A s h la n d A m e r ic a n An Independent Weekly Paper Published «1 Ashland. (Successor to the Central Point Am erican) Orefon P A U L RO BINSO N, Editor and Publisher O ffice at 374 East Main Street BUSINESS A N D N E W S PH O N E 95 ........ . ... $2.00 (Iru- Year Advertising Rates Giren on Application Entered at the Postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, as Second Class Matter, under the A ct o f Congress o f March 3, 1879 JACKSON C O U N T Y ’S W E E K L Y P A P E R Member S T A T E E D I T O R I A L A S S OC I A T ION Member N A T I O N A L E D I T O R I A L A SSOC I AT ION F R ID A Y , A P R IL 29. 1927 E D IT O R IA L Hope is the dream o f a man awake ---------------- o I have observed that many a far- sighted man is a close observer. ---------------- o---------------- damaged apples and fruit in Wash ington— Yakima and Wenatchee; late frost has visited Hood River and Umatilla county, grain laid flat in sections. In southern Oregon, ir. Jackson, the banner county and in Josephine county, the crop conditions are ideal A “ peach” o f a girl ought to be Frost dangers are over, no damage was done, the alfalfa fields never come a well-“ preserved" woman. looked more promising and stock— ........... — .. o - pigs and cows have plenty o f feed Why not use the lemons fate fo r the summer. sends you, and open up a lemonade I-ate rains have assured an abund stand. ance o f water for fruit, grain and — o stock. The chicken industry never Smiles cost less than electric looked more optimistic, the mining light and they make the home bright situation never promised so much, er. Laugh out loud occasionally. building is going on all through the o - - — Rogue river valley, and the summer Its my opinion that what the aver o f 1927 promises to be the most a g e schoolboy wants is a history that proseprous in history. repeats itself. Surely in southern Oregon every ---------------- o---------------- Love probably makes the world thing is lovely and the Goose Hangs go ’round, but it takes money to High. o---------------- lubricate the machinery. IT IS W O R TH IT o — And too, sometimes it is n good thing if it turns out bad. ---------------- o - ■ are as different in actual make-up as black is from white. The one class is composed o f the “ Gimmies and the other o f the "Go-Getters. The form er are a decided liability and the latter a pronounced asset to any community. The “ Gimmies” descended from that stock which fo r years has been singing, “ The world owes me a liv ing." occupy the most o f their time in seeking pleasure at the expense o f others and are never known to o ffe r a constructive suggestion on any subject. They “ howl about their lot in life and entertain visi tors with a deep blue story about the shortcoming* o f the section in which they should speak a kind word about anybody or anything. If it rains they bemoan their fa te; if the sun shines they fear a drouth, or that the crops will all burn up. They were appar ently born with a distorted liver or are subjects o f chronic dyspep sia. They give nothing to the com- mun.iV and are seldom missed when they proceed hence. one resident remarked, “ if I send a few dollars to mail-order houses evenry now and then?” to the small town press exchanges that come to The American’s desk, is like stepping from the slums, full o f vile, into an old-fashioned garden sweet wit hlavendar and thyme, and th • scent o f perennial flowers. The pages o f the big dailies are full of murder, thievery, immorality and selfishness, that the better news is obscured by these glaring shatter ing* o f the Decalogue. One puts the papers aside with a feelin g of de pression and heartache that the world is so fu ll o f terrible and un happy things. Were her particular case the only one o f its nature in the city, it would make but little difference, but indi vidual cases in the aggregate do make a great deal o f difference. She is only one o f hundreds who are doing the same thing she is doing, and added together the amounts have been estimated to total $4,- 000 a month. It is the small buyers that keep the mail order houses go ing. While we have no way o f know ing what the mailorders average in Then picking up the papers that any parti?ul".r house, yet it is safe record the happenirgs o f the little to say that the sum is only a few cities around us in Ashland one dollars. gains renewed faith in life. Here are The $2.98 you send away today set forth only that which uplifts a activities o f the is not much in itself, but when it is (immunity, the pooled with hundreds o f other like business men, the church news, the amounts it makes a substantial sum. civic good accomplished by the wo That $2.98, or 69 cents, or how men, school items, the happy social ever small the amount may be, is gatherings o f the people, the mar a very important matter in every riages, births and deaths, farmers mail-order house. The small sums items, and all the thousands and one form by far the greatest part o f the daily occurences that make up the millions o f dollars of mail-order simple annals o f the great common business done in this country every people, who are really the founda On the other hand, the “ Go-Get tion o f this broad country o f ours. year. ters” i.rt always smiling and happy Have a hind word for everybody and So spend your $2.98’s with local Scandals are seldom published in everything worth while. They be merchants. I f you do that, you will the country newspapers, but if it so lieve in their community, its people not only be helping them and your happens that decency demands it, and its plans fo r improvement. They city, but will also be helping your the uglier details are omitted, or love the children who romp over the self by keeping more money in cir given a kindly touch that is wisely fields and highways and predict fo r culation here. I f you spend your d ifferen t from the unfeeling publi them bright futures. They believe $2.98 here, you stand a chance o f city o f the city press. The offenders in trees, God’s first temples, grass getting a part o f it back some day, may be our neighbors, or people we instead o f ash heaps, and flowers but i f you send it away the entire have rubbed elbows with all our instead o f weeds. They are advo sum is taken out o f local circula lives. They are real human beings cates o f a spotless town or village. tion. to their home town paper, while to They bless the tongue which gives In its campaign against out-of- the great city dailies they are merely honest praise and the ear that is deaf town buying, The American has cal grains o f salt that are ground out to scandal and gossip. I f they can't led on local merchants to advertise hourly in their news mill.. speak good o f their neighbor they their goods more extensively, so keep still. They contribute to those that the purchasing public in Ash Sometimes people speak lightly of things which do good among the land will be in a better position to the country newspaper, but it is one folks who are a part o f their com buy at home. o f the most potent and uplifting munity, the place that they call home factors in our national existence. sweet home. They believe in their MIRROR R E A L A M E R IC A The great dailies have their mission country and will do anything within but their scope is too big to touch reason to continue it as the greatest Turning from the city newspapers very closely the inner things o f life. nation on God’s footstool. They re vere and respect the church because A » Soon Each Week as You Like sales or store news. Please get copy they believe that any community i Please bring your ad copy in by in by Wednesday. better for having the House o f Goc -----------* ----------- Wednesday. We have the best quali in its midst. They think and speak ty mailed circulation fo r local ad You can take ’em o f f now. It’s well o f the public school, because vertising in southern Jackson coun getting warm weather. they believe it is the bulwark o f our ty. Our readers want to see Ashland Read the advertisements. liberty and the safeguard o f our cherished institutions. They pull to gether and are never found seeking to destroy good works. Then try to raise living standards, encourage physical improvements of their neighborhood, and lend every assist WE R E N O T \SATISFIED U N L ESS Y O U ARE ance toward making civic, social and educational conditions better. 474 6 2 4 RIVERSIDE ST I've noticed that some think that What is the matter with ihe to shine in society they must get farmers? The National Farm News lit up. o ffe r* a first prize o f one hundred o---------------- dollars to some editor who will o f Most o f the splinters in the bani fe r a suggestion that will lead to ster o f life are unnoticed until we the solving o f the problem in Am begin to slide down. erica. It would sure be worth the — o---------------- A college education seldom hurts price. The farmers have a problem a man if he’s wiling to learn a little i and it will never be solved alone. Other problems o f living, market something nfter he graduates. ing. wages and pursuits o f happiness In the headgear fo r women the and pleasure will have to be at least small hats will be stylish this sum | partly solved along with the prob- mer. but not the small hat w ifey had 1 lems o f the farmers. As long as Gloria Swanson gets last summer. wages o f $7.40 per minute and o---------------- Chaplin draws $6.67 a Artists in pictures lift up the Charley beautiful, in church people lift up minute there will be problems and O f the two classes, the latter is the mind, and in beauty parlors they discontent. They are not worth it. much preferred in any community MEDFORD, OREGON They are poor producers compared which desires to progress toward lift up the face. with the farm er that hardly aver moral, mental and physical perfec o---------------- PAINTERS A little boy attended a high ages that much money in a week. tion.— National Farm News. One big trouble with the farm sit school football game and that even GEORGE E. FOX ing before crawling into bed he uation is the fact that too many C L IF F B U R LIN G A M E POW ER IN C H A R A C T E R R E A L E S T A T E and I N SU R AN CE knelt down and bowed his head anti politicians and would-be leaders are Painter and Decorator Good Bargains in Land seemingly trying to advise them and yelled: God bless Pa, God bless Ma, and City Property Papering, Tinting Men have lived and died, many to solve their problem. Let the farm God bless Sister, Hah! Rah! Rah! Central Point - - Oregon er alone and he will eventually are forgotten while some live in Phono 98 solve his problem. In the first place | our memories forever, and why is AND SO W E HOPE he will have to learn to set the price i it? Why is it that Lincoln and Wash A T T O R N E Y S -A T -L A W on his products anil not ask “ what ington and other great men still Railroad rumor is circulating Have a fit at again, and if only this rumor could will you give me.” He will have to live within the hearts o f all people? OUK8 T aii . ohs be depended upon, Ashland would say what he will take and not ask They have guided the destinies o f Oak Street be guaranteed a busy place ere many what will you give. Then he will their republic. They led their coun W. G. T R IL L months. The latest surmise now is have to pass a law by m ajority vote try in war and peace, but only their Prices to suit to the effect that a five mile tun that will do away entirely with f good citizenship and character plus every purse Attorney-at-Law— Notary Public nel will be put through the Siskiyou “ Bucket Shops,” “ Board o f Trades” ability that elected Washington and mountains the north entrance start and \ \ all Street minipulations. and Lincoln to the presidency; and be REAL E S lA T E Central Point - - Oregon ing about ten miles south o f Ash then if a farm administration can be cause o f their character they had the land. This would be one o f the really put into power long enough to pass confidence and support o f all peo —SEE- W e all believe in a man o f big railroad jobs o f the country, a farmers bill giving the govern ple. B ROWN & RICE M ORTUARY and many hundreds o f men be em ment authority to dictate to the character. There is power o f magic fo r a bargain in ployed for many month«. It would, farmers the same ns it dictates to in a great name. A re Washington, REAL E S T A T E - But when that time Grant and Lincoln dead? Is Michael so rumor informs us, probably be the railroads. 63 North Main Street done by the Great Northern people, comes you will see thousands o f 1 Angelo dead? Ask those who have Ashland, Oregon PERL FUNERAL HOME who would run their line out o f farmers bucking the whole works j gazed with rapt soult upon his im Klamath Falls, through Butte Falls and bootlegging tomatoes or wheat mortal works at Rome. They have Corner Sixth nnd Oakdale to Medford and south through Ash at a lower price than the govern never lived more truly than today. A_ M B »«m Telephone 68 land on what is now known as the ment will allow. It ir the hardest I Every American heart and home Phone 17 M edford. Oregon Southern Pacfic tracks, tunnel the thing in the world to get a dozen , enshrines their character. There is Reliable -Responsible, Real Estate, Loans. Insurance mountain and then follow river farmers to pull together. When the something greater in a person's life References: Citizens Bank o f Ash grade to Kureke, California, and time comes that all farmers will I than his position and achievements; land First National Bank, State ABSTRACTORS thence down the coast to San Fran stick together, then the farmers prob greater than genius, and more endur Bank o f Ashland 175 Main St cisco. lem will be solved. ing than fame. It is character, and _ ASH LAND . O R F .C n o v Such a program would make quite I It is worth the $100 and then! it is a power that will make it. elf JACKSON COUNTY a new city o f Ashland, giving us «ome. and too long a job fo r the felt, although in society, i f there is ABSTRACT CO. railroad shops, division point, and average “ country editor.” to at character o f sterling excellence it R E A L ES T A T E two routes south, also a short cut tempt. But it will be solved and in will demand influence and secure Established in 1885 Good City for Country TH E O N L Y C O M P L E T E t i t i . e to the <wean shipping at Eureka. I the mean time the farmers will need respect. Therefore character is Buys and Trades — SYSTI M IN JA C K S O N C O U N T Y power I-et us hope. Surveyors have been better and stronger co-operation. F. L. N U T TE R 2 4 0 F. M en Abstracts of Title and ~~~ 1 n - working in the mountain. Ashland, Orrgon Title Insurance. B ET TER TO H E L P HOME GO-GETTERS THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH MONUMENTS Nearly every community i* made Some residents evidently do not A r e y o u « « i n « In B u y o r R .i.ld • “ Southern Oregon’s best vear." up o f two classes o f citizen*. who*e realize to how g-.rat extent they arc H o m e in A s h l a n d ? ? » Such is the universal word among daily live* and actions easilyy sep hurting home trade by occasionally W rite J O H N n MIFI.F.Y. BLUE GRANITE the many citizen* * * with optimistic arate them into two distinct camp*. ordering goods from some mail-or C e n tra l Point. O rego n S W A N BLUE Q U A R R Y CO. views o f things as they exist today. The> need no formal introduction to der houses, judging from remark* for L O A N V I O year C o unty Agoni for i b . n . „ , f , , S. A. Swan. Manager Storm s, cyclones, worst floods fn *ny intelligent audience or readers that have been made since the Is now ready to render best price« ... * l.oan Associa tion history and excessive heat hare dis of the press. While in many respects American started the campaign *>n all kinds o f grnnitc and ceme We m a h . loans nn town p r o p e r » , couraged thousands in the East and they may dress alike and present .ga.nst out-of-town trading. anywhere in the enunty, tery work Anplv P O. Box .14, A SIM .AND O REGON Middle W est. L ite spring ha« greatly | the same sort o f soeial fro n t, they “ What difference does it make,” K iPh on e. Beaver Realty Co.