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ASHLAXD TIDINGS
Thursday, December 5, 1912.
Ashland Tidings
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MEETING THE ISSUE FAIKLY.
There seems some disposition not
to meet the matter of voting or not
voting bonds to add another supple
mentary light plant fairly and
squarely. Even before this paper ap
peared on the street Monday the
writer was accused by one of the city
council of working in the interests
of the Ashland Electric Power and
Light Company, because, forsooth,
the Tidings published a report of an
examination of the finances of the
municipal plant, which certain tax
payers. had paid for and. which they
paid for having published. It was
further given in evidence of the ve
nality of the writer that hejiad been
"seen' to go into the electric light
company's office and stay there for
some time." The Tidings is not tak
ing any part in this bond fight. The
writer, as a citizen, reserves the right
to whatever opinion he deems right
in the premises, and whether, he does
or does not believe in voting bonds,
and that is the only question before'
the people at the coming election, he
does believe that the citizens and
taxpayers have a right to know the
exact financial status of the plant,
nor does the writer's opinion change
in any way the truth or, untruth of
the Frohbach report. But the writer
does believe that the tendency to
charge every citizen who dares to
criticise the municipal .plant or to
endeavor to secure the actual facts
as the status of the plant as bought
by the opposition is not, only unfair,
but it is harmful to the plant. . The
defeat of the bonds, which was not
asked by Mr. Frohbach, nor has it
been advocated by the Tidings, will
not necessarily meun the selling of
the plant, and both of these ques
tions can best be met by discussing
fairly the questions involved, which
are only those of policy, and not by
charging all disagreeing with the
management with dishonesty. The
writer had information some time
ago which Mr. Frohbach's report
merely corroborates. A gentleman
who accused him of being in a
"frame-up" against the plant, after
being told this, asked why it was not
published, and was informed that
had the newspaper made the state
ment on its own initiative, he would
have been among the first to declare
that the paper was bought up, and he
admitted it. ,
MR. FROHHAt'H'S REPORT.
The report of Mr. A. H. Frohbach,
made to a committee of taxpayers
who hired him to investigate the
finances of the city lighting system
and published in the last Tidings,
will without doubt be a bone of con
tention from now to the city election,
if not longer. It will be attacked
and defended; will be charged with
being unfair to the plant and of be
ing partial to it. And all these
charges will be honestly made. The
supporters of the plant claim that
there has been an undue deprecia
tion, a per cent, charged up against
the plant, while others who claim
to know say that 10 per cent would
be a fairer charge. These are ques
tions which the Tidings must decline
to discuss. They are for the citizens,
and each has as much leisure as the
Tidings to hunt up engineering jour
nals, etc., and form a basis of judg
ment. The claim is made by the
supporters of the plant that even if
it is losing money for the municipal
ity it is saving it for the light con
sumers. Whether or not the one" off-t-ets
the other, is for the voter to de-.
ci Je.
The Tidings believes that Mr.
Frohbach endeavored to make a fair
and unprejudiced report of condi
tions and that such a report was nec
essary to a sufficient knowledge of
the situation to enable the voters to
vote inteUiiri.ntly. Further than this
it does not care to go. . The report
speaks for itself and the citizens
must pass their own judgment upon
the fats therein.
George West ui plouse says that
the ideal vessel of the ocean trade is
an American schooner with auxiliary
engine.
"THOU SHALT NOT KILL."
A Denver minister is quoted as
saying that swatting the fly is mur
der, that the cabbage has the same
right to live as man, that plants are
conscious, that it is a sin to kill an
egg.
This is his interpretation of the
commandment, "Thou shalt not kill."
The world laughs at him, but he is
in a dilemma that is becoming world
wide, as the sacredness of life ap
peals to more and more people.
Vegetarianism is a form of this new
tenderness of feeling. The Doukho
bors of Canada refuse to wear wool
because the sheep has to be robbed
of a part of its life in giving it up,
or to use leather because it repre
sents sacrifice of life. Similarly,
they abjure bone buttons and tor-toies-shell
combs. They go shod in
felt and rubber boots and they
hitch themselves and their wives to
the plow that the horse and the ox
may go unenslaved!
Let us not laugh at them for
they are in an awful dilemma. When
they become as sophisticated as the
Denver divine they will be in a worse
one; for they will then understand,
as he does, that all life is alike, and
that the protoplasm that is the staff
of life for the man is the same as
that which is the staff of life for the
cabbage. They will be in a ( moral
No Thoroughfare like that of the
Hindu, who, a century ago, starved
because a missionary, by means of a
microscope, showed him that the wa
ter he drank and tlje food he ate was
all inhabited by living beings, which
the Hindu was pledged not to slay.
Poor humans who try not' to kill!
Poor Doukhobors, who do not know
that the rubber of their boots repre- j
sents human lives destroyed in the
awful slavery of tropical forests!
Poor Denver preacher, who does not
know that the nuts and ripe fruit he
thinks the only food which a man
can eat and not kill, is just as much
alive as the cabbage or the egg or
the fly!
There is no animal life save that l
which is sustained by the sacrifice of
life. The .bread we bake is "raised"
by the killing of millions of living
bacteria. The milk we drink must
have bacteria to sour it, or other
putrefying bacteria will come in and
spoil it. The butter we eat is rip
ened by bacteria. We must kill
plants or ansmals to cure ourselves
of most diseases. We must kill the
rat to stop the bubonic plague, and
ticks, gophers, squirrels and other
louenis in iignung piague ana spot-
tea lever
So why quarrel with necessary
killing? We must kill, or die. The
fate that placed us on earth put us
in this dilemma, from which we can
escape only by leaving earth and all
its dilemmas. We can do just one
thing in the matter we can fight
unnecessary suffering. And as be
tween human suffering and that of
the other organisms, perhaps we
would better look farther than do
the Doukhobors, and attend to the
amelioration of human suffering
first.
LIQUOR IX "DRY" TOWNS.
The same argument is raised in
Ashland as in other towns which
have no saloons, that there is more
liquor shipped in and used than if
there were saloons. Probably some
use the argument honestly, others
perhaps dishonestly. It reminds the
writer, however, of a story. A few
years ago he boarded a freight train
at Deerwood, a no-license town of
about COO inhabitants, and as they
pulled out the brakeman began the
same old song. They had unloaded
a couple of cases of beer and the
brakeman said, "There it is; we un
loaded more beer at Deerwood than
we did at Aiken (a wet town of some
2,000 people." The writer spoke up,
"But you forget the car of beer you
set out at Aitkin." The conductor
leaned back in his chair and began
to laugh. "You called his bluff," he
said. "That is just what he did
set out a carload at Aitkin." It is
the one case in a dry town that at
tracts attention just as the drunken
man does. Either goes unnoticed
where they are of common occur
rence. There is no doubt that there
is liquor brought into Ashland, and
probably clandestinely sold here.
Neither is there any doubt that there
are stolen goods brought into Ash
land and there are thefts and even
hold-ups here. There is no such
thing as perfect enforcement of any
law.
THE .MEAT WAR.
There is a meat war. on in Port
land, Seattle and other cities of the
northwest, but whether or not it will
reach Ashland is a question. The
big packing houses have put in retail
markets to force the retailers who
have been doing their own killing to
buy entirely from the packing houses.
The retailers retaliate by declaring
that as long as the packing houses
Fell at retail they will force them to
The Home Circle 1
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
,.
With all the straw votes that have
been taken, hay ought to be. a little
cheaper for the rest of the winter.
;
Keir Hardie, the socialist, says
that even in the time of Eden men
hid behind women's skirts. They
can't do it now.
Elections are like spelling matches.
A great majority of those running
are like the pupils who are sent to
their seats. They had the best of
intentions, but their execution was
mighty poor, and they hadn't learned
their letters in the right order.
A few years ago it was the man in
the automobile who was considered
the road hog. Now it is the man
who has a team that is not afraid,
and who is stingy with giving up part
of the traveled track to the autoist.
If both drivers are gentlemen there
is no trouble.
A few hours' ride in an automobile
will generally show a great differ
ence in the manner of working the
roads, especially in the building of
culverts and bridges. Just what can
cause an apparently intelligent road
supervisor to leave a plank bridge
five or six inches higher than the
grade of the sewer pipe without any
earth covering it is something that
calls for some guessing.
The best money maker on the farm
is the hen. She turns grass into
greenbacks, grain into gold, and
from sand and gravel she coins sil
ver. There is nothing else on the
farm to compare with her. The
horses and cattle are heavy consum
ers, and to get their value one must
part with them, but not so with her.
In her small way she is a gold mine
on the face of the earth, a mill that
grinds which others overlook and
refuse.
A newspaper is the cheapest thing
you can buy. It comes to you every
day or week, as the case may be, rain
or shine, calm or stormy, bringing
you the best news of the neighbor
hood. No matter what happens, it
enters your door a welcome friend,
bringing sunshine and happiness. It
I shortens the long winter day, and
enlivens the long winter nights
It
is your adviser, gossip and friend.
No man is just to his wife and chil
dren who does not give them a home
flaper to read.
Ridicule, condemn, berate the
mule as you will, but there is one
thing about a mule that makes him
worthy of all wonder and unstinted
praise. It may be well to give a
mule's heels plenty of leeway, but no
one ever heard of a man, woman or
child being run over by a mule. You
may set a baby down in the street
and drive a thousand mules at a wild
gallop down the street and not one
of them would hurt that baby. You
could not force a mule to run over
or step on a child if you tried for a
thousand years.
Now is a good time, brothers and
sisters, to get the woodpile ready
for the tramps. A woodpile is al
ways a handy thing to have around
the house, as it uses up a lot of
waste wood and burns very nicely
for quick fires in the cold mornings
and evenings of autumn. Have a
good ax ready too, and when Mr.
Tramp hits you for a handout, intro
duce him to said ax and pilot the
way to the woodpile. After he has
cut up enough wood to pay for it
give him a square meal but don't
be tender-hearted and foolish and fill
him up first. Tramps cannot work
on a full stomach.
How many persons know what is
liable to happen when a pint of gaso
line is left open in a room? if the
temperature is normal the liquid
will entirely evaporate in twenty-four
hours. The vapor is heavier than air
and therefore sinks to the floor. Un
less distributed, it will remain for
hours and by mixing with the air,
forms an explosive compound seven
times as powerful as powder. One
pint of gasoline will make two hun
dred cubic feet of this compound.
It is. not necessary that a lighted
match come in contact with it. A
spark struck by a nail in a shoe will
explode it, or a gas jet, or even the
enclosed fire of a kitchen stove.
A converted cowboy is reported to
have given this idea of what religion
is: "Lots of folks would really like
sell at a loss. Steaks have tumbled
about half, in the face of the fact
of an admitted shortage of cattle, and
the end is not yet. Meanwhile the
people of these cities are eating more
meat than for years.
THAT COAST RAILROAD.
Medford Man Goes to Crescent City
to Confer With Men There
on Project.
Medford, Nov. 30. Dr. J. F.
Reddy, prime mover in the Grants
Pass plan to build a railroad from
that city to the coast, left Friday for
Crescent City to confer with the busi
ness men of that city on the project.
When Dr. Reddy returned from San
Francisco a week ago it was an
nounced that he had been in confer
ence with heavy holders of interests
in that section, and that the money
for the Crescent City end of the deal
had been guaranteed. It is the in
tention to hold a meeting in Crescent
City similar to the one held in Grants
Pass Tuesday.
The building of trails from both
directions into the Cook and Green
pass, four miles from the Blue Ledge
camp, has given rise to the rumor
that this territory will be the scene
of a brisk battle for possession by
the Hill and Harriman forces, who
are credited with being behind the
present indications of activity. It
was reported that the forest service
is behind the move, and that alj of
the rangers and fire fighters being
off their posts for the winter have
been assigned to this work.
The Cook and Green pass is the
only feasible outlet to the coast from
Medford. It is the lowest pass in
the Siskiyou mountains, being a
couple of thousand feet lower than
the present route of the Southern
Pacific. It also furnishes an outlet
to the Klamath river side and taps
the timber to be thrown open by the
government for occupancy next
spring.
Jacksonville Landmarks Removed.
The wrecking and removal of two
old frame buildings adjoining the
city hall on Main street marks the
passing of historic landmarks. These
buildings were erected in early min
ing days when Main street was the
main street and the business of the
city centered on that thoroughfare.
The land was originally owned by
Ben and Louis Levy, who in 1856
disposed of it to P. J. Ryan. A
hotel was erected on the property,
which for a time was conducted by
W. W. Fowler. It would be interest
ing to know some of the events
which transpired within the walls
of this hostelry during the days
when rich gold strikes were of fre
quent occurrence in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Post.
Innocent Man in Prison.
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 30. As an
outcome of his judicial acts in the
case of Johann Tiberg, recently ac
quitted on the charge of robbing
sluice boxes, after two'"years' con
finement, Federal Judge C. D. Mu
rane of Nome, Alaska, may have to
face impeachment proceedings. At
torney O. L. Willett of this city is
gathering evidence and says that the
data at hand seems to warrant such
procedure, but that the matter will
not be decided until he has secured
a more complete report.
Memorial to Archibald W. Hutt.
Designs have been completed .for
the memorial bridge which the city
of Augusta, Ga., is to erect in honor
of Major Archibald W. Butt, who
perished in the Titanic disaster.
Work will begin in a few weeks. It
will be a handsome reinforced con
crete structure in three arches, span
ning the Augusta canal.
Pekin Has Free School for Poor.
A free school for the children of
the poor has been started by a num
ber of leading citizens of Pekin. On
the day of its opening there were no
fewer than 70 students. All the
teachers and business managers of
the school are rendering service with- 1
out receiving any pay.
Regrets Passing of Idol Worship.
A missionary spoke before the
Presbyterian synod of Illinois said
that he regretted the passing of idol
worship among the Chinese, because
the worship of idols was better than
the worship of nothing at all.
SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland
Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine is $1.50 per year.
to do right, think that servin' the
Lord means Dhoutin' themselves'
hoarse, praisin' His name. Now I'll j
tell you how I look at it: I'm work-j
in' here for Jim. Now if I'd sit
around the house here, tellin' what a j
good fellow Jim is, and singin' song9
to him, and gettin" up in the middle
of the night to serenade him, I'd
get fired mighty blamed quick. But
when I buckle on my chaps and hus
tle among the hills and see that
Jim's herd is all right and not suf
ferin' for feed or water, or bein' off
the range and branded by cattle
thieves, then I'm servin' Jim as he j
wants to be served."
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Your potatoes will not sprout or grow soft In cold storage-.
Get our prices, which are as low as in the east.
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Man OO Years Old Father of Raby.
Bartlesville, Okla., Dec. 3. Wil
liam Castlebury, 90 years old and
almost blind, will spend his declin
ing years in rocking a baby to sleep,
a daughter having just been born to
him. His wife is 36 years old.
Castlebury surprised hisf children
and grandchildren when he got mar
ried a year ago. He had been a wid
ower for years and is a wealthy re
tired farmer. His children believed
he could not properly care for his
business interests and induced the
court to appoint a son his guardian.
Saves Raby A Hero.
Dawson, Alaska, Nov. 30. Frank
Lowe is hailed as a hero here today
for his desperate effort to save the
life of baby George McDiarmid, im
prisoned on the upper' floor of Phil
lips' dry goods store, which burned
here last night. He carried the child
to safety but it died later of burns.
Japan and Roy Scout Movement. !
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Ba- j
den-Powell, who has returned to Lon
don after a journey around the world
in the interests of the Boy Scout
movement, says the authorities in
Japan are making a close study of
the movement with a view to its
adoption for educational purposes.
Names Rayner's Successor.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 30.
ernor Goldberg has announced the
appointment of William P. Jackson
of the republican national committee
men for Maryland to succeed the late
Senator Rayner.
Try Tidings job printing. The;
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How to Bankrupt the Doctors.
A prominent New York physician
says: "If it were not for the thin
stockings and thin-soled shoes worn
by women the doctors woufd prob
ably be bankrupt." When you con
tract a cold do not wait for it to de
velop into pneumonia, but treat it at
once. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
fs intended especially for coughs and
colds, and has won a wide reputation
by its cures of these diseases. It is
most effectual and is pleasant and
safe to take. For sale by Poley's
Drug Store.
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BANK STATEMENT
No. 574 7.
Report of. the Condition of the
First National Bank- at Ashland, in
the state of Oregon, at the close of
business, November 26, 1912:
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts. . . . $170,068.70
Overdrafts, secured and
unsecured 74.10
U. S. bonds to secure cir
culation 50.000.0D
U. S. bonds to secure U.
S. deposits 1,000.00
Bonds, securities, etc... 51,233.92
Banking house, furniture
and fixtures 24,948.20
Due from National Banks
not reserve agents) . . 21, 907. IS
Due from state and pri
vate banks and bankers,
trust companies and sav
ings banks J, 033. 74
Du from approved re
serve agents 70,903. 6S
Checks and other cash
items 5,475.14
Notes of other National
Banks ' . . . 505.00
Fractional paper curren
cy, nickels and cents.. 79.4
Specie 33,738.0i
Redemption fund with U.
S. Treasurer (5',', of
circulation) 1,600.00
Total $432, 567. OS
LIABILIT'ES.
Capital stock paid in...$ 50,000.00
Surplus fund 10,000.00
Undivided profits, less
expenses and taxes paid 19.208.9S
National Bank notes out
standing 49,400.00
Due to other National
Banks 286.96
Individual deposits subject
to check 247,847.54
Demand certificates of de
posit 9.816.5S
Time certificates of de
posit 45,007.02
United States deposits.. 1,000.00
Total $432,567. OS
State of Oregon, County of Jack
son ss.
1, L. L. Mulit, cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
L. L. MULIT, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 4th day of December, 1912.
G. G. EUBANKS,
Notary Public.
Correct Attest:
E. A. SHERWIN,
W. H. McNAIR,
C. H. VAUPEL,
Directors.