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Tuesday, March 18, 1010 ASHLAND TIDINGS . Established 1876 PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY . Every Tuesday and Many by THE ASHLAND I'lUNTING COMPANY Scrt B. Greer,, .Editor OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER. TELEPHONE 39 SUllSORH'TION BATES One Tear, 'when paid at expiration ... One Tear, when paid In advance a Months, when paid In advance Three Months, when paid In advance. .12.50 . 2.00 . 1.25 . .75 ...hHniinn for lens than three months. All subscriptions dropped n expiration times ihh in ordering chanKes of the paper always give the old street address ttr postoffice as well as tne new. : ' ADVERTISING BATES IHspiay Aavwxuuntr Single Insertion each Inch, 30c Six months' contract, for one Issue each week, each Inch, 26c DI& U1UUIUD vwuvivfc, v nv -' " , " ' One year contract, for one issue each week each inch, 20c One year contract, ror two isbuss acn wee eucn mcu nav Heading AouceM cents me iiuo. . i Classified Colnmn One cent the word, each time. Twenty words one month, one dollar. Cards of Thanks, $1.00. v Obituaries, 2 cents the line. Fraternal Orders and Societies ji.i.ine. in., fniinni nrAn nr nrlntlnn rhnrtrln a regular lnltia tlon 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. . ...t. n,i.i.t,u la muu fVIV KV1VUIMPUII IV HOIlTHETtN ORE XI1DJ lll,l.iutl let lull vr..j CON THAT PUBLISHED NEVER LESS THAN EIGHT PAGES AN ISSUE. The TiiUnfrs ha a greater circulation In Asliland and its trale terrl tory than all other Jackson county papers combined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffloe as second-class mall matter EQUAL BIGHTS AND EQUAL BURDENS When women were enfranchised their political disabilities were tlrely removed. Every political func tion before nossible to man was placed within her power. Evtery pun 110 office within the reach of man was open to her. She might be gov ernor, legislator, mayor. Judge, councilman or recorder. It was a KlorlouB consummation for the "women. . ' Now th question arises, are wom en going to assume the burden as well as the privileges? What ex cuse ia there for a woman to occupy a Judicial position unless she is will ing to exercise the functions there of? The law recognizes no excuse on account of sex. We are glad to note that many women are now filling places hereto lone reserved entirely to .men with credit to themselves and to the po sition they occupy. They are acting ns Judges, Jurymen, legislators, con gressmen, councilmcn and mayors With great credit to themseflvta and their sex. Many are making fine reputations for themselves and for mer establishing the truth that worn ten are th!o equal of men in public of fice. The illegal situation of the Ash land court could be quickly remedied fty the Recorder assuming the func tion of Judicial officer of the record er's court, as the law requires. There Is tto valid reason why that could not Ibe done. Horetofore the city record er has performed that function as woll as acting as ex officio clerk of the city and has been paid a salary of $125 pw month for the Joint ser- Tioe, She should act and be paid the same. One thing Is certain. The present Tecorder is more competent to try causes under the ordinance than the mayor or Mr. Banta, even. . She knows more Jaw in a minute than they will ever know, because they pay little attention to legal proced ure Suppose fehe ohbuld commit some legal blunder, what then? She would have the same right to re quest "an opinion" to get her out of it. i Recorder Belde should assume le jrsl control of the city court. By so doing she may saveHhe city a big damage suit In the future as well s establish a fine reputation for herself and her sex. She should no tify the chief of police at oncte to bring all culprits before her for trial. She Is the only porson who baa the right to assess fines' and penalties under the Ashland charter. The law requires It. She has the billty to do it. She will not need to ask the permission of either Lam kin or Banta, or need she heed their Bdvlce In the matter. The charter snakes her supreme. She should at once assume her proper functions sind the people, especially the wom la, should stand by her In doing it. Mrs. E. T. Merrill Is to be con gratulated on the beautiful, artistic effect obtained In the decorations for the anniversary party of tho Eastern Star. All present were glad to acknwledge that it was an artistic effect as bad never been achieved In the room. The flowers were all the work of Mrs. Merrill, so like natural flowers that it required very minute observation to detect that they were Artificial. The decorations were lat rr U6ed in the Baptist church. GAINING AT THE SPIGOT LOSING AT THE BUNGHOLE A bootlegger came to town with eaight water bottles filled with booze suspended about his body. The po lice nabbed him and took him into the supposed city court. The mayor fined him seventy-five dollars and then turned him over to the Justice of thb peace who gave him another line. The bootlegger employed an attorney who called the mayor's at tention to the illegality of the court and demanded that the fine be re duced to twenty-five dollars, or the stautus of the court would be at once attacked. The mayor promptly reduced the fine as demanded by the bootlegger altho the prisoner claim ed to have one hundred dollars In cash. The pustice of the peace got the balance of the money and put It Into the county treasury, notwith standing the city court got the pris oner first and was entitled to the money had the proceedings been legal. Thus the mayor saves twlenty dollars on an election, and remits fif ty dollars to a bootlegger rather than concede that he Is attempting to act as Judge without warrant of law. And the worst of It Is tho mayor still persists In sitting as Judge. The may. or seems fully aware of his illegal situation. He should ask for an "opinion" from the city attorney showing his court to be legal. No doubt he would get it as request. The 'newspapers were Informed that the bootlegger was fined seventy-five dollars, and It was so pub lished as a matter of news, but the newspapers were never informed that the mayor weakened and remitted tworthlrds of the fine. Why? ' We might ,ask another question. What became of the perfectly good new water bottles, worth, we are told, sixteen dollars? WAS THE CITY ELECTION LEGAL City Attorney Roberts has (ren dered an opinion that the election last fall was legal. We gracefully submit notwithstanding two other Ashland attorneys of high legal standing still hold that the election was absolutely illegal. As a technical matter City Attor ney Roberts Is considered an arm of the court and as such the city coun cil is Justified In acting on his opin ion, right or wrong, until the mat ter Is decided by the court. The council may be held legal, not by virtue of the last fall election but by grace of a constitutional pro vision that an officer "shall serve until his successor is "elected and qualified." Now if the council will have the regular councilman, Mr. Lamb, resign and will fill the va cancy by appointing Mr. McGee we will rest content on the legal phasa of the city council. However, we are at a loss to know on what theory Mayor Lamkln and Mr. Banta clutch to the City Attor ney's opinion on the legality of the city election to save their political hides since both of them have utter ly discredited legal opinions by At torney Roberts by asserting that the whole Illegal mess was occasioned by the council relying on his opinion an to how to hold tho two charter amendment elections wherein' they now admit the elections to have been absolutely void. It looks as tho the Mayor and Mr. Banta are making Attorney Roberts their monkey to pull their chestnuts out of the fire and that the attorney Is willing to vicariously fall for it. Yet we do not find any excuse, even In the opinion of the self-sacrificing city attorney, for calling the .last elec tion in such manner as to exclude opposition in the election to the am bltlons of the astute mayor and his political side partner, legal as the city attorney holds, or illegal as all other local attorneys belleVe. If we were a party at Interest and 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 188. Is it legal to distribute gratuit ously eight perfectly good, new, hot water bottles among officers, that have been confiscated, filled with booze, from a boot-legger, worth, we are toldslxtteen shining plunks; or, Bhould they be sold at public sale and the proceeds put Into the deplet ed treasury of a city so poor that It cannot afford the expense of a legal election? We would ask for an "opinion" on the matter, together with another establishing the validi ty of the Ashland city court, as now conducted, and suggest that the "opinion" be published along with the nunferous political proclama tlons of the mayor, in both local pa pers, at the expense of the taxpay ers, In the interest of economy. not afraid of our hides we think we would call an election soon to clear the atmosphere of tire very general suspicion that we gained our office thru political trickery, Instead of publishing the much desired and ob tained legal opinion of the city at itoruey In both local papers at the ex panse of the taxpayers In the hope of bolstering up our cause with the people. Another opinion should be forth coming on the legal right of the may. or to try causes brought under city ordinances when the Recorder is on duty and otherwise qualified to ful fill the function placed by law on the recorder. That opinion should be published too, it might help to bol ster up the forlorn hope, even it it did fall the first time the city an swerted false Imprisonment In a dani' age suit before a proper court. We .think such favorable opinion could be secured. At least, so far, it ap pears the wish is father to the opinion. ECONOMY is the big word In our present municipal lexicon. 'In fact it Is about the only one, except, per haps, those necessary to form much nleeded "opinions" and those to ex ploit the name of the mayor at the foot of a popular political proclama tion. The words, legal justice, ef ficiency and Initiative seem to have dropped out when Banta and Lamkln dropped in. During the last ten years the Southern Pacific Compajby has transported 380,837,002 revenue passengers 14,042,394 revenue pas senger miles with a relevant ele ment of safety such that a passen ger may travel the equivalent of 579,000 times around the world without danger of loss of life in train accident. SURPLUS LABOR EXISTS IN WESTERN STATES A surplus of laborers varying from a few hundred to several thousand exists in the 11 western states, a& cording to lnformatlqn reaching J W. Brewer, the O. A. C. and federal farm help specialist for Oregon. Cop per companies have laid off about 14,000 men in three of these states, and farming will absorb more of these and other, surplus labor than any other single industry, if present crop prospects are realized. Many farmers are planning to do the "catch up work" postponed for two years. Ashland Transfer & Storage Co. C. F. Bates, Proprietor Wood, "Peacock" and Rock Springs Coal and Cement PHONE il7 Office 99 Oak Street, Ware house on track near depot. Ashland, Oregon WORK OF LAND ARMY The woman's land army of Amor), ca, which was formed in the spring of 1917 as a war emergency organi zation to Increase food production by placing units' of patrlotlo young women where they could be avail able as farm laborers, is reassemb ling its forces with the coming of spring to be ready should the call again come for women in the fields. Under Mrs. Alice Halloway of Med ford, chairman for Oregon, more than 1500 women were placed In the field thruout the state last year. IThe woman's land army never has attempted to take the place of meu and has considered Its mission filled when It has filled places made vacant or answered an emergency call. Even with the boys aiming back from France there will still not be enough farm laborers. During the past sum mer the "farmerette" worked in JO states, supplying 15,000 laborers, from Massachusetts (to California and from, Virginia to Oregon. They aJl loved their work and when the harvest was over felt that they had helped with their hands to feted the nations at war. The work in the state this year will be enlarged thru the colleges and a eplendld course has been arranged in CorvalllB at the State Agricultural college, with the promise of a like course at the state university at Eugene, fitting the women for over seers or to take up the work for themselves, Just as they prefer. It Is barely possible that the women will not be needed this year, but in case they should be called upon, Mrs Holloway has put the wheels of her big machine in action to be ready on a moment's call. Airs. naiioway received ner ap pointment to the state chairmanship thru Mrs. Francis King, head of the national farm and garden assocla tlon. Working thru the state council of defense with the assistance of Mrs. Charles Castncr, Mrs. Hallowar was alfle to call upon the council of defense chairmen as chairmen for the land army work. Eight years ago Mrs. Halloway came to Oregon from the east and began as a novice In agriculture on her orchard in Medford. After com pleting a short course at CorvalllB she became manager and overseer of her orchard, one of the finest in southern Oregon, devoted to the cul ture of Bartlett, Howell and Anjou varieties of pears. To enlist women interested in the work of the land army, Dr. Ida Ogil vie, national recruiting secretary. will arrive in Portland this week from Washington, D. C, and San Francisco. Under the direction of Miss Harriet Thayer, president of the grade teachers' association, Dr. Ogllvle win make several addresses while In Portland, tho dates to be announced later. Portland Oregoni-I OLD ISTAL RATES WILL BE RESTORED Official notice has been sent out from the postofflce department at Washington to tho effect that begin ning with July 1, letters may be again 'sent thru the malls for two cents instead of three, and postal cards for one cent instead of two. Postmasters have been instructed to dispose of two-cent domestic postal cards and of three-cent stamped en velopes held in stock before July 1, as there will be no demand for them after June 30. Tho instructions govern the three-cent adhesive stamps. The present rate on letters and postal cards have been in effect since October 2, 1917. Salem Prospects excellent for es tablishment of another cannery, and potato mill here soon. Farmers want $12 a ton for sugar beets. Bnwjnsville! Old woolen' mill here to be turned into box factory. Bend Tumalo fish hatchery near ly completed. ' ' '' Auto Painting We do all kinds Painting and do . , work. . of ; Auto firstclass Prices range from $10 or En amel Coat for Ford cafto $35 to $50 for high-class 3-ooat , - , Job. All Work Guaranteed ' J. M. Hughes Corner First Street, Back of Vlnln'g Theatre H"he Bank ith the Chim CocA, Assisting Development II !' 'A THE First National Bank's policy of progresslveness Is pretty well known after all these years. We have gained and will retain that reputa tion of being able and willing to aid the foundation and expansion of legitimate enterprise and Industry. Always glud to "talk tilings oVer." ',.. : P 1 I hJklFrstNaiioaaflaak fcv ASHLAND. OBGON ev carter. Pres. CMVAUPEl VIUPRtS JWMCOY, CASHIER CLARrx BUSf1.ASjT CA Clothes Satisfaction begins with tha selection of your suit, when you buyBornTailoring. Woolens in unlimited varia tion of weave and coloring bennit a satisfactory choice of fa trie you dictate any style features your fancy may suggest you find added satisfaction in the ricc. In fact, you sell yourself exactly what you want, instead of buying what 8om one wants to sell you. Try the Born Idea of clothes satisfso tion once, and you will insist upon it always. N IRttidtnt Born Dlmt) Paulserud & Barrett Ashland, Oregon KIDNEYS WEAKENING? 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Go to your druggist and Irfulat on his supplying you with GOLD MKUAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. Tke them as directed, and If you are not satisfied with results your druggist wlls gladly refund your money. Look for the name OOLD MEDAL on the bos and accept no other. In sealed boxes. three slsus. Special Values IN WALL PAPER We Lave a fine stock of Wall Papers ranging from tho most inexpensive to the highest grades all beautiful patterns. That house 'will bring higher rent if bright ened up.' Let us figure with you. Our Stock of Floor and House PRINTS IS COMPLETE white lead and oil or mixed paints in i all shades. ,We also carry the celebrated Acme auto mobile paints in all shades. Springtime is roming. Time to brighten up. Swenson dlcRae ECOHICAL HOUSE FURNISHERS