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fKCTK TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS. Monday, February 15, 1018 Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISH ED 1870. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, Lynn Mowat, HOW TO REALIZE OX ASHLAND'S ASSETS. Truly, Ashland has a great future before her. Her mineral waters and natural charms furnish a broad foundation for a great structure. But Editor and Owner ,f Aghlan(j rauzes her proper destiny it will be only through efforts of her citizens. Hearty co-operation, with every citizen working diligently to end. With a spirit of News Reporter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear $2.00 Blx Months 1.00; the common Three Months .'60!give and take of faith In each other Payable In Advance. jan1 jn tne future of the city of op timism and cordiality. Somebody complains of what the Commercial Advp-tising rates on application. ! Club has not done in the past. What Flrst-cltss Job printing facilities, i is that to me? I am living in the to none in the TELEPHONE 39, Equipments second Interior. now. Nobody has been doing well in the immediate past and the Commer- No subscriptions for less than three jcial Club has been unable to get as months. All subscriptions dropped at i good re8Uit8 as was hoped for by its expiration unless renewal is received, j men,hprR or officergi becau8 tne ef Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, I fort was along hard lines. What has Postoffice as second-class mall mat- j that t0 do wtn tne future? Ashland tw 'now has struck the line of least re sistance her natural development line and a concerted effort on the part of her citizens, by co-operation through the Commercial Club, will put her to the front. Moral support of citizens is as essential to success as their money is necessary. we Ashland, Ore., Monday, Feb. 13, '13 JACKSON COUNTY REPUBLICAN BANQUET. The republicans of Jackson county held a banquet at Medford Friday j aU ge(. ,Q one organ)za night in commemoration of the birth and life of Lincoln. It was interest ing and enthusiastic. Republicans standpatters, progressives and Bull moosers rubbed elbows in friendly Intercourse, and even the "floating kidneys," as Professor Mulkey calls them, filled their paunches with viands and their brains with republi can doctrine. .Mr. Wilson was properly skinned, as was to be expected, and Bryan given what was coming from such a gathering. Dr. Keen, by his own proud admission a standpatter of the standpatters, was present and glori fied in countenance and demeanor. The lobby of the hotel and dining room was jammed and everyone ask ing each other, "Where .were you at the November election?" Answered in Yankee style, "Did you vote for Taft or Wilson?" all growing out of the late misunderstanding wherein progressives voted for Teddy and standpatters voted for Wilson for fear Teddy would win. The get-together banquet demon strated a few things, chief among which is the desire of all to get away from democratic depression into 'wholesome prosperity, although the undercurrent atmosphere was as if charged with determination on the part of the standpatters to force pro gressives into the old bandwagon, and equal determination on the part of progressives to force the old ljners to take progressive principles along with progressive votes. Abraham Lincoln was quoted pro fusely. Ills Gettysburg speech waS read and pronounced the finest piece of literature extant, which it is. His last Inaugural address was digested and personal reminiscences by some who knew Lincoln, but one very Im portant and wise Lincoln motto escaped notice. It was this: "I am not bound to be right, but I am bound to be true; I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with any man that Is right; stand with him while he Is right and part company with him when- he goes wrong." Withal, the banquet was a big suc cess. No doubt the pronouncements of the next national republican plat form will more surely determine whether the republican party will be a unit In the 1916 election, or again fall Into two camps with Penrose, Barnes and their doctrines dominant In one, or whether there Is to. be a new birth and out of the junction of the factions come both success, fair, honest leadership and virtuous principles. tlon and focus on the big thing. The Commercial Club 1b the proper instru ment. Unless we accept that and make of it the power we can and con centrate our force in and through it, development will drag and the re sults will be indifferent. The effort to have proper direction and force must be an organized effort. It would be foolish Indeed to think of planning another organization out side of the Commercial Club. That would only multiply expense and con found results. Every six months the Commercial Club elects new officers, in whose selection you may have a part, as well as in the management of the. affairs of the club. There Is absolutely no valid excuse for shirk ing because you do not like what the club has done in the past. It Is a new club now, with new officers, new membership, new opportunities and new force. Add yours to It and let's all pull In a bunch. You will begin to see good results in three weeks, If everybody Joins. In a year your faith in it will be entirely established It Is the instrument through which Ashland can be made speedily to come into her own. She must have at least 1,200 members men and women and an Income of $1,200 per month the rest of this year to supply Ashland with the .proper publicity Join the Commercial Club this week Put in both the name of yourself and wife. And do not wait to be begged by some committee. Go to the club rooms and voluntarily make applica tion for yourself and wife. Plank down one dollar for each member ship and tell the secretary you are ready to help. Your neighbor will not carry the load for you. YOU must help. "Oh, ho; let's go." Ma terial is at hand. The instrument is ready. Let's build the big city. WHAT DEGREE OF SUCCESS. LET'S DO IT. Keep this jn mind: Southern Cal ifornia started with a flock of sand dunes, an ocean beach and a fair climate, but not so good twelve- months-in-the-year climate as Ash land, and men have developed it into the' "Playground of America." It was not sand dunes that did the bus iness. Neither was it the ocean beach there are thousands of miles of safer and better both on the Pa: cific and Atlantic shores but the world thinks southern California climate and beaches the best and go there by thousands in consequence. It is the "Playground of America" only because men of force and in genuity started out to make it that and did not tire until their task was accomplished. Think of the millions and millions of dollars that have been expended there in turning a wilderness into a garden. Think of the labor connect ed with it. Think of the Ingenuity exercised. And remember this: The success has been in exact proportion to the effort. Men make communities. Suc cess comes only through Intelligent effort. In the early days it was a tough pull in southern California. The pioneers stood the brunt-of the bat tle, but every on of them that stayed and grew up with the country are rich men 'today. Their reward came as their efforts realized. Los An geles grew from a country village to a tremendous city, with little natural reason for it posh did it and now every man and woman resident be lieves as thoroughly as they do in their religion, that Los Angeles will accommodate more than a million citizens in five years from today. No doubt it will soon be, and remain, the greatest city on the coast. Under such spirit how can It be otherwise? Her people never grow discouraged. They never croak. In season and out they hold a stiff upper lip and put a strong front to the stranger looking for a location. They have killed their knockers with kindness and 'a fat pocketbook. If southern California and Los An geles could do that with inferior nat ural attractions and climate, how much more surely can the Rogue River Valley, and especially Ashland, do It with her unexcelled scenery, her wonderful medicinal waters and her salubrious climate. If citizens do their part for the next year, doubts will be dissipated and optimism reign supreme. The re sults we will get will convince the most skeptical. Let's pull together. The degree and time for success is measured by the effort put behind the enterprise. The writer knows It can be accomplished in three years. He has seen it done before. What think you? Let us act as we believe. iiinnn:nimimtg The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen- XX Mothers, Will it Pay? We were forcibly struck the other day py the truth of a remark made by a man who at the time was under serious difficulty over the crop that had sprung upj from the wild oats he had sown when a boy. A little friend of his was pouting over some chastisement, when he gently re marked, "Take all your corrections kindly and be thankful, to any one who cares enough for you to tell you of your mistakes or warn you when you first begin to go astray. -For," he continued sadly, "the more cor rections you receive and profit by when young, the less ou will receive from the world when older." A truer statement was never ut tered. What a responsibility, then. upon parents. Will it pay to close our eyes to the fact? All our cor rections should be made with an eye to the future as well as the present. There should be a principle Involved. Let our children see that it is our duty to punish them sometimes, never a pleasure. In our desire that their young lives be full of joy and glad ness, will it be wise to refrain from imparting to them a knowledge of the sterner realities of life? Will it pay to allow them to go untaught? We must teach them so judiciously the difference between the trend up ward and the trend downward, that of their own accord they will eschew those pleasures of a doubtful nature. We cannot guard our boys and girls too closely. Many a fair flower languishes and dies before its time. It will not pay to close our eyes to the signs around us, thinking our boys and girls proof against these influences. Above all things, teach the girls to be natural. Do not al low them to get into these simper ing, giggling, foolish ways that so many young misses appear to think smart, and yet do not cause them to feel that you desire to cause them to feel that you desire to put "old heads on young shoulders." Far from it. Let young people be young people still, but. the while not forget ting that there is far more real hap plness in being pure and true than can be found along any.other line. The writer saw one town dead as mackerel in the spring and in the fall men were unable to find lodging and were sleeping in the street, and more than five hundred houses and business blocks were under way be. fore the year closed. And, mark this that city had no such an asset as Ash land has in her springs. This is the place and this is the. time. Every body push. OUR NATURAL ADVANTAGES OVER SO. CALIFORNIA. WHAT TWELVE HUNDRED MEM. BE1CK1IIP WILL DO. No use just trying to make a rity. Let's DO IT. Ashland can support a population of 100,000 easier than 6,000, because watering resorts at tract people who have their living al ready made. Let's get the hundred thousand. Iet's get the bl hotels, the big sanitariums, the big apart ment bouses, the big crowds. Los Angeles now reaps a million-dollar harvest every season off of the tour ist crop, and the writer remembers Los Angeles when It was little larger than Ashland, not half so attractive and with less natural advantages for attracting tourl-ts. Not Its climate lone, not Its ocean Reaches, not Its natural scenecry, but men, strong men, men who knew how to do and dared to do, made southern Califor nia, and it had not one-twentieth the natural attractions as has the Rogue River Valley. Let's get the grouch out of our hides and realize our possl bllitles. A strong pull all together will do It. The opportunity Is here, it ) knocking at Ashland's door. Let It not turn away, for it may come no more. If the president of the Southern Pacific Company could be informed that the Ashland Commercial Club had increased its membership to 1,200 within a month, for the pur pose of putting $1,200 each month in publicity power behind the resort en terprise for the year 1915, don't you think It would give him a touch of Inspiration in pushing the tourist ho tel project as well as stimulate his advertising depa-tment to double its efforts in exploiting Ashland? And it he could feel that not only the money power but the moral Influ ence of 1,200 memlrers was behind it to make it go quick, that he could readily see that Ashland did not In tend to let the enterprise lag? . The thing has already dragged so long that our outside friends are growing nervous. Let's give them an inspir ation. The morel effect of 1,200 new Commercial Club members Is worth vastly more 'than if any indi vidual contributed $5,000 cash to an advertising fund. Again, the word would r;o out through the press of the country that Ashland Commercial Club had gained moro members, pop ulation considered, than any other club on the coat had ever done, and we would get thousands of dollars' advertising value out of that fact alone.' Not big donations to an advertls Ing fund, but a little bit from each and the power of a solid community Influence behind the project. That's what Ashland needs now. The re ward Is great. Will every citizen do his duty? The people of southern California transformed a desert into a garden. They called it "The Playground of America." They let the world know of its charms and never a breath of its drawbacks. Now they reap a ten-milllon-dollar harvest every year off of sand dunes and human ingenuity. That is a cold truth. The wealthy of the world have been attracted there and there they make their homes. Men did It. Nature was not as lav ish In her gifts there as she has been about Ashland. There the hills were bare and brown. Here they are ver dant as spring throughout the whole year. There they have rivers with out water. Here the crystal tide leaps joyously over falls and foams over cataracts . the year . through There what art has accomplished in fecund growth nature has done hero without cavil or cost. They started there with a poor natural founda tlon; here nature has laid it deep and broad and strong. What millions of dollars did there In physical develop nient hundreds will do here with equal results. What wonderful opportunities await the ingenuity and effort of man here, now ABniana will re spond to the magic touch! How rapid and solid will be her develop. ment! All It takes from now out Is harmony and active co-operation between citizens. The advantage of having the great Southern Pacific syBtem Interested In It from the start Is enough to assure quick results. Do your boosting today and put off thcTknocklng till tomorrow. "I knock but once at every door and, heedless, turn away." Listen people, this Is the grandest oppor tunlty that ever knocked at a city gate. Ashland can double her popu latlon and resources In the year Will you, and you, help open to op portunlty? Beautify Ashland. Let's make her this year in fact as well as in name "Ashland the Deautlful." Each clti ten can contribute his mite in a few hours' labor cleaning up his prem lues, and a few dollars' spent in fresh paint, riant more rose bushes this year. -Put In more lawns. Dress th city up. She Is a daisy when properly attired In a new this year's Bult. Na ture will do her part. Let every clti ren do his. A wise man Is a fellow who has horse sense and doesn't know It ! Member Federal Reserve System i The Oldest National Bank in Jackson County f FIRST NATIONAL BAN It Capital and Surplus $12O,00OA)O DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon t United Mates of America I' 1 1 "M 1 1 1 1 1 There are thirty thousand dissatis fied families, practically retired, in southern California, who do not fit conditions there, but would be held by our simple, social and healthful situation. Southern California is our fertile field. Artificial conditions maintaining there, and not here, con tribute largely to the dissatisfaction of thoSe who will come when they understand the difference. Let's let them know. Ashland's mineral waters supply an unusually sound foundation upon which to build a city. Few places have been so favorably blessed. What are citizens going to do with this opportunity? It is knocking. Let's grasp it with a will. Ashland has three big commercial assets mineral water, granite and kaolin. Water exploitation is already assured. Now lets figure out a way to practically and profitably develop the other two. ' Few small communities like Ash land have been blessed with the solid backing of a great railroad company like the Southern Pacific in an enter prise that means so much to the com munity. The detay has caused tha railroad officials to grow uneasy, but now that the way is clear for the speedy consummation of the work, the matter of advertising will be at once taken up. Ashland is fortunate in getting tha springs bond matter settled and starting the work before the heavy exposition traffic sets in. After that starts the thought of the railroad company will be entirely engrossed in it. It is hoped to get the springs railroad advertising lined up before that time. The Commercial Club requests the names and addresses of parties who are considering coming to the coast this summer. We wish to send them literature and give them a good con ception of Oregon. 74-tf ME THE BEST COUGH . - RELV1EDY AT HOME 4 Cheaper Than You Can Buy Phone news items to the Tidings. When yon have a severe, stubborn cough or cold, you want the best possible medicine yon can get, therefore, wny not buy one which is guaranteed will be found the most satisfactory remedy ever used by you, and get your money refunded by the druggist of this city named below, whom you know to be re sponsible, in case it should not prove so, instead of buying one purely en the ex aggerated claims of its manufacturer or on the strength of testimonials from others and run the chance of getting something worthless and wasting your money? In buying Schiffmann's Con centrated Expectorant, besides securing an absolute guarantee of its efficiency from these druggists, you also get about eight times as much excellent cough medicine as you would in buying most any of the old-fashioned, ready-made kinds, because 50 ceuts worth makes a whole pint when mixed at home with simply one pint of sugar and one-half pint of water. This remedy positively does not contain chloroform, opium, morphine or any other narcotic and is unlike any other cough medicine. It is pleasant to take and children are fond of it. This druggist will refund the money to any person who finds this remedy does not give perfect satisfac tion, or if it is not found the very best ever nsed for coughs, colds, bron chitis, croup, whooping cough or t hoarseness. You will be the sole ' judge, and under this positive guar antee absolutely no risk is run in buying this remedy. Druggists everywhere are authorized te sell it under tho same guarantee. 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