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ter. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, June 5, '13
COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING.
The Commercial Club meeting
Monday night was the best meeting
held by that organization since the
writer came to Oregon. . The get
together spirit was there.
It has always seemed to the writ
er that there was a lack of co-operative
spirit among Ashlanders. The
commercial life lacks solidarity. The
merchants do not co-operate enough
for the common good. There seems
to be no special bond between the
local merchants, as a whole, and the
producers of the community.
The valley needs development, not
advance in land prices. It heeds
profitable markets for its produce
more than it needs increase of popu
lation. It will be little trouble to
get and keep the people when condi
tions are brought abou.t that will in
sure a' good living and general pros
perity to those who come.
The writer has always been a
stickler for taking good care of
those already here before making
great effort to get others here A
man will not long remain in an un
attractive environment. - If he is a
producer the big thing to him is a
steady and profitable market for his'
produce. There are hundreds of
people who have come to Ashland
and gone away. They have left the
town desperately in love with its
people, charmed with its climate and
willing to stay, but conditions were
such that they found themselves un
able to make a living and had to go.
- The big thing for Ashland to do is to
change the conditions so that it will
be possible for anyone desiring to
live here to work and gain a com
fortable livelihood.
Co-operation between the produc
er ana mercnant is creating a
healthy home market, in finding
profitable foreign markets for sur
pius products, in getting such a
freight rate on valley commodities as
will enable this valley to compete
with other communities in the larger
markets of the country, to secure
canneries and driers so that surplus
fruits and berries can be preserved
against a bad market, these are some
of the things that spell vastly more
for Ashland and the valley than all
the real estate booming that can be
imagined. The days of speculation
are largely over in the United States.
There has already been too much of
it The. energy of the people must
now be concentrated on development
and the Intelligent widening of prof
itable markets. When the lands can
be made to produce a sure profit for
-industry and investment the splendid
natural climatic conditions will at
tract new people to this section and
the valley will grow in population
and prosperity.
That was the spirit of the meeting
Monday night. It was a wholesome
spirit, a progressive spirit progress
ive along right lines that of mak
ing the best of what we have rather
than working out plans to get rid of
real estate.
THE FISHING SEASON.
Styles and fashions of amusements
change. The baseball that was played
twenty-five years ago would be hoot
ed off the diamond today. But the
sport of fishing goes on from age to
age as ever.
A box of worms catches Just as
many fish as it did in Izaak Wal
ton's day, and no more. Probably
you could get as many ideas about
fishing out of Walton's genial phi
losophy as from the latest copy of
Forest and Stream.
When the society man is asked to
burrow In some unfashionable re
sort, put on old clothes and chase!
the elusive trout or salmon, he
chooses rather a hall bedroom in the
city. He would pay for the railroad
ticket to be able to stay on the boul
evards. However, fishing appeals Just as
intimately as among the fishermen
of Galilee in the year 1. The man
to whom the works of nature are
more interesting than the works of
man will always find reBt and di
version in the teeming life of brooks
nd lakes and grassy banks.
OUR STRONGEST DEFENSE.
Secretary Bryan does well to flay
unceasingly the dishonest manufac
turer of war sentiment by those who
seek a profit out of war scares,
In most wars greed is the inciting
cause and the victims are men, worn
en and children who would have no
hand in the profit.
One of the most hopeful signs of
the times is the growing unwilling
ness of workingmen to be stood up
in rows facing each other in order
to shoot each other when between
them there is no quarrel.
A hundred years ago no working
man anywhere would have thought
of resisting an order from the sover
eign to march to the front regardless
of the merit of the sovereign's con
tention and pump the subjects of the
opposing ruler full of lead, if not
himself receiving the same treat
ment.
Today, over large areas in Europe,
the bonds of International fraternity
among the workers are so strong as
to make doubtful how far a 'war
order based on greed or aggression
would be obeyed by the men who
would have to be relied upon to do
the shooting.
The patriotism of the workers is
not less than formerly, but their In
telligence is increasing. They are
coming to feel that if they must sup
ply the targets they should have
something to say about starting the
fracas.
Peace offers abundant scope for
the fullest exercise of the warlike
spirit. Persons who enjoy fighting
can make war on disease, poverty,
on Ignorance, on vice, on the vari
ous ills which bedevil humanity and
obstruct the improvement of human
welfare. And they may do so with
the knowledge that, in proportion as
their belligerency is efficient, they
are benefactors, not scourges, of the
race. -
This is peculiarly true in the Unit
ed States. We need, of course, a
military establishment to do neces
sary policing in emergencies. But
our greatest policing is not in sol
diers or battleships, but in the in
telligence, welfare and virtue of the
people. In building these up we con
struct defenses which no enemy can
surmount.
CABINET MEMBERS RENT.
The burning question In Washing
ton Is whether $2,000 a year is suf
ficient for a cabinet officer to spend
for rent.. Vice-President Marshall
started the game by announcing that
he would not spend over $1,800 and
he is still looking for a house. The
secretary of labor, Mr. Wilson, is
living at a hotel because he cannot
afford exorbitant house rent. Mr.
Daniels says he will try to bring his
rent allowance within $2,000. Champ
Clark is for the $2,000 proposition
and so is Mr. Redfleld, although he
Is able to pay more., Mr. Bryan has
exceeded the speed limit and rented
a house which is to cost $4,000
This is excused, however, by the fact
that he is secretary of state and is
bound to do a considerable amount
of entertaining. He has taken Mrs.
Logan's house on the brow of Four
teenth street hill. He also can af
ford the expense, being now, as a
result of lecturing and newspaper
work, a member of the capitalistic
class. The real estate men think
cabinet members ought to pay ten
or twelve thousand dollars a year
for a house, and many who have
been interviewed say it is not possi
ble to obtain one suitable for enter
taining at a less figure. Mr. Mar
shall replies, "Well, then I won't be
entertaining."
That was a hot shot the sugar
trust got at Grand Junction, Colo.
Grand Junction is a great sugar beet
center, and the minions of the trust
arranged for a mass meeting of the
citizens to protest against the new
tariff bill. Lawyers of the sugar
trust had written furious resolutions
denouncing President Wilson and
the majority in congress because of
the reductions in the Bugar sched
ule. But after the citizens of Grand
Junction, Colo., had heard the reso
lutions read they peremptorily re
fused to vote for them. And the
hired lawyers of the sugar trust
tucked their -manuscript in their
pockets and took a sneak. Colo
rado has a lot of sturdy manhood in
its population, and the sugar trust
cannot fool nor buy them.
Wireless for Art-tic Regions.
Scientists who plan to explore the
Arctic regions in the near future
will carry wireless apparatus to en
able them to communicate with the
wireless station at Spltzbergen,
which Ib only 1,000 miles from the
pole.
Those flimsy feathers the girls are
wearing on their hats look as if they
would be much braced up if enclosed
in cages of chicken wire.
Love is thin when faults are thick,
ASHLAND
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Clean Up and Keep Clean.
This paper will have much to say
this spring about the above subject.
There Is no reason why we should
not have the cleanest town in the
state, even if we cannot boast the
largest. Every man", woman and
child in our town ought to respond
to the appeals that are being made
to make the town neat and atract
tlve and clean and sanitary. It is
only a small matter for each fam-
I lly to clean up its own premises, but
with every family in town doing this
the whole town will not only present
an attractive appearance but will
be more healthful as wpIi t,p
everyone Join in this war against
dirt, rubbish, ugliness and indiffer
ence to the public good, and when
the town is in the condition it should
be, let everyone help to keep it so
The town is in urgent need of cleans
ing and purifying after the long win
ter and the dampness of early spring,
and all effort to this end will bring
reward a hundred fold.
If a man had a fifty-dollar pup
he would look after it carefully and
not let it have the run of the town
day and night. But if he has a child
It is different. They are turned loose
at a tender age to go where they will
and do what thev Dleasn. Pemio
wonder where the great . army- of
tramps, deadbeats, gamblers and dis
reputable women come from. They
are germinated from the seed gath
ered in countless homes and sown
broadcast upon the streets of our
cities and towns. There are thou
sands of children who are heading
in that direction, who, as far' as care
is concerned, are not given equal
showing with a valuable pup. '
The man who has enemies amounts
to something. He is a live man.
He is a' fighter. People don't kick
corpse-. A live man can swim
against the current; a corpse floats
down without hindrance. God bless
our enemies. We love them. They
make life worth living.
After July 1 C. O. D. packages
will be transmissable by parcel p0St,
This will be a great convenience to
the business community, but what is
more needed is some arrangement
whereby we can all get things on
credit.
This is the time of the year when
the old hen never fails to get into
your neighbor's garden. You know
the result. One good scratching hen
can in five minutes scratch up all
the friendship that has been grow
lng for many years between neigh
bors. Keep her at home or cut her
head off.
We have now reached the barefoot
season, when the small boy is un
happy if he is not tfllowed to blister
his feet on the hot walks, cut them
on sharp edged objects, run pieces
of glass into them and knock off
the nails from the big toes.. Such is
life with the small boy.
Have something for your children
to do each day. Work makes things
sacred. The child whose home mem
ories are not halved by work, who
is not needed and does not feel that
need, will not love honor.
If you cannot speak a good word
for your home town and your home
business men, then "silence is gold
en.
Good schools, good chickens and
good roads never fail to make a good
town.
Make it a rule to have the. back
yard, at all -times, as clean as the
front one.
"What is laughter?" asks a 'sci
entist. It is a sound that you hear
when your hat blows off.
The prosperity of a town depends
chiefly upon the confidence the peo
ple have In it. No town can prosper
whose citizens are untrue to it.
The automobile is no doubt a fine
thing and it may bring all the joys
to the family that the salesman says
it will, but it is doubtful if it brings
the real Joy to the grownups that a
new sled brings to a healthy country
boy who lives near a hill.
The tongue is a little thing, but it
is mighty in power. It can make or
mar the' happiness of a life or of a
home. It should be closely guarded.
The saying of one unkind or unself
ish thing makes the next easier, and
bo on, until a habit Is formed that
can never be entirely overcome.
Thank God some of us have an
old-fashioned mother. Not a woman
TTDIXGB
GREATEST USER OF ASBESTOS
Domestic Mine Production Small as
Compared With Canadian.
If the United States cannot boast
pre-eminence in asbestos production,
as it can for many other minerals,
It is at least .a matter of some grat
ification to know that the bulk of
the world's production comes from
America and that the Canadian de
posits yield by far the larger part
of the total. In this, too, the United
States benefits, for the nearness and
reliability of the Canadian supply,
largely owned in the United States,
afford the basis for our eventual
unquestioned supremacy in the de
velopment of asbestos manufactures.
Even as it is, there are, according
to J. S. Diller of the United States
Geological Survey, some valuable de
p sits and promising prospects in
the United States, and these would
undoubtedly be much more largely
developed were it not for the extent
of the Canadian deposits. The do
mestic production' in 1912, according
to Mr. Diller, was 4,403 short tons,
valued at $87,959, and although this
was a decline of 42 per cent in ton
nage compared with the output for
1911, it was only 27 per cent less
in value, owing to the larger quanti
ty of higher grade asbestos in 1912.
Gtorgia, Vermont and Wyoming are
the- three states which mine asbes
tos. The Canadian exports of asbes
tos in 1912 amounted to 88,008 tohs,
of which 71,426 tons, or more than
81 per cent, was imported into the
United States. This quantity was 67
per cent of the entire Canadian pro
duction. Asbestos is the most important
fireproofing material known. Its
fibrous structure adapts it to a wide
range of applications from woven
fabrics, such as theater curtains and
articles of clothing, to asbestos shin
gles, stucco, plaster, asbestos
"wood," and various other forms of
building material that render struc
tures thoroughly fireproof. Its
lightness, strength, durability and
insulating properties against heat
and electric ity give it special advan
tages for use in constructing cars
and electric motor subways.
The most common uses of asbestos
are for asbestos paper, millboard,
pipe covering, and lagging to inclose
heat pipes, furnaces and locomotives
in order to prevent loss of heat in
transmission. As a nonconductor of
heat it may be used not only in the
preparation of fireproef safes and
valuta but also for cold storage and
cooling structures. Houses made of
asbestos materials or coated with as
bestos throughout are not only warm
er in winter but cooler In summer.
British Parcel Post to Far East.
Herbert Samuels, the English postmaster-general,
announces that the
British postal service is planning to
establish a parcel post to the far east
by the way of the Transsiberian rail
way. Arrangements for this innova
tion, which -has been demanded for
some time, are understood to have
passed the preliminary stage.
Postmaster-General Samuel a"lso
hopes to extend to India and the far
east in general the system of week
end cable letters at greatly reduced
rates. At present, however, he is
not prepared to introduce the meas
ure in behalf of the government.
Mr. Samuel also refers to the pro
posed chain of imperial wireless de
fenses, stating that sites for stations
have been picked out in England,
Egypt, India and South Africa. Sites
are also being looked for in the
Straits Settlements and East Africa.
About Pins.
In England every day there is. an
output of more than 54,000,000 pins.
Birmingham, the greatest center of
the industry in that country, alone
produces 37,000,000 pins a day. The
output ot other pin manufacturers in
England is only about half that of
Birmingham, m France the daily
production is 20,000,000, while Ger
many and Holland produce 10,000,
000 a day. The total output for Eu
rope each day is, therefore, 84,000,
000. v.
One person in five in South Africa
is white.
of the period, painted and enameled,
with all her society manners, and fine
dresses, whose white, jeweled hands
never felt the clasp of baby fingers,
but a dear old-fashioned mother with
a sweet voice, eyes into whose clear
depths the love light shown, and
brown hair, Just threaded with sil
ver, lying smooth upon her faded
cheek. Those dear hands, worn
with toil, gently guided our steps in
childhood, and smoothed our cheek
in sickness, ever reaching out to ua
in yearning tenderness. Blessed is
the memory of the old-fashioned
mother. It floats to us like the
beautiful perfume of some wood
blossoms. The muslo of other voices
may be lost, but the enchanting
memory of her will echo in our soul
forever.
iyE SOLICIT the opporfanity of handling yonr bank-
Ing bnslness knowing that we have the facilities,
the resonrces and the disposition to serve you faith
fully and elficiently.
, First National Bank
Oldest National Bank in Jackson County
Depository of the United States, Stale of Oregon, Coun
ty of Jackson and City of Ashland.
The Army and Navy Journal - is
worrying over the peace talk. That
organ of legalized murder denounces
Secretary of State Bryan for talking
or peace universal peace. We are
of the opinion that the people of this
country have had enough of war:
we believe the masses do not hanker
after being shot down. And th
masses are the ones who are shot
down, in case of war. The bankers,
lawyers, merchants and doctors sel
dom are foolish enough to risk their
precious lives in battle, at the price
of $18 per month. Let Bryan talk.
He has more followers than all the
army and navy officers on earth.
Those fellows are spoiling for trou
ble trouble Is their profession.
Twenty-five millions tons of ship
ping rounds Cape Cod annually.
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