V'XQVj THREE
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GERMANS FAIL BETHLEHEM STEEL
perience In the operation of national
banks in Colorado, principally in the
city of Denver.
"As assistant secretary of the treas
ury, Mr. Malhurn lias had general su
pervision of tlie fiscal bureaus of tho
treasury department. Including the
office of the comptroller."
The examiner's office pays $15,000
a year. As assistant secretary of llie
treasury .Mr. Mnlburn got $5,000.
SEEKS REPEAL OF TAKE FALL 001
TO
ANY EVER CUT
Krr.DFOnp MATL TRTBUXR MJ5DFORP. OJ,M'. iOV. AVKDVKSP A V, .I.WPAUY ' 1 , 1JVI7
. (From lilt; Salem .Inurnul.)
The iubli-hor nf 1 lit l'orlliiuil
Journul i- tin' prince of iloinuoues
in Oregon. Mis paper, tin- elf-np-pointed
.liiiuriliuii nf the poor anil op
prcM'il, was l'niiiitlcil mill hacked by
I ho nullify ol' tin richest iiieit ot'
I'uitlaml tin1 nu'ii wild have I'atteii-
cil upon spoi-inl privilege. Always
hiiullv i .1 tlm side nf tat' "plain -
pic," it lias never so I'm forgotten
its obligation In its woiillhv backers
as tii specifically attack a public ser
vile corporation, or special interest
in the citv of rortlanil in which tbese
men are interested, no mutter how
flagrant tlieir disregard of public
lights or tliu larger interests of tlie
ciimmuuitv might bavo been. It is
outspoken against graft lis Ions as it
ilocs not strike too close to home.
The Joiti'mil's course in this mat
ter of the publication of the doliii
ipient tax list is typical of its entire
career. Il-. c-liiir;'s that there has
been .mall iiL the, publication of the
list in .Miiltnninali county, anil since
almost everything in that enmity is
tainlcil with graft, we n re not clis-o-eil
to challenge its statement. Yet
it was one of the newspapers to par
ticipate in graft, even soliciting the
county cniirl for it, ami there is no
evidence on record that it has return
ed a dollar of this graft money to
the public treasury or the downtrod
den delinquent taxpayer for whom it
sorrows so deeply. I julonbtedly,
however, in keeping with its reputa
tion for hyporcisy and deception, the
grinnl-luiul play of turning slate's
evidence at this late day mid confess
ing the sin- of its past is considered
of (."renter value than the tainted
money it would receive from a con
tinuance of the graft.
But outride of Multnomah county
the publication of the dclimiicut tax
list i- not, never has been, a graft.
The price paid is only commensurate
with the service rendered, and the ser
vice is one of the most important in
the conduct of county affairs in a
business-like way. The county ex
penses arc. made up in budget form
and a lax levy is made to cover them
if the taxes assessed are paid. If
they are not paid the properly of the
ilidimpient must be sold to realize the
monev necessarv to meet the couutv
budget. There is only one way this
can honestly and effectively be done:
by advertising thoroughly, with a full
and correct description, all the prop
erty delinquent and the date upon
which it will ho sold if the taxes are
not- settled before that date. The
burden falls not upon the man who
has paid his taxes but where it
f slmiiM full upon the property owner
who has hdi pn'ul. It is properly not
'in expense upon the general treas
ury, .i ml the present method of ad
vertising ibis delinquent list anil
charging the cost against the delin
quents recognizes this fact.
lint the deliniiuent has rights in this
matter also. One of these rights i
lull notice of his delinquency, through
publication in its fullest possible
sense, and not by the precarious, un
certain aiid'uiibiisinesslike method of
postal funis through the mail, an ex
pense which the man who has already
paid his taxes, would have to bear.
Assessments are made n full year, or
even more, before taxes become delin
quent, mnl a large amount of prop
erty changes hands between the time
"f making the assessment and the
levying of the taxes, so that a large
perecntn.je of these postal cards
would g astray. Many persons
would find their property bought out
ii'iin under them when they had sup-
-i-d tin- former owner had paid the
'axe-, mnl nuihv in, n-re-i. lent taxpay
ers ult ,it( jn jt,,, meantime changed
their p..-t,,iTicc addresses, woulrt
ni ver rc cive (he postal card notice.
And I" think of a great champion
'"' 'I'1' I and oppressed like the
l'ortlniid Journal advocating the sat
"!' a delinquent taxpayer's home upon
ii" other notice to himself or the pub
he than that contained on a postal
'aril thai might or might not hav
C ached him.
And who, besides the Portland
'"iirnal, wants the .sunlight of pub
licity ili-cnrdcd for the dark and dev
ious nicthi.ds that are snggc-tcd by
"ml paper? The court bmise gang
"I lax lieu siiconhitnrs. warrant
scalpers and haii'jcr-oii. I'o ibly
'he abs,ie companies which thrive
"ii laiigled titles mnl all of thc-e
worthies who would lake advantage
"I the hard-prcs.cd, ignorant or per
haps tuneless property owner. Von
" ill find one of these tin-horn county
'"iirlhoii-e speculators hiding behind
'very county .judge, clerk or sheriff
who wants to discontinue the adver-'i-uig
of the delinquent lax list.
Business rfticiency, honc-ty and
'air play demand the inlvertisin- of
the delinquent tax list in the nm-t
"ln and above-board inannei
through t,e iiivsppeilinil the
JVtlnnd Journal know il. It- s.
SALEM, Ore.. Jim. :M. The Ore
gon legislature In continuing Its as
sault on the high cost of living. Al
ready two bills have been Introduced
into the house of representatives pro
viding that keepers or cold storage
pliinls list wlili Hie state dairy and
food cnmniissioiier the number of ar
ticles of food stored with them. Stor
age would also be limited to one year.
Thus, the frnniers of the bills say,
monopolies on tho food markets will
be done away with ami any attempts
to corner commodities to await high
prices would be laid bare.
Lined up with the legislators In
their attacks on the high prices is the
Oregon Federation of Women's clubs,
which assisted in the making of one
of the hills, which was introduced by
Representative A. C. Callan, Port
land. The women say the legislature is
but another battle ground in the war
they are waging on high prices and
which started when a boycotting cam
paign was waged by them in Portland
recently.
"Every person who purchases a
fishing and hunting license in Ore
gon should automatically become a
deputy warden with full power to
make arrests for violations of the
law." declared Representative, Clay
C. Clark, of Arlington, at a recent
meeting of the joint ways and means
committee. .Mr. Clark also suggest
ed that the duties now performed by
the deputy state game wardens be
shifted to various peace officers of
the state and that the money expend
ed Tor salaries he used by the fish
nail game commission for improve
ment work.
A memorial to congress urging im
mediate passage of a federal law re
quiring universal military service is
being prepared by Senator (leorgo It.
Wilbur. Hood River, for introduction
soon. Senator Wilbur is chairman of
the senate military committee and is
an officer la the national guard.
SAI.EM, Or., .Ian. 24. Tlie house
put the brakes oh the consolidation
program yesterday when the bill by
Thomas providing lor the elimination
of one tax commissioner came up for
final passage.
Thomas asked the house to refer
his bill to the committee on consoli
dations with the argument that the
house should proceed carefully in re
gard to all consolidations, for fear
that a mistake might be made detri
mental to the administrative work of
the state government.
"If there Is going to be any careful
and constructive work tending to
wards consolidations of commissions.
It is apparent taht this will have to
conic from the house and not from
the senate," Thomas said in support
of his motion. "Our friends of the
senate are eveidently trying to make
a record for speed. We do not want
to do this. It is also evident that
when we pass a measure we must do
so after careful thought, for we can
not trust to the other house, to give
it careful thought, and kill it should
it be ill-advised."
The house sent the bill on co the
consolidation committee without dis
cussion. WASHINGTON', .Tan. 24. Repre
si illative A. I'. Gardner told (he sen
ate siib-conilttce on universal mili
tary service today that figures be
had compiled among National C.uard
regiments In the Kl Paso disirkt
showed an overwhelming sentiin-nt
unions the stale troops in favor '
i .......I. Loriclnf inn total Of "".'
answers were received to a list of
questions submitted through ilrlga
dier Oneral Hell, commanding the
district. Tln-y showed. Mr. Gardner
said, that ID colonels. IT.O captains
and 2:i4 first sergeants, or a total
of .110, had declared In favor of com
pulsory military training and ser
vice. icilude for the poor and iw 11-t rml
deii taxpayer would, if heeded by the
legislator-, turn him over in every
couutv to the tender mcicv of a nang
of tax certificate -peculator-, who
would never neglect to extort the lat
farthing of 1 ally and intere-t.
HOUSE 10 GO SLOW CRISIS IN
SIMLA, Inilia, Jan. 21. I'Yom it
time early in (lie war right up 1o the
present moment Germany has never
reused nt tempts to stir the Indian
empire to revolt, areunliiitf to Sir
Charles Cleveland, director of crim
inal intellicneo in this country, who
made lhi statement to a correspond
ent of the. A-sneiated Press. Sir
Charles characterized the plots as
"clumpy, belated, t-o tluoretical and
hased mi a misunderstandine; of In
dian character," and declared that
the scheme failed chiefly hecaase of
"the sanity of the jjroat Indian pub
lic which has withheld its support."
Sir Charles is reputed to know more
about those in whom the secret serv
ice naturally would be interested than
any other man in India. For years
he has made a study of that elas
which favors the darkness of night
for its comings and its goiuirs, and
now as head of the secret service the
government relies upon him to check
untoward occurrences in any section
before they have grown into a seri
ous menace.
"There has been some trouble in In
dia," said Sir Charles, "but it has
fallen very far short both of the pic
ture drawn in enemy publications and
of the enemvs de-ire. The stale of
India all through the war seems to
have exposed a very biir misealcala-:
Lion on the part of the (icrmans. !
"It would he interesting- to examine
how far this miscalculation was due
In 11 misunderstanding of normal In
dian affairs, and how far to a miscar
riage of plans for causing trouble in
India and among Indians outside In
dia diiriii'!' the war. My own impres
sion is that (icrinany thought India
would need very little extraneous
prompting and assistance to rise
ag:uin-t the Itritish if the latter were
in serious embarrassment owing; to
a big continental war, and that there
fore not very much attention was paid
by the German government to instiga
tion in India before the war. Where
and how did tlie German government
get that idea Was it conveyed to
them by secret unknown agents or by
their consular officers in India or by
some over-confident Indian extremist
or by jlrilish pnnie mongers?
P.KliNK, Jan. L'l The coal crisis,
arising from the decision of (icrinany
to abrogate the convention in regard
to the imports is increasing in grav
ity daily in Switzerland. The polit
ical department has decided to take
a cenMis of all stocks of fuel and any
concealment will be punished by im-
pt imminent and a fine of 'JU.IMIO
trancs.
The federal council has authorized
the gas plants to fix the amount of
gas each consumer may burn daily
and the iron and steel trade will
henceforth he under the supervision
of the political department.
A Heme dispatch under date of
January 21 suid that considerable ex
citement had been caused throughout
Switzerland by a German measure
prohibilinu all importations. The dis
patch said thai the Swiss government
would nrote.-t to Iterlin, as the entire
economic situation of the country
was affected.
NEW YOKK. -Ian. If Mr.-.
Ethel P.yrne, who U serving a sen
tence of thirty days in the peniten
tiary for dU.-eniinatiitg information
on birth control, persists in her re
fn-al to eat, the New York penal au
thorities will have to deal with their
firt real hunger strike. Mrs, ISyrnc
sn vs she has eaten nothing since
Monday mornim-.
The ini-ftp r 1- a -i-li-r of Mr-.
MaiLrait-t Si' iv r. "h is known
Mirou'i'iit th" country ',,! her ad
vocccv of hirtl nt ml.
SKATTl.K. Ian. 2 1. fanners op
erating In AlH.-ka and Vuxn Sotipii
naters estimate tlie total i.-ilinon ia- '-:
for the season of 1 ! I at l. I 7.i'"
cases for Alaska ami Tin. I for I'n-
rpI Sound. The Alaska pack was val
ued at lil.l.S'.'O.""". the I'imi'i Soiiml
pack at $3,7iii),Oiim,
.NEW VOKK. .Ian. 2 4. Sharehold
ers of tho Hetlilebcni Steel corpora
tion will be asked, at a special meet
ing on Kebrunry 2 4 to ratify their
directors' recommendation to in
crease the common stock of the com
pany from 1 l.l.tbio.iiuu to f till, 000,
000. to provide for a common stock
dividend of 200 per cent. Tho di
rectors also increased the common
steel: dividend from T per cent to
10 per cent quarterly ami offered tlie
common stockholders the right to
subscribe to $ la, 0110,000 new stock
at par on a basis of share for share
of their present holdings.
This bonus was declared in Wall
street today to bo one of tho most
magnificient "melons" ever divided
by an industrial corporation. Inas
much as It Is understood that the
present stock issue Is controlled by
Charles M. Schwab and his friends,
there Is virtually no doubt that the
directors' proposition will bo ap
proved. ISlr. Schwab, chairman of tho cor
poration, declared that control of
Bethlehem Steel never would pass
out of his hands and the hands or
his associates. Voting power will ho
withheld from the new stock to be
issued.'
Tho declaration of tlie bonus. Mr.
Schwab explained, was made possible
by the. corporation's immense earn-
10c Tins
5c Metal-lined
Bags
I
1'AliIS, Jan. 'J-l. The newspaper
continue to comment on President
Wilson's speech, but there is no
change in their views, which all re
semble each other, regardle-s of the
political color of the organs. The Fi
garo says ; (
"For the last two centuries the
(Icrinany of the I lohenzollcrns has in
fested the world like 11 pirate on the
ocean. The independence of the
world and the liberty of the seas can
only be couUcrcd by anus. Peace
without victory would he a victory of
the powers of evils, of those who em
bark in a war not only against men,
hut against the principles of moral
ity and justice that are no less dear
to us than President Wilson."
Stephen Pichon, writing in the
Petit Journal, says: "President Wil
son's views are worthy of all our
sympathy, insofar ns they are elevat
ed, humane and jnsl to us. They are
equivalent to a condemnation of the
enemy, against whom we arc defend -ing
them with indomilahle energy, lint
in order that they prevail il is neces
sary Ihat we he victorious and thai
the crimes which have caused us so
inanv deaths and so much destruc
tion ha!l be puni.-heil ill an evmphtry
lasfiion.''
ini;s in l'.tli;. which amounted to $01.
717, 11211 compared Willi J2:!,7M!t7S1
in 19 la.
A NUMBER 8 hat may
il cover a mighty in
tellect or it may cover a
plain case of big head.
They're the same yet different.
They're both hats-on-heads.
Don't ud(;c by externals.
Several kinds of tobacco come in tins. VELVET
tobacco is put up in tins. But that doesn't make
it like other kinds.
The finest selected leaf from Kentucky's richest
Burley fields is only the beginning of VELVET.
Then a full two years' ageing in wooden hogsheads
a matter of large storage and investment expense.
Then a careful manufacturing method employing
the widest experience of life -long tobacco men.
What goes into the tin governs the pipe satisfaction
that comes out of it. And we believe you will
prefer VELVET to any other pipe tobacco at any
price.
P4, ,, . X:Wmkm?:ttA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24--Itemoval
i of Charles Starek from office as chief
I national bnnk examiner for tho sec
jond federal reserve district with
1 headquarters at New York, and the
appointment to his place of William
! P. Mulhurii, assistant secretary of tlie
j treasury, was announced today by
Comptroller AVilliams.
Mr. Starek has been absent on
leave without pay since .November IS.
Charles F. Klchmond, chief of the re
ports division of the comptroller's of
fice, has been acting chief examiner
since October 1 5.
The reasons for removing Mr. Sta
rek wero not niado public In the
( comptroller's statement, which fol
1 lows:
"William P. Mnlburn, assistant sec
retary of the treasury, has today re
signed that office and accepted the
office of chief national bank exam
iner for tho second federal reserve
district with headquarters at New
York City, vice Charles Starek, re
moved. "Mr. Mnlburn Is by training and
experience iocullniiy well qualified
for this Important office, llcforo hn
became assistant sccrei.ary of tho
treasury In March, 1014, Mr. Mnl
burn was engaged In tlie active anil
successful practice of law In Hi nver
for over tea years. Prior thereto ho
had for thirteen years practical ex
fa
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Nor
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In the
Size of Package
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Medford, Oregon, Jan. IS, 1917
TO WHOM IT MAY CONC'HHN:
This is to certify that I, the un
designed, had very serevo stomach
trouble and hnd boon hothored for
several years and last August was not
expected to live, and hearing of Glm
Chung (whose Herb Store Is at 2-11
South Front street in Medford) I do
i lded to get herbs for my stomach
trouble, nnd I started to feeling bet
ter as soon as I used them, and today
am n welt man und enn heartily roc
ouuuend anyone nf f llctod as I was to
see (II 111 Cluing and try bis Herbs.
(Signed) W. It. JOHNSON,
Witnesses:
M. A. Anderson, Medford.
S. II. Holmes, Engle Point.
Prank Lewis, Eagle Point.
Win. Lewis, Eaglo Point. .
W. I,. Chlldreth. Knglo Point.
C. E. Moore, Eaglo Point.
J. V. Mclntyre, Eaglo Point.
Geo. It. Von dcr Hellen, Eagle Point.
Thos. E. N'ichols, Eaglo Point.
John 8. Orth, Medford.
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