Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-02-08
Made a Citizen By
Warm Hand Clasp

The other day an Ashland citizen
met a stranger on the street and ac-
costed him thus: "You are a straug-
er in the city, are you? We are al
ways glad to meet strangers. We
think we have the prettiest little city
in America. This climate is very
healthy and besides we are Just now
developing a number of mineral
springs whose waters, the chemists
and doctors say, equal the famous
waters of Europe. The Southern Pa
cific Company has great faith in the
project and is backing it with its en-
tire advertising system. This year
we will have fine tourist hotel and
water cure sanatorium, and we think
Ashland's population will double in
two years. / hope you will decide to
locate here" And the citizen and
stranger parted with a warm hand
clasp. The stranger felt at home,
for 1t was the stranged who related
the story to the Tidings editor and
said, That kind of a welcome will
make a city," The stranger is a citi-
zen now. Within two days he had
purchased P residence property and
Is now busy papering it and beautify-
ing the grounds for a horne. The
stranger visited Ashland for the first
time last Thursday morning. This
is the way to build q city. The flu
ture of Ashland will be determinel
largely by the optimism and warmth
OF her citizens toward strangers.
If every citizen, will determine,
from this day forward, to meet
strangers in the most wholesome
manner, will join the Commercial
Club and contribute one dollar a
month toward the advertising fund
SO that our city can be properly ad-
vertised, her population will double
in ONE year. Neishbor, will you do
| It?
The citizen who did that was not
real estate agent. He had nothing
to sell. He had it in his heart
Already the net cash result from
that warm hand-clasp and welcome is
nearly two thousand, dollars for a
home, several dollars for the wall
paper and paint man, employment
for paper hanger and painter, and
two dollars for years subscription
to the Tidings, besides adding an ex-
cellent family to our citizenship. A.
courteous hand-clasp got the Tidings
two dollars and we had nothing to
do except TO rake in the shekels. The
newcomer brought the money 5000
miles to hand it to us. That looks
good to us.
Besides that, there is a new de-
positor in town for some bank, a
new customer for some grocer, a new
buyer for the hardware man, a new
trader at the dry goods store, a new
customer for the barber, a new buy
er for eggs and poultry and meat, for
vegetables and fruits. Who is there
In Ashland that will not be benefited
by that hand-clasp?
1000 new citizens can be in
duced to come this year and do the
same thing this one did, the Tidings
editor could be nearly even by the
end OF the year on what he is out on
the springs. project, a half million
dollars in new capital will be added
to the taxable wealth OF the city. her
population will double, for the Amer
lean family averages four, and we
Will be happy and prosperous.
Neighbor, there is work for each
to do
Did you ever stop to think what
good may come from a little thing,
II that little thing is the right thing,
and everybody does it?
A warm hand-shake and cheerful
welcome to strangers are little
things, dollar a month each for
advertising is little thing. But they
are the right things and will do the
business If pursued diligently by
every citizen.