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ASHLAJfD TIDINGS
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LICENSED NEWSPAPER MEN.
Some of the people who are worry
ing about the drubbing the little
brown men are going to give Uncle
Sam might feel different would they
make a study of the hard times now
prevailing in Japan.
After the war with Russia the
conse- Japanese government set out to cre-
pretty ate economic Independence, partly
much his own way; of, course, the through a protective tariff and ship
easiest way. He became not exactly subsidies, but more particularly by
a fallen boy, as we use the adjective direct government aid to manufaa
upon a girl, but a boy with his bet- turing. Companies with capital ag
ter nature curdled a lad inclined to gregating hundreds of millions guar
be blase cynical anteed the interest payment on many
An incident revealed to father the of these.
lad's drift and dad forthwith sat up, For the time being this created a
realized he'd been neglectful; that the fictitious appearance' of prosperity.
The American Magazine has an
appealing article entitled "What My
Boy Knows" the confession of a
father.
Father was a city man, respecta
ble, well meaning, comfortably fixed
but busy; and mother was pious, gen
erous, over-indulgent. .The
auence was that son went
I Odds & Endsl I
X Picked Up by the Reporter.
tlHItH HHHM 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
fault was as much his as the boy's,
and took steps to reclaim the young
ster before the damage had become
irreparable.
We don't recommend or quite ap
preciate this father's remedy. He
held the city in part responsible; ar-
Within the past year, however, it is
seen that a nation, like an individual,
can't lift itself by its own-boosstraps,
The growth of manufacturing towns
had led to the depletion of the agri
cultural districts. There are great
sections where there are abandoned
gued that it puts too many pitfalls in farms like those on the wornout hills
the way of its boys; that its artifi- of New England. The result has
cialities, its commercialized strivings been a distressing advance in the cost
for forced pleasures, its stress and its of rice, and half rations among the
froth were more than a normal lad poor.
could withstand. Therefore, he The condition of the Japanese
nacked the family into a train and farmer has become pathetic. In bad
migrated to the country. Back to years his rice field brings hin in $24
the farm. per acre, which it cost $36 . to pro
Country life of the right kind is duce. Even in exceptionally good
fine. But how about fathers who years he does not clear more than
A bill requiring newspaper men to
pass an editorial examination board
before they can be allowed to prac
tice their profession is being pushed
bv Lieutenant Governor O'Hara of
Illinois. The alleged purpose is to
protect the reputable men in the business.
Newspaper men would welcome
anything that elevated the dignity of
newspaperdom. But an examination
system seems practically impossible.
First, the politicians would try to
control such an examining board.
They would want "journalists" who
would be "good" and "stand without
hitching." Men who had ideas of
their own on politics might find it
hard to pass the tests.
Assuming that such a board was
kept out of politics and placed in the
hands of really capable newspaper
men, one difficulty would be with a
class of people who devote only part
of their time to newspaper work.
Take our old friends in the rusty
black bombazine gown, who with in
finite toil over the sitting room lamp
sends in her weekly grist of items
from North Jay. She gives satisfac
tion to a host of boys who have
moved away from the old hearth
stones. Must the dear old lady pass
a four years' apprentice before she
can write "items" for the paper, or
be subject to a fine of $20 to $100
or imprisonment?
A man who has the newspaper
sense can do better work in a fort
night than the other kind in years.
No apprenticeship or examination
board can alter this fact.
Probably there are only two ways
to "elevate" the newspaper profes
sion. The first Is to persuade the
public to stop buying yellow and fak- j
ing newspapers. The second is to
persuade editors and publishers that
they hurt their business when they
are careless In the selection of re
porters. The public Judges the char
acter of the newspaper by the ap
pearance, the good judgment, the ac
curacy, and the manners of the re
porters whom it meets. Reporting
Is dignified, honorable work, but the
.curbstone Hessians that some of the
big city papers send around the coun
try discredit the whole business.
can't seize their tempted sons and
run away from the naughty town?
For one who can flee a thousand
must stay. What about the millions
of anchored sires?
You can do this with your boy in
the city:
You can play ball with him; you
can take walks with him; you can
enter as a chum into the intimacies
of his boyish life be a good fellow,
in short. , ,
You can set him an example of
clean living. . , , '
You can take enough time from
dollar-chasing to introduce him to
g od books, to plays that don't fill
him with vicious suggestion, to the
continually enriching better aspects
of the modern city.
You don't have to lecture or scold
or mollycoddle him to make a man of
him. In fact, that's a way to lose
him.
Just be a big brother to him.
Make it part of your job to father
him, instead of letting him run wild.
In this child of your loins you can
renew and relieve your own boyhood,
and lead him along the better way.
A lad thus sired will be a pretty
safe risk In either, city or country.
$1.50 per acre. Eighty-five per cent
of the farms are mortgaged.
The income of the Japanese people
averages about $2? per capita,
Their taxes take $4.40 out of this
$23. They are not in very good
shape to invest in the costly play
things of war! It will take the Japs
a generation to carry off the burdens
of the Russian war and to adjust
themselves to the costly scale of liV'
ing of modern civilization.
Von Moltke once , said, that he
knew 1,000 ways to get a German
army into England, but not one to
get it out. How much more true
this would be in case of a Japanese
attack on this country.
There will he a continued unrest
among the college undergraduates
until proficiency at baseball is given
the credit marks it should have on
the examination papers.
If
The Grants Pass Masons who visit
ed Ashland Friday afternoon were
strong in their commendation of the
beauty of this city and expressed
their appreciation of the ride around
the city given them by local auto-mobilists.
It is just as useless to try and fix
up a dirt street orice a year and ex
pect it to keep in good shape as to
try and clean out a garden in the
spring and expect it to keep clean all 1
summer. Eternal vigilance Is the
price of good roads.
The board of directors of a school
district in Douglas county ordered
warrants for school money drawn di
rectly . to the pupils. A tax-payer
complained to the attorney general,
who ruled that it was illegal. The
board were held to violate their oath
of office in so doing.
The action dt the California legis
lature in appropriating money to pay
salaries to convicts in the peniten
tiary is arousing the wrath of a great
many of the inhabitants of that state
who are so unfortunate as to be out
side the pen and not have both jobs
and wages guaranteed by the state.
THE PORTLAND HOTEL
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The most central location in the city, and nearest to
the leading theaters and retail shops. You are assured
of a most cordial welcome here. Every. convenience is
provided for our gueBts. ,
The Grill and Dining Room are famed for their excel
lence and for prompt, courteous service. Motors meet
all incoming trains. Rates are moderate; European
plan, $1.50 per day upward.
G. J. Kaufman, Manager
others praised without resenting it,
how much better we would all be.
The automobilists of Ashland are
complaining of the number of pieces
of boards containing nails which are
to be found on the streets of the city
menacing tires and horses' feet. It
has been suggested that a thorough
use of the street sweeper on the
paved streets would obviate the
trouble.
The city dads and Street Commis
sioner Fraley are doing excellent
work in the way . of grading the
streets this spring. One thing which
appears to have been neglected in
the past has been the keeping the
dirt streets in repair. A stitch in
time saves nine, even more surely in
street work than in other lines.
Oftentimes a newspaper Is criti
cised for having said something good
of some man which displeased some
one else. The writer's old boss used
to say: "If a man kicks on some
thing discreditable you have said
about him or his friends give him a
respectful hearing, and if there has
been a wrong done, right it. But if
a man kicks because you have said
something good about someone else,
tell him to go straight up or down.
He is too jealous and small to de
serve notice."
The diplomats at Washington may
not like the Bryan grape-juice din
ners, but perhaps their wives will be
pleased to have them come home at
more reasonable hours.
OLD LOCATION VS. ENTERPRISE.
CONTROLLING RIVERS.
In the days before 'modern adver
tising, business success was the work
of a lifetime. A merchant had to
squat in his location, and fQXyears
he never got any trade but the drift
ers. Staid and conservative people
traded where they used to trade. It
never occurred to them that anyone
else could have anything worth at
tention. Today the currents of business can
be easily diverted. In any live town
there are new men who have ac
quired a handsome good will by a
year's intelligent and persistent advertising.
The public does not ask today,
"What kind of goods did your father
sell?" or "What kind of goods did
you sell ten years ago?" It asks,
"What kind of goods are you selling
today?" It appreciates the great
value of an old location and an hon
orable record, But these factors do
not count unless they are united with
wide-awake enterprise. And no man
gives any evidence that he has en-
At last accounts the wlr&ws of
The Hague peace palace were all
boarded up, but the caretaker goes
In once a year to see that no one
steals the furniture. .
One has the feeling that the new
English ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring
Rice, rather enjoys writing a good
fat name, and wouldn't object to
autograph albums.
The only trouble with those Futur
1st painters is that you can't always
tell their pictures from the board on
which they mix their paints.
Wanted, foot stoves and hot bricks
for Wall street's cold feet!
A New Hybrid in the Bird World,
In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside the editor of that publica
tion reports, the case of the recent
crossing of a guinea fowl and an
ordinary chicken. The editor owns
the trio Papa Leghorn, Mamma
Pearl Gunea and Offspring What-is-
It. In regard to the hybrid the ed
itor says In part:
"We are going to keep this happy
The city officials have been doing
good work on the dirt streets this
spring in the way of grading. Wimer
street is a fine example of the work.
This should be followed up by a con
sistent use of the plit-log"or wing
drag as. it is called. If this were
done whenever needed throughout
the fall and winter it would save
much money.
Quite a bunch of Hawkeyes were
in evidence at the Masonic gathering
Friday evening. There were ten or
more former residents of Iowa in at
tendance. It is remarkable, in a
gathering of that kind, or in travel
ing, how many people one meets
whom they have known elsewhere,
or who know frfends of theirs. This
United States is not a very big place,
after all, and you never know when
you are going to meet someone you
have known heretofore, perhaps
thousands of miles away.
We are all too prone to try to
climb up-liy pulling someone else
down. We are too apt to feel that a
good word for some other man is a
slap at us. In how many such cases
It is a question of "a guilty conscience
needs no accuser," must be left to
the individual consciousness. If we
could all bring ourselves to hear
There are two views of everything
Many people believe the future of the
country is dependent upon legisla
tion. Jim Hill, of railroad fame,
says that if congress would adjourn
for ten years the country would pros
per as never before. The old school
doctors say that unless they are en
trusted with the management of the
sanitation of the country we will all
seek premature graves. The homeo
pathists, the osteopaths, the chiro
practics and the Christian Scientists
believe that freedom to choose me
dicinal and sanitary methods is guar
anteed by the constitution and a part
of the inalienable right of "life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness."
A Nut for Ashland High School Base
ball Admirers to Crack.
(By Henry G. Gilmore.)
Last year our high school baseball
players very gracefully but none tho
less energetically carried, everything
before them in the Rogue River Val
ley and the coasts thereof, in the
high school contests, and present ap
pearances would indicate a similar
triumph for the season of 1913.
If it be true as the Duke of Wel
lington declared it to be that the
real battle of Waterloo was fought
on the cricket grounds of England,
what cannot be deduced, as a nation
al asset, in the development and effi
ciency of brain and brawn as regis
tered on and around the thousand
and one diamonds to be found in tho
country from Dan (Boston) evea
unto Beersheba (our athletically live
ly Ashland of Roguish proclivities)?
While our Goliaths are battling for
fame and glory here and there, along
the line of the Southern Pacific rail
road, why can't our stay-at-homes, la
the persons of prospective graduates
of both persuasions of the Ashland
high school, unravel the mysterious
entanglements bound up in the fol
lowing baseball situation? It will be
found a refreshing exercise for all
who desire to do a little sound think
ing on' their own account.' This is
the nut that invites the cracking:'
"If Jack Brown of Medford and Bill
Smith of Ashland face each other
112 times and Bill Smith pitches 4 1C
balls out of which there are 86
strikes and 77 fouls and 97 passes,
and the number of passes is one
third of the hits, how many hits did
Jack Brown lam out?"
Teacher Hands up, plplls of the
Ashland high school. But please re
frain from answering all at once!
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family together, and see if we can
terprise. enough to protect his cus- carry the experlment further. The
tomers' interest, unless he keeps the voluntary matinir of these birds un-
JOT MAKESHR
ry"OLD THINGS HEW HyUJ
It is easy enough to talk about
controlling the great rivers of this
country. In times of flood it seems
as if something might be done to
avert a recurrence. No doubt a sys
tematic effort will soon be made to
fence in the Mississippi, but that wll
be a Job for the lrrepressable Yan
kee. The Panama canal was a pud-
din beside taming the Father of Wa
ters. When that old river goes on a
rampage it spills 2,300,000 gallons
of water per second. Do you under
etand what that means? It Is twelve
times stronger than Niagara. It
would cover a section of land a foot
deep in twelve seconds. Some water!
It would cover the state of Massachu
setts a foot deep In 26 hours. Well
to control such a volume will keep
the engineers guessing for a time
but we are not here to say that they
cannot. We live In the'twentleth
century, and It Is not stylish to say
anything cannot be accomplished.
Besides, it is not good sense to say
such a thing, In the light of what
we have already witnessed in inven
tion and Improvement. They may
beat the Mississippi to it, yet. Hope
so.
public constantly informed of what
he is doing.
TREAT ALL ALIKE.
We trust the Associated Press dis
patches from Washington do Presi
dent Wilson an injustice by the state
ment that he has intimated he is
willing to sign the sundry civil bill
carrying a clause for $300,000 for
the enforcement of the Sherman
law and providing it shall not be
used against the farmers' co-operative
organizations or labor unions.
der ordinary farm conditions is very
remarkable. We rather expect to
hatch more hybrids this summer, but
the really interesting phase of the
affair will come when the test of the
offspring-as to fertility is made. We
cannot say as yet whether it is a
male or a female, but we rather In
cline to the belief that It is a hen.
It slightly resembles a female hen-
hawk. Its voice Is about midway be
tween the characteristic notes made
by a hen and a gunlea fowl and its
manner and style of carriage are
sufficiently in contrast to the corre
sponding qualities of Papa Brown
We believe this country has reached
the point where the enforcement of I Leghorn to be considered feminine.
law ought to fall on all alike. It is "If so, will it lay? If it lays, will
the rankest sort of cowardice to pro- It follow the law of fecundity of
The United States imported
000,000 pounds and exported
000,000 of tinplate in 1911.
95,-
70,
vide for the enforcement of the Sher
man law and then specify that cer
tain classes are not to be prosecuted.
We cannot understand how any mem
ber of congress should vote for such
which Dr. Raymond Pearl tells us,
and lay according to the rule pre
vailing In its father's family, or will
it confine itself to 50 or 60 eggs a
summer, as does its mother's people?
a bill. We certainly do, not believe Will Its eggs be fertile, or will they
that any member of congress who refuse to hatch as do those of most
does vote for such a bill with his
eyes open Is worthy of the support
of his homefolks. We believe thor
oughly in farmers' co-operative or
ganization and just as thoroughly in
organized labor, but if either of
these institutions are in violation of
the anti-trust law they ought to be
prosecuted or the law repealed.
hybrids? The Indian jungle fowl is
a much closer relative to the com
mon chicken than is the guinea, and
readily crosses with the domestic
fowl, but the hybrids are usually in
fertile,, like the mule."
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