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f t i Thursday, April 10, 1913. CAGE TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, Editor and Owner B. W. Talcott, -.- City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $2.00 Six Months . . . 1.00 Three Months 50 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 matter. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Apr. 10, '13 AFTERMATH. "Ho who fights and runs away, Will live to figh another day." All of which is sophistry, pure and simple, and Is meant to but justify cowardice. Polonius' advice is better: Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee." It is poor business to get in a fight and run away in the middle of it. No victory was ever won that way. Better never to have fought at all. The Tidings editor holds strictly to Polonius' advice in matters of that kind. If a thing is worth fight ing for at all, it is worth fighting for to the last ditch. Especially is this true when a moral principle or a great public policy is at issue. Of course, if the object is not worth the tallow, the matter should be al lowed to rest sereuely at the outset. The writer is afraid some Ashland people are like a certain soldier in the army. He wai mustered into a company of infantry. He had never a good word for the enemy, but talked loudly and bravely about how "we will wallop them tomorrow." But, so sure as the first gun cracked, bo sure he was to turn and run away. The colonel of his company demand ed to know why ho always ran. He replied: "I am always as anxious to lick 'em as you are, but my legs get scared and run away with me." Af ter that he was put in a company of cavalry and always led the charge in the fiercest encounters. His head and heart were brave and true, but his legs simply could not stand the fire. The next time the Tidings leads a fight for Ashland it must feel moral ly certain that tha citizens are sol idly enough horsed that there will be no turning and running away. WHAT WILL BE EXPECTED OF THE NEW CONGRESS. Again a new congress bends to its task. The demand is somewhat dif ferent now than )t has been in the past. There Is little doubt of what the people expect of it. Rarely has it been made clearer in an election than in the last. ' American electors who voted for thd present adminis tration expect: A real lowering of the tariff on the great, staple necessaries of life a straight cut in the cost of living. That the power' of government be truly and effectively employed in curbing the cruel g: eed of the few which means moro effective punch against trust abuses and a currency and banking law more in the inter est of the borrower and producer. All of those who voted for these reforms are unabie to pick up and go to Washington to see that con gress legislates clearly according to tholr demand. Consequently those members of the new congress who represent the ultra progressive sen timent will have to stand solidly for an absolutely new deal in the way in which congress does its work. No more secret caucuses. No more closed committee doors. The cards must .be played on top of the table, face up. No sooner doeB a revolution sue ceed In Mexico than it is followed by another revolt. Huerta led, or helped to lead, the last successful revolt, but now r.ine-tenths of his followers are engaged in a revolution against him. They are an unaccount able people, unless one settles down to the conviction that treachery is the largest component of the greas er. It looks as if the United States will have to police the whole coun' try and bring it to some sort of ac countability. Dial was an inexcus able despot; bis administration for twenty-five years was corrupt beyond belief. Matters Bre hardly better now, but something will have to be done. Such anarchy must be stopped. f . . THE DROWSY MAN'S ALIBI. The minister of the First Congre gational church at Evanston, 111., has been sorely troubled because during his preaching many of his parishion ers dropped soundly asleep. The good man was not sure but that the dryness of his sermons was responsible for the universal drowsi ness of his flock. He changed his method of delivery. He changed his subjects, not sticking to the strict orthodoxy of the Bible, but never theless, after preaching for months to nodding heads and a chorus of snores, he confessed failure and sought the counsel of an art instruct or. Like all things modern, it seems there is a scientific reason for sleep during a lengthy sermon, and the art instructor says it is due to the Inharmony of the decorations. Dra matically she asks: "How can a person listen to an ad dress when the decorations of the church are inharmonious? When the curtains are pink, the cushions red and the decorations are yellow ana blue, the emotions of the audi ence are7 affected and they become drowsy. What is heeded is a system of colors that will not have a de pressing effect." There is the aliol for all good peo ple Hereafter when awakened by a vigilant usher from "forty winks" enjoyed, as you thought, surrepti tiously, arise boldly and confidently point to the ceiling, saying: "Yon der terrible shade of blue is in hor rible contrast to the fiery red in that southeast- window; this aisle carpet under my feet is not compatible with the woodwork of the pews; further more, your hangings do not jibe with that new creation my wife is wear ing. How, then, young man, do you expect a person of my aesthetic tem perament to resist the depressing ef fect of the awful inharmonious blend you have saddled on your decora tions? How can you expect me to keep awake?" And what' a boon to tne "prosy" preacher! If his congregation nod and sleep during his discourse and the trustees remonstrate with him, he has but to point tp the decora tions and say: " 'Tis the inharmoni ous blending of our decorations and not my sermon that is making this church the abode of Morpheus." Look ye well, churchmen, to your du ties, as no matter how good or elo quent the preacher may be, he can not combat the depressing effect of riotous inharmony in decorations. AN INSIDE STORY. One scheme that England is trying to work on China through the alli ance of the proposed six powers may be knocked out by the action of the Wilson administration in refusing to be a part of the now famous sextet. A little story is back of it. When China was trying to kill the infam ous opium traffic a syndicate of Eng lishmen formed to buy the visible supply of the drug. Under the agi tation the price of the "dope" has gone away down, and the English men .figured that the traffic could not be suppressed. They thought the attempt at reform would fail and that the price of the stuff would again soar, thereby giving them an enormous profit. In fact, their dope investment was no more than a big bet that China could not abolish the opium traffic. And they lost, for China did kill the infamy, much to her credit. Now what do you sup pose England is trying to do? Noth ing less than to make the Chinese government take off the hands of the English syndicate that big stock of opium. And the excuse is that China had no right to interfere with the vested right of English capital. Did you ever hear of such a thing? And one of the objects of this con trol of China bonds is to work in that bill. It was a most righteous act when this administration refused to become a party to the scheme. Forty millions of dollars are in volved. Congress has passed the Webb bill prohibiting the shipment of liquor into dry territory. Its constitution ality will be tried In the supreme court. It may be knocked out, but If It is the people will find some way to meet the evil. If a people do not want liquor under their noses they will find a way to keep it away. President Wilson insists on punct uality, but he muse not fall to rec ognize that a sweet smile from a stenographer is always accepted as sufficient excuse for her coming in at 10 a. m. The flood at Dayton destroyed the only stamped envelope factory in the country, and for some time to come every fellow will have to lick his own stamps. The man who can but doesn't must give way to the man who can't but tries. LEGALIZING TRIAL MARRIAGES. Supreme Justice Cohalan of the New York bench has Just handed down a decision legalizing trial mar riages for young women under the age of IS. His decision is that if the girl has married before she reaches the age of 18 and with the consent of her parents, the law permits her to come into court and obtain an annulment because she is under age. The far-reaching effect of this rul ing may not be felt in other states, but its effect in New York will be to increase the number of marriages which are hastily entered into and which are the cai'te of the terrible ihcrtase in the number of divorces granted. It means the .breaking of one more legal barrier which sepa ratea the sacredm-ss of matrimony and wifehood from the jeopardy of trial marriages. It grants young people such an easy escape that many misguided ones will take ad vantage of its laxity. One cause of the increase in white slavery can be readily traced to the each w'th which the marriage ties are assumed and dropped at will. "The more active and aggressive Interest taken in city affairs, partic ularly regarding the expenditure of the people's money, by individuals and taxpayers, the better for the city, and the more certain is efficient and honest municipal government. Occa sionally criticisms are unwarranted, often they may be based upon misin formation, but far better to have too much of this sort of thing than too little. Indifference and inaction on the part of the electorate are re sponsible for most of the abuses in American city government." Med ford Sun. New the doctors throughout Amer ica concede that the Friedmann serum may be beneficial in treating tuberculosis of joints, bone and skin. They even go farther and admit that his treatments have been beneficial in some cases of pulmonary tubercu losis!. If the people of this country and of the world should be bene fited by Dr. Friedmann's discovery it will not be by the consent of our American physicians, as th'ey did all things possible to condemn the Ger mau scientist and .is discovery with out test. Life What is it? Ah, who knows? Just a visit, I suppose, Joy and sorrow for a day, Then tomorrow we're away. Youth and morning, manhood noon, Age the warning, night comes soon. Shines a star to light us; then 'Tis not far to home again. Consider the cat. Nine times out of ten she can whip anything twice her size. And yet, there is nothing to her except quick thinking, quick action, and almost a maniacal intens ity. A man by the name of Fear was fouud to have four wives and 26 chil dren in Chicago. With Juliet, we would observe, "What's in a name?" All kinds of tastes. Secretary Mc- Adoo's Idea of a rest is to run over to New York and ciodge automobiles for a day. Many people are like eggs too full of themselves to hold anything else. Cit; Elections Show Bull Moose ' Growth. New York City, April 7. The re cent village elections in Ilion and Mohawk, N. Y., furnish occasion for sober reflection by those who like to call themselves "progressives" but still continue to train with one or other of the old Tory organizations. The vote in Ilion was: Democrats 812, progressives 608, republicans 225. Thus the progressives polled 36 per cent of the total vote of the three main parties. In Mohawk the democrats and re publicans combined against the pro gressives. The combination polled 274 votes to 151 for the progressive ticket. Here the progressives polled 35 per cent of the total vote. Ilion and Mohawk are both in the big township of German Flats, which Includes a considerable extent of farming country outside of the vil lages. At the national election in November the vote of German Flats for president was:: Wilson 1,061, Taft 796, Roosevelt 708 the pro gressive vote being something less than 28 per cent. In the spring elec tions the progressives gained 7 per cent and the Tory parties lost. This is just what has happened in almost every test of strength that has oc curred since the November election. Gustavo Eiffel, the French engi neer who built the famous tower in Paris bearing his name, has just been honored by the Smithsonian in stitution, which regents have voted him a Langley medal "for hi3 re search relating to the resistance of the air in connection with aviation." iiiiiiii;;;:i;iiii8i;:;;siiii8iiii;i:a'r- it ft "- I The Home Circle M Thoughts from the Editorial Pen jj j Thoughts from the Editorial Pen Don't be afraid to do your duty because some one ridicules or op poses you. A man who has opinions of his own and the courage to advo cate them will be sure to have oppo sition in this world because he runs contrary to other people's opinions; but just keep right ahead if your cause is right and your conscience clear. Don't bother yourself about what people say; life is too short for that. Some will abuse you through envy, others for the want of princi ple, and some because they honestly differ from you; but if you keep right on openly, manfully and intelli gently and with proper dignity and character, honesty of purpose and self-respect, those who differ from you will respect your opinions. An idle and vacant life, even with all the aid amusement can give, is not calculated to be a happy one; and this simply because Providence has constituted us with a view to ac tivity, as that was to be the means of accommodating the raw materials of the physical world to our needs. Idleness, therefore, injures and dis organizes, while activity alone will preserve health and prolong life. Who are the happy people of this world? Those who have something, and not too much, to do; that some thing being suitable to their tastes. Who are the unhappy ones? Alas! What a large portion of the class Is composed of those who, having all their needs supplied from other sources, do not need to labor. To Edit a Newspaper. Dr. Talmage, one of tne greatest pulpit orators, in one of his sermons on the "Spirit of the Press" said: "To publish a newspaper requires the skill, the precision, the boldness, the vigilance, the strategy of a com mander-in-chief. To edit a newspa per requires that one be a statesman, an essayist, a geographer, a statis tician and, in acquisition, encyclope diac. To man, to govern, to propel a newspaper until it shall be a fixed institution, a national fact, demands more qualities than any other busi ness on earth. If you feel like start ing a newspaper, secular or religious, understand that you are being threat ened with softening of the brain or lunacy, and throwing your pocket book into your wife's lap start for some lunatic asylum before you do something desperate. "First of all, newspapers make knowledge democratic and for the multitude. The public library is a haymow so high up that few can reach it, while the newspaper throws down the forage to our feet. Pub lic libraries are the reservoirs where the great floods are stored high up and away off. The newspaper is the tunnel that brings them down to the pitchers of all the people. The chief use of great libraries is to make newspapers out of. Great libraries make a few men and women very wise. Newspapers bring whole na tions into the sunlight. "You cannot find ten literary men in Christendom with strong minds and great hearts but are or have been somehow connected with the newspaper printing press. While the book will always have its place, the newspaper is more potent. Because the latter is multitudinous do not conclude it is necessarily superficial. If a man should from childhood to old age see only the Bible, Webster's Dictionary and his newspaper, he could be prepared for all the duties of this life and all the happiness of the next. "There is not a single doctrine of theology but has been discussed in the last ten years by the secular newspapers of the country. They gather up all the news of all the earth bearing on religious subjects and then they scatter the news abroad again. The Christian news paper will be the right wing of the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of the Christianized printing press will be the front wheel of the Lord's chariot." The Fireplace. Notwithstanding all the modern inventions for heating, I tell you there is nothing so full of geniality and sociability as the old-fashioned country fireplace. The neighbors were to come in for a winter evening of sociability. In the middle of the afternoon, in the best room in the house, some one brought In a great black log with great strains and put it down on the back of the hearth. Then the lighter wood was put on armful after armful. Then a shovel of coals was taken from another room and put under the dry pile, and the kindling began, and the crack ling, and it rose until it became a roaring flame which filled all the room with geniality and was reflect ed from the family pictures on the 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. ONE DOLLAR if you can't spare more opens an account at this bunk. The most successful men in town have money on deposit here 11 why not you? Granite City Savings BanR ASHLAND, ORE. hi wall. Then the neighbors came in two by two. They sat down, their faces to the fire, which ever and anon was stirred with tongs and re adjusted on the andirons, and there were such times of rustic repartee and story telling and mirth as the black stove and blind register never dreamed of, meanwhile the table was being spread, and so fair was the cloth and so clean was the cutlery they glisten and glisten in our mind today. And then the best luxury of orchards, and farm yard was roasted and prepared for the table to meet the appetites sharpened by the cold ride.' We heartily wish for a return of the old fireplace. Our readers, whose locks have whitened by the frosts of many winters, know that this pen picture of the fireplace is true to life. Bryan Frames Anti-Alien Note. Washington, April 7. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan stated Saturday evening to the California congressional delegation that' he would send Governor Johnson a note pertaining to anti-Japanese legisla tion. He is now framing the text of his note. It Is not known whether the note will give the state department's ob jections or whether it merely trans mits Japan's protest against the en actment of anti-alien legislation. Judging, however, from Bryan's talks with the California delegation, it' is believed he is personally against anti-alien legislation, as some one has given Bryan the argu ment that legislation should be stopped as it is an injury to the 1915 exposition. California's congressional delega tion will probably visit Bryan this afternoon to defend the proposed alien land law. All the members of the delegation are agreed that such legislation should be passed, regardless of Ja pan's objections. The weight of personal baggage allowed free of charge on English railways for each ordinary first-class passenger is 150 pounds, and for each ordinary third-class passenger, 100 pounds. Owt Special Off e? La Follette's Weekly Is the one paper dhat can be unbiased news of current political movements. 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A report that Luise Manuel Rojas, vice-president of the Mexican house of depu ties, had filed with the state depart ment charges that United States Ambassador Wilson is responsible morally for the death of former Pres ident Madero and Vice-President Su arez of Mexico, is admitted by Secre tary of State Bryan. It is hinted that opinion in Mexipo favoring the removal of Wilson is crystallzing rap idly. New York, April 7. "I will be frank with you, Mrs. Madero. Your husband's downfall was due to the fact that he never consulted with me." This was the statement made to Mrs. Francisco I. Madero by United States Ambassador H. L. Wilson, fol lowing the assassination of her hus band, the former president of Mex ico, according to a New York news paper today. The paper further declares that a telegram from Madero's mother im ploring President Taft to intercede for his life, and a letter from Mrs. Francisco I. Madero asking Taft of the fate of the telegram, were both suppressed, presumably through the activity of Ambassador Wilson." Inheritance Tax Bill Would Clip For tunes. Washington, Ap-il 8. An inherit ance tax that would run as high as 50 per cent on fortunes of $15,000, 000 was a proposed bill introduced in the senate today by Jones of Washington. The tax proposed ranges from 1 per cent on an inherit ance of less than $50,000 to 5 per cent on a quarter of a million, 15 per cent on three-quarters of a mil lion to one million and a half, and proportionately until 50 per cent on the sums above fifteen millions is reached. Chemotherapy is the name given a new medical science which alms to prevent recurrent diseases by using coal tar products that combine a maximum of destructive power over internal parasites with a minimum of poisonous action on the tissues. depended upon to prlne absolutely i