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!rioa Historic, 8uc Tidings "Ashland Grows While Ulhla flows' , City of Sunshine and Flowers Ashland, Oregon, Uthla Springs ' "Oregon's Famous Spa" .VOL. XLII ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1918 NUMBER 82 Normal School Question Rousing Interest Throughout the State Raids on West Front Increase; Japan Situation Yet Unsettled A' Cry for Help No one can even roughly estimate the amount of damage which was done by the legislature In 1909 In discontinuing the normal schools of this state. If these Institutions had been allowed to go on preparing teachers for our public schools we would have had by this time a fair showing of normal trained teachers in Oregon. The records of the state superintendent's office show that out of 4,612 teachers reporting their .preparation, 394 have had only one year of normal school work and 912 have completed two years of normal school work. Ther'e are over 6,000 teachers In the state and so only about 20 per cent of the total num ber have had the advantage of nor mal school training and a large share of those have only had a one-year course; for one may Very safely as sume that those teachers who did not report preparation did not have very much to report. In these days when we are putting so much stress upon special preparation for both public and private Interests we find that the public schools, the greatest of all our public service corporations, are forced to "go a-begging" for trained help. The demand for prepared teachers Increases with the facilities for supplying them. The normal school at Monmouth Is reported to have positions already for all the pupils who will graduate from that Institution In June. Most of these will go to the Willamette valley and northwestern Oregon and the rest of the state will have to wait for many years before it gets any appreciable benefit from the normal school at Monmouth. The only sens ible way Is to provide a first-class normal school for eastern Oregon and another for southern Oregon. A report recently received from one of the, Culifornia counties shows that they have more than 94 per cent of their public teachers who are normal school graduates. This Is of course better than the average for the whole state, but it is an indication of what they are accomplishing In California with their eight normal schools well distributed over the state. With a -united eastern Oregon and the good schools people of southern Orrgon pulling for the one measure snch as we have this year, and the change of public sentiment in favor of normal schools', it would look as though the normal school proposition was In a very fair way to be solved astisfae-torily. Former Local Boy ' Will Go to Manila Mrs. Laura Allen of Palm avenue Is looking forward to a visit from ber son, William B. Allen, who Is leav ing Washington, I. C, for Manila, P. I., where he is being sent by the government to fill an important com mission. This young man, who is well known in Ashland, where his . boyhood days were spent, has made, rapid progress during the past six and one-half years. At that time he was one of the first to receive a gov ernment appointment In the postal savings department, where he had served until in the fall, and during that time had made many advance ments. On February 1 G he was appointed second lieutenant of the U. S. mili tary force to go to the Philippines, with instructions to start about March 1. In a recent letter to his mother Lieut. Allen states that he will visit his sister, Mrs. Jeannette Burkholder, in Portland, after which he will come to Ashland to pay his old home a farewell visit before leav ing for the Philippines. He expects to leave San Francisco about April D on a transport, the destination of which will be Hawaii, Guam and Manila. Lieut. Allen received his education in the public schools of Ashland and .was the only member of his class to receive a scholarship from the eighth 'grade for free tuition In the fresh man year at the normal. He was a member of the junior class at the normal when the school was aban doned. 'Afterwards the young man finished a business course and was . employed as stenographer for the Grants Pass Commercial Club when he received his appointment in the postal savings department in Wash ington. Miss Klelnhammer of Yreka, who had been spending several days in Ashland during the past week with her mother, Mrs. C. Klelnhammer. Further Indication of the success of BenJ. C. Sheldon's efrort to enlist the united support of the eastern Oregon cities Is seen in the meeting held at Baker a few days ago, ac count of which appeared In the Baker Morning Democrat as follows: "An effort which may develop Into one of exceptional Importance to Baker was Initiated at a meeting held at the Commercial Club yester day afternoon. It lies In the fact that the last legislature put upon the ballot for the votes of the people of the state a proposition to establish a normal school in eastern Oregon and one in Ashland. "This measure, known as House Joint Resolution No. 4, refers to the people the question of re-establishing the two normal schools which were once In operation at Ashland and Weston, but with the modifica tion that the school to be established In eastern Oregon is left uhlocated, the state board of normal school re gents being charged with the task of selecting the site for the school when the people shall have approved the measure. That board consists of State Superintendent J. A. Churchill, the governor, the secretary of state, State Librarian Cornelia Marvin, Menry J. Maler, E. E. Brlggs, H. G. Starkweather, C. L. Starr and W. C. Bryant." "Since the adoption of the above mentioned measure by the legisla- j for distribution to every family re ture, the individual members of this I ported in the community. These board have let it be known that, they cards, with accompanying literature, were not prejudiced In favor of any one eastern Oregon city as the loca- tion of this institution, and that they would consider the "case" for each city s it might be presented to them when the time comes. "With the passage of the measure placed upon the ballot by the legisla ture snch an Institution will be lc cated "somewhere In this section of! the state. It will mean a fine school building, with afi annual attendance ior ten months of the year of fromjdren may be able to assist in reach 300 to 500 young men and women, It goes without saying that Baker, with its reputation for good schools, will see to it that her claims for such an institution are properly presentefl to the state normay board at the proper time. "At yesterday's meeting a motion was adopted that the matter be re- ferred to the club at a regular meet- Ing with the recommendation that a committee be appointed to look after Baker's Interest in the premises." County Council to I nnlr Affov CfrtMy UVVn nttVI ftJbUVR The county agricultural council through the office of County Agent Claude C. Cate is issuing a little pa per, known as tlie Jackson County Agricultural Council News. The pa per Is proving a decided success. It serves in getting the farmers to pull together; it is a medium through which the county agent and the conn ty council can reach the Individual I t0 avoii confusion and duplication farmer; it is used by the farmers tojthe work should not be Intrusted to advertise articles they wish to buy or school children. Closely supervised sell. The last issue contains' four 'groups of Boy Scouts, Honor Guards pages of farm produce wanted and;or other groups of high school stu for sale. Anyone interested may ob- j dents may be assigned the work. The tain the Issues for March, April and ,town- s'uld he divided into conven May free by writing to C. C. Cate, ient ''locks or sections and the cap- Medford. I The county council can now assure the farmers of Jackson county that they will lie aide to ship their cattle and hogs co-operatively, beginning active shipping next fall and winter when the bulk of tlie hogs and cattle are ready for market. Growers should plan to raise all of the stock : nossihle. The council assures vou ', that you will receive within 1 to 1 cents of the Portland prices for hogs and within 1 to 1 cents of the Portland prices for cattle, Any farmers In the Ashland dls- trict having stock to market between j now and next October may be able to arrange for prices within 2 cents! of Portland prices on hogs and 1 cents on cattle. Communicate with Albert C. Joy of Ashland some week or ten days before you wish to sell, and efforts will be made to handle your stock In car lots to Portland,. J. Howard will move his family to Myrtle Creek this week and will re main there during the coming sum mer, where he will be employed on the ranch of C. L. Wimer. If the country in that section suits Mr. How ard he may reside there permanently. Mrs. Harry Pellett of Yreka Is a guest of Mrs. J. H. Cook this week. 350,000 AREMNIAXS ARE STAKVIXO WHILE YOU ARE READING THIS LETTER. MANY HAVE DIED, RUT MANY LIVES CAN RE SAVED IP WE ACT AT ONCE. That is why the state of Oregon Is responding to President Wil son's appeal for aid for these people. The conditions are almost unlx-lievable, hut they exlnt. You are K"'K to le asked by the committee, who will call upon you within the next few days, to make a contribution within your mean, wliich will enable the American committee to help in the relief of tills desperate situation. We ak in the name of Hl'MAXITY your prompt and serious consideration of this request. Will you help? E. V. CARTER, REV. C. A. EDWARDS, REV. H. .A. CARXAHAN, REV. GEO. S. RRETT, Committee. New Home Cards Have Been Issued The new home card supplements, together with some other literature, have just been received from the fed eral food administrator. All litera ture Is being sent direct to the teach er or principal In each school dis trict. Three valuable leaflets are folded about each home card, and enough of these "sets" are being sent should be given to every family in the district even though the head of the house refused to sign a pledge j card. Since the official report was ! received a number of those In the I county who refused to sign, and ' many who were reported as "not seen," have sent in their signed pledge cards. In fact, over 98 per cent of all families in the county have now signed these cards. In the smaller district school chll- jlng every home. This is good Red I Cross service. Except for the larger (towns, a complete typewritten list of all heads of families is being sent with the cards. This list was taken I from the pledge cards sent to our j f ood administrator a few weeks ago, ( and to the list has been added the , names of those who refused to sign and those not seen. As the cards are distributed the names should .checked and the checked list be re- turned to the county school superin : itendent's office. A convenient frank ! label or return envelope Is also en closed with the cards and may be used for returning checked list, sur plus cards and other reports. No Ijiostage is required. In case school i-children or committeemen are un- able to reach certin remote homes In a district, please send their cards, to gether with checked list and report, beck to the superintendent's office, who will be glad to forward the cards by mail. In larger towns It will be impossi ble to check from a mailing list, and tain of each group held for results. Butler to Receive Sentence Saturday William Butler, the Eagle Point rancher found guilty of manslaughter by a jury In the circuit court lute Friday night, will be sentenced by Judge Calkins next Saturday. The penalty ranges from one to fifteen years .in tlie penitentiary and a fine not exceeding $3,000. The Jury stood seven to five for conviction on the first ballot and this did not change until late In the night when the jury secured a transcript of the evidence from the court which showed the contention of the major ity was correct. There was then a unanimous vote for conviction on the next ballot. The Jury In Its finding recommended clemency. Butler was very much disappointed In the out come as he fully expected to be ac quitted. Mrs. Elizabeth Van Sant, who has been spending the winter in Portland with her mother, Mrs. Mary Dunn, arrived home Friday forenoon. She expects to remain In Ashland for some time. Girls See Soldiers In San Francisco O. H. Johnson received a letter this morning from his daughter, Mrs. Pearl Dodge, who In compariy with Misses Esther Whlted, Horense Win ter and Luclle Barber Is attending a school for telegraphy In San Fran cisco, telling of meeting the Ashland boys who were on the troop trains passing through here last week. The morning that this letter was written Mrs. Dodge said the telephone rang and she was surprised to hear John finders' voice, saying that the Ash land boys were at the docks and nuuiu line lo see wie gins irom home. Securing Miss Whlted, they hurried to the docks, where they were walked through line after line of soldiers, all from Oregon, before they found those they knew. There were 800 soldiers altogether, all lined up, as the visitors supposed, to em bark. "Lieutenant Spencer was the first to see us," Mrs. Dodge wrote, "and he acted as if he were tickled to death and nearly shook my hand off. ..Then came John Euders, Wilfred Cair. Meredith Beaver, Everett Ack lin, Harold Simpson and a few others I barely know. They were a lone some bunch of kids and their faces just lightened up when they saw us. "Daddy, I never saw such a thrill ing sight as those transports. They are such big, beautiful, wonderful things. And to see all those 800 United States boys lined up was also a wonderful sight. I just wanted to be a man and go along. I felt so proud of every one of those boys and shall surely breathe a prayer for their safety. When one stands off and looks at those big boats you com mence to realize what a terrible force a torpedo mu3t contain to sink it. Nothing In the world could keep me from going If I were a man. "The boys talked of home, of the reception Ashland people gave them, and seemed all to be In the -best of spirits. They knew so little of their plans that many of them never knew tliey were in San Francisco until they were marched up the street. Our school Is just across tlie street from tlie Los Angeles depot and it hap pened their train pulled In just as llortense and 'Barb' got there, and there was much handshaking. I did n't know that the girls had seen them until they came home tonight. We thought we would have a big tale lo tell them, hut they got to see the boys." Mrs. Dodge also stated that tlie I'oys wanted them to let the Ashland people hear that they had arrived in Sun Francisco safely. She said she never saw thorn look so well, and that they were going to spend tlie next afternoon with them. Friday Last Day To Apply for Land Friday was the last day applica tions for government grazing ground were received at the Forest Service. Up to the time of closing Friday about 300 applications had been re ceived, the greater number of them coming from people In the Applegate, Klamath lake and Rogue river coun try. Almost all the applications were for cattle grazing land, which indi cates an Increasing number of cattle In the valley. District Forest Super visor Erlckson said all permits possi ble would be granted, except In cases where more than one application was made for the same territory. The permits will be Issued within a few days. Raids of growing intensity and fre quency on the Franco-Belgian front are furnishing ther chief features of military Interest, particularly In' view of the Increasing degree of American participation In the fighting. Larger Issues, however, are involved In the Russian situation, the uncertainties of which are giving rise to manifold mil tary and political complications. The peace negotiations between the Bolshevlki and the Germans seem to have been broken off. Manifestly, at any rate, there is developing among the Russian proletariat, who with the safety of the revolution as a rallying cry, are reported to be responding from all sides to support It. Likewise the peace negotiations between Rumania and the central powers are reported In unofficial ad vices from Berlin to have failed. The unsatisfactory reply of the Rumanian king is said to have been responsible for the break. The German advance into the In terior of Russia Is In full swing again with columns reported moving toward Petrograd from Pskov and pushing northeast along the railway from Podolsk with the object of cutting tho Moscow-Petrograd railroad at Bolo gie, midway between the two cities, and starving out Petrograd by shut ting off Its supplies. In the south the Germans have secured tlieir Immediate objective In the Ukraine by ocupying Kiev, the capital of tlie republic, after a little more than a ten-day march through the rnnntrv nn the 200-nillp route Field Labor for Beets Unobtainable The project of raising largo acre age of sugar beets this year has been abandoned In Klamath county on ac count of the inability to secure for eign labor for field work. The Utah Idaho Boot Sugar Company, under whose supervision a substantial crop of beets was raised last year, and which had already made plans for a much larger acreage this year, lias been obliged to abandon the work for tlie coming season, according to Jesse Jarvis, who has been employed i.y tne company to promote mo woik n lliai WClIlliy. Mr. Jarvis states that a large num ber of tlie fanners were anxious to plant beets this year at the prices offered by the company, but only on condition that the foreign labor could bo furnished for the field hand work, and if this Is not available they would not consider putting In tli C1'0) Maccabees Adopt Lonely Soldiers When the troop trains from Fort Mevens passed through Ashland last j spreads), towels (face and hath), Wednesday they were met at the sta- j wash cloths and old, soft linen of any Hon by the Ladles of the Maccabees, i sort, all these should lie on the who had prepared huge baskets of shelves. .Nightgowns ami nightshirts delicacies for them to help pass away for adults and gowns fur children are the tedium of their long journey, and also needed. Layettes for now ba to be a reminder that tlie boys going j hies aro ot'l'en acceptable, also hot to the front are leaving many warm j water bugs, rubber rings for bed pa fiiemls behind them. Must of the dents and, In fact, anything that Ashland boys, however, were over-1 would be of use in taking proper care whelmed- with gifts from relatives of the sick should bo In tlie loan anil friends, but tlie members of the 'closet for tlie nurse's convenience. Maccabees hunted out some who did I not seem to have relatives In this' community. There were a few who ii'nrn nnf on 1,nnn I f nl I v I'nmrniliAvnrl ' and these were adopted by tho lodge j members and presented with the bas kets of good things prepared. This is to lie the futuro attitude of the Maccabees When any soldier j boys passing through here have no i interested, so far as work and weath ono particularly attached to them, I or conditions permit, to attend ail the lodge will Immediately adopt I them and give them a godspeed n tlie way of a choice box of provisions or some such token of their good wishes and Interest. The Maccabees are enthusiastically patriotic in all the lines demanded by the govern ment, and will extend their patriot Ism further In looking after any sol dier lads who have no near friends to greet them In this vicinity. I. S. DEPARTMENT WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for the week beginning March 3, 1918. Pacific coast states: Fair, except rain during the first half of the week over the northern por tion, with lower Interior temperatures. east from the former fighting front. The German reports do not Indicate what price In casualties the Bolshe vikl exacted for the surrender of Kiev, which they had captured from tlie Ukrainian rada's supporters on February 8, with reported total cas ualties for both sides of 4,000 killed and 7,000 wounded. Presumably the rada, which negotiated the sep arate peace between the Ukraine and the central powers, will be speedily, reinstated in the captured city. The tentative proposals for Japan ese Intervention in Siberia because of the Russian situation have not culminated in any definite decision by the allies, so far as the current advices reveal. London dispatches mention a grow ing tendency there to discuss the sit uation fully and await developments, particularly the attitude the United States may assume. China Is also involved In this situation, and ad vices from that country report politi cal unsettlcment there because of It. The Chinese government, It Is said, is to send reinforcements to Manchu ria. A powerful raid was carried out against the French in the Verdun re gion south of llaucnurt, more than 400 prisoners and machine guns be ing captured, according to tlie Ger man claim. Portuguese troops handled them selves well against tlie Germans who raided trenches on a wide front north of Neuve C'hapelle, the Portuguese counter-attacking promptly and com pletely restoring tlie situation. Health Nurse Can Inspect Schools Among the most important re quirements to which Miss Allen, the newly appointed Jackson county health nurse, can fill Is that of school Inspector. While Oregon does not require, compulsory physical examin ations of the pupils in the public schools, the importance of this Is be ginning to be seen among educators and school patrons. Miss Allen Is available for school inspection work and will lie glad to co-operate with teachers In looking ovei. tl,eir ,, f()r t,(J (It;tectkm ;nf nhvulpnl ili.fiipta Tlio mnnli u-MI lie notified of the nurse's findings and advised to take the child to the ; fanlily physician or-dentist for dlae- ' , nlu, care Tljs not ... , i. ,..in,i nma ( ..u "v , 'tvv a m.t lo li UH Ull - publicity. No compulsion will be llfie(, ltl tlg work ru,.ellts hnvllft j soruploa against the inspection need only send word to tho teacher by note and tho child will be exempted. Many defects of children are of such Insidious growth that tho parents have not realized their existence. A loan closet Is a most convenient pnrt of the nurse's equipment. Bed ding (sheets, pillow slips, blankets. . - . LCCtUrCS GlVCn bV Extension Service Petitions are being circulated throughout Jackson county asking all tlie dairy lectures arranged by tlie extension service of the Oregon Agri cultural College to be given at Gold Hill, Medford and Ashland. A con tribution of 25 cents Is asked to wards the local support of the work, this money to lie used In advertising, janitor services, etc. .The dates of these lectures and the place of meet ing are as follows: Gold Hill, March 7; Ashland, at the city hall, March 8; Medford, at the library, March 9. For the second program: Gold Hill. April 4; Ashland, April 5; Medford, April 8. Third program: Gold Hill, May 1; Ashland, May 2; Medford, May 3. Fourth program: Ashland, May 28; Medford, May 29; Gold HUT, May 30. i Phone news items to the Tidings.