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Entered at the Ashland, Oregon,
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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. GILLETTE,
Recorder City of Ashland, Ore.
48-2t
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