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PAGE BIGHT A3HLAXD TIDINGS Thursday, August 24, 1010 11 M Mill Cutlery Said An opportunity to buy a Pocket Knife, pair of Scissors,plainor Safety Razor, Pruning Shear, Butcher Knives an Axe, Hatchet, Plane, any thing and everything thai cuts. 25 Pocket Knives, worth 35 to 40c, at 2Sc 25 Pocket KniveB, worth 65 to 75c, at 50c 25 pairs Shears, worth up to 85c a pair, at 50c 60 Safety Razors, worth $1.00, at Mc 25 Duplex Demonstrator Razors free when you buy a package of blades. We carry the Nagle Reblade Pocket Knives. When you break a blade It can be replaced In a few seconds. pnvYY We will have a Tool Sale the coming week. I I II II We carry a bg Btock of blgh-grade tools, WUU an(j this will be an opportunity to secure the tool you have been needing so long at a very low price. Don't wait until the article you want Is gone. AXES Mattocks and 25 Railroad Picks, worth 60c at 25 Mattocks, all weights, worth Mail Orders and we will fill them. You will you will have the privilege of Warner HIMtHIIIIIIIHMMMMlllMUHIMtMMi Normal Arguments For and Against (Continued from page 6 ) at Westou, located but 21 miles from Pendleton in the same county? It is significant that the Pendleton ar gument avoids all reference to this etate property. The Weston normal was maintain ed until 1909 when because of cer tain adverse political influences and through no fault of its own failed of a appropriation in the state sen ate, although supported in the lower house by a vote of two to one. It was then the largest of three normal schools In the state, having an at tendance of 278 in the normal de partment and a strong training school. Its work was accomplished on the modest maintenance of $12, 600 per year. The Monmouth nor mal now receives 139,000 per year, end in addition was granted $50,000 for buildings by the 28th legislative assembly. With similar support the Weston normal would unquestionably ' have attained to at least equal rank and usefulness. Through a bill Initiated by the legislature the Weston normal asked the people in 1914 for a maintenance tax of only one-fortieth of a mill, while Pendleton is now asking for one-twenty-fifth of a mill. Weston's request was denied by a majority of 17,895. In the same general elec tion a similar mlllage tax for the upport of the Ashland (Southern Oregon) normal was defeated by a majority of 25,602. In the fact of this decisive adverse vote but two years ago the Pendleton measure w ' regard as a defiance of the people's mandate and an abuse of the initia tive. Weston was content to wait for evidences of a change of senti ment in Oregon along normal school lines. The Pendleton bill constitutes a return to "logrolling" methods. It clearly indicates the fear of its spon sors to go before the people on the merits of their own demand. Why swk to "validate" well established institutions that are in no sense in . peril? Should the necessity ever arise, their security can and will, be as sured by the passage of a mlllage measure entirely Independent of a mlllage tax for Pendleton's benefit. Pendleton has been treated generous ly in being granted the Eastern Ore gon hospital, which received a total t II 9 We bought several dozen Axes at a price 40 per cent under the prices today. Woodchop pers, we will give you the benefit of this pur chase in LOWER PRICES. Railroads Picks 40c 75 to 85c, at .. . . .55c When you are ready to mail your orders, bring or send them to us with check or the money. be the freight ahead, besides seeing the goods. The Low Priced Hardware Man. 375E.IMaln Phone 146 appropriation of $308)659.25 from the 28th legislative assembly. Normal schools are undoubtedly needed in Southern Oregon and in Eastern Oregon. The school at Wes ton should be supported. Weston is an attractive little city with ade quate train service, beautiful sur roundings, agreeable climate, health ful conditions and an ample gravity supply of pure mountain water. Dur ing the school's long career not one death ever occured among its stu dent body. Weston, in fact, Is an admirable location for a state normal school. It is a "umall town" yes, but so is Monmouth and so are numerous nor mal school towns in the east. Weston has in the past supplied an entirely adequate number of pupils for an ef ficient practice school, and can do so again. , Why should the voters expend $125,000 for something they already posess? Why should they tax them selves one-twenty-fifth of a mill when one-fortieth of a mill all that was asked of them and which they denied two years ago is sufficient? Logic and economy alike suggest the defeat of the Pendleton bill, with a view to the ultimate reopening of the East ern Oregon normal at Weston. F. D. WATTS, S. A. BARNES, E. O. DeMOSS, WM. MacKENZIE, CLARK WOOD, Weston, Oregon. C. 0. P. Company Builds Extensions The California-Oregon Power com pany will have completed the survey of the power extension between Shas ta Springs and McCloud, a distance of seven miles, by Saturday. Mater ial Is being distributed along the line for the building of the same. -The same company is building an extension from Castella to Carrvllle and Trinity Center and will have It completed in six weeks. At present the company has four camps on the route. The division manager, O. Q. Steele of Yreka, has moved his family to the route where he will camp till the work is completed. Miss Nellie Perry is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. P. J. Klnery, at Hill crest orchards. Brewster valley, Coos county, to have a creamery." 1 One in Twenty-Five In U. S. Own Cars This is a nation of automobile own ers. Nothing like the distribution of motor vehicles In this country, is to be found In any other part of the in habited globe. Never (before in his tory has a product, the unit value of which even remotely approached that of the automobile, been sold to nearly so large a proportion of the population. If any argument were needed to clinch the fact of the huge prosperity of these United States it could be found in this one item of national Investment; the light-seeking econo mist would need to search no fur ther. By the first of January, 1917, there will be one automobile in the country for every 25 inhabitants. On January l. of this year, there was already one automobile to each 44 of the population. It Is staggering when one stops to realize the cost of even the most mod est motor car. If one put the average cost of an automobile at $500 which Is considered lower than the true average, the value of the 2,445,664 cars which the government census recently announced were registered In the United States in 1916, reaches in the aggregate, $1,222,830,000. This Is the sort of figures that one uses in speaking of national debts or annual appropriations of a first class power or the cost of many months of the great war. It is quite outside of ordinary comprehension. But automobile production did not stop in this country when the weary old year laid down his scythe and hour glass last December. On the contrary, it received a new Impetus, and more cars, by an enormous per centage, are being produced and sold this year than ever before. The most sanguine prophets predicted that 1916 would see 1,500,000 cars pro duced in America. For once these prophets are cloaked with honor in their own country, for that produc tion seems certain to be reached. In a careful compilation of the figures for the first six months of the year, made by The Automobile, our fac tories were found to have produced 754,902 passenger automobiles. It Is not hard to see that with the speed ing up of the production usual In the second half of the year the 1, 500,000 mark Is sure to be attained. When these 1,500,000 cars are added to those In operation on Janu ary 1 last, it will be seen that at least 3,945,664 automobiles will be owned in the United States, or one to every 25.34 inhabitants. This total will represent the Investment of $2,000, 000,000 in round figures, based on the $500 a car limit, which is cer tainly far too low. . ' Such an enormous distribution of a product, which less than a decade ago was considered a luxury, de mands an explanation. It bristles with Interesting economic questions on all sides. But the first insistent query is: "What has made such a thing possible; wherein lies this mod ern magic?" The technical and rath er puzzling answer to this question is quantity production. "What," you say, "you answer the query of what has made such quanti ty possible' by saying, 'quantity pro duction'!" Precisely. Because quantity, pro duction, epplled to the automobile Industry with an intensity and a thor oughness never before equaled on ap proximately such a scale, has in turn made possible a constant and Import ant reduction in the prices at which the cars are sold. It has put the au tomobile Into the hands of every man and, as if with the waving of a ma gician's wand has made of the men of the street a motorist. Let no man say after this decade that the age of! witchcraft is dead. Ten years ago you could not buy a serviceable automobile for less than $2000; five years ago your choice below $1000 was limited and strict ly limited. Today there are at least fourteen standard makes of car, from one of which you can expect more consist ent service than from the expensive machine of a dozen years ago, which sells at less than $700. Many of these are priced at much less than that amount. Indeed, the great ma jority come substantially below that mark. The motor car has become literally less costly than a pair of decent horses at first price and, of course, much less expensive to maintain from all points of view. Classified Advertisements TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. LOST Between Medford and Horn brook an automobile tire 36x4 and tire iron. Very liberal reward will be paid for its return to Tid ings offloe. . .. 27-2t GOOD PASTURE One mile' from postofflce. - W. D. Booth, 996 Oak street. Phone 291-R. 26-2t Loan Board Will Hear Oregonians Washington, Aug. 24. (Special) A hearing of great Importance to farmers, farm organizations and to cities of Oregon will be conducted by the newly appointed federal farm loan board In the federal building at Portland, Oregon, September 7. This hearing is to secure informa tion to guide the board in determin ing the boundaries of the 12 federal loan bank districts into which the United States is to be divided for the application of the new rural credits legislation. The members of the federal farm loan board who will conduct the hear ing are Hon. Wm. G. McAdoo, secre tary of the treasury; Geo. W. Norris, farm loan commissioner;, Herbert Quick, Capt. W. S. A. Smith and C. E. Lobdell. The board has requested farmers and farm organizations of Oregon to furnish facts concerning the need of cheaper farm loans and It has asked Interested cities to present claims for the location of one of these banks. This will be the only hearing In Oregon. The new federal farm loan act will do for the farmer what the federal reserve act is doing for the business man. Under it the government pro vides the machinery for assembling capital to be loaned to farm owners or intended farm owners, on first mortgage farm security. The loan cannot exceed 50 per cent of the value of the land, nor 20 per cent of the value of the permanent im provements. The loans will be made at a low rate of Interest, not yet determined, but not over 6 per cent, and provis ion Is made for the borrower to pay off the loan and interest in small annual or semi-annual payments through a period of 40 years or at his option. Farmers, to take advantage of the law, must associate themselves in groups of ten or more and form farm loan association and then make ap plication to one of the 12 federal loan banks. The land will then be appraised and, if it meets require ments, the loans will be made. The new legislation is expected to prove a great boon to those sections of the country where development has been arrested because of high In terest rates and it is predicted that it will have the effect of making agricultural prosperity permanent and uniform; stabilizing land values, and greatly improving general farm conditions. Thousands of requests to the U. S. treasury department for Information regarding the application of the law Indicates the great, nation wide in terest in its provisions. Secretary McAdoo predicts that the banks will be ready for operation by January 1 or shortly thereafter. Fruitgrowers Fear Car Shortage . Fruitgrowers of the valley fear .that the car shortage which is affect ing seriously the lumber industry in Oregon, is likely to affect the move ment of the fruit crop from the valley which Is now at its height. Despite assurances from the rail roads that plenty of cars will be brought in, the growers worry never theless. Agent Zenas Moody, of the Pacific Fruit Express, states that there is no reason for alarm and that while there are now but about 30 cars in the valley, the railroad seems to be making a determined effort to supply the needs of the fruitmen and the supply of cars is kept moving steadily. Approximately 200 carloads of pears have been shipped from the valley to date. Of these about three- fourths were shipped from Medford. Most of these have been Bartletts, the Howell pear shipments starting today. Ashland fruitgrowers for the most part have shipped their pears for cannery purposes, thus doing away with packing and grading. The pears shipped for cannery use are not shipped in refrigerator cars. A few years ago carload after car load of peaches were shipped from this city but so' far this year there has not been a single car of peaches shipped from here. The early varieties are all ripened and the Mulrs are beginning to come in. There will probably be a car of these shipped. Many small ship ments of choice fruit are going out by parcel post and express. A total fruit crop of 1000 cars is now predicted and a freer circulation of cash in the fall will result. John McDonough is making a num ber of improvements to his home on Liberty street. Contract for 200,000 ties for Hill lines placed in Eugene. MIHIHmMWHIMWMHHIIHiHIIHHHMi lie lave" ins I Received Mim Of an increase in price of wall papers to take effect at once also that the price this fall will be from 25 per cent to 50 per cent higher than heretofore. We anticipated these advances and bought heavily for our fall trade. Select Your Goods Now While our stock is complete for many patterns we now have cannot be replaced at any price. We have a large assortment of Imported and Domestic oat meals, ingrains and flocketts and over two hundred figured patterns ranging in price from 10c to 80c per bolt. . Everythinc in paints, varnishes, building and roofing paper, glass, etc., automobile enamels and varnishes. W. 0. Plckersonil f fill 1 1 ! Warm Days Drive Throngs to Park Ashland enjoyed the first really summery day of the summer yester day, the thermometer registering 94 degrees and the evening being de lightful. The park was the mecca for perhaps a thousand people In the afternoon and the canyon was lively with picnic parties. Hundreds came from down the valley. The band concert last evening at tracted one of the largest crowds of the summer, probably 2500 peo ple enjoying the perfect evening. Dozens of cars brought up Medford ites by the scores and other valley points were well represented. A number of Medford society folk re mained throughout the evening for a dance at the Bungalow which was also well patronized by Ashlanders. The band concert was greatly ap preciated, the Ashland band present ing a concert of well chosen selec tions, all of which were very well received. After hearing seven dif ferent bands here this summer, the music lovers of the city have about reached the conclusion that the local concert band is the equal if not the superior of any of them. The mercury rose to the hundred mark at Medford yesterday, while the official maximum reported by the weather observer here was 94 de grees. The same temperature pre vailed the day before and about the same today. The hot weather is driving the crowds in throngs to Lithia park at Ashland where the temperature is several degrees cooler owing to the water of Ashland creek and the greenery and shade. Increase Premiums On Pears at Fair The following changes have been made In the premiums on pears in the Jackson County Fair premium list for the fair, September 13 to 16: In division H, class 5, No. 17, for display of five boxes of pears, not less than three varieties, the prizes are $25 and $15 instead of $10 and $5.00, as printed. In No. 18 of the same division and class the prizes are $15 and $10, instead of $5.00 and $2.50. Fruitgrowers should note the changes and go after the premiums which are double those offered by tho state fair. County papers are requested to copy these changes. Rifle Team Will Soon Be Chosen A rifle team, composed of five members of First Company, C. A. C. O. N. G., will go from Ashland to Fort Clackamas to participate in the state meet September 10. The meet has been postponed from August 20. The personnel of the team will be determined by elimina tions held on the local' rifle range a few days previous to the state shoot. Two officers will accompany . the team, one as captain and another as rdnge finder. H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Ml M Mil Says Car Shortage Not Fault of S. P. Railroads of the Pacific Coast are not responsible for the car shortage, says W. R. Scott, general manager of the Southern Pacific, In a letter to the public service commission an a a copy of which was received fn Ash land yesterday. Mr. Scott gives as surance that everything possible will be done to relieve the situation In" Oregon. He denies that there had" been discrimination against Oregonu In distributing cars. Mr. Scott asserts the shortage la due to the water shipping congestion in the east, which has held cars un loaded at terminals and prevented their return to the Coast for unload ing. The Southern Pacific has 500 cars on eastern terminals, the return of which it has been unable to secure, he asserts. The Southern Pacific also ordered" the construction of 3000 cars early in the year, but they have not been delivered because of a shortage of labor and interference of war busi ness. Mr. Scott writes: "Recently the company was advised that the first shipment would b ready In a few days. Instead of wait ing for loads, the new cars will be billed for the west at once, the com pany deciding to pay freight on them in order to get them on the system as soon as possible. "The general manager says that during the month of August 32 & empties were delivered on the Port land division and 132 empties are en Toute to the division. During the month 965 loaded cars were delivered on the division, and there has been active and successful co-operation among nearly all shippers in unload ing and loading cars." -Mention of the empties sent to the Oregon division is made, Mr. Scott explains, to show that there is no dis crimination against Oregon. Conductor Is Seriously Hurt Frleght Conductor Swaggart, who was injured by a fall from his train near Weed last week, was hurt worse than at first reported. The accident occured when the emergency air was applied on a car through a break in the air line and the jarring stop threw him from the top of the car. He was taken to the San Francisco hospital and his wife and daughter, Muriel, went down from here to be with him. At last reports Mr. Swag gart was resting easily and thought to be on the road to recovery. Lewis Butts, who was shot and killed by John Allen, Aug. 18 near Rock Creek Butte, Baker county, was a nephew of Festus Butts of thiffj city, who resides on Mountain av enue. The killing was laid to Jeal ousy. Allen has been charged with second degree murder. The uncle residing here, acquainted with the circumstances in the case, asserts that the shooting was entirely un justifiable. Klamath Falls Strahorn railroad saves five miles by survey through. Dairy.