Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-03-31

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/ behind the project because it fel
that some such movement shoult
be pushed through. We give lit
/ tie time to obstructive though
and action and are not quick Il
oppose the plan of others unless
we have something We deem bet
ter TO offer.
There is no question but thai
the club should be properly fl
uanced and organized. 1t has q
great opportunity the next three
years for real work that will
greatly count in the advancement
Of the city. Such opportunities
are not always present. The
psychological moment has arrived
to put Ashland on the map. That
cannot be practically accomplished
without the organized financial
and moral force of the communi-
ty Not a moment should be lost
in putting on a club campaign
looking to that end.
The proper men to lead such
movement are those who favored
the enterprise but objected to the
methods employed in retaining
the American City Bureau. They
no doubt have a better plan in
mind to accomplishe the clubs
desire for more financial and
moral support. If they are con-
structionists and not obstruction
lists they will at once set them
selves about the task of organiz-
ing a campaign to accomplish the
end by methods more in keeping
with their ideas.
The Tidings feels that the club
needs just such support as it
hoped to command through the
OF the Bureau,-that it
needs it now,-and hopes those
who blocked the plan to accom-
plish it will not stop, satisfied
with having blocked something,
but will Immediately organize and
direct an effort that will be as
successful in constructive results
as it proved to be in tearing down
what the club officers were at
tempting.
Without regard to names, or
position, OF individuals be it for
ever known that the Tidings is
utterly opposed to efforts that
block and destroy community ad-
yancement from whatever source
they eminate. Men have no right
to block a movement intended for
the advancement of the city with
out offering something better and
being willing to get behind it and
Put it through.
The Tidings is ready to throw
its full force into a movement to
yitllize the Commercial Club. no
matter under whose leadership it
is persued. We ask the gentle
men who stopped the Bureau en-
terprise to speedily inaugurate one
themselves that will put the
club on its feet in such manner
that it can be of the greatest force
in putting Ashland on the map,
The Tidings stands ready to back
them in their publicity campaign.
Are these gentlemen of the OBJ
structiye or constructive type? II
seems to us that the question
will be fairly answered and the
individuals may be rightly judged,
by what they offer to take the
place of the clubs plan and with
what purpose and enthusiasm
they get behind their own sug-
gestion.
II obstructive they should be
ignored in community effort, no
matter who they are. If con
they should be backed
by the full force of Ashland citi-
The Tidings stands ready
TO back them with all its might
in constructive effort. We have
tried to make this plain.
The writer was anxious to at
tend the mass meeting at which
he Bureau matter was discussed,
but was prevented by other du-
les important for the moment
Not being present we have no
knowledge who the individuals
we're who acted. We have no in
crest in the individual phase; it
S the spirit OF the thing. We be-
ieye that it is exceedingly import
mt to the splendid future OF Ash
and that a constructive. optimis
ic spirit be encouraged and that
he obstructive spirit.al too prom
nent in this community. be ig
lored or crushed. According tc
,ur habit Of thought the future
ii Ashland depends largely on the
,ptomism and cooperative team
work the city is able to organize
The Tidings is willing to workl
with anybody. for anything. that
sill tend to put the city forward
md it is equally ready to fight
20 a finish the obstructive spirit
hat would thwart cur enterprise