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MTDPORD MTTH TRTRUNT!, TrRTSTORTS, OnF."iOT. TUESDAY.- KF.PTEMDFJJ if), 'IMfi PAfiTJ TJI.UK PI BY HIMSELF TO BE THE Fl LEADER IN ABA. E PROVES ;t real progressive ASSERTS IDA M. TARBELL (Authorized Interview with Ida Tar bell, concluded from yesterday.) The net result of President Wll non's handling of the Mexican ques tion to date Is not unlike the result of his handling of the difU-ulty with Germany. He has brought a large number of us to a more civilized point 6t view. We are beguiling to see Hint It is a greater and nobler thing for this hemisphere for -us to wipe out the suspicion and hate that all South and Central Amerlco has had for us, with considerable reason consider Panama than it Is for us to exercise our undoubted ability to force a smaller and distracted neigh bor to heep the peace. President Wilson Is the first presi dent to say in terms unmistakably Klncere to a hostllo neighbor on this continent: "We don't want your ter ritory: wo don't covet your lands; we would help yon; wo would give you of our strength; we won't go to war 1th you unless you force It. Ho is tho first president to say to the lead ing South American nations: Let us try to decide by -conference what should be done In the case of pro longed civil war In one of the coun tries on this hemisphere. How few realize the Importance of that arbi tration conference at Niagara Kails? Thnt. was a practical demonstration of modern diplomacy, indicative of the change that has come over our attitude toward our neighbors on this continent, and their idea of us. The Mexicans had reason to mistrust us. They know onr history. Nor are they unmindful of how we have gone into Mexico, and why. They have their own problems to work out. They "are jealous of their honor and their dig nity as wo are. They are risking ev crythlng In their struggle to straight en out their internal affairs even ns we risked .everything during the Civil war. What Is it to them If cer tain Americans lose the dollars they have invested In Mexico? This Is nothing compared to the issues which are at stake and which the Mexicans "believe have been lost because of the internal disorders in that country; but what would they weigh In the bal ance were we to resort to intervention -which lu-nimply another word for war, with the destruction of thous ands of Americans and Mexicans? President-Wilson has clearly seen the bigger stake, and he has realized that Mexico wants a chance "and needs sympathy and support, and he has given It In every way that he honor ably could. . .;. "Truculent Pacificism." For centuries rulers have talked of universal peace and internationalism. President Wilson acts universal peace and internationalism. There are those who sneer nt what they chooso to call his "truculont pacificism." Is it any more truculent for ns, a great and powerful nation, to keep handH off Mexico than it Is for a man to re frain from Inflicting corporal punish ment on his child Or was It more truculent for us to shame C.crmany into ceasing her 'rightfulness, than for a a real man to withhold his fist when he has been unintentionally In jured In the blind passion of a street brawl? Presldet Wilson's handling of In dustrial problems has had this same forward looking quality. He has from the beginning of his administration shown a disposition to find out what labor thought and wanted, and, where possible for him, ho has been on Its side. Tlie Itrandeis Appointment One of the best proofs he has given of his desire to secure sympathetic and .Intelligent treatment of labor and social problems In the government was the appointment of I,onls Bran dels to the supreme court. It Is one of the greatest and best things that President Wilson has done. The su preme court is a body of high minded- upright men. but the majority of them are not experienced or inter ested In modern Industrial ideas. They represent the prevailing conception of ten years ago. They can hardly be expected to be In touch with the How social ond Industrial questions of our times, and he has a reeling for and a sympathy with them. Now, by this very act of putting Tlrnndcls on the bench of the su preme court, especially by the oppo sition made by the old guard to his confirmation. Brandels and the point of view he represents was forced into the foreground of consciousness of the people. They talked about Bran, dels. And the better grew the con test over his confirmation, the more clearly did the people see and agree with the reasons which prompted President Wilson to make this seem ingly radical promotion. This is the real progressivlsm in a leader. The Kiclit llonr Day President Wilson Is absolutely right in his attitude toward the eight hour day. It Is a movement world wide In Its nature, and nothing will stop It. Like any other great invention of the PLAN IRRIGATION TALENT DISTRICT FOR COMING YEAR human mind, it has beon looked upon askance; but It will come, because the big majority of the labor believes. 411 n, mum 11 riKui null jusi unu uifi niand It. Uuder proper management ,they were not going to be uble to the eight hour day in any modern The board of directors of the Tal ent Irrigation District finding that Industry Is tho most productive. There are huudieds of Intelligent ex periments to prove this. The long recommend a comprehensive plan of Irrigation for their whole district so that It could he constructed for the season of 1917, have worked out hours make for Inefficiency. Thoy,.,llan umlPT vvhu.u u, 1(,a(it a- ,)art r are tolerated only by old fashioned hMr district can procure wuter at and out of date managers. When the railroads declare they cannot adjust their day on three shifts of eight hours each they are simply saying Ihey do not want to try modern scien tific management, . which would quickly enforce eight hours. It Is a difficult problem, no doubt, but it Is a possible one a standard day with a standard task are for me conclus ions in modern history. Moreover, President Wilson was right in asking that the possibility of such a humiliating experience as the country has just gono through will be made forever impossible in the fu ture. If the program he first pro posed to the disputants could have been put through It would have mark ed a tremendous advauce In our In dustrial life. Sooner or later. It will be put through, and more, too. One thing Is certain the public, labor or capital, Is going to control our com mon carriers. President Wilson's handling of the recent trouble makes that far more certain than it would Tiave been if he had let the strike come. What he has done Is to set us all to thinking hard. A strike would 'simply have set us to fighting, or at least feeling fight, and to Inventing reasons lor bncklng our particular side: Nothing, In the long run, is so 'disastrous to reasonable purposes of the mind as war: and what are strikes but war? 1 The Itoosevclt Attitude : Yes, he's our greatest progressive He should have been that party's can didate last June. He would have un derstood them which Mr. Rosevelt did not. The convention was a tre mendous gathering a unit from start rto finish. : It was a nucleus for a great and a holy crusade. Roosevelt could have done anything. with that crowd He-could have had that party solid for Hughes If he hod wanted to, but In his chagrin at the refusal of the republican convention to nominate him, be threw over his followers. I think the trouble was that Roosevelt had sincerely come to feel that he was essential to the country's salvation. He saw himself ns a Providence, and when, to his surprise, the republicans refused to take his estimate of him self, he turned his back on tho pro gressives. I could not believe It true. I. still do not believe he could have done It If he had been there and seen and felt that wonderful hody. And to think of his suggesting Henry Cabot Lodge to (hem! The comedy and tragedy of It! Mind you, there Is much in Mr. Roosevelt that I admire. He has done many great things. It is a great pity that we cannot. continue to get out of him and Mr. Taft all that they could give us. They both should be in con gress. That's the place for all ex preBldents. Why should we not have a half dozen national congressmen nt large? Think what an asset these men would be now! Hughes Ijuks Sympathy Mr. Hughes? I have great respect for him. He certainly gave us one of the most, refreshing and stimulat ing Intellectual exhibits In tho Insur ance investigation which the country has had In years. And he was a cour ageous and Intelligent governor. His years on the supreme court bench seem to have taken him out of the world and he has not yet found him self. Certainly, he has not as yet given any slum of understanding or sympathizing with the things we call progressivlsm. And, as far as I can see. President Wilson is the only lead er we have that does. A progressive of President Wilson's type Is big enough to see that Issue of 1910, because of the world wide shake up In the last three years, must be different than those of 1912. There is something bigger to talk about to day than the "referendum." New Is sues are bound to come to the front perhaps with startling rapidity and frequency. President Wilson can bring to these issues his tremendous experience. The evolution In thought and action of the last four years may be as nothing to that which Is to take place In the next four. Does any American loday see bigger, better or more dispassionately or clearer than President Wilson? t believe that the progressives will see this; If they don't. It Is a reflection on their Intel ligence. The (imttest Victory of the War President Wilson has proved his fitness to lead the cause of progress ive civilization. True, he has not yet had time to convert the man who cries for his pound of flesh, nor al tered the vision of him who fails to FEDERAL EXPERT FOR BLIGHT DATA once. They hnve procured a con tractor who has agreed to finance the matter and will deliver water to not less than 5000 acres by March 1, 1917. , Tho territory to bo Irrigated In cludes ahout 2000 acres nbovo Ash land and lioon In the neighborhood 'of Talent. . The board of directors have issued the following letter to 'the land owners: To the citizens of tho Talent Irri gation District: lYour board of trustees, realizing that it would he Impossible to pro cure Irrigation for 1917 and feeling That- the people desire progress as rapidly as possible, sometime ago sought to develop somo means under which relief ceuld be furnished as many members of the district as possible, and at tho same time start actual construction work along the district plans. We are gratified to state that wo have interested C. E. Bade, a large contractor, In our project and he Is now offering to you as individuals, a contract to meet our views of the situation and which contract Is not only approved by the board, Its engin eer and attorney, but which we recommend to all land owners. The cnnnls under this contract are to be constructed under plans approved by our board and when complete will be the first unit for our permanent dis trict scheme. The contract provides that the district may, upon notice, purchase those contracts and this we expect to do. I The plan contemplates the diver sion and use of such unappropriated waters as may exist In Emigrant, Nell and Ashland creeks. The records show that there wlli be- sufficient water available, to,r warrant this ex penditure. ' . In order to make possible the con struction of said canals and the de livery of water for 3 917, as stated, it is necessary that the contracts be executed and delivered by October 1, 19115, and we urge that you give this your Immediate and earnest atten tion. ED ROBINSON, ' President. J. W, MILLNER, O. A. MANNING. 1 These canals are to be constructed under plans approved by the board and each contract provides that when the district completes its final plans that the contracts will he turned over to and become the property of tho district. in other words the units when built will become as the district plans mature, a part of the permanent plans of the district. This, Talent people believe, i real progress and they are congratulating themselves on having a board o! men 'who are doing things and not con tent with Just beating time. Mr. F. X. Meyer, who Is recognized as the world's greatest agricultural explorer, has just spent three days with, Professor Relmer of the South ern Oregon experiment station, study ing tho blight resistant species of pears which ore highly resistant to pear blight, und ono of which appears to be absolutely immune to this dis ease. Three or these species are na- tlve-of the wilds of China. Unfortu nately none of these nrtj now. in the nursery trudo and hence cannot bo purchased 'from any nurseryman. Since China contains many wild spe- fcles of pears, boiho of which are very susceptible to pear blight, It Is im portant that these blight resistant types bo collected by an expert who can distinguish them from the unde sirable types.. For this reason Professor Relmer enlisted the aid of the department of agriculture in collecting this mater ial. Hence, the depurtment sent Mr. Meyer here to study these types and to collect samples which he is taking with him ,lo China to assist him In collecting this material. Arrange ments hnve been mado whereby Mr. Meyer will collect largo quantities of seeds which will he sent to the ex periment station. The experiment sta tion will propagate this material for the use of our 'fruit growers and nur serymen. ' ' It is interesting to note that the local experiment station has finally found a special which apepars to bo entirely Immune to pear blight. This species Is known as Pyrus ussurlensls. having received this name because II. occurs along the Ussuri river in Man churia. Professor Relmer has nam ed this the Siberian pear as it also occurs In that country, and is able to endure its severe climate. It thrives In sections of Siberia where the mer cury in the thermometers freezes nearly every winter. During the past spring and summer the experiment station inoculated trees of this Siberian pear 210 times, on eight different dates. Not a single case of blight developed from any of these Inoculations. Check trees of Bartlett, Anjou, Cornice, Bosc, French Pear seedlings, and others, Inoculated with tho same lots of bactoriu ut the I same time and In the same manner blighted to the ground. The experiment station has found another distinct wild Bpecles which although- not Immune shows ' very marked resistance to blight. This species blights only In the very young succulent branches, and never In wood more than one year old. Since this type grows wild In central China where the climatic conditions are sim ilar to those In this valley. It should prove valuable here as a blight resist ing stock." Mr. Meyer will also col lect quantities of seeds of this type. Mr. Meyer is admirably suited to this work. He has spent many yours collecting Beeds and plants for the department of agriculture, in China, Chinese Turkestan and Siberia. He expects to Temnln in China for three years on the present trip. Mr. Meyer staled thalt he work at the Southern Oregon Experiment Sta tion on blight resistance Is by far the most extensive and tho most funda mental that Is being done anywhere In the United Stntcs. - ' -r2 Tteaufator Co- t A Mothers WishSC is that she may eo through the trying ordeal of motherhood with as little pain as possible this can be. a reality when "Mother's Friend" has been used regularly preceding confinement. Get - "Mother'! Friend" at jour druggist. Protect your Complexion with Marinello Motor Cream Forms a protesting cout before the application of powder. Keeps the skin smooth and free from irritation,' and prevents tan und sunburn.' Price 50c . MARINELLO HAIR SHOP 407 Ottraett-CViroy llliltf. TWO TRIPS DAILY BETWEEN I MEDFORD and EAGLE POINT S. H. Harnlsh'a auto will leave Eagle Point at 8 A. M. and 1 P. M. dally, except Sunday; leave Medford 9 A, M. and & P. M. Will call for passengers at hotels in Medford and hotels and business houBea in Eagle Point. pitonb a-xa or tuxn. see that bloody war Is but the primi tive expression of savage weakness promoted by the Ignoble desire of con quest or revenge. Rut he has forced respect for neu trality and he has handled his dell- rate Mexican inheritance with tact and wisdom. And for the Mkhnevel- lian authority In diplomacy and the resort to cannon in internationalism ho has substituted the Sermon on the Mount he has proved that though trampled under foot by the sovereign of all lands for 20(10 years, the (iold en Rulo was good enough to win the greatest victory of the greatest war. Stove PoIihra3$iJj Y0U Should TTS different from I others because more vi Is taken in the ma!: in or and the materials used are oi higher crrndti. l Black Silk Stove Polish Make ft brilliant, if!ky polhh thnt does not rub off or dust off, uuJlbeKhineluhtn lour tlDic Rfl Ion? as ordinary uiovu fDlUh. 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In -hundreds of eoinnninitieR in this country today a halt- has been called on ' the Community Kobber, on the man or women who, thinkiiijjly or unthinkingly, robs the 'com munity by refusing to patronize home interests. "What is needed today are more sentries, more men and women to call a halt- on such thoughtlessness. Our community is asked to take a definite stand on this question.' Let each man ap point himself a sentry to see that the community life is preserved. Other com munities have fallen in line. They have hoisted the Home Trade flag. We must fall in line or fall behind. Forward, March. Insist Upon Home Products THESE GOODS ARE MADE IN THE ROGUE RIVER VALLEY KEEP THE MONEY AT HOME tkhealf of .the little onea Protect the health of your children and encourage the ap petites of your children's parents. Use Rogue Spray Flour MEDFORD ROLLER MILLS H. 0. Nordwick, Prop, Phone 507 Patronize the institution that maintains tho Largest Payroll in Medford. The Medford Printing Co. The Best Equipped Job Plant in Oregon outside of fortlana. v Ask Your Grocer and Butcher FOR They Are Home Crown rj ociur. riverj J DriA.iri L POINT VrtX Ever Two Recipes for Hot Weather: PEP At the Soda Fountains and Yellow Label Tomatoes At the Grocer's Try them today and cool off. ROGUE RrVER VALLEY CANNING CO. For GALVANIZED TANKS OIL AND WATER and IRRIGATING PIPE Go to J. A. SMITH 128 N. Graps St. v . Telephone 89Q a.,J
