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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Thursday, J an nary 8, 1914
Ashland Tidings
SEMI-WEEKLY.
ESTABLISHED 1870.
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Bert R. Grwr, Editor and Owner
B. W. Talcott, - - - City Editor
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Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 8, '14
NO MOKE FIFTY-CENT PIECES.
HOW TO FILL THE PEWS.
According to the treasury depart
ment, the half dollar of our daddies,
a fixture of our currency from time
immemorial, is in disfavor. None
have been coined the past year, as
those on hand amply supplied the
small demand. One reason given is
that the 50-cent piece is confused
with the 25-cent coin.
Considering the decided difference
in size, this does not seem to account
for the change. Possibly the prefer
ence for small coins is an uncon
scious mental outgrowth of the strug
gle against high cost of living.
Small units of money may have
some tendency toward economy. A
traveler recently returning from
France, where currency is based on
the franc of about 20 cents, said that
the size of the unit so affected her
that she felt much less inclined to
spend five francs than one dollar.
"With a nice clean franc in my
pocket 1 feel almost as rich as if it
was a dollar at home," she said. An
article of clothing offered for 50
, francs would seem prohibitive, but
ten dollars would have seemed very
reasonable.
An abundance of small coins and
bills saves much waiting for chanbe.
The people who deal with tradesmen
at the door often find them unable to
make change, and the housewife nev
er gets too many dollar bills and
small coins. ,
Many small services must be paid
for out of the nocket. Every trav
eler knows the advantage of a pock
et full of small coins in meeting with
the clamor for tips.
The mark in Germany, the shilling
in England, the lira in Italy, the
franc in France, coins varying not
more than five cents from our quar
ter, are the very backbone of daily
commerce in Europe. Our 25-cent
pieces seem to fall in line with these
as the normal unit of small change,
and the half dollar seems as needless
as the old 2 -cent piece.
We like the spirit behind the plan
of that Cincinnati clergyman who has
opened his church evenings to the
unemployed, serving free food, good
advice and an invitation to use the
idle pews as cots if they have no
where else to lay their tired heads.
That's most decidedly the spirit of
Christianity as exemplified in the
teaching and practice of Christ and
the early Christians. He preached
yes; but He also fed the hungry and
healed the sick and comforted the
miserable. And we guess it wasn't
half so much His preaching, unsur
passed as that was, as it was His
practicing that made the common
people hear Him gladly and follow
Him with affection.
In the cities are great, fine church
es, representing millions invested,
but empty and dark most of the week
and not any too well filled on Sun
day. And outside, on the streets, are
able men who have no work and are
hungry some, also, bitter men, who
think the church is of no use to
them and who sometimes, with an
oath, doubt whether even God cares.
Rev. A. N. Kelly of Cincinnati be
lieves that God does care and that
at least one church can help. He
doesn't stop with believing and say
ing it he is proving it.
If Christ were in every church, do
you suppose that its doors' would
stand closed and its kitchen idle
while hunger stalked the town?
Then why isn't your church work
ing? Did we hear you say, "I have no
church"?
Yes, you have; you have Rev. Mr.
Keiry's church. If you lived in Cin
cinnati could you be kept from lend
ing a hand to a church like that?
OREGON MINE PRODUCTION.
Year 1013 Shows an Increased Out
put of Gold, Silver and Lead.
TWO POINTS OF VIEW.
The New York Herald in a recent
survey of business conditions of the
country says that the most severe de
pression is in the east and middle
west, while the South Atlantic, Gulf
states and west and southwest are
enjoying normal business conditions.
The Herald seems to think that the
panacea for these stagnant conditions I
is an increase in railroad freight
rates. We confess that we are un
able to follow the Herald's logic.
The New York World on the other
hand publishes an interview from
Senator Simmons, chairman of the
finance committee of the senate, in
which he charges that the depression
which exists is due largely, if not
entirely, to the efforts of the big
concerns like Morgan & Co. to fright
en congress and the president from
contemplated reforms and enforce
ment of the anti-trust laws.
WHY HANKERS LINED UP.
A number of newspapers seem to
he considerably mystified as to why
the bankers of the country, who so
universally condemned the currency
bill, suddenly veered into line for It.
The explanation Is not hard to find.
There were not to exceed two dozen
bankers In America who ever did
have any real complaint against the
currency bill. Tho trouble was that
a few of the men representing the
very largest banking institutions of
America saw that enactment of the
Owen-Glass bill would put an end to
a part of their business which en
riched their banks at the expense of
the country. These men immediate
ly set up a howl against the curren
cy bill, and the bankers, who are
more like sheep than the sheep them
selves, just tumbled into line and
followed. It took the average coun
try banker a long while to make up
his mind that the transfer of a few
hundred million dollars of reserve
from Wall street banks to regional
banks would really be a good thing
for him. It will be a long time be
fore the country banker again puts
his trust so Implicitly in the fellow
who has been growing rich at his
expense.
The mines of Oregon made a some
what unexpected large increase in
gold yield for 1913, compared with
1912. The mine report of 1912
showed a production of $770,041 (a
material ' increase over 1911), but
the premillnary estimate for 1913
made by Charles G. Yale of the Unit
ed States Geological Survey shows
that the gold output nearly doubled
in 1913, amounting to $1,393,322,
or $623,281 more than in 1912. The
mine output of silver in 1912 was
57,081 fine ounces, while the esti
mate for 1913 shows a yield of 218,
949 ounces, an increase of 161, 8G8
ounces.
The copper output in 1912 accord
ing to mine returns was 260,429
pounds; the estimate for 1913 is
144,796 pounds, or 145,633 pounds
less than in 1912. The mine report
of 1912 showed a yield of 39,317
pounds of lad, but for 1913 the esti
mate is 96,743 pounds, an increase
for the year of 56,426 pounds.
While the hydraulic mines of Ore
gon are large producers and there are
about 100 of them among the 160
producing placer mines, the increase
of gold output for 1913 comes main
ly from the deep mines, of which
there are 50 or 60 producing in the
state.
The most productive deep mine in
the state is the Columbia, at Sump
ter, Baker county. Other large deep
mines are those of the Highland De
velopment Company at Baker, the
Commercial Mining Company at Rye
Valley, Baker county, and the West
Coast Mines Company at Champion,
Lane county. The average values of
the ores treated in Oregon have been
Increasing materially in the last few
years. A very large percentage of
the gold produced from deep mines
In Oregon comes from Baker county,
though Josephine county leads in
output of placer gold. Very little
of the Oregon ore is shipped to the
smelters, most of it being worked in
local mills at or near the mines.
There are about 30 active quartz
mills in the state, with a daily ca
pacity of about 1,100 tons. It will
be a matter of great encouragement
to the miners of Oregon to know
that so large an increase of gold
yield is apparent for the year 1913,
even if the Increase does come from
a few of the older mines and not
from new ones, and it may attract
attention to the gold-mining industry
of the state in which capital is need
ed for development and operation of
mines and mills.
The Home Circle
noughts from the Editorial Pen U
Your Town.
If you live in town you should be
lieve in it. If you don't believe your
own town or city is a little better in
most respects than any of its neigh
bors you should move out. Like oth
er places, it has advantages that oth
ers have not, and your modesty
should not prevent you from making
that fact known whenever the oppor
tunity presents itself. At home or
abroad, whether pursuing pleasure or
engaged in business, do not neglect
to give those with whom you come
in contact to understand that you
live in a live town populated by en
terprising, wideawake, go-ahead peo
ple, and one that is advancing in
stead of retrograding. If you can
truthfully speak in commendation of
the ability of your professional men,
the square dealing methods of your
merchants, the excellence of your
mechanics, the superiority of your
churches, schools and public institu
tions and industry, energy and so
briety of your citizens, let nothing
prevent you from exercising that
privilege. You should learn to be
lieve, if you do not already, that
we have all these and in addition the
best located town, the finest country
surrounding it, with the most Intelli
gent class of ranchers to be found.
If there are any drawbacks it will not
be necessary to mention them. The
people and newspapers of competing
towns will relieve you of that task
by attending to that part of it then!
selves. Strangers seeking locations
are always greatly influenced in fa
vor of any town whose citizens are
enthusiastic in its praise. No city
or town expects to attain prominence
over its rivals unless its inhabitants
appreciate the excellence and virtues
of each other and will collectively
spread abroad their faith in the pres
ent prosperity and future greatness
of their locality. Talk is a cheap
commodity, but when rightly utilized
it can be made effective In many di
rections and this is one of them.
HOLDING DOWN THE LID.
It is mighty fortunate for the peo
ple of this country that they have
had a man like Charles A. Prouty on
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Mr. Prouty has declared very posi
tively that he is opposed to any ad
vance in freight rates until some su
pervision Is exercised by the govern
ment over the endless and almost
criminal expansion of capitalization
and bonded indebtedness of the rail
roads. As long as a railroad com
pany can increase its stock and bond
ed Indebtedness it will always man
age so that the net Income will he
less than a "reasonable return" on
the face value of the watered stocks
and bonds. The present system is
like attempting to fill a barrel with
water after the bottom has been
knocked out.
riJOKK OFF WINDY KENATOKS.
President Wilson has been doing
very nicely thus far In his adminis
tration. Tho country has witnessed
the passage of two great reform
measures, both of which passed not
because congreHs wanted them to but
lterause the people and the president
insistently demanded their passage.
The house under the management of
8 taker Clark and William Under
wood has given a splendid account
of Itself.
The senate on the other hand has
apparently talked against time and
has succeeded In keeping the country
in suspense months longer than there
was any need of. Now If President
Wilson can convince the senate that
it should adopt rules including the
cloture, be will have performed
third great service to the nation.
All the big irrigation reservoirs of
Colorado, and there are several of
them, are reported to be filled with
water. That means prosperity for
the eastern end of the state. TheJ
recent heavy snows, while they
caused great Inconvenience and ex
pense to the people of Denver and
other cities, brought certainty of
crops to the agricultural sections.
And so it Is through life.
Robert Taft, son of former Presi
dent Taft, stood at the head of a
clans of 66 candidates for admission
to practive law at a recent examina
tion in Columbus, Ohio. His father
led his class 30 years ago. Young
Taft will hang out his shingle In
Cincinnati.
Newspaper Duns.
We presume that some people
think the newspaper men are persist
ent dunners. Let a farmer place
himsflt in a similar business position
and see if he would not do the same.
Suppose that he raises 1500 bush
els of wheat and his neighbor comes
and buys a bushel. Suppose the
price is only one dollar and the
neighbor says "I Will pay you in a
few days." As the farmer does not
want to be small about the matter,
he says all right.
Another comes the same way and
another and another and so on, till
the whole 1500 bushels of wheat are
trusted out to 1500 different persons,
and not one of the purchasers con
cerns himself about it thinking It
Is a small amount to the farmer, and
would not help him any.
Don't you see what a hardship it
would work upon the farmer if all
the purchasers failed to realize that
he had frittered away his large crop
of wheat and that its value was due
in 1500 driblets and that he was seri
ously embarrassed in business be
cause his debtors treated it as a lit
tie matter?
If all would pay him promptly,
which they all could do as well as
not, it would be a very large amount
to the farmer and enable him to
carry on his business without dlffi
WHEN you think of "First National," yon think ot
"banking. Why not, when yon think of "bank
Ing,M think of "First National?" 1! Wc 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, State of Oregon, Conn-
ty of Jackson and City of Ashland.
gain of 30,000 over last year. At
the present rate of licensing the to
tal number in tho Empire state
licensed in the calendar year will
approach 200,000, and will probably
exceed that, for the rate is increasing
all the time. When a single factory
turns out 1,000 a day this newest of
large industries attains proportions
difficult to comprehend.
A New York man who had quar
reled with his wife agreed to let
her take all the household goods ex
cept his mother-in-law's picture. Now
what do you know about that?
In 26 states there are state forest
ers who co-operate with private tim
berland owners in solving forest
problems.
Government ownership of tele
graph and telephone service is on
the way.
Phone news items to the Tidings.
Biliousness and Constipation Cured.
If you are ever troubled with bil
iousness or constipation you will be
interested in the statement of R. F.
Erwin, Peru, Ind. "A year ago last
winter I had an attack of indlgestlou
followed by biliousness and constipa
tion. Seeing Chamberlain's Tablets
so highly recommended, I bought a
bottle of them and they helped me
right away." For sale by all dealers.
Judge Galloway Is right on one
point at least. He Bays the frequency
of elections on all sorts of proposi
tions is bad.
BENEFITS LOCAL PEOPLE.
Ashland people have discovered;
that A SINGLE DOSE of simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., an
compounded In Adler-i-ka, the Ger
man appendicitis remedy, remove
gas on the stomach and constipation
AT ONCE. T. K. Bolton, druggist. 5
Good Work Done Promptly
N.&M. Home Laundry
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Rough Dry at Reasonable Prices. New Machinery.
J. N. NISBET, Mgr.
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Rooks By Parcel Post.
Postmaster General Burleson has
submitted to the interstate commerce
commission a schedule of rates which
has for its object the admission to
the parcel post of books and printed
matter. Within a few weeks the com
mission will make public the results I
of its investigation of the schedule,
and presumably the postmaster gener
al will take action accordingly. This
extension of the parcel post should
prove one of the mot significant
since the establishment of he sys
tem. Up to the present time the
service has presented the paradox of
accepting for transportation at cheap
rates merchandise generally and de
clining to accept printed matter ex
cept at the regular old exorbitant
rates. There has never, of course,
been any logical reason why books
and printed matter should not re
ceive the benefit of the reductions in
postal rates. The tariff now charged
is unreasonable. The many new fea
tures added to the parcel post ser
vice by Postmaster General Burleson
give promise that this branch will,
during his administration, in all
probability witness its perfection.
One of our exchanges most truth
fully says that the telephone girl sits
In her chair and listens to voices
from everywhere. She knows who Is
happy and who has the blues; she
knows all our sorrows; she knows all
our joys; she knows every girl that
Is chasing the boys; she knows of
our troubles; she knows of our strife;
she knows every man who Is mean
to his wife; she knows every time
we are out with the boys; she hears
the excuses each fellow employs; In
fact, there's a secret 'neath each
saucy curl of that quiet, demure
looking telephone girl. If the tele
phone girl would tell all she knows
it would turn all our friends into
ARE YOU INSURED
LOCAL 8. P. TIME CARD.
As if Americans could not do
enough kicking over the new tariff
law, some foreigners are complain
ing about It.
If tho bankers think the new law
will be good for the country, other
people needn't necessarily condemn
it.
Champ Clark says any one can live
In Washington on $12,000 a year.
And hire a "competent girl"?
It Is rather safe to "predict that
Mr. and Mrs. Sayre will never be op
posing; parties in a divorce case.
culty. The above comparison fiU all
too truly the difficulties that the bitterest foes; she would sow a small
newspaper man has to contend with. I wind that would soon be a gale, en
gulf us in trouble and land us in
jail; she would let go her story which
(gaining In force) would cause half
our wives to sue for divorce; she
would get all the churches mixed up
in a fight, and turn all days into
sorrow and night; In fact, she could
keep the whole town in a stew If she
told the tenth of the things that she
knew. Now doesn't It set your head
In a whirl when you think what you
owe the telephone girl?
Northbound. Leave
No. 14 8:00 a.m.
Grants Pass motor (main
line depot) 9:30 a.m.
Grants Pass motor (city
depot) 9:40 a.m.
Grants Pass motor (main
line depot) 3:40 p.m.
Grants Pass motor (city
depot) 3:50 p.m.
No. 16 4:30 p.m.
Southbound. Arrive.
Grants Pass motor (city
depot ) 9:00 a.m.
Grants Pass motor (main
line depot) 9:20 a.m.
No. 13 11:36 a.m.
Grants Pass motor (city
depot) 3:10 p.m.
Grants Pass motor (main
line depot) 3:20 p.m.
No. 15 .............. f. 4:50 p.m.
A Boston court holds that a man's
home Is where his wife Is. A mean
contemporary suggests that according
to this ruling most men live in de
partment stores and bridge whist
clubs. Not most, but a few.
The marvel where all the money
comes, from for automobiles remains
unsolved. In eight months ot this
year 130,000 machines have been
licensed in the state of New York, a
in a company that has a reputation
for settling Us losses fairly and
promptly?
Or are you where you are likely t
have a lawsuit to get your claim ad
Justed? THERE'S AS MUCH DIFFER
ENCE in Fire Insurance as there is
in clothes.
The best is none too good for you;
Insurance is our business. W
want to give you the kind that wears.
Better come In and let us fit you.
DO TT NOW.
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