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ASITLAXD TIDINGS
Monday, December 0, 1912.
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DOES PIBLKITY PREVENT
CRIME?
Does publicity prevent or foster
crime? That is a question which is
attracting more and more attention
every year. The theory has been for
generations that the making public
the fact of crime is one of the best
restraining influences. This, like
many another theory, is giving way
to something newer and better. The
claim that reputable newspapers fea
ture crime for the money that there
is in it is unjust. To say truer would
be to say that the people demand it,
either from perverted taste or from
a belief that the publication is a re
straint of crime. One of the strong
est seasons to believe that publicity
begets crime is that a particularly
weird and atrocious crime in one sec
tion of the country is followed by
similar ones elsewhere.
This is becoming so plain that it
has become a saying among sociolo
gists that crimes go in series.
The fate of Lounsberry, the S. P.
robber, instead of detering others,
has evidently excited their desire to
go and do likewise.
An evidence of the "recoil" of an
anti-vice crusade in a northwest Iowa
town came directly under the observ
ation of the writer a few years ago.
A lecturere for a temperance organ
ization delivered an impassioned and
realistic "expose" of the vice of Chi
cago, especially inviting the young
people, and the hall was crowded
every night. A friend of the writer
was a heavy shipper of cattle to the
Chicago market and "cattle passes"
(free transportation to care for stock
en route) were often given out. Me
told the writer that during the next
few weeks after these lectures he was
almost daily accosted by young men
and youths who wanted passes to
Chicago. The sudden access of de
sire to go to the city aroused his
suspicion and in many instances they
admitted that they "wanted to go
and see if what she said was true."
That was one of the first reasons
that made the writer begin to doubt
the efficacy of the publication of the
details of crime, as a crime prevent
ative. The Johnson-Cameron affair has
been heralded from coast to coast
and will doubtless be followed by the
marriage of several other white girls
with colored men. There seems to
be Borae sort of fascination in crime
which inspires the young or weak
minded and causes them to try and
imitate the criminal.
These and other observations have
caused the writer to come to the be
lief that if the publication of the
details of crime were forbidden that
it would be for the benefit of human
ity. What good can it do to try
every criminal case of note before
a jury of 60,000,000 people? It does
not tend toward justice. The jury is
not and should not be influenced by
the sympathy or lack of sympathy
for the criminal or for his victim.
They are there to do justice.
The Daltons, the Youngers and
James are heroes to nearly every
boy at some stage of his life, and the
very knowledge of them is degrad
ing. Why should it be flaunted be
fore the innocent?
The sculptor cannot make a beau
tiful statue with an ugly model.
Neither can a mind be trained beau
tifully with an ugly model set up be
fore it.
There was never a truer stanza
written than that familiar one:
"Vice is a monster of such hideous
niein
That to he hated needs hut to be
seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with its
face.
We first endure, then pity, then em
brace." In the fiscal y.-ar 1912 about $30,
000,000 worth of American automo
biles found markets abroad, as
against less than $1,000,000 worth
ten years ago.
The new government building be
ing erected at Delhi the new capital
of India, will cost $20,000,000.
.TRY IT OX THE BABY.
Well, well. Dr. Harvey Wiley, our
old pure food friend, is father of a
152-ounce boy, and Harvey has got
it all figured out how that boy will
be raised.
"Our child," bubbles the doctor, '
"is to be a pure food baby literally.
He will not be weaned until he is
fifteen or eighteen months old. He
will not be given fruit until after he
is three years old. His clothes will
be very few and very simple. One of
the earliest lessons will be on thrift
and he will not be allowed to spend
his pennies."
Oh, doctor, doctor, how familiar
this sounds! Papa always starts out
by resolving that sonny shall have
naught but pure food, and every
sonny manages to consume his por
tion of mud pies. Often, often, we
heard announcements that baby
wouldn't be weaned until fifteen to
eighteen' months old, but something
has usually vetoed that. And just
think of no fruit until three years
old! No orange, no banana, no taste
of preserves, no nibble of apple.
Why, Doc, we'll bet a number eight
nursing bottle that you'll be begging
for "just a little bite" of fruit for
that blessed John Harvey Wiley be
fore he's two years old.
Very few and simple clothes, too.
Oh, man, man, wait till you see the
many and elaborate duds it will take
to "properly clothe" that youngster!
nut the lesson on thrift is all
...... i v j u1 u niuc, uuv-lUl
Make nun save his pennies. Get him
one of those cute little banks that
no one save papa can open. It will
come in so pat when there isn't exact
change in the house to pay the milk-.
man or the laundry lady. There is
positively no trait that should be
more early rooted in children than
that of putting their pennies in a
bank that they cannot open. We
have known parents to foolishly neg
lect this, to their sorrow.
But seriously, doctor, isn't your
angelic theory of raising a kid a good
deal of a hoax? How were you
started off? You have a fine mind,
a courageous heart, and a great big, i
honest, wholesome body. You can
take and give hard knocks. Life, ac
cording to the doctors, is pretty
much a struggle for immunity from
germs of one sort or another, and the
wonder is that so many prove fit
to live. Would you be what you are
today, Papa Wiley, had you been
cradled under gauze, been pasteur
ized and sterilized and formaldehyd
ed, and filled by rule and rote?
Blessed is the lot of the man who
can look upon his new son, raise his
right hand and swear just how he is
going to feed, clothe and fashion him.
Beautiful are such castles of father
hood, but just a few whiffs of time
and those castles fall off into the un
known like the gossamer seed pods
of the dandelion. Infant human na
ture is anything but a machine and
it takes a mighty busy papa to make
it go as such.
FROM WEDDING CLOUDLAND TO
DIVORCE PIGSTY.
Miss Violet Dove and Dr. Milo E.
llartman were married recently at
Kansas City.
They wanted a "different" wed
ding and they had it.
They were united in the holy
bonds while standing in the basket
of one of the balloons which were
starting in the great elimination race.
As the preacher said " man and
wife," the great gasbag we refer
here to the balloon was cut loose
and shot up into cloudland.
At the end of a few short hours,
obeying the law of gravitation, they
descended, and sad to relate in
stead of alighting in some sylvan
glen, haunted by fays and dryads,
they landed in a hog-pen!
So many weddings are like that!
It wasn't so very "different" after
all. They start in the unstable bas
ket of a balloon, and they soar for a
short time into the cloudland of
ecstasy. The clouds are beautiful,
but they are much more agreeable
when looked at from'a distance than
when used for purposes of naviga
tion. For one thing, they are damp.
They are cold. They chill the warm
and generous enthusiasms which
thrill those standing in the basket
before the word is given, "Turn her
loose!" The dampness makes the
balloon heavier. The gas of court
ship leaks out. The law of gravita
tion pulls down toward earth.
And when the earth of common
life is reached, so many of the poor
creatures find themselves in the pig
sty of the divorce court!
The cloudland of the honeymoon
should be a part of the life of every
boy and girl. But can't we all do
something to make their landing on
the common earth where people
work more certain to be safer and
cleaner? The coming down Is the
crisis. And the mutual confidence
and trust, and the characters that
make trust and confidence inevitable,
are, after all, the things that insure
against the pig-pen finale.
THE FIRE PROTECTION BONDS.
In the agitation over the proposed
electric light bonds but little is said
regarding the proposed $6,000 issue
of bonds for the purchase of a motor
hose truck. There seems little if any
opposition to this. There is certain
ly a need for better fire protection.
On this there is no difference of
opinion. The only question which
has been raised is whether or not the
truck will be able to climb the hills
in the winter season and navigate
the mud of the lower part of the city.
Some claim that one could do so,
while others declare that one could
only be used on the paving. It would
seem wise to vote the bonds and also
wise that the city council refuse to
purchase any machine until it had
been given a thorough tryout in win
ter. There is no question that batter
fire protection is needed and that the
taxpayers are ready to pay for it, but
care must be taken not to repeat the
mistake made two years ago when
the present hose carts were bought.
They were thought before hand to
be what was needed, but have proven
in actual service an utter failure.
The council should provide against
the possibility of a similar contin
gency in regard to buying a motor
truck.
TEAL FOR THE CABINET.
The Portland Ad Club is making
a campaign in behalf of the appoint
ment of Joseph M. Teal for the posi
tion of secretary of the interior in
President Wilson's cabinet. The
movement is described as non-partisan
and as backed by all civic and
political organizations. The. choos
ing of Wilson's political family
would seem to be a matter in which
republican and progressive politicians
and newspapers have no legitimate
part. As a democratic administra
tion must stand or fall as such, it
would seem that a recommend from
political enemies would have little
weight with Mr. Wilson. It is not
natural to take one's councillors
from among one's opponents, nor yet
to choose them from among the
friends recommended by the enemy.
TALKS ON ADVERTISING TO TID
INGS READERS.
(By Ralph Kaye.) .
Everybody needs shoes a condi
tion of affairs that every shoe retail
er should remember.
It's not a question of educating
people to buy shoes, but to buy his
shoes.
It strikes me there are different
classes of buyers the shoe man should
appeal to:
The office man wants shoe com
fort, appearance, easy to polish.
The collector, superintendent and
general outdoor men, who do a great
deal of walking, want shoes that will
wear, stand hard usage and be water
proof. The professional man doctor,
lawyer, etc. wants shoes of good ap
pearance, stylish and durable.
The college and club men want
style first and foremost.
The youngsters need shoes that
can stand sliding and kicking every
thing. The women want their shoes styl
ish, shoes that make their feet look
small and stylish.
If the shoe dealer would apply the
merits of their shoes to the require
ments of their customers, they would
strike a sympathetic chord. The ap
peal would be personal.
Next talk will be on furniture.
Democrats to Pocket AH Jobs Given
By Taft.
Washington, D. C, Dec. 6. Prep
arations for the proposed movement
by democratic leaders in the senate
to block the confirmation of the ma
jority of President Taft's appoint
ments to office to be made during
the last few months of his adminis
tration, is under way here today.
All the postoffice appointments
will be "pocketed" by senators from
the interested districts, it is under
stood, at such places where a change
might "he made.
ISO IndeiK-iidence Women Vote.
Independence, Ore., Dec. 3. At
the city election here yesterday 411
votes were cast, at which a mayor, a
city recorder and three councilmen
were chosen. The women cast 150
ballots. Those who voted were al
most wholly the wives and mothers
of this city. While there was no
stated issue between the wet and dry
elements, there was a choice between
candidates in their atitude toward
better moral conditions, and the
choice was decided in favor of the
best men.
Water InsKH-tor Drops Dead. '
Spokane,' Wash., Dec. 6. James J
Liston, a prominent citizen and water
Inspector, dropped dead from heart
disease in the Peddicord Hotel today.
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Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
A ragged, forlorn, ill-looking man
presented himself at the back door
of the home of a friend of mine in
a nearby city, and asked for an old
suit of clothes, explaining that he
had applpied for work at fifty differ
ent places, and had been curtly re
fused, owing, as he thought, to his
shabby attire.
After he had told his story, my
friend sent her young daughter to
the attic for a discarded suit of her
father's for him, and after giving
it to him and receiving his thanks,
she bethought herself that he might
be hungry. When she asked him, he
admitted that he was. She took him
into her kitchen and fed him bounti
fully, and as he ate, he talked, tell
ing her bits of his life history, and
revealing, in the conversation, the
fact that he was well educated and
well balanced.
When he was ready to leave he
stood on the doorstep, his shabby hat
in his hand, his bundle of clothes
under his arm, and said:
"Madam, you have treated me like
a human being, and I shall not forget
it. AVherever I have gone this morn
ing, I have been repulsed and made
to feel my degradation. But you
have shown sympathy and kindness.
You have made me feel like a man.
And I am going out to find work,
with renewed confidence, because
one person has treated me with re
spect." He squared his shoulders and
walked off down the street with the
step of a conqueror, and that one act
of youthfulness bore fruit that made
the woman's heart rejoice.
I was told once by a woman teach
er in the University of Chicago, of
an experience she had once enjoyed
and I use the word "enjoyed" know
ingly and meaningly while accom
panying a Salvation Army lassie on
an errand of mercy in the worst dis
trict of Chicago.
She said that they passed among
men and women of the lowest type,
with hardened faces upon which dis
sipation and evil thinking and evil
living had left ineradicable marks.
She sank close to the side of the
other women who passed among
them fearlessly. Nay, rather, she
passed among them as a sister, with
a smile here, a nod there, an occa
sional cheery word to right and left.
She did not speak to them as from
the exalted height her own life might
have justified. But she passed
among them like a sister. And a
breath from the heaven the har
mony of her pure soul reached out
and touched the most degraded of
them all.
On every side was expressed re
spect. . Hats came off, voices low
ered, blasphemy ceased. The spark
I The Home Circle
V.AUP
We Are Prepared to Help You in Your
Christmas Buying
Christmas gifts worth having arc the kind
you will find at this store. Hundreds of things
that are useful are shown here in big variety.
We quote here a few of the many things that
are appropriate as gifts.
For Women
Handkerchiefs in plain and fancy
edges at 5 cents up to $1.50.
Kid Gloves, all colors, at prices from
$1.00 up lo $3.00.
Umbrellas from $1.00 up to $8.00.
Neckwear at ,25 cents up to $1.00.
Fancy Scarfs at $1.00 up to $3.50.
Silk Hosiery at 50 cents up to $1.50.
- Silk at $1.00 and $1.25 per yard.
Dressjgoods at '50 cents up to $1.50
per yard.
Table Linens at 50 cents up $2.00
per yard.
Bed Spreads at $1.25 up to $5.00.
Blankets and Comforters at prises
from $1 50 up to $9.00.
Silk Waists at $3.00 up to $5.50.
Sweaters at $2.50 up to $5.50.
Hit I IH Mil !
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Bo 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
4. We have a limited amount of dry wood for sale, and the best
$ Washington state coal for the lowest possible price for cash.
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of decency was only covered by the.
ashes of vice it was not dead. And
that spark responded to the influence
of the love which permeated this
woman's whole being, and of which
she gave unstintedly.
Thus it is with every human be
ing. Somewhere, beneath the ex
terior presented to the coldly critical
gaze of the public, is a living, palpi
tating thing the real manhood, and
it awaits only the right sort of recog
nition to manifest itself in right
thinking and right living.
Of course, this was an exceptional
case. Not every man who comes to
one's back door asking alms is wor
thy. Granted, also, that charity
might incline him to leave a chalk
mark upon your back gate, that all
who ran might read, "Herein lies an
easy one." This is not a plea for in
discriminate giving. What my friend
gave to the man in question was not
the food and clothes any one might
have done as much but she gave
him self-respect.
Every normal man has something
within him which responds to the
touch of human sympathy. It may
seem hopelessly buried beneath the
rubbish of materialism, or greed, or
ignorance, but it is there, and it be
hooves every one of us to be decent
to every unfortunate bit of human
driftwood that chance or the wis
dom we fail to comprehend sends
our way. It may be our opportunity.
At any rate, it will be his.
Increase Mexican Duties.
San Francisco, D. 0. Duties on
imports into Mexico will be advanced
1C per cent on January 1, according J
to unofficial information received at
the customs house here today. ,
SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland
Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine is $1.50 per year.
H I M l-M H"M
The Adobe Ramparts of Assyria.
Nearly akin to Egyptian house
building methods were those of an
cient Assyria, where the stiff clays
of the valleys of the Tigris and Eu
phrates furnished the rude mud walls
of the lowliest shelter, and the mass
of the walls of the city and its pal
aces, temples and ramparts. While
there is 110 lack of gigantic statues
and symbolic monoliths, stone stairs
and paved approaches, and the re
mains of the alabaster and syneite
facings, which covered the plainer
masonry, the real strength of Baby
lon and Nineveh lay in the masses of
brickwork which, in mighty Baby
lon it is recorded, formed the lofty
towers and ramparts which for 4 2
miles girdled a district five times as
large as modern London with a great
wall, whose summit, embattled, and
forming a continuous chariot way,
rose from 300 to 350 feet above the
fertile plain.
One hundred gates with brazen
hinges are said to have poured out
its legions in war and its millions in
peace; the great river, bridled and
parapeted, flowed in, through and
out of the city under the massive
bridges, over ample tunnels, and
through huge water gates which no
fleet might force or engine of war
lay low. Surely never before or
since, in the history of the world,
has the plummet, hammer and trowel
of the bricklayer played so important
a part in securing the safety and
promoting the magnificence of a
great city.
Frame New Naval Bill.
Washington, Dec. C. The house
began framing a naval appropriation
bill here today. It 1s expected the
bill will aggregate $120,000,0u0.
Phone No. 39 when in need of job
printing. Work and prices are right.
Shoes and Slippers at $3.00, $3 50
and $4.00.
Furs, a big variety to pick from.
For Men and Boys
Bath Robes at $4.00 up to $10.00.
Smoking Jackets at $4.50 up to
$7.00.
Hats, $3.00 values now at $2.25.
Caps, in many styles, 50 cents, 75
cents and $1.00.
Handkerchiefs at 5 cents up to 50'
cents.
Neckwear at 19 cents, 40 cents and
50 cents.
Night Gowns at 75 cents and $1.00.
Suit Cases in many styles to select
from.
Dress Shirts in many styles to select
from.