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Thursday, July 23, 19U
Ashland Tidings
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Ashland, Ore., Thursday, July '14
CRIME AND Pl'BLICITY.
Murder is not merely an affair of
Although there are now nine pro
hibition states In the Union, it is to
be noted that twelve other states
have tried the experiment of prohibi
tion. Here is the classification:
Present Prohibition States.
Maine adopted constitutional pro
hibition 1846; repealed 1856; re
enacted 1857; resubmitted to the
people 1884 and 1911.
Kansas submitted constitutional
amendment in 1879 and adopted by
the people in 1880. Statute making
enforcement easier passed in 1909.
North Dakota adopted constitution
al provision when territory became
! state.
Georgia passed statute August 6,
1907; became effective January 1,
1908.
Oklahoma adopted constitutional
provision when territory became
state.
Mississippi approved a statute
February 19, 1908; became effective
January 1, 1909.
Tennessee enacted prohibition in
1909; supreme court upheld the law
city slums, mining camps and lonely!
farm houses. Recent mysteries that
detectives, newspapers and public
have been trying to unravel have oc
curred in a setting of conventional
ized society.
Civilization and conventional liv
ing are often said to be only a thin
veneer. Underneath is the same old
human tiger of love and jealousy and
anger. He devours alike his victims
whether on the fringes of civilization
or in the atmosphere of culture.
Yet it is remarkable how conven
tional living does tend to exclude the
darker acts of human nature. Edu
cation and refinement point out to
the human intelligence that crime
brings its own punishment. The
murderer suffers a thousand times
more than the murdered.
The greatest deterrent from crime
with many people is the fear of pub
licity. When two foreign-born labor-
era quarrel over their sweethearts
and one deals a deadly blow, the
newspapers dismiss it in hasty para
graphs. But If these elemental deeds
occur amoug socially conspicuous
people, there are headlines and black
type.
As the human mind becomes more
complex it tends to shelter itself
from the eye3 of the curious. It bit
terly resents impertinent prying. It
demands the chance to lead its own
life secure from observation. Un
doubtedly the gossipy habits of coun
READING THE ADVERTISEMENTS.
in October, 1910.
North Carolina voted for prohibi
tion on May 26, 1908; law becaine
effective January 1, 1909.
West Virginia voted for a prohibi
tion amendment in 1912; became ef
fective July 1, 1914.
State That Abandoned Prohibition.
New Hampshire enacted prohibi
tion legislation 1855; repealed 1903.
Vermont enacted prohibition leg
islation 1850; repealed 1903.
Massachusetts enacted prohibition
legislation 1852-1869; repealed 1863
1875. Rhode Island enacted prohibition
legislation 1852-18SG; repealed 1863-1889.
Connecticut enacted prohibition
legislation 1854; repealed 1872.
Ohio enacted prohibition legisla
tion 1851; annulled by tax law.
Michigan enacted prohibition leg
islation 1855; repealed 1875.
Illinois enacted prohibition legisla
tion 1851; repealed 1858.
Iowa enacted prohibition legisla
tion 1884; repealed 1893.
Nebraska enacted prohibition leg
islation 1855; repealed 1858.
South Dakota enacted prohibition
legislation 1890; repealed 1896.
Alabama enacted prohibition legis
lation 1908; repealed 1911.
Wisconsin also is on the list as
given, but does not properly belong
It used to be an old-time joke that
some people were so fond of news
papers that they even read the ad
vertisements. That might have been a humorous
remark years ago. At that period
some merchants would run an ad
vertisement for a whole year un
changed. Clothing dealers would start
advertising January first with a no
tice of overcoats for sale, and would
still keep it running in July.
Today people read the advertising
as a matter of business. The women
read it just as' the farmer reads his
price current or a banker reads the
financial news. They thereby get
ideas as to how they can save on
household or personal expenses.
Probably a majority of the women
turn first to the advertising of their
favorite merchants, and then read
the news later.
The men also read the advertising
carefully. Even if they have no bus
iness enterprises of their own, they
are interested in the advertising as
a reflection of the business life of the
town.
Hence it is perhaps unnecessary to
suggest to the readers of this news
paper that its advertising columns
are worthy of the most careful atten
tion. They are giving that attention
to these notices now.
Still it is worth while to s,ay that
there is no time when advertising
is worth such careful attention as in
midsummer. All kinds of merchants
have the proposition before them of
cleaning out their stocks before cool
weather comes on. That takes a good
deal of publicity. The goods won't
move of themselves. The public must
be told about them and in some de
tail.
The story of what is happening in
the stores will be found in the adver
tising columns of this newspaper.
Most of the newspaper readers are
seeing it, and it will repay their clos
est scrutiny.
PROPHETIC.
Big was the ado not long ago when
a river boat laden with excursionists
and freight from Pittsburg docked
and discharged at St. Paul.
It was the first boat in years to
make a voyage down the Ohio and
then up the Father of Waters almost
to his mouth.
With whistle tootlngs, banquets
there, as the prohibition legislation with speeches and columns in the lo-
enacted in that state in 1855 was
try neighbors are one cause why peo-i vetoed. So It cannot correctly be
pie move to city life. - aaA the state ever tried and aban-
This feeling receives Its sharpest
shock when people of refined tastes
and conventionalized habits become
connected with some deadly crime.
One suspects that the questioning
by reporters, the space in the news
papers, the sordid Inspection of one's
dally affairs by a whole nation, are
more dreaded than even the possibil
ity of the electric chair. There is
still enough human weakness and
sin so that this publicity performs a
most efficient service.
HEALTH FOR WOMEN STUDENTS.
Flat-chested college graduates,
with all sorts of intellectuality, but
with bad digestion and frazzled
nerves, are hopelessly out of fashion
today. So said President Mary E.
Woolley of Mount Holyoke College,
in a characteristic address to the Na
tional Educational Association meet
ing at St. Paul the past week.
In primitive times women did man
ual labor In home and field. " The
men sat around making arrow-heads.
The women must have been their
physical equals.
Yet for hundreds of years the Idea
has prevailed that women were weak
lings. It was not until bicycles came
along that outdoor sports were
thought possible for them. They sat
on the porch doing embroidery while
their brothers played baseball.
In spite of Miss Woolley's optim
istic statement, in women's colleges
the old ide prevails to an extent.
The girls have more vigorous sports
than formerly. But some colleges
are still fearful of the word "ath
letics." They think "recreation"
noundg much more ladylike. Inter;
college athletics are not common for
girls. Thereby many abuses are
avoided. But a splendid incitement
to physical culture is lost.
Still the modern girl, particularly
the modern college girl, is gaining
greatly in physical power. She can
tire out nineteenths of the men on
long country walks.
The physically vigorous girl has a
bright face and merry heart. She Is
personally attractive. People of this
type disprove the old claim that col
lege women don't marry and rear
families. The time would seem ripe
to encourage women to engage freely
in every kind of athletics. Give them
clothes in which they can run, and
they may even beat the boys on the
baseball diamond. A physically vig
orous womanhood means the disap
pearance of much of the disease that
depresses the human race.
doned prohibition
New York and Indiana likewise
enacted prohibition laws in 1855, but
In both states those laws were de
clared unconstitutional by the
courts.
Alabama, named in the list of
states that have abandoned prohibi
tion, has substituted local option, and
others may have done likewise.
In all the states that have had
prohibition for a considerable period
ttfere has been much turmoil over the
liquor question from time to time,
especially in Maine. In that state,
when it came up again nearly three
years ago, prohibition barely pulled
through by a majority of only about
700 votes.
A WOMAN'S SPITE.
cal press was the visitor welcomed,
tor its coming seemed prophetic.
And so well pleased was the boat
owner with this trial run that he
announces a permanent service. For
passengers it will be more of a nov
elty than a convenience; but the
freight rate Is so much less than by
rail, though the distance is several
times greater, that much traffic is
expected.
Half the money usually wasted by
speculative private managements of
railroads would, if applied to river
and harbor development, give us in
ternal waterways rivaling those of
Germany, for lower freight rates on
non-perishable products and free our
rail lln.es for intensive service of fast
freight and passengers.
The St. Paul incident is a reminder
that we are getting close to an era of
Internal improvements.
Down east, in the town of Salem,
where witches were burned, two
women, living side by side, fell out
and one built a spite fence. Nine
feet high she built it, of great, rough
boardH, completely shutting off the
view of the street from her neigh
bor's window.
The woman whose view was thus
obscured, full of Puritan indignation,
hired a lawyer and went into court.
A master in equity was appointed.
After he had heard the testimony and
viewed the obstruction in person
he made his award. The plaintiff is
to get $15 damages.
Which shows, among other things,
how elusive justice is. Fifteen dol
lars for having to look at a spite
fence all your life.
But the real damage is something
which no court could measure, any
how. The one who suffers the worst
injury is the woman who built the
monument to her ill feeling; and
next to her among the sufferers are
the little children of Salem who daily
have thrust before them this ugly
token of the petty meannesses of
which grown-ups are sometimes capa
ble. A fit of temper, with a scrape and
then sunshine, are quite human. But
to build a grouch into a permanent
memorial is more than a passing
weakness it Is a crime against society.
NO SLOOB IS 1IUERTA.
Poor old Turkey bought a big, nice
battleship down In Brazil not long
ago and took It on for the purpose of
scaring Greece. Greece, instead of
getting scared, sent a good trader
over to the United States and bought
two battleships, either one of which
Is more than a match for the machine
When the new boss takes charge at
Mexico City we shall all miss Huerta.
Say what you will, that Indian has
some class.
Who else, for so many months, be
tween drinks, could make contemptu
ous gestures at most of the august
personages of civilization, defy the
world and get away with It?
Haven't you, this year and a half
noticed how often the White House
has been flabbergasted by this blunt
old fellow who was always going to
be "eliminated next week"? Who
hasn't seen the humor of it? Wil
son, Bryan, Lind, the senate commit
tee on foreign affairs, diplomats, gen
erals and strategists, holding confer
ences with glum faces, day and night,
adopting courses, shifting Mexican
policies, sending out diplomatic notes
and ultimatums, all aimed at old man
Huerta. And always the next day the
old man turnB up with a new and
staggering punch.
He's still on the Job, too!
He should worry!
What a pity General Huerta never
had a chance to learn the meaning
of democracy.
People's Forum
The Ethics of Hop Growers.
Dr. William Parsons of Eugene
ably handled this subject at a pro
gram in Chautauqua park, of which
the following is a synopsis:
The hop growers, notwithstanding
they say that they are temperance
people, are champions of the saloons.
They are forced by the big brewnry
Interests of the east to take this posi
tion because of a threatened boycott.
Since they have entered the arena,
It is the right of every patriotic citi
zen to . rise up against an industry
which, according to the ruling of the
supreme court of the United States,
brings about a very large amount of
crime.
They approve of our college coun
ties being dry because they educate
their young people in them and they
want them surrounded by a clean en
vironment. But they do not advo
cate the whole state going dry, be
cause they believe it would hurt the
hop interests, which they claim is
one of the biggest sources of cur
wealth. Yet less than 2 per cent of
the hops produced are consumed in
Oregon. It is a curious fact that,our
brewers import their hops and do not
patronize home products. Any reaS'
oning person knows how profits are
reduced when a commodity is shipped
to some far away mart. Frequently
rains and lice destroy at least a part
of the hop crop, so the Oregon hop
grower really only receives sufficient
profit to remunerate him in about
one year in ten. When he is con
templating plowing up his fields the
brewery trust baits him on and keeps
him in the business by raising the
price for the time being. Similar soli
has been known to produce ninety
bushels of corn to the acre, so is not
the hop grower a loser after all?
Corn or potato growing, hogs or cat
tie raising could easily be substitute !
to. his advantage monetarily, for
these are never failures with us.
The big brewing interests, howev
er, have scared these men into mak
ing a fight because they declare they
will boycott Oregon hops should the
state go dry.
Men are more than dollars. The
barbarian has ever placed possessions
first and we rise above his condition
only when we will not barter the pub
lie health, morals and safety to give
special privileges to the few. To In
ject private interests into any public
policy is a graft and a bribery. If
we put wealth before safe conditions
for mankind we are planning the de
struction of our people. Or In Low
ell's words:
"Men are more than wealth and bus!
ness.
Better rot beneath the sod.
Than be true to class and interest
While we're false to man and
God."
When the state asks us to protect
the hop growers' interest they are
asking us to sacrifice our sons and
daughters. What father cr mother
can afford to pay such tribute?
We would class ourselves with the
wreckers of the New England coast
who opposed the building of light
houses because it would hurt their
illegitimate business.
And we, the people of Oregon, can
not afford to be dominated by one
single industry which so easily could
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MRS. M. M. EDMUNDS.
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country has been filled of late with constipation or gas on the stomach
reports of the immense crop yields,
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and there is great rejoicing among wee uy AJUilu"' uruK6'"
those who live off of the farmer and
the products of his soil. City people
The Commercial Club is desirous
watch these crop reports more closely . of obtaining good specimens of grains
ana grasses ior exniou purposes, win
those who have such kindly leave at
the Commercial Club rooms? tf
than do the farmers. This time, i
with more than five and a quarter
of billions of bushels in 6ight and in
granaries, there, can be no doubt
about the prosperous condition of the
country for the next year. It seems
almost impossible that this great
grain crop should be consumed with
in a year's time. Every cereal shows
a record-breaking production with
wheat and grain in the lead. Surely
this is a great country we are living
in and the products of our soil are
making us, commercially and indus
trially, the greatest people on earth,
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Freckles
Now is the Time to Get Rid of These
Ugly SKt.
There's no longer the slightest
need of feeling ashamed of your
for without the crops that come from I freckles, as the prescription othlno
the farms there would he no rammer. I double Strength is guaranteed to
clal and no industrial activity worth , rerao'he8et hm
Simply get an ounce of otnlne
tne mentioning. double strength from any druggist
j and apply a little of it night and
i morning ana you snouia soon see luni
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completely clear the skin and gain
a beautiful clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double
strength otbine as this Is sold under
guarantee of money back if it fails to
remove freckles.
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TODAY IS BETTER THAN TOO LATE.
Billings Agency
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the Turks bought down In South
America. It is not reported whether
Turkey is alarmed over this apparent
menace, but it is fair to presume that
honors are not Quite easy in the
transaction. Greece got away with
the bacon again. We sold these
fighting vessels for little more than
$11,000,000, and Instead of putting
that money out at interest it seems
that the fellows down In Washington
have decided to build one -big, su
per , hyper dreadnought with the
wad.
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200 a. slock ranch, water and alfalfa 110 a.
Large wheat ranch $ 30 a.
S00 a. partly Improved 25 a.
120 a. Improved, close to town 100 a.
17 a. high grade alfalfa home $9,000
16 a. 6-yr-old gilt-edge orchard 6,400
80 a. alfalfa home ranch 12,500
20 a. bottom land on Bear creek 200 a.
Lots of other properties at fair prices and easy terms
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