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uf . J - A,. t ffflH 1TFT)?0nD MAIL TJirnum MEDFORO. 0K1W0N, WEDNESDAY, MAT 10, 10tf PAOK CHILDISH OPERATIONS EN OF HANDICAP GAllG'OF AN ARMY AND KEEP ENGLAND IN IGNORANCE Charfe Edward Russell Tellif How rttaln Loses by Censorship Can't Have an Autocratic Democracy or a Democratic Autocracy Must Bo Autocracy or Democracy. (Copyrlxlil, linn, by lh Nim'tipiipm i'lilcrprlHu AMouiiitlun.) UWDON, Mny II,. -One ri'nNon wh Orent lit it it In a nfiiT nliiii iniiiiUm n'l Iryiiiniiliiim trfoit, Ntill Iiiih ho nriii.v to cniwpftnt wllli th nnnli'M of r'nuiet' ittul tlerniuny In Ijim'iiiiho Client Hi it niu lirtH liiTonit a cciiHor, flii iilrn of nil nruiv rnwilctl liy voIiiiiIhi-.v I'lilihlint'iil Ih it liirni lovely ilemni'iiiHo iilun. Tim idea of a newii eniBdr-lilp In not di'iiHHTiilin at all. Imt)iiiri'l.v tiuliii'nitlt. Von iitii ni'Vi'r I'tiiht a (lemin'riitio idea lemn up itli mi iititourntlu Idea. Tim (wo do not jib.'. Thn Kovornaiciit of (Ireiit llrilaln, dependent for itp iirm.v upon volini tnr. onlMini'iitK, coidd not poiaihly have ilnnii n eriuier thing Ihun to clump down a i'eiiorhlp upon llw iwwh of thin war, Ymi I'lin't have viiliuili'vr rnh'Mt iiientti without rtidnr feeling, and ,vun rnn'l iidmimo popular reeling nhout a unr if trio people know next to uolli. K n It. 'ltotli AtitiM-mtlc ami Itllotlo Any eenNomhlp in hud I'liouuli, tun tin kind of crnHorhip the llrillt-h KoinruiiD'iit put to work min wiipm than tlmt, lircaiiMi It 'win both auto, vratlc and Idiotic. All Hit) jM'opIn of (I mil llritala nr timlly know about lint war l wbat they calbrr from tin few gritty and indigrMihlf I'ltiinbit.tbo uiindli'M ucii llrnicn now roiuliiclhur the eriiMir'r. office nro willing' tn throw at lliciu. Tim llritixh ptddic Ik now eten ill lowed to know xliaple and ecnliii! fni'lM. Heller and fuller war rrirtrf nro printed daily in fiOO Amerieau iieWHimper tlinu usually ap'Var in i IlntiHbournal. The Aiiu-rii'nn public lia today n eleaier and Mirer kuowl nlffiMif what In going, on than the Ilritltdi. For lnyn toother the llrilUh new, paper, minutely edilrd hy the inlptl Iohk prrNoim beforo referred to, print hojhlng In the way of war noun but kIuhIi, gufff and obvbjUH ilreanw. Kv-i-rjlhlng Ih going wrll; (lermany i lc Ing licked j ItiiNNlii li pouring through the pnMe of the Cimmthlnii; Ilnlv it about to join the. allic; the people j,, of Ilerliu and Vienna tire Mtimim;; ,(,,,. mere am nreau nom in muni renin, llritaunla linen the Vnvrn. mo r Dm Oillilti.li (.ViiMim OjH-r. ntloiu 1 will jjivo a few example of the idiildirdi o'wratloiix of these eetihor pentoim mid then ,ou will ntu one thlni that U the mntter here. The allien, on the western fiout, face thn iiiohI htuendoui proldeiu er attrmpted by men. To win they must drive 1,(100,(11)0 entrenched men backward 'J00 milcw, ilich by inch, al a eofit of so many lives an inch. Of (bo him iniil nature of thU prob. 'Inn, flic llritisli people ojiUt in xweet and hlirtxful lnoraiicc. CoiiNeipienlly they am not concerned about It. Tim eciiMor will not let them know. The hattlridiiii Audneioux waw .uuk liiKt November off the northern eoiiht In lbij day Iho eennor hna rcfimrd to allow n word to he printed about the dlNiiNter. Tlio Ameiieau newnpapew liud rolumiiH about it and from them Hie. nrtWH Iiiih ronu back to bn eireu luted "from imili to liinii aeronn tbexe itdnndxr Hut tbu ceiihiir wtill cuts it out of tll) pmHH, Hy the middle or April nil thu reht of the woild niiw clearly that the at tack on the Dardanelles wiin a fiasco. Tim KritlHh pulilie wax kept in blind lnorauco of that ffiet. Not a line fould ln printed here except of the pillaut dcciln of tlm Hiitxlt navv, and when them nm no mom kuIIiuiI deeds the nubjcct was dnppcd, CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL 1 ml . N"i)WNpa)Hir editor, mazarine wnlcr mid ecouomlht, who is writiiiK letter) direct from the war r.one to the Mail Tribune. Yet thu truth about (be Dardanelles blunder wax a tliln to which any ua lion pruteudiut; to he free wax uhxo lately entitlfd to know The ItanWutellc HIiiHiler The Dardanelles expedition was the xole device of Winston Churchill, head of (Ireat III Hula's navy depart ment. All of the ailmiials and naval exM'rls were dead apilnst it. lie in hUtcd. "Of eoursit these naval men don't know anything about polities," Miys he. They then pointed mil that at bet the attempt to force the Maid unfiles with only naval Hwcr, was ut terly futile; them must bn laudiiiK parties to keep the positions won bv the hliclls or the fleet. So an arrangement was made with M. Yeuirelos, then prime minister to Oreeen by which (Ineee was to fur. isb the land forces, thereby pluuglm,' Iter into the war on the side of the al lies, In this M. Yrnielos was doubtless siueeie, but lie had ov el looked the fact that Kiuc Coustantineif niecce. like tlm (Vat of the crowned heads of KuroH-, is a (leniinu. Tim kint; kicked over the prime uiiuiMtcr'x plan and the prime minister resigned. This left the expedition without n landing party. .Mr. Churchill, never tbeles, handed ahead with it, and it l!t rolled upas the admirals hud pre dicted. It was necessary, therefore, to withdraw troops fifnii other service for this one. The censorship passes every day preposterous inventions to the effect that (lermany rind Austria me starv rmnny Ntnrves l;very Hay for H .Mouths (Icnnany and Austria vvemstanina six months upi, Aceordiuj; to tbu Hritisb pmss they have been starving every day since. No public on earth that is able to read at all is dull fiiouj;h to be fooled in this way. Hut the censorship is dull eiumnh to think it can be so fooled. Hence the dreary repetition of the same old fakes. Kvery line that kock into a llritisli newspaper, whether editorial, news or adveitiseiueut, must he passed by the censor. Tim whole (hiutf is of the mutt, iimtty and of the nut, nutty. Soon after the lieiiiiiin of the war, the env eminent found itself ser iously hampered by lack of certain materials, the maiiufacture of which was iiuori;aiilred mid inefficient in (Ireat Hritaiu. An American in that line of trade beard about the diftieulty and worked out a plan to lemedy it. After he had convinced the authorities, 1, that be wasn't u spy;'.', that lie did not intend to blow up tho kiiiK; mid, !, that he bad no designs on thu prince of YhlcH, his plan wan adopted ami he was ciiKUKcd to take chaise of the work. Ila found bo was in need of articles lie could not net bom; also of expert workmen, lie cabled for these to his finu in Huston. No leply. I To cabled aain, ici'Uostint? nn im ."SEATS Of THE MIQHTY" AT PAGE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY - mU . Zma Can't Stop Him From Being a Perpetual Postmaster ''r'mmmmmmmmmmi BH k7v 'KmmmmrmtBmmmmP111' mmmmm ' mmwmmmmAmmmmm V RFwfWr VEV?fniVM WBmm&mmmV-' BN' mmmmEMmmmm I Wr I W'MJ! HIHb ChH v - m mmmwrmTmmmmmmmmmmmmm tamtmm. Njf'iM U mmmmTmmmmmwmBmmmmMB,i1mmm fizz W JJIfB Von rnn't don o lilm! .1. Itiiidy In fnmt r tlic irlrate imtn fflec lio Marinl In Ootltovvn, OkU., when he loit liln oh as tinltcl Htuto 4 pmt master nt lliukell. round I The world's f-mntest oiti mist I He is J. V. Hrmly, "perpetual!'' postmaster." Oneo of now of Oiltowu, Okla. l!rad's finances were mighty limited. "Don't worry about me. I haven't piit beiii)' postmaster by n Ion;; shot .Iiil.1 it fiiuli inn. Haskell but OTHtlirn,..ur People who Urmtv. I'm Kmiig to have a my own," Inuhrd know him and thosu who know of him say he's the original obstacle ovemomer ami living proof of "where thcru'M a will, there's a way." Ilritdy likes the job of bcinj ost masler. In fact, he likes it so well he won't stop heimr postmaster. Won't stop for anyone, not even I'nele Sam For seven happy years J. . I Irmly was postmaster at Haskell lli fellow is llrady. Ili. bulky and bcaiuin1;, that describes him. Always cheerful. Always handed out n smile withtbe mall. Then he lost his job but not hi" smile. Friends huvv the latter, brond as ever, when they came to condole with him, for it was known that mediate response Notbinj; doiuj;. A third cable producing imlliiiij;, he sent some heated letters. No rejdy. The work stopped short. Then he raid to the government K'ople: "I Kiiess my firm has blown up or died. I can (jet no reply to my enb bles. I will hop over these, on the I.usitmiia, pet what I want elsewhere and bop back." Snry a Cnblo (Sot to Boston So a week later he stalked, in some thing of u grouch, into his fi nil's of fice in Itootou, tyid found that nut one of his cables hud been received. Hut tbm isn't the whole of the Hut this insn't the whole of the story. On his arrival in New York n reporter there gathered from him material for a crncktni good Sunday story about his plans and work for the HritMi (.''"eminent. This, with full details, the New York ncwsprtcr punted. An ex change editor in a Loudon office saw it ami clipped it. The censor passed it, and thu whole thing was repro duced in thu Loudon journal. Heyoud this in muttism lucre would seem to be nothing achievable by the human mind. No correspondent or reporter is al lowed at tbu front. If by an.v chance one picks up a good story thu censor cuts that out and burns it. A o ealled "F.ye Witness," being uu army officer chosen by the government, goes with the lumps and is supposed to furnish all thu description any tuste could desire. A week or two weeks after a battle is fought this person comes lumbering along with a thousand words of dussieated and juiceless commeutH, nil showing thu surpassing; valor and wonderful suc cess of tho HritUli soldiers and care fully omitting anything that would I'ivo a hint of what !h actually going on. A huge fmvu is employed in open ing, examining, editing and suppics tug thu nation's correspondence at a tiuui when army enlistments lag, the eommaudeiK plead for troops any uveryvvheru am insufficient hands to useful and necessary work, l'vury day the government from its posters screams, roars ami IiuIIovvh at thu nation's young uum, urging them to enlist. F.vory day tbu govern ment'! censor assures them, through their uevvspapors, that all is well and the Oeimaus avu lieked. Can youjiuat limit Wise old government. No, have, an an nutoerno'i ? ' vvilln or have a democracy. Hut don't ry lo Imviv un autouratio demoeraoy or a ilemnornllc autocracy, Tho tiling ean'l d,oin), The fixtures in the Hnskell post office belonged to llrady. What did he dof Simply loaded them on a truck mid hauled them over to Oil town, a few miles away. Oiltovvn is a live town in a flnurihmg oil district, but Oiltovvn bad been overlooked when I'nele Sam wnH'diHtribiiling postof fiecs. Itcsiilents 'hnd been going to .lennings, seven miles away, for their daily mail. "Won't have, ,(o auv more," snid Hra.ly. "Watch me!" Me runted n 'little frame building, installed his po-toffiee fixtures and them put up this'iiiMiptien: POST OFFICK. .1. W. Krndy, Proprietor. ALLIES SILENCE F KILD BAH LONDON. May. 10.-r-A nicsiaRo from .M)tiluno forwarded from Ath ena to tho KxchiwiKO Telcsraph com pany ay tho allloi havo ellcnccd tho Tnrklsli fortifications at Klllld Ilahr on tho Kuropeaa alilo of tho Oarila nelleii at tho end of tho narrows near ex l ConatnntSnlonlo, Tho fall of Na gnra, on tlu Asiatic side neroa from Klllld IJahr. In said to bo imminent. The Turku aro Bonding reinforce ments to their positions along tho Clulf of Smyrna. Mrs. Win Hudgo Is expecting as her Kocvt Mrs. It, M. llugdnl ot St. Paul, .Minn., who will arrive in Med ford Wednesday morning. SPECIAL TO WOMEN Tho moat economical, cleansing and germicidal ot all antiseptics la A soluble Antiseptic Powder to be dissolved In water as needed. As a medicinal antlsoptlo for douches In treating catarrh, Inflammation or ulceration ol nose, throat, and that caused by feminine UlslthaanooquaL For ten years tho Lydla B. Plnkham Mcdlclno Co.liaa rocoramonded Poxtlno in tholr private corrostiandeuco with womon, which proves Its superiority, Women ,who havo been cured say It la "worth Its weight in gold." At druggists. COc. largo box, or by malt. Tho Poxton Tollot Co., Uoston, Mass cJWMTTt vv-3i luv?.A' UW" Bmokenef Turkish Trophies Cigarettes tsftessem yeara ag aro smeksn ex Turkish Trophies Clgarettceteeayt Mm. Now Ilrinly g'K-s lo Jennings daily and gets the mail for Oiltown folk He thnrgeH Jfl cent n week for daily box rent in bin post office, ten. cents additional for handling each individ nul' mail and 25 cents for delivering a parcel post package and five cents for two two-cent stamp", If a k;ioii rents u box lie must pay the 15 cenls n week in advance mid in addition he must pay ten cents it week to get his mail. Is business goodf Well, llrady has :il)0 boxes nnd they nrc all rented. In addition ho operates n hack lino be tween Oiltovvn and Jennings. Some day Uncle Snm will ronm along and start n postoffice of his own at Oiltown. That will put Urady out of business. Hut Hnuly's the world'rt greatest optimist, so he's not worrying about that jut now. wmmmmmmmmmtmmmmm 1 M$l3MMm Frank McKee JrM Central Point, Ore ff) TOUR OPPOETUUTT High Qr49 OeenMtece' Awtae I2M.M te IS9S.00 ON EASY PAYMENTS Tor etWot tnA laforatloa writ AlTra4lcC.Ic., Piilseerghi, Pi. of cenMll roar tout ittitt The Teachers' Review Count tt Medford Commercial College Ileglai MONDAY, MAY 31, and Prepares far JUNK EXAMINATION. THE SUMMER SCHOOL begins MAY 31. and continues during JUNK, JUIV and AU0U8T, wltk Clasies flora 8 A. M. to 12 M. Commercial and Shorthand sl)Jtrr- Tbrco Months for 25. For Full Information, Call, Phone 15-L, or Write. 31 N. Qrape 8trt, - you IAV VIH1T TITO ,.0f California Expositions On rour way to or from the Eit Summer Excursion Tickets On sale May 15 dally to September 30 permitting stop-overs en route. Ten days' stop allowed on ono way tickets at San Francisco and Los Angela. Low Round Trip Fares to San - Francisco and San Diego dur ing the Exposition period. Visit tho Southern Pacific building at tha Panama-Pacific Kxpositlon. Rest room. Moving Pictures, travel lectures. Ticket and Validating Office and Information Bureau. Full Information from nearest Agent of t SOUTHERN PACIFIC JoIim M. Scott, General lVtMeager Agent, rrtfauMl, Ore. CKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK t t t t t T t t ? f t t ? ? ? ? t f r t i t y y t ? CLOSED! The Men's Side of the F. K. Deuel Store Is Closed Up : i At the time the May Dry Goods Co. took over the F. K. Deuel Co, Store they re fused to take the Men's De partment, consequently the men's store must be sold out Watch for Further Particulars THIS STORE ROOM IS FOR RENT , The Men's Side Will Go Out of Business " &F WATCH FOR THIS SALE hHAASKHK a r 6