Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-29
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Peoples Forum
Boosts for Normal.
Harvard, H., June IS, 1914.

Dear Mr.. Editor: / read with
pleasure the last issue (June 11) of
your valuable paper, the Ashland It'd
ings.
The words, Mineral Springs Bonds
Carry" told the story. l had been
looking forward to this issue with
some anxiety. Having seen num-
ber of health resorts, have an op-
portunity to compare the scenery, the
natural resources and climatic condi-
tions with those of southern Oregon.
l realize the advantage Ashland has.
Ashland has done herself proud
She has shown the spirit of progress
courses through her veins.
From business standpoint no
doubt it will be a great success. But
Ashland has a greater future than
that where men get rich" She is
destined to become known as a place
where men and women regain their
health.
Those who reside in the mild cli-
matte conditions of southern Oregon
cannot realize the benefit invalids
VIII derive by being placed in such
conditions.
l want to add few words of
thanks for those gentlemen who had
the forethought to place those Nor
NAL school banners on their automo-
biles when Ashland was celebrating
her victory.
1t should be the shame of every
man and woman in southern Oregon
that the S. o. S. n. S. should be sus-
pended from activity. A number of
years ago | was a special student in
that school. Since then | have at
tended number of academic and
technical schools and colleges and
am more than willing to write that
in its field the curriculum of the S.
o. S. N. S. was as broad, as thorough
and exhaustive as that of any school
or college | have had the pleasure of
attending. The faculty of that insti-
tuition were men and women of
marked ability. The students were
high in their ideals, pure in thought
and progressive in spirit. After the
lapse of years 1 unhesitatingly write
that | never met body of men and
women whose moral standards were
so lofty.
Today some of those men who were
my fellow students are scientific
farmers, some are attorneys. some
are physicians, and some hold posi-
tions of public trust. Those fellow
students are helping form the bull
warks of our nation. They are lead
ers in their respective communities
Much of their success depends on the
thorough training they received in
the S. o. S. N. S.
This generation will die and take
its place among the dead. Future
generations will take our places.
They will be what we make them.
The S. o. S. n. S. was a mighty
factor in shaping the destinies of
many men and women who attended
its excellent classes. A rising gener-
alton needs the same help.
Will the honored citizen of Oregon
do his duty and help rear the future
man and woman, or will he spend his
time counting his money, raising
fruit, cattle or hogs?
A box of fruit is worth, 50, fat
steer is worth SIS, a fat hog is worth
$50. An ignorant man is a blight in
the community, but progressive cit
izen has an immortal worth.
| hope the citizens will show the
same enthusiasm and energy in this
campaign for the S. o. s. N. S. they
have shown in the mineral springs
project.
When Ashland becomes a city of
thirty-five thousand souls would not
each one be proud to take his friends
from New York, Maine, Ohio or Illi-
nois out on the beautiful Boulevard
or the Pacific Highway and say, Eff
teen years ago we had a state normal
school in those unkept buildings you
see out there. Several hundred stu
dents were enrolled, but political
crooks held up our appropriations so
one of the best educational institu-
tions of the west died for want of
support"
Our eastern friend asks: But,
Mr.. Citizen, you have the initiative
and referendum here, have not your"
20, ye-ye-yes," answers Mr.. Citi-
zen. But then you see the people
OF our country care more about rails
ing peaches and thoroughbred bull
dogs than they do about developing
the intellects of their children. Chill
dren do not make money. They are
only a blessing from Heaven, so don't
amount to much. II they become
criminals, outlaws or convicts we will
make them build roads for us, or else
we will hang them"