.; i i'i? ' - :j i ii ii : p;&:ge Form MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY7, 3911. t! : Medford Mail Tribune i A- i .t ; ! i , i i 1 . i ( I I 21 l It $ ' s ? V2 I I I t 5 M ! I !;!!. r . i k i; .v J ! I r- "i i lr f AM INnKI'IMIlKNT NI2WHPAPI2K PUIlliIHHKD IMII.Y EXCKPT SATUH DAY HY TIIH MKUKUHU PRINTING CO. Tlio Democratic Times, Tho Medford Mull, Tho Medford Tribune, Tito South ern OrcRonlan, Tho Ashland Tribune. Home TC, M TWO EVENTS IN ONE WEEK. KDKOHD tlicutor-gocra and music lovers will enjoy two events tltlfe week seldom vouchsafed to residents oC u city of this size OIkii NelliersOle and the Russian Symphony Orchestra. Miss Nethcrsole will be seen in a double bill "Bister Heat rice" a mir acle play by Maurice Mnetcrlinok and "The Enigma" by Paul Herien, Miss Offlco Mnll Trlbiino Hulltllns, 25-27-29 Ncthersolo ranks among the world's greatest artists and is the only eele- North Kir street; phone, Main 3021 L , j (,lnj(,11 .i,.ns ,, visit Mriilftiril llii.x season. The Hussiaii .Symphony Orchestra plays Wednesday evening at Med ford, but in no other city between San Francisco and Portland. Its visit here is largely an c.xpeiiment, and should the enttertainment be well patronized, other first class musical attractions will make Medford, which will be classed with the larger cities as possessing culture and refine incut sufficient to appreciate high class music. The program, which includes Russian melodies, is one that has won the highest commendation from musicians and critics from New York to San Francisco und praise is universally showered upon the performers. OEOItUi: PUTNAM, Kdltor and Manager W Kntarcd as Focond-clans mattor a Medford, Oregon, under tho act of March 3, 1870. Official Paper of tho City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County HTrnncrtiPTioir RATES. Ono year, by mall E,92 Ono month by mall .: 60 Per month, ileiiveroa ny carrier in Mnilfnrit .lurk nnn vllln and Cen tral Point .60 Kimday only, by mall, per year.... 2.0() Weekly, nor year 1.G0 nwonN ciRCULATiorr, Dally iiverngo for six months ending December 31, 13IV, 2721. run Leaicd Wire United Titwn Slipatchea. Tho Mnll Trlbuno is on sale at thn Ferry Nowh Htand, Hun Krancl&co. Portland Ilotol News Htand, Portland, nnwmnn Nowb Co.. Portland, Oro. W. O. Whitney, Bentlle, Wash. MEDPORD, OHSQON. Motropolls of Houlhcrn Oregon find Northern California, und tho Tautest growing city In Oregon. Population U. R. census 1010; 8840; cstimnted, 191110,000, Klvo hundred tliqintond dollar Ornvlty Water System eoniplotcd, giving tlncni supply puro mountain water nnd six teen miles of street bolng paved and contracted for nt a cost exceeding $1, v 000,000, making a total of twenty inllen ot pavement. I'oHtofflco receipts for year endlnis March 31, ,191, show Ihcrcaso of 41 per cent, riank deposits a gain of 22 per cont. Unnnor frutt city In Oregon Itoguo Jllvcr Hpltzonberg apples won Bweep staUcs prlzo nnd tltlo of "Applo Xlna; of tho World.' nt tho National Apple Hhow, Spokane, 1900, nnd n car of Nowtowns won rint Frlzo In 1D10 nt Canadlnn International Apple Show, Vnnpftuvftr. II. C Iloguo Illver pears brought highest prices In nil markets or tho world dur ing' tho past six years. Wrltd Commercial club, Inclosing 0 cents for postage for thn finest commu nity pamphlet over written. THE STREAK OF YELLOW AND THE RED BADGE T THE PESSIMIST. Nothing lo h I'"' work, Nothing to cat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes To keep onu from going undo. Nothing to tireatiio but air, Quick iih a flash 't Is gone; Nowhere to fall hut off, Nowhero to stand but on. Nothing to comb Hut hair, Nowhere to sleep hut In lied, Nothing to weep hut tears, Nothing to bury but dead. Nothing to slug Mil songs, All, well, alas! ulackl Nowhero to go hut out, Nowhero lo c'oiuu but hack. Nothing to see hut sights, ' ' Nothing to iui'tigh but Ihlrst, . Nothing to have but what wu'vo got; Thus thro' life wo nru cursed. Nothing to strike but a gait; Kverylhlng moves that goes. Nothing at all but common sense Can over withstand tliTso woes. I COMMUNICATION. To the l'Mllnr: Although tho people urn now demanding heller results from highway work the construction of some roads through our county does not seem to havo altered much from tho old way which was something after this fash Ion: First If there was any pretence Of elevating the roadbed, the whole width' of the right of way would he ploughed lip and the top soil, the easiest plowed nnd handed, and the most poious and poorest material for roadbed would he removed toward the center which when elevated 12 to 80 Inches was deemed high enough, sometimes giaxel would headded a costly material only to sink and ho lost In a sea of mud the next Winter. The Idea of all this seemed to ho Unit when the main track became Im passable, a parallel trail equally as good could he started anywhere on tho right of way. Of course side drains could not he allowed as they would pre vent the Unci; from winding fiom side to side of the right of way. I would submit that U6 to 28 feet base Is wide enough for ordinary country iouiIh; Unit the loatllmd he Hot less than three feet higher than the side drains; add gravel If you eau get it nu that. The drains should be as close to ,1110 road bed us possible use a ling toad drag on It In the winter at the right lime to keep the Wheel ruts filled and the surface firm so that the water enii run off the riwil. Instead of souklug Into II ss It does nt present In most eases for the one gteat necessary condition for good toads Is a dry roadbed. As to stone, I would In terdict everything bigger than iv hen's IKK on or within a foot of the surface 1 think It Importantlii tlieluteresis of good toads that the ring or spill log fiuid drag should have a thorough try out on our roads In the coining winter. The cost of the operation Is light nnd n most tuNlauoes gives very good re nulls .1. II. I.VD1A1U). Table Hook. Mwy 3. 1911. Queer Mnlndy In Iowa. MAKON CITY, Iowa. May 6. A pe culiar niHlady has appeared here. About a weU ugo Kmest Iti'iiillng died. The ilny he whs hurled his younger brother, Iwrl, wus taken slo ktind In twenty-four Injurs lis was doml. The attending phy NKilan diagnosed Hie trouble us pin. limine poisoning Kurl hud hurdly hn hurled when the 3 year old daughter of Mrs Ileum took slrk and died. The school bomd as n precautionary inmts lire has closed the sehool. l)r Iloyd of Iowa Slate I'ulvetslty Is making n thorough exuiniiiutiou. lie announcus ife believes the deaths were due to ncutn Intestinal trouble canned by the use of Impure witter. V "Pink Cnndy" K11U Child. t MAJlHHAUroWN. Iowa. .May (i While playing about thr house unmind ful of any danger. Nnrinsu, ngtsl 18 ironths. son of A P Johnson of this olty found u small box filled with "pretty itnl( candy " The Imbe denned out the box, eating eight of the little pellets, which proved u he common onthurtlo pills, ono of li it-li ium hii adult done. The hubu tiled In cohmiImIoxs u few hours Hftor eutlllg the IHtle pills preacher Bomb Plot Victim. MATTOON, HI.. Mm 0 An attempt lias been inado to ilesttoy hv a dwiumltu K)inl) tho home of the lu-v II II Fisher. a I'rcBbvterlun mlnlstrr In N oga. It wik Hi" M'contl alt'"ipl wMhtn a year ' Tho mllllHter has been u h.id. r .u Hie fight for law enforcement i Hitffkliia for JltMilth. j UK yellow streak never rihanded thfc red bnd?o of courage. It never flea ns an einhlem of native nobility. It never waved among the white plumes of chivalrV. Worn secretly, yet it hns ncvei failed lo flutter upon emergency and proclaim the true nature of its wearer to the wondering world. Nothing worth while is accomplished without courage. It gi cutest gift of the godsi Jt makes all things probable ahd all is the things possible- Turning the Into an hour "Jumping o'er time, accomplishment of many years glass" And ngniii the inspiration of life long labor. Courage is (ho vital r-park that kindles into life drcnms'nnd fantasies and conjures into real ization aspiration and ambition. It knows not faint heart nor i'altoriiig failure; and eVer of good cheer, faces tho future undismuyed. But tho streak of yellow, concealed badgo of tho craven ,and the coward reaches few goals except by accident or stealth. By perfidy, by muchiav6lism; by sheer clinltt'e, once in a while tho streak of yellow flut ters in tho seats of the mighty, but the exception unusually proves this viilu. The man worth while is tho ntaii who can "stand tho gaff," who i& not conquered by failure' nor undone by success; who calmly picks his way through miry swamps or undismayed walks tlio dizzy height, "who dares to do all that may becomes a man." , We meet them both, every day, tho red badge and tho yellow streak mid sometimes it seems that there are most of the latter, for "many ilrcam not to find, neither descrvo, hud yet are steeped in i'nvor." Just as faith in human nature weavers, along conies a tnodest wearer of thu red badgo to restore it and wo marvel that u "harp of a thousand strings ehoitld keep in tune so long.'' CITIES GROWING AHEAD OF COUNTY CCOHDING to the census ot 1010, Oregon gained 2002.1!) people in the past decade, an increase of over (15 per cent. Less than 00,000 of this new population have gone to the country, while nearly 'J00, 000 have gono to the cities, tlueu fifths of them to Portland. Three per sons have settled in cities to e.wry one that has gono to the country. Commenting updji this popular movement toward the city, iManngcr C. C. Chapman of the l'oitlnud Commercial Club states: "Wo are fac ing the gravest problem of the generation, for if wo can get more peo ple on tho noil many of our other troubles will settle themselves. How to get the landless man on the mauless laud is the great work to which the Oregon Development league and thu Portland Commercial club have set themselves. Tho figures show thut there is dire iieod of it. The man who can devise a way lo ofsot tho lure of tho white lights' of the city and get men to set their feel on the ground instead of trending asphalt .ill their lives, deserves well of his country." This movement is in accordance with the times. Kegrcttablo though it he, the lendeiioy of modern civilization is toward tho city and away from the country and it has been tho tendency for u century. The life, thu hustle, the struggle, tho glamor of the city, tho great prizes it offers make it a mccca to ambitious and pleasure loving youth, who are lined hy its while lights even as the moth is attracted lo the caudle -and often to a similar fate. One patent reason for tho superior attraction of the city over the country is set forth by the Oregonian as follews: "The growth of towns without a corresponding development of rural life is a sort of hypertrophy. It extorts admiration only from those who do not know that it is a disease. As a rule the country districts of Oregon are more populous than they were ten years ago, but not much more. Tho lamentable decrease in Wheeler, (Jrant and Union Counties is 'aid to be accounted for hy the merger of small holdings into huge wheat farms. For this process nature and indifferent cultivation are partly to blame. Wheat can be raised moicheaply under the prevalent waste ful method on the largo scale than on little farms. "The vast unoccupied tracts in the Willamette Valley stretch out in unproductive solitude about the same as tli'ey did ten years ago. There has been some increase of population in this attractive region, hut not much continued with what (hero should have been. But hero at any rate there has been some division of Iho original claims, though not nearly so much as there ought. Tlu Willamette Valley would support several mil lions of people in comfort, there is n great deal of laud held out of the market altogether. The owners will not mill at any reasonable price bo cause they feel sure of obtaining two or three times as much tea years from now as anybody will offer today. "Again we must remember that there is scarcely ten miles of really Sood road outside the fiubiiibaa districts In the Willamette Valley. A man who settles five miles from a depot might as well be a hundred miles away during tho winter months, so far as getting to market is con cerned. His home is a solitude without neighbors, church or, frequent ly, oven a school. This kii'd of an existence does not nttrnet the mod ern mini, lie prefers to settle near a town where he can earn more and live belter and at the same time, have some advantages for his family. "(live the country good roads the year around, give it u pnreols post, let our missionary societies forget China and Boriohoola film a little while and send some good preachers out into the rural districts of Ore gon, and put real agricultural instruction into the schools. People forsake tho country because life is more desirable in town; that is all there is to it- Make Iho country equally desirable and the tide will turn." The real reason for the growth of Portland at the e.Hnso of the rot of Oregon, is the supremely wolfish and narrow policy the metro polis pursues toward the balance of the state, which is ably set forth hy the Kugeno Guard h follow : "If Mr. Chapman could induce the people of Portland --those who own the property and eontiol the, capital there to take a broader view of the development of the state than they have heretofore possessed this problem of over-population in the metropolis might lie easily solved. PoiiIhuiI oiipitulhU have never invested a dollar in the state outside of their oily, have apparently caictl little whether the territory from which they draw their trade grew or not. The Williamette Valley, and all WoMorn Orejtou, hus ..imply been milked dry all tho time by Portland jobbers and the Soullmru Pacific railroad working together. Not a factory can oxint in Oregon ouUido of Portland because of discrimina tion in freight rule, slid Poillnud fights every attempt of the smaller cities of the state to yot jtiMioo in this ropect, and therefore iojg' industry of ituy inaituitude i centered in the one big city of Oregon. "All the money sent into the stale by big insurance oonccrns or other Ihiico investor lo losn mi real cMitt is inonosiliaed in Portland : no industry, no matter how promising, ever received a dollar of financial hacking from Port Und. uul luculod iu that city, hut smooth solh-i-toi wniio to Kuj"iu und finer WiMoru Oregon towns and load up lorul capituluU with itoek i Pmtiiuid ooiicontk; no local railroad move ment, denignell to break thu Southern Pacific monopoly, either from Kugeue, ltiisebnrg. (IriniU Prs or Medford. eer received the slujhu'ot n-ft-latict' l" i'n in lb,' inpiiiih-t ,ii Poiil mil. Mr ('h.ipnuut i right in nu tl.int', Pmii.iiid, vvlnili i- tin' iil ii'iil t'liv in OriTi-n, will -i.u In l.i.i in fate with a ciiii prnliliin li i .nmi.1 Lii at lb,- invent nu without mure tlcu'lopmcat m the tunti from which it draws jU twuU V .. .. AVERY FACINATING ASSORTMENT OF SMART SHIRf STYLES MERCERIZED, PLAIN AND FANCY EFFECTS SEE THE NEW- "FRENCH FLANNELS" In White, Light Gray and Fancies All With Soft Collars NECKWEAR Entirely New Effects You are Invited to Examine tHe New Ideas Now on Display at This Store. ALWAYS IN EARNEST THE TOGGERY -of course NOW OPEN GOLD HILL HOTEL Newly Furnished Meals Excellent GOLD HILL j. w. Every Article New Stop and See OREGON M I, GALE, Proprietor Si'tiitlo went far ahead of Its territory and is now oxporioneint,' a slump iu business and growth that it will require years to recover from, -Portland may heed tho warning or not. However, if our big eity would be willing to sec Salem, Albany, Kugeue, Uo.-eburg, Medford and other am bitious towns grow into cities, with highly developed territory surround ing them and industries to employ tho pooplo and innko a market for the products of the" soil, then tho future of the metropolis would be one of stoutly and permanent growth with little fear of a depression such as thu sound eity is going through. I lie interior towns ol the state need new railroads and better trans pollution rates and facilities. Portland could help to 'secure the-e it nho would. Also they noOd capital to develop resources and start in dustries, and Portland might supply .some of this as well. Mr. Chap man may plead with pooplo to go into the country, but as long ns the country is lacking railroads and many other things so necessary to its dexelopment his pleas and warnings aliko will fall upon douf ears; nnd Portland will continue to grow nt the expenso of tho rest of tho stale iiutil tho inevitable reactiioa comes." niitHo. AlthoiiRli tho tivatnirnt nnd Indians) ofton uro reluctant to accent tfliiHMVH are fiiriilnliuil without cost, thei service. Indium' Eye Are Falling, DAUL.1KC1TOX, Oklu., Mny C United StHteB Clovernmeiit In UulldliiK hiiiiiU hospital and einiilovluK ocnllstH and op ticians to nave tho onco eiiKleoyed Auirrl mn Indian from lillndnefH. it Im jiom kIIiIo that In time the Indian will ! a tepen and their linhlts of IIvIiib tend couutantfy toward eye troubled. Few lmllatiH now have wound eyes. Dr Daniel V. White, eye speclaltat of tne liuitan Horvice, and Moveral nnsl.st antn. are In Oklahoma at work antonc the trlbed. An eye hospital haH JtiHt heen spt'ftaelod race Tho smoko of their Htahllshed at thin hk ucy with u trained ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE Bible Lecture i i N by JAS. V.COLE, V.D.M. of tho Lntornational Bi ble Studonts' Associa tion at tho Angle Opera House Monday, May 8fh at 8 p. m. Tho Subject of This Lec ture will bo "WHY IS DEATH AND WHEN WILL IT END?" Non-Sectarian. No collection. SPECIAL 6 Room Bungalow, Modern Just being finished. Lot r0x ISO to alley. Six blocks from Washington school; cement foundation; Mas tered, and tinted. $2600 was tho price asked last week, but I can deliver the goods this week for $2100. C. A. Mc ARTHUR Home 279 - - P. O. Block Everything Electrical U you are in the market for anything "electrical" we invito you to call tit this store and examine our line. We etui give you perfect work; show you anything in fixtures and make as low prices as any dealer in anv citv. Flynn Bros. 132 WEST MAIN STREET tho