Medford mail tribune., June 02, 1917, Page 8, Image 8

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MEDFOltTJ MATT TRTT5UXE MEDFORD. OREGON. SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1917
ALL RAILROADS
UNITE IN ONE
GIANT SYSTEM
Thru Council of National Defense
Transportation Lines Consolidated
to Eliminate Competition and Se
cure Efficiency Beginning of End
of Present System of Railroad
Ownership and Operation.
BY OrLSON GARDNER.
'WASHINGTON, Juno 2. United
States railroads are tiding organized
Into one big railroad consolidation,
thru organization of bankers and In
surance men owning railroad securi
ties, It became known today.
Competition will bo eliminated and
railway transportation operated as a
unified Bystem.
Incidentally, tho Sliermnn act goes
Into tbo discard, so far as railroads
are concerned.
This moans the end of the present
systom of railroad ownership and operation.
What U will mean In food costs to
the public still In unknown.
KlllIlilUlMlur. UlLSlO.
Already dupllcato passenger serv
ices have boon discontinued, routing
of freight hus been changed so as to
eliminate duplicato work, full crow
laws havo been relaxed and other
stops takon which, it Is estimated,
will cut out $000,000,000 In annual
oporatlon cost.
It is hoped, likewise, the rosult will
bo greater efficiency that cars will
be distributed where needed, and
freight will more as It ought to.
The completed orgunlzutlon will bo
the biggest privately owned business
concern In tho United States Ifnot In
tho world. It will be bigger than tho
steel corporation, harvester trust or
Standard Oil; larger than all theso to
Kothor. It will be to all intents e
21, 000,000, 000 corporation.
Tho funded debt of tho railways Is
$12,000,000, and outstanding stock
amounts to $9,000,000,000. This In
nearly a third of the entire mobile
woalth of the nation.
In tho matter of oporatlon and
ownership tho consolidation Is boing
porfoctod.
Tho first phase was conducted un
der the direction of tho council for
national defenso, which appointed a
committoo bonded by Daniel Wlllard
to bring about unified operation to
Insure efficiency.
Ownership IMiiuso.
The second phase, ownership, is be
ing worked out In Baltimore, whero
about 200 of the blggost Imnkors and
Insurance men owning railroad stocks
havo bocn In session.
At a conference, held May 21 to 23,
a nntlon-wldo organization of owners
was porfocted, consisting of 4 7 mem
bors, headed by 8. Davles Warflold,
president of tho Continental Trust
company of Ualtlmoro, who was cho
sen president of theso organized rail
way owners, who bnve takon as a
name tho National Association of
Owners of Railroad Securities.
Ioadlng men among those acllvo In
Ualtlmoro woro II. A. Schcnek, prpsl
dont, Tlowory Savings Umili, New
York; John G. Lonsdale, presldon!,
National Hank of Commerce, Rt. Lou
is; J. II. ICekor, Metropolitan Life In
surance company, Now York; John K.
Oldbam, Huston; J. V. Stednmn, Pru
dential l.lfo Insuranco company, New
ark, N. J.j tt. u. Woodruff, president.
Trust Company of Georgia. Atlanta;
Kx-Governor Kdwln ('. Stokes of New
Jersey. About 200 others were pres
ent, all sections ami ai llilg banking
and Investing InstUtitlmix of the imiiii
try boing represented.
Creating l:il'lc!eni,v.
President WnrfUlil wan authorized
to nominate ono vlre-presldent for
each stnto, and to perfect organiza
tion. A committee was appointed to
oe thai the Interstate commerce com
mission grants the pending request
for a IE per cent Increase In freight
rates.
This consolidation of railways has
boon brought about by tho war.
Tho outstanding feature when war
broke out was that tho railroads bail
entirely broken down, wcro nimble to
htndlo traffic, their equipment neg
locted for tho soke of maintaining
dividends, and congestion and ineffi
ciency largMy responsible for food
problem! would Inevitably crlnple the
government In military operation un
loss something was done.
The council of national defenso was
authorized by lite government at the
president's suggestion to nisho the
railroads one efficient, unified trans
portation system.
Wlllard and his co-workers wci
assured that military nrecssily Justi
fied any steps to produce efficiency
and that railroad owners might per
fect consolidation without fearing un
pleasant consequences.
What' will happen to this hugo rail
way consolidation after the war Is a
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made stub) blKhnays for linpi-OTcnwn t under the, bond Issue.
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Durinfr Muy 1.01 inches of rain fell
in Medford ns iipiinst nn avernirp
raiufnll for May of 1.7f, makinp; the
total preeipitnlion fur the season,
since Spcotmbcr 1, 1.1.8 inches, n
seasonal deficiency of 10.12 indies,
the nvrrnRC seasounl precipitation at
this dale heinif 2,'I.DU inches. The
average for June is 1.05 inches. There
were no killing frosts.
The record by days for tho month
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PEKING. June 2. Tho provinces
of Anhul, Chi 1,1, Hu Pe, Che Klang,
Fo Klcn and llo N'an have proclaimed
tholr Independence and threaten to
sond u joint cspedltlon to Peking to
forco tho tlisBolutlon of parliament
and tho reinstatement of Tuan Chi
Jut as premier. Tans Man Lung,
speaker of the assembly, has resigned
and gone to Tien Tsln to join the mil
itary governors.
Tho attitude of Chang 'Hsun, the
commander of the government troops
at Xan King and Feng Two Chang,
the vice-president, Is undefined but It
Is believed that both are inclined to
support tho militarists. Tho presi
dent has Issued a lengthy statement
defending his dismissal of tho pro
mior, at tho same tlmo highly prais
ing him and expressing the hopo that
ho may servo the country In the fu
ture Tho slatmcnt ends:
"If those responsible for the pres
ent crisis Intend to provoko Intornal
war I will under no circumstances
wutch tho country sink Into perdi
tion. 1 nm not afraid to dlo for the
country."
Tho general tone of the statement
Is apologetic nnd lacking strength.
Owing to tho refusal of LI Chlng Hsl
to accept tho promlershlp, the presi
dent's position Is precarious.
The six revolting provinces In Chi
na form the major part of tho south
eastern portion of the republic nnd
have a population of about 120,000,-00(1.
K. 1. llrlggs nnd Otto Winter, woll
known Ashland men, nro visitors In
the city today.
That the O. & C. Brant lnnds in
Jackson, Josephine, Klnmutli und
.southern Doulns counties will be
ready for entry in 90 days was the
statement made this morning by Ous
LovcR-ren, chief oruiser for the laud
grant classifiers fvho have in charge
the work of classifying all this land
which hns recently reverted to the
government. Whether or not the com
missioner will open them for entry
is another matter) nltho it is believed
by some that he will do so. It may
he possible, however, that he will not
decide to lake this action until later.
At the present timo there are a
large number of cruisers working
in this county. Six are stationed at
West Fork, two at Glendale, four
nt Millwood, six nt Peel, while in tho
northern part of tho state, Columbia
county, there are six or seven more,
this number completing the field force
now in service. . ..
Indications seem to lend to the be
lief that the lands will be opened
immediately after their classification,
and that Septomher may sec a rush
of homesteaders to this community.
Whether or not this will bo done, how
ever, is not certain and it rosy be pos
sible that the action will bo delayed
until after the intemntionnl crisis has
been settled.
The local land office is receivine;
ninny communications each day in re
gard to the grunt lnnds, nnd informa
tion is brine sent to interested citi
zens. It is evident that ns soon ns
the lands are thrown open to entry
that there will be n great msii of
people to southern Oregon. The front
contains some of the finest nfrrieul
turiil, timber nnd mineral land to
be found anywhere nnd is being eager.
ly sought for by those who desire
property of this nature.
Mr. Lovcgren will return to Port
land in about two days after having
completed his work here. Iloseburj
Review.
Mrs. Edith Ragsdale, Mrs. M. D.
Bowles, Thomas L. Ragsdale and T.
B. RagBdalo, motored In from Lake
creek late Friday to spend today In
the city.
I ALMOST got acquainted
WITH A charming man at a
DINNER PARTY last evening but
THE WOMAN who sat between
US HAD spent too much
MONEY POR hair that had
BELONGED TO others.
EVERY PLEASANTRY of mine
WAS EITHER hooked by
A CURL or deflected by
A FALSE puft. Then, too, I
FANCIED THAT all of the
ORIGINAL OWNERS of that
ASSORTMENT OF hair were listening
TO OUR conversation and it
EMBARRASSED ME. Why in
THE WORLD more women don't
LEARN OF HERPICIDE and
TRY FOR the home grown
VARIETY OF hair is a,
MYSTERY to me.
Youra for beautiful hair.
Kit
Sum. 2007 lln.'i
Mean 00.07 42.00
Monthly Summary.
Temperature Mean maximum.
00.07; menu minimum, 42.00; mean,
")1.18; maximum, 80, date, list ; mini
mum, 10, date, 1 lit It ; greatest I'nily
runne, 10.
Precipitation- Total, 1.01 in 'lies;
greatest ill 21 hours, .28, date, 1 1th.
Number of dnvs with .01 inch or
mote precipitation, 10; clear, 0; partly I
cloury, fi; cloudy, 10.
llemnrks Temjtcraturcs below i:or.
mal; season late; season preeipitntion
11.80; lust year for same period,
11.00,
Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Oatman arrived
this noon from a week's visit at Loa
Angeles,
question which will probably wait un
til after tho war for solution. It Is
likely to prove the first step toward
government ownership. After the
r the railroads will either own the
government or tho government will
owo the railways.
iv1, WV-'ii "
Your Own Home
"An Englishman's home Is his castle" Is an old saying which expresses the
sense of security associated with a homo. And all over tho world, home
means sanctuary a cool refuge from tho heat and strife of the dally grind.
A home, too, provides an excellent inducement to start a savings ac
count. Once started, It needs only habit to mako It grow with surprising
rapidity. Saving for a home has the advantage of a definite object, and as
the days slip by, you may watch your account getting bigger and bigger,
until at last the home itself Your Security Is begun.
Start a savings account. The best time Is NOW.
The Jackson County Bank
KstnhlLohed 1RH8.
$18
$1,000,000
These are the amounts of the smallest and
largest pieces of commercial paper the Fed
eral reserve banks have thus far discounted
for their member banks.
These figures strikingly illustrate the adap
tability of this system, of which we are mem
bers, to the varying needs of borrowers. Its
vast resources are always available for tha
protection of business, large or small.
If you are not already getting this protec
tion as one of our depositors why not open a
banking account today and secure it?
SIDCRAL beservb"T
First National
Bank
Buy Liberty Bonds Today
The safest investment; backed by all
the wealth of the United States. Your
savings must help win this war.
Bonds as low as $50. Interest 3 V2
per cent, payable semi-annually.
Your -country needs your help.
Go to the Nearest Bank or Bond Dealer
He will give you all particulars
without charge.
Do lit Today Not Tomorrow
LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE
Snaps in
FarmingLands
53-aeres TJoguo River bottom, well lorated, all culti
vated, paid up water right, alfalfa, grain and
trucking. Price $8000.00.
50-acres creek bottom, all good for alfalfa, sugar
beets, grain. Price $4f)00.00.
140-acres good land for alfalfa and grain, can irrigate,
good road. Price $100.00 ier acre; good terms.
IGO-acres mostly good alfalfa land, can irrigate. . 80
acres $75 per acre ; 80-a. $100 per a. long time.
400-acres alfalfa and grain land, some bearing orch
ard; can irrigate. Price in lots of 80 acres or
more, $123 per a., excepting orchard. Long time.
200-acres near city limits, in lots of 40 acres or more,
$75 to $100 per a.; long timo,
100-acres Pear Creek bottom, high state of cultiva
tion, can irrigate. Will sell in smaller portions.
Price $150 -er A.
310-acre good stuck and grain farm, will grow good
alfalf a on 80-A. Price $40 per A.; long time.
145-acres near Kagle Point, all good land, will grow
alfalfa and grain. Price $45.00 per A.
140-acres near Kagle Point; will grow good alfalfa
and grain. Price $(5500. Terms. '
40-acrcs well improved, orchard and alfalfa, near city
limits, $8000. Good terms.
13-acres bearing pear orchard near Medford, $5500.
20-nercs good land near Medford; can irrigate; $2500
terms.
5-acres joining citv limits on good street; can irri
gate. $G50.
10-ncres near Central Point, best of land, improved;
good road, can irrigate. Price $2200.
fi-neres improved, joining city limits. Price $2500.
nO-aeres light land near city, good for chicken ranch,
running water. Price $1500.
Page-Dressier Co.
320 East Main St.
Medford, Oregon.
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