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ilEDfORD MAIL TRIBUNE AN 1NDKIJKNIKNT NK W'S'PA PIOH f'VHLlHMKIt KVKV AFTlJltN'UUN tiXlKPT HUNHAY HV Tl IK MfcDlOUL fltlNTlNG CO . Office Mall Tribune Building. 23-27-28 Kertli Fir wiivet; ifW-phuiie 7.. Tl Democratic TIiium, the Altai fonl Mail, Tli Mftufrml Tribune, Tliu Huulli tru Uretfouiuu Tlit AltUin Tnbuiw. GEOltOH PUTNAM, Klitor SUBSCRIPTION 3ATES1 One yeur, by mull 15.00 Oni month, by mull.. Pr monili, ul!vtrutl by uurrim lit JleJf'jrU. I'hofiiix, Jurkxun villa and Central foinl -"'f BMtirduy only, by muil, per 'ur..., 2.u Wtekiy, p'.r year l.&o Official upcr ot the City ut .Muilloril. Official Puper of JuckKon County. Kntercil u hvuh.-vIush mutter ut MtUfurd, Urcgun, under thu uut of Aliueh I, 171. Sworn Circulation for 1915 l.'tC Full latd win prit'li. AhsocIuUmI Pi'ftaa ills- EM-TEES LOTS OK TIMK. By CIIAKLKS n. IHtlHCOI.U Ho looked nt his watch just a cas ual glance, For ho feared lie would not he In time for llio dance: And he was so anxious! Ho hail a new date, And it never would do to he three minutes late! So ho glanced at hln watch as he crossed fiimy st. Just to mulic doubly sure his eiiK'iKC-- . ment he'd meet. That was three weeks ago, hut our hero don't know And he's wondering yet why the hands go so slow. PT" ! " Yes, ho took out his watch at the crossing ono day, While a scu-golng la.l was coming his way. And he still thinks it's twenty-five minutes to eight. And he murmurs, "Say, Nurse, do you think I'll ho late?'- Oh, ho looked for the time as lie shoved through tho crowd, And last night ho remarked, "Gee, that clock's ticking loud!" "Ah, woll," says the Doc, "He has still half a chance; In a year or two mora ho may get to tho dance!" ' A lot of us fellows ain't klcklr.j. about tho high price of henfrnit. Tho only use wo had for an egg was for ,a shampoo. Our knobs nro now as shy of shrubbery as a fish Is ot dust. AVOW! Modern marriage starts out with a fox trot and ends up In a lame duck. AIN'T IT? A tow months ago our bullet push ers wore looking for Villa when the., didn't know where ho was. Well, i:d dlo, wo all know his whereabouts now and our soldiers are hiking home. At tho present tliuo very few "prim fighters" have a wallop that, If it missed what It was aimed at, the draft from It would give the oppos ing "fighter'' pnounioiiia. !!! VOl' KNOW It is advisable not to havo a piano around where there Is a baby who has tho habit of. putting things In It mouth? And a dogfish won t run after a catuoat? PEACE OFFERED BELGIUM WITH WOE FOR REJECTION I.ANS1XO, Mich.. Doc. 13. -The Telegraph todny print:! p:.:iiiiiriiUv Iho following : .''Wo have received Info', inuti.m from an unimpeachable sruuve tli.it the central powers recently offeerd peace to i:el;;iiiin on t'.." following tonus: "i ho lit-hiliuis are inviic.l to Insist upon Immediate police. In re turn for till their country v, 11 l" 10 Htorcd to Iholn, iln Independence guaranteed and financial assistance given for its e. -011011110 r. tuijilitu tiou.' " "In the event of llio.-e u-niu helm, refused, the intiiiuii inn 1ms been given Ilelyliliu thai, her very i- .lsl. ll.'e her monuments, her public beild lugs and even her towns --are tlir.vt inert." WHAT! A nullow, even-burning cigar foranickel? Sure enough. You get it every time in the Million Dollar OWL. It's hand-made. A nickel everywhere and always a nickel's worth. : v5a35KTth Million : " sir M a'nsi co. - GERMANY'S GERMANY, having fought a losing battle on all fronts for the past six months, having been forced back along the Soniine, having been defeated at Verdun, having lost liiikowina and driven back in Ualii-ia and Yolhynia, has by a brilliant campaign crushed Rumania and occupied a large portion of her territory, and now that she has won all she can expect to win, offers peace on her own terms. What these terms are, are not made known. The offer is a clever political move and designed to throw upon the entente allies tin; blame for continuing the war and creating dissatisfaction witli the war among the peoples of the belligerents. It is not at all probable that it will succeed. (ierinans reason that having reached Ibicharest as lirussels and Uelgrade were reached, having conciiered lininania as clgiiiin and Serbia were conquered, having proved that the Allies were unable to save their latest ally, that the world will believe (Jerniany unconquerable suid will win the war, and that the people of the various hostile nations will be wearied by the apparently hopeless strug gle. The "Rumanian campaign, except in a moral sense, has not materially strengthened the central empires, it was 011 the fai-e a campaign to win peace by the discourage ment of her encimvs. The effect, however, has been to stiniuhile the hostile nations to new efforts. War govern ments have beei: created in (Unit Britain, France and Russia and preparations are under way for a still more vigorous campaign. There is no dearth among the allies of men and no longer a shortage of munitions, while the campaign of .tlriiioii is telling upon (.lerniany, who can ill afford to lose the men lost in the Rumanian campaign, while the constant hammering on east and west is deci mal ing her rank,;. I'eaee now would leave (iermany the acknowledged victor and merely postpone to some distant day the final reckoning. Allied plans nave all been made to carry on the war until the objects sought, are attained and peace upon any terms Germany might offer as a victor would not realize those aims. A GREAT MORAL REFORM IT is evident that, we are in the midst of a great moral re form. Through the courageous action of the Mcdford school board we can at last hold up our heads and bravely dctv the devil, lor the ban has ingly. sinful pastime dancing. At a recent meeting the school board adopted, the following resolution: "Resolve that the superintendent of schools Bhall Inform the princi pals of all schools having high school pupils enrolled in their buildings to Instruct the teachers anil pnpilB under them that tho Hoard of Kducaiion will not allow any high school dances or any questionable social gather ings to bo held under tho auspices of the high school, and furthermore, that all teachers that are employed by tho District 111 District No. 49, shall give all their moral support to Indicate Into tile pupils under their caru the highest ideals of thorough American citizenship and tho clerk is here by Instructed to furnish the Superintendent with copies of this resolution to bo handed to the principals having high bcIiooI pupils under their cars." Xo longer can our sedate .voting seniors and our wist: young iuniors and our callow sophomores and noisv fresh men make merry with the class balls and promenades, ao longer can the pretty school inarms chaperone the festive gatherings. Xo longer will it be "On with the dance, when youth and beauty meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." Such things belong to the sinful past, and we blush with shame at the thought that we ever fell so low as to permit them. Long did the community close its eyes to these revels until the scandalized school board stepped in to keep this happy and prosperous town from going to wreck and ruin, to save youth for a sober and somber future and extend the helping hand to erring light-footed instructors. Why should any one want to dance when the school boa nl has kindly provided courses in cooking and sewing and fancy work f" Let the boys and girls substitute sewing and old-fashioned quilting bees for their sinful recreations. Let them have nice little parties at which the boys and girls can bring their fancy work and knitting. We owe the school board a great deal. They have de prived examinations of their terror and every student is cheerfully passed on. whether he earns it or not. And they have shortened the eighth grade, in sonic cases to three days, in some to Three weeks, in all to half a year, l'ut our greatest uelit is tor Hie moral reiormauoii worked in sav ing youth from tripping the light fantastic on the shining path to perdil ion ami the demnitiou how-wows. SAI.KM. nr., 1rc U.--Thf j ( rnc cniii't ;i (Tinned tlu- eotm.-. '. I urn nl" K iv A. I' 11 i'liiiiH in ! 'unuhis enunt v ivv im'h-lu lighter. I''n niiUii ! v.;t- to lmi Ui!lt'i Ktlnn Mur-j in ;i !i;jru and In havo Imriu-d 1 In It.n ii ami her hotly in unVr to run- real In- i iiini'. 1 The ftinil wa divided in ils deei-1 mn. -luMiees .Melndo and Harris wrote the opinion ai':innin; Kar- nam' eonvietit'ii in Ciienit Jm'mo Shipwortli's I'tnut, and .lit-.ti'e l)ir- luMiees Melividr and net I wrote nn optninn stronijly dis,--it'iitite. ; Tlie supreme eourt finds that the! defendant either ilut the deeoasod.j uliieh would he a delihernte mnrder, ; or killed her in the atlenipl to coin- nnt an ulioilion upon lier, whieh nn- der the Oieptn tatute. would he niau--linij;hter. TOKIO STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSED BY PEACE TALK TOKIO, I it i . 1 Tlie peure pre- iO-lll (ll alliv- . ;iu the slink Ii;m I'ei-ii llllei luls. tleriiuiio niitl lier allies i-il -'i-1, u violent ftlumi (in i-i Iiuiiui1 Unit the luurkei I'leirJ teiinuniirtlv 1' the jifEDT'ORT) MATT j TRTTVuXTC PEACE OFFER been put upon that shock AMSTKUDAM. I'ee. 1 ntsehu VolK .vltung J. Tho Koel publishes p sharp ntluek on President Wilson In eoimoetion with tho representations to (iernuiny rei;ardiiiK tho Holglan de portations. The newspaper says: "Wo contest the rf.nht of the presi dent of the t'nlted States to act as j B moralist with regard to the aets of . belligerents." r j OAIE 3,921,869 LONDON, lee. IS. The total Oer iniiu cnsualties, exi luillnE those in the nuvul ami (olonial servU-eji, l-epoi'tetl in the Oeiuutn iilfiii.il lists for No M'liilier, sus a lllitlMi oU'ieial hlute nient Issued toilitv. are li'tl.lTil offi eerrt ami men. iiiiiklnv; tlie total (ler innu U.sik in kilteil. Miiuuli-il and lliiillK slnre the war hrul.e otil. I J , 1 i I , s ! I. . rT?rirnrn fnvacK vv.uxv&TiX. JW.CVlTlTJt X 19TG A 1-f - COMMUNICATION. To the Editor: My letter on the sulijoet of the proposed Irrigation dis trict sceniH to have aroused the canal company, doubtless because of the ex posure of the fnctB as to the suffic iency or Insufficiency of tho water supply. As I stated, the government report heretofore misquoted by the canal company, expressly says that there Is no available data as to the run-off of Four-Mile lako the only measurements available shows less than 0000 acre feet. There are 23, 000 acres in tho proposed district. ilased on the meager data available the government report said that both sources would probably supply 32,000 acre feet. This Is even less than one and one-half acre feet which the canal company nays it proposes to sell for $10.00 per ucre. 1 give It as my Judgment, for whatever it may bo worth, that this Is less than half the Water needed for mist of the lands In the proposed district. I said it was a pussy-foot campaign because of these facts: First. The lines were drawn by the canal com pany to fit Its Irrigation system. Second- At tho county court hear ing Mr. Thomas stated that lie ap peared as the attorney for tho peti tioners. There was uu effort to hide the fact that tho whole thing was done by tho canal company. At that meeting Mr. Dillon Hill told me, us ho Will tell any one Who asks him, that lie did not know that he hail employ ed an attorney, yet his name Is the first on the. petition. Third. In drawing lines for tho district tho canal company excluded the towns. But it did Include every sub-division adjoining Medford; there fore, every lot owner of the numer ous additions lying about Mcdford has tho same power In voting this mortgage on the, farmers as has tho farmer with his 80 or 200 acres. Hut it is now. said that after they vote tho district they will proceed to exclude theso lot owners. It It wore a fair campaign tho canal company would have excluded theso lot owners when It excluded those in the towns. ' Fourth. Because the public was never told that the canal company had .under prior contracts, sold water for 10,000 acres though Mr. Brown now tries to reduce this to 5000 acres. There would bo no objection, from my viewpoint, to the canul company coming out in the open and putting all tho facts before tho public and assisting In tho organization of uu Ir rigation district, but it wants a dis trict organized that, will not fit any Other possible water system than Its own. ' How It's lono The manner In which othor irriga tion districts hav in olhsr places been sadutad on to an unsuspecting public is about as follows: The pro- uiulur corners a water supply by op tions or contracts In the nnmo of a confederate; eilucatlor.nl work is then done and sentiment for a district cre- atod; the district is voted, but Its dir ectors cannot sell Its bonds; along comes the promoter who represents a bonding house and who really ow-ns the water right In question, and pro poses to take the bonds at par, pro viding the water supply and tho per manency of the diversion works are approved by the engineer of the bond company. This causes the well-iu- teutliug directors to select an engi neer acceptable to the bond company for It apparently Tius no. interest but security for its bonds. Oi course tho engineer is unwilling to npprov any other ostein than Hint on which the proiuot-.!!- s friend has '.Is opt'oni. Thus th? -.vater' system h1 unloaded on an unsuspecting district at un out racoons figure. This is a lovely parallel. .The canal company oyv-iis the cysiem; it Is nit ling to take tho distri.-l. s bonds pio- v'lling thu distrift tnkes Its system. 1! includes In the 'i; rii-i to be voted itpon, lands which cm Le wat-red f om no other source lhau that of , iiril pnnu,.nv It -'n, l,i,l. 1 tr t'istrii-t enoush town lots to vote the il'ilrlct: it knows V.;.z ;v,'ir the dis trict Is voted only a ma.b'ity of t'ae votes will bo requlrcc. to vote the mortgage bonds. ;t draws the lines for the differo'-.t sub-'ilvliious of the district so as to put thosj who aro opposed to tho dist.-:Ct in the same sub division with onougl: in favor of the district so that the objector have no chance whatever o el 'ct a direc tor, it picks out m'i for directois whom the public v iii k-i-jw arc good men and above re'n-o.tcii. So it guides them along to a point wher eventual ly an engineer must bo sclcctod. Theso directors have gor.n through a heated campaign; are thoroughly Im bued with the good fnlth ot tits canal company and the opportunities for " ho selection of a favorable engineer nre therefore Ideal. Once the fnvor ablo engineer is selected the water supply Is ample; the proposed works are permanent and the canal com- i pany has unleaded. j t'iui;il Company Will (Jult The district then finds Itself In partnership with the holders of the water rights for Vono to til.tmo acres outside of tho district; the canal company goes out of business; if it does nut i.u out n( iMi iiie.-s it mort gages and bonds Its holdings In Im mense sums, and then something hap pens to the water supply; the dam goes out; canals have to be rebuilt or some of the many other ordinary mis fortunes overtake the district. It must then repair or rebuild. It lookB for the canal company it is gono; Mr. Brown left and took his strong .ang ucgo with i'.im. It finds that it has a lot of partners owning not only water for this 5000 to 10,000 acres but water rights for such additional acreage as were sold before the canal company quit tho field. The holders ot these outstanding water rights are scattered; many are non-residents and some are broke. They have no interest In the repair of the dam or canals, or If they have, they do not have the ability to carry their end. Thus it Is that the laud owner begins to find that, he has mortgaged his property for something very different from that which he thought he was buying. Xo Prejudice at. All I want it distinctly understood that I have no prejudice whatever against the canal -company. To the extent to which It can furnish the farmers water at a reasonable price, 1 would prefer to have It do It than to have that water furnished by any one else. .Notwithstanding the harsh, unkind. and knowingly untruthful statements '. of Mr. Brown for the canal company, I am nevertheless, disposed to look at the matter fairly aud without any 111 will toward the canal company as an institution. I do object to its present effort to unload upon the public by misrepresenting what certain govern Incut engineers have roported about tho adequuey ot the water supply. , I do not have Mr. Brown's article before me and shall not attempt to answer anything olse than that which I particularly remember as needing i'roply. The statement ot Mr. Brown that I havo heretofore recommended u contract which provided for one and one-half acre feet of water for tho farmers in this valley Is Incorrect and untrtio. The reference he makes to a previous petition for nn Irriga tion district having been drawn In my office is distorted probably because he does not know the facts.- Mr. Car penter then of my office was at the head of a citizens' irrigation commit tee. The effort of the conunittee was to create a district; it was not to create a district for tho canal com pany alone, but to take such water as would be available. It was an in vestigating coinmilteo and It prepared a petition for the creation of an lrrl- 'gatiou district. But what it did was open and above board without any effort to put n district In partnership with hundreds of scattered owners holding prior water rights. As Attorney fop t'amil Co. Mr. Brown also refers to tho fact that tho canal company at one time paid me for passing on a contract which he says contained a provision for ono and one-half acre feet. The only purpose Mr. Brown had ill Ills reference to his canceled check was to attempt to besmirch mo with some of the canal company's money. This is rather small business. If there was anything dishonorable In the transac tion wo have not heretofore heard of It nor should the canal company have been mixed up In It. Tho facts aro these: the attorney for the canal company said to mo that the com pany wanted to put out -a contract which tho farmers would not be afraid to sign; that many ot the peo ple to whom those contracts would be shown would take my advice upon the matter, and they wanted to be aide to say that they had employed mo to go over this contract and that I had ap proved lis form. I tried to perform that duty for the public and had much trouble in getting those safe guards which seemed to mo, as a law yer, necessary. It was no part of my business to pass upon the amount of water that this or that farmer needed on his land. If this was a part of my duty I never so understood It nor gave it consideration. I insisted that tho contracts should not bo delivered un til the water was put on the land and the system completed. I did this be cause they were mortgages on tlie land which might be transferred to innocent holders and no water even 'furnished. The canal company would not agree to thin condition, saying that it needed the contracts to raise the money to put In the sysem. We then compromised along this line: that tho contracts should.be escrowed until enough were signed and that then an Investigation should be made K llUOll.N LOtlllld 4SB COi.l4 Alterative sot-D nv all LK.nrNn a:;ccioir,Tfi JOHN A. PERL UNDERTAKE IjlHy Anlstnnr H 8. UARTl.FTT " Phone M. 47a nil 4 7-1-1 Automobile Hearts Servlc. imbulauut San hi Curyntr bv independent ad competent engl- sU neers as to whether tho water supply on , was sjfflclent or not, and I required true, the cunal compauy to deposit J2S0O nor tin toward paying for the services of such is true, ' engineers as would be required. l!of mycl! nn, onlv stating these things from I the water A memory, but they are approximately .. . correct I never undertook in tnai tneir propenyy i iu employment to pass upon anything urn) It is Mr. Brown's company that but legal matters for the safe-guard-,1s to take the mortgage. What I did, ing of the Interests ot those land own-j say was that no man In his right ers who w anted w ater and were will-j senses who wanted water enough to ing to contract for it. grow alfalfa by irrigation would bo satisfied to mortgage his land unless) l-inployment Open hc was al ,oast flve acr0 ftg My employment was open au i per ,,,-re. I am saying thlB from what known to the public and was told 'o,,, courts have found necessary on prospective signers to whom these andji uilniar to ihosc 111 this pro contracts were presented. This Is the 1)osed distrlc.t. t (i0 think that upon only employment I ever had directly (sono orcUU.d inIU material assis 'or indirectly with this corporation ; tance (.oulll uo M ,v the use ot one and from the present efforts to ms-iBnd one-half ncro feet, but I do not construe tills employment It seems thnB )t lg sutficient for most of tho that 1 mado a mistake In accepting It. j lam) ,n the (Ustl.i,.t, At least It is Mr. Brown criticizes my statement j ilan that lt ,8 not Bl,rficlent for some, that the waters proposed to be sold to liim,s of ,.r01,s the district are in litigation, lie says . addition to this I seriously doubt that toe waters of Bear creek are not In litigation, nor are those of the South Fork. The public will be de lighted to know that it is paying $40.00 an acre for 2-1.00U acres which j will get a substantial amount of water from so largo a stream as Hear j creek. Now, as to the waters of the , .South Fork which he says are not in litlnailoii. when he lias been here I longer he will know that the South Fork runs into the North i ork above, most of the irrigated land on Oie Little Butte creek, practically all of, which is at this time in litigation. As I lo tho waters of Fish lake not being . in litigation, they nre directly drawn I into litigation by the claims of twenty flvo or thirty, or nioro farmers whom! I represent, and w ho use the watols of the North Fork which flow out of ; Fish Lake. As to lLu-sli Language Possibly Mr. "Brown's harsh lan guage toward me is excusable be- cause of his auger at having been ex posed in his nils-quotations as to what the government report shows in re gard to the water supply, and because of the exposure of what I have called tho "pussy-foot" campaign, whereby It Is Intended to vote a district by tho votes of lot owners, who It Is now in timated are to be excluded after the district has been voted on the people. Without going specifically into his statements. suffice it to say that his The Safe Side "Those of U3;who are wise," says a well-kncwn doctor, "will keep on the safe sideiiy using only those foods that contain everything Na ture puts into them." A bit of good advice, tluit. Many foods, as usually prepared especially cereals, are lacking in the vital mineral elements phosphate of potash, etc., which the body must have for perfect balance, and health. There is one food, . Grape-Nuts which is rich in these elements, containing, as it does, all the nutriment of whole wheat and barley, it is a delicious food, affording thu sweetness of dextrjn ized wheat and the distinctive flavor of malted bar-lev. Every Nuts! table should have "There's Spend the Holidays at Home The economical time of the year to travel. Holiday round-trip fares allow longer 'return limits than at anv. other time of the vrar. Christmas Holidays between all points in Oregon; also from all Southern l'aiil'ic points to Washington and la ho Ilec. 22 to 2.i inclusive. Ue turn limit .Ian. :t. Between Ore gon and California points Dec. 21 to 2:1 Inclusive. Return limit 15 days. Write or ask local agent JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent Portland, Oregon SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES necu ,, latter they; 10 judge. It is ought to bee, .. , .. 1. I.U MnplVnirPrl that the canal company has sufficient .vater to furnish one and one-halt ai'ie'feet for 25,000 acres of land, or even 20.0UO acres of land. District I'luu Not Wrong t (() uol Kay t,.at a ,nHtrlct plan wl. , inciple for those who . , irris;utioii. but 1 do think that the canal company out- iiine,i n nrniM-j.ni whereby tlie district. . , , Illsul.6 ti,e . l , iU nt it nrnioet letiiuw twin !... t"- ... .... i ,,; ' ,.., district could not hBVe h(?en lirol)0Be(l t0 Include tho landa of thos(1 who want water aIul M(.lm,e ,hu lands of those who do w.mt j( nml fQ as t0 leave the .. rcat)on 0 the district in tlie hands of those whoso lands are to be mortgaged for the !',,rnin,.t The 1':iriuei-s would then be I ill a position to handle the question 'tjf tho amount of water required and of the adequacy pt tho water supply and tlie permanency ot tlie works nec essary to deliver it later. As it is, they must take the water from the canal company, regardless of whether one farmer may need five aero feet as against another's requirements of ono and one-half acre feet and regardless of any other consideration excepting such as will put into the hands of the cunal company the bonds which aro a first Hen upon tho lands ot the dis- tiict. A. h.. Ufc,A.ii'.&. its daily ration of Grape- a Reason" NewYearsHolidays Between all"liolnts""iii""oi-egoni Dec. UO to Jan. 1st Inclusive. Heturn limit .lao. "rd. Oregon to California points Dec. 26 to 2S inclusive. Heturn limit ID days. 4
