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ASHLAND TIDINGS
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all peoples everywhere. N Let it be
with a fervent hope that soon the
clouds that now encompass us may
be rifted and dispersed, and the be
neficent sun of world-wide righteous
ness may shlno thenceforth forever.
Let It be with a faith that the eternal
principles of Justice and Right for
which we stand will ultimately rule
the earth, and man' see his felloe
man for that which he is his
brother.
COMPL1MKXTARIES.
The tlme-honpred custom of news
paper exchange is being discontinued
by the metropolitan press. Now the
city papers ask that the country pa
pers subscribe for their publications
for cash, and in turn the city paper
subscribes for the country paper, if
Observe Christmas
Despite War Times
Just now two widely divergent
streams of economic thought are
seeking outlet to the desired sea of
success for freedom's cause. One
flows la the direction of abnormal
economy. Its trend is towards a com
plete reversal of every buying habit
on which trade and industry have
hitherto thrived. "Cut out every
thing except absolute necessaries,
and minimize these," say Its advo
cates. "Wear old clothes, forswear
entertainment, shun even the thought
of luxuries, and lend every cent you
can to the government."
The other as sincerely desirous of
upholding Uncle Sam suggests less
revolutionary methods. "Spend free-
they want It. That makes it hard on
the country papers, for in many in- iy but wisely," is Its advice. "Keep
stances they have to pay three times every joliar nioving, but in a right
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as much for the city paper as the city
paper pays for theirs. Yet, It Is good
business. The stock in trade of a
newspaper Is subscriptions and adver
tising. It Is not business to give
either away. That Is the only thing
It has to sell to raise cash for cost of
production.
Along with others, it has been the
custom of the Tidings to give compli
mentary copies to commercial clubs
and libraries. The changing condi
tions have made this exceedingly un
profitable, for it Is found not only to
lose the cash for the single compli
mentary, but the newspaper is read
by many patrons of the commercial
club and library who should be sub
scribers to the publication, but who
are not willing to pay for something
they can get for nothing.
Therefore it has been found expedi
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regular subscription price for the pa
per. Beginning January 1, 191 S, the
Tidings will discontinue all such com-plimentaries.
EACH FOR ALL.
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"THE PRINCE OF PEACE."
And He said, "1 came not to brim;
peace, but a sword."
What a strange contradiction, and
how shall we reconcile it?
Again the season is with us when
the hearts of Christendom turn to
was the case. Too well He knew the
fearful lust of pride and power
against which men must battle and
under which they must be ground to
powder; too well He knew by whai, classed as a live town.
Just what is community co-operation,
anyhow? Who does It benefit?
How does it help the individual?
Let us see. Any community whose
residents band together and throus.i
the strength of their combined effort
accomplish things from which all nro
I benefited Is practicing community co
operation. If this community spirit
Hi this working of each for the good
H'of all is continued harmoniously
jj the result in the long run is bound
3 1 to be good for all.
8: Villages, towns and communities
8 are rated as "live" or "dead" accord
ing to the rate of development they
show. One man or one family can
not make a community progressive
It takes a majority. You can not
take the attitude of indifference if
you wish to see your home town
The harder
direction In this way help to make
money a balancing force, and avoid
such disturbance and depression as
might induce panicky symptoms."
But Christmas is coming! Tha
season of gifts, delights and luxurloa
is close at hand, and thousands of
people are perplexed as to their duty
In this time of war. The old and
wonderful spirit of Christmas is re
vived by these bright December days,
as for hundreds of years. Into nearly
every heart steals a yearning to be
getting things for others, so that for
one day, at least, the light of love
and friendship may reign supreme.
But this will be our first war
Christmas, and the question' of what
to do with it looms large on millions
of mental horizons. War time is a
time above all other times for the
cheer and the spirit of good will that
Christmas, when it is given a chance,
will bring. If war-time enonomy bldi
a curtailment of gifts, it need have no
etfect upon their meaning and valua.
In every home where there is a
child, and in every home where there
Is a possibility of doing for children
without homes, preparations should
be made for as nearly a normal
Christmas as circumstances will per
mit. One of the fundamental reasons
for making this particular Christmas
a normal one is that ahead of the
children lies a world-wide readjust
ment which will demand the most ac
tive exercises of the best traditions
that can be carried over from what,
even now, is the past. And to ask
or expect that they should' approach
that unprecedented responsibility
without the guiding and guarding in
fluence of childhood's first friend
would be to reveal an attitude out of
keeping with the spirit of the strug
gle now being waged.
The future has to be met, whatever
it may be. The present is the only
time to live, and there Is no time so
dark that it is not worth while to cel
ebrate Christmas.
slow degrees the world would be you and all your neighbors fight for
brought to a realization of the fact ! progress the surer you are to reap
that but one human attribute can i the good that progressive team-worss
A good, wide-awake town is
fit-on 1 m ioL'un inti Mm try a a r knvnml ! Iit'lnfu
I um " iiniri i ii i j vi wiicimi mhu until t i ? i
... ; , . . love. a sure sign of public-spirited, wide-
'He was in awane citizens imng in u uuu uiuuuu
the words that fell from His lip?
Attain we commemorate the birth of ;
Him who shall make us free indeed.
But now we come with hearts bowel :
down under a world sorrow and ,
minds clouded by a veil through '
It was said of Him that
I the world and the world knew Him lt-
I not." If the world, then, knew Him The spirit of "let well enough
not, how much less shall it know His ! alone" never accomplished anything.
' teachings without diligent study and The spirit of "let's make things bet-
; search? . 'ter" is a sovereign remedy against
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which it would seem impossible to, it would be well for the American j letiogression.
pierce. When we would sing acclaim ' people, as they approach the annl- j One way of bettering your homo
to the Prince of Peace, we look out versary of the .Messianic birth, to 'town is open always and to all. This
over a world drenched in war and ; again fortify themselves with tli3iis it: Keep your trade as nearly as
blood. We see on every hand misery J teachings of the Son of Man,. We j may lie in your own town. As we
and suffering, human conditions should look Into the national heart j have pointed out before, a good por
whlch He save His life to alleviate, and see that in the momentous cor.-Uion of every dollar spent in your
And it has been so long since He flict before us we harbor no unwor- j local stores helps in the support and
made the sacrifice, that hope almost ! thy motives by which we may help to development of your own neighbor
turns to despair. j defer the consummation of His bene-1 hood. Increased local business makes
Can we by any means glean on? diction. "Pence on earth, good will i possible more public conveniences,
ray of comfort from that cryptic re- to men." It would be well that we j more educational, religious and so-
Every Piece of Meat From the
East Side
Market
j again assure our own hearts that we
j desire but the everlasting Right and
j Truth.
I Having, then, assured our hearts
of these things, let us revert to just
; one incident in His life. Let us re
I call that when He found the temple
of Cod profaned, with a scourge of
' cords He drove the profaners f'oni
Jits precincts." Wonderful man! For
His own safety He would not con-
Is a Good Piece.
That's the only kind we handle.
Wholesale and Retail.
FISH ON FRIDAYS.
OYSTERS AND CRABS IN SEASON. ; tend, but for the honor of His Father,
A. R. Brown, Prop. Phone 188.
mark which we quote above? Was
yes!
Was
it a divine pointing of th)
cial advantages, and. as a national
consequence, increases individual op
portunity and wealth.
Villa is reported to have grown a
luxuriant set of black whiskeM.
While it is true that the leopard can
not camouflage his spots, you have
always the alternative of killing tho
varmint.
People's Forum
Is There a Santa Clans? .
Tonight, some time between dark
ness and dawn, iSanta Clans wi!i
make his annual visit to all children,
both young and old, And for the.
reason of his visit we will all com
mence the new year, only a week off,
with better spirits and kindlie
hearts, for who is not a better citizen
for 'the yearly call of the old gentle
man with the ruddy cheeks and white
beard and the smile that won't corns
off?
Do I believe in Santa Clans? Yes,
I believe in him. I have never seen
him and I've never seen any one who
did see him except in the way all of
us see him on the streets and in the
stores at this time of the year. But
if I didn't belit ve In him I couldn't
believe in anything and the fact
that nobody ever saw him makes my
belief all the stronger. For nobody
ever saw love or faith or hope. All
we can see of these things is the evi
dence of their existence as it comes
to us .through the deeds of men and
women.
If everywhere at Christmas time
we don't see enough deeds to prova
the existence of Santa Claus, then 1
PilBil.
USEFUL
GIVING
CHRISTMAS this year should represent
THQUGI1TFULNESS and CAREFULNESS,
the first in respect to giving, the second relative
to keeping. While thoughtful giving is a blessing
to donor anJ recipient, careful saving is a bene
fit to ALL.
Give useful gifts Buy them in Ashland
Start a Bank Account Keep it growing.
Do Your Bit for the Red Cross
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
ASHLAND V OREGON
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year at the recurring evidences of his
existence.
And this year the wonder grows,
for even with war needs crowding in
on every side, and with the boldest
of determinations to eliminate our
ordinary giving, we find ourselves
just hankering to go out and ge;
something for others. Vou may say
smart merchants have had a good
deal to do with this, but no merchant
was ever born who could make us feel
the way we begin feeling about thi
time of year.
It isn't simply the spirit of giving
that gets hold of us. It's the spirit of
forgiving and forgetting forgetting
mean little things that we have car
ried through months, or maybe years.
It's the spirit of otherness of step
ping out of self for a time and gladly
leasing our top stories to Mr. and
Mra A. L. Truism and their big fam
ily of children. But call It what you
will, It Is the biggest and best and
most boundless spirit that can nooso
human beings in the loop of love.
"THE OPTIMIST."
ASHLAND PROOF
way for His followers all down th3 ; from a different cause..
the omniscient mind projecting itself ases? Surely it could not have been
Into the future and seeing the mighty
utruggles through which His Word
must adventure e'er It reached en
thronement in the hearts of man--Und?
We can not but believe that such
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a trivial incident of no particular sig
nificance to man. Such incidents had
no place in His life.
Assured, then, that peace-loving,
mercy-loving, truth-loving America
has but one aim, the preserving of the
sartctity of the Father's temple that
tmple which is the great heart of
humanity we can approach this be
nign season with hearts attuned to
its significance the anniversary of
the earthly advent of the Prince of
Peace. Coming in this spirit, we.
like the shepherds of old on the Ju
defn hills, may catch a glimpse of
that light that shall dispel the dark
ness of ignorance and avarice and
shall make of all men followers and
champions of the Right
And as we approach that day let
it be with hearts that can feel fo.'
Kerensky Is said to have as many
followers as before he was deposed,
but they seem to be following hit.iwill ask some one kindly to step to
the front and prove to me mai i
have a body.
I believe in him more now than I
did when I used to peep out from un
der the covers to see if I might at
least catch sight of his shadow. With
me he is not numbered among those
joys which were lost with childhood.
More than ever he is a reality in my
life. More than ever I marvel each
If bad habits were as easily over
come as goodyones, the millenium
would be ancient history.
It Is a safe bet that the addition of
the woman vote In New York wi'l
not add to the certainty of pre-eler-tion
prediction.
Bare Tear Clothes
Ksse at Home
Tailoring" for
Hess and Womea
John far Clothes
John the Tailor
A Fit r Ke Sale
If you are a good patriot cut down
your allowance of candy. The sugar
is needed for the allied armies.
Should Convince Kvery Ashland
Header.
The frank statement of a neighbor.
! telling the merits of a remedy,
Bids you pause and believe.
The same endorsement
By some stranger far away
Commands no belief at all.
Here's an Ashland cbbo.
An Ashland citizen testifies.
Read and be convinced.
Festus Butts, retired farmer, 172
Mountain avenue, says: "I was an
noyed for finite a while by kidney
und bladder trouble. Nothing seemed
to reach it until I began using Doan's
Kidney Hills. They soon regulated
my kidneys and cleared up the kid
ney secretions.'
The above st-itement was. given o:r
March 12, 1S13. and on March 15.
1916, THREE YEARS LATER, Mr.
Butts said: "I am ready to back up
my former statement regarding my
experience with Doan's Kidney Pills.
It hna lieen several vears since I wnt
(cured of kidney trouble by this medi
cine and I am still enjoying nrst
i class health."
Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills the same tha:
Mr. Butts had. Foster-Mllburn Co.,
Mfrs., Buffalo, X. Y.
Phone job orders to the Tidings.
"It's Time for Every
Boy to be a Soldier!"
This number and "What Kind of an American
Are You?" are two brand new, up-to-the-minute
patriotic songs which appeal to your Americanism in
rousing words and with crispy music. One is a solo
the other a quartet number, and together they make
a splendid new double-faced Victor Record.
Victor double-faced Record 18500. Ten-inch, 75c.
"My Own United States" and
'We'll Never Let the Old Flag Fall"
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Edward Hamilton and Male Quartet the second.
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