Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-05-31
Enders Has Dyspepsia
And Indigestion


to print the report without charge"
Enders submits the following proof
that Greer did agree to publish a
weekly report of the springs water
commission without one dollars
worth of expense to the taxpayers:
We, the undersigned citizens of the
city of Ashland, during a citizens
meeting at the Chautauqua building
in the month of May, 1914, heard
Bert r. Greer make the statement
that he would publish every Monday
full report of the springs water
commission for the preceding week
without one dollars expense to the
taxpayers of Ashland: A. M. Beaver,
c. w. Root, G. c. Jenkins, ]. E.
Hicks, ]. S. Bailey, H. G. Butterfield,
C. ]. Perrine, A. w. Swedenburg,
F. G. Swedenburg, James H. Doran
F. S. Putnam, B. E. Smith, E. G.
Embree.
Greer says cents per line is what
the city has been paying for city
printing. Two and one-half cents
for each paper. Why did not Mr..
Greer divide with the Ashland Rec
ord as per their agreement instead of
hogging the whole cents per line
himself? The Record also published
the report and has bill on file with
the springs water commission for
$3.50. If the commission allows
this bill it will cost the city S159.50
for single report. At this rate a
goodly amount of our money will be
spent on reports, automobile repairs
and pleasure trips to Frisco.
If Mr.. Greer insists on hogging all
the printing for himself, then only
about one-half of the people will be
enlightened with this report, while
if the original agreement had been
lived up to practically all the people
would get this information, and the
Record would get its share of the
business which it is justly entitled to.
., | would like to make a prediction
that when our $175, 900 is spent and
the city is plunged still further into
debt this climate will be too hot for
some people, even though they may
have resided in Oklahoma.
Respectfully submitted,
H. G. ENDERS.
Greer's Reply.
Enders seems to be troubled with
dyspepsia of words as we'll as indi-
gestion of thoughts.
When a man of means appears alb
normally suspicious of his neighbor
one cannot help but wonder where
and how he got HIS wealth.
1t is too bad when man becomes
so utterly selfish that he can see no
good in anything that does not con-
tribute more to his own ends than
to the general good.
Enders would have us understand
that he is the personification of con-
servatism He brags that he can get
more out of a dollar than anybody
else. ! have known men who ap-
peared to be rarely conservative, but
q closer examination revealed great
body Of prehistoric fossilized shells
completely embedded in his brain. In
fact, his brain proved to be that and
nothing more.
At the Chautauqua meeting of
which he refers more than thousand
citizens were present. He discovered
twelve out of the company who think
they remember, or, at least, Enders
says they say they remember, that
Mr.. Greer said he would print the
springs water report without pay.
The names he presents as witnesses
(which, by the way, appears uhcer-
tain, for he presents no statement
signed by any of them) appear to be
those who have always opposed the
springs proposition, or hold some
special grievance at Greer outside Of
the springs project. Greer still main
tains that he made no such promise.
In reply to his charge that Mr..
Greer is "hogging" all the printing
and not dividing it with the Record,
we have only to say that Mr.. Greer
last year "hogged" the work connect
ed with the springs matter and did
not divide that either with the
Record or Mr.. Enders. We did not
hear a kick from either Of them
when that "hogging" was going on.
In regard to automobile bills, it is
only necessary to say that. the auto
repair bills we're just and allowed at
exactly what the garage men charged,
and that Mr.. Greer furnished the ma
chine without charge other than gas
and repairs. coy '''''
In reply to his charge of pleasure
trips to San Francisco" Is the inter
est the Southern Pacific Company Is
taking in the springs enterprise