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1TFT)?0nD MAIL TJirnum MEDFORO. 0K1W0N, WEDNESDAY, MAT 10, 10tf
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CHILDISH
OPERATIONS
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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
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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
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Can't Stop Him From Being a Perpetual Postmaster
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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
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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.
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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.
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Turkish Trophies
Cigarettes tsftessem yeara ag
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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.
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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 "
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WATCH FOR THIS SALE
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