Ashland tidings., June 01, 1916, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

ASHLAXV TIDIXG3
Thursday, Jane 1, 1918
TACK TWO
Ashland Tidings
By
the ASHLAXD FRIXTIXG CO.
(Incorporated.)
8 EMI-WEEK L Y.
ESTAIiLISnU) 1870.
Bert It. Greer, Editor and Manager.
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AS THE VISITOR. SEES I S
This is an age of tourists and tour
ing. People keep their eyes open as
they pass through towns, anxious to
see what refinement and civic spirit
they ran find. A town that beautifies
Its public streets and that has at
tractive residence grounds draws In
terest from all over a state.
Towns ought to take tho greatest
pains to beautify the streets through
which this stream of motor travel Is
passing', also to clean up neighbor
hoods through which railroad tracks
run. When motorists find d I la pi
dated buildings, Ill-kept grounds
stables decorated with circus posters,
etc., they carry away a disagreeable
Impression. This also Is true of farm
houses along the road.
The view from the railroad car Is
usually one of tumbled down chicken
coops, piles of ashes and rubbish.
Property owners perhaps say to them
selves that the strangers that pass by
won't know who It la that keeps such
a looking place. All the same, they
know the name of the town. And
In the country good roads and trim
farms attract folks and Increase land
Talnes.
Many towns, realizing the import
ance ot the effect produced on travel
ers, take pains to make little park
spots near railroad stations and along
main streets. It Is astonishing what
a change can be made In a dingy
squaie by planting a few trees and
shrubs.
Every town should have a com
mlttee to look specially after the ap
pcarance of these arteries of travel.
The owners of property abutting on
them should bo urged to cooperate
In a general clean up and beautlflca-
tlon movement.
If a railroad won't clean the rub
bish out of Its right-of-way, the
townspeople could better afford to do
It themselves than to let It remain.
If a screen of trees could be planted
along the back yards adjoining rail
road tracks the traveler In a few
years would gut a wholly different
Impression of the place.
THE CITY I1EACTIFTL MOVE
MENT Someone remarked the other day,
when a certain proposal of local Im
provement was being discussed, that
"beauty Is a luxury. We can't af
ford It." Was he right?
Here Is one plain fact, and any
experienced real estate man can vorl-
fy It from his own observation. Taka
a street of plain, simple houses, with
no attempt whatever at ornamenta
tion of any kind, Just naked wood,
brlrks and comont. Suppose some
morning this spring tho residents
should got together and decide that
the street looked too buro and com
monplace. SuppoBO they all agreo to spend
$50 In planting shrubs and trees,
grading and sowing grass seed. Let
them nlRO agreo to spend a few hours
a week In keeping the placo neat and
In planting and tending flowers.
What would bo tho effect? Com
plete results, of course, would not
show the first year. The second sea
son the hard angles between earth
and walls would be softened by a
nest of flowering shrubbery. In a
few years more the young trees, par
ticularly If well selected with some
quick growers, would provide some
shade and green.
The selling price of those places
would pick up as soon as the shrubs
got started.. When the trees got a
little bigger, the whole character of
that street would have changed. It
would suggest culture, care, refine
ment. People from other districts
would look at It longingly and would
snap up empty bouses. Eventually
place that cost 13,000 would be
likely to sell for $3,600 to 14,000,
because of the reputation and desir
ability of the neighborhood for resi
dence. People who say that beauty Is a
luxury know very little about hu
man nature or business. A beautified
neighborhood Is accepted as a sign
of a higher scale of living. People
feel that in moving Into It they are
improving social station, not to speak
of the pleasure to the eye which
beauty always gives.
Is not the city beautiful movement
a good business investment?
BEI.Vti "IillOKE" IS AX AMERICAN
DISEASE
We do not know Just what the per
capita wealth of the United States
may be, but did it ever happen to
strike you that most Americans are
chronically "broke"?
In spite ot all the optimistic re
ports of the savings banks and the
postal savings institution and the
building and loan companies, most
Americans are always "broke." The
majority of savings banks and postal
savings depositors are foreigners.
Foreigners have cultivated intensive
living. They have conserved the en
ergy of agricultural lands; they have
Intensified their babita of living; they
have an inborn faculty for thrift.
And why? Because the necessity of
saving baa been beaten into them in
a stern schooling poverty!
In the homes of many native Amer
icans thrift is scorned because It is
considered a sort of neighborhood
disgrace to be poor. If Willie Jones'
papa gives him a dime any time he
wants It, Johnnie Smith's daddy has
just naturally got to do the same.'
Willie and Johnnie straightaway ex
change this money for luxuries and
repeat the "touch" the next day.
The thoughtless expenditure of
small sums of money is one of the
chronic symptoms ot the American
dlseaso of being "broke".
And being "broke" Is not a voca
tional malady; it attacks the man-In-buslncss-for-blmsclf
Just as It fastens
itself upon the humblest wage earner,
only that its effect is not compara
tive. Somewhow, It seems that the
middle-class workor and we cannot
deny that In democratic America we
deliberately cultivate a certain class
distinction, determined by one's earn
ing (and spending) capacity Is the
victim of this disease.
Great honors await the scientist
wh'o discovers the germ of Improvi
dence and a curative serum therefor.
m iUL CltEMTS lUIiL
Roth the senate and house have
passed a rural credits bill. The two
bills will possibly be turned over to
a conference committee, where the
differences will be compromised and
the bill will undoubtedly soon be
come a law.
There are many differences be
tween the senate and house bills to
be adjusted. The sonato measure
would capitalize each farm loan bank
at $500,000, the house's at $750,000.
The senate would authorize loan
associations with unlimited liability,
the bouse would not. The senate
would limit loans to 50 por cent, with
no recognition of Improvements; the
house proposes to grant 600 per cent
on land values and 20 per cent on
value on permanent Insurable Im
provements. . .
The senate proposes that no loan
shall be made if the three members
of the local committee are not unani
mous In their appraisement; the
house would require a majority re
port of the committee. The senate
makes the minimum loan $200; the
housc of $100. The senate would
chargo borrowers 10 por cent In
terest on all defaulted payments; the
house would charge only contract
rates. Tho senate would require
local associations to make good all
defaults within 30 days after notice
from a land bank; the house would
provide a special reserve to protect
associations.
The senate bill requires advance
payments on the principal In sums
of $100 or multiples and the hotiso
$25 and multiples. Tho senato makes
the actual earning power of the land
a principal factor and the house
makes tho agricultural value tho prin
cipal baHls of appraisement.
Under the senate bill local asso
ciations would be required to hold
25 per cent of net earnings as re
serves and might refuse to declare
any dividends to borrowers, while the
house would require all net earnings
to be paid to borrowers as dividends.
HSHL7TJND
Storage and Transfer Co
C. F. BATES Proprietor.
Two warehouses near Depot
Goods of all kinds stored at reason
able rates.
A General Transfer Business.
Wood and Rock Spring CoaL
Phone 117.
Office, 99 Osk Street,
ASHLAND, OREGON,
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People's Forum
TaTors New Commission.
Editor Tidings: I read with Inter
est In your last issue the article in
regard to the park and springs water
commission. I think there la a great
deal of merit in the suggestion.
The success of our springs project
will only be accomplished by har
mony, co-operation and determina
tion. It is true all men do not see
alike, and differ very widely In
opinions. There is no reason why
one should call the other a knocker
or kicker if their opinion is Justly
based, but before opposing an idea
or Issue it should be carefully consid
ered and something better submitted.
If the opposer suggests no practical
remedy he has done nothing but talk.
The world Is full of talkers.
I agree with the .writer in the last
Issue in regard to having an election
to establish the control, maintenance
and promotion of the mineral springs
resort. It will be absolutely neces
sary for the success of the project to
have Lithia Park and the springs
maintenance and promotion under
the control of one board with enough
money each year to maintain as a
resort..
I will cite you, for your considera
tion, things as they will be In a few
days. We have put practically $200,
000 In our springs project. We have
a springs water commission, com
posed of three members, one elected
each year, whose duty it Is to main
tain and keep the mineral waters
coming to the park. We have a park
board composed of five members, one
elected each year, whose duty Is to
maintain the parks of our city. Now
we have the springs commission,
bringing In the mineral waters and
distributing same at he fountains.
We have the park board mowing
grass, sprinkling lawns and . hoeing
flowers. Neither party has the money
or authority to develop the project.
Now we are starting out to make
a resort on such a proposition
Tne
first thing we know, Instead of having
health-seekers come we will have cur-
loslty-hunters.
Let's have an election, amend the
charter, elect a commlsison, give
them control and money, and
money, and get
back of them with a determination to
w'n. A TAXPAYER.
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Need of Proer Publicity.
Editor Tidings: Recently, in the
Portland Oregonlan, there was an
Item the matter of which was fur-
n,lHhed by a gentleman who had been
in Ashland, telling of what had been
done by the way of developing Lithia
Park and of the bringing in of the
waters from the various springs. The
item was in an Inconspicuous place In
the back part of the paper On the
front page of the same issue, or of
one preceding it by a day or so, there
was a telegraphic Horn under the Ash
land date line, which told how a peti
tion was being circulated here for the
recall of Mr. Greer from the springs
water commission.
The latter item was sent from here
as a matter of news about a question
that Is of little Interest outside of this
city except that It Intimates the possi
bility of the downfall of a man, and Is
of no value to this community al
though It will be read by hundreds,
while the former Item, contributed by
one who felt an enthusiasm mat
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should be an inspiration to yonr peo
ple, will be read by one.
It is an opinion commonly ex
pressed by visitors to this city that
Ashland "is destined to profit on ac
count of its waters, in the same man
ner as have other cities where the
waters of medicinal springs have been
developed. They tell of places which
depend upon the meagre supply from
a single spring, situated miles away
from a railroad; where the climatic
conditions and the surroundings are
far inferior to those here, that have
developed into resort places visited
by people counted by the hundreds of
thousands yearly.
Ashland, with Us 'superior ad
vantages of waters, climate and local
ity can surely profit as other places
have profited, but what nature has
done must be supplemented by the
work of the people who should herald
its merits to the outside world as they
deserve. Get them on the front page
so that pepole will know about it and
will come here and locate.
Do not wait for the passeMfy to do
It for you, but do It yourselves.
VISITOR.
Would Elect All.
Editor Tidings: I would like to
; have you print a few lines showing
my Ideas regarding our different
commissions, etc.
Why not amend the city charter,
abolishing the park commission and
also abolishing the springs commis
sion when they have completed the
physical plant, and, Instead of ap
pointing, allow the people to elect
the following: Street superintend
ent, water superintendent, park su
perintendent, chief ot police, night
police, and electrician?
Street superintendent to have
charge of all street work as at pres
ent. Water superintendent have charge
of waterworks, Including our min
eral water. '
Park superintendent have charge
of all park work.
Electrician to have charge of all
electric work.
The same with the chief of police,
all to work under the supervision of
our raayor and council,
But WDatever we do, let's boost
Irgt lagt and alj tne time.
J j am jugt a COmmon laborer, but
Dav mv snare 0 taxes without knock-
inB or ticklne.
i I would like to see others write
; ghort articles on this subject, and,
like the person who wrote the article
in Monday's paper, said, "Come out
and declare yourself." But please
don't write anything that you are
" ashamed to sign your name to.
j F. H. CROWSON.
Whither Are We Drifting? The
Troubles of a Capitalistic Clmrch.
(By Henry G. Gilmore.)
Startling facts, which by no means
paint an enviable picture for the con
templation of sober-minded people,
have JuBt reached me from the effete
east, where the Inroads of "high so
clety" and, with It, the dominating
Influences that follow In the wake of
accumulated wealth have asserted
themselves with a poignancy that sets
one reflecting whether, after all,
there Is any true religion In the land.
With the thought that the average
individual is drawn to church for the
purpose of being musically and intel
lectually entertained, plus all that
may follow In the way of effecting
social and commercial alliances, one
Is staeEered at the sight of such
scripture texts as follow and all
they imply prominently suspended
sometimes from the walls of the sa
cred edifices themselves: "God Is a
Spirit and they that worship Him
must worship Hlra In spirit and In
truth," "The Lord Is in His holy tem
ple; let all the earth keep silence,"
and other like passages. These clear
ly set forth that a meek spirit, con
trite heart and devout reverence for
the great Creator of the -universe
should be the chief motive for the
assembling of ourselves, to render
thanks for the great benefits that we
have received at HIb hands and other
acknowledgments of His gracious will
and favor. All of which is in strik
ing contrast to the worldly situations
continually confronting us In the pub
lic services of the church and private
devotions in the home.
Recent occurrences at the aristo
cratic Episcopal church of Newark,
N. J., suddenly throw Into the lime
light the humiliating spectacle of a
rector being reproved by his vestry
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ASHLAND LUMBER
COMPANY
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Shingles, Lath, Sash, Doors.
Roofing Papers. -Cordwood,
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The Oldest National
Member Federal
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Capital and Surplus $120,000.00
DEPOSITORY OF
City of Ashland County
, United States
for preaching the gospel unreservedly
to his congregation. The rector be
lieves that a spirit of vital religion
and not the distractions ot downright
worldliness should pervade his assem
bled flock. A rupture along these
lines has just started In this New Jer
sey capitalistic parish, with the prom
ise that before the healing process has
been reached there will be abandant
reasons for that sarcastic exclama
tion generally couched in these
terms: "How those Christians do
love one another!"
The Rev. Dr. Johnson has said, "I
have been making the fairest trial
possible in a capitalistic parish In a
capitalistic community to find out
whether It Is possible for a minister
of Jesus Christ in this century to
preach unflinchingly the gospel with
all its personal application. My at
tempt has proved a complete failure."
This candidly confesses that the
"man of affairs," in too many cases,
has little need of the gospel message,
and that empty form and ceremony,
with a liberal sprinkling of pulpit or
atory and mundane subjects, and bril
liant music added to tickle the fancy,
furnish all the nourishment needed
for bis social adjustment and spirit
ual edification!
Another vexatious phase In this un
happy church affair Is set forth, In
uncompromisingly plain language,
when the Rev. Dr. Johnsson reported
"that a member of the vestry had
said to him that the church should
be run as a grocery store Is run to
please his patrons and that since'
there were nine sinners in the church',
to one saint, it was the duty of the!
minister to please the majority rather
than to irritate them."
If there be further comment upon
this subject It consists in suggesting
that, as rational beings, we recognize
the potency, in the most forcible
terms, of all that is summed up in
the words of St. James the apostle,
viz.: "Pure religion and nndeflled
before God and the Father Is this:
To visit the fatherless and widows In
their affliction and to keep himself
unspotted from the world."
Capitalistic churchmanshlp should,
everywhere, be frowned upon as a
serious and wicked disturber of that
peace "that passeth all understand
ing" and which brings suc& endless
comfort and consolation to the hu
man race at large.
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Dear Editor:
Having been confined to my bed
and room for the past 10 days from,
the effects of a political frost that
developed Into a severe case of ton
silltis, I take thjg means of advising
my friends that 'I am still in the
land of the living.
Drs. Boslough & Jarvls have the
tonsllltls well under control but In
formed me that there Is nothing
known to medical science or modern
surgery to relieve political Ills. I am
also grateful to sympathizers for
their generous offer to furnish all
kinds of life preservers for my trip
up Salt River with the rest of the
defeated candidates. In closing I
wish to thank my friends through
out the county for their support at
the primary election and ask that
they give my successful opponents
the same support at the general elec
tion that they would me bad I been
nominated. Respectfully,
BENTON BOWERS.
Ashland, 6-29, 1916.
Roseburg News: Mrs. J. F. Cay
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Sawyer, left this morning for Ash
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this city. Mr.. Gaylor will remain
In this city for a short time until
the automobile In which they motor
ed from their home at Klamath Falls
la repaired.. It was broken in a
collision with another car Saturday
and repair parts from Portland are
being waited,
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