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MEDFOT7P MATT j TltrRTTXH. MRDFOKT1, OTCKflOX. FRIDAY. DWK.MHKlt 22. IQIfi 27 CARSIN 1915!!FIRST PICTURE OF NEW RULER AT WORKjCHEAPER RENT WORLD PEACE 3 SEEN IN FUTURE SAYSJOLSTOY Son of Noted Russian Paints Great Reliyiiius Revival Describes His Christmas at the Russian Front ' What Irrigation Did for Bear Creek Or chard the Past Season Set Forth by Manager Despite Poor Setting, Due to Previous Year's Drouth, Good Yield Fancy Fruit Secured. As Result of Prevailing Labor Trou bles, Large Employers Co-operate to Solve Housing Problems for rraw Employes Better Times and Lower Rentals. Non-Resistance Is True Christ Teaching. PAOTC RTX era FOR WORKMEN CHRIST S IDEAL ON CREEK Happen Tom The district south of Medford hik perhaps been tlio uioNt proHperouH pnrt of the vullcy this Kviison, and it has been duo in a lurgo meusnro to irrigation, which was practiced on n large area for the first time thin your. Kvcryouo around here that I have- beard oxpreBH tlicmsclvcs arc highly pleased with the benefits re ceived from the use of water. Water increased tho yield of Hear Creek or chard from twenty-seven cars of fruit in 11)15 to sixty cars in 1010. Some have said the, wutur helped, but was not equal to a Iniuo rainfall, as they had a larger fruit crop in 1013 (a wet year) than they had this year with irrigation. That is easily accounted for, as '1013 was a net year following a year of heuvy rain fall. There was plenty of rain dur ing tho spring and summer of .1012 to mnlto nn abundant wood and loot growth, strong, healthy buds were formed and the trees were in a fine physical condition to produce a large crop tho following summer. Kffcct of Drouth. In contrast to that of last spring, the majority, of unirrigutcd trees wero in r very poor physical condi tion, owing to the two preceding dry years. The water would have shown more marked results had the trees been normal at tho beginning of the season. On the Hear Creek orchards in the spring of 1014 we had a good set of fruit, but as week after week went by without rain our prospects for uny substantial fruit production vanish ed. We had uervs and acres that we would have given .frill per acre for one good soaking that summer. In the spring of lOl.'i we again had n good setting of fruit and were very hopeful, so were our neighbors surely nature wouldn't go back on the valley twice in succession, but she did, and wo had the dryest year on record except some other dry years thot had almost been forgotten. The late Samuel Rosenberg, owner of the orchard, believed our only salvation was irrigation, and Mrs. Itosenherg herself is just as strong uu advocate of irrigation. Saved by Iiri gallon. In tho spring of 101.", at much ex pense and work, wo installed pumps mid pipe lines and secured enough water to mature part of our pear crop. Wo had no water for our ap ples, nnd they dried upon the trees. In tho spring of lOlli we had n good setting of fruit and we knew we were snfe. We had a good gravity irrigation system. We irrigated throe times, shipped moro than double the 301. crop of the finest pears produc ed in the valley, and a big apple crop, nlso have brought our trees back to a healthy, vigorous condition and havo been enabled to plant cover crops to enrich our soil. Irrigation increases quality as well as site thereby. Hear crock furnishes a good sup ply of water, enough to insure n good yields of fruit every year. Mow ever, wo are willing nnd nnxiou to have the high line system built, or at least investigated by the aiilborilies of on irrigation district. We real ize tho added cost above the Hear creek system might easily be peid by having an available water supply luter in the season than Hear creek would ordinarily furnish it. Tho investigation of an available water supply for the Uogue Hivcr valley is too large and expensive an undertaking for an imliv idiial. and if one pel-son did investigate il to bis satisfaction his neighbors would hesi- .tale to take his conclusions. Signing of contrnets for the required acreage - to justify building the higlf-line sys tem have failed largely on this ac count. The people didn't know for sure what they were buying. Why court adversity longer hv de pending on the uncertain rainfall ivhen irrigation gives us assurance of larger vields f Water is our greatest need; let us net ns a united progressive people to secure it. HKliT 11. l.OWItV. Manager Hear Creek orchards. BRITISH STEAMER IT0NUS SUNK BY SUBMARINE LONDON, Dec. 22. Llnls tvmrt the pinking of the Hrilish -tt'nmsliip Itunus. The ItonitH, ;VM0 luii gros owned in Mi'limnine. Shu wiih in the burvice the Drill h nnunmu'ul. This is (ho first pUture to remh tliir country showing Charles Francis Joseph, nt Uil'U ns emperor of Atstriu-lluiitiir'! Il is Miown ufc tho front KroitAtiirit, In "in council with Urn. Fiilkcnluiyn, lcailor of tlio advance of ccntnil poMvr nnnirs into Kunwmir. RECENT SLUMP NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Duoyunt recoveries of from three to over ten points at the opening of today's stock market, prompted by the overnight developments In tho peace situation, caused a hurrreld covering of short commitments and a strong tone thru out tho forenoon session. (Thoro was a pronounced chango of sentiment in all quarters, attributed In a measure to a clearer view of tho contents of President Wilson's note to tho belllgeront powers and to Sec rotary Lansing'B second explanatory statement published utter the close of tlio market yesterduy. The weeding out of numarouB weak accounts yesterday was a factor of Importance contributing to a strong er technical position in tho market today. King (leorgc's speech pro rogalag parliament also was an In fluence npaprontly toward higher prices. Tho volumo of trading, moreover, was materially diminished.. Trans actions during tho first hour amount ed to r.r0,000 shares and although they reached 1,2(10,00(1 shares by 12 o'clock, thin total did not equal the. trading of yesterday during tho same period. Coinparod with that frenzied ses sion, the market resembled the calm after a storm. Hanking Interests regarded to day's movement as a logical reaction from the recent market oxcossos and continued to urgo caution, reinforcing this attltudo by further discrimina tion against stocks of shifting value. .'. Tho market crept slow ly upw ard la the last hour some issues repeating or passing best prices of the morning. Tho closing was strong. BRITISH SURPRISED AT WILSON APPEAL WVKKPOOU Doo. 22. Tho Post refVrrhiK to I'reHhtent Wilson's una HUHUMtinK that tho helllKerents nii'Ke known thoir ilosirea concerning peace, .says: "President Wilntm must m-t lo surprised if, oh far as tlio allien are concerned, his Intervention product1. a Htate of mind contrary to that at which he aims. The allien will read ily k(vo the president credit for Uu heM of Intentions, hut they will ho justified in wondering whether, from their point of view the note Is not partleulatiy ill timed and ill judged. "The president's assurance that the recent Herman overtures had no prompting Influence on his proposals must he accepted. At the hnmo time it ts, to suy the least, somewhat mal adroit that wo should he so appealed to by the t'nlted States at a moment when tho allies are at the height of their power and (iernwny knows her own apparently favoraMo position cannot possiMy ho maintained. "On the other hand there is tho possibility that. Mr. Wilson's efforts are directed toward elicit Ins from Germany concrete terms of peace, which fho withheld In her extraordin ary approach to the entente. In that rase a useful purpose may he served, for we then would be in a position to judxe whether war weatlmss Is asso ciated with the consciousness of crim inality of which Germany has been found Knllty In the eyes of the elvU lzvl world and the extent to which this will Induce her to yield to the alllrs' inexorable demands for guar antees against future barbarism. " SEEK 4 E I'Yoni Grants Pass Courier.) There was a gocd attendance nt the meeting of the. Game and V'mh Pro tective association held at the Com mercial club rooms Wednesday niyht. The special committee that had been appointed nt a previous meeting had its report ready for consideration, the report covering the question of fish ing conditions most fully. Il included statements from health officers cov ering tlie condition of the river during the time that nil commercial fishing was pml.ibited, and of the men who were employed by the authorities to hurv dead salmon that accumulated along the river within the city nnd near and above the water supply in take. Statements were also included showing the value of the commercial fishing industry to the community, while anglers added their testimony as to sport fishing during open and closed seasons. The report recommended that seines and set nets be prohibited from all I he waters of the Hogue, and llial only the drift net of HVii-ini'h mesh he permitted. It also endorsed the es tablishment of the deadline at the mouth of the river by the state fish and game commission, and asked thai the drift net be permitted upon the waters of the upper river during the chinook season, from April 15 to Angus! I't, with closed water for 1000 feet below every dam, fish way or ob struction. The report showed that shortage of fish in the upper rier was paused largelv by reason of inadeuuate fish ways at Golden Drift and Kay Gold dams, periods of low water such us prevailed during the past two seasons holding many of (he fish below the dauw. The committee. composed of. Messrs. M. .1. Anderson, Frank llnim we!l, tieoiL'e Dickinson, Krnnk Me Karlane and .lames W'crlx, that had prepared the report, was instructed to hae it printed and supplied to each member of the slate legislature. LIKEN PEACE NOTE TO DAYSOFCIVltWAR LONDON", Dec. 22. The Daily News, which Is the nearest to pacifist among tho London newspapers, says today regarding President Wilson's note: "No one can fail to appreciate the spirit in which tho proposal Is made or approve tho cautious terms tn which It is couched. The history of the great struggle In his own country is too recent and too memorable for President Wilson to be unaware of the perils of too hasty intervention. From our side, it was tho spectre of Kuropean intervention that haunt ed Lincoln, especially in those days when the cause of the north was pass ins through Its riarkesi phase. "Mr. Wilson is far too wise to add that trouble to the enormous burdens or the nations engaged In the strug gle for liberty not less vital and far greater. He is taking soundings. If ho finds the water still too deep he will wait until a more favorable op portunity." The newspaper says the central powers would accept the note eagerly and despite their arrogance the door should not bp barred and bolted In their face. Ily CIILSON (lAHDXU'lt. WASHINGTON, Uc -jl. One re sult of tlio widely pivviiiliiio; labor troubles will be better houses and lower rents for workmen. This is lo eome not as charity, but i'roni t lie ne cessity which moves tiif, employer to keep his men nnd women workers eontentedly at his business. Kuril is the opinion of Dr. John No lan of Cambriiljfe, Slass., voieed in an address before the Ameriean Civic association, at their convention here ill Washington. , ' Housing Workmen. .' . '"Employers," said Dr. Nolan, r"are haviiijj much difficulty ill celling and holdyipfluborers and they nre already so impressed with the fact tlult tbey I'aeo ' new conditions conditions which entail great inconvenience and enormous cost that they lire, rendy to consider any practical proposal which will lessyi their troubles." One practical proposal, be pointed out, is to reduce the workman's rent. The employer has had to face the proDosition that bis employe pays out too large aproportion of his wages for rent. The ordinary capitalist dors not allow over ten per cent for rent ; ten per cent of either capital or income. The laboring man pays 27y or !t0 per cent a (piarter or even a third of his total earnings for this one item of rent. ''Why not get the rent down to a 10 per cent basis for the workman?" the employer i beginning to ask. Housing a lliisincsN. "Housing,'' says Dr. Nolan, "is a big business and should he handled as such. .More than two billion dol lars is spent for dwellings" in the I'nited States eacli year: and a large percentage of these dwellings are poorly conceived lihd wretchedly con structed for their purposes. "The minimum desirable house of four to five rooms nannot be provid ed in the United States for less than about IHO0 to f'.'OOO, with improve ments. A house costing that sum cannot be offered on the basis of an economic rent of. say o per cent or 11 per cent net, for less than a month. I'nless a wage earner, wilh a uormol family of il wife and three dependent children, has an income of tl.i a week, or $H(M) a year, be can not pay .flo a month rent. More than half of all workingmen receive less than 1.1 a week. "Kitber the cost cf the house and lot must he subtantially reduced or the standard of healthful living must be lowered or the wages of the poor est paid workmen must he raised." STATE P0UY SHOW TO MEET E Medt'ord has been definitely se lected nR Hie meeting place for the lilt 7 show mul business sesMnns of the State Pun I try association. The show will he held in the building for merly occupied by the Korinek Rem edy I'o. and wilt open Monday, Jan uary h, and close Saturday night, January l:t. t Officers for the state association were elected last week, the luilloling being done by mail. The following men were elected to office for l!t7; ('resident. K. J. MeCliniahan, Kulmmic; iec-proMdeul, It. Kinnhoiise. Little county; secretary. (". K. Will iams, Salem: treasurer, Klmer Taine, CorvallU. AY. Watson of this city was elected a member of the executive board. Coops are being built for 7"0 birds, to accommodate single birds, trios and pens. The entries will close the evening of January I. Hirds must be in the pens Monday, January S. Judge R K. Keency of Kugene, who will net ns judje, will begin his work Tuesday morning. Judge Keener of licintcd in a similar capacity at the Medtord -hov last year. Three hundred people from points north of Meiltord nre. expected to be in nttendiince when the show is formally oiened Tue-dav noon. KrnrM Webb nf Central Point has been appointed superintendent of the show. NEW VOUK, Dec. 22. "All wars are evil! Patriotism produces war, and patriotism Is Belflsliness, ego tism! World peace can conic only when wo universally accept In act as well as In faith the true Christ teaching or non-resistance!" That would lie tho 1910 Christmas message to the warring world of I.eo Tolstoy, Russia's greatest novelist, the ust century'B most famous Inter preter of the Christ spirit, and the man whose amazing prophecy of the present Kuropean conflict has won til in the name of seer and prophet. Th'is message which the great I.eo Tolstoy would have given to the world this Christmas, wore ho still alivo, was voiced by his famous son, Count llya Tolstoy, who has just arrived In America to begin a nation-wide lec ture tour In which ho will explain Ills father's life and doctrines. Count llya Tolstoy shares ardently his fath er's striking form of Christianity, and in an interview he told how he would apply It to the world crisis of today. Is An Antyclilst. "I am an anarchist," he said, "but not an anarchist as you understand It here. I mean by tho word simply that I am opposed to nationalism. I be lieve further, as did my father, that Christ's greatest teaching was non resistance, and that we should fol low that doctrine not only in our in dividual lives, but in international re lations as well. "I believe that already the world is swinging back toward a more pro found acceptance of the greatest Ideals of Christianity! I have seen in Europe unmistakable signs of tills new spiritual awakening. "Hut even had 1 not seeu these signs, I would know that a religious revival must surely follow the war. A few years ago I aw materialism sweeping Europe. Immorality had tainted art, literature, even music and t lie dance! Psychology, a spir itual reaction was inevitable.' Christmas at the l-'i-ont. "What is Christmas like at the front '' I asked. "Christinas at tho front Is a sad and solemn day.' said Tolstoy. "1 was with tho 'Wild Division,' under Grand Duke Michael last Christmas, in the Cnrpathians, and from vivid recollections of that experience can easily describo how tragically the sol dier's Christmas contrasts with your merry Christmas here. "We had no gifts, no inerriineiit, All tho day before Christmas we worked witli the wounded in the lios pltnl. On Christmas ovo I and a few of my fellow officers rode thru the night to a neighboring village, where Grand Duke Michael held Christmas service in a littel church. It was a grave coremony. "Then we returned to our owii quarters, and there we actually had a little Christmas tree! Hut no gifts. There were none in the luiui! Everything had been destroyed, for the Russians and Germans had fought back and forth over that territory. And our Christinas dinner was tlit dinner of every other day ula.k bread!" II. II. Lord o Central Point was a Medford business visitor Thursday. CHRISTMAS Mince Pie Try Recipei oa tkl Pickai Froit Cika, Pad lufi moA f okki 12c to 15c per packatre None Such Mince Meat Twice as Cood at half the cost of bulk mince meat MERRELUSOULE COMPANY. Sti. 11. T. "i U . j cs mm ie At IB if Grocers II A Great Sale of Leather Goods A Big Sale of Cigars Choice Presents for Either Lady or Gentleman Beyond a doubt an oddity in the selling world The very finest of Leather Goods, fine Hand Purses for ladies, fine Toilet Sets for both men and women, hundreds of novelties in Leather, Leather Pillows, -etc. This whole stock of Xmas Goods to select from Also a fine line of CIGARS Which Will Be Closed Out FOR THE LADIES $2.50 to $5.00 Hand Bags 98c $6.00 Hand Eag3 $1.98 $7.50 Hand Bags $2.98 $2.00 Manicure Sets 98c $4.50 Manicure Seta $1.98 $10.00 Manicure Sets $4.98 Dozens cf Big Fine Leather Pillows, values from $4 to $10, your 'choice $2.98 $2.00 Leather Card Cases 98c FOR GENTLEMEN 75c Purses :.. . 39c $1.00 Purses 59c $1.50 Purses 79c $2.00 Purses 98c $7.50 Traveling Cases $4.98 $15.00 Traveling Cases $8.98 All the leading brands of Cigars at real sale prices one of the finest stocks of Cigars in town all to be closed out. SEE BIG SALE WINDOW Be Sure and Attend This Big Sale The closing out of all Leather Goods, all Holiday Goods, all Cigars Medford Pharmacy II Watch the Sale Window Phone 10
