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Thursday, January 11, 1917 ASHLAND TIDINGS CAGE TWO Ashland Tidings By THB ASHLAND PRTNTING OO. (Incorporated) ESTABLISHED 1870 SEMI-WEEKLY wt R. Greer, Editor and Manager Harvey R, Ling, Advertising Manager Lynn Mowat, City Editor Oifical City and County Paper Issued Monday and jThursday TELEPHONE 39 SUBSCRIPTION RATE8 On Year 12 00 ttx Months 100 Whree Months (0 Payable in Advance No subscriptions Tor less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at Mpiration 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. Display Advert IkId); Bingle insertion, each Inch. .25c One month " " 20c Six months.... " " 17 He One year " . " 15c Reading Notices 5 cents the line straight. Classified Column 1 cent the word first insertion, k 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 rote until contract expires. FYatenial Orders and Societies. Advertising for fraternal orders or societies charging a regular Initiation fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benevolent orders will be eharged for all advertising when an admission or other charge 1b 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 tar. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 11, '17 ON ASHLAND'S AIR. E. V. barter has been visiting some time in Houston, Texan, but is now in southern California. Jn a business letter to the Tidings, mailed from Houston, he says: "Houston hj a growing, thriving city and this place has many attractive features, but, be lieve me, I would give a pretty penny this afternoon for a glass of Ashland water lithia preferred and to be able to fill my lungs with southern Oregon air." Mr. Carter voices the sentiment of nil who have lived in Ashland and are now away. They want to get back. So with thousands and thousands of others, when they are once induced to come, this Invig orating air and the splendid mineral waters will present a charm that will hold them. That is why Ashland will have more than twelve thousand pop ulation before December 31, 1918. We are going to let the world know about it, attract them here, then our natural resources of climate, scenery and mineral waters will hold them here. If every citizen would screw up his courage to the working point and whet his vision to the seeing point, twelve thousand population of happy, healthy and contented souls could be realized in Ashland even be fore the day of our prophetic limita tion. Who says it can't be done? Let him get busy and he will see. TAKING STOCK. As the newspaper man goes his rounds at this time of year, he finds more or less of the business men "taking stock." It is a tedious and dusty Job, but a very vital one. The merchants approach the final addi tions and subtractions with anxiety, not knowing what they will show for profit and loss. 1 With a great many of the older stores stock taking was often much neglected. Many businesses have al ways run for many years absolutely without ihe custom of regular Inveiu tories. The proprietor would figure out prices that seemed to give him a profit, but he never verified them by the test of an account of stock. If I Arrow fn.pt COLLARS art curve cut to fit trut f srwuldas pafectly he could draw every week enough for his support he felt satisfied. He felt that stock taking involved an enor tnouse amount of labor, and produced no resuKs other than hU own satis faction. Modern business, however, is more closely Analytical. It not merely seeks to know periodically whether the business is profitable as a whole, but it analyzes every feature of the business. It demands to know whethr er each particular line is showing a profit or a loss. The results are of ten surprising. Goods that seemed to pay are revealed as merely a drain on the concern. Expenses are apt to be hieber than was expected, and the overhead charge is constantly exceed ing forecasts. These i.etter methods work out for. the advantage of the consumer. They lead merchants to turn their stock more frequently, to keep closer watch of their lines, to clean out unprofit able material, and to specialize on what the public wants. The logical outcome of stock taking is a news paper advertisement, to clean out overstocks and get the business on a closer cash basis. .s to ;r ie crossings. Portland Telegram: I'nprotectel grade crossings will ever claim their toll of human life. In the latest lo cal fatality, on the Kstacada district line, there is illustrated, for the thou sandih time, the spirit of public In difference towr.rd reasonable protec tion. This crossing is incredibly dancrrous by reason of a billboard which completely obstructs the view of approaching trains. After legal Investigation wc shall doubtless have the stereotyped verdict, "No one to blame." Hut some one is to blame, and that some one is society. It has not brought its sentiment to bear on the unsolved problem of grade crossings. The ulUiate solution Is the abolish ment of grade crossings. Meantime it is the duty of society to protect them by warning signals. This duty has been neglected too long. Not perfect protection but a measure of protection Is afforded by mechanical devices which, arresting the eye antf the ear of a vehicle driver, warn by night and by day. In other states railway managers and state authorities have got to gether on the important matter of abolishing grade crossings or giving better protection. Oregon should act This month is the time. The legisla ture which meets next week will have ample time to confer by committee with the railroads on the question of joint effort In the Interests of pub lic safety. If the railroads should hold aloof (a contingency not to he expected) the legislature can proceed without them. No rational citizen will oppose the urgently needed re form. MODERN ASTROLOGY. People who have a leaning toward the occult have been talking about the death of Madame de Thebes, the famous Parisian afetrologlat and clairvoyant. The most rational skep tic can scarcely account for some of her forecasts. Among her claims of correct predictions were the Europ ean war, San Francisco earthquake, and Galveston flood. But she went wrong on forecasting the death of Kaiser Wilhelm September 29, 1914. In this scientific age astrology Is regarded as a remnant of supersti tious lore. Yet the number of peo ple' who believe In It and follow the practitioners of the art Is more than most people realize. The occult, the dark side of nature, the unseen forces of the world, have for them an endless fascination. It Is an amusing side of human life, except that many people are for ever rushing to the astrologist and the clairvoyant for decisions In doubt ful matters, when they ought to think things out for themselves. Before making any improvement or business change they consult some of these veiled prophets. The seer being a person of keen perceptions, can make a shrewd guess from the facial ap pearance and mannerisms of the client, what kind of work he Is fitted for. In many cases the opinion proves to be correct, hut It was the astrolo- glst's reading of human character rather than the occult Influence of Jupiter or Saturn. Of course, there Is a twilight zone of Intuition where human powers have never been quite defined. The possibility of thought transference Is maintained by many scientists, and many singular co-Incidences sug gest that It may he a reality. But when people have a difficult problem In life, they can find wiser advisers than the dumb voices of the Silent stars. Instead of paying a fee to some mystic prophet, fet them consult their own Intdlllgence and that of their friends, ind there will he fewer fool ish mistakes In life. -. th Tidings. Heard and Overheard mmsnammttmummmmtttmrffltMa (By Lynn D. Mowat.) A Puzzle For the Vicar. A Welsh vicar, who had been ad vertising for an organist, was very much bewildered on receiving the following among his replies: "Dear Sir: T notice you have a vacancy for an organist and music teacher, either lady or gentleman. Having been both for several years I beg to offer you my services." This visitln' a battleship Is just a graft, by heck. They charged me half a dollar cash To see the quarterdeck. You Know Ilim. Another pest Is William Dinks, Who talks much faster Than he thinks. Cincinnati Enquirer. Another pest is Frederick Stead, -Who always hears More than is said. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Another pest is Horace Hay, Who says. more than lie has to say. Oakland Enquirer. Another pest is O. R. Quops, Who talks and talks And never stops. Out in Society. Whenever we determine that We'll laugh and grin and be quite gay, We spill the punch or fall down flat, Or else a garter gives away. New Year's Is now eleven days past and It is on longer safe to offer to buy cigars for the house, anywhere. Where Arc They? The man who had made a huge for tune was speaking a few words to a number tf students at a business class. Of course, the main theme of his address was himself. "All my success in life, all my tre mendous financial prestige," he said proudly, "I owe to one thing alone pluck, pluck, pluck!" He made an impressive pause here, but the effect was rulnod by one stu dent, who asked impressively: "Yes, sir; but how are we to find the right people to pluck?" Phila delphia Ledger. Purity. An eager crowd of highbrows flocked up to the VIning to be shocked, on Monday and on Tuesday too. Tho good folks kicked up such ado and raised their voice in surety against the film called Purity. And as is generally the case, those who kicked hardest led the race. Deter mined that if came a row, they'd have a front seat, anyhow. And every one of those who came, expect ing that they'd blush with shame, found out soon after they were seat ed, that they had been most sorely created. All left declaring it was fine and spouting of the "form di vine." The talk of fault was mostly slush and no one blushed a single blush. And somo few left the VIning knocking because the film had not been shocking. And It will be for ever so, because many nice folks you know yes, and including you and I some Idle gossip magnify, until a thing that is not wrong Is Jabbed by scandal's poison prong and dragged into the mud until the rankest filth would not fulfill conceptions held throughout the town, because a He Is hard to down. Then when the show down comes, kerplunk, the howls of naughtiness prove bunk. Living On Fifteen Cents a Day. The experiments of the Chicago diet squad in living on forty cents a day awoke in us a smoldering ambi tion to emulate, and more, to go them one better. So wa entered Into one of the greatest physiological tests of the modern age. We planned to exist on fifteen cents a day. More over, we finally accomplished It. Here was tho how. It was a thrilling tale of hardship and almost uncon querable obstacles surmounted: The first morning wt started out bright and early, full of ambition and breakfast. (See N. B. 1.) All went well until we dropped into the barber shop for our usual shave. A shave costs fifteen cents and we felt safe, but we went to sleep and by the time consciousness came Jean had given us a hair cut shave and shampoo, and six bits was all shot to pieces. So ended the first day's attempt. The second day our good resolu tion and our fifteen cents lasted un til 11 o'clock, when Brick Moody, who Is left handed and erratic, beat us three games of pool, usually an impossible feat. (See N. B. 2.) Thirty cents gone. The third day we almost con quered. We had breakfast at home and Howard Barrett paid for our lunch, having won an election bet. (See N. B. 3.) This carried us well into tho afternoon, when we weie forced to drop into Butler's on busi ness. Well, doggone it, we never could resist Butler's chocolates, and then some sportive hlghschooler ap pealed to our sporting blood to match for the drinks with the inevitable result. We never could match any thing, not even thread. But determination such as ours was bound to win, and on the fourth day we accomplished the feat which will send our name echoing down through the reverberating eternity of all time. In other words, we done it. It was easy, too no strain at all. Being extremely tried when we went to bed along toward morning the night beforo, wo left a note beg ging the folks to let ub get our rest. They did. Wo awoke ut 5 o'clock the next afternoon, hungry and dying for a smoke. Throwing our determine tlon to the wind (tho wind always appreciates having things thrown to It), we began searching for our ap parel, only to find that our dog, now badly defunct, had chewed most of the seat out of the trousers. Also that everything else (see N. B. 4) we owned had been moved down stair Into new quarters which we were planning to occupy. Also that there was company downstairs. We gave up, crawled back into bed, went to sleep, slept until the next morn ing and wrote our name on the pages of history by living a day on fifteen cents. It was essy. (See N. B. 5.) 1. This was along toward the last of the month when bill collect ors are hibernating. 2. We usually quit after the first one, when Brick has his eye with him. 3. Very unusur.l. 4. Yes, wo have one other pair. 5. Some folks never spend even fifteen cents a day and some folks haven't got fifteen cents and rarely have it. But they do not live. They merely e::ist. And the Rarber Kept on Shaving. They are raising tho cutest little mustaches Yes. All three of them. It lends such a dignified air, don't you know, and goddness knows a professor should have dignity abpe everything else. And then, too, it will be easier for the fair young things (Ashland high has more pret ty girls than r.ny musical comedy that ever played Broadway) to resist the temptation to call their "dear teachers" by their first names. It all happened during the Christmas vacation and when school reconvened Monday, three downy mustaches adorned three upper Hps. Embryonic, to be sure, but healthy and promis ing. It is only to be hoped that the epidemic is not contagious. Digie Gill would be simply Irresistible with a mustache, and Joo Tinker gosh, girls! ' But then all this is merely prellminaiy. The introduction, so to speak, to the thrilling story entitled Why. Heine's Is Healthier Than Harmon's." You see at the begin ning of vacation the three Profs, de cided to grow 'em, and the one who first suffered to have his razored was to divulge" with five hard dolalrs. Heine had five dollars for Christmas presents that was formerly Harmon's. Harmon meant well, you see, but los ing his rest during the' Christmas whirl, he passed quietly off Into sleep one day In the chair at Nate Bates' barber shop anjd when he awoke he found that the barber, thinking the young mustache to be merely the evidences of a bad need of a shave, had cut it off. My, how sad! Har mon claims that he made the barber stand two and a half of the five. The Home Circle thoughts from the Editorial Pen Children In a family should be treated as a gardener cares for his flowers. He realizes that tney re quire different lights, soils, moisture, shade and attention. The treatment that would make a roso win a gold medal at a horticultural show might kill an orchid. He studies the plants, their habits, needs, peculiarities and individuality. He seeks to discover how each grows naturally. He does not forca his process on nature, but seeks humbly to follow her guidance , The In comparable baby food. Malm itllcoH habimt hmalthyi lwpt healthy babim wtIL ',VUI 10 HMhtn' Jfitt" WIDEM AN N'S: g"oa t,dmTlk , A Ftrfia Food alto for IkvqIuU, at leading DRuaoirra 11-om. Tint, ZOo. WIDEMANN.GOATjMILK CD. Physician's B. li'- SnTtmmm.otoi III! s M I kill HtUUrt II - and revelation. He realizes that Na ture not only deals but leads. Par ents do not always learn this lesson; they do not always realize that In Showing us how children grow most naturally Nature is revealing to us the best methods of training them. Nature placod somewhere In the heart of each of us a tender memory, which enables us to touch with a gen tie hand or soothing word the heart of the afflicted. What o comfort to know that for every heartache there is somewhere In the universe a heaven-Inspired soul to comfort those downcast. Let us make our words -as dew from heaven, touching with gen tie hand the withered flowers, giving new vigor to the hardy. The great American sin Is profan ity. The use of profane language is not confine to the street loafer, the thug and the sot; men who move In good society, business men of stand ing and reputation, young men and old men, and even boys of tender age, are addicted to the Inexcusable habit. There is nothing more disgusting than to hear a man punctuate his every ut terance with lurid oaths. If you have a home and are out of debt, don't fret and worry yourself and your good wife Into the grave for the sake of making money. You have but one life to live and It Is brief at best. Take a little pleasure and com fort as you go day by day, and try to do a little good to others. A morbid, insatiate desire to possess the earth, to grab everything in sight, Is at the foundation of more misery than al most any one thing. Wealth alone will never keep your memory green after you are gone; a good life and kind actions will. Never choose a friend who would urge you to pull out a Bingle thread from the warp of character. Never choose for a friend one that you feel you have lowered your standard of pu,rity and right one single inch to gain. If you can not stop up In your friendships you need not step down. Raise your standard and stand by it. The house and home require a head the same as any other business. No study Is of greater importance to a girl. After marriage she often wish- AUTO OWNERS ATTENTION! No More Puncture Trouble "Stopleak" Automatically SEALS Punctures While You Drive For Pull Pirticslsri Write FRANK E. GREEN Ndtlt Cm Aft 1395 Haight Ave. PORTLAND, OREQON. 0 die best motion picture makers in the world make PICTURES 1 es she knew more of cooking. and lesa of Latin. Money and love combined do not form a safeguard where there Jj domestic Incapacity. A woman who is capable of filling her home in every sense of the word is worthy of more true' applauso than if she possessed many accomplishments. FOR RHEUMATISM nd NEURALGIA Damn's Eucalyptus Ointment AT ALL DNUQ BT0t8 Tuaca 2sc Jsa eoc Summertime Now CALIFORNIA Warm sunny days, ideal for bathing in the Pacific Ocean. Flowers in bloom everywhere. Trees green and birds sing ing remind you of May days. The golden oranges are ripening now. An orchard of oranges with snow-capped mou ntain peaks nearby. Imagine the picture. The roads are excel lent for motoring. Make Los Angeles your pivotal point and see all Southern California this win ter. Go via Shasta Route will send you information and free illustrated booklets if you send a postal. 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