Medford mail tribune., April 12, 1917, Page 3, Image 3

JrTCDFOTCD MATL TRIBUNE MEDFORD, OREOOy, TTTURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1017.
PAGE THREE
WAR MESSAGE
T
URNING POIN
T
OF ALL HISTORY
Wilson's Declaration to Mark, In Pos
terity's Wide View. Day Which
Changed Forever the Nature of
Government From Controlling Peo
ple to Those Controlled by Them.
RAG TIME IS CHARACTERISTIC
MUSIC SAYS DAMROSCH
EY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-0
hundred thousand released political
prisoners, say tho dispatches, arc;
now on their way from Siberia hack
to Russia.
Only thoso that know something
of the hell provided for revolt by the
old Russian autocracy can know
wtoat that means.
One hundred thousand souls res
cued from livinir death, relumed
from despair to hope, from the hor
rors of premature burial to ho free
like other men, from the infinite tor
tures of infinite fiends to the sud
den realization of the republic, the
vision of their dreams.
Some will o mad with joy and
some vill not for a lone; time believe
they are alive and awake.
Saint of Democracy.
Marie Spirodonova, that saint of
democracy, she is free! Never did
she imagine she should see again the
sunlight on the grass and hear the
speech of men. Agents of the old
Russian autocracy stripped her naked
and with the butts of their eigarets
hurned elaborate patterns into her
flesh, before with their fists and
their knees they heat her to a pal
and with their heels stamped into
her face the cruel disfigurements she
will carry to her grave. And she is
free now and so is old ".Mother Kath-
erine," the daulless soul tbnt escaped
once and went hack deliberately to
put her bead into the beast's mouth
rather than be safe and far from the
fiifht.
Kho is free. A hundred thousand
of them are free. There is no more
Siberia, there are no more horrors, no
more knout and lash, no more beat
inprs and wrackings, no more lurking
spies, no more chains for the limbs
of liberty.
. Great days, great days.
The whole horrible nightmare of
old Russia has piissed, and nothin;
seems to make. tho wonderful, throb
bing, incredible truth so real to us
as that news about the 100,000 re
stored from the living grave.
1
Great davsl They seem like some
,imossihle good dream. What wc
hud thought might come in the year
2'JOO or the year 2.i00 has come now.
It is even so. The day when Russia
cast from her the blight of kings
was one great day and the day when
President Wilson formulated the fait ti
Atf American democracy was another.
They will seem to the end of time
the corners around which mankind
marched when it turned it face for
ever from the whole bedevibnent of
monarchy, rank, caste, and special
privilege and started on the march to
complete an universal democracy.
Great days!
IH-nlli of Privilege.
There were some things about that
message that were even more impor
tant than its declaration that the
United Stales was ready to enter the
war. Wo haven't had time to think
much about them yet because wc
havo on our hands the immediate job
of pulling the llubcnzollenis out. of
business. Hut we shall come hack
to think more and more aboul that
message and so will all the world.
lleeause. for one thing it announced
dol.'uiilely and for all time extinction
nf one theory of government that
lias plagued and poisoned t no race
for thousands of years.
' It announced the death of Ihe id
ilhat men because of their birth have
any privilege to reign or govern or
have power or influence. It knocked
out forever the old idea of the trihal
chief and the son of bis father. It
knocked out the old ridiculous fan
tasy about superior families, blue
blood and the pride of decent,
ti took all that survived of an
knocked the stuffing out of it and
knicked the stuffing out of it and
threw it in the ii-h can of history
It not only gave the final verdict
of civilization on the king business
lint drew the noose and sprang the
trim and buried the remains in
i licklime !
' v Statement of Ileal Issue.
The era in e-t thing about It we
have not vet had a chance to dwe
on. While it was the most eloquent
moving, .jut and true statement of
the real issue involved in this war
and the real issue involved in thi
war and the rial dutv of all democ
raeies lo such a struggle, it had not
II word in it. (hat was not in the
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Walter Damrosch, who appears
here at the Natatorium April 17, with
his famous New York orchestra and
Eft-am Zymbalist, when asked to ac
count for the fact that there is no
characteristically American music.
whilo that of the other nationalities
may be all identified readily, said:
"There is. You have forgotten rag
time. It is peculiarly American. I
suppose it is of darky origin, tho
darky songs are typical of America,
ed from the soil, whatever its origin.
"But seriously, the reason we have
no great characteristically American
music, to my mind, is that we have as
yet no great national sorrow. We
are a country of prosperity, a nation
of success, the land of promise and
the realm of hopo. That is why we
have no folk songs with their ex
quisite beauty of racial character,
born of racial troublo and suffering,
BIDS ASKED FOR
LARGE SUBMARINES
but ragtime is tho work of 'city com- such as you find In all parts of Eu
poscrs; it is distinctly tho product rope. In even the dances of Russia,
of town lire and the nature of it is for instance, thore is an undercurrent
such that it could never have develop-'of sorrow."
SENDS MESSAGE
WASHINGTON, April 12. Details
of the sinking of the American un
armed steamer Seward and exposure
r.t liof crew of thirty-one men In-
chnlliie twenty-four Americans, In
open uoatB, 25 miles from land in the
Mediterranean was received ai me
state department today from Consul
Hrt t Barcelona. Spain. His als-
natch dated April 10 says:
Unarmed steamer Seward or ftew
York with machinery and mlscellan
n,,a porno New York to Genoa
abandoned after encountering Ger
man submarine April 7. 11:45 a. m.
Borne thirty-three miles northwest by
.,-n, fi-nm Vondries. France, bntlre
nartv. thirty-one, including captain
and seven officers, arrived Bitcelona
last night, April 9. At time of pn
counter submarine fired shell across
bows, flying two unintelligible sig
nal flags, about one minute lator
fired second shell over ship. Subma
rine then disappeared. All on board
Immediately took to two lifeboats.
About ten minutes after socond
shot and when throe to four hundred
yards from the Sewaid, submarine
came to surface again and approached
lifeboats, captain of Seward being or
dorod on board submarine. After be
ing questioned as to destination of
Seward and ship's papers, captain
was ordered to make for shore about
25 miles distant, with his two life
boats. Submarine's crew went on
board abandoned ship. Seward's
party does not know whether Seward
was dostroyed or not, although chief
engineer states he heard faintly two
explosions after lifeboats out of sight
of Seward.
"Submarine flew German flag. No
other ships In sight and fine smooth
weather most of the time. Cutting
wind came up and sea broke, making
rowine dangerous before two life
boats reached land at 9:30 and 10 p
m. respectively at Cibero and Ban-
yuls on French coast. Of Seward's
party twenty-four claim American
citizenship, four Spanish, one Jamai
can and one Venezuelan."
OF F
OF
" WASHINGTON! April 11. Amid
applause Speaker Clark laid before
the house today a message from
Miguel Coyula, speaker of the Cuban
house of representatives regarding
the Cuban declaration of war
linst Germany. It read:
'The house of representatives of
the Republic of Cuba, in declaring
that a state of war exists bclween
this nation and i.ie German empire,
resolved, all members rising lo their
feet and amidst the greatest enthu
siasm, to address a message ot con
fraternity to that body announcing
(lie pride felt by the people of Cuba
uniting their modes! efforts to
osc of the greal nation contending
for the triumph of right and respect
for the liberty of small nationalities.
"The house also resolved to ex
press the special gratification of the
Cuban people in uniting their flag'
ide hv side to that of the glorious I
WASHINGTON, April 12. Speci
fic bids for 34 seagoing submarines
of the 800-ton type were reeeivoi",
at the naw department today in re
sponse to advertisements asking for
nroDosals on J8 such era It.
In addition to the formal bids the
imrtinent proposes thai tho gov
ernment itself construct submarines
under license by tho holder of the
patents and rights used.
Tho Electric Boat company pro
nosed to build 18 submarines in from
1( to 2U months and at a prio of
$1,.'2-1,000 for each, vessel construct
ed on the Atlantic const and l,rtl-I,
00(1 for each constructed on the Pa
cific coast. The limit of cost set by
congress for tho submarines appar
ently excludes these proposals, as it
is i.:ioo,ooo.
The company proposed as an alter
native to construct the submarines on
a cost plus fifteen per tent protit
basis.
The California Shipbuilding com
nnnv of Long Bench, Oil., and the
r;iik'n Tornedo Boat company of
Bridgeport, Conn., proposed to build
four to eight submarines in
from 24 to 32 months at prices rang
ing from $1,288,000 to $1,21)9,000,
depending upon design. Tho cost
plus percentage of profit plan also
was proposed by the companies ns
an alternative and tlio L.nK0 com
nanv offered to license tho govern
ment to construct on its plans for
$100 per net ton submerged displace
ment.
SUGAR BEET LOADING
STATION FOR MEDFORD
The Utah-Idaho Sugar company has
decided upon the location of throe
of their loading stations in Jackson
county. One of them will bo in Med
ford, one at Talent and one at Seven
OakB. There will probaWy be others
located in the county later, hut Just
where tho company has not decided.
Each of these loading stations will be
361 feet in length, 12 foot wldo and
17 feot high nt the dumping plat
form. The platforms are so con
structed as to enablo it wagon loaded
with beots to be dumped into cars
without hand labor. Thirty thousand
feet of lumber is required for the
construction of each station.
I
WASHINGTON, April 12. Heads
of the principal railroads in the Unit
ed States, meeting hero today at the
cull of the council of national de
fense, named a board of five men to
direct the operation of American rail
ways throughout the war.
It was announced that the purpose
of tho hoard would ho to give tho
government the best possible service,
not only in transport ing troops and
military supplies, hut in handling
every necessary commodity.
Members of the board arc: Fair
fax Harrison of the Southern, chnir
mnn; Howard Elliott, of the New Ha
ven; Samuel Rao of the Pennsylvania;
Halo Ilolden, of the Burlington, and
Julius Kruttschnitt of the Southern
Pacific.
LARBDO, Texas, April 12. Pass
engers reaching tho border say that
In a recent engagement witn Villa
followers the constitutionalist forces
under General Murgula lost a total
ot 1500 dead and wounded. They
add that in the campaign around Chi
huahua City the alleged routs inflict
ed on the Villa forces by the govern
ment troops are myths.
Though the Villa soldiers are said
to have plenty of guns and ammuni
tion it is reported that thoy are none
to well supplied with food.
The passongers state that railroad
traffic is badly interrupted by the
transportation of trainloads of
wounded to base hospitals.
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WASHINGTON, April 12. The Im
portance of increasing tho acreago
of food crops because of war condi
tions is being fully realized and acted
upon in nearly ail sections of the
country. Section directors of tho
weather bureau in their reports on
weather and crop conditions for the
week ending yesterday, noted these
facts. They say farm work was de
layed by cold and wet weather over
a large portion of the country and
that vegetation is backward in most
districts.
Better conditions for winter wheat
were reported in the central and
eastern parts of the principal wheat
belt. Weather conditions generally
were favorable as the crop continued
to show Improvement. From Ne
braska southward the weather was
very detrimental and the crop shows
further deterioration. In Kansas
wheat is very poor, further damage
nation, which in the days of undying ! )c11K ,.ollorlc( ln the west and central
meiriorv, sacriliced the blond of
sons to help ihe people of Cuba to
obtain their liberty and independence."
thought of the people for whom ii
was speaking. It didn't lend anybody
or seek lo lend anybody; ii was just
a voice for 11111.0110,1100 people, for
that is our system and our slyle of
deiniierui-y. ,nd having been abroad
when this war started and knowing
how some of the nations were drag
ged into it, I declare this one fact to
prove and establish Hint whatever
may be the faults of our constitution
this is the most democratic of nil
government j.
The president waited until he knew
perfectly well he had the lull author
ity of the nation. Then he let go
with the very gosK-l of ilcuiorrutic
faith to which we are pledged, ami
all the rest of the world sat up to
listen.
It will never go hark lo the shad
ows of the obi jungle, this world,
having beard that call. We have
shaken down every lhn.no in Chris
tendom and beyond. The federation
of the world is no longer the poet's
dream hut on the way to be an ac
complished fn-t. All the horrors of
this war bow ilil Ic-n-iu v they look
now that wc see bow tbev are eon
secvatcd to such an end! Not one
drop of blood sin., jn vnin nor will he,
nnd net one sacrifice lost!
Because democracy wins now the
four tbou-and years of buttle.
The fedcrat on of the world, no
more kings, o,i more wars!
parts although some Improvement
was shown in the northeastern part.
Many fields have been plowed up in
Nebraska.
Cotton ii'antlnK wan still further
delayed by bad weather except In
Florida, Texas and southern Alabama.
nnravs. I .ime-SulrjHur. Ar- !i.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 12.
Rains that soaked the wheat and
grain belts of Oklahoma and Kansas
yesterday saved thousands of acres
that would have been ruined had the
drought continued a few days moro
according to the opinions expressed
today by agricultural experts.
Frank M. Gault, president of tho
state board of agriculture of Oklaho
ma, declared last night that if the
rain continued today the wheat crop
in that state would bo from 20,000,
000 to 23,000,000 bushels in contrast
to last year's crop of 27,000,000. The
situation in Kansas was summed up
by J. C. Mohlcr, the secretary ot the
stnto hoard of agriculture, with a
statement that the general rain would
save much of tho grain and that it
had been of untold valuo to tho win
ter wheat.
Unofficial messages received told
of rains early today in south central
and southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma.
Preparations of fields for corn and
the planting of the crop were delayed
by rainy weather 111 central and east
ern sections nnd by dry soil in some
sections of the southwest.
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