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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1913)
Monday, April T, 191S. AGB TWO ASHLAND TTDIXG8 Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Beat R. Greer, Editor and Owner B. W. Talcott, --- City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear $2.00 Bix Months 1.00 Three Months 60 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, April 7, '13 MAX STANDS APPALLED. The past year has been marked by a number of large disasters tragedies that have brought sorrow and desolation into thousands of homes and'have touched the public to sympathy. It is less than a year since the Titanic went down, a tragedy so har rowing that the very men who wrote the story wrote through blinding tears and with trembling hands the horrors they related. And now, In less than a year from that tragedy of the sea, other trage dies of the land have stricken some of the richest sections of the coun try. Omaha has been swept by a storm, her palaces have toppled like card hoard houses and her business blocks have shattered, into shapeless ruins. Before we had caught our breath from the horror of that tragedy an Inland sea swept over Ohio and In diana, two of the richest states in the union, and will leave them devas tated. Seventy thousand people homeless in Dayton alone. The vast treasure in life and property left in the wake of the storm is beyond com putation. It is only at times like this that men realize how small and lnslgnifl cant is man and all of his splendid work, after all. Proudly we erect buildings so high that a man standing on the top of them looks like a mere atom. Proudly we build cities and put our wealth in property and say to our selves, "We have provided for the future. Nothing can wipe awaye a competence that is held in the land." Then nature, heretofore beneficent, blows a frowning breath on- the houses we have built, or pours a tor rent of water about them, and they are no more. The fortune is blown to nothingness or swept away in a Taass of debris. Yet, it is at such times as these that the best brotherhood of man asserts itself. Tha shackles of self ishness fall under the pressure of a great emotion at the touch of a sympathy that proves all the world akin and we give willingly our money, our time, whatever we have to help those whom the calamity has left helpless. But the stricken ones who weep for those dead or missing or who see the wreck of a life's building and striving swept away in the twinkling of an eye look on with dazed eyes and wonder why. And nobody knows the answer to that question. We are too blind to see, too weak to know. The proposition of Winston Spen cer Churchill, first lord of the Brit ish admiralty, to stop naval con struction the world over for 'one year, is one of the finest bits of statesmanship that has been suggest ed for some time. Why should every power burden itself with mil lions spent to build warships merely to keep step with other nations and maintain the present standing of na vies? Why not let the navies stand Just where thsy are? No nation would thus gain aa advantage. Every nation would save millions annually. "We haxe no need for more battle ships, and the only reason we build them is to keep step with other na tions, so that in case of another con flict the country with the big navy would have the- advantage. So, if .we stop building battleships the world over the present relative sea fighting strength would be main tamed. And why not go a step farther and have a world-wide agree' ment to stop recruiting and Increas Ing standing armies? Wonder if shlp-buildjng and army-supply con tractors have anything to do "with this hurry to strengthen defense when good sense dictates an agree ment as the bettei plan? Secretary McAJoo is going to have office-seekers present their applica tions In writing. This will be hard on some of them, but they can al ways hire a stenographer to type write their letters. THE END OP A SPECULATOR. The death of "Deacon" White, who won and los: several fortunes on Wall street, brought out a few days ago the fact that although he once stood to win $3,000,000 in corn, he died with only just enough money to pay his debts. The case of Mr. White is some what unusual. Although he failed several times, he always paid his deabts in full, though he could never get permanently ahead of the game. Pretty heavy baggage in the way of a conscience! The manufacturer who produces a useful article at a pair price can be satisfied that, if his costomers are honest and industtious, the proba bilities of trade assure them success. The speculative broker, on the other hand, must realize that the chances of the game are about five to one against the "piker" or "lamb." In the long run, the "kit ty" must win. The broker must be always making new customers. The cordial handshake with which he greets the new face at the door must be much like the greeting of the un dertaker to the consumptive. "Deacon" White, no .doubt, was not the cnly honest person in the busi ness. There is plenty of room for men of high sense of honor, who shall study earnings and expenses rather than the eighths and quarters of the blackboards. They will per suade investors to pay down only real money for high-class securities, lock them up, and read the stock market reports only at off moments. Many men go into the brokerage business with firm intentions of that kind. A great many of them come out about like the fellow in a min ing camp who asked where he could find a faro layout. He was directed, but warned that the game was crook ed. Shortly after ho was found bucking the tiger. "Didn't I tell you the game here was crooked?" whispered the man who directed him. "Yes," replied the stranger, ."but you also said it was the only game in town." - REGULAR NEWSPAPER READING. Did you ever Btop to think what you miss if you do not make it a regular daily habit to read your local newspaper thoroughly? Cutting out all question of the ed ucative effect of following public news events, look at it merely for the moment as a question of self- interest. The housewife learns from the newspaper advertising how the cost of living can be reduced. She gath ers information as to what her chil dren are doing in school, which may be vital to her hopes for their good scholarship. She learns of concerts and entertainments that add variety and pleasure to her life, which but for newspaper notice she would miss. She learns of chances to secure do mestic service. . The business man finds out about openings by which he can turn an honest dollar. Ho learns how the farmers are selling their crops, what Values real estate men place on their holdings, and what trade conditions are. Still more important, he learns what his competitors are doing. He learns how his brother workmen In other employments are trying to im prove their ..condition, and he finds chances in the advertising to save money on the food and clothing of his family. The farmer learns about the crop outlook and the governing values of commodities. He will be continually whlpsawed by the produce market unless he studies the newspaper with a microscope for this kind of in formation. Is there a single class in this com munity that does not get a definite, positive return In cash value from reading each issue of the home news paper? Is there anyone who can af ford not to be a ragular subscriber to his home paper? ADVERTISING THAT DOESN'T AD VERTISE. About this time of year it was once customary for the merchant to send out a gang of painters to deco rate the landscape with appeals to travelers to buy his goods. Every mossy and lichen covered rock charming in its .suggestion of wild life, was turned into a billboard, and lovely old trees were made into com mercialized sign posts. As towns have grown more citi fied, people love country life more and when they go walking or riding they keenly resent the intrusions of business. Their impulse on seeing an adveY tising sign In the woods is to tear it down. Wherever the law permits that, and often where the law does n t, a host of people make it their Joy and pride to wreck advertising signs that mar natural beauty. So outdoor country advertising does not advertise at all. U merely creates resentment. T'rtnters' Ink The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen Sleeping Out of Doors. Not merely are tuberculosis vie time sleeping under tent walls all through the year, but a large por tion of the more elaborate homes to day are erected with comfortable sleeping porches. In these you can get your fresh air without having your neighbor's cat alight on your face in the middle of the night. A night on a cot bed in a tent has its charm, provided you can really sleep. The scents of grass and trees, your close embrtce with Mother Earth, have a sweetness that is ab sent behind blinds and plastered walls. But, sad to say, the camp cot bed has its outs to those of us whose soft bodies are wonted to the de fences of the clpscd house. The roar of the night train, dead ened by the four Vails of a house, reverberates- in your unprotected tent, and you are wide awake. The slightest noise in the neighboring home arouses your curiosity, and you count the steps of the late comers on the echoing sidewalk. Your cot bed rocks back and forth with the in equalities of the ground, and if you get your head too low the constant tide of blood keeps your nerves growling. If there are mosquitoes, they add to the final touch of sor row. The one great physical need of the majority of the American people to day is more fresh air. The atmos phere of the office, factory or mill was never contemplated In the age long evolution through which nature built up the wonders of the human frame. She provided for -the needs of the body on the assumption that fresh air would always be sweeping its tide of life through our veins. Then men went and built caves, cells and prisons, in which Nature's chief cleanser was forbidden entrance. It is up to everyone who believes that the body is a business asset, to be conserved like any other proper ty, to get more fresh air. If he can't get it in his business hours he can get it in his own home. And at night he can either sleep out of doors or fill his room with out-of- door air. Eastern people are too easily an noyed by the little discomforts of tent life referred to above. All through the western cities, where people adapt themselves to changes more easily, you find Invalids recov ering health, thin men putting on flesh, merely by tho charm and tonic of life in the medium for which Na ture built the human body. History. History is a collection of cold blooded facts relating to somebody who is not able to defend himself on account of being dead. There are two kinds of history ancient and modern. Ancient history is the more popular of the two. as there are so few people present who have a clear recollection of whai happened. This kind of history is always written by some author with a keen and reten tive memory, and who was pither an eye-witness or secured his facts from immediate relatives of the deceased. Every once in a while some author with a better memory than his pre decessors puts out a new ancient his tory with limp binding and limpid style, and introduces a new chrono logical, order and several original obituary notices, which make very wholesome and cheerful reading for the long winter evenings. There are on the contrary, pleases and attracts, and it forces itself on the attention only nhen people are in a mood to consider its message. According to prevailing standards, when a girl gives' up a five-dollar-a- week position as servant, which in eludes board worth four dollars a week, and takes a six-dollar-a-week position minus board, she is rising in the world. Ex-Governor Dockery of Missouri, now third assistant postmaster-gen eral, wears old-fashioned long-legged boots. It is not in the record wheth er he has ever trained his wife to pull them off for him at night. Mr. Wilson is evidently deter mined to sharpen his razor on his boots rather than be under obliga tion for gift strops,. A serious blow is threatened the tobacco industry, in the reported method of taking the poison out of nicotine. There is a growing number of peo ple who do not bsjieve merit should count In a candidate for office. Phone No. 39 when In need of Job printing. Work and prices are right. so many ancient histories on the market nowadays that the average high school student can't tell wheth er the battle of Gettysburg was fought B. C. or A, D. Modern his tory deals with people who are more or less alive, and is usually written at a safe distance from the individ ual who is being dissected. History writing is a very pleasant occupa tion, as all that is required is a live ly imagination and a stub pen. The late Mr. Plutarch wrote one of our nicest histories, giving a number of confidential anecdotes about people who 'at one time made quite a noise in 'army and navy circles. We should enjoy Mr. Plutarch's book better if it had a little more conver sation and an occasional drawing room scene, but he seems to have no trouble in selling it. The best kind of history is the family kind, which deals largely with cutting the first teeth and translating the language of the twins. People will remember this kind of history when all other varieties are tucked in back of the second row in the bookcase. The Earth. The earth is a round ball which has been beating a tortuous path around the sun for several million years without bucking anybody off the right of way. The earth is said to be 91,200,000 miles from the sun, although there are times when it seems to be closer. When the earth is nearest to the eun It Is said to be In perihelion. People spell this word with two l's in the dogdays. Adam was the first inhabitant of the earth, and he liked it so well that he hung on until he was 930 years old and beat all the fraternal insurance com panies then doing business. Every body thought the earth was flat un til Christopher Columbus sprung the egg trick on Ferdinand and Isabella. This trick would have been more suc cessful, we are told, if the egg which Christopher used had not lived so long. History relates that immedi ately after the egg broke Ferdinand lost interest in the proceedings and retired to a quiet spot to sprinkle a little perfume on his mustache. Isabella stuck it out, however, and pawned a bright new Waterbury watch in order to enable Columbus to come over here and teach his trick to some of our after-dinner speakers. The earth is now inhabit ed by a large number of people who are well pleased with their location, some of whom live a good deal long er than the neighbors consider nec essary. It produces a great variety of crops, including political bunk and perennial candidates. The earth is held in place by the force of grav ity and supported by an old gentle man named Atlas, who has a muscu lar development vhich makes San dow look like an anti-fat patient af ter six free treatments. It is a very pleasant place to live in and most people separate themselves from it with unconcealed regret. Farming is Becoming the New Pro- fession. The "cow college" is no longer laughed at. It is recognized today as one of the nios; valuable avenues to a practical education, and the ag ricultural college has come Into its own. A monthly magazine published by the Ohio State University contains some facts in this connection that are interesting, and they can practi cally be duplicated in most of the state universities throughout the country. In the Ohio university there are 3,274 students, and of the whole number 794 are registered, in the college of agriculture, while 252 are In the kindred department of do mestic science; thai is to say, nearly one-third of the whole number of students in one state university are fitting themselves for an occupation ior wnicn a lew years ago it was thought no preparation was neces sary except to learn now to milk a cow and handle a hoe. It is known now that successful farming requires a good knowledge of more things than any other calling. It is said that the universities of Iowa, Michl gan, Wisconsin and many other Biaies present relatively the . same statistics. Incidentally this Ohio university magazine contains some other inter esting facts. It tabulates the occupa tions of the parents of the students. The children of bankers, lawyers and professional men are in the major ity, but the fathers of 815 students are farmers; 31, laborers; 3, watch men; 5, tinners; 5, shoemakers; 9, Darners; 18, blacksmiths; 61, car penters; 6, glassworkers; 6, jani tors; 2, gardeners; 49, machinists; 3, coal miners; 10, plumbers; 3, ser vanis. inis list is interesting as showing how much more general ed ucation is becoming and the part that . state universities are taking in giving all an equul opportunity. Scientific farming Is becoming profession, and its development Is one of the most important functions our state university is undertaking. Phone Job orders to the Tidings. 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 you. open a Savings Account. Even the smallest savings have often been the means of grasping opportunities that lead to wealth. ONE DOLLAR if you can't spare more opens an account at this bank. The most successful men in town have money on deposit here why not you? Granite City Savings BanR ASHLAND, ORE. State High Schools Raise Their Standard. Great improvement in the state high schools is indicated by the much better preparation of the students entering the Oregon Agricultural College in the past two years. The report of the board of regents says: "There has been a corresponding improvement in the work of the stu dents. The heads of the department uniformly report that the students are much better prepared each year for their college work. Statistics compiled by the registrar yield the following summary, which Indicates the marked improvement in general scholarship throughout the institu tion during the past three years: The number of regularly matriculat ed students whoso average was be low the passing grade in 1909-10 JH VAUPELS We have the largest and most complete and up-to-date stock to be found in the city, of SPRING AND SUMMER HKiH AND LOW CUT STYLKS, for you to select from, in patent, kid, gun metal, tan, brown and white nubuck, snede, velvet, white and black atin. Complete line of misses' and children's high and low cut footwear. Our Prices Are Right And every shoe guaranteed to give satisfaction both in Fit and Wear r4H"rt Mothers We offer you a chance to save money on BOYS' SUITS. 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