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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1913)
Monday, February 17, I9I. FACE TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Crwr, - Editor and Owner B. W. Talcott, ... City Editor " SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear 12.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rate 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, Feb. 17, '13 STRIPPING OFF THF. MASK. Senator Cummins and other emi nent republican!! who are progressive just as far as they can see fat offices by ao doing, have Wen strenuous in the'r claims tint the six-year presi dential tenure, with no second term, amendment was not aimed at Tlieo dorse RooseveU. The New York Times, however, strips off the mask in ihe following: "Mr. Roosevelt may not be very happy over it, but he has unques tionably set or. foov a movement for one of the most important cholines ever proposed .in cur national con stitution. The amendment approved by the senate on Saturday limiting the tenure of the presidency to one term of six yenrs would in all like lihood never hive got beyond the stage of absiract discussion had not the career of Mr. Roosevelt con yinced a large number of his coun trymen that a curb was needed for the ambition or possible occupants of the White House. " The New York Times, bein the official organ of high finance and low morals, as exemplified by Wall street and New York's smart pet, of course favoro anything which would debar such a thorn in the flo:;h of these classes as Theodore Roosevelt is and will be, whether the plan to ligislate him out oi the 1916 cam paign succeeds or not. It is a strong indictment to place against the American nation that it is not sufficiently intelligent to know whether or not it should elect any ma.i to office. The talk that it will prevent a president using nia power during his first or second term to secure an other, is bor.h. In these days there are other rewards In the gift of the interests that nro worth much more than the presidency, r.nd a president can in one term of six years rope and hog tie ihe American people so as to deliver them and the machin ery of governme.it to the interests much more easily than ha can in four. The only legitimate reason for a ix-year term is that there will not be a'disturbance of business by n campaign or change of administra tion so often. BuL ihe change each six years will b'e more absolute be cause if there is not a change of par ties there will be of presidents and cabinets. With the increasing of the pri mary system and its application to the presidency the attempts to con trol the making of presidents by the interests will become more and more futi'e, and there will be little need of safeguarding the country by de claring that a fnithful servant can not be returned by a. majority of the voters. Politicians of both old parties united, not to put more power in the hands of the people, but to deprive thei.t of supporting a man whom the interests hate and fear as they hate and fear no man who has appeared on the political horizon since the interests existed. JUST A SUGGESTION. Governor Lister of Washington is beginning to promulgate the idea that the time has come when we should begin to improve more at home und advertise less abroad. There is little doubt that this sort of talk will find an echo in many places. Indeed, it is quite well worth while to give it K.erious considera tion. We have here in the Pacific northwest incomparably the finest territory over which the American flag floats. All it needs is to be dis covered. We hive been trying fever ishly for some years past to attract people here. Wouldn't it be quite as well to take things just a little easier and let them work out in their own way? Above all things, wouldn't it be better nnd much more pelf-respecting, if not actually hon est ,if we were a little more care ful about the sort of advertising mat ter that we Issue and the unqualified line of talk which we therein give? We ask the questions. Isn't there something in the;.i that is really worth thinking over? TOO MA VI' PLUMS. ' Evening Telegram: There'is some hitch over the congressional appro priation for the exposition at San Francisco. When the matter came up in the house of representatives the other day there was no action; nor will there be any until the next congress convenes. The bill in aid of the San Fran cisco exposition calls for an appro- i priation of $2,000,000, which sum the federal government, perhaps ju diciously, will spend at the Bay City, but not under the provisions of the bill itself. The difficulty lies in the plums the bill provides. As an in itial item there provision for seven commissioners, each to draw an an nual salary of $7,500 the salary to begin as soon as the appropriation is made and the commission appoint ed, and to end when the accounts of the exposition are closed. This, as already stated, is initial. Subsid iary to it, and probably of greater moment, is the flock of official sine cures in the form of clerkships, sec retaryships and other and various a vocational opportunities where the service is negligible and the pay is good. It is thought that possibly a sixth to a quarter of the entire ap propriation would eventually ripen and be plucked into the plum basket. It is not held at Washington that San Francisco is responsible for this arrangement, but it looks as if San Francisco might suffer by reason of it. Time was, immediately after the Jamestown fiasco, that there was quite emphatic declaration in con gress that the day of the exposition appropriation had passed. There is exception in the case of San Francisco because the San Fran cisco event is to be extraordinary and of unusual world significance. But with all that the people of that good city had hen try to have this appropriation bill pruned down to its legitimate proportions, or at least have it stripped of its plum-picking allurements. Uncle Sam should be liberal with San Francisco, and prob ably will be. if it can be shown that the liberality will be converted into a tangible asset at the exposition. DECLINE OF THK HANDSHAKE. Many simple-minded people find nowadays that the handshake is much out of fashion. ' President-elect Wilson, who is go ing to cut out the presidential re ceptions, may be justified for a dis taste for the role of the human pump. But the decline of the hand shake is ordinarily brought about by less practical reasons. A leading fashionable club of St. Louis has de creed that it must go, and it substi tutes the formal bow. Unpreten tious people find, that their extended hand is view with considerable sur prise, as a suggestion of rusticity. One thing may he counted on, that however unpopular it is in society, the handshake won't go out of busi ness. Any man with any skill in salesmanship knows how a good, generous hand clasp suggests cordi ality and personal interest. When did r. man ever sell a bill of goods after greeting his "prospect" with a formal bow? No matter how gracefully you may incline your head and bend your body as prescribed by society, this form of greeting is formal and arti ficial. No degree of correctness can ever put any humt'.n feeling into it. It savors of the ballroom rather than of the home circle. And how much a good hearty handshake does mean to the strang er or the lonely! The writer attend ed a church service in a strange city a snort time ago, and after it was over the clergyman stood at the door shaking bands. His big fist had just the right warmth of greeting. It seemed to say, "Glad to see you! Anything we can do for you? Ho you want friends? If you do, come around! " The handshake may go out of style amid the stiff and starched precincts of the smart set, but everyday people who have sentiments and emotions to express will find that the press tire of the hand tells a more effect ive story than anything the blunder ing lips can spell. HOW'S BUSINESS? "Business is poor," said the beggar. Said the undertaker, "It's dead!" '"Falling off," said the riding school teacher. The druggist, "O vial," he said. "It's all write with nie," said the author. "Picking up!" said the man on the dump. "Business is sound," quoth the bandsman. Said the athlete, "I'm keeping on the jump. The bottler declared it was "Cork ing!" The parson, "It's good!" answered he. "Makes both ends meat," said the butcher. The tailor replied, "It suits me!" THE WRONG WAV. The philosophy of the World Peace Foundation, as we glean it from the circulars it has sent -broadcast, amounts to this: The way to get the better of w in ter weather is to tear down the walls ct your houses. Then the wintpr, shamed and humbled, will go away forever. The cure for burglary is to take your portable possessions out on the sidewalk and go away. The house breaker, moved profoundly by t!iis trust in him, will quit his evil ways and forever walk the paths of right eousness. The method warranted to do away with high finance, the get-Tich-quit k industry and using a hole in the ground as a basis for a stock issue is to repeal all laws which in any way would interfere with gentlemen who engage in these affairs. Thus, they will see a great light and go in for rose culture as a sort of adver tisement of their regeneration. Any of these suggestions for deal ing with unpleasant things and un godly persons is no more ridiculous than the recommendation that uni versal peace can be brought about by this nation disbanding its army and discarding its navy. Nations, at least in this stage of the world, are without morals selfish because they must be, greedy because they must deal with greed. Remove your pro tection against winter and you have winter still. It is the same with war. Cast away the national de fenses and you but invite war to do its worst. No Cause for Worry. A great number of nervous per sons are worrying lest the operation on the tariff is going to throw busi ness entirely out of gear, close the factories, shut up the bank vaults, force the abandonment of cultivated acres and bring on a ravishing panic. Before this worry gets the better of them, these folk ought to contemplate the trade erports, which show that: The United States is doing the greatest Import and export business in the entire career of the nation. The transportation lines are hav ing extreme difficulty in meeting the demand for cars. The steel companies are several months behind in filling their or ders. The industrial centers are report ing a serious dearth of labor. The building trades are busy in every city. The greatest crops ever raised in this country have not all been moved and paid for. Before the general effect of all these things can be overcome, the tariff must virtually be butchered. It is no part of the intention of the democrats to do this. There are two excellent reaso.ns why they will not. One is that there are very nearly as many protectionists among democrats as there are among repub licans! The other is that the demo crats have no wish to sacrifice their present power in order to test a free trade theory. There will be prosperity after the tariff has come from the operating room as there is now. This country has passed the stage in which a few hundred law makers can absolutely halt the country's growth. Where Discrimination Lies. When Wilson said at Chicago, "You must' put the credit of this country at the disposal of everybody on equal terms," he evidently meant that the same test should be applied in all cases. The Saturday Kvening Post says that, where the collateral and the standing of the borrower are the same, credit is extended with perfect equality. It should lie, but it is not always. A man of the highest standing may try to raise money on unexceptionable collateral, but if the enterprise in which he wishes to invest the money would compete with some enterprise in which the banker is interested, can he always raise ths capital? When the greatest banks, which alone are able to make loans of the largest magnitude, are at; controlled by a small coterie of men who also con trol nearly all the railroads and big industries, the chance of securing from these banks the money to build a competing railroad or factory is extremely slim. Doubtless Wilson had in mind such cases when he ut tered the words quoted. The crossing of the Delaware riv er by Washington just before the battle of Trenton, which was one of the turning points of the revolution, is to be commemorated by the pur chase of the property on which the landing was made, and its use as a public .park. One settlement worker in New York city has made a specialty of teaching boys how to make articles of furniture out of old packing boxes. The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen George Washington. All over this broad land the 22nd of February, Washington's birthday, is celebrated. How shall any man add aught to the praise and eulogy of George Washington? History and biogra phy, eloquence and poetry have ex hausted their combined efforts upon the successful leader of the Ameri can Revolution and the founder of the American republic 'our first grett national hero. Every great crisis in the history of the world has found its great man to guide and control it. Call this provi dence or accident, the American rev olution was no exception to it. Be fore the first murmurs of d'scontent were heard in th, struggle the man was being prepared for the crisis. On the banks of the Potomac and Rappahannock, thirty years before Lexington and Bunker Hill, a truth ful and manly boy was growing up ripening into stalwart young man hood. With only the common school education of that day the young man was soon being educated in the broader school of nature and experi ence, in the great forest, under the open heavens, with his surveyor's chain and his sword, in the Ijidian wars, defending the frontier settle ments from the savage incursions. Growing still apace, the manly young Virginian is soon the leading spirit and military commander of all Potomac region, and his skill, endur ance and courage in those cam paigns swell the measure of his fame. Then with his peace the young com mander lays aside the sword,- mar ries and settles upon his inherited country seat at Mt. Vernon and, like his ancestors, is now a rich landed proprietor, a farmor and planter and gentleman. So he might have re mained to the end had not the voice of patriotism called him to take part with his neighbors and the oppressed people of the colonies against the tyranny of the mother country. Washington sat with Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee and. Mason and Pendleton, colleagues to that first continental congress at Philadelphia St. Valentine's Day. Superstition is nearly as old as man. and that it exists now quite as strong though not as widespread as in the early ages of our world is proved by the various rites and cere monies practiced on certain days throughout the year. Even those who ridicule them, yet participate in them "just for fun," have a lingering half suspicion in their minds that it might come true; especially is this the case when inclination paints the way. St. Valentine is the acknowl edged patron saint of lovers; and the nnsft I iJM'i Vamp Hltl Mil I HIHH I THE PORTLAND HOTEL Sixth, Seventh. Morrison nd Yamhill Streets PORTLAND, OREGON The most central location in the city, and nearest to the leading theaters and retail shops. You are assured of a most cordial welcome here. Every convenience is provided for our guests. i The Grill and Dining Room are famed for their excel lence and for prompt, courteous service. Motors meet all incoming trains. Hates are moderate; European plan, $1.50 per day upward. G. J. Kaufman, Manager Mamma Says its 2ate tor Children CONTAINS NO OPIATES For sale by J. J. Mc.Nalr, East Side . Pharmacy. peculiar customs connected with the day were referred to by writers near ly 500 years ago. The St. Valentine who'suffered martyrdom on the 14th of February was one of the fifty-two saints of that name, but nothing has ever been found in his life or in the lives of any of them that would give occasion for the singular observance of the day. It has been maintained that it was an ancient custom among the Romans during the Lupercalia, celebrated in the r.ionth of February, for the men and toys to draw the names of their future wives in honor of their goddess, Februate Juno, and that the Christian clergy finding it absolutely impossibel to abolish this heathen custom, changed it to a re ligious ceremony by writing on the slips of paper instead of the names of women those af particular saints whom they were to follow and imi tate during the year. If you have maJe up your mind to live in a town, then stand up for it, and if yon know positively no good, then silence is golden. Do ail you can to help along every man who. is engaged in legitimate business. Do not send away, for everything nice you want and still expect the home men to suit the whim of one or two possible purchasers. The success of your fellow townsmen will be your Biiccess. Xo man liveth to fiimself and no man does business indepen dent of his fellow business men. Take your .home paper. Do not im- AM vd 2 Our First - OF New Spring Coats and Suits If You're Shopping " This Week If you're "just looking,", or . if you're buying, call at our garment department andtcke a look at the first arrivals of new Spring Coats and Suits. We cannot say too much concerning the style, refinement and .... nie woia auu suns we re show ing for women and misses. And it takes just a littlo money to buy one of our garments. SEE WINDOW DISPLAY OF NEW SUITS AND COATS. 9g t t t i M I H"M 1 1 1 - 'agine that the big dailies fill up a.! this space. There are many little crevices of good theer, social sun shine, personal mention, in the honin paper that the big dailies do no', print. Then do not abuse you neighbor. The main difference iu the number of his faults and you: own is that you see through a magni fying glass as t critic. The ill omened, the croaker, can do mor. harm in a minute than two good cit izens can repair in a month. It is remarked that the mail order I houses have not relaxed their effort to get business just because a few - dull months in the year appear. They everlastingly keep a the adver tising end of their business. A man doesn't discover that there is a boundary line between his own lot and his neighbor's until the first snow falls and he has to clean tht walks. An exchange says that gossips haw motor cars beaten to a frazzle when it comes to runnh'g people down. The parcels post will do most any- I thing but darn socks and rock th I baby. A soft answer trrnest away wratN but has no effect on a book agent - The very time to be pleasant i when the other people are cross. Shipment - " - . H,r!!,i U' Mir pv 111 m It' ft L-i '
