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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1914)
eK two AHHLAN1) TIDINGS Monday, An gust 10, 1014 Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert It. Greer, - Editor and Owner Chas. P. Greer, Mgr. and 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. No subscriptions for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal is received. In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postoffice as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Aug. 10, 'II NEW VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE. "THE BABY CROP.' The value of life has fluctuated greatly in the different periods of the world's history. To the Spartans life was cheap. The highest duty was to be a soldier; the greatest hon or was to give away a life for the state. Napoleon estimated the thou sands of lives his conquest for a uni versal empire would cost, and he marched on, sacrificing them. Life had little value. Under Henry VIII death was the punishment for steal ing three shillings; there were 253 crimes punishable by 'death; 72,000 people were executed during his reign. Formerly war, pestilence and fam ine swept off humanity by the count lesa millions. During the Thirty Years' war 18,000,000' of Germany's population were killed. The Black Death devoured 25,000,000 people in Europe during the fourteenth cen tury. Three hundred and fifty fam ines have swept over the earth since the beginning of history. Human life has been destroyed like bubbles. Today all this has changed. Smallpox and yellow fever, for ages the two dreaded horrors of man kind, have lost their terror. The new discoveries In surgery have alleviated untold suffering. Formerly opera tions were performed while the sub ject shrieked with pain. Today an aesthetics render the patient as in sensible as a mountain boulder. The Out of 330,179 children attending the public and parochial schools of New York city who were examined by the Bureau of Child Hygiene, 230, 432, or more than 69 per cent, were found to be physically defective. These figures are given in a state ment just issued by the Bureau of Welfare for School Children. They do not begin to show the whole num ber of defective children, for the staff of the Bureau of Child Hygiene Is so inadequate that it was able to exam ine only about a quarter of the 885, 577 school children in the city. In New York the mothers have no votes. At the Interstate Fair held last fall in Spokane, Wash., the press re ported that the Better Babies contest broke all records. More than four teen hundred babies were entered from Washington and the neighbor ing suffrage states; and so many of them were found almost perfect that, after the preliminary tests, an addi tional competition had to bo held to settle the relative merits of the ba bies who came up to 98 per cent or over. "The baby crop is the most impor tant crop in the country," says Mar jorie Dorman, anti-suffragist. That Is one of the strongest reasons why women should vote. The difference between the terrible showing of New York city and the splendid showing of the Pacific northwest in the mat ter of children's health is due, of course, to a number of causes; equal suffrage is only one factor. But it is undeniable that more attention is paid to the Rafety of "the baby crop" where the mothers have votes. In Chicago, before women got the ballot, there was no efficient system of garbage disposal. In the stock yards district the garbage was simply dumped by the city and left to rot, with the result that the babies died like flies. For years the women had left no stone unturned to get the nuisance abated, but without success. As soon as the suffrage bill passed the legislature, the matter was taken up in earnest by the city government ; $10,000 was appropriated to bring about a better system, and Mary Mc Dowell, the leader of the anti-garbage campaign, was made one of the committee to spend the money. At the last municipal election in Chi cago for the first time the infant death rate was a practical issue, and candidates of all parties pledged themselves to help save the babies. Public Becoming More Cautious Pacific coast pedestrians, automo bile drivers and team drivers exercise more care this year in approaching railroad grade crossings than they did in 1913, though there is still plenty of room for improvement. The fact is shown in figures gathered by the Southern Pacific Company in con nection with its campaign for the con servation of human life and the pre vention of accidents. The company has made every effort to educate careless pedestrians and vehicle drivers as to the danger of approaching railroad tracks wiLhout first ascertaining the safety of cross ing. In this connection, observation tests were made in widely separated localities in August, September and October, 1913. Of the 17,021 motor vehicles observed, the drivers of 11, 836, or per cent, looked neither to the right nor to the left before crossing the tracks, 2.7 per cent looked one way only, and but 27.8 per cent looked in both directions. The astonishing number of 3,301, or 19.3 per cent of the total number of drivers observed, ran over the cross ings at a reckless rate of speed, and only 34 drivers stopped their ma chines before crossing the tracks to see that there was no train approach ing. Of the 4.8S9 drivers of teams. 39.4 per cent looked in neither direction, 8.6 per cent looked one way only, and 52 per cent looked in both directions. Of 6,301 pedestrians, 3,082, or 49.1 per cent, looked in both directions, 15 per cent in one direction only, and 35.9 per cent in both directions. Of the total number of 28,211 driv ers and pedestrians checked, 16,844, or 59.8 per cent, looked neither way before passing over the crossing, 6.3 per cent looked one way, and only 33: S per cent looked in both direc tions. To find out Ju-t what effect its safety first campaign is having, the Southern Pacific in June of this year made similar observations, at the same crossings where checks were made last year, and also at additional crossings. The comparative state ment of the result of the two checks shows the following encouraging re sults: Twenty-three per cent more drivers I of automobiles are looking in both di rections before crossing railroad OUR SILENT TRAVELERS. Ml !' The Oldest National Bank in Jackson County Member Federal Reserve System FIRST NATIONAL BANK It has often been said in Europe that Americans take their pleasures j sadly. Some of them also take them very stiffly and silently. A lady re- marked the other day that she had! spent many summers at seashore and ' mountain hotels, and that. if she got: acquainted with the other guests it, was always because she made the1 advances. The other people would!; never make any. j' One of the best pleasures and ben- j efits of travel is conversation with ! the chance acquaintances of the train and . the hotel. The commonplace , man who sits opposite you in the res-! ! taurant may not look as if he had ! any interesting thoughts to impart. ! ' Yet underneath his inscrutable mask ! of a face there may be keen observa- i 'fcA-ft.H.Tl.T-i-T--Ti-I--t---t.i i ttt-i'MWHrlMti tion and lively sense of humor worth " while drawing out. 'FrPilir RAC .People stand too much on their IWgUl IaLw dignity. There is too much cold Capital and Surplus $120,000.00 DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America t t reserve. The man who shuts his mouth like a clam misses learning a great many things that would be use ful to him. Also he will never add ! much to his circle of friends. Are Reduced To many people the most enjoyable thing about returning from a vacation iB that you don't have to go again un til next year. A revolution In trade conditions between the Pacific and Atlantic sea boards is expected to follow the re ductions. In a number of cases the new rates will be lower than the rates from New York to Chicago, a distance of 900 miles. The following will give an idea of the extent of the reductions, which apply to all commodities from San Francisco: Old water rates: Canned fruits 45c, dried fruits 50c, beans 40c, wine 50c. New water rates: Canned fruitu 30c, dried fruits 40c, beans 35c, wine 30c. The office of Dr. F. H. Johnson, dentist, will be closed until August 17. 15-tf am Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Fancy Waists VAUPEL'S X5he QUALITY STORE Butterlck Patterns SHOES GENTS' FURNISHINGS in iew torn city tne mireau oi cniuj , tracks than did last year, and 12 per Hygiene is begging for an increase of cent are now looking one way. its inadequate appropriation, so as to The number of drivers of teams leading physicians of the world a provide for nine additional medical looking both ways shows no improve few weeks ago cheered long and ! Inspectors, three surgeons, nine den-1 nient, both years being 52 per cent, loudly Dr. Alexis Can el. of the Rock efeller Institute when he announced to them that he had . stopped the hearts of animals for two and a half minutes and performed operations on their valves. , Animals have played an important part in the eradication of humau dis ease. From the horse the antitoxin is prepared that saves thousands of children from death by diphtheria. From the cow the vaccine prepara tion for immunizing against smallpox is made. In Baltimore recently a child's sight was restored by using part of a pig's eye In the operation. Dale II. Carnagey In Leslie's. FX) It KMT FIRE. The danger of the destruction the forests of southern Oregon fire is ade evident on a .season dry as the present one, says A. Voorhies in the Grants Pass Courier. The air Is blue with smoke, and in every direction the flames are con- tists and eighty-four nurses. It may get It or may not. Its chances would undoubtedly be brighter if the moth ers of New York city had votes. It is no accident tnat the lowest infant death rate In the world is found in New Zealand, where women have had full suffrage for more than twenty years. Miss Marjorie Dorman and other short-sighted women who still fancy that votes for cottiers would mean death for babies xhould heed the words of our leading expert, Julia C. Lathrop. .ie says: "Instead of being incompatible with child wel fare, woman suffrage leads toward It." PRCHJKESS IX THE KITCHEN. but 6 per cent more are looking one way than did last year. Pedestrians show an increase of 29 per cent look ing in both directions, but 5 per cent less looked one way, indicating a new improvement of 24 per cent. Taking automobile and team driv ers and pedestrians together, the im provement of 26 per cent more look ing both ways and 6 per cent looking one way Is shown. The Southern Pacific's chief sug gestion to those crossing railroad tracks is to stop, look and listen be fore crossing. Were everyone to beed this, company officials say, practical ly every crossing accident would be prevented. The fact that a thing has always been done in a certain way mere precedent limits originality and halts progress. For example: In a recent Issue of the Survey the ques tion why kitchen sinks have been made so low was discussed. No one suming more growth than the year! seemed to be able to explain. Final- 1 1 Tl ...!,..! ... V, I 1.. . . t- - Jl a . Y. 1 i a I'd mm iuukit uim uicicu luui has produced. The wisdom of the forestry department In its methods of fire fighting Is shown, however, in the fact that so few of the fires get beyond control. They are found and reported as soon as they start, and In most cases the Incipient blaze Is out In a short time. How these fires start is oftentimes a mystery. Sometimes they come from lightning, but often the careless hunter Is the responsible agent. August is always the month In which the danger is greatest, the woods be ing then in a most Inflammable con dition. The hunting seasop opening on the first day of August doubles the danger. In the Interest of safety, and of sport as well, It has been sug gested many times that the hunting season be opened a month later. Sep tember is usually ushered in by the first rain of the fall season, the woods become Bafer, and the deer are better game for the sportsman. There Is good argument for a later opening of the hunting season. EFFECT IX THE UNITED STATES. The Commercial Club is desirous of obtaining good specimens of grains nd grasses for exhibit purposes. Will those who have such kindly leave at (he Commercial Club rooms? tf the original Binks were made when the washing of dishes and other sink work was done in wooden tubs with high sides. Such a tub when used In a high sink came up too far, so the sink was made low. Furthermore, as running water and fixed faucets had not long been made, the tub had to be lifted out of the sink, and the lower the sink the lighter the lift. Though improvements In faucets, dishpans and other accessories of kitchen sinks have been made, no one has seemed to realize that the sink could be improved by raising. So women were and are compelled to endure discomfort when doing their ordinary household work. There may be a certain percentage of inconvenience to be reached before the human mind grasps the fact that something must be altered. The wise Inventor, says the Journal of the American Medical Association, attains a reputation for brilliancy by making his Invention before the need becomes obvious to others. Teachers who can spell are hard to find, but If they know how the cliff dwellers lived 10,000 years ago they will get Jobs, all right. The political conventions will soon be passing resolutions in which they declare fervently for armed Interven tion to straighten out Mexico, and also come out flatfootcd for peace. rcat less and live longer says a doctor. Dang goes another profes sional secret. The United States has met the financial condition brought about by the great European conflict in a manner that reflects much credit upon the administration at Wash ington. The influence of develop ments abroad was anticipated, and that there might be no panic in our own country provision was made for ! the financial stability of our lnstitu-j tions. The plea of President Wilson j that our own people remain calm, i and not lend themselves to the crea tion of distrust, met prompt approv al, and as a consequence the finances of the nation are suffering little from the affair in England. It must not be expected, however, that business and finance will not be disturbed by a war of magnitude, but matters have been bo well adjusted that the effect Is discounted and the cause for alarm has disappeared. We Give Cash Coupons With Every Cash Purchase Advance Showing Fall B?ess Goods First of all, let us tell you that broadcloths are coming in again. They will be in great demand, and we're ready with the best of values. A glance at the new woolen goods tells of the activity of manufacturers in produc ing fancy fabrics that will meet with much favor. FaDcy weaves, plaid effects aiid plain woolens are here for your approval. Before you select your dress goods at least see what we have rtceived from the best mills in the country. Pneumatic B?ess Foms "Pneu-F'orm" is for every woman in every walk of life, because it is not merely a dress form, but really and truly you. It never gets tired, irritable, cross or out of sorts, and better still, it never changes pose. You are fresh and carefree with Pneu-Form in your sewing room, for dressmaking isa pleasure and does not interfere with household or social duties. Let us show you this time and temper saver. THE STAPLES REALTY AND AUTO AGENCY (leap Land and Good laid. Rubberneck Car For Big Parties The big rubberneck car of A. S. Ames of Talent will be used for pic nic parties, lodge gatherings and all kinds of entertainment features by special arrangement. It will accon modate thirty and Is growing popular for entertaining. For dates and ar rangements phone 371-J-3, A. 8. Ames, Talent. 17-tf The consumer cannot e::pect to get an article for a reasonable price until the trust controlling it Is split up by the court, half in some one's left hand pocket and half in the right. 200 a. stock ranch, water and alfalfa 110 a. Large wheat ranch $ 30 a. 800 a. partly improved 25 a. 120 a. improved, close to town 100 a. 17 a. high grade alfalfa home ... 16 a. 6 yr-old gilt-edge orchard 80 a. alfalfa home ranch 20 a. bottom land on Bear creek $9,000 6,400 .12,500 200 a. Lots of other properties at fair prices and easy terms Automobile Insurance On all makes of cars against loss by fire from any cause in the old Boston Insurance Co., the first company to write insurance on automobiles. Stanley Steamer Agency ' The car that pleaues. The car tlmt excels in all points. Get a demonstration and tell us your opinion. Hotel for Rent Furnished House for Rent Hotel Ashland Bldg. Ashland. Oregon