Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, January 20, 1913, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextASHLAXD TIDINGS Monday. January 20, !9l;j. PAGE TWO Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1K70. RELIGION' AM) REAL ESTATE. Issued Mondays and Thursdays; liert K. (Jrccr, II. V. Talc, .ft. Considerable comment has been aroused by the statement of a clergy man in the revival meetings that no real estate agent has a right to sell a piece of property for more than he Editor and Owner i would gjve for k This stalement( - - it jr Editor j aj genPrai ar,d sweeping state ment, contains both truth and er ror. To carry it to its logical end, THE FARMERS AM CORNERS. J The Home Circle 0 MRSCKIITIOX KATES. Ono Vosr fcix Mouths ! 1.00; he owner would not have a right Three Mouths 50 ; to sell for more than he would give, The United States supreme cour having laid down the principle that corners in food, clothing material, etc., are in violation of the United States law, it remains to be seen whether the speculators can continue j With the advent of 1913, make up to gamble with the poor man's loaf ' your miud to attend strictly to your Thoughts from the Editorial Ten 2 I Payable in Advance, land there would be no sales. TELEPHONE 39 j The Tidings is far from upholding ; misrepresentation in the selling of . - , ; real estate, any more than it does in Advertising rates on application. . . . . ... , A. First-class job printing facilities. the Inching of the gospel or the Equipments second to none in the ! publishing of news, but the state Interior, j ment given above seems too sweep- ""Entered at the Asbland. Oregon. I in Were a11 the teachers and all Postoffice as second-class mail mat- ! the real estate men of Ashland taken ter. Ashland, Ore., .Monday, Jan. 2t, 101:1 EDITOKIAL BRIEFS. Fifty men at Wilson Creek, Wash ington, shot 522 jackrabbits one day recently, and it was not much of a day for jackrabbits either. The women of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., have organized a fire company and are reported to be making good as a fire-fighting proposition, as well as a desirable social auxiliary to the local male department. Medford has organized a progres sive club of GO members. The club is not a whist organization, as might be inferred, but lb to advance the progressive party. The club will hold a banquet on Lincoln's birthday. of bread and cotton nightshirt as the stakes. j While public sentiment is very generally against corners, gone ! rather plausible arguments in their favor have always been advanced, it is said that they enable the farni' i. to get more for their cotton and grain, and that they prevent forei-'ii countries from getting our crop sup plies at low prices. But does the farmer get the bene fit of corners? What is the farmer doing when the storms of financial frenzy, re sulting from attempts to corner the own business, and you'll have no time to mix up with your neighbois". Beginning now and lasting well into March the probability is the mail carrier will earn all the money he will receive for making his six rounds a week. He will appreciate all the help we can give him in the way of making thj roads more passable. to a certain number of pieces of property and asked to write out what they would give for it, or even what they thought it worth, there would I market, break loose on the produce Elbert Hubbard, who has been try ing to teach morals to the United States, and who divorced his wife to marry his typewriter girl, is now afoul of the postal laws for sending out obscene pictures. Genius won't successfully cover up immorality in this day. A recent report of the Russell Sage Foundation' puts the state of Washington at the top, with Massa chusetts second and New York third in the matter of general efficiency in its school system. Oregon slumped badly in the line when it turned down two of its three normal schools. Samuel Gompers, in excusing the dynamiters on the plea that capital Is tyrannical; is the worst type of enemy that organized labor has. The poor man needs to 'uphold law even more than the rich. The rich can hire protection, but the poor man must depend upon the law. Besides, "those who take the sword shall per ish by the sword." The Medford papers are opposing the horticultural bill proposed by the committee of which Mr. D. M. Lowe of this place was a member. The chief objection of these papers seems to be a fear that Professor O'Gara will be legislated out of a job and that the Oregon Agricultural College is pushing it through a "machine." Just why state:; uniformity in fruit inspection Is not ay desirable as statu uniformity in every other line is a little hard to see. A bill has been introduced at Salem to compel employers to pay wages in cash instead of checks, for the alleged reason that the employes are compelled to go into saloons to cash them. The writer has been paid in checks a large portion of 15 years which he has worked on a salary and was never yet compelled to go to a saloon to get a check cashed, nor does he believe any other man ever was. It does make a good excuse for the man who wants to go. be nearly as many prices set as there were men. Would each be right in selling it at a different value, or would the highest or the lowest gov ern? Real estate is placed with a dealer at a price fixed by the owner. Should the dealer refuse to offer that land because in his judgment the owner has it priced too high? Future values are merely a matter of foresight or opinion. The writer once, as agent, sold a man a farm in South Dakota at $16 per acre. He thought the buyer was over-sanguine as to the possibilities of the land and country, but believed it his own bus iness. Four years later the land was worth and would sell for $30 per acre. Did the writer do wrong in selling it to that man? Over-inflation of values is a psy chological result of an era of specu lation. It has hurt many a town and broken, financially, many an indi vidual. It does not, however, imply dishonesty or dishonest intent of any large portion of the boosters. Many in Ashland honestly believed three years ago that the city would be of j 15,000 by 1915, but they now see that there was little base for the be lief. Yet they proved their belief, real estate agents as well as others, by investing their money. Whether or not they are doing right for trying to get out all the money they put into property, 1b too deep for the ordinary mind. And if those who paid the top price are just ified in trying to get out what they paid, are those who owned property continuously from before the boom entitled to ask the same price that their neighbors are for no better property? Misrepresentation (or declaring that ground is fertile or Is adapted to certain crops when it is not) is an entirely different thing from showing and selling high-priced land. For this there is no excuse. But the chasm is wide between the man who shows and prices land, even if it is too high in his own es timation, and the man who deceives as to the character of the soil, the size of the town, the profits in cer tain crops in the past, or any other element in the value of the property. Two or three years ago the land on the north side of Bear creek was thought to be worthless for garden ing and truck farming. D. M. Lowe has shown that it can raise world beating products. Who committed a moral wrong, the man who sold that piece of land to Mr. Lowe or the man who blocked sales which might have brought other equally good men to the valley, by knocking the land? "Do unto others as you would they should do unto you" is a two-edged sword. It applies just as strongly to the man who, without just cause, butts in and spoils another man's deal, or who unjustly impugns the motives of another, as it does to the selling of a man property for more than it is worth. exchanges? The history of these flurries shows that the corner rarely happens until the farmer has disposed of most of his crop. In the big attempts to cor ner the wheat market in 1909 it was claimed that but 21 per cent of the grain remained in the farmers' hands. The farmer, pretty thoroughly im pregnated with that ancient maxim of cold prudence, "Let well enough alone." When he sees the bulls pushing the price of his produce up to skyrockety figures, does he hustle down to the telegraph office and wire hia agents to take a moderate profit? Rarely, so far as the inform ation of this writer goe3. His instinct under such circum stances would seem to tell him to let the good work go on. He watches the operations of the brokers much as he watches the beneficent action of the rain and tha sun on his fields, with the feeling that there is noth ing he can do to interfere with any benefit to himself. He waits, hoping for still higher prices. The history of these speculations suggests that the farmer does not usually sell until prices begin to waver and drop. By the time that his order gets in the psychological moment has passed, and much less is realized than could have been ob tained a short time previous. The great objection to corners is not merely that they raise the price to the consumer, but that they dis courage the weaker mills and fac tories from buying raw material, leading to a generRl stoppage of man ufacturing and milling. This is the time of the year when the foolkiller is snooping around looking for the fellow who used an overdose of kerosene in petting a rousing fire started on cold morn ings, and it must kep him pretty busy, because throwing kerosene on the smouldering embers of last i night's fire is quite general and is a pretty sure way to start something. There is much leing said pro and con, relative to the results of the last presidential election. While some are highly elated, others are disap pointed and despondent. It seems impossible to please everybody in a political way. When you want to please everybody and make them prosperous, happy and contented, in troduce a subject that all will agree upon, viz: the remarkable fertility and prodigious crops in this country. Out Special Off e the Ashland Tidings and LaFollette's Weekly Magazine IIOTII A FILL YEA It FOR ONLY $2.50 You can read every week what Senator Robert M. La FoIIette, the fearless champion of the people's rUhts, the leader of the pro gressive Republicans, thinks and says for ONLY 50 CENTS MORE THAN THE PRICE OF THE TIDINGS ALONE A stirring and momentous campaign is opening. You will want to be posted. You will want the record of your congressman. Does he represent YOU? You will want information about the great issues that you and friends are talking about. Senator La Follette knows what is going on at Washington. He is on the ground; be hind the scenes. He tells you all about it in LA FOLLETTE'S WEEKLY MAGAZINE. Sixteen pages of crisp editorials and interesting special arti cles each week. LaFollette's One Year, $1.00) Our Offer: The Medford Mail Tribune In a re cent editorial cites a Washington fruit association as an example of successful co-operation in marketing. It need not have gone that far from home to have found one. The Ash land Fruit & Produce Association made a good showing this year de spite adverse conditions. Not the j least of these conditions was the competition of a Medford concern which promised all prices to growers and then sold the fruit for next to nothing and pocketed the proceeds. It has since gone into bankruptcy and the managers are threatened with criminal prosecution. When compelled to compete with a concern which pretends to pay the highest prices and which sells the fruit for a half or quarter of what it prom ised to pay, an honest concern finds it hard work to make a good show ing. But those who sold fruit to the defunct house and those who Bold for a fair price to the Ashland Fruit & Produce Association would do well to compare notes, it is al ways safest to deal with an estab lished and, if possible, co-operative concern, even if it does not promise quite so much. It will usually per form more. Under the new parcel pos law a farmer residing on a rural route de- i siring a steak for dinner can order it by telephone from a dealer in the city or town in which his postoffice is located and havj it delivered for 5 cents. Or he can get it from any point within 50 miles for 8 cents. As soon as the possibilities of the new arrangement become generally known the facilities of the postoffice aer sure to be taxed to the limit in the interest of retail trade. INDIANS AT IN'.UGIRAL. Wif Chiefs to Go to Washington for Ceremony. The most productive of all agri cultural years has been 1912, de clares the report of the United States Department of Agriculture. The earth has produced its greatest annual dividend. The sun and the rain and the fertility of the soil heed ed not the human controversies, but kept in co-operation with the farm ers' efforts to utilize them. The re ward is a high general level of pro duction. The man behind the plow has filled the nation's larder, crammed the store houses and will send liberal supplies to foreign countries. Wilson Cuts Out Inaugural Ball Washington, Jan. 17. Washing ton society is still gasping today over President-elect Woodrow Wilson's request for the abolishment of the inauguration ball. The large indi rect expense upo.i the government was Wilson's reason for asking the omission of the usual big function. William Eustic, chairman of the Inaugural committee, and to 'whom Wilson's request was directed, is ad mittedly nonplussed over the situa tion. As Washington merchants had subscribed $87,000 to help cover the expense, he called a meeting of the committee this afternoon to consider the matter. It is suggested aa a way out of the difficulty that an informal recep tiou bo held. The Idaho supremo court has "vindicated" Itself by sending two men to jail for ten days and fining them each $500, but they have only emphasized the "contempt" of that court held by all parties. Scarcely a single- paper in the United States has commended their action. . Big chiefs from practically every Indian tribe in the northwest will journey to Washington, D. C, in March to participate, as representa tives of North American Indians, in the presidential inaugural parade and ceremonies. In the delegation will be chiefs wearing the gaudy native costumes; others will be clad in garments of the latest cut. There will be several Indians who count their lands and other wealth up to a quarter million dollars each. One at least is a di rector of two banks in eastern Ore gon. He is Joe Craig of Pendleton, secretary of the brotherhood. State Senator Harvey II. Phipps of Spokane, counsel for the Brother hood of North American Indians, will have charge of arrangements for the trip, though he himself will be un able to go on account of the legisla tive sessions. "But these Indians are quite able to look out for them selves," said Senator Phipps. "Many were in Washington with me in No vember, 1911, when 116 members of the organization called on President Taft. "Rather than experiencing diffi culty in getting a large representa tion of Indians," he continued, "we may have to place a limit on the number to attend, as nearly all the leading men of the various tribes will want to go to Washington to see the new president." Among the Indians suggested by Senator Phipps as likely to attend, with their tribes designated, are the following: Saluskia, the original Yakima chief, now over 90 years old, and George Waters, Lancaster Spen cer and Alex Tieo, also Yakiinas; No Shirt, Billy Joshua and Umipinc, from the Umatilla reservation; David Williams, Crow Blanket and Yata moset, Colville reservation; Ivan Hill, Silas Whitmpn, Yellow Bull and Harry Wheeler, Nez Perces; Chief Antise, Kootenai; Martin Chariot and Chief Noese, Flatheads. Beside northwest Indians, Senator Phipps believes tribes in all parts of the Inited States will be represented at the inauguration. An upstate contemporary tells us of a novel contribution basket for churches invented by an Oklahoma man. If a person drops in a quarter The Tidings One Year, $2.00) $2.50 To new or old subscribers who pay in advance. Address all brders to the Tidings. m'tW-UMIJIlJIWiM..IMl)JWIIUW'l,lllllW.WJJ lot of postoffice fixtures. There will also be offered at the same time at Oyster Bay, the follow- ng described personal property, to- or more in the box there is silence; if he drops a dime in a bell rings, a nickle sounds a whistle and a penny fires a blank cartridge. If one pre tends to be asleeo when the box isjwj: passed, it awakens him with a watch-J Ono bull' moose, calved in June. man's rattle, and a kodak takes his j 1912, but extra large for its age and picture. Unfortunrtely the name j inip0I.ted from Africa. One big stick. and postoffice address of the invent-1 slishtly worn. AIs0 three B0Ciaiibt or are not given. There are a num-i plankSi good as new ber of church stewards in this town , . . ,, . . .1 tree lunch at noon. Bull Moose who would like to get into commuiii-1 . . . .... , cation with him. , . , . lemis 01 naie rour years lime on approved security notes, bearing three per cent interest from date of sale. Twenty per cent discount for cash. All sums under 30 cents, cash in hand. There will be nothing reserved a. we positively have to move. TAFT AND ROOSEVELT, Owners. Col. W. J. Bryan, Auctioneer Woodrow Wilson, Clerk. Public Sale. The following public sale notice is going the rounds of the press and is tickling the ribs of the democrats: Having decided to move, we will sell at public auction at the east front door of the White House, D. C, on March 4, 1913, at 10 o'clock a. m., the following described property, to-wit: One elephant, smooth mouthed, age uncertain, well fed but looks thin after a strenuous campaign, small scar on right side, having been gored by a bull moose. One set of golf sticks slightly worn. One steam roller, good as new, only used one year. One job It is said that cne cent of every dollar of American capital is now employed in the auto industry. There are 180 known lepers in tho United States, 56 of them in Pacific coast states. SPECIALS ! Phone news items to the Tidings, SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland Tidings one year 12.75 to old or new subscribers. Regular price of Sunset Magazine is $1.50. per year. The one big main reason for this most extraordinary lot ol specials is that we are determined not to carry over any Winter merchandise. Note These Prices on Furs Black coney scarf, $5.50 value at $3.00. Black coney scarf, lined with Skinners', satin, trimmed with ribbon, regular $9.00 value at $5. Black southern lynx and astrakhan set, regular $25.00 value at $19.00. Brown coney muff, $5.50 value at $3.50. Ladies' and Children's Sweaters Underpriced A great saving opportunity to purchase fine woolen sweaters that no person should be without. Here's the way they're to sell: Women's sweaters in colors red, gray, blue and black, $2.50 value at $1.75; $4.50 and $5.00 values at $3.50; children's sweaters in gray and blue, $1.50 value at $1.00. At $10.00 you have your choice to pick any suit or coat in our stock which formerly sold at $15.00 to $35.00. Remnants, hundreds of pieces to pick from, in all kinds of fabrics, suitable for all purposes, lengths from 1 yard to 5 yards, at remarkably low prices. . ClOSing-OUt-sale of men's and boys' furnishings and shoes is still on. There are hundreds of articles to choose from at prices that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. The store that serves you best and saves you most. The store that serves you best and saves you most.