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.ATAOH TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS. Monday, January 28, 1 91& II III f IIIMMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIilflllltltMMItllllMI The Oldest National Bank in Jackson County t I Member Federal Reserve System j FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $I20,000AJ0 DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America v The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen It is generally conceded that to a great extent the mother makes the home, yet altogether too few of us realize this regarding ourselves. Are wo not too prone to look at and criti cise others while our own methods are in need of improvement? It is like seeing the mote in a brother's eye while the beam is in our own. Very few of us can scan our neigh bors without finding many things upon which we could improve. Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine. : Learn how to tell a story. A good story is as wel comed as a sunbeam in a sick room. Learn to keep your own troubles to yourself. The world Is too busy to care for your ills and sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in this world, keep the bad to yourself. Learn to hid a aches and pains under a pleasant smile. No one cares to hear whether you have the earache, headache or rheumatism. Learn to meet your friends with a smile. The good hu mored man or woman is always wel come, but the dyspeptic or hypo chondriac is not wanted anywhere,, and is a nuisance as well. their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them; the kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. The flowers you mean to send for their coffins,' send to brighten and sweeten their homes before they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, full of frarant perfumes of sympathy and affection which they intended to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, and open them that I may be fresh ened and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin without a flower, a funeral without an eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of sympa thy and love. Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand for their bur ial. Post mortem kindness does not cheer the troubled spirit. Flowers on the coffin cast no fragrance back ward over life's weary way. Ashland Tidings ESTABLISHED 1870. Iss&ed Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, . Editor and Owner Lynn Mowat, Xews Reporter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. On Tear 2.00 Blx Months 1.00 Three Months 60 Payable In Advance, TELEPHONE 39, Advp'tising rates on application. First-cUss job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. No subscriptions for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal is received. In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postoffice as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail matter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Jan. 25, '13 CONFIDENCE IN ASHLAND REAL ESTATE. About three months ago the Tid ings editor advertised that he had a customer for some improved business property on the plaza or East Main street. The advertisement has been running intermittently ever since and but two pieces have been offered and both of these at a price consid ered too high. Which proves conclusively that im proved business property owners are well satisfied with the net returns they have been receiving on Ashland business properties. That notwith standing the low rents prevailing here compared to other places this sire. Business property is fairly well balanced. We hear little com plaint from the tenant about too high rents and evidently the owners are satisfied with the net Income derived from business property. If not, how can the fact that no business proper ty is offered to a. customer standing ready and advertising the fact, to take it at a fair price? The truth Is Ashland is a dandy lit tle city. It Is solid as a rock. Real vastate investments are good and first class Inside property is hard to get, notwithstanding the depressed times of the past two years. As long as owners of improved bus iness property refuse to offer it to a ' buyer who has advertised for three long months that he is willing to pur chase at a reasonable price, it is hard to listen with equanimity to the -knocker who insists that Ashland is on the bum and who knocks real es tate deals to strangers disposed to buy. Fellow citizens, be consistent. If you believe Ashland property to be a poor investment, as you so often tell strangers, then put a fair price on what you have and the writer of this article will cash it for you and give you ai opportunty to get loose and migrate to a city where the con ditions will take the grouch and knock out of you. While you have the chance, sell out or quit knocking. , Examine yourself closely, my .grouchy friend. You are likely to find the trouble not In your town, but in YOU. ASHLAND RALLY DAY, Mayor Johnson contemplates soon calling a road rally day in Ashland to give every citizen a chance to show his enthusiasm and loyalty to the for ward movement by working a day on the new scenic drive. It will be in teresting to note just how many shirk their share because the drive abuts on some one's else property. There is still some of that spirit In Ashland, but it is fast fading away. Within a year it will all be gone.- All hail that day. It takes a broader spirit than that to build a prosperous city. Every citizen must learn to look to the common good out and beyond selfish immediate personal In terest to the cumulative benefit of the whole. Seldom public improve ment that does not help or harm some persons and help others, but the sum total of it all puts the com munity to the front and every indi vidual is In ore prosperous by reason of it. The Ashland spirit is fast changing for the better. All of which spells lasting prosperity. A long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together and Ashland's future is assured. There Is virtue enough in her mineral waters to make her a great watering re3ort. She Is Indeed fortunate in having the Southern Pa cific Company behind the enterprise. Nothing on earth can stop Ashland but discord among her own citizens. That must not be. If your neighbor is a pessimist, gag blm. It you are, have' him gag you. Knocking must stop and boosting begin. The day when a knock was justified in Ash land is past. She will now produce traits meet for the optimist CAREFUL INVESTIGATION-NEEDED. Curbstone, offhand opinions on how to make a successful watering resort are of little value. The springs water commission have con sumed a large part of a year in in vestigations, having inquired into methods both in America and Eu rope, yet, what the commission does not know about making watering re sorts now would fill an exceedingly large volume. However, the com mission feels it has learned enough to know that by following expert ad vice in the different departments of resort building it will get fair re sults, and that a sufficient founda tion can be laid with the bond issue available to give reasonable assur ance of success. There are many an gles to the work, each of which con tribute much to ultimate success, and upon the correct consummation de pends largely whether Ashland will step quickly Into the first place among American watering resorts or drag slowly over twenty or thirty years of experimenting with Indiffer ent success. The commission feels it is on the right track for quick and satisfactory results. This conclusion has been reached through long and laborious Investigations, not only by the com mission but by the University of Ore gon, the technical departments of the Southern Pacific and the experi ence and judgment of those best qualified to say. The commission has succeeded in keeping in touch with brains qualified for the work, and it hopes to do so until the project is finally completed and the resort is a success. Therefore, curbstone opin ions should not be forced upon the commission with too great cock-sure-ness. CITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES ASH LAND SENTIMENT. Highway action by the city council last Tuesday night brought out one dominant fact. The city council is determined to not heed personal rivalry and animosity between Med ford and Ashland citizens. Both must prosper If either prospers. Lo cal men who attempt to work off per sonal and political grudge as com munity sentiment will meet with lit tle support from the Ashland public. It must be made plain that in such attacks citizens represent none but themselves. Ashland is firm in the belief that hearty good feelings and helpfulness of one community toward another is essential to the future prosperity of the Rogue River Val ley, and she will be found holding forth a friendly hand to all without in the least permitting any commun ity to give her the worst of it without her fighting back to the last ditch. Any attempt on the part of any citi zen to have it appear that bis per sonal grievance is a community senti ment will meet with positive rebuke. Further, the Rogue River Valley Is on the eve of a great forward move ment and unprecedented develop ment. No citizen should be allowed to stand in the way of needed public Improvements. While sympathy is due the aggrieved and injured, public work must not be hindered, but be put forward with a view to future needs as well as present requirements. WILL HUM SOME. Some of the things immediately in progress in Rogue River Valley: Cement plant at Gold Hill, just being completed. New federal building at Med ford to cost $100,000, contract let to be completed in fourteen months. Sugar beet factory to cost $600,000 and employ 150 men, which will directly create labor for 500 men more in the beet fields, force diversi fied farming, stock raising and dairy ing. The mineral springs project at Ashland to coBt $175,000, together with a new tourist hotel to cost $150, 000, a sanatorium to cost between $150,000 and $200,000, one-half mil lion dollars Invested In apartments and furnished cottages, and a good proepe t for a million-dollar Irriga tion plant. All this coming within the year 1915 will make the valley hum. There Is no room for pessim ism in the Rogue River Valley. She will go some this year. It Is said that this session of the legislature is going to be one of few bills and lots of common sense. Peace be with the legislators and may they live long and prosper. However, if the legislature continues to act through the forty days of the session as it has the first few, there Is every probability that the much promised . and much-wlshed-for re duction will be nothing but a myth. All ball to the business men of Ashland who rose up in their might and pushed the load up the hill. It is a down hill pull from now out. The future of Ashland is secure. Phone news Items to the Tidings. HOW A SURGEON -VAS: BUSTED. Once upon a time ., a certain sur geon lived in a town. Hie was an able surgeon, but, as happens every where, sometimes he lost a patient under the .knife. Owing to an old fogy ethics established in the long ago when surgery was a "profes sion" instead of a business, he could not consistently contribute advertis ing patronage to the local newspaper. All he could do was to subscribe and watch the paper for complimentary notices regarding his superior ability as a surgeon. When he had an un usual or delicate operation - he was always careful that the proper news story was written so as to bring out his exceptional ability to the best ad vantage but he never paid even for that notwithstanding that such news stories did more to establish his reputation and bring him big fees than his success justified. But, one day, in an unguarded mo ment a cub reporter on the paper, who did not understand the relation of a surgeon to a newspaper, or how touchy a surgeon was about some things, inadvertently printed a story about a patient dying under an oper ation at his hand; whereupon the surgeon became very wrothy and stopped his paper. Then he was not contributing one penny to the news paper and the editor did not feel much like scratching the back that refused to scratch his. Of course, as time went on the surgeon had other mishaps and other patients died un der his knife. The newspaper quit lying and told the truth about his operations. When somebody died under an operation the newspaper wrote theystory in cold truth, with out malice, and would you believe It? within one year the surgeon was busted. He had lost bis reputation. THE PACIFIC HIGHWAY. Now that the county court and the city council have come to an agree ment to adopt the state engineer's route on the Pacific highway through the Billings property, every citizen should submit gracefully to the edict. No man can be injured by public im provements without being compen sated for his injury. The law decrees it, and by 30 doing the law also Im plies that no citizen has the right to block public improvements. In the course of advanced society few things can be accomplished for the public good without grieving someone. Every one should learn to take his medicine and not attempt to block the onward march of prosperity. This the Tidings believes Mr. Billings and his friends will do. Earring dilatory action on the part of Mr. Billings the work will now pioceed to completion. The county court has agreed to go at once to work and finish the high way at the entire expense o f the county. NEW SCENIC DRIVE. The dawn of the new day is here. The first work on the forward resort movement for Ashland was begun last week when the city began actual construction on the new scenic drive around Sentinel hill. This will prove one of the most attractive drives on the coast, following, as it does, the rim of the canyon by easy automobile grade to high elevations, overlook ing not only beautiful Ashland creek and the park, but the entire valley for miles. Immediately after Janu ary 26, at which time the bonds will be sold, preparation for actual con struction on the springs project will be made, plans for the new tourist hotel will bo finished and a number of apartments, modern and well lo cated, will be projected. Verily, Ash land is about to come Into her own. THE AGE IS PAST. The Tidings is in receipt of a bunch of proof sheets, supposed to be run free by newspaper men who do not know their business, from the Car riage Builders' National Association, which is trying to keep the horse drawn vehicle industry alive by prey ing on the country editor. Why, bless your soul, gentlemen, all the free advertising on earth will not keep Americans in the back number class. This is an age of petrol power and not a farmer in the country but that would trade his old buggy and mortgage the cook stove for an automobile. Girls, get started in the merchants' contest for a free trip to the San Francisco exposition. Anybody can start a lady friend with 500 votes by filling out the contest coupon in this issue and filing it at the Tidings of fice. For particulars see advertise ments in today's paper. Step lively, gentlemen, or you'll be run down In the rush. Ashland Is going some from now on. Some would find fault where oth ers would not think of looking for it. . SUNvOP, PROSPERITY. RISING . HIGH. - ' If every man and woman in Ash land will resolve to not knock a sin gle knock against their town during the year 1915, will join the Commer cial Club and contribute their one dollar a month to help properly ex ploit Ashland's charms, to speak en couragingly of their neighbors and honestly lend their best energies in helping put the city to the front, the Tidings will sive them a written guarantee that there will be con structed during this year a fine, mod ern tourist hotel at a cost of not less than $100,000, an up-to-date water cure sanatorium at a cost of not less than $100,000, three to five fine modern apartment houses to cost not less than $30,000 each, and not less than Iwenty-flve modern furnished cottages, besides the improvements made with the proceeds from the $175,000 bond issue. Is not that worth working for? Along with that also resolve to jump onto the fellow who does kick and make him get in the band wagon or leave town. There will be absolutely no room in Ashland this year for the knocker. Wonderful, wonderful, Ashland's opportunity, and her only formidable drawback is a dominant spirit of pessimism. Join the Commercial Club. Be a booster and see what a united com munity with a big asset really can do in a year. Before this the Tidings editor has been rather shy about inviting his friends to move to Ashland unless he was satisfied they had their living al ready provided. None of that from now out. There will be something doing for everybody in three months from today With actual springs construction work under way Ashland will take on a new lease of vitality, and the splendid thing ia a watering resort cannot be overboomed. The more she booms the more she is her alded, the more people come; they do not come to make money, they come to spend it. On with the music. Let joy be unconflned. Much' paint should be used in Ash land this spring Every property owner rho c.n at all afford to do it should put a new bright coat on his house. The springs project will let crop .will begin to arrive. . It should be greeted with clean fresh paint, with blossoms and with a smile. Let not longer the beauties of Ashland be marred by unsightly and dilapidated buildings and old barns in the front yards. Make her a place people will be proud to come to. The Portland Telegram is the cleanest, newsiest metropolitan daily coming to our desk. It covers the entire rango of news on the coast in a terse, well-written style. December is that one month of ' the year when the conduct, or deport- j ment, of the average child improves ! about ninety-nine and nine-tenths per cent. This change begains to manifest itself early in the month and continues to grow until the 25th, when a perfect halo of innocence and virtue illuminates their faces. If we could have three or four Christmases a year, the reform schools would have to go out of business. Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fili MaKe the old look yeans. Both far and. star vision in one smooth lease. No seams or lines to show or martht vision. Scitn tifically fitted by Dr. B. Fontaine Optometrist, at K. J. Smith's Jew eliy Store, EIKs Ttmple, Ashland. ' I IIISIIliaaMMMI-.M-i,!,,,, ,, Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Sorosls Shoes VAUPEL'S Ue QUALITY STORE BoHerick Patterns GENTS' FURNISHINGS Shoes We Give 5 Cash Coupons With Every Cash Purchase Every Step Displays Your Footwear Your shoes must be fashionable and should fit well, for the present modes in dress bring them into such prominence that they have btcome a most important part of your attire, requiring extremely careful selection. Sorbsis and Utz Dunn -FOOTWEAR FOR WOMEN" Have atyle perfection that is apparent in every line. They embrace every new shape and xtyle in leather that enjoys the approval of fashion, and as everyone knows woikn.an-hip ai.d mate'ials a8 well as the style, are always our first consideration in shoes. And you don't have to break them in." Tney're comfortable and look right from the htart. $0 Aft Qnprial Ask 10 scc oup spccIal $3,00 bul!on shoc with D" V Cl CvtlCll lw heels and broad toes, in patent, kid and dull calf. VAUPEL'i" Ufa Best iti Quality Cfca Lowest in Price ... ,