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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22
FEARS DISORDER IN ULSTER.
I. W. Russell, NJ. p, Apprehensive
Regarding Home Rule Passage.
\ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of The Star.

orel.6 Correspondence OF y IT, Slal.
DJBLIN. December l.. 1919.
T. w Russell. NJ. p, vice president of
the Irish department of agriculture, who
used to be an Ulster unionist member,
admitted I'm a speech in Dublin that he
''feft quite certain there would be tumult
and disorder in parts of Ulster" If home
rule is passed.
- They that take the sword shall per-
ish By the sword" he said. lis an old
and true maxim, and when the prime
minister said that force would be met
~ adequate means of repression he gave
notice Of what was before the law
breaker.
To insure a peaceful start for the new
era ia ireland no effort should be spared
u bring about a settlement by consent.
l:ut KNOWN. the facts as do. am not
hopeful of such a settlement being
reach. d
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22
WINTER AT ARLINGTON.
Cold-Season Beauty of the Place
Which Many Persons Miss.

Washington Correspondence New York Evening
Post.
The Arlington of today is not the Ar
Iington of Lees time. No Christmas logs
are being brought through the grounds
OF the old mansion on the hill. The an
cient fireplaces are covered with rusty
iron, and stoves, dreadfully modern, do
warming. duty in the great room where
Robert L. Lee married the great-grand-
daughter of Martha Washington. Time
has added to the outdoor beauty of Ar
lington while man has been doing his
best with his modern touch to mar its
indoor ,attractiveqess. The old oaks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22
Busy Railroad Terminals.

From the Engineering News.
The busiest railway terminal in this
country is the South station of Boston,
which handles more trains passengers,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22

II pans TO read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds OF situations are
fIled through them.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
NO ROAD TAX.

Judge Calkins has held that Jack
son county has no right to collect
road taxes in the city of Ashland.
That is the answer of the court to
the controversy between the Med
ford press and the city of Ashland
on the subject. Notwithstanding the
structures of the Medford press and
the Medford gang against Ashland
for attempting. to maintain her
rights, it now appears that Ashland
was legally correct in her conten-
ton. The county court, of course,
takes the position that it will fight
to the last ditch, but Ashland will
persevere in her right inasmuch as
she has built fourteen bridges across
Ashland creek, at her own and sole
expense, while the county has been
good enough to the city of Medford
to spend some sixteen thousand dol
lars of the money collected from the
several road districts of the county
in constructing a bridge within the
city limits of that thriving town.
The court held that the county
court had the right to spend county
money for Medford bridges and the
rest of the county took its medicine.
Now that the courts have held that
the county has no right to levy a
road tax against Ashland will the
"gang" at Medford be kind enough
to concede that the city of Ashland
be no longer illegally looted" to
build Medford bridges?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
LET'S PUSH ASHLAND.

Again we rise to remark that Ash
land should be better advertised in
S uthern California as home resort
town. There are still ten thousand
people, every day, in southern Cali
fornia who do not fit there who
would be happy and contented in
Ashland, if they could be got here
to try it. The Tidings is willing to
contribute a reasonable sum to a
special advertising fund for that pur-
pose. That is, an advertising fund,
not to be expended in the interest of
real estate investments, but in
bringing the kind of people here that
are able to live here and who will
be pleased with the conditions. who
pine for the wholesome home life,
social environment, school advan-
tages, scenic beauty and exception
ally healthful coditions that are
found better here than at any other
spot on the earth. If they can be
made to see it as we see it they will
come here and live happy and con-
tented.
Ashland is not, nor can it be
made, bustling commercial center.
Nature never intended it as such
But nature has provided it with a
better Observation-Disclosures eli
mate than any other spot in America.
1t has given it better natural re-
sources for health, long life, social
intercourse, education and culture
And the conditions for serene and
happy home life far surpass anything
to be found in southern California.
Let's get up an advertising fund,
entirely outside of real estate agents
and interests, and try to get a few
thousand of the well-to-do and dis
contented people from southern Cali
fornia. There are thousands of
them, ranging in resources from
twenty thousand to one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, that do not
fit in southern California but that
will exactly fit here. Let's try it.
The Tidings hereby contributes
$50 to a fund for this purpose, to be
used solely for advertising in south
ern California. Who will be the
next? 1t will take about five hun
dred dollars to try the matter out to
a successful conclusion.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
SENATOR'S FOR SUFFRAGE.
L. S. SoIOns Report Favorably On the
Question.

Washington, June. 19.-Senator
Ashurst of Arizona today presented
the report of the senate suffrage
committee, recommending the pass
age of Senator Chamberlain resolu-
ton for a constitutional amendment
enfranchising women.
Senator Catron was the only COM
mitteeman voting against favorable
report. Those approving it were
Senators Thomas, Ashurst, Owen,
Hollis, Randall, Clapp, Jones and
Sutherland.
The report vigorously urged votes
for women. 1t declared suffrage was
justified "by every test the students
of government had set down for en-
franchisement of any class of citi-
Zens.
1--WE do not feel called upon" said
the committeeman in the report, "to
discuss, even if debatable, the ques-
tion of equality of sexes from an in
tellectual standpoint. The govern
ment is strong, weak, capable or de-
ficient, according to the people con-
trolling and making up the govern
ment. That granting the elective
franchise to women would add to the
strength, efficiency, justice and fair
ness of the government We do not
doubt"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
A MAIL ORDER TAX.

A bill has recently been intro
duced in congress calling for an in
ternal revenue tax of one per cent
of the total amount of sales of mail
order houses through interstate
commerce. Leading wholesalers say
this tax is too small.
While such tax would be a pro-
lection to the retail store, it should
not be sought primarily as a protec-
tive measure. There is real basis
for such a levy, as fair contribu-
ton by these houses from their great
traffic.
Under present conditions, probably
none of these concerns pays a fair
share of the country's burdens.
The retail merchant pays a stiff
tax, because he must keep a large
assortment of goods on hand. The
public will not buy his goods "un-
sight and unseen" People demand
chance to see them, and a consid-
cradle assortment, so that they can
select from various styles and prices.
The merchant thus carries much
tangible property, which the assessor
sees, and which he taxes.
BY clever advertising, the mail or
der house escapes the usual necessity
Of business, that the purchaser be
shown the goods. The purchaser
buys on faith. The proportion of
goods kept on hand is very small
compared to what the retail mer-
chant keeps. The assessor cannot
find much taxable property in cata-
logue books. What the mail order
house pays of course varies accord
ing to the laws of different states.
But the assessable property on hand
must usually be. very small in pro-
portion to the business done and the
profits thereof.
1t seems only fair that such
houses should pay a liberal excise
tax. Otherwise they enter into COM
petition with the retail merchant
without the handicap of taxation
which he must always carry.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
WE'RE A SAVING NATION, ALL
RIGHT; But WE'VE BEEN
SAVING THE WRONG
THING.

One rotten girder in the municipal
auditorium pier at Long Beach, Cal,
explains the collapse which recently
cost nearly forty lives. The investi-
CATION was made after the damage
had been done. 1t showed that, even
before it rotted, the girder had been
insufficient to stand a maximum
strain.
A skimped structure to begin with,
then neglect and rot, and finally
tragedy and the coroner! How typi-
cally American!
1t took the sacrifice of nearly 800
child lives in the Collinwood school
holocaust to get fire escapes and out
ward-opening doors on American
school buildings, though architects
and builders long beforehand knew
their necessity.
1t took the murder of upward of a
thousand persons in the Iroquois
Theatre fire in Chicago and in the
town hall blaze at Boyertown, Pa.
to secure temporary concern over
theatre exits, though no building in.
spector in the country ought to have
needed such reminders to spur him
to demand safety in places of public
assemblage.
Year by year we go on throwing
away three per cent of the average
mans income in needless fires due tC
flimsy home construction, chiefly the
work of real estate spectators; and
it is but very slowly that we are
learning the superior economy oi
using slow-burning or fireproof ma
terials.
The annual loss on the rails o.
more lives than fall in the average
war went on for a generation before
there was serious effort to establish
grade crossings, automatic couplers
block signals and steel coaches AnC
III pOlnJ Vi safety
We are still far behind the nations
of Europe.
The number of deaths chargeable
to commercially denatured or will
fully adulterated foods we do moi
know; but, though most of us have
begun to perceive this element oi
danger, it nevertheless takes tremen-
dous stress on the part of few to
keep up measure of efficient SUI
pervision.
Of course the trouble has been
that we've been taught as the great
concern Of our existence to save
money. And not to save II so much
for ourselves, either, which mightn't
be bad idea, as to save it for some
corporation, capitalist or institution.
1t is time, don't you think, to
shift the emphasis a bit and begin to
plan how to save human lives?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

The position taken by President
Wilson regarding free meats and
free livestock will be heartily COM
mended by nearly everybody in the
country, Meats have been higher
the past year and half than at any
time since the civil war and authori-
ties unite in saying that this high
price is occasioned by the present
shortage of stock. If this Is true,
why put tariff against Mexican and
Canadian cattle or against Argentine
beef? One man raises cattle and the
thousands buy meat We can see no
reason for taxing the thousands for
the benefit of the one. AS q matter
of fact the stock raiser of this coun-
try needs no protection and the i'm
portation of meat should be encour-
aged instead of discouraged. 1t has
already reached the point where the
man whose wage is less than $25 per
week can scarce afford the luxury
of steak. Even the butchers of
the country are bitterly complaining
that the high price of meat is de-
creasing the consumption to such an
extent as to almost ruin their busi-
ness. In the making of the tariff
bill, President Wilson's idea that the
tariff be largely removed from all
articles of food is most generally ap-
proved by citizens of all parties.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
HORSE REGAINS PRESTIGE.
Costs Much Less Than Auto as Par
eel Post HauIer.

Washington, June 13.-Postoffice
investigators have found that the
cost of delivering parcel post pack
ages ranges from less than 4 to more
than IA cents package.
The automobile is proving a very
dear luxury in some large cities and
the old horse is making a record for
economy.
An investigation in so miles re-
veals that delivery by automobile has
cost 2 cents a package in some cities
and nearly 15 cents in others. No
where has the horse-drawn cart de-
livery cost more than cents a pack
age.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

much on you as on your neighbors.
Don't get the idea that the future
prosperity of this town rests with a
few, for it is the business of the
many. Above all, don't criticise
those who are building up the COM
munity and do nothing yourself
They at least have the proper spirit,
and just as long as you deny them
your support, just that much harder
their work will be.
Be a booster for the town and
lend your cooperation to those who
had the nerve to start first 1t is
never too early to start and it is
never too late to begin.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
The FirepIace.


Notwithstanding all the modern
inventions for heating, 1 tell you
there is nothing so full of geniality
and sociability as the old-fashioned
country fireplace. The neighbors
were to come in for a winter even
ing of sociability. In the middle of
the afternoon, in the best room in
the house, some one brought in a
great : black log, with great strain,
and put it down on the back of the
hearth. Then the lighter wood was
put on armful after armful. Then
shovel of Goals was taken from an
other room and put under the dry
pile. and the kindling began, and the
cracking, and it rose until it became
roaring flame which filled all the
room with geniality and was reflect
ed from the family pictures on the
wall. Then the neighbors came in
two by two. They sat down, their
faces to the fire, which ever and
anon was stirred with tongs and read
justed on the andirons, and there
were such times of rustic repartee
and story telling and mirth as the
black stove and blind register never
dreamed of. Meanwhile the table
was being spread, and 20 fair was
the cloth and so clean was the cut
lery they glisten and glisten in our
mind today. And then the best lux
ury of orchards and farmyard was
roasted AMI prepared for the table
to meet the appetites sharpened by
the cold ride. We heartily wish FOR
return of the old fireplace. Our
readers, whose locks have whitoned
by the frosts of many winters, know
that this pen picture of the fireplace
is true to life.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

A town, unlike a city, Is no place
to foster sealousles and nourish con.
tentions. All should learn to know
that whatever will conduce to the
welfare of town cannot injure her
citizens. The disposition made mani
fest by her citizens point to her
downfall or her rise. The character
of the people make the town, not her
structures, towering houses, domes
and monuments. and when people
lose interest in the promotion of
their town they need not hope to
thrive. Harmony among the people
of a community is indicative of it's
progress. Farmers cannot be at vari-
ance with one another and prosper;
merchants cannot, churches cannot,
nor can any similar organization or
community.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
Parcel Post G. o. ID. Rules Issued.

Washington, June 11.-Instruc-
tions to postmasters were issued to-
day for the handling of parcel post
packages. The regulations are in ef-
feet July 1. Charges after that date
will be collected from addresses pro-
vided the amount of single parcel
does not exceed $1OO.
The fee for collection will be 1C
cents in parcel post stamps to be af-
fixed by the sender. This fee will
also constitute insurance against loss
not to exceed $50.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
CODDLING OUR ISLAND POSSES
SIONS.

AS though the people of this coun-
try had not trouble enough of their
own, they must needs take upon
their shoulders the troubles of other
people; and that, too, in spite of the
protests of the people whom they
sought to relieve. When the Great
er America idea was in its infancy,
our imperialist friends protested that
it was wholly from altruistic motives
that they kept the Philippines and
Porto Rico, and cast longing eyes at
Cuba. True, there was some con-
flict of commercial interests at the
beginning. The owners of the to-
bacco and thee sugar lands in the
United States protested vehemently
against the importation of tobacco
and sugar from our insular possess
sions; but they were ultimately paci-
fled by the novel method of keeping
the islands, while excluding their
products. That is to say, we de-
stroyed the islanders Spanish mar
kets, but refused to open our own;
and the world was treated to the
spectacle of benevolent assimilation
in the working.
AS time elapsed, and as the lands
and natural resources of the islands
passed into the hands of the benevo-
lent assimilators, change came over
the imperialist countenance. There
was talk of opening our markets to
the islanders. Our markets were
opened, and the admission of tobac-
co and sugar to our artificial-priced
market made land values in the
islands boom. We were regaled with
elaborate statistics setting forth the
most remarkable era of prosperity
in the history of the islands. Be-
hold, cried the imperialists, our vim
dication!
Admitting, for the sake of the ar
gument, the claim of the imperial
lists that a man can lift himself by
pulling on his own bootstraps, it
becomes tiresome to hold himself in
the air by that means for any con-
siderable length of time. And the
American people tired of sustaining
this sort of prosperity. They con-
demned the old policy, and they
adopted a new one. But, 10 and
behold, the setting up of the new
policy in this county upsets matters
in the islands. Delegations of the
insularites are protesting to congress
that if we stop taxing our hundred
million people for the benefit of the
few engaged in the raising of sugar
it will mean serious setback to the
commercial life of the islands, which
in plain terms will mean a slump in
land values, which in still palmer
terms-and this is really the milk
in the cocoanut-will mean a fall
ing off in the incomes of the benevo-
lent assimilators who so unselfishly
bought lands in our new possessions.
Truly, this is sad predicament for
the tariff revisionists. 1t would have
been simpler matter to disregard
the rights of the natives of the
islands; but when it comes to slit
ting up the pockets of our own fell
low citizens who have been nurtured
so tenderly and so carefully under
high protective tariff, it seems un-
kind. 1t might, indeed, be said to
border on the remote confines of
rudeness.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
Be a Booster.

The American Lumberman has
some timely advice on this subject
that is as applicable in Ashland as
anywhere else. 1t says that if you
want to see your town grow you
should remember that you are part
of it and that it's growth depends as
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

1t is now given out that Senator
Root of New York will not become a
candidate for reelection. He is
afraid of his popular vote. 1t must
be remembered that hereafter the
United States senators will be elect
ed by the people and not by a cor
rupt combination of the different
state legislators. Hence, men of the
tendencies Of Elihu Root will find it
convenient to stay at home. There
Is no question about Senator Roots
ability, but there is much discussion
regarding his attitude toward the
whole people. He was trust lawyer
before he got into the public service
and he has been trust lawyer ever
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

1t is stated that if one grain OF
corn could be added to each eaI
there would be a revenue thus de-
rived to pay for all the agricultural
colleges now in operation, and if no
seed were planted without being
tested, our crops would be increased
to an amount sufficient to pay the
national debt every year.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

The greatly decreased number of
dead and wounded Fourth of July
victims is eloquent testimony of the
value of constantly striving to Sc
cure reforms. For years the agita-
tion for sane Fourth" has been
going on, and let us make 1918 a
record breaker.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

Steamships seldom last more than
40 years. OF those built between
1915 and 1885 there is not one
afloat. The life of the modern steel
ship is much shorter than that of
her wooden predecessor. AS for
warships, they are usually scrapped
at the age of 20.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

In most parts of China wood is
very scarce and costly Most of the
trees were cut down long ago, and
every year dry leaves and grass are
raked and gathered with the utmost
care.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

The French inventor of a tele-
phone antedating that of Alexander
Graham Bell by 20 years recently
died in comparative obscurity in
Paris.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

since. His place is defending the
trusts in private, rather than on the
floor of the United States senate,
and he knows it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

The PORTLAND EVENING TELE-
GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year,
$500.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16

Entered at the Ashland, Oregon,
Postoffioe as second-class mail mat
ter.
TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1913-03-29

CT. 8. 10. Nobaf, 1abHarst, 10. II.
Douglas Ctr, Continental @H..
eel. GougIds 5077.
TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1913-03-29
Wfeoerannaberuno.

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