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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1917)
MEDTORT) MATL TRTBTTNTi MEDFORD, ORFf!ONT, FRTDAV, JUNE 1.". 1017. PSGE THREE a' A 1 E TO the Editor: Tho Mcdl'unl home jfunrds need more men to bring the company up to one hundred. We do not believe the people of Medford understand tho purpose and workings of this or ganization or they would volunteer more readily. There is no initiation lee, no dues or assessments, it does not cost a cent to belong, the only requirement being to attend drill every Wednesday night or furnish a valid excuse. Its purpose is to perform such service from time to time us may be necessary for the protection and welfare of the community. It is reported that when the Seventh company leave tha I company will also be withdrawn. Medford will then be left without any organization , Whatever that can be quickly sum moned in case of need. ..The government ut Washington has recognized this fact and bave just passed a bill providing arms and am munition for the home guards. There are over a thousand men in Medford today who could and should join this or similar organizations. Is it possible that there are not one hundred men in this city who bave enough patriotism to give one hour of their time one night n week for such a laudable purpose? The women and girls in this city are doing more war work than the men. The men who bave already joined arc not the class of men who are given much to fooling. They nre men who are in the habit of making good use of their time, they nre serious minded people engaged in a serious business and we want nif.re of the same type. Who are they who can afford to sit idly by and let others do the work for tbemf No one knows what moment we may be called upon to protect heir property and ours. The slacker is not only the one who iif.es not go to the front when he can but he is also the one who does not voluntarily do what he can at home, who does not go out of his way to find things he can do to help. Let every man in Medford nsk him self the following questions and see if he hns done his bit: Have you bought a Liberty bond? Have you contributed to the Red Cross? Have you planted a garden? Have you pluntcd more this year than lust Have you joined the borne guards or any other organization that has for its purpose the protection and welfare of tho community? Tho organization meets every Wed nesday night at the high school at 7:45. o'clock. New members will be welcomed and all men in Medford able to march and carry a gun ure urged to join. Respectfully, CJ10O, T. COLLINS. Medford, Juno 14. If SCOUTS SELL NEW YORK, June ft. Boy scouts of America have obtained subscrip tions to the Liberty loan totalling $8, L':t4,!l(l(l, according to official returns made to scout headquarters hero to day up to 8 a. m. today. Officials believe the total subscriptions made thru efforts of the 2.'!8,000 scouts will amount to between ten und fifteen million dollars. BANDIT HOOPER REPORTED KILLED ONCE AGAIN John Austin Hooper, the spectacu lar desperado who made a grandstand getaway from the Grants Pass jail In 1915, is reported killed In Missouri. In. June 1916, he was convicted of failing a special officer at Joplln, Mis souri and sent up tot ten years. He escaped last November. Officers got trace of him through a telegram sent to his brother, Roy Hooper In Tulsa. Oklahoma. He was floating down the Mississippi In a houseboat armed with three Titles and a revolver. He resisted arrest and was killed by offi cers of Greenville, Missouri. His career In this region consisted of holding up and robbing a storekeeper at Hornbrook, and afterwards com mitting several robberies In southern Oregon and around Portland. Detec tives of the latter city captured him and he was turned over to Josephine county officers to be held for bank robbery. He compelled another man to escape with him and was hunted all over this part of the state being seen about Klamath Falls. He Is said to have cached the proceeds of his robberies somewhere In the Siskiyou mountains. He was a college grad uate and of pleasing personality. He was wanted at Clarendon, Arkansas for killing a deputy sheriff. Ashland Record. TO HAVE LOVE ilE JOI.IET, 111., Juno 15. Tho honor system has not broken down In Jollet for the reason there has been no hon or system In operation since former Warden Allen resigned. The system In operation since the honor system was abolished Is not any system in fact. Chiefly It Is lack of system that has been proved a failure. The big revolt of prisoners was against taking away a vicious letter writing custom that real prison honor system workers denounce. The best men in prison also condemn this letter-writing system as a viciouB prop osition that robs prisoners of honor and even of decency. Opponents of the honor system those who favor the old-time brutal ity and repression have made haste to fasten upon the grave outbreak hero as an argument against the honor sys tem. and If there really had been an honor system in operation their argu ment might have force. Governor Dunne installed the hon or system In Joliet about four years ago. While It was In operation a ne gro truBty murdered tho warden's wife. When Warden. Allen left the prison followng the murder. Warden Zimmer took charge and the honor system went. It has not been in ef fect since. The present warden, Bow en, has been In office about a month. Warden Bowen found the "Oriental Esoteric league' doing a. big business with the prison In the way of writing letters to prisoners. These letter be gan, It Is pointed out, as kind-hearted messages of cheer to convicts. Soon, however, he says, the letters became love missives of a kind not always printable. . One "esoteric" wrote to her prison "honey boy" tills "esoteric" message: "Looking Into your eyes, well, honey boy, If I were to do that now I will never tell you what would happen." "Sweetheart of mine, my emerald boy," blithely wrote another. "I don't think my friend Grace would consent to live in the soul rela tions you describe," ran a chiding note from another. What has broken down In Jollet Is lack of honor, lack of moral tone, lack of system. Prison workers who favor the hon or system declare the true honor sys tem as advocated by Thomas Mott Os borne of New York, as operated In Ohio and other , places, finds Its strongest argument in the riot here. BRAZIL GUIDED BY RIO JANEIRO, June 15, Dr. Wenchlau Braz, president of the re public, has sent a cablegram to Presi dent Wilson, again giving the Ameri can executive the assurance that Bra zil's attitude in the war between the United States and Germany is in spired solely by the dictates of In ternational law and the high value which Brazil lays on the friendship of the United States. DtLAY DEPARTURE BERLHN June 15. The delay In the departure of the delegates of the German Independent Socialists for the Stockholm Socialist conference Is ex plalnd by Edward Bernstein as due to their desire to arrive at the seat of the conference when the real sessions are about to begin and tho prcsonce of the various International groups 1b assured. Herr Bernstein says the Independ ents expect to leave Berlin at the end of June.' CHORAL SOCIETIES IN CONCERT AT PAGE TONIGHT Tonight the Medford and Ashland choral societies will give a joint con cert at the Page theatre which prom ises to be one of the musical and so cial events of the summer season. No local organization has accomplished more In a short time, m thi artistic realm than this company of enthusi astic Individuals, men and women, who under the direction of George Andrews, have given some of the most enjoyable concerts ever heard In the valley, fine hundred and fifty people will take part In the concert and there will be a number of special numbers showing to good advantage the vocalists of the two cities. There will also be Instrumental numbers. Tho tickets are going fast and those who wish good seats should secure their reservations early this morning. NO HONOR SYSTEM Itulns of Jollet prison, riivd by rioting prisoners, and two of the hemes of the outbreak lR-Ing congratulated by tho chaplain, Father Peter A. (Ii umlillug. The. prisoneis nre Robert "TtMldy" Webb (lft), tliinigo's famous auto bandit, serving life term for niunlt-r r Detective IVUt Hart, and Wultw Wood, serving llfo tram for nmr dor of a Chicago florist. The two men suved $I01 worth of nuiUiuil from the chaplain's office, which collapsed Just us they loft It, OF TO BOULDER, Colo., June 15. Need of assistance from America in the fight against tuberculosis in the French army, was set forth by Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of the University of Colorado, and director of the mission to be sent to France by tho Rockefeller Foundation, in a statement he made before leaving for Paris. Dr. Farrand was for ten yearB executive secretary of the National Association for the Study and Pre vention of Tuberculosis. "The French death rate from tuber culosis is, roughly, twice that of America and three times that of Eng land," said Dr. Farrand. "Normally France has a high death rate and a low birth rate and with the in crease in tuberculosis brought about by the war It is evident that some thing must be done and without de lay. "It Is estimated in reports to tho Rockefeller Foundation that 150,000 soldiers have been discharged from the French army because of active tuberculosis. LNor is this condition confined to the army. Refugees from the occupied districts of northern France are breaking down in large unmbers and tho French prisoners re turned from Germany show a high .percentage. "The extension of Infectious dis eases in one land in these days is a menace to all. So you see while we shall be fighting the battle against tuberculosis on the first line there In France we shall really be fighting America's battle as well." PRICE ON FUTURES KANSAS CITY, June 15. The board of directors of the Kansas City board of trade passed a resolution to day removing the maximum price on July corn, but restricting trading in this option to the closing of old eon tracts. The resolution nlso staled that new sales of wheat mid com fur July delivery will he permitted only when tin absolute showing can be made that the grain is in a position for immediate delivery. GERMAN STUDENTS ALL ENROLLED IN THE ARMY HKRLIX, June 1... Of 7:1,01)0 stu dents registered during last winter in the flenniin universities and teeh nieal'seliools, (i.'i.OOO arc under arms, according to an estimate by the Tage- blntl. Aik Grandfather He'll Tell Yon- IN JOLIET; ESOTERICS' LOVE" BLAMED E F MOONEY TRIAL SAX FRANCISCO, Juno 15.- One thousand feet ot moving picture film taken three minutes after a bomb ex plosion here last July which claim ed ten lives were u'gain offered as evidence by the prosecution today during the trial of Sirs' Rcna Moonoy for murder growing out of the ex plosion. Conflicting testimony of Myron llendrickson, an accountant, con cerning a hole alleged by the state to have been made in a wall by the ex plosion resulted in Assistant District Attorney Ferrari's second request that the pictures bo admitted for the purpose of showing the physical ef fects of the blast. Counsel for Mi's. Jlooney stren uously objected to admitting the films. "They show notfiing but human suf fering and blood on the sidewnlk," declared Attorney Maxwell McNutt, "and we do not believe they would help clear up the point whether the hole was enlarged by human agcieics alter the explosion, Ferrari added to the legal wrangle here by declaring that "the defendant is not charged with spitting on the sidewalk; she is charged with murder and all details, even tho they be re volting, should bo brought out." Superior Judge Kmmet Seawcll or dered the opposing counsel to cense wrangling, lie said he would review the motion pictures in private and determine whether they constituted proper evidence. "I will admit any photographs that show evidence," he said. IN ZURICH AS SPY PARIS, June 15. Raymond Ruff Swohoda, who was held for some time by tho Paris police In tho spring of 1915 on suspicion of causing a fire on board the French liner La Tour alno, has been arosted In Zurich, ac cording to the correspondent of tho Petit Parlslcn. Swohoda Is accused of recruiting spies ot work against France. Raymond Ruff Swohoda, when ar rested In Paris In March, 1915, had an American passport and claimed to be an American citizen. At his trial It was said that his real name was Schwlnd and that ho was a German reserve oflccr. He was finally dis charged and ordered expelled from France. Hundreds Of Thousands Havo Kept Their Health By the timely and periodical use of a GOOD blond tonic. 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"A grave danger confronts the American people; tho danger ot hun gor, which, unless our government tukes Immediate und effective action to prevent, will portend greater In- Healthy Mothers A woman desires to remain healthy and to retain her good looks after giving birth to her child. Women who go through the period of expec tancy with the least strain and suffering are those who prepare their system in advance of baby's coming. "Mother's Friend" Is prepared to give tho mother-to-be that direct and immediate help she needs. The muscles expand easier. The breasts are kept in good con It's Time to PUT UP FRUIT We are prepared to supply your every need Fruit Jars Jelly Glasses Sugar and Canning Supplies We also have Strawberries and Gooseberries for Canning Personal Attention Prompt Service MARSH & BENNETT PHONE 252 Studebaker Runabout A BARGAIN In good order. Cost J102".00, Fully equipped, self-starter, electric lights, one now tire with patent wire safety trend. Cash, J3.1fl.00. Itcason for sale, owner leaving city. Hox 1 'i!, Medford Post office, or telephone K. II. Cowlcs, 12 7 Central Point. PORTLAND STAGING OLD JACKSONVILLE Tho Portland Press club Is staging "Jacksonville In Palmy Days," as a Rose carnival attraction, and the Portland Telogram thus speaks of the show: ' "Jacksonville was palmy once, no mistake. It was the livest little town In old Oregon and the boys of the Press club tonight open their carnival that will recall the time when tho mining camp was working day and night in order to get gold dust to weigh at Beekman's bank. The gam bling hulls of the Jackson county town will be shown, altho no monoy, save that "minted" by the Press club can he used in playing. Famous native sons of the City of Once-Upon-a-TIme have been Invited to attend tho celebration and tako part In tho Virginia reel that will be given in honor of the native daugh ters of tho town. The gallant Colonel Hob Miller, the eloquent Claronco Kennies, tho brave Frank Dowell, the silver-tongued Ben Bookman and the studious Km 1 1 lirltt are oxpected to be present to tell the boys how Jackson ville used to do things before Oregon was a state. "Captain Kasper Kubll, who was born up on the Applogato near tho mining villoge, but who spoilt his boy hood days dodging tho Jacksonville boys who were "spoilln1 fer a scrap," and young Phil Metschan, who 1b an adopted son ot Jacksonville, are go ing to be on hand to "lick" the press agent ot Jacksonville In Us Palmy Days" who Btartod the story that Weather Pronhot B. A. Beals was born In the old town." PERSHING'S NAME PUZZLE TO PAPERS OF PARIS PARIS, Juno l.r). The French press is still busy discussing tho pro nunciation of General Pershing's name. La Liberie says that probably the best solution is Pcrcchic, meaning Gallant Father, or Perccher, meaning Hear Father. Jury than the threat of the foreign foe. 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