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Monday, Xovemlwr AO, 1016 ASTTT.vn nnfvna Ashland Tidings By THE ASITLAXD PRINTING 00. (Incorporated) ESTABLISHED 1876 SEMI-WEEKLY Bert R. Greer, Editor and Manager Earvey R. Ling, AdvertislnK Manager JLynn Mowat, . . City Editor Olfical City and County Paper Issued Monday and Thursday TELEPHONE? 39 SUBSCIUPTIOX RATES One Tear $2.00 fllz Months 1.00 Three Months 60 Payable in Advance No subscriptions for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal Is received. In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postofflce as well as the new. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. News print has doubled In price the last four months. It necessitates an advance In advertising rates, or we will have to quit business. Fol lowing are the advertising rates In the Ashland Tidings after this date. There will be no deviation from this rate: ADVERTISING RATES. Wspluy Advertising Single Insertion, each Inch. .25c One month.... " " 20c Six months.... " " 17 c One year " " 15c Reading Notices 5 cents the line straight. Classified Column 1 cent the word first insertion, cent the word each other Insertion. Thirty words or less one month, $1. All written contracts for space al ready In force will be rendered at the old rate until contract expires. Fraternal Orders and Societies. Advertising for fraternal orders or societies charging a regular initiation fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benevolent orders will be charged for all advertising when an admission or other charge is made, at the regular rates. When no ad mission is charged, space to the amount of fifty lines reading will be allowed without charge. All addi tional at regular rates. The Tidings has a greater circula tion in Ashland and its trade terri tory than all other local papers com bined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflce as second-class mall mat ter Ashland, Ore., Monday, Nov. 30, 10 TAXES AND THE CHARTER AMENDMENT. Dismiss at once and for good the Idea from your mind that passage of the proposed charter amendment, placing the park and mineral plant control la the hands of a centralized body, will mean higher taxes. The passage of the amendment can not raise the taxes, as will be shown, and may be the means of a slight reduc tion. As may be seen by reference to the city budget for 1917, the park board has deemed the amount of $11,157.49 necessary for their work. Added to this is $2,000 which is the estimated amount of upkeep of the mineral wa ter Bystem and watering Lithia park. The total amount calls for 4.7 mills. Last year a tax of .2 mill waB as sessed for the purpose of raising the $300 given the Chautauqua under contract and for helping to support various small publicity items. This will again be necessary in some form this year and will raise the park up keep, mineral water plant upkeep and publicity total tax to 4.9 or practical ly 5 mills, which is the maximum that the council can levy under the proposed amendment. Should the amendment be passed, the tax items listed above would be eliminated from the budget as it now Btands and In their stead a tax, which could be anything from 5 mills down to 3.5 mills, would be levied for the new honi-H to be used for park, mineral plant and publicity. In view of the fact that the expenses of administra tion would be Tiandled under one head instead of three as at present, it stands to reason that the tax under the charter amendment might easily result in a reduction from the 4.9 mills which will be required under the present system. The chaiter amendment proposi tion revolves around the question of whether or not the voters believe that a board of three members elect ed by the voters can administer the affairs relative to the park, springs and resort alms more economically and efficiently than as handled at present. If you don't like It you can either move to California or climb on the agon. The latter is cheaper both in the Initial expense and the long run. Ashland gave a majority close to two to one for Pendleton's normal and grieves with Pendleton in the loss of the amendment. The demand for "For Rent" signs is not picking up despite the winter Mason. Have you Joined the Commercial ClnbT NOT WITITOITT HONOR. Cannot the old adage, "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country," be so converted as to read, "A country is not without honor save with its own-people" and applied to Ashland? For of all who have seen Ashland, breathed ABhland's air, drank Ashland's waters, enjoyed Ashland's park and vistas of scenic beauty, the people of Ashland them selves are, on the whole, the least anpreclative. Visitors "rave" and some of us are inclined to stand by and wonder "What is he trying to sell that he should play upon our vanity?" When such men as Stephen D. Mather, assistant to the secretary of the interior of the United States and superintendent of all the nation al parks of the nation, and Vice President McCormick, one of the ex ecutive heads of one of the greatest railroads of the country, Bee a future for Ashland such as these men pre dict when these men and countless others who have come here from the east and leave with the enchantment of Ashland cast o'er them and a be lief that Ashland is destined to be come one of the great home and re sort cities of the 'coast, cannot we who have lived here In Ashland un til, perhaps, the advantages and beauties of Ashland are taken as a matter of course, arouse ourselves to a renewed belief and an increased effort? CRASS IGNORANCE. The Portland Oregonian takes 100.000 of the people of Oregon to task for their "crass ignorance" in voting against the amendment which removes the dead law against voting by negroes and Chinamen who are citizens. The law denying the negro and Chinese citizen the right to vote was rendered ineffective by the pass age of the fifteenth amendemnt to the constitution of the United States and was inoperative, the legislature merely wishing to cut out deadwood in asking the people to repeal the law. While adraittiug that the Ore gonian is in a measure correct, we would go farther than that and place the blame where it probably ought to be, with the Tidings and Ore gonian and otlllr newspapers of the state who failed to dwell sufficiently upon the state Issues which so acute ly affect us, in the heat of a national campaign. We cannot help but won der how many of the other outcomes on the proposed amendments result ed from "crass ignorance." Turkey Will Hang High This Month It can't be blamed altogether on the war. But turkeys are going up every day. The price at least is go ing up, if the turkeys aren't. There are not so very many turkeys raised around Ashland; Just a few flocks or herds, or droves, or whatever they call turkey when it is turkeys. It is predicted that the turkey farmer will receive all the way from 15 to 18 cents a pound for his feath-er-dustered friends on foot, depend ing on how much is feather and how much is dinner. Those approaching the ballet standard of plumpness will receive the best prices, and dealers advise the owners of wild and rangy gobblers and dames to herd them into a pen and pamper them to ro tundity as soon as possible for Thanksgiving is but two weeks away. Those who care to take the trou ble to dress their turkeys and bring them to town ready for the double roaster can probably get 20 to 25 cents a pound for them, and keep the wings to brush around the kitchen stove with. Of course, the buyers explain, the price is not as high as that now, because the relative ratio of demand and supply has not yet been ascertained. But the demand for turkeys has never been known to fail at Thanksgiving time, and it is more than likely to be a question of supply. The cold and long continued rainy weather in the spring discour aged rearing of early families among the turks, with the result that many a husky turkey Just learning to gob ble without squeaking will escape the November ax to stretch his neck on the block at Christmas. If you want something good to eat, get it at the Lithia Bakery and Res taurant. BO-tf INTERURBAN AUTOCAR CO. Leave Ashland for Medford, Talent and Phoenix dally except Sunday at 9:00 a. m. and 1:00, t:00, 4:00 and 6:16 p. m. Also on Saturday night at 6:30. Sundays leave at 9:00 and 1:00, 6:00 and 10:30 p. m. Leave Medford for Ashland dally ex cept Sunday at 8:40 a. m., 1:00, 1:00, 4:00 and 6:16 p. m. Also on Saturday at 10:16. On Sundays at 10.30 a. m., aad 1:00, 6:00 and t:30 p. m. Fare betweea Medford and Ash, laad, 80 eeata. Rouad trip, M coats. I Heard and Overheard U 8 (By Lynn D. Mownt) 1017 Approaches. We offered to buy a friend a drink Of soda fountain pop. It must'a insulted him, we think It had no foam on top. But "II 1," says he, "the state's bone dry, I'll Join the coke fiend cult." With blinking eye and face awry He swallowed the insult. Fire Chief Rolilson says he has a rocking chair up on his front porch that was left with him on Hallow e'en night and that nobody has claimed it as yet. Some folks are lucky and some folks have luck thrust upon them. It was very unthoughtful of the fire department to have a fire on a cold morning like Tuesday. The wind was altogether too cold and many wc-re forced to forego the pleasure of going to a fire, a pleas ure which does 'not come often in Ashland. The fire department should try to arrange it so that fires come only in the middle of the after noon or, better still, along about noon when everybody can get away from work. Those few who did go to the cold fire Tuesday a. m. were sadly disappointed. Fires are usual ly very interesting, but only a few of the near neighbors were there and most of them wore the usual amount of clothes. An early morning fire is generally as interesting as a musical comedy chorus. Folks most alwayB look like they'd dressed in a hurry and not much of anything else. We thought of getting married once un til we met the girl at a fire about 5 o'clock in the morning. Cruel dls allusionment. We would advise everybody who is thinking of getting married to set a good big early morning blaze but not on a cold morning. 'Most everybody has paid his elec tion bets except "Slim" Beeler, who bet he'd starve to death if the demo crats won. Recorder Gillette enlivened the tiresome argument over budget mat ters at Tuesday's council meeting by telling of one time when he volun teered to act as a special policeman on Hallowe'en and guarded the West school building. ' About 10 o'clock at night some boys approachedjnd as they climbed through a window into the darkened room In which he was hidden he grabbed one by the foot. After a terrific struggle the lad broke away, leaving his shoe in Policeman Gillette's grasp. Like the prince hunting for Cinderella, he spent many days seeking the foot which would fit the shoe, but, as is so often the case in real life, the story did not have an ending like the fairy tale. Down On the Rorder. The militia ia down on the border Where the hot sun makes soldier ing hell, 1 But take it from me, pal, there's oth ers I Who are down on the border as well. Take, for instance, our old friend v Paul Williams. You'll admit, if you want to be square, That thin fuzz that he calls a mus tache Is "down on the border" for fair. And the other night at the Austin, When a guy skipped with board bill still due, If Chlsholm was down on the boarder I surely can't blame him, can you? Christmas giving 'from a business standpoint is very poor practice.- Do you realize that practically every Christmas gift goes into the hands of a receiver? (Our ward has flowered wallpaper.) Sauerkrautish item from the Chico Enterprise "Some people argue ments why they are against a pres' dentlal candidate are almost as clear as the guy's argument on why he didn't like cabbage: 'I don't like cabbage, and I wouldn't eat cabbage anyway if 1 liked it, because I don't like it. " Make up your budget for Christ mas shopping early. Budgets are now the approved way of doing busi ness. .All efficiency magazines and experts advocate budgets. Mont wom en, however, will make up their Christmas budget just backwards from the usual budget procedure. First they will ascertain the assessed valuation of friend husnand's pocket book and figure out Just how much they can tax, demand or extract in the dead of night as the case may be. Then they will make up a list of those whom they feel will send them something and divide the spoils by the number of expectant friends- Report of Civic Club President The club work for the year 1916 was opened last fall with a pleasant luncheon at the Oregon Hotel. Mrs. Duryea was chairman of committee on arrangements. After luncheon we repaired to the parlors for our regular meeting and election of of ficers for the ensuing year. The meetings of the next few months were marked by tlie success- j ful carrying out of our monthly pro gram, as submitted by our program committee, who deserve great credit j for the beautiful and dignified year- i book which we have enjoyed throughout the year, in helping to increase the interest and attendance and proving most instructive and en joyable. A discussion on "Compulsory Edu cation" was ably handled by Mrs. Briscoe as leader, assisted by Mrs. member of this club for their kind Barber, who discussed the question ness and hearty support of the as applied to the southern states. In ' projects and welfare of the club dur- a most interesting manner. Mrs. Perozzl very ably dealt with her phase of the subject. Later. "The Wards and Aliens of the United States" was discussed, Mrs. Jack leading, and handling the subject of "The Caucassian Race" In a manner which left nothing to be desired. r Mrs. Smith Illuminated "The Ne gro Question." Mrs. NVhltney presented a vivid picture of the Chinese alien; Mrs. Rocho the Indian, and Mrs. Gard the Filipino. We responded to the demands of "Red Letter Day" with $5 to our state scholarship loan fund. We contributed $5 per month to our Ashland band. Under the leadership of Miss Hicks a prize contest for the building of bird houses was most successfully carried out, our club offering $25 In prizes. About fifty bird houses were built, all of them very nice and some of them really beautiful. About thirty-six received prizes. The houses became the property of the club and were distributed through out Chautauqua and Lithia parks for the purpose of encouraging the birds in their housekeeping propensities in these parks, and also for the artistic effect to the park Itself. The rest were sold for from 25 cents to $1 and the money paid over to the boys owning them, thus rewarding all and causing a large number to be placed all over town. During this time we were perfect ing our plans for other activities in the early spring, which found their fulfillment in the planting of 135 trees; in promoting Clean-up palgn Week;" a "Western Food Products" dinner, in x co-operation with the Commercial Club; a pag eant staged in our new park grounds through co-operation with the Great er Medford Club; rags were solicited, gathered and disposed of at a good price; paper was solicited, gathered and disposed of at $10 per ton; co operation with, the Auxiliary and other city clubs contributing to the splendid success of the Southern Oregon District Federation. We were most active In helping to carry out the plans incident to the big three days' celebration, our. Auxiliary proudly carrying off the first prize for their wonderfully beautiful float. The Civic Club felt no loss of dignity at receiving second prize with their five brilliantly decorated cars. ' This Civic Auxiliary, founded the year before, has each month been growing stronger and exhibiting greater possibilities for growth. Al ready its influence has gone out be yond the limits of Ashland through its high ideals and splendid energy, and we have every reason to expect It will fulfill all the requirements of real service and uplift to the com munity for which it was organized. Our hope of obtaining a club house site has been made a careful study by your committee, and we find that the site In question, which today looks more desirable than ever before, it is not in the province of the council to give, but will have to be referred to the vote of the people at the coming election or later. Sup posing it were voted us, your com mittee have hesitated to place on the club the probable debt of paving, draining and sewerage. Of course, there would be ten years in which to pay off the debt. I believe, if looked at in the right spirit, it would be come more of a pleasure than a bur den. Again, the people might vote it to us as willingly and assume the responsibility themselves as a city. I believe there is scarcely any for ward movement In the city In which this Civic Improvement Club is not looked upon as an Important factor in bringing it to a successful fulfill ment; and in consideration of the benefits accruing to the city through the efforts of this club, the people of the city of Ashland as well as our mayor and city council will be glad to grant us a site for a permanent Cleanliness, Personal Attention and Courtesy Combined to Make the Eagle Meal Market Popular L. Schwcin 84 home. I should make proper request for such a gift. In pursuance of a resolution adopt ed by the club, the committee has preDare(i tne articles of incornora- tlon d th by.,awg t0 eoverll the ! ..... i0rnro.0 i,,h f which will be made by the committee for your approval. I sincerely thank each and every officer and committee and every i ing the past two years, and if the my kidneyg naven't been acting ' president you elect today shall alsojag they should, and It has always meet with the earnest help, encour- j done all that is claimed for it. Doan's agement and support I believe the , SSSuSS future of this club will be a mighty j tney never fan to give good satisfac- iacior in neautuying tne city ana aa - vancing its interests In all meritorl ous purposes. Respectfully submitted, NELLIE BRIGGS, Pres. Civic Notes. The outgoing secretary, Mrs. May Cambers, has held the position for five consecutive years, which Is ; in itself a proof of faithful service. The chairman of the committee to Interest high school and grade pupils In the building contest of bird houses was Miss Blanche Hicks' city librarl- an. To her more than to any other one person is the success of this un dertaking due. The chairman of the city beautiful committee, Mrs. Maude Rocho, an in defatigable worker, sold out an en tire nursery at a net gain to the club of $122. The chairman of the Rogue River Valley Pageant Association, Mrs. E. C. GardT" fought her battles almost single handed and won valiantly in netting the C. I. C. about $45. As a result of this pageant a feeling of comradeship Is established among Grants Pass, Medford, Phoenix, Tal ent and Ashland artists. The so-called guarant legend on packages of foods and drugs does not mean that the United States govern- Cam-fment has passed on the quality of the product. Subscription Bargain Club Offers for November No. 1. Ashland Tidings and Sunset Magazine one full year $2.50 No. 2. Ashland Tidings and The Youth's Companion one full year $3.50 No. 3. Ashland Tidings and Daily and Sunday Oregon Journal $7.00 No. 4. Ashland Tidings and Daily Journal (not Sun day) $5.75 No. J5. Ashland Tidings and Sunday Journal only. . . .$3,75 No. 6. Ashland Tidings and Semi-Weekly Oregon Journal $2.75 No. 7. Ashland Tidings and Weekly Oregonian $2.50 No. 8. Ashland Tidings, Poultry Life, and Rural Spirit one full year and Daily Evening Telegram for three months, all, for .$3.25 No. 0. Ashland Tidings, Today's Magazine with pat tern, Woman's World, and Farm and Home, all one full year for $2.25 No. 10. Ashland Tidings, Ladles' World, Today's Maga zine with pattern, and Wom an's World, all one full year for $2.35 No. 11. Ashland Tidings, The Housewife, Woman's World, and Reliable Poultry Journal all one full year for. $2.45 No. 12. Ashland Tidings, Modern Priscllla, Today's Magazine with pattern, and Woman's World all one full year for $2.55 No. 13. Ashland Tidings and McCall's Magazine with pattern, Boy's Magazine, and Woman's World all one full year for $2 65 No. 14. Ashland Tidings and Metropolitan Magazine, People's Home Journal, and Woman's World all one full year for $2.75 These bargains are for November only. Subscribe at the Tidings office. Inspect onrmarHet and yoor confl- dence will be behind the pleasure of eating our meats. The Knowledge of cleanliness and a sanitary work shop will aid your digestion. N. Main Phone 107 ' DECIDE YOURSELF. The Opiortunlty is Here, Backed By Ashland Testimony. Don't take our word for it. Don't depend on a stranger's state ment. Read Ashland endorsement. . Read the statements of Ashland : r-itiznns. And decide for yourself. Her. i" n.aaham at,.etn. Ashland, says: "I don't hesitate to recommend Doan's Kidney Pills publicly for I have tak en this old, reliable medicine on sev- i .nnnnlnna niVian T IS Q VO fn 11 n Si .tion." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a -kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the Bame that Mr. Wells had. Foster-Milburn Co. Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Herminton A construction com pany employing 100 men Is about half through widening the govern ment feed canal. A saving of 10 to 50 per cent on hats at Miss Hargr.ove'8 during the Thanksgiving sale. 61-3t. Eat Bros.' real Mexican chili at Rose-61-tf ASHLAND LUMBER COMPANY Dealers in LUMBER Shingles, Lath, Sash, Doors, Roofing Papers, Cordwood. factory Block Wood SHINE IN EVERY Isdifii-rrnt. It lines n'-t ! V'V. dry ouf; can be used to the Rh-lf l:ut drop; .:-.! puate one fjuu''tv; abiohtely no t'i' i-"- wist'-; ooiluRt oroirt. You J ' '' j get your money's worth. HUMmM Black Silk 1 Stove Polish b not only mott economical, bnt !t flivw a brilli ant, ailky lustre that cannot Lo obi nine, withanr other pJibh. Hhck Si'k Stove Polish doe nt run off-ll lasti four timet as Urg aj ordinary poluh-so it aaveeyuu time, work and money. iwnl forgrt when yoa Want ntnve polinh, be sure to a-ik for II I arli Silk. Ifttisn't tltc bust stove polish you ever OiM-d-your dealer mm refund your money. Black SiTc Stove PolUh Works, Sterling. DlinoU. - Due Mack Silk Air Drying Iron Enamel on fTMtee. rvK-Utcn.atovo-p pot, and auto mobile tire mria. freveuu ruautig. Try it. Use Dfirk Silk Metal Pol lab foriiilverwar,o)ckel,tin wnro or brnaa. It ttorks quickly, eaoily and leaves a brilliant surface. It hu no cuU foruMun oatomobilou. APE YOU INSURED Yes, that Is a very turning quea tlon 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.T Did you ever stop to think Just how 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 thousand tonight Billing's Agency Eeal Estate and Real insnranc 41 Bast Mala FW1 fill Iff)