r.
MEDFORD' MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1917
PAGE TWO
Medford Mail Tribune
AN INMKPHNIJEKT NKWKPAI'KR
PUBLISHED KVKHY AKTISKNOON
JCXCEl'T HUNDAV HY Tliifi
MEDFORD J'UINTl.NO CO.
Office Matl Tribune Hulldtng, J 5-27-2 K
.North r lT a i root; toii-pnonw ib.
Ths Democratic Times, The Mdford
man, 'i ne Ai;Qrra 'j ribunn, -j n bouih
mm Orttgonlan, The Ashland Tribune.
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor.
UBBCBIPTIOK S&TEII
One year, by mull .. .B.OO
One month, by mall -60
Pt-r month, 0diveid by carrier in
.' Mftdford, Aflhlaml, Phoenix, Tal
f ent. Jacksonville and Central
- Point - .BO
Bftturfiay only, by mall, nor year. 2,00
Weekly, per your. ... 1.60
Qfllcln) paper at the city of Mfdford.
t Official paner of Jncknon County.
f Entered aa maam-cana matter
Medford, Oregon, undar the oat of March
V, 10)9,
Sworn Circulation for 101G 2,491.
Full leaved wire Atmocluted 2'ress dls
atoh0.
I
TAX PAYMENTS
WASHINGTON,- Jly 16. lire
knots wore tied, in the Oregon and
California land grunt tax tangle
when the report from the attorney
general's office-bocamn public, re
vealing that tile interior "department
has been advised that no anlhoritv
cxistB for paying any penalties or
interest on taxes, either before or
since the pnssngo of the Chamberlain-Ferris
aet.
The situation now is so much eon
fnned thnt no one will predict what
can be done, tl appears certain thai
congress will not do anything to re
lieve the situation in view of the at
torney general's stand, which ' also
hns the- indorsement of tho interior
department ."officials.
' ' Lawsuit Is Suggested.
A lawsuit to determine whether
penalties and interest are incum
brance on the bind is thought by
some to be the only solution. The
land office officials are in a iuin
dary and have renched no deciw
ion. They nro advised that they inn
go abend and open the lauds ami let
others worry about the payment of
ponnlties and interest if the Oregon
counties insist they bo paid. An
opinion of the department of jns
tino is expected ill a report sent to
the house public lands committee,
written by Assistant Attorney Gen
Attorney General Gregory.
Interpretations Slay Differ.
"No account should be taken of
pcnnllios and interest," he snid. 'Un
der some cirsmnslnnceHI," bo con
tinues,' "Ibu word tuxes might include
peuullios n nil iuturest, but not in
this cuso where the intention of con
gress was clearly expressed."
"Taxes arc not due by virtue of
Btale laws," continues the report,
"but solely by force of an act of
congress. The obligation to pay is
that of the t'niled Slates, not of
any individual, mid it cannot be
supposed that congress intended to
make such obligation iu n lien upon
lands which is assumed ownership.
If., .t-ho Male or any uiuuiripulitw
fchould be advised it is entitled to a
larger niimunl than is ccrtilied for
payment, it innv resort to the proper
tribunal for a decision on its cl.iims.
Wm Mottle gnesllou Alter HiiIch.
"I have no doubt tho interior de
partment nuiy proceed lit once to
dispose of reverted binds and timber
thereon as provided ii; tho act, ro
dnrdlasH of any iitcstion concern
ing the aiiiouul due for tuxes,"
Tho opinion sitvs that congress in
providing for the pavineut of tuxes
did so lis a mailer of grace end lib
tmilily. The new ile etopmcnl puts
ill) end to elianci's for Mounter Cham
berlain's bill which has nlrendx
passed the Semite, nulhoriing the
pnyment of penahics mid interest up
to the dale tuxes arc paid. The
amount involved iu pi uallies and in
terest, computed to aMivh 1, 1017,
id $:i7H,mi.
" IN I.W.W. SATCHEL
JEKOMI", Aii... .Inly Hi. Two
boxes of caps used fu dclonatc dy
linuiito and enm-pitiulriirc allcu'cd
' to reveal details of Industrie) Vo'k
j t'rs of the World plan, to lie up the
j copper mining indu-trv in Anona,
I wcro found here loduv in a suitcuM'
ooiil to belong lo James (lied)
1 Thompson, known here a a h ad r iu
l. W. V. activities recently in Yn-h-'
jngtnn state. Tlmmpu.n was ,lo
jiorted With 0'i "'her men last Tue-
lny mi'l s "w 1111,1 ''"'s
eott. The snitense and its cun'cuts
were turned over lo IVdcial anthini
THE CENSUS BUREAU'S JOKE.
'-pill'': no
1115 now estimates of population issued by flic fed-
nsus bureau, based
tion are us far from being
which were based niton the population increase from 1900
to 1910, and therefore were incorrect as tar as the Pacific
const states were concerned.
Population, particularly in new and undeveloped re
gions, is based -upon economic and industrial conditions
prevalent, and it apparently never occurred to the census
bureaucrats to consult local authorities with a view to se
curing a correct estimate. The school census and the reg
istered vole were never consulted, any more than the con
ditions prevailing in the section were studied.
The years from 1900 to 1910 were years that witnessed
a great influx in immigration to the coast country a pe
riod of favorable crops, of development' and exploitation
boom years. Following the collapse of the boom came
year years of depression and poor harvests, of stagnation
in railroad building and the one great manufacturing in
dustry, lumbering and hence a loss of floating popula
tion that follows a boom. But front one extreme, the cen
sus bureau has gone to the other.
The census of 1910 gave Oregon a population of 072,703,
an increase of 02.7 percent over the census of 1900. The
first estimate of the census bureau for military registra
tion in 1917 was 802,2 10 and because the military registra
tion proved this an over-estimate, the cry was raised that
Oregon young men were slackers and did not register.
When enlistment statistics proved Oregon led the union in
numbers of volunteers, it was up to the census bureau to
revise its estimates, and this it has done upon the basis
that every section had proportionately the same number
of men of registration age. The result is a shift of esti
mated population into counties where large lumber man
ufacturing plants are in operation, and the floating popu
lation large. The new estimates give Oregon 070,092 pop
ulation. The 1910 census gave Jackson county 2,7jC. The first
estimate for military registration gave 34,558, manifestly
too high. It is not claimed that the country's population is
much greater than in 1910, when there was more or less
floating population. But there has been no decrease.
There is a larger acreage under cultivation, and many
more mines being developed. The county has held its own.
Yet Hie new census estimate gives Jackson county but
14,807 which is ridiculous as it is just about the same pop
ulation shown by the census of 1900 with less than half
the development now existing.
The absurdity of this census estimate is shown by a
comparison with the registered vole, 9801, of which 5580
are males. At the usual census eslimates of five to one,
this would give a population'of 27,900, probably near the
truth. This estimate is also borne out by the school cen
sus. 1
Under the new census eslimates, Klamath county is
driven II), 17(5 population, or almost as much as Jackson
county, altho its registered vote is but 4:00, 44 percent of
Jackson's. Malheur with a registered vote of 53.10 is giv
en almost as great; population as Jackson by an estimate
of 13,208. Other county estimates tell the snme inaccurate
story of poor, unscientific guesswork, whereby the tempo
rary population of lumber and construct ion camps are used
as a basis upon which to estimate permanent population.
Jackson ami other agricultural counties of Oregon are
shy on the proportional number of men of registration age,
because the high wages offered by war industries litis
tempted them out of the county temporarily to find more
remunerative employment elsewhere.
Outside of the slain handed Jackson county by this juke
of tin estimate, no damage can result, as it will lessen the
number of youths drafted and leave them for much needed
work at. home.
Start Now
GO into this tire question thorough
ly you can waste a lot of money
if you don't make a careful analysis
of the value you get the first price
the cost x-r mile the non-skid qual
ities the name back of the tire.
upon the militarv registra
correct as the first estimates.
When you
yuu pay for
Make Your Tire Equipment FISK
The man who has made this analysis
knows that Fisk Non-Skids are the
greatest dollar-for-dollar value on the
market. Buy NOW to know real tire
satisfaction put a Fisk on your spare
rim Renew old equipment with Fisk.
risl( Tires For Sale By
MEDFORD VULCANIZING WORKS
Medford
OF APPLE PACKING
L
WASHINflTOJf,, 3uiy 10.-' Com
munity npplo-packing bouses arc
likely to solve the problem of labor
in handling, in a short period, the
increasing apple crop of the Pacific
northwest. The success of the cen
tralized packing plants in 1910, not
previously hied to nny considerable
extent, in this region, was indicated
by the wide adoption of this plan
last season when perhaps one-fourth
of the crop in Oregon and Washing
ton was packed in community houses.
Investigations of the new enterprise
lust season conducted by specialists
in the office of markets in the United
Slates department of agriculture, and
now published ns a preliminary re
port, make available for interested
organizations and individuals, sug
gestions us to best methods of con
structing, en,uipHng and operating
such packing plants.
Admitagos Many.
The advantages of the community
over the individual or ranch plan
of packing, according to the special
ists, "are better and morn, uniform
grading and packing, obtaining ex
perienced labor more reudily and
using inexperienced Inhor more ef
fectively, using expensive labor-saving
equipment such as sizing ma
chines nnd gravity conveyors which
the small grower could not afford,
and tho simplifying and facilitat
ing of inspection work.
The community packing-house
scheme is new and consequently nn
unperl'cctcd phase of the apple in
dustry. Allbo the idea was widely
employed last year, its adaptations
were largely experimental. Investi
gation by department specialists was
undertaken to sift from tho various
plans tried, the best and most eco
nomical method of handling apples
thru all the operations of picking,
hauling from the orchard, receiving
at the packing house, grading, siz
on the ems.
Sixty Packing Plants.
Sixty pneking-honses at or near
Spokune, North Yakima, Wenatchee,
Cashmere, Kntint, Patcros, Brewster,
Okanogan, Omak, and Walla Walla,
Washington, nnd Hood River and
Medford, Oregon, were included in
the study.' Of these lit) houses. 33
were opernted ns community houses,
seven wen; operated by dealers some
what on the community plan, nnd
twenty were much houses. Individ
ual or ranch ackingt houses nnd
operations were included in the in
vestigation so that the efficiency and
economy of the two systems might
be compared.,
While the investigators preferred
not to draw definite conclusions from
a single season's work, the discus
sions of equipment, organization
and personnel, n floor unit, general
operation, and specifically the opera
tion in two typical houses, which
make up the report, provide for
growers of the northwest what
should prove a helpful summary of
methods that were most successful
last year.
pay more than Fisk prices
something thai dveilwl exist"
IEV0LUII
MADRID, July 16. Barcelona,
newspapers published a note saying
that the assembly of members of par
liament from Catalonia will be held
on Thursday, notwithstanding all de
nials, and that the organizers of the
movement count on the support of a
large part of the army.
Various defense committees on the
other hand, have held meetings to
protest agulnst and such manifes
tations. It Is asserted the army will
remain aloof from politics and obey
the government.
Sixty Catalonian senators and dep
uties asked the Spanish government
recently for administrative autono
my for ill provlces and decided to
call a special meeting of parliament
in Barcelona unless the government
summoned parliament. The govern
ment declined to convene parliament.
L PARIS, July .10. Announcement
is made that all private organizations
which desire to givo medical aid to
American troops must be uuder Red
Cross military control and supervis
ion. The Red Cross is now construct
ing the largest nitrons oxide' plant in
the world. The product, commonly
known as laughing gas, will be used
as nn .anaesthetic in all American
dressing stations and hospitals.
The First Cry
Every toman's aym
tathy responds to the
sweetness of a baby's
voice. Tho little cry
that echoes with the
arrival of the new
buby Is perhaps the
fondest and most cher
ished recollection of
our Uvea.
Thousands of moth
ers owe their pres
ervation to health and
v.'onu Tf ul preparation
strength to tho
'Mother's FrlenU".
This to an external
application which la applied to the ab
dominal muscles. It relieves the tension,
prevents tenderness and pain at the crisis
nnd enables the abdomen to expand gently.
The muscles contract nutumlly after baby
arrives and the form Is thu preserved.
It should be applied cmiiy, nignt ana
morning, during tho period of cxpecta.
tlon. Its Influence on tho uno net
work of nerves and ligaments just be
neath the skin is wonderful. It renders
them pliant, and In this wuy aid nature
to expand the abdomen without Uio usual
strain when baby is burn.
sou will llnd tlila wonderful prepara
tion on sale at every drug store. "Mother's
Friend" Is prepared by the Bradfleld Reg
ulator Co., Dept. C, 200 Lamar Uuilding,
Atlanta, Ga. They will send you an in
tensely Interesting book, without charge.
Motherhood and the Baby . A rito them
lo moll it to you. It Is of the utmost Im
portance that every expectant mother old
nature In her work. Po not neglect for a
single night to use "Mother's Friend". It
Is absolutely and entirely safe.
In This Hot Weather
- The fact that Nurml's Bread Is mix
ed by machinery and Is not adulterat
ed with human perspiration is reason
itself why you should Insist on, and
see that you get
Nurmi's Bread
11KTTUK AX1 CLEAN Ell BllKAD
At All tho Grocers.
GIM CHUNG
China Herb Store
Herb cure tor earache, headache.
catnrrh, dlphthorla, Bora throat
lung trouble, kidney trouble, atom.
aeh trouble, heart trouble, chills and
fever, cramps, coughs, poor circula
tion, carbuncles, tumors, caked
breast, cures all kinds . ot goiters.
NO OPERATION;
Medford, Oregon. Jan. 18, 1917
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
This, Is to certify that I, the nn
designed, had Tery severe stomach
trouble and had been bothered for
several years and last August was not
expected to live, sua hearing of Olm
Chung (whose Herb Store Is at S41
South Front street In Medford) I de
cided to get herbs for my stomach
trouble, and I started to teellng bet
ter as soon ss I used them, and today
am a well man and can heartily rec
ommend anyone afflicted as 1 was t
ee Glm Chung and try his Herbs.
(Signed) W. R. JOHNSON,
Witnesses:
M. A. Anderson, Medford.
S. B. Holmes, Eagle Point.
Frank Lewis, Eagle Point
Wm. Lewis, Eagle Point
W. U Chlldreth, Eagle Point
C. E. Moore, Eagle Point
J. V. Mclntyre, Eagle Point.
Oo. n. Von der Hellen. Eagle Point
Thos. E. Nlrbols, Eagle Point
. flavor. You'll like t. . Jjjj
INOORPOMATIQ
JOHN A. PERL
UXDERTAKn
Laxly Assistant
S8 SOUTH BARTLETT.
Phone M. 47 nnd 47-J-2.
Austomoblle Hearse Service.
Ambulance 8ervlce. Coroner.
"Simonizing"
Is not a catch word nor an advertis
ing phrase, but the token of a
scientific system for the
care of varnished and
enameled surfaces
IT IS A BUILDING UP PROCESS
That keeps till Destructive Elements from reach
ing the finish. IX C'LEAXIX I a Simonized Sur
face you never touch the varnish or enamel, but
the hard elastic film that covers (he surface.
Let us Siinonixe your
teed.,
Valley
The Portland Hotel
PORTLAND, OREGON
The Rose City's world-famed hotel, occupying an
entire block. All outside rooms. Superior dining
and grill service. 'Au atmosphere of refinement, with
a sen-ice of courtesy.
European Plan, $1.50 and Up
RICHARD W. CHILDS, Manager
itis the
Storage Battery
that determines whether you will
get out and crank or not. A battery
which receives the charge easily, as r
well as giving its power strongly
when neded Is the Ideal kind. We
' have it hero.
C. E. Gates Auto Co.
SUITS
rO ORDER $25.00 UP
Also Cleaning, Pressing and Altering
128 E. MAIN. UPSTAIRS
car. Satisfaction guaran-
Garage
jLEIN
I In for j
vilEDFonry
1
ir
ties'.