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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30
King Nicholas VIII Give Per-
sOnaI Supervision to Siege.
OUTLOOK FOR PEACE IMPROVES
Negotiations Appear Likely to
Bring an Early Armistice.
Austria and Russia Continue
Their War Preparations.

Rieka- Nov. 30.-The ombardment
of the Turkish fortress of Seutari was
resumed by the Montenegrins today
Their artillery has been reinforced
King Nicholas with his staff has left
for Grusa near Scutari to superintend
the operations of the besieging army.
The Montenegrin government has
designated three delegates to proceed
to Sofia to take part in the peace nego-
tiatiOnS
Peace Outlook Brightens.
London, Nov. 30.-A slight relaxa-
ton of tension in international po-
IIt1cal situation came today with the
optimistic announcement from official
sources in ConstantinopIe that the
negotiations between the Bulgarian
and Turkish pIenipotentiaries at the
village of Baghtche, on the TchaIta1ja
lines, are likely to result in a speedy
signature being written TO the terms
OF an armIstice.
The real menace to European
peace, however, in the shape of the
Austro-Servian difficulty still persists
The assertions of the rulers of Aus
trfa-Hungary and Russia. the two
great empires most Immediately con-
cerned, that they desire to maintain
peace, have not put an end to their
active preparations for war.
Diplomats feel that once hostiIities
have been definitely adjourned and the
allied Balkan nations are in a posi-
ton to calculate their gains there
bridging the gulf at present separat-
ing Austria Hungary and Servfa It is
thought generally that Bulgaria would
then be in a better situation to bring
her influence 10 bear in favor of a
CONF mprornise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30
NIakes senate 3 Tie.

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Fair tonight and Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30

Boston Nov sa--East meets west to-
day when Oak Park High school of Chi
eago. PLAYS an inter-city football game
with Everett High at Fenway park
The biggest crowd in the. history of
school football here. Nas expected to
witness the contest
Oak Park entered the game with a
clean slate. while Everett although de-
feated by Maiden High by 1 point. was
considered the representative school
eleven of Massachusefs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30

Boston. Nov 3a--Ffrst period Ever Il
high school, 0. Oakpark tChieago) high. 4
Boston. Nov 30.-Second period
Everett High = Oak Park H.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30
They Win for Navy-BOth
Kicked From Placement.
Brilliant ThrOng Witnesses
Close Fought Game.

Unpire-Dr A L Sharpe Yale Head
Observation-Disclosures L Smith. PennsyI-
vanfa Time of periods-15 minutes
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
LOADING UP THE FUTURE.

London wasn't much of a town in
the time of Henry VIII, back in the
sixteenth century. When the king
gave his courier, Richard Page, a
slice of land he had taken from one
of the abbeys, nobody thought it
much of gift. 1t made a nice little
COW pasture, but that was about all
it was good for. Even as late as
1926 it was valued at only $4,000.
King Henry has long since turned
to dust, likewise Richard Page. But
millions have been born. They
swarm daily over that old cow pas
ture. They have reared great build
ings on it. Street railways converge
there. The air resounds to the roar
of traffic and now the old pasture is
valued at $15O,OOO,00O.
Never mind about Richard Pages
gift from the king. But did you ever
stop to think of the enormous real
estate values that yet remain to be
created by the unborn millions of the
future?
Did you ever stop to think that
someone must pay rent, interest and
profit on all these values to be?
Quite load for the future!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
BOOSTING ROME.

Just think, Rome, ancient and
famous Rome, has decided that she
must do something to attract capital.
industries and population. Like any
ordinary town on a new railroad in
the west, they will doubtless have
the Roman chamber of commerce
yes, and the Roman boosters.
The trouble with Rome is that
neither good nor other building ma
terials are found in it's neighbor-
hood Result, high cost of living,
stagnation and hard times for its
$4,000 people.
The only real good asset is the
tourist, and just when he is most
needed he doesn't come.
What's to be done? Why Rome
is to be made a seaport. Deep water
is seventeen miles away, and the
Tiber is no good except for poets.
There is to be big canal, and then
gigantic basins and docks. This
means cheap foodstuffs and building
materials, to be followed by indus
tries and commerce.
The generation that does it will
rank with the generations that built
the Coliseum and st. Peters. Keep
you eye on Rome.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
THE SCHOOL MA'AM.

The school ma am is a conscien-
tious individual, who teaches the
young idea how to shoot Once in
while she gets hold of pupil whose
eyesight is so defective that she can't
shoot anything but moist paper wads,
which describe a graceful parabola,
and spread out on teachers collar
like a bow-legged man in an upper
BERTH The teacher is supposed to
take the mind of youth while it is
in raw state and break it to drive
single or double The hardest task
a teacher has to perform is to pro-
vide mental pabulum for scholars
whose parents forget to endoW them
with anything in the intellectual line
outside of ears and feet The rural
school ma'ams put in longer hours
for less pay than anybody in the uni
verse who never strayed into the
newspaper profession, with a drum
cylinder press and soul full of hope
1t is encouraging to reflect that most
OF our presidents sat under some
rural school ma'am with a hard rub
Der ruler and a pious leaning toward
corporal punishment, at one time or
another, and had their characters
formed along with a number of brisk
and bas relief welts. Very few school
ma'ams nowadays punctuate their re-
marks with anything but the power
of love, which has about as much et-
feet upon case-hardened pupil as
spraying talcum powder on the
mumps. There is plenty of room in
this country for the old-fashioned
school ma'am, with an arm like a
premium ham, who used to reach
over into the third row of seats and
land the school bully on a hardwood
floor with a jolt that caused him to
see the nebular hypothesis for a
week. People whose children never
pluck any prizes to speak of, have
very low idea of school ma ans in
general, but if it were not for our
school ma'ams most of us couldn't
tell a cube root from any other veg
etable.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
USES OF WATER.

We are the most conservative peo-
pie on earth. Bismarck, man of iron
and support of monarchy that he
was, stood thirty years ago many
years ahead of where our most ad-
vanced statesmen stand today. He
declared that German industry could
not prosper while few men held a
monopoly of transportation. Hence
he insisted on public ownership of
railways and the canalizing of all the
rivers. Gradually the manufactur-
ing towns grew up on the water
fronts so that nearly all the heavy
freight of Germany is moved by wa
ter at one-tenth the cost of railroad
transportation, while the average
cost of all transportation, rail and
water combined. is about one-third
that of the United States. However,
the Americans have not wholly
neglected their water resources
they have poured ten billions of wa
ter into their railroad stocks and
bonds, about half of the whole
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17

They have too much of the old lug
gage TO carry.
How cautiously the people have APP
preached the primary system. 1t
was a new thing and was about to
take the place of an old and sacred
institution. the convention. Poll
ticians and many well-meaning per-
sons shuddered at the thought. But
in action it is getting the desired re-
suits. True, it is absolutely destroy
ing party organizations, but that is
what is needed. After while the peo-
pie will see the absurdity of holding
party primaries, because the parties
will be no more. Then they will
adopt what should have been in the
first instance. general primary.
AS long as conventions adopted
platforms and nominated candidates
party organization was necessary to
elect them, but since, under the pri-
mary system, every man must stand
on his own merits and announce the
policies of government he proposes to
administer, submitting his case to
the individuals of society only, and
standing responsible only to the ma
iority will as expressed at the polls,
there is small need for party organ
ization.
Party organization is forceful in
establishing an issue against the will
of the majority, but it is useless as
an instrument through which the
majority will may be expressed.
The great break in the republican
party today comes from the party
organization attempting to force a
stand-pat issue in spite of an over
whelming progressive sentiment in
the party.
Party organization is not necessary
to maintain administration in line
with popular will. In fact, it is a
menace to popular government.
After while the people will come
to see that.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17

There should be an official plat
made of the land in the Rogue river
valley showing depth of soil, adapta-
bility of specific tracts to profitable
crops, what land is adapted to fruit
culture and what is not. This plat
should be an official document and
be made of record at the county court
houses, so that strangers coming into
the communities may be protected
against land grafters. NO commun-
ity can be made TO permanently pros
per by planting orchards on hard
pan and selling them to the unso-
phisticated stranger as good land and
orchard values. The sooner such
practices are made impossible the
sooner will the valley begin and con-
tinue to prosper. No community can
afford to allow land grafters to ron
people coming here in good faith
with money to invest The Rogue
Ai'Si NpiAOy 10 OhC vi IhC DCSJ VI
chard districts in America. There
is good land and bad land in it: fruit
land and land not at all adapted to
fruit culture. Nothing is added to
the wealth of the community by
planting orchards on land not adapt
ed to it, raising the trees to two or
three years old and unloading them
on people not familiar with this To-
cality, only to sour-sap and die before
! they bear. Such land should settle
back to the uses for which it is
adapted and the prices should be
forced back to what it's production
will justify. When that is done the
valley will develop faster and the
development will be permanent and
profitable. People living here should
force this issue. 1t is the big issue
in this valley. An absolute ban
should be put upon land grating in
the interest of all.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17

There has been a great deal said
about the danger of government
ownership on account of the horde
of office-holders it will create, thus
making it possible for the ins to
keep themselves in ad infinitum.
Under our theory of government an
official is public servant rather
than a ruler. If every public servant
became automatically disfranchised
as soon as he took the oath of office,
and his citizenship was re-established
when his official tenure expired, that
danger would be eliminated. The
outs, then, would do the voting and
the government would be admins
tered in their interest instead of that
of the office-holder. Is there any
good reason why that doctrine should
not be incorporated into law?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
TELEPHONE 80

Entered at the Ashland. Oregon,
Postoffice as second-class mail mat
ter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
"THE QUESTION BEFORE THE
HOUSE"

When a prohibitionist at Asbury
Park asked Senator La Toilette if he
were a prohibitnonist, the questioner
probably did not mean to be disor-
derby, but he was. Senator La Fol-
lette had just closed an address on
the fighting issues of the pending
presidential campaign, of which pro-
hibition is not one nor likely to be.
Prohibition was therefore on that oc-
casion not germane to what parlia-
mentarians call "the question before
the house" 1t was a disorderly in
terruption But Senator La Toilette
answered it straight from the shoul-
der, as is customary with him. Not
being a prohibitionist, he said so in
one word of one syllable. But he
added several words of well-merited
rebuke. He said to his clerical ques-
toner:
Il don't think that was fair of
you; that question >as not entered
into the discussions of the campaign
and is not an issue; but as you ask it
and have my answer. | suggest that
you put the question also to Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft when they
come here"
The advice was probably not TAX
en-. These out-of-order questions are
almost always put to candidates who
are already as far forward in tn,
progressive fight as public opinion
will tolerate; and it is not an unfaiI
Inference that as rule the questions
are put in the interest of reactionar,
candidates who give less candid an
swers than may be expected from
progressives, or whose answers can
not so we'll be made to count to thei
prejudice. Prohibitionists, however
are not especially addicted to thi
kind of disorderly conduct The
are probably freer from it than man,
Others. 1t was done on the larges
scale four years ago, when equal suf
fragists insisted upon making tn
suffrage question a rider on tn
shoulders of presidential candidate
in campaign that was utterly de
void of equal suffrage possibilities
Mr.. Bryan refused to answer one wa
or the other, on the ground that tn
question was not involved in tn
campaign, and republicans made tn
most of it; Mr.. Taft made a deceptiv
answer, and republicans made tn
most of that, using. it both ways
What Mr.. Taft himself made of i
after his election-well. his anti-suf
frage speech at the suffrage meetinl
in Washington, is it forgotten? Thi
raising of questions mot before tn,
house" to the prejudice of questions
that are before the house" ha.
enough other angles to furnish ma
terial for a book. But any on,
whose bump of orderliness is reason
ably developed will need no book t
teach him the difference between the
Importance of any given subject con
sidered regardless of temporary cir
cumstances, and its Importance con
sidered with immediate reference t.
such circumstances.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17

TIL world owes you nothing You
owe the world the honest measure of
a mans service. That, and nothing
more. Do your part honestly and
fervently. Look not to the conse-
quences, nor to the opinions of men.
The work will tell for itself. See
that your course is directed along
right lines. And remember, always,
the world is filled with men of many
minds. The work of others is not
your work. Think right, act right,
and proceed without fear. 1t is not
yours to please, but to do.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
THE HOBBLE STREET CAR.

Women don't vote in New York,
but they rule just the same. New
street cars have steps only three
inches from the ground. Either the
women had to discard hobble skirts
or the street cars had to be recon
structed for their benefit. The cars
surrendered, while the hobble skirt
waves triumphant, so to speak.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17

Judge Colvig, president of the
Medford Commercial Club, is touring
the state to secure signatures to the
good roads home rule measure.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17

'Everybodys doin' it," Send your
social news to Miss Hawley. Phone
3-9.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17

Unless Mr. Taft and the colonel
make up pretty soon. we shall have
to serve their meals in their own
rooms when they come to visit us.
as We can't have the peace of the
dining room broken this way.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17

The optimist doesn't always make
good, but he will make good oftener
than the pessimist.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
Granite City Express
A. F. Abbott, Prof.

u. 4 E ADuOIl, IIOp
Handles Freight, Household
Goods and General Dray Work
Office with Rose Bros, Ashland, Ore.
Office phone 213R. Res. phone 252R.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-14
Bv GARRETT p. SERVISS.

battIeship New York as she
rushed, with an anthem Of VIC
tory that shook the air, down the
ringing grooves which led from her
huge cradle to the salt tide waters
that are to be her home.
Never have l heard another such
diapason played by any instrument
made VITA human hands. The
ground trembled, the atmosphere
was turned into a gigantic lutte,
with every string in accordant vi
bration. The strange birth song Of
the rushing ship. blending with the
roar of a thousand welcoming whls-
ties and the cheers from fifty thou
sand threats, made a concert OF
triumphant melodies that will al
ways ring in my ears,
The overwhelming effect was
partly the result of surprise; l had
not expected that the great battle
ship would go singing to the sea.
Her voice was one to make every
patriotic heart beat quicker. There
was in it no tone Of doubt or fear.
If was the anticipatory chant OF
l,o++Jo op6 pf victory
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-14
The South
y y y
The President Sees in Change Washington Greater and
Fuller Opportunity For This Section of the Nation.

That altogether cefu and patriotic of
President Taft when in welcoming the Daughters of the Con-
edercy Washington Tuesday he expressed the opinion that
the coming the national capital of Democratic admnsra-
ton will bring the South into fuller and desirable part
nershp in the nations affairs.
The South, least, will accept presidents words
good faith and give him credit for large Of SINGER
ity in saying them when and where he did
1t not be forgotten and particularly the South
forget it. that Mr. Taft president has shown by substan
a deeds his proed friendship toward this immediate section
He to Louisiana find chief justice Of the supreme
of the United Staeshe Tennessee and Georgia
find two associate justices He spent of his
Southhe has loved mngle with Southern people,
said time and again frankly and freely His init
mate personal military aide the amented Archie Butt
Southerner.
The South in rejoicing that Wilson president
following Mr. Taft should not beand will bemmndful
of the fact that President Taft whatever his political bunders
and misconceptions and concedng to all wide freedom
of thought TO that has been always of
of purpose and integrity Of action. He may
others the matter of political sagacity
he has been kind hearted gentleman surrounded by
knew exactly what they wanted may be
but will be denied that Mr.. Taft and
broadminded in his ideals and desired president
all the people
The South, while rejoicing change is to come in the
conduct OF the national government ncnes goat that
political misfortune has president yet sus
pec aught of guile unworhness within heart Of
him.
The South will feel that Mr. Taft intended to be
other than friendly however much may realize he
that his hands have been in degree tied his high
purposes and desires thwarted time again circm
which he had control.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-14

plate. And the curious thing is,
the more posies YOU pick from one
OF these gardens Of the mind the
more there are left.
BE on good terms with the great;
touch tingertips with Robert Louis;
greet Tammas, the Techy Titan,
with a smile. even if he only re-
turns it with a grunt; laugh with
Rousseau, learn with Hugo, the
master Of the short sentence: sigh
with Old Omar and 49, of them all.
blessed by your own divinity, your
own insight. your own apprecia-
ton, you will be able 20 sit at the
speakers tanie in Valhalla with
Plato. Pericles, Aristotle. Coperni-
Gus, while Dante the solemn passes
the brown bread
A book is the record of a life
II is what the grain of the tree is
to the wood; It is a history of
struggle for existence.
In book you get the best that
a man has ever thought or done or
said. The dross the lees-the COM
monplace, the transient-alI are
omitted.
Amy book that lives twenty i've
years has seen generation die
and haas been appreciated 10y ,vo
decades
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-14
> About Books

FANS first great invention
MI was the scheme whereby Il
vocal sound stands for q spe-
cinc thought. Then language was
born.
The second great invention. and
the greatest one in the world yet,
was making an arbitrary mark
stand for vocal sound,
This was the secret Of Cadmus,
the Phoenician, who invented the
alphabet.
Twenty little crooked marks
called letters, and seven punctua-
ton marks-this is the equipment
of writer. OF course. it must be
taken for granted that the man has
thoughts. But what thought is. no
one vet has ever attempted to say.
a book is the utilization of the
Cadmean invention As we grow
in spirit and mentality we want
fewer books and better books.
Books are not SO much to teach us
as TO suggest and make US think for
ourselves
Reading is differentiation You
IINv Chan Nutbul only vino reflects
your oUu anHagNt m tAv book YOU
discover yeueeIf only thu sophie
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-14
Real Democracy Is Good
Business
BUSINESS

The presdentelect broke his poseection silence say
thing to witt That honest business has nothing gen
uine Democratic administration.
Under the existing this assurance was well con-
ceved and timely enough But day when such
assurance will be uperfuous under any circumstances
The day will come when schooboy will understand
sound democracy and sound business interchangeable
that the principles of legitimate prosperous commerce and in
dusty are simply transcript of the fundamental ideas
democratic order
In illustration truth consider the following propositions
DEMOCRACY CAN NOT EXPAND AND FLOURISH UN-
LESS THERE is A FREE CAREER FOR TALENT-NEITHER
CAN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.
Whenever the pathways personal power cogged by
privileges and prerogatVes and thus original
and creative enterprise democracy anguhes so does bust
Democracy in hnging gates of opportunity and offer
ing an equal chance to does prizes to
timber goism long winded greed 1t means to clear the way
Tor rivalry IN good worksa in which the
people shall be the winner of crown Where the same
rule does not obtain the industrial order enterprise egeneras
INTO sodden monopoly And monopoly parayzes business
REAL DEMOCRACY IS BASED UPON FREE CONTRACT
BUSINESS. ''"f''i i 10 The SAME WITH SOUND
When political advantages wrung the majority bv
fraud the energy of free diminished And when
advantages are wreed from the people by
duress the volume of business are not free when
they in need and there bargaining between hun
upon the freedom OF all F "
REAL DEMOCRACY AND SOUND BUSINESS LIVE BY
DISCOVERY AND PROGRESS. NEITHER CAN LIVE IN A
STATE OF REPOSE AND ROUTINE
The freedom of free requires of the
change and improve their occupations political servde
a
OF social motion The political problem economic problem
both ARISE from the fact that there obeeke than Jobs
The solution of both problems lies releasing of creative
forces and the increasing of the enterprise Wher
ever there opportunities of advancement there are
men Knocking at the gates the
a vanshes The anagonm between majority and the minor
ity vanishes also
Thus might 90 Observation-Disclosures the kenees
between real democracy and sound business book or whole
library might be written ON the subject
But the point missed lesson is brought home that
the likeness than likeness an identity The Two
grand dealsS OF the modern word-e enthusiasm business
and the passion for democracy one and the same
thing W '
@lloN OF DEMOCRACY