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PACK TWO ASHLAXI) TIDINGS Monday. Jtaag it l9 Ashland Tidings ; WEEKLY.' s ; ESTABLISHED 1870. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. t ireer, . Editor and Owner B. W. Tolcott, ... City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year . $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months ,50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the interior. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, June 1, 1014 REMOVING THE MVSTERV. THE FACTS ARE STILL ALIVE. Mr. Abbott of Chicago, in an ad dress to the Missouri Bankers' Asso ciation In session in St. L.iuis, ex pressed the opinion that the banke's of the country should remove the mystery taht has too long enveloped flanking. He is strong in the belief that when the public knows the bank ers as they are and understands thejr purposes and the functions they per form, there will be less hostility. No doubt Mr. Abbott is right as to tho bankers, and the same is true as tc men of practically a'.l other profes sions and businesses. It is truo of individuals, in or out of business. The fact was put in attractive form by a Missourian who devised a com mercial club slogan: "Get acquuiite.l with your neighbor; you might like him." Half the friction in the world ! comes from misunderstanding The day of mystery has passed. Railway presidents have discovered it. The public made up its mind to find out things about railways. Some times its surmises were worse than the facts. The leading railways of the country now maintain depart- J ments of publicity and the facts are no longer "doctored." The pulOic curiosity is keen and it is suspicion? of any lack of frankness. Manufac turers of drugs and articles of food have noted this determination of the public. Packers have also been niged to speak. Even the physicians havo Tiad to break the reticence o? Ions liabit. Courts have ofter felt im pelled to write their decisions iu lan-. ; guage comprehensible to the laity. Newspapers have been compelled to file sworn statements as to thoii- cir culation and ownership. In sh:.rt, nothing can be done in a come any more. Every institution of a public or quasi-public nature or depending upon the public for patronage mii.it be ready at any time for pitiless pub licity, and even the privacy of indi viduals is often invaded. While there are many old-fashioned folks who are often annoyed by some of the aspects of the changed condition of affairs, the change as n whole will prove beneficial. There is nothing more healthful than light. No more significant dying wor.ls vera ever uttered than those attributed to Goethe, when he wrote w'th hi hand In the air, "Light, More Light!" Tiie N'azarene gave the reason for sou.e people's preference fo-1 darkness. There are few callings anion; iih::i that will not bear light. The gtt mass of nien engaged in every calling j should welcome publicity The. few whose dark practices cause thcni to shun It are thoie who have given the calling whatever bad reputation 't may have. Nothing will do more to bring a general recognition of the brotherhood of man than perfect un derstanding, such as Mr. Abbott urges the bankers to establish wtih their j customers. Mr. Mellen of the New Haven, on the stand before the Interstate Com merce Commission , recalled those French officers in the Dreyfus trial who, whenever a particularly odious thing in the conspiracy was brought out, ascribed it to thet one of the conspirators who died before the trial began. In law, one man cannot make a conspiracy, but the conspiracy proved in the Dreyfus case showed a dead man as the only one, and in the case of the New Haven road, accord ing to Mr. Mellen, the late J. Pierpont Morgan was about the only man in on the deal for despoiling investors of millions. The Dreyfus conspiracy was proved on the admitted facts, and the New Haven conspiracy is being proved in the same way. The fact that the man is dead to whom all responsibility is now imputed, cannot change the ree- ord. Mr. Mellen went into sickening details of how he and other directors In the West Chester deal were only puppets of Mr. Morgan. He told how New Haven stockholders, protesting to hi ill at the expenditure of $11,000, 000 of the company's cash for a los ing property, when told by him to complain to Mr. Morgan in person, shrank in admitted fear from such an ordeal. There were several men in the group, he said, who saw both the danger and the crime, but they all were afraid to speak. One man ter rorized all of the others nto an evil partnership, and yet, in the vernacu lar of the world of high finance to j which they all belonged, they had all Jong been known as "strong men." It is not 'necessary to think that Mr. Morgan was the only evil spirit In the group to see the evil that was clone. "The evil men do lives after them." Mr. Morgan was the domi nating figure. He could set up and pluck down men in the chief execu tive office of great railway lines in which his banking houses could raise a controlling voice through its repre sentation in stock and bond boards. The story has not yet progressed far, but it has progressed far enough to show the vital necessity of that de gree of government regulation of rail way securities which some capable men at the head of solvent lines are now saying is needed for their own protection and that of the Investing public. RISK AMI DECLINE OF TRAIN'. TIIE GREAT ADVENTURE. The top of the morning to Uncle Jimmie Corcoran and his good wife, of Belle Plalne, Minn., he 89 and she 84 they've Just celebrated the sixty second anniversary of their wedding, and look good for many happy returns of the day. Seven children, 42 youngsters once removed and 13 in the third genera tion live to bless the day when Uncle Jimmie, a bold buck of 23. came to thlg country from Old Erin, the flame of love in bia heart for the bonnie las sie of 18 who came over upon the fame ship and later linked her life with his. And say, maybe It wasn't some cele bration when four generations met to wish them well! Sixty-two years of Joy and trouble, storm and sunshine 62 years In the roost interesting period that the hu man race has ever known. And through It all, lovers and comrades, share and share alike. Nightfall finds the mstill together, -rich In memories, calm in acceptance of what Is to come. No question there that marriage py. Gibbon wrote a famous history on the "Decline and fall of the Roman Empire." In the power and pride of Rome on the ascending scale, few would have thought ruin possible. Similarly In many well-established business houses there are the seeds of decay. The merchants of any community range themselves Into two classes. There are those who have an estab lished trade, great or small. Some of them think they can now live on the fruits of their past efforts. All they have to do is to sit still and their regular customers will come around and buy their goods. , But population changes more rap idly than It used to. Few people send out roots deep into any soil. Death claims its share. Any given body of people, accustomed to buying goods in some one place, will be cut in two by death and removal in five years. The older people who bought goods regularly at one store were al most ashamed to be seen going into another place. They felt as It it' were almost an act of disloyalty. Nowa days no one Is tied up anywhere. All go where the best bargains are of fered. Few places have any regularly established thde that can be counted on without persistent solicitation. New customers must constantly be sought to take the place of those that drop out. The other class- of merchants are those that are coming. In a year, by persistent efforts to tell the public what they are doing, they build up their own constituency. It la-made up not merely of the drifters and floaters, but from wide-awake people who are drawn fro less aggressive and enterprising stores. ' The business that does not adver tise Is usually the business that Is go ing down. The buslnessNthat adver tises la the business thiit Is coming tip. phone news Items to the Tidings. The Canadian parliament is expect ed to pass an antl-tipping law. The Americans have such a feeling of pity for the poor hotel and restaurant keepers that they will keep on pay ing their bills twice for the same service. AND YET THEY COMPLAIN THAT THE PEOPLE ARE .LOSING RESPECT FOR JUDGES.? TROUBLES OF MR. FORD. Read through this narrative and see whether 'you do not agree that truth is stranger than fiction. Terre Haute's wealthiest citizen is similar action by numerous employ ee fact that Mr. Ford is to grad ually lay off factory hands until the number of 6,000 will be without em ployment for a time has attracted several times as much attention as Crawford Fairbanks. He is the pro prietor of a big brewery and has run era of the country. Word comes from Washington that the federal govern- HMH M 1 1 HI 1 1 1 IH 1 1 II M Mill The Oldest National, Bank in Jackson County Member Federal Reserve System Winston Churchill, the British lord of the admiralty, having looped the loop six times In an aeroplane, Secre tary Daniels will probably attempt some dare-devil feat. T. R. Is finding that It Is as hard to keep possession of a river as It is of a bunch of colored delegates. the town, politically, for many years. ment is to begin an inquiry into Vice is rampant, elections have be-'causes. Whether Haman's gallows is come a ifarce, because of false regis-1 16 be used or not only the results of trations and other election frauds, i (.he inquiry will determine. The man Early tihs year a circuit judge by the jagement announces that the retreuch name of Charles M. Fortune' impan- j nient is due to slack business and' the eled a special grand jury and appoint-(cause assigned for such slackness Is ed a special prosecutor. .They went ' reasonable on its face. It is explained diligently to work and the mayor of 1 that the operation of the factory eon Terre Haute, prosecuting attorney of . tinuously, night and day, in three the county and others' were indicted j eight-hour shifts, enabled it to fill all for election frauds. i orders. It is not customary for fac- The trial of the case against theitories to accumulate a great surplus mayor was in progress. The grand ! 0f products and store the same, jury was still at work. It had. found j When the surplus has been disposed a number of indictments which had j of abroad at reduced prices in tom not yet been reported, and was still J petition with foreign goods it has prosecuting its investigations, 'it was, given rise to a charge that American FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,000.00 DEPOSITORY OF pity of Ashland County of Jackson Slate of Oregon --''':' United States of America t AiIiJiJi -- .-.... t..,... .t..,...Aj..L.i.Aj,AAAAJiAAl,lif,JiitiJ-AA-J.Ai.l.-'- . . . - . i'TTTTWTVT'ftyTTT1T'"TT'YTTTTTTTTTVrTTTTTpfTT1''lTTTl'TTT'h customers were being robbed. Every tariff campaign has been elivened with discussions of this practice. currently rumored that the grand jury and the special prosecutor were try ing to get not only the tools who had committed the election frauds, but the men higher up who had furnished the money. Crawford Fairbanks had absented himself from Terre Haute during the investigation, and. it. was i. A U . . U . , i J uuur.Bluuu mai auupueua woum es to 8iite thell' fates. be served on him if he came within ' " I the jurisdiction of the court. banks The mediators cannot object to the Mexicans blowing up their own bridg es any more than they could interfere with their amputating their proboscis- ' The man under arrest on a charge of swindling does not help his case any with surgeons by declaring that he has a silver plate in his skull. This Is one of the hardest dying delusions extant;'' . Mr. Rockefeller is furnishing addi tional employment, lie has hired some more guards for his home in New York. The Tidings is on sale at Poley's drug store, 17 East. Main street. The Boy Scouts are drilling in many places with wooden guns, but so far Huerta has not claimed that this violates the armistice. $2 THE YEHR Strictly in Advance $2 Southern Oregon's Big Twice-a-Wetrk newspaper tShe Ashland Tidings STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Fair- machine officials declined to make any appropriation for the ex-1 penses of the special grand jury audi prosecutor, and they had "offered to ! serve without pay. V Sunday, April 26, Tom Taggart and Crawford Fairbanks, the political ; bosses of Indiana, met at the Deni-j son Hotel id Indianapolis. - The same i day the mayor of Terre Haute, the : defendant whose case was on trial, and Judge Fortune, the judge who; was trying the case, journeyed to In-; dianapolis and went into conference j with these two political bosses. What j passed between them is not disclosed, j except that the judge said he reported ! the political situation in Terre Haute, j The next day Judge Fortune called : in the special grand jury arid sum-! marlly dismissed it, without consult ing the special prosecutor, or even giving the grand Jury an opportunity to report the indictments which it had already found. The grand jurors united in a public statement, in which they state: . "We wish the public to know in the past two years there is not a law on the statute books governing elections which has not been repeatedly violat ed; that there is absolutely no en forcement in any part of the county of the laws regulating the sale of liquor; that there is no officer of Vigo county whose duties Involve the enforcement of law who is making any pretense at performing the duties of his office; that the warrants on the indictments which were returned early last week against the runners of blind tigers in Fayette township, of which there were sixteen, have never been served. " "That in our efforts to arrive at the truth and to obtain evidence of violations of law, we have been ham pered, delayed and thwarted by offi cers' of the county who have taken 'olemn oaths to enforce the laws; that at no time in our investigations have we ever received willing co-operation or assistance from the county offi cials who are drawing their salary from the people's money, for the per formance of the duties Imposed upon them by law." This performance In "Indiana is en titled to go down in history with the one in Cincinnati, where Boss Coxm called the three judges of the circuit court before him and told (hem how to decide a case. And yet there are those who com plain because the people have lost respect for judges. Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Fancy Waists VAUPEL'S J5he QUALITY STORE Butferick Patterns SHOES GENTS' FURNISHINGS We Give 5 Cash Coupons With Every Cash Purchase Just received another lot of i Pneumatic Dress Forms Sizes 38 and 42 YOU SHOULD HAVE ONE Cleanup Sale of Men's Straw Hats Regular $3.00 hat, now $2.00 Regular $2.50 hat, now $1.50 Regular $1.50 hat, now $1.00 Regular $1.25 hat, now 75c Prices Slaughtered on Ladies' (lino suits Kahkl suits, consisting of coat and skirt, sizes 36; 38 and 40 bust measure, regular $6.00, now 4 QQ Linen SuitsCoat and Skirt Sizes 32 and 40, regular $5.00, now $"75 Sizes 32 and 38, regular $7.00, now. $3.00 Size 36, regular $8.00, now $3 50 Size 40, regular $8.50, now, $3.90 Sizes 38 and 39, regular $8.50, now ; , t $390 Sizes 37 and 43, regular $9.00, now Sizes 38 and 40, regular $12.00, now $4.00 $5.00 Ladies' Linen Auto Coats Regular $3.50, now , . $2.00 Regular $5.00, now $3.00 Regular $7.50, now ...$4.50 Regular $9.00, now ....$5.00 IT'S TIME TO TAINT. One of the many to whom the aes thetic takes off his hat Is the paint man. If there is any one class of business which conies more nearly being a benefactor than the man who sells paint, it is the mechanic who spreads It. Inside or out, the sign of fresh paint is a sign of cleanliness 1 and health; it gives a new smell, a new appearance and even a new taste to things. Outside it kills rot, and Inside it kills germs. On top 'it spares leaks and at the bottom It keeps out the damp. A clean, freshly painted town spells progress and taste and wealth. Of course the paint man and the painter are not the "whole show." Sambo with his whitewash brush Is entitled to credit; the man-of-all-work with his pitch bucket helps out; the scrub woman with her lye and her soap and her mop conies in for a lotf of credit. But we're for the man who paints, Just the same. Phone Job orders to the Tidings. It seems very careless of the Mexi can warriors to go on fighting while lflchard Harding Davis was locked up and unable to write up the battles. My clients are continually raising prices or withdrawing offers, but I have a few SNAPS left. Don't thiqk that' because I sell he 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,.reraember that a man in the real estate business ie a good one to interview. I am one of them. Would any of the following interest you? 0 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 $16,000 within a year. A cottage on paved street leased for a year at $15 to responsible tenant, $1,200. wMi.mountain rmch' well improved, on Williams creek, to trade for Ashland property. Hotel Ashland Bldg. Ashland, Oregon LADIES' ALL WOOL SUMMER SUITS, values up to $25.00, YOUR CHOICE Be sure and visit our shoe department. Here you will iind the best, in all styles. it. L imiiii nil ii nil mi ! ..MM wnm m-ii.li, ,, nttimnMummmmiuumimmmmmmBl THE STAPLES REALTY AND AUTO AGENCY Select Your Residence Property And buy your choice of land now before the inevitable jump in prices.
