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MEDFORD MAHJ TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,. OREGON, MONDAY, DEOEArBER 20, 1915
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MENACE OF PEACE
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Bub-crlbora falling to receive
papers promptly, phono Circa
Utlon Manacor at 2C0-R.
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HONG KONG KOLUM
Vhnt Is tho bent Xmnn present for
a neighbor woman with nix en nary
hlrdH? (NLICK TAHIIY CAT.)
Nut tiro ovr-m-- Attention
A vicious o'yHtcr, wo nro Informed
by tho Now York World, caught n
duck's benk In Its shell nt Smith
I'olnt, j. I., nnd held tho duck undor
tho water till tho duck died,
Advertising Men! I lend!
Workmen engaged In demolishing
tho Grovcr Cleveland homo nt Cold
well, N. J., discovered a cigar which
had lain .hidden In tho ratters fifty
years. Tho finder smoked It nnd
nald It wns good.
Affectlonnto JVojtlo Tnko Winning
iA woman mistaking n I'lillinnn
porter for her brother, kissed him on
tho station platform nt Jollct, III
then fainted when she discovered her
mistake,
John T). has said that ho owes
much of his business success to golf.
Isn't It jruo that mono men owe their
golf io success.
A Vermont man lins taught his dog
to Hlngj so ho tolls n Now York ro
i porter. ('Maybe It la n bird dog.)
Today Hollrlnpor
Hilly "jtfunduy wns onco driving
across Nebraskn. Ho paused by n
rail fenco to ask directions of n farm
cr. After getting Ills directions, Hilly
Bald to tho farmer:
"Is that n scarecrow over there In
tho field? It hns stood In tho samo
position ft long tlmo but "
"Thnt." responded tho farmer, "oh
no, That's n man 1'vo got working
by tho day!"
Stella' llm-gnlu Counter
Many pcoplo who do tho hesitation
waltz hcslstato too long on thulr part
Dor's feet.
nPllE latest danger to threaten the United States, ac-
cording to politicians at Washington, is the menace of
peace oi which tno nysicricat preparedness propaganda
against a visionary world in arms is part and parcel. This
awful menace has taken the place of the tanlf, the psycho
logical panic and mte regulation and tho anti-trust law as
the lather oi calamity.
Gilson Gardner, the "Washington correspondent, says
that the thought of what will happen to the poor working
man of America when the millions of belligerents go back
from the trenches to useful occupations brings teal's to the
most hardened standpatter. To think of all the factories
and farmers pouring their cheap goods into the "United
States wrings the heart of our noble statesmen, who view
the war as a good thing for neutrals in that it creates a
demand for gunpowder and supplies on the part of bellig
erents. JJo thus Huninmrij'.es the disinterested views of
these pntriets:
Preparedness that Is the slogan of today preparedness for peace.
Wc trust it will not come upon us lit tho night. Tho moro hopeful of us
seo tho war dragging along for two .three, perhaps even ten years. In thnt
caso our prosperity Is secure; wo may by that tlmo become financially cn
treuchod dug-in, an tho modern soldier puts It.
Aro wo prepared for pcaco7 I say emphatically no! And how do wo
know what might bring It upon us! Little things often set in motion great
forces and thus blindly become tho promoters of vast consequences for oil
na well ns good. Tako tills fool Kord ship, or tho woman's pence party, or
tho conferenco of neutral nations proposed by Jane Addnms and her crowd.
What do women nnd automobile makers know about war?
I tell you this congress ought to prepare! The naval program is all
right as far as It goes. Theso government mnnufneturo fellows won't get
nnywhero, nnd tho steel business will go on as It lias started. Hut wo
should prepare for peace. Wo should tako tip the matter of an anti-dump
ing Inw right away. Tho tariff ought to bo put up, and wo ought to leg
Islnto to keep out altogether tho products of cheap foreign labor. Wo
ought to allow tho freest combination of Industry for selling abroad; wo
ought to encourngo tho establishment of branch banks abroad, wo must
grant ship subsidies to build up our merchant inarlno (a government mer
chant marine wilt hurt tho shipping business) and finally, wo must have
tho biggest army and navy In the world, so as to protect our commerce and
provide a market In which to dump our surplus when peace comes again.
Then, to cinch our foreign markets, wc will have to
make use of our biggest army and navy to seize foreign
lands, and because a republic is not qualified for world in
vasion, wc will have to become an autocracy with a czar or
kaiser, mid our civilization will have completed the circle,
be back when it stalled from, the bird of freedom dead
and only I he ghost of democracy left to haunt humanity.
A PLEA FOR THE CHRISTMAS TREE
Forglvo our
our dentists.
debts ns wo forglvo
(Jooil llttlo calves, when they die,
become chicken croijiigtloa.
Honk! Honk!
"Now Ma," cuutlonod pa, "don't
forco too much on our guest Ht
Ulnnnr."
"What then?" stilffojl ma,
"Make It u sociability run not an
CndurnncQ contiwt." Louisville, Ky.,
Courlur-Jouruiil.
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-OONSIDEll the Christmas tree, not on account of the
V unique fruit it bears today, but for its own romantic
history.
Whether it be a hemlock, or a balsam firm, or any little
scrub "evergreen," your Christmas treo'links you with the
most remote ages of the earth. Jt belongs to the family of
pines or conifers. Theso aro the aristocrats among trees.
Their lineago can be traced back millions of years to the
period when fishes were the only important vertebrates
on earth.
Tho pines, then, aro very properly a symbol of long
evity. As such they have made themselves a great place
in oriental art.
Tho western world, however, has valued them mostly
for their commercial uses. Pilch find resin, spruce gum
nnd beer, bark for tanning, wood pulp, medicines and tho
cheapest as well as some of the most expensive woods aro
a few of the sources of wealth which man has discovered
in the pine family.
And now comesthe tragedy of the conifers.
Even the trees wage relentless warfare. Darwin says,
'Tho oaks have driven the pines to the sands."
Tho coijifors reproduce themselves from seeds. When
a pine tree is cut, its root dies. And tho seeds of the cone
bearers, unless they find fortunate lodgment, perish
quickly. Thus persistent trees like the oak and the maple
have taken up the best ground and the pines now live on
mountain heights and sand dunes. .
Slaughtered relentlessly by man aiuj lacking power to
reproduce themselves rapidly, lliesp Miuient and beautiful
trees are (loomed to extinction.,,'
This is not a plea to do a-',ay with tho Christmas tree.
The trees used at the ('luutinas festival hardly count in
the tremendous annu-d commercial sacrifice.
This is a ju for the appreciation of the beauty and
romance, of'Yue pine. Of late, landscape gardeners' have
been giving them their proper place in small city lots as
v!i as upon large estates.
AVhoever has a yard could do a service to his commun
ity by planting any of the scores of lovely cone bearers.
And where is the child who would not like to raise his
own Christmas trees.'
J linvo n friend who novor buys nw
Chrlstmns Junk too soon;
6ho Bays, "I wish tho Ht6rott would
noil thulr stuff till CluUtinim
noon I"
Sho'u thut unnio girl I told you of,
who used to have u boau.
Sho kopt putting off tho wedding till
tho poor man had to blow!
( l.oulao Goldsmith, it prolty I'lut
Lrookvlllo (N. J.) school tent her has
resigned her Job bocniiBo It Is too
lonetoino.
BRITISH LOSSES IN
SERBIA ONLY 1278
LONDON, Due. !i0.- The 1. 1 .' of
Itritibli onsuultio-; loMiltuit; !"'"" 1'"
itloiiiki (upuiliUon into Heibi.i w.i
only 1278.
Those figures xvero jfixwi " 1'"
lioiibo of oouiuioitfs llu aftouiuim .
JIurold J. Tentimit, Niiiiuiiirht.irv
fiimlor-HH'rotury for war. Mr. Tin
limit said thnt only w officer uml
'85 nu'ii of other nuilM hud ln.i.
AS IT APPEARS TO YOUTH
Editorials Written liy Pupils of the Medford High School.)
I (luistnmi ft INitluiv'.' .No!
Thin iuiMiou Iiiim iicir becii tin
ibHic until recent l, mid when xw m.
recently we iuut include the gteul
Kuropenu war, which is now being
waged upon tbc battlefield it' l!ur
ope. The iurtioii i- n direct out
giowlh of that iiiikMn omtlict "bull
u daily hoarding mi lntor of great
ilccilt. mill bloodshed, which lino necr
before been paralleled. Why bhould
we doubt the iiffinnutixo answer to
this statement when so mnuy human
problems uro ut mi iMic. Is civil
ization a failure? One would in
tuulv Miv "No," hut why me men
litflitiiij on the rnvojurd of KuroiH-
tor the inexcusable principles of
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absolutely pure and wholesome.
1 here is no Kochelje salts, no
harmful residue left in the food
that is leavened with K C.
Even the most delicate can cat Hot
breads raised with K C without distress.
Try K C Baking Powder breads if yeast
raised bread does not agree with you.
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Belfihhuess, rnco hatred nnd nnlmnl
impulse? It nppciins ns if nil tho
virtues of man have disnppcnred nnd
left in their stead xiolcnt passions
nnd nn nbnominl thirst for blood
Europe todnv is cnculfed in a vio
lent liemorrliaL'c of blood, while
America slumbers peacefully nnd en
joys tho opportunities nnd peace of
her "mother country." let they ny
that Europe .U n much more highly
civilized country than the United
States, which is quite jilnusiblc, ow
iiifj to the youthfulness of our insti
tiitions. t
Hence, it is not improbable that
one should ask himself: Hns Christ
mas. the birth of our Snxior, been
celebrated in vnln? Wo sny, "No."
Christmas is not nn institution rcc-
ot-nized for purely educational pol
icies or for its morale. It is mi epoch
in tho history of the world; nn epoch
thnt will never be erased from tho
history of the universe until that sys
teni censes to exist. Christ wns born
in Bethlehem upon the 'J.'jth of De
cember, in tho year 1 A. I). When
ono refuses to respect that dale and
honor it xvith true devotion ho ceases
to be n Christian, for he renounces
his belief in Jesus Christ, the son of
Ood, who crcntcd the enrth. Thnt
wns not n failure. Why, then, is
Christinas n failuic?
Is Christmas n I'alliuo'.' No!
Chfitttmns is held by many to he n
mockery, n failure, merely nn excuse
for unwonted extvuvtiL'iincc. lie
spite the fact thnt much Inoncy is ap
parently uselessly squandered nnd
thnt tho true spirit of Noel, though
present in detail, is sadly laekinf
when n wido application of Christian
principles is desirable, nevertheless
the ehccrinj, regenerating effort of
nn outburst of convivial spirit, how
ever formal and inconsistent, is of
countless value nt u time of year not
renowned for its cheerfulness. At
this time tho pressure of ordinary
routine is cspccinlly oppressive; it is
the hnlf-wny stntion bctxvecn the lr-st
xvnmi dnys of Indian summer mid the
brisk dnys of March. Tho old
proverb says: "A stitch in time saves
.nine," so the actual physical htim'i
lus nnd the oven more potent moral
stim.ilus of tho t-enson is invaluable
to tho "tired business mnn" t.xpe, to
xvhi t 'i most of us belonf. So much
for tho purely economical nspeet of
tho question.
From n religious standpoint xve
must neknowledgc Christiuns io ho
somrwhnt of n fnrce. Tho revival of
leiigious enthusjitMii is not us mark
ed an might ho expected from the sig-
niiicanco ol tho church festival, yet
there is, I heliaVJ, wurccly ono of us
who is not in some degree seiii'hle
of ii "better' feeling of unspoken de
termination to do good and to benefit
others more than in tho past. So, in
spite of the many pessimistic senti
incuts that wo hear nlmost daily, we
mus't bo truly thankful for the influ
onco niul "morale" of Christmas mid
eenso to think of it in tho light of n
fuiltire.
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MARKET REPORT
Trices r-aa oy naaora
KGC1K- 10c. '
m?TTI.H- Unify, Hoc.
POTATOES- New, lac.
ONIONS 1 1 .0 per lb.
HONKV-I'Je'per lb.
CIDKH Sfle.
rOHK SSVio.
BHEP-)Ho,
LAItD-lOc. ' - ,
HACON 13m)l5e. ,
BUOULDKKS 122c. ,.
HAMlUc.
.U'TTKI. FAT Mo
Hl'TTKK - Wholesale, 110c.
Mre-itoc .
HOdS Abie, :iV.'.(jMt'o.
STKKKS- Alix e, -I j(fl5e.
COWS-Alixe, 'l(fi)M.o.
VEAL- Droned, 8(Mlt
I.!e Poultry
HENS - Urge, over -t lbs., lie;
under lbs. .09o; old roosters, tie;
stags, le; spring, l'Je.
DUCKS Eat, 8c,
GKKSK-F.it, 8e.
TUHKKYS 13 to loc, neenrdiug to
quality.
UKI.aiAN HAKES, fi to Co.
liny una Grata
(Having Prices.)
WIIFAT Me bushel.
OATS - .fj.l ton.
HAY- Alf.du, .ii:i ton; grain, 1'J.
AIH.K - While, fl.
Bargains in
ROSES
200 Throe-jear-old
Caroline Testout
Hoses (or sale at u bargain
Tho tlne.-t rosos in Medford
from tho bcM rose hedKo In tho city.
Tho Carolina Teatout is u porpet
uul bloomer, largo pink rosea and
tho bent hedge or atrcot roso for this
climate.
Pierce, the Florist
ALLIED MONITORS
B01VIBARD GERMAN
LINESATWESTENDS
I5KHLIN, Dec. 20. xln London.
Entente allied- monitors yesterday
shelled tho Oorninn )ositions nt
Went ends on the Belgian const, hut
were finally driven nwny by land bat
teries, snys the officinl statement is
sued today by ffcnnnn headquarters.
The statement ndds thnt German iivi
ntors nt lucked the town of Popor
inghe, near Ypres, numerous hostile
troops being concentrated there.
The statement follews:
"Western theater: Fire from our
coastal batteries drove off the enemy
monitors which shelled Wc&teride yes
terday. On this front there xvns live
ly nrtillery activity.
"Ono of our nir squadrons nttnek
cd Popcdinghc, xvhere numerous
troops of tho enemy nro gathering.
"An English biplane xvns shot down
in an nerinl fight near Bruges. The
occupants were killed.
"Balkmi thentcr: In the fighting
norlhcnst of Tarn, previously report
ed, three mountain mid two field guns
xvcre captured.
"Near Mojkoxno fighting continued
successfully for tho Austro-llungnr-inn
troops."
POSITIVE PROOF
Should Convince the firctc,st Skep
tic til Medford
Ilccauso it's tho ovldcnco of a Med
ford citizen.
Testimony easily investigated.
Tho strongest endorsement of
merit.
Tho best proof. Read It:
Mrs. William Charley, 305 North
Orapo St., Medford, says: "I had
much pnln in tho small of my back
nnd sometimes I could hardly bend
or straighten. At night the trouble
bothered me, too, and often I couldn't
sleep. I tried plasters and liniments,
but nothing helped me. When almost
discouraged, I heard of Doau's Kid
ney Pills. In less than two weeks
nfter I began taking them, I felt
better. Kour boxes of Donn's Kid
ney I'llls made mo well." (Statement
given Sopt. 1 1, 1907.)
OVi:il TIVi: VICARS LATER Mrs.
Charley said: "I hnvo had no kidney
troublo slnco Doan's Kidney Pills
freed mo or It."
Prlco GOc, at nil doalors. Don't
simply nsk for a kidney remedy got
Doan's Kidney Pills tho samo that
Mrs. Charloy had. I'ostcr-Mllburn
Co., Props., Uuffnlo, N. Y. -Adv.
TODAY
MAUD ALLEN
Tho famous star in
The Rug Maker's
Daughter
A dashing romanco of tho Turkish
Anicrlcnn rug trndo, which presents
tho world famous dancer In ono of
her most beautiful d.incos. This Is
n special 5 part Paramount.
COMING Tuesday, 'Chnllco of Cour
age." A guaranteed attraction or
your money refunded.
THE PAGF
MEDFORD'S LEADING
Motion Picture Theatci
HERE
Only Tonight
Neal of the Navy
Interesting and lustructivo Play
Life's Pitfalls
Domestic happiness and tho sanc
tity of tho homo nro troutoi! In this
Kdlson three-net photoplay, featuring
Marian Xcsblt imd Hcrliert lrior
Mr. niul Mrs. Sidney Drvxv
Comedy
Rooney's Sad Case
JOHN A. PERL
UNDERTAKER
lidy Am Lit nut
28 S. UAllTI.irrT
rhoiiM M. -17 and I7-J2
Ambulance Sen iro CoroHcr
IMM? DecemVzI
Medford's Leading Theater
SELWYN & COMPANY Present
MARGARET
ILLINGTON
"A Great Actress In a great play." N. Y. Herald.
THE LIE
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"Insplrflng, reverberating triumph." Amy Leslie in Chicago Nowg.
' nT HENRY ARTHUR JONES ' '
Ono year nt Uio Harris Tlicatcr, New York City.
NEW YORK CAST AND PRODUCTION.
Curtain nt S:30 sharp. Children In Arms not Admitted
Scat salo now on.
Prices, 1st It rows lower floor $2.00; last 4 $1.50; balcony, 1st
4 rows $1.D0; nc.t 4, $1.00; next 3, 7Cc; balanro 50c.
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MEDFORD.S
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WED. DEC. 22
Greatest
Livin;
Actor
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iLAIL ORDERS 2sTOW
Farewell
OF .
Forbes-
Robertson
His first and positively his last appearance in
Medford
AND LONDON COMPANY
In Jerome K. Jerome's IModorn INlorality Play
Passing SL Third Floor Back
The Ideal Christmas Play over 5000 times in
England and America.
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