Ashland tidings., October 13, 1913, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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TACKLE THE MA X FIRST.
The head of Detroit's police sys
tem, who, on October 15, is going to
close up every home of vice, regard
less of what shall become of the hun
dreds of inmates, says he has asked
many of the women if they would
take honest jobs at the going wages
if they could get 'em, and behave,
and not one in a hundred replied
that she would. The others preferred
the higher income of the easier way.
Which leads him to think that they
aren't entitled to much sympathy.
But perhaps it's the going wages
in the so-called respectable vocations
which aren't entitled to the sympa
thy. Detroit is a rich and prosperous
city. Its industries are flourishing.
They are making a number of per
sons very rich. If, then, it were the
purpose of these enterprises to up
bnild the lives of the workers in
them which, we submit, would be
a worthy purpose far more credita
ble than merely to pile up great prof
its at the top could it long remain
true that large numbers of women
would prefer the wages of shame,
with all the hazards that go with
professional vice?
Why should the easier way pro
duce the higher income? And if it
be true that it does, and that, in
consequence of its higher income, a
large percentage of our womanhood
deliberately chooses It, are we ever
to reach the root of the problem by
simply turning the policemen's clubs
upon them, while leaving unchanged
the demand which produces this high
er income?
We haven't much confidence in the
value of a policeman's club for any
useful purpose. But if it be assumed
that clubbing has value, isn't it cleat
from what this police official says
that he is getting ready to swing the
club on the wrong persons?
Let him first swing it on the men
who are willing to pay bigger wages
to the' women whom they can bribe
to minister to their lust than to vir
tuous women eager to do honest, re
spectable work.
If clubbing them will make them
behave, the problem will be solved,
and those scornful sisters of the un
derworld who now ridicule the petty
pay of virtuous work will have left
no other means of earning a living.
Tackle the man first.
THE SOUTHERN OREGON
NORMAL.
(Eugene Register.)
At the general election in 1914
the people of the state will be given
an opportunity to vote on a bill
whose purpose is to re-establish the
Southern Oregon Normal School at
Ashland. It is a bill that should be
enthusiastically supported, for it will
make possible better training for
more Oregon teachers, which will in
evitably mean better training for the
children of the state.
The bill provides only an annual
tax of one-fortieth of a mill for the
support and maintenance of the Ash
land school. This Is all that is nec
essary. The state already owns a
complete and modern school plant
at Ashland, which has been left
standing idle and useless since the
school butchers succeeded id 1909 in
catting off the annual maintenance
appropilatlon, thereby compelling
the school to be closed for want of
funds. As soon as an annual main
tenance fund is provided the site,
the buildings and equipment are all
ready to be put to work in the ser
vlre of the state.
The measure that will provide the
necessary funds Is a worthy one.
Oregon needs several normal schools
located in such a way that they will
be easily available to the teachers
who want to take advantage of them
for short periods of study. The
Southern Oregon Normal School will
provide admirably for southern Ore-
Son, the Willamette Valley is already
provided by the school at Monmouth,
and the Weston school should be re
vived for the beneft of the teachers
of eastern Oregon.
Phone news Items to the Tidings.
THE VINDICATION' OP A MAX
WHO DARED.
The best braTery is moral courage.
Five years ago Louis D. Brandeis
had an assured position at the bar
of Massachusetts. He numbered
amonn his clients many men of
wealth r.nd power. The field of cor
poration practice lay open to his
gleaning, with a harvest ripe for his
sickle.
Around him were able men grow
ing rich as servitors of Morgan and
the New Haven monopoly. They
dominated fashionable society. They
ran the legislature. They controlled
political preferment. They were
paramount in finance. Morgan's will
was their will. The king could do
no wrong.
Brandeis saw that their way was
the way of public injury and disas
ter; that the inflated "securities"
they were peddling were insecure;
that they were taanufacturing mis
ery for widows and orphans.
He said so. He' sounded the warn
ing. More than that, he stripped for
a fight for a battle with a combina
tion of powers seemingly invincible.
Practically he fought alone. The
press was against him. The bar was
against him. The banks called him
an esotist and a disturber. Even
the widows end orphans, whose sav
ings he wanted to make safe, were
taught to believe that he was a ma
licious enemy.
He persevered. The world will
probably never know the odds which
he combatted, or the lies and innu
endoes through which he bad to
wade. If they touched him. he gave
no sign, except to smile and fight on.
And now he is vindicated. Mellen
has been discarded. The house of
Morgan is crawling from under. But
are the stricken widows and orphans
whom he sought in vain to warn
grateful for his championship? Have
they repented their misjudgments of
him? Do the people of New England
value at its true worth the bravery
of his course?
There are plenty elsewhere who
do. j
Sometime New England may un
derstand.
But Wendell Phillips didn't get his
monument till he was dead.
Why wait so long to honor moral
courage?
SOCIAL MARTYRS.
Making 1,600 calls in 120 days,
an average of more than thirteen a
day, is the high water social record
in Washington's official life, a record
held by Mrs. Marshall, the charming
wife of the vice-president. And she's
kind enough to say that she makes
these rounds not only because they're
a part of the official goings-on, but
because she delights to meet folks.
Still, we've a notion that in her
heart she'd prefer fewer five-minute
formal calls in fuss and feathers,
with cards to the butler, an eye-level
hand-shake and a quick escape, on
people who are a mixture of interest
ing and stupid, and more time for
real visits with friends worth while.
The trouble with the formal so
ciety call is that it doesn't get you
anywhere. It's a dolled fcp bit of
pretense in which the game is to be
as bogus as possible and to break
away before the human nature un
derneath has a chance to show
through.
There is some heart in a visit when
good friends swap greetings, advice
and gossip. It breaks the tedium of
the day's routine and makes you feel
that there are some who care.
But to spend hours each day on a
dreary round of formal pop-about
calls, not upon those you like to see.
but upon those you meet why, it
seems we'd rather serve a sentence In
jail. Wouldn't you?
Is the custom worth its bother?
TO GIVE UP BUTTER?
Among other health measures en
forced at Vassar College it is report
ed that the girl's are not to be sup
plied with butter this fall.
Yet butter all comes from the cow,
like milk, and is an important con
stituent of the most natural food the
world contains.1 It adds tang to the
staff of life, and converts the sever
ity of a slice of bread into a rich
satisfaction for the hungry man.
It is true that the peoples of
southern Europe and other countries
subsist largely without butter. But
it is largely an economy habit, the
frugal custom of a people whsa im
perfect industrial life restricts their
means of subsistence.
If Vassar has really cut out but
ter from its table, it of course does
so from a belief that the students
will be healthier without it. . But is
not a wholesome diet dependent on
appetite as well as chemical formu
las? To most people bread without
butter would be so unattractive that
but little would be eaten.
Submarine cables resting at the
bottom of the sea represent a valua
tion of $250,000,000.
WHO GETS THE MONET?
With obvious reluctance the sen
ate is moving to investigate the
United States supreme court's print
ing graft It is a delicate thing to
charge such a respectable body with
the kind of practice which was im
puted to Boss Barnes of New York,
yet this appears to be what has hap
pened. A resolution introduced by Sen
ator Chamberlain of Oregon asks for
an investigation which will disclose
why the supreme court pays 80 cents
a page for having its decisions print
ed when these could be printed equal
ly well at 5 cents a page at the gov
ernment printing office. Some proofs
first stricken off actually cost $2.95
a page. The overcharge is said to
amount to more than $100,000 a
year. Senator Kern of Indiana is of
the opinion and has stated in the sen
ate that the charge is "simply in
iquitous." He adds that "doubtless
the clerk of the supreme court of the
United States or the reporter also
gets considerable sums for these ad
vance sheets in addition to their reg
ular remuneration." It is understood
that the clerk and the private print
ing firm which has this contract di
vide this overcharge. Whether the
judges participate cannot be known
until the senate has gone further into
the matter. The resolutipn to inquire
further is sleeping in the judiciary
committee where it has been for sev
eral weeks.
RAP AT MORALTY STANDARDS.
That men do not want the "double
standard" of morals abrogated, and
that they are in reality polygamists
although superficially and nominally
monogamists, is the charge hurled
by Miss Clara Louise Thompson at a
suffrage meeting in Washington.
Miss Thompson pointed out that
when a woman "falls" she can never
regain her social position, while men
constantly violate the moral law,
sometimes even openly and flagrant
ly, and nothing is thought of it. It
is customary to look on these
breeches of morals as "sowing wild
oats" when men are concerned, but
the woman who steps over the line
is lost, she said. That this is' the
result of ages of oppression of wom
an and that this situation would
change when women stand on an
equality with men, was the conclu
sion of the speaker.
FOREST NOTES.
There are about 37 pines native
to the United States, of which 25
are western species and 12 eastern.
Much of the cork'used throughout
the world comes from Portugal,
which harvests about 50,000 tons a
year.
Paraguay has valuable forest re
sources, the most important of which
Is quebracho, 'particularly ,Tich in
tannin.
Germany is said to have an over-
supply of foresters, so that well-educated
men have hard work to secure
even inferior positions.
One of the largest forest nurseries
In the United States is conducted by
the forest service near Haugen, Mon
tana. It is known as the Savenac
nursery and has a capacity of 4,000,
000 young trees a year.
The forests of Norway are mostly
In private or municipal ownership,
the nation owning 28.5 per cent of
the total forest area. The national
forests of the United States occupy
only about 20 per cent of the total
forest area of the country.
Seek Justice for Homesteaders.
Eugene Guard: Most of us will
agree -with Senator Lane that there
Is too much red tape attached to the
securing oi a title to public lands.
He recently stated on the floor of the
senate that about nine-tenths of his
time was occupied trying to find out
why some constituent is not allowed
to prove up on his land and secure
title to it. As a rule, he said, he
found that the interior department
had changed the rules and regula
tions after the settler had gone on
the land, and that after complying
with the law as he knew it when he
entered the land, he found on proving
up that there was a different set of
regulations to comply with.
It makes it rather hard on the
honest settler to try to keep track
of the different rulings issued by the
various department heads, and if
Senator Lane can find a way to do
away with some of these antiquated
methods he will have rendered the
people, and especially those in the
west, a great service. In this fight
he will have the support of all the
people of this state.
European dealers purchase large
quantities of Kentucky blue grass
seed every year, much of it going to
Germany.
Dogs are to be employed as sen
tries for the fortress of Gibraltar by
the British government.
Tfie Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pea
A Time For ATI Things.
Timeliness is as important as fit
ness. The right thing may become
wrong unless it is done at the right
time. Look well to the time of do
ing anything. If your wife looks
worried and worn out, be sure it is
not the time to tell her that dinner
is not hot or that the bread is sour.
Comfort her; cheer her up. Use the
ten thousand little stratagems you
were wont to handle so skillfully in
the old days to bring out the smiles
around her lips. If you're annoyed
or vexed at people, just remember it
is not the right time to speak. Close
your mouth. Shut your teeth to
gether firmly, and it will save you
many a useless and unavailing re
gret and many a bitter enemy. If
you happen to feel a little cross
and whom among us do not at one
time or another? do not select that
time for reproving your noisy house
hold flock. A word spoken in pas
sion will make a scar that a summer
of smiles can hardly heal over. If
you are a wife, never tease jour hus
band when he comes home, weary
from his day'a business. It is not
the right time". Do not ask him for
expensive outlays when he has been
talking hard times. It is, most as
suredly, the wrong time. If he has
entered upon an undertaking against
your advice, do not seize on the mo
ment of its failure to say, "I told
you so." In fact, it is never the
right time for these four monosylla
bles. Oh, if people only knew how
to discriminate between the right
time and the wrong, there would be
less domestic unhappiness, less silent
sorrow, and less estrangement of the
heart. The greatest calamities that
overshadow our 1 ivpR hflVA snmctHmaa
their germ in matters as apparently
slight as this. If you would only
pause, reader, before the slinging
taunt, or the biting sneer, or the un
kind scoff passes your lips, just
pause long enough to ask yourself,
Is it the right time for me , to
speak?" You would shut the world
against many a heartache. The
world hinges on little things, and
there are many more trivial than the
right time and the wrong.
The Auto Speed Idiot.
Recently a young man, who had
nearly killed himself and a half doz
en other people while auto speeding.
was brought before a Cincinnati
judge to answer to the charge of vio
lating the law. This is what the
judge said to him:
"Young man, stand up. You be
long to a class of young maniacs who
act as if you didn't have as much
common sense in your head as an
ordinary horse. Who gave you the
right to go tearing along the streets
at the speed of a railroad car? Who
gave you the right to use our streets
in such a manner as to constantly
endanger people's lives? Who set
you down in this community as a
complete example of a man driving
a dangerous machine without any
brains, care or prudence? You are
a shame to the town, to the decent
father and mother who be&ot you.
We can have sympathy for a natural
born idiot, but we fail utterly when
we look upon a man who has delib
erately, made himself such with an
automobile. I will put you where
you will not endanger any more lives
for the next three months and assess
you the cost of this action."
Such an admonition and sentence
would do good in this town. There
are young men here who are just as
culpable as the Cincinnati youth,
and at least half a dozen of them
need the same penalty every day. On
some of the best paved streets and
avenues it is critically dangerous for
pedestrians to attempt to cross. The
only remedy seems to be the kind
handed out by the Ohio judge. The
good hard fact is, something must be
done with the speeders or many lives
will be sacrificed to gratify the de
sires of a class of people who have
no respect for law or the right of
others.
The Fall Trade.
With the beginning of the fall
trade peeping out, our business men
should sit up and take notice. There
is no use expecting the residents of
Ashland to go around with a micro
scope trying to find out whether this
or that is sold in our town. The
only plan that will work is to keep
everlastingly telling them what you
have on hand. That is the way the
up-to-date merchants get their trade.
There is no reason why -the people
of this vicinity should be expected to
adopt any different method In regard
to trading than other places. Tell
them what you have; let them know
what it costs; show them you can
save them time and money by buying
from you, and then they will come
to your store and not carry home
mail order catalogues.
W!
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tog," think of "First National ?" H We grant every ac
commodation consistent with a safe and conservative
yet progressive business policy.
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.
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There are hundreds yes, thou
sands of people within a short dis
tance of town who scarcely suspect
what there is for sale in your store.
Let them know where you are. In
vite them to your store. Tell them
about your bargains. Show them
that you want their trade just as
much as it is wanted by out-of-town
merchants and a little more, by the
way and they will begin coming to
yeu. But if you sit and expect them
to hunt you up, you are going to be
very sadly disappointed.
It costs more to keep goods a year
before selling them and they get
shopworn and out of 6tyle. You
can't get business without asking for
it, and the best way to ask is by
attractive advertising.
Germany's excess of births over
deaths is greater than that of any
other country with a like industrial
development.
On the American continent there
are 1,624 languages and dialects
made use of.
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