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PAGT5 FOUR mepfotit) matt; trtbttnt; mtcdfotid, oreoox, Tuesday, may 1, 1017. Medford Mail Tribune AN INDKPENDKNT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED KVKKY AKTKMNOON EXCKPT H1JKDAY T1Y THE .MUD KOHL) PKIN'TINQ CO. Office Mull Tribune Building. 25-27-26 North Fir street; telephone 7&. Tha Democratic 'rimes. The Medford Mall. The Medford Tribune, The South ern Oregontan, The Ahlund Tribune. GEOfiOE PUTNAM. Editor. SUB80RZFTZOH KATES I One year, by intill . ..$6.00 One month, by mnll .60 rer monm, dL'iv-reu ijv carrier in Medford, Ashland, Phoenix, Tnl ent. Jaokuonvllle and Central Point - Kn Saturday only, by mall, per year 2.U0 Weekly, per yeur.... rt l.fit) Offlelnl paper of the City of Medford. Official iianer of Jackson Count v. Entered an second-ctass matter at Medford, Oregon, under the act of Maruh Or latll. Sworn Circulation for 1116 2.491. Full leaned wire Anoclate.l PrpHH iHm. paicnes. EM-TEES NATIONAL PROHIBITION PROBABLE. X.TAT10XAL prohibition- us a n tion It is told of Colonel Roosevelt that In his school days ho wub once called upon to rcclto a poem. Bravely ho began: "At midnight, In hln gunrded tent, the Turk lay dreaming of the hour when Croeco, her knee " There he faltered. Twice he repeated "Grece, her knee,' then quit dead The old professor looked at the fu ture president over tho top of hlu spectaclos, then remarkod: "(i recce her knee once more, Theodoro. Per. haps Bho'll go easier then." ... A C. TIIA-ST I do not like to Ho abed, In Idleness, when 1 am 111, To have to stay Inuctivo then Is Just another bitter pill. I want to kick tho covers off, And rise with energy and vim. And pitch into tho work that waits. And wlpo It out, with ardor grim. I But when I'm well, I like to He To lie abed, of course, I mean. II like to doze aud dream and doze, Quiescent, Indolent, serene. I When duties call, I fain would sleep, Though I must earn my dally bread I Confound the work! When I am well, Oh, then I love to lie abed! Sonicrvlllo Journal. m lAVOTIIRIt IIST OF "IIOWIiKILS." The latest list of queer and conso- Iquontly humorlstlc answers written on. evamlnutlon papers comes from I ho University of tho state of New lYork, at Albany, which grants T.e- iKents certificates. Among those who I wrote the replies woro candidates fur teachers' positions, for qualification I as law or modlcal BtndontB, and for admission to colloge. Hero are Borne lot the answers: Thoro woro no ( hrlstlann among kho early Cauls. Thoy were mostly llnwyorB. CHninto Is caused by tho emotion of he earth around tho sun. The skeleton Is what is left after (lie Insldes havo been tnlton out and I he outsldeB huve been taken off. A blizzard Is tho Insldo of a hen. George Washington married Mar I ha CustlB and In duo tlmo bocame I he father of his country. The Btomach Is just south of the lbs. Tho alimontnry canal Is located In I he northern part of Indiana. The rosetla stone was a missionary lo Turkey. A vacuum Is n large empty space Ivhere tho pope lives, The government of I.iiKlnnd Is limited mockery. Georgia was founded by people who liavo been executed. Tho qualifications of a voter nt school meeting are that he must lo the father of a child for eight k eekfl. Achilles was dipped In tho river ttyx to make him Immoral. This Is a larlance on the classic story that "the liolhor of Achilles dipped hliu In the llyx and ho became Intolerable.") war and food eonserva- l.lt il ! 1 1 measure .seems iirouanie in tne near iuuire al though sucli action will destroy a sourec of large revenue for eoiiductiiig the war and paying government expenses. The world shortage in food supply, due to crop failures, decreased acreage, and wanton destruction of war, will force the diversion of the grain now consumed in liquor making into consumption as food. It is not prohibition for prohibition sake that will cause national prohibition but the question of wlui'ther the people of the United States and her allies are going to eat or go hungry. The; world's reserves of foodstuffs are low er than ever before, the winter wheat crop in the United States is a partial failure, and millions of men have been withdrawn from agriculture for fighting and must be fed as well as the people at home. , . ' It takes nearly two bushels of grain to produce a bar rel of beer, and a bushel of grain is required to distill a gallon of whisky, in 19.1G, more than 90,250,000 bushels of grain were used in brewing ;;8,6:..'.,(.24 barrels of beer produced, and 39,748,092 bushels of grain were used in making whisky and distilled spirits a total of 130,000, 000 bushels of 'era in, worth more than $150,000,000 used in making alcoholic beverage. Herbert ('. Hoover, who had charge of Belgian relief work and has been appointed food director of the United States, at a meeting of the Council of National Defense declared that biscuits were as necessary as bullets to win the war and 130,000,000 bushels of grain will make some biscuits. Mr. Hoover declares that prohibition during the duration of the war, is an essential factor in securing vic tory and the cabinet is giving the matter serious thought, both as a measure for food and a measure for increased ef ficiency. A grain census is now being taken by the' department of agriculture. Though pot- complete, it indicates a serious shortage. In many states, like Oregon, there are not gram stocks enough in reserve tor seeding demands. . ine crop conditions indicate the shortest crop in many' years' for 1917, and emphasize the need ot. conserving eyery-possi- le bushel ot gram. ' . . Alcohol is needed in the manufacture of munitions and explosives, but scientists are already devising ways and means for its manufacture troin waste products, wiuioui using materials of food value and there are ample sup plies of liquor on hand to supply all imperative needs dur ing the period of the wars duration. ARTILLERY 11Y BURTON 11 It A LEY. Ouns! Gunn! tluna! In the battle ot today, they're tho ones, They're tho bruisers in the fray They're tho boya that clear tho way, Throwing projectiles by tons Heavy guns! Yes, somewhere way hack of tho lines In a nice, leafy bower or doll. Is whero tho artillery shines In glvln' the enemy hell; The guns waddle up through the nilre I.IUo a fat lady walks on her pins. When when the command comes to fire Well, that'8 whon the straffln' begins. Tho muzzles heaves up to the sky The lanyard Is pulled, there's a roar The shells whistle, curvln' up hlghj And then there Is more mr still more, Tho gunners they sweat an' thoy smiles As carriages shiver an' wronch, An' way off some several miles Tlrem shells has ubollshed a trench. Your Infantry may ho O. K., Hut when you prepare (or n charge If big guns ain't clenrln' tho way You're gonta lie smashed, by nn' largo, It's guns that rips bomb proofs to bits An' barb wire eiitatiKleuieuts too. It's guns gives the epemy fits So Infantrymen kin break through! Yes, you've gotta have the guns, Heavy guns, Throwln' shells by tons an tons, Shells that's smashes an' that stuns, They're tho bruisers of the fray They're the boys that clears the way, In the warfare of today, they're tho ones llutly guns! JOFFRE, GUEST OF UNITED STATES . FAR AND AWAY BIGGEST MILITARY F Hero of the Marne Is Really a Great Man and in Some Respects the Kind of a Man That the World Believed Extinct, Declares Russell. By CHARLES ADWAKl) HFSSELL. WASHINGTON'. Muy 1 I doubt whether in this country we have ever gotten hold of the whole idea nbout Joseph Jacques Joffre, marslinl of all the armies of France and guest of the United States today. Here is reully a great man, far and away the biggest military figure this war has produced, in some re spects tho kind of man the world had cynically believed to have become ex tinct, a military genius of the first order. If he had lived in the great days of tho Roman republic he would have been n Scipio Africnnus, unbeaten and unbeutuble. Living today, he is 5 1 a sense nn anomaly. He is un over- spring soldier with a heart. Savior of France. I.'i S!in liiiit diiys of the wnr Joffre, ;:n f:ice if a million opposing opinions-, saved France and saved us no less. , The Gerwnn plnn, perfected in years of expert study, was to cut through Belgium, enter France where France was unprotected, get Paris in two weeks, double back and crush Russia with swift blows and end the war in six weeks. ' "The six weeks' war" is what fler mnn officers called it when in lfllll they kindly described to me what was nbout to happen. Franco, - cursed, hampered and hamstrung like the United States with The Men Tlint Can't l'ut 2 and 2 Together, refused to believe any such trenchery was possible. Almost alone this man, Joffre, the cooper's son from the south country, saw the imminent danger and worked out his own idea of the way to meet it. Joffre knew France was terribly unprepared. lie knew that except in field artillery she was in no shape to risk any decisive uction and could not bo until the whole nation should become thoroughly aroused and nil its resources mobilized. Fight Itcai Actions. "Fight rear actions," was his word. Delay llie enemy as long as possible, but withdraw." It was hard for some of his subor dinates to follow that idea. Thoy wanted to stand and fight. Any man hat coy'dn't get through his head what was required of him, Joffre swept out of the way. All of the fine old boys that were in the army for show or on a politicnl basis he Gen . tJ offrE' ' WASHINGTON, May I. ltcsolu long adopted nt a mass meeting Idled by the lord mayor of Liverpool kpresslng gratification for the "great laterlal asshtanro which the t'ulted fates of America brings lo the coin- i'jn ciiubo," and for tho moral sup urt woro received today nt the Btato cpartniont from Ambassador Pane at loudou. COMMUNICATION. Ii tho Kdltor: The Oregon Kally Journal and Mall rlbiino have been misinformed. My Inter. .Mrs. A, W. Williams, has never I en "missing." Instead of coming visit mo In Medford. she decided to to Los Angeles. I have received 1.0 letters from her since her arrival the southern California flty. At i time has her whereabout been iknown to her family. MltS. W. 1. WKST, , Mqtlford, .Muy 1. TO LEAVE TURKEY WASHINGTON, Mn, 1 - ml vires fi'tnn l-nriMi.tinii.' say mhiio lin'tiilit'i's ot' tlu A iiuTU-ii n I'mtmv "tiit't will li'itvi' n- oun n-. nii;ini;i' mi'Mt v.tn lie .mule nnl ilmt oilier (irolt.iMv ill for AMil.i").iliir lIUi-, wlnt U rcrm rntiy t i iun tvplm frwr, unit pfnlmbly will In aMe tn tnixi'l in nlutnl ti month. It U mii1 thM lln' Turkish ovi"nn.r'ti h; s ;in tmunrcil thai tin- rutmf f !.)!.. -tun I u n-liit iiui lrt wren th V-nii Stnt" mill Tmkt'v i- nt n war hum--uii' uiul llu it AuuTiriin titirii- mill iiMitiiti.uw should be tivnUut nt be- I'otv. INVITE BRITISH AND FRENCH MISSIONS TO VISIT GOTHAM V A SHIN i iTOX. Ma V 1 . - Mayor Mil'lul aiul ft rommittoo of Xw Vniki'i c.imo wtv today mid invit ed hutli t In Mrtiih and Kivnrh huh--it'iu i (hat rity beforo n'tiini- I " to Kill imp, JOHN A. PERL UWDERTAKHB l-n.ljr AslstnU BH SOl'TH IIAKTI.VMT. I'buno M. 47 JUid 47-J-2. Austomol'tle Hoarse Service. Ambulance Service. Coroner put out of business with one wave of his hand. Jofi're had an infallible sense about the right man for the right job. He discovered Nivclle, the great soldier now directing the French advance: ho picked Pctain, who proved one of the ablest commanders of the war; he picked Foch, Senail and .Maun onry. lie threw the dead wood right and left. He upset many pet plans and wrecked many personal ambitions, but he saved France, and be saved us -no less. He and the Belgians made the -leminn road to Paris live weeks long instead of two, and when they ar rived they came in the shape he want ed them to come in and on the spot be had picked out for (belli, nml right and gave them the wallop that did the business unit constituted the greatest victory and the most de cisive. Truly a Great Man. Franco and nil the rest of tus hung on that battle. When he let go the flerman rear guard never stopped running until it got to the river Snnr in Alsace mid only stopped there because officers put steel chains neross the bridges so there might be n chalice to reform the routed brigades. If Von lOuck's troops bad contin ued to fight ill tho open, they would have been knocked over and the war might have ended that week. He is n great man, this marshal of France, but he is also kindly and modest. lie lias tho iron jaw of the unshakable victor, an expression of the grimmest resolution ulways and yet the most iiict, unassuming mil 11 -ner and a temper nothing can ruffle or disturb. There never was a commander so easy lo approach or so patiently careful of the welfare of his men. II is a strange combination. He fights like a bulldog, but one of his hobbies is to save human life wherever he can. France never met CTOMACHAiWnts The Nation's Curse SAN' FRANCISCO, May 1. How the higher officers of the Russian Baltic fleet at Helslngfos, the capitnl of Finland, were killed during the Russian revolution, how the admiral himself though he had gone over to the revolution, was also killed, and how as the result of the revolution Finland had regained all of her for mer International privileges and rights were related here today by 0. S. Westman, shipbuilder of Helslng fors, who has come here to purchase supplies for his plant. "During thev night of March 10 I was awakened by shooting in the streets," he said. "Fighting contin ued tor two days, the sailors of the Baltic fleet attacking their officers in their homes. 1 have heard estimates as high as 4U0 as the number of offi cers killed. "Admiral Pepenln, one of Russia's ablest naval commanders, was among those killed, although he bad gone over to the new government, and was the man who arrested Governor-Gen eral Seyn, later turning him over to the revolutionary chiefs. He was hated by the sailors. Leaving his ship the last day of the revolution he no ticed a sailor did not salute him. He reprimanded him, when the sailor took his rifle and shot the admiral. "The sailors had lists of all the of ficers and their homes. They killed most of the high officers and spared the younger ones. The sailors did not barm a single civilian and maintained order In the city." 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Better yet obtain a bottle of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy from Leon Ii. Masking, or any reliable druggist, who will refund your money if it falls. with greater good fortune than when such a man came to direct her armies. Wanted No lioroizing. Wlien the anniversary of the bat tle of the Mnrne came round many persons wanted lo celebrate. Gen. Joffre set bis face like flint ngainst anything of that kind. He had two reasons, that I thing ought to get into history and stay there, lie didn't want any heroizing of himself and he said : "Too many sons of France lost their lives on that battlefield for us to be mnking merry upon it." Not Grant himself, file Silent Mnn of History, was of fewer words Hum this taciturn, dominating figure. Even Lincoln was hardly of a kinder heart. Franco loves him with nn affection far beyond nnytbing recorded nbout Napoleon because he is more than a brilliant und successful general, he is n fine, generous and genuine man. 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