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TAGK TWO ASHLAND TIDIXGS Thursday, April 3, 1913. Ashland Tidings 6EMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 187S. Issned Mondays and Thursdays Bert It. Greer, Editor and Owner B, W. Taleott, ... City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear ....$2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months . '. 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. , hazing is pretty much gone by. It First-class Job printing facilities, j seems as antiquated as the ancient Equipments second to none in theltown am cown fisnts. Qnee the Interior. , ' , , , " i sophomore dearly loved to range Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, ; himself in battle tigainst the young Postoffice as second-class mail mat- ,,hic-imlies of the town slums'. An ter ' j ext-hange of Moody noses was looked Ashland, Ore., Thursday, April ;l, 13 ; i;k hi; the higher-ups. The California legislature has passed the "Red Light Injunction and Abatement bill," which is pat terned after the Iowa law. Iowa nearly a generation ago conceived the idea of making it unprofitable to rent buildings for blind pigs or other immoral purposes by not only hold ing the owners for the penalties for violations of law, tut by closing the bunldings under seal of the court for violation of the law. It has 'worked well there. The man who secures inordinate rental for a building be cause it is used for unlawful pur poses only too often is the man high er up, whose unseen influence balks the attempt to enforce the laws. In Iowa all that is necessary is for anyone to 6erve written notice upon a landlord that his building is being nsed for these unlawful purposes and any subsequent conviction not nly holds the property for the fine imposed but compels the court to !o6e and seal the building for one year, during which it cannot be used fo any purpose whatever. The .law seems drastic, but it has 'proven successful there and has made the property owner think twice be fore permitting his buildings to be unlawfully used. RAILROADS AM) LABOR. The agitator who harangued on the streets of Ashland in behalf of the I. W. W. Monday afternoon de clared among other things that labor built the railroads and the railroads Bhould'be owned by labor. If that is so, ii labor alone can build railroads, why don't the I. W. W. come to the relief of Grants Pass? Grants Pass is suffering for a railroad. The I. W. V. are appar ently suffering for the opportunity to build a railroad. Why don't they Eet together? If labor is the only factor in building a railroad there should be no trouble in the I. W. W. forging to the front as railroad builders. They are all well rested np. They have been doing little la bor except with tneir mouths, and should be in prime condition to help Grants Pass or any other town out on railroad building. But the chances are that if rail road construction once commences at Grants Pass or elsewhere, that the Members of the I. W. W. will be scarcer than hen's teeth. Such men bear the same relation la honest American laboring men as the British suffragettes do to Ameri can women. Thev are at the other end of the line. A VEMXMK INVASION". According to last Saturday's Even ing Telegiam, Oregon is facing a for eign invasion: This threatened in vasion is nothing less than an influx of Scandinavian immigrants. Let them come. The writer has lived a large portion of the past 2" years in commonities where the Scandinav ians were an important if not a ma jor portion of the community, and be wants to go on record as saying that a Scandinavian invasion would inside of a couple of decades shove Oregon well to the front as a state of wealth and substance. The Telegram need not worry about "where we are going to place tnese people properly." as they will place themselves and will start, not to be kid-glove, white-shirt farmers with automobiles, but to wrest prof itable farms from the hills and for est of Oregon, and they will do it, too. These newcomers may not know all there is to know of the theory of supply and demand, nor bow to make money without work, but they do know the worth of industry and tnrift and are willing to practice foem. Welcome to the invaders'. Consul General ?nod?rass in Mos-: railroads and tinker with the tar eow reports that reat interest is be-jiff." Let the people rule and "the ins shown in a new invention called "minus ice." which represents a froien solution of salt of various grades ot concentration. HAZIXG, XOW AXD FORMERLY. Four months jail sentences have just been handed out to three Uni versity of North Carolina students, convicted of manslaughter of a fel low student whose death was caused by hazing. Not merely is Buch a fatality bery unusual, but one hears almost nothing nowadays about haz ing of any kind in colleges. Are the ancient terrors disappearing that once surrounded the freshman's en trance to the classic shades of alma mater? Probably old-fashioned physical ra as the Hermans regard student .J..l - .v: 1 . : Today the college youth is too i splendiferous a creature for such I democratic brawls. His way of get ting even with tho "mucker" is to pointedly cut him on the street. Similarly, taking the luckless freshman from his downy bed at dead of night and'giving him a bath 'neath the icy waters of the town pump would be considered a "prep" school trick. The one thing which the college student' is most anxious today to demonstrate to the world that he is a man. For that reason he has a dignity which must he maintained. That dignity would be very much jarred and dented by the hazing of former years. As the lower schools imitate college fashions and atti tudes, so even they show a tendency to look at old-time hazing as too kid dish for "men." Hazing exists in colleges todao' just as it exists everywhere in social life, but it is more subtile. It lies in wait for any individuality on the part of the student and pokes barbed arrows of ridicule at his last year's hat, or his association with the wrong set of fellows. What "Ben Hur" Did for Author. Detroit Free Press: "Before Gen eral Lew Wallace went to Turkey he had achieved literary fame through the novel "Ben Hur,' " said an old timer. "His reverent and effective treatment of a delicate theme and the marvelous pictures he revealed of the people and customs of the Nazarene set him at once before the world as a student and a genius, and entitled him to a place in the world's erallerv of immortals "I have often thought that it was the reading of this book which in duced President Garfield to appoint General Wallace minister to Turkey. One of the Harper brpthers confirms this in the following conversation: " 'I called on President Garfield one evening. He came into the room-with the book 'Ben Hur! in his hand and fingers between the pages. " 'Do you know anything about the composition of this book you have published?' asked the pres dent. " 'I think I do,' I replied. ' 'Well,' said Garfield, 'it has made a good impression on me. I offered Wallace a place in South America, which he would not take. I think I will esnd him to Turkey in the place made vacant by Horace Maynard's death. "Ben Hur' indicates that he can improve his opportunities in the east.' "I do not doubt in the least that this conversation actually occurred, for the general himself once told me that if there had been no "Ben H;ir he probably would never have had a chance to 6ee and study Turkey as minister from this country. "The general liked the dark- skinned people, and deep Christian that he was, he never wounded their tender religious feelings and sympa thized with them in all their human weaknesses, which would make him a man of great service at this time when poor Turkey is being pressed so bard by the Balkan allied states." American Extravagance. Leslie's: High living! Extrav. agance runs riot in a country where prosperity prevails. The moving pic ture business is the most profitable of all our industries. It threatens to cut out the theaters and the circus. While demagogues prate about the suffering of the poor and the spread of poverty, the commissioner of in ternal revenue, in his annual report, emphasizes the fact that Americans are drinking more whiskey, smoking more cigars and cigarettes and chew ing more tobacco than ever before in our history. We are having a gay and hilarious time. Nobody works but father and high living is in vogue as never before. The motto of the day seems to be. "Eat, drink and be merry: bust the trusts, smash the devil take the hindmost. Phone No. 39 when In need of Job printing. Work and prices are right. The Home Circle Thought from the Editorial Pen April Fool. Who can count up the generations of youngsters that on this ancient festival have traveled far in search of strap oil or have bitten into wool doughnuts? Some people say the custom goes back as far as Noah, commemorating the blunder he made in sending out the dove before the waters dried up from the face of the earth. Youth acquires some valuable in formation on April 1 and pets it very cheap. The time that is .-pent in going 'to the neighbor foi" the round square is no', very costly. Bui: the fruitless trip was well worth while if it stamped the fact clearly on the boy's mind that there are a great many jokers in the world. Many people do not cease being April fools when they attain the stat ure of mankind. They, are ready to pick up bricks done up in neat pack ages 365 days in the year. During their lifetime they acquire an interest ing and extensive collection of left handed screwdrivers, for which they have paid down large amounts of good money. Two Women. A woman I know had been called away on a sad mission, not long ago. Upon the day that she and her fam ily were to return, her friends were busy planning things for her cord fort. It was their intention, if they were able to get into the house with out resorting to burglary, to have a fire going in the furnace to warm the weary bodies of the travelers. There was to be a blooming plant in the living room, and in the larder were to be bread and cake and pie and salad and meat, and everything needful for a day or so, until the housewife could get things going and begin the business of living again. So much of love and thought went into that planning that an acquaint ance who did not know the woman said to me, "Why do they do so much for her?" With her question my mind went back over my acquaintanceship with her, this woman who was the bene ficiary of so much Tove. And clear ly I saw the answer to the question. I recall seeting her on her front steps one day, a short time ago, sending off a market basket of good ies to a friend who had sickness in the family. I remembered the times that she had sent pie and cake and other lucious dishes that she had prepared with her own hands, to a neighbor who felt that her burden of work was more than she could bear. The thought of her sweet cheeri ness, her brightness, the warmth of her friendship, the love she daily reflects, brought the answer to the other woman's question, "Why do they do so much for her?" In contrast to the love she in spires by reason of her own person ality, I thought of a woman I had known many years ago a woman who is now dead. She was moving from the town where she had been born and reared, and in which she had vainly sup posed herself to be fairly popular. She pictured to herself the attention she would receive when she left this, her girlhood homo, for another city. Each day, when she read in the so ciety column of the papers that some one who was leaving town, per haps just for a season, was given farewell parties, "So it will be with me," she told herself. She fancied that her friends would give farewell parties for her. There would be toasts to speed the parting friend toasts given by lips that quivered, as she h;'d witnessed many times in the case of others. But this woman probably had not given of herself. Perhaps she had withheld love. Perhaps she had counted on the part she had played in the past, in 'the town's history. She may have thought that the pop ularity would be hers because she had helped contribute to the town's social life, in palmier days. She told herself afterwards that her failure was because her circle of friends respected and valued chief ly the things that monev buvs told it in bitterness and tears. However it was, the fault prob ably was in herself. When she left for her new home there was not one friend to bid her God-speed. Not only did her friends not give her any- farewell parties, tut they did not even call to say good-bye. She went to tho station alone save for her broken-hearted mother. whose tears were as much for the loneliness of her child as for herself Alone she boarded the train for her new home. And such was her leave-taking of the home where she had spent all of her days! Ah, well, she is gone, never to re turn. But because of her, and of her failures, through pity for her and her mistakes, I thank God that my friend and neighbor is given the love she has earned by her own selfless love. A Missionary Evplorer. David Livingston, the centenary of whose birth has just been celebrated throughout the world, was a mission ary of the type of La Salle and Marquette stirred by two passions, one to take the word of God into the wilderness, the other to learn what the wilderness was like, what kind of human beings peopled it, what prospects it held out for a final Christianization. The name of Livingstone is linked in history with the name of Henry j M. Stanley. The two men might seem to have had little in common, i for Livingstone was stiired by the spirit of proselyting, while Stanley, j a soldier of fortune, felt only the stir and desire of adventure. Livingstone j was a calm, even-tempered man, kindly and considerate by nature. Stanley, at least in later life, was irrascible and impatient with opposi tion. Always he was ambitious for himself. Yet theso two men became closely attached to each other. Stanley wrqte to a friend: "Four months and four clays I lived with Livingstone, in the same house, or in the same boat, or in the same tent, and I never found a fault with him." Which was the journalist's way of giving high praise. The dark places into which the missionary penetrated at the risk of his life are as sa'e today as the police-guarded street of a great city. The tourist is taken by rail to the falls of the Zambesi, which Living stone was the first white man to be hold. Cattle feed upon the long grass he had to push his way through. And here and there are spires showing against the horizon, such monuments to him as the strong and gentle missionary-explorer could scarcely have dreamed of appearing within a hundred years of his birth. Apple Rust. Harper's Weekly: When the cider press is in operation there may be observed certain deep, rich, golden brown or golden red colors assumed by the juices of the apples as they gather in the receptacles. This characteristic hue of cider is almost as pleasing to the eye as the flavor of the fresh, sweet juice is to the sense of taste. A French chemist has shown that the apple containing an oxidizing fer ment which produces the brownish or reddish color of the cider.- The man ner in which this substance produces oxidation can readily be observed by any one who cuts an apple open and leaves it exposed for a short time to the air. The cut surface gradually turns red as the oxygen of the air unites with the juice; in a word, the apple rusts. Rusting of an apple may also be brought about by simply bruising the fruit without breaking the skin. Everybody knows that apples that have fallen violently to the ground show red or rusty spots underneath the bruised rind. In this case the oxygen is derived from the air con tained in the ducts or interstices among the tissues of the fruit, and it becomes active through the break ing of the cells that enclose the oxi dizing ferments. If an apple is cooked before its skin is broken its tissues do not oxi dize when exposed to the air. This is explained on the supposition that the oxidizing properties of the fer ment are destroyed by heat. Why Living is Higher. . The tremendous crops of last year fell short of being as tremendous as they should be, if one judges by the statistics just issued by the govern ment. These show that the supply of corn per inhabitant has fallen off 21 per cent in ten years, the supply of wheat 14 per cent. In the same period the price of corn has risen 4 4 per cent and wheat 47 per cent. As a corol lary to a decrease of 8 per cent per inhabitant in the yield of cotton, the price has risen 80 per cent. For every 100 acres in cultivation ten years ago, there are now" lla acres. For every 100 bushels, bales or pounds of the ten principal crops of a decade ago, there are produced 109 bushels, bales or pounds. The government points out that, meas ured per ton mile, the work of the railroads increased 40 per cent, but measured per acre, the output of th ten crops averages a decrease 6f about 1 per cent. Hunting down causes for the ris ing costs of living is a foolish waste of time when the real cause, like a house struck by lightning, flares out of such figures as these. Exchange. Previous to 1906 Morroco had practically no public improvements, but the international conference of Algeciras has forced them upon it. Now it is to have harbors, light houses and roads. If You Would Be Prosperous Do This Guide your footsteps to this bank this very day for your own sake. Your prosperity begins the minute yon open a Savings Account. Even the smallest savings have often been the means of grasping opportunities that lead to wealth. ' ON'K DOLLAR if you can't at this bankT The most successful men in town have money on deposit here why not you? Granite City Savings BanR ASHLAND, ORE. Test for Color Blindness. The various tests for color blind ness have come into practical use in the examination of railroad engineers and the like, where the ability to distinguish colors is necessary, so that these tests ere no longer pe culiar to the laboiatory. But it is not generally known outside the lab oratory that everybody is partially color blind that iz, in certain parts of the field of vision. The most nor mal individual can see all the colors only when he looks directly at them. If looked at from an angle of about 15 degrees, red and green can no longer be seen, but in their places will appear shade3 of yellow or blue. This region of th.j eye is known as the yellow-blue zone. If the color be moved still farrther to the side, the yellow and blue will dispappear and only gray can be seen. This re gion is known as the zone of com plete color blindness. An interesting theory in' regard to these zones is that every normal eye represents three stages of evolution. The zone of complete color blindness is the lowest stage, and appears in such animals as the frog, whose vision is known as shadow vision. The blue yellow zone is one step higher in the scale, although not clearly marked off in the animal kingdom. And the appearance of . tho red-green' zone marks the highest btage of evolution. Cases of color blindness are, accord ing to this theory, a lack of develop ment beyond the early stage in the individual life. Professor Poffenber ger in Strand Magazine, From New York to Hawaii by the present all water route is 12,800 miles, but by the Panama Canal this will be cut down to 7,000 miles. The PORTLAND EVENING TELE GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year, 15.00. Good Work Done Promptly AT THE Rough Dry at Reasonable J. N. NISBET, Mgr. Office and Laundry 31 Water St. TELEPHONE 165 Out Special Off e? 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. Through special arrangement we are in a position to offer LA FOLLETTE'S AXD ASHLAND TIDINGS BOTH FOR $2.00 As we approach a radical change in national administration La Follette's is doubly valuable. No matter what your party affil iations, you are interested in broad-minded discussions on topics of public interest You get this in La Follette's. Send your order today to The Ashland Tidings 8 LaFollette's One Year, $1.00 The Tidings One Year, $2.00 To new or old subscribers who pay in advance. Address all orders to the Tidings. spare mot pens an account J j U Seven Thousand at Work. San Francisco, April 2. Seven ; thousand men will be at work on the exhibits palaces of the Panama Pacific ' International Exposition be fore the summer is over. As high as 10,000 men will be employed when the labor peak is reached. This number is exclusive of those who will be employed in the construction of state buildings and foreign pavilions. The states and foreign nations, it is expected, will conform to the pace set by the exposition company in the work of construction. The plans of the magnificent courts, the designs for the imposing sculpture and the sketches of the mural paintings and decorations are nearing completion. Contracts for many of the grours of statuary and for many of the murral paintings have already been let to prominent artists and sculptors in San Fran cisco, New York and other cities of the United States. The direction of the color work has been entrusted to Jules Guerin, and Karl Bitter haa charge of the sculpture. A Transfer. Judge: "Among the tenements that lay within my jurisdiction when I first took up mission work on the East Side," says a New York young woman, "was one to clean out which would have called forth the best ef forts of the renovator of the Augean stables. And the families in this tenement were almost as hopeless as the tenement itself. "On one occasion I felt distinctly encouraged, however, since I ob served that the face of one young ster was actually clean. " 'William,' said I, 'your face is fairly clean; but how did you get such dirty hands?' " 'Washin' me face,' said Wil liam." Scale receipts at Tidings office. N.&M. Home Laundry Prices. New Machinery. THE Our Offer: $2.60