Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, September 18, 1913, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textr AGS TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Thursday, Seitmber 18, 1913 Ashland Tidings S EMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1878. Issued Mondays and Thnrsdays Bert R. Greer, Editor and Owner B. W. Taleott, ... City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear $2.00 fcLx Months 1.00 Three Months SO 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, Poetoffice as second-class mall mat ter. Asldand, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 18. '13 NEXT ON THE PROGRAM. The Rogue River Valley is going to bend her energies toward real development during the next few years. The days of speculation are over and those of solid development begun. And that is what the Rogue Valley needs: more development more diversified development. When one observes the wealth ol natural resources at hand lying untouched in this valley he is appalled. When he learns the large sums of money sent out of it every year for prod ucts that can be raised and manu factured here he ceases to wonder why the valley does not get on bet ter. Our friend George Putnam and his Mail Tribune are on the right track. The newspapers of the valley should stand together first and last for solid development. Read and remember the wise suggestions of Mr. Putnam in the following editorial: "Now that the road bonds have been voted, the Pacific Highway a certainty and the good roads prob lem settled "Now that construction work is in actual progress on an interurban trolley line, steel rails and ties dis tributed, rolling 8tocl: purchased and operation assured "Now that a large cement factory that will furnish steady employment lor many and utilizing a natural re source has been financed and will shortly be under construction "The time is ripe to develop an other neglected resource, to secure what is needed beyond all other things for the valley "A LARGE LUMBER MILL. s "There are thirty billion feet of merchantable timber in Jackson county, yet scarcely a board foot is manufactured. "The average annual consumption of lumber in this territory for the past five years exceeded 15,000,000 feet, all of it shipped in. "The valley isN today paying over $1,000 a day, every day in the year, for lumber and box shooks. The money goes to operate lumber mills and payrolls in other sections of the state. "Wb can never keep the balance of trade in our favor by purchasing out side what we can produce ourselves. Each year will see the consumption of lumber increase as the fruit busi ness grows. "Surrounded by one of the great forests of the world, with a railroad into the heart of it, it does not speak well for Medford enterprise that we make no effort to develop it. "The Lord helps them that help themselves. It is time to cease hop ing that someone will do for us that which we can do ourselves. "If all that can will help, the people of Medford and the valley can finance a mill large enough to manu facture all the lumber we use. '"Let us do it and save that $1,000 a day we are sending out of the county. "Let us provide a payroll for our people, send out Rogue river fruit in Rogue river boxes, and build our buildings with our own products. "This is the big problem before the valley to build and operate our own lumber mill, produce what we consume and materially increase our prosperity." A GOOD BOOST. L. A. P. Eichler of the Sacramento Bee visited the Eureka Good Roads convention ,and returned home by way of Crescent City, Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland. The Tidings editor had the pleasure of entertain ing him, together with a dozen other Cailfornians, for a few hours in Ashland. Upon his return home he wrote these pleasing impressions of his call here, which is not bad adver tising for Ashland: "Ashland is a home town, and must be a delight to her residents. The idea that she is Just a railroad division town is quickly dispellea on arrival there. Here is a highly In tellectual community, too, and she supports a very picturesque natural park, of which her people are justly yroud." THE JOYS OF OLD AGE. The esteemed Ashland Tidings philosophizes with serene sagacity upon the blessedness of old age. "We're not at all convinced," it ob serves with tempered confidence, 'that ripe old age isn't the best es tate of all, for then the heart is mellowed, the mind matured and the spirit seasoned, while in the treasury of memory are stored innumerable joys the bette'r for the enchantment which distance lends.' "This is put forth to chasten the forward enterprise of the enthusiasts who seek for the secret of perpetual youth. Some of them, the Tidings remarks with pardonable displeas ure, promise themselves through a regime of 'diet and . exercise a life span of at least 200 years, with a sneaking hope of eternity.' But no eternity for the Tidings, whose hopes are unalterably fixed, we take it, on a better land. Forgetful of the sapid peaches which bloom on the hillsides around it and the delectable pears, whose flavor even now is such as to make the pilgrims in Beulah envious, our ascetic contemporary cries 'away, vain joys,' and lifts its eyes in in flexible renunciation to the hills of Paradise. "What is youth? A mere fever, an unquiet dream, a hot summer af ternoon of passion which ends in satiety and leaves naught behind but sad memories and black regrets. The only time when this vale of tears yields anything like true happiness Is old age. One is deaf then, happily deaf, so that he cannot hear the roosters crow in the morning and the motorcycles explode at midnight. If his wife scolds it makes no differ ence. If the neighbors quarrel he can interpret it as a love scene. Blessed is he who has no hearing. "Sight, too, goes with the years and one is relieved of all the disa greeable visions it unfolds. Who cannot remember seeing things that remain a baleful blot In the recol lection? In old age, when the eyes are gone for good and all, no such painful incidents occur. Happy old age! Cicero wrote in praise of it after his youth was irrecoverably gone. Solomon denounced the worth less delights of youth when his hair was gray and his limbs withered. 'Vanity of vanities,' said the forlornl old preacher, tottering on the edge of the grave from which he knew 'there was no return." Shakespeare sets forth the .charms of old age as well as anybody: " ' Last scene of all That ends this strange, eventful his tory Is second childhood and mere ob livion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.' ' Oregonian. There is a deal of difference in a ripe, mellow, lucious pear, delectable both to behold and taste, and an over-ripe, decayed one lying half covered on the ground. The Oregon ian writes like Oslerized decrepitude suffering with the gout. To such a state of mind Eolomon is the choic est type, hurling denunciation at the delights of youth; sterile, retrospec tive vision dimmed, peering at the past and finding there but paths that lead to vital 'waste, sans taste, sans everything, moaning to renew pas sions long satiate and revil amid hot pleasures that are gone. Such are the hopeless longings of decay. Not so with ripe J old age the evening of a well-spent life vital ity conserved and mind alert, with keener thoughts of men and eyes that, though dimmed with age, still see behind the shining mask of craft. "Knowing at last the unstud ied gesture of esteem, the reverend eyes made rich with honest thought and holding hige above all other things high as hope's great throb bing star above the darkness of the 1 dead the love of wife and child and friend." We are not ready to -accept thej extreme type. It is the exception, not the rwte, that ShaJ:espeare de picts as in "second childhood and mere oblivion." That Is decay. "j But the ripe old age, which is the rule, gray locked, serene, mind ma tured, heart mellowed by experience, spirit sound and seasoned, it jour neys on from day to day to that horizon where the dusk is waiting for the night. "At last, sitting by the holy hearth of home, as evening's embers change from red to gray, he falls asleep within the arms of her he worshipped and adored, feeling upon his pallid lips love's last and holiest kiss." We resign "the mere oblivion" type to the Oregonian. It suits us not. It' is over-ripe, unwholesome and decayed. What fools these mortals he! A man in Pittsburgh wants a divorce because his wife has been silent for ten years. Some people don't know when they are well off. Phone job orders to the Tidings WHAT OTHERS SAY OF IT Comments on Result of Jackson Bond Election as Shown In the Tidings' Exchanges. Portland Journal: Jackson coun ty by a substantial majority voted $500,000 good roads bonds Tuesday. The economic value of improved highways which will be efficient twelve months in the year is no longer questioned. The science of road building is fully developed. The only issue now confronting Ore gon is raising the money for actual construction. Jackson county has shown how that issue may be met. The Jackson example is valuable to the entire state; it proves that when the question of good or bad roads is placed-quarely before the people they will decide in favor of high ways which will meet the demands of traffic. Jackson county showed sound business sense in voting the bonds. It is good business for any going concern to borrow money and use it for increasing the profits. That is what Jackson county is doing. That county's 53 miles of improved high way will pay dividends to Jackson county people as surely as well constructed roadbeds pay dividends to railroads. The farmer saves through good roads in exactly the same manner that railroads save through easy grades and well-ballasted tracks. The $500,000 bonds to be issued by Jackson county will.be a technical indebtedness, for the roads will pay for themselves by increasing the earning power of every farm and every Industry tributary to them. One-fifth of the bonds will come due in tea years, and by that time the 53 miles of highway will have a credit' balance far in excess of $100, 000. There will be a tremendous saving in hauling cost, and this sav ing will be reflected by increased land values. But Jackson county will benefit doubly through its good roads pro gram. Building of the roads insures a cement, plant in that county. This industry is made possible by the elec tion's result. Cement used in Jack son county roads will be manufac tured in Jackson county, and with this immediate market for its prod uct the cement plant will be able to establish itself and compete for out side business. The Jackson county voters have passed through the talking stage. They have solved the financing prob lem. They will soon reach the con struction period and then will come the profit-taking time. Other Ore gon counties should profit by Jack son's example. " Jackson's Good Example. Grants Pass Courier: The people of Jackson county are to be congrat ulated upon the vote by which they authorized the issuance of half a million of bonds for the building of a system of highways throughout the county. It Is expected that the bonds can be placed as they are needed to prosecute the work, the bond market having shown some" improvement during the . past few weeks. The good work started by Jackson should be maintained through all of the counties of the west side till the Pacific Highway is a paved boule vard from California to, Washington. California has appropriated funds for the building of the highway, and Washington lias already constructed much of the road within her own state. The greatest expense for the traveler by automobile is in the wear and tear on tires, and the life of a tire on smooth roads will be much grater than on the present rough roads. The cost of good highways will be returned many times over to the community through which they pass before the first bond becomes due. Eugene Guard: Jackson county has just voted a half million dollars for the building of a paved highway from the California line to the Jose phine county border. This is another evidence that Oregon is waking up to her opportunities. Soon we will have not only equaled California, but surpassed her in actual development. Here we only take advantage of na ture's handiwork, but California has to assist nature. The Bond Election. Jacksonville Post: The -bond is sue having carried Tuesday by a large majority it is now up to the minority to accept the result as the expressed will of Jackson county's voters, and laying aside whatever prejudice they may have had against incurring this indebtedness, roll up their sleeves to help in the construe tlon of the best system of permanent roads in the state of Oregon. The result of the election was no surprise to most people; the majority of the voters of the county live along or at least within a few miles of the route of the proposed road, and as there is no question as to the value of good roads to the' district tra versed by them, it was simply a busi ness proposition which admitted of but one answer, and that one has been given in no uncertain manner. To the voter in the outlying dis tricts the matter appeared in a dif ferent light; he could not see much benefit to him or his property by the building of a road miles away from him and with no immediate pros- Lpects of its reaching his district Let us hope that the construction of the main road will be followed in the near future with laterals reaching to every part of the county. Jackson County's Bonds, z Eugene Register: By a nwtjority of a little less than three to one, the progressive people of Jackson county have approved a half million' dollar bond issue for the construction of a hard-surfaced trunk highway from end to end of the county a highway that will touch all but two of the county's trading points, and that serves more than 19,000 of the 25, 000 inhabitants. Since the road law provides that 5 per cent warrants, to be taken up later when the bonds are sold, may be issued for the pay ment of first construction costs, it is probable that the work of building this road will begin immediately. It is a step that will never be re gretted. It is pointed out by the Jackson county load authorities that an annual levy of one mill will pay the interest on the bonds and provide a sinking fund for their final re demption. Hitherto the road levy has averaged three mills. Thus the product of a two-mill levy, or two- thirds of the total amount formerly spent for highway "improvements, will be available for the construction of lateral roads that will ultimately reach out into every section. The half million dollars that the trunk road will cost will not be mere ly and expenditure Itwill re"ally be an investment, for the value of the property that is pledged for the bonds will be enhanced much more than a half million dollars. The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen 8 A bright and popular New York high school girl graduated in a dress that cost only 40 cents, and from all accounts looked as well as any other girl in the class. As the Christian Science Monitor suggests, high cost of living may be attacked success fully from any angles. If you started swatting flies early in the spring this is no time to re lax your part in that far for the babies. Now Is a good time to enlist. The fl7 is one of the greatest ene mies of mankind in the temperate zone. He is an enemy which breeds in filth, thriyes in filth, and carries filth wherever he goes. The way to defeat him, Is to cover and disinfect all garbage and stable litter, screen all food, and then stand ready with a flapper. The most useful, the most reliable and the most profitable of all domes tic things are the cow and the hen, whose products are always saleable and always usable by the, family. You show us a man who takes good care of a dairy or one who gives his poultry intelligent carer and we will show you a man who runs no store bill and keeps square with the world. An exchange truthfully remarks that the men who are walking from ocean to ocean and doing other stunts are wasting their time. They cannot make walking popular again. The modern man will .not walk. He wants to ride in an automobile, or fly if he is going to make a change at all it will be to flying. It is wonderful how poor a mem ory a chronic borrower has. He can't remember when he borrowed a tool, from whom he borrowed it or when he promised to return it. He usually sells his friendship at a very low price. One very good way to keep the boys on the farm is to keep the girls there also. We tire of reading about "How to keep the hoys on the farm." Treat the boys right and they will not leave the farm. Some boys will be benefited by leaving the farm; others will be better to stay. It de pends on the boy and the advantages he has. If you should be so unfortunate as to break a borrowed article, Insist on paying for it when it is returned to its owner. Put yourself in the other man's place and note bow you would like to have a broken article brought home when the borrower makes no attempt to make amends for breaks. Scale receipts at Tidings office. tlUlilllXiU WHEN yon think of "First National," yon think of "banking Why not, when yon think of "bank ing," think of "First National?" Tl We grant every ac commodation consistent with a sale and conservative yet progressive business policy. First National Bank Oldest National Bank in Jackson County Depository of the United States, State pf Oregon, Coun ty of Jackson and City of Ashland. A GOOD SPIRIT. (George Putnam in Mail Tribune.) Many falsehoods have been circu lated about Medford in other com munities, originating in petty enmity and jealousy. It is a mistake to suppose that any community can build itself up by attacks on another. Knocking inevitably injures not only the object knocked, but reacts upon the knock er. As the individual who knocks his neighbor's property is uncon sciously knocking his, so with the community that deprecates other communities. The prosperity and groth of any one section of Oregon helps indirect ly all other sections. The entire state, indeed, the entire northwest, is knit in a community of interest, and each locality should speak in praise of other localities. People are going to form their own opinion and judge- for them selves anyway, and base the judg ment upon facts and observations. The knocker in the long run injures only himself. BARGAIN' TIMES. Oregonian and Tidings From Xow Until January 1, 1015, for $2.50. We have made special arrange ments whereby we can give the Ore gonian and Tidings from this date till January 1, 1915, for $2.50. This offer holds good "only until Novem ber 1. 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