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X Ur,VersUv ' WEATHER Maximum yesterday, 89; minimum todav, 57. FORECAST Tonight and tomorrow, continued warm. edford Mail Tribune rorty-aeventh Year. n.llv Twelfth Year. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUfiUST 9, 1917 NO. 119 . JACK DE SAULLES, SLAYER OFHER husband SELECTIVE DRAFT AMERICANS AT :t T SEE REAL WAR ML i r nrnin fniiirtm rir sm ... . . . i r AlVlrKMiA NWIIKK n NS A A N PAPtQTC QfCK IS 1M.. .-w. . w w.... uuiiv nunin 1 nun lulu ULLIl REHABILITATING ROARING AI(E IMPFAHHIVIFNT 1 FRON EAGER TO RUSSIA BEGUN BELGIAN FRONT OF PRESIDENT 1 ' . ra MEET 1 Boot's Mission Reports Officially to Washington Six Separate Re ports Workmen Dazzled by Lih- erty, But Will Do Their Share- Do Not Understand Organization. WASHINGTON, Aug. !). Amor J ica's work toward rchnhili ( ;i t itipr Iius ' sin was taken up by officials today who had before tliem tlio extensive reports nnd ndvicc of the mission headed by Elihii Root. Details of' the general report which holds out high liopes for the future of Russia. still nrc kept secret. Mr. Root believes that any information regarding the mission's finding should eome from President Wilson The white house today hail not indi cated any intention to make them public. Six special reports probably will be submitted to different departments ot the government. Upon arrival in Rassiu each commissioner was given ll special assignment to cover some particular brunch of the new govern ment to advise the Russians and be of particular aid to United States of ficials on his return home. Assignments of Members. The assignments were as follows: IgKlihu Root, ministry, Charles Kd ward Russell, workmen's council, po litical parties nnd socialists; Cyrus II. 11'eComiiok and Charles llertron, finance; James Duncan, labor; John H. M'ott nnd Charles R. Crane, relig ion; Major General Hugh ,. Scoll, nnnyj Rear Admiral James II. (ilcu non, navy. Reports on labor conditions par ticularly aro being eagerly awaited by government officials and labor leaders because of the great, activity of workingmen in (ho formation of the new government, and Ilio con flicting unofficial reports on that feature of tli,e situation. Although Mr. Duncan has not completed his special report, he gave an outline tit' some of the principal features of it today, to set at rest conflicting stor ies. AVorknien Doing Share. ''The Russian workingman certain ly will do his share," -Mr. Duncan said. "lie has done it already ami lie is entering into the spirit of the new government with a whole heart. Vhen the scheme of government fin ally is rounded out he will be found to have a big hand in it, and he will discharge bis dufivs property. "(iradually the working men arc assimilating Hie idea of organization and I expect llicin to round out some sort of a federation cinhro-ing both skilled and unskilled luhor, nunc similar, perhaps, to the Hrilish sys te mthan to ours. While 1 was in I'ctrograd a meeting of twenty-nine trades was held for the purpose of organizing, mid the men listened with apparently keen interest to mv ex planation of how labor operated its organizations in Ibis country. 1 do not know what the results f thai meeting have been, hut when we left Hie outlook for effective organiza tion was splendid. Jii7..lcd by I'leodom. "Hussion workiugmeu still are daz zled by their fr linn to organize. Of course, under this czar they had ii" lhor organizations, because such bodies were regarded as revolution ary, and its iVicnibers were subject lo the severest penalties. Now thai they have organisations they scarce ly know how to operate llicin. II is (Continued on page six ) CHICAGO, Aug. !). Indications that an anti-Aincriciin influence is at work in South Chicago to instruct naturalized Americans in evading the draft were revealed at the exemption headquarters there today. Numerous laborers described bv officials of the hoard ns bandy able to speak or comprehend F.mjli-h. di-plnycd as tonishing familiarity with the proced ure of the office, in seeking special exemption form?. Their names were turned over to federal official's for investigation. ENEMY INFLUENCE IN DRAFT RESISTANCE British Effect Gain Near Bixscoote Odessa German Objective in Rus sian Drive Russian Resistance Strengthening Another Flanders Drive Expected. ltKIJMN, Aug. !). The artillery duet in Flanders has again increased to the greatest intensity, reKrts the German general staff. The bombard incut was particularly heavy on the German coast and from Dixschoote to Hollebekc. Associated Press 811111111017. News from the Flanders front shows that the Hritish effected a gain near Hixschoutc, the extent of which has not yet been given out. The front jn France was inactive last night, except for the customary artillery bombardment in the Aisne region, and .somewhat lively raiding operations on the part of the French forces. Recent advices from southeastern Russia have reflected the opinion there that the Teutonic offensive in Galicia and ISukowina had the Mack sea port of Odessa in view, with the rain crops in Bessarabia the imme diate objective! Whatever the aim of the Teutons, however, the stiffening of the Rus sian defensive, is at least slowing down their advance, having appar ently checked it altogether in some sectors. Odessa Is Objoctivo. LONDON, Aug. !). Recent reports that the present German offensive in southwest Russia is aimed nt the aiptiire of Odessa are' strengthened by a dispatch to the Times from thnr ily, saying the belief is growing that the port is Germany's main objec tive, and that Bessarabia will soon become the principal theater of op erations, as the enemy presses to ward Odessa. The, correspondent udds that the harvest is now being reaped in southern Russia and the eneniv doubtless will try to secure it before it can be removed. French Make Gain. LONDON, Aug. il. Another gain of ground by French troops on the Flanders front, northwest of liix- lioote, is reported in today's of ficial statement in the Franco-HoX- gian front operations. "French troops have made prog ss northwest of Rixschootc. A party of the enemy which endeavored lo approach our lines yesterday inn th of Roeux was driven off with loss hv our fire."' PA I! IS, Aug. 0 In the region of 'bevrigny and the Pantheon, there vii s arlillerv activity last niidil. says the official report given out today iv the French war ollice. "Mirth ot I'aux les Palaiacix, on the Aisne front, r'rench detachments cleared a ronton trench, inflicting losses on tlie (ioniums, and returned to their own lines, unhurt. L " LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. !. A icavy hail storm, accompanied by iich winds nail rain, swept central icliriiska yesterday afternoon, and cports today show thousands of dol iirs' damage done to crops and prop rty in a strip I JO miles long and roni four to ten miles wide, extend ng from the vicinity of York, Neb., ."the Kansas line. Thirty thousand ipiare feet of glass were broken in lores and dwellings, small buildings, urns nnd windmills destroyed, roofs ,oro wrecked anil crops beaten to the ground by the hail. No loss of life s reported, hut tliou-imds ot hi kens wen' killed nnd livestock .of fered from pelting by the hail. Wire communication was cut off or the day, but most ot the service las been resumed today. Hail tones, described as being as large 11 ois.dialls nnd cups, covered the ground in some places to 0 depth of from six to ten inches. Senate Committee Room Obtained by Ruse and Repeal of Draft Law De mandedMember of Ford Peace Party Presets Gronna and La Follette Praised. WASHINGTON," Aug. 9 Some pacifists' held a- meeting under, the dome of the enpitol today, demanded that congress stay in session until it hud reienlcd the draft law and voie ed threats to impeach President Wil son unless that was done. Senators nnd congressmen,. invited to attend the meeting, under the aus pices of the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace, dropped into the room nnd then drop ed out again, ns the speeches pro ceeded. The meeting was held in the senate militury committee room, where a few weeks ngo the draft law was drawn and perfected. How the meeting came to be held there de veloped considerable feeling among senators. . Asked for hy McBHde. Chairman Chamberlain of the mili tary committee suid he luid permit ted the use of the room when Isaac M'cliride, formerly secretary to the late Senator Lane of Oregon, asked him for it, ji'to have siimo friends meet some congressmen." Senator Chamberlain said ho had no idea the place was to be used for an attack upon the president. Louis P. Loehner of New York, n member of the Ford peace party, pre sided. The burden of the speeches was that n majority of the people wure opposed to- thu draft law and that it should be repealed. II. J. Lemke, republican" state chairman of North Dakota, declared that the views of Senator Gronna of that slate and the views of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin agreed with tlio sentiments of the people of North Dakota. Pacifist Speakers Gronna and La Follette both voted against the war resolution. Senator Gronna and Representa tive Keating of Colorado were the only congressmen to remain during the entire meeting. The speakers included Frank Stephens of Arden, Del.; Daniel Kiefer, chairman of the National Sin gle Tax league; T. II. Lundy, chair man: Professor Paul R. Dana of Co lumbia university; Max Eastman of New York, editor of The Musses, barred from the mails, nnd a number of representatives of labor unions in Philadelphia and New York. APACHE LEADERS TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 0. With the arn'st of two ringleaders among the Apache Indian strikers nt the asbes tos mines in tlio Sierra Anchas mountains, fears of a spread of the uprising have been allayed, accord ing to a. dispatch this morning from the Sim Carlos Indian reservation. Officers are bringing the two arrest ed men, known ns "Montana'' nnd "Johnny" Cook, to Globe on charges of disturbing the pence. Rains of th last two nights and efforts of the forest rangers have checked the forest fires, which were said lo have been started by the Apache strikers at the mine. None of the white miners who took refuge in a mountain puss when the Indians went on strike, have been injured. All have returned to the asbestos work ings. It was first reported they hud taken refuge in a "dugout'' lit the mine. NAVY PURCHASES YEAR'S SUPPLY OF PINEAPPLES WASHINGTON, Aug. 0. The navy department today placed or- lers for I ,(387,51 10 -hjiiikIs of canned pineapple, a year's supply for the Atlantic fleet and east coast navy yards and stations. Five firms with canneries in Honolulu received the order. Orders for a similar supply for the west const yards will be plac-i ed later, By HELEN TODD. (Secretary of the International Child Welfare League or America.) (Copyright 1917 by tlio Ntnvspupcr En terprise Association.) NEW YORK, Aug., . The killing of Jack Do Studies by his wife was to.be expected; you can't decree that motherhood and wifehood shall be the one dominating thing of importance in a woman's life, then take that away from her, and not expect some kind o nn explosion. "A woman's whole life is her love life. Her personal relationship us 'a wife and'mothei', society has decreed and woman has accepted as the cen tral dominating influence in her life. JIoconicN Unbalanced, Whoji her fnith in her husband is destroyed and she is shocked into a realization that her love. dream has crashed intii nothingness; when in addition. to that the child that she bus borne is kept away from her by the husband who has proved unfaith ful; it is no wonder that the mind of the woman becomes temporarily un balanced and that a tragedy such as this shooting occurs. The wife who obtains a divorce from an unfaithful husband ought to have the custody of her child or chil dren. Any other arrangement is only an lidded cruelty. I do not say for a moment that the father should not be permitted to see the child. Many fathers who have been unfaithful to the women llftiy married love their children ns much as ever. Mother IJ10 Protector. But the mother is the proper pro tector for her child. Society hns exulted motherhood and declared that it is the supreme duty utf wo'inen to be mothers. Then let society take care, that il carries out its duty to the mother. This girl for she is little more than a girl, beautiful, eulliired, re fined was wooed and won by lie Saullcs, who pursued her lo Paris to press his suit, lie is reported to have said of her that he thought her the most beautiful woman in the world. Idealized in this way, sho un doubtedly believed that she would 11I ways hold the affections of her hus bnnd. But a few years shuttered her dream. She was compelled to sue for divorce because another woman hud entered her husband's life. With nothing left of her love-life except her Imi.v, she found that she would mil even luivo him. The court decreed that the erring father was In have the child part of the year. The young mother, torn with an guish al not being able to have her child with her, with her love-life shattered, simply became lcinwirnr 1 1 v unbalanced. The tragedy was the result. Man lo Itlanic. The lesson is that-man-made insti tutions, and man-controlled courts, ought not to try to take children away from mot tiers. Children were made principally for mothers, just ns mothers were made for children. Something will break (Continued on page tlx.) n AMti.Mi him. Aug. ti. con gress may turn itself jnto a great chautauqua when it finishes work here, to enlighten every section of the country on the need for prose cuting the war vigorously, not only us a war for world democracy, but ns a fight for American rights and preservation. President Wilson himself may "do his bit" in the same direction, pos sibly by a .speech on some occasion, or by a letter to congressional leud ers. . Tlio plans wero in n nebulous Htuto today, congressional lenders were talking .of practically putting con gress on the slump by asking every representative and senul'or to go thru his district during the recess, speak ing on the part of the United States iit the war and emphasizing that the United States is fighting for tho fu ture, not for the world, but of itself. Those who favor tho plan point out that the eountry is bearing many agitators who oppose the draft nnd participation in the war. They think that fathers nnd mothers who arc giving sons to thj colors should hear something on tho other side of the question and from official sources, T LONDON, Aug. ib-l'nul I'ninlcvc the French minintor of war, accord ing to the Evening Herald, said be fore leaving London nt the conclus ion of the entente nllied conference: "America is quickly solving the tonnage problem and will heroine n fruitful field for airplane, machin ery, steel ami fond. Then, in time for the decisive lull lien, will come her great annj(Si ,.r p,, wil he great. Together the Hrif ikIi, Ameri can and French armies will exert continuous pressure on the enemy with staggering blows. The Kiissinn trouble will pans. We must be calm nnd patient. Hritish and French sol diers know I lint, sucecss is' certain and that it depends only upon I valor and steadiness of themselves and their allies' CHANGE DRAFT LAW E! liAKh, Autr. That mem bers of the t'niled Stales senate mil itnry committee are unanimously in favor of chanKinir the draft law to making iinnaturali.ed residents Hid) ject to its provisions, was the miiIi stance of a telegram today to A. L. Kelly, president of the Hingham Commercial club, from Senator Sinoot,' Senator Smoot's wire waft u reply In n protect of Hinham that the city would be left in thu hands 1' foreigner, if the present draft law is finally effected. New Regulations Grant Underweight Allowance of From Five to Six Pounds Poor Teeth That Can Be Remedied by Dental Work No Ex cuse Hereafter. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 lieviscd regulations to govern physical ex amination of men registered, under tho selective draft were issued today by Surgeon Ganeral Oorgns of the army, and commjiuicated to tho gov ernors of states for tho information of tho local examination bonrds. Tho changes deal, for the most part, with questions of proportionate weight and height, but may result in tlie recall of some men rejected here tofore on physical grounds. The new regulations grant an un- derwieght allowance of from fivo to six pounds for men between 04 nnd 67 inches in height, to 12 pounds for men above 75 inches. Tho effect of tho instructions is to reduce the nor mal weight requirements for tall men. Itiedueo Weight Iteqiilrcnicnts. An additional half-inch allowance on chest expansion also is allowed to men nbovo 08 inches 111 height where thero is no sign of disease. Men with poor teeth nlso will be more closely scrutinized hcreu f ter. Where dental work will restore the teeth, they will bo enrolled. A punctured ear drum is found to bo no barrier provided the hearing is half normal. Modifications are made also in sight requirements, which will givo physicians wider liilifudo in ac cepting men despite somo defects of vision. Provost Marshal General Crowder has urged prompt action by tho local hoards in certifying as held for sor vieo men who make no claim for dischargo or exemption. Dully 0Kirt Itcqiilrisl. A daily report from the district boards is mptired at the close of each days work, nnd,' similarly, dis triet boards' will report each night to tho adjutant general the men finally accepted. "Tho government will call upon lo cal and district boards to furnish one-third of their quoin on Septem ber 1," General C'rowder's message says, under the heading: "Iho First Call to the Colors." Local boards arc urged not lo slop examining men when the quota has been nuichod. The boards should be certain beyond doubt thul enough men have been certified, the slate ment says, (icnerat Crowder also slates Hull men serving prison terms for misdemeanors are not exempt. If Hie civil nuthorilies will not re lease them for mililary service, they will bo required to present them selves for cxiiiuiniition when their prison terms have been completed. FOOD BILL FRIDAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 0. -All is in readiness today for putting the ad ministration's food control and food rtiirvey hills into effect as soon 'ns they become law with President Wil koii'h signature. The president will sign the hills tomorrow after tlie pre siding officers of the senate and hmise affix their signatures to the measures. This could not be done today hc-atisc neither bouse was in session. Final congressional action came late yesterday, when the senate ap proved Iho conference reports on both bills. I hey already had been approved by the houe. The first step in putting the new legislation into operation probahly will be the apl.oiutment hv the presi dent of Herbert C. Hoover as food administrator. ABKKDKKN. S. I)., Aug. !.- A light froxt last niuht thru the north eastern portion of South Oakota was reported here? today. It was believ ed no damage was fonc to crops. The mercury here dropjH'd to 44 de grees above zero, Troops Rapidly Absorbing War Knowledge Instruction Is by French Experts Morale of Al lies to Be Deciding Feature of the Conflict Strong Support. AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP .IN KUANCK, Aug.- D. Tlio doopost tm prosslon one gains after throe weeks with the American soldiers training In Franco is tho absolute earnestness with which the splendid young men of tho army have undertaken the task which Is beforo them. Thero Is no disposition on their part or on the part ot their officers to underesti mate tho seriousness of that task and tho hard work which romalns to be dono beforo America can tako her place. In tho actual tiring line. Tho troops that are'hore foel their responsibility keenly. There aro In deed tho small but effective nucleus about which will he builded the great army machlao which the United States holies eventually to have On the battlo fields ot Prance. Seeking Knowledge Tho mon aro earnest in their dc-. alio to absorb war knowledge as quickly nnd as thoroly as possible, so that wlion culled upon to act as In structors lo succeeding units they will ho found eminently qualified. A great deal ot this earnestness and this1 will to do, is largely tho result ot tho enthusiasm ot tho young offi cers who 1)ut recently Joined the col ors and have taken up tho business of war with a courage and determina tion that means volumes to the fu ture of their country. In return for this Borvlo of patri otism. In return for sacrifice already mniio, and tho still greater ones to co mo. tho officers and men alike of tho expeditionary force want to fool always Hint they hnvo on understand ing of sympathy and ot support from "tho folkB buck home." Faro to face with the groat adven ture, all thoughts ot solf are things of homo nnd tho hope In tho soldiers of tho past. There Is only tho thought that what ho Is about to do will bo understood nnd appreciated thoro. Itiiilillng of Machinery. Under tho best circumstances, the training of soldiers In tho over changing methods of modern war Is a labor requiring months ot patient ef fort. Six months Is the Idoal training period hut Ibis rule applies to armies which havn boon fighting thrco years and havo all Iho machinory establish ed thru which the men aro passed smoothly nnd unendingly toward tho front. Tho building of Ibis machinory tho great eiiKino of war which works behind tho lines is tho staggering tank now being dealt with. It is a task in a way greater than anything Franco or ('.rent Britain havo bcon called upon to do, for America's prob lem nro those of Franco nnd Great ilrltalii multiplied by 31)00 miles of Atlantic oceiin. The army that Is hero ronllzes all these difficulties, but It nlso has an iiiiKhnlicablo fnith In American gonliis for accomplishment nnd nbovo all others, In tlio American will. Tho way to the trenches Is long nnd hard. Tho dally drills and tasks necessarily are 'much Iho same thing over nnd over iigutii, all of whlrhj means a dearth or real news Just now. l'rencli Are lostl'iicloi'S. It Is not known how much longer the French Instructional division will remain Willi tho Americans. Tho (Continued on tags Two.) I'F.TKOCUAIl, Aug. 9.. ll'rcniler Kerensky, in nil appeal to tho peoplo for support of the re-constituted gov ernment, declares that only a rule of Iron in Hie present plight, resulting from th military situation, together with ardent and self-sacrlfleing slip port hy the people, run make for a powerful, creative government with authority to free tho land of tho en emy and nllnt In Its work ot recon struction all tho living forces ot the nation.