AO TWO AKITLAXD TIDINGS Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, Editor and Owner B. W. Talcott, ... City Editor Sl'BSCTtlPTION RATES. One Year $2.00 61i Month 1.00 Three Months 60 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application). First-class lob printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Nov. IS, 'IS HAPPEMXa EVERY DAY. XEF.li:i: MOKK HYMNS OK DEMOCRACY. One night at Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Samuel Crothers, who preaches across the road from Harvard and writes the best essays now coming from an 'American pen, listened for 30 minutes while 1,200 folks in a social center Jew and Gentile, mas ter and slave, but for that occasion all Xr'ee and equal poured out their souls in songs of democracy. Then he said: "Do you realize what you have done? You have found a Substitute for war. We peace fellows have had all the arguments but one, and that one has been unanswerable. The military fellows say it takes a war to make people really feel together, to know a common interest, to own a common country. And how do .they prove it? They tell us that from '61 to '65 we were a singing nation, and that's true. Those were the days when we learned 'Marching Through Georgia,' 'Tenting Tonight,' 'Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory,' 'Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,' 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home.' "I was a boy In those days and I never expected to hear such singing again. But I have heard It here to night. You sang in that spirit. What does it mean? It means that, down underneath, you have been gripped by that same, throbbing com mon reality; not hate this time, nor fear, but love. You know a common interest. You own a common coun try. You've found what the military fellows say we can't get without ftghting. You've spoiled the only ar gument for war." The spiritual vibration which comes from fellowship on a level can't be understood until it is felt. It is the best thing in every enter prise In which men and women en gage in groups. It is what furnishes the motive power for hymns and cheers and what stimulates those soul forces which make heroes and mar tyrs of folks ordinarily just like you and us. All ot which reminds us that there's a need for some more good hymn writing. The old religious hymns of selfish personal salvation are pretty well played out. Even the orthodox churches are casting them aside. The tunes may live, and many are worth living. But they require new words words expressive of the new note of Boclal service; words summoning not only man, but. also society, to repent and be Just. Open social centers to the full call of democracy and you'll be aston ished how soon a new crop of poets and hymn writers will grow up. In Tacoma the other day a woman was seized in a police raid. She had been traveling the easier way. The judge was impressed by her lack of hardness. Something of the divine which is in all women still gleamed as a rainbow in the clouds of her miserable surroundings. She had the look of a mother. So he questioned her, and this was her story: Married when young to a beast who soon deserted her, she had been left with two beautiful babes, no money, no relative, no friends and no trade. She went forth offering to do hon orable work, household work, laun dry work, rough, exhausting work, any work which a good woman might do, and all that she could earn was about $6 a week. But she could not take her babes with her when she worked and she could not afford to hire someone to tend them. The princely pay of menial toil left no margin for keep ing mother and babies together. However, she was pretty and not yet old. The world which would not give her a living wage for honorable work offered her ease, comfort, con sideration and comparative riches In exchange for her honor. She was not of the fiber of mar tyrs. She yielded. With her body she bought bread and shelter and pretty dresses for her little ones. The police came with clubs and hustled her to prison. The men who had tempted her escaped. Society, which made that awful contrast be tween the wages of virtue and vice, shrugged its shoulder and politely decided that the subject wasn't prof itable for discussion. And this is happening in every city every day. What are we going to do about it? If anything. UNCLE SAM AS BAILIFF. , The Mexican so-called election oc curred on Sunday, but the deed was no better on that account. AT T1IK HUSKIX'S. City people think of the country as horribly isolated and lonesome. Act ually, however, village life is often full of social engagements. In many a crossroads hamlet the first event on the fall program is the corn husk ing. Under ordinary circumstances husking corn Is a laborious employ ment. The husks are full of stuffy dust which sets one coughing and dulls the energy of the workers. But with the girls of the neighbor hood at. your side, the glamor of so cial pleasure surrounds even this te dious task. The tradition of red ears makes the occasion one of co quetry and romance. Uncle Reuben is a pretty shrewd old fellow. 'He has a good Idea of the conditions under which work is done easily. No American custom shows a keener notion of how to get something for nothing. With an in expensive 8prehd of sandwiches, ap ples, roast corn and sweet cider, the mountain of stalks, the sight of which made the farm help so tired, Is quickly turned to a heap of golden ears. "ONLY A BIRD IX CAGE!" A GILDED RECEIVING ELECTION' RETURN'S. Although only about half a dozen stateB have held 'elections of any im portance this year, the returns have been awaited with unusual interest to see how far the new party line ups of last year proved permanent. Every year returns come in a little more speedily. This Is principally due to the existence of the telephone.' It was only a few years ago that get ting the returns from the back towns meant that a carrier must drive or ride from the polling place, unless the returns were to wait until the next day's mail. Now there are com paratively few precincts where tele phone connections cannot be had. Ballot officers who count the votes quickly and transmit them immedi ately to the nearest newspapers per form a real service. Elections upset business to an extent, and the quick er the agony Is over and the result announced, the less friction is caused 1n daily life. To beat the high cost of living three thousand students in the Uni versity of Ohio are co-operatlug In the buying of food and clothing sup plies. Carload lots are the rule, and middlemen are being left out of the deals. Besides saving money, these students are making a practical ap plication of the book rules of e'co "I have only been a bird In a gild ed cage!" That Is the explanation a young New York wife gave for attempting her life. She wore eight diamond rings and had all that money could buy. How many women there are, with apparently every conceivable want supplied, who are only "birds In a gilded cage!" How many women there are who, because their "place Is at the fireside," have never had a chance to get Into the broader cur rents of life! How many women there are, de nied by fate or self-robbed of the Inestimable privilege of motherhood, who sit idly, hand in lap, and let their God-given faculties go to seed! Think of the hell of continued Inward chaffing over the absolute lack of Incentive to the use of those faculties that distinguish man from beast! Think of being a plaything for man all your life! Think of all these facts before you condemn this woman! Lest we forget, make a note of the climate at Ashland last Sunday and Monday and compare it with that of the same date In the east. Then look up the temperature last July In the east and middle west and that of the Rogue River Valley on the same dates. When you have done this the question of exceptional climate for the Rogue River Valley will be 'for ever settled. This much only because our people are so used to this fine climate that it takes a contrast of the kind to keep it in view. Again we arise to assert there Is no better twelve-months-in-the-3'ear climate In nomlcs, which is a real educational the world than at Ashland and vicln triumph. lity. Centuries ago, before railroads, telephones, hourly mail deliveries; when to travel by coach or horse meant to hazard holdup's by high waymen demanding your money or your life, it was quite a job to serve a writ of court. It meant a lion hearted bailiff armed with pistol and sword; and it meant a mileage allow ance and fees in proportion to the costs of travel and the risks. Though those conditions have long since passed away, In most courts the old scale of charges remains, a dead weight tax on Justice, a grim reminder of the resistance of court forms to the spirit of today. But not in all. Cleveland's mu nicipal court has just closed a month's experiment with service by mail. When a persos is to be sum moned, the bailiff fills, in a blank on a typewriter, addresses an envel ope to the person's legal residence, registers the letter and leaves the rest to Uncle Sam. During 19 days in October, service in this manner was1 attempted upon 837 persons, of whom all but 14 were located. Under the old system, the bailiff assures us, about 68 of this number would not have been found. Uncle Sam's watchful letter carriers have the constable beaten to a fraz zle for efficiency. The cost to liti gants of personal service would have been $270.1 2. The cost of service by mail was $67.50. Court authorities throughout the United States know of this Cleveland nnovatlon. Now see how soon they will take advantage of it. There can be fun in doing the things you can afford. Again is a backwoods preacher in the toils on the charge of moonshin ing. This time the alleged infraction of the excise laws was practiced in the mountain districts of northern Georgia. Those mountaineers do not consider it a crime to manufacture illicit booze, any more than a drunk en chauffeur thinks it a crime to run over a pedestrian at a street cross ing. Much depends in this world on the point of view. Let ti3 teach our children to he lovers of the meadows and woods, the mountains, and of the whole earth. Students of all her moods, knowing that nature will be to them as Wordsworth the anchor of purest thought, the nurse, the guide, the guardian, of the heart, the soul, of the moral being. 1 Now that Ashland is fairly started on her way as a big summer resort why would it Hot be a good idea to have a rose-planting day and make it a bower of beauty as it will be a haven of health. The fall is a good time to plant roses. Let's hear from the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club. Phone news Items to the Tidings NOTICE OF REDEMPTION OF IM PROVEMENT IWJXDS. Notice is hereby given that im provement bonds Nos. 541 to 544, both inclusive, of the city of Ashland, Oregon, will be taken up and can celled by said city on December 1, A. D. 1913, by payment of the face value thereof and accrued, interest to said date, and that interest will cease on same from and after said date. Holders of said bonds will present same at this office for payment. C. H. 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