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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Tuesday, January 21, 1019
ASHLAND
Established 1876
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ltert R. Greer.
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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.
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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
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must have money temporarily, the
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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;
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