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-MEDFORD MATJJ TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRTDAY. NOVEMBER 32, 1915
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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GOOD NEWTS' FOR EVERYBODY
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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
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COLLARS
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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
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crntnc it bupcrviklon.
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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
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