Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 15, 1910, GREATER MEDFORD CLUB EDITION, SECTION III, Image 17

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Newspaper Page TextWW. VP' Medford Mail Tribune SECTION III Pages 17 to 24 GREATER MEDFORD CLUB EDITION FIFTH YEAH. MEDFORD, OKISOON, SLTXI)AY, MAY 15, 1910. No. 47. MEDFORD'S FREE LIBRARY AND WHAT II MEANS HHf MANAGING EDITOR PRAISES HER STAFF A Llttlo History of the Public Lib rary, Glvlnn Its Growth and Pur poses Carnenje Library Is Want ed nml Stops Being Taken to Se cure It. (At ItS. H. I. TIIK1SS.) Our public library in destined In he, u universal benefit to every iiiiiii, woman anil child in Mcdt'oi 1 and can not bo too highly estimated by every oiticn. It attracts and develop I In most duftirnbto classes of society ntnl raises tlio moral and cultural tone -i a city. Tlio (irimtur Mcdfonl club Irul planned for Nome lime on starting n public liltrary; and tin incentiv came in tbu person of Mr. Kidder, a ropreMontntivo of tlio Oregon Library commission, sent by lluit body to e t n hi i nit public lilirariuH in cities, r install travvliiiL' libraries n more luted plutH. Mrs. Knldcr arrived just as .Medford wuh enjoying its first street carnival, August fi, 1111)7 Slie addressed the Ladies' Carnival I'.oinmittee, which inelnded most 1 tin.' ladies of .Medford. In the evening Mr. Kidder met with tbe committee of the ('ninincrciul club and net forth tlio needs of the library in a very convincing mannur. Am a romilt the C'onuiittroiiil club promised their hearty siippest. Upon her return sonic two months later, November 'J I, IPO", she met with the Greater .Med ford (dub, which then numbered forty members. The matter of a city li brary was then taken up in earnest, and a committee appointed eonsist hit: of Mesilnmcs Uolli. .Merrick, Stoddard, Van Dyke, to solicit dona tions from the business men, civic mid social organizations. Much club member collected .!'" for the library fund and the result was about ifTinO. A subscription library consisting of -00 volumes r.nd several individual donations swelled the number of hooks to about 700. For the government of the library there was a board of nine appointed, according to r.tnlc law, bv Mayor Kcddy, consisting of ,. Kcildv, YY. I. Vawtcr, C'Iiiim. King. .1. K. Watt. IM Andrews, .Mrs. H. I. Theiss. II. ('. Stoddard, I- K. .Merrick, V. W. llol lis. On duly 7, 1P0S, the city council adopled a resolution establishing a public library. The offer of the council of the city hall room uas ac cepted, in which quarlciv the library has held forth to the present day. The Oreater .Medford club has worked assiduously u ;(.,.p puce with Ilia rapidly growing demand for hooks, solieithiL'. giving dancing par lies, lyceuni courses and musical cn tcrlnininentH. In January, 1 1)10, a hook club was organized, the sixty nieiuhers of which, by their $1 dues, supplying a I and for the purcliiiKo of many choice books. Tlio novel scheme of "Hlock Day" depoHitod about .flOO iu the li brary exchequer. Then, as their lat est financial project, through the courtesy of llm Medford .Mail Tri bune, tlio ladiea of the (heater .Med lord club have assumed the ninnngo iiuinl of this edition of May 15. For a number of months the mat ter of u rnrnegio library has been agitated, In fuel, ul a special elec tion, a majority for charier nuicnd menl, permitting the levying of a tax to support and maintain a Carnegie library was passed. Owing to the voluminous correspondence curried on with Mr. Hurl nun, Mr. Carnegie's secretary, and to tlio personal inter cession of Mr. J. K. Allnu upon his recent trip to Now York, the hopes arc high in Medford of the realism-j tiou of her ambition of a $20,000 li brary. If Mr. Carnegie could visit our beautiful valley, note the pro cross and sou the invincible determi nation of every resident In miiko Medford u prosperous city, we ire sure Ihn donation of a public library would bo speedily in'nnled. MUS. K. K. flOHE. The anxiety of the past few weeks is about over, and now, as all is ready for the press " and the forms are about to " anxioiiH thought. Everyone on the Htaff has been hopeful, 4 olilifcif IK tireless, entbusiaslic and efficient up to the last mo- ineiil of time. The reporters ii...:.. i i t.i :.. -y ill,, ,,,, ,1 ii, ;i, iiiiii lili'iiui III good stories well written, ami as the vast bulk of advertising. so essential to financial sue- cess, continued to increase, it seemed to furnish new stiuiuln- tiou to every one in the of i ice. Deep gratitude is frit toward all who assisted in uniform sin- " Kh'ucss of purpose to make lbi. iHsue of the Mail Tribune one 4 4 of tlio lontr-to-be remembered successes of the always sue- 4 eessful flreater Medford club. - 4'4 A SUCCESSFUL TELLS STORY S CCIII AU IN ROGUE VALLEY OF Ii i Mr. Putnam Is Thanked I The editorial Btnff, on behalf of I the one hundred nnd twenty inemberH of the Greater Medford elub, wishes 'to cxprcsH to Mr. George I'utnnm, ImannKcr of the Mail Tribune, its 'Krntitude for his generosity in prc 'hcntinir to the Indies tins issue of the ! piier. Hut for the public spirit of it ui n nc u,ii iib..i,.ii Mr, I'utnnm nnd the interests which It Was an 05 Model of "Broucks reprcBCnlB the ln(lif.v wollI(, not Type Sometimes It Went andjlmvo enjoyed this slendid opportu- nitv to render service to the cause Sometimes It "Dldn t Went" of (.ivic improvement, which lies ,o Miss Keith First Lady Driver n ;' their benrts. ntion of the patience with which the persistent visits of the ndvertisinc committee were received, and for the overwhelming generosity aeeord-jd them. Those who felt unable to as sist to any great extent iruve cneour agemnt that was touching and showed a profound interest in the pa tter's success. Of this kindly feeling the Valley. (MIIS. A. C. ALLKN.) In the spring of 1005 Mifes Mar ipftr.it U'.iifti clul.iv ,.f Aire A T' A 1 . ' leu, brought into Medford the second automobile owned iu Kogtie river val- MEDFORD CLUB ley. This ear was, liko nearly all the I the ladies also take note. '0o models, of the bioncho type sometimes it would go and at others it would "balk," but at most times it acted in a rather untamed manner. After a time Miss Keith and her sis- Iter managed to gain an understand- v ing of its eccentricities to such .in The Wednesday Study Club and the extent as to bo nblo to coax the auto Subjects It Takes Up and Con-iHUt TV'"rk hl-"! T1"' 'V,"1 r"! tniu ihal Miuu Kntlli hnnninn iho fiiLl THF. KDITORS. i mi nil i isnrn KM I UnMlito SINCE CLUB WAS FIRS! i FORMED i : f t v f -f -t--f BUSINESS MANAGER VOICES HER GRATITUDE No Paved Streets, Modern Business t Houses or Other Marks of Metrop- -f ; oils Story of Hutchinson's Old Black Horse Is Told Change in nit., n uny nciiidi Kduic. 4 I 1 slders at Its Regular Meetings Doing Much Good. (Continued on l'ago 21,) ( MHS. M. 1.. AI.FOWD.) The women of today are uttering good, strong protests on many public matters, iu which a generation ago they did not concern themselves. Thoy are making themselves heard iu municipal affairs with no uncer tain voice; they desire to be strong, self-reliant individuals. The change iu economic conditions. caused chiefly by the invention ot labor-saving devices, find thousands of women with abundant leisure, and the woman is to be eommended who spendH this leisure time in the large "world's work" of women's clubs. Much bus been neoompliscd bv women's clubs that is good, wortbv and effective, such as the creation of juvenile courts, the more enlight ened and humane laws effecting child labor; the local civic betterment in I ho direction of iniiintaininir nnblie libraries; the establishment of day nurseries; free classes for girls in schools and colleges; the distribution of seeds, plants and trees, all of winch tend toward making social con ditii us better nnd rendering suffer ing less. There arc today something more than hall a million elub women ui America. Of the many clubs u! our city the Wednesday Study elub. or ganized May 5, lllllil, with a mem bership of twenly-M'ven women, is deserving of mention. The object of (his club has been to create an intellectual stimulu-. and to he a mentis of musical improve ment mid culture. This end bus been furthered by ench member respond ing promptly in whatever duty as signed. The subjects which huve been taken up from October to May and the essavests are as follows: Fioebel nnd the Kindergarten, by Miss lliinnon. A Sheaf of Old Melodies (illustra ted), by Mrs. W. I. Vawter. The lOilucational Value of Public Libraries, by Mrs. K. V. Carter of Ashland. An Hour With Thomus fnrlvle, bv Mrs. M. I.. Alford. Our American l'oets, bv Mr. Campbell. December 1st nnd 8th. musicales by l'rof. Field. I'lio Giving That Is Gaining, by Mrs. J. F. Miiudy. Paris, speaker Miss Marion Foster. Ralph Waldo Finerson ns 11 prose writer and as a poet, by Mrs. T. W. Streets. Anioricitn Art, Its Growth and Dis- linetivo Feauturcs, by Mrs. II. Tut- II. Ts the Influence of tho Mind Over tho Hod.v Greater Than tho Hodv Over (ho Mind? by Mrs. Chile. I'ho Wonders of Modern Surgerv, by Dr. If. H. Morrison. Municipal Art A "I.iltlo Ilonso- keeping Out of Doors, by Mrs. P. ,1. Naff. (Continuud on Pago 21.) ladv to drive an automobile. viu the valley. Outside of the fact that the auto mobile was an uncommon sight here, it wuh still more so to see a lady driving tho enr, nnd they nlwnys drew thing" balked iu tho middle of (h,. To take my place nnd do my part, street. At such times tho ladies nl- A1,,10"h 1 cver' ncver- sta,tT got out the tool kit and in some invs'- ,M S,."rU ',S"-?re t,cr torious xvnv cot the enr out of it 5'Jcn.tM,l v"lt,0xn.(1 ,ow l.lui ,reml f -f -f WAITING. (MARLK HOLMKS PARSON'S.) What inn I doing, you ask it, Wondering why I calmly sit And rock nnd smile, ami smile nnd sew 1 It isn't strange you '.should not know. Think you no longing stirs within To fnce the ferment nnd the din? torious wny got the enr out of its tantrum and started again. Of thoso who wait,. and waiting. Whim i.wLiut "nu- .till v,.i, i,. smuo, what was the matter with ihe car7";H,,t n.'erc's ,nn,,-v a lonoI-v' lmrrc" tbe reply was, "I didn't know. 1, n,llc- fitmply took out the spark plug. i looked at it and put it hack. I have Ere tbe world can see or the world imt Mwt tilifviit Act ill nil i , T ,nn.i ' c" Know, to find the matter with the' spnrk Ht 1 know it't is ettor-licttct so. plug, but if I didn't look there for the 1 1 " r trouble where else would I lookf" tho rond, for when tho enr wnsn't That (litest inn would have puzzled "kicking" the users of tho public almost any ono at that time. At nny highways wero for nenrly all inelud- rate the treatment seemed to bo all jne the horses resented tho nppear- stiffieicnt for the car would finally nn,.0 f the onto on the road. Things strt- wero not so pleasant in those days Then, too, it was trouble all along for the autoist. (MRS. K. K. GORE.) When the greater Medford club was organizzed seven yenrri ago the city streets were not the present de lightful paved thoroughfnres over which skim scores of elegantly ap IKiintcd automobiles, but they were dusty, straggling road:., lined on either side by hideous weeds nnd the most attractive turn-out in the town was n fat, glossy blnek horse draw ing a great family carry-all, owned by Mr. C. J. Hutchinson, which was ucd for quiet driving when ho was m no hurry to arrive tit his destination. The sites now occupied by handsome nnd commodious modem business (blocks were covered with hill boards and unattractive frame buildings and the miles of fine cement walks were rough bonrd sidewalks or dusty paths worn smooth by school chil dren. The one fine brick school Uiouse, considered ample for educa tional purposes, is now supplemented by n $40,000 high school building, an other brick building nearly as capa cious ns tbe first, and, yielding to an insistent demand, 11 new school is to be built this season for tho accom modation of residents of the east side. Kecpin" pace with municipal development, tho standard of indi vidual living hns materially changed. The modern bungalo, with electric lights, steam heat and an open style of interior treatment is the accepted style of building and many costly at well as convenient ami comfortable home.; have been built in the past two vcars. (MHS. J. F. REDDY.) Tho paper is going to press. Tho day is dawning, nnd our work is done. All sorts of emotions nro evoked by this sunrise. Fatigue, ex citement, regret, pleasure, but, above all, gratitude. Grntitude first to the man who gave ns the use of this plant to bring about tho good accomplished by the issuo of this paper. Gratitude to his representatives here who have so splendidly "stood in." Grntitude to all those who so patiently bore with the persistent visits of the advertising staff, nnd, last of all, gratitude for the great pen-onal joy this unique ex perience hns been to me as business manager of this edition. IT WAS A HAPPY HAPPY DAY EDITORS SAY TROUBLES OF A SOCIETY EDITOR One Who Has Had Experience Tells of the Manifold Duties of This Po sition on a Live Newspaper Sometimes Has Good Time. Many, Many Pleasing Experiences Are Met by Ladles in Their Ef forts to Collect and Edit the News of a Day And They Finished It Early, But Tired. (MRS. E. E. GORE.) The society editor on a small daily conducted on metropolitan lines, such as control the Medford Mail Tribune. has one of the most important as well as decidedly the most pleasant jobs on the paper. Her position gives her free entree to the best and most (MRS. E. E. GORE.) It was a tired, happy and exultant corps of w 'i. en who retired from the offices of the .Wail Tribune early this morning their work of prepar ing tho woman's special edition fin ished. Tired, because since early 'Saturday they had been sitting at desks going over copy, answering, telephone calls, taking telegraph mes sages hot from the wire, directing an army of assistants or darting hero and there in the endeavor to cover the local news of a hustling city; happy because of conscientious work done; exultant because of the un qualified support and approval af forded the editorial stuff. George Putnam, manager of tho Medford Printing company, and who dictates over the editorial policy of. the paper, showed his confidence in tho ladies by going to Rogue river fishing. Harry H. Hicks, news edi tor, abdicated in favor of tho little lady appointd by tho Greater Med ford club to preside over his desk, and tho other men of the force wero conspicuously absent from their posts of duty. When the women exclusive circles, ns no one expects swnrmccl down early saturuny morn a reporter to describe graphically 01 ling it was to tako undisputed posses SMELLS. The (By Mrs. II. C Stoddard.) cnliirhteninent of tho Medford lmblic niiirht almost be iriuiired bv the liuni- ber of its citizens who sleep ont of doors, or at least demand well ventilated sleep ing apartments. Of the hundreds of bouses built recently and now under construction a large percentage have proviscion for out of door sdleeping. Of our three score and ten years we spend over twenty years in sleep, and we realize as never before that 'tis well nigh impossible to so ventilate our bouse that tbe air is as good indoors as out. AVbile many parts of Medford are kept beautifully clean, the fact remains that some parts of our city are not, kept clean. The perpetual condition of certain al leys in Medford renders sleeping out of thiol's or indoors most difficult. Truth to tell, 'tis discouraging to breathe at till, cither day or night. We have a city ordinance wbich adequately covers the matter; a city health officer to enforce tbe law; a city editor who conducts an unceasing campaign for cleanliness; a large majority of citizens who have enough personal pride to keep their premises at all times free from kitchen garbage, refuse from stables, or any thing else tbat will contaminate tbe air and furnish a breeding plaee for flies. We have it few citizens who are notorious for not complying with the law in keeping their premises clean and habitable, and who seem entirely indifferent, to the fact that their neighbors have any rights which should be respected. We have made repeated attempts to sleep out of doors in various parts of Med ford and have found it a most discouraging undertaking, inasmuch as the incense that rose from neighboring alleys and smote our olfactories was something which even the wildest flights of fancy could not construe as emanating from orange blos soms. Nor is this till it has brought out the ugliness in our disposition' rather than the beautiful, as bad environments invariably do. Indeed, so vicious have we become, we have often wished with the Roman tyrant of old, that the people re sponsible for those filthy alleys had but one neck, that we might go out and hang them all with one rope. People who keep horses on small city lots should form the habit of removing till refuse from stables and alleys once a week. This, with the frequent uso of chlo ride of lime, with render their own premises lnoVo'habitable, to say nothing of the great joy it would afford their neighbors. If thou love thy neighbor as thyself, thou will not compel him to breathe, the aroma arising from thy manuro pi'lo. Let us enlist public sentiment against tlwi'ow remaining filthy alloys in Medford and in so doing speed the day when the residents on ovory street in Medford can, if thoy choose, sleep out of doors without wearing; clothespins on their noses. to give that much desired individual touch to the write-up of nn elaborate ly arranged dinner, reception, wed ding or ten, without being afforded an opportunity to secure at least a glimpse of the setting before or nfter the event. That adequate and satis factory details can not be secured over the telephone, is a kindly ac cepted fact. A Medford woman whom a kind fortune has placed out side the throng of those madly seek ing to wrest a competency and riclR'S from this world, and who hns n sym pathetic manner of expressing her self, volunteered to say that, letting the world know through tho social columns of the local paper that we were not entirelv given up to com mercialism but wero considering an easy, leisurclv and more or less aes thetic method of promoting social in tercourse, was ono of the needed ex- sion of an open field. And they seemed to fit into their respective places like tho different parts of a gig-saw puzzle. With an air of confidence that in spired respect, thoy went to worl. uj if they had been trained in a jour ralistio school, and while they mado mistakes, they did not ask an in supportable number of needless and silly questions, because they had ex hausted that phase of tho subject in preliminary days, and the rush aud whirl of actual combat stayed the restless tongue. Of course, to tho veteran nowspu per man thoy may huve lacked some of the earmarks of the reul profes sional journalist; they could not sharpen pencils, they could not re member that nowspnper copy is "dope," and thoy could not put their feet on the desks and puff at cob I 1 m ; 1. . piinsions in our citv. The value of,PPs wmio conning iiispmmou, oui, recrention suited to' individual tastes j thoy made up for that by n cortain in oiling the rather complex inachin- J "Pigling politeness and by looking cry of everyday life, can not be gain sayed and 'tis hinted that not only women, hut snid business men, pe ruse the social columns, not because they hnvo nny interest in what oc curs but, frankly, "to see what they hnvo to say." very businesslike. Tho uewspaper is looked up as man's particular institution aud about the only chance a woman has, iu the journalistic field is to loud va riety by certain touch-and-go ar ticles, to tho serious work of men.. One of the pleasant features of : Possibly tho sonso of boing debarred beinir soeietv editor, is that sbn must W tlio reason WUy WOlllCll 111 SO1UUU0 dress well, as upon reporting for duty of tho firesido tho hum of her frist assignment inuv bo to j mo uusy sireeis aro siuuyiug, uuiik lundi or breukfast at 11:110 where comparing, so that when an op- she is expected to eutch iu a few minutes the main details of the house and its decorations, the dining room, table, flowers, place cards, attend ants, menu, the charming nnd gra cious manners of the hostess, and the fetching toilettes of the Indies. portuuity liko this presents itself" thoy aro veady to fling theiusolves into the breech aud prove themselves, not altogether unquulificd for duty Tho preparation of tho special ar ticled and the canvass for advertis ing was accomplished early in the Her calling cards aro engraved by tlieW0?k min tho l,n's wit.h oaor " offico while n special automobile is kept at tho garago for her exclusive I 41. ..i 11.: uvHj, uiu iiuik mis iiuuiiiig uouiyiu- od to the mud rush for news that uso iu securing necessary informa tion. As tho social editor has so many privileges, her salary is small but limply sufficient for her modest needs. I'lio Indies of tho community, while holding fast to a becoming modosty, aro apparently willing to send iu in teresting details of dinners nnd par ties and dances, while it not infre quently happens that sovoral guests will also call up and cordially give complimentary comment that reaches tho offico iu n flood that threatons to submerge tho foreo If Bomo of today's "To Let" ads had not boon printod, soma of to day's nd readers would .,ay still longer in unsuitable homen. filled yesterday. Tho "cub report ers" seemed to have u genius for finding out things. Tho chief ox citomeut iu the nowspnper fiold is whon somo "big story" comos in at tho last moment, whon tho wholo complexion of tho paper must at once bo clmngod because if somo story breaks, unoxpootodly, ovon tho oditotrinl load may bo thrown out and tho uows that is up swopt away to make room for an absorbing tulo of interest. 'Tis this hopo thut something will huppon, that tho papor may "scoop" u rival or that tho re porters inuv securo an exclusive talo, that fascinates writors and koeps thorn year in nnd your out at tholr posts. (Continued on l'ago 21.)