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ASHLAXD TIDINGS' Thursday, May 22, lOlS. fAGE TWO Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, Editor and Owner B. V. Talcott, ... City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear 2.00 Elx 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, Postoftice as second-class mall mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, May 22, '13 TO SUBSCRIBERS. The first of June is near at hand, the date set for checking off all de linquent subscribers. On running through our list we find a number of subscribers who are delinquent. We do not want them to miss an Issue of the paper, and we hope that all subscribers will respond to the no tices now being sent out. Please pay this month and do not miss an issue. EVERY MAN HIS OWN SCIENCE. COX- The American nation was founded upon religious liberty. Plymouth Rock has been termed the cradle of liberty and the constitution of the United States guarantees the inalien able right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Legally and theoretically this is true, and there is no more legal or physical persecu tion for conscience sake, yet there is far from being perfect liberty of con science granted to all in religious matters. There are few of us who would at first glance admit to himself or her self that he or she is not granting liberty of conscience to every one Yet few of us are broad enough and Christ-like enough to do this. We do not directly attempt to control what a man shall think, but we do attempt to control what he shall do. This Ib . right so far us his freedom of action injures another. But do we not carry Jt farther than this? Are we not apt to discriminate against the man whose conscience leads him to pursue a different course of life from what we do? And is this right? Are we giving a man religious liberty when we refuse to give him our patronage in business or our friendship in life, simply because he sees things either material or spiritual in a different light than we do? We have no more right, morally, to say how a man shall spend his time, so long as he is not harming another, than we have to say how he shall spend his money, providing he is not using that money lor criminal purposes. In too many cases we talfl the view that a man is not doing right, simply because he is not doing what we believe to be right. As some writer has said: -"It is easy to be so sure one is right as to believe one's own will to be the will of God." This Is a fault which is all too com mon, and Is even more common among the highly religious than among the atheistic and profane. From a determination to do the right and a firm belief thai one is in the Tight to the "I am holier than thou" spirit of the Pharisees Is so short a step that many of us take It without realizing it. Is it not too often the case that we object to people's doing things not so much because they are intrin sically wrong as because they dis agree with our preconceived opin ions? Have we, or has anyone a right to criticise anyone else unless he .harms a fellow man? His attitude toward his Maker is a matter of his own, and with all reverence can it not be said that God is able to take care of his own? Is it Incumbent upon any of us to mete out our dis pleasure as punishment to another because of his beliefs or his actions? There are tome things upon which all Christians and practically all non Christians agree, and these are hon esty, kindness and brotherly ldve. If a man has these have we any right to criticise him? Is the church member with an un controllable temper or a disposition 10 mane others uncomfortable, or one whose word is not to be abso lutely depended upon, any better than the man who has not these faults, yet who does not subscribe to any cnurch creed nor manifest his faith in God by his words? God knows, not we. "Let him that is without sin first cast a stone." The treasury officials say a $10 Mil will last ten months, but in summer hotel you are lucky If it lasts ten hours. , SOMEBODY'S BABY. In America today there is a gal lant battle raging. Brave men, with a keen sense of justice and the love of God in their hearts, are striving to uproot evil; forcing the selfish and greedy to adhere to conditions that will help the great mass of working men and women to live in decency. Pity for the girl of the underworld has taken the place of scorn. There is many a generous helping hand ready and willing to place her back where the things that make life worth living may be within her reach. Good men and good women are try ing to place before the working girls of America the hope of a Dome or her own and the respect of her fel lows. All these things are possible, even for the girl who has overstepped the border line of convention. For in all humanity dwelleth God, with His almighty wonders awaiting the touch of the truth-seeking soul and to re veal undreamed-of possibilities. Into thousands of American homes tiny babies are coming every day- Mother kisses the little helpless feet, never knowing into what paths those tiny feet will stray. Far better the sword of Herod would destroy those babies in their innocence than that they should be forced through unjust conditions and unlovely surroundings into lives of vice. Mother, broken by work, nerveless for the want of nourishing food, loses day by day her Interest In life and becomes one of the thousands of neurotic patients who haunt the pub lic hospitals. Baby grows and de velops amid unwholesome surround ings. She goes into the world with the ignorance and credulity of child hood. We know what the world to day holds for those born and bred in such environment. Why not try to do something now for that mother, for that baby? Every woman that walks the street with flaunting plumes, hawking her womanhood, every painted woman of the world, was some mother's baby once. Sometimes some mother held her tight, crying "my baby, my baby." Are these other babies to go the same way, to be forced the same way? Why wait until more mothers' hearts break? Until thousands of other babies have tasted the bitter fruit? Good men and women are trying, all the world over, to insure better conditions for boys and girls. Why not help? Wouldn't that be better than planning new laws to penalize the criminal, new ways to eliminate those who have already fallen? Can't we In our government and in our civic and private life do some thing to help the mother to lead f wholesome life; to help in preserving the fragrance of childhood; to help those children to bloom into clean- bodied, clean-hearted, clean-minded maturity a tlessing to the nation in a generation of worthy fathers7 and mothers of the race to come? MANUFACTURING WAR SCARES, It is being openly charged that the present Japanese war talk is being largely fomented in both countries by the builders of warships and the manufacturers of arms. This is far from impossible. It is no more un reasonable to believe this than to be lieve that Wall street creates panics for its own benefit, and this has been long considered to be a certainty. It is charged also that the Krupps have a subsidized press employed in both France and Germany to foster race hatred so as to compel the purchase of heavy ordnance. If this be not true as to the United States and Japan it is certain that it is aggra vated by those who hope to profit by the scare If not by the actual war including the yellow papers who hope to sell more copies by lurid headlines Sober-minded people will accept the war talk only with a large amount of seasoning. The Sheep. The other day In a Cleveland school this composition was handed in by a little German boy: "The sheeo are weak and foolish animals. They are" very useful. We can use everything on them . except their bleat. The sheep learn their shepherd very easy, but otherwise they are dumb animals. They eat hay, grass and carrot soup. And the captain of the sheep is called Belle buck." Woman's Home Companion There is a law In many states re quiring automobile drivers involved in accidents to report the damage to the authorities. That must be why so many of them speed away in such a hurry after running over people The congressmen have got to the point where they shake their fists In each other's faces, but the reporters for the Congressional Record are too slow to get out a story on It. BEST ASSURANCE OF PEACE. The removal of Dr. Lyman Abbott from the list of vice-presidents of the American Peace Society, as a rebuke for signing an appeal for naval ap propriations, fails in Its intention of advertising the doctor as an enemy peace. To all except persons of the queer turn of mind of those in present control of the society It will emphasize his position as an advo cate of peace a reasonable and sens ible advocate. The principle to which the Ameri can Feace society appears to nave committed itself is, In brief, that the best assurance of international peace lies In national helplessness. The fewer 6hips in the American navy, the less prospect of an American war. The weaker its navy, the stronger grip has the nation upon the respect of great nations armed to the teeth, eager to bully, hungry for land, ruthless and utterly selfish of policy. This, the logic of a"peace" society. If a man living in a rough country, surrounded by neighbors whom he mistrusted and who were, as he knew, quick upon the trigger, should be asked to throw away his own rusty arms, the man would have no answer save of indignation and disgust. The American Peace Society, in principle, asks just this thing of Un cle Sam. It asks it at a time wtien southern Europe still flames with war. it asks it at a time when a north European country frets daily against its narrow quarters and talks of the coming day when it must "ex pand." The society finds virtue in disarmament at a time when public meetings are held in the capital of an Asiatic nation at which the gov ernment is urged to descend on Un cle Sam's coast as descent was made upon Port Arthur- without the time honored formality of declaring war. A peaceful man, but practical, would look for signs of his 'quarrel some and burglarious neighbors if such he had throwing away their weapons before he'd throw away his own. Are there such signs among the nations who jostle the elbows of Uncle Sam? None at all perceptible not even to the peculiar vision of the American Peace Society. Far Western Babies Are the Best. The Woman's Home Companion is carrying forward its fight for "Better Babies" by offering prizes for the best babies exhibited at the new kind of baby shows. At this new baby show, which Is being held this year In various parts of the country, chil dren are judged, not for their beauty, but for their health. At a recent show in Oregon cups were won by Robert Chauncey Bishop, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Bishop of. Salem, Ore., and Henrietta Bishop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bishop of the same city. These two prize winners had the same great grandparents. With respect to these two children the article continues: "Robert was nearly three years old when he became the champion boy of Oregon. He had been breast-fed at regular Intervals, and slept in a room with wide-open windows. He comes of a long-lived family. Two grand mothers, three-great grandmothers, two grandfathers and one great grandfather were living to applaud his triumph. His score was 98. "Henrietta outclassed her small relative by just half a point. Her score was 99. "All the prize winners showed a preponderate of foreign blood, and 90 per cent had been breast-fed until six months old or more. As a whole, the Oregon babies passed the 100 per cent standard established In the score cards supplied by the Iowa physi cians. All through the far west chil dren are heavier, taller and farther advanced than babies of the same age in the east or middle west." To Save the Oregon From Use as a Target. Portland, Ore., May 20. Accord ing to a letter received from Senator Chamberlain, every effort is being made by the Oregon delegation not only to save the battleship Oregon from being used as a target, but to have the grand old ship stationed in the Portland harbor to serve as a training ship for the Oregon naval reserve. The matter has been taken up with Secretary Daniels of the navy department. Oregon organizations are continu ing their efforts to prevent the Ore gon's destruction, regardless of Sec retary Daniels' announcement that the recommendation of certain naval officers that the battleship be used as a target had not been seriously entertained. Ex-President Taft begins at the bottom of the ladder by coaching the debating team. He could not expect to get a Job as football coach all at once. Montreal expects to see about $40, 000,000 worth of new buildings con structed this year. Odds & Ends Picked Up by the Reporter. The reporter wishes it distinctly understood that the Tidings is not responsible for the recent rainy and cold weather. Of course the local paper is responsible for most of the ills of a community, but it draws t"he line on being blamed for the weather. Here's hoping the proposed re building of the opera house will pro ceed at once. Ashland needs a good playhouse. It would improve that corner immensely. There are several propositions in sight from private schools for the state normal sight. It might be bet ter to accept a private school than to go to the expense of a fight for a state appropriation and then be de feated. It Is safe to say, however, that the Commercial Club and the citizens of Ashland are through pay ing bonuses and' guaranteeing schol arships. A burned child dreads the fire. Besides, a school which has a guarantee is liable to flag in the effort to get scholars. The old rumor of railroad shops for Ashland is being revived. It will be time to advance property values on that account when the shops are built and not before. Infofmation which leaks from railroad officials of such a move is often permitted. to leak for a purpose and cannot be im plicitly trusted. J The fact exists, however, that in the event that the proposed segrega- tion of the Union Pacific and South- ( em Pacific interests the Sacramento shops would undoubtedly go back to j the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific would be left without any large shops. In that event stranger things have happened than the es tablishment of big shops at Ashland, which is Just about midway between Sacramento and Portland. Here's hoping there may be something in the rumor. Even railroads sometimes things they can't finish. At start least that they don't finish at once. The Southern Pacific bridge crew started nearly a month ago to put a new roof on the Ashland round-house and went off and left it in an unfinished state, and it is still in that condition. Ashland's greatest asset Is her beauty. You can add to that asBet by keeping your place neat and the lawn well trimmed. A well-trimmed lawn and a well-painted house will give a better Impression than a place which cost twice as much if the latter has a run-down look. Among the Best Critics Wallpaper-making is recognized as one of the fine arts. The best decorative artists in the world nave not scorned to give their services to this form of embel lishment. Our Selection of Wall Papers Has been made from the factories of best reputation. We are prepared to sell from this stock at moderate prices. Everything in Paints, Enamels, Var nishes, etc., to decorate the home. We are practical men in our line and will be glad to advise with you regard ing your work, Only the best men em ployed and work guaranteed. Wm. O. Dickersoe Cor. Main and Granite Streets, Ashland. ' " '-' l.!.'-f-"-Jll.LL...N- ' ii University ummer School fi Twentyfive Instructors. Fifty Courses. Distinguished Eastern Educators Added to Regular Faculty. University Dormitories Open. Board and Room at $3.50 per week. Reduced Railroad Rates. For complete illustrated catalog address The Registrar, University of Oregon, Eugene And Jack Johnson must go to the pen. How are the mighty fallen! Yet Johnson is to be pitied rather than to be blamed. He was dragged out of honest obscurity to pander to the brutal tastes of the white sports. If he has learned the lessons of bru tality, cupidity and the like all too well, he is not so much to blame as the men who exploited him for rev enue. So long as Jack Johnson could make money for the sport pro motors his sins were overlooked. When he ceased to be a drawing card there were none so low as to do him reverence. His fate Is that of so large a pro portion of the professional pugilists, whether white or black, that' It mere ly serves to prove anew that pugil ism should be suppressed along with black and white slavery and other I forms of brutality. But Jack John . Bon is no worse than many a white pugilist and race prejudice is in part responsible for the persistence of the prosecution. 'Tis passing strange that a white man can ruin the life of a woman or of many women and not only keep out of the toils of the law, but even hang on the ragged edge of respectability even be em braced by the so-called "best soci ety," while a colored man guilty of the same thing is hounded to the i limit or lynched The writer does not mean by this that the punishment is undeserved or should not be inflicted, but he does believe that when respectable so- iciety turns from the vile man with one-half the self-righteousness that it turns from the woman who, per haps, has erred from love or mis placed confidence, it would not be five years until white slavery would be unknown. When the frequenter of a fancy house is as completely os tracized as is the inmate the ques tion will solve itself. Helen Gould Shepard has returned with her husband from their wed ding trip, and only 12,376 people asked her for a million dollars the day she got back. of Oregon 193 Famous Negro Entertained in Hotel Where He Was Once a Waiter. In the "Interesting People" depart ment of the June American Magazine Booker T. Washington writes about William Henry Lewis, one of the country's most eminent colored men. Lewis was a star football player at Harvard, a member of the Massachu setts state legislature, and recently assistant United States attorney-general. Bookor Washington writes about him in part as follows: "In 1911, when he was appointed to the position he occupied until re cently, that of assistant attorney general of the United States, the col orded men of Boston gave him a ban quet at one cf the leading hotels of the city. At this banquet, In reply to the congratulations showered upon him by other speakers, Mr. Lewis made a speech in which he made two references that particularly Impressed me. He recalled the fact that in this same hotel in which he was at that moment an honored guest he had once served in the capacity of a waiter; and In reference to the honor that had been conferred upon him, he declared that he had no illu sions, he knew, be said, that it was not in spite of, but because of the fact that he was a negro that he had been honored with this high office. He added that he accepted the re sponsibilities of the position not merely as a distinction conferred up on himself but upon the whole race which he represented. "The reason I mention this fact is because it is not always comfortable to be a colored man in this country, and the incoaveniences frequently in crease as individuals, either by for tune or through their own particular merits, succeed in rising to a posi tion above the masses of their fel lows. "One reason why I, with most oth er colored people, believe in, honor and respect Mr. Lewis is because, In the high position in which he has risen, he has neither forgotten his own path nor sought to separate him self from the race to which he be longs." Phone Job orders to the Tidings. fn3 OLD THINGS NEW 481 Take any old chair in the house, even though it looks like a wreck of its former self, and give it a coat of Jap-a-lac. You will say, "I never thought that old chair could look so fine." 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