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PAHIS, Jan. lfi. Tho correspond
ent ot tlio Kxcdtsior in Home wires
that ho learns officially that 3G.000
j)orons wcro hilled nnd 45,000 In
jured In tho earthquake.
Newspaper specials from Home
nfireo that tho Rreat mortality is at
trihutablo to tho method of dry con
struction employed In tho nffected
region, the stones being piled upon
each other without mortar. The
only bulldlnss which escaped total
destruction tvero tho modern houses
built of reinforced concrete.
Tho torlous landillJo which lias
occurred at Montecorvlno Novella,
which sent masses ot earth from tho
mountalntttdfl Into tho Fuclno canal,
damming that stream, threatens to
add a flood to the other calamities In
tho region. Gangs of men arc work
ing strenously to remove tho obstruc
tion. CREATE OFFICE OF
PUBLIC DEFENDER
SALEM. Oro., Jan. 16. Tho of
fice of public defender will bo created
In every county of 75,000 population
or more, should a bill Introduced In
tho house today by Hoprescntative
Lewis bo enacted into law.
Tho bill makes it tho duty of pub
lic defenders to defend all persons
who are financially able to employ
counsel, and also to prosecute actions
for tho collection of wages for those
who are not able to employ counsel
In cases In which tho sum involvea
does not exceed ?100, and to defend
porsonnin all civil litigation in which,
In his Judgment, they are being per
secuted. "
OF
STATE HEALTH BOARD
SALEM, Or., Jan. 10. Two new
Tneiiilicrii f Hie iac' l"nl f Iieullh
linve been njtointi'il by (Km-rnor
Wilbycnmbe, and Dr. Andrew C.
Smith was renpjwintPiI, the 6nns of
offieo C three of the obi memberi
terminating today. The two memberi
who have not formerly bcrvoil, that
wore selected by Ibo governor, nre:
)r. M. U. MareclhiB, city heallb of-fii-ir
of Portland, and Dr. A. C. See
ley of Hoscburg. Members wboso
tenus expired Himullaneouhly with
that of Dr. Smith, but who wero not
reappointed, are: Dr. A. C. Kinney of
Axtorin, and Dr. T. J. llipnins of Ua
l;cr. Tho bold-over memberri arc Dr.
K..A. Pierce, l'oitlnml; Dr. W. II.
Moive, Salem, and Dr. E. H. Pickel,
Jli'dlonl.
TAKE GUADALAJARA
VI'.KA 01U Jan. 10. Aceortlins
to official information reaching Vera
Cruz today, tho town of Ouadalnjorn
ban been recaptured by the Currnnxn
leader, Oeneral Dieguoz.
Quadalajara was taken by the Villa
troopt. in Oeceinlicr, tho Oorrnnza
troops under Dieguez evacuating the
ytosliion and withdrawing to Qiuinot
lan. SMISER ELECTED AS.
ALASKAN ATTORNEY
WJARUWCITO. Jan,. 10. Presi
dent WiJKon lujfs hulrvriofl J. A Sniiner
for 'Uniled $fttb aKoraoy for the
division of Alahka. Tho wnniiuition
'.will be "M'dJ "
DRY CONSTRUCTION
CAS
GREAT
QUAK
MORTALITY
PROHIBITION RUSSIA ANB OREGON
RUSSIA is. out oountry which has genuine prohibition.
This was ninth' possible by tho absolnto monopoly by
tho government of tho liquor business. An artiolo in tho
ttoviow of Reviews iloscribos tho rosult as follews:
The governmont's Intention ov'idently was to keep tho drlnkshopa closed
only tor a short time, in order to fnctlttato tho conrentratton and moblllin
tlon or Hoops. Hut once tho people hud n taste of real prohibition, the
Cnr's administration found that It was lot -nsy to return to Its old ways
and resume Its profitable business. Tho, people rose up as ouo man, iltv
mandlng tho contlimnnro ot prohibition. Peasants who had been hard
drinkers before Joined in a general enthusiasm that greeted this move
ment. Tho press did ita best to uphold tho people, and tho government,
which needed the nation's sympathy as nover buforo, was forced to capitulate.
Tho result tins been n regenerated nnd rovolutioulxed Hussln. Crime
has been diminished JO per cent, or ovrn mote. "Wlfe-beatlng has ceased
almost entirely. Children who had never seen their fathers sober and al
ways feared them now beheld thorn with astonishment nnd asked thslr
mothers. "Will papa always bo so?" hi conversation the wonderful change
that has conio over Hussln through her sobriety tnko,s precedence oven oxer
tho war, especially among women,
"What a i'aroo, compared to Russian prohibition, will
Oregon prohibition be under the law proposed by tho com
mittee of one hundred and presented to the legislature.
Instead of a prohibition measure, it should be labelled "a
bill to promote booze guzzling at homo and build up the
whisky trust in other states.'
The bill forbids the manufacture or sale of liquor in
Oregon, but permits a wholesale mail-order booze industry.
It shuts down Oregon breweries and wineries, forbills
saloons or drug stores from selling liquor, forbids club
lockers, but permits any one to ship in from without the
state five gallons of whisky or wine or twenty gallons of
malt liquors in each month! 2 Tow much more does tho
most confirmed drunkard desire?
"What a difference between real prohibition and the
proposed Oregon article !
If prohibition confers the benefits its advocates claim,
if liquor does the damage it is alleged to, let us give real
prohibition a trial and forbid not only the manufacture
or sale, but importing of all varieties of booze.
NICKEL-IN-THE-SLOT FRAUD
f OUNTY ATTORNEY
order out all nickel - in - the
support of all law-abiding citizens.
The law on the subject reads as follews:
Section 2112. Any person or persons who shall conduct, maintain, or
operate, either as owner or owners, proprietor or proprietors, lessee or
lessees, employe or employers, agent or agents, or who shall play or use any
nickel-in-the-slot machine or other devlco of like character wherein there
enters any elemont ot chance, whether the same be played for money,
checks, credits, or other thing or representative of value, sball be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upori conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less
than $10 nor more than $100, and In default of payment of tho fine Im
posed shall be imprisoned In the county Jail ono dny for ench $2,00 thereof.
Section 2113. In all prosecutions under this act for conducting, main
taining, or operating any such machine or device, proof of the possession
of such machine or device, or of permitting the same to be or remain in any
public placo owned or controlled by the person ho prosecuted, convenient
for use, shall be prima facie ovldenco' against such person of violation of
this act.
There is no more barefaced robberv practiced than
these slot machines. The player has not one (.'banco in a
hundred of breaking even. They are purposely made with
an overwhelming percentage m ravor ot the "house" and
their victims are principally partially intoxicated men.
They are as efficient in getting the coin as the process of
"rolling" practiced in pioneer days and in the dives of city
slums.
The pretense that they give a package of chewing gum
with every nickel played is a barefaced subterfuge. No
gum is forthcoming on any of the machines played in Bed
ford. Furthermore, if a player docs by chance turn a
winning combination, he is paid in drink or cigar checks,
not in gum.
Of all tlie slot machines that over victimized the public,
those now in Med ford are the crookedest.
HOW TO SECURE PROSPERITY
THERE can be no question but that the securing of a
beet sugar factory is the greatest opportunity over
offered the Rogue River valley, it involves no local ex
penditure of capital and offers the greatest net return to
the farmer of any crop he can produce a fixed market
for all the energy and industry ha can invest.
The beet sugar factory will mean the expenditure of
three-quarters of a million dollars in the valley for con
struction, li will furnish an annual market for 15,000
cords of wood. It will distribute among the growers a
million dollars a- year to farmers and laborers of new
money.
Every person in the valley will profit by the establish
ment ot the factory. Its benefits are multitudinous. It
will fix permanent land values. In a few years one fac
tory cannot begin to handle the beet crop that can be
raised, and another will be necessary.
Here is a chance to restore prosperity to the valley an
abiding and lasting prosperity. Will you do your share to
secure it? All you need do is to sign up for sonio acre
age yourself, if you are a farmer, and get your neighbors
to sign up. If not a farmer, make it a pofnt to oinduce
your farmer acquaintances to sign up.
A long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together and
we can get that prosperity-producer for the valley.
The Beginning of the End
In nny general Biirvey of tho hia
tory of the grout war in iU fifth
inmilh, the moral rather than tho mili
tary effect of the operations takgn
fir.-t place,. For if tho Oermnta ntlne.Ii
in the opening months might fairly bo
likened to a forest firo hweepimr ir
resjibtibly forward out va&l ijihtrtcts,
ever widening its area of destruction
and mounting ever higher in its vio
lence, it is not less patent that, De
cember come, there wan cast and west
in Europo an evident Hliiekeniiig of
tho firo growing competence on (lie
purl of llioso whoso necessity it wuh
to limit, control, extinguish tho blaze.
Looking at Ibo fields of operation
in December, it was1 plain that while
MroDronn mxtt; Tummm
KELLY'S determination to
- slot machines will have the
there had been no success "et in net
unity extinguishing the conflagration,
it bad been limited, circumscribed,
confined to tho narrowest bounds
since it broko out. In places it was
actually flung back; at no poult was
it permitted to ravaee n"nin manv of
tho districts which it bud Mvppt over
in Ihe early days of August and Sop
tembcr. In September it wns Paris which
John A. Perl
UNDERTAKE
Lady Asslsunt
M B. BAni'LKTT
PbOHM M. 47 B 4741
4nitiiile ItorvtM Dtvofy OotMr
mDFOKD. omwox, sATrnmt, .taxahy in,
had been in danger. In October, in
N'oM'itibiT. the lleunnu drive for the
M'm'iml, fur Calais and Duukiik,
Ihieatened to eompur for tho kiiNcr
thai "window on the elinlinel" which
for all paii-tleiiuaiiH had been the
dream of all dreaiUH, the tii'M step in
the series which wan to acniivo for
Germany her "place iu the Mm,"
Hut if in November and in the ter
rible battle ot Ypiv-, of Flanders this
Oernutu advance hud been lullted, in
iWember it was clear that, like the
march to Paris the swop to the
ehnntiel had been defiutely repuNed.
From Switzerland to the North Sea
the great Oerinau ol'I'eiiMxe had come
to a full slop, fallen dead, lost tln
necessary number and force, bad
sunk to the level oj" a mere siege op
eration in which the Herman were
more frequently on the defensive than
the offensive, and one bv one town
and ullage, in Flaudor. iu ArtoN, in
Champagne, which had been cnolured
iu the initial drives, were legained by
allied ndvniiee, advances nieaMired
b' rods, not miles, achieved in days,
not hours.
For this the explanation wus to be
found, rather iu the eut than the
weM", for while her western onmtnin
was still nt a crisis (loiinany bad
again, n before the buttle of the
Marue, to hurrv envvnrd trooiw nec
essary In enforce victorv in Flanders
to avoid the imminent di"iiM,er llu
sian mnsxes hud nreoured iu Poland.
KaM" and west, Hus-ian. French and
Hritixh armies inereai-ed in numbers,
in effectiveness, in material, purlieu
lnily iu artillery, while Austrian re
source and military value declined
still more rapidly than before, and at
last then seethed to be the ap'tronch
of n time when (lernian numbers and
cournpe, Oennnii efficiency and skill,
would no longer avail to keep the bat
tle lines mi both front' outside her
own territory.
Looking seiuvnnl, loo, the decisive
defeat of the last (lertnnu fleet on
the high seas always inevitable,
given the superioriiv m me aiiieu
navies served to otuplm'uo once
more how fatally the net was beim:
drawn about the fleiman cinpiie. It
served to recall for all Americans the
eircumstnnces of the confederacy,
when Gettysburg lost and the Atlan
tic blockade made effective the su
periority in resources and numbers' of
the north was established, and the
civil war settled down to a process of
attrition. Then came destruction by
eamiMiigns in which neither skill, de
votion nor valor could nvail against
numbers, wealth and sea vaver.
Thus for the mltside woibl Decem
ber seemed to mark the beginning of
the endnot iu the sene that the. ap
proach of jK-aee was measurably has
tened, not thnt the prospect of n long
and terrible war was banished, hut '
simply in the sense that under the po
litical conditions existing, while the
ranks of her enemies remained un
brokeu, thero was no longer any
promise of ultimate Gvimnu i'tor.
Germany's problem henceforth seem
ed to be one of defense, not attack;
of endurance, not comment. William
II was not to conquer Europe n Na
poluon did at Aiisterlitr. Germany
wn not to control the continent u
France bad a little more Hum a cen
tury before. It remained to be seen
whether the fjcriuan cmpcior could
bold Uelgium n Fredeiiek the Great
had held Sile-ia, against the combined
military strength of Europe.- From
"T,ho Courso of the Whr iu Decem
ber," by Frank II. Simonds, iu the
American Ifeview of Iteview.-, for Jan
uary. A flood Ucsolutloii.
To Jiolpjjiilld up Medford payrolls
by smoking (lovcrnor Johnnon or
Mt. Pitt cigar.
THE PAGE
Medford's Leading Theater
SUNDAYTONLY
Matinee andrEveiiliuj .
ICh Alvvayn a llig Show at tho Page
Special Great Feature
The Thumb
Print
A Thrilling and Powerful Dctijctlvo
nrnma In Four I'urtn
Other Good
Pictures
(Jpcclalj,M anient program lj'
Page Theatre Orchestra
Humbly, Matinee li V. M, Cvcnliig at
Adinlshlon O-tO-lSc
RAISE IN WHEAT
I
PROBED
BY
T
WVSIIlNOTON, .Inn. It'.. -I'lenl-dent
Wilson today directed Attorney
Oenoinl UreKory to iuvetli:ali wheth
er thorn hud hcou any violation of
liw In tho rlo of prlees of wheat and
flour.
The department of commerce prob
ably will he linked by the president to
furutrh Information showing whnt de
gree of lurroiiso In exports of wheat
and flour followed the outbreak of
tho Kiiropeau war. .Mr. (Iregory him
promlHcd prompt proHeeutlous on any
evidence that IIIokuI combinations
Iinvw .forced up tho prlre of wheat
and fluuv or other food produetn.
Ono IttvoHtluiitlou now helug con
ducted In Chicago la being watched
closely by iho department of Juitlleo.
From various ttourcci miKRiwtlomt
have been made to the president thnt
an uinbnrgo be laid on wheat nnd
flour oportx, to keep home price
normal. Officials declined today
to
continent on any of them.
'THE SPOILERS" AT THE
PAGE THEATER MONDAY
"The Spollern" Is a Htory native to
the noil of these slateH. It In typle
ally American. It covers n period In
the dovelopmont of tho Pugut Hound
country and AlnnlM wneiem aiiven-
luroH of nil nortH. noble nnd otherwlne
ntniKRled with Bavago tenacity for
fortune. (It In now ictold In inuvlng
picture form by W. N. Helljc In nlu
reels with n fidelity to detail that In
truly MitWylng. The film drama In
Intensely Interesting. Nothing llku
tho hand to hand fight between 0en
Itder and McNanmra has ovr Deen
shown on the nago before, l would
bo Imponnlhlo In npraltliig driunn. No
glndltorlal combat or Aflclent Home
wan fiercer or bloodier, nnd thin
ntruggle ban tho added virtue of a
true drnmatlc nliuntlon, the world old
ntruggle between light and wrong,
good nnd evil, condenned Into tho
forms ot two chaructern of the ntory
who have become familiar through
provloun prenentatlons In the plot. It
In tho Htory of modern American
frontier life. Thin nunt wonderful
picture In to recolvo ltd Initial pre-
nentntlon In Medford nt the Page for
a., rtititnimiiiiint nf tun itfiiti Htnrllni;
January lKth, matinee nnd evening.
YY Theatre
iitio.w'.wo s.vrntn.vv
.Mallucr.Ku'uIni;
Mystery of the
Sleeping House
KpUorio No,
a, "Zudorn"
Complete
Two Heels
Mutual Weekly News
Shorty Escapes
Matrimony
Two Heel Uroncho, Shoity Herlen
Prlncens Comedy
In Her Sleep
5 and IOc ANY SKAT n and 10c
STAR
Sunday. Only
f SoUgpno Pmt
Rival Stage Lines
VJtngruph Fcjtturq Two PurtH
Saved from a Life
of Crime
Kalom Koinody Ono Part
Bud, Bill and the Waiter
KMHiiny Hl'eelal, Two PurtH
The Place, the Time
and the Man
Clcorgo Aden Pablo
The Club Girls and the
Four Times Veteran
MATINEE AT TWO
PEIDEN
.imn
SHOOTS SELF: FALLS
SW PUANCiaCO, Cal., Jail Hi
After pnvlug bin hotel hill III advance
for two dn.v, Tlioinan Merkr of
Point Hlehiiiond wenl iipntalrn to the
room nnnlKiied him euily toduy,
mutl.v livid awny htn coat, wabdcoiit
and nhoen, carefully leaned out the
window, no that no ntalun nhnithl rail
on the carpel and shot IdliiHulf
thioiiKli the bend. Ill body pluiiRml
downwind 'i ntoilw Into I'ulou
Hipmio.
With Medford iraito in Medford miido
THE PAGE
Medford's Lentliiin Thcalrr
It's Always a Big Show at tho Page
' ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY
By special arrangement with tho All Star jYoaturo
Distributors, this Theater will present
JANUARY 18th AND 19fh
Afternoon and Evening '
The
REX BEACH'S
Red-blooded story of Alaska, pronounced by prosa
and public tho greatest photo spectaclo over pro
duced. The production all America is talking about.
Tho admission, while nioro than our rogular prico, is
less than for this great feature in many citios.
en
Lower Floor, 25c; BalcQny, lDc; Children, 15c.
MUSIC FOR THIS ATTRACTION BY
PAGE THEATRE ORCHESTRA
THE PAGE
Medford's Lending Theater.
It's Always a Bin Show at the Pane
SPECIAL GREAT FEATURE
Box Office Attraction Company Presents the New York Lyceum
Theater Success as Produced by Daniel Frohman
THE THIEF
By Henry Bernstein, Author of Samson, Israel, etc.
Featiirlnn Dototliy Donnelly, Creator of Madam X.
AN EPOCH-MAKING FEATURE
This prcat Photo Masterpiece will only he shown Friday Nl-jlit, Sat
urday Matinee nnd Evcnlnn
MUSIC BY
PAGE THEATRE ORCHESTRA
ADMISSION 5,
D A rT THEATRE f
F A VJlL Thursday Jan. JU 1
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GftfAT TANGOE8QP& QWJUM
QOtfUVes AtOTfi) COLONS
PRICES 50c, 75q, $1,00, $1,50
Scat Sale Opens Tuesday. Mall Onjcrs Now. Pliono 418
'I'UIH IN NOT A .MOVI.VO I'MTl'ltK HIIUW
LORD ROBERT'S ESTATE
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I tiVMOS ln I". I HI ). m
Field Mnr dial lord ItnborU, who
died In liiime NKVeiuber II of lunl
vear, b'ti mi ent.(ie of :iSfi,0U0, all
or whlnli oen lo bin Widow nnd
.livughlern. Thin amount In itxclunlva
ot ihojhmH' provlounly mdtled on bin
family by Lord Kuhnrtn.
Puneinl Vol he
Fuiiernl wrvhton of Vol mm Cnmo
run. wire or Xneh Cfunwiw. vrlll bo
held at the Wtwsn " MuOowati elm
pel. Hunda. .Inuunn I all at " no p.
lit., Key. Shlchlx otfli'liUlllg. Intel
uieiit III I O. O. F. ueinelery.
TWO DAYS
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
January lUlli and I9lli
Ft Iday-Saturday
Matinee and
Saturday Evcnlnn
10, 15 CENTS
PPRAISES
Spoilers
Thursday, Jan.
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