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Ashland Tidings SEMI-WKKKLV. J -ESTABLISH ED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Brt R. (irrer. Kditor and Owner B. W. Talcott, ... City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. I F4rst-class job printing facilities. j Equipments second to none in the j interior. j r " - : r: t r Entered at the Ashland. Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat - ter. - A shift nd. Ore.. Monday, May 1H, 1014 i ' a NATURE'S BEAUTY SINIT. How many people in the city know how much and what ground is owned by the city just above the Chautau qua park grounds? Who knows where the lines of the city property run? Does the city own both sides j should have the kind of government of Ashland creek, or only one side? I that they choose. If the people of Who has been out along First avenue j Colorado, for instance, want a cow to where it comes down in the picnic I ardly, brutal and impotent govern grounds up the creek? It will pay j "lent, such as they have, they should any Ashland citizen to travel that j have it. It is their own government way and take a look. By careful j and they can change it to suit them driving automobiles can now make selves. It is their own 'fault if they the trip. Compare that drive with j don't provide for themselves some what we now call Scenic Drive. Go ! over it and see. Look down through the woods at the winding crystal creek; view the landscape with a view of determining what can be done and what it will look like if properly developed. Start on the street that goes south from the First National Bank, go tip to the street that skirts the Chautauqua grounds on the east that is First avenue follow it around the hill to the south and west the road is level and good; follow it clear around and come back by way of the present park drive. Do that. It will be a revelation to you. Then think it over. Wonderful nat ral beauty. We need to landscape this ground in such manner that the natural beauty will be preserved, not destroyed. In other words, a proper adjustment, or application of what nature has done, to fit our needs. President Sproule of the Southern Pacific has promised to try and get John McLaren, the man who made Golden Gate park and who is now landscaping the exposition grounds, to come and show us how. MOTHERS' DAY. The best that Is in us we owe to our mothers. Our dads may have been all right; in fact, as men go, mriKt nf ttipm wpr. P.nt thpv ilirin't ruddle us or kiss our bruises or low us on loving hearts to sob away - the griefs of the day or make us for get the fears of the stormy nights. Much of history is but a futile at tempt of mankind to do right rever ence to motherhood. Poets have sung of it, painters and sculptors have sought unceasingly to transfix its inspiring spirit upon canvas or In wondrous carvings of stone, religion has tried by aid of it to build a lad der to the stars, and yet the divinity of it surpasses our powers to express and almost our capacity to under stand. What is the miracle that in a few fleeting years transforms the shy and gawky girl of the early 'teens Into that marvel of patience, devotion, sympathetic understanding and sur passing courage which unfolds with maternity? isn't it God once more sending His spirit to abide among the sons of men? And so we do well to pause in the selfish rush to do some bit of honor to Mothers' day. But every day Is mothers' day, glory be. Never does the mother love falter; never the mother-patience fail. If only we could live up to the topes, the expectations, the stand ards of our mothers, what a corking fine world this would be! ANOTHER LESSON UNHEEDKD. It is just about a year now since the Ohio River Valley was devasated with an appalling flood and millions of dollars' worth of property and hun dreds of lives destroyed unnecessar ily. Immediately thereafter editors and preachers and economists every where began to lay plans to prevent te repetition. Practically nothing has been done. Congress appropriated iuuio muiir, 10 .:ioinuin wnai was already proved to be a failure. Hun dreds of cities throughout the coun try are In imminent danger now. Resolutions of sympathy, appropria tions for the relief of sufferers, and long-fare talk has little Influence upon the mighty flood. It Is respec t fully suggested for the benefit of the high-brow economists of the east who are criticising the way we do things that It Is time for them to get busy. OXE MAX'S OPINION. (By R. F. Paine.) Speaking of the "industrial wars" in Michigan, West Virginia and Colo rado, a western editor says: "There is a remedy a very simple remedy. "Recognize the combatants in the industrial war. Give them equal rights and let them fight it out. "When mine owners, for example, are permitted to maintain private armies of gunmen to protect their property, let the miners have full right to arm themselves to protect their own lives. f "Why temporize? Why beat about the bush? AVhy not frankly admit ' that the industrial war is actual war. , . . ., land Rlant t0 the other Bide the san,e j belligerent rights we all know the 'one side now exercises without hin- chance?" In short, this editor asks, why not 'a community civil war every time I there is a serious disagreement in the industrial world? Young Rockefeller give sa pretty fair answer when he says that these Colorado men are fighting their own government. It is indisputable that the people thing better. Republican form of government is based wholly and sole ly upon consent of the governed. To depart' from that basic principle means nothing less than anarchy or monarchy. But let us pass this feature by, and suppose that the miners in West Vir ginia, Michigan and Colorado -had been permitted to arm themselves and kill as many of the opposition as they could. It would be civil war, which the federal government would be bound to put down, and, so sure as war means "money, money, money," as the greatest warrior in history put it, the hundreds of mil lions of the Rockefellers would win. The miners of Colorado have resort ed to arms. They have instituted actual war. What have they gained? For every enemy Blain, the Rocke feller have hired ten others. Every rifle that the miners have got hold of has been matched by a Rockefeller rapid-fire gun. Have the miners been violent? Look at the mutilated corpses of those women and children at Ludlow, victims of the servants of Rockefeller gold We hear that the conflict Is on between men and dollars. Is our power of self-government so ficti tious, our civilization so rotten, our Christianity so barbarous, that he can only settle the Issue between a man pil-Jand a dollar by cutting each others throats? Who is It that permit mine owners to maintain private armies of gun men who slaughter inoffensive as well as offensive workmen and burn women and children in their homes? The people. Is it our only remely to equip another part of the people to shoot and burn? Is it really Rockefeller greed which is natural and rather universal that is responsible for such condi tions as that in Colorado, or is It the political Ignorance and recklessness of the populace, which populace it is proposed to permit to settle Its differ ences by civil war? All men must despise the cowardly and senile government of Colorado and abhor the brutalities perpetrated over there In the name of that miser able hypocrisy, law and order, but must we not all finally get back to the fact that what the people over there suffer is suffered ht the hands of their own government? JOURNALISTIC CONFIDENCE. Several newspaper men have re cently been brought Into court to make them tell authors of articles of information given them. The latest case occurred at Halifax, Nova Sco tia, where the editor of the Herald was jailed for forty-eight hours for refusal to tell who wrote a letter that was said to insult the assembly. The editor took the ground that to give this information would be a violation of journalistic ethics. No doubt there are Individual cases where It would be for the advantage of the public to know who wrote a given article. But the prevailing cus tom of keeping confidential the au thorship of newspaper communica lions brings out many facts and Just criticism of public officials. This helps hold public men to higher standards. If every one was compelled to print his name under a letter to the press, many people who should be heard would keep silent. It will be unfor tunate If the courts refuse to sanction this unwritten law of keeping news paper confidences. Make it "Ashland the Beautiful." XEV YORK BANKING.. The system of locking the stable after the horse Is stolen has been admitted for a great many genera tions as the poorest kind of business policy. One would hardly think of the great state of New York in con nection with such a principle, espec ially as it may be applied to its bank ing laws. But that is precisely what they are doing now in the New York legislature. True, the old system has some fea tures which may be commended. It is quite likely that New York will have another horse which might be stolen. In fact. New York is looked upon as being the leader. In points of population, financial power and national influence New York admit tedly leads all the other states, but this is not because the people there are wiser, brighter or more scrupu lously honest. Not by any manner of means would this be admitted. New York has waxed wealthy because she, has been especially favored not by the Almighty but by the legislatures, the courts and congress itself. It would be difficult to imagine a more outrageous business deal than that of the Siegel bank. The Siegel company, owner of the biggest de partment stores in the country, con ducted a banking institution in con nection with Its other enterprises. Its depositors were its own employes, working girls and poor people gener ally. Merchants throughout the country looked upon the institution! simply as a trade-getter or an accom- modatlon to the company's customers. But its proves to have been an accom- j modation to the company. They op-1 erated their "ac-omodation" as a pri- ! vate bank. As fast as the cash i passed their receiving tellers' win- ' dows they regarded it as their own i property and used it for their own j private purposes even to the extent of i paying dividends upon the stock of their corporation. Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters poured into the fake bank until the total has mount ed up to nearly three millions. Then came the .collapse. The crash came and the poor people who had contrib uted for it' amounted to a contribu tion now find that they will never I receive more than a very small frac-j tion of the amount of money for j which they worked so hard and de-j nied themselves so much. Now the New York legislature is! trying to pass a law to protect the security of deposits in state and pri vate banks. The word "trying" is used advisedly, for there Is a lobby with hundreds of thousands of dol-; lars now in Albany to defeat the Van j Tuyl banking law. j And all this in the great city of New York which, had it not been for I the energy and integrity of President! ilson, would still control the finances of a hundred millions of peo ple. Verily, it is better to lock the stable now than to leave it go un locked longer. COMMUNITY SUICIDE. Statistics show that the big cities of the country are growing faster than the smaller ones. There are exceptions, but this is the rule. One of the principal reasons for this ominous tendency Is the lack of community spirit among so many people. When a person buys supplies out of town he helps some other place to; grow. His support permits a iner-! chant in some other place to enlarge his business, hire more clerks, and pay more taxes. " The merchant thus favored does nothing in return, ex cept to sell his goods at a price that can usually be equaled or bettered in a home store. When yon buy goods at home you help your home business men to In crease their business, to draw more help from other-places, to pay more taxes, and do more to support all home Institutions. It pays to think what will become of your money after you spend It. Do you want it to help your own Interest, or those of some larger city? BOOSTS ASHLAND. Marshfleld . Record: If Ashland does develop her springs that city is certain to reap a wonderful return financially. Ashland will become a big health resort and everyone own ing property In that immediate local ity will be a whole lot better off. The move at Ashland Is one every well-wisher of the state should try and help along.""' Since Grants Pass determined to make a city by building a railroad to the coast, and Ashland decided to build a city by developing her min eral waters, the spirit is spreading. Roseburg now proposes to build a railroad from that point to tidewater. It will be but a short time now until the Rogue River Valley will be In touch with tidewater In two places. It is now' reported that the Grants Pass Hue Is already financed to the sea. ALL E OF NEWSPAPER ADVER TISING. ... The record of thirty-six retailers added as new customers in one town by advertising was included among other successes of a campaign for Armour & Co., made by the Johnson Agency in Chicago, iu which maga zine advertising was shown to be hopelessly distanced. This record of new customers was reported from a small city in the south by the local manager, who wrote: "In regard to the Easter campaign advertising done through the local papers, the advertising has done more good for Star ham and bacon business in Greenville than billboard advertising or magazine advertising. It has gone direct into the homes of the consum ers. The publishing of the mer chants' names handling Armour's Star hams and bacon has enabled us to round up about 356 new customers in the town or Greenville alone. Our Easter ham and bacon business for two weeks preceding Easter amount ed to practically 14,000 pounds against 9.000 pounds the previous year. It would seem that a continuation of the paper advertising would be the most effective at the present time." Another salesman wrote from a Texas town: "This class of advertising does us fellows in what you might call the rural dis- Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Fancy Waists Ue We Give 5 Cash New Colonials in tan leather, black suede and gun metal. You will iind our stock the largest and most complete in the city. Prices range irom $2.00 to $4.00. THE STAPLES Select Your Residence Property And buy your choice of land now before the inevifable jump in prices. " My clients are continually raising prices or withdrawing offers, but I have a few SNAPS left. Don't think that because I sell the STANLEY STEAM AUTOS that I can't find you a bargain in land. That's why I can do it. If you want money, land, a home, an automobile, timber lands, remember that a man in the real estate business is a good one to interview. Iam one" of them. Hotel Ashland Capital and Surplus, $120,000.00 First National Bank Oldest National Bank in Jackson County Depository of the United States, State of Oregon, Coun t ty of Jackson and City of Ashland. tricts more good than any of the magazine advertising you can do. It reaches more of the customers, and helps wonderfully towards getting the customers using Star brand." Phone news items to the Tidings. VAUPEL'S QUALITY STORE Coupons With Every Cash Purchase SUMMER FOOTWEAR FOR OLD AND YOUNG Sorosis and Utz MAKES Button Oxfords Our High Shoes in button and lace are beauties. IN Patent Leather, Kid and Gun Metal In Your Size In patent, plain toe, y$ kid top, cloth kid, gunmetal, lace and nubuck. mBBBBBBBBBn REALTY AND Bldg. I Illl Ten boys owed ten dollars. Ten new boys came in and bore their share of the payment. Did adding the last ten boys raise or lower the tax on the first ten? Make it "Ashland the Beautiful." Butterick Patterns SHOES GENTS' FURNISHINGS & Dunn Pumps in satin, velvet, suede, nu buck, canvas, pat. & dull leather. top. AUTO AGENCY Would any of the following interest you? 22 acres, alfaKa ranch, close to town, on perpetual stream. Splendid building site. $4,500. Easiest kind of terms. An 80-acre alfalfa and grain farm well improved, nicely located, offered for a short time at $12,000. Ought to and no doubt will bring $16,0Q0 within a year. A cottage on paved street leased for a year at $15 to responsible tenant, $1,200. A mountain ranch, well improved, on Williams creek, to trade for Ashland property. fc3 3 Ashland, Oregon 5J X t t I