Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, October 01, 1917, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextASHLAND TIDINGS Monday, October 1, 1MT ' rAOB TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS " Ertabllshed 1876 . . Published every Monday ud Thursday by . TUB ASHLAND FBIWTINQ COMPANY (Incorporated) ; Itarrey B. Ling - - ' V Bu8lneM Mfr Bert B. Greer... Edltor OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER. TELEPHONE 39 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear, when paid at expiration $2.60 One Year,- when paid In advance Six Months, when paid In advance Three Months, when paid In advance No subscription for less than three months. All mibflcrlptlona dropped at expiration unions renewal la received. bordering changes of the paper always give the old Btreet address or fostofflce as well as the new. ADVERTISING RATES Display Advertising -. ... . Single Insertion, each Inch c Six months, each Inch JOo One year, each Inch 17HC RMiiinir Nntirea 5 cents the line straight. Classified Column 1 cent the word first insertion, cent the word each other lnseition. Thirty words or less one month, 1.00. Cards of Thanks $1.00. , Obituaries 2 Vt cents the line. Fraternal Orders and Societies Advertising for fraternal orders or societies charging a regular initia tion fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benevolent orders will be charged for all odvertislng when an admission or other charge Is made, at the regular rates. When no admission Is charged, space to the amount of fifty lines reading will be allowed without charge. All additional at regular rates. The Tidings has a greater circulation in Ashland and its trade territory than all other local papers combined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail matter. atmosphere of gloom. Many men ing campaigns on which millions are feeling this depressing influence tell spent). their wives never to put on black for them. They hate to leave behind this perpetual suggestion of funeral Few men wear black for bereave4 ment, though the custom of wearing a black band on the arm Is common. Men fejel sorrow as much as women, yet are forced by the pressure of work to leave It all behind them1, and go on day by day as before. It Is bet ter for them and better for women to do so, and of doubtful value to keep reminding others that their hearts are grieving. It would not be the wish of the soldier boys whom we shall leave in France, that their bright country Bhould emphasize the sorrow it feels In any external way, Mail order catalogues and I !g city newspapers are coming n here all the time, and the announcements in those mediums attract our people. The goods are not any better, it ea good. But the fact, that the selieru thereof have confidence to boom them as persistently as this, draws away the business from the home town. The only way to meet adver tising is by advertising, LIBERTY BONDS ATTRACTIVE. FEWER STUDENTS. CONGESTED RAILROADS. Preliminary returns from the col- A railroad man says that never In leges and technical schools are show- his experience has he seen conditions lng a decline In enrollment of 10 to on the railroads so tied up as they 40 per cent. As the majority of these i are at this present time. Freight In floating the new Liberty loan much will of course be said about the patriotic duty of subscribing. This is all true and good stuff. Yet many of youths, he writes, People's Forum How a Ten-Year-Old Detroit Boy Write About a Parade. , Professor H. G. Gllmore has a grandson in Detroit, Mich., who, con sidering his1 age, Is an adept In de scribing current events. In a sense not vouchsafed to all school-going In a happy style, our shrewdest bankers are their clients to buy Liberty as the very best investment In the market; It's certainly a phenomenal thing that the bonds of the United States government, the best security on earth, should sell to net 4 per cent. Never before has such a thing hap pened. There have been many times urging the two qualities of treating matter bonds, land manner as boon companions, in separable, and never to bo lightly es teemed. Letter from grandson to grandfather reads as follows: "Irving School, Willis, near Woodward, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 19, 1917. -"Dear Grandpa: Yesterday (Tues day) there was a big parade which when 2 per cent bonds could be float- thousands of people flocked to see. ed at par by the government. The The Jam of people covered the stores, At Your Service IN the handling of the crops you 'may Deed as sistance in harvesting, as well as a safe and convenient place to deposit your money after marketing. Call upon The First National Bank in either or both cases. ' REMEMBER, A LIBERTY BOND MEANS HELP TO BOTH Y01R COUNTRY AND YOURSELF. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ASHLAND ff OREGON .V.CATER..Pne9iDlNT C.H.VAUPEU.VictPttS. J.W.MCOY,CA9HifPi CLARK BUSM-ASST.CASH.- United States Panama canal bonds sold a few months ago, before the war broke out, for a premium of 2 .to the to 4 per cent. And they pay only 3 though per cent. Conditions In the security market now are wholly abnormal, and can't last after the war. European invest ors have been unloading on us their American securities, as they wanted the money to put Into their own gov ernment issues. Our people have had roofs of buildings and the sidewalks and street of Woodward avenue out car tracks on either side, in some places there was a space of eight or ten feet between the jam in the street and the jam on the sidewalk. The jam on the sidewalk couldn't get out, for they were roped in. I could have been In the parade with the school children, but I didn't want to, so I went to Fyfe's third floor and watched. In the parade students are under military age, it does not seem possible that any such proportion could have been drafted. Probably a good many boys of 19 and 20, fearing lest they would be called out before the war is over, dislike to enter on courses that they may not be able to complete. The United States faces a hard race after the war for technical and men tal supremacy. The war has demon strated that the old levels of attain ment were not sufficient. Old theor- tralna are so slow coming through that many manufacturers send all their smaller deliveries by express. Freight and express business calls for strong and husky men, so it is performed largely by young men. It takes a fellow with some elasticity of muscle to handle big boxes. Now comes the draft and calls out a big share of these vigorous young men, depleting the freight and ex press terminals. Meanwhile a big score of the young men from offices, les of political economy, old systems factories and stores, who live under of mechanical production,, have had 'conditions not conducive to nhvalcal to go Into the rag bag. The world s :8trength,. are escaping service, since ;pavania&e 01 speculation wnnoui ian- and pushed bacK where the mounted to dig money out of all kinds of in-! there were Canadian soldiers re- vestments to buy back our securities turned from the held abroad. This has reduced the price on everything, including gov ernment bonds. In the face of this selling move ment the first Liberty loan bos sold for bu( a few cents under par. It seems as certain as anything In busi ness can be that after the war these bonds will go up. If under normal conditions a 3 per cent bond sells at 102 to 104, a 4 per cent bond should bring a good deal more than that. Here then is a chance to get inter est that is higher than many savings front, our drafted men, a' float on which women sat knitting, 33. bands, an 'armed corps.' Knights Templars, school children, Mayor Oscar B. Marx, Mn Henry Ford and Mr, Helneman, local aldermen and some other city officers. There were also a lot of home guards. There was a man near me who lived in Highland Park and he called out 'Here comes H. P.' Every good-looking regiment' was 'H. P.' There was also a drunken man who shook bands with Mr. Ford. The police controlled the crowd by scaring them. The "Liberty Engine" On First Trip The first locomotive constructed on the Pacific coast in a quarter of a century has Just had its maiden j trip over the Southern Pacific lines, having hauled part of the draft con tingent from Sacramento to Oakland and thence to Roseburg, Ore. In its first 72 hours of service the new en gine covered 1,040 passenger miles, which is considered an exceptionally fine showing. The locomotive was constructed in the Southern Pacific shops at Sacramento and Is of the Pacific type. Six consolidation en gines for freight service and three ten-wheelers are also being built at Sacramento, the ten costing $300,000 and constituting part of the Southern Paclflo's order for 65 new engines. The "Liberty Engine," as It has been nicknamed, has a traction pull of 45, 470 pound George McCormick, general super intendent of motive power, states that car building is now in progress at the company's shops In Sacramento and Los Angeles. Three flat cars have been turned out already by -the Sacra mento shops and eight at Los An KXOWIT WELL. Familiar Features Well Known to Hundreds of Ashland Citizens. A familiar burden in many homes. The burden of a "bad back." A lame, a weak or an aching back Often tells you of kidney ills. Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys. Here is Ashland testimony. Mrs. 3. C. McDonald, 685 B Btreet. says: "I can recommend Doan's Kid- -ney Pills just as highly today as I did three years ago when I gave my first statement. I have taken them on several occasions for lameness across -my kidneys and it has required only a few doses to relieve me. Doan'a Kidney Pills have always proven a Bplendld medicine in our family." Price 600, at all dealers. Don't, simply ask for a kidney remedy get ; Doan's Kidney Pills the same that . Mrs. McDonald uses. Foster-MHbnrn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. banks used to pay, and at the same ! mounted police backed their horses time a practical certainty that the up against the jams and pushed, but value of the principal will advance sometimes a person would get within a very few years. Usually stepped on. The traffic police are not when you speculate you must take mounted, so both the traffic police risks. Here is a chance to get the and the plain policemen strung hands industries are going to reopen on a the exemption boards won't pass basis of greater production. Many them on accolint 0f physical dlsabll wastes have been eliminated and the lty Thls loaveg the ralroadB terrl wlts of men have been sharpened bybly handicapped in trying to handle intense competition. jthe enormous strain of war business, The United States can not go along with every factory jumping to fill in the old wasteful way, It needs orders. mechanical experts of the highest or iing any risk. It should not be neces sary to work the patriotic movement so hard to sell these bonds. der. It needs broadly trained men who have studied deeply Into human ADVERTISING COMPETITORS. The question before the merchant Of course the general shortage of;'8 not merely what he 18 &olnS t0 do . fain,ted aggravating lwun ownwing. railroad equipment is this situation. The people with mon-l,nB 18 eomg 10 d0 wltn hlm- history, and who can lead our people tn invent hBva wnmo ,n n i,;tail store need not think it in ways of progress and In develop- ralroad stocks, claiming that under inore the matter of advertising. For wnetner it tries publicity or not, it Is affected by publicity, and It must didn't look after. The motorcycle police did their bit too. They would start up full speed and fairly skin the Jams, scaring them back, but in spite of all this the people, would step back again after the horse, man or cycle had passed). A lot of women A man was arrested. I don't know why. Some airplanes to come, but didn't. Lane county will have another RAWmlll fit IflrPA MnaMfv in nnn.nflnn . . . .w. qv . I ,1 WM 1 1. J 1 11 V(CIAUUU within a few weeks. The Common i wealth Lumber Company of Portland has started the erection of a mill at 'Nekoma, a station on the Eugene Coos Bay branch of the Southern Pa cific near Mapleton. Phone Job orders to the Tidings. "If" is the most unsatisfactory word in our language. ' Ashland Transfer & Storage Co. I C. F. Bates, Proprietor T"' Wood, "Peacock" I' :: and Rock Springs :: Coal and Cement I phone 117 Office 99 Oak Street, Ware-: : bouse on track near depot. Ashland, Oregon ment of better civic institutions. the strict government control now Therefore the boy who abandons existing there is not much chance to his plan for higher education Is not make money In buying their securi dolng well. It Is quite possible that ties. The railroads finding It diffi there will not have to be another .cult to get money, are not Increasing drawing), Or even If there is, the Bee- ther facilities as they ought to. It is what advertls- The re-.were supposed can ig- There were some queer looking Bo hemians, whom we passed, going home. It would have required hours to catch a Woodward car, so we took the Fourteenth avenue car and trans ferred to a crosstown which landed us three blocks from home. The meet the advertising of its compet itors. This Is not merely that the enter prising merchants of a town are ond division of men called may get no farther than the training camps of this country and France. In that case they can simply come back to their work without any real loss of time. The year will have been well spent In a valuable training, and they can resume their mental and technical studies with more power than ever. The country needs all the educated men It can get. The un trained man more than ever before will be out of the game. AMERICAN ENDURANCE. Many of our people are wondering what our navy boys are doing all this time while there is such Intense ac tivity at the army cantonments. A letter from one of them gives a hint of It. He says the crews of the de stroyers who are hunting submarines are having a very strenuous time of it. , They are out four days at a time, during which period they get scarcely any rest or sleep and can barely stop for food. He says they return to port completely exhausted and then get four days' rest;. It is a hard game, and will grow harder as winter weather approaches;. Many people have the idea that the . .Americans, while quick and nervous, lack the power of enduring long-continued strains. Such experiences as these show that our boys can stick it out with the best of them,, and have the physical and nervous stamina to stand as much as any human consti tution can. They will show it when hey get to the trenches. Meanwhile manufacturers who ! can't get raw material and merchants ! who can't get shipments are pawing up the earth and uttering loud Im precations about freight delays. It would help some If every man who has a shipment of goods will take away his stuff the day It comes In, so that cars can be released and sent off where most needed. I drawing trade away from those who .Woodward avenue route would be are more conservative. It Is also that quicker, shorter and land us a block all the merchants of a town like ours from home, but it would be too are affected by the advertising' of crowded and take too long to get It. ; great metropolitan department stores and mall order houses. If our mer chants remain passive a large sec tion of their trade will be drawn away from them by th vast advertls- MOURNING IX TIME OF WAR. The suggestion is made by the Dry Goods Economist that during war time women discard the habit of wearing black for lost friends. This Is urged on the ground of scarcity of clothing materials, and the depress ing influence of black in a time of national sorrow. If many women must by next year face the loss of their boys, a large part of them would no doubt like to put on black. In times of grief wom en feel a certain reserve about min gling with gay life. The black dress Is a suggestion that they are In sor row and should not be pressed Into scenes of merriment. The wearing of black does tend to set a person apart a. little, and it often makes women morbid. They seek solitude and avoid their friends too much. Thoy get In a habit of brooding and often become very ab normal. It would have been much better if at the start they Could have plucked up their courage and gone with their friends. Yet there is a question if, not merely in war time but always, this attitude , is not unwholesome and sometimes selfish- It does create an "Well, I must close now, for this was my language work and I have to do my arithmetic. "Your loving grandson, , "Mark Chancellor Stevens." Page Theatre, Medford Thursday Night, Oct 4th (Note-Curtain at 8 P. M. Sharp) Berry & Behymer Present The La Scala Grand Opera Company In a magnificent revival of Bizet's masterpiece "CARMEN" .' ' ' Opera in four acta time, Ester Ferrablnl,. late of the Milan Grand Opera Company, and Guiseppe Gaudenzi, recently recruited from the Boston National Grand Opera Company, will positively sing the leading roles at the Page Theatre. . The biggest attraction ever offered Southern Oregon Theatre Patrons and Music Lovers Prices $3.00, $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00. Mail orders ac cepted. Seats now selling. Make yoorrescrvatioDS now , Comply With the Law ; AND USE: Printed Butter Wrappers ACCORDING to the wiling of the Oregon Dairy and Food Commission all dairy butter sold or exposed for sale in this state must be wrapped in butter paper upon which is printed the words "Oregon Dairy Butter, 16 (or 32) ounces full weight," with the name and address of the maker. To enable patrons of the Tidings to easily comply with this ruling this office has put in a supply of the standard sizes of butter paper and will print it in lots of 100 sheets and up ward and deliver it by parcels post at the fol lowing prices: 100 Sheets, 16 or 32 ounces $1.50 250 Sheets, 16 or 32 ounces $2.15 500 Sheets, 16 or 32 ounces $3.25 Send your orders to us by mail accompan ied by the price of the paper and it will be promptly forwarded to you by parcel post, prepaid. " We use the best butter paper obtainable, . and our workmanship is of the best. Let us have your order and you will not regret it. Ashland Tiding's Ashland Oregon