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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Monday, September 6, 1918
Ashland Tidings
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Ashland, Ore., Monday, Sept. 6, 1013
A BIG INTEREST RETURN.
Six per cent is considered mighty
good Interest today. Many people, in
order to get six per cent on their
money, will take quite a little chance
of losing the principal. Yet there is
one way in which one can get not
six, but sometimes Blxty per cent, on
considerable sums of money.
That way is particularly open at
this season of the year. It is by
watching closely what retail dealers
are selling out summer goods cheap,
to avoid carrying them over until an
other season. Dealers with live and
active stocks always do that late In
the season. They tell the public
about it In the Tidings.
One can buy for $2 today many
articles of clothing or house furnish
ings that are sure to be wanted In
a few months, and which another
year wiii cost $3 or more. If a per
son 1b living absolutely hand to
mouth, with not a dollar ahead, be
can be excused for not taking these
chances that come along every year.
Such cases are illustrations of the
fact that the poor pay the highest
prices for everything.
But if one has money ahead, even
if It be only a few dollars, It seems
folly not to take a profit ot 13, $5 or
more on a $10 purchase. Some peo
ple will decline to do it In certain
lines on the ground that styles may
change. Yet such changes are, after
all, rather gradual and in these high
cost of living times few people at
tempt any longer to keep absolutely
even with the latest Paris and New
York fashions. The game costs too
much. Individuality in dress, both
with women and men, grows from
year to year. It Is the only economi
cal way to live.
In most cases the reason for not
taking advantage of the special bar
gains advertised at this season Is
pure laziness and inertia. People put
It off until tomorrow. When tomor
row comes, more thrifty buyers have
seen the chance and snapped it tip.
It Is something to repeat over and
over again, that any family can make
a great reduction In Its living costs
by watching for bargains and picking
them up promptly, the day after they
are advertised.
There is a pretty general agree
ment that the $500,000 spent by the
Industrial Relations Commission, in
its study of the labor problem, has
been wasted. With nearly every
member of the board presenting bis
own individual report, congress and
the country will be as wise as before
but no wiser.
There is a great tendency In the
state legislatures as well as in con
gress to sidestep big questions by
handing them over to Investigating
commissions. When members don't
know how to vote, or are afraid t&
vote their convictions, It is a great
help to refer matters to a commission
for study. The confiding public are
made to feel that there is something
doing, and the weak-kneed member
has escaped responsibility.
The libraries are full of material
for study of a problem like the labor
question. A legislator who does not
know his own mind can find endless
studies of such subjects by the
brightest people In the country, who
know quite as much about them as
any politically appointed committee
would ever learn.
Many legislators take Htle pains
to make themselves intelligent on
great public questions. They vote
the way the party whips tell them,
and spend their time getting plums
for constituents, attending to their
own private business, or enjoying
sports and social life.
The best reason for pushing your
business Is to prevent your business
pushing you.
On their eastern battle line at least
the Germans seem to be doing a Rus
sian business.
The eagle on the American dollar
Is doubtless put there to demonstrate
money has wings.
The real picnic lover doesn't care
whether the black specks in the cake
are raisins or ants.
The Wasting of
Public Funds
The trouble with the average pop
ular song is It is so frequently mur
dered without being killed.
A mother of seventeen children at
Kansas City wants to adopt two more.
Carry the news to Roosevelt!
This is a pretty well balanced old
world, after all. The same wind that
swishes the lady's skirts blows dust
In the observing man's eye. The
same summer heat that makes a
woman hot enough to explode brings
out the perspiration that wets the
powder.
THE CARE OF OLD ANIMALS.
An interesting news dispatch the
past week reports the death of Nancy
Hanks, champion trotter from 1892
to 1S94. She breathed her last at
the estate of J. E. Madden of Lex
ington, Ky., who bought the horse
The really conscientious legislator 8eVeral years ago to pension her.
(From remarks of Clyde H. Taven
ner in the Congressional Record.)
Why has the War Department
been paying the ring $17.60 for a
3.8-Inch common shrapnel when it
can manufacture and Is manufactur
ing the Identical article at Frank
ford for $7.94? Seventeen dollars
and fifty cents Is more than twice
$7.94. The government could manu
facture two schrapnel for the price It
has been paying the private manufac
turers for one and have $1.62 re
maining to the people's credit on
each transaction. Is it any wonder
we do not have as much ammunition
as we should have for the money that
has been expended? It is tie public
funds that are being spent here, and
I the people have a right to have those
questions answered.
We are manufacturing a 31-second
combination fuse In the government
arsenal for $2.92 for which we have
been paying the ring $7.
These illustrations are not excep
tional, as I will endeavor to show by
the fact that on a contract given' to
Frankford arsenal for ammunition
valued at $1,900,064 we are saving
$97!,840; or, In other words, we are
saving approximately $1,000,000 on
a $2,000,000 order as compared with
what it would have cost bad that
contract been awarded the ammunl-
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CLEANLINESS, PERSONAL ATTENTION AND COURTESY
COMBINED TO MAKE THE
will find a world of material await
Ing his attention of pending prob
lems. It will make his term of serv
ice a working one, but bin life will
be enriched and his sympathies en
larged. While technical subjects oc
casionally need the service of special
investigating committees, proposals
for such Investigations are all to be
viewed with suspicion. They are too
often a means of relieving legislators
from tasks they should perform
themselves.
There is so much thoughtlessness tion ring. Does not a showing such
in the care of aged animals that it i as this warrant a policy of turning
THAT "CHIVALRY" BUBBLE.
(Portland Telegram.)
Ex-tlovernor Slaton probably
moano what he says when he gives
out the opinion that at the back
ground of the "Frank assassination
there is the admirable human at-
is pleasant to see this notice of con
sideration. Too many faithful beasts
of every day life are pushed ahead
until they drop. No halo of the race
track follows their heads.
There are all extremes of senti
ment In this matter. Some people
are so sensitive that they will not
take the life of an aged horse or dog,
even where the animal has passed
any enjoyment of existence. They
feel keenly the Individuality of ani
mals,, and putting them out of the
way with chloroform seems almost
like taking the life of a child. This
oversensitiveness of animal life is
rare.
The faithful horse who baa drawn
a family's burdens for a lifetime
should be something more than a
i i a i i a l
tribute of chivalry. But In that state-, mere nrua&e- ne naB ueen l,eaiea
with kindness he makes Known nis
affection for his masters, and wel-
v
ment the ex-governor ii more gener
ous than Just.
No word In the English language
has been more terribly abused than
has been that word "chivalry" In the
south,
bubble
comes their approach with the cheer
ful neigh.
He has contributed Tils share to
i v w ,i o I the household labors, in return for a
.lb lino uccu un vj u t.i v
nnA ! meaeer wage of hay and grain. He
i , . ,i. i i u j
mnt nnrt with the bombast of vlo- n" l01lea wougn neai ana com uu
lence. The worst possible use to!810"" and has sot no satisfaction out
which it could be put is to present
it as an ' apology for unreasoning
blood lust. ,
In organized Industry more women
and more children are employed in
Georgia than in any other southern
of life beyond the bare pleasure of
good digestion. It seems one of the
anomalies of existence, that so much
can be given so willingly and faith
fully for so small a return.
He ought to have something corn-
state; and Georgia public sentiment J '"5 to him In his twilight, by way of
.. it h,. fn,,nri ovnr.0inn in fjnnririn I rest; some tree seasons in a gOUU
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George Fitch, the creator or "Good
Old Slwash," has written "30," cast
up for final accounts, and gone to
Join Bob Burdette. Bill Nye and Mark
Twain. The world owed Fitch a lot
when he died, because he furnished
handsome entertainment with a
brand of philosophy much needed In
America. His nonsense was of the
sensible sort and yet refreshing and
of a very high order. He contributed
regularly to the brighter" side of life,
and his work was not only well done,
but well worth the doing.
There seems to be an agreement
among the greatest power sof Europe
that if they had not started the war
when they did, Belgium and Switzer
land would have attacked them and
reduced them to subjection.
law Is notoriously reluctant to grant
to those women and those children
the rights they enjoy In many another
state. It is not the fact that in pro
portion to the population a less num
ber of lazy men live largely by the
labor of wives and other women folk
in the Btate of Georgia than in any
other state. People who are at all
familiar with Georgia from an ex
tended residence there know very
well that In the matter of genuine
chivalry which governs the everyday
conduct of men toward the everyday
Interests, comfort and welfare of
women and children, Georgians are
no whit advanced over the people of
other states. And in that statement
the Georgians are given a shade the
best of it.
There are good people in Georgia,
lots of them, just as fine people as
ever drew the breath of life chival
rous, generous folk tut none of the
admirable attributes of that class can
In any manner serve as extenuation
or apo.ogy for the nrutisnness tnai
pursued young Frank until it gained
its end 'n assassination.
grassy pasture where he can kick up
his heels and enjoy sleep and food
untroubled by heavy loads, chafing
harness and the toll of the road. The
pensioned horses should not Include
merely famous racers and family
pets.
AN EMBARGO ON ARMS DOWN
RIGHT UNPATROTIC AND
FOOLHARDY.
ASHLAND UP TO DATE.
If automobile lights are so bright
that they dazzle your eyes and other
machines are liable to run into you,
most people get back by putting on
still brighter lights so that other
people may run into them.
If you wouldn't walk across the
street to buy goods at low prices, and
would just as soon pay high figures
later, don't bother to read the an
nouncements of special Inducements
by our advertisers.
It Is believed that directors of rail
roads, banks and corporations should
at least show enough Interest to go
to the annual meeting and vote the
insiders' ticket with their eyes shut.
The Germans must have fine di
gestion to bold all they have taken.
(From the Sacramento Bee.)
Ashland, Ore., has a camp ground
which is free to all who desire to
make use of it. Individual camping
places, with plenty of room to park
cars and erect tents, private tables,
where one may have the privacy of
home, have been provided.
Facilities for cooking with gas and
private lockers for food are among
the accommodations. Ashland has
obtained a great deal of desirable
publicity during the last few months
In this respect.
The same thing can be done in Sac
ramento, and it Is not too late to
make some provision for the remain
der of this season.
The time which the old-fashioned
girl used to spend In putting up fruits
in fall seems to be spent by the mod
ern maiden in putting down ice cream
soaa.
The United States government has
not in cold storage a half million
machine gunB and never will bave-
The United States government has
not a hundred thousand large caliber
cannon In cold, calculating storage
and never will have!
The United States government
hasn't vast warehouses jammed full
of shrapnel shell and never will
have!
The United States is not prepared
for war lasting years and never will
be!
That's the way we are built. It
isn't In us to think, jive and eat war
during a quarter of a century of pro
found peace.
Therefore, what a fine, patriotic
thing it would be what rare fore
sight It would be on our part to put
an embargo on war munitions at this
time, prohibiting export to other na
tions that also were not prepared for
war!
When our hour of need comes
when we are attacked by a military
nation picking a quarrel with us
and we rush out in frantic haste to
buy the munitions with which to de
fend ourselves against our enemy
having a thousand warehouses full of
cannon, shot and powder, what will
the cold world bitterly say to us?
"Do the best you can. You set the
example for the first time in history
of a neutral nation refusing to sell
munitions to belligerents. Begone!
We have nothing to sell you!"
We will never give in to an InH
vader, not at any cost. But an em
bargo now, to help one of the bellig
erents to victory, will mean the use
less sacrifice of the lives of a million
the really big orders over to govern
ment manufacture instead of allow
ing the war traffickers to charge us
practically any price they may agree
upon between themselves?
In a recent speech before congress
President Wilson stated that "like
good stewards, we should so account
for every dollar of our appropriations
as to make it perfectly evident what
It was spent for and In what way it
was spent." Surely no such thought
was in the minds of the army and
navy officials who have been doing
the purchasing for those depart
ments. The reason this matter deserves
the immediate attention of the Amer
ican taxpayers is that the cost of mil
itarism in this country has been
growing faster than the average man
even dreams. In 1890 the annual
cost of our navy was $20,000,000.
Today it is $140,000,000. There is
no use to ask the reader to stop and
try to realize how much money
$140,000,000 is, because it Is an
absolute physical impossibility for
the human mind to do it.
Who the War Traders Are.
Because I believe it Is my duty to
do so, I desire now to take the re'
sponsibility of 'directing the atten
tlon of the American people to the
fact that their money appropriated
for the army and navy is being wast
ed by the millions, and to take the
responsibility of identifying the war
traffickers, so that the taxpayers
may know where the millions upon
millions of their money that has been
dumped into the bottomless pit of
militarism have been going, are go
ing, and will continue to go unless
public opinion shall arise in its might
and demand that further waste of
public funds shall cease.
To begin with, who and what Is tbe
armor ring, if there really is such
an animal? is tne term "armor
ring" a mere figure of speech, some
thing invisible, or is It possible defi
nitely to place our finger upon it?
Answer: It js possible.
The armor ring is the Bethlehem
Steel Company, the Midvale Steel
Company and the Carnegie Steel
Company. These three firms, exclu
sive of their subsidiary war-trafficking
auxiliaries, have drawn down
since 1887 from the Navy Depart
ment alone contracts aggregating
$95,628,912, divided ' as follows:
Bethlehem, $42,321,237; Carnegie,
$32,954,377; Midvale, $20,353,298
We will add to the ammunition
ring, for good 'measure, the DuPont
Powder Trust, which has no competi
tors In the sale of smokeless powder
to the government for the reasons
that will appear most remarkable
when explained. The Powder Trust
has obtained contracts aggregating
about $25,000,000 since 1905., From
the army and navy combined the
other three concerns Bethlehem,
Carnegie, and Midvale have ob
tained orders since 1887 exceeding
$150,000,000.
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For the best and deepest enjoy
ments that come to, little we realize
how much is due to smiles. Savages
do not smile; coarse, brutal, cruel
men may laugn, out tney seiaora
smile. The affluence, the benedic
tion, the radiance which "fills tbe
silence like a speech" Is the smile of
a full appreciative heart.
If the central girl would only an
swer -hello a nttie quicKer, me
mere man at the other end wouldn't
have to reverse it so often.
Your Health Depends
Upon Your Food
Eaf What Nature Has Prepared
For Yon
Some people, three times a day,
load their stomachs with the worst
kind of indigestible food and still ex
pect to keep in Al condition. Im
proper foods sooner or later bring ill
health.
Good, wholesome food such as
whole wheat will not only nourish
you but will keep you "fit" without
the aid of medicine.
Eat whole wheat and lots of it
that's what Nature intended bread
should be made of not made from
white flour, the part of the wheat
that contains the least vital nourish
ment. Tie best part of the grain is
the outer side which contains tbe glu
ten.
.There is a prepared food, made
from whole wheat, called "FORCE," I
which is not only an excellent substi
tute for bread, but also takes the
place of meat to a great extent.
If you want to start right, and
keep ri(ht throughout the day, try
"FORCE" for breakfast. Eaten with
fruit or berries, it beats bacon and
eggs all hollow. ATall good grocers.
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