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PAGE TWO ASHLAND TrnrxGs Thursday, November 21, 1012. Ashland Tidings SKMI-WKKKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issaed Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Hrver, - Editor and Owner IV. W. Talcott, ... City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year 12.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application First-class job printing facilities Equipments second to none in the interior. Entered at the Ashland. Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mall mat ter. Ashland. Ore., Thursday, Nov. 21, 12 THIS COUNTRY (jl'ITE SAFE. The few Americans who may be of Congressman Hobson's way of thinking iU be able to take comfort from some of the things which Kiyo j Sue Inui, vice-president of the Great I Lakes International Arbitration So ciety, said in his address before the Youug Mens Christian Association at Salem recently. "How much money do we need to wage war against the United States?' Inui said he asked of a prominent Japanese financier. "Why." replied the latter, "no one would lend us money to fight America." And a military expert of whom he inquired how many men would be needed to invade this country responded, "The two largest nations in the world could not win against the United States on land." That is the case in a nutshell. There is no desire on the part of this country to boast of its power and its resources. But it has both. If we were sufficiently provoked, we should fight and win. The day has passed at any rate with respect to the United States when the capture of a capital city means the end of a war. It is conceivable that a hostile fleet might bombard New York, or any other seaboard city, and land 'troops. Washington might be taken as it was in IS 12 but that would settle nothing. The Uuited States is too vast a country to be conquered, even if parts of it were overrun. Headquar ter could be established anywhere that it might be found desirable, and mobilization effected, munitions of war manufactured and a campaign waged which in the end would be successful against any probable en emy. Of course, as between the United States and Japan, war is not to be considered at all. Japan is not a rich nation and just at present finds it very necessary to make money. Not only could that country not exrect to profit by a struggle with America, but such a conflict would divert Jap anese effort from profitable fields. MHO TAYS FOR ADVERTISING. Oregon Statesman: Skeptics about advertising have been know n to raise the question as to who pays for all this publicity, and even to allege that its cost is loaded on the consumer. This is logic of about the same correctness as to say, when a store makes an addition to its sales force in order to handle its growing busi ness, that the cost of the new sales people is added to the cost of the goods. For advertising is simply a form of salesmanship, and the most effi cient kind. The growth of business that a store gets through advertising works to the advantage of the public. In every business are certain fixed charges usually called "overhead costs," for rent, saiary of manager, if one is employed, interest on capi tal invested and borrowed money, in surance, etc. It is usually the case that when a business is increased, the overhead costs do not increase very much. Consequently they become a smaller charge on every dollar of goods sold. The cost of advertising is paid through this increase of business that reduces the overhead charges. Furthermore, it tends to reduce the proportional expense of sales people. Good advertising should double the work the salespeople have to do. but the force of clerks is not necessarily doubled. Much of their time before was unoccupied, and spent in listless loafing, as tiresome to the clerk as it is unprofitable to the employer. If a merchant doubles his business and increases his salespeople 50 per cent to get the work done, a fourth of the expense of clerk hire that has to be charged up to each article sold is saved. That will pay for a very big advertising bill, and ltave a profit over. FALIJXG LEAF AM) FADING TREE. The breeze rustles through the! trees, and the golden, brown and red leaves come floating down to earth. Night begins to don her sable man tle earlier, the birds will soon wing their way to the south, and glorious summer will pay her lingering fare well. It is a very glorious thing, this summer or ours. Even the filth, the ugliness and the sordidness of our cities cannot altogether rob summer of its beauty. Froni even the mean est street one can raise one's eyes to the glorious blue of the infinite sky and review the majestic proces sion of fleecy clouds; the. sun gilds with its rays the ugliest building and imparts to it something of its own splendor, and velvet night conceals the ravages of man as it reveals in its blazing stars the majesty or God. There are few of us who do not feel some regret at the passing of sum mer, and yet, to the man who loves nature, fall is one of the most beau tiful and wonderful seasons of the year. Let us forget our troubles, forget for a little the bitter struggle of life. all the heartlessness, the inhumanity, t the selfishness, the greed, all those I vices of men that endlessly war j against beauty, and go out and com-; mune with nature. Let us muse for ! a while on the serenitv with which ; t the mighty mother moves about her eternal purposes. In these days nature is preparing, for the marvelous changes of winter, j She is stripping the trees and thei shrubs of their foliage as the first i step in the great transformation, j Come out in the park and watch her j at work. How trivial and common-: place seem the labors of the greatest j of human artists, compared with this, master of masters. Look at the col- i ors on those leaves that brilliant yellow, this rich crimson, all those j wonderful browns blending so mar- velously with that beautiful green! background. Then look upward.! look at the sky where the sun is set-! ting. What a riot of color, and each tint with a message, each glow with , a tale of the coming change. Slowly, with majestic tread, nature moves onward to the fulfillment of her unalterable purpose; and think you that purpose does not include us. the most perfect of her children? Who may doubt it? In the bewilder ment of our sorrows, in the persis tency of our pain, faith oftentimes grows weak. But in our heart of hearts do we ever really doubt? We know that we are not playthings of blind fate, but a part in a tremen dous scheme which shall one day be worked out to infinite good. Often our burdens seem too heavy for our strength, our courage falters and despair creeps upon us. Yet, remember this: If the eternal spring does not dawn for us, it will for those who come after us. What gleams of sunshine we have were bought for us by the tears and the anguish of those who went before. Let us not be untrue to our trust. GAME BIRDS AND THE FARMERS. It has been estimated by the United States agricultural depart ment that the codling moth and cur culio apple pests cost American fruit growers $S. 250, 000 a year in spray ing operations and $12,000,000 in the shrinkage of value in the apple crop. The chinch bugs, in a single season, have done $20,000,000 of damage to wheat; the boll weevil as much damage to cotton. Tree in sect pests are held responsible for $100,000,000 of destruction every year. The charges against insect pests, according to the government experts, total $120,100,000 annually. This tremendous price is what the farmers of America are paying for the slaughter of insect-eating birds. For every swallow killed by shooters trying their skill, for every robin killed for food, or woodpecker killed because of the mistaken idea that woodpeckers do harm, some farmer must pay in loss of grain, vegetables or fruit. There are seven states in which the robin is regularly and le gally shot as game. Five states per mit blackbirds to be shot as game, and 26 list doves as game birds, though doves are among the most voracious of insect eaters and there fore of immense value to farmers. Under the provisions of three bills now before congress, the protection of migrating birds is to be taken over by the federal government. As ex perience has shown that the individ ual states will not or cannot protect them, the duty should be assumed by Washington, which has a way of making its authority felt even with the most reckless. Farmers should j urge on their congressmen the neces jsity of stopping this needless $120, ! 100.000 yearly loss. The PORTLAND EVENING TELE GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year, $3.00. A WORKI NGM EN'S CLVB. The Eugene Guard says: "The movement for a workingman's c'.ub in Eugene is a good one and sho lid not be allowed to drop. A well conducted resort where men of all classes in their everyday work ng clothes will feel at home, enabling them to pass their leisure time in reading or recreations that are not harmful, is one of the real needs of this city. The business and profes sional men have their commercial club, the fraternal orders have simi lar resorts, but the workingman's interests in this respect have teen entirely overlooked. The idea of charity should be kept away from, since self-respecting, industrious la borers are willing and able to pay their way and require only organiza tion in the right direction to enable them to carry out a sensible, busi nesslike plan of this kind themselves. The details must be carefully worked out, and when this is done the peo ple of the city generally will un doubtedly come forward with the as sistance needed to meet the initial cost of securing and furnishing suit able quarters. If rightly planr.ed and properly managed the "club,' "rest room," "resort." or whatever it may be called, will take care of it.-elf after it is oiened." It has long been the belief of the writer that the hold which the saloon has on many of the men of the man ual working class is not so much the desire for intoxicants nor for low company, but the fact that the sa loon, which its advocates term the "poor man's club," is the only place where a laboring man can spend an evening w ithout feeling that he must go to the task of dressing upthe only place where he is made to feel that his clothes do not count. The average man is so weary when nis-'ht comes that he does not feel like dressing up, and besides he does not feel comfortable in his "Sunday-go-to-meeting" garb and it makes him self-conscious and he does not enjoy himself. Even at the fraternal so ciety gatherings it is the unwritten rule that while the member whose duties compel or allow him to wear good clothes at all times may go in his business garb, yet the brother who appears in overalls and frock feels out of place in them and equal ly out of place in unaccustomed garb. For this reason many of them after having joined some fraternal organ ization fail to attend, and again, the lodge may fall on the night when it is inconvenient for them to attend and on other nights they coifld go out had they some place to go. A workingmen's club would be of value in every town, and especially in those where there is a good per cent of the men working at vocations requiring rough garb. Whether or not there is a great need for such a club in Ashland is a question which only in vestigation among the men who would be benefitted by it, including the small ranch owners who when they come to town have to come pre pared to handle produce w hich would soil good clothes if worn, can deter mine. ROOSEVELT'S GREATEST SER VICE. Toledo Blade: In the first defeat of his national career, Theoodre Roosevelt has rendered to his coun try his greatest service. Beaten over whelmingly for an office he once won by the largest popular vote ever ac corded an American citizen, he has earned, to a greater degree than ever before, the gratitude of the nation. When Colonel Roosevelt entered the presidential contest last spring he had all to lose and nothing to gain. Easily the most nota le fig ure of his generation, no elective honors that might come to him could add to his personal fame. His refusal to re-enter public life and to grapple with the vital problems of the day offered an obvious course for a man of selfish purpose and per sonal vanity. It was the easiest way. But Theodore Roosevelt was never a man to shirk a duty or evade an issue. With probable defeat ahead, he threw himself into the battle for the people and better things for thf people, with the energy and strength and singleness of purpose that have marked his life work. Beaten at Chicago after he had fairly won the j nomination he sought, he continued to fight, stout-heartedly and with splendid courage. Neither assassin's bullets nor adverse ballots held an-y terrors for him. He fought his fight to the finish. And although he. personally, has lost the battle, the vital things for which he struggled cleaner politics, higher national ideals, a greater share of national material benefits for the plain people have been ad vanced indefinitely. The old, cor rupt, national convention system is dead. now. as one of the results of the Roosevelt campaign. The hu man welfare issues have become com pelling demands. The cause ot na tional righteousness and progress has The Home Circle niilit;!!;!;:!;;;;;;"""1 - - Carry sunshine in all your walks of life. A carload of pity is not worth a handful of help. Be like the harvest of this year good and generous. The newspaper is today the most potent element in civilization. Its audience is practically unlimited. It reaches every class and condition of men. It penetrates to every hut and hovel on the farthest confines of hu man society. The schools have an influence and gather the children of the high and low. But after schools are outgrown, teachers forgotten, and books mouldy and dusty, the newspaper is still a constant com panion. No public speaker, be he preacher or political orator, can draw an audience of one-tenth that which greets the average newspaper today, and thus the tone of the press be comes a matter of vital importance to the welfare of the community. The influence is widespread and is also lasting. Therefore we say, study well the contents of the paper you are taking, and if it contains that which tends to lower the scale of morality and humanity and not to the eleva tion of that which is good and right, better off are you by far without it. The Child Welfare Bulletin. Today in Peoria, 111., there appears a new publication which stands for the great child welfare movement. It is to be the official organ of a num ber of societies, so far as their work is identified with the work among the Children. The Child Welfare Bulletin can become a great power In the community, entering the homes of hundreds of Peorians and showing what is really being done for the children of that community. While the work is yet in its infancy in Peoria, yet the men and women who are actively interested in it are earnest and aggressive. They are determined that conditions for the children throughout that city shall be bettered. Their aim is happier homes and better citizenship. If any one can think out any subjects more laudable, than this, let him speak right out. If every town and city had a like organization our peniten tiaries would not be crowded. The Father's Teachings. The boy loves his mother probably more than he does his father, but so far as relates to the affairs of life in general and on its hard side, he has ten times the confidence in his fath er's practical and available wisdom than he has in that of his mother. And if his father finds it necessary in the conduct of business to strain one of two of the commandments the boy will keep on repeating them to his mother and commence breaking them with his father, and that, too, without feeling that his sinuosity of the procedure involves any great amount of inconsistency. The only thing that will save the boy and hold him in any way true to the fixed pole of rectitude that no considerations of place or circumstance can deflect him, is that he is under the domina tion of a father whose life in the midst of the world incarnates the principles learned from the mother in the midst of the home. The boy will believe in the feasibility of the mother's doctrine of righteousness if he sees his father 'take it out and exemplify it under the stress of busi ness. The father's life in this degree measures the power of the mother's tuition, and is the hand of God hastening or postponing the fulfill ment of her longings and prayers for the children of the household. Growing Old. Do not be fretful because you have come to spectacles. While glasses look premature on a young man's nose, they are an adornment to an octogenarian's face. Besides that, when your eyesight is poor you miss seeing a great many things un pleasant things that the younger are obliged to look at. Do not. be worried because your ear is becom ing dull. In that way you can escape being bored with many of the things that are said, if the gates of sound gained mightily in the campaign which Roosevelt made and lost. The debt of gratitude the country owes him has grown heavily in these last three months. That it will be cancelled, even in small measure, in his lifetime, is a matter of question. But that in the view of history he will be accorded the rank that he has so richly won as one of the great est and bravest and truest of Ameri can citizens, there is no manner or shadow of doubt. ? PureMounlainWatcrlcc Do Not Throw Your Apples Away i on a glutted market. Put them in cold storage for better prices. Your potatoes will not sprout or grow soft in cold storage. J Get our prices, which are as low as in the east. J WOOD AIMD COAL t We have a limited amount Washington state coal for the I ASHLAND ICE AND STORAGE CO. t t TELEPHONE 108 keep out much of the discord. If the hair is getting thin, it takes less time to comb it. and then it is not all the time falling down over your eyes; or if it be getting white, we think that color is as respectable as any other that is the color of the snow and the blososms and the clouds and all angelic habiliments. Do not worry because the time conies on when you must go into the next world. It is only a better room with brighter pictures, finer society and sweeter music. Robert McCheyne and John Know and Harriet Newell. Mrs. Hemans, John Milton and Mar tin Luther will be good enough com pany for the most of us. The corn stalk standing in the field today will not sigh dismally when the huskers leap over the fence and, throwing their arms around the stack, swing it to the ground; it is only to take the golden ear from the husk. Death for the aged Christian is only husk ing time, and then the load goes in from the frosts into the garner. Our congratulations to those who are nearly done with the nuisances of this world. Give your staff to your little grandson to ride horse on. You are going to be young again and you will have no need for crutches. May the clouds around the setting sun be goWen and such as lead the "weather wise" to prophesy a clear morning. Warrant Issued By Real Estate Man. Charles Lebo, a real estate man, and Charles Tull, a livery stable man, at Medford, had a disagreement Monday in which Tull is alleged to have taken a swing at Lebo, and as a result a warrant was issued by Justice of the Peace Glen O. Taylor, charging Tull with assault and bat tery. Mr. Lebo said afterward that Tull failed to land his swing,- but that they wrestled about in the dirt considerably, and that his hat was broken. He swore to the complaint. The trouble occurred over a differ ence of opinion regarding work be ing done on the property of the Med ford Reatly & Improvement Com pany. Try Tidings job pr'nting. The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. Ow Special Offe the Ashland Tidings and LaFollette's Weekly Magazine BOTH A FILL YEAR FOR ONLY ou can read every week what Senator Robert M. 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Relatives are members of society whose time is fully occupied in visit- jing somebody who is perfectly satis i fied with the size of his family. This ! country may occasionally run short ' on statesmen and ready money, but j there is no falling off in the crop I of relatives w ho unload themselves on the front porch with a blithe smile and a coiton flannel nightdress. There are two kinds of relatives I rich and poor. Rich relatives are 'courted with great assiduity and sou ! venir postcards, show ing the new j court house, and Main street, as it i appears when the lodge is at ease. J The flow of postcards ceases quite suddenly after a rich relative dies. I and breathes new life into the Home I for the Aged with dark green coupon bonds. A rich relative is a pleasant (thing to have on the family tree un j till his mind begins to wander in the i direction of college endowments and : the benighted and unclad heathen. when his picture is removed from j the front parlor and banished to the I hair trunk in the attic. Not all poor relatives are alike. Some are very companionable and fond of a change jof scenery, and mattresses, and are j liable to drop in and congest the (spare bedroom with arctic overshoes (anda telescope grip, while other ! never do any visiting except to nurse I the sick and render service, without j any fee. Relatives are sometimes ' quite free with advice as to the nrnn- j i ! er rearing of somebody else's chil dren, and when their advice is disre ; garded they fail to show up until : it is time to divide the estate. Rela- tives are appreciated most at Christ ; mas time, when they shower the home with drums, Noah's arks and I stick candy. We would not care to lose our relatives for any length or ! time, no matter how often they come ! or how long they stay. j To lighten the labors of a tin roof l er, a Michigan man has invented de- lamauie uanuies to increase the lev erage of an ordinary pair of metal cutting shears. Switzerland had 606 banks in (1910. Nineteen were state banks.