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Offlrlnl paper of the City of Mpdrord
Official papor of Jackson County.
Entered as aecond-clasH matter
Mdfird, Oregon, under the act of March
9, 19 1V,
Bworn Circulation for 1916 2,491.
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DEFEATS U-BOATS
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug.
10. (Correspondence of the Asso
ciated J'ross.) ;A record convoy has
Just reached Rollordum from Kng-
lund, limnliorlllK 17 fillips. Tho es
corting squadron was likewise prob
ably an easy record for this route,
comprising, an It did, 40 torpedo do
slroyors.
Tho Ilrltlsh convoy between Ilrlt
aln and Holland In now a regular 1
Blltutlon, and Is doubtless typical of
whnt taken placo on a far wldor and
extending Bcala In tho entente ship
ping world. Tho non-admittance of
urmcd merchantmen to Dutch ports
has made convoying essential on this
route.
Times of sailing are kept secrot.
The boats collect somewhere In Urlt
Ish waters, and Hailing orders reach
them on short notice. The crossing
frequently takes placo at night. Some
of tho escorting destroyers go on
ahead; olliorn rush along at groat
speed on either flnnk of the mer
chantmen, turning and twisting and
making nil kinds of strange evolu
tions calculated to ward off and en
danger tho lurking tlorman subma
rine. Three or four 'Dutch boats ai'o
often Included In tho convoy, for tho
crossing of tho North Sea alono, with
no protection save that of a neutral
flag, has' proved to be merely asking
for destruction.
Arrlvod on the Netherlands side,
the escorting squadron slops short
on tho border of Dutch waters, and
the merchantmen go safely on Into
their ports of destination, constantly
passing close by tho Gorman cargo
boats that have taken recently to
trading with coal between Rotterdam
and Scandinavian ports through the
channel of Dutch territorial waters.
Shortly aftorward a returning con
voy, which hns been lying In tho new
wntorway, omerges and, under the
protection of tho warships, swiftly
takes Its way wostward, heavily lad
en with such products ns Dutch
cheese, butter, eggs and meat. Of
late the convey haB crossed and re
crossed In this wny once a week, In
cidentally conveying tho mull either
way. The mall fro mlCnglnnd is al
ways Tory considerable, Including
lug something like lTi.nnO or 20,000
parcelB of food for llrltlsh prisoners
of war In Oermnny. Occasionally n
straggler falls virtim to a torpedo
nnd mine victims used to bo heard
of, hut tho convoy method on the
whole appears to bo remarkably successful.
A WET spring brought forth inane, jibes from oppon
ents of irrigation in tin; valley. Jn spite of three
years of fro) failures, they had learned nothing.
We had the wet spring and the usual dry summer.
Even the wet spring did not atone for the dry autumn and
the deficiency in usual rainfall. One has but to look at
the harvest to comprehend that. irrigation is essential to
increased output for not one year in six does the mois
ture come at the right Reason of the year. The dry sum
mer is reflected in decreased yields for th.e ensuing year,
as well as poor crops for the present year.
There are exceptions which only prove the rule. A very
few by the aid of unusually fine soil and persistent culti
vation raised a good crop, but it is the average of all. the
total output of the valley, that counts. ' '" '"
Opponents of irrigation are governed by short-sighted,
selfish policy. They would retard the progress of all und
er the impression that they are benefiting themselves
yet in the long run they are injuring themselves. We are
all dependent upon the prosperity of the many, not the
success of the few. There is no objector to irrigation who
would not be benefited . by it in increased yield
and increased value of property, and by the
industries, payrolls and population that naturally follows.
.1 Ins is a cooperative world ol: ours, and when the
welfare of the many conflict with the selfishness of the
few, the latter must give way. The majority must rule
and the minority accept the decision with good grace.
The welfare of the valley demands irrigation, it de
mands the district plan of securing irrigation to water
users, for privately owned water systems are unsatisfac
tory to water users. It has been proved many times.
A privately owned svstein is impossible and impractical,
because entailing too great a cost per acre. The land
owners should own their own water svstein and control
it nnd this is only possible under the district plan.
The pepole of the Talent district, comprising the south
end of tho valley, have gone ahead, organized and voted
bonds to secure the water, despite opposition of reaction
aries, lite people or the Oolu JIill district, comprising the
north end ot the valley, have done the same.
Are the progressive people of the central and most fer
tile section' to refuse to follow these examples north and
south at the dictates ol. a lew large land owners avIioni
policy is to block progress 'if
CONSERVING LOCAL WHEAT
L
rOI'KXHAOKM, Aug. 31j The
TacgUcho ltundscbau of llerlln gives
a new version of the reason for Ihe
retirement of the Polish council of
slate, snylng that Instead of resign
ing it wsh dissolved beenuse It ven
tured to present an ultimatum to the
(Jonnan government on military
questions. Tho retirement of the
council hns brought out the fact that
nt'tho confidential cslon of the
rolchstug main committee ou Mon
day tho majority parll rl -matided
tho establishment of a rI!y repre
sentative nsicmliljr a:wl a r t-"nr"e
ministry in Poland a '" hiti t.'i"
Huntlsehau declare wonld l-.vl t't an
immediate demand for the withdraw
al of Germans from Poland.
The Pan-German newspapers have
begun a campaign for the abandon
ment of the idea of a Polish king
dom. Newspapers of all shades ol
opinion ngren that there is little or
friend hip for Germany among the
Polish population.
RESOLUTIONS declaring that Oregon grain should
be milled within the state and only the flour export
ed, and that every county should have its own agricultural
agent to cooperate with the iariners in speeding up pro
duction, ,; were adopted, .by the food product ion and
conservation committee of the state council ol" defense
at its first meeting 'field jn lrtl.iiu jhls wV(k j j
The resolutions .express the ojju.iion, of the committee
that the stock und dairying.indiisl ntis will .suffer severe
ly if wheat is exported whole., .The outer .parts, jt was de
clared, are needed f6r' feed. A comniitte was appointed
by W. J ..Kerr, chairman,' trj cooperate with farmers to
the end that sowing of winter Wheat and rve be largely in
creased. 1 " ' ', V.' ' o
The Mail Tribune has many t imes' commented upon the
folly of shipping wheat out of the liogue l.Jivcr valley, to
be imported later at a much' increased cost as flour and
feed, when we had idle flour and grist mills-in the valley.
We do not begin to raise enough wheat locally to supply
local demands, but. most, of what we do raise is bought by
speculators or outside mills to be shipped back laler with
speculators' profits and railroad charges added. In addi
tion, the millers' charges and profits are lost, to the valley.
This item is but one of many instances whereby the val
ley is unnecessarily impoverished and the balance of trade
kept on the wrong side through lack of cooperation. It is
up to our bankers, business men and fanners to get to
gether and remedy this defect, for U'ogue lliver valley
wheat should be milled within the county.
1'egin food conservation at home.
CIHMSTIANIA, Am;. Ill Three
(Icrnian spies have been convicted ut
llcrgcn for supplying iul'onniilion to
submarines regiirdiuK the sniliug lime
ol' vessels which later were torpe
doed, t'nplnin Lnvcn and (ll'ljeev
Schwartz, (ierman citizens, and M.
Tlioisen, a Norwegian, nil were gicn
terms in Hie penitentiary. ,vcn was
sentenced to five years, Schwartz lo
four, end ThorM-n to ten Years im
prisonment. Captain Linen nilmiltcd tbal lie
oikcd under in-lrnelions from the
Oeiiuan authorities. !( said tl.i'l
Herman subjects were forced to obey
such orders.
Norwegian newspapers in con,,
mentin on the trial cuuilntsi.ed (bat
tlie country must take note of the
fact that (lenn.'iu suhjcrK mut obey
orders f'mm their own 'iiunlrv.
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TO BE CANDIDATE
XKW YOKK, An. 31.- Will'mm R.
Hrnrst will not lu a oniididuto for
ltmyor of New York lit tho eoniini:
elect ion. His lU'cIinattnn to allow his
name to iippear on tho ballot at the
eoniini priinantis was tiled with the
hoard of elections today, tho last
day under the law lor taking tin
action. Mr. Hearst had been desig
nated by petition for the nomination
on the Ih'inoiTatic ticket.
NEW GREEK MINISTER
ARRIVES IN AMERICA
AN ATLANTIC .'OUT, An-. 31
(teore 1 ton who luw recently
- been deinalel by Foreign Minister
j Politic ut Atheiw n-i tireek minister
to the I'nited States nrviwd today
on a llrilii-h teuinliip.
You Can Shake Loose from
The Tortures of Rheumatism
PEOPLE SHOES AT
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PAItlS, Aug. 6 j (Correspondence
otTlio Associated Press.) Before ad
journment for summer vacation last
week, parliament passed a law ou
requisitioning which allows the gov
ernment to requisition, or take, over
at a fixed pike, any commodities
necessary to qlvU life, just as it has
always had power to requisitipn any
thing for tho army.
The new law. will allow several
measures intended to alleviate the
dearness of llviri'gito bo put into Im
mediate effect, a all necessary pre
liminaries have been arranged for
weeks, in readiness for the moment
that this law would give the authorl
ties power to act.
The first measuro will be to Inau
gure "national footwear.'' This does
not mean that everybody is to buy
hoots will be available to the people
and wear stale boots, but that gooi
at a fair price. The price of boots
and shoes has soared since the war
to such a height that only well-to-do
poople can buy them. The cost of
footwear other than leather, even of
wooden sabots, has of course greatly
advanced, owing to the greater de
mand from those who are now unable
to buy leather hoots.
"National footwear" will of course
bo standardized'.' Tho ministry of
commerce, in collaboration with tho
army commissariat, will requisition
the necessary leather and the hoots
will he made fdr the civilians in ex
actly tho Hume way ns they are al
ready niado for the army. The prices
will bo stamped on them so that no
one need pay lnoro than tho official
rate. Men's hoots will be sold at
$5.(!0 at pro-war exchange, women's
at $-1.80, boys' and girls' at $3.00
and chlldrens' at a price not yet fixed
between $3 and $3.20. These prices
allow a fair profit to the interme
diary between maker nnd buyer.
SHOWS BIG DEFICIT
ZUUIf'II. Aug. The Austrian
luultrot for 111 Hi-17, shows a deficit
of II 1I;000,00() cu'owns compared to n
deficit of 4i),niKI,()U0 crowns in the
preceding year.' Two of-the largest
items of expenditure are 1,701,000,
1)00 crowns for interest on war loans
and l,(l."i0,0t)0,()00 crowns for the
support of sohliers' families. Spec
ial und diivet wnr expenditures are
hoi iia-luded in liie budget.
LESLIE
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in
ERA AFTER WAR
LONDON, Aug. 10. (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.) A
vast sphere of work lies before the
new British minister of reconstruc
tion, .whoso office has just been add
ed to' those Inc.ludfld in' the Drltish
cabinet. Premier Lloyd George is
firmly .convinced that the'foundatlon
for the complex work of reconstruc
tion after the war ought -to 'bo begun
at once, even if It la at first -confined
to matters of liicfulry and investiga
tfon. ";
The largest - question before the
new ministry will be the question of
carrying ' out the government's
pledges to tho labor unions that their
pre-war positions will be restored to
them. ' Employers frequently have
argued that tills will be impossible.
I'nion leaders insist that the govern
ment has glvon its pledge and must
fulfill it. 1 .
'Discussing' this phase of post-war
conditions. Professor L. T. llobhouse,
head of tho department of sociology
In London university and ono of the
government's advisers on labor, said
today:
"The business of tho minister of
reconstruction is to think out the best
methods by which the half-formulated,,
half-understood impulses of the
masses of people can get themselves
expressed in a reasonable manner.
The first problem with which we
shall he faced is, that of reconstruc
Ing trades-union conditions. X say
reconstructing advisedly, because if
wo were to spealc of restoration there
would he those who would say at
onco that it Is Impossible in view of
tho total change in conditions which
tho war has brought about.
"Hut this is a problem in which
the good faith of the government is
Involved. Nothing could be more def
inite than the pledge to trade unlon
ials that the alterations involved In
dilution 6f labor and the suspension
of 'customs of the trade' should hold
only for the period of the wah If
this pledge is not fulfilled it will be
a fatal blow to the confidence of the
pu,lliq Jnfty) good , faith ;p,f, govern
ments. Ifi it is ffhown that It cannot
be1 fulfilled Uecause 'cirt-umstances
have altered, the answer must' be that
wo can only vary a pledge with the
consent of tho persons to whom the
nlpilen wns made."
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Indigestion. One package
proves it. ,25c at all druggists.
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its convenient
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it docs not
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tho hot .
s?tu'S5:rtS weather. IJulc
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f UVx.'.-'Mf'T n,3..-m-ipl
Iiy uslnjt S. S. S.
The germs of khcumatism are in
the .blood, which Is laden with mil
lions of the minute demons of pain,
c.iuiing untold sutlrring and bringing
its victim from vic,or and atrrngth to
alum! hcltdrmnc.s. To get rc,l and
I'cnuine relief from this disease,
tlire disease grrmi tuu-t be com
tdrtcly routed rut of the system
through the blond.
S. S. S. has been used for fifty
years wiia uluUctory results in the
treatment of Rheumatism. It acts
directly upon the blood, which it
promptly purities of all disease germs.
It is a powerful antidote, and elimi
nates from the blood all trace of
rheumatic germs, building up and
strengthening the run-down system.
Write to-day to our medical di
rector, who will give you valuable
advice regarding the proper treat
ment nf your own ose. Address
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Herb cure for oaracne, noadache,
catarrh, diphtheria, sore throat,
lung trouble, kidney troublo, stom
ach trouble, heart troublo, chills and
fever, cramps, coughs, poor circula
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breast, cures all kinds ot goiters.
NO OPERATION.
Medford. Oregon, Jan. IS, 1911
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
This la to certify that I. the un
designed, had very severe stomach
trouble and had been bothered fot
several years and last August was nol
expected to live, and hearing of Olm
Chung (whose Herb Sloie Is at 241
South Front streot in Medford) I de
cided to get herbs for my stomach
trouble, and I started to teellng bet
tor as soon as I used them, and today
am a well man and enn heartily rec
ommend anyone afflicted as 1 was U
see Olm Cluing aud try his Herbs.
(Signed) W. R. JOHNSON,
Witnesses: x
M. A. Anderaon, Medford.
S. 11. Holmes, Kagls Tolnt.
Frank Lewis, K.iglo Point.
Wm. Lewis, Eagle Point
W. U Chlldroth, Kagle Point.
C. E. Moore, Kagle Tolnt.
J. V. Melntyre, Kagle Point.
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eninir o
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LAHIKS! We have included in our fall line, materials .uiU
nlile Tor Suits, Coats and Skirts, (also shirtwaists), , i
SUITS FROM $26.40 to $70.00, mmle to j'our measure. h
COATS FROM $19.90 to $75.00.
YAro ulso sell .goods by;lhe yurd, rniiilij' from .f 1.H5 to $12.75,
exelit.-jve jxittcrns.; ij : "''
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n fil, sell vou material hy Ihe yard, or itiike up jiiur.own material,
we nre heP! to neeoinmodate, ami we g:uarantce the work to be flic
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Labor Day
Patriotic 'Concert
For the Benefit of
Our Boys of Company 7
GIVEN BY SOLDIERS' AUXILIARY AT. .,
Page Theatre, Sept. 3;
Fino, Musical Program ' ' Moving ricture3
Double Quartette of Co. C Futurists Dane
Music by Howell's Orchestra. One Act Play
Poors open at 7:'!0; moving jiictuivs liOgin at
S o'clock p. in.
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