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ASHLAND TIDINGS Thnrsdar. March IS, IMS. PAGE TWO Ashland Tidings semi-weekly. estai;lisiiki isto. Issued Mondays and Thursdays liert R. Greer, D. V. Talcott, Editor and Owner - - City Editor THE CHANCE TO GET EVEN. The disinclination of the British government to provide a crown of martyrdom for the militant branch of the woman suffrage movement has Riven these energetic and ingen iously destructive women a rare measure of liberty. They are per mitted to stalk through an orderly society and throw it into a state -of profane disorder They have license to break aud burn and ruin, confident that when caught they will go through the form of trial, receive a lecture from the bench, be sent to jail for a few days and then re leased to start '.he thing all over. There is one thing we have been looking for, but so far in vain. The militants have a large following of male sympathizers. These prudent persons have let the women do the Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Mar. 13, '13 window smashing, the parliament house raiding and the pavilion burn- sciiscr.irTiox hates. One Year 12.00 fcix Months 1.00 Three Months 60 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 30 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. THAT VICE INVESTIGATION. That Chicago vice investigation is giving local papers basis for "buy at home'' editorials galore, if nothing more. It is also causing consider able discussion among local business men as to women in business. There is little doubt that there is some connection between wages and im morality, and equally no doubt the wages of many are too low, but there are other reasons which have much to do with the immorality of both men and women. It is an old saying that "neither man nor woman ever became crimi nal between daybreak and sunset; it is the old lure and lust of the night, together with the desire for clothes and style, which causes many n downfall. In tho beginning it is often the pleasure of a little clandes tine flirtation with some stranger, a flirtation only seductive because it is clandestine; little by little the stran ger gains an ascendency over-lhe mind of the girl until the final fall of the maiden. Just what proportion of the cases of immorality are caused by poverty is hard to tell, but outside of the big cities the per cent caused by want is infinitesimal". One of the witnesses in the Chica go investigation made a pertinent suggestion when he said that many more than the 50,000 girls alleged to bo working for- $5 per week in Chicago stores and factories could get good places at $5 per week, a Rood room, board and washing if they did not feel themselves above doing housework. The girl who bar ters her morality for fine clothes or I even for necessities rather than pock et her pride and work in a kitchen as more pride than morality. She is deserving little pity. True pride Is a good thing, but the sooner the American people, both men and wom n, get over the Idea that they are too good to do any honest work, but little improvement in national or in dividual morality can be expected. An Ashland business man whose only clerk was loafing away most of his time for lack of business had a car of coal come in. When asked to help put it in the bin the young man refused; tho businecs man then left the clerk to ponder on his pride and put in the coal himself. It is thus with the younger generation to day. Many a girl would rather clerk in a store and be immoral, finally ! leading an open life of shame, than work in anybody's kitchen, often even that of their husband. Many a young man would rather play the ponies or gamble on his employer's money in an attempt to ape the local capitalist In his way of living than 0 out and shovel dirt or do other menial labor and live on the wages his ability will honestly command. What is the cause of this condi tion, which is steadily growing worse? It seems to be simply an accompaniment of the present pre vailing worship of the material. Success, spelled by material wealth and style, is the only thing'to be nought after. Tho world today, in stead of being in advance of the past in civilization, is really receding, when material Biiccess is the main aim and material reasons are given for every delinquency of the human mind. The fact is that in Chicago at least 100,000 men are in kitchens and elsewhere doing work which women ought to be doing, and in Chicago and elsewhere .at least 100,000 wom en are in offices and elsewhere where they have no business to be. Every woman who goes into a busi ness office with the idea that she is entitled to a different treatment - from that accorded men in tho same line of business is making a fatal mistake. She wants at the same time to be the clinging vine and the sturdy oal: and ends by being neith er and only too often an outcast from society. There never has been a time or a city in America in which a girl could not make her living safely and well if she were willing to take domestic service, and there as seldom been a time when a man could not live honestly in a city or ing. But we can imagine that they are greatly excited by all this glori ous fun. They would like to have a hand in the mischief. Carried away some day by the fascination of soma new plot say the tarring and feathering of the prime minister they may shake off caution and heat the tar or gleefully join in the mis sion of suitably arranging the feath ers. That will bo the government's hour to get even. It. will hunt down the male miscreants as it would a German spy. It will catch them if it has to break the national treas ury. And once these "gentlemen friends" of the militants are caught they will be made to pay the full score for the months of worry and annoyance and bitterness the women have brought on tue country's guar dians. vVe cannot think tho gov ernment would be satisfied unless a sentence of a million years at hard labor were pronounced upon each and every trousered accomplice. THE TITLE OK "MISS." ' COMFORT IN RAILROAD TRAVEL. ' A railroad Journey today, even In the democracy of the day coach, is not quite such a matter ot storm and stress as formerly. A car of 20 years ago would seem like a freight car now, with its low back and al most springless seats, and the chinks 4 The Home Circle " " H I'houghts from the Editorial Pen No Place l ike Home. "If you've ever felt the pangs of called windows about the height of j homesickness and have longed for the quiet of a small town in con trast to the hustic and bustle of a big city," says the St. Paul Dispatch, "your sympathy will go out to Dewey, a white bulldog, who, pining for his personal soft spot behind a meat-market stove in La . Crosse, is., walked tho entire distance one s neaa. iMevertneiess, ranroaa : corporations are slow to make need- j ed changes.- In Louisiana the legislature re cently ordered the railroads to put linen covers on car seats in summer. The railroads protested, but ' have yielded, and sticky plush gives way to the gratefully cool linen May 15. from St. Paul to that city. It is customary to say, while Eu ropean railroads hp.ve comparatively few accidents, that our roads pro vide much more comfort. True for the downy luxury of the American ; Pullman. But very far from true "A letter from La Crosse to this city tells of the arrival there of the dog, which !b the property of Oscar Baara, a St. Paul meat cutter, who formerly lived in the Wisconsin city. "Dewey is now sleeping behind V, . mncn 9 1. . . . . 1 , JO, lUC fc.caL iimoo ui uuttSIieu, (he B(ove jn the meat market jn La who must jostle wi(h their fellows in: Cr0SBe( whlcu j,ia master formerly the -batterings of the day coach. owned. Although Mr. Baum brought The European compartment pro-' the dog to St. Paul in the express vides a seat with a high cushioned j car of a fast limited train and of- back on which the head rests com fortably. A man with an easy con science should sleep. The American day coach saws off the support for the head at or below fered him all kinds of inducements and delicacies not to be had in a small town, Dewey was not happy. "He ran away and appeared un expectedly at his old home Monday the shoulders. Hence the contorted ; Wagging his short tail furiously, he bowknots in which passengers tie ' scratched and whined for ndmit- themselves to secure support for j tance. The one hundred and forty wobbling and weary heads. Some ! miles he had tramped had made him lean against the pointed window cas-, footsore and weary. His tongue ing, until the skull is well dented, j was hanging far cut of his mouth Others slump until the body makes : and he was panting. Dewey's eyes a straight line from the top of the were bright, however. And he was back to the edge of the seat, leaving ' ROt too tired to yawn in a friendly the back, nature's weakest point, j manner at his old and trusted unsupported and aching. 'friend, the market cat. One often questions why high back j "When his master 'telephoned seats and other comforts of railroad ; from St. Paul that he would sro to travel are usually denied the travel er in an American day coach. Is it the slight expense for their installa tion? Or is it to force passengers to pay the extra charge for the Pullman? Certain Chicago suffragettes pro test against the title "Miss,", which they say carries some slight or slur, and some unmarried women ar,e hav ing "Mrs." placed on their cards. "Mrs." is' an abbreviation of the word "Mistress." This is the fem- nine of "Master" and signifies the feminine ruler of a household or other establishment. The word has a sinister significance in common speech that raises the query. why the title shoud seem so attractive. . "Miss" is perhaps resented on the ground that it suggests mere girl hood, as one reads in the dry goods advertisement of "misses' " clothiqg. The latter title may carry a hint of youth and coquetry that seems out of keeping with senous-minded wom en of defined age. At the same time tho present custom in titles would seem to give unmarried women at least an equality of privilege as com pared with their yoked sisters. The unmarried woman bears the name which is the very bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh. Through it runs the blood of her ancestors, it links her to her own race as born of a certain' clan, entitled to its honors, protection, standing and position. She may be a "Miss," but she has saved the tribal name of the for bears that made her what she is. When she marries 6he gives up her own family name for that of her hus band's family, which did not bring her into life, and feels but a slight responsibility for this captive from another people. All the associations of her past, sentimental, dignified or aristocratic, are blotted out of public view as tho price paid for being a "Mrs." To youth, tho word "Miss" con veys subtle allurements of the yeter nal feminine. Let not the Chicago suffragettes thus cast away the ro mance of life too hastily. " t Skunk Hide Stir Up Ire of Clerks Medford Mall Tribune: During the past two or three days the post- office and express office clerks in the city have been having the time of their lives with shipments of skunk hides. Trappers are', begin ning to make their annual shipments of the winter's catch, and highly scented offices aro the result. The express company got the worst of the deal as Chief Deputy Fish and Game Comlssioner Frank L.( Sandry ordered the shipments by express held in order that he might inspect them and determine whether any heavier hides were shipped or not. The opening of the packages added to tho occasion in a great degree. THE WAY OK A CHILD. La Crosse to get him the gaunt lit tle fighting pet was sleeping the peaceful sleep of the weary. Be tween his paws was a discarded bone, and the satisfied grin on his battle-scarred facn told more plain ly than words that he preferred a meager bone in La Crosse to a por terhouse steak in St. Paul." A child of about seven years of j age was seen recently who walked , deliberately out from the sidewalk I in front of an approaching automo- Things W e Think. It is getting so there aro nearly as many people mortgaging their bile, stopped, turned her back to it j homes to buy automobiles as there and placed her hands upon her hips : are to buy eggs, while she stared at something in the All men are equal at the altar distance. The occupants of the ma-! that is, none of them count for any chine were surprised when she was ! thing. seen stepping out into the street, Two Irishmen recently died, one amazed when she stopped with the aged 119 and the other 120. The auto rapidly near'ng her, and while former smokod, the latter did not. somewhat of a forced smile came to their faces when the machine' slocd down and tooted, upon which she rapidly whirled about, jumped and ran to the side of the street, it brought to the minds of the occu pants what might have happened if the driver had been as careless as she. The young girl is like too many parents in every city who allow their little ones to play upon the streets without properly safeguarding them. In this respect the way of a child is often the way cf a parent. Too great care cannot be taken of the little ones in this day when swiftly moving autos and unmanageable horses are so often the causes of sad accidents. Because parents are not manifesting sufficient care of this kind over their children, scores each year are killed. The wise parent will be warned. The others will not be. A Boston scientist, Prof. A. J. Honej, claims, to have discovered a cure for leprosy. Arizona in 1912 produced 000,000 pounds" of copper. 350,- MRS. CRYSTAL BENEDICT. Pretty Wisconsin Suffragist In Parade In Washington. The PORTLAND EVENING TELE GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year, $5.00. elsewhere if he were willing to do any kind of work! The trouble is that there are too.many wanting silk waist and white shirt jobs and- too few willing to take work which re quires the wearing of old clothes and the performing of manual labor. See what an end smoking may bring you to. When meeting , a woman these days with "Mrs." affixed to her name, it is the part of wisdom to learn if it is present or past tense before inquiring too particularly about her hubby. Abtfht the only difference between a job and a position is in the amount of work. We have never yet seen a man so loyal to party thai he would refuse votes from the other side. "Language was made to conceal thought." Some people are keeping alot of things to themselves. Every man gets to the front soon er or later. If in no other way, he always heads his own funeral pro cession. The jar a man receives when he slips on a banana peel usually breaks one of the commandments. Esperanto hasn't any swear words. This is probably the reason it is shorter than any other language. Burbank has grown a seedless prune, and now it is up to him to produce a pruneless boarding house. If you really want to flatter a person and make it stick, just tell him tha't he is not easily flattered. The person who always scatters sunshine along his or her way need have little fear of the day of judg ment. The souvenir business is the mod ern way of disposing of stuff that no one has any eartnly use for. A truthful man sometimes has to tell a lie to attract attention. Cannibals must .have easily satis fied palates. I YOU All LOSING MONEY if you do not deposit your surplus cash in this Bank. You are losing the four per cent interest it would earn running the risk or losing it by fire, thert, etc. losing the advantage or system such as can be had iu no other way except by means of in Bank Account losing the help of an institution whose business it is to aid you in your savings. You can't afford to idly lose like this. Begin to save now by opening an account with us one dol lar is all you need to start with. Granite City Savings Bank ASHLAND, OREGON ture to possess a moustache that drops downward or inward, .' ermit- ted to grow, it makes your 'eatures look as if they were toeing in. It gives a discouraging, despondent, drooping air. lo matter how greased by the barber, or how twirled before the home or office mhror, no drooping mojstache (an permanently be made consistent with au alert appearance. And yet many youig men of 21 wear 3uch moustaches because it makes there look 30 yeais old. At the other extreme lies the man who has worn a beard unt'l be is GOOD ROADS CONFERENCE. Important Meeting to be Held Eureka, Cul., in August. at Plans are now being perfected for a conference of unusual interest and character which will be held in Eureka, Cal., on August 21 and 22 oT the present, year. The object of this conference wili be the organiza tion of a Pacific coast good road association, which shall in .every practicable way promote and ad vance the cause of good roads in California, Oregon and Washington. 50 or fnore. Neither he nor his I Governor Lister of Washington. frie'icis know what his countenance i Governor West of Oregon and Gov- lea'ly is. Seeim; one day how a neighbor has grov-n youthful by a ernor Johnson of California hav promised to attend the conference. clean shave, he tries likewise to turn i which will be presided over by the first named of these gentlemen. It is expected that Judge J. T. Ronald, president of the Pacific Highway Association; Samuel Hill of Mary hill, Wash., and rriany other promi nent good roads advocates will also be in attendance. The proposed conference will pre sent Borne novl features. Eureka, where it is to bo held, is the largest town in the United States without a through railroad, end, except in the summer months, wholly , dependent upon the sea for intercourse with the outside world. Thus, those at tending the conference will have to make the journey by steamer from San Francisco or Portland, or br automobile from the north, east or south. Many of the delegates will make the trip by auto from San Franciro northward along' the coast. A number of those coming from the north will turn westward at Grants Pass and follow the coast south to Eureka. A greater number, how ever, including the governors of the three states, will journey from Red ding or Red Bluff 'across the Coast Range to Eureka. This trip will in- back the hands of time. But lo, the years have wrought their subtle changes under the screen which nature gave him. He may have a retreating chin, a silly mouth, or he may have blubber lips, briftal jaws and a fat and flabby neck, and no one ever discovered it until he shaved. From all which the lesson is to let every man arrange his face ac cording to his own individuality of countenance, not according to the whims of his neighbor or those of Broadway. The nmooth face gives an impression of youth and sincer ity; the bearded face suggests dig nity and stability. Let every man choose what fits h.m. The great trouble, with the beard, as actually worn, is that the major ity of whiskered men think that dirty necktie and shirt front are thereby concealed. Wherein they greatly deceive themselves. SPECIAL NOTICE. All matter for tho Tidings should be directed to tho raper, rather than J to any person connected therewith. When directed to a person, it is apt to be sent to the home address, thus delaying its insertion. Crescent City. Special facilities for tourist parties at the Bay Hotel nd annex, Crescent City. Hot and cold water, baths and rooms en suite. 22-tf volve 167 miles of travel and will carry the visitors through some of the finest scenery in the west. The conference !a to be held under the auspices of the Humboldt Pro motion and Development Committee, which will have the aid of the Auto mobile Club of Humboldt county in the entertainment of the visitors. Phone Job orders to the Tidings. Beard vs. tk? Smooth Face. A recent dispatch from London has attracted wide attention, with it3 assertion that "pointed beards, the moustache, and possibly whis kers, are coming in favor." If style is again to leave hair on man's face, and thus placehim again among the fur-bearing animals, let us hope that there will he more dis position for men to arrange it more in accordance with their own indi vidual features. There is no reason why the. man from New York or Oshkosh should wear a beard merely because some London chappie is tired of shaving. In early youth one watches with keenest hope for the first downy traces of a moustache. As it length ens its preservation ought to depend wholly on whether it looks well or not. ' Many young men are fated by na- OutS pedal Offei La Follette's Weekly is the one paper that can be depended upon to prine absolutely unbiased news of current political movements. Senator La Follette, personally, contributes a weekly article on the inside workings of Congress that alone is more than worth the subscription price. 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