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Newspaper Page TextPA OTP; FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE AN INPKI'KNUKNT NK WSPAPl'n ri!lll.lSHi:i) KVUKY Al-TKItNOUN kxi'KI'T si.'Ni'AY T!V rim MlilJl'OIUi fKINTlNU CO Office Mall Tribune BulMlnK. 25-27-28 Nortft Fir Ktrt-et; u- phyiio Vi. The Democratic Tlnns. tin? Mcilford IMI, Th Mi'ufonl Trlhunc, The South ern Oreuoniail Th AHliliuid Tribunu. GEOIIGB PUTNAM. Editor BDBSOBrPTlOW BATES! One year. by mull. ........ $5.00 One month, by mall HO Per month, tb-llverod by currier In Medford. r'hoenlx, Jacksonville and Central Point f,0 SiUurdny only, by mull, per yeur.. 2. On Weekly, pit year 1 50 Official Paper of the City of Medford. Official Paper of Jnckson County. Entered us sccoiui-clitKS matter nt Medford. Oregon, under the act of March I, 1879. Sworn Circulation for 191C 2491 Full leased wire Associated Press dis rate lies. EM-TEES 11I) VOl' KNOW As yet, nobody holds down a posi tion In Washington rocordinB the aviators who fell out of aoroplttncs more than once. ., .Don't be soro at the fella who baa not paid you the kale he borrowed nix months ngo. Scientists say count loss Rornii are distributed by money, and probably he is thoughtful of your health. A Turonia wizard bus Invented a bow Indoor golf course, it Is played on Swiss cheese. " , Some people are so lazy, if any roluntaryw effort wore needed to di gest their ifood they'd die of starva tion. A successful remit of getting fired from your job can be attained the next time you come late by answer ing the boss'. "What are you late for?" with this clever resnort, "For work." ' DOESN'T INI FISH . SCARED BY SCREENS SAIjKM. Or., .l:tn. 17 Screens and olhcr devices l'or keeping lit-h out ol' irrigation ditches must be sy tm htrucli'cl us not lo t'riirlitcn Hie fish, nceordiiie; to house hill No. 1112, in troduced hy Sweeney of .Jttediine, this nioruinir. It is left to the juilc ment of the fish and game commis sion to determine, what will frighten the lif-h. Another fish hill, house hill Xo. 103, was introduced this mornim; by Iirowneil ol' C'liickuiiiiis, iimMnt; it lawful lo fish for salmon with hook and line at till seasons of the c-v.r. 8et lines nre prohibited by the net and the nitiniimtiu daily catch is fixed at three salmon. DEER RAPIDLY . (NEW YOHK, Jan. 17. tfocr ar.' being killed in such numbers in the United State that the day is not far off w-hen uono will ho seen outside of the statuarlus aud parks. Dr. Wil liam T. llornadny, director of the. zoological park here, said last nls'it at tho annual meeting of the New York State Forestry association. A particularly deplorable condition -f affairs exists west of the Mississippi river, ho declared, S.000 deer hav ing been killed In oue Colorado coun ty during one yoar. "Slnca 1900 the killing has bei u less there," Dr. Hornaday added, "but hardly a deer remains." I COMMUNICATION. To the Kditor: Will you 1cum run this in tnilnv's Tribune lor (he safety of the chiUten in v.iur cit ? I.aM evening while ltlilMiiilr to Central Point with ,). ( I. Kaacs.m we eanie within about two feet nt iimii'iu don a jjiil f ciimil 1J yriir- w'ni was skatiui; on the ..iv.micnl near t'lr city limits. ti ,.,.,mt ,,t the In We were liilinii:; ;iml 111.' i '.iM could be s,,,,,, n!jl,.,i1!-t w. Willliu nb.ejt tw.-,,lV let 1 ,,1 I;,... ;,!.,! jjl-l fl ia.lt , ,t .;',.. uer.'U Uti. lircn on .;,. . ,i ,,.. ... iheailHT.tne ...,!( -umtiKi in ,. n...i die "1' the sire. 1. I; ...,; ,, , . v.h'h the biakc i, i;,.lt iv, , ,,.r. I nte ih.- ,,. ,.,. , .,, s" th.,1 ,1 cirM ,.. i.'ili ,1 iv'w,:, lint Um:,- lh.- j, .iiiver. wm. i;. i:kuv. t 1 1. . i . i 1'i.in:, ,..,. n. I'lniy ittli-v. Tal.en up- Ited : c;ir-i.ld fteer. biandid douitle figure sis, one In verted. Kar mark In crop uml under half rrop, lefi ear, i. K. Cottrell, ltijle. urecun. MTCDFOTJD BELGIAN A 1 KRK'ANK nre rather (loin.- for l!i'l"iuiu vi't has ilonc notliiny; lor IJi lhini or Ihe I Jclsians. Some ,fS,(l(Xl,()U0 in money, flotliintj, food and supplies lias bt'cu sent to I'l'liuiu by iiuliviilual Americans, but the government has not expended a penny or sent a pound of foodstuffs. AVliile we are boasting of our aid to liclgium, Great Britain has been giving r.iK)0,OUO a month, France $4,000, 000 a mouth, and in addition the .British people, including the colonics, have been subscribing ij'liOO.OtK) each month. America, profiting most by the war, the richest nation of them all, makes a sorry contrast with Great J'ritain and France, fighting for their own existence and piling up enormous debts, and also fighting fur the restoration of Belgium, contributing more each month to Belgian relief than the United (States has in the entire twenty-nine months of war. According to Mr. Hoover, in charge of American relief work in Belgium, l,'jr0,000 Belgian children must be kept just inside the starvation point in order that the food sup ply, insufficient for till, may go around. He tells the story of conditions as follows: Mr. Hoover, accompanied by Dr. W. It. Kellogg, went to Belgium durlu.': tho last Tew weeks and saw 12110 of these children standing in line lu a district near llrussels waiting for their food to bo doled out to them. They were all school children, none of them being much over 14 years. All of them were happy-, the poor little things hud their food tickets In their hands und were raring the pleasant prospect of getting something to eat. Their mothers and others of the women relatives wero standing by watch ing them. "Suddenly Mr. Hoover saw one of the ilnlglan women who nre working with tho commission step over to tho line and drag a child out of it. The child screamed anil fought to get back Into line, but the woman kindly, but firmly forced It to one side. This was lollowed by other women doing the same thing, which was utwnvs accompanied bv the screaming protests of the child. "Puzzled by these extraordinary Incidents, Mr. Hoover went to one of the women workers u: I asked why the children were taken from the line. " 'They are of noriiuil weight.' sho said, 'and cannot have a meal today. They must wait until Iholr weight Is reduced before they may have food this may be one or. perhaps, two or three days. Only those, who are under weight and are facing starvation may have food. There Is so little food that only those who need it most may have it.' "Mr. Hoover was astounded and overcome, and asked tho woman If It was possible that the children must really be starving before they could be allowed to hare a meal. "'Yes, that Is so,' she said, sadly. 'We cannot feed so many little mouths with so little. If we only had the food we would give It to them but what can we do? If America would only send it to us we would see that all the little children, had at least enough to keep them at normal weight. As It Is now. wo are powerless, and those who do not show signs of starvation must stand aside for the less fortuuotu ones.' " It costs between 10.000,000 and $1 l.(KJO,000 a month to feed the 10,000.000 men, women and children of Belgium and that part of France now occupied hv the Germans. Lack of funds has reduced the diet of :!,000,000 of these sufferers to a hunk of bread and a bowl of broth each day. An additional meal of one buiscuit made with lard or fat would prevent physical degeneration. 1 f we, as a nation, have other than an academic interest in humanity, it is time that we demonstrate it by matching Miglaixl and rraw-e m reliel priate $4,000,000 a month less than 4 cents a day per cap ita to help iced the starving 1 nless we show the world we will earn the contempt of selfish, avaricious people, intent only upon grasping greed and blood profit wrung from the slaughter pens of Kurope and our vaunted philanthropy critical braggarts. I'.KIU.IN, .Ian. 17. Sixty-nix tiir plnncs of tlie entente powers were shot down on the various battle fronts in Ibe month of December, ac cording to the (ieiiuan of filial Mule iiient issued today. Twenty-two of these machines arc in the possession of the central powers. The losses of the central allies in the sauio period were seventeen inaehines. CUE LEGAL RAIE OF INTEREST DOWN SALKM. Ore.. .Ian. IT - With hut one opposing vote the M-uate lias tak en a crack at high interest rates which prevail III man: ot the central and eastern Oregon coumies hy pass- lug Senator IMercu's bill i educing the legal contract Interest i ate from 1 u to N p, r cent per annum, ana reduc ing the regular Interest r.it.- uom t; to .'. per cent. The opposUm vote was ia-t i.v Sen ator Cusict. ol l.inn Slid l.i Tie ..uni ties, a banker who based h s oppesi torn on his statement that a rc,!n. lion or the legal into of tiucre.t io a per cent would foice a iou heavy discount on county warrant.- Several other senators souse u. op position to rixing the legal rate at per cent, but when It inuie n .,;;n ; they supported the measiite. TWO NORWEGIAN SHIPS VICTIMS OF SUBMARINES l.cXI'OS'. ..n. 17. -l.!ydV s w.-m.in .e;im-Uiw Snlwiti- iin.i t;,.. S..lwM.e. "i -',"'t 1,1 it pot !.-. il- JII'.IWU Ji I h -i-ii;bei I 7 I'M 'III (.;., t-l .iJ.i.H tm- 41" el l.i lie T "u I ember I ", tnuu S.-lue.l.im lm D.nn. n.-i'oi-dm o the lutest nmnue MATL TTiTP.FNT!, MF.DFOTCD, RELIEF prowl of what Aiiitiii'jtiis havt the I'nitcd Stati-s as a nation worK. lct congress appro Belgians. by some such action as this the world as a self-centered but the idle boast of hypo REJECT PROBE OF PHYSICALLY UNFIT PARIS, Jan. 17. Tho bill intro duced by (lencral Koques, the mints tor of war. to submit to further med ical examination nil men temporarily or permanently rejected IfV army medical examiners as physically unfit Is to bo withdrawn, the cabinet decid ed at a session last night. Another measure, to be drawn up by General Lyautey, war minister, will be substi tuted. Tim bill of General Itoques met with the strongest criticism. It was maintained that it would cause an ec onomic convulsion throughout the country and fill tho military ho.-pi tals with invalids. Tlie cabinet ho fived a minimum rate of payment to munitions worK ers in the Taris district. In view of tho recent strikes in munition fac tories the government will issue shortly n dev-ree for compulsory ar bitration of dispute between their workers and their employers. IIBIR 1'MKYKNNK. Wye. .Ian. 17.---t'nly tJu signature of Governor John i( K end rick, w ho reeoin mended the iu ; ion in tils message to the b gisla tMi . remains to be ai fixed to the bill for submitting a prohi 1 ; t i ii i iu,t Miiomtl Mtieuiiiuent to in-- i-t'i'if of oMiiui iii i:ms. be :e; v ii i-i-tyiM - a la . The M iiii'.t' thU iroruiu; concurred in ir i tier ;u. tut me m s made in the irt,tMir (. i ho hotiM? ycMerdny when it passed ih amended draft. liovt-nnr Kn.lrli is expeited to sun the lull iculac. . ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Tfl n,,.. -1rnrrn t jmvf"! it. 2;vnt fill riruo-cricts. t OftFiOX. WKDKrAY. .TAXUATiY 17. DANCING IN SNOW IS FEATURE OF PAGEANTiKAISER SILENT Inneln rrvents Of 5 In the Kiimv Is one of the tiio yenr in the northwest, I IS TO WIN WAR LONDON, Jan. 17. Ki Mibmittm!? the 1017 budpet in the I'nissian diet, Dr. LenUe, the minister of finance, according to a lienter dispatch from Amsterdam, mnde tiu? following state ment : "Eiu'h time we have submitted the war budget iu the last two years we have entenained ihe Impe it would he the hit with which we would have to deal. A'jnin we submit a budget and we should not like to abandon tho sarin- hope, despite tlie Jaet that the (ieiiuan peace nlTer ha- been reiu.-ed hy our enemies with the announce ment oi' their policy of war to de struetion." Predicts S new vs. After prophesying tlutt the nttaeks of (iermaiiy's foes would tail before the bravery oi the Oerman forces. Or. Kentze continued: "The war has severely taxed our budget and has demanded special ef forts. AlthoiiirU a balance of re ceipts and expenditures was estah I i shed on t"le estimates, this was only in appearance beeausf many impor tant financial questions had to be postponed until later. This means that after the war we must continue to conduct our economy on narrow, more string nt lines than formerly. "The orineipul thiuu' today is that we win the war." Or. Lent, contin ued. "The blockade makes it suit felt more and m"ie. It cannot he denied that it lies heavily on the country and vet it mu.-t he borne. Knciviach inents on private interests, the diffi culties of supplying foodstuffs and their costliness certainly are very great. Many n man with small in come and a lare family has reat difficulties to meet, but what is the welfare of a single individual as com pared with the future of our whole people I Plenty of Food. ''Our enemies, make a great mistake if they believe they can conquer us by n blockade. No one starves in Germany, despite the blockade. This has been we l provided against. In enemy countries the cost of food and the distress iu many respects are greater than with us. There are still difficult months ahead of us, very heavy fighting stilllo overcome, mauv saerifiee of blond treasure still to make. We do not deny it. Hut ear cnluieuee lemams tinu. We aiv all convinced that we cannot Ik de feated and that victory will be with ' 1 'nuor. inuufiia . and ambitions that you can't pat into words fit nicely into the fragrant ha.ri of the Million Dollar OWL. . A cij;ur n.-it for tUiy dn-ams. but for practi cal business men. f'.T!i The Million 1 s. !iu!i!h: JOHN A. PERL UKTJERTAKEl IjKty AMl.tjint ' H . 1l.VKTI.KTT Prions M. 47 nil 4TJ-1 AiitornoMlo lti"n Strrlr. tokuUar lUrtle. t'tropjr. Ids features if tho nut door carnival at St. Paul, n which thotrsands, yonn and old, take part. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 17. The food situation in Germany has grown much worse during the bwt six months, ac cording to the experience of an As sociated Press correspondent who lias returned from a trip to P.erlin. Potatoes are so scarce that this week's per capita ration in Herlin was lc, than four and a half pounds. This is attributed iu part to the farm ers withholding shipments until Feb ruary lo, when higher prices will be permitted, but it is not denied that the potato crop is insufficient to meet normal demand. No cheese has been on the market sinee August and cui:s are unobtain able, except surreptitiously m Id to 0 cents apiece, lierlin's daily milk supply i about :;."(), U0U litres, against a normal l.OOO.ontl, and it is impos sible to buy clothing, shoes, stock ings or blankets except by permission of the police This latter, however, may be merely a precautionary meas ure, as the shops appear well stocked with clothing. Chief r.uigomnstcr Wermuth, as well as the heads of other cities, com plains that the larger towns are com pelled 1 suiter unnecessary hard ships because the .system of distribu tion of fouilst all's has failed iu many respeets. iu on:c cities the situation seem-, to be better than in others, and a Jterlin business, man told the cor rospomlcal that lie had spent Christ mas week in a Khinc city where he go) plenty of meat and bread without being !cqi:iicd to shova bread caul or meat ca rt. REAMS IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 17. Putt ed Slates District Attorney Clarence L. 1tecms. of Portland, arrived here today (o assist in the prosecution of persons about, to be indicted for vio lation of the federal liquor laws. Mr. Flcnmes went into imniediiite confer ence with District Aattorney Clay Al ien of Seattle. Get Full Worth Out of Your Tires Tires at the advanced price will cost no more than for merly if good reliners are put in when about 2000 miles of service have been given.j You will be surprised at the low prices. C E. GATES 1017 of the hiKKest LEAK SCANDAL I AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17. The Llepsic Xeueste Xachrichten. com menting on the- speculation on the New York stock exchange at the time of the issuance of President Wilson's note, under -the heading of "The Washiintou Scandal,' Bays: "What interests us most in the scandal, so characteristic of American adroitness in making dollars out of a horrible .slaughter by rustling peace palms, is the i-oarchlbt falling on national institutions and administra tion. The var shows anew wha' peace tuucln to us a hundred times Jupiter Mammon is tlie real ruler of these states which praise to us stay at home Cermans their free constitu tions and which, so far as they are linked with our enemies, talk to us of their aims to liberate us from mil itarism and monarchy and offer to bless us with their patented liber ties. "Germany declines with thanks the offer to improve us. Though there may be many respects in which we need reforms and are susceptible of improvement, the inner purity and miassailabllUy of our monarchial government raise it high above the pseudo-democrat Ic-republ lean produc tion and cause us to thank God that we remain protected from this all too western progress.'' OUCH! LUMBAGO? Try Musterole. See How Quickly j It Relieves . You just ruli Musterole in briskly, nnd usift'IIv t'i.' rain s ;ie a delicii:s soi 'thini: contort cynics to lake its place. t::tcr"!c is a cban. white omtrcnt, made with il nt niiMard. L'-j it instead of nms'.ard planter. Will n.-t blister. Many doctors and nurses nc Mustcr olc and rcc' tninor.d it to their p:itcnts. They will gladly till you what relief it rive from 5"tc throat, bronchitis, croup, ?titT ntok. a:tli!'ia, ncttruliria, coticcsliuii. plc::ri:-y, rheumatism, lumlia;o. pains anl arhes of the back or i-Mc,t. snrains. sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, fn.'sted feet, co'.'U ot the cbest (it oj"tcn prevents nmuc.i( ni. Ai a a s dencmht'dc. E 11KUI.IN. .Inn. 1". Kmperor WIN Hum. In reply to 1 lovtil address from the lluiisii leuHiie. oeeusioued by the. entente's announcement of its ur iiims, passes over ill silence the. league's relerence to Ibe necessity of tlie eneruelle eiii'lo incut of all weapons with iron uen-i ''"""" The address was one ol bumlreds wbicli are now pouring In on the em peror rroni soviTciKiis of federal states, parliamentary bodies, munici palities and trade and uKricultund organizations of all kinds throuKV out (lenuany. tliunUni; him for". munii'esiii with nbieii be responded to the entente's announcement of it-, conditions for eudinv; the war unit liledKins; tlieir loyal aud i ntbusiastii: support 1 the further conduct ot lliu war. Several of these addresses have touched on the idea ol' unreEtricteil use of the submarine, referring to it in some such way as did the llansa leaKuu but the emperor's replies have uniformly avoided any reference to this subject. 10H! MY BACK! The Expression of Many a Kidney Sufferer in Medford. A stubborn backache Is cause to suspect kidney trouble. When tho kidneys arc inl'lamed and swollen, stooping brings a sharp twinge in the small of the back, that almost takes the breath away. Doan's Kid ney Pills revive sluggish kidneys relieve aching backs. Here's Med ford proof: A. f Stephenson, retired painter and paper hanger, I OS Cottage St., Medford. says: Several years ago I was down and perfectly helpless for several days with lunihauo. I could not turn over in bed or do anything, f thought my back was broken. Sharp shooting pain.1 in it, like a knife sticking me, took my breath away, j My kidneys acted too freely and I (had to get up at night five or six I times to pass tlie kidney secretions. I had no ambition to do anything. X couldn't eat and nothing tasted good. I I tried different medicines without re sults until I started taking Doan's Kidney Pills. After finishing about three boxes, 1 was able to go to work and get around as well as ever. They fixed me up in fine shape." Price .'.He, at all dealers. Don't simply ask fur a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Stephenson had. Koster-Milburn Co., Props., liuffalo, X. Y. Adv. ,Portlaiid,0reAoiil H' Xt few If you contemplate a visit to Portland before or during . tho holidays, remember that tho Portland Hotel Is situat ed In the very heart of tho theatrical "and ehopidns dis tricts. Ladles traveling unattend- ed are particularly plensed, j with the refinement of tho ! surroundings anil the cour- I tcsy of tho service AnnctiiiiL' M. it RlCHAISi) w. niii.ps, Mgr. WESTON'S Camera Shop OS T-'.-wf Ar.,;,. c. U-BOATWARFAR JheinT'-flF.-Mrl .. ..in 111 oiri'ui, Mfdt'i.nl 4" The Only Kxdusive Oninioiviiil Photorji-aplicr in Si.nthorn Orpgon. Xp.itivps .r;,,l(. ;,y ti,ne or I.v .q. ., .intnieiit. Vji.-nc 1 17-.T. AVp'll do 1( rest. K. P. WESTON, Prop.