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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1918)
ASHLA.ND TIDINGS Tuedjiy, IXymbr Sf, 1018 tif4CJ8 TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Established 1S76 Puhllshod every Tucgday by THE ASULWl) PRINTING COMPANY lnrporatMl) JK R. Grw Editor OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER. TELEPHONE 39 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear, when paid at expiration : '2.60 One Year, when paid in advance 2JJ? Six Months, when paid In advance I- Three Months, when paid in advance No subscription lor less than three months. SA expiration unless renewal is received. All subscriptions dropped In ordering changes of the paper always give the eld street address r postofflce as well as the new. 25c 20c 17c Twenty words one , ADVERTISING RATES KVtylay Advertising i Single insertion, each inch - Six months, each inch One year, each inch leading Notiles 10 cents the line. IK1 Notice 5 cents the line. (OaMrifled Column One cent the word each time, month, one dollar Cards of Thanks, $1.00. Obituaries, 2V4 cents the line. PmlPmul Intern Mini StH-letlrS 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 advertising when an admission or other charge Is made, at the regular rate. When no admission is charged, space to the amount cf fifty lines reading will be allowed without charge. All additional at regular rates. The Tidings Iim greater circulation In Ashland and it trade terri tory than all other Jnck(toii county papers combined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon. Postofflce as second-class mall matter. OUR ELECTRIC SUPPLY There Is a proposition now befora the council from The Siskiyou Com pany for renewal of the contract en ' tered Into three years ago, and which contract expirus tomorrow, to sup ply the city with additional electric power to meet local demand above the capacity of the city plant. The new contract reduces the minimum charge from seven hundred to five hundred dollars a month and ex tends the time for ten years, at thu ame rate per unit. It Is a matter that should have careful consideration before it Ik acted upon. Last year, we are In formed, the bill of the Siskiyou com pany against the city amounted to ten thousand dollars. Under toe contract, during the summer months, when demand is at minimum, the city Is compelled to pay seven hun dred dollars a month for Its supply whether It is used or not, while in the winter, when the demand is great the city pays for all over the mini mum that Is required from the Siski you' company. The proposed .contract provides that I ho minimum be re duced to five hundred dollars per month. It Is stated that a project to thrlb hie the capacity of the city plant has been examined Into and that It can be accomplished at a cost of not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Also It Is evideu that some provision must be made to Increase the reservoir capacity for domestic water so the city will not again encounter the Injury incltle'it to another water shortage like wo had last year. It is estimated that by joining the two projects, at a cost of one hundred mid seventy-five thousand dollars, both undertakings can be practically accomplished. If the council enters Into the pro posed contract with the Siskiyou company and the plant left and the needed addi tional domestic water after the bonds were all retired. And , if we are properly Informed, not a .cent of tax need be levied to accomplish it. At the rate now being paid from the Income of the plant the present electric bond Issue will all be can celled In the next five years, so that the first installment on the proposed issue could be fixed to fall due after the present Issue is out of the way. enabling the plant to pay double the sum on the principle of the new Is sue, each year, it now pays on the old out of its Income, without resort ing to a tax levy to meet it. We do not say, at this writing, that we favor such new bond issue. We have not looked into the matter far enough for that. We simply put the proposition up for consideration of citizens. No doubt the council will need to act on the new contract soon and full examination should be given the matter by citizens and their Judgment expressed to council mem bers before final action Is taken. " Every Piece of Meat From Uie ' East Side Market Is Good Piece. That's the only kind we handle. Wholesale and Retail. FISH ON FRIDAYS. OYSTERS AND CRABS IN SEASON. James Barrett, Prop. Phone 188. THE EFFECT OK A I'OCKET FULL OF MONEY Did you ever stop to note the sat isfaction on the face of the fellow rattling a pocket full of money? Of course he was happy. Such happi ness can be made general in extend ing the scope by having a town full unoh as much of its! of money. To get a pocket full of nupply as has been necessary lu the money an honest man has to work past, the city will. In ten yeurs. pay to that company one hundred thous and dollars for its additional rlectrlc itupply, and have nothing at the end of that period, except, possibly tho opportunity to enter Into another for it. The only methol by which a town can be kept full of money is by combined and persistent effort The whole community must work harmoniously along lines that will yield ready cash. The worth of a contract for Its supply from the same jtown may be more properly gauged company. by the prosperity arising from hav- We understand the ten thousand tlng It always full. of ready cash than dollars now being annually paid the, by Its large population. It Is easy Siskiyou company comes out of tho to Imagine an overgrown town where present earnings of the electric do- everybody Is hard up and has noth partment and leaves a neat balance Ing profitable to do, but It is not so each year, with which Interest on the easy to find men hard up in a town present electric llsht bonds Is paid, full of money. Such, certainly, nd the Issue retired as they fall due,' would be only the ne'er-do-wells, besides paying the expense of operat-1 who lack ambition to gather it in. ins the local plant. Therefore tho ( Therefore it seems wiser to direct department Is an exceedingly profit- community effort toward filling the .We undertaking Should the city float additlonul . bonds to the amount" of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars and tbrlbble the present capacity of the electric plant, which It la said would be enough to supply a much city with ready cash than Increas ing permanent population, ' If an airplane passed over the city every morning and dropped a bushel of gold twenties It would not be Ion? until .everybody in town, except a few who would be certain they were coun- larger demand than now locally ex-Uerfelt and those too lazy to pick Ists, besides augmenting the domes tic water supply to ample needs, the Interest charge, at five per cent would amount to but seven thousand fire hundred dollars a year, two thousand five hundred dollars less than Is now paid the Siskiyou com pany for the service, leaving that sum to be applied on sinking fund to re deem the bonds at maturity without levying a penny of taxes to meet cither principal or Interest. It would seem good business to Issue the bonds and make the Im provement Instead of paying out more than the Interest charge for service which, when used, Is gone forever, and out of which the city gets no benefit except the power consumed. In the last case the city ould have perlty depends entirely upon getting enough of them to fill the city with ready cash. One of the fine features about Ashland's future development along tourist lines is that she can be kept full of money without over crowding her permanent population. It will take much systematic team work to make the city popular enough, health-giving' enough, at tractive enough and widely enough known to maintain a profitable transient population to have a new one waiting for the place made va cant by the one who goes but na ture already has accomplished two thirds of the task, leaving us but one-third to work out. Los Angeles has grown big and prosperous, by doing just that, not withstanding she had nothing to start save a good cllmute, an av erage ocean beach and a large pup- ply of faith, Ingenuity and nerve, When she started she was five bun drcd miles from the nearest large center of population and fifteen miles from the beach. It was a long, hard task. The writer remembers Los Angeles with but forty thoun and people and the highest taxes of any city In the west, but the most loyal, forward looking people that ever composed a community. . With Indefatigable spirit and faith they pushed forward. Los Angeles now Is the largest city on the coast, and not withstanding the necessity of bond Ing for about forty million dollars more to bring enough domestic watc two hundred and four miles to meet their needs, has the lowest tax rate of any city In America. In the be ginning they did not allow their debts to discourage tlwni. lnsteaJ of using much breath decrying hlg' taxes they voted more and employed it profitably blowing their horn. All of this they accomplished with not one-twentieth the natural resources vouchsafed to Ashland by the (liver of all good and perfect gifts. They Intensely applied their every resource to one end tho tourist and what they lacked In -'natural attractions they supplied by art. They set up a great cross on a high hill, gave It an aspect of antiquity, surrounded with legend and made It an attrac tion, and woe to the California!) who suggested that It was "piped in. They pulled together for the sub limity of the cross and the strange ness of Its legend, without Issuing disquisitions on whence It came. They did not split hairs over tweedle dee, or tweedle dum. They realized the greater task that of njgJilnr; Southern California the Mecca for tourists and popularized the place by giving counsel and support to every undertaking booked, or sug gested, to that end. A good method to extend tho pop ularity of Ashland Is to make "Vic tory Week" the biggest thing that ever happened In these parts. Every citizen should get behind It. Anoth er Is to boost the Roundup, whether It strikes your particular fancy or not. Still another help make Chuu qua the greatest thing of its kind on the coast, even If you feel it is too much of a religious festival to fulfill Its original function. All of these have a large place in the' general scheme to popularize Ash land and one Is as important as the others to the successful culmination of the work at hand. Each Is de signed to appeal to a different taste All kinds of tastes are found in i large crowd. them up, would have plenty of money.- Even those who were not fortunate enough to be on hand where the gold dropped would soon have a pocket full of It from its cir culation and every citizen would en Joy all the good, money could buy. In that case nobody would care a continental for alfalfa, beans, fruit! and the like as money crops. The biplane would supply more . than could be hoped to gain from agricul ture and horticulture. What we are, getting ready to say Is this: The tourist who comes with money in his pocket, stays until he spends It and goes home to get more, is of greater value to the city than those who stay, overcrowd popula tion and pet bard up. Such pros- THE LAW OF QUIESCENCE Scientists say we live in a world of action. Not an atom In it Is qui' escent. The objects we call Inanl mate, even, are always on the move Observe the wood in your window frame. It Is ever ,In motion. Its atoms are constantly agitated by-at tractive and repulBlve forces in rest less readjustment. Quiescence is -do cay. The moment an object comes to perfect composure disintegration begins. The law of quiescence applies to things animate and inanimate not only, but to social organisms as well. Communities are social units massed together for the purpose of gaining comfort and pleasure and prosperity by pooling Individual effort and re sources. By seeking repose they lose health. They cannot stop and bold together. They must move or disin tegrate. They must go forward tor fall back whether they will or hot. They cannot remnln healthy and tlonary. Quiescence Is decay, 'i The Rogue river valley Is just iow emerging from' a period of quies cence. From 1908 to 1911 It grew over active In speculation. Its units got out of proper relation and ad justment and values became inflated. Its action was artificial, its values became so. Like taking strychnine to stimulate tho heart, an overdose Induced reaction and movement stop ped. Disintegration set In. j It has taken several years to get a n--w bearing to get the atoms mov ing at a normal rate. In the mean time community effort tried to re pose. As there Is no standing still, It Ml back. Just lately the law we are citizens, subconscious, but effective. They saw community health and pow here discussing became a reality to er slipping. Artificial ' stlmiilanls had not brought prosperity. Com munity effort was aroused and tool; a different course from the first. Judgment said: "develop, solid and substantial. It Is no longer possible to profitably plant-orchards to raise prices. Values are already too high. We must culture now In a way to raise crops Water must be brought for Irrigation. Resources, heretofore overlooked In the speculative scram ble must be utilized." Diversified, constructive thought began to move and readjust its parts. Disintegra tion stopped and the valley Is com ing to life. To be healthy It must move. To prosper It must move In telligently, normally, applying prop er means to given ends and the ends aimed at must be substantial. Following that law nature moves In the right direction to maintain hculthy. progress, unless hindered by external forces. Often by faulty judgment communities move In the wrong direction. Wise leadership Is to be prized In community life. Right direction In mass movement Is neces sary to proper advancement and con tinued prosperity. The community, or city, which ex ercises best Judgment, utilizing Its solidest and quickest resource, and makes tho most perfect adjustment of means to ends will most quickly prosper. That Is what Ashland has done since the quiescent period end ed. That Is the reason she Is prosperous. PiPlf tha Chimo Clock. The Hew Year's Prospects HOW much brighter they are this year, than last. Doesn't It make you want to buckle down with renewed vigor willing to meet every prob lem bravely, cheerfully? it makes us feel that way here at the First National Bank, and If we can trans mit Just a little of that spirit to Jackson County, we believe we shall have helpfully Marled another twelve month. p a I TkHrstNanotiaWaak acui AKin riDrr.riW AS" ivnuk.hkis. -sSSfflSfF' jwm coy. CA,.tR CLARK DU5f1 A&OTCAWt WHY NOT LOCAL INDUSTRIES? Frequently readers ask: "Why does Ashland not go alter Industries, like canneries, dryers and the like?" Well, one of the big reasons Is that Ashland Is so Isolated from profit able markets that It does not seem practicable for cannery operations on a large scale. Possibly dryers might prove practicable as the pro cesses releases all water weight from the fruit, reducing the item of trans portation. However, these enquiries bring to mind these facts. Ashland has had a cannery for many years. It has been under the management of sev eral different persons, all claiming to understand the business, but it has met with indifferent success. Some say because the cannery cannot se-l cure sufficient raw material and oth ers because of the differential In freight rates which exclude them from profitable markets. Then the question arises how much support does Ashland give the local cannery? It Is claimed the product has always been high class, yet lo cal grocery shelves are filled with canned goods from other localities. The merchants are not to blame for that situation. It Is good business t'or them to carry stock that the cus tomcrs demand. Housewives who'de- slre Ashland to becoino a city of In dustrles should insist on the home processed commodity. We again arise to announce that the best way to get Jn ore n lid bigger Industries Is by giving such support to those we have as will allow them to grow big, even until they cannot supply tho demand, then others will come. It is bard to make a manufacturing city out of a Sears-Roebuck town. Local indus tries do not thrive on profits made In Chicago. It is up to the citizen. Whatever else, local consumption of the output of the Ashland cannery will absolutely overcome all trouble arising from differential in freight rates to profitable markets. Will you be one to help overcome that differ ential? Then demand the local product LET US BE YOUR LA11NDRYMAN What's the Use ol Exposing "Yourself? We do family washings and deliver them to you at these very reasonable prices: Rough dry. per pound 7c Wet wash 20 pounds 75c We have taken over the Home Laundry, given it a thorough overhauling and are in position to satisfy you both in quality and price. GIVE US A TRIAL. Telephone 165 and we will call for your wash. THE FISHER LAUNDRY LARGEST IN ITS HISTORY This year Ashland has enjoyed the greatest holiday trade in her his tory. Shoppers took the better class of merchandise and bought freely in all lines. The trend was toward use ful gifts, but much Jewelry and toys for children were carried away by shoppers Ashland enjoyed a large trade from outside districts. ' The .work she has been doing the past three years to Induce outside trade to Ashland Is showing results. Thous ands of dollars came Into our stores last week from Northern California and the trade from Medtord and oth jpr valley points was encouraging. Notwithstanding war conditions our merchants entered the holiday trade with complete and attractive stocks and sold them at very reasonable prices. People generally thruout Northern California, as well as the valley, are beginning to understand that merchandising conditions here are good and that the best bargains to be found anywhere are offered In Ashland. a wedding reception which she re cently had the pleasure of attending: "As the band played the wedding march we were ushered to our plac es, mluo being right opposite the bride and groom. The former wore a white taffeta dress of the latest fashion, white kid shoes, silk stock ings and net wedding veil trimmed with orange blossoms. The groon wore a huge whlto rose pinned to his coat lapel, with streamers' of white ribbon hanging (rom it. Each boy la the party had In their upper coat pocket a white handkerchief with an American flag printed there on, folded just so. "After a blessing in Tosimpshan we enjoyed a delicious wedding sup per. Then we all stood up while the bride put the knife Into the weddlns cake, which was then carried to the man at the bead of the table, who did the carving. The cake was an immense angel food affair with the cutest little bride and groom dolls on top. We each saved a piece of the cake to sleep on. 1 wrote my sev en names on paper, put them in an envelope and slept with them under my pillow, while the cake lay for gotten on ray dresser. "After supper there was anothe blessing, then speeches by friends and relatives of the happy pair, all in Tosimpshan. Then a wonderful thing happened. Four women, each holding a cardboard fish, sang a song which Is only used on very im portant occasions. Then each made a little speech and tore up her fish, afterwards holding1 up a picture of the American eagle. Old Glory was then hoisted into view while every body stood up and sang the Star Spangled Banner, after which all the people applauded as If they were mad. "We afterwards learned that the bride and groom belonged to the fish clan and It Is Illegal for the members of a clan to Intermarry, as the clan Is something Ike a large family. However, the young folks were bound to wed, so It was decided to dissolve the clan, altbo it was the largest clan In this part of Alaska, and henceforth all belong to the eaglo clan that Is, be Americans. ' Now, wasn't that great? We ourselves couldn't have done anything more broadmlnded. "The next thing In order was a dance, which lasted until 11 o'clock The sheriff said If we teachers didn't come to the dance he would bring U3, so with such a very cordial invita tion we couldn't very well stay away. I never missed a dance, hav ing Indian partners the whole eve ning and losing neither scalp nor heart. They are all good dancers and we enjoyed ourselves Immense ly. We really had a better time thaa some of the native girls, for we cheat ed them out of their partners some times, I must confess. The dances here are opened with a grand march, followed by Old Dan Tucker and all sorts of square dances, which are more fun than the round dances. Mirs'1 Beattle chaperoned us and pleased everybody by doing the Scottish reel. I felt real puffed up when one of the swellest dancers here said I danced the Scottish reel like an expert. "But say! How tired we were the next morning! It was Thanksgiv ing r.nd we were thankful to be in vited out to a Thanksgiving dinner which was so good It reminded us of home. In the evening we were sere naded by some of the town boys and then by the band. I was so sleepy I Just turned on the light and let them know I heard them( but remained ia bed. The music was very pretty.. There was a confetti ball that night but I was .too tired to go." Fish Clan Becomes American in Alaska Miss Madeline Silver, formerly of Ashland, who Is teaching In a gov ernment Indian school at Metlukatla, Alaska, writes as follows regard!);: Season's Greetings 117E wish lo thank you most " " heartily at this time for your many favors In the past, and trust that our business re lations will always prove as pleasing to you as they have to us. Please accept our best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. Tailor for Men and Women