Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-11-05


family will continue to reside in
Medford.
The Commerce, a sheet published
weekly by the Portland Chamber OF
Commerce, contains in a recent
issue the following in regard to the
Southern Oregon trade excursion
which ninety members participated in
the week of October ~;
Portland has renewed friendships
with Southern Oregon. She, through
the trade excursion fathered by the
Chamber, has almost literally taken
klamath Falls, Ashland, Medford,
Grants Pass and Roseburg by the
hand and what is more pleasing the
pressure of friendship met with that
wholesome response which is pecul-
lar to Oregonians. The Southern
Oregon people found that Portland
business men were just as human as
they; Portlanders wear the same
language, eat the same food and have
the same ideals and aspirations for
state development as have the people
of the most distant sections of the
state.
1t was a week well spent; 1t was
the most profitable expenditure OF
time and money the business men OF
Portland have undertaken for many
years, not fro mthe material re-
turns, but from the standpoint OF
getting together under the same blue
sky under the most delightful cir
cumstances, familiarizing themselves
with conditions in the southern sec
tions of the state, and personally
meeting those who lead in CONNER
cial and development matters.
On the other hand, it is reasona-
BILE to presume that the visit was
equally profitable, and for the same
reasons, to the business men of the
cities and sections visited. II gave
the people of Southern Oregon even
a better state in which to live.
We have heard for generations Of
the hospitality of the people of the
south, having always in mind that
section of the country south, of Ma
son and Dixie, but the expression
must have a new meaning for Port
landers. Whenever again they hear
of southern hospitality, they surely
will think the expression must have
reference to the 1919 trade eXcur-
sion to Southern Oregon, and those
friendly spirits who left no stone
unturned to make every minute of
the journey happy one. The hos
pitality Of the old South has nothing
on that dispensed in Southern Ore
gon.
Almost ninety OF Portland's prom
inent business men, under the lead
ershlp of Messrs Strauss and Honey
man made the grand tour Every
line of industry and business was
represented At the five cities visit
ed 1t was discovered that approx
mately thirty million dollars of bus
mess has been done this year, and
of this amount probably eighty per
cent was represented in trade with
Portland manufacturers and job
bers. California gets the bulk OF
the balance, due to geographic and
transportation conditions.
On the trip home" Chairman
Strauss called the excursionists to-
gether for an informal discussion
of the situation. as II developed dur
ing the weeks journey, The result
of the discussion was the appoint
ment of a committee headed by Mr..
Strauss with Instructions to prepare
report Of the excursion for the
Board of Directors OF the Chamber
and make certain recommendations
and suggestions. The report of Ash
land is as follows:
at was the sense OF our meeting
in view of the great need for Nor
NAL schools, that we use every effort
to have the Ashland school reopened
and at the same time call attention
to the need OF a Normal school In
the eastern part OF The state. II is
that special commit
tee be appointed to take up this
matter and communicate with Ash
land and promise our support to
bill which will provide for the re-
opening OF their Normal school. II
initiated by them.
"It is recommended. also, in view
Of the statement made that special
excursion rates are made by the
Southern Pacific between San Fran
cisco and Ashland, that a special