Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, January 27, 1913, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTAGK TWO ASHLAVD TIDINGS Monday, January 27, 181.1. Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Uert II. Giver, - Editor and Owner n. W. Talcott, ... City Editor SUKSCK1PTION KATES. One Year 2.00 6ix 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 mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Jan. 27, '13 KDITOIUAL BRIEFS. ., Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard is a bnging example of a person whom wealth did not spoil. She will go down to posterity as one of the real ly true philanthropists of this gen ration. Medford's new mayor announces that he will strictly enforce the cur few ordinance. That will either compel parents to attend picture thows, keep their children at home or give them a written permit to be out at night. A bill has been introduced in the California legislature to prevent a man who is divorced for physical cruelty from remarrying. Prevent ing the party against whom a divorce is granted remarrying would be bet ter. It would put a stop to all di vorces by collusion.' Oregon's house of representatives has passed a law making the prop erty where disorderly houses are lo .1 rated liable for the fines against the . inmates. . This will go hard with Rome of the pious ones who rent their property for immoral purposes. It has been the influence of heavy and supposedly respectable real es tate owners which prevented the rooting out of such places. The Medford Sun proposes send ing apples and pears to the Panama exposition and passing around "a few samples." It might be a good wheme if practical, but a "few sam ples" to a crowd such as will gather at Ban Francisco would seriously cut Into the crop of the Rogue river val ley. If given in sufficient quantities to be of any value. It might be a good plan to have a Rogue river 'alley fruit stand and sell the fruit at about cost. VOTE FOR THE FRANCHISE. The petitions for the election to pass on the proposed Minney inter urban franchise will doubtless be in circulation before this issue of the "tidings reaches its readers, if they are not already filed. The question is now up to the voters of Ashland to decide whether or not they want to grant the franchise, and the sen timent seems to be almost entirely In favor of so doing. There are doubtless things in the franchise that many of us would change if it were left solely to our individual choice, but the franchise as present ed is the nearest possible approach to pleasing everybody. It safe gnards the interests of the citizens and of the city in the matter of run ning of cars and the protection of the streets, and it does not bamped the company to such an extent as to prevent them selling bonds to build the road. The Tidings believes each voter should sink his individual opinions in tho matter so far as to vote for what the people ail agree Is of vital value in building up this section of the Rogue river valley. Even if not perfectly suited with some little thing in the franchise do not let that induce you to vote to reject it. Ashland needs the trade of the valley and she wiil get her share of it if she gets the road and not other wise. If this franchise Is turned down it will be years before the city will have a chance to vote on an other. Capital will not seek to en ter a town which saya that it does not want It. An interurban electric line will be of immense value in opening up the resources of the valley. Once built, an electric line is always reaching ont for more business and to develop more and more territory. It brings the farmer in closer touch with the town and renders farm life less Iso lated, thus bringing more and more well-to-do men to reside on Bmall raachfg. Such life can offer much that the cltv cannot, and with the interurban electric it commands most of the pleasures of city life. By all means vote for the franchise. A VICIOrS BILL. Eugene Register: The candidate for office who has some shady spots in his record that he objects to hav ing flaunted before the public has found a champion in the person of Senator Smith of Coos and Curry counties. This solon from the coast country has introduced in the senate a bill that if enacted into law if, that is would make the politician with a mouldy past as safe as the cautious hen that always roosts in the top of the tallest tree in the barnyard. Senator Smith's bill fairly bristles with "shalls" and "shall nots" that apply principally to the newspaper that is intent on telling the people what kind of men are asking their votes, but in order to gain an under standing of it. it is probably not nec essary to quote more than one or two that show the general trend. A part of Section 7 reads as follows: "If any letter, circular, poster, bill, publication or placard shall con tain any false statement, or charges reflecting on any candidate's charac ter, morality or integrity, the au thor thereof, and every person print ing or knowingly assisting in the circulation thereof, shall be guilty of political criminal libel, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $250 nor more than $2,500, or by imprison ment in the penitentiary for not more than three years, or by both such fine and Imprisonment in the discretion of the court." To be sure, the offending scribe j has some recourse. If he can prove I on his trial that he had reasonable j ground to believe that the charge was true and did believe that it was true, and that he was not actuated by malice, his proof will be a suffi cient defense. The method by which he can make this proof is specified, and it is amusing. He must show that 15 days before he published the offending statement he personally served upon the candidate affected a copy of it, and that he subsequent ly received from him no written de nial! Of course, if the candidate chooses to deny the story, that is all there is to it, and the publisher who prints it is guilty. There are two ieasons that might explain Senator Smith's desire to see such a bill become law. It may be that he innocently believes that all politicians and office seekers are as pure and blameless as new-born babes, or it is barely poss'ble that the papers said some naughty things about him daring his own campaign, and he is anxious to prevent such an embarrassing thing from happen ing again. THE CALL FOR MORE CATTLE. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson! emphasized a few days ago the needs of more or better cattle. He argued in particular that the south should thus use some great idle tracts. Any man who has the enterprise, in this section or any other, to start in the cattle industry with the pres ent high cost of land, may feel sure that prices wll f?o no lower. The spread of the irrigation move ment, the cutting up of Indian reser vations and the parceling out of rail road lands have dealt so heavy a blow to cattle raising In the north west and southwest that the Ameri can people will be extremely lucky if beef even remains as low as the present high prices. Eastern farm papers are urging their readers to do their farm work with oxen instead of horses. Their arguments sound Rood. The ox not merely pulls the farmer's cart, but he is salable for meat. Phlegmatic by nature, he does not stand on his hind legs, nor does he attempt to climb a tall tree, merely because the cart hits a rock or a tree stump. But the horse will remain the chief burden bearer of the Eastern farmer, as he has been for 25 years. The old-time family which used oxen for its work was satisfied to go to bed after the Blow, patient steers had been fed their evening ration. The children occasionally want to drive in town for grange meeting or band concert, which they can do if old Dobbin has taken the place of the steers. Hut old Dobbin can't be sold for meat, at least ought not to be. Never again, then, will the great markets of the east be fed by the fat steers from off the hills. Where fore the west and the south must produce the beef. It Is up to scien tific agriculture to show how it can be done at reasonable rates with a fair profit. A Good Riddance. "How did Briggs take the news of his wife running away?" "Calmly enough. He seemed glad that the man she ran away with was Graftsmann." "Why so?" "Graftsmann, he said, was never known to return anything yet." Boston Transcript. FEYDING LEGISLATION. The Tidings is in receipt of a bun dle of about a hundred bills which have been introduced into the Ore gon legislature. Many of them have no bearing upon this section of the state, being largely local measures. Several of the legislators seem to think we already have too many laws, as a large number are simply to repeal existing statutes. As is- siiTe to be the case, there is the usual number of freak laws, some of them merely ridiculous and some a positive menace. Representative Carkins has intro duced a bill reculatine rnmmissinn merchants. The Tidings is not com petent to pass upon the details of the bill, but as it is based on laws proving beneficial in other states, it is doubtless all right in detail. It is certainly all right in principle, as the fruit grower, the farmer, or any- other man who consigns goods to any firm or individual making a business of and a profit out of hand ling goods on commission should be protected from the dishonesty of the agent. Mr. Carkins has also introduced a bill providing for a state bureau of mines and geology. Similar bureaus exist in Washington and California. The purpose of the bill is to publish reliable data on the mineral re sources of the state, so that eastern capital may be able to get reliable information in the matter. It is contended by many mining men that the absence of such information is the principal cause of eastern capital being diverted to California and Washington. This bill was adopted by the recent Northern California and Southern Oregon Mining Con gress and recommended by ' Profes sor Parks of the Oregon Agricultural College. Another bill introduced by Mr. Carkins is to authorize the deposit of county funds in banks, the county to receive the interest. This is the almost uniform rule in the Missis sippi valley states, the banks being compelled to give bonds for the safe ty of the county's money. This should certainly be the rule in Ore gon. Mr. Westerlund of this county has introduced a bill to permit precincts to vote on stock running at large at special elections instead of only at general elections as heretofore. WHY ADVERTISED GOODS (X)ST LESS. The suggestion is sometimes thoughtlessly made that. the.buyer has to pay for the cost of advertis ing. It would be equally reasonable for a small store to claim, because a large store employed more clerks, that the patrons cf the large store had to pay an extra price because of these additional clerks. Almost any man by persistent ad vertising, justly proportioned to his business, can double his trade. If he did so, it is not likely that his rent, taxes, bookkeeping cost, insur ance, and similar items would be doubled. Very likely they might not be increased one-half. Every article has to be charged something for these general ex penses which keep running along whether you do much business or not. Consequently if a merchant doubles his business and increases his fixed charges less than a half, the amount to be charged to each article to cover these expenses is much less. Hence instead of adver tised goods costing the public more, they cost the public less. TALKS OX ADVERTISING TO TID INGS READERS. (By Ralph Kaye.) Why is it that most grocers put in their advertising a lot of glitter ing generalities, as "most complete stock," "appetizing suggestions," "clean store," "courteous service," etc.? Stop for a moment and con sider how hard at times it is for the housewife to decide what she will nave for dinner or lunch. If your advertising offers suggestions in a manner that will whet her appetite she is going to buy your goods. You have a thousand articles of I food of which enticing things can be said of them. Take prunes. Tell her of the dainty prune deserts, such as "prune whip." Relishes may be just what she wants. Tell her of your olives, pickles. No matter what size of space you are using, there is always a way of making it stand oit. from the others even without cuts. Border effects are, as a rule, attractive, or can be made so. It will pay grocers to give their advertising more attention. They will be surprised at the Increased re sults. Phone No. 39 when in need of Job printing. Work and prices are right. The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen Wanted A Socrates. What every small American town and village needs most i3 a. Socrates who. by systemati-j questioning, will set the people to thinking, sting consciousness and conscience into ac tion, and persuade them to adopt new business ways. It is not the morals of the country town and vil lage people that need awakening (for their morals without exception are equal or superior to those of city people), but the prosperity and permanence of the town are threat ened by inertia, self-interest and lack of home pride. So a Socrates is needed, not to go abo'it as the great Greek did, poor, shabby and barefoot, stopping indis criminately in the street and public places to expound his wisdom, but a Socrctes up to date a man who can talk the subject of community de velopment and puc his thoughts in a masterful way as Socrates did. Community development is the most important work for country towns and villages today, and an ex ponent of the subject is needed in every town one who can arouse the business men to action and defense in fighting the mail order and kin dred evils in much the same manner as the evangelist i.rouses the church to attack moral wrong. There must be an awak'ening r.niong the busi ness men of the country tcwi., and a Socrates is needed to bring it about. Hamlet. Hamlet was a prince of Denmark who flourished at a time when the favorite pastime of the ruling sover eign consisted in filling tho nearest cemetery with people who stood in the line of ruccesaion. Mr. Hamlet, Sr., was a little lax in this respect, and one night hi3 brother Claudius, who had been requested by Mrs. Hamlet to make her a widow with out advertising for bids, beat him to it by stealing up and pouring a teaspoonful of coid poison into his left ear, after which he married the widow and moved his household goods into the palace. When Ham let took one look at Claudius, vho had a face that would turn a cross cut Baw, and 3aw what his mother had married, he put on the suit of conventional black he had intended to marry Ophelia in and had his sword sharpened for the purpose of letting a little surplus atmosphere out of Claudius. He also feigned a neat article of insanity by going out to the graveyard and engaging in earnest conversation with the ksull of somebody who had no interest whatever in the proceedings. Ham let never ate anything while board ing at home, during this period, without first trying it out on some man servant who believed in a fu- IBIG JAHDARY SPECIALS!! The one big main reason for this most extraordinary lot of snecials is that we are determined not to carry over any 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 fi a vvio uiau livj pel CUIJ 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 yon best and saves yon most. Om Special Off ev the Ashland Tidings and LaFollette's Weekly Magazine BOTH A FILL YEAR FOR OXLY You can read every week what Senator Robert M. La Follette, the fearless champion of the people's rights, 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 vnu nil nhnnt It In I. A FTn.T.mTTwa WEEKLY MAGAZINE. t'' . It i" I , i - . I Sixteen pages of crisp editorials and interesting special arti cles each week. LaFoljette One Year, $1.00 Our Offer: The Tidings One Year, $2.00) $2.50 To new or old subscribers who pay in advance. Address all orders to the Tidings. ture state. One evening the ghost of Hamlet's father, which had been bothering tho neighbors for some time, came out on the terrace in a cheesecloth kimono and chided Ham let for not getting buty before Claudius filled his system full of henbane juice. Hamlet decided to do so and later introduced the ghost to Claudius, who proceeded to litter up the royal bedchamber with nerv ous chills. Finally, Claudius made up his mind that it would be for the interests of all concerned to re move Hamlet from these changing scenes below, so he hired a polished thug named Laertes to run a pois oned foil through Hamlet's lune. Before Hamlet let go of bis breath, however, he stabbed Laertes and Claudius in a very hearty and unaf fected manner and had the pleasure of witnessing the false-hearted queen cash in with considerable re luctance as the result of coming in contact with a bowl of poison which Claudius had prescribed for Harnlet. From the above it will be seen that the play of "Hamlet" is a very cheerful and sprightly one, which never fails to send an audience home in a high str.te of exuberance. After next July a standard barrel of apples must be 26 inches between the heads, 64 inches in circumfer ence, outside measurement around the middle, and the heads must be 17', inches in diameter. In accord ance with the law, if the apples are hand-picked and free from blemishes, they may be labeled "Standard." Hut a fine of $1 and costs will be extracted for every barrel that is marked "Standard" and does not con form to the requirements. The law was passed at the earnest solicitation of those who believe that the pur chaser has a right to know what he is getting when he buys a barrel or apples. Why He Wanted It. Arthur's mother sent him to the hardware store to buy a thermome ter. He stated his wants to the salesman. , "Did your mother say what size you were to get?" asked the sales man. "Why." replied the boy, "just give me the biggest one you've got. You see, it's to warm rr.y bedroom with." Harper's Bazar. , Scale receipts at Tidings office Winter merchandise. 1 The store that serves yon best and saves you most.