Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-11-17
MEDFORD c. OF G. APPROVES
SUMMER SCHOOL IN VALLEY

SUMMER SCHOOL IN VALLEY
At the Medford Chamber OF Com
merce forum luncheon held In that
city Wednesday noon, ]. H. Fuller,
secretary of the Ashland Chamber
Of Commerce read the following
paper:
The following item appeared in
the Mail-Tribune recently: "1ha
secretary OF the Ashland Commercial
club appeared at the teachers. lnsti.
tute in Medford yesterday and asked
for Medford's support in establishing
a Summer School In the Granite City
this year. There was considerable
comment among Medford delegates
on the prompt reaction ON Ashland's
part, asking favor from this city
Immediately after Ashland had snow
ed under benefit for Medford."
As one especially interested in the
summer school, not particularly as an
Ashland matter, but as something
needed and beneficial to Jackson
county as a whole, we do not see how
anyone could take such an attitude
as the above quotation would seem
TO indicate. 1t has always seemed
TO the writer that whatever benefit
ted one portion OF Jackson county or
the Rogue River valley must also be
beneficial TO each OF her cities and
towns. Having been for number |
of years a resident of one of the
smaller towns situated between Ash
land and Medford, We were interested
in the development of both Ashland
and Medford, and in fact. the entire
valley as a whole, so have become
accustomed to looking at these mat !
ters, not altogether from the local
view point, but as affecting the en-
tire people of the Rogue River val
ley. /
A normal school, a summer school, 4
or any such institutions located at
any point in our valley could not fail
to be OF great value and benefit to
all. The removal and location of the
court house should not be considered
as Medford proposition but as a
Jackson county matter and the writ
er regrets the failure of so many
people to see the matter in this light,
and that 1t would be to the advan-
tage of the county as a whole to build
a new court house at Medf0rd, never
theless we do not feel that the failure
OF this measure should necessitate
Medford's citizens falling to generous
ly support in the future, as in the
past, such institutions as the South
ern Oregon Chautauqua Assembly at
Ashland, an Independent institution,
one of the oldest in the northwest,
which has been established for some
80 years; nor should IL fail in taking
a vital interest in such measure as
the institution OF a summer school,
located at Ashland only, because en-
vironment and opportunity seemed
naturally to invite such a plan.
This institution was inaugurated
last season at late moment and
little opportunity was given for the
necessary publicity attendant upon
such an enterprise, nevertheless the
school established itself as marked
success and plans are row under way /
which If carried out will bring to us
a very valuable asset. /
At the Jackson County Teachers
Institute held in Medford recently !
over so teachers from all parts of ,
Jackson county signed question ,
naire stating that they were interest ,
ed in this project and wished to reg
lister for the coming session; some !
of them being Medford teachers. /
After reading of the paper on
motion by one of the members the
project of the summer school was un-
animously endorsed by the meeting.
The job of secretary OF the Cham
ber of Commerce, as we comprehend
it, is to work for harmonious and
pleasant relations between Medford
and Ashland and other towns of this {
valley and Jackson county, and it is ]
our purpose and intention to aid and I
support such enterprises whether in (
Ashland or Medford, 80 we have no c
hestancy on these grounds in asking a
the support and assistance of Med v
ford as well as Jackson, county for b
such enterprises as we may attempt I
to foster and encourage, which are n
for the benefit of the valley as a +
whole. b
]. Fl. FULLER, 5
Secy. Ashland c. of c. il