Medford mail tribune., December 30, 1916, Page 6, Image 6

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MEDPOTIP MAIL TTJTT5TTXT, MEDFORP, OTiFXiOX SATURDAY, DECFMITFR f!0. 1910
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"Advising the Very Poor to Be
Thrifty a Crime," Says Clever
Irishman; Peace and Stoppage, of
Immigration Amonj Tliincs We
Should Ee Thankful For.
By GEO. IllOnXAHI) SHAW.
LONDON, Dec. SO. On New
Year's Day, 1917, 'Americans have
the opportunity, more than oilier.-,
ti bo truly happy fur Hie reui'nn that
the Ameiici'.u constitution contlnue.i
f" stand tlie strain. Amurlcans can
no govern; all Anieriianv toiifesi
this when in Europe.
Let Americana feel lmppv they are
out of it, but are they out of it?
"War and poverty are tho ;reate.st
drain's on humanity. They Insist on
tho lower life. They allow the rent
cst tyranny becaiuo it appears to
safeguard law and order.
Fear l tho great enemy. "Wc
con&olo ourHelvea for all our blundet'K
and dlBKracea by "the bravery of our
soldiers" bh Bet forth in war cor
respondence carefully edited by tliem
Bolves, Iovvty Greatest l-ivil.
No doubt our soldiers flglit fierc
ely enough: there la nothln;; new In
the fact that man is the mof. dan
gerous of tho animals. War is an
orgy of crime based on tho determina
tion of the soldier to stick at noth
ing to bring It to an end and get
out of dally danKer of bcliir; shot.
Every soldier confesses this; his pet
paradox Is that clemency is mistaken
kindness.
""Dut tho great evil to tight Is
poverty.
By our failure to relieve poverty
we are brigands. Money Is tho most
Important thing in the world, and
all the evils wo liavo to rtniggle
against aro duo o the fact that chil
dren nro not taught that irom their
earliest years.
I hear bishops recommending the
people of East London to be ihrlfty.
Tht bishops who do that conii::il a
crlnio. If a poor man saves a single
farthing he Is nohavlng selfishly be
causo ho is saving it off cloMiin:-; or
lodging of his children, ami undM'
GE08GEriAap 5 MAW.'
silell ;M'tin:!:t,:ni-es he is a scoun
dreal. The por;'r"r C10 i.eopl-s the
more Iniiiririr.ni it is 10 spei'.d all
they have.
K Only Pixii'id
Our prose. 11 sv.uei.i would work
If only people tiled. If ai, unem
ployed man coul:! ho throv. t! au iie
ulrect with tho sv.:ety that ho would
die shortly, it would le all right,
'.ill he does not dp?. He bei-omca a
factor for drink or (..;.! Inn ctious
diseases, which most of us catch.
If I wero prlmo miniver l should
Ktart with very simple beginnings,
anil brine. In a bill for tho communl.a
tlon of bread. This old idea was pel
up under Elizabethan poor laws, but
people nowndays are too proud to
lnl;e advantage of It. Friends of
mine who have been In prJeon as
sure mo that the best bread is baked
by tho stale, and the next best Is
pooiiiouse bread. There would he
a big rush for It at first, and mudi
waste, hut uTter a little there woulu
be no waste, neither would anyone go
hungry, as under tho present social
system.
The next Item of my ministerial
program would ho that a town should
belong to tho people who lived in
It. Tho citizens would then build
their town for themselves, without
shuns. Tho landlords would ho paid
Tor their land and tho cose of ground
rents removed from the overburden
ed taxpayers. Then, 1 would put a
tax of cents In $.'1 on the 33.135,
Oti 0,0110 unearned lncremenl. and 1
would reduce the tax on earned in
ternes 0 cents In $..
Why Vein- is lloK-fnJ.
But to return: What niahcs the
now year a hopeful ouo for Ameri
cans The Immigration that la helns
killed off: and the education they
may build up.
The modern system of education is
a tremendous hypocrisy. A child Is
a aavage. cruel, noisy, dirty, luqulsi
jtice being, indiscreet to the point of
I telling tiie truth regardless of the
j feeling of others. Persons who live
j with liiolr children do so because.
J they cannot ai'i'ord to send tieon to
1 boarding school. The good point
j about, boariiitig schools is lha- they
save children from the deniorali.ini;
I iiifliienc s ol" tiie home. Still, I do
j I. now a mote ;;iia:illy ::poctacU than
; a number or children having a les
json and forced to sit it out.
j All this unlit be altered. England
has no money to change the anomol
ies of the present educational sys
tem, but America cannot afford to
do otherwise.
The teacher must be taught to say
to the child, "While you aro Inter
ested, stay: when you are bored, go
out und play."
lteform the Schools.
Teach Ihe children to read and
write and then their education so
far its the school is concerned is
complete. I learned practically noth
ing ut school, hut look at mo! The
result is eminently satisfactory. My
wife, who had an expensive educa
tion, cornea to mo when she wants the
housekeeping books added up:
The war goes on. 1 am no more
of a Christian than you are, gentle
reader, yet after contemplating tho
world and human nature for almost
DO years, 1 liavo sflen no way out
of the world's misery, but the way
which would have been found by
ChriBt's will if ho had undertaken
the work of n modern practical
statesman.
Tho moneyed, respectable, capable
world has been steadily anti-Christian
since the Christian era began.
Tho mention of f!od has gone out of
fashion. You never hear about God
in parliament and only occasionally
In tho law courts.
Keligloiis Beliefs.
Wo nro neither bigoted onough to
cut each other's throats, nor roligious
enough to respect and undei-stnnd
one nnother's beliefs.
The religious man is not a person
who does, or docs not, belong to any
creed, but a man whu has a constant
knowledge that he Is hero as tho in
strument of tho universal force.
The main truth Is that Uod has no
hands, no brains, but your btains;
for Cod is nothing hut a will. 1 !e
llevo that tho higher power, tho al
mighty force, we call Cod cannot do
the work of tho world without our
help. Hence this great benevolent
will of Cod has been working
through evolution to get men and
women to do Ills work.
STEAMER ESCAPES
i:V YlHiK, itM :u. Tin; lliiti-h
iivi.L'lit st''unihi Cltic:ii( City, ii'tmi
Ui'i-iol, Kii'Jiiii'l, iJecrtiihir 1!, wu
tio 011 uiA Mnjipel by a (mI'iiuui
Mi'imai iiif DiM't'irher II, when nhntil
VJ(t mil'1-; u!'r' r'astrn-t, ncciiniiii tu a
report t tl.e -ivw oil hot' arrival here
today.
Tin; Chica-j" City viy mi veil from
hein:.: vtink by the tinielv appearance
of a lii'ilih destroyer. The men
were petting into the lit'obonN when
the destroyer hove into siyht, und the
imdei-ea boat immediately sub
rnt riM-d.
WHEAT FOR DELIVERIES
UlR'AGO, Dee. :ill.- Ycar end ev
ening up of trade in wheat caused an
unusually .sharp advance today of the
December oiilions. Shoits who hud
wailed until the lu.-d hours in which
j deliveries eonlil be made on contract
'for the current monlli tmid dearly
! for Hie privilege. )
j In -some cases bidders found it lie-
i'c'-iiry to offer 7 cents a !m-licl
ii" ) than o.-icnla v's final quoin-i
ti'iii--. ami tints lilted December price'
I to .!.S(1. The volume of ,-yw.-h tiaiij
I aetion. liov.c. , w.i-, not lar-c.
BURNS, CUTS
and WOUNDS
Dennis Eucalyptus Ointment
T ALL ORUO STORES ftl
15
11
Tubes 25c Jars 60c
ilPPV IN
fb.
This Jcwi'ln Start- owes its siutoss
during the just-t-lost'tl year equally
to tilt; ft'ivii'K of best valuo and to
an ungrudging way of giving it.
The service has been unstinted and
the stocks complete.
Liberality is a sound business
principle and in all our dealings
with the public we intend that its
practice shall be plainly evident.
Greeting to the customer who, in
co-operation with others, have
helped to make this store, llappv
New Year.
JOHNSON, The Jeweler
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With the new year
aim to cut your tire
troubles and your tire
costs down to the "ir
reducible minimum."
The one sure way to
do it is to use Savage
Grafinite Tubes and
Factory Distributor
C. E. GATES
Medford
Mr. Fred Alton Haiglit
TEACHER OF PIANO
New term begins January 2. While
all applications will be considered, the
number of new pupils that can be ac
cepted is limited.
THE HAIGHT MUSIC STUDIO
Phone 72
-101 Garnctt-Corey liuilding
Mcilfoi'il, Orogon
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NOTICE
OF
INTENT
TO
I o tiie County
tf- i
Superintendent of S
pe'rintendent or och
PROSECUTE
chools of Jackson County
. rt -n if n r n
City ot
and City ouj
Attention has been directed to the continued violation of House Bill 404, Chapter 177,
General Laws State of Oregon, Session of 1913, relating to the teaching of Fire Pre
vention in public, private, and parochial schools in the State of Oregon.
This Act provides as follows:
"Sec. 1. For the purpose of instruction it shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare a book
conveniently arranged in chapters or lessons, such chapters or lessons to be in number sufficient to provide a different chapter
or lesson for each week of the maximum school year. One of such lessons to be read by the teachers in such schools, each week
The book shall be published at the expense of the State School Superintendent and shall be distributed in quantities sufficient to
provide a copy for each teacher required by the provisions of this act to give the instruction herein provided for. The distribu
tion to be provided for by the State Superintendent."
"Sec. 2. Failure by any principal or other person in charge of any public, private or educational institution to comply with
the provisions of this act shall be a misdemeanor punishable each offence by fine."
NOTICE This notice is intended for parents of children attending schools in Jackson County. Deaths of
children from fire under 10 years of age in the United States for a period of 5 years amounted to 14,471.
The law relcrred to is in force in nearly 30 states and is generally recognized as a good law, intended for the
protection of life and property. - (Paid Adv.)
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