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7 ASHLAND TIDINGS Tuesday, January 21, 1019 ASHLAND Established 1876 Published every Tuesday by THE ASH LAM) 1'IUNTIXG OOMTAXY. (Incorporated) ltert R. Greer. OFFICIAL CITY AND TELEPHONE 39 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, when paid at expiration 1 One Year, when paid In advance Six Months, when paid In advance.. Three Month, when paid In advance : 75 No subscription for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal Is received. In ordering changes of the paper always give the eld street address or postofflce as well as the new. ADVERTISING KATES Display AdvertlHinjr Single Insertion, each Inch Six months, each Inch One year, each inch Reading Notiles 10 cents the line. Legal Notice 5 cents the line. Classified Column Offe cent the word each time. month, one dollar. Cards of Thanks, $1.00. Obituaries, 214 cents the line. Fraternal Orders anil SocleUca Advertising for fraternal orders or societies charging a resiular Initia tion fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benevolent orders will be charged for all advertising wWen an admission or other charge Is made, at the regular rate. When no admission Is charged, space to the amount of fifty lines reading will be allowed without charge. All additional at regular ratea. The Tldlnus luw a greater circulation in Ashland and Its trade terri tory than all other Jackson county papers combined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflde as second-class mall matter. A REAL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION' Medford Is to be congratulated on availing Itself of the services of so broad gauged business man as Mayor Gates. He has had wide experience In large business affairs. Under his leadership during 'the past three years she has paid, and has funds on hands to pay, more than one hundred thousand dollars of her indebtedness without increasing her tax levy. Lately her entire debt, amounting to some seven hundred thousand dol lars, was refunded Into long time ob ligations and offered for sale. Brok ers began to dicker for the bonds at a discount. They said Medford's fi nancial reputation was bad and the market would not absorb its obliga tions at par. Mayor Gates thought differently. He had heard such ar guments before and was sure they were put forward In the hope of mak log a good deal for the brokers. He eat tight on the lid. He had courage and confidence In his city, and felt that a par market could be found. He got busy. Last week the entire Is sue was sold at par to a San Fran cisco bank that Mayor Gates had In terested. Every community has men of high business experience and acumen but they are seldpm urged to occupy of ficlal positions in the municipality where their ability can le turned to advantage for the community. At tention of citizens is too much en grossed In the routine trappings of municipal government to even com prehend the larger problems. So many think successful municipal gov ernment lies In the proper exercise of routine and petty functions and are so Inexperienced In and afraid of the larger problems that broad-ganged business men hesitate to lend their experience and ability to the advan tage of the city. It Is refreshing to find a man like Mayor Gates In the Mght place. We are surprised that Medford selected such an one. It is eo unusual. The city that elects Its officials purely on the ground of moral apti tude, without due regard to business experience and ability, Is sure to fall Into a narrow, do-nothing rut and allow"its commercial life to suffer for want of proper stimulant and di rection. Mayor Gates saved the city of Med ford more than fifty thousand dol lars discount on Its bond sale be cause he knew what was what and did not allow his Judgment to be warped by plausible Indictments of bond brokers with an axe to grind, or yield to the clamor of frightened citizens. Tourist visitation produces the only crop that can be harvested and mark eted for cash every day In the year. Every morning an attractive tourist community may arise and pick It, rich, new, ready for the market. The stalks from which the harvest was plucked yesterday are today again bending with fruitage, like golden grain, ripe for the harvest. Tomor row there will be another. Tourist culture produces the most consecu tive, prolific, and Immediately avail able money crop that can be nurtured in an attractive scenic environment. It is estimated that California reaps an income from the visitation of tourist amounting to a million dollars a day three hundred and sixty-five millions a year. Two yean ago Los Angeles elone gathered In two hundred million from the visita tion of tourists. Tourists are an ex ceedingly valuuble crop. TIDINGS COUNTY PAPER. 25c 20c 17 '4c Twenty words one BACK TO THE FARM The other day a pamphlet fell into 0'ir hands entitled: "A woman's twenty-four hours on the farm." It purported to relate the hum drum and drudgery of the farmer's wife for a twenty-four hour experience, related by the woman. Her first ob servation was that she needed twenty-four hours to accomplish her work and 'ten hours tp sleep, whereas she had but twenty-four for the whole. Hard, Indeed, it will be to success fully accomplish the back to the farm movement so long as farm life holds only twenty-four honre a day of drug' ery. Uncle Sam may try to induce farm life by establishing stable high prices, but it will have little attrac tion for the woman who knows the drudgery of it and the Inconvenlenc es she must encounter In the work. Conditions must be changed. The farm home must be made a place of comfort and the burden lightened by modern equipment labor saving, time saving and nerve saving con venlences. The average farm house Is still equipped with the coal oil lamp, a dlrth of kitchen equipment and only such furniture as necessity demands. There is no nicety or util ity in it. The bath tub is almost an unknown convenience. The wonder ful kitchen cabinets found In almost all the city homes, with its time and labor saving devices, the electric Iron, the electric washing and sewing ma chines, the vacuum cleaner and the thousand and one other step an J muscle savers seem to have been meant alone for the city lady and not for the woman who needs then most; at least the farms do not read ily adopt them. Happily Inventive genius has been at work in the Interest of the "back to the farm" movement. Labor sav Ing equipment, from thresher to trac tor is being generally adopted by the farmer, and now the market comes forward with a complete rural elec trie apparatus that supplies current, not only for feed chopping, separat ing, milking and the like, but makes it possible to equip the farm home with all the modern convenience of city life made possible by the devel opment of electric devices. Women will never more be willing to be a drudge on the farm while their city friends move easily thru their day's work with vacuum cleaners, electr'c Irons, bath tubs and the like. Uncle Sam will do well to give some attention to stimulating the use of such farm equipment It will do more to attract persons to' the soil than all the "back to the land" propa ganda It Is possible to Issue. And the farmer, making money from the land and desiring to continue, will need to look well to the matter of supplying the house with this labor saving equipment, for a drudge-be- drabbled woman, with the kids to tend and twentyfour hours work to do In twelve will never more be con tented without it. And, besides, It pays. Advertising is the best business getter of our age. It has built up enormous manufacturing concerns, and has become the chief agency In marketing goods and products. It Is inconceivable that this power may not be profitably used In the devel opment of communities, especially In attractive tourist sections, to the building up of population and filling favorable tourist communities with ready money. Every favorable word you speak for your town redounds to your own benefit; every unfavorable one will prove a bomerang that returns to smite you. WHY HE FELL WITHOUT THE PALE Men are so wedded to institutions and particular forms that the most heroic actions of society are cramped and hindered by trying to conform them to the tenets of our institution, or to apply them in our own way. The broader, aspects of life and com munity interest are lost sight of and the goal is often missed thru Insls tance that it be reached by a particu lar route. Splendid success demands that the aim be generally approved not only, but that society becomes enough Interested In its accomplish ment to not stickle over means, as long as they are honorable. Men do not and should not all think alike, but a certain yielding of opinion must take place to accomplish great un dertakings. Tweedle do and tweedle dnm have murdered many a likely enterprise. We remember a very worthy Bap tist preacher under whose drippings we sat in our younger days. He de livered a fine series on the Pilgrim's Progress, but he took the pilgrim the full course over the Baptist road and frequently warned him against pre destination and probation. When he approached the Infallibility of the church he nearly tore the ragged gar ments off the poor fellow getting him away from the temptation. He de nied blm the privilege of investigat ing the falling apple and the fall of man together for fear It might lure him Into science. But, withal, the preacher was logical and forceful and had he not so fearfully mussed up his pilgrim in attempting to keep him squarely in the Baptist rut he would have transformed him ir.to so shin ing an angel as to have penetrated the hard shell of unbelief in which we comfortably reposed. But, he cramped so narrow be left us out of the pale with the probationlet, the predestinarles, the Infalllbilityltes. the scientists and the rest instead of lifting us upward toward the ulti mate aim of all of them. He paid such resolute attention to the routs that he lost sight of the goal. j We concluded, after hearing the series thru, that there was so much had In the best of them and so much good In the worst of them that, for our part, we would hold common al legiance to the highest alms of all of them and particular adherence to the rut of none of them. Of course, being human, we Imme diately set about to construct a way of our own, but, it developed, there was no need of insisting on all men falling into our rut, for, we soon ob served both preachers and laymen far readier to force morality on man by human laws than to convince him, by precept and example, that the power of their gospel could Taise him out of sin Into righteousness. In fact, they fell to so lustily it seemed hard to distinguish a gospel meeting from a political convention and some of the faithful of the flock began to fear that pure Christianity was van ishing from their Institutions, leav ing only the "form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." Every Piece of Meat From the East Side Market Is a Good Piece. That's the only kind we handle. Wholesale and Retail. FISH ON FRIDAYS. OYSTERS AND CRABS IN SEASON. James Barrett, Prop. Phone 18S. FOREST RANGERS TO LOG NATIONAL FOREST ROADS Forest rangers will furnish the data for accurate road logs of all the Important automobile roads thru the National Forests of Oregon and of Washington in compliance with in structions which have Just been sent out from the office of District For ester George H. Cecil, Portland. The Information is being gathered at the suggestion of the head of the" Tour ing Bureau of the American Automo bile Assoclotlon, who desires especial ly to get logs of the thru roads In the National Forests. From this data road maps will be compiled and brief reports of the character and condition of the roads will be prepared for the use of tour ists motoring in the National For ests. The maps and reports will con tain a general description of the in teresting features of the route, and In some cases an historical tketch. Hotels, road houses, and ranches where accommodations can be ob tained will be noted, as will also re pair stations and supply points for gas, oil and water. The location of telephones will be shown and dls-j tances between points Indicated. Special mention will be made o.' the surfacing, width, and grades of the roads. Stretches where special caution must be used will also be indicated. I The forest rangers will colkoi this data in connection with their other duties, so it will be secured at very little expense. The road logs wlI be prepared under the supervision of P. H. Dater, district engineer. River and harbor appropriation for Oregon provides $130,000 for Coos Bay, $100,000 for Yaqulna Bay and harbor, and $64,000 for Coqullle bar and harbor. A COOTIEFUL DREAM. There's a dream that comes to me sometimes, When angels stand by my bed, A vision that's bo beatific There'. nothing left to be said. I bask in its golden wonder, Like some Arabian night, This dream that comes to me some times, To me In my cootlful plight. I dream that somewhere there's water Just gobs and gobs in a tub, That- steams like geysers In action, Andf towels, yes, Turkish, to rub My crusted form to a pinkiness, And Ivory that practically pure And I fall to hunting the cooties And pray for my dream to endure. Inclosed in a letter firom an Ashland boy with the army of occu pation in Germany. Doctor Said "Keep On Taking Tanlac" Mrs. Bieal Gains Twenty Pounds Wants Others to be Helped "I have not only gained twentty pounds since I began taking Tanlac, but It has done me so much good that my doctor after seeing the Improve ment this medicine brought, advised me to keep on taking it," declared Mrs. Mary Bleal, of 519 Dayton Ave.. Seattle, a few days ago. "I feel so grateful for Tanlac, I don't know what to say," continued Mrs. Bleal. "For three years I suf fered such agony with my stomach, that I wasn't able to do a thing around the house. In fact, I was hardly able to get around at all. I completely lost my appetite, and what I did force down caused me so much pain, I could hardly stand It. Of course tthls got my nerves in a ter slble condition, and I hardly knew what it was to sleep at night. I'd Just roll and toss nntil morning. "At last I got so bad off that I was taken to the hospital, and had an operation performed. I was there for five weeks, and when I finally got back home, I was a perfect wreck. i was so weax i couidn t move around the house at all and had to stay right in bed and my husband had to leave his work and wait on me. I had the best attention I could get but noth ing seemed to give me any strength and altho I tried and tried to get up and move around, it was no use. I was too weak; I just couldn't do It. Everybody Insisted that I go back to the hospital, but I said: 'No'. I had been thru so much I Just coul 1 not bear the thought of going back there again. "Then I decided to try Tanlac, as I had heard so much about it and it's the honest truth this medicine dl-W more for me than I ever thought any thing could do. I have taken six bot tles now, and my stomach is in splen did condition. I have a fine appetite and can eat anything I want and nev er suffer the least bit afterwards. "Tanlac certainly has built me up wonderfully. Just think, before 1 tqok It, I didn't have strength enough to set my own table, and now I can doevery bit of my own house work, even 10 tne wasmng, if necessary, and I sleep like a child and wake up In the mornings feeling refreshed and full of life. I've gained twenty pounds and look so well that my doc tor told me to keep right on taking Tanlac, and you may be sure I'm going to do it. I'm glad for every one to know what Tanlac haa done for m and hope the story of my case will help other sufferers to get the same relief." Tanlac is sold in Ashland by J. J. McNair; in Medford by Eagle Drug Co.; in Gold Hill by M. D. Bowers: and in Central Point by Miss M. A. Mee. adv. Ashland Transfer ! & Storage Co. C. Jf. Bates, Proprietor Wood, "Peacock" and Rock Springs Coal and Cement PHONE 117 Office 99 Oak Street, Ware boose on track near depot. Ashland, Oregon DON'T under any circumstances sac rifice your Liberty Bonds. Don't be tempted to sell, trade or convert them. They're your "stake," your foundation in future finance. If you must have money temporarily, the First National Bank will be only too glad to lend you 90'per cent of their full face value. ' You'll always be able to bank ON us as well as with us. i hJkErstNattottafflank ASHLAND. OBECON LET US BE YOUR IAUNDRYMAN What's the Use of 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 Lauudry, 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 ,.f iil.l'! :. Be The Ashland Tidings and Youth Companion Both one full year for rn You save 50 cents 9O.OU on this combination I GET THE BEARD BUT LEAVE THE ROOTS I'm not after the "pound of flesh" I leave the roots to continue their growth. 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