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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25
WHY WAR GARDENS
SHOULD BE PLANTED

Here are three of the many reas-
ons which might be given as to why
you should plant war garden this
spring:
1. Every vegetable raised will re-
lease that much of some other prod
uct needed for shipment to the Amer
lean army, or to the allies and their
soldiers.
2. Food raised close to the point
of consumption will relieve the over
crowded railroads and help them in
carrying the needed war supplies.
g.. The farmer is short Of labor
because of the draft and the fact that
thousands of farmers sons and help
ers have gone to the cities to work
in mills; and so he can raise more
wheat and other big crops if he is
not compelled to grow so much food
for the cities.
Here are three of the benefits
which will come to any one who
plants a war garden:
1. A happy conscience arising
from having performed a patriotic
duty
2. A saving in the weekly market
bill.
8. Added strength and health
from the open-air exercise.
Every city and town should do all
it can to encourage its citizens to
enter upon this home gardening
work These gardens will keep a
large amount of money at home
which is now scattered far and wide,
giving no benefit whatever to the
town.
No other industry need suffer; in
fact, they will all be benefited as o
result of having everybody at work
tilling the ground. This is one way
in which gardening is different from
almost any other kind of work you
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25
FOREST AND FIELD
CLERK EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that an ez-
animation for forest and field clerk
will be held in this city on April 20,
1918. A knowledge of bookkeeping,
typewriting and stenography is re-
quired for this examination.
The Department of Agriculture has
stated that, owing to the difficulty in
filling vacancies in the position Of
forest clerk, it is imperative that fe-
male eligibles be made available for
appointment to the position of forest
clerk, and persons who desire to COM
pete should at once apply to the Sec
retary, Board of Examiners, postof-
flee, or to the district secretary,
Room 3O3, Postoffice building, Seat
tie, Wash, for application blank and
full information.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25
Officer Grateful
To Maccabee Lodge

When the Oregon troops passed
through Ashland last month the mem
bers Of the Ashland Maccabees
adopted" several soldiers who were
not overwhelmed with gifts of pro-
visions from their families, as the
boys from Ashland were, and pre-
sented them with baskets of delica-
cies. Recently the lodge received the
following letter from one of the Of
ficers, who was aboard one of the
troop trains, expressing his apprecia-
tion of the attention given to them:
Somewhere in California,
February 2S, 1918.
"To the Maccabee Ladies of Ashland:
1T was my very great personal
pleasure and inspiration to receive
from the Maccabees of Ashland one
of the sumptuous baskets of good
things so generously rendered to the
65th regiment yesterday. 1t was in
deed an inspiration to me, as the COM
mander of the Oregon boys, to do my
level best to take good care of them
while "over there" and return them
safe and sound. And l am sure each
soldier was inspired by the good
cheer and manifestation of intense
interest in their welfare by the peo-
pie of Oregon all along the line
Those homemade marshmallows !
couldn't eat-they melted in my
mouth; the chicken was like mother
used>to roast back in Illinois; the
cake was delicious. Everything was
most appreciated.
Please accept my profound AMI
cordial thanks for these evidences of
your loyal support of the cause which
taxes us over Lnere.
We are going to try very hard and
earnestly to get our eight-inch how
itzers close enough to that house of
Hohenzollern across the Rhine river
to blow it to atoms so that never
again in the history of mankind will
cne family presume to be able to
write GERMANIA across the face of
this earth.
Again assuring you that I shall
hope for an opportunity when we re-
turn to meet the Ladies of the Mac
cabees and thank them personally
for their great kindness and thought
fulness and their "bit" to help win
the war,
HARRISON S. KERRICK.
"Lt. Col. c. A. c., n. A."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25
GIVES REASON WHY
WHEAT MUST BE SAVED

1--WE have the preservation OF the
world on our hands. Every single
living human being in this republic,
from ocean to ocean, should make 1t
his or her special purpose to save
food"
These are the words of E. F. Cul-
len, personal representative of Her
bert C. Hoover, in recent address,
Men will resist any power but the
power of starvation" said Mr.. Cul-
len. Hunger in the final analysis
is the only force that can weaken a
nation and demoralize an army.
Food is strength, and without a per
petual supply of strength the world
can stand in danger of tottering,
weakening and falling into utter
chaos. A man can not fight, think
or work is he is hungry. The allies
today are practically wholly depend
ent upon the United States for food,
Upon this nation rests the RESPONSE
bility or preserving the world from
Prussianism. This is the task OF the
people of this nation-to produce
and save food enough to Keep
steady stream of essential supplies
moving towards the front so long as
it shall be necessary to wage thls
war. If at any time we fail in this,
we must inevitably go down, with
the allies, to defeat. This is no eX-
aggeration, but a serious fact 1t is
the purpose of the U. S. Food Admin
istration to bring the realization OF
this fact home to every American
man, woman and child, and to enlist
the active aid of our hundred million
people in producing and saving food
The Food Administration Is not ask
ing you to eat less; 1t only urges you
that you substitute one nutritious
food for another equally nutritious
food, thus saving the vital staples
needed by our armies and the armies
and the peoples of the allies. we
must, during the next three months
save wheat especially. Our surplus
has already been shipped abroad ana
a hundred million bushels more are
needed, Every time you eat a slice
of bread less, omit the crackers with
your soup, or otherwise conserve
wheat, you are contributing towards
the hundred million bushels needed
over there by our fighting men and
the exhausted people of Belgium,
France and England who have tor
more than three years been bearing
the brunt of this war. Keep this III
mind and bring 1t before the minds
of your thoughtless friends and
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25
Plenty AirplaneS
In France by June

American-built battlsplanes will be
in France by July in sufficient quaint
ity to insure adequate air protection
of the sectors then held by American
troops.
This statement from Washington
rests on the highest authority, and
wqs made with full recognition of all
failures and disappointments that
have hampered the development Of
the air program.
Figures on the aviation situation
as we'll as facts and figures on every
other branch of the government u
war preparations were laid before
virtually the full membership Of the
house military committee as they
were disclosed to the senate commit
tee.
The comment of Representative
Kahn of California, ranking republi-
can member of the house committee,
expressed the sentiment of the house
members on the new cooperation
policy. He said it means team work
by the whole government on the enor-
nous problems that face it. The fig
ures revealed to the committee; the
immediate, current demands of the
war program and the progress as be-
ing made in meeting them, he added,
made it clear that the country is stilA
unawake to the enormity Of its un-
dertaking. Mr.. Kahn predicted that
great results could be looked for
from now on If the weekly confer
ences with the legislative COMMITTEES
are continued.
1t was disclosed to the committed
members that the aviation program ia
far short of what had been hoped for.
Figures estimating that deficiency In
percentage that have been quoted,
however, were shown to be wrong.
No such method of calculation has
been evolved. The actual delay can
be figured only in point of time.
The airplane production program
in the United States is today sub
stantially sixty days behind what had
been hoped for by the most sanguine
officials. The foreign contracts
which were to have provided the in
itial fighting equipment for General
Pershing's air forces, are still further
behind. There is every prospect,
however, that some of the delay will
be made up.
Even should the sixty days lost
time stand, however, and even
though there should be no deliveries
on the European contracts, General
Pershing will receive a considerable
number Of American-built planes by
July. Estimates of the time required
to get completed battleplane from
the factory in the United States to
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25

the front have been placed at ninety
days. The war department is now
concentrating its efforts on reducing
that period, with prospects of cut
ting it in half.
There has been too much optim-
ism on the one hand and too little
knowledge of the greatness Of the
task on the other" was Representa-
tive Kahn's comment on the aviation
situation. War department officials
agreed as to this. Were it not for
overoptimistic predictions made be-
fore congressional committees and
elsewhere, it is said, what the air
craft production board and the sig
nal corps have already accomplished
would be rated as an extraordinary
achievement.
In this connection it was learned
that the underlying purpose of the
board of survey, headed by Snowden
Marshal, of New York, and to which
Gavin McNab of San Francisco has
been added as the third member, is
to prepare for the enlarged aircraft
program of next year.
The eagerness of the war depart
ment and the air board to rush their
task to success, Mr. Kahn said. had
caused them to place contracts with
manufacturers who were unable to
deliver what they promised.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25
EARLY PLANTING.

Behold the frost is on the wane,
Soon turns the crust to mud.
Get out, get out, my honest swain,
And plant the stringless spud!
Plant Early Rose or Peachblow
beans,
Plant bush or climbing beets;
For all this early planting means
Some grand autumnal eats!
Build ridges for the cabbage vine.
Sow turnips under glass;
The toothsomc spinach root for mine,
And seedless applesass.
Go drill the spineless Hubbard
squash,
Set out tamale trees;
Trellis the radishes, b'gosh-
We must have some of these,
The allspice seed We bought last
year
May still hold germs of life,
Although the fall-sowed prunes,
fear,
Have perished in the strife.
The redbreasts on the orchard
bough,
The bluebird on the shrub.
Get at your early planting now,
And raise lot of grub!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25
100, 900 TREES TO
BE PLANTED SOON

The task of planting 100000 trees
on the denuded sections of Star gulch.
near Applegate, was started last week
by crew of IS men employed by the
United States forest service. The
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25

trees to be planted on this land were
grown from seeds collected by govern
ment employees, and raised in espec-
tally provided nurseries at Wind XIV
er and in other government reserves.
After the trees reach the age of three
and four years they are used in re-
foresting lands swept barren OF tim
ber by fires and ruthless timbermen'
The government is planning much re-
forestration as the lands require 1t
and trees can be matured to trans
planting age.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25
Many Fail to Send
In QuestiOnaires

The Jackson county registration
board has issued a statement request
ing those who have not returned
questionnaires to report at once, or
for their relatives and friends to re-
port their whereabouts. Those fall
ing to report will be reported as
slackers. Many are already in the
service, but have failed to notify the
board. The statement reads as fol-
lows:
after carefully checking the reg
istrants in Jackson county, there are
few whom the local board Is un-
able to locate, and who will have to
be reported as delinquents unless in
formation is procured. The list OF
apparent delinquents is as follows:
Clifford Davis, Derby, Ore.
Louis Blaess, Trail.
John Edgard Gould, Medford.
John Marvin Ellestad, Central
Point.
George Francis Joseph Richardson,
San Francisco.
Lunsford P. Black, Medford.
James @. Adams, Ashland
Thomas Edward Kelley, Medford.
Frank Huffman, Ashland.
Curtis Ivan Sutton. Salem.
Edwin Chalmers Browne, Berke-
ley, Cal.
Luther Lieb Tisdale, Medford.
Lewis Rush, Springfield.
Weneeslno Duran, Medford.
Edward Daley Conley, Medford.
Frank Deho, Talent.
Miyasato Kane, Central Point.
Thomas Larry O'Farrell, Medford.
Charles Oscar Sundt, Portland.
John Edward Backman, Wellen.
Thomas Cornell, Medford.
Clatous c. McCredie, Central
Point.
Samuel Grisson, Ashland.
Cleveland Francies Walker, Ash
land.
Robert Leslie Orr, Rogue River.
Harold Gregory, Jacksonville.
Garfield Carnell, Medford.
William James Webster, Medford
Marvin Edward Kirk, Rogue Riv-
er.
John Wilfred Pentney, Gold Hill
Enslie Lanier, San Francisco.
George o. Wickstrom. Rogue Riv-
er.
Sherman V. Haynes, Medford,
Roy Watkins, Central Point.
James Carney, Ashland.
John Matthew Nichol, Medford.
Smith Cox, Eagle Point.
James VIM. w. V. Bergman, Eagle
Point.
Merle Laurence Hollopeter, Ash
land.
Max Stanley, San Francisco.
Ira Neil Edwards, Jacksonville.
Carl Brown, Ashland.
Mort Stailey. Medford.
R. E. McKeever, Eddyville, Ky.
"Any relatives or friends knowing
the whereabouts of any of the fore
going registrants will render favor
to the registrant by reporting to the
local board the present address, OF
in case registraht has enlisted in any
department, so report that fact in
order that the local board may not
have to report such person delin'
uuent,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25

Many a man who loudly proclaims
himself in favor of measures that
will work the greatest good to the
greatest number is also firmly con-
vinced that No. 1 is the greatest.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-25

Phone Job orders to the TidIngs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-02
GASOLINE SURPLUS.
DAILY OF. MILLION
GALLON PRODUCED
Manager Automobile Chamber
of Commerce Holds Price
Rise Impossible

Alfred Reeves, general manager of
the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce, in Minneapolis, states that
gasoline surplus is being made in
the United States, every day.
Many visitors at the automobile
show have worried about the gasoline
supply, but their fears were relieved
when Mr.. Reeves said there will be
plenty OF, gasoline for all legitimate
uses and for all kinds of cars. "
One Million Gallons Daily. & y
The daily surplus now amounts to
100000 gallons day, Mr.. Reeves
said.
"The figures are absolutely right"
he said, land whoever is planning to
buy car or arranging for car, or
truck or tractor operations for next
year may 60 ahead with absolute as
surance that there is not thing to
put up the price of gasoline and more
than a chance that it will 60 down.
THE government must have fuel
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-02

Friday for Hot Springs, Ark, to start
training for the coming season. The
party consisted Of pitcher Charles Tes-
reau, third baseman Heine thinner
man and Trainer Mackall, will be re-
inforced enroute by pitchers Harry
Sallee, John Benton and Albert De-
maree, catchers Lew McCarty and
VIM. Rariden and second baseman
Larry Doyle. The party will take ad-
vantage of the baths and indulge only
in light work at Hot Springs, where
they will remain for about ten days.
The remainder of the club will not
leave here for the Marlin Texas train
ing camp until March II. 1t was an
nounced by the club that Umpire Will
liam Brennan, formerly Of the Nat
ional league staff and now with the
Southern association, will umpire the
ten game spring series between the
New York Nationals and the Cleve-
land Americans.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-02
DODGE BROTHERS.
NAME NEW AGENT
Motor Car Interest Heightened
by Change in Local Situation

The growing Importance of Bis:
marck as an automobile center is in!
dicated by the close attention given
the local field by Dodge Brothers,
who have just made a change In
dealers here. 1t is announced that
Dodge Brothers Motor Car will be
handled exclusively in the future by
NJ. t. Gilman Co., who enjoys a wide
acquaintance and Is unusually well
qualified in other respects to handle
a high grade motor car.
An idea Of the popularity of Dodge
Brothers Motor Car may be gained
from the fact that within % months
after the first car was turned out, the
aggregate sales had exceeded $780,
100000.
= This is a record without precedent
in the motor car industry. 1t is re-
garded as a striking testimonial to the
high regard in which the name dodge
Brothers" was held by the public even
before they market a motor car bear
ing this name. Prior to that time
Dodge Brothers had built vital parts
for more than a half million other
cars, establishing reputation for
thoroughness and mechanical skill
This reputation has been more than
upheld. 1t is said Of Dodge Brothers
in explanation of their unusual sue
cess, that they spare no money or ef-
fort in building a car to suit their par
ticular ideas of thorOughness in man.
ufacture. What their ideas on this SUB.
ject mean to the purchaser of their
product may be imagined from the
fact that they have staff of more
than 750 inspectors who do nothing
bu. check W on Workmanship IL tn,
various processes of manufacture. In
addition there are Sc 'clal large de-
partments devoted entirely to similar
work, such as the physical and chem
ical laboratories where the raw anG
finished materials are subjected to
tests so thorough as to leave no doubt
of the quality.
It is significant that the first Dodge
Brothers Motor Car eve" bllilt was
made up exactly as car is made IN
the regular line of production. Ord
inarily the experimental job as the
first car is known, is built of castings
because of the great time and expense
involved in preparing dies for forg-
ings. Dodge Brothers, however, de
cided that their experimental car
shouldGbe like the car they expected
to build in every detail so that Meth
or they nor the public might be
So thew spent almost q
year in making these dies and prepar-
ing otherwise for completely man
ufactured car AS a result, when the
car was built they knew what they
had and what they and the public
might expect of their product. AS a
further result this first car, although
only experimental job" is still in
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-02

oil to fight the war" he said. "Hcnc'
TT is pounding the oil. men to make
fuel oil. Fuel oil cannot be produced
without making gasoline. That's the
meat Of the story. The oil men are
going to keep on making fuel oil
They are now producing nearly 1000,
900 gallons Of gasoline. $500, 900, to
be more exact, every week, over and
above what they can sell. II any.
body thinks the gasoline jinx is 60.
ing to get him this summer and it
makes him afraid to plan for motor.
car purchases he may as we'll forget
it,"
Because Of the presence in town of
many thousands of visitors to the au.
tomobile show and industrial exposi-
ton the statements Of Mr.. Reeves.
who lives in Washington. were re.
ceived with greatest delight.
j. Reduced Car Output Likely.
Nowhere in the entire United
States is there more visible evidence
of true basic prosperity than in the
northwest" Mr.. Reeves said The
dulONlOUllo SHOW Is tue O0St ana DlS'
gest ever. 1t is merely a manifesto
ton Of what conditions are in the
country. have been impressed by.
the indications that the greatest rel,
alive opportunity for business exists
here"
How many here know that of all
articles affected by war, the two most
commonly associated in the public
mind with the automobile industry;
have not advanced at all in price. but
actually are lower?" he asked. Rub
Der was $40 pound before the war
and now is about s76 cents, and gaso-.
line prices have been lowered. The
whole country had scare thrown in
to it, of 80, s. or 40 cent gasoline
We NAV as we'll get over that right
now. There will BE all the gasoline
anybody needs at fair prices and this
is true Of tires. which are affected.
most by the price OF rubber.
Zone trouble with the automobile
trade" he said. lis that too many /;
think Of it in terms Of the limousine
The limousine sales make only a min.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-02

daily service on the hardest runs
experimenting under all sorts of road
conditions-.and with a record OF more
than 10000 miles behind 1t. This is
but an illustration of the many
things unique in the history of Dodge
Brothers as manufacturers.
Public approval Of their principles
of thoroughness is seen in the rapid
expansion of Dodge Brothers works
made necessary by public demand.
In December, 1914, it was plant of
less than 20 acres. Today Dodge
Brothers Works covers over 80 acres
of floor space, employs nearly $4,000
persons, produces more than 400 cars
a day and is still unable to keep pace
with the demand
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-02

i Is a ~. tH 4 y ID b
or part OF the business. The farmer
is coming more and more to be an
automobile buyer and II he does not
buy limousine at least he buys a
car.
Consider the position Of the auto.
mobile dealer and automobile owner
as factor in the winning Of the war
Mr. Reeves said. las factor in
time saving, In lessening demand for
for other transportation both for the
individual and for material THE mo-
tor vehicle is one Of our greatest as.
sets. Once We dispel the notion. that
seems to have taken the form of a
scare, that gasoline and rubber are
going to be prohibitive in price. we
will have laid the foundation for n
record 1918 business"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-02
ASSESSOR MAY BE
PASSING UP BET
STATE Auditor Calls E. E. Morris
Attention to Chance

E. E. Morris, Bismarck city assessor,
has been notified by State Auditor
Auditor Carl Kositzky that he has
passed up several hundred thousand
dollars in mortgages, certificates o.
deposit and other cash items deposit.
ed with the state treasurer as security
have not been taxed, and that the city
of Bismarck. county of Burleigh and
state of North Dakota are thereby
losing each its share of an annual tax
revenue of approximately 5000. E. E.
Morris took the next car to the capitol
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-02
MA TIONALS
ST ART RAINING
IN HOT SPRINGS


NV York, ". r., March 1.-The
\ 40 cOntingent 81 the New York Nat
] ool lapCys baseball team LEFT here
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-02

meals. Hominy y excellent combined
with dried, canned. or fresh fsh, or
meat and vegetable lcft-overs may be
used. Here IL one combination
s cups Of hominy. potatoes. cups
carrots, 1 teaspoon salt. Y pound dried
beef. 2 cups milk. tablespoons fat.
tablespoons -four.
Melt the fat. stir In the -four. add the
cold milk. and mix well. Cook until IL
thlckens. Cut the potatoes and carrots
In dice. mix all the materials In bak-
ing dish and bake for one hour.
These dishes supply all five kinds OF
food. Each Is enough for the whole
dinner for a family Of five. Eat them
with bread and with fruit or jam FOR
dessert. Then you will have all the
FIVE kinds OF food your body needs