clerk hire that has
to be charged up to each article sold
is saved. That will pay for a very
big advertising bill, and ltave a
profit over.
FALIJXG LEAF AM) FADING
TREE.
The breeze rustles through the!
trees, and the golden, brown and red
leaves come floating down to earth.
Night begins to don her sable man
tle earlier, the birds will soon wing
their way to the south, and glorious
summer will pay her lingering fare
well. It is a very glorious thing, this
summer or ours. Even the filth, the
ugliness and the sordidness of our
cities cannot altogether rob summer
of its beauty. Froni even the mean
est street one can raise one's eyes
to the glorious blue of the infinite
sky and review the majestic proces
sion of fleecy clouds; the. sun gilds
with its rays the ugliest building and
imparts to it something of its own
splendor, and velvet night conceals
the ravages of man as it reveals in
its blazing stars the majesty or God.
There are few of us who do not feel
some regret at the passing of sum
mer, and yet, to the man who loves
nature, fall is one of the most beau
tiful and wonderful seasons of the
year.
Let us forget our troubles, forget
for a little the bitter struggle of life.
all the heartlessness, the inhumanity, t
the selfishness, the greed, all those I
vices of men that endlessly war j
against beauty, and go out and com-;
mune with nature. Let us muse for !
a while on the serenitv with which ;
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the mighty mother moves about her
eternal purposes.
In these days nature is preparing,
for the marvelous changes of winter, j
She is stripping the trees and thei
shrubs of their foliage as the first i
step in the great transformation, j
Come out in the park and watch her j
at work. How trivial and common-:
place seem the labors of the greatest j
of human artists, compared with this,
master of masters. Look at the col- i
ors on those leaves that brilliant
yellow, this rich crimson, all those j
wonderful browns blending so mar-
velously with that beautiful green!
background. Then look upward.!
look at the sky where the sun is set-!
ting. What a riot of color, and each
tint with a message, each glow with ,
a tale of the coming change.
Slowly, with majestic tread, nature
moves onward to the fulfillment of
her unalterable purpose; and think
you that purpose does not include
us. the most perfect of her children?
Who may doubt it? In the bewilder
ment of our sorrows, in the persis
tency of our pain, faith oftentimes
grows weak. But in our heart of
hearts do we ever really doubt? We
know that we are not playthings of
blind fate, but a part in a tremen
dous scheme which shall one day be
worked out to infinite good.
Often our burdens seem too heavy
for our strength, our courage falters
and despair creeps upon us. Yet,
remember this: If the eternal spring
does not dawn for us, it will for
those who come after us. What
gleams of sunshine we have were
bought for us by the tears and the
anguish of those who went before.
Let us not be untrue to our trust.
GAME BIRDS AND THE FARMERS.
It has been estimated by the
United States agricultural depart
ment that the codling moth and cur
culio apple pests cost American fruit
growers $S. 250, 000 a year in spray
ing operations and $12,000,000 in
the shrinkage of value in the apple
crop. The chinch bugs, in a single
season, have done $20,000,000 of
damage to wheat; the boll weevil
as much damage to cotton. Tree in
sect pests are held responsible for
$100,000,000 of destruction every
year. The charges against insect
pests, according to the government
experts, total $120,100,000 annually.
This tremendous price is what the
farmers of America are paying for
the slaughter of insect-eating birds.
For every swallow killed by shooters
trying their skill, for every robin
killed for food, or woodpecker killed
because of the mistaken idea that
woodpeckers do harm, some farmer
must pay in loss of grain, vegetables
or fruit. There are seven states in
which the robin is regularly and le
gally shot as game. Five states per
mit blackbirds to be shot as game,
and 26 list doves as game birds,
though doves are among the most
voracious of insect eaters and there
fore of immense value to farmers.
Under the provisions of three bills
now before congress, the protection
of migrating birds is to be taken over
by the federal government. As ex
perience has shown that the individ
ual states will not or cannot protect
them, the duty should be assumed by
Washington, which has a way of
making its authority felt even with
the most reckless. Farmers should
j urge on their congressmen the neces
jsity of stopping this needless $120,
! 100.000 yearly loss.
The PORTLAND EVENING TELE
GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year,
$3.00.
A WORKI NGM EN'S CLVB.
The Eugene Guard says: "The
movement for a workingman's c'.ub
in Eugene is a good one and sho lid
not be allowed to drop. A well
conducted resort where men of all
classes in their everyday work ng
clothes will feel at home, enabling
them to pass their leisure time in
reading or recreations that are not
harmful, is one of the real needs of
this city. The business and profes
sional men have their commercial
club, the fraternal orders have simi
lar resorts, but the workingman's
interests in this respect have teen
entirely overlooked. The idea of
charity should be kept away from,
since self-respecting, industrious la
borers are willing and able to pay
their way and require only organiza
tion in the right direction to enable
them to carry out a sensible, busi
nesslike plan of this kind themselves.
The details must be carefully worked
out, and when this is done the peo
ple of the city generally will un
doubtedly come forward with the as
sistance needed to meet the initial
cost of securing and furnishing suit
able quarters. If rightly planr.ed
and properly managed the "club,'
"rest room," "resort." or whatever it
may be called, will take care of it.-elf
after it is oiened."
It has long been the belief of the
writer that the hold which the saloon
has on many of the men of the man
ual working class is not so much the
desire for intoxicants nor for low
company, but the fact that the sa
loon, which its advocates term the
"poor man's club," is the only place
where a laboring man can spend an
evening w ithout feeling that he must
go to the task of dressing upthe
only place where he is made to feel
that his clothes do not count. The
average man is so weary when nis-'ht
comes that he does not feel like
dressing up, and besides he does not
feel comfortable in his "Sunday-go-to-meeting"
garb and it makes him
self-conscious and he does not enjoy
himself. Even at the fraternal so
ciety gatherings it is the unwritten
rule that while the member whose
duties compel or allow him to wear
good clothes at all times may go in
his business garb, yet the brother
who appears in overalls and frock
feels out of place in them and equal
ly out of place in unaccustomed garb.
For this reason many of them after
having joined some fraternal organ
ization fail to attend, and again, the
lodge may fall on the night when it
is inconvenient for them to attend
and on other nights they coifld go
out had they some place to go. A
workingmen's club would be of value
in every town, and especially in those
where there is a good per cent of the
men working at vocations requiring
rough garb. Whether or not there
is a great need for such a club in
Ashland is a question which only in
vestigation among the men who
would be benefitted by it, including
the small ranch owners who when
they come to town have to come pre
pared to handle produce w hich would
soil good clothes if worn, can deter
mine. ROOSEVELT'S GREATEST SER
VICE. Toledo Blade: In the first defeat
of his national career, Theoodre
Roosevelt has rendered to his coun
try his greatest service. Beaten over
whelmingly for an office he once won
by the largest popular vote ever ac
corded an American citizen, he has
earned, to a greater degree than ever
before, the gratitude of the nation.
When Colonel Roosevelt entered
the presidential contest last spring
he had all to lose and nothing to
gain. Easily the most nota le fig
ure of his generation, no elective
honors that might come to him
could add to his personal fame. His
refusal to re-enter public life and to
grapple with the vital problems of
the day offered an obvious course
for a man of selfish purpose and per
sonal vanity. It was the easiest way.
But Theodore Roosevelt was never
a man to shirk a duty or evade an
issue. With probable defeat ahead,
he threw himself into the battle for
the people and better things for thf
people, with the energy and strength
and singleness of purpose that have
marked his life work. Beaten at
Chicago after he had fairly won the j
nomination he sought, he continued
to fight, stout-heartedly and with
splendid courage. Neither assassin's
bullets nor adverse ballots held an-y
terrors for him. He fought his fight
to the finish.
And although he. personally, has
lost the battle, the vital things for
which he struggled cleaner politics,
higher national ideals, a greater
share of national material benefits
for the plain people have been ad
vanced indefinitely. The old, cor
rupt, national convention system is
dead. now. as one of the results of
the Roosevelt campaign. The hu
man welfare issues have become com
pelling demands. The cause ot na
tional righteousness and progress has
The Home Circle
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Carry sunshine in all your walks
of life.
A carload of pity is not worth a
handful of help.
Be like the harvest of this year
good and generous.
The newspaper is today the most
potent element in civilization. Its
audience is practically unlimited. It
reaches every class and condition of
men. It penetrates to every hut and
hovel on the farthest confines of hu
man society. The schools have an
influence and gather the children of
the high and low. But after schools
are outgrown, teachers forgotten,
and books mouldy and dusty, the
newspaper is still a constant com
panion. No public speaker, be he
preacher or political orator, can draw
an audience of one-tenth that which
greets the average newspaper today,
and thus the tone of the press be
comes a matter of vital importance
to the welfare of the community. The
influence is widespread and is also
lasting. Therefore we say, study
well the contents of the paper you are
taking, and if it contains that which
tends to lower the scale of morality
and humanity and not to the eleva
tion of that which is good and right,
better off are you by far without it.
The Child Welfare Bulletin.
Today in Peoria, 111., there appears
a new publication which stands for
the great child welfare movement. It
is to be the official organ of a num
ber of societies, so far as their work
is identified with the work among
the Children. The Child Welfare
Bulletin can become a great power
In the community, entering the
homes of hundreds of Peorians and
showing what is really being done
for the children of that community.
While the work is yet in its infancy
in Peoria, yet the men and women
who are actively interested in it are
earnest and aggressive. They are
determined that conditions for the
children throughout that city shall
be bettered. Their aim is happier
homes and better citizenship. If any
one can think out any subjects more
laudable, than this, let him speak
right out. If every town and city
had a like organization our peniten
tiaries would not be crowded.
The Father's Teachings.
The boy loves his mother probably
more than he does his father, but so
far as relates to the affairs of life in
general and on its hard side, he has
ten times the confidence in his fath
er's practical and available wisdom
than he has in that of his mother.
And if his father finds it necessary
in the conduct of business to strain
one of two of the commandments the
boy will keep on repeating them to
his mother and commence breaking
them with his father, and that, too,
without feeling that his sinuosity of
the procedure involves any great
amount of inconsistency. The only
thing that will save the boy and hold
him in any way true to the fixed pole
of rectitude that no considerations of
place or circumstance can deflect
him, is that he is under the domina
tion of a father whose life in the
midst of the world incarnates the
principles learned from the mother
in the midst of the home. The boy
will believe in the feasibility of the
mother's doctrine of righteousness if
he sees his father 'take it out and
exemplify it under the stress of busi
ness. The father's life in this degree
measures the power of the mother's
tuition, and is the hand of God
hastening or postponing the fulfill
ment of her longings and prayers for
the children of the household.
Growing Old.
Do not be fretful because you have
come to spectacles. While glasses
look premature on a young man's
nose, they are an adornment to an
octogenarian's face. Besides that,
when your eyesight is poor you miss
seeing a great many things un
pleasant things that the younger
are obliged to look at. Do not. be
worried because your ear is becom
ing dull. In that way you can escape
being bored with many of the things
that are said, if the gates of sound
gained mightily in the campaign
which Roosevelt made and lost.
The debt of gratitude the country
owes him has grown heavily in these
last three months. That it will be
cancelled, even in small measure, in
his lifetime, is a matter of question.
But that in the view of history he
will be accorded the rank that he
has so richly won as one of the great
est and bravest and truest of Ameri
can citizens, there is no manner or
shadow of doubt.
? PureMounlainWatcrlcc
Do Not Throw Your Apples Away i
on a glutted market. Put them in cold storage for better prices.
Your potatoes will not sprout or grow soft in cold storage. J
Get our prices, which are as low as in the east. J
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keep out much of the discord. If the
hair is getting thin, it takes less time
to comb it. and then it is not all the
time falling down over your eyes;
or if it be getting white, we think
that color is as respectable as any
other that is the color of the snow
and the blososms and the clouds and
all angelic habiliments. Do not
worry because the time conies on
when you must go into the next
world. It is only a better room with
brighter pictures, finer society and
sweeter music. Robert McCheyne
and John Know and Harriet Newell.
Mrs. Hemans, John Milton and Mar
tin Luther will be good enough com
pany for the most of us. The corn
stalk standing in the field today will
not sigh dismally when the huskers
leap over the fence and, throwing
their arms around the stack, swing it
to the ground; it is only to take the
golden ear from the husk. Death
for the aged Christian is only husk
ing time, and then the load goes in
from the frosts into the garner. Our
congratulations to those who are
nearly done with the nuisances of
this world. Give your staff to your
little grandson to ride horse on. You
are going to be young again and you
will have no need for crutches. May
the clouds around the setting sun be
goWen and such as lead the "weather
wise" to prophesy a clear morning.
Warrant Issued By Real Estate Man.
Charles Lebo, a real estate man,
and Charles Tull, a livery stable
man, at Medford, had a disagreement
Monday in which Tull is alleged to
have taken a swing at Lebo, and as
a result a warrant was issued by
Justice of the Peace Glen O. Taylor,
charging Tull with assault and bat
tery. Mr. Lebo said afterward that
Tull failed to land his swing,- but
that they wrestled about in the dirt
considerably, and that his hat was
broken. He swore to the complaint.
The trouble occurred over a differ
ence of opinion regarding work be
ing done on the property of the Med
ford Reatly & Improvement Com
pany. Try Tidings job pr'nting. The
quality is remembered long after the
price is forgotten.
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RELATIVES.
(By Howard L. Rann.)
Relatives are members of society
whose time is fully occupied in visit-
jing somebody who is perfectly satis
i fied with the size of his family. This
! country may occasionally run short
' on statesmen and ready money, but
j there is no falling off in the crop
I of relatives w ho unload themselves
on the front porch with a blithe smile
and a coiton flannel nightdress.
There are two kinds of relatives
I rich and poor. Rich relatives are
'courted with great assiduity and sou
! venir postcards, show ing the new
j court house, and Main street, as it
i appears when the lodge is at ease.
J The flow of postcards ceases quite
suddenly after a rich relative dies.
I and breathes new life into the Home
I for the Aged with dark green coupon
bonds. A rich relative is a pleasant
(thing to have on the family tree un
j till his mind begins to wander in the
i direction of college endowments and
: the benighted and unclad heathen.
when his picture is removed from
j the front parlor and banished to the
I hair trunk in the attic. Not all poor
relatives are alike. Some are very
companionable and fond of a change
jof scenery, and mattresses, and are
j liable to drop in and congest the
(spare bedroom with arctic overshoes
(anda telescope grip, while other
! never do any visiting except to nurse
I the sick and render service, without
j any fee. Relatives are sometimes
' quite free with advice as to the nrnn-
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! er rearing of somebody else's chil
dren, and when their advice is disre
; garded they fail to show up until
: it is time to divide the estate. Rela-
tives are appreciated most at Christ
; mas time, when they shower the
home with drums, Noah's arks and
I stick candy. We would not care to
lose our relatives for any length or
! time, no matter how often they come
! or how long they stay.
j To lighten the labors of a tin roof
l er, a Michigan man has invented de-
lamauie uanuies to increase the lev
erage of an ordinary pair of metal
cutting shears.
Switzerland had 606 banks in
(1910. Nineteen were state banks.