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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1915)
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PkMh t'QSH ffls tSAYS "Newt KrictWtisli'ft wife nearly starves herself tor feed her husband nnurishm' food, on th' theory that th' man needs it. Then ho rides down town to work in a bank nml she does t)i' fnniily wash." LAUGHS Templing 'Tliis suite will cost you $300 per dny." "Do you find people willing to pay such pricesf' "Plenty of them." "In Unit case, what will you take for the hotel f " Juilj-c. TIio Clita Tho rhin it was made to raic trou- JuV, Either dimples or pimples or stubble. Then Wno lihve the gall' To not grow at nil, While others come triple nnd double Collier's Weekly. Gloria us I "ITovv's vncation, Johnnie!" "Bully I Fell off a shed, most Rot drownded, tipped over n beehive, was hooked by n cow, Jim Spindles lieked mo twiee, an I tot two stone bruises an' a stiff neck." Zion's Herald. Humdrum Folk "I don't like thoo people at all. They're too good." "What's the trouble?" "They'vo kent tho samo maid for clejit -cars, and insist ia they've never had n washerwoman disappoint them." Detroit Free Press. Shown Up Married men are all bluffers. Af ter Tom Jefferson had written the Declaration of Independence he "went homo nnd played dead nnd rolled over and jumped through every time' Mr. Tom mapped her fingers. Cincinnati Knqnirer. Community PiojicHy Willie Paw, what is a henpecked husband? Paw A man whoso ne'rvo is in his wife', name, mv son. Cincinnati En quirer. A Daro "Mrs. Gabby just loves to indulge in cheap talk." "Then let her try a littlo conversa tion on tho new line between Now York and Snn Francisco." Xew York Times, Juuly Signs "What makes you think Uio bnbv is going to ba a great politician?" asked the young mother, anxiously. "I'll tell you' answered the young father, confidently, "ho can say more things that sound well and mean nothing at all than any kid I over saw." Taking Exception That the 1015 figure Is exceeding trim nnd trig you'io Mndu aware by glancing ut the, fash ion sheet; And the damosels who wear all This enticing new apparel Aro attractive from their coiffures to their feet. Wc would not creato a schism Nor indiilgo in criticism Of the shapes far be the tusk from )i umble men. But we do not mind coufessiiu That these changes keep us guessing-Tiey have moved Jbo waist Hue some where else again. Peoria Journal, Cm 1 r i A FAKE IT was n most lugubrious calamity howl thai brunt forth from President Sproule of the Southern Paeifie Friday evening at Chicago. Not, since the 1. V. AV.'s of the (.1. O. P. desecrated the dead by chortling the wail of standpatism at the Lincoln banquet, has such a tale of 'w been heard. Optimism has no psychological effect upon business, declares this doleful Jeremiah of transportation, who ut ters tho cant of his calling: "The booster lifts nothing higher than tho level of his own teeth. The trumpeter of prosperity beguiles only his own em's. Prosperity is real, or it does not exist. We do not have to look for it; it comes to us. Tt grows within our sight like a plant coming in flower." What then creates prosperity f "What then will make this beautiful and fragile flower bloom? Calamity howl ing? If so, we ought to be surrounded by a veritable flow ering garden, for it is all we have heard for several years. Prosperity is real, says this philosopher of traffic. " it omnes when the emnlover resumes employment," and it will only come -when "people generally discover that tlieir condition improves only as their employer is prosperous." In other words, the cause of the business depression, Mr. Sproule means to say, is regulation of railroads in their process ot tu icing an rue rraine wm near ami iiiiimtiiihhui of bijr business in its multitudinous operations of skinning the people by special legislation for monopoly and manipulation. Political and financial doctors do not. agree in their di agnosis of the ailment called business depression. Poor crops and low prices yet m the nation at large, we have nail rccoru crops aim the highest prices known. Shortage of money is usually blamed, yet there never was a time when there was so much money on deposit in the banks of the nation. There have been no bank failures, other than those that are due to fraud and violation of bus iness ethics. Moreover we now have a currency system that provides an elastic currency and practically rendei's bank failure, for rightlv conducted institutions impossi ble. Inability of railroads to raise rates when traffic dimin ished, was urged as the couse by the railroads, and a five percent increase was urged as a sure cure for hard times. The Interstate Commerce Commission granted the increas ed rates, and that cure proved a fake. Reduction of the tariff is blamed by stand-putters and protected privilege. The theory of the protective tariff is that it prevents competition from foreign lands. Since the European war began, there has been no competition from abroad, and prices have soared, so this theory is smashed. Had a higher tariff been in effect, the deficiency in nation al revenues would have been still greater. The old familiar balance of trade theory doesn't work either. During the past year, exports have vastly exceed-, ed imports. The balance is all in favor of the United States and growing greater daily. The United States is the most prosperous nation of the world today. The financial depression is nothing like as acute in other nations. It is on the verge of an era of its greatest prosperity, because of the destruction of wealth and civilization and consequent exhaustion of other coun tries, due to war. At the same time, there can be no great instruction of wealth in aiiy part of the world without, temporarily at least, affecting tho other 'parts, so com plexed and interwoven are the commercial relations of the civilized nations. Mr. Sproule's Southern Pacific stock is not selling rap idly. "What is sold is at a bargain price. Why? STot so much because revelations of high finance have made the investors shy of railroads, as because five billion dollars of American securities arc held abroad and aro being dumped on the American market as fast as the need of the owners and the artificial restrictions on the stock exchange will permit. Capital is not invested in industrial development not only because better opportunities are offered in the stock market in the purchase of s. table securities held abroad, but because the dread of what the future may bring forth, the fear that in spite of a neutral policy, the nation may it self be drawn into war through the persistent efforts of hyphenated Americans in sympathy with their hyphens. Until this fear is removed, standing the fact that every ity, big crops, war prices and unlimited markets lor man ufactured products. Mr. Sproule pleads for a better feeling on tho part of the people for the transportation lines and large employ ers. Jiaiiroaus tncmscivcs aro tude. For half a century they out restraint, the people and the saloon, they have brought upon themselves the legisla tion they complain of. The railroads have beep doing business upon an inflat ed basis. Even while Mr. Sproule was talking, details of the financing of the Rock Island system .werp being bared at Washington. Upon a $60,000,000 operating company, $350,000,000 in capitalization was loaded. The, watered securities were unloaded on the innocent public and the proceeds made multi-millionaires out of the Wall street manipulators, who wrecked selfish ends. And tho chief financcering, who thinks .$3000 a year exorbitant for an engineer, says $100,000 a year salaries for officials a mod est compensation, fully earned, and joins Mr. Sproule in his clamor for less railroad regulation. A few days before Mr, Sproule howled calamity at Chi-. cago, the Louisville and Nashville was shown to have di verted millions of its earnings into creating and maintain ing a corrupt political machine that dominated a common wealth ior crooked purposes, STTCDFORT) MATH TRIBUNE. FLOWER. tock generally cause hard times capital will be timid, notwith effort is making for prosper 10 niame ior me pumic alti have been exploiting, with resources of the nation. Like a great railroad system lor beneficiary of this fraudulent much as Mr. bprouie'g ownj MKDFORD, ORKapy, SATURDAY, -FIWRFATvY 27, railroad had dominated California and other western states for its own unholy purposes for many years. With the memory of the Now Haven scandal fresh in the public mind, with similar transactions in other systems being uncovered daily, the railroads have only themselves to blame for the public esteem or dis-esteetu in which they are held- l'-ven a reformed sinner must sit on the mourners bench and that is where the railroads, who are striving to be good are, while their presidents aro shouting calam ity. Hut the people are not going to restore the good old days of railroad looting even to fertilize the flower Mr. Sproule labels prosperity a fake l'loVr woi'ii a (lie lapels of railroad wreckers. PROSECUTOR TELLS REASON FOR DELAY To the Editer: An nuoit.MiioiM clitic writes asking me to explain the reason for Hie de lay iu bringing the Aledford saloon keepers to trial on ehanje of selling liquor to minor. A a public servant 1 feel that the citizens are entitled to know why these case were not sooner tried and while 1 have no tespect for the individual who has not the moral courage to sij:it his niiiiic to such an inquiry 1 am going to explain the delay in these cases. At the time these indictment were returned by the grand jury an in esti mation of this question was made cov ering a considerable period of tune and in many instance-) the witnesses did not know tho names of the bar tenders makinir the snles. Out of n delte to treat the defend ants all alike the grand jury return ed all the indictment against the proprietor. This notion tm again! my ndviec mid again, my wish in the matter, as it raised a question a to whether the proprietor could be held responsible for the net of hi servant, committed without his knowledge and nginnst hi instruc tions. The lute Judge lluntin had held to the contrary and the supreme court of the state in an opinion which hnd been withdrawn, had denied the criminal responsibility of the pro pnetor for the tiuiiuthorm'd act of Ins agent. The only way in which this question could be settled was by presenting the legal questions to the circuit court nnd then appealing. Judge Calkins in deciding the matter took the only course open to him by following the dictum of the Oregon supreme Cnuit. I then appealed the ease to the supremo court and that tribunal reversed itself nnd Judge Qnficin. The cases were then set downfor trial at the earliest pos-I-blC(p!omcut, in fact, before the man date-bud been returned from the su pnmic court. In criminal cnes where an ac quittal has been had before n jury, the state has no right of appeal, nnd had tho cases gone to trial in the first instance the court would hnvc been legally bound to instruct against the responsibility of the principal for tho unauthorized nets of the agent, acquittals would have resulted and tho law still be mi open question. I took the only course by which the Inw could bo definitely established. If appeals to the higher court nrc dilatory it is an fault of mine. The result obtained in effectively and definitely settling (his important question is a sufficient vindication of my conduct and judgment in tho mntlJr. E. E. KELLY. YY Theatre l'UIDAY AXI1 SATURDAY Matinee anil Kieolng "ZUDORA" Tho Twenty Million Mystery In Episode No. 8 Jnmcse Cruxo Is shown in threo different characters. Ho in tranafarmnil from tho villain into tho horo. Ho furnishes spec tacular scene!) In tho new rolo that will arouso moving'' picture fnns everywhere of Tlianliouser's greatest photoplay "Zdora". The Rebellion of Kitty Bell "Two Itcel Mnjcatlc Mutual Weekly News Mabel's Busy Pay Koystono Comedy G and 10c Any Scut 5 ''and 10c Jphn A. Perl 'UNDERTAKER I.ady AsHlfltaur, 28 s. HAiiTJiirrr Phones M. 47 and 47-J.S Ambulance Bcrvko Deputy Coroner SALOON CASES rtr , r ITALIANS PROHIBIT RIOTOUS MEETINGS TO KEEP NEUTRAL KOMI', Fell. 'J7. -Vehement lit tack on the government were made in the chamber of deputies ,eteiday b ytho Kxtremist because of in structions given prefect to ptohilnt meeting even when they uro describ ed us private if theio i ictison in believe those who would be iu disor der. The order vvn designed to pio veut clashes hetwecu those who favor Itnlv's intervention iu the War mid those who advocate strict neutrality. A tumult arose when the l.lrcm ists declared the prohibition of Mich meeting was n suppression of liber ty and iu violation of law. I'lcmlcr Salaiidru replied to criticism of the government. He declared the instruc tion to the prefect were designed to protect liberty which was thicnt ened by violence, raise the dignity of the country which had been injured bv dissensions and cement a moral unity which would lead to triilmph. A the Kxtrcinixts showed that it was n plan to prevent llal.v' inter vention in the war, the picinier de clared nnililst applause: "I do not know whether our nation is destined to march to war, but If tin shall he the case we must all unaiiimousK obey the ordei of the tatlieilaud and the King." Reported by Jackson County Abs tract Co., Sixth and Fir Htt. ' OIlTllIt Win. S. Crowell vs. Joseph A. Newell ut n. Summons, complaint, affidavit of Attachment, undertaking for attachment. W. II. Kvcrhnrd vs. United Fire man's I linn ranee Co. Stipulation, A. C. Adams vs. I.ognn Woolrldge. Appeal from Juatlco court, Medford district. Itcal IXnto Transfers Tom IliiHliong to Joseph S. .Miner ot u.x, N1J of NU'.i of nbm sec. ns-ao-s W S. v II 1,0.10 Llltfo J. Anderson to 1'. 11. TO REMOVE DANDRUFF --- '''- Get n 23-cent hottlo df Dandertno at nny diug store, pour a lltllo Into your hund nnd ill well Into tho scalp with tho flngor tlpB. ily morning most, ir not all, of this awful scurf will have disappeared. Two or threo applications will destroy every bit of dandruff; stop scalp Itching and fall- Ing hair THE PAGE Medford's Leadlnjj Theater BIG SPECIAL BILL TODAY ONLY Essanay's Photoplay Masterpiece MONGREL AND MASTER A Powerful Drama of Importance Featuring Francis X. Bushman With This Essanay One-Part Drama Mrs. Trenwith Comes Home Biorjraph One Part Drama And Sie Never Knew Vltagraph Comedy A Strand of Blond Hair Bunny Gets In Wronn In This Comedy Hear the Lartje Wurlitzer Orchestra It's Always a Bin Show at the Page. ADMISSION 5-I0-I5C COURT HOUSE NEWS ioir Unrlo, N 'fa of lot i:i and all lot 10 Iu section "14" or Itomio Hlvor Valley Or chards company's tinet, W. I). . Wagner Cieult Nuisoiy Co. to AlVln 0. JhhiiHun, bind In I), L. 0. No. 117, Iw-p. :t8 S. It. 1 West, deed Cliueuro C, Pletcn ot ul to lllr Ueen Myers. Sll'i of Hlltt of SW'i and 1 aeio off S olid of 1416 of NT. of SU see. , tvp. Hit S. It. I W Q. C. I) ' . M. I.. Iliildvvlu Adiu. to William Johnson, l.'fc of H14 ontl WW of Sll see ar,-:ts -t W, deed 1'nltod Slates to Hold Hay Realty Co , IS ! Of. ueies III wuir.o I east and two and U to 100 10 west, patent THE PAGE SUNDAX ONLY Matinoo 2 P. M. Evoning, 7 O'clock Great Special Feature In Fivo Parts. THE GAMBLERS With All-Star Cast. George Sponcor, Earlo Motcalfo, Jack Riilgoway Kempton Groono, Lillio Loslio, Wm. H. Turner Gaatou Bell, Gilbert Ely, Ethol Clayton. ONE PART COMEDY SPEOIAL MUSICAL PROGRAM By LARGE WURLITZER ORCHESTRA Aftoriioon, 2 P. M. Evoning, 7. P. M. 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