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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
A SHORTAGE OF CAPITAL.

A few years ago it was commonly
said that there was an oversupply Of
capital. Savings and other banks
competed for chances to lend their
money.
Today there does not seem to be
capital enough in the country to float
all the good enterprises. In a great
many places there is scarcity of
houses for people to live in. But no
one seems to have the money to build
enough of them. Railroads are un-
able to get credit for needed equip
ment and the farming industry is
hampered by the high rates on mort
gage loans.
What is to become of the increased
gains of farmers, food producers and
manufacturers, also of the better
wages received by so many skilled
artisans? Will all this increment be
swallowed up by higher cost of liv-
ing? Will it be paid for automobiles
and other luxuries? Will it go into
wildcat speculation, and be gathered
in by smooth promoters for invest
ment in impossible schemes? Or will
the banks and substantial enterprises
get their share, so that railroads can
he extended, farms improved, houses
built, and manufacturing plants be
established?
The results of spendthrift policy
are disastrous both for the individual
and the nation. There must be
constant addition to capital to keep
up the advances of modern science,
increaes of population, demands of
foreign trade, and to make good the
wear and tear of daily use. If these
constant additions to capital are not
provided, the people can not be kept
at work.
Thus the results of national eX-
travagance cut two ways. They de-
plete the individual income, and they
restrict all productive enterprises and
limit employment.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
Why?

On Christmas day acquaintances
Greet you with outstretched hand,
And josh while, and grin and smile,
And laugh to beat the band.
And you Yourself may safely smile
At danes you do not know,
And holler Merry Christmas"
And roll them in the snow.
How different on the twenty-sixth!
Friends pass with scarce a word
Forget the play of yesterday
A laugh is seldom heard.
And if strange miss passes by
And you should chance a grin,
She'd have cop come on the hop
And quickly throw you in.
Why doesn't Christmas spirit last
More than a single day?
We'd like to see the Christmas glee
Forget to go away.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

They respect and have faith in the
man who gets out and hustles for
business.
The one way to give this impress
sion of enterprise and hustle is to
advertise. Personal solicitation from
door to door might accomplish the
same result, only it would cost twen-
ty times as much. The newspaper
advertisements give the impression
that you are hustling for business,
that you are wide awake. and keen
to pick up the opportunities that are
going, at tho most favorable terms.
The American public like to do busi-
ness with that type of merchant.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE.

1t is an interesting problem in bus
mess psychology to determine why
people will go to one store to trade
rather than to another, 1t is not
wholly a matter of the personality
Of the proprietor and his assistants,
nor altogether of the prices or the
quality of the goods sold, When a
person quits his home town and goes
off to trade somewhere else, he does
not commonly buy the same article
any cheaper. But something in the
distant place seems more alluring.
OF course the relation of store to
the cost of living is perhaps the big
gest factor. Prices come home clos
er to the modern family than any
thing else. When woman reads
that a 50 shirt waist can be bought
for $1.33, nothing in the paper in
terests her so much. If she gets an
idea that a certain place sells cheap
er, she will patronize 1t, and you
can't pry her loose from 1t.
A great many stores win trade by
giving an impression that they have
enterprise. They spread abroad the
idea that they have the spirit of hus-
tie. There is nothing that the Amer
lean temperament values more than
this. If a man can give the idea
that he is wide awake people like to
do business with him. They have
the confidence that he has been alert
to get the best values in the market,
and can afford to sell the same arti-
Gle cheaper.
The American people have little
use for inactivity. They care little
for the business man who sits down
and waits for trade to come to him.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

days in which to pay. The feeder
who buys bran at $31 never gives the
COW the amount of feed she would
pay for, because he is paying "a per
cent interest on the $25 the feed
could have been bought for. The
man who had to go to the bank and
borrow SIS in order to buy three tons
OF bran comparatively with his neigh
Dor, if charged 10 per cent interest.
for 9O-day period, saved $5.37 on
each ton of feed bought and made IL
easier for the dairy COW to show q
substantial gain over her cost OF
keep.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
HOW TO MAKE ECONOMICS.

With prices climbing up to altitud-
inous heights, the newspapers are
full of schemes and experiments and
advice about the cost of living. Eco
nomics experts are suggesting menus
and housekeepers are beset with ad-
vice. One o the recent experiments
is that of Health Commissioner j. d.
Robinson of Chicago, who is trying
out a 40-cent daily diet with squad
of eXperimenters in Chicago. He
contends that 40 cents a day is am
pie for good and wholesome food for
any person.
In all probability it is. But it re
quires a certain firmness of human
nature to maintain a limitation on
ones expenses. The housewife goes
to the butchers shop determined not
to spend more than 40 cents on the
family dinner But when she gets
there she finds the cheaper cuts of
meat are gono. Or she sees a lot of
attractive foods put up in fancy
boxes. Or bacon, fruits or cakes look
so attractive that she can't resist the
temptation. She goes home finding
that her Accent dinner has cost her
dollar or more.
Formerly it was second nature to
consider every penny and nickel.
Now most people have very COM
Portable feeling about expenses. If
they spend more than they expected
for a certain article, they think hope
fully that they will make it up else
where. But they never do. Their
appropriations for all departments of
expense ore exceeded, and at the end
of the year they are surprised to
find themselves in debt.
Administering a household eco
nomically has become a science in
these times. 1t involves spending a
lot of time at the grocery store and
at the butchers shop. Also lot Of
time in the kitchen. II. can not be
secured by issuing orders over tele-
phone, nor handing out commands to
a more or less ignorant servant.
1t involves watching for bargains
and keeping an eye on newspaper ad-
vertisements. 1t means testing out
the less expensive foods to find those
that are appeti2ing and nourishing.
There are plenty of ways of saving
money even in these times for people
who will make study of it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

brought us out of the rock stage, but
is there any advancement in the idea
of the thing?
War, Of course, happily does not
occupy all of our attention every
where all the time. Usually there is
war going on somewhere, but earth
has her peaceful zones at the same
time. Old Mother Earth is not all
the time troubled with the prickly
heat all over. She has not to scratch
all the time in the same places. For
tunately the war zones shift, so the
pain is not always in the same place.
Therefore, while one part of earth
is afflicted, other parts may indulge
resurrecting recreations like art, mu-
sic, agriculture, religion and the
gathering of knowledge. Half the
world attempts to keep sane while
the other half is mad for blood. This
seems to be a sort of provision of
nature to save the world from alto
gether destroying itself, 1t would
be funny, if it wasn't sad. 1t would
be joke if it wasn't so abjectly fool
ish.
What has all this to do with
Christmas?
Everything, because Of the sublime
contrast revealed in the Christmas
peace on earth, good
will among men"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
Small Ranchers
Develop Big Wells

For years the residents on the
small ranches just east and south of
Ashland have worried along without
great Ceal of water. Some used
windmills and some used reservoirs
with varying success. 1t remained
for ]. N. Grimsley and H. L. Sinclair
to revolutionize irrigation on their
places at least by the development of
wells which have produced exception
ally great flows.
Mr.. Grimslcy started last summer
to dig a large well-reservoir, conceiv-
ing the idea that he could develop
live reservoir. His belief was borne
out by test augur holes. To his sur
prise, when he had got the original
four-foot we'll down twelve feet the
water came in so fast that he could
hardly control it. He has now four
wells sunk to about that depth in a
reservoir and the water is coming in
so fast that he found it necessary to
plug up the wells to keep the water
low enough in the reservoir to permit
work with an electric motor and
centrifugal pump going at top speed
When the construction work is fin
ished and the wells opened up the
flow will probably be tremendous.
He expects to irrigate his place and
sell water to his neighbors for irri-
cation.
Mr.. Sinclair's experiment is on a
much lower scale but gives evidence
Of developing into just as good a
proposition, and in fact is already Of
sufficient proportions to assure irri-
cation for his five-acre place, which
is located on Main street just be-
yond the railroad. He had one small
bored we'll which furnished water for
his garden. He now has put down
five-foot fell sixteen and half feet
and the water is running over the
top. He will install tank and cleo
trio pump.
The remarkable part of these two
water flows is the fact that they are
so heavy at this time of the year
when the underground water flows
are at their lowest ebb. What they
will be next spring and summer can
only be conjectured.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
FRUIT and FHRM
saved Big Money in
Feed.

Saved Big Money in Buying Dairy
Feed.
Members of the Turner, Marion
county, Cow Testing Association let
their association make them some
easy money. They have known for
long time that feeding dairy cows
makes them money, but they have
Just learned by practice how to make
$5.37 more than ever before on
ton of mill feed. 1t was done this
way:
Each of several men needed few
tons of mill feed and each knew that
the others needed it. The tester for
the association, Mr. Hanneman, took
the lead and found out how much
feed was needed and, despite their
own excuses, such as mo place to
store feed" and mo money to buy
feed" they got together an order Of
40 tons of bran and shorts. The
local mill man was able on this large
cash order to supply the feed at s25
for bran and $26 for shorts, while he
charged $31 to the man who took a
few sacks at time and wanted 80
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
Heard and Overheard
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(By Lynn ID. Mowat)
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(By Lynn ID. MOwat)
Ask George.
Where can man buy a cap for his
knee?
OF key for a lock of his hair?
Can his eyes be called an academy,
Because there are pupils there?
In the crown of his head what gems
are set?
Who travels the bridge of his nose? :?
Can he use, when shingling the roof
of his mouth,
The nails at the ends of his toes?
What does he raise from a slip of his
tongue?
Who plays the drum of his ears?
And who can tell the cut and style
Of the coat his stomach wears?
Can the crook of his elbow be sent to
Jail?
And if so, what did it do?
How does he sharpen his shoulder
blades?
Hanged if we know-do you?-Ex.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
CHRISTMAS.

They ore killing more men day
in Europe than the average man can
make dollars in ten years. Life Is
the cheapest thing in life. Scientif-
ically speaking, we do not know
whence we came, and we have an
equal amount of information as to
whittier we are bound. Under these
circumstances we might suppose that
life, as We understand it on this
earth, would be very precious; that
we would do all In our power to con-
serve It; that we would avoid all un-
necessary means of eXtinguishing it.
Ordinarily, in moments Of sanity
we do somewhat take care Of our
selves. We (most of us) refrain from
Jumping off moving trains and troll
leys; we avoid stsnding in front of
swiftly approaching autos; we OBJ
serve deep-water danger signs at the
beach, and we are inclined to look at
the bottles In the medicine cupboard
before partaking Of the contents of
any particular one of them, to pre-
vent our swallowing pruscic acid In
stead of ipecac. But once In a while
the whole world, or great majority
of the people therein, appears to be-
come insane, and the cry is KILL"
So is it now in Europe, and SO has
It been for very nearly thirty months,
with the prospect of many more
bloody months to follow Various
peoples, calling themselves separate
nations, have some kind of an argu-
ment under way, the exact nature OF
which argument Is and will continue
to be the subject of speculation, in
vestigation and controversy for half
a century or more to come. There
is no great clearness as to how or why
the trouble started, the only really
definite fact being that because diff
ferent nations are different, and want
to be different, selfishly different,
they are fighting-as If that were
any decent way to settle matter pre-
sumed to involve ideas above the
brute plane. Yet, because there are
differences, and at present 1t seems
impossible for either side to under
stand enough of the others attitude
TO come to q state of reasoning to-
gether, the fighting continues, be-
cause fighting is the simplest form of
argument, requiring the least exer-
tion Of brains or imagination. In
other words, the world Is so little
advanced, after ali, in anything ex-
cept mechanical matters, that we re-
sort to the same methods in use
million years ago to settle whatever
misunderstanding may arise among
humankind. In early times, if we
were strong enough, we smashed in
our neighbor's skull with a rock
when he expressed sentiments or did
deeds that we thought we had reason
to object to. Today we do the act
with wonderfully improved engines
of destruction. Our progress has
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

We had very successful Christ
mas. AS usual, everybody to whom
we forgot to send card sent US one.
All those to whom We sent cards for
got us this year. Next year we will
forget them and they will remember
us, and vice versa the following year.
It's a great life If you don't weaken.
1t saves the price Of cards and stamps
every other year and is therefore
highly efficient as a system.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
Wall of the Insurance Peddler.

dedicated to II. o. Purucker.)
He would write of life, of hate, of
death,
And the tragedy of hopeless love.
He would write of birds, and the per-
fumed breath,
OF flowers, and "fleecy clouds
above"
He would write, indeed. of pulsing
life,
immortal verso quite fills his head,
But he has a materialistic wife.
So he's underwriting" life instead.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Postmaster Kaiser informs us that,
although at first thought he was in
clined to agree with us that the w.
C. T. U. could be arrested under the
postal laws for interfering with the
males, after looking through the
postal regulations he had reversed his
opinion on account of a clause that
says, 'No liquids shall be put in the
mails"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Formerly food producers used to
have to prove the merits of their
goods to sell. them, but now all they
have to do is to scare people into
thinking that there is going to be a
famine.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Joy and bliss! New Years eve
comes en- Sunday, and New Years
resolutions made at the customary
minute before the new year is tolled
in will not be legal and binding un-
der the law. For New Years reso-
luton is a check on bad habits, and
a check made out on Sunday is worth
less. Those who really wish to
make New Years resolutions should
do so Saturday night.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Doc Jarvis must feel just as if he
had operated upon some fellow for
appendicitis and, when he got him
open, found that some other doctor
had beat him to 1t.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
Stockholders Meeting.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders Of the Ashland Fruit &
Produce Association will be held at
the city hall Saturday, January g..
1917, 2 O'Clock p. m. All are re-
quested to be present.
BY order Of the board of directors
63-3t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Most of the Christmas packages
came by express this year. Twenty
two packages arrived on one train
Saturday and, queerly enough, all
were exactly the same size. They all
came from the south.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Entered at the Ashland, Oregon,
Postoffice as second-class mail mat
ter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

A new cheese factory is to operate
at Coquille next summer.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Bandon is working hard to estab
lish a shipyard at that port.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

News print has doubled in price
the last four months. 1t necessitates
an advance in advertising rates, or
we will have to quit business. Fol-
lowing are the advertising rates In
the Ashland Tidings after this date.
There will be no deviation from this
rate:
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Ashland, Ore, Thursday, Dec. 2S, 10
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28

Phone news items to the Tidlngs.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-28
ADVERTISING, RATES.

NNheo WV
straight.
Classified Column cent the word
first insertion, " cent the word
each other insertion. Thirty
words or less one month, 81.
All written contracts for space al
ready in force will be rendered at
the old rate until contract expires.
Fraternal Orders and Societies.
Advertising for fraternal orders or
societies charging regular initiation
fee and dues, no discount. Religious
and benevolent orders will be
charged for all advertising when an
admission or other charge is made,
at the regular rates. When no ad-
mission is charged, space to the
amount of fifty lines reading will be
allowed without charge. All addi-
tional at regular rates.
The Tidings has greater circula'
ton in Ashland and its trade terri
tory than all other local papers CON-
bined.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-08
At ONCE! STOPS
STOMACH MISERY
AND INDIGESTION
'Pape'S DiapepSin" makes
SICK sour gaSSy StOmaChS
feel fine,

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You feel different as soon as "Pape's
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60 now, make the best investment
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-08

cd during the Taos exhibit at the old
Palace, were among the finest can
vases ever exhibited In Tho southwest
s. B. Weeks expects 20 leave next
week on trip 20 the Zuni country 20
view the many old ruins In that sec
ton.
The exhibit o. the sheldon Parsons
Grand Canyon pictures has been post
poned until next Tuesday
Wentworth O Field of Chicago. q
member Of the Archaeological society,
and r. A. Greene Of Chicago. are
spending 8 few DAYS in Santa Pc and
az the emf dwellings They have been
ot Taos and Acoma and are enthusiast
NC about the attractions of this soc
ton. 81 spent the past few years
among the Hill cities of Italy' said
NJ. k1elar bGt Acoma has more color
and 10 me is more interesting You
have wonderfully attractive country
for tourists be said. Mr. Field is "a
cousin OF Carter Harrison Of Chicago,
another enthusiastic Santa Fc and
Taos booster.
j g. Schumann Of Santa Fo Is tho
Oldest visitor thus far this year TO
the Itlto de los Frijolcs Despite his
tour-score years and four he made
the descent and ascent Of the cliff at
the Rito without difficulty
The following registered at the mu-
scum Mr. and Mrs Henry w. Morse,
Nordhoff. Calir Mrs. $. c. Sellick,
Lordsburs; Mrs J. c. Stuppe Mag
dalcna. G. A. Chrisman, santa re;
Stuart Webster Racine. Wis Mrs,
James Clarke. Seattle, wash s. T.
Lee. Denver, George A. smith. San
Francisco. Wentworth G.. Field, r A.
Greene. Chicago Thomas r. Taylor
Miss Betty Taylor, Mrs. r. r.. Taylor
Doming; G. NJ. Sollards, Lawrence
kan, Mrs. $, 4. Ice, sam Lee, Den
YER.
Mrs. James Clark who is motoring
from Nova Scotia TO her home in Sc
attle, Wash, will spend two weeks in
Santa Fc viewing the cum dwellings
pueblos and other sights. These had
not been upon her program. but hen
FAR broke down several miles outside
of Santa Fee and she sent TO Michigan
Tor another car which viii arrive in
about two weeks.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-08
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
TO GO TO STATE FAIR

CSrEclAL CONSEQUENCES 70 MORNING JOURNAL
WinslOw. AriZ. oct Winston
will 40 as usual this year to the north
orn Arizona fair. held at Prescott, Oc-
tobor 1928, IN private car placed
az the high schools disposal through
the courtesy of the Santa Fee railroad,
Every year for three years now Wins
low High school has gone triumph
antly forth in body to prcscotts
fair, Usually the crowd was composed
Of the school band, boys basket ban
ana football teams, and girls basket
bah team. This year Winslow will
take with them Miss Miriam Nelson,
who will sing In a contest with sew
eral other girls from northern Ari-
IONA.
Winslow and Prescott are the two
friendhcst towns i'm Arizona athleti-
c0lN Winslow can go to Prescott
and lose every game and still feel
good. because of the good sportsman
like way In which Prescott the next
time takes their defeat Miss Grace
NJ sparks. secretary Of the Prescott
chamber Of commerce. Is WORKING
hard, getting snappy program to-
Ecther. for the three most live days in
northern Arizona