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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Monday, KoTember 23, igij
Ashland Tidings
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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