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MEDFOKD MATTi TRIBUNE AfEBFORD, OTCEOON, TTTUT?SDAY, MAY 10, 1917. PAGE THREE ROAD BOND ISSUE IN FULL SWING The campaign for the $0,000,000 road bond election is in full swim;. The apathetic feelinjr which existed in the early part of the campaign lias been overcome by a jrreutor inter est in the movement. This can be at tributed to the better understanding by the people us to the bond issue Much criticism was made as re gards the excessive expense of con structing highways in the vast ii: the different localities of the itate. This in a great measure has been ex prainea Dy rue met that m this ease as with all other enterprises the ini u!il work generally carries the ex perimental expense with it. This is not necessary any more and the con struction of a mile of highway wil now be done at a price consistent with such work at a fimire similar to the cost of road construction in the greater populated states. t Furthermore there is now a federal check on all overcharges as pro vided for in the federal act by the appropriation of $75,000,000 which i; to be expended for highways in th United States in which the state: share on a fifty-fifty basis, which provides that the secretary of ag riculture may, in his discretion, from time to time, make payments on said construction as the same progresses, nut these payments, including prev ous payments, if any, shall not be inoro than the United Slates' pro rata part of tho value of the labor and materials which have been ac muny put into said construction in conformity to said plans and specifi cations; nor shall any such payment be in excess of $10,000 per mile, ex clusive of the cost of bridges of more than 20 feet clear span. The con struction work and labor in each state shall be done in accordance with its laws, and under tho direct supervision of the state highway de partment, subject to the inspection and approval of the secretary of ag riculture and in accordance with the rules and regulations made pursuant to the act. The sum fixed by the government, namely, "not to exceed $10,000 per mile," are roads from 20 to 30 feet wide. While the width of the roads is at the discretion of the state highway commission it is understood that the ma jor portion of the total mileage will be roads from 10 to 12 feet wide, thereby reducing the cost materially, giving the assurance that the $0,000,000 appropriation bond money will complete the mileage as contemplated by the state highway commission. GKO. E. ISOOS, M, Secy. Tri-State Good Hoads Ass'n. LS PRAISE FEDERAL BUILDING The visiting United Slates ofifcials who are in Medford this week at the federal court session have much praise for Medford's new federal building in its entirety but especially for the court room and ot'ices in connection therewith. "1 am very much pleased with the court room and its appointments and the offices and their arrange ment," snid United Slates Judge C. E. Wolverton of Portland. "Whilo-I have been in more magnificent court rooms ones with marble walls and elaborate decorations, yet 1 have nev er presided in n court room that I liked better than this one, and in tlact have been in very few that I have liked as well. "Tho most striking feature is its splendid acoustic properties. Why. the lawyers, witnesses, etc., talking in ordinary tones can be heard per fectly. It's n real pleasure and com fort to preside in such a room. The court room in the new federal build ing ut l'endleton, which is almost a duplicate of this building, nlso has splendid ncousties. The court room there is very much the same as here except that your court room seems somewhat larger." CHICAGO, May 10. Members of the Chicago Butter and Egg board were addresseu today by Carl Vroo man, assistant secretary of agricul ture, who told them that any one who manipulates food prices In the present crisis Is a traitor to his coun try and should be punished as siifh. "I appeal to you to support the government In Its effort to control supplies for the best good of all con cerned," he said. S EFFECT OF OIL SMUDGE BY DILLON R. MILL. The fact that dense smoke Is hurt ful to vegetation has been proven times without number, and tho evi dence of it Is obtainable (n great vol ume. The government has issued j bulletins on the subject, citini! -in-1 stances observed by scientific men; I and the Iowa experiment station has ! another In circulation, showing the I indisputable Injury to orchard and garden by smoke in the factory dis tricts. And yet, because of the fact that tho fog is known to be a preventive of frost injury, many people assume, without investigation, that It is be cause the sun rays are prevented from striking the tender plants and buds directly. As a matter of scientific fact and deduction, the super-saturated atmospheric condition is the source of salvation of the crops from frost. Prolongs Frost Danger. ' Tho presence of a heavy cloud of smoke over the orchards serves 'only to prolong the existence of tho frost into later hours of the morning, in tensifying its degree and giving it opportunity for greater harm to the buds and bloom; for, when tho wind finally blows the smoke away, sud denly admitting the direct sun rays to the frost, the damage is done quickly and more severely; whereas, the degree of warmth in the rising sunbeams is much less and serves to dispose of tho frost more gradually and less harmfully on that account. Lack of careful thought has caused many frultists to reach false conclu sions as to the cause of fog protection from frost injury. Likening the smoke's resistance of sun rays to that of the fog, they reason that the two are similar in action, when, as a mat ter of fact, there Is no similarity of action or effect. Another Effect. The spring start of fruit and other trees is made on stored plant food which is the excess of the trees' dally need during the previous growing soason. All bud development and growth, it is well known, are made on energy derived from this food until the young leaves are well out. If these leaves are rendered inactive or ar stunted in growth by tho sooty do posits, the period of growtli on stored food is prolonged until new leaves can be pushed out, thus causing n heavy drain on the resorve of the tree. If this condition is prolonged over a period of years, a greatly weakened treo is sure to be tho re sult. Thus, it will be seen that the dan ger from the use of-oil smudgo may be traced from every possiblo angle. Cannot Escape- It. Xo volume of false philosophy will save the orchardist from those dan gers. He cannot escape the injury by refusing to see it. Tho first and most Important feature of the oil smudge damage Is to tho fruit, buds and bloom. Tho second is to the tender wood fibre of the treo boughs and, fi naly, to tho tree itself. Each year's use of It adds to the damage done the preceding year. Tho harm is cumu lative until, like any other slow pro cess of death, tho orchard passes into early decay. Thcro is not a farm product that can escape the positive Injuries of the oil smudge. There is not a farm ani mal that does not suffer from its use. It injuriously affects the cows and the milk product; tho pigs and tho poultry. It Is an Inexcusable mistake and cannot be placed In any other calogory. Scientists are dis covering this fact In every locality where the oil smudge is used. Its absoluto elimination is the only rem edy. 128 AMERICANS HELD WASII1XOTON, My 10.-Thnt 127 AmcrieiHM still urn held prisoners in Gennnny, prulmhl y removed from captured nrmed merchantmen, was e venled today nt the Male depnrtment. It i Jissumcd thnt the men were brmmht to Germany hy raiders op crating in the south Atlantic. IN FEINER ELECT ED 10 I.OMlOX, May 10. Joseph Me Guincss, n Sinn-Kciner, hu been elected to the house of commons lit the special elf-linn held to fill the vacancy for the soul hern division of Longford county, Ireland. His mn inritv wa '17 ovf-r FvTtnk M'-K"Timi. SEPTEMBER MORN," L'V -i it P . , v ' us , iT v- , m k ifv . . (' yt y '-v ,', ' The cast of principals to be seen in the dancing festival, "September Morn," coming to the Page theatre, Friday, May 11, includes several names which have already been dis tinguished in our best light operas. Ruth Wllktns, in the role of "Argen tina" whose clever dancing Is tho talk of tho season, played leading roles in "Louisiana Lou," "The GoddesB of Liberty" and "The Military Maid." Maud K. Williams, : playing "Mrs. LEI PI THEIR OWN OFFICERS BERL1X, May 10 An oficia stntesment today says: "As repris al for the placing of a German gen eral staff and 15 officers on French hospital ships in the Mediterranean, the German authorities have placed twice this number of French officers of corresponding rank at points in the western industrial districts which are especially subject to aerial at tack. ' wki n Touring Cor, 7 Touring Car, 5 HE i r3 Laauners i mm PAGE, MAY 11IH t ' Si jtrv& v t vi Storm" Is well remembered in Henry W. Savage's musical comedy "The Prince of Pilsen" and the famous Boston Opera company. William Moore, in the loading comedy rolo of "Rudolph Plastric" was seen in "The Red Mill," "Tho Hoart-Breakers" and for several seasons In vaudeville. Other prominent members in the cast aro; J. J. Patton, James Babor, Leslie Jones, Billy Murphy and a smart chorus of stunning show-girls. SECRET SESSION OF LAMENT LONDON, May 10. The parlia mentary circles were particularly In terested in today's secret session of tho house of commons, at which many questions uppermost in the public mind were discussed. Colonel Wins ton Spencer Churchil, formerly first lord of the admiralty, was the first speakor. The secret session probably will continue over Friday. m&mr --- Cha'niew 7-Passengsr Touring 81 A ChaTmcr.-j on Ptvch 26-27 set a new high mark in motor car history. On that date was established a standard in city traffic performance that promises to endure. To cover 586.8 miles through dense Chicago traffic in 24 hours is no mean feat. To do it with a stock 7-pas3cnger touring car, carrying 4 pas sengers, on high geor only, without motor stop, and making 14 miles to the gallon of fuel is a superlative performance. , Chalmers accomplished the feat with ease. It did it because of the quality of its motor, the excellence of its design, the thoroughness with which it is built. Thus is proven the flexibility that a motor car owner of today demands. Thus is insured that economy that ap The conclusion is inevitable Buy a Chalmers pmcni!er . $1350 Toorlnf! Sedan, 7-pnsstnger . $1850 Llmounine, J-piMCTjet . ,$2550 pitr.K5r 12SO Rorriitcr, 3-pimengcr . . 1250 Town Cnr, 7-paaxngcf . 2550 (All prices o. b. Dcirotu' Prices subject to change without notice.) A. W. WALKER AUTO CO. 10 WAR TAX BILLL WASHINGTON, May 10. Pro tests against ninny provisions of the $1,800,000,000 war tax bill were poured in upon congress by tele graph and mail today as the house was about to start debate on the I measure. A number of members on both sides of the house were ready to i voice their objections to various fea tures and particular opposition was i felt by republicans to the incrensed ' excess profit war taxes. The senate I finance committee expects to conduct j public, hearings on tho bill and these ' probably will develop vigorous at tacks from interests hard hit by the proposed war taxes. The bill will raise tho per capita tax of tho American people lo mainly through income, profits nnd internal revenue taxes and customs duties, with a multitude of minor as sessments against necessities or near luxuries consumed by ull but the poorer classes. . . OF AMSTERDAM, May 10.-llam-burg merchants indulge in no hopes that Antwerp will pass under German control, according to the Hamburg papers. At a meeting of the lending business men of tho port, called for the discussion of a canal project, a resolution was adopted condemn ing tho proposition to build a canal from the Main to tho Danube. Hcrr Mathies, president of tho llaiuburg chamber of coinmeree,,snid thnt such a canal would merely profit Rotter dam and Antwerp, "whose harbors were not Gorman and never would be German." The meeting adopted n resolution urging tho government to build A ca nal from tho Elbe to the Danube with tho greatest speed possible. rtm Cnr Price $1350 Detroit )ensationai peals in this day of high cost of gasoline. Thus is demonstrated the ability of a builder like Chal mers to produce a car of surper lative merit at a price far below what is necessarily asked by manufacturers of a limited output. COTTAGE CHEESE . RANKS HIGH AS MEAT SUBSTITUTE WASHINGTON, May 10. Cottage cheese is one of the important meat substitutes,' say specialists of tho U. S. department of agriculture. It con tains n larger percentage of proteir (the chief material for body building) than most meuts and furnishes this material at a lower cost. In every pound oi oottngo enooso there is about one-fifth of a pound of pro tein, nearly all of which is digesti ble. Moats, on the other hand, usu ally, contain less protein and besides have a certain waste. , such as bone and other inedible material. A pound of cottage cheese daily would supply all (he protein required by tho ordi nary adult engaged in scdeirtnry oe pupation. The following table shows that cot tage cheese, obtainable at from 12 to 17 cents per pound is much cheaper than most meats in furnish ing protein for tho diot. For supplying protein, one pound of cottngo cheese equals : 1.27 pounds of sirloin sfenk. 1.0!) pounds round sleuk. 1.117 pounds chuck rib beef. 1.0'J pounds fowl. 1.4G pounds fresh hum. 1.44 pounds fresh ham. 1 :f8 pounds loin pork chop. 1.31 pounds hind leg of lamb. 1.:17 pounds breast of veal. In addition to protein, energy for performing body work must be fur nished by food. As a source of energy also cottngo cheese is chenper than most meats nt present prices. Tho following tnblo shows the coni- pnnson when energy is considered. On the basis of energy supplied, one pound of cottage cheese equals: 8.1 -a ounces sirloin steak. 11 1-4 ounces round steak. 11 1-4 ounces chuck rib beef. 10 3-4 ounces fowl. 5 1-2 ounces fresh ham. 5 ounces smoked hum. 0 ounces loin pork chop. 7 1-3' ounces hind leg of lamb. 12 3-4 ounces breast of veal. What Ails You? Have you become run-down, weak, emaciated, pale after a long siege of colds ? Does the skin show that the blood is thin and watery? Spring ia the time when vitality is at its lowest ebb clean house iom by ridding the body of its accumulated poisons. Re fresh the blood with a stimulating tonio. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery, free from alcohol or narcotics and extracted fvoni roots and bnrks with pure glycerine, banishes from the blood all poison and impure matter. Itj dissolves tho impure deposits Mid carries them out, as it does nil im purities, through the Liver, Bowels, Kidneys and Skin. If you have indigestion, sluggish liver, nasal or other catarrh, nnsteady nerves or unsightly skin, get tho "Dis covery" to-day and start at once to replnce your impyjre blood with the kind that puts energy and ambition into you and brings back youth and vigorous action. Sold by dealers in. licjuid or tablet form; or send 10c. for trinl package of tablets to Dr. V. 11. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. MOTHERS OF OREGON. Albany, Oregon, "At one time I was w e a K and nervous; had ! . headache and :f backache; liver ifi wns slmrtrifih. nnd I was troubled , 'i with constipation. .. 1 ' 1 needed a tonio a constitutional builder. A friend told me about Dr. Pierce's Golden'. Medical Discov ery. I took it and it built me right tip, gave me new strength, put my liver in good shape, and helped me' in every way." Mua, Eixen Dooklb, 1118 E. 2nd Street. Roofing tho great homo product la well worth your attention. It is th one roofing which you can rely on. Being made here in the Northwest, it 1 YOUR recommendation that w Deed tint of all. Getitof yoordvjii. ar or write ua direct. Durable Roofing Mfg. Co. Portland, Oretfoi 1 ' For Sale By ... Woods Lumber Co. BEST SEEDS That Grow Wo have a choice line of Garden Seodg, including the Famous Burpees in packages and bulk. 59 varieties of Spencer's Sweet Peas. Broadley The Medford Florist and Seed Man I'lioTie 872. Hotel fioyt Sixth and Holt Streets, near depots. Portlaud, Ore. Fireproof, newly dec orated. Hates 75c to $2.00. L. W. Ilimes, Manager, WESTON'S Camera Shop 208 East Main Street, , Medford The Only Exclusive Commercial Photographer in Southern Oregon. Negatives Made any time or place by appointment. Phone 317-J. We'll do the rest. mm m mmMi