Monday. January 13, joi; PAGE TWO ASHLAXD TIDIXGS Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ' KSTARLISHED 1870. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. reer, - Editor and Owner B. W. Talcbtt, ... City Editor SUBSCRIPTION' RATES. One Year 2.00 Six Months -. 1.00 Three Months .50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 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 matter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Jan. 13, '1.1 EDITORIAL BREVITIES. It is not the price which an arti cle brings which makes for profit, it is the amount above what it costs. The only thing damaged by the late cold snap in southern Oregon seems to have been the weather rec ords and the statements in the boom pamphlets. The man who gets $3 per day for six days in the week is better off than the man who gets $4 per day for three days. Those three days spent on the streets often, cost the man a portion of the money earned the other days. The man -with a grievance may be a good workman, but he is never a profitable one to have on the pay roll. No man can f erve two masters. He will give his grievance time and thought which should go to his em ployer. Labor has been called "the curse of Cain." In truth it is the greatest blessing of a beneficent Father to his children. If you do not believe it ask a man who has been confined in prison idleness or an invalid who Is unable to work. The loss from the frosts in Cali fornia seems to be shrinking. There is no doubt that it is great, but the California orange crop, it is hoped, will have as many lives as the Dela ware peach crop, which is killed sev eral times every spring, yet gets mar keted just the same. Albion W. Tourgee, in speaking of Lincoln, says that the liberators of the race have always come from the middle class, "below the abject poor, above the soul-dwarfed rich." This is eminently true. Roosevelt is to day almost the only figure prominent in the emancipation of the people from the interests, who was born in conditions of affluance. He is the exception which proves the rnle, and his training in the west in his youth put him in touch with the common people in a way a lifetime in the east could not have done. The Dunsmuir Plain Dealer in a recent issue swipes an advertisement from the Tidings headed "A Word About Printing." The advertisement came back to the Tidings as reading matter in the Plain Dealer, and while this paper does not object to furnishing the gray matter for other papers, the writer does object to hav ing hiB mental children come home in such garb as fhe Plain Dealer clothes them in. The sheet was ap parently printed on discarded wrap ping paper and was so badly offset that it was hard work to tell what the article really v as. If the Plain Dealer wants .its exchanges to ever find out what it contains it better get enough white paper bo it can use it for this purpose. The Mail Tribune sems to be after Sheriff Singler's "goat," three big heads on one page being devoted to him, his office and his family in a recent issue. Special attention Is given to a remark of the new sheriff that the coroner was the only one having authority over him, the in ference of the Mail Tribune being that he claimed that the county court had no authority over the sheriff's office. The remark was made in an Bwer to a query of the writer and lie did not take the remark to have any reference to .the county court, nor does he believe Sheriff Singler so Intended. The court was inform ally considering the bonds of county officials and one of the court ex pressed wonder at the size of the cor oner's bond. Sheriff Singler hap pened in and the writer asked hlni in an aside if the coroner was not the official authorized to serve pa pers upon the sheriff . Mr. Singler replied Jocosely that the coroner was the only man who had any authority over him. A laboratory for the study of can ning and preserving haB been opened at San Francisco by the United States bureau of chemistry. A new insect pest is destroying French apple orchards. GOING BACK TO THE OLD HOME. U was a grand trophy that Wood row Wilson brought back to lay at the feet of his mother town, Staun ton, Ya. But perbaps while he was carting around all the laurel wreaths and shiny badges that the voters and others have bestowed on him, he did not feel nearly bo biggity as some of the rest of us on returning to boy hood home. There is an element of triumph in returning to the place that raised you if your life has been even passa bly successful. For if you left at any period after infancy, you were al ways depreciated. No prophet is without honor, etc. In that feeling there is always aa element of envy. Village wise men hate to admit that anyone who has had the same advan tages that they had could ever out strip them. It's very different when you re turn. No matter if it is a small share of the world's crowns of plun der that you have been able to grasp, you seem a pretty Lig man to stay-at-homes. The element of jealousy is removed, since they are able to say to themselves, that if they had had your chance, they would have done as well or better. Even if the former fellow with whom you went to school does call you "Woodie" or "Tommie," don't step too high nor snub him too sharply. The simple names of boy hood ought to have a clink like the old oaken bucket, after you have been separated by your associates by the formal handli of "Mister." There is something rather fine about sharing an honor with the in fluences that created you. Was it not President Garfield who, on tak ing the inaugural oath, turned to kiss his mother? Similarly it is a gracious act of the president-elect to give due honor to a civic parentage. To the boys who. are going out from Ashland today, or who have gone out in past years, it may well be remarked, Don't forget, if you win honors or wealth in the big world outside, thnt a large share of the success is due to the early home! whose shelter and impulse made it all possible! PUTS IT UP TO THEM. Mayor Harter of Tillamook has put the enforcement of the laws di rectly up to Its advocates by appoint ing Attorney H. T. Goyne, Rev. H. W. Kullman, paslor of the M. E. church, and Mrs. Berniee Dick and! Mrs. Retta Phillips as special police men. The mayor said that he would appoint others who were in the habit of complaining about city affairs to similar positions. There is more merit Jn the sug gestion than appears upon the sur face. It is very common for nennio to declare that there is violation of the law, and especially of the liquor law, when as a matter of fact they know absolutely nothing except from hearsay. To put euch people where it is their business to know and sup press violations will not only aid in the strict enforcement of the laws but it will rid the administration of much unjust criticism. If the critics are honest and are willing to put themselves to one-half the sacrifice of time, (business and friends which a man does who. accepts a city office, then they will look into the matter epough to know positively whether or not the violations exist. In too many instances they will be found to be unwilling to take the trouble to investigate before making charges. This tendency is one of the influ ences which make it hard to secure convictions when cases are brought. Juries and even judges and justices are unconsciously prejudiced by pre vious stories of vinlati they knew to be either false or ex aggerated. The people of Oregon will be in terested to know the result of the action of the mayor of Tillamook. POOR EXCUSE WORSE THAN NONE. A Seattle man pves as his excuse for embezzlement: "1 had to pay alimony to my di vorced wife. I had to support my present wife. And' so well, I made a mess of it. I want to take my medicine so that when I come out I can make a better start." That's it. Lay it to the woman! Of course the women compelled him to marry them, and the first one compelled him to so use her that she got a divorce and alimony. He knew what he had to face in a financial way when he courted the second wife while under the court's decree to pay alimony. If he deliberately put him self in a position where he must steal to support two women it is no one's fault but his own and he should be dealth with even more severely than if the crime had eonie more excus able motive, if an excusable motive exists for crime. Phone news items to the Tidings. WARRING LABOR AND CAPITAL. Without further discussion of the sentence Imposed on the dynamite! consnirarnrs. or without stnimln trJ . , i i t, . deplore the awful crimes in which they are convicted of having a share, the question may well be asked at this time. What can be done to bring peace into the armed camp of mod ern industrialism? The American people are not In a position to lecture Europe on the folly of militarism, when in so many of their industries the strikebreaker and the rioter impose burdens equal ly vexing and costly. How can the bitter anger be re moved from the heart of the working man as seen in so many employ ments? Jail sentences may intimi date the most violent, but as long as this spirit of anger remains, bricks canndt be laid nor can iron be cant efficiently. In the old days when the employer lived personally among his men, calling many of them by name, some by their first name.?, the problem was easy. Today the employer is com monly some impersonal holder of a heap of stock certificates in a safe deposit box 1,000 miles away. Not much room for friendship or mutual adjustment there. And yet, even in this day of great industry, there are thousands and thousands of large factory towns where there seems to be a good de gree of peace between employer and employed. Let the working man remember that strikes are not won by dyna mite. Capital will pull its money out of mills and rut it into govern ment bonds befo-ii it will give up to the gun in the face. On the other hand, let the capital- ist remember that never again can a big business go on to large success without making positive, consistent efforts toward improving the living conditions of its men. Marketing Farm Crops. Secretary Wilson is desirous of having a 'division of markets estab lished in the Department of Agricul ture. This is for the purpose of aid ing farmers to market their crops to better advantage. The record of what the department has accom plished in the matter of improving the crops and the methods of cultiva tion during the past three adminis trations in which Mr. Wilson has been at the head of the department reads almost like a fairy tale. The world has ben searched for new cere als, vegetables, animals and frjiits. Extensive experiments have been car ried on in all the features of farm ing, orcharding and stock raising. Education has, been the watchword. Due to the work of the department,' supplemented by the varioiu state departments and agricultural col leges, the value of farm products has more than doubled in thattime, this year, reaching the enormous total of $10,000,000,000. Having done so much and organ ized bo complete a system of aid to better farming, Secretary Wilson now wants to give the farmer great er returns for his labor by improving his marketing. In spite of the high prices prevailing, as the consumer sees them, the original producer is not getting them. There is too much added to prices t on the long route between the producer and consumer. We may take the one item of prunes as an illustration. The grower sells to the packer for 4 cents a pound a high-grade prune. The packer puts it into marketable condition and sells to the jobber at 6 to 7 cents. When the consumer in St. Louis goes to the store to buy it, he pays from 15 to 20 cents. The price increases from 400 to 500 per cenf between the producer and consumer. All other food products increase in like manner from' 100 to 500 per cent. What Secretary Wilson desires is not to add to the consumer's cost, but to get ' the producer a better price, by enabling him to do more direct and associated marketing. He says the consumer may also reduce this difference at Ms end of the line by doing more direct and associated purchasing. The parcel post is not going to do this work. It will help in many things, but the great bulk of farm products cannot be marketed in that way. The farm is to be made more profitable and attractive by getting the farmers better prices, and this the secretary aims to do without increasing the cost to the consumer, but rather by opening channels by which the consumer may also be ben efited. Railroads Confer With Telegraphers. Oakland, Cal., Jan. 10. A new schedule of agreements between the Pacific coast system of the Southern Pacific Company and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers is the object of a meeting here today by members of the latter organization. The pres ent schedule has been in effect since J 1907, and alth0u3h.it is certain the telegraphers will ask for an increase I In wages, there has been no sugges tion of a strike. The Home Circle 1 I H Thoughts from the Editorial Pen The Beautiful Side of "the Lodge." B A stranger was waiting one day last week for an interurban car near a smallish mid-western city. There came hobbling to the platform an old man, with gray beard sweeping his breast, who sat down beside the stranger with a sigh of relief at the opportunity of resting. "I've walked this fur," said the old man, "but I won't walk back. My feet git so sore with walkin' that 1 just about have to give it up." "How far have you walked?" asked the stranger. "From the Hoiue," was the reply. "I live there. Lived there about three years now." The stranger was one of those men who like to know about things, so ha asked his chance acquaintance all about "the Home." "Ours is a state home," said the old gentleman. "I'm the only one from our lodge. My wife is with me, and we have a room to ourselves and everything we want. There are about 300 in the home, 40 or bo old women with their husbands, and quite a lot of children girls and boys. We're all just a great big fam ily. I never had bo good a time in my life as I've had in the home. We have two good libraries and all the books and magazines and papers we can read. I've mended 196 chairs since I came I used to be a carpen ter. I do lots of work. We've made some of the best friends of our lives there. Come over and see us some day, and we'll show you a lot of old j folks and young folks having a happy life, that would be in awful hard pinches if there wasn't a lodge to take care of 'em. "Some of 'em, of course, aren't quite as well satisfied as they might be but that's because they are old and haven't any folks. It's nothing against the home. That's all right. We have everything we want, go where we please, and mostly we're pretty happy." His lodge pays 78 a year for his keep in the home, and buys his clothing. "I had all the clothes when I came that I thought I'd ever want," said he, "but I guess I'll have to have a new pair of shoes." The lodge made application for the admission of these people to the grand lodge home, and after it was granted sent a committee to see how the old folks were situated and how they felt about staying. The stranger knew in a general way that all the l'eat secret orders take care of their destitute in this way, but he went away with his heart warmed toward these great organizations. 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Address all orders to the Tidings. fellow Americans, and to forget all about the millinery and flubdubs if such there be in lodgedonr. And there ran through his mind the words: "Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me." The Cry of a Child. It has been said that the lonely cry of a child in the dark is a far more terrible arraignment of things as they are than the most eloquent speech, hot from the heart of an angry man. Is it? Listen! A committee wa3 probing the labor situation in a certain place and was astounded to find a child of 3 at work. One of the party asked the babe how long it had thus been em ployed. "Ever since I was," came the sim ple response. And yet in those little words, fall ing so naturally from the lips of a ttt, is a more scathing expose ol conditions than any novelist, dra matist or orator could frame, no matter how carefully he picked and chose his English. "Ever since I was" what a eft Cweir Special 25c Yard VRDinn 1V1 Uilliy mentofnevBroadheadDressGoods VAUPEL'S searchlight that throws upon indus trial conditions; what poverty it lays bare; what terrific wolfish greed it exposes! And mark this: The incident did not take place in crowded Italy, nor the new commercial Germany, nor in callous England, nor in any of those countries against whose "pauper out put" the labor of American men has to be "protected.". No, this took place right in New York state! Is America really the land of the free and the home of the brave? Are we a free people when our babies are exploited? Are we a brave peo ple when we allow such condition to exist? Isn't it time to end the rule of the dollar and begin the rule of justice and human rights? Knowledge. "Don't you think woman's educa tion should be equal to man's?" asked the suffragette. "A woman naturally knows more than a man does," replied Mr. Grow Icher. 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