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Monday, August 7, 1916 PAGE TWO ASHLAXD TIDINGS Ashland Tidings By TUB ASHLAND PRINTING CO. (Incorporated.) SEMI-WEKKLV. ESTABLISHED 1878. 4 Bert It. Greer, Editor and Munager. iLrnn Monat, Sena Reporter Issued Mondays and Thursdays Ofticial City and County Paper S11JSCRI1TIOX RATES. One Tear 12.00 tlx Months 1-00 Three Months 60 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. Ftm-class Job printing faelhties. Equipments second to none in the Interior. I No subscriptions for less than three Bonths. All subscriptions dropped at miration unless renewal U received. In ordering changes of the pnper always five the old street address or potoffIce as well as the new. Entered , at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflce as second-class mail mat tor. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Aug. 7, "10 PROGRESS DRIVES OIT OP THE RIT. When C. E. Gales of Medford sold the new automobile bus to the Hotel Austin he took In part exchange the team of horses, .bus and baggage wagon, of the Hotel Oregon. For years" and years this team has pulled the samo wagon over the same streets to the same station and, In fact, were so familiar with the route that they have been known to meet trains without a driver when left standing longer than the horses thought necessary in front of. the hotel. Anyhow, C. E. Gates got the team and one of his men started to drive It to Medford. When the horses got to the city limits and started out on the dirt road on Billings hill, they created all kinds of trouble. They balked, they kicked, they backed, they reared, and finally when the driver got them to moving, one was laying back balking his hardest and the other was galloping as hard as be could. This team had got In a rut from doing the same thing the same way year after year. And they are not the only institutions In Ashland which have found themselves being pulled out of a rut by progress and are lost when they find themselves travelling a new road, then balk and rear back and kick over the traces. Finally the driver quieted the horses down and by the time they had got to Talent they were trotting along, both dolDg their share In pull ing the wagor. and accustomed to the change. Some borses, some Institutions and eome people kick harder and balk longer than others, but Progress is a good driver, whipping, when neces aary, with a relentless hand. MODERN PAKSIMOXT. In the books we used to read, one of the most common characters was the miser. And he was no mere creature of the Imagination. Tou could find specimens of him in every village. Thrift was one of the com monest " American qualities, and everywhere you could find those who carried the virtue to extremes. Often they retired to lonely huts in order to eave expenses and commonly they lived In dirt and squalor. The present age Is an age of confi dence and free spending. Many peo ple acquire an automobile before they get a bank account. As a result there is a scarcity of loanable capital, and many hopeful enterprises perish because they cannot be financed. One of the most interesting cases of thrift carried to an extreme Is that of Mrs. Ketty Green, richest woman in the world, whose death oc curred a short time ago, and whose eccentric frugality has long been a subject of gossip. It would not be fair to Mrs. Green, or others like her, to rfr to her as a modern miser. Tt.e ml?r nd to withdraw wealth from circulation, finding pleasure in rh mr niarht and touch of golden, fot,! r,t lh. Mrs. Green type at priTror rTira1 prosperity by W.tfir. r,i-,t th!r hoards for product 1t T1'r,r ). While it is not a rarr Ut . hftM up for emulation, it 1 at 1't jror of a public benefit than that of th man who spends as fast as he karris and never Increases the resource of the community. Parsimony Is not so common a fault nowadays that many people need to be warned aga!nt it. There are a great many persons who are exceedingly frugal when It comes to giving to charity, who spend freely f nonph for their own gratification. But there are always some who live with mean economy from a timid fear lest they become dependent. I1 fjb-r lit tit' , - ' V X " K 7 vv; J i V 'J I I f it . ; U t h V m 1 41 v K h "ft " Jt Scene from the "Vaudeville Act," September Morn, at the Vinjng, Friday, " 'August 11th. From the business viewpoint it is poor policy, as one needs to live and spend in a normal way in order to make friends, experience life and un derstand the world. While the parsi monious man is saving little wastes he Is often mUslng opportunities that otherwise he could see and grasp. OWNED AXD RENTED HOMES. A little group of men who have dealt considerably in real estate In a number of cities, got to comparing experiences the other day. They were discussing the question whether more or less people Own their homes than formerly. It was the final con sensus that there are fewer houses owned by the occupants that for merly. Workmen nowadays cherish tenac iously their freedom of movement. If they hear of a better Job, they want to be footloose to pull up and go. They do not work as long In one place as formerly. The man who has stuck to one Job ten years is a mem ber of the old guard, a conspicuous figure. There is an unwillingness to tie up money in any one place. As a result it was the feeling that there is an increasing contrast be tween the various sections of growing towns. The better houses are very nicely kept up. People settle down in them in a permanent way. They plant shrubbery and cultivate flowers and fertilize and decorate their lawns with an eye to the future. ' Meanwhile In the less costly homes the tenants are more mobile. They hate to do any permanent grading or planting on their landlord's real estate. They may be far away an other year, and other tenants would reap the advantage of their labor. Let the landlord do It, is their view. Usually the landlord does not see how beautificatlon will improve his rent. All of which tends to create resi dence districts without beauty, plain and bare. Also the man in a rented house is less likely to save.' A mort gage la a constant incentive to thrift. But the renter feels independent and is apt to be Indifferent to a bank ac count. It Is not easy to build up sub stantial and beautiful towns on the basis of the modern restless popula tion, and the man who owns his home can usually look his banker friend squarely In the face. . Phone Job orders to the Tidings. K A - -i, ,w !V X ; a- 'ijf . j IV WW A Ashlanders Make Good in Hawaii Mrs. D. P. Blue, who returned last week from Honolulu and will spend a year in Ashland before returning to the Hawaiian Islands, reported that Edward Stannard, who la teaching In the Iolanl school in Honolulu, Is the Iolanl school In Hnoolulu, Is spending his vacation working on a sugar plantation, earning a goodly salary besides the school pay, which goes on as usual. Mrs. Blue says all of the Ashlanders made good over in the islands. Verne Blue will prob ably be over next winter and Miss Frances Hamlin will also be over Christmas or next summer. Jan Mowat has already received two ad vances In the employ of the Kahulul Railroad & Steamship Company and stands excellent chances of further advancement In the near future. Mrs. Blue says that at present there' are several vacancies In the schools over there, but that they are filled so fast that no one can be sure of getting employment. The Llthia Park drive from the Bungalow to the tennis courts was packed solidly with cars Friday even ing. Uniting Learning and Labor THE OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE In its Six Schools and Forty-eight De partments is engaged in the great work oi uniting Learning and Labor. Forty-eighth School Year Opens SEPTEMBER 18, 1916. Degree Courses requiring a four-year hich school preparation, are ottered fn the following! AGRICULTURE, 16 Departments; COMMKRCE, 4 Departments; ENGIN EERING, 0 Departments; MINES, 8 Departments; FORESTRY, 2 Depart ments; HOME ECONOMICS, 4 Depart ments; and PHARMACY. Vocational Courses reouirinc an Eighth Grade preparation for entrance are offered in Agriculture, Dairying, Commerce, Forestry, Home Makers, and Vtsrhmiir Aria Pharmacv with two- year high school entrance requirement. SCHOOL OF MUSIC. Piano, String, Band and Voice Culture. Catalogue and beautiful illustrated booklet free. I 5 - 1,1 Address The Registrar, 1 w-7-1516 to 'J-7-16) COK VAJ.US, ORKOON People's Forum Joviality and Good Citizenship at the Festive Ronrd. (By Henry G. Gilmore.) Nothing could have been more ex hilarating than the community good fellowship that reigned supreme on the occasion of the recent get-togeth er meeting at Hotel Austin in fur therance of Ashland's unique posi tion by reason of its beautiful Lithia Park, curative waters and magnificent climate leaving it ab solutely without a peer on any one of the far-reaching areas of Uncle Sam's national domain. Dr. Carnahan proved himself an ideal toastmaster, his cheery words and beaming countenance lending a charm to the happy surroundings. "A Good Tiling to Have Around." Dr. Carnahan asked why a minis ter of the Gospel should have been called upon to preside at this civic function,' aifd accounted for it by the telling of a story delivered with all the gusto and Interpretive skill of which the doctor is a pastmasWr. lie said that a pious layman, desir ous of doing missionary work in a rural district with small accommoda tion In the way of a meeting house, found hmself up in a corner and was driven to the necessity of suppli cating a saloonkeeper for the use of an unoccupied room over his place of business. The saloonkeeper read ily consented to the use of his hall for religious purposes and the meet ings were of so encouraging a nature that the evangelM extempore ap proached the saloonlst upon the pro priety of securing. a minister to per manently carry on the work. Much pleasant talk ensued over the situa tion, and the man accustomed to the successful handling of sundry liquid doncoctions finally concluded by say ing that a preacher was a d n good thing to have, hanging round occa sionally. On some such grounds Dr. Carnahan surmised he was, perhaps, indebted for his official position that evening. There was convulsive laughter at this sally of refined ec clesiastlcism, but the writer owes It to the readers of the Tidings to ex plain that the generally accepted op probrious term, after all, can be ap proached with childlike innocency, for, derived from a well-known Latin root denoting simply condemnation of evil tendencies (this and nothing more), there is very little to contam inate the curriously minded individ ual. "May Smoke Hereafter." Dr. Carnahan made a second up heaval during the evening. 'While the orations were proceeding a num ber of Virginia-weed exponents smoked-up the dining room during an unguarded moment, which led the good doctor to call for a little ven tilation. Some windows were opened and the situation relieved by the ad mission of pure air, and Dr. Carna han enlivened the proceedings by saying that on one occasion when he probably boasted that he never smoked, n friend retaliated by say ing: "Now, Carnahan, Ve know you well, and if you don't smoke now, how do you know that you will not smoke hereafter?" The Joke was HSHLHND Storage and Transfer Co C. P. BATES Proprietor Two warehouses sear Depot Goods of all kinds stored at reason able rates. A General Transfer Business. Wood and Rock Springs CoaL Phone 117. Office, 99 Oak Street, ASHLAND. OREGON. egmmn . vi maintain a fine three-piece orchestra every evening until the middle of Octo ber. Dancing, every evening, except Sunday. ' The best dancing floor in the valley. It is always cool at the Bungalow You Are Always Welcome! 14 IMttttltllllf MITIrrTTtltntttltnttimtttttMMtimHMIIIIIli f J. P. DODGE & SONS Undertakers x State Licensed Emkalmer Lady Assistant Deputy Cotmty Coroner hugely enjoyed and all keenly felt that the orator's "hereafter" has been resolutely and safely provided for, Sang the Doxology. Now for" a couple of stories for which the good doctor is in nowise responsible. An English newspaper with a net weekly circulation of over two million copies electricfled its. readers, in one of its issues, by an account of the doings of one of the sons of Albion at a banquet at which he presided as the head of a society, of high standing, Interested in the promulgation of exact data, dealing jointly with the twin scientific hand maidens of horticulture and agricul ture In the four eastern counties of England. This Englishman was a rough and tumble, sort of a gentle man, but, with it all, a g(od-hearted, benevolent Individual Intent upon "helping out" a struggling brother. He was ajittle given to form and ceremony and believed, at all times, in asking a blessing upon God's gra cious gifts. The Banquet had proceeded to the second course when it suddenly oc curred to this good "man that grace had been entirely omitted. ShoAed beyond measure at such delinquency; he immediately wrapped for order and, inviting all to stand, delivered himself of this brief bift telling Bpeech: "D n it, I forgot to say grace; you will all now join in sing ing lustily 'Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow,' " and they sang, and many, be it remarked, did It with tittering voices. Remembering the true import of the so-called op probrious word, no one felt them selves scandalized by the uninvited little incident. The merits of the third and following courses were proceeded with as though nothing had happened out of the ordinary. What a Highwayman Said and Did. Now for another taking story relat ed by the Episcopal bishop of Olym- pia (state of Washington) on the oc casion of a men's club gathering in the crypt of Trinjty Episcopal church, Seattle. The writer of this little sketch was a guest at the banquet attended by some 300 churchmen of the city, and the occasion was a bril liant one in view of the able and en tertaining addresses delivered by em inent speakers during the evening. In speaking of pioneer days in Washington when travelling, any where in the state, was pretty well confined to the stage coach, the good bishop drew an Interesting picture not only of the ups and downs on corduroy roads, but the frequent dan ger of being "held up" by highway men in journeying hither and thith er. The bishop said that his prede cessor in office then a missionary bishop went through the trying or deal of one of those "money or your life" escapades and saved his money and, perhaps, his life by pleading that he was but a poor struggling bishop in the Lord's vineyard and subsisting on a mere pittance. The highwayman had "gone through" the pockets of the rest of the passengers and, turning to the bishop, with an oath asked what church he was bishop of. "The Protestant Episco pal," replied the bishop, when the To 2 vi4i JUL Li W vWL highwayman, ready to make his escape, exclaimed, "II 1, that's my church; you may go free, but I have cleaned out the rest of ye." This story was truth personified and bo unusual and unexpected in Its gen eral make-up as to create breadth as against' length of visage, with a forced determination always to be a good Episcopalian when travelling by stage coach. Band Will Give Another Dance The band boys realized about ten dollors towards the purchase of their new bass horn at the band bene fit dance held last Thursday evening at the Bungalow. The Bungalow management donated the floor and the proceeds go to buying the horn. A new horn will cost about $127, and the bandmen will continue their ef forts to raise this sum by giving an other dance under the same arrange ments at the Bungalow Thursday of this week. The boys are determined to get the new horn and, In fact, must have it, the leaky old piece of metal which Frank Jordan manipulates at present being in a sad state of disin tegration. Everybody had a rattling good time at the last dance. The music was ex cellent and the Bungalow proved to ,e a cooi an,i comfortable place to !dance despite the warmth of the even- Ine The dance this week should bring out a much larger crowd. 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