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MBDFORD ArATF, TliTHUNK. MHDFOIfD. OUKGON, TIICRSDAV. NOYrvUHEl? 0. UHfi
WAR TO LAST
LONGASNATIONS
WANT 0 FIG
T
"Attrition" and "Starvation" Theor
ies Won't Hold Water Nothing
Short of "Disillusionment" of the
German People Through Decisive
Victory Can Bring End.
WASHINGTON, Nov. u.lluw
nuii'li lunger is tliis infVnifil war to
Instt
Kvcry tinio I como lmrk from the
KiiruMun BliiiiRliturlionsi' this (iii'S
tiuu is allot (it iiiu more than all oth
ers together.
It is, of course, all a yucss. Most
hi;h-brow luilhoiilics Kiicss that it
will oik about next July or August.
1 til t it needn't end then. There is
no particular reason why it should
not go on two years, or five, or ten,
or twenty.
If it stops next year it will stop
beeausi) the kaiser lias become tired
of having his troops hammered buck
on the Soiamn or the Mcuse, or has
found a diversion that beats war, or
bis people have tired of potato bread.
It will not stop because Germany
or any other country is exhausted in
men or money or nnylhitn; else.
Kxlumstioii no Itnr.
Nobody writes about this strange
fuel. Yet, next to the discovery of
tilt) real France, it is the bincest thins
the, war bns brought out. It upsets
all wo bad ever beard or read or in
nocently believed about war. Yet it
is absolutely certain and undeniable.
Modern war, we used to say
heaven bless us for a lot of ninnies!
-'is so terribly expensive that if it
comes it can last only a very short
time.
It is l terribly destructive of life,
we used to say being ninnies as be
fore that any niilion that lights will
in u short time have no men to light
with.
Some of lis still cling hard to these
fancies and point to the empty treas
ury of the nation or another as a sure
reason why it can't make winv
"No war chest, no fight !", say we.
Hut the. fact is, you can carry on
war without any money. Colossal
war, aggressive war, incessant war
you can carry it on indefinitely with
out a cent.
Will' (liest u Myth.
The war chest is a mylli, a ilreani,
n fable. Nations don't need any war
chest. All they need is a printing
press and a good, steady pressman.
(ienuany, the other day, floated its
fifth wur loan, u billion and a half
dollars, being; bonds all eagerly sub
scribed by her own people.
So you read in your newspapers.
What does it really menu Why, it
means '.hot having paid out to her
people in W'ages and purchases about
all of the vast ocean of piuier money
she has printed, she is now sweeping
it back into her treasury by means of
a "war loan" or isuc of bonds.
When she gets it back she will be
gin to pay it out again, and when it
is paid out she will gather it in again
with another issue of bonds.
She has keen doing I his ever since
the war started, and she can keep on
doing it year in and year out -o long
as she likes.
How, then, will she ever he ex
hausted financially"
All the money ui circiilalioii in
Qcrmanv before the war was less than
$2,00.0,(11)0,0110. She has already
sK iit on the war i:t.0(l(l,O0ll,OUO and
shows not a sign of financial exhaus
tion. Why should she ?
Delimitation Likely.
True, she is piling up a debt that
looks like .Mont lllaue, but that, after
all, nccdn t trouble her statesmen.
When the war is over she can repudi
ate it. What s the uscf
Then the liritish have a favorite
dream that Germany is to be starved
to death. Let them forget that, also.
Tine, Germuuv, or the poorer part of
it, is on rations and has been for two
years. Hut it is fed, and in some
fashion will continue to be.
True, again, as I have pointed out
before, deficient feeding is having its
certain effect upon German fighting
and will have. Hut as a matter of
fact, men can exist for years on half
rations, ami, protected by trenches,
put up a fair kind of a defensive
light. I hey probably will not, but
they can.
And as to supplies of men, look for
a moment at these astounding facts.
Clue day last July in the lirilish
house of commons a member asked
the under-secret a ry for war, Mr. Ten-
uant, how, many Germans had becu
killed since the beginning of the war
and how many Germans meanwhile
had conic into the age of military ser
vice. -
Youths Out-.NiniilH'i' Deaths.
Mr. Tcimuht didn't seem lo yearn
much for that kind of questioning,
but he gave the figures, and here they
a re :
Germans killed in action or dy
of wounds to May 111, llMIJ.Ii'.IO.'iliH
Number of male Ocnuuus be
tween 17 anil 18 years of
age on December 1, 11)11 (JT-I.MJO
Number of male Germans be
tween 17 and 1H years of
age on December t, 1I1." 1101,274
So that, as a matter of fact, the
additions to Germany's military
strength by reason of young men
coming into the, military age is actu
ally greater than Germany's losses
In killed in battle.
This was illustrated again two
weeks ago by the figures that were
printed of Germany's total losses of
all kinds since the war began. All
of her soldiers killed in battle, dying
of wounds or taken prisoner totalled
1 ,2(l.-),000. The total ol young men
that have come into military age in
the same period is about the same.
While battle is cutting down the
army at one end, time is filling it at
the other.
Ho Willi All Nations.
1 have taken Germany merely be
cause the figures about her are avail
able, but you can say the same thing
about the other nations, except per
haps Austria, l'vcrybodv that knows
Krnnec knows she is very much
stronger now than she was when the
war broke. Great llritain bus twenty
linius as many men under arms. She
has more men in her training camps
at home than she has ever sent into
the war. The Kuvsinii army will
probably have received this year three
times as auiny recruits as it has lost
from its files.
Ju the way of supplies of men and
money the.e nations can light
through a generation tiud then begin
again.
What, then, will end the war?
The kaiser, or a defeat for the cen
tra! powers that would show their
people the folly of going on. Any
thing that would make them think
I hey were living on rations and going
without meat to no purpose.
Nothing else will slop it. Most
surely nothing in what we used to be
plcuM'd to think were the facts about
wa r. '
INDIANA IS CUT
INDIAXAI'OUK, Iml., Nov. !.
Ituviscd nt urns from -!1"8 precincts
out ol' ;tl Ct in Indiana dt'crcusrd
Cluirk'H K. IIuiiIick' Irad over IMvsi-
luiit WUmhi in tins state to (i-1117,
The vote wns: Ihiplics ;VJl,()!i;t and
Wilson !il "i.'i.'ili. Tliis leaves Mil) pre
cincts still t'n report.
N. DAKOTA BALLOTS
PAKCO. N. I).. Nov. . Charges
that attempts were being made to
tamper with the ballot boxua In u
number of precincts in western
North Dakota, were laid before Unit
ed States District Attorney illldreth
this afternoon by fulled Slates .Mar
shal S. J. Doyle. Mr. Ilildrctb said
I he would begin an Investigation Im
mediately.
BELIEVES HUGHES
HAS BEEN ELECTED
Ni:W YOliK, Nuv. !. Chairman
Willcox called on .Mr. Hughes at
::l.i p. in. at the hitter's hotel. Mr.
Willcox said his vUit was without
special significance. "1 have nothing
to add to my early statement,' Mr.
Willcox said. "We claim that Mr.
Hughes has been elected."
George W. Wickershum, former
attorney general of the I'nitcd plates,
and Kvcrett Colby, a member of the
republican campaign committee,
joined Mr. Hughes and Mr. Willcox
at -I :'20 . in. Mr. Colbv remained
only a few minutes, lie declined to
ninke a statement. '
After an hour's conference with
.Mr. Hughes, Chairman W-Uleox of the
republican committee announced late
today that icre probably W'oald be
a recount "in all .those states where
the vote is close." lie replied in the
affirmative when asked if that up
plied to New Hampshire, California,
North Dakota, New Mexico and Min
nesota. "1 can only add," Mr. Willcox said,
"that 1 believe Mr. Hughes is elected
and that we propose to safeguard our
interests."
Mr. : Wiekersham accompanied
Chairman Willcox as be left the conference.
TO BUY RED HUE
OF KANSAS VOTE NOTED JOCKEY. DEAD
FRAUDS ALLEGED
IT AND DRY FIGHT
KIj PASO. Tex., Nov. 3. Passen
gers from Chihuahua City brought a
report that a special train w-as being
prepared there, io bring the Trench
and tlritlsli residents of Chihuahua
City to the border. Chinese residents
are also coming from the state cnpl-
i tal. It is feared that Villa is prepor-
iug to attack.
TAKE AUTO RIDE
NE WVOItK, Nov. !). After study
ing ttie election returns for two hours
this rocrnlug Charles K. Hughes went
motoring this, morning shortly after
I! o 'ock. Mrs. lligiies accompan
ied him. The nominee declined to
comment on the reterrs.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9. Allega
tions of amazing election frauds in
the wet and dry fight In San Kran-
Isco wero mado here today by Frank
lin ilichhorn, publicity manager for
l lie nutl-saloou league. If substan
tiated, Hichborn declares, not only
will the entire "wet" and "dry" vot.j
of the state he jeopardized, but the
national election also be affected.
The charges are denied by G. M.
McDowell, executive officer for the
Associnted California Industries,
which managed the fight for the
"wets," and by Chief of l'olicc
White.
Here is what Mr. Ilichhorn said to
day :
"We hail watchers at every pulling
place in San Francisco, 70(1 of them
students from the University of Cal
ifornia, as we had reason lo antici
pate efforts toward fraudulent vot
ing or counting. These intelligent ob
servers will testify to amazing irreg
ularities. "In some instances there were rec
ords of more votes being counted for
'wet' than were cast. What our
watchers saw on Tuesday will result
in precinct after precinct being
thrown out.
"We arc not going to nsk for the
usual investigation from local au
thorities. What effect these disclos
ures will have on the national elec
tion can only he imagined."
NKW YOliK, Nov. P.
Chairman McCormick of the
democratic national committee
announced lute this afternoon
that he had scut telegrams to
all the democratic state chair
men in the einintrv telling them
to "engage bamls and buv red
fire to celebrate tonight the re
election of Wondrow WiUon.'.',
T H'l-'KA.
Scion,
Kan., Nov.
republican
P. Oniric
talc chair
man, announced today that legal
counsel had been engaged to investi
gate the constitutionality of the elec
toral vote in Kansas. He would not
say whether or not the vole would be
conlosted.
It was claimed at republican hcad
ipiarters that the voters cast their
ballots for the presidential candidates
rather than for electors. The vote
for electors this year was made for
the group instead of for individual
electors as in the past, liepuhli
I'lins say that this manner of voting
was unconstitutional.
I
l.OS ANGKI.KS, Cel.. Nov. II. A
revised count on T.MI7 precincts out
of 121.) in this county, announced bv
the registrar of voters, gives Hughes
134,(107, Wilson Ii;i,4."i, a gain for
Hughes.
This re ised count was issued af
ter errors amounting ro, nearly 120(111
voles had been found in previous tab-
L
I DE MOINES, la., Nov. 9. With
jonly ton precincts unreported M. V.
Cronln, democratic candldato for con
gress In the second Iowa district, hud
a lead of 2 150 votes over Congress
man II. E. Hull. While these figures
illations. -v were unofficial, Mr. Hull apparently
'fhe registrar announced ' a double ! has been defeated. This would make
revised count would be instituted, the Iowa delegation In congress nine Colonel Itioias.
which would take until tonight to republicans and two democrats, a ro- troops in the
Yi
LONDON, Nov. 9. Danny Maker,
the American Jockey, died at a mir
ing home In' London early today after
a lingering Illness which cuusn&Jil
retirement from the turf three yeuM
ago.
Danny Maher had the greatest rec
ord of any Jockey on tljo English ur
American turf of recent years. 11,,
was a star performer on English race
couses for nine yeurs prior to his ro
tienicnt. In this time he rode to vic
tory In three derbies, his mounts be
ing llock Sand, Cicero and Spearmint,
He also captured the Oaks In 19aii
with Keystone II., the Doucaster St.
Leger In 1903 with Kock Sand and
the same classic race in 1909 with'
Dugardo. Ho was reported to be ,
worth a large fortune as the result of
his turf victories.
BT CARRANZISTS
complete.
publican loss of one.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 9. An
unofficial report reached General
Funstou's headquarters late last night
that OJInaga had been evacuated by
the Carranza garrison commanded by
The advance of Villa
territory south of
Ollnagu was given aa the reason.
Cottolene Pie Crust
Mix one scant lcvl hnlf-tea-apoontul
s:ilt with 1 h cup
try flour. Chop in with n knife
! cup of chilled Cottolene.
When well cut together, mix
In very gradually 3 table
ppoonfulu cold water, chop
pintjthe mixture and avoiding
wet ntrenks. Do not kneuil
with handd. Flour moulding
board and rolline pin end roll
dough as u'tunl. Ifpustc ifi soft,
chill in pan on lecbeforeroMinR.
Write us for a hot rooy of
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HELPS." Addrett our General
Oft cm. Chicano.
" The Natural Shortening
Your pies will be delicious
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gives juet the right crispness and flakiness to
the crust and enhances the flavor of the filling.
Be sure to use Cottolene the next time you make pies
and notice how nicely it works in with the flour also how
delicious your pies will be.
Cottolene makes foods shortened with or fried in it more
healthful as we', as more appetizing.
Your grocer wl'; supply Cottolene in large or small pails.
Ask him to deliver it regularly.
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The Ashland Art Store SENSATIONAL CHRISTMAS SALE I Retiring From Business
Last May this store was opened with the most complete and attractive line of Pictures, Stationery, Books, Gift Goods and Novelties ever carried in southern Oregon, but we have determined to
CLOSE UP OUR BUSINESS FOR GOOD
Sell the stock for what it will bring, and do it as quickly as possible, and we will guarantee to give to the people of Medford and vicinity bigger values fcr their money than they have ever had before.
You will never have another chance to get so much for so little money, for $1.00 spent here will do the work of $5.00 spent elsewhere, and give greater pleasure to your friends.
Don't Forget the Dale Sale Starts Saturday, NOV. 1 1, at 10 a. m. Don't Forget the Place
Everything new, fresh, artistic and attractive. No shelf-worn stock. No junk. A thousand gifts to select from and every one a bargain.
A Few of Our Many Bargains
WRITING PAPER
Gold lnitiiil Stnt imirrv, reg
ular :!."), at . . 'IS?
Highland Linen, all colors,
regular 40c, at 127
Ward's and Crane's Station
ery: Kcgiilar :;." at .....21
Ifegular .")(). at 39(
L'egular (iUe at IT
10c Tablets at S-
15,: Tablets at VZ-
25c Tablets at
CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS
Tin daintiest, most artistic and most complete assortment ever
shown in Jackson county. You will ojicn your eyes when you see
tlicm, for tliev will lie sold at less thai) wholesale cost.
All r.c Cards 'at '1 for 5V All 10V and 15c Calendars.
All 10c and 15c Cards at 5c All 25c Calendars at 1(C
All '20c and 25c Cards at IOC All 50c and 75c Calendars 25!
Hand-Painted Cards..lOS 15- All 1 and 1.50 Calendars.,50
Christmas Post Cards at 8c per dozen.
Place Cards. Mirthdav and (irectimr Cards vc-
All Tally Cards
duced one-half.
PICTURES, MOTTOES, GIFT BOOKS, LEATHER GOODS
and hundreds of Novelties. cmiiiiisiiii; Japanese IJaskets. Teak
wood Ware: a fine assortment of t lie cclelirated l-'ulpcr Art Pottery
and a new consignment of Sweet Grass Novelties at corresponding
reductions.
HOLIDAY WRITING PAPER
Complete assortment, ordered last spring and just arrived, at
prices that will astonish you.
PICTURES
We carry the largest and most artistic line of Pictures between San
Francisco and Portland. You will never again have a chance to
buy them so cheaply.
The chance of a lifetime and right now when you need it.
BOOKS
All Ueprints in stock.... 44
All ( op'vnght Novels ni
stock at ....$1.14
Will order anv novel pub
lished at ! $1.19
About :00 Standard Novels,
cloth binding, at 11
Ward's Leather Goods, best
in the land:
Linc-a-l)ay Hooks.
Address Hooks.
Tourist Tablets.
Pirthday Books.
Photo Albums, at wonder
fully low prices.
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ASHLAND ART SHOP
Fixtures for Sale
Cor. Main and Oak Sts.
F. H. MANN & CO.