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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.
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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' ! '.
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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
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Automobile Hearst Ssrvtr.
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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.
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Tubes 2uc Japs 60c jrvii-..T5':'-'24
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Also Cleaning, Pressing and Altering
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MEDFORD
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AU work guaranteed.
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