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Thursday, April 3, 1913.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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