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PAE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE A N INDFHKN PEST NliWSPAI'KI! FUULJSHKI) KVKHV AITKUNOON KXCIII'T SLN1MV HY TUB MUUKOHLi 1'lllNTlNa CO Office Mall Trlbunr HuiMinf. 2C North i''tr lret; telephone 7i. 27-28 Tin Dtmooratlo Tlm. Hi. Meuioril Mall. Th ilauford Tnlmne. The Suulli ru OreionUn The Alilana Tribune. GEORGE I'l'TNAM, Editor "" BUBSOjtrPTios "bates ! Olia year, by mall I.l.ofl One month, by mall So rT month, delivered uy earner la il.aford. Phoenix, Jiiukaorivllle and Ontral 'otnt ftiuurdur only, by mall. nrr yer.... ! Weekly. r year 1 EO Official Paper of the City of lloUford Official I'aper of Jiickaon County. Kiit.-it-u ua Meftu'l-cbuM tiinlLr ul Medford, Oregon, untl.-r the ai't of March a, m;s. Sworn Circulation fur llll ! 2 1 Full leaaed wire Associated. Press dia Ptohea. EM-TEES Just as everybody Kets to feeling pretty good again, up comes some thing about basebnll. Now it's ok how undecided they uie us to where they'll do tbeir sprint (ruining. e WOW! On some automobiles u pedometer Kotild b more practicable tlian a vpetilomeler. a ' JH1 YOU KNOW None of the aiitoa In the latest automobile allows Iiuh Included among ita newest accessories a p.iir t wulkiuie Hhof s? Very few people write on Iho In side of a pout card and ,it In consid ered misdirected energy opeuiug a fiost card. ATtl.H One tipon a lyiut a druggist didn't have a certuin article a cus tomer wanted and ye druggist didn't recommend something else "just as good" to ye customer. . . . "... . HEAVm 1HXCH. T)on't etart a war nrgunient with a barber when he's shaving you. tie wins the argument even If you are right. MY WOM! W think It's awfully silly to hang up a sprig of mistletoe during tlio holidays, and likewise utterly un necessary. MODKllV MlllHUItY KYME Utile Jack Horner sut in a corner Katlng n Christ inns pie; I put in his thumb and pulled out a pure food label. ! Be optimistic in nil things. When a dish is broken don't get peeved. Just say kind of sweet like: "Well, there's one lees to wash." WOW! (Opened and passed by the cen sors). An Englishman und a Scotchman were out wulklng in the Highlands when they camo to it sIkii which rend, "Five miles to Strouarlnehar." Underneath was written, "if you can not read, Inquire at t tin baker's." ' Sandy lnui;bed. but refused to tell the Englishman the Joke. That nl.aht the Englishman woke Sandy up with loud lauclitcr. "Haw, I sco the pun," aid the Englishman. "Haw' the baker might not ho In. Haw' quite clever." SE WASHINCTOX, Dec. I'D. Spain's action toward the German submarine campaign caused surprise hero be cause no such vigorous statement front Spain had been exported. Spain's action, nevertheless, is thought to have t onio at au oppor tune timo to udd another source of pressure on Germany In what I he state department considers a most serious Blluullon. 'Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland have also suffered disas trously from subniartno activities, but no fudic.itlon has been given as yet that they also were planning ar tlen at this lime. The United States will welcome such protests by other neutrals, bin 1 UhS with c.nuslsteut policy will jrobably not join in any united ac tion with them. STRIKE CALLED AT PORTLAND SHIP YARDS PORTLAND. Or., Jc. 2..--A tttrik of Miamlier of si thi hiiiWl ?rs imicinH omplu.MM in three Port Unl yaidH wit culled )y Ihor end em for 11 o'clock today n.-i it rt- fcult of the rWual of Mm ruii'lovrrs i 10 erntit rcont union donuimls thai j th yarH he onruicd under tliw t )9!i uhny principle. i MEPFOitO AiAir; TimuTNii. iiF,i)Fonn. oreoon. kimday,, di'kmi'.kr. 2j liimii 'iislTlcE ofunsted states as leader in world's affairs ClIAJi'GKS lli.it Wall street speculators, liy means of advance information, through collusion with gov ernment officials, had cleaned up millions in the hear raid on the stock market following 1 lie publication of the Ger man and Wilson peace notes, resolution for investigation. Secretary of State Uobert Lansing has fallen under suspicion, both because of the "leak" in news to Wall street, and because of the peculiar interpretation he gave the -president, s peace note in Ins uncalled-tor "explana tion" which caused the market to slump, and then his ex planation of the previous explanation. Secretary Lansing stales that he welcomes investiga tion, while Thomas W. Lawson, the Wall street plunger, asserts that the trail leads right to the high officials loud est in demands for investigation the inference being plain. Jf Mr. Lansing resigns, he will be the seventh secre tary of state to have quit amid sensations, beginning with Thomas .Jefferson, who left Washington's cabinet because of disagreement with Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury, and ending with William J. Hryan, who left the WiUon cabinet because he could not concur in the pres ident's foreign policy. Oilier scerciaries of stale who have left the cabinet were: Kdmitiid Randolph, Jefferson's successor, -who re tired under charges reflecting upon his honor, through in tercepted di.s'pat'-bes of the French ambassador; Daniel Webster, who rcsigned'froni Tyler's cabinet when the lat ter broke with the Whig party, which had elected him. Lewis ( 'ass resigned from Ihichanan's cabinet after Lin coln's election because the president, refused to reinforce the forts at Charleston, S. (.'. .James G. I! -due furnished two cabinet resignations. Appointed bv Garfield, he could not agree with Arthur after the former's death, and in 1SS!), he resigned in because of personal, not polit ical, differences with his chief. Secretary Lansing's record has hitherto been beyond reproach. Jt is the duty of the administration to keep its record free trom scandal. Jt Air, Lansing is innocent, lie should be cleared, and if guilty of conmiercializiiig state secrets, ousted from the cabinet. VERY STRANGE, ISN'T IT? TMlb water power lobbyists -- of the Shields nnd Mevers bills, which unict icnllv gives awav for nothing and forever the remaining publicly owned water powers in the I these gentlemen tell congress and the public that in the name ot "development'' the turned over to private interests on "more liberal terms. No development can take place, they sav, so long as the public insists on compensation for the use of this public property, on limiting the terms nig the price to be charged to And vet it seems that water power development is tak ing place under just these terms and in the very place, that the water power gentlemen sav ! or the i l.scal vear 19.1b, says Henry S. Graves, chief of the United States forest service, twenty new water power projects w'lneli utilize national iorest land began opera tion. This was a u increase number. In the fiscal year jects wiucli liegan operation And the figures show another astounding thing. Fori v- two per cent of the total developed water power of the United States utilize national Jorest hind. And on na tional forest hind, the water power companies must submit to exactly the restrictions in the public interest that they say nicy cannot suiimii; to. II t he Meyers hill passes, the control of these water powers on national forests will be taken away from the forest service and turned over to the interior department anil the made under less .favorable forest service now grants. It does seem strange, doesn't it, that the power people ouud thev could develop twenty new projects oil the na tional forests at the same time not develop power under such DULLNESS FEATURE NKW YOKK. IVr. JD.-n.tllnc-ss wns the nnwt sinking ir;ilure of the diiy '!' Hit vt iir on o stock ex- ItunLV. !i iv'-uhir prirp Hume's in the cnrly st'ion, with ; ;;ciu'r;il np v.Mi'd itvtiti in the Inter dcnliii:!, re .ilted nltmist entirely from (lie u-e.:'! settlement of pt ufi -ional runt 'acts. Snle-; were cstimnteil ;M ti7,0iMt share-. Oils features the tn-nl hour, Texas eoinpnny evtenuiui; its t'.aiu to l.'i point with snh-.anttal reeovciie in motor- nnl other spei-uilties. The eioin was linn. TAKE OATH OF OFFICE 1.08 AXOKI.KS. Cnl., Ihc. 29. Kzt'iuii)l C. lH'Hiu a. owi iior-clci't of Nrw .MvxU'O, l''ft ior tixl.iy in tln rr.rt' tf ti nursn for Santa Ko, N. M., to t.ikt (hp o.ilh of offtrr .lun- uaiy 1. lie .still U wrak nl. lon.t atrnila. Intt his ll'Tt' h;liu l:i.- rt-;''tiTy fit from pit-j, pliy:. Ian 1 .MOl'll lain Mr. Ilol'.aul catm' tioro nioio than a Mouth a:i in a -i-mhi j lullililioll, has resulted m congressional left. Appointed by Harrison are insisting on the passage lined States. public water power must lie ot the lease and on regular- consumers. it is locked up." of 1S'4 per cent, in the total 191") the number of new pro was twelve. bill will compel grants to be terms to the public than the thev insisted that they could terms' BETTER THAN EVER WASHINGTON. Dep. 2I. The channel through thn treacherous sides of t'.aillard out tlio. Panama Canal now id in better condition than over liefore. The work of clearinK tlio nas.-uiKo, wit It hope ngnint recur reuee of the slides i.s far advanced, meordinn to the latest official an nouncement. FOOTS CREEK ITEMS Mr. mid Mrs. MoKinni'v nturnoil to Alilaiiil tut ihc holiilnys. -Mr. ami Mrs. Mattunvs wore rall- QIS I-- in 1'i;;:h' Kirr Kli.lav. : aiven last Friilay ami S'linlav srliool. Tlii' vi-atli'r was vt'ry ilisnrt'oahlo, lxi I a fair crowd assomhli'd. A rooi! prorai.i was jsivrn. Ucrrcslmicnts wore mtvciI. Sr'vcral el' nnr iicnplc art1 .ick with la uii'o tliis week. About f"tuti't'n itit-lics of snow !;,., line nias jin scr was a call I'd K. , r,-. k T r on Ward's -.lay. Mi-. T. II. l-v.vli !a-l c,l, for l'olll.ltlil. Iliii. li ami ilauirlilcr. r.;-U. let I ' vi-it in 1 1' ! '. - ! ' That Is Why President Had Smash Tradition, If He Was Throw Our Hat in the Ring for the First Time. By GU.SON OAnnNEH. WASHINGTON', Dec." 23. Thut the I'nitcd States Intends to sit in at the world's peace conference when ever that may he held, is the out standing significance of PresideM Wilson's address to tho powers. This address Is an anomaly In tho diplomatic world. It is neither offic ial nor unofficial. It Is like a pood many other things in this world war situation; It established a new prece dent. Mediations IHscunlcd. Mediation used to he the method by which warring powers got lr. gethcr. A powerful neutral nation would serve as a medium through which the warring powers would match up their Ideas ns to settlement. Tliis Is what took place when Hoose volt got the Russian nnd Japanese ambassadors together as a prelimi nary to tho Portsmouth conference, which worker! ntit thn ilclnlla nr Om ' peaco between theso nations. Theoretically ambassadors of war ring nations do not speak to each other and theoretically there Is no communication between warring na tions. Thut tradition and make-believe have broken down. Germany smashed it the other day by dealing directly with her enemies. The German offer of peace was us unusual In the diplomatic- world as a flash of lightning out of a sum mer sky. Such a thing never had been before. It was a recognition that the age of sailing vessels nnd dispatch boxes and of communication by written document only had passed and that submarine cables, radio grams and the telegram have brought all nations warring or non-warring Into hourly and almost momen tary communication. Tidies Initiative. The necessity that the United States act as a mediator for the adjustment or peaco views was a tra dition. Germany has Invited a peace conference of her own motion. The United States was left to do nothing or to do what President Wilson now lias done to throw onto the diplo matic, tablo the same kind of au un official, diplomatic plan. The United States, through Presi dent Wilson, has spoken. It has said in effect that no neutral nation is unconcerned with tho great war and the terms of the peaco settlement. The United States is greatly con cerned with the settlement of this war and with the terms on which It is settled. The United States pro poses to do nil in Its power to exert Influence on both theso questions, it proposes to lake part officially, or In some other way in the final ar rangement by which wars are sup posedly to be decreased and the af fairs of the world got In better shape. . Xeiitial llights Involved. (Neutral rights on the ocenn In world commerce nnd rights of nil kinds will he Involved In the final peaco parley. Tho question will bo considered whether there shall bo a world league to enforce peace, whether there shall be gradual con certed disarmament. In all these questions the United States renounces its historic ami traditional policy of isolation. We renounce the George Washington In junction against entangling foreign alliances and recognizo that the world Is a smaller place than it was in Washington's days and that neigh bors are hrought close by three thous and miles of ocean rather than re mote. Our country demands that the rights as the most powerful neutral in the world be considered. President Wilson was urged months ago to call a conference of tho neutral powers. If the answer to this informal note is not encourag ing, his next slop unquestionably will be to call that neutral conference. Through this the interests and rights of neutral powers will be formulated and presented to the warring nations and influence will be brought to bear on the belligerents to adjust their quarrel and end the war. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it. 25oatall druggists. JOHN A. PERL UNDERTAKER laflv Alstnnt BS fi. H.VIST1.KTT lliono M. 4-, nd 47-J-a Automobile Hearst Ssrvtr. i.OiuUuc 6rrlc. Csronsr j ' i . ktinAvm I "I lM (iiiiiei neiir vnini iiui. lei i uOLU HILL KOfflEIS Mr. and Mrs. Karle Stanley-Sinitli were 'guests at the ISuslmell ranch home in Sams Valley several days the first part of tlte week. Mrs. Stanley Smith and Mr-. Ihishnoll nre sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley-Smith returned tu Iheir Kugeue home Wednesday. Mrs. W. A. Tresham atnd daughter, Miss I.Imc, went to Hilt, C'al., Satur day, l-etumin;? Tuesday. Misses Agnes Dietrich and Fay M Voagh were in Grants Pass Saturday. Miss Klsie Miller arrived hero Sat urday morning for u holiday vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Miller. Miss .Miller i.s nttendii.g the stale normnl at Monmouth. Koy K. Ilaekett, assistant cashier at the First National bank at Grants Pass, with his wife and daughter. were Christmas day guests at t ho houic'ot his uncle, Dr. h. I. Kelsey and family. . Mrs. M. G. Kldridge returned to Talent Tuesday ui'lor spending the holidays with childien in this eily. Mrs. George l.aue, nee lilossom llceman, is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Beenuin, having arrived Sunday from Sho shone, Idaho. .Mrs. ,1. II. Ilyerly was in Central Point on business Saturday. Misses Unth Cady and Faye Schro der went to Portland Friday night to spend the holidays with their parents. They were accompanied hy little Miss Violet Simmons, who has been visitiier with her grandmother, .Mrs. Kd Sim mons, but was returning to her hoi.io in Portland. Miss Pearl Nowells was a visitor in Medford Saturday. llovton (Hill) lleeaian arrived home Friday night from Kugom', where he is attending the university. Miss Fav Mc'ea.;h. a leacli-r of the Crescent City s.-hools, has in--,nv. spending the Christmas season with f warehouse in Gold Hill, was in town her-grandmother, Mrs. K. Pdi. j Saturday in the interests of this bus Miss Mary Truax, who is attending Mness. He is exnecling another oar the University of Oregon from Gold , shipment as soon as a car can he se llill, i.s at home for the holidav vaca-; cured. Hon. She arrived here J hur-aiay last. Miss Madeline Silver, who teaches the third and fourth grades in the local school, left, for her home at Ash land Friday afternoon. F. W. Dodge has been in town sev eral days the past week from Grants Pas, where he is at present spending most of his lime. Miss Maude Miller, n teacher at one We Wish Everybody A Happy and Prosperous New Year And waul tu thank you for your liberal patronage during onr past year in bus iness. We realize our fight been a hard one, but we also realize that the Medford people appreciate a (iROCKIJY STOKK that is run in a first-class, business way. They realize that a phone order is put up in first-class shape, and if our goods are not O. K., we make it a point to mention the fact. WE HOPE TO GAIN A GOOD MANY MORE CUSTOMERS THIS NEXT YEAR TVcause the people who have been paying m-li enormous juices are alreadv telling us, "NEVER AMAIN." And we are right here to promise you that there's a saving of 1") per cent on a month's bill, if you trade with "Jones" which is some saving at this particular time. Of course; we are only "Conn try Jakes," but the town folks that tried to "show us" gradually dropped out of business, while Jones stepped ahead. We are here to stay, and ask you to start yiiis New Year right by trading at Jones' Cash Grocery (The Store of Quality and Price) BIGGEST THREE IN WO.UD CRIS IS Kaisor Wilhelni, l'i'sidcnt ilson timl l.loj'tl hhiw. J of the districts near G for Medford Saturday. Hugh Haves and wile left for liunook Saturday. They were en route from Asliiand and stopped for a short visit witii Mrs. Hayes' sisler, ilrs. Alva -Walker, nee Icy Ilailey. .Mr. and Mrs. W. I.. Collins were visitors in Medford with their daugh ter, Mrs. II. De Arinond, for Christ mas. Attorney and Mrs. I.emery of Asli Innd spent several days the lir.-t part of the week, ul the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. Sleelmau on Galls creek. They returned home Tuesday. C. 1). Sanders of Iloise City,' Idaho, arrived in town Tuesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Kellogg und children, Fred and Kathleen, are at the E. li. Dav ranch for a week's vis it I from F.ngene, having- arrived la.-t Saturday. Lester llungev was a Phoenix vis- j it or Christmas to spend the day with I his sisier Kunice, who iois sister r.uuiee, wno now lives ' Ihere. Mr. nnd Mrs. Fred I'.olt were vis itors with relatives at Tolo Saturday, ' In the contest for the ladies' wrist watch at the Comas theater, the six leading young ladies at the last count are: Inn Gardner, -Si)."); Murcnrol Chisholm. oHO; Ida Johnson, .'"() : lev Walker, -171): Velum Davidson, :)70: Until Cady, L'b.l. Others are in he race nl.-.o, ami some are. doubtless holding hack their ballots, for the wny the young ladies are campaign ing shows their interest in the watch on display at the ilowers' pharmacy. We might also say here that the Co inns management are advertising a -even-reel show for next Friilay and Saturday nights, with the same popu lar .rices of ." and lo cents. Two ' reels of "Peg o the long and I lve of "l.andon's Legacy," wiih J. War ren Kerrigan as star, constitute the jl rogi'uni. li. II. .Moore of Central Point, hut !io maim. Hour distributing The M. K. chim-h puljiit was t'i,lel hnth niurnin' nitil evening hy Kc-v, K. (.'. Kielinrds, us veil us Kev. l, A. Hutchinson ("the little live Irish-1 man"). Kev. Kiehnrds was at one lime pastor nl the ioeni church and was u?,ain nppuinleil J'nr (he comini; yaer, hut resigned to take a position as field worker for the Willamette university ul Salem. His heiiiLr here was made pnssihle hy he and Mrs. TODAY Uicltards spending Christmas with the hitter's relatives in Ashland. Ifcv. li. A. Hutchinson, who has now been ap pointed to tliis charge, will also sup ply Jacksonville, preaching there ill the morning and here at Iho evening hour, until lurlher urrangenients nro . made, when he will probably he trans- , fi-rred here entirely. If he is, it will mean the n building; of .the church', membership. ! Mr. and Mis. L. O. Walker were at ' the bride's foiiucr home with her -mother. Mrs. Isora Hodges, for tho week-end. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Kellogg nnd sons, Noel and lloyce, were guests of: Medford relatives from Sundny to .' Tuesday. Martin Johnson and family were (' Cliiistmas guests at the 11. J-;. Admits ranch near Koel: Point. j Margaret Hoffman of Grnutsi Pa--s spenl Christmas with relatives! in Gold Hill. ( AMBASSADOR PAGE V CALLS UPON PREMIER ! LONDON, Dec. 29. Ambassador I Page called on Premier Lloyd George in Downing street this morning. It was a call of cdurtesy, offering thot American representative his first op portunity of seeing Mr. Lloyd-George- j since he became premier. FOR SWOLLEN, TIRED FEET Dennis Euoaiysius Gir.tmcnt at all oaua STOKES m Tubes 2uc Japs 60c jrvii-..T5':'-'24 TO ORDER $25.03 UP Also Cleaning, Pressing and Altering 198 E! MAIN. UPSTAIRS MEDFORD Vulcanizing Works AU work guaranteed. Auto Tire -Repairing. Ve sell Fiali and Mick el in Tires. 36 South Grape St. Medford LEIN roR J I LOTHCS