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Thursday, April 19, 1017 rAGB TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Ashland Tidings By THE ASH LAM) PRINTING CO. (Incorporated) ESTABLISH KI) 4870 8EMI-WKEKLY Bert R. Greer, Editor and Manager Survey R. Ling, Advertising Manager Vjnn Mowat, City Editor Oifical City and County Paper Issued Monday and Thursday TELEPHONE 39 prevails to a large extent. We all help ourselves to a mammoth potato when half of it would give all that anyone wants. It Is our national temperament, inherited from the day when foods were plentiful and a drug on the market. Tha public pays for it, and it makes prices needlessly high. BI SIXKSS AND WAR SI BBCIUITION RATES One Tear , 2.00 81x Months 1.00 Three Months 50 Payable In Advance No subscription for less than three snonths. All subscriptions dropped at xplratlon unless renewal is received. In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postoffice 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 Advertising Single Insertion, each Inch. .2 Be j One month.... " " 80c Six months.... " " 17 He, One year " " 15c Reading Notices 6 cents the line straight. ! Classified Column 1 cent the word first Insertion, Vi cent the word , each other Insertion. Thirty : words or less one month, f 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 harged 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, Postoffice as second-class mall matter. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, April 19, '17 KEEPING DOWN WAR PRICKS. The Commercial Club and Bchool authorities of the city are joining In attacking the local problems which confront efforts to place all available vacant lots under cultivation, and the co-operat'on- of every Ashlander should be expended in the work. A nation-wide campaign is being made to encourage planting of every avail able foot of land in crops of some kind In order to moet the demand for food which the year 1b bound to bring. Cultivation of some ground, whether measured In feet or acres, Is a duty which every man, woman and child owes to his or her country this year. It is the only way to keep down the prices of food commodities dur ing war times ThoBe who have va ' cant lots which they themselves are unable to cultivate should turn them over to someone who can. The local Commercial Club will open an ex change for HstlDg both vacant lots nd the names of those wishing to cultivate lots. In looking forward to our en trance 'into the war, many people have been fearing that it would cause a great business shock and lead to suffering and unemployment. Such, however, Is not the usual story of wars. Even with nil the suffering In Europe, there Ere no unemployed. There is something for every will ing hand to do. The shock and suf fering come years after when people carry the heavy burdens Imposed by war, and scr!mp and save to pay na tional debts and heavy taxes. War in thl3 country has usually been preceded by Btock market flur ries. In advance the speculartors are apt to sell Bhort, trusting that peo ple's fears will lead them to throw securities overboard at bargain prices. But the speculative crowd does not allow prices to slump very far.; They real'.zo that war creates work and business and tends to make industrial enterprises profitable for the time being. The fiu.il results are tremendously expensive but the peo ple of ten years hence will feel it far more than today. So let no timid business man get scared and think our great country Is going to rack and ruin. War will make a demand for r. thousand kinds of supplies, and the factories will have to get them out 1n a hurry. The need for food will be Increased and the farms will havo to hustle to fill the hungry mouths. War is a time of artificial stimu lus to business, and the first dose is as exhilarating to trade as some pow erful drug. The costs of it will be paid later, but paid gradually, and there will bo no panic and no in dustrial disaster. Though onr mili tary and naval situations may be wholly inadequate for this crisis, yet financially we are well prepared. BETTER BABY WEEK. WASTE OF FOOD The story of the experience of the Oorard parity In traveling from Ber-1 Tin gives an Interesting sidelight ebout .food. They, tell how after the ncanty food conditions in Germany, the comparatively free use of food in Paris seemed perfect waste. Yet no . doubt ufter the party got home, the line of food In this country seemed far more wasteful than in France And yet our papers are full of food ! acurclty. Hut few people take much alns to conserve such parts of the food supply a come under their own i control. I The waste of good food in hotels and restaurants, when prices are 1 o high and so many people are suf iferlng, 1s pitiful. People order lavish table d'hote dlnnerH, they demand a dozen dishes and only tSBte a little of each, and ail the rent goes to the garbage pall or Is supposed to. Per haps the cheap restaurants get more than the public realizes. Hut at least there is a great and lavish rejection . of good food. Of late years tho European plan of operating dining rooms has be come more general. It tonds greatly to reduce tho amount of food con sumed. Once people realize that they have to pay for what they eat, th?y will con ft J the'r orders to w.iat they reslly want. It in tho only sound basis for operating an eating room 1nsiness. Moat hotel proprietors would be glad to put It In. It Is In qu'te general use now in city hotels and on railrond trains. H Is not yet popular In boarding house and re sort hotels, whore a course dinner on the wasteful American plan some how seems more lib rid. In private uumen the sume nplrlt Baby week, designed to help smooth the way for the tiny tots of baby world, will be observed the first week In May. More than 2,000 com munities observed baby week last year and a still greater number are planning exercises this year. It does n't take much money. Some of the successful programs are conducted without money at all. Some or all of the following features of observ ance are recommended by the II S Ch'ld Welfare bulletin, "naby Week Campaigns," which contain sugges tions for communities of various sizes: "A campaign 0 newspnper public ity. "Collections of baby welfare In formation. "Mass meetings, "Celebration In the schools. "Message to women's societies. "Follow up work of the campaign." Baby welfare is necessarily closely associated with the well-being of the mothers, ro maternal care will be given consideration. It can be shown that the 15.000 deaths annually inci dental to maternity are largely pre ventable. Some helpful bulletins on these questions as annuounced by the Children's Purenii are as follows: Second Bulletin on Baby Week, Prenatal Care, Infant Care, and Ma ternnl Care. Free, IT. S. Children's niirenu. Washington, D. C. To Expectant Mothers, and Are Tour Baby's Eyes Sore? Oregon State noard of Health. Programs, Press rt'cles (The Ex tension Press Service will send pre. pared articles on request). Food for the Family, and School Luncheons. .loin the delegation of Ashlanders who will go to Grunts Pass on Mon day, April 23. A noonday luncheon with the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce is slated for that day, and Ashland should send a representative bunch. The best of harmony exists between these two cities, but can be furthered by such "get-together" meetings as the coming luncheon. Heard and Overheard (By Lynn D. Mowat.) Friday, the 13th. Friday Is feared by many as their unlucky day, and when Friday bap pens on, the 13th of the month those who are born under an unlucky star will not venture forth from the feath er bed. We worried considerably in advance about what Friday would bring us, and, sure enough, nothing but trials and tribulations resulted. First thing that happened, we forsot to wind our watch Thursday night, and when we woke up It said 2:30, causing us to Jump hurriedly out of bed and rush downstairs, only to f'nd that we had got up an hour earlier than usual. Then when we got down to the off;ce we found three letters waiting for us, and of course they were all advertisements. Doesn't it irritate you when you find that let ters contain advertisements? Then in the afternoon we were unlucky enough to challenge Chi Plerson to a game of pool and have Brick Moody come in while we were playing It. We lost, of course. Next w.e went up to Jean Hastings' shop to get bar bered and found so many ahead of us that dinner was cold before we got home. And so on through the day. Just plain unlucky. If these things had happened on any day but the 13th we would have thought nothing of them.. But you know how It Is. When a fellow can find an alibi to blame things on to he always does it. If there were no superstitions about black cats crossing the road, and walking under ladders, and like "signs," a fellow wouldn't have any one to blame but himself and would get a mighty poor opinion of himself. So we guess unlucky signs are lucky, after all. Ice Co. Enlarges Medford Plant Just as we get a masterpiece of lyric verse or prose about half wi-it, some gink comes In and peddles us his woes. And by the time he leaves the place we find our pipe Is out and sixteen minutes are consumed in seeking all about to find a match, and by the time wo're settled down all right and start to work, we scratch the match and find it will not light. Then we go out and buy a box and smoke up like a king, and as we gather tip our thoughts the tel ephone doth ring. And so It goes the livelong day. Although onr brain may bust with gems which we Would like to write we give up In disgust. Patriotic Signboards. The signs that once blazed forth the worth Of Wrigley's spearmint gum Are gone since war controls the earth And put them on the bum. Look where yon may, on empty lots, In any part of town. The men that paste these beauty spots Have torn the gum signs down. Though works of art to some they seemed, The posters won't be missed; Where once a spearmint gum smile beamed. Your country pleads, "Enlist." Medford Tribune: In anticipation of a bumper fruit crop of probably 2,000 cars In the valley this season, the Medford Ice & Storage Company is at work on cxtonslvo improvements and alterations at Its Medford plant, which, when completed, will double ' the canocitv of the nresnnt nlant. giv ing it 150,000 cubic feet of space. These Improvements and altera tions, which will be rushed to com pletion within eighty days, will give an Ice-producing capacity of eighty tons daily, and the largest single ice storage room between Portland and Sacramento. This room will hold 3,000 tons of storage Ice and will have close to two miles of 1-inch pipe In coils. A new 30 tons dally,refrlgeratlon machine will be installed to reinforce the two 25 tons each dally machines now in use. Included In tho Improvements will be a 500-foot platform for Icing fruit cars, equipped with conveyo-s and other apparatus, which will en able the plant to Ice ten cars at a time. The main new building, which will be for storage Ice only, will be 70 by 70 feet In dimension, with a 30-foot ceiling. Another 'new structure, which will be usod only for cold stor age of perishable commodities such as eggs, meat and fruit, will be 30 by 30 feet and two stories high. The company does all the Icing of cars for the Southern Pacific railroad between Roseburg and Ashland, In addition to supplying the valley with ice (for ordinary consumption. All cars of fruit originating In the valley are Iced at the Medford plant of the company, and all re-Icing of through cars of fruit and perishable commod ities Is done at Its Ashland plant. "Our company Is spending much money in backing up Its faith In this season's coming crops by getting ready to property handle them with dispatch, and In general valley con ditions," said H. Ki Tomllnson, man ager of the Medford Ice & Storage Company, on Monday. Present Indi cations are that there will be close to 2,000 cars of fruit to he shipped out from the Roguo River valley the coming season." All of the stock of the company Is owned by citizens of Medford, Ash land and the valley. It Is understood that plans are being considered for enlarging and improving the Ashland plant also. Coos Bay Harbor: The sale of a big tract of timber Is reported as the result of a war order which has been received In Coos county. The Pros per Mill Company of Prosper, on the Coqullle river near Bandon, has re celved an order to cut spruce lumber for aeroplanes. The company is con trollod by Sudden & Christensen of San Francisco, and It Is reported that a part of the Frank Boutin timber on the Coquillo river has been bought for $110,000 especially for the spruce timber which will be logged and manufactured Into aoroplane lumber Phone Job orders to the Tidings- Ed Dews was lucky enough to be leaving Klamath Falls for Ashland on the same train with a number of Klamath boys who were leaving to enlist In the navy. All the fair young ladies of the city were present to bid the boys good-bye, and Ed, being s passably handr.otne young man, lined up with the rest to receive the marks of affection which tho girls gener ously distributed on the departing heroes He is now trying to get a run out of K. F. on the railroad In the hopes of being mistaken for a recruit every day. Portland contemplates establishing a factory fund by selling $500,000 bonds and loaning money on good se curity to Industries at 5 per cent, as a method to. encourage Industrial growth of the city. The American Sugar Refining Com pany is to spend $1,000,000 for trademark advertising in 1917. A 200-foot wooden ship for Llbby, McNeill & Llbby has been launched at Portland. Corvallis Farmers are being urged to raise sugar beets. GORDON-lfc 'ARROW form-fit COLLAR 1br30c CLUETT,IXABOmf CCQ. ZyVCAlAKEJU 1 " jrv 1 Regarding the U. S. IVar Loan INFORM vTM ", and HHKistance in pubnerib inj: t i'e & War Loan will be ten-d-re 1 ' lie l'ubli' f thi -nmminitv, with out c.n""-ii'i"ii t", Mi-charge bv, he First Nat ional Bat'k. Call upon or write as for all de tailt when Bonds are available. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ACuiAwn J OREGON .V.CABT EL ft. PR W otNT C. H VAU PEL ,V,ct Pi il. Start Plans for 1917 County Fair Medford Sun: At the regular i monthly meetinc of the Jackson 1 County Business Men's Association at j CrowBon's last night a movement was endorsed to co-oporate with the Jack son County Fair Association and also I with the farmers' granges being I formed with a view to better cooper 'atlon among the ranchers in the val iley. D. M. Lowe of Ashland spoke In favor of closer union between the business men and the farmers, and 'his remarks were very well received. He spoke of the too granges being .formed in the valley and a Pomona grange in Central Point. With the farmers and merchants working to gether It Is believed it will be possi ble to havo a fair In tho fall that will be better than ever before. M. Un- derwood of the Portland Credit Men's Assoc'atlon gave an Interesting talk Jon "Trade Acceptances," explaining ; that they were becoming more and I more popular with retail merchants. About thirty five merchants were present and Mr. Crowson furnished a splendid banquet. Replant Southern Oregon Forests Reforestation of the foothills and mountain slopes of southern Oregon is being pursuod by the federal gov ernment this year on a much larger area than heretofore. The system has practically passed the experiment al stage and Is being applied as a real business proposition. Work on an 80-acre project on the Applegate river watershed has boen in progress for three wpeks under the supervision of Martin L. Erlckson. forest supervisor for this district, IS men being employed. A tract of 35 acres was plantod last year, largely as an experiment In cultivating yel low pine. Although the aridity of this district militated somewhat against the Immediate success of the project, the trees planted did suffi ciently well to Justify enlarging the tract and planting under a slightly revised method. CHICHESTER SPILLS Eugene W. B. Hall Is to start a new shinglo mill in Lane county. Newport Lincoln county is to vote on $418,000 harbor improvement bonds and place that port on an equal footing with other Oregon ports which have taken similar action. I From an industrial standpoint Lln ,'coln county cannot afford to turn .this down. The government puts up I an equal amount. DIAMOND BRAND kik rr Uranlrt for CHI-CmES-THB S A DIAMOND UkAND PILLS in Rkd and A Cold metallic boxen, sealed with Bluet t Ribbon. Takb NO t TBEl. Bar TnrV niKlil aid Mk tor rilI-CUKS.TUt C V DIAMOND BUAIf U PII.LM, for lwenty-R years regarded as Best,6afcst, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS flUS, EVERYWHERE If you could dissect a SAVAGE you'd realize that "Heap big mileage" is built into it during every minute of its manufacture. Highest grade rubber and fabric, perfectly balanced de sign, most careful workmanship, full size. A tough road-gripping tread neither so heavy as to produce stiff ness, nor so light as to give insufficient protection to the carcass. Cushion of high-grade resilient rubber absorbs the road shocks. Sidewall specially shaped to distribute flexing will not crack. And the carcass finest Sea Island cotton.long fibre.tough, triple tested, built up layei by layer into the strongest carcass that can be made. High mileage, low cost per mile. Sold from factory to yon sluoiigh our own distributors. Watch for the red Savage sign. WEB Hssp big mileage! C.IE. GATES Medford, Ore. Main St. and Pacific Highway r-ri 3if if f nl I cnarmiTE tubes B f rfA:w tJf mmm l The only tubes that have griph ftt vulcanized into the mrfact. Prevents deterioration, sticking, friction and heatins;. Malce 'oap atone unnecessary. Length ens me of tube 9
