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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
Conductor Maxey
Has Been Reinstated

Conductor w. L, Maxey, who was
released from the service of the
Southern Pacific about six months
ago, was reinstated this week.
Mr.. MaXey's dismissal came about
after freight wreck which occurred
near Gregory, in which several cars
were ditched and broken up. A
brakeman who played the principal
part in the affair was promptly re-
lieved from service, and after investi-
cation Mr.. Maxey, who was conductor
of the train, was also dropped from
the company's service.
Representatives from the Brother
hood and others who thought that his
dismissal was unjust promptly took
action on the matter, and as a result
Mr.. MaXey was reinstated.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
Names Of Local
Schools Changed

The local school board have decid-
ed to change the names of the East
and West Side schools The East
Side school will henceforth be known
as the Hawthorne school and the
West Side school as the Junior high
school building.
The change came about because Of
several reasons, one Of them being
because of confusion which the names
least" and west" caused to strang-
ers in the city. Most of the school
men in other parts of the country are
causing the names of school build
ings to be named after the country's
greatest men. In Portland the three
chief high schools are named after
Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson.
The names over the entrance Of
the two school buildings will be
changed.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
Governor Closes
Hunting Season

Governor Withycombe Tuesday is
sued proclamation closing the hunt
ing season in Oregon indefinitely be-
cause of the daily Increasing loss due
to forest fires. While many of the
fires are said to be incendiary, 1t is
believed that many others have been
started from campfires or from the
use of firearms in the timber. A
previous order of the governor closed
the season from August 21 to Sep
tember 1.
1t was said at the executive office
that the lives of soldiers patrolling
the forests are endangered to some
extent because the khaki uniforms
make them mistakable for deer.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
War Won't Stop
Ashland Athletics

The war conditions will not change
Ashland high schools athletic sched-
ule this year, according to present
plans. There has been considerable
question current during the past few
weeks as to whether the southern
Oregon schools would engage in ath-
letic contests this year owing to the
absence of many of the star athletes
who are engaged in military service.
The Grants Pass high school will start
September 10, and 1t is rumored that
that institution is facing the brightest
athletic year in its history. No defi-
mite word has been heard from the
Medford schools yet, as they do not
start until later.
Charles A. King, who is to have
charge of Ashland high athletic teams
this year, reached Ashland several
days ago and has already started
training himself physically to start in
active football training soon after
school starts. Practically the entire
championship football team of last
year, which included several star men
who would be back this year II it was
not for the war, are encamped at
Fort Stevens this year. The other
cities of the neighborhood are like
wise stricken of their athletes, how
ever, so Ashland will stand an equal
chance with them.
Mr.. King aas spent seven years at
o. A. c., during which time he has
had considerable athletic experience.
and Ashland fans are looking forward
to a victorious year.
Miss F. Swartslander of the Uni
versity of Nebraska will have charge
of the girls physical training in the
local schools this year and will have
charge of the girls athletic teams in
the high school.
The 1st company intends to put out
a football team later in the fall, and
from the list of football heroes in
cluded in their rollcall they ought to
have no trouble in putting the First
company first"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30

The 26 cases Of liquor cost SIS a
case. The quantity taken last night
cost 1890, actual cost in Hornbrook.
The 26 cases contain rs gallons of
the wet stuff.
The men were captured near the
Homes residence, about three miles
south of the city. The Portland man
made no resistance, but Estes, when
tagged by the officers, concluded to
make a quick turn and beat 1t back
toward California, but was not aware
that another officer was stationed a
few yards farther up the road, who
hailed him after he had turned his
car completely around in the road and
started to leave the other officers.
Neither Of the above men were able
to furnish bail, so we're conducted to
the jail at Jacksonville at an early
hour this morning and their booze
stored in the jail in the custody of
the sheriff, who when he saw 1t
brought into the jail by the above
officers expressed himself as believ-
ing that there was enough of the
poison to kill all the Germans in the
United States.
Special Agent R. c. Porter and two
deputies, John B. Winner and w. J.
Carpenter, were the police officials of
Ashland prior to January 1, 1917,
and their big haul this morning is
but one of the many bootlegging cases
which they are called to deal with
every week.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
Ringlings' Circus
Makes Short Stop

Ringing Brothers circus, one of
the largest shows under canvas this
season, which gave two performances
recently in Portland, arrived in the
city Tuesday evening, between the
hours of 7 o'clock and 10 o'clock.
The Is cars of the circus went
through in four trainloads. The stop
in Ashland was very short, long
enough to change train crews and let
the men Of the circus eat in the many
restaurants of the depot section. The
stock had been fed and watered ear
lier in the day at Roseburg. They
have 735 horses and zoos wild ami
mails, and also 1870 men and women
are employed, requiring so cooks and
walters to satisfy the multitude OF
appetites. They maintain secret
service department, Red Cross de-
partment, two physicians, three
nurses, three veterinary surgeons
and 23 advance agents. The circus
has its own attorney, postmaster,
postoffice and daily delivery, and
also a weather forecaster.
The next stopping place for the CIR
Gus will be at Chico, Cal. A number
of railroad officials were in the city
to see that everything was done in
for the trip over the Sis
kiyou mountains.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30

war department archives will prove
him a malingerer on sick report
when he wasn't in the guardhouse
for being dirty, careless, inefficient
soldier.
military service in the United
States army is real Job with varie-
gated details, many Of them unpleas-
ant to some natures, but none of them
degrading, and the army is the finest
school in the world for teaching a
boy courage, self-reliance, cleanliness
and efficiency"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
Hotel Ashland to
Have Improvements

The long, weather-beaten balcony
which has been a part Of the Hotel
Ashland since the founding Of the
building many years ago has been
torn down this week and will be re-
placed by canvas awnings, Consider
able other improvements are to be
made both on the interior and the
exterior of the building, and the hotel
will open under new management
about October 1.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
Wilson Sends His
Reply to the Pope

President Wilson has rejected
Pope Benedlct's peace proposals.
In note dispatched Monday night,
and made public in Washington Tues
day, the president says that while
every heart not blinded and hardened
by the terrible war must be touched
by the hoving appeals of his holiness,
1t would be folly to take the path of
peace he points out If 1t does not In
fact lead to the goal he proposes.
To deal with such power as the
present rulers of Germany upon Pope
Benedicts plan, declares the presi-
dent, would involve a recuperation
of the strength and renewal of the
world domination of that power, now
baked but not defeated, after sweep
ing continent with the blood of in
nocent women and children and the
helpless poor, as well as of soldiers.
Peace Based on Faith.
Permanent peace must he based
upon the faith of all the peoples and
upon justice and fairness and the
common rights of mankind, he adds.
"and we can not take the word of the
present rulers of Germany as a guar
antee of anything that is to endure,
unless explicitly supported by such
conclusive evidence Of the will and
purpose of the German people them
selves, as the other peoples of the
world would be justified in accept
ing"
The text of the note follows:
august 27, 1917
''To His Holiness, Benedictus XIV,
Pope:
"In acknowledgment of the COM
munication of your holiness to the
belligerent peoples, dated August 1,
1917, the president OF the United
States requests me to transmit the
following reply:
every heart that has not been
blinded and hardened by this terrible
war must be touched by this moving
appeal of his holiness, the pope must
feel the dignity and force of the hui
name and generous motives which
prompted 1t, and must fervently wish
that we might take the path of peace
he so persuasively points out, But ir
would be folly to take 1t, If 1t does
not in fact lead to the goal he pro-
poses. Our response must be based
upon the stern facts and upon noth-
ing else, 1t is not mere cessation
of arms he desires; it is a stable and
enduring peace. This agony must
not be gone through with again, and
1t must be a matter of. very sober
Judgment that will insure us against
1t.
"His holiness, in substance, pro-
poses that we return to the status
quo ante bellum and that then there
be a general conformation, disarma-
ment, and a concert of nations, based
upon an acceptance of the principle
of arbitration; that by similar con-
cert freedom of the seas be estab-
lished; and that the territorial claims
of France and italy the perpleXing
problems of the Balkan states and
the restitution of Poland he left to
such conciliatory adjustments as may
be possible in the new temper OF
such peace due regard being paid
to the aspirations of the peoples
whose political fortunes and affilia-
tions will be involved
Continued on Page Eight.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
Local Schools To
Start Next Monday

The Ashland schools start next
Monday morning. Superintendent
Briscoe states that in the preparation
for the school sessions this year the
thought of war conditions was entire
" omitted, and as result the Ash
land schools are looking forward to
a most busy year 1t has been ru-
mored that the teaching staff of the
high school had been cut down and
that several courses had been left out
of this years schedule. This report
is false. There will be the same
number of teachers in the school as
employed last year and the courses
the same with the exception of sew
eral added subjects. A full athletic
schedule is also being planned on
To be Large Attendance.
School authorities are looking for.
ward to a larger attendance than
there was last year by reason of the
many inquiries concerning Ashland
schools which have been made from
the surrounding territory. Northern
California towns will send many stu
dents to the high school.
Courses Offered.
The courses offered in the Haw-
thorne school and the Junior high
school will be practically the same as
they were last year, with the same
outside activities. All the positions
left vacant by departing teachers last
year have been filled and the new
teachers are arriving daily in prepa-
ration for their school activities.
In the high school all the depart
ments which were offered last year
are again on the schedule with the
possible exception Of German, which
might be cut down or possibly entire
ly left out. The question is being
debated by the school board now.
OF the vocational subjects offered
the commercial course is proving an
attraction to many prospective stu
dents. It will be much the same as
1t was last year with the exception
that higher standard of efficiency
will be demanded from the CONNER
cial students this year, The course
includes bookkeeping, typewriting,
shorthand, penmanship. spelling,
business arithmetic and business Eng
lish.
Included among the vocational sub
jects there are strong courses in man.
ual training, mechanical drawing, do
nestle science and sewing.
The teachers training course,
which has placed sixty Ashland high
school graduates from this course in
suburban schools in the state, has
been extended from one-year course
to extend over period of two years
and will undoubtedly prove drawing
card to many students.
In this years music and art classes
special attention will be given to the
decoration of store and shop windows
and arrangement of display advertis-
ing. All the commercial phases of
art will receive special attention.
There has been a course established
in elementary electricity, open to
both boys and girls. This is intended
to be as practical as possible, yet
some mathematics of the subject is
required. The measurements of cleo
tricity is thoroughly studied. How
to construct motors, telephones, tele-
graphs with and without wires are
some of the subjects that are dwelt
upon. During the course the electric
plants, telephone, telegraph stations,
Continued On Page Eigit.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30

Those people who are poisoning
courtplaster are likely quite soon to
need liberal supplies Of 1t over large
portions of their anatomy.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30
PASTE THIS IN YOUR HAT.

If you think you beaten,
If you think you dare not, don't;
II you like to win but you think you can't
It's almost certain won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost
For out Of the world we find
Success begins with fellows willie
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're oucassed, you
You've got to think high to rise
You've got to be of yourself before
You win prize.
Life's battles don't always
To the strongest fastest
late the who wins
Is the who thinks he
This of we'll Of is impossible
to know what be till s tried Pessmsn
lack Of faith-loses half the battles that are lost
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-30

Phone news items to the Tldlnga
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
TOBACCO FOR TROOPS IS LOST
Liggett G. Myers Company Donates
Supply for Pershinq's Men Now
in France.

Washington, Aug. S.-The Young
Mems Christian associations shipment
Of tobacco for the American troops In
France has been lost. Word came from
Paris from the Red Grass commission
to France saying no suitable tobacco
to replace the lost shipment was OBJ
tainable there and urging that ten tons
Of tobacco be sent at once.
The Red Cross war council immedi-
ately accepted an offer of the Liggett
& Myers Tobacco company to donate
100000 cigarettes, 10000 packages Of
smoking tobacco and 10000 cuts Of
chewing tobacco, which will be for
warded to the American troops at once.
France has agreed to admit the to-
bacco free Of duty as well as all other
articles for the American soldiers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
CAREFUL SPEECH.
Il Aids Clear Thinking and the TX.
preston Of Ones Ideas.

Nothing is more Of help to clear
thinking than careful speech. Very Of
ten we discover a flaw in our logic
when we attempt to put it into words,
observes the Irish World. But some
times we really have ideas, though
we experience difficulty in expressing
them.
People of sympathetic natures are
frequently dumb in the presence of sor-
row. Some who are very intelligent
are so silent and diffident that nobody
ever gets the benefit of their bright
ideas.
A recent poet has intimated that for
the deep things Of life language Is al
together inadequate; but, however that
may be, it is the principal means at
present by which human beings get
close together.
We learn to talk, as we say, In the
first few years of life. and some of
us get very little beyond that start in
babyhood. We can ask for what we
want to eat and drink. but we are un-
able to express sympathy tactfully and
gracefully.
We have q great many ideas that We
never try to put into words, because
we feel that we do not know the right
words. We have not really learned to
talk while we remain silent regarding
the things which mean most to us.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
NEGLECTED. CHILDREN.
If There We're Fewer Of Thorn Thers
Would Be Less Crime.

Would Be- Less Crime.
A St. Louis judge recently made the
statement in an address delivered be-
fore local bar association that If
one-fourth as much as is spent for
keeping up our courts, jails, pOorhouses
and paupers was applied to help neg.
lected city children make proper start
in life the high tide of crime surely
would decrease"
This is remarkable statement to
make; but, coming from the source 1t
does, it Is worthy Of consideration of
all philanthropic men and women, Had
the speaker made his statement more
general and applicable to the country
as we'll as to the cities it would all the
same be worthy of credence.
The life Of every one depends largely
upon the start made. There are those
who are started right and then depart
from the straight but narrow path, but
they are the exception and not the
rule. Thousands of little unfortunates
may be said to be born criminals. the
offspring of criminal parentage. If
not so born they are so bred. But it
is true, as said by this st. Louis judge,
that If benevolent and righteous pub
lie would deal with the problem as it
might there would be less crime and
fewer criminals. Knoxville Journal
and Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Our Public Health Service.

In the fields of preventive medicine
and in all matters in which the public
health is concerned the public health
service does work which is not only I'M
surpassed but unequaled in any coun-
try of the world. This is recognized
and fully appreciated in Europe, and
recently in one of the chief medical
journals Of Europe high praise was
given to the service for the extremely
valuable information with regard to
disease and preventive medicine which
was disseminated by the agency Of its
bulletins and other publications. IN
fact, the United States public health
service is unique and is an institution
Of which this country has every reason
to be proud. 1t remains as an ever
ready foundation upon which to erect
the department Of public health when.
ever congress shall see tit to establish
't-Medical Record. ...
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
TEACH TELEcRAPHY
Short Course Being offered at
Ames This Summer.
WILL ACCEPT MEN IS TO IS
Period Of Training viii Be Only Long
Enough to Qualify Men for Army
Signal service-Army Needs
10000 Teleoraphers.

Ames.-In response to an urgent
call from the war department, the en-
cheering division of Iowa State COL
lege is putting on a special summer
short course for the training of teleg-
raphers for the army signal service.
Any man between the ages of Is and
46 years, who Is mentally and phys
foally qualified for enlistment in the
signal corps, may enroll any time
this summer. AS soon as he gains
the required proficiency in sending
and receiving messages, he will be
accepted by the war department., and
the period Of training at Ames need
not be longer than enough to give
him that proficiency.
I'VE are glad to have your assur-
ance that Iowa State college will
give instruction in telegraphy,"
writes Lieutenant Colonel l.. D. Will
man Of the. Chicago headquarters to
Dean A. Marston at Ames. I'VE be-
love that with your equipment you
should be in good position to train
men for the signal corps. The need
for tslegraphsrs is serious. The avail
able supply has been exhausted and
men must be trained to complete the
present organization and prepare for
future increases. The army estimates
that it will need 10000 telegraphers
in ALL"
The short courses as now outlined
provide for emphasis on training in
sending and receiving, but they will
also provide for instruction in the
fundamentals of electricity as they
apply to the telegraph and telephone.
Men who are interested in wireless
may also get instruction in teleg-
raphy. The very complete equipment
Of the engineering division will be
placed fully at the disposal of the
short term students.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Guessing a Star.

Mira, the wonderful star in the con
stellation Cetus tthe Whale), stands
foremost among those variable stars
which have produced 50 much guess
york. Besides the theory that its
even months variations are due to the
aickering up and down of gas, it has
been conjectured that this distant sun
is subject to particularly acute sun
spots. that its dissertations are due to
eclipse by huge planets revolving round
1t and even, according to Maupertuis.
that it is not spherical in shape. as
other heavenly bodies are, so that we
see it sometimes in sections. some
times in plane. Occasionally. as in
1889 and 1889. it has blazed up actual
" to first magnitude, while from 1872
to 1876 it disappeared altogether.-Bos-
ton Transcript
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08

Young women dependent upon their
own efforts should give a though. to
tomorrow as well as today. The sri
alone hasn't anyone to look after her
interests, so she must guard them her.
self. She should keep track Ct how
she spends her salary, and shoH'd also
join Il good benevolent society. 50
that in the event of an illness or IN
accident she will be assured of proper
medical tre9 tment, and 1T the same
time receive the benefit Ill such or
CARNATIONS provide. ..
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Iowa Completes Army Quota.

Des Moines.-1owa completed her
quota for the regular army recently
by enlisting forty-one recruits.
Since the first day of April the
state has sent 4,466 men to the regu-
lars. Her quota was 4,44SE
The Des Moines general office re.
ports that Iowa has contributed 1,74y
recruits to the United States navy
since April LIST. Twenty-Five per cent
of the recruits sent to the sea from
the Omaha office are Iowans. All the
western portion of Iowa is Omaha ter
ritory and Sioux City also reports
through Omaha. Omaha has enlisted
lap in the navy, making Iowa's navy
total about 1000 men.
The completion of Iowa's quota for
the regular army will stop the send
ing Of any Iowans drafted for the
first army into the regular army
ranks. The plan of the war depart
ment has been to fill up the national
guard and the regular army from the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
LIBERIA ENTERS THE WAR
Negro Republic Of West Africa De-
cIares Hostilities Against the
Kaiser.

Washington, Aug. S.-Liberia, the
negro republic on the coast of Africa,
has declared war on Germany. Some
time ago Liberia broke off diplomatic
relations. The declaration of war now
gives opportunity to intern German
merchants and others who have been
accused of unneutral activities. The
United States was advised Of the little
republics action.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-08-08
Woman Would Be Ambulance Driver

Woman Would Be Ambulance Driver.
New Virginia.-Mrs. w. B. Riker of
New Virginia, wants to become an am
bulauce driver in France.
Mrs. Riker says that her husband is
in the engineering division and is now
in France. She states that she is a
competent auto driver and can repair
enc. Her husband was a Des Moines
man.
Information received from the Chi
cago headquarters Of the service is
that only men are Deing accepted for
service. However, Mrs. Riker's appli-
cation will be held