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-J nam vur-frkj-s TAOB TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Monday, KoTember 23, igij Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, Editor and Owner Chan. P. Greer, Mgr. and City Editor Billie Briggs, - News Reporter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year ?2.00 61x Months 1.00 Three Months 60 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 matter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Nov. 23, '14 THE SPRINGS BONDS. WHAT OP THE COLONEL? (Eugene Register.) The upstanding feature of the election was the complete collapse of the progressive party and the conse quent gain in republican strength. Even in Illinois, which has been one of the Bull Moose strongholds, the progressive candidate for United States Benator did not develop suffi cient strength to prevent the repub lican candidate from winning.. This, too, was in spite of the fact that Sherman, the republican candidate, was opposed by Roger Sullivan, dem ocrat, who is the head of one of the most powerful and thoroughly or ganized political machines in the United States. In California Gov ernor Hiram Johnson was re-elected by an overwhelming majority, but this is unquestionably due to his great personal popularity, for Fran cis J. Heney made a very small show ing In the race for United States sen ator. Progressive strength faded away in New York, Illinois, Kansas and other states. The decline of the progressive party is no surprise. There was no i great cause to sustain it, and it bad no important principle not shared by one of the other parties. It was the personal following of one man, and when that man was not involved it simply disintegrated and fell away. The results show its individual mem bers dropped back into the republi can party whence they came. The Bull Moose collapse, coupled as it is with marked republican gains, can mean only one thing, and that is republican success in 1916. The democratic party Is not in power now because a majority of the voters of the United States favored its pol icies, but because of a split in the republican ranks that divided the op position. The record it has made has not been such as to recommend it to the people. Its tariff policy has been a complete failure, and bus iness everywhere has suffered. With a reunited republican party there is little doubt of the outcome of the election two years hence. With the results of the campaign that has just closed before us, it is interesting to speculate as to what Roosevelt will do. Will he attempt to resuscitate the progressive party? Will he merely do nothing and thus drop out of public life? Or will he be found knocking diplomatically at the republican door? The first is hardly to be thought of, for what ever else the colonel may have done he has never shown marked fondness for continuing as the leader of a for lorn hope. The second contingency Is equally improbable, for inaction is not In his line. But It is not beyond belief that with the returns from this year's election before him he will discover that he is not so bitterly - v j inimical to the republican party as A fond mother with a son in highlhe n,ay have thought he was. Or school wrote to Christy Mathewson. ! courRe' he m have a K'eat deal to naklno. t hp wnnW rtvi w lot W against the bosses, for there is Thursday the springs water com mission notified sixty-two bond buy ers and banks that the Ashland springs bonds had been approved by charter amendment and were ready for the market, and requesting of- j fers for the bonds. These replies ! should be all In by the 5th of De- j cember. The financial market has ! been getting better rapidly and no doubt there will be several bids on i the bonds. If the bonds sell the com mission will proceed at once to have the detail plans finished and get ready for bids on the work. In the meantime the commission is j investigating the recommendations 1 of Engineer Anthony of Saratoga, in regard to his plan for piping the waters in. Smith, Emery & Co., the j chemical engineers who have had the plans in charge, have taken the mat ter up with Saratoga and are invest!- gating the methods to be employed j there in the work. This feature of I the work will be threshed out by the time the bonds sell and the work can then be rushed forward. The springs commission is trying to get the loose ends gathered up all along tfie line and focus on the common object of getting the work as speedily under way as consistent. It is very important that the work be completed by the middle of June at least. In order to do that onto feature cannot be allowed to wait on the other to any extent. All of the preliminary parts must be forwarded together. This the commission is trying to do. THE HARDEST THING ON EARTH TO MEASURE IS A MAN'S WORTH. Walter Johnson wants $20,000 a season, which is at the rate of about $600 for pitching each ball game. "It's too much;" the magnates say. "No ball player that ever lived is worth $600 a game." Caruso gets $2,000 or. is it $3,000? a night for singing a role in opera. Is he worth that? Who knows? We con fess we don't. Those who want to hear Caruso sing appear to be wil ling to pay at a rate to make his fee possible. And Walter Johnson is to baseball what the Italian is to song. This is to be said of both men: Neither has any strangle hold on his Job. If a better singer than Caruso should appear, or a better pitcher than Johnson, it isn't in the power of anybody else to stop him from enter ing the competition. The field in which each "works is an open one, with the chances pretty fair. So who can say what is the measure of eith er's commercial value? The only thing of which you may be sure is that excellence soon or late tends to command its price. Hence the obvi ous moral is: Do your best. Ancl then try each day o do a little bet ter. Whether the basis of the world's recognition be in money, blue ribbons or monuments after you are dead, the surest thing of all is that you won't get it unless you strive. And if you are in the job that fits, the mere striving will be the greatest reward. MA, SON AND FOOTBALL. the lad go in for football. "I am against It," she said, "for fear he may be seriously Injured." Christy was foxy. He refused to advise con cerning a boy he had never seen. But he ventured one statement of general value: "I maintain that every boy should take part In some sort of athletics. It tends toward clean living." We wonder If the boy's mother ever thought of the danger her son would be In if he kept away from outdoor sports and provided no wholesome outlet foi the bubbling spirits of youth. A swat on the iihlns, a punch in the jaw, even a broken bone, is an injury that will easily heal, leaving no ill effects. Indeed, a certain amount of mauling seems to be rather good for growing boys. The greater danger by far, only one boss with whom he can get along, but it Is not unlikely that he will discover that he and the' rank and file of the republican party have no cause for quarrel. The colonel has been singularly quiet throughout the whole campaign that has just closed, and the supposition Is not unreasonable that he has been wait ing to see which way the cat would Jump. The nation as a whole has abund ant reason to feel gratitude to the God of Nations for the undoubted.! prosperity that has been visited upon the American people. The year whose lengthening shadows will now soon fade forever has been fraught with manifold blessings and material fatness. As you sit down to your Thanks giving dinner, do not presume you can eat enough to last you a week, or thta by eating at once what would ordinarily do you a week will add to your present enjoyment. To always look at life's somber side is disheartening; the hopeful view is what buoys us up and causes gratefulness to spring upin the heart and fill the soul with Thanksgiving. Some men will light, a cigar and throw the burning match into the waste basket, preparatory to reading in comfort an article on the observ ance of Fire Protection Day. Not merely is an automobile as cheap as a horse and wagon this fall, but when you have a collision it is the horse and wagon that gets smashed up. tmnint The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen xnwiiniimiiititt As a city we have much to be thankful for. Our public schools were never In better running conll- tion thanks toan able board of di- ietiurs ana to a thoroughly efficient and conscientious corps of teachers. To the membership of our churches large additions have been made, and between the ministers and members thereof there exists at this time a firmer bond of Christian brother hood than ever before. The frater nal orders also have enjoyed unpre cedented acquisitions to their mem bership; In the administration of our city government we have occa sion for pride and gratitude. Effi ciency, honesty and progressiveness have marked tbe conduct of our mu nicipal servants. In manifold re gards we have been blessed abundantly. We have made of Thanksgiving a day of gratitude all untrarameled, a day the accompeniments of which are merry asthey should be. The re union of families and of friends, the feasting and the laughter, even the legend of the ennobled American bird,all combine to make of the day something genu'ne and religiously beautiful. There is the strain of the timbrel. Never was a greater na tional holiday, never one more per fect in its spirit. It is in itself one of the things to be thankful for to the Power which has so blessed so vast a land. Let us be thankful that however difficult and full of temptation life may be, we are given wisdom that suffices for daily living. No part of man's nature is so strengthened by right choice as the conscience. It is the still, small voice that we must listen for, and the oftener we hear it and obey the clearer and full is its tone. It is the delicate intuition that is dulled and finally destroyed by the doings of evil. Let us be thankful that most men are blessed with the righteous desire to do good and to deal fairly by their neighbors. 4HHIHMMMMI tnunMim"imiiini IIHIHt I The Oldest National Bank in Jackson County Member Federal Reserve System FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,000 AO DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America t 11 1 1 1 1 1 14 til M heart. There we can store our grief to ponder over it in our leisure and give to the world only the smile a beneficent Providence may impart to our souls and that will strengthen us to sing a hymn of thanksgiving. While sorrow may reign within, yet may peace and hope and confiding trust surround every reader of this column. Heaven bless you all this Thanksgiving day. Those whose lives are the easiest and pleasantest are often singularly forgetful of grateful ascription to the source of blessings. Thanksgiving day was not instituted by a people surrounded by comforts and luxuries but who turned their hearts to God in the midst of hardships of which their descendants scarcely compre hend the meaning. A thankful spirit enables us to meet our trials manfully. It lifts us above the sunlight of cheerfulness. Phone news items to the Tlding9. E2 i This is the harvest time for thanks. True, there have boen many trials, calam'ties in sonio places, homes destroyed, losses and sorrows, but taking the country over our blessings havo been very many and far outnumbered the dark, appalling things of life. In spite of many evils there has been as much of true sym pathy, of genuine benevolence, of a cordial spirit, of brotherly love and good fellowship. We can keep our thanksgiving in thevspirit of the scriptural admonition, "Be ye thank ful." As it would be the common sense thing for Europe to stop fighting and treat for peace on a business basis, there seems to be no chance that they will do it. Who says the high schools are not doing practical work, when' the boys who can't go to college are getting such good training in football? The greatest present need of the press in this state Is the establish ment of the individual publisher of advertising rates that will insure him a profit over the cost of productidn, taking into account his investment of capital and time. In no other way can he so effectively secure for the press that efficiency and independ ence which are necessary before it dear madam, is that your darling, can give its full measure of public It Is evidently time for wide skirts to come in fashon, or the women might get their money's worth out of the narrow ones. Congress will soon go back to Washington and resume its work of capturing the offices In the 1916 election. being denied the chance to Join with his pals In open play, may learn to be tricky and sneaky and mean. There's no escaping risks In this world. Better a biulsed anatomy than a dislocated soul. THE THING THAT SAVES. Cherokee, in Iowa, In the heart of the "corn belt" though, as a mat ter of fact, it's wheat that makes that region boom is a typical vil lage of 4.000 souls; spick, span and growing. Not a great while ago a circus came to Cherokee not a one horse show, but a six-ring affair; the biggest circus there Is. And, say, would you believe It? That day more than 6,000 autos get the number? whixzed Into that 4,000 town, every one the property of a prosperous farmer. Yet New York persists In Its war funk and simply can't believe that there's a bit of business anywhere. There's salvation In the soit. The plan Is to raise what you consumo, not something you must always sell to realize on. service. To this end it is the first duty of each publisher to ascertain the cost of production. When this is done, It Is his duty to establish definite advertising rates that will Insure a profit. Departure from es tablished rates In eny Instance is detrimental not only to the publisher but to the profession he represents and to the public in general, because It destroys the confidence of the pub lic In the fair dealing of the press, i disorganizes the publishing business, degrades the newspaper profession and weakens the most Important agency of so?Ial and political progress. If eggs get up to a dollar a doien this winter, aa some predict, they ought to be almost as acceptable to the boarders as meat. Of all the national holidays none is more universally or more Joyously celebrated than that of Thanksgiving Day. Though cf New England ori gin and for many years confined al most exclusively to that section, it has slowly but surely cntonded Itself all over our great couatry. The warlike Mexicans are making a deadly attack on the Americans at Vera Crux with typewriters and newspaper editorials. Many turkeys will be staffed for Thanksgiving, but show thon more wisdom than o "stuff" ynrelt. Every one claims to be happy over the election, but some of the poli ticians look as if they knew more. Make someone thankful and it will be an act you will ever be thankful for. Cities Have Police Women. Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, the pioneer police woman of the United States, has compiled the following statistics on the distribution of po lice women, then succession being approximately In the order named: Los Angeles, 5; Baltimore, 5; Seat tle, 5; Fargo, N. D., 1; Bellingham, 1; Grand Forks, N. D., 1; Topeka, Kan., 2; Toronto, Canada, 2; Oma ha, 2; San Francisco, 3; Rochester N. Y.. 1; Chicago, 20; Ottawa, Can ada, 1; Aurora, III., 1; San Antonio, Texas, 1; Syracuse, N. Y., 1; Pitts burg, 4; Sioux City, 1; Supeiror Wis.. 1: Salem. Mass.. 1 : St. Paul, 3; Minneapolis, 2; Denver, 1; Colo rado Springs, 1. The work of these women has been so entirely satisfactory and is prov Ing of such Incalculable vaTue to the police force of these cities that their Introduction in all of the leading cities of the United States is a ques tion of but a very short time. Fredh homemade candles. . all kinds, made In our candy kitchen Try them; you will come back Tor more. Rose Bros, tf It is fortunate the world cannot discern the hidden things of the We have clients coming who arc desirous of obtaining ranches near Ashland. One wants a poultry ranch, another a stock ranch and another a dairy ranch. Anyone having property ot this kind to sell right should call and give us your listing. REMEMBER, prices must not be Inllated. We mean business. The buyers have the money. Have you the place? Staples Realty Agency HOTEL ASH LAM) HUILDIXG. Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Sorosls Shoes VAUPEL'S J3hQ QUALITY STORE Bolterick Patterns GENTS' FURNISHINGS Shoes We Give 5 Cash Coupons With Every Cash Purchase Thanksgiving Linens THANKSGIVING a day above all others when the festal board must look inviting. The experienced housewife knows that the setting for the food is as important as the food itself. White snowy linens add greatly to the spread. You will find here special values in matched sets, linens by the yard, doilies and napkins. ' -A Few Special Values in Dnens 72-inch all-linen damask '. $1.00 per yard 72-inch Austrian damask $1.25 per yard Napkins to match above patterns if desired. Store will he closed all day m m . Thanksgiving . m B VAUPEL'S " ' THE QUALITY STORE.