ASHLAND AMERICAN weekly under-the.J)ame^oi ^tho^sh- land American. Thesjf o p p 4 »r f to b« a demand for a good weekly paper in the south end o f thq vaHejr.” Mr. Robinson’s past', lotfg rikxrd in Oregon indicate» that he will give the Lithia city a good weekly newspaper thè first issue o f which it is said, will appear next. Friday morning.— Medford News. The most serious mistake on earth delightful with a subtle humor and a twinkling eye. is being too serious. Senator Dunn served as a repre The height of ignorance is thinking sentative from his county book in- l.dapaod.nt Weakly P»P«r Published «I Aaklaad, Oregon A b you know everyhting. (Successor to the Central Point American)______________ 1895 and 1897. He was born on a PAUL ROBINSON, Editor and Publisher Most persons who are in a hurry to farm which he still owns a short dis O ffice at 374 East Main Street get somewhere probably do not know tance from Ashland, January 4. 1864. BUSINESS AND NEWS PHONE 75 Educated in public schools, graduated why. $ 2.00 from .University o f Oregon with the One Year The old toll gate has nearly passed, seventh class to graduate from that but the highways still take their tol!. Advertising Rates Given on Application institution, 1886. Sent to the state Application made to be entered at the U. S. Postoifice at Ashland, Oregon, As the world grows wiser and wiser, legislature by his county eight years as second class matter from Central Point, Oregon it finds more and more ways to make later, then re-elected. Was county a fool o f itself. judge o f Jackson county, 1904 to -------J A C K S O N COUNTY’ S WEEKLY P A P E R ~ We are reminded, sadly, now and 1908. Until 1920 Senator Dunn FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1927 then, that the aviation stunt has not farmed, then rented his place to his been perfected. sons, and moved to Ashlapd. He is a director o f the First National banks at Ashland and Medford.— Oregon Voter. - . A s h la n d A m e r ic a n Thousands o f N ew W o rd *- speller pfOnppnceJv. , and d«fiued in E D IT O R IA L DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK By Edson R. Waite Shawnee, Oklahoma No. 1. THAT the growth and permanent prosperity of u city is measured en* tirely by its commercial activity. THAT it is also required that a means of livelihood for those living there be supplied. THAT spending money out of a community for things that can be pur chased at home is just tearing down those industries that make it possible for many to make a living. THAT the prosperity of your com- great way on •nds in a gre: munity depends our spending your Ing your money there. Don’t forget it I THAT the business concerns of your city should have your trade, not only today but every day. BECAUSE local concerns can serve you better than those in other cities. BECAUSE they have large stocks at reasonable prices und can fill your every requirement. They are right on the spot in plain sight and take all responsibility for goods sold und can give you better satisfaction. IF YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBORS BUY ELSEWHERE THAN IN YOUR OWN HOME CITY, YOU MUST GIVE UP HOPES OF HAVING A BETTER, BRIGHTER AND BUSIER CITY. YES, I AM TALKING TO YOU! (Copyright 1926.) MARVELOUS HUMAN MACHINE HELP ASHLAND TO ADVANCE In ancient times a city was a place where confederate families gathered for a common purpose, that o f wor ship or protection and so on. Today we have the incorporated city with its government, its industries, its schools, its libraries, its churches— a much more complicated affair. But that expression, “ common purpose,” 8till applies. A city cannot thrive and grow and prosper unless that common purpose is the base o f its life and growth. It is the base o f its pleasures und recreations. Only the man who is financially independent can enjoy his hours of leisure to the full. Idleness is not hapiness, as innumerable per sons know who are cursed wTth too many unfilled hours. Have we in Ashland a common pur pose? Are we we all desirous for the advancement of the city us a whole? By this we mean the advancement of the people as a whole. When a man or a corporation takes the initiative and establishes a business, are we optimistic and helpful in our attitude towards him and his undertaking? Or do we say with a sorrowful look and a sigh, "Well, I hope he makes a go o f it, but I don’t think he will.” There is not an adult in this city who cannot help or hinder in its pros- pertiy and it behooves each one o f us to help and not hinder. It is the busi ness of the individual, if he be a good citizen, to have always a keen re gard for the economic side o f com munity life. He should use his best efforts to foster going concerns here, knowing that every concern that leaves the city, that every worker who goes elsewhere with his labor subtracts from the wealth and culture of the community he leaves behind. Civilization today cannot be fostered by "floaters.” The city must have its industries, it must huve its contented workers, that it may have a greater production, more wealth, more oppor tunity and more culture. The fostering qf established indus tries and the development of new in dustries is the “ comon purpmose” to which all citizens of Ashland should assidiously devote themselves. These are the foundations upon which our community life rests. JACKSON COUNTY GETS $1,151,962 — — WILLIAM M. BRIGGS DICTIONARY Jackson county seems destined to have c distinction o f sending to the COUNTY BENEFITS FROM LAND 1927 legislature, the speaker, o f the House o f Representatives, and the GRANT RETURN second youngest member o f that body, William M. Briggs, Ashland, i Here is a peppy, alert, businesslike young attorney, the junior member o f the f^m o f Briggs & Briggs, which means father and son, his Schools of County Will Benefi* By father, E. D. Briggs, being one o f the best known attorneys in southern Tax Return Being Made By Oregon. Representative Briggs is an energetic and eloquent speaker, a the Government. ready mixer, intensely patriotic, and chock full o f confiednce in himself.' A fter having been on the county Born, Ashland, March 29, 1896; tax rolls since 1866, when they were educated in public schools, Ashi&nd granted by the government to the and Valparaiso University, Valparai? Oregon and California railroad, now so, Indiana, where he'graduated just a part o f the Southern Pacific sys before the war was declared; enlist tem, over 440,000 acres o f railroad ed in officers’ training camp; com grant lands in Jackson county were missioned second lieutenant, and dis-: taken o ff by the passage o f the charged as a first lieutenant, Decem Chamberlain-Ferris act in 1916, pro ber, 1918; returned to Ashland, ad viding that the lands be sold and the mitted to Oregon bar, 1919. receipts be distributed among various Representative Briggs has beqp departments. Ashland city attorney for five years, The bill, however, failed to func and has been president o f Jackson tion and as a result this county, one County Bar association. He has main o f eighteen in which such lands are tained his interest in military affairs located, was derived o f a large by having served as captain o f Ash* amount o f taxes each year, causing land’s National Guard battery, and action to be taken by United States now holds the rank o f captain in the Senator Robert N. Stanfield in con O fficers’ Reserve corps. Has been ac gress last year. As a result, an appro tive in community affairs; a director priation was made by the government o f Ashland chamber of commerce, to reimburse the affected counties and he seems to have entered into his for non-payment o f taxes first political experience with a A total o f more than seven mil relish.— Oregon Voter. lions o f dollars was authorized by -----------* _ --------- this act to reimburse the eighteen SAYS THE NEWS counties an das its share Jackson county received $1,161,962.74. Ashland is to have a new news This amount, with the exception of paper, the result o f a decision of the money apportioned to various Paul Robinson to move the plant pi districts, will go into the county the American to that city from Cen general fund. tral Point. The Chamberlain-Ferris bill that Mr. Robinson was former owner has been a law for several years, and publisher o f the Vernpnia Eagle provided the railroad company would which he sold several months ago; receive $2.60 per acre for the grant coming to Medford, later buying the lands in its name and that the coun Central Point American. Relative to ties would benefit n ext The remain his new venture, he says: “ I have der o f the receipts were thus ap become a booster o f Jackson county portioned: 25 per cent to the re in fact as well as in name, and am clamation service and 10 per cent here to stay. Lack o f sufficient sup-: to the federal government fo r ad port in Central Point, and my desire ministration costs. to labor in a larger territory, prompts The tax refund bill was introduced by Senator Stanfield as a relief my decision to move to Ashland measure and will continue to func where the paper will be published tion until the Chamberlain bill comes into efficient operation. The money that was appropriated by the relief measure will be charged against the grant land fund, the sals o f the lands being the means o f reimburse ment. However, until the lands are sold, the government will pay an nual taxes upon them at their as sessed value. Payment WEBSTER’S NEW INTERNATIONAL --------------- . The m Sepram« Author it j" Here are a few »ample» t bot pursuit R«d Star Air Council ; * capital ship mud gun mysMry ship 8. P , bopt „ irredenta «•rial cascade , Kalbonia AmsHtah Legion Blue Croaa girl scou t’ S' airport » cypar • crystal detects» aippio . suparb«t«(odyoa shohaan Is Large There have been numerous visitors to the print shop to see the intricate linotype machine in operation. In no instance has there not been great in terest shown in the amusing perform ance of this marvelous machine. Me chanically complex and synchronized, the linotype performs a dozen or more mechanical tasks at one time in a deft, precise and perfectly timed man ner that seems almost uncanny to those seeing it in operation for the first time. It is a maze of levers, ec centric wheels, push bars, pulleys anu mechanical arms, and does the work o f eight or ten men with the expendi ture o f very little effort. The linotype PAY DIRT machine is the result o f thirty years of cumulative research of thousands of mechanical experts, and has been A bit o f yellow ore or a spurt of only gradually developed to its pres blurk liquid from the bowels of the ent efficiency in performance. earth will attruct thousands eager to With all its intricate mechanism, their capital and labor in the the linotype is but a crude toy com invest hope o f reaping fortunes. A rumor pared to the miraculous living ma and the rush is on. chine thut Is our body. The linotype What is true of the gold rush and has but few definite tusks to per form and is strictly limited to do the oil boom is true of communities. thos# tasks. After the details o f its l.et the outside world know that in parts and operations are learned it is Ashland it will find good wages, pros a si.rple and easy thing to get it to perity, unusual business opportunities do the few things it was made to do. ami industrial advantages und it will But the human machine is so much buy its own ticket. Why do not more communities take more marvelous and complex in struc ture and possibilities that compari this lesson from the gold rush? Many son of the two is futile. Yet there are can trace their growth in population many who are amazed at the work anti greater prosperity to that day ing o f the linotype who know very they decide to broadcast the nevls little of the actual workings of their that they had something the world more marvelous bodies. The human wanted. Notable examples have been body can be adapted to innumerable I .os Angeles, the Florida resorts, De uses and tasks. It is the most sensi troit, all o f which sprang into promi tive machine on the face of the earth. nence almost overnight. It has millions of essential parts that Every city and town has its “ vein are constantly renewing themselves. of gold” or its “ oil gusher" and Ash It can and has achieved multiple mil land is no exception. Too frequently, lions o f results. It is ‘ sensitive to all communities wait to be discovered ---------- + ---------- sorts of changes of surroundings and from the outside. They do not even GEORGE W . DUNN can very easily be thrown out o f or- know themselves. <ier and disabled. Yet hundreds of There is no more propitious time During April and May, 1926. there thousands of people go through their than the present for Ashland to dis was a red hot political fight in Jack- span of life with only a rudimentary knowledge o f its workings and cover itself and then tell the world son county over the senatorial nom proper care. They use and abuse their about what it discovers. There is not ination. The outcome o f that con bodies as they would absent-mindedly a citizen who does not beleive that play with a toy. They let it become this is the community for which many test between a staid, conservative, unclean; they give it the most ab are searching. Even those who have well-to-do retired farmer and a much surd and dangerous fuel and are sur not yet discovered its natural re younger irrigation engineer who en prised when it doe* not function sources do not doubt their existence. joys the battle when it is hottest, properly; they use it under wrong Community prospecting always pro seems to prove that silence may be conditions and for too long a time duces “ paying dirt.” the better part o f political valor. without rest and then curse fate be cause they grow old too soon. They Senator Dunn made a brief state Ha! E. Hons has Seen named as th : ment concerning his candidacy, re form habits that are ineradicable and which make life a hard job and not private secretary tc Governor I. L fused to let himself be sucked into a pleasure. It is a simple thing to Patterson. Ha!! Hosn is the best a county nominating convention, leant how the body is made and how it works and f motions. This knowl known newspaperman in all Oregon, then sat tight. He was nominated and edge is indispensable to health, which among the newspaper b oys o f the elected. means happiness to a large degree. state. He is past president nt the Senator Dunn it the personal em Yet a great many people are too state editorial association and the bodiment of conservatism. Spare of careless, or lazy, or indifferent to learn the rules of correct care of present secretary o f that organisa frame and sparse with words, he their bodies. Normal, healthy, sturdy tion. He is a native Oregonian and typifies a native shrewdness that I people enjoy life far more than those as to ability, the governor showed has been combined with a foresight who abuse their bodies constantly and thereby keep them out of proper mighty good judgment in selecting that enabled him to amass rather him. When the editors seek an aud early in life a comfortable compe working order. ience with Governor Patterson, it ia tence. He lives quietly an dsedately up to Hal Hoss to pave the way and in Ashland and has won wide esteem Nothing suits us better than socia bility. Come in the American office mnek it a little less embarrassing to in his community for his honesty and and met us. roast us or welcome us. the keyboard punchers. We are glad uprightness. But scratch the surface We’re gentle that Horn is now a resident o f Salem. and you will find a personality mad.- rfm It iltft titrthtmtt ml irtfmrmmtimm y/ “' * ] r u tna S e r vlflg a--W? 2700 Pat«« •OOO Uha- 407,000 W«r4a,«ad . 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