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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Monday, November 13, 101
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Ashland Tidings
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THE rVRPOSH OF COLLEGE
WORK.
Formerly there was a good deal of
distinction in sending a boy to col
lege. Taking these higher courses
of study was an exceptional thing.
The whole town watched the student.
He was looked at as a scholastic won
der. It was assumed he had literary
and bookish tastesi and he was con
sidered as designed for a learned
profession.
The crowd that enters college por
tals today Is different. The number
.of those seeking college degrees is
multiplied many times. There is a
herd of rich men's sons. To many
of these, and some others as well,
study Is a mere side issue. It is an
npleasant feature of the course, to
be evaded as far as possible.
With great numbers of students
the dominating motive is to engage
In athletics and enjoy social life.
With even more the motive is to
make money. The idea has become
widespread that the college man
earns better pay. The old scholastic
ideals are gone with the traditional
burning of midnight oil.
Tet the change is not wholly bad.
Athletics and social life have their
high values. This mingling and con
flict of personality serves valuable
ends. The boy may learn more
human nature, more of executive
management, in his campus and fra
ternity life than any professor can
teach him.
The great trouble is that prevail
ing tendencies encourage young men
to undervalue the experience of the
ages. They may make successes in
business even if they neglect their
studies. But they can not be turned
out broadly educated citizens unless
they apply themselves diligently to
the search after wisdom. After all,
that is what the college is chiefly for.
When it turns out mere money get
ters It misses the purpose for which
its endowments were created.
There Is every reason to expect a
continuance of the high prices for
beef for several years to come. One
f the largest packing houses in the
country has contracts that run until
the close of the war, for furnishing
beef to the allied armies. With the
end of the war far away, and with
the herds on the ranges' growing
smaller, there is every encourage
ment for the man who Is engaged in
raising beef cattle. The company re
ferred to has a steady market so
large that it Is installing cold storage
plants on sixty ships for the beef-carrying
trade, and is extending its op-
eratlons to Brazil. The war has been
great boon to the producer of beef,
though-the-American consumer has
to bear his share 'ofthe extra burden
incident 'to high prices.
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Heard and Overheard J
I (By Lynn D. Mowat)
I The "past unpleasantness" is all
over and everybody has sighed a sigli
'of relief. It was something awful
i while it lasted. It's lucky elections
'like that don't come every year.
"Slim" Eeeler lost eighteen pounds
and it is uulikely that he will get it
J back until the republicans come into
i power in 1920, since he expects to
! starve during the democratic hard
times which he sees ahead for the
'next four years.
I Dock Cambers' grey packhorse
! might just as well have died out on
the Dead Indian road. Doc sold him
and showed poor judgment with the
emoluments thereof.
"P. M." Kaiser's lower jaw, which
dragged on the sidewalk all the way
out the Boulevard to the Kaiser
VimA loc TnocHnv flight a hark in
its former habitat.
D. Perozzi told Chi Plexson the
story about the mule's tail and the
negro Tuesday night when Hughes
was several milesvln the lead. The
story goes as follows: A nigger was
swinging on a mule's tail and laugh
ing his head off because it worried
the mule so. Finally the mule got
the range and landed the nigger over
in the next township. They asked
the nigger how he liked It, and he
replied, "Well, I got the first laugh,
anyway." Chi told the story to D.
Perozzi Thursday, and somehow it
did not seem near as funny.
We bet on Wilson and voted for
Hughes, thus precluding any down
hearted feelings after the results be
came known.
Miss Hicks, affable librarian at the
city library, never failed to improve
I upon an opportunity to preach
"bto F ,VI w
now has a large sack of sticky taffy
in large chunks, and whenever any
one approaches with a "rub it in"
look, she graciously proffers the
candy. She says it works fine, for
"nobody can talk when their mouth
is full of taffy."
Fred Homes says none of them has
anything on him. Dr. Boslough can
put M. D. after his name, Rev. Car
! nahan can put D. D. after his name,
! but he can go one better than any
'of them and gets all kinds of satis-
faction out of the R. F. D. after his
, name on his mail.
"Daddy, is today tomorrow?"
asked little Willie.
"No, my son, of course today isn't
tomorrow," answered his father.
"But you said it was," murmured
Willie.
! "When did I ever say today was
tomorrow?"
"Yesterday," answered Willie.
"Well, it was today was tomor
row yesterday, but today is today,
just as yesterday was today yester
day, but is yesterday today, and to
morrow will ' be today tomorrow.
Now run along and play." v
Farmer Corning was asked wheth
er he had had a good year.
"Gosh, yes!" he exclaimed. "I
, had four cows and three hogs killed
j by railway trains and two hogs and
i eleven chickens killed by automo-
biles. I cleared near a thousand dol
lars."
Glue will not mend those who are
broke from betting on Hughes.
Some folks are so close that they
leave the punctuation marks out of
their correspondence in order to save
ink.
Along toward 11 o'clock Tuesday
night the democrats in the Vining
Theatre, where the returns were
coming in, began to look for the en
trance to the outside.
WTe heard a democrat accuse the
republicans of coloring the early
election returns to suit themselves.
Come to think about it, they were all
Hughes (all hues).
In the excitement of the day be-
' fore election Postmaster Kaiser for
. got to wear his necktie, thereby cre
ating a false impression of lack of
. democratic prosperity, which, no
! doubt, cost his party many, many
votes. But who cares now?
A high school girl approached the
general delivery window In the local
postofflce and shyly Inquired If there
was a letter for her. "Business or
love letter?" Jokingly inquired the
clerk.
The girl blushed, hesitated and
stammered "business." No letter
awaited her and she left only to re
turn shortly, and in faltering tones
ask, "Please, would you mind look
ing among the love letters?"
The Loser's WaiL
Ahead there lies a dismal waste
Of gloomy, dreary years,
Of lack of work and lack of food,
Bloodshot with many fears.
Of panic, drouth and crying need,
Of hard times, grief and sin;
The country's goin' to the dogs
The democrats are in.
The Winner's Joy.
Ahead there lies a joyful time
Of happy, merry years;
All kinds of work, all kinds of food,
New hope to banish fears.
Of wages high to dispel need,
Of good times, lack of sin,
Prosperity is here for all
The democrats are in.
It Seems to Vs.
Somehow we can not help but think,
Despite the l.ser's wall,
We'll find a way to eat each day
And keep outside of jail.
It may be that things don't quite
suit,
But let's buck up and grin
And make things hum despite the
fact
The democrats are in.
Following some of the pre-election
political arguments was about as con
vincing as the argument, "Nothing
Is better than heaven. A piece of pie
is better than nothing. Therefore, a
piece of pie is better than heaven."
Some light-fingered artist stole a
whole bed out of the Hornbrook ho
tel one day last week. We have
heard of people stealing a railroad
and of one man who even went so
far as to steal a whole political con
vention, but a man who can get away
with a whole bed without being no
ticed, is entitled to be placed In a
class entirely by himself. Montague
Messenger. '
Lots of folks don't realize that
they can't afford an automobile until
they have had one for a month or so.
There were few too proud to vote.
Chances are we will worry along.
Not the First
Close Election
This is not the first instance, since
telegraph service was established,
thai! the result of a presidential elec
tion was not known throughout the
land the following morning. In 1876
the country was kept in suspense for
a period of three months until a com
mission, created to meet an emer
gency, declared Rutherford B. Hayes
the choice of the people. Many of
the cltizenB of the United States be
lieved that his opponent, Samuel J.
Tilden, was elected and entitled to
the presidency.
On the face of the returns Hayes
had 1S5 electoral votes and Tilden
184. Election frauds were common
In the south. There were returning
boards, some of them corrupt, which
had the power to throw out fraudu
lent votes. It was difficult to deter
mine at that time which party in
dulged in the more corrupt practices.
There was probably more lying and
perjury after the election in order to
secure one electoral vote than in all
the other presidential elections com
bined, and that, too, in an era when
all political managers defended cor
ruption on the ground that the end
justified the means. It is a shame
ful story which may be of interest to
the student ,of history, hut too long,
to be repeated here.
Unfortunately the machinery of
the electoral college (the formal
casting of the electoral vote, ordi
narily a perfunctory act) could not
be utilized in this great dispute.
Civil war was threatened. As the
only way out of very grave danger,
congress created an electoral commis
sion consisting of five senators, five
congressmen and five justices of the
supreme court. On this commission
there were eight republicans and
seven democrats. On every point in
dispute the vote stood eight to seven
in favor of Hayes, the republican
candidate, and he was declared elect
ed. His popular vote was 4,033,850,'
whilo Tilden had 4,284,835, a major
ity of 230,985. Oregon figured large
ly in this contest, Tilden having tried
to get one of her electoral votes be
cause one of the republican electors
was considered ineligible. That is
an interesting story by itself, and not
local by any means.
Another close contest was the 1884
election when Cleveland won the
state of New York over Blaine by
the narrow plurality of 1,134. The
result was not definitely known until
late in the afternoon of Thursday
following the election. A foolish
address made by a preacher named
Burchard a few days before the elec
tion drove thousands of New Yorlt
voters away' from Blaine and made
Cleveland president. That, also, is
an Interesting story.
It is altogether likely that th
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Announcements
(Paid advertisements.)
John B. Wlmer, candidate for city
recorder. .A commercial graduate
from the Ashland Normal School and
the Capital Business College at
Salem, with fifteen years' practical
business experience, including the
past twenty months in the Ashland
'police department, and being closely
J connected with the recorder's office,
; assures you,-if elected, an efficient,
1 economical, Impartial administration
both as recorder and police judge.
I wish to announce to the voters
of Ashland that I am a candidate
for the office of City Recorder.
' At the time 1 came -west I waa
serving a term in a capacity similar
to our office of recorder.
If elected I expect to look after
the city's interest In every particular.
I solicit your support.
Very truly yours, -39-tf
C. L. CUNNINGHAM.
I hereby announce .myself as a
candidate for the office of City Re
corder at the coming election in De
cember. W. H. GOWDY.
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Candidate for Recorder.
I am a candidate for City Recorder
at the election to be held December
19. Have lived in Ashland over
twenty years, was City Treasurer
four years, and have had an active
business experience of twenty-two
years, including banking and many
methods of bookkeeping. I believe
I am qualified to serve the city faith
fully and well, and I will appreciate
the votes and influence of all the
people of Ashland.
HENRY C. GALEY.
For City Recorder.
I hereby announce that I am a
candidate for the office of City Re
corder at the coming city election. I
have had sufficient clerical and edu
cational training to prepare me for
the work. If elected I shall serve
the people to the best of my ab'llty
R. P. CAMPBELL.
For Councilman.
I hereby announce myself as can
didate for councilman from the third
ward at the coming election. I
stand for a progressive yet conserva
tive administration of city affairs,
and respectfully solicit your support.
A. L. LAMB.
close vote in several states this year
i may reveal how slight occurrences
and inconsldered trifles thrown Into
'the balance affected the result na-
tlonally.
Overland Invites
Dealers toParty
Every Willys-Overland dealer in
the United States, over five thousand
in all, has been Invited to visit the
factory in Toledo during the month
of December. Only a small part of
the expense incident to the trip will
be borne by the dealers. The balance
ance will be taken care of by the
Willys-Overland Company The deal
ers will travel in special trains from
all parts of the United States. While
in Toledo they will be shown through
the Overland factory, which' is the
largest automobile factory in the
world. It covers 103 acres, or an
area equal to twenty-eight city
blocks. The dealers will also be
shown all of the 1,917 Overland and
Willys-Knight models, and will see
the new models put through the vari
ous tests which they are required to
undergo before leaving the factory.
Banquets will be given in honor of
the visiting dealers, and the plans
and policies of the company will be
explained Jn detail by President John
N. Willys.
No expense will be spared by the
Willys-Overland Company to make
this Christmas party both a pleasure
and a profit to all the dealers who
take the trip. All branch managers
and general officers of the Willys
Overland of California and Overland
Pacific, Inc., of the northwest have
accepted the invitation and are ar
ranging to secure the acceptance of
every dealer on the Pacific coast. It
is believed that the Pacific coast will
send to Toledo a larger delegation ot
Overland dealers than any other sec
tion of the country.
Special entertainment of a very
unique nature will be provided for
the dealers both on the trip, going
and coming and at the factory..
TeacheVs: Your attention is es
pecially called to Mrs. Louis Dodge's
display of hand-work Frldayi and
Saturday at J. P. Dodge & Sons' fur
niture store. If you haven't time to
make your own gifts, you can order
just what you want. 50-2t
Bend A new sawmill to be built
six miles west of here will employ
fifty men. -
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Cleanliness, Personal Attention
and Courtesy Combined lo Make the
Eagle Meat Market Popular
INSPECT our marKet and your confi
dence will be behind the pleasure
of eating oar meats. The Knowledge
of cleanliness and a sanitary work-
L. Schwein
Compliments S. P.
Railroad Service
A pretty tribute to western rail
road service and one showing that
the west knows how to do things as
good as, if not better than, other
sections of the country, was paid In
a telegram to the commanding gen
eral of tlio Department of the East,
Governor's Island, New York, by
Colonel Crenshaw, commanding a
regiment of Alabama infantry dis-
! patched to the border during the
1 troop mobilization. From the quar
termaster's base at Nogales, Ariz.,
j Colonel Crenshaw sent the wire re
porting the arrival of three sections
on October 23. The service of the
Pullman company on the entire trip
I from Alabama to Nogales was de
scribed as satisfactory. The service
ion one southern road was likewise
.described; that on another was
termed "fair" and that on a third
I was classed as very poor. "The serv
! Ice on the Southern Pacific, reported
! Colonel Crenshaw, "was ery good
the best en route."
"A testimonial of that kind," said
one Southern Pacific official the oth
er day, "makes us feel pretty good,
for it shows that' a railroad's efforts
to please the public and serve it well
are not unappreciated."
Southern Oregon
Championship Game
Medford high's football warriors,
with two of the best men missing,
trampled all over the Grants Pass
team last Tuesday and won by a
score of 26 to 0, on the Medford
field. Ashland naturally feels far
from exuberant over the score, as
Ashland's score at Grants Pass was
6 to 0; and while the locals believe
they could better that on their own
field, it is quite unlikely that they
could even approach the Medford
score.
The big game of the season comes
Saturday, when Medford will arrive
a thousand strong and occupy one
side ot the local athletic field. Med
ford isibiinging an exceptionally
well organized rooting section and
their high school band. The locals
will stage an immense rally Friday
evening of this week with several
! novel features and the biggest bon-
fire Ashland has ever known. Be
tween halves of Saturday's game a
j unique "stunt" will be staged on the
.field. Yell Leader Leith Abbott is
! determined to make the rooting of
past years seem like a mosquito's
; hum aside of the cheering this year.
The Ashland team is rounding into
fair shape, but with small chances
of Captain Cunningham or "Doc"
Brower getting into the game for
more than a few minutes if at all.
The struggle Saturday will be a
real championship game, both Ash
land and Medford having gone
through the season without a defeat.
Myrtle Point is to have a new lum
ber yard and planing mill.
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