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PXCIE FOUR SfEDFOTtD MATE TRTBUNTC, HfEDFORD, OttEfiON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 25; 1917 Medford Mail Tribune AN INDKPKNDKVT NKWKI'AI'KU PUBMKIIKO BVKKT AKTKICNUON JflXCKI'T HUNOAT BY TUB MIS UFO RO PIMNTINCI CO. Office Mull Trlhun Rulldltig, 25-87-29 North Mr st r' I ; tt-iepnon (u. Tha Democratic Tfmpa, The Medford Vail, The Medfurd Tribune. The HouUi rn Oroffonlan, The ANhiund Tribune. GBORGH I'UTNAM. Kdltor. SUBSCRIPT XO If SATE! I una year, by mull.. 1500 One month, bv malt Fr monin, ai.nvrra oy earner in Medford, Ahland, rhouiiJx, Tal ent, JuckHoiivllle and Central Point - .60 Pa turd ay only, by mall, par year t 00 Wekly, per year- .......-. 1.60 Official paper of the City of Mpilford. umciai paper or jncKHnn uouniy. RAPID STRIDES IN PREPAREDNESS Entered bb acrond-clnHS matter at Medford, Oregon, under the act of March Sworn Circulation for 11)16 1,491. jii;.miii;r tir tub akhociatkd I'liKKH Villi l.r-ncil Wire Service. The Assn rlnle.l Pn-KH In exd iiHlvely cnlltlcil to I lit; MKe tor repnhlteilt Ion or itll new creillled to it or not nlherwlHe crcilil,- In thin imper. iinrl nlsn the loenl news puhlixhfMl herein. All rlarlllH of repiib- iifHiinn or Mpecial uispulclicH herein hi Ulan reserved. SOMA, J'Jtursdiiy, Aug. , 23, vin Ilorlin nnd London, Aug. 2.). "Wo want penco nnd desire lo end this terriblo blutidKhcd," sniil I'reniicr Ifndosluvoff, iu an interview on Ibe papal jioueo note. "Wo Imvo been emphasizing thiH ntltludo for more thnn a yenr. Lust December we of fered peneo to the entente, but it preferred lo Keck ils fnrlunen in a continuances of the war. In the nine inontliH intervening oar military sit witinn lias beconio nino times more i'nvorohlc nnd every day proves it is becoming still stronger. , "I do nut believe the pope sought to get ill eontacl wilb the different government heads before transmit ting the nolo fur the purpose of dis covering if they desired peace. Tile entente appears to make every effort to prepare public opinion for a brusque refusal of papal mediation ivhei-cas tho central powers welcome it with sincere sympalhy. "The ceiilral powers will make conerclo proH)snls in keeping with the papal note nnd will answer it in dividually. Whether peace will come soon, who run sayf Wo want peace, but aro calmer than ever, nor are we asking for peace for the benefit of mankind. We desiro pence to come soon nnd unless this occurs before Ion;; the entente iilone will have oc casion to regret it." I COMMUNICATION. To tho Kdltor: 11 1h highly comemlahlo that the City council, under tho patriotic, sug gestion of Councllinuii Kocno. should nmko nil effort to secure, for tho use ot tho cltleiiH ot Medfgrd, firewood at less thnn prevailing rates and such us are certain to follow unless some t'hniiKo Is brought about, nnd I sug gest that whtlo engaged In this Inud nblo work tho council also inquire Into tho rauso of tho present high cost of bay. Many cows are owned in our city by wage camera and wid ows, wllh young children, the milk from which cows furnishes the most substantial diet Tor the children. Or. Kneno has stated that there Is plenty of hay In tho valley that can lie bought for t"0 n ton which, based on tho cost of production. Is an exorbit ant price. 't,MV Families can economise In tho use of wood. As of old, thefninlly circle can bo formed In the kitchen where tho nuts, pop corn nnd apples will possess as attractive flavor as when served in tho parlor, heal at nil un necessary cost, but no economy enn bo practiced In feeding a mllk-produe. Ing cow. As .vol no ((hisses have been lnvonted that, filled to ber eyes, will convince ber Hint she Is rut In k stircu lont liny when It Is discarded farm roughage. Sbo must have milk-producing feed or there wll bo no milk for tho babies. llroaden your views nnd efforts, gentlemen of tho council. J. P. IWYXK, .' ' Of the Vnlon Stables. WANT LEADER TO TEACH IN UNIVERSITY OF OREGON MI.'CIKNK, Aug. 25. The United States war department yesterday, through the military attache of the British embassy at Washington, asked for rolenso of Lleutennn-Colo-nel Leader of Hie Drltlsh army from acrvlco In Kngland, flint ho may bo conio military Instructor In tho Uni versity of Oregon at tho opening of school, October 1, according to Karl W, Onthnnk, secrctsry to President Cnmpbell of tho university. AlTOJUST lias seen the military preparations of the United Slates go forward with leaps and bounds. two million tons of shipbuilding under construction has been commandeered by the government and eight millions tonnage ordered. Airship construction and training is Doing levcrislily rushed. (treat quantities of arms and munitions are being piled up for future use. Cantonments lor army training are Hearing completion. Troops are being rushed to France. When war was declared, out armed forces were 332,000 men. Today we have close to a million and have trained the men who will train the next million.. America is per forming the most gigantic feat of military preparedness in history. More than one-half of the f87,000 men in the first quota of the new national army have been paused. Before October all will he in camp. Pershing has a considerable force already partially trained in France. For the early spring drive in 1918, he will have 473,000 thoroly trained and equipped, men. By the end of March the national army will have convicted f-ix months' training. British infantrymen now go to! France after sixteen weeks' trainintr, are tested ciirht davs and sent to the trenches, so that if it is required, a million Americans will be ready for the April offensive w.ith half a million under training in reserve. The war department states that all deficiencies in sun- lilies for this army has been met, including heavy ordnance aim maciiine guns, as wen as tne rule supply problem. Germany may sneer now at the war prepa rations of a non-military, peaceful nation like the kaiser sneered at Great Britain's "contemptible little army" but the fran tic peace et t orts lie is making shows the sneer a stage play. xnu uijiiii-iiiijuiiii-a iire ueai.mg duck Ills JllVlllClUlCS wherever they meet, and the sneered-at democratic armv oi. America, win eempiere tne "canning ot tne kaiser." ' THE PRO -GERMAN MYSTERY : , ; T? AIvTjY in the war, when the kaiser's gray legions, pre pared to the last button, were ruthlessly crushing the ueigians aim reienuessiy pusnmg back the French and the English, there was heard nowhere iu this country a call for peace. Later, when Iliiidenburg captured and killed the TCus- r.ians in tlie marshes of: Fast Prussia bv the hundreds of thousands, there was heard nowhere in this country a call jor peace. J he months rolled by and, altho stopped at the Manic nd pushed back to the Aisne, thintrs seemed to be y-oinn- 11 ...li-l. J-l... 1...: 1 t l 1 . I e . , . CT wi-ji wiiu uic Kaiser, jie inrew nis forces !ar into Jiussit lie neiii j.elgium in a vice. Jle stranuled Serbia, tte ruined nnd .ravaged northern France. J housands of all nations were killed. Yet none of this butchery, this loss, made any impression upon the peace advocates. They spake not and they wrote not. They were silent as the tomb. , But when the tide seemed definitely to turn, when Eng land at; last had a. great army iu the field, when the allies exceeded the Germans not only in men. but in cruns and shells, suddenly the peace advocates came to life, with a noise which has redoubled since this country entered the war. In brief, when Germany seemed on the point of win ning, our precious professional peace advocates kent their mom us cioseiy sunt. I n recent mouths, when the cards are against the kaiser, our same precious peace advocates meat an over t lie place. AVliy 'J The answer is easy. A peace advocate who scorns peace when Germany is winning and yells Ins Head oil tor peace when Germany is losing, is just, as iierman as 1 lie kaiser, le is n av nr Hi German game. An advocate of peace for such a pirate crew is doing Germany's dirty work and till his fine sentiments and Inglilaliilin speeches cannot conceal the fact. He stands just, as guilty, and more guilt v, than the tens of thousands of pro-Germans in this country who are iinelinir the Kaisers miny gtjin in their pockets. FARMERS AND SUGAR COMPANY ARE PARTNERS .With Medford trade is Medftid mode One of the most Important slops ever taken In the beet sugar Industry In Vlah and Idaho Is announced today. At the regular monthly meeting of Iho lsiard of directors of the Utah Idaho Sugar company tho question of contracts with tho fanners for the beet supply of IMS was considered Action was taken thus early, la-fore the present crop was harvested, for Iho reason that many farmers are now pulling their laud Iu shape by rail plowing nnd otherwise, for next year's crop, nu IniiMirtaut step lo assure stic ks. Many others will do so as soon us the beets nro harvesteil; wllh the present high price of wheat ami Ibe uncertain oullooU of potato prices, some fanners are In a stale oT nucer talnty as lo tho division of their crops fur 1!HS. and the sugar company fell thai I he present was tho time lo lay before iho fanners a proposition which It was deemed would fully meet their wishes, ami once anil for all setlle tho agllalleu over I t prices which si title, iho oiK-nlng of each conlrncl season. Ibe company was further Im pelled to lake a step that marked a new departure In the relations be tween the Invt grower nnd tho inanii- factttrer, for the reason that the mi thorltles iu Washington have redou bled (belt iiH-als for a greater supply of sugar for 1!HS than ever before in tho history of the sugar Industry. The Now I'lan, The new plan, nilopicd by iiuani- lls profits with the farmers on the fol lowing basis: Klrst, contracts' for Wets during 1(118 will he made on the basis or 17.00 per ton as at tho present, tho heels to contain in per cent su gar. This assures the farmer of a Rood profit, regardless ot any other consideration, us the nverage cost or production Is about Jl.r.n ior ton ot Is-els, leaving Ibe growers a profit of I:!. till per ton on an average crop. Second, tlie sugar company will re lain a profit of Jl per too Minuds ot sugar, and all oilier profits above that figure will be equally divided between the farmers and the company. The fanners are to lie allowed to name their own exiiert n-prostnUve or representatives to examine (be su gar company's Imoks to satisfy them selves as to tho cost of production, os-iallon and all other questions hi which they may be Interested, and tlu sugar company will pay for the ex ports' exienses. The new plan will work out In this inaiinei: Tho rarna-r will debtor his boots as hitherto, and receive payment at $7 is-r ton as usual. At tho end of the season's ois-rallous, the abso lute cost of producing sugar and tin price for which It Is sold will lie as-cerlnlin-d. lr Ihls cost, for Instance, averages fl Ml is-r hundred, and the average net price received is $i!.ro per hundred, the profit would be (2 per bundled; deducting 1 s-r hundred for the sugar company. $1 'r hundred moils vole of the board todav. bilefly w.uild ivmnlii. of which the farmers la Hint lliv sugar company will divide would rcci'lve. u ceiils uud the sugar company 60 cents, meaning that the farmer would receive at least 1.35 per ton additional (or $8.26) for his beets, based on each ton of beets yielding 250 pounds of sugar. If tho cost Is fi.GO per hundred and the Belling price J7, tho profit after deducting (1 would be J1.60 per ton or 75 cents per nun dred to the farmer and 75 cents to the company, meaning an added I1.87V4 por ton of beets or 8.87 per ton, and so on up and down tlie scale, as cost and selling prices might vary. Knrmora' Added I'roflt, It Is felt that tills plan will he re ceived with enthusiasm by the beet growers, as it recognizes a principle for which somo of them have long contended a division of the profits. An endeavor was made last year to rorm a contract vthat would be satis factory by basing the price of beets on the' price of sugar, but tho diffi culty of getting a proper working ba sis, owing to tho fluctuations, the costs of transportation to the eastern markets and other reasons caused Its abandonment. The farmers wore con suited, and many preferred the straight contract of J7 per ton, and that scale was adopted, tbe highest price up to that time ever paid for beets by any sugar company operat lug In tho -United States on 15 por cent beets. How the now plan is likely to be re ceived by the farmers was Illustrated today by the action of one of the large concerns growing beets the present season. This concern is plant ing 100 acros this year and tho man agement stated that with a minimum of ?7 per ton fonheets assured, and 50 per cent of the net profits from the salo ot tho sugar pledged in ad dition, they would Increase their spring planting of beets in 1918, 50 per cent ovor 1917. Manager Nlhlcy's View. After the meeting today, C. W. NIbley, general manager of the Utah. Idaho Sugar company, said: "I feel sure that tho action of the company in offering to share Its profits with tho farmers will meet with tho gen oral approval of tho fanners, the stockholders and tho public. It is a principle whoso correctness we have long Tecognized, and have tried to put in force before. The new ar rangement is strictly mutual and co operative and follows . the policy which tho church, one of the leading Interests of tha-wngar' company, has always advocated and encouraged.' Mark Austin,-agricultural superin tendent of the company, who is prob ably In closer touch with the beet- grjiwers of tho west than any other man In tho community, expressed the bollct that tho now proposition would bo' warmly welcomed, and that it would scttlo all existing differences nnd the agitation now going among the farmers In, somo districts. Ho looked for a heavy Increase in beet acreage next year, as a result. Salt Lake News.i ': '.' PRESIDENT NOT TO TALK PEACE TO CONGRESS WASHINGTON', Aug. 25. talk congress Unit President Wilson ir.rplit possibly address the national body on the subject of pence when he makes reply to Pope Hcncilict-- pro posal was silenced today when I In White House let it be known that tbe president has no such intention. . y EXPLOSION WAS NO ACCIDENT (Continued from page On.) vious to the explosion nnd was prob ably in the act of eiilerini; the build ing when tlie explosion occurred. Diiiustcilt was killed. 'The board in ils finiliii's slates Hint it is of the opinion thai Pam- stedt was iu no way implicated ill the explosion nnd Hint the testimony nnd ullciidinir circumstances do not in any way implicate any ammunition depot employe or any member of the amuiuiiit'ion depot guard. Xot An Accident. "Kurllicr, the bord sluli s thai nfter carefully considering- the testi mony nnd cireuinstuuoes, it is of the uniiiiimotts opinion that Hie explos ion wits not an .accident, but was due to the deliberate net of some person or s rsons unknown. The hoard, however, was nimble lo fonn an opinion as to the extet methods iiinloved by the parly or parties iruilly of having- destroyed this mag azine, such evidence, if any existed, was destroyed iu the explosion. The department and its cxM-rts arc engaged in n Iboro review and aaalv-is of all available evident v in Ihi- enso. ''Kvery effort is being" made lo ap prehend the guilly parties and lo It-f inttt-ly iiseertniu the exact milli ner in which this ile-trii-'li-e explos ion was accompli-hcd. ' 'l-'or obvious rontons Hie detail-- -if proec-liiiv cannot be made pub JOHN A. PERL UXDERTAXXS Idy Anststjuib A SOUTH 11AHTI.KTT. rhone M. 47 and 47-J-a. Auatoniohlle llsarsa Harrlc. E PALO ALTO AS WASHINGTON, Aug-. 25. Tho war department will not modify ils decision to transfer Hie forty-first divisional national guard troojis from I'ulo Alto, tab, to Cburlotte, N. ('. lieprcsentativo Kuhn of California sent a telegram to Mayor James Rolph of San l-'rnncisco today to that effect nfter u conference wilb Major General Scott, chief of stuff, and other army officials. Ifcprcscntntivc Kuhn was told that estimates of the quartermaster at. Palo Alto showed that it would take an additional expenditure of , more thnn .$-1 00,0(10, and a loss of four weeks' time in training troops to in stall the type of sewer system re quired by Hie state health iiiitliori- ties. The expense is not rejnr-let! us highly important by tbe wur de partment, llr. Kubn's message said, but time is vital, a-s troops must be got ready without delay and the Charlotte camp is now in shajie to receive the western division. The Palo Alto camp will not be ubunrlnncd, Mr. Kahn indicated. War department officials plan to continue const nu t ion there on modified lines and to get it ready in tbe winter time so that n part of the national army division to he mobilized nt American Pake, Wash., and com prising levies from all far western states can be sent to Palo Alto for training during the winter months. Another suggestion is that the I'ulo Alto oomp may be used for training aviators. Mr., Kahn pointed out that with the coast rniige hills and Hie Pacific ocean beyond to the west of the camp, tho broad floor of the Santa Clara valley around it, and Hie upper waters and marshlands of Sun Francisco bay adjacent, Hie site lent every natural ndvanlagc for the training of aviators in observation work. I WASIUNGTO-X, Aug. 25 Charges of concerted action to raise hook pa per prices were made by the federal trade commission today In formal complaints filed against 23 manufac turers and the head of their bureau of statistics. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 25. Rt. Rev. Alphonsus Joseph Clorleux, Catholic bishop of the See ot Boise, Idaho, died at a hospital here early today after an Illness of three weeks. If If you could dissect a SAVAGE you'd realize that"Heap big mileage" is built into it during every minute of its manufacture. Highest grade rubber and fabric, perfectly balanced de sign, most careful workmanship, full size. A tough road-gripping tread neither to heavy as to produce ttiff. ie, nor io light at to give iniufficient protection to the carcasa. Cuahion of high-grade reiilient rubber absorba the road ahocks Sidewall specially shaped to distribute flexing will not crack. And the carcasa fineat Sea Island cotton,long fibre.tough triple teated, built up layer by layer into the strongeat carcass that can DC made. High mileage, low cost per mile. Sold from factory to you through our own distributors. Watch for the red Savage sign. WW TIRES Heap big misags! C. E. Gates Auto Co. Medford, Oregon !lSt cS ' ' WMMks.1 V . savaGE GROFINITE TUBES The only tubes that have sraph ite vulcanized into the (dr. ace. Preterm deterioration. attesting, friction and heating. Makeisoap atone unnecessary. Length ens itie ot mue TheU. S. Department of Agriculture Endorses Drying of Fruits and Vegetables by the ELECTRIC FAN lhillcfui No. 811 snys: "The Fan method has a marked advnn ' 1a.;e in Hint the lu'otturt keejis cool owing to evaporation, while it is lieina; dried, thus tending to retain the color and eliminate spoilage," And hesides this new way of drving eliminates the biggest part of the work. It does away with a lot of canning and that's good, for jai-s and containers are very scarce and mighty high in price. All summer long, at odd times, the housewife can pick up choice bargains al tlie markets, prepare them in a few minutes, and the 1 hying goes on while she attends to something else. 15y cohl weather time she can have her home stocked up like a siege fort for the longest, hardest kind of a cold, long winter. Start right now, while garden and farm produce is plentiful. CALIFORNIA-OREGON POWER CO. 2Hi W. MAIN ST. AlKDFORl), OUKOOX if