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ASHLAND TIDINGS
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.Ashland, Ore., Monthly, May 3, 1913
FRENZIED FOOLISHNESS.
"Two souls with but one single
thought, two hearts that beat as
one,"
Is very pretty sentiment, although
quite overdone.
B. Bryan and C. Clark have signed a
protocol of peace,
-Help! Murder! Fire!" and
"Zounds, sadzooks!" and like
wisely "Police!"
They've signed a "love pact" 'twixt
themselves that naught but
death can part.
And their past differences, now,
leave nothing but their smart;
At least, so one would judge who
read3 the public prints,
But, privately, "between us girls,"
by way of helpful hints,
Their two souls have one single
thought, and both their hearts
are bent
On burying the hatchet, but with
murderous intent.
"I hope he chokes," thought Speaker
Clark, as Bryan shook his fin;
"I wonder where 'twill hurt him
most to sink my dagger in?"
Bryan murmured, as he bid the
Speaker to the feast,
A-glaring all the time at Champ just
like an untamed beast,
"I'll ne'er forget the wrong you did
to me at Baltimore,
Although from this time on, dear
Bill, you only I'll adore."
But Beauchamp had his fingers
crossed when at Bill he did
swing;
He had his stinger out a mile and
stung Bill one good sting.
But now that Bill's a diplomat and
has to lie a heap.
He never batted one eyelash or gave
one single pee'p,
Although he was just hopping mad
and filled with fight and bile,
Bill Bryan grasped the Speaker's
hand and beamed a welcome
smile.
I did not mean one thing I said
about you, Champ, old top."
He placed the accent on the "mean"
and then he had to stop
To get his breaih and dodge a blow
that Champ aimed at his Jaw
The only thing that stopped the row
was their respect for law.
And so they kissed and made it up,
did Bryan and Champ Clark;
They've laid aside their bowie knives,
like Bourne and Selling have,
And all their idle moment i now are
spent in spreading salve.
The world Is surely growing better,
such sights are good to see;
I think I'll urge a protocol 'tween
old George Put and me.
SLOW MIRDER BY DRUGS.
Among the poor in the crowded
eiMes, where the stress of life is
cruel, the sale of "dope" is not only
large, but' ominously increasing.
There are no exact figures. The
Business has not been regulated
enough to produce figures. But in
every group of the down-and-outers,
of the pathetic driftwood cast up on
the tide-washed short of life, you
can see pitiful examples of the
wreckage caused by opium and co
caine. Because you yourself have been
strong enough, or happy enough, not
to be tempted to buy deceptive
pleasure at the expense of health and
hope, don't be harsh in judging these
poor wrecks, whose rebound from
mi aery has led to ruin.
They have fallen victims to tempt
ations which you may have done very
little to remove. Unless you have
done your best to help them in their
weakness and to check the greed
-which lores them on, it isn't in your
right to hurl reproaches.
Get busy and help find out what
yonr state laws are on the subject,
and if they aren't strong enough, or
If the dopers are dodging its en
forcement, do something.
One plan proposed to check the
dishonest sale of habit-forming drugs
is to require all dealers in them to
take out internal revenue licenses.
That would enable any state to
learn who the dealers are and to
adopt further regulation if it is so
wished.
NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN.
Couldn't we all get something
from the example of Rev. David J.
Higgins, the Methodist minister, who,
at the age of 9 J years, has just en
tered a Minnesota college?
No doubt in this good, old domi
nie'? case the motive which sent him
to school wasn't quite the same as
that which chiefly prompts younger
folks. He doesn't pursue knowledge
for payroll reasons. His days of
money worry are over. He is going
to college wholly as one who wants
6tudy for study's sake.
Most of us are differently situated.
We have to plan to buy our school
ing so as to get the best economic
return. The dollar spent must bring
at least a dollar back; if more, all
the better.
But there is many a good chap work
ing in mills or on farms who could,
in later life, find and profitably use
the means to do a little more school
ing if he weren't possessed of the
notion that he's too old; if he were
n't secretly (afraid that somebody
would make fun of so mature a
schoolboy as he.
Nonsense! One is never too old
to learn. The mistake we all make
is in not insisting upon learning
more than we do; in not, for in
stance, using more fully than we do
a machinery right at hand.
In most places the public school
plants aren't worked half enough.
At night they're idle. Also Satur
days. Likewise Sundays. If we
wanted to have schooling for the
older folk we could easily do it with
out stinting the youngsters.
Many places are doing it. At last
report, abont 300. We don't mean
places with just the common run of
night schools, but with varied pro
grams for men and women; regular
social centers.
That's a kind of schooling that
growriups can go to without feeling
the least bit schoolboyish. It's a
kind that can be made fully as enter
taining as instructive. More even
than that it nurtures a feeling of
democracy, of brotherhood, of hu
man interest, that's hard to find any
where else, because elsewhere grown
folks run pretty much to cliques;
whereas in a social center, as in the
common school, those who go are all
on one level.
Not every adult would care, with
Parson Higgins, to go to college if he
had the means and the time or, in
deed, the preparation. But it would
be fine if all who really want to
keep on learning would, each in his
neighborhood, make the move to do
so In something of the spirit of our
Minnesota brother.
THE MAIDEN TRIBUTE TO MOD
ERN CARELESSNESS.
On a recent Saturday night, as the
parade went up and down a busy
street of a certain city, count was
kept of 100 young girls hovering
around that fascinating and also that
dangerous age, "sweet sixteen."
How many of them, do you sup
pose, had their cheeks bedaubed with
paint or powder? How many seemed
on the way to trouble?
Exactly forty-two!
Nor were they, so far as casual
scrutiny could determine, the kind,
the pathetic, pitiable kind, known as
"painted ladies."
They seemed to be good girls,
most likely from clean homes; at
least not from homes where vice is
cherished. At worst they were only
fluttery, foolish, frivolous girls;
moths attracted by the glare of the
white lights. But
Weren't they taking long chances?
And weren't their parents? For
that matter, wasn't society, which,
knowing the natural craving of the
young for fellowship, for recreation,
nevertheless left to chance whether
these and similar gay promenaders
should find wholesome amusement
or be enticed Into mischief?
You didn't have to travel far up
or down that busy bireet to find
plenty of places into which you
wouldn't want to have a daughter of
yours inveigled.
Vulgar picture shows, dance halls
run for profit, and "ladies' en
trances" abounded. And guardian
angels, if equally numerous, certain
ly weren't visible. Yet the town
isn't a bad town. It's just typical.
You could see the same conditions
In almost any city between the
oceans.
These poor, little seekers after
companionship and mild, flirtatious
excitement, their brains no doubt
muddled by "romance" and melo
drama, had bedizened themselves
with the artifice of cosmetics to at
tract notice and perhaps lure the
fancy of a hoped-for prince charm
ing. What were their mothers thinking
about?
What are we all thinking about,
that we calmly allow such a hazard
of needless sacrifice? What are we
doing to provide places in which
girls like these may commingle with
other young folks and have a good
time safely?
HARD TIMES.
There are hard times and hard
tmAa TKaka oka -htnl.
hard because of crop failure, de
structive flood or devastating storms.
Hard times of this description' are
usually local or are confined to com
paratively small areas. Another and
more common sort of hard times is
an era of business depression. This
is largely, if not in the start, entire
ly psychological. It is often the re
action from a state of unhealthy
speculative activity. Legitimate bus
iness activity cannot be unhealthy.
It is only when the greed for sudden
and easily earned or unearned wealth
seizes upon a community or a coun
try that the activity becomes un
healthy. It then becomes a fever
which pervades every part of the so
cial fabric. The business man gets
dissatisfied with the results of legiti
mate growth and plunges into specu
lation. The manufacturer is not sat
isfied with his usual profits and
boosts the prices of his products.
The laboring man becomes dissatis
fied and envious and strikes and agi
tations ensue. The entire body poli
tic becomes wrought up way above
concert pitch. Everybody is out
painting the town red.
But oh, the next day! "It is no
time for mirth and laughter, the cold
gray dawn of the morning after."
The business man who speculated
finds bis products unsold on his
hands or his operatives striking and
perhaps rioting and destroying his
property. The laboring man wakes
up from his dream of making him
self the equal of the millionaire in
property as well as in opportunity
and finds himself in the bread line
and no job in sight.
It Is then that there is need of a
clear head and a courageous heart
to bring things back into their nor
mal relations with each other.
Hard times wiii come just as long
as men permit themselves to so far
surrender to the desire for gain as
to permit it to cloud their better
judgment and to lead them into un
wise and unsafe , speculation. The
reaction is sure to come, So Bure
as the pendulum swings to one ex
treme it will swing back to the oth
er. The only preventive of hard
times is to curb speculation before it
reaches that stage which compels
dangerous reaction.
When hard times are upon us,
however, the impulse is to go as far
in the other direction as we went to
ward speculation. Then a clear head
Is required to separte the true values
from the fictitious; to tell what to
buy and then to have the calm confi
dence In the return of reason to the
people which permits one to go for
ward in the face of apparently ad
verse conditions.
The foundations of many large
fortunes have been laid in hard
times. Men with sufficient foresight
and courage have tackled problems
and investments which seemed hope
less and foolish and ridden Into suc
cess on the crest of the wave of re
turning confidence.
A man whom the writer knew
when a boy, and who had arisen
from being a stage driver to possess
ing about half a million in a coun
try town in the then west, told him
once that he had made most of his
money by buying when everyone else
wanted to sell and selling when
everyone else wanted to buy. In
other words, he took advantage of
the proneness of others to go in
droves in the matter of investment,
both in real and personal property.
The man who has a clear head, a
firm confidence, based on knowledge,
in the commodity he intends invest
ing in, and a reasonable amount of
capital can often make more money
by buying In hard times than In any
other way.
Selling Butter by Parcels PoRt.
A New York state woman contrib
utes the following to the current is
sue of Farm and Fireside:
"My friends in New Jersey, 20
miles from New York city, were pay
ing 42 cents per pound for ordinary
grade butter. I sent four pounds of
butter from my postoffice (Clark-
son, Monroe county, New York) on
Tuesday afternoon and It reached
my friends early Thursday morning.
My grocer pays me 28 cents a
pound. I charged them 32 cents,
and they paid the parcel nostaee.
which was 27 cents.
"I packed the butter in a new five
cent light-weight bread tin lined
throughout with oiled paper. We
both call it a good bargain. I make
cents a pound on my butter, and
they get better butter for 39 cents a
pound."
The copper production of the
Ashlo mines, Japan, in 1912. was
about 20,000 tons. A large increase
in production is expected from these
mines in 1913.
A process for coloring light-hued
pineapples by injecting cane sugar
syrup into them has been patented
by a Honolulu man.
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"I am fully convinced that you'
have not the criminal instinct that
the desire for pecuniary gain was ;
back of your downfall." These were '
the words used by a California judge :
in sentencing a defaulting banker. !
Is not the "desire for pecuniary
gain" at the expense of others a'
criminal instinct as much as any!
other form? It is the mainspring of
nearly every impulse to robbery, bur
glary, gambling, white slavery, and !
even of many murders. The desire
for pecuniary gain is laudable if
properly directed, but too often it is
the mainspring of crime and has
caused more crime than all other
things.
Chief Slover of Portland will en
list a body of boy police to assist in
controlling the juvenile situation in
that city. The writer has seen the
scheme tried on Hallowe'en In the
middle west and with excellent re
sults. Few boys will play false if
trusted with authority.
Some time ago the council consid
ered the matter of the disgraceful
condition of the old brick building
at the corner of Fourth an A streets,
but refrained from action when in
formed that the owner wa expected
from Roseburg about the first of
April to make repairs. H9 has not
appeared yet, and as every tourist
who gets off the train Bees the wreck
it would seem good policy to insist
that at least it be put in good condi
tion outwardly.
The Tidings reporter was shown a
remarkably interesting picture, or
rather several remarkably interesting
pictures, at the home of Uev. B. C.
Tabor at 459 Morton street. They
were nothing less than reflections of
the landscape; in the plate glass doors
of the cottage. The double reflec
tion, the doors being at right angles
to one another on the porch, gave a
clearness of detail and a vividness of
color which made the pictures works
of art. Mr. Tabor delights to show
these pictures to anyone who cares
to see them. They are at their best
in bright weather.
A thorough examination of the city
a few days ago found many less
houses vacant than a few months
ago. This is especially true of the
better -class of houses, there being
some shacks vacant which a self-respecting
dog would not occupy if he
could crawl under a sidewalk to
sleep. There is not, with the excep
tion of one or two bungalows which
are held for sale and not for rent,
and a couple of others which the
owners will occupy in the near fu
ture, a single house of the bungalow
style in the city unoccupied.
The Eugene Guard in sneaking of
a recently established "baby garden"
where children can be cared for dur
ing the absence of the parents, says:
"Father at his club, mother at her
club, and now babies will have their
club. What will become of the
home?" It will be as is now often
said to be the case, "a good place to
stay away from."
"Printer reports , $40,000 saving"
is the heading in a Sacramento pa
per. It took the writer's breath
away till he saw that it was a public
official's report. How any private
printer could save $40,000 was a
mystery.
The recall of Police Judge Weller
of San Francisco for leniency in a
white slaver case has proved again
that women are a power for right
when they have the ballot.
For months the Pacific coast press
has been flooded with charges that
the California penitentiary was a dis
grace and that convicts were being
abused. An investigation by the leg
islature shows the reports to have
been unfounded. When will people
learn that nearly all criminals will
lie, especially for revenge or in hope
of benefit?
An example of like attacks on pub
lic officials appears in a communi
cation in Tuesday's Portland Even
ing Telegram. It starts in "Last
week, I am told, this occurred in our
city." The article is signed "One
Who Knows." If he wa3 told, did
he "know" of the truth? A reporter
who takes that ground will find him
self mistaken a majority of times.
Not that his informers deliberately
misstate, but they are prejudiced or
are themselves misinformed.
Several real estate deals in the
past two weeks, have been knocked
in the head by parties who have gone
to prospective purchasers and told
them they were being cheated. These
Parents,
No matter what heirtage you leave, your cliild will home day
be dependent on SELF.
If left with a fortune already earned, the habits formed in
early years will determine how wisely that fortune will be spent
or used.
The best object lesson your child can have in the care of
money and Its earning power Is a savings account at this bank.
A dollar will start it. We pay four per cent interest on sav
ings. m
Granite City
ASHLAND,
people doubtless believe they are do
ing right, but is it doing as they
would be done by? They would not
want someone else, to interfere in
their business.
With the actual commencement of
work upon the Keen creek irrigation
project, which is promised for early
in June, there ought to be a decided
Improvement in business conditions
li. the upper part of the Rogue River
Valley. That the water will more
than pay for itself upon the land is
the opinion of everyone who has
lived in an irrigated country, and
they are the ones who ought to
know.
The knockers in Ashland remind
one of the story of the frog3' legs.
A man came to a dealer and atked if
he would buy frogs' Jegs. "Yes, how
many can you furnish?" was the an
swer. "About a million," was the
repuly. A week later the hunter re
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turned with a dozen frogs' legs.
When asked why he had not more
he replpied, "I thought by the nolso
they made that there were millions
of them." Tha's the way with the"
knockers. They make too much
noise in proportion to their number.
Ruminations.
Lots of people are hunting for
trouble for others.
A promise is like wine, it improve
by being kept.
There are songs without words,
but never quarrels without words.
The man who goes all the gaits
will become unhinged after a time.
Job may have been pestered with
boils, but never with bills.
The ill wind that blows nobody
good must be the breath of scandaL
It is well to bridle the tongue
when traveling in double harness.
There is more credit in working,
for one dollar than in dreaming of a
million.
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