Ashland tidings., March 26, 1914, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

A8HXAXD TIDINGS
Thursday, March 26, 10H
PAOR TWO
Ashland Tidings
SEMI-WEEKLY.
ESTABLISHED 187.
Iisncd Mondays and Thursdays
Bert K. Greer, - Alitor and Owner
B. W. Talcott, - - City Editor
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)ANCI(i AM) "WALLFMttYKKS."
IX ATTENTION OF CONGRESSMEN.
It is the uniform report of people
on the ground at Washington that
the sessions of congress are but poor
ly attended. It takes a good slam
ming debate to show half the mem
bers on the floor.
The members of congress are paid
$7,300 each. The majority of them
are boarders at moderate priced ho
tels. Congress is not in session more
than two-thirds of the time. Any
business corporation engaging their
services would expect them to devote
their entire time. Yet the congress
men drift back and forth between
their homes and Washington, and
business drags for lack of quorums.
SAVING THE OLD BALLADS.
Prof. A. C. Smith of the University
of Virginia, a folk lore Btudent, has
been- commissioned by the federal
bureau of education to conduct a
search for versions of old ballads.
Will he find any of the young people
singing them now?
What has become of the bunches
of young folks who once sat on door
steps and came home from picnic ex
cursions singing "Robin Adair" and
"Suwanee River"? Of course, as
everyone knows, they now go to the
summer hotels, dancing the one-step
or the Argentino tango, to tho music
of five-dollar graphophone recoras.
Tho lifo of the popular son;; is
Perhaps one reason for this dawd- J three months. Once in a while some
ling and inattention is the feeling of air with a haunting rhythm may sur
most of the ligislators that their at- j vive a year. If you suggest to a oom
tendnnce or non-attendance amounts , any cf people that they have a
to little. They obey tho call of the j "sing," soneone draws out a torn and
party leader. If t,hey turn up at the j tattered bunch of popular ngs,
closely disputed roll-calls, they feel j illustrated with fellows and gii Is in
that tho rest of the timo can be spent sentimental attitudes.
private business, or trotting I None of the company knows more
One of the notable features of the
irevailing craze for dancing is the
way middle aged and elderly people
sire renew ing their youth. Many peo
ple sixty years and more are found
trying the new twisting steps.
In dancing crowds, couples are apt
to drop out soon after they are mar
ried. This is commonly attributed
to the fact that married people have
new interests and get over their fris
ky ways. But the feeling of muBical
rhythm and dance steps is a very
fundamental one, not greatly affected
by marriage and its occupations and
4-aree..
Perhaps the real reason is that
dance customs give the young and
popular girl 6uch an unfair advan
tage. The belle of the ball is over
whelmed with invitations. Meanwhile
if a girl is a few years older, if her
friends have dropped out or moved
away, she is sighted. She may be a
better dancer and more charming
woman. But if the lordly men of the
contemporary dancing set are not well
acquainted with her, they pass her
to one side. She soon gets tired of
being a "wallflower" and quits.
The host of dancing schools that
have sprung up all. over the country
to teach the new steps are run on a
different basis. It is the business of
the teacher to see that every one who
boys a ticket gets a chance to
dance. Partners are shifted around
and noire are wallflowers against
their will.
Ballroom manners are selfish. The
men seek out their intimates and the
best dancers. The fact that pome
nice girl is having a miserable time
ever occurs to them.
While protests are being made
agains some of the coarser features
of dancing, let some thought be given
to the unmannerly treatment accord
ed the "wallflower." In these days
of equal opportunity, much could be
oaid for making half of the number
"ladies' choice." Customs are pretty
crude when so many graceful dancers
are outlawed because they must wait
until they are invited.
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around tho departments to find jobs
for constituents.
Yet it would seem that if a man
had ambition, he would mark out a
wider scope of usefulness. Even the
raw legislator can make himself felt.
Let him study the subjects coming
before his committee, acquiring a
broad range of facts and all points
of view. When bis committee gives
hearings and shapes bills be will be
in a position to put some questions
that will arouse interest. His dispo
sition to go to the heart of a thing
will attract notice. The party lead
ers will mark him.
If he gets a re-election he will have
a . rauen Detter committee appoint
ment. Tho level of ability in con
gress is not prohibitive to the man of
average talents, who is willing to do
a little digging. One would think
that apart from consideration of duty
It would be a paying proposition to
work in this thorough way.
A NEW VIEW.
than one or two of them. The oth
ers have at home similar collections,
consisting of different compositions.
The company finally settle on some
one song, but no one knows the
words. After wabbling off the pitch,
trying to follow the pianist, they
quit, and dance the hesitation waltz.
The pretty old art of informal choral
singing is dead.
Certain fine old songs should be
taught in the schools with "Amer
ica," "Star Spangled Banner" and
"Dixie." The school singing books
should not bother with flippy little
"Lightly Let the Boat Row." They
should teach "The Old Home Ain't
What It Used to Be," "My Old Ken
tucky Home," and the like, with some
of the even older ballads which Prof.
Smith is sent out to collect and pre
serve. These airs have survived across th
years, because they have tende'
sentiment and romantic feeling.
It is claimed that the mail-order
houses have increased their business
20 per cent since the parcel post was
introduced, but they never believed
you could sell soods merely by un
locking your front door and waiting
for the public to come in.
President Wilson is trying to per
nuade the statesmen of Mexico of the
benefits of foreign travel.
An address made by Mr. Percy
And rase, at the recent annual ban
quet of the American Association of
Foreign Language Newspapers at the
Knickerbocker Hotel, New York, is
attracting widespread attention.
Among many striking points in the
address is the rather novel view that
the political liberty we enjoy is prov
ing a danger to our individual liberty
and that "whereas law, as we gener
ally understand it, haB always sprung
from and been established by custom,
the tendency today is to reverse the
process and establish custom by law."
But, perhaps, the most important
point raised by Mr. Andrease, and
the one which is causing most dis
cussion, is the fact upon which he
dwells with considerable force, that
law-making is the only profession.
upon which the public welfaro de
pends, that does not call for previous
instruction and training, and that
the science of law-makiuw has no
chair in any university In the world.
This speech of Mr. Andrease sets
forth for the first time, so far as we
can determine, these new points.
There is a strong feeling among
the people who run the grab bass at
the charity fairs that the boys should
not be allowed to play marbles for
keeps this spring.
The common idea of reducing the
cost of living is to petition congress
for something, rather than to take
hold and raise a vegetable garden.
It doesn't pay to refer too osten
tatiously to the income tax you have
just paid. It arouses too bright hopes
in the minds of those passing 'sub
scription papers.
It is claimed that the new style of
buffalo nickels look cheap, but that
will not hinder people from putting
them into the contribution box.
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Tighten the Bridle.
The following editorial on the Lent
en season and what it means to us
is from the pen of Walter Rauschen
bush, D. D., the noted professor of
church history at the Rochester Theo
logical Seminary:
"To say 'no' is usually harder than
to say 'yes.' When we 6ay 'do' to
the request of a friend, we know we
are disappointing him. When we say
'no' to our own hankerings, we have
to breast the surrent of our desires.
If wo gay 'yes,' we can float down the
current.
"To say 'no' may be a real declara
tion of independence. It infornw the
world, the flesh and the devil that
you 'don't have to,' and are still mas
ter of your soul.
"Psychologists call the factulty of
saying 'no', to your own desires the
factulty of inhibition, and they agree
that modern life is not training that
factulty in most people. Children are
allowed to do what they like and to
learn only what tickles them. On
that plan, of course, the movies and
the tango have the right of way and
the multiplication tables and the Ten
Commaudments go "Into the discard.
Then, by and by, we wonder at the
strange increase In divorces, dope
fiends and white Blavery.
"Lent appeals to our faculty of in
hibition. We are asked to restrict
our food and huBh down our amuse
ments, and to give time to the serious
side or life. -
"Some people need this more than
others. Those whose main business
in life is good feeding and amusement
may well slow up and return to sim
pler ways, ti they will devote their
Lenten meditation to the question
who is dping the work that enables
them to play, and whether perhaps
their excess of play is balanced else
where by tutr excess of toil, it. will
please the Master whose humality
and sufferings they desire to remem
ber in Lent.
"Most of ns need special times to
stop and think, to take stock, to
change our ways, and to pray. Lent
gives us that chance. '
j "It will surely do no man harm to
tighten the bridle rein over the neck
of his desires for a while and to prac
tice athletic training. It will te6t to
what extent we are slaves of instinct
and fashion, or free masters of ourselves.
"It, at the same time, a man will
take the time and energy set free by
Lenten abstinence to giye extra ser
vice to some higher cause that he be
lieves in. it will speed up the coming
of the better day."
Hill II t H t M t ' 1
WHEN yon think of "First National," yon think of
"banking." Why not, when yon think ot "bank
ing," think of "First National?" II We grant every ac
commodation consistent with a safe and conservative
yet progressive business policy.
First National BaMc
Oldest National Bank in Jackson County
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Depository of the United States, StaSe of Oregon, Coun- I
ty of Jackson and City of Ashland. J
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was carrying un express package from
a city mail-order house was accosted
by a local merchant: "Why didn't
you buy that bill oi' goods from me?
I could have saved you the express
and besides you would have been pat
ronizing a home store, which helps
ivay the taxes and build up this local
ity." With characteristic frankness
the farmer asked: "Why didn't you
patronize your homo paper and adr
vertise? I read it and didn't know
you had the good I have here, nor
do I ever see your name in the paper
inviting one to come to your store."
The PORTLAND EVENING TELE
GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year,
$5.00.
An Iowa man baa solved the cost of
living problem by living with his
father-in-law.
To the Housewife.
Madame, if your husband is like
most men he expects you to look after
the health of yourself and children.
Cougbs and colds are the most com
mon of the minor ailments and are
most likely to lead to serious dis
eases. A child is much more likely
to contract diphtheria or scarlet fe
ver, when It has a cold. If you will
inquire into the merits of the various
remedies that are recommended for
coughs and colds you will find that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy stands
high In the estimation of people who
use it. It is piompt and effectual,
pleasant and safe to take, which are
qualities especially to be desired
when a medicine is intended for chil
dren. For sale by all dealers.
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The Tortures
of Rheumatism
are aggravated daring
climatic changes be
cause the impure blood
is incapable of resistance
and ordinary treatment
seems useless but the
fame of Scott's Emulsion
for relieving rheumatism is
based on logical principles
and scientific facts. This
oil-food promptly makes
active, red, life-sustaining
blood corpuscles and its
body-building properties
regulate the functions to
expel poisonous acids.
Scott's Emulsion, with careful
diet for one month, will relieve
the lame muscles and stiffened
joints and subdue the unbeara
ble sharp pains when other
remedies fail.
Be warm of alcoholic imitatfom
and intUt on the parity of SCOTT'S.
AT ALL DRUGGISTS
The ball games are beginning on
southern diamonds, and the American
people are preparing to develop their
muscles by watching the games from
the bleachers.
The Smart Set Is willing to wear
sackcloth in Lent if it Is cut with a
hobble skirt.
Glmtlawi
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2SIQOIS
Is a compendium of the
finest recipes for
Baking and Cooking
in this Climate
Climatic conditions are very important in cooking and
baking; what applies to the hich altitude of the Eait is
not adaptable to the sea level of this section. That is
why successful Eastern formulae are often failures here.
The Filrits Cook Book, just issued by the Fisher Flouring
Mills Company, manufacturers of
Fisher's Blend Flour
U perfea Alt-Purposa Flour, made of choiceA EaAern hard wheat
and choicrA Weitern toft wheat, wai prepared with thia fad in mind.
Mrs. IxtbelU Swtry, recognited Authority on tht Art of cookery,
preptred And tested e"bery one of its 156 recipes. For aucceaaiu I bak
ing in thia climate the Fame Cook Book ha do equal. We will mail
yon tha book if you fill out and (end ut coupon below, together with
Ten Cent (caah or Aampa.)
FISHER FIGURING MILLS CO.
817 WVka BoJr..t. SEATTLE, WASH.
Hm.ith tUr4 awl Cowpoa and T,n Cntt lor wHkK mail m Falrm Cook Book.
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Hide With Carriers.
Hereafter road commissioners will
bo accorded the privilege of riding
with rural carriers tor inspection of
roads. The new rule was anounced
in the January supplement to the
Postal Guide and is us follows:
"Postmasters at rural delivery of
fices are instructed to permit road
supervisors or commissioners having
direct charge of the highways over
which rural delivery routes are in op
eration to ride over the routes with
rural carriers when such road offi
cials are actually engaged in the per
formance ot their duties in connection
with the inspection of the roads."
The new rule will be of great ad
vantage "especially to county superin
tendents of roads who will be enabled
to inspect many miles of roads daily
without going to the expense of horse
or auto hire.
POUTICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
An exchange makes the following
pertinent comment: A farmer who
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Visitors to Medford will find this
modern hotel both convenient and
accessible place from which to shop
and meet friends. Koorus $1.00 up.
Hot and cold water In every room.
Courteous attention.
Ladies will find large, comfortable
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Meals served a la carte in spacious
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HANGS
Are You Taking the Risk?
Can yon afford fo lose
Your Bnsincss House or Home?
A good fire policy protects credit
and may be the financial sonl
of yonr business.
A few dollars invested today may
save yon a thousand tonight. '
Write, phone or call on
Billings Agency
Real Estate and Insurance
Phone 211
41 K. Main
Paid Advertisements.
FOR SHKUIFF.
A. W. Walker of Medford an
nounces his candidacy for the re
publican nomination as sheriff at the
primaries May 15.
Or
. Suia
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SINGLKR VOK SHKUIFF.
In accepting the appointment suc
ceeding my brother for his unexpired
terra as Sheriff. I did so for . the
benefit of his widow and family. The
office hag had an honest and efficient
administration.
With the same objects and pur
poses In view I hereby announce my
self as a candidate for the Republi
can nomination at the primaries May
IB. 1914. W. II. SlGLEU.
SHKUIFF.
J. V. Hitt'son. chief, of police of
Medford, announces his candidacy
for the democratic nomination for
sheriff of Jackson county at the pri
maries May 15. 100-100
KAKIIART FOR SHKUIFF.
A. K. Earhart of Rogue Klver an
nounces his candidacy for sheriff of
Jackson county, subject to the will of
the republican primary May 15.
LaiM IPffices Prop
BUT THEY DON'T DROP BELOW THE BOTTOM They have been at tho bot
tom for some time. . They were thought to be too high a short while ago, but they will
poon start upward again and go etill higher. Don't laugh, frown or nhrug your shoul
ders at ttiis, for it is a fact. "History repeats." I have recently hud more calls from
clients "raising their price" or "withdrawing" than listing now oileringa or lowering
prices. But I still iWe some properties at B EDUCED VK1CKS.
700-acre stock ranch, easy access $20 000
320-acre general and stock farm, alfalfa and fruit $20300
300-acre stock farm $10,000
100-acre mountain ranch .; $ 4 000
210-acre farm $12,000
All these are Rogue River Valley properties, quite nicely located.
For Exchange
1,280-acre farm in Douglas county; 400 in cultiva
tion; good Improvements. Will trade for in
come property.' Value $28,000.
12-acre irrigated dairy and orchard home; fine
improvements; free water; close to city. Cheap
at $9,500.
35-acre ranch near town; lots of fruit. Will be
sold for half price. Call for particulars.
For rent. furnlHhed hotel.
Four-acre Ashland home to trade for bunine??.
Hotel Ashland Bldg.
For rent. 5-room furnished cottaKu on paved street.
A Richmond. Cal., lot for sale on monthly pay
ments. Better proiU than buvIdrs bunk in this.
Two-acre Ashland homo to trade for smaller
place in Ashland.
Some business chances.
Houses to rent.
Homes on installments,
Insurance.
Watch next Issue of this paper for new bargains.
Ashland. Oregon
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