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PAGE FOUR MEDFOUD MAIL TRTBTTXE, MEDFORD, PRECOX, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 191C UEDf ORD MAIL TRIBUNE AN INDKPKNDENT KKWRPAPKIl PUBMHHK1 liVKKV Al'TUKNUUN EXOKl'T HL'NMAY HY TUB MKU1-OHU 1'ltlNTINQ CO Office Mall Tribune Building, 25-27-28 isortii tir aired; telephone it. Th democratic Times, the Mfdford Mall. The Meufurd Tribune. The Kuuth- rn Qretsoma.11 The Auhlund Tribune. GI50RGB PUTNAM, Editor BUBSCIirPTIOW BATES I One yr, by mull. $.".00 On month, by mull 50 Fr month, delivered by currier In Medfurd. Phoenix. Jacksonville ind Central i'oint f0 Riiturduy only, by nm.ll, pvr year.... 2 o Weekly, per year 1.60 Official ruper of the City of Med for.) Official PaDer of Jneknon County. Entered oh second-; limn mutter at Medford, Oregon, under the act ttt March n, 19 iV. Sworn Circulation for 10152466 Full leaned wire Associated Press die r etchea. EM-TEES OH! AIN'T IT I'l'TH! Tho next agony Htiint to watching a wrestling match Is fur a ft.'llow to be In a room where there are fifteen women and a threo-weekB-old baby. Wow! Listen to 'em buzzing the rubber chatter about the baby all at once. Take a dozen eggs. Examine them closely, they all look the tamo. The tamo Roes with babies. We like ba bies and they've got all our sympathy because they have to lie there and listen to tho women and aro so ut terly liolpless. "Ah! Isn't It the sweotest, cun nliiRcst, cutest, durllngost thing you ever saw? Such wonderful eyes, and beautiful hair (13 to 15 hairs on a baby's head)! And such cunning toes, and that cute nose, and thoso dear, llttlo fingers!" IN'o wonder men can't keep a New Year's resolution. Ain't women the funny things? We men never go Into hysterics over such things, do we? Y'botcha we don't. We'ro more conservative In our ravings. Wo look at It with a sheepish smile and warble, "He's a bright llttlo bird, ain't be? Like a nlekol. I think he looks like his old man." Then we tickle It under tho chit: with a "Kootcheo, kootchee" and wind up the observation with some thing witty like, to tho father, "It sleeps a lot, doesn't It, Steve? lie ought to make a good night watch man." And that's all there's to !t. lU'ItHAII! The big leaguo magnates are going to raise the admission prices this mtmmor. That's a bum way to make us mad whon tho banks aro giving 3 per cent. OMK NTl'l-'K. "Yea sir! That's a very beautirul tlo. Seo! I've got ono on myself. Which rumimls us: Dluny and Tom went duck hunting. Dlnny had never been duck hunting before and shot a duck In tho air. "flood!" said Tom. "You got him." "Wurra" says Dlnny, "but I might as well have saved the bullet, tho fall would havo killed him anyhow." I NSOI.VKI) MYSTOIilKS. Why Is It a follow won't hesitate to take your last dollar, but would rathor bo shot than tako your last clgarotto TIIATXI, lo, WISH U'V! How to cut your grocery, meat and qoal bills In half: t'so an ordinary pair of sciufrs. COMMUNICATION. f lu'i-striuis llcininisaiice. I had been a scml-lnvalld, conrined to my room most of the time during tho recent had weather, so outside my immediate family circle. 1 did not an ticipate the coining of t'hrlstnias with over exurbant anticipations, wonder ing If any ono hardly remembered whether 1 orally was on earth of not: I had retired early to bed with then1 thoughts and had dropped irto a peaceful slumber when 1 was awaken ed by the inert sweet singing by nbout a dozen voices opposite my window. I really was Inclined to pinch luy iclf to hco If I was In the flesh or had gone to Heaven and was hear ing the Angela singing. It really was the most enjoyable Incident dur. Ing the holidays. 1 afterwards learned that It was the .Methodist Kplscopal choir, with three cars giv ing me a Christinas cheer, and 1 want to give them my heart-felt thanks for their kind remembrance. It was the bot tonic 1 havo had for many a day. Come again, and the compliments of the season lie with each ami every memhei. Is the wish of your grateful brother. J. ,S. HOWAItl). 'o. 4 0 Crater Lake ave., Dec. 2 7, 1916. Gravel has hen dumped near the Southern Pacific depot, which will be used In paving the two plots of ground on either side of the depot, upon which cars stand while waiting for trains. HAPPY NEW YEAR WE can wish you a happy New Year and we do! So can anybody else and most everybody does! 13ut whether or not you have a happy New Year is entirely np to you. Your New Year won't be happy unless throughout the year you do your best for yourself. And you can't do your best for yourself unless at the same time you do your best for others. "Life's a funny proposition, after all," they used to sing in the minstrel shows. Jut life's a funny proposition only if we make it such. Life's really a very simple and satisfactory and pleas ant proposition if you go at it in the proper mariner. The proper manner, as we see it, is to lose your self centered outlook, to realize you are a common unit in a common mass, and to go through the year, and all the com ing years, with a realization that your own happiness de pends on how much you are doing to add happiness to others. Don't hate anybody. But also see to it that you're doing your best to prevent anybody's acting in such a man ner that others may hate him. The kindest thing you can do to a bully is to end his bullying. But this is a digression from our topic Love your fellow-man; stand shoulder to shoulder with him in all movements for the common good; fight shoul der to shoulder with him in all battles for the common w 1 fare. Try to secure healthful conditions for yourself and family but also seek to abolish unhcalthful conditions for all others. Demand justice for yourself but oppose the denial of justice to others. Live well, eat proper foods but don't be satisfied with earth's conditions while other folk are eating less than proper foods. Seek beauty in your daily life but don't let others be crushed into'squalor. Your resolutions, after all, are small matters. "We sup pose you make New Year resolutions, just as the rest of us do; and we hope you live up to them, as most of the rest of us don't. But the one resolution that should not be broken is this: "In this new year I will do the best I can for myself by doing the best I can for evervbody!" Isn't it so?' HAPPY NEW YEAR! 1917 UP TO YOU THE year 19.1 G has witnessed slow but steady progress in the valley. New industries have been established, and a beginning made at development of timber and min eral resources. Despite the fact that unfavorable climatic conditions prevailed, the fruit crop netted the valley a million dol lars, most of it due to the extension of irrigation. Sugar beet culture has been added to the valley's occupations. Growth and development of 1917 rests with the people themselves. Another dry year is forecasted, and irrigation spells salvation. The real progress of the valley is meas ured by the extension of the watered area. Besides this problem, all others sink into insignificance. Hard times have placed the city of Medford in a tight fix financially, to remedy which a comprehensive plan of refinancing has been devised by Oolonel Hansen, adopted by the city council and submitted to the people for ratifi cation at the January elect ion. At the same election, the Medynski plan, to repudiate private indebtedness and unload on the city all public im provement indebtedness, refunding property owners in warrants, payments already made, will again appear upon the ballot as a rival financial remedy, despite its rejection a year ago. It needs only the adoption of this Medynski wildcat finance to complete the financial demoralization of the city, destroy its credit and plunge it and ourselves into financial chaos. The future lies only with ourselves. We can progress or retrograde, as we please. We can create prosperity in the valley, which reflects in the prosperity of the city. Or we can pull down the pillars of credit from the temple we have huilded and destrov ourselves financial! v in the crash. PAPER SHORTAGE NKW YOUK, Dec. 3D. Owing to the increased cost of white paper and other materials necessary to printing and art work, several magazines of national circulation announced today .increases in price of subscription. Other periodicals have already given police of a similar .jump in prices. Several of the smaller magazines in New York have suspended publication and others are planning to merge with publications controlled liv t lie same interests, l'lihlishers explain that many of them have had to renew their con tracts for paper at this time and lo pay nearly ;"( percent more than this item has cost tlictn here tofore. The rise in subscription prices an nounced today ranged from -0 to X! Ill per cent. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 23cat all druggists. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. Four eclipses of the sun and three of the moon, the greatest number possible in a single year, will occur in 1017. - cording to a memorandum issued to day by the naval observatory. The last cur ill which seven eclipses came was early in the last century, ami the next will he 1!:).". On January S there will be a total eclipse of the moon hy the earth's shadow, visible throughout the Tinted States, beginning- at V2:."i0 a. m. and ending at -1 :M) a. in., eastern standard time, ltctwccn '' and 3:30 a. in., eas tern time, the eclipse will be total. CHICHESTER S PILLS Till In Kid r,l Hold nrtimAv t- tr. uiif l ,th li:utf XiUva. V Tkf ti lltrr. ltnf f jonr " DrncsUl. A.Wl 1II Ift M-TFR ft ItlAWMNn IIHAN It Pil l . ( a ytft kuuvn ) Safest. Ali Relit: ! SOID BY DRUGGISTS EVERiWHERE W1L GREAT WAR END IN 1917? T UNLESS GERMANY END TO PRUSSIAN MILITARISM Mason, Noted War Expert, Says the Fever of Militarism Must First Burn Itself Out War Will Not Be Ended by Exhaustion in Coming Year All Can Last Several Years. JOHN A. PERL UNDERTAKE! Mtj AmtatAfit Wt 8. ItAUTI.KTT Phone M. 4?a nd 47-J-S Automobile nearu Service. Imhulucc Service, Cronr. (Hy J. W. T. MASON, Noted Ameri can War Expert.) (Copyright, 1911), by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) NEW YOHK, Dec. 30. The war will end in 1917 if the spirit of mili tarism shows ccrlain evidence of hav ing burned itself out in Germany; otherwise, not. The war will not end in 1917 through exhaustion, lioth sets of belligerents cun carry on the conflict several years longer before exhaus tion overtakes either. But, a finish- culminating in the capitulation of tho militaristic spirit can occur long; before the central powers have reached the end of their resources, and probably will. llankruptoy will not overwhelm tho warring nations lor the next twelve months. The systems of borrowing differ in the belligerent nations, but they have in common the fnct thut for tho most part the wealth remains within national boundaries nnd can ho utilized time and nguin at the gov ernment's call. No Fcnr of llankmplcy. The influence of the continual bor rowings upon peace is not due to the fear of present bankruptcy. It is due to the fuet thut each fresh loan must be onid for in additional interest charges, to continue at a heavy rate of taxation long years after the war ends. If bankruptcy overtakes any of the warring nations it will prob ably occur after peace comes, instead of while the conflict is raging. Unless the belligerent governments look ahead and curtail their borrow ings to prevent II possible revolt of overburdened taxpayers when the war ends, there is no reason to believe the events of the new year will compel a shortening of hpme credits. Nor have the casualties of the past twenty-nine months been so enormous as to compel rf !essntiori of fighting because of an absolute lack of man power. Among the allies, France, proportionately! to her population, has suffered very severely. Hut the Brit ish and Hussion losses are not great enough to cause the allies to fear a depiction of fighting material below fr.v't ."V- .... : : -:, -y - -J th demands of the trenches. There are still more men among the allies ready for the front than can be prop erly furnished with all tho necessary implements of war. Estimate of TjOsscs. The Germans havo lost most heav ily of the nations in the Teutonic al liance. The maximum cstimutu of tho German ileud, issued by the Hrit ish war office, is about one million. It is highly improbable that more than half a million Germans hnve been so badly wounded as to be unable to re turn to the fighting line. The total number of Germans permanently re moved from the nation's bnttle strength, since the war began, there fore, is not more than 1,500,000. About three-quarters of a million Germans come to military ago every year. If those unfit for fighting be deducted, the total number of Ger mans who have reached the trench ago since the war began is annroxi mately the number who have been killed or permanently injured. Germany's reserve of manhood, therefore, is not falling behind the requirements of her generals. But the present casualty lists are not the dominant factor in influencing the belligerents to consider possibil ities of pence. The killing and maim ing can go on for a long time yet be fore tho cannon fodder runs out. The future effect on the various nations, when the industrial demands of pence find so largo a part of the young workers permanently removed from the population, is the cause, of tho dismay produced by the persistent casualty returns. Knoiigli Men for Slaughter. All belligerents have enough men. for another year's fighting; nnd for still another year. But when peace comes, if the slaughter runs yet fur ther, the nution that has suffered most in young men is the nation that will be most seriously handicapped in the industrial struggle that will suc ceed the struggle of the battlefields. So, when the exhaustion of the bel ligerents, financially and in man power, is counted upon to end the war, the difference between financial and physical exhaustion while the war continues, and comparative industrial exhaustion with an overwhelming tax rate when peace comes, must be borne in mind. The latter condition is now doniin r".t in the thoughts of Eurripean .-.tM"Mticn. Thcv !:r.ow the wm- e-m certainly i o f'TW".rd for ano'her yeer, if it must; but they also know that each additional month of fighting means tint ..oenino nf tieu- woiin.lu thut will' bleed for years after peace filially is declared. Nevertheless, the only possible de duction from the present situation is that the allies arc resolved to fight, regardless of time conditions, until the militarists are read" to admit that the pen is mightier than the sword. Teutons leslre Peace. There is much evidence that dip lomacy, as a substitute for war, is coming into constantly higher regard among the central empires; and when this state'of mind reaches the full point of conviction the war will end. The ideals of the warrior preaoh ors.'so much in favor previous to the present conflict, are unquestionably showing signs of collapse. Admiring discourses upon the doc trines of Bernhardi and Niezsehe nre no longer bicng sent from Germnny into neutral countries. - Instead, the doctrine of limitation of armament, which the militarists so strenuously opposed dining the de cade before the war, is now meeting with approval in influential German circles. As the year 1917 begins, the fact is unmistakable that the militari-Jj; have not made good. J, Peace is waiting for the Teutons to show that they realize this truth. Militarists Didn't M;iko Good. ili.u' tlif-v .'ire to ni.'iKo manifest their acceptance or ill" fact is a mat ter that will require the highest qual ities of st".tos;tuuis).ip to indicate. There enn he no doubt that the confession will be a public one; and there is increasing reason to believe this is what the Germans themselves nre beginning to want. Militarism has saved the central empires from being crushed out of existence. It has proven its worth as a magnificent defensive force; but its offensive purpose has gone awry in a ghastly manner. After tho peuee terms are written, this fnct will stare upon tho world for generations to 'come. The coin ing event is casting its shadow as the new year opens. 4 Miss 'Nelllo Campbell, who is a stu dent at the University ot California is spending the holidays with her parents in Medford. ESi3!l dSI tissRk. 1 1 war JPrmo, U.0U (prosper ifu, We thank tho public for their lib eral patronage and good will duringv the year just closing and hope to merit the same during the new year. May 1917 be the happiest year you've ever had the most prosper ous, contented and satisfactory one. May it be such a year as you can look back at on December 31 with a feeling of pleasure. HOLLAND HOTEL START THE NEW YEAR WITH The Electric Servant It has solved the "help problem" in hundreds of families. Jt renders silent, efficient, flexible service. It does not talk, complain of long hours, has no callers. Works Sundays, holidays and weekdays; will do WASHING, COOKING, HEATING, DUSTING AND IRONING It is at home, willing to work in kitchen or parlor, In city residence or country ranch house. In no other place in the world has electric service so thor oughly developed and so generally used as in the Pa cific Coast States. Why not try doing your work in 1917 the Electric Way? A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE California -Oregon Power Company 216 West Main Street Phone 168 MEDFORD, OREGON . : (( 1 J .Jisf I I J f ! f ? f I ! I t f ? V f t f T T t ' f T T f f ' J J t
