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Monday, August 21, 1910 PARE TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Ashland Tidings By THE ASHLAND HUNTING 00.. (Incorporated) ESTABLISH KD J876 SFJUMVEEKLY Bort It. Greer, Editor and Manager Harry R, Ling, Advertising Manager Lynn Mowat, - City Editor Olfical City and County Paper Issued Monday and Thursday TELEPHONE 39 Sl'BSCKirTIOX HATES One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 50 1'ayable in Advance Advertising rates on application. First-claBS - job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. No subscriptions for less than three nionthB. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal is received. In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postoffice as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Aug. 21, '16 ATTRACTIVE TOWN LIFE. Among the distinguished visitors to Ashland with the State Editorial Association was Edgar E. Piper, ed ltor of the Portland Oregonian. The following editorial from his pen ap peared In the Oregonian of Thursday, August 17: "The enterprising town of Ashland, In southern Oregon, has expended something like $200,000 in creating a park a rendezvous for young and old, rich' and poor, happy and unhap py, gay and sedate for all alike. It Is a beautiful site for a park, upon the banks of a sparkling stream, with trees, vines, moss, grass, water, flowers, rocks everything there to Invite the artist and the utilitarian to join hands in the arrangement and use of nature's offerings. They have done these things and more; for there are children's playgrounds, gymnastic devices, comfort stations, bandstands, swimming pool, dancing pavilions, camping grounds and many other conveniences and attractions for the resident and the wayfarer. It has all been most excellently planned and most skillfully executed. Ashland Is proud of Its park, and it should be. What Ashland has done others may de in the development of their own Individual municipal schemes for parks or public utilities. It is not Jong since the idea of pleasure grounds for the people was a novelty In Oregon. But there has been a great advance In town life in the past twenty years. Now there are publif libraries, paved streets, social centers, community activities of all sorts. Some towns are more energetic than others In promoting enterprises for the common welfare; but all are do ing something. The example of Ash land may well be cited. To be sure, there are not available for every com munity the famous Ashland ltthla springs nor the lovely Ashland stream, but each bas some resources cf its own and It should be devoloped. The opinion may be ventured that Ashland would not part with its park for ten times its cost. HUGHES. A few left the Southern Pacific station Thursday afternoon dissatis fied because the man whom they had nominated for the presidency had not turned Ioobb on everything in general and the democrats in particular; had not mussed up his hair and thrilled the crowd with stinging denunciation of the present administration, expos ure of the weaknesses of every big democrat, and promises of double pay checks and universal happiness should he be placed in the AVhite House. All but the scattered few left with the feeling that they had been listening to a truly big man, had been listening to a calm, forceful and convincing argument offered by a man whose personality and record fpeak level-headed ability to do things. The day of feather-brained crowds, swayed from passion to pas sion by flighty oratory, has given way to the day of Intelligent truth-seeking crowds such as that which gath ered to hear Charles E. Hughes. COMMENDATION. Portland Telegram: Highly to be commended is the first step taken by the reorganized Commercial Club of Ashland In selling its billiard and card tables to pay its debts. Around those kind of tableB little business is likely to be transacted that will help 8 town to grow. These badgered soldiers .on the Mexican border now wonder why they bothered about traveling thither In Pullmans. Talks With Screen-Struck Girls The useful 7" ' J ness of thii talk must necessarily be limited to the few girls who may find an opportunity of V -'' J availing them. V 1 selves of the suggestion 1 1 Beatrlz Mlchelena carres. It is this: If fortunate enough to secure a position as stenographer or otherwise in a motion picture studio, a girl may thus find an avenue by n-hinii rIib can eventually break the acting end. As a matter oi fact, a good many girls try th and some with success. In its final an alysis, of course, it comes down as always, to the question of wether or not the girl has the requisite talent. It is a common occurrence for the office help in a great many of the big studios to be called out on the stace when there is an emergency demand for extra people in a scene. Sometimes a stenographer may be come quite a prominent figure in a production, and if she photographs and acts well enough, the time will come when she will be graduated from the typewriter and permanently associated with the producing com pany. She will be in genuine Intent a motion picture actress. Of course, the great disadvantage in this plan is the fact that motion picture studios use but a limited number of stenographers and conse I Heard and Overheard g Nate Bates says: "You ought to call your column 'Hashed and Re hashed' We always get it Just about dinner time Monday and it would kind of jibe with the washday grub." We have a motto hanging over the desk in our office which says: "To err is human. Not to air other's er rors is divine." P. M. Kaiser says that's a queer motto for a newspa per. D. M. Lowe says: "That newspa per story about the Texas farmer who plowed up a fortune of $250,000 in old Spanish gold ought to be an in centive for the 'back to the farm' movement." The Roseburg Review placed the crowd which met Hughes in that city at "less than 1,600," the Roseburg News at "more than 4,000." We will give you two guesses which is democratic and which republican. We would like to call the attention of the young ladies of Ashland given to wasting their time writing motion picture ccenarlos, to the advertise ment of the Ashland Junk Dealers elsewhere in the columns of this pa per: "All kinds of Junk bought." Chi Pierson, while looking at the $850 gob of gold Dave Good was ex hibiting last Saturday, said: "It's too bad that brains won't earn stuff like that, ! would have more than I can carry. It's just pure, unadulter ated luck." T. H. Simpson, chairman of the Ashland republican central commit tee, says: "It rained Just before Hughes got here and just after he left, but it cleared up while he was here, which furnishes conclusive evi dence that the Lord is on our side." Miss Amy Grubb has submitted a suggestion to the management of the Tidings which is being seriously con sidered, 1. e., running a "Keeley cure" advertisement under every story of automobile accidents on the Siskiyous. Passerby: "Why do you keep that Flaxon squawking all the time?" Mrs. Nlnlnger: "Why, this is the third time the tire has blown out, and Poke told me he could relieve the stress on his mind while he was fixing it without shocking me, if I kept the horn going." Henry Ford must have confided some of his plans for Ford subma rines to F. L. Camps when he was back at the factory in Detroit. At any rate, F. L. tried an experiment up in the Willamette river the other day, along these lines. Henry will be greatly disappointed over tbere- sult. The girl hikers who passed through Ashland last week must have been SOME travelers. They left Grants Pass Tuesday and made Hornbrook Wednesday afternoon. N. B. Since writing the above we learned that some Ashland young hopefuls gave the fair ones a lift over the Siskiyous in their car. The girls said: "Sure we agreed to walk all the way, but who said anything about climbing mountains?" quently only a very few of the many girls who wish to become screen stars can find these office positions. For those who have the opportunity, how ever, it is well worth the trying. An advantage of the scheme, and a very big one, is that the studio sten ographer, whether acting on the stage or not, is constantly in the pic ture atmosphere, and if she has an Inherent adaptability 'for the profes sion it will develop almost uncon sciously. She may get no more op portunities than other "extras," but will somehow know better, how to make the most of hers. Kvon tlioncli a eirl secures her no- sition as a stenographer, and really has the talent to eventually win a regular place In the producing cast there remnlns one great danger of the plan's miscarrying. Nine chances to one the girl will get' impatient. She will want to become the actress all in a minute. The stenographer's work will become irksome and she will, unconsciously perhaps, neglect it. The result is obvious. Long be fore she has established herself as a screen actress she will have lost her position as a stenographer, and her big opportunity will be gone. j How much better had she realized that it takes time and patience to achieve a place in motion pictures! She should remember always that, until she is the actress, her chief duty is to be the stenographer and to give It her best attention. That is the only way to make the plan work out More Extracts From StateJPapers The column after column of un stinted praise appearing in the press of the state, as a result of the receu. editorial convention held at Medford, is giving this section the most valu able publicity it has received in many a day. If Ben Sheldon had done nothing else for Jackson county, his bringing this convention into our midst, and his work in making it a success, would entitle him to the warm grptitude of our people. We quote a few excerpts from press comment, which fairly indicate the fine things that are being said about us: .. .. , Corvallis Courier; ' - "Medford and Ashland, there are no cities like them in Oregon, when it comes to doing things and doing them right." This was the general verdict of the 125- newspaper men and ladles who attended the annual state ed itorial association at Medford. They can't say enough for the two southern Oregon cities, for the splen did entertainment given them, for the courtesy of the people, for the beauty and bustle of the two cities, for the magnificent roads and for the spirit of optimism and progress of the people. "If the people of our northern Ore gon cities would only go down to Medford and Ashland and catch their spirit, there would be no more songs of business depression," said one of the up-state newspaper men. on his return home. Medford and Ashland have set a mark for doing things that is going to be very hard for future cities which will entertain the association to maintain. These cities have the real western way of going to a propo sition with "pep" and enthusiasm not as a matter of duty. Estacada News. Ashland's Lithia park represents that same spirit of publicity and co operation, the people having raised over $160,000 by bonding, with which to construct this beautiful at traction surrounding the gushing mineral springs. Being on the main auto and railway tourist routes from California, this park will ultimately prove a paying attraction. , Oregon City Courier. Ashland, with its magnificent Lith ia park, was also host to the editors on Friday, after an interesting trip over the Siskiyou highway. The tone of hospitality pervaded the entire period of the convention and the two cities literally outdid themselves to make the convention a record break er. An open air banquet at Lithia At The 5-10-15C STORE The little necessities for the camping and canning season at The 51015c STORE i park was a feature of the trip to Ashland and an address of welcome was made by the chief executive of the city. Forest Grove News-Times. Ashland has one of the most beau tiful natural parks in the United States. It covers an area of 800 acres, and the past year the city has spent $170,000 in the erection o suitable buildings, pavilions, band stands, camping grounds, etc., mak ing it beyond question the finest we have ever seen. It would be impos sible to describe Jts wonderful con venience and beauty. It must be seen to be appreciated, and the pretty city of Ashland is to be congratulated on its enterprise and splendid j achievement. With a population of nhnur R AAA iha nppnmnlldhmAnt rtf such a work seems beyond a possibil ity, yet by the united efforts of Its citizens it has a playground that will be of untold benefit to generations of men yet unborn. Ralem Statesman. We were taken to the famous Lithia park, where the citizens of Ashland had prepared individual lunch boxes with more than enough for one's large appetite. Everyone sat down to a table where hot coffee was served. After the inner man was satisfied and a few speeches made by, prominent delegates, a walk through this beautiful park was made, view ing the many sights of nature and the handiwork of man, where the city of Ashland has spent $175,000 in beautifying this spot. 1 want to say right here, this park is as beautiful at night as it is in day, as hundreds of incandescent lights are used to light the grounds after dark. Even the trees have these lights scattered all through the branches to the top, giving one an idea of Christmas in the summer. The free camp grounds are cer tainly a great asset to the many trav elers going through the country. In this park there are springs of sul phur, lithia water, artesian well, lit tle rivulets running in all directions, waterfalls, and where nature did not take part in making, the hand has, i until one can see almost anything he wishes. Marion County Fjiterprlse. While in Ashland last week attend ing a banquet given to the editors of the state convention at the neighbor ing city of Medford, we had the pleas ure of enjoying not only the hospital ity of that beautiful little city of six thousand, but the beauties of Ash land's Lithia park. It is a pretty place nestled among the hills, beauti fully shaded, with springs natural and artificial, grottos and fountains, large bandstand surrounded by knolls making a natural amphithea tre. At night the effect is enhanced by the lighting scheme, numberless electric lights glowing in the trees, shedding over all a soft, enchanting light. A convenient automobile camp also. The park is at the edge of a beau tiful city of six thousand souls of hospitality. Good Homes, paved streets, commodious public buildings, and this city linked to Medford by a twenty-foot concrete and asphalt street thirteen miles in length, both towns helping each other make prog ress. While Medford was the conven tion city, the editors were banqueted at Ashland also. Those towns are doing their full share in upholding the standard of Oregon civilization and avantages. Sheridan Sun. Returning from this trip, the citi zenry of Ashland, not yet fully re covered from their "wild west" ex hibition, threw out the lasso of hos pitality and without the least resist ance roped every one of that frolic some band of editorial beasts and made them captives within the fam ous corral of Lithia park, and what is more to tbelr everlasting credit, com pletely tied them with attention and kept them closely confined until the ladies had served aft with a magnifi cent box lunch of choice Ashland fruits and the products of the appe tizing culinary arts that have won for these ladies the most comforting spot in the heart of every editor and his wife, Lithia park is one of the grandest scenic attractions that could fall to the lot of any city, and with the work of nature, assisted by the hands of man and oiled with the outlay of some $200,000, has produced an ef fect that all the parks of the most noted eastern cities can not rival. Corvallis Gazette-Times. What we would like Corvallis peo ple in particular to read is a very brief account of Ashland park. This is what "got our goat." Here is a beautiful little town, not as large as Corvallis, with nowhere near as good a country around It, spending $200,- 000 to build a park. And they seem to have gotten their money's worth. Up to this trip, we had believed Man itou, Colo., to be the prettiest little T; P. DODGE & SONS x Undertakers State Licensed Emfcalmef Lady Assistant Depoty Cotmty Coroner THE "GREATER OREGON" With nrw bulldlnrs, better equipment, and ninny additions to It faculty, the University of Oreion will begin It fortr-first year. Tues day. September IS, 1916. Special tmlnlnc In Commerre, Journalism, Architecture, Law, Medicine, Tenrhlnc, Libra ry Work, Manic, Physical Training nnd Fine Art. Large and strong department! of Liber al Munition. Library of more than 62,000 rolnmet, fif teen building! folly equipped, two splendid gymnasiums. Tuition Free. Dormitories for men and for women. Expenses Lowest. Write for free catalogs, addressing Registrar UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EI'fiKNE, OREGON 111! jOMNftot Hah. NIW V AOMimSTPAT'ON HDC resort in the country', but now we j ing waters, an infinitely better clim know that Ashland has it beaten so I ate, for we have sweltered in the far that thev are not to be mentioned in the same day. They call it "Lithia park" because it has several natural lithia water springs. A busy, noisy little mountain stream flows through its center. It is terraced and laid out with beautiful drives It has rustic benches scattered all through it and many .Ashland people were enjoying its beauties in the afternoon. It is covered with a profusion of flowers, , carefully selected and tended. It has ! several tennis courts. It has a play- ground for children, with its sand I hAvoa ita awinpa cvmnAfiMft Annnra.- tus, slides, etc. It has a camping ground for tourists a free camping ground. The camping ground is sup plied with vtents and gas stoves, where for 25 cents the weary tourist can cook his meals. And there are tables there for him to eat on. Twice a week there are band concerts. Up town there is a big natatorium, forty feet wide and 100 feet long, with a varying depth from one foot to nine feet. Here kiddies and grownups were enjoying themselves to the limit. The natatorium has dressing rooms, shower baths, water slides and all the accoutrements necessary to make up to date. And the four Corvallls ians in our car rid ourselves of the dust of the road by plunging into its cooling depths. Mrs. Kerr passed it up, but as she watched the rest of us splashing round in the limpid depths, she had a rather envious look in her eyes that made up imagine she was sorry she wasn't in. ' And in the beautiful park Ashland people entertained the editorial crowd that evening. They served aj very novel lunch. It was put up in neat cartons and everybody was handed a carton as soon as he ar rived. There were tables enough to seat the entire crowd, and handsome young ladies hustled around with hot coffee and cream and sugar and smiles and made every one feel either at home or in heaven. And a band from Oakland, Cal., occupied the bandstand, filling the air with excel lent music. The park is beautifully lighted and there must have been 5,000 people gathered on its sloping hills listening to the music. Many cute little cottages -are built on the terraces overlooking the park. Some are for rent, and we can not imagine a more delightful place to spend the summer season. And some day it will be as well known as Manitou. It has as many interesting side trips, as health-giv- Tuxedo Nights by Walt Mason When the day's work's done, and the good old sun has sunk in the well known West, then I stretch my form by the fireside warm, I sit at my ease and rest. Then I take my pipe which is mildly ripe, as the pipes of good smokers are, with a chortling soul then I fill its bowl from my glass Tuxedo jar. And I smoke at k fa gf j ViaiA4J WAV AVA Wll till LU1C9 fcthU I s around through the ? busy day. The worries and woes and such things as those in the daytime leave their scar, but there's rest at night and a calm delight in my glass Tuxedo jar." OtwTlKc- jj NZWCOUCATIONAL daytime at Manitou. Ashland Is a much prettier city. It is not merely a resort as Manitou is. And when eastern people find it out, it will be a tourist Mecca that will make fam ous not only Ashland, but all Ore- i gon. And Corvallis could have as pretty a park of a different kind if we would only get over our self-satisfied spirit and wake up to our oppor tunities. By getting the Avery tract added to what we have, there would be unlimited possibilities with our beautiful river, majestic trees and. balmy climate. And but what's the use, what's the use? We can't even build a school house! It must be our low altitude. Tomorrow we will tell you about Crater Lake. Meanwhile Mr. Hughes has his eye to the periscope and Is peering into President Wilson's trenches. ACE YOU INSURED Yes, that is a very burning ques tion sometimes! If you are not fully protected by insurance against fire, NOW is the time to attend to It. Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. How about that home, merchandise, automobile, etc.!" Did you ever stop to think Just bow little it will cost you to carry your Insurance compared to the ben efits which you receive? A few dol lars invested today may save you a thousand tonight., Billing's Agency Real Estate and Real Insurance 41 Bast Main Phone 21 1 ease, and my trouble flees to the place where dead troubles go; and my worries seem, in my waking dream no longer to have a show. And I say, "In-, deed, it's a noble weed that ll'fr,