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PAOE SIX
WAR LEGISLATION
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Some tires have tough and thick treads,
others have a heavy and strong carcass.
Only Federal Tires combine splendid tread and
carcass features with Double-Cable-Base Construction. No others
have four strong steel cables built into the base to hold them to the
rim under severest service strains.
Federals therefore are "Extra Service" Tires, and public opinion
says they deserve the name.
C. E. (Gates Auto Co.
MEDFORD, OREGON. '
The Federal Rcibber Co. 1
' of Illinois
Factories: Cudalhy, WU.
Nation-Wide Prohibition or Drastic
Reform of Liquor Traffic Seems
Certain Liquor Men Troubled-
Dry Advocates Hold Up Measures
to Secure Riders.
By L. IIAKl'KK LKKCH.
WASHINGTON', I). C, June 28.
No brewer's vut or distiller's diiikIi
tub ever held a more yeasty mixture
til it 11 (be political stew which now
simmers in the cauldron of war pro
hibition.
Second only to the war itself in in
terest, it lias bronclit about some
strange lineups and lias often threat
ened the whole plan of war legislation.
Zealous ilrya and fearful wets have
sought to hitch their Kt 'schemes on
to most of the war hills in the form
of amendments. The selective army
bill only passed after a fierco strujr
f;le over tho liquor amendments. The
drys won a partial victory in this
fifedit nnd procured rigorous rules
banishing liquor sellers from the
neighborhood of army enmps and
prohibiting the sale of drink to offi
cers, soldiers or sailors.
Delaying lllg Kills.
Tho passage of the food bill nnd
the war revenue bill are being delay
ed by similar struggles. The liquor
question has been injected into both.
Several amendments to tho food
bill have been offered, all of which
aim to cut off tho distiller's nnd
brewer's grain supply.
Dry advocate's quickly seized the
strategic odvmitage presented b the
food shortage and raised the cry of
"Iiooze or Hreud." It has been effec
tive. All over the country people arc
usking why food should be destroyed
to make men drunk.
The Anti-Saloon league is pouring
in petitions on congress from every
crossroad's church and every city
bible (-lass demanding that the mak
ing of hooze shall cease fo rlhe per
iod of the war.
Hoover Hill Plans.
The iidnu'nistratiou food bill the
Hoover bill proposes to leave the
whole thing to the food administra
tor. Undoubtedly the only chance the
liquor men have to escape the com
plete cutting off of their supplies is
to support this hill and secure its
passage in unamended form.
Hoover's plan probably will be to
stop the making of whisky and dis
tilled liquors and to cut the produc
tion of heer two-thirds or one-half
also to limit brewing to barley, n
grain not much u-cd for human food.
The waste pi-minds of brewing barley
lire valuable lor dairy cattle.
A resolution for a constitutional
amendment establishing pcniiiineiit
nation-wide prohibition has been l'u-
vorably reported by the senate judi
ciary committee, but, even if pu-scd,
it probably would not he ratified by
the states until alter the war.
l-'iicc Total Kxtluctliin.
Liquor men are not only threatened
with the loss of their grain through
the passage of the food hill, hut also
face total extinction if certain
ami'ihlniciils are lacked on to the war
revenue lull. As passed ,v . house,
that bill laid verv heavy taxes on
whisky nuil beer. The senate com
mittee, which has been picking the
house bill to pieces, is considering
drastic tav a giaia used fur brew
ing or ilistillinj;. line amendment
proposed taxes ns liiuli as t'Jll per
bushel. Itecr made !ioiu gram pav
ing such a tax would cost a
Ieft to Itlglit:.. Miss friiiilillne Adeo, Miss Frances Held, Miss Virginia Towney, MLss l-.leon Sodgnick.
Tlio well dressed girl was never snapped recently at an liiformul social I fumillcs rlvalml each other in the their united approval 'are shoulder
(enildin'o plainness nnd daintiness of their sum- vilo colhirs, deep hems and tucks.
MLss Vir- mer dresses rnther Uinn in costliness 1 and a eonspiciioiis lac kof Jewelry,
glnlii Irfiwney and MLss Klecn SsiIk- !of materlaj or elaborateness of design. I Tho society girl Is seldom seen now.
, , . ., , , . gatheiing included Miss
mmm uimiilv vnuiiM limn 111 tills first n n
1 Adec, Miss l-iwn l'ield
year or American molillization for the
frreat wiijr... A bevy of debutantes
ivick. Hiese daughters of well known Stylo points which seemed to win ' inlays without her knitting bag,
ASK UNCLE SAM
TO TAKE OVER
RAIL SYSTEMS
Federal Trade Commission Recom
mends That Government Take Over
and Operate Railroads and Coal
Mines Car Shortage and Fuel
Shortage Paralyzing Industries.
ns the rare pcrl'iiuics whieh are soli)
hy the spoonful.
Tile lc y of such u tux would t'oree
the lircneis In make "near heer" in
clusively. Many of them are already
cmliarking into this Imsme-s en H
large scale and some hrewcrics tmlav
are selling more ol' the leuiiernncp
drink in the dry counties iliau heer
ill I lie wel cities.
.liiior Power Smashed.
The outstanding feature of the
whole situation is that the iolilieal
power of the liipmr interests is
smashed. Aecaslomed In dictate,
they me now begging. Their fate i
in the hands (,f the professional isd
iticiali class with whom thev hnvi
hern hound up for half a century
J hat class is iiotnnoiislv nnick to
j tick a uiiiucr- and a loser.
The incMtahle result will he that
out of the pri sent confusion will
pome riolieiil measures dealing with
Ihe diink ipie-lion. The saloon has
few days f n left to it. The
will' is lia-teiniig the solution of Ihe
irohlem one wav or another,
National prohihiiion or drastic re
form of tin honor h i ini-s s in its lew
remaining S' ron li.'hl u now a mat
ter Of mootlij ilut jiaji,.
(By Oilnon Giirilnor, Vntllngton Corre-
npundenl.)
WASHINGTON, June 27. The
federal trade commission recommends
today that the government take over
and opcrato tho railroads and the coal
mines.
Car shortago and fuel shortage,
nays this coniuiiHulon, uro paralyzing
America's IndiiHtrles.
The commission puts it thus In one
paragraph:
Tho conl Industry Is paralyzing
the Industries of the country, and tho
coal industry itself Ib paralyzed hy the
failure, of transportation."
ItailroiulH lloM'less,
Railroads nro coining dividends as
never liefore. Hut as efficient public
arrlers they have hecomo hopeless.
Kvery Industry In the country has
felt the failure of transportation.
Factories cannot do their maximum
of business because they cannot sot
cars to ship tho product.
Coal mines opcrato on half time,
paying their men full time, because,
they cannot get cms to tako awuy the
coal.
Ships cannot be loaded because they
cannot get their eurgocs to the
wharves.
Meantime cars are lying In hiin-
Ireds empty on sidetracks, or being
hauled empty for long distances to
get smile commodity freight, for haul
ing which tho railroad would receive
lunch u 11 extraordinary high rate.
Its inquiry lias been thoro and Its
grasp of the situation Is strong and
Intelligent. Every aspect ot the case
Is covered In its report Just made to
congress. Its momhers have put their
finger on the vital spot In their state
ment that it Is useless to control the
coal output unless all transportation
rail and water, is operated as a unit
for efficiency.
The other nations at war have
found it necessary to take over their
transportation systems In order to
secure efficiency. They have solved
the problem of compensation to pri
vate owners by allowing private own
ers cost plus reasonable profit. Rea
sonable profit is determined on the
basis of profits covering a period of
years previous to the war.
Jtcusonnhlo profit.
What was a reasonable profit aver
aging over a period of ten years ought
to bo regarded as a reasonable profit
today. And no railroad owner ought
t3 object to such compensation.. Prof-
ilteering based on war needs is not a
commendable occupation.
Tho I'nlted States senate has just
passed a hill Introduced by Senator
-Vewlands providing for priority of
shipments, under direction of the
president. Questions of profit under
this bill aro left to agreement between
the railroads. The legislation will
como up shortly In the house, where
It may enslly bo amended along the
ines of the federal trado commission's
report, and having passed In that
form, bo returned to tho senate to be
worked out In conference.
Tho emergency does not admit of
delay.
$380,000 10 BE
SPENT THIS YEAR
tallnad Failure.
Coal (his are being yanked off the
road to haul automobiles, drain cars
were diverted to haul general mer
chandise. General merchandise ears
were diverted to haul lumber for the
government concentration ramps. It
was a case of the strongest grabber
getting tho car.
The American Hallway association
reports that the car shortHge In Jan
uary of this year was f.2, 1' 1 7. in Feb
ruary It whs mj,9Si. In March It
was 1.10. 03; In April 1 CI.OMI; In
May. I IS, H!. Kvery month the short
age Is greater, the congestion worse,
and the failure of the railroads more
conspicuous.
Tho council of national defense
months ago oi'Kimlzcd a committee of
five, headed by Daniel Wlllurd, to pull
Ihe railway systems together and
make them operate as a unit. The
plan was to do it volunturlly. Hut
this means that each road and men
owner would voluntarily act against
his own Financial Interests, which was
not In he evpcrled. Therefore, the
plan has not workcrf.
Trwn'ii-MljttJmi I ntl.
The federil trade coinmlJ;lcB
kuo 1U .ubjtt ui tptui, vUlo!.
WASHINGTON, .lime 28. -The
second payment of 18 per cent for
subscribers to the liberty loan who
bought bonds on the installment pay
ment plan was due today.
The next payment of 'JO per cent
is due July 110.
No oltieial estimate has been
made of the payments on the bonds
to date, but it is believed that ap
proximately onc-foui'th lias been
paid in.
The engraved bonds probablv will
he ready next week.
Itoad work to the amount of $1,
073,000 was authorized by the state
highway commission at Portland
Wednesday. This is the first session
of the commission since the decision
of the supreme court regarding the
bonds and with the legal points set
tled the commission began today its
big constructive road program for
Oregon.Tjecoinmlsslon's policy is
to take care, first of the main trunk
roads. '
Tho commission has available for
appropriation this year $1,866,000.
Of this $1,000,000 is available from
tho $u,00rt-.M) bond Issue, $472,000
Is government forest road money
$219,000 is from the one-fourth mill
tax, and. $175,000 from automobile
licenses. During this morning's ses
slon word was received by tho com
mission that the government approves
of all tho commission's applications
for forest road money expenditures.
Appropriations made were:
Pacific highway, Douglas and Jo
sephlno counties. $280,000.
Columbia Rlvor highway, The
Dalles to -Astoria, grading, $oOO,000.
Fort Hock to Lakeview, $1.".000.
ltend to Lupine, $17. nun.
Sherman county, macadamizing.
$i:,onu.
Wasco county, graveling, $10,000.
Wasco county's money to match
forest fund, $ 1 ;!.",,000.
On tho Pacific highway the money
to be used consists ob $75,000 from
tho government, $75,000 from the
state and $200,000 of Douglas county
bond money to be expended under di
rection of the commission; with $25,
000 more allotted for next year. All
the foregoing is for work in Douglas
county. In Josephine county, adjoin
ing, $5000 of state and similar
amount of government money is as
signed for grading Wolf Creek hill.
The stretch thru Douglas and the
grading of the hill in Josephine con
stitute one of the worst sections of
the Pacific highway.
For the Columbia River highway
the commission set aside $500,000 to
take care of grading from The Dalles
to Astoria.
WITH MEDFORD TRADE
IS MEDFOBD MADE
SUITS WANTED
Will pay as high as Five
Dollars and up for good
second-hand suits.
Will buy odd coats,
hats and shoes
Phone 4 6-7
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Spending and Saving
DO BOTH. Buying what one can reas
onably alford helps tradespeople
in Medford. Saving where practical and
depositing it regularly in t lie First Na
tional Bank Iniilds up a Reserve Fund for
yourself and also contributes towards
and development of commuidty and Industry.
CAPITAL
$100,000.
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THIS IS AN AGE OF SERVICE
Like nations; business whether done on a small or large
scale must be up to "snuff" right up on it's toes all the
time. Nations will decay when service becomes obsolete
and so will business when service is cast in the discard.
It has always been our aim to sell GOOD SHOES linked
with GOOD SERVICE and in order to keep SERVICE
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT EFFICIENT we are
rounding up all the "SLACKERS" in our stock, such as
DISCONTINUED LINES AND ODDS AND ENDS
and enlisting them in our "ROUT'EM OUT SALE"
which is now on.
FIRST COST CUTS NO FIGURE, THEY MUST GO
Low SIkics
in
small sizes
at
$1.65
Pinups
and
Colonials
at
$1.95
r.utton
Oxfords,
small sizes,
at
S1.G5
The above are a few of the many bargains.
Men's loy's
Work Scout
Shoes Shoes
at ' at
$1.45 $2.65
Come, see our windows.
Sat in
Pumps .
goiiiR
at
$2.15
We have a big lino of "KKDS" in different styles, just the thinp; to wear with
white suits, easy to keep white. Wo have the verv best cleaners Prices on
'"KKDS" range from 95 lq) to 375 ;)
"JUST AS ADVERTISED" .
si";ti of
At the
21 North
Central Ave.
'Good Shoes'
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