Monday, February IS, 1015
W. W. Watson Tells What He
Sees After 35 Years' Absence
The following address was deliv
ered by W. W. Watson before the
Ashland Commercial Club at a recent
meeting. Mr. Watson is an old rest;
dent of Ashland. who has been away
from the city for thirty-five years
and who, during that time, has been
associated with the development of a
number of California cities which
have grown from villages to be big
resorts.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I feel Just like a paradox what
ever that may be: an old-timer in
Ashland and yet a stranger.
I ought not to consume a moment
of your time this evening in an effort
at extended talk. I'm sure, should
I attempt it, you would be Just as
Borry for me as I could possibly be
for myself. I have for many yerB
been so accustomed to talking
through the medium of typewriter
keys that I feel scarcely competent to
deliver an oral message to an audi
ence. However, since you have extended
me this courtesy, I will take time to
say that, after an absence of nearly
four decades, looking for "something
better," I have come back home. And
I'm happy, to be able to give you an
other assurance: I am Indeed glad
to be here. I feel that I am qualified
to make this final choice by compari
son, for I have been in nearly every
valley and city of consequence be
tween the British line and Mexico
during the past thirty-six years. In
many of these places I have served
syndicates, chambers of commerce,
commercial clubs and other civic bod
ies as publicity agent, an employment
that made it necessary for me to col
lect and collate facts and figures con
cerning the resources and advantages
of these several localities.
By comparison 'of these with those
of Ashland and vicinity I can say to
you without a stammer that, consid
ering all natural advantages, re
sources and assets possible of devel
opment, the Rogue River Valley and
particularly Ashland and vicisjity ex
cel them all!
You have the best climate in the
world, considered from season to
season; the purest water that washes
the pebbles of mountain streams
anywhere under the sun; a wealth of
soil that produces the finest and most
luscious staple fruits and' vegetables
of all climes.
You need just one thing more in
larger measure, gentlemen, and that
Is a combination of public spirit and
personal energy to develop these mag
nificent resources and sufficient
civic pride to let the whole world
know about them by systematic pub
licity work.
And, gentlemen, while touching the
atter of publicity, let me say a word
or two on behalf of your local news
papers and, through that medium, on
behalf of every material Interest of
the community.
Do you realize' that a good news
paper is one of the chief assets of any
community? Do you appreciate the
fact that no town or city can be suc
cessfully built i.nd maintained with
out publicity? and that the local
newspaper is absolutely the most ef
fective medium through which to do
that work? Do you understand that
it is one of the leading and most con
stant promoters of local enterprises?
and that the interests of local busi
ness men are so closely interwoven
with and wedded to those of their
local publications that they cannot be
DR. V. EARL BLAKE,
DENTIST.
First National Bank Bldg., Suite J
and 10. Entrance First Ave.
Phones: Office, 100; Res., 230-J.
DR. D. M. B ROWER,
GENERAL PRACTITIONER.
Residence, 21.6 Factory St
Phone 247-J.
Massage, Electric Light Baths, Elec
tricity. JULIA R. McQUILKIN,
Superintendent.
Payne Bldg. Telephone 300-J.
Every day excepting Sunday.
DR. ETHEL J. MARTIN,
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN,
In charge of the practice of Drs. Saw
yer and Kammerer.
Pioneer Building.
Office phone 208.
Hours 9 to 5 and by appointment.
DR. B. FONTAINE,
OPTOMETRIST OPTICIAN.
Glasses Scientifically Fitted.
Lenses Duplicated.
Citizens Bank Building.
LTTERBACK & IIAWLEV,
- Chiropractors.
Swedish Massage, Spray and Cabinet
Baths.
Hours 9 a. m td 6 p. m. Sundays
by appointment.
Room 6-8, First National Bank
Bldg. Phone 48. 69-lmo.
CHAUTAUQUA PARK CLUB.
Regular meetings of the Chautau
qua Park Club first and third Fri
days 'of each month at 2:30 p. m.
Mrs. A. G. McCarthy, Pres.
Mrs. Jennie Faucett Greer, Sec.
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT CLUB.
The regular meetings of the Ladles'
Clvlo Improvement Club will be held
on the second and fourth Tuesdays
of each month at 2:30- p. m., at the
Carnegie Library lecture room.
separated without seriously crippling
both?
The conditions intimated In these
queries have become absolute facts.
I am disappointed, therefore: to ob
serve that the business institutions of
Ashland are so generally ignoring the
existence or tneir local newspapers.
Positively, I have never seen else
where a like situation, standing out,
as it does, so shamelessly in bold re
lief and that, too, in a community
so happily supplied with business op
portunities and so constantly yearn
ing, eagerly and impatiently, for rec
ognition by the outside world.
Your newspapers are faithfully
publishing column after column of
descriptive and promotion matter and
vigorous editorial appeals to the
world to come and Investigate your
natural resources and their wonder
fully picturesque environments' of
which you are so proud. They speak
convincingly of the solidarity and
substantiality of this ideally located
little city and yet, if the distant
reader turn to the business columns
of your local newspapers, he will find
only an abrupt and impudent contra
diction of your editors' news and edi
torial presentations. That sort of
thing discredits the newspaper at
once and very positively. The reader
will not be slow to conclude that, if
your editors will lie about that mat
ter, they will lie about your lithia
water; that they have lied about your
soda and sulphur springs; about the
integrity of your citizens, the fertil
ity of your soil, your prize-winning
fruits, your unequalled climate, the
happy blending of your seasons and
everything else of merit and virtue
that you possess.
Gentlemen, that is positively
shameful and outrageously suicidal!
The world will judge your com
munity as a business center by the
life and substantiality of the advertis
ing columns of your newspapers; and,
if that judgment be at all adverse, it
will be severe, gentlemen, and you
can't escape its consequences!
The newspapers cannot live on
your compliments, men! They do not
grow and thrive' like skunk cabbage
or huckleberry bushes. They need
your protection, support and encour
agement, and it is both your busi
ness and duty to yield them gener
ously. No business man gives more
time, thought, labor and money to
the advancement of general and spec
ial communiity interests than the
editor. -
The newspaper business is not a
dream, get-tlemen. . Too frequently It
Is a haunting nightmare, from a busi
ness' standpoint. Its pursuit is not
a pleasure excursion Into realms of
delight, luxury and leisure. Too
often it is a mad and disheartening
chase after the meanc.wlth which to
insure the morning doughnut and the
evening flapjack.
You have here, gentlemen, a beau
tiful little city In a charming garden
spot; but you cannot hibernate, like
the bear, without consuming your
own substance. The newspapers must
call the outside world to your assist
ance. TenE of thousands of people
who are either ioo ri.ih or too sick
to stay at home would glndly come
to Ashland If they knew the glories
of your attractions and the magnifi
cent abundance of your resources.
Therefore, men of Ashland, add
your business announcements to the
products of the editors' strenuous la
bor and send thousands of copies of
their special editions into other
states, so the world may know what
you are, where you are and what you
have.
Other-vise, your newspapers must,
of sheer necessity, degenerate into a
mere reflection of the prosaic exist
ence of a handful of people too in
different to create impressions be
yond the'.r municipal boundaries and
too wholly bereft of public spirit and
civic pride to enjoy the bounty of
good things with vhich they have
been so abundantly blessed or to per
mit people of other sections of the
country to kaovr that they abound
here in oufflcient measure to gladden
the lives of 50,000 people.
It has been the custom of tens of
thousands of people with ample
means to nake an annual tour to Eu
rope, visiting noted watering places
and universally advertised health re
sorts. For obvious reasons thejviU
abandon that habit this year; and for
equally apparent excuco this sus
pense will continue for several ysars
before this great army of tourists,
who have not le.irned the value of
seeing America first, will be able to
resume its arduous and expensive
Itineraries In tho now desolated and
blood-drenched countries of tho war
riddled Old World.
Now is the time, gentlemen, to
make the publicity ten-strlko for Ash
land and Rogue River Valley. This
is the most opportune morrent to her
ald abroad the beauties, the glories,
tho richness of resources and health
fulneBS of clime of this peerless re
gion. This la tho moct favorable op
portunity you have ever enjoyed to
turn the tide of tourlct travel to Ash
land, not only r.s a health resort, not
only as tho Carlebad of America, but
as one of tbo pleaspntest places in ill
the world In which to make a home
and enjoy all the bounties of nature
at nominal rnRt.
If there be a place on the Pacific 'T
coast whore a civic body, such as your
Commercial Club, should regard its
task 9s a love-work, that place is
your own Ashland, Oregon. I know
of no place like it In that respect
no place with so many palpable and
permanent p.dvantages and bo few dis
advantage!!, indeed, K I were asked
this moment to name a slnglo disad
vantage, I confesa frankly that I
could not do It unless It be found
in the fact that a majority ol the peo
ple of ttin city, having resldad here
so long, do not : ppreclate tho neces
sity o developing at once tbo grand
opportunity now offered of more than
doubling the population and business
volume of Ashland In tho next threo
or four years. If, on this point, there
be a okeptlo in this city tonight, I am
willing to wager my Interest In the
Assets Twice Liabilities. "
San Francisco. The business af
faire of C. A. Smith of Berkeley, head
of the Smith Lumber & Manufactur
ing Company, and numerous subsidi
aries in California and Oregon, are
in the hands of a committee of cred
itors. The interests were once valued
at $15,000,000. Those connected
with the committee state Mr. Smith's
transfer of his affairs to the commit
tee is due principally to his alleged
inability to pay the interest on
15,000,000 wherein the companies
are bonded. This interest and $112,
000 principal fell due in February.
C. A. Smith is in Chicago, but due
home shortly. The committee is com
posed of C. R. Johnson of San Fran
cisco, J. E. rianeher of Detroit' and
Herman Waldeck of Chicago. Mr.
Smith's friends say he is "land poor."
The assets are more than double the
liabilities.
You -have something you do not
need. Somebody else needs it and
has what you want. Twenty-five
cents puts your proposition before
two thousand people through the
"For Trade" column of the Tidings.
future that he will continue to bor
row his neighbor's paper and stick
around to enjoy the fruits of this pro
posed development.
Hustling, bunding little cities in
California owo the'r existence today,
almost wholly in many cases, to the
presence of one or another kind of
mineral water of some medicinal
valuo and tho nearness to mountain
streams fringed with scabby willows.
But their people know tho value of
advertising. They appreciate the ad
vantage of supporting their newspa
pers sufficiently to enable the local
publishers to put out attractively ar
tistic special editions and of sending
them to thousands of friends and oth
ers in distant states, thus making
known to tourists and homeseekers
alike the virtues of their climate, soil
and water. And, by the way, I know
of no town In California the size of
Ashland that has not at least one and
generally two daily newspapers liber
ally supported by local business men
and women and civic bodies, loyal
first to their newspapers and through
them to their communities.
Show me a municipality in which
there is a good newspaper to which
Its people are not generously loyal
and I will show you a publisher, bent
with his burden of responsibility and
disappointment, trudging along wear
ily over the hill directly toward the
poorhouse.
Show mo a municipality without a
newspaper and civic pride and I will
show you a community deader than
a putty rabbit Juried in the hot em
bers of Perandihese!
Report of State
Board Interesting
Some very interesting statistics are
brought to light in the report of the
Oregon state board of health for the
quarter including October, Novem
ber and December. In the state we
find that there was a total of 2,380
births as against 1,413 deaths, not'so
very far from two to one, and this in
the worst months of the year.
The noble redman, far from time
honored traditions, is not disappear
ing, but is increasing, there being
seven born and only five died during
the three months.
During the winter months there
were 1,226 marriages. If there were
that many in the cold, cold winter,
what may we expect In June?
Tuberculosis took by far the great
est toll of lives, while some of the in
fectious diseases which in former
years proved fatal to so many caused
the death of few.
Altogether, the report Is very fa
vorable to the state of health of the
people of Oregon and is a good ad
vertisement when compared to that
of other states.
The Man-It
Home Com.
Woman's
pnnion.
In the March Woman's Home Com
panion is started a movement for bet
ter motion pictures throughout the
United States. The editors of the
Companion are to have submitted to
them each month several hundred
films In advance of their release to
the motion picture houses. From
these they will select from forty to
seventy-five which are especially
SHERIFF'S SALE.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, in and for the County of
Jackson.
Margaret Read, Plaintiff,
vs.
William A. Aitken, Clara M. Aitken,
his wife, and George F. Hall, De
fendants. By virtue of an Execution, Judge
ment Order and Decree, duly issued
out of and under the seal of the Cir
cuit Court of the State 'bf Oregon, for
the County of Jackson, to me duly
directed, and dated the 21st day of
January, 1915, upon a judgment ren
dered and entered in said Court on
the 2nd day of November, 1914, in
favor of the plaintiff, Margaret Read,
and against the defendants, William
A. Aitken and Clara M. Aitken, for
the sum of Two Hundred Forty-four
and .75-100 ($244.75) Dollars, with
interest thereon from the said 2nd
day of November, 1914. at the rate
of 10 per cent per annum and Fifty
($50.00) Dollars attorney's fee', and
the further sum of Seven ($7.00)
Dollars costs nnd disbursements, and
the costa of and upon this writ, com
manding me to make sale of the fol
lowing described real property situ
ated in the County of Jackson, State
of Oregon, to-wit:
The Southeast quarter (SEV4) of
the Southeast quarter (SEi ) of Sec
tion One, Township, Thirty-three
South of Range Two East of the Wil
lamette Meridian, in Jackson County,
Oregon, Containing Forty acres.
Now, therefore, by virtue of tho
commands of said Execution, Judg
ment Order and Decree, I will on
WEDNESDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF
FEBRUARY, 1915,
at the hour of 10 o-clock a. m. at the
front door of the Court House In
lacksonvllle, Jackson County, Oregon,
offer for sale and will sell at public
auction, subject to redemption as
Is by law provided, to the highest bid
der for cash, all of the right, title,
interest and claim that the raid de
fendants, William A. Aitken, Clara M.
Aitken, his wife, and George F. Hall,
or either of them, had on the date of
the mortgage herein (the 15th day
of July, 1912) or have since acquired
commendable both from an artistic
and ethical standpoint. Each month ' in and to the above desciibed real
they will publish this list of films, property or any part or parcel there
recommending that their readers see ; f- to at,sfy sall Judgment order,
, th -in ui decree, interest, attorney's fees, eoHts
them. This will enable parents, , and disbursements and the accruing
women's clubs, teachers, librarians i costs of sale. Dated at the office of
and others to help raise the standard 1 the Sheriff In Jacksonville, Jackson
of motion pictures, thus providing for
jthe children and the young .people of
our country clean, wholesome, edu
cational and genuinely entertaining
pictures worth seeing. This move
ment is predicted on the fart that
motion pictures are of gigantic im
portance In this country inasmuch as
they now draw every week more
young people han are In the churches
on Sunday or in the schools on weekdays.
County, Oregon, this 22nJ day of
January, 1915.
W. H. SINGLER, Sheriff.
By E. W. Wilson, Deputy.
70-5t-Mon.
C. S. JOHNSON
Carpenter and Contractor
CHARG ICS REASONABLE
. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Phone 423-Y
52 Roca St.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, In and for the County of
Jackson.
Jackson County-Building and Loan
Association, a corporation. Plaint
iff, vs.
R. L. Bennett and Louella R. Ben
nett, husband and wife. Defend
ants. By virtue of an Execution, Judg
ment Order and Decree, duly issued
out of and under the seal of the Cir
cuit Court of the State of Oregbn for
the County o? Jackson, to me duly
directed, and dated the 21st day of
January, 1915, upon a judgment ren
dered and entered in said Court on
the 16th day of January, 1915, in
favor of the plaintiff, the Jackson
County Building and Loan Associa
tion, a corporation, and arcainst tha
defendants," R. L. Bennett and Lou
ella It. Bennett, for the sum of One
Thousand Two Hundred Thirty-four
and 2-100 ($1,234.02) Dollars, with
interest thereon from Raid 16th day
of January, 1915, at the rate of 10
per cent per annum and One Hun
dred Twenty ($120.00) Dollars attor
ney's fees with interest thereon at
the rate of 6 per cent per annum
from January 16th, 1915, and tha
further sum of Twelve ($12.00) Dol
lars costs and disbursements, and tho
costs of and upon this writ, com
manding me to make sale o' the- fol
lowing described rerfl property situ
ated in the County of Jackson, State
of Oregon, t'o-wlt:
The East one-half of Lots num
bered One and Two, in Block num
ber Two of Gray's Addition to tha
City of Med ford, Jackson County,
Oregon.
Now therefore, by virtue of tha
commands of said Execution, Judg
ment Order and Decree, I will on
WEDNESDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF
FEBRUARY, 1915,
at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., at
the front door of the Court House in
Jacksonville, Jackson . County, Stata
of Oregon, offer for sale and will sell
at public auction, subject to redemp
tion as is by law provided, to tha
highest bidder for cash, all the right,
title. Interest and claim that the de
fendants, R. L. Bennett and Louella
R. Bennett, his wife, or either of
them, had on the 26th dayf Febru
ary, 1912, or have since acquired in
and to the above described real prop
erty, or any part or parcel thereof,
to satisfy said judgment order, de
cree, interest, attorney's fees, cost
and disbursements and accruing
costs of sale. Dated at the office of
the Sheiiff in Jacksonville, Jackson
County, Oregon, this 22nd day of
January, 1915.
W. H. SINGLER, Sheriff.
By E. W. Wilson, Deputy.
70-5t-Mon.
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every kind may be procured at tha
Tidings office In any quantity.
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