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Jif'" T ' ri Ti.'-qKV. riHl iKMwwwfw PAGE FOUR. -MEDFORD MATJJ TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRTDAY. NOVEMBER 32, 1915 if b: MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE AN INDHI'ENDnNT NEWSPAPER " published nvniiY apternoon EXCEPT SUNDAY IIV TIIH MEDKORD PRINTING CO. Offlco Mali Trlbuns Uulldlnff, 2B-27-29 North Fir street, tclepliono 75. The Democratic Tlm8, Tho Mrdford Mall, Tho Meilford Trliuno, Tlio Bouth rn OrcBOnnn, Tho Ashland Trbuno. THE SITUATION SUBSCRIPTION BATES Ono year, by rnal ...... . ..... J5.00 One month, by mall . 60 Per month, dcllverpd Uy carrier In Med for J. Phoenix, Jacksonville and Central Point ............ .DO Paturday only, by mall, per year..- 2 00 Weekly, per year - - 1 50 flrtftt Paper tr tho City of Mcdford. Official Paper of JbcUhoii County, Entered as npcond-clnnii mattrr at Meilford, Oregon, under tho act of Jlurch 3, 1879. Sworn Circulation for 1914, 2S88. Pull leased wire Associated Press dla ratclics. Bubscrlbcrs falling to rccclvo paporn promptly, phono CJrcu- latlon Manager at 2G0-R. 4 HONG KONG KOLUM mm mmmw mm fern I. . .11 I .X Vl "S'ik' " ' BBBBBBBW-. AIITIII'K -Yes, ltllss hiny bo ollh or reward or jilunlBhineut. It war ordor profit may bo cnllon "(nlntcil money" you and I will ngrco talut ours anil taint jours, 11m Most Iinpoi Innt CSuy In tho World Ho'b called familiarly "Numlior Ono." llo'a ul ways in tho bobt row at tho Hhow. , Uo i?qtn tho only va cant Boat In tho Hlicot unr. Walters wait on 111 in fltHt. l)ootlilnclH Jumb when ho appoara. UK'S YOU. Tlio Itiulo! Wlfo John, who Btarlod tho war, any way? John Tho man who flrt Intro duced ifh! Puck. "I don't ldiow how many phono grnph iccordH tho family noxt door ' haii," mi Id tho tlilu man In tlio lirown unit," hut It Ih cur I ill n that thoy broke all of om la.t night. Thoy played till 1 o'clock, Vacation l'oln Oicr "Slio wan woilh It." Yalo Itoconl. " TM)'t4 1C11 llingor. Kilwnrd Mtt'all, chairman of tlio Now York lMibJIo Servleu CoiiiiiiImIoii, ItcojiB bi'OB at hi placo In Kong In land. Onco a )outhful nophow, nl- waya getting In tlio way of tho woik inmi, jmiIiI hit iiuuunl l.lt to tho pliifn. "I put Hddju to olumliif hoc.' Mild .Mr. JIcCull, "It didn't hurt tho liuoa any and It leapt lMdlu out of tho way." Nlollii'i IhiiK'ilii Counter. win iinio iiiiiitia mory woman a wrlnklo now and then to lot hor l:now alio lau't being forgotton. Ml 15ellno Cuvo and Itboiiranr Mnnu wor hooked, up lit CuilhUl. JfurilHiid, recently, which nmdo It n cavo iuhu w ol dl iig, no to vpenk, . t)M Xonli Was tlio rht Hick to Pittmli Pi-o'MmliHisM nml Pnictlio II, Whun old Nonh begun building hi boat, tlio landlubber, the rrog-nond uroahorH, call ml hint criu. They jiroolalinod (hat tlio hln ottrpentor wan off hie baio. Thwo lmrper and critic wild old N'oah whs h. bug. They wild that tho ory fact he win building an nrk would bring on u flood. 1'ieiMirtilloti would uUrt eoiiiollilHjt. Home time ftr tlmt, and whllo Captain Nonh wit on the bow of his boat, liU fieir-rcitiHt mmiuwI to In oroaio, nnd be oftuu wond.rtxl J tut vhut had bucunia of bit crltlci. Do Ho Curofiil of (ho lNmr Mtllol Jtoiks Whyii You Co Swluiiiilng NiUt 71m, (From (ho IIbor 8prlgf. Ark JarkaonlaN ) hloid Iwrpnre, ouu of HrUr tlnrlnga illur bnllplavvra. broke a ro-k nil tip In tho bottom of the Uttle Itd river last Sunday while In awlwrnlnir Jfo struck eald stouo with bto hoad w-lien he made a big dlvo, lite hud WHEAT is ono of Iho staple crops of he Rogue River valley and has been for half a century. Unscien tific farming has reduced the average yield from sixty bushels to the acre, secured by the pioneer, to . twenty bushels, in sonic cases to ten bushels. The Medford Roller Mills this year has paid $80,000 to farmers for cereals representing 300,000 bushels, which is an encouraging beginning for the mill's first year a larger return on account of war prices, that tho farmer has averaged. Wheat is one of the diversified crops that should be annually increased in acreage. Iuch idle land is avail able. Its local manufacture in flour helps solve our econ omic problem. The industrv is one of several that need encouragement. The $80,000 should be made T1GO,000. Rut much of the land planted to wheat has been ex hausted through poor farming, shallow cultivation, failure to rotate crops. Little advance has been made in methods. Though agriculture has become a science unscientific, slipshod methods are too prevalent for profit. Much of the land exhausted for wheat can be utilized, willi irrigation, for sugar beets, and beet culture will rap idly restore and improve the soil. The net profit upon an acre of sugar beets is 200 per cent greater than upon grain. Yet many l armors will continue to extract a poor Jiv ing on exhausted soil from grain, with its flucluating val ues, rather than adopt modern methods, remove the gam ble from Jarming by irrigation, and plant an assured prot itablc crop like sugar beets with a fixed market for years to come tor the product. To the $80,000 received from grain could be easily added $800,000 from sugar beets. A man will pay $100 an acre for land, spend $00 an acre in planting it to orchard, spend another $30 in caring for it until it conies into bearing, yet he will not spend another $50 on easy payments for water to insure a crop when he has one. I rwr lffiSQ- In a favorable vcar the fruit crop of the. vallev is worth $2,000,000. J u an unfavorable year it is worth $200,000. Irrigation will convert most of the unfavorable years into favorable years vet many orchardists oppose irrigation though iho fruit crop loss alone in an unfavorable year will put water upon every acre in the valley. The orchardisL will Avail from six to eight years for a profitable crop when sugar bceis will give him a profit able crop each of six or eight years without any wearisome wail vet he prefers the fruit gamble. Wo need the $2,000,000 from fruit added lo the $S0,000 from wheat and the sii800,000 from sugar beets but to keep it from being cut to $200,000 irrigation is essential. 'A farmer will till land costing from $100 lo $200 an acre or moro planting and cultivating crops that will net him, in favorable years, not to cxcoo(f$10 an acre. In un favorable years his labor is frequently lost. Yet he refuses irrigation that assures crops and enables profitable diver sified farming. Some farmers plant the same crop year after year with steadily diminishing returns, exhausting the soil, going deeper into debt, yet obstinately refuse to co-operate in scouring a sugar factory by planting beets that net him twice or thrice the profit and improve his soil. Land owners have witnessed their land values shrink annually. They cannot rent idle land nor can thoy sell it, because! t is not a business proposition a practical fanner cannot utilize it at a profit. To make the land a business proposition, irrigation is needed. To rent tho land profitably, both irrigation and an industry that furnishes steady market lor products that can be profitably grown, is necessary. 'The beet sugar fac tory solves the problem. Yet the land owner keeps tho land idle, vainly expect ing unearned increment from speculative profits that will nover materialize without irrigation and industry. A responsible company offers to spend several millions of dollars in placing water upon the land at easy terms, an established, successful company offers to build a half-million dollar sugar factory, that means payroll and profits for all laborers, farmers, stockmen and land owners yet tho attitude of the average laud owner is that of tho Her man resisting invasion. What has become of the boasted progrossiveness of the logue U'ivor valley? No one can complain of hard times who refuses co-operation in creating prosperity. 1 f we fail to secure irrigation, if we fail to supply required sugar beet acreage, we can expect more years of depression, for until wo remedy our faulty economic conditions by in creased and divei's.ified production, through irrigation, and industries, like the sugar mill, to consume our products, we will not be self-supporting and will have hard times, no matter how good hey may be in the nation i at large. MPLIES TRANSPORT SOUTHLAND TORPEDOED IN AEGEAN SEA , !. II IM LONDON, Nov. 12 -Tho war of flio ban Utued tho following an nouncement! "On Sptuber S tho trauMHut Southland for Alexandria was torpe doed In the Aegean Sta, but whctl Madron under her own steam Oio same day. As n precautionary mon tmro tho troopa wero transferred to other trtuiiportfl. "There wero noma casualties amounting to nine killed, two slightly Injured and twenb two mlbMng be Uevcl to hae Iccn drowned." ASHLAND TAX BUDGET I 20.3 ILLS LEVY ASHLAND, Nov. 12. Preliminary estimates, subject to Revision, imply a levy of 20.3 mills In tho city bud- got for 1915 on n valuation of $2, 10D.900. Tlio levy In 191-1 was 13.8 mills, on a valuation of $3,030,875, a dlfferenro of $325, 8S5 In tlio annual schedules. Tho 1915 levy Is appor tioned or follows General fund, 7 mills; Interest and bonds, 8 mills; fire department 0.9 mill; park, 1,5 mills; street, 1.5 mills; library, 0.9 mill; maintenance Bprliigs plant, 0.5 mill. Tho lovles will iold $55,012. 80, as ngalnst $41,826.0$ last year, tho Incrcnso on account of auxiliary water bond requirements approxi mating $15,000. Othcrwiso tho nec essary levies for the two years would not have changed matorlnlly. Inter est,, bond nnd maintenance chnrges lend tho list, requiring $23,031.91, less cash on hunt! $5,173.27. Tho gcnornl fund requisition Is $18,9C9.- 93; streets, $1,001.99; parks, $1, 001.99; library, $2,438.99; flro de partment, $2,438.99; maintenance Hprlngs plant, $1,351.99. Tho nHsessed valuation of city prop erty for 1915 Is $2,409,990, to which Is added an estimated corporation tax on $300,000. Tlio council moots De cember 1 to further discuss tho levy and apportionment figures, Inasmuch as various discrepancies nro inevita ble. As nn lnstnnco tho park com mission overlooked an item of $800 for meeting paving nssissments In making up Its proportionate nhnro of tho budget, nnd llko tho tariff tlioro will bo other "horizontal" equaliza tions to bo made. E xv ' 1 li1 i wim ' li HB a'L d i wssaksjsmm -1 araii zis smj gWHERE THgzgSawSgg!' f " i li - - - r ' M ! CROWDS'GOS GOOD NEWTS' FOR EVERYBODY HERE TODAY f OBITUARY. Died At tho homo of Juntos II. Hrsklno, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1915, 15 miles northeast of Meilford near Prospect, Jlrs. Sarah P. Adnms, ago 73 years, a nntlvo of Ohio, nnd n resident of this section for 11 years. Tlio body will bo shipped for burlnl at Warren, Ohio. Tor twenty years Mrs. Adams taught school at Youngs town, Ohio. WOMAN REFUSES OPERATION Tells How She Was Saved by Taking Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. Louisville, Ky. ".L think If morosuf fering women would tako Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble ComKund they would enjoy better health. I eufTered from n femnlo troti blo, and tho doctors decided I had a tumorous growth and would hnvo to bo operated upon, but I refused as I do not bcllovo in opera tions. 1 had fainting spells, blonted, nnd could hardly stand the pain in my left side. My husband insisted that I try Lydia E. Pinkhnm's Vegetable Compound, nnd I am so thankful I did, for 1 mn now a well woman. I sleep better, do nil my housework nnd tuko long walks. 1 never fail to praiso Lydin E. Pinkhnm's VegeUiblo Compound for myKoodhenlth."-Mrs. J. M. Rescu, 1900 West Uroadwoy, Louisville, Ky. Since wo gunrnnteo thnt nil testimo nials which wo publish are genuine, is It not fair to suppose that If Lydia E. Pinkhnm's Vegetable Compound has tho virtue to help these women It will help any other woman who Is sulTering In n like manner? If you are 111 do not drag along until nn operation is necessary, but nt onco take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. AVrlto to Lyillu E. Pinfclinm ItIo4UcinCo.,(coiili(h'nUiW)Lymi, Mass. Your letter wll bo oponeil, read ami aiiMwrod by a woman nml held hi strict coiitldoueo. 1 ISm John A. Perl UNDERTAKER Lady Assistant 8 S. IJAKTLKTT Phones M. 17 nd 17-JS Aaahalano KArrlna Ooromt CT ljnden3. I I ixnr VM. M WUKrSJW Arrow COLLARS ci.ri.iT. rrunoiiY i oo , io.. uun We Would Appreciate nn o.-rt'inlty to rrco tbe n nm w i's It w' ten your tanUtrg Inti rests cc iM to Ic'tcr sen-J u A Cotuncrciul nn I baUngs I'eiurtnrut Jer tlov crntnc it bupcrviklon. OVER gg VEARS UNOEH ONE MANAGEMENT J , - V WJ.ViCIVaaW i.-,rR-.'V.' tr WJ -nri-g vBURR.M'INIOSH JPATHE) WAX FIQMAN (PATHE)! LOLITA ROBERTSON (PATHE) Max Figman, Burr Mcintosh arid Loliia Robertson in THE NEW ADVENTURES OF J. RUFUS WALLINGFORD This Is not n serial, no sir. Positively no. Wo know bettor tlinn to stnrt such a production. Our lotiK nnd successful oxporlcnco ns an exhibitor has taught us to know better. Hut wo nro about to bIvo you n now scries of extraordinary merit, hnsod oa tho tremendously popular stories of KO. UA.N'DOLl'll CIIKSTKIt, pioduced by tho Whnrtons. KACII ADVi:.Tl'Ki: CO.MPLKTi: I.V TWO PARTS, nnd onch ono n Riiaranteed attraction. Tho trent of tho cnr for plcturo-lovlng public. Sliuiiltnncously with each roleaso of thoso pictures tho stories hnvo and will contlnuo to appear In tho Portlland Orogonlun and l'risco Examiner. You've read somo. Kcnd all tho others nnd then sco them nt tho Stnr whoro tho crowds ko. Wo cotifirntulato oursolvca on sccurliiB tho beat pictures thnt money enn buy, nnd nssuro you that wo nro now showing tho best pltcttro program of any thentro between Portland and San Francisco. Seo this won derful AVnlllngford Bubject, "11UNOALOW HIWO.LIV FRIOAY One Day Only. Admission only 5 .and 10c. FRIDAY MARGUERITE CLARK MONDAY WHY DO THE CROWDS GO TO THE STAR THEATER? M$t0M2 f ! t ! A The Page Med ford's Leading X Motion Picture Theatre Daily Matinco 2 P. M., Evculnq 7 P. M. Prices: Matinee, 5-IOc; Evening, 5-IO-l!jc. i Tonight 1 ? f f 3L f ? ? i A - Tonight I and Tomorrow Afternoon and Evening V ? T T a: I YOU BE THE JUDGE!? t f r COMPARE!! jl Genuine Essanay Genuine Essanay Charlie Chaplin 2-Act Comedy SHANGHAIED With other so-called FAKE Chaplin Comedies t ? V t ? f f y y y y ! Nan o' the Backwoods 3-Act Drama All Star Cast ! t r f f f y y y y y y y t y y y y y y y T y y y T y y a; Broncho Billy Sheepman Essanay 1-Act Western Story i y y ? y y i X"fl WBI fcMttt!& pwp"