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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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