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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1915)
Thanfcjr, Octohor 14, 1015 MGR TWO ASHLAND TTDIN08 Ashland Tidiiigs By THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO. (Incorporated.) SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Bert It. Greer, Editor and Manager, tjron Mowat, . News Reporter Issued Mondays and Thursdays Official City and County Paper SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $2.00 Six Months LOO 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 five the old street address or postoffice as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon Postoffice as second-ciass mail mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, (ht I I, '15 FIRE. Last Saturday was fire prevention day, and In many cities of the state wide observation was made of the day, the purpose of which had been proclaimed by the governor. In Portland a big parade and Bpecial no tice In the schools were features. In Ashland the day passed practically unnoticed. This is not as it should be. Fire loss in Ashland ran up into many thousands of dollars during the past year and few and far between were the fires which a very little pre caution would not have prevented. To the newspaper man who trots around reporting fires, it is notice able that in most cases no one has the least Idea how a fire started. If the owner can't think of anything else, he charges It up to "spontane ous combustion," "matches gnawed by mice," or "defective wiring." These ancient and hoary stock causes should be given a rest. They are badly overworked. They have been the goat for many offences they nev er committed. There are more people who can guess how fires started than are will ing to admit it. This does not mean that tbey burn their own buildings for the insurance. It is simply that they are ashamed of their stupid acts of thoughtlessness. Nine-tenths of the fires come from some little act of personal reckless ness. The custom of throwing light ed matches into waste baskets and other rubbish wipes out regularly its millions of property. Failure to clean out chimneys and smoke pipes is a fruitful cause. Many people allow stovepipes to rust out. A fire of light refuse Is started in the fall, and the sparks emerge freely from the rotten pipe. People will open all the drafts of a furnace or stove and go off and lock up the house. Soon the overheated pipe . sets unprotected woodwork afire. Another wretched habit is allowing a mass of flimsy packing cases and packing material to collect in base ments. If fire prevention day could arouse people to the stupidity and costliness of such careless ways, it would be well worth making a legal holiday of it THE PAGING OF LETTERS. Some one has started a newspaper discussion about the proper way to page letters. It may be a minor matter. But a considerable number of bad words are constantly elicited by the eccentricities of some people in this respect. Formerly people wrote letters In a straightforward way. They begun on page 1, turned the leaf over and called it page 2, and so on with 3 and four. Now they may start anywhere and jump to any page on the sheet One common method Is to jump from page 1 to page 4, then write pages 3 and 2. Others will jump from page 1 to page 3, then take 2 and 4, argu ing that the two front sides of the leaves should be covered before the two back sides. Probably the real reason for these peculiarities is the desire to give some originality to a letter. It is apt to be done by the same people who adopt a very striking manner of penmanship, which is exceedingly stylish but very illegible. The best written letter is the one written without pretense, In the most obvl ons way, the pages following like the pages in a book. Wine and women get credit for making a fool of many a man whs was born that way. If we could only settle our bills by pviog compliments! THE OCCULT SCIENCE OP LAW. (Saturday Evening Post.) Law more especially criminal law has usually been an occult science. It is still the practice in Burma, we believe, to give two disputants can dles of the same size, to be lighted at the same time. The one whose can dle burns longest gets the judgment against the other. Less than a hundred years ago a defendant in an English criminal trial appealed to the ordeal of battle, and the court was more or less sur prised to find that the ancient law on which he relied had never been repealed. Determining a man's guilt or innocence by his ability to walk on hot plowshares, or carry a hot iron, or drink a poisonous decoction, or by throwing him oound into wa ter, has been practiced for ages among many peoples. The medieval method of letting accused and accus er fight it out with weapons was common over Europe. Our modest ancestors confessed their inability to find the merits of the cause, and so relegated the whole affair to the Intervention of super natural agencies. The main differ ence is that we are less modest. In stead of the ordeal of battle or the old key-and-Bible test or the "sieve witch," we have the defendant play a game of trip-the-court. If he can catch the judge putting an i dot over and e he wins, and is pronounced in nocent AN EMPTY SACK. Did you ever stop to figure who picks up that empty sack that you carelessly toss Into the street? Who? Why, the street cleaners, of course. Who pays the street cleaners? Why, the city, of course? Who pays the city? Why why you and I and the rest of the taxpayers, of course. Economy begins with the little things. It may not be economy to cut out the street cleaning depart ment and allow the streets of the city to become one big rubbish dump, but It is economy for you, Mr. Citi zen, to carry that empty sack a few feet farther and put it in a can pro vided for the purpose. Then why not go a little farther and impress the Idea on the minds of the children? A boy or girl Is the most rabid enthusi ast along lines in which he or she becomes interested. Arouse a little Interest In a spotless city and the children will do the rest ANTI-CONVERSATION. In an article on congressional pos sibilities in the southern Oregon dis trict the Oregon Voter states that Congressman Hawley usually lines up with the conservation element, and some think the anti-CONVERSA- TION sentiment will develop to the point that Vawter would have a chance." The Vawter referred to is, of course, William I. Vawter of Med- ford. Now what we would like to know is whether that sudden change from conservation to conversation was a slip or a joke. A hypocrite Is a man who acts dif ferently when be knows some one is watching him. Many a woman who doesn't know ber own mind gives her husband pieces of it. The flute player is no financier, but he is able to float high notes with ease. The leaves will soon begin to blush A. ikl.l. 1. V ' V, .11 1 summer. ' Aeroplanes are safer than automo biles if you are crossing a street. And sometimes a word to the wife is sufficient to start something. A castle in the air may be all right, but a cottage on earth is better. In telling a man of his faults use a long-distance telephone. The hard part about an easy job 1st the getting thereof. , Sometimes money talks, bat some times it stops ta'k. There's a lo if dead timber in most family trees. GOTHIC THE NEW ARUOW a tor 2c COLLAR IT FITS THE CRAVAT CUWTT. PtAaOQT 4 CO.. bcr 214,000 People. Killed on Tracks "In the last twenty-flye years ap proximately 214,000 peopie have been killed on the railroads ofl the United States, and of this numbler 113,480, or over 53 per cent, were trespass ers," said R. J. Clancy, sissistant to the general manager of tl e Southern Pacific, speaking before the Civic Auditorium Safety Conference In San Francisco, September 28. j "Trespassing," he continued, "re sults in more people beina killed so far as railway operation is (concerned ; than from all other causes, yet legis lative bodies, state and national, have confined their efforts entirely to safe ty appliance legislation and bave con tinued to disregard the appeals for trespass legislation made tojthem by the cemeteries and hospitals of this country every day of every Kear. A careful review of statistics makes the conclusion irresistible thaf care in the employment of men ana require ment cf safe practices, sripptemented oy trespass legismuun euecuveiy an ministered, will do more to lessen rail casualties than all the safety de vices genius has afforded. "The United States js the only civ ilized country in the world that has failed to legislate against trespassing, the consequence ofwhich is best II lustrated in comparison with similar results in other civilized countries where legislation against trespass ob tains and where the casualties Inci dent to trespass are very few in com parison with the United States." Mr. Clancy called attention to re sults of observation tests on automo biles, teams and pedestrians at rail way crossings and the Importance of safety practices in this connection. "In 1914," he said, "at thirty-four different crossings taken promiscu ously to obtain average condtilons, out of 16,482 automobiles, 17,755 teams and 54,835 pedestrians, or a total of 89,072, with the number of tracks at such crossings varying at from one to fifteen, and the number of trains over such crossings varying from one to 100, 139, or only fifteen hundredths of 1 per cent, stopped and looked in both directions." Superintendent W. H. Whelan of the Los Angeles division of the com pany called attention to the Southern Pacific expenditures in safety work. "The results of the company's ac tivities in this direction are reflected in its accident record," he said. J'For the month of June, 1915, for instance, the number of employes injured per 1,000 dropped from 8 per cent last year to 6 per cent this year." Phone job orders to the Tidings. No Difference The man with a small account In this bank is given the same courteous attention that is given larger deposit ors. Our service is for the small depos itor as well as the large one. First National Bank ASHLAND, OREGON, Oldttt National Bank In Jackson County Hill Street. Near Qty Park ."'ark Garage MORRIS & LIDSTROM, PROPS. We personally conduct Repair and Lathe work and DO THE WORK. Our Repair facilities are unexcelled, our system complete. Our stock of Auto Supplies is right up to the minute. Prices reduced on Michelin tires July 19th We have these tires in stock, also have Goodrich and Firestone. 55T Our Vulcanizing Department will please yon. LET US SHOW YOU PARK GARAGE Billion Bushel Wheat Crop Here Washington, D. C, Oct. 11. Esti mates of crop production and prices for the state of Oregon and for the United States, compiled by the Bu reau of Crop Estimates (and trans mitted through the Weather Bureau), j I U. S. Department of Agriculture, are't as follows: i Wheat State: Estimate this year 17,400,000 bushels, final estimate; last year 16,604,000; price October 1 i to producers 76 cents, year ago 93 cents. United States: Estimate this ' year 1,000,000,000 bushels, final es-; timate last year 91,000,000; October j 1 price 90.9 cents, year ago 93.5 cents. Oats State: Production estimate October 1 is 15,500,000 bushels, Sep tember 1 forecast 14,159,000, final estimate last year 12,740,000; price October 1 to producers 35 cents, year ago 42 cents. United States: Pro duction estimate October 1 is 1,520, 000,000 bushels, September 1 forecast 1,408,000.000, final estimate last year 1,141,000,000; October 1 price 34.5 cents, year ago 43.3 cents. Barley State: Production esti mate October 1 is 4,790,000 bushels, September 1 forecast 4,309,000, final estimate last year 3,660,000; price October 1 to producers 50 cents', year ago, 57 cents. United States: Pro duction estimate October 1 is 237, 000,000 bushels, September 1 fore cast 222,936,000, final estimate last year 194,953,000; October 1 price 46.8 cents, year ago 51.8 cents. Potatoes State: October 1 fore cast 6,100,000 bushels, September 1 forecast 6,688,000, final estimate last year 4,753,000; price October 1 to producers 46 cents per bushel, year ago 64 cents. United States: Octo ber 1 forecast 368,000,000 bushels, September 1 forecast 405,909,000, final estimate last year 405,921,000; October 1 price 48.7 cents, year ago 64.7 cents. Apples State: October 1 forecast 1,060,000 barrels, September 1 fore cast 1,134,000 barrels, final estimate last year 1,200,000 barrels; price Sep tember 15 to producers $2.55 per bar rel, year ago $2.28. United States: October 1 forecast 71,600,000 bar rels, September 1 forecast 71,199,000 barrels, final estimate last year 84,- 400,000 barrels; price September 15 to producers $1.74 per barrel, year ago $1.85. Rope May Have Fish Hatchery At a meeting of the state fish and game commission last week it was decided to locate an experimental hatchery at Butte Falls and later a permanent hatchery on a larger scale provided a hatcheiy site can be prop erly secured and the water proves satisfactory. This will be decided as soon as possible as work on the ex perimental station should start early In December, Many a woman has a fine carriage who never owned a horse. Courtship is the frying pan and matrimony the fire. The best way to get out of a tight place is' to sober np. Phone 152 ! The Oldest National Member Federal FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,000.00 DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America' Plans to Study 1915 Boxed Apple Crop Washington, D. C, Oct. 2. Com plying with numerous requests from ' tha irmvore' fnunt'Wtt fh A mhpm of commerce, growers' and shippers' or-1 ganizations in the states of Washing ton, Oreson, Idaho and Montana, the J office of markets and rural organlza-i tion of the United States Department 1 of Agriculture has made plans to es-t tablish temporary headquarters in the northwest for the study of the i distribution of the 1915 boxed apple crop. The plan as outlined Is based upon assurance that the office of markets and rural organization will receive the co-operation of all those Interest ed in the apple industry, for without ; this co-operation the efforts of the office would not produce valuable re sults. It Is probable that the field head quarters for this work will be in Spo kane, because of the accessibility of that point to the apple territory in the northwestern states. The work which the office will do is not that of a telegraphic market news service, but rather contemplates the collection of mail and the com pilation of data and issuance of week ly bulletins concerning the shipments and destination of the northwestern boxed apples. In this connection similar work will be carried on to a certain extent in the apple sections of Colorado, Utah and California. Phone job orders to th Tidings. Notice to Contractors. Notice is hereby given that bids will be opened and considered at the office of the undersigned on the 16th day of October, 1915, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the construction of a No SleepyKead I ill II r ' ?? II I I I I II IT-Tl 1 with that bowlful of New Post Toasties waiting The new method of manufacture brings out a new flavour, exceptional crispness, and a body and substance that don't mush down in cream. - Notice the tiny, pearl "puffs" on each flake characteristic of the New Post Toasties t Bank In Jackson County Reserve System Coffee The airtight tins in which Schilling's Best is packed are safety deposit boxes for coffee-treasure. Treasure? Isn't the flavor of fine coffee treasure? What's coffee for! We put-in the flavor and seal it tight against escape and intrusion. We money back the result. Schilling's Best frame school house for District No. 54, Jackson county, Oregon. Plans and specifications can bo seen at the office of F. H. Walker in the city of Ashland. Address all bids to the undersigned at Ashland postoffice. Right reserved to reject any or alt bids. By order of the board of directors. 39-3t. MRS. A. M. FITCH, Clerk. HSHL7TND Storage and Transfer Co C. F, BATES Proprietor. Two warehouses sear Depot Goods of all kinds stored at reason able rates. A General Transfer Business. Wood and Rock Springs ComL Phone 117. Office, 99 Oak Street ASULAXD. OREGON. - like a Your grocer has thcml