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.-JA--3- rt--, -,i. PAGJ3 FOUR MEDFORD -lAJJJ.TUlJitTNK-MKDFOliJU.- OUIiKiON. TIU'WSDAY, DECEMBEI? 2.1, ID IS ft J , 4 .,'i I tfilj i j( It U jfll sR. All a u p MEDFORD JMAIL TRIBUNE an iNDnPENDKNT NnwsPArnit PUULISIICI) KVintY AFTUItNOON EXCtU'T HUNDAT I1V TUB Muuronu i'iuntincj co. Offlco Mall Trlbuno Bulletins, 2S27-2 North Fir street; tolcpuone 16. The Democratic Times. Th MedforJ Mall. The Mcdford Trbunc, Tho South- em Orceonnn, Tho Ashland Trbune. StTBSCRXPTIOH RATES One year, by mnl ........ J5. 00 One month, by ninl!.- . - .60 l'cr month, dMlvorod by cnrrler In Mcdford. Phoenix, Jacksonville and Central Point .60 Rot unlay only, by mall, p?r year-.. 2.00 Weekly, per year....... . 1.60 Jflclal Paper of tho City of Mcdford. Official Paper of Jncknon County. Hntored an seconlclass matter at Mcdford, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Sworn Circulation for 1914, 2C88. Full leased wire Associated Press dls. patches. Bubscrlbon falling to rccolre papers promptly, phono Clrcu- latlon Manager at 200-K. HONG KONG K0LUM My frltmil HIM Ib fond of wnlklng. How ran I lieiit rpiiiombpr lilm ClirlBtiiuiH nioniliiK? (0IVIC HIM BKCOXI) HANI) AUT0.M0IIIU3.) lla! Ila! Ila! "IIo IniiKhn hiwt who IniiKlin Innt." "Nix. Hn IntiKliii host whoso IiiiikIi lilBlH." Dr. Hack In Urn lomllnR wiwon tit I'roplor, Vtirinoiit. Wlilli' tho Holillnrs In Franco and IIoIkIuiii nro tntnnchliiK, tlin folltn at home In London nro rclreuchlni:. Artlo. Sir: My undo, an honoHt and hluff Illinois farnuir, came to Chlc;ir,o to visit un IiIh flrnt visit to tliu bit; city. Of courno wo put him wlo to a "U" ride, n taxi ride and a nuns rldu. "Well," Raid tliu li. nml It. 111. farmer, "of your Roln' to all thin ex ppiino to nhow mo around tho town I'd llko to rldo In one of thorn enh nrotn I'vo read no much ahout." L. TiMlny'N lU'llHnuef Mrn. Philip I.yillR, tho linaullfiil Now York nodal lender onto linked a youiiR man who attended ono of her fancy drenn hnlln at Newport why ho didn't wenr fancy dreH. tthe noticed that ho nmoked a clgnrolto In x loni; holder. "I'm In fancy drenn." ho nald bland ly. "I'm hero an a clgarvttn holder." Sttll"' HarRiilit Counter. Tho hrldn wearn white because whlto nlRiilfUw the happlnnt dny In her life. (See, Rlrln (lie men wear black, don't they? I vlnlted n packing houno on my vacation last Hummer and tho nllly youiiR thliiK with tho white hat who accompanied our party on tho trip h:iI1 nlii" wondered if tho naiiHagcn wero made on the Rrouud floor. A Shirker Mother Now, llaiold, that you are throiiRh college, you had really bet ter begin lookhiR around for nouie norl of employment. Ilnrold Mother, don't you think II would bo more dignified lo wait until tho offers boRlu lo come In? -I'htladelphal UtdRor. t l.lfo Wilh Jiut Ono Diy (iNmhN 1 Vi AUvr Annilier (Krom Oklahoma City, Oklnhoman.) Jud WUIcIiih, one of our oldont and most ronpectud cltlxeiiH, departed this life Innt Friday. He left behind him five dofiH, two children and tho whole enrth. For many yearn hU huslueitn bnn been that of transferrin,- hlmiulf from oiin drjKoodn bu to another. It IViially Is. Where did ou ko to school"' "Vale I was cnllnifo bred a four year loaf.' SANTA CLAUS AT MUNICIPAL XMAS TREE The first Munlolpsl Curls! man tree In the hUlor) of the city and south iru OiORon will be held next Friday evenltiR (ClirJstnuiH eve) In the oil) park, and It promises, (h tonpoct able ueulhei to bo a bin succeiw The little liojs and Rlrls are ktou for the event, and tho largest public Rntber Iiir of tho year will be on hand The exercises will begin at 7 o'clock. C. K. Oaten will act us imutei of ceremonies, aud Judgo K 14. Kelly will he Santa Cluiis Der MOO rami) canes will he distributed, and the tree will bo lighted with electnoln, nnd decorated with all tho trdltlon.i,,"t1"" " H'e cm- h I lie Chicago dodada. Tho olios of sohool dron will bo 111 too in ho u p. A prarr and bonodlotlon v. Ill bo offered Tho final arranKeinentn for the ovent hnvn been complotod, and the trco will bring gladnesn into the eartN of scores of the little ones of clt who novo uui ium i.ntu hi COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREES "Pi fEDFORD, along with 1V1 celebrate Christinas Christmas tree, dazzling in illumination, surmounted with the star of hope, Probably the institution will become a permanent annual celebration, increasing in elaborateness and beauty with the coming years. It is only three years since the first community Christ mas tree celebrations were held. In 1012 New York and three other cities celebrated with community trees for the benefit of the homeless and the poor, who need no longer look with envy on the sparkling Christmas trees and scenes of cheer in happy homes. JOvery one may share in the merrymaking around the "tree of light," as the New York originators of the community celebration call it. The community Christinas tree idea spread rapidly. In three years there has been a more rapid, and striking change in the method of remembering the world's most beautiful anniversary than took place in all the preceding centuries. Each city originates some new'idea to make its celebration unique. In another three vears (5000 commun ity Christmas trees will probably add to the joyousness of the iestival season. Newark, O., set a good example last year by actually planting its shapely tree in City Hall park and" thus gave stimulus to a scheme advocated by forestry experts every where to save the iorests Irom their annual depletion. It is now proposed that every city celebrating a community Christmas plant a new living evergreen in some city park, and hold its Mf1 about this tree. aMarshaltown, la., last year entertained the entire couir tryside with .'500 illumined trees, elaborate fireworks and a carnival. Syracuse, N. Y., had a Christinas story teller to entertain the crowds ot children that came to the tree. Pit tsburgers their tree th contributed so at iK00 was left years celenraiion. A sum of .$;")()() is amply sufficient to finance any cele bration, as was proved in Springfield, .Mass., where for that amount a beautiful pageant, with carols and recita tions, brilliant colored lights aud music, was arranged about the tree. San Kraucisco and Philadelphia had several trees, and Pittsburg, Chicago and New York are among the cities which will this year likewise celebrate the community Christmas simultaneously in three or four different parki. The community Christmas tree, typifying a broader humanity, is a move in the right direction the restoration of its public character to the universal celebration, which had degenerated into a mere personal gift-swapping insti tution, with its selfishly restricted festivities, to inade quately commemorate the spiritual re-birth of the world. WHAT WE ARE LOSING A COMPARISON of what it is with what it ought to have been is always an interesting proposition, no matter what may be the chief factor in the problem. The irrigated district of North Yakima produced about three-fourths of a carload of fruit to the acre. That was the general average. That would be worth, f. o. b. the cars at that point, an average of ijMBO the car. Yakima's 0(500 cars of fruit, therefore would be worth $l,:)20,00(). The Mcdford district's acreage in bearing fruit was two-thirds that of Yakima. Therefore, had our acreage been irrigated, it should have produced two-thirds as nianv carloads of fruit worth two-thirds as much mouev, or $2,880,000. Without irrigation, however, we did nothing of the kind. It is almost a shame to print the figures. I Jut here they are: Ye produced -120 carloads of fruit, worth, f. o. h. the ears Mcdford, $101,200, which is just $2.()S8,7oO short of what it should be. .More than two million and a half dollars is the sum, therefore, that the fruit producers lost this year on account of having no irrigation. The comparison with the Yakima district is wholly fair. It had an abundance of water for irrigation. We had none. Our loss shows the difference between results with irrigation and those without it. We have in the Mcdford district 2.V1! acres of com mercial orchard. The acreage of what is known as familv orchards is sufficient to make our total 2."),000. The Yak ima district litis twice that total, but onlv a third more in bearing. Ileing equal in all respects to the Yakima dis trict, except in the matter of irrigation, and superior to it in many respects, we should have shipped this vcar (MOO carloads of fruit. The difference between that figure and 12.") carloads which we will have shipped bv tlieeliiseofthe Near is what makes us ashamed. It is what makes us poor, as well. It creates iiiortgitHcs and it will inner give us anything to pa tlnni with, cither. si'i.MNurici.ii. in.. Thele t no Ian III 1 1 1 ill lie.. JX -! hIicii'Iin Dr. ll.ii r ,1. H.iiMd.liii, I lie (In. iiyn IOieiaii who ieftixc.1 in ue m luotoUK lltejitc u I he llnlhiiuer bah in that cit Xo ember 17, run be in .lieie.1 by a gnunl jury uneiigalin. Such whh the lul'iiiiiialioti receu ed Indus u Attorney (iciicnil I.iicev in a letter I mm Slate' Alt.nne l J.n Iln.Mie nl CiMilk ...uiit. The lettei ... in eil to i i')iict nl the atloiue uencial lor an in.- chll-,""" '"' CHICHESTER SPILLS' J :' "i- n.Triis uuM.imi iiiiwi. i'am,r,,j .llir' l -T..I A ...Kt S5ft i'iiiii. it' a i ...u wuiikVvy III s ! A. if GOO other American cities, will this year with a community generously over as a to flic fund for nucleus for this NO CHANGE AI ADEN A LONDON', p.... j; () que-tinue.1 in icuuiil to the lieiilK leeeut Turki-h oltiuiil Matt-mini thai, utiei Mic.-e lul liKlituiK. Tuiki-h Hoop were advancing on the Hiili-h pott of Aden, in -oiiib,. Ai.iltiM, .1. Auxten t'hmuhorlum, i.eeretar for India, .nid in the houe of common- lodnv there had Im'.ii u.i mute rut I ehatnje at Aden fur the la-t two nioiitli-. "On Deeeinber 'Jil there was a -kinui-h between oiii ntxaliv o.-oiils ami au enwn ,. iir.il." he ioiilinue.1. "The ciieuix lo-i in ,i ilei and one pii-on.r. Dm . ii-ii.niii . ueit. one wounded." JOHN A. PERL UNDERTAKER 1jiI)- ANsLstaut SH S. ii.utm:it Cboiies l. 17 and I7J'J MAY STRIKE IN ILL DUG FOR If the C'hndwifk well, which i lie inf; drilled for nite-nan water at u jioint six mile noutliea-t of Mcilfmil, hhoiiltl develop u How of oil. it would create n local enntion. lndiention now HiifrjjeHt that it may do that very tiling. Oil hand Iiiin been found and already the prediction Inc. been veil lined hy John Stevens who Inn had extended experience nl boiinjr for oil in the Holds of California mitt el-e-where, that n flow of oil will he found nt u depth or 1101) reet. The well is now down H.1II feet. Two hundred mid fifty feet of that depth i n VJ- mch hole. J be remainder is ni" inches. Tliis well is Ileitis: put dnvn hy John Stevens mid .1. II. I'intt. The original purpose of the Chicago mini nt the head of the project was to ob tain an urtctiitin How of water for irrigation. During the progress dowmvnrd, however, four distinct veins of conl have been found. To gether they inenHiiie n thichnes- of twenty feet. The lowe-t vein, it is Hiiid, appears to be an excellent iitnl ity of coal. Analysis wrtl he neees sary to delermine its ipmlity, how ever. Water Iiub risen in the well t i within lifly feet of the urfnee, re ducing the pinjjrc-s of Hie work in uttninuient of denth. Itnt steady work will be continued until u How of urlesiau water or ol oil -hull hae been reached, if nt all obtainable within ii possible depth. About a (pin iter of u mile from mid at mi altitude of SOD feet above this well, it is believed thul the Sun iysiile' vein of coal has been di-eov-ered. It is found in Hie face of what is knovn us Catljj Itoek, mid mens-, ores twelve feet in thieknes. Search hns been made for this eiu nl that locality previously, but without sn . cess. A full her effoit will be made to deteiiiiiue its ctcut and the ipml ity of the pioduct. tint the chief iutere-t cenlers nt this time on the pn ibilitv of sink ing oil in the Chadwick well in that vieiuitv. That there me indications of it no one nt all familiar with that business exptesses a doubt. Surtaee indications of oil me much -t longer, however, several miles up the ullev, foljowing the base of fliizly moun tain, nt u point not far beyond the lithia springs on Kmigraut eieek. The pceulmi devclopiuents in the Chad wick well, near the Snnny-ide conl mine, thercfoic, hne renewed talk of development vol kill the upper cud of the alh Oir-r5' IE N IE "inic VKr-mi viyi If there is any product of human skill which more lavishly contributes to efficiency aud comfort than a properly prescribed lens, accurately positioned, it has yet to be discovered by the multitude of imper fect vision. .' more useful gift could be conceived than a pair of PROPERLY FITTED EYEGLASSES For the highest grade, most intelligent Optical Service See DR. RICKERT WHAT ARE YOU WORTH? Young -Man, Young Woman, in Dollars and Cents to a lJusincss Man Arc on worth all on should he? If not, .join our classes m Ua or Mgnt School and make ourseit worth more. Medford Commercial College "The School of Best Results" H. 1. YantJilder, l1 S. YanClilder, Principals'. The Ideal Gift Shop WATERS' Paint and Wall Paper Store We Give S. & II. Green Trading Stamps PROFIT SHARK PLANFORTOILERSIN I CIIICAOO, Dee. '-:i. The Interna tional lltir'efer edfrmnfly nniiounccd n plan today to assist its :ii,()(il em ilo,es to become ntoekholders and plmrern in the company's prohts. Under the plan, which becomes ef fective tomorrow, nil employes will have au opportunity to purehnsc profit -shnring certificates in the coin jMiny, payment for which will be made in monthly installments from their snlnrie. These certificates, it is provided, mav be conveited into stock at n rate below market value. To every employe who take nd vanlage of the offer before .Unroll 1, HMO, the eonipany will add to his payments 1 per cent of his cumings unuiially. Inlere-I will be paid at the into of per cent per milium on nil employes' payments and eiedils on his piofit shnring ccitilicntcs. Provision is made for postpone ment of pigments in ease of illness or an ivoidalile In. oil-. SI'OKANK. Wash, Dee. 2.1. Tho resignation of .1. II. Kolihius us ucn crul mauauer o( the North I'lieilie I "ru it Di-tiilmtor- hns been hied with the trustees of the oriuiization. Mr. Ifnhhiu suid todav be tcsigncd on account of ill health. He is pic-idcnt of the Northwest Shippers' council, au ori'aui.ation o I nut sliinnei.-. AS WE GROW OLDER . our minds are quite as active as in former years but our .strength does not respond when wo need it most; perhaps the kidneys are weak, the liver torpid, rheumatic pains or stiffened joints beset its, and we, cannot easily throw off the colds that winter brings. What we need is the rich cod liver oil in Scott's Kiuulbion to renew the blood andcarry.stroiigtli to every organ of the body, wliiloitsglyicrinosootlicsthe res piratory trait, and its liypophosphites Mringtlieu the excitable nerves. Scott's Kmiilsion is u .scientific oil food, of unusual benefit to those past fifty years - particularly during the colder seasons, it imparts warmth and cmitcs strength. One Ixtttle will prove its worth. Ko nlcohol or harmful ilritK'. hcvtl K Ikiuue. UloomGcM. N.J ii-H HARNESS RSI Hello! Santa Claus Mcdford, Ore. ( 'o liege TJuilding, !U Xorth drape Street. clip! I 'li- XtiBr13 mm Wxl i a E3SJKIMt'w -aii IWHteRlT TriECRO WPS GO TODAY lanciie The Iiit'oiiiparnble Film Star In an ehtborate pictunzntion of the most baffling Detective -Nhsterv on earth. THE CLUE Presented bv a special cast aud so devised that J he keenest minds will be puz.led b the complications and amaxed bv the uiiepected conclusions. TOMORROW'S PROGRAM as follows THE FORBIDDEN ADVENTURE A thrilling romance of Arabia, starring Louise Glaum, Herschel Mayall and Charles E. Ray. This is a special booked holiday Kivc-I'art Mutual .Master Picture. SATURDAY AVe will show a two-reel Keystone Comedy, a two reel Win. S. Hart Drama and a one-reel Drama Sat urday. Mr. 1 lart is the world's greatest western per former SUNDAY - - THE GALLOPER V five-reel Cold Rooster play, featuring Clifton Crawford, supported by Melville Stewart, Fania Marinoff and Rhv Alexander. This is a coinedv drama. different from the regular run of Cold Ix'oos ter plas. EXTRA BIG FEATURE ON MONDAY Charlott Walker in a special live-part production of Charles Kcn oil's Drama, KINDLING A picture never to be forgotten. NOTE TUESDAY'S PROGRAM: THE BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE No child under fourteen years of age will be admit ted. Every mother, Father. Son and Daughter should see this picture, which is indorsed by some of the best-known clergymen of the country. We assure you that nothing will be shown in this picture to of fend the most fastidious. See this Tuesdav. The Page MEDFORD 'S LEADING Motion Picture Theater George Branson Howard's Great Story of Romance, Mystery, Intrigue and Thrills AN ENEMY TO SOCIETY With the Celebrated English Actor HAMILTON REVELLE and the Daintiest of Prima Donnas LOIS MEREDITH in the Stellar Roles Hearst-Selig NewslPictorial Go Home For Christmas The holidays will soon be. here. The time of happiness and cheer. Your friends will be expecting you to como home. So will mother, fath er, sister or brother. Low Holiday Fares Are avatUl.l,. for th hnlltUtysi. On Mlt between all Southern I'aclfte slut luus In Oteuon. .ieit Klttmtuh Fulls llraiuh, lu: 17. IS, 88. 28, 2. ::.. ;:i and Jan. l. itetura limit Jan. 4. l'rom Oregon to California Kints on ! Dec. 2. ;m. ,-s, 30, 31. Jan 1. Return limit Jan. 3. Ask the local agent for faros, train ser vice and other information, or write $$ Southern Pacific J-l.11 M su.lt. (.,.,,,.,..1 l'.(sson.. .nt. !,.,. Ia.,.1, 0,,-uon. TODAY Sweet HERE Tonight .1- i 1 Vtt Clau8, I SOID BV DRLtiGtSTS CR.HLR -. snic Coitiudf : v