Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 20, 1917, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPOTTC FOUR MEDFOItD MTE TRIBUNE,1 MEPFORT), OKFJOX, : THURSDAY,'" SEPTEMBER 20. 1017" Medford Mail Tribune AN INnKPHNIlKNT NKVSPAPP!R PUBLISH I'D KVKRT' A FT K R NOON JCXPKPT SUNDAY BY THH M1CDKOIID I'itlNTINO CO. Office Mall Tribune Building, 25-37-29 Forth Fir atrat; telephone lb. The Democratic Times, Th Medford Ma.il, The Medrora 'iTioune. me eouuv ru Oreffonlan, The Ashland Tribune. OEOItGB PUTNAM. Editor. annsoRiPTiov eiteii On Tear, bv mall I00 One month, by mail .10 ver month, dellvfrea ny carrier in Medford, ABhIanJ. Phoenix. Tal ent. Jarlciionvfllfi and Central Point .80 Saturday only, by mall, per year. 2 Weekly, per year.. 1.60 Official paper of the City of Medford. uinciai paper or jacxson uouniy. Entered as necond-class matter at Medford, Oregon, under the act of March 9, 0 I V. Sworn Circulation for 191ft 1.4BL MKMBBtt OF TUB ASSOCIATED PKKKS Full Tinned TVIro Service. The Arbo Clatcd Ih exclusively entitled to the uiw for republication of all news credited to It or not otherwlHe credited In this paper, and nine the local news fnihllHhuil herein. All rights of repub Icntloti of special dispatches herein are a i no reaorvcu. OF LIBRARY FUND A million dollars Is to be Taiscd by popular subscription ns a fund tor soldiers libraries, of which $23,000 1b Oregon's share, and $500 Is Med ford'B. Tho week of Sept. 2.1 bas been set asldo to raise this fund and the city library board has voted for full co-operation. The first contributions will be received at the library booth at the county fair. The money thus secured Is to be spont to Install libraries at the 32 cantonments and for soldiers and sail ors ovorywlicro. Books as well as money are sought. Tho work Is un der tho supervision of the American Library association, co-operating with the commission on training camp ac tivities and the war department. Sec retary Baker writes as follows con cerning It: "I understand that tho American assumed tho responsibility for pro viding reading matter In our training camps and that tho plans which they have formulated to carry out the de sign aro most comprehensive. It Is my understanding that the library war council will assist In connection with tho campaign to provide tho li braries and hooks, and I trust that this activity, which will mean so much to tho en, will meet with every suc cess.. (Signed) Cordially yours, NEWTON D. BAKE It, Secrotary of War." Some persons have the Idea that thoy have already contributed to tho Hod Cross and the Y. M. C. A., those organisations ought to provide library facilities to the soldlors and that there was no need for tho Ameri can Library association to ontor the flold. In niiBwcr It Is pointed out that tho American library association Is doing this work with the knowlcdgo approval and desire of the lied Cross and Y. M. C. A. These organizations cordially ngroe that ns librarians are oxporU In this field, the job ought to bo given over to them In stead of being attempted by persons unfamiliar with tho subject. More over the Y. M. C. A. and tho Bed Cross already havo ns much or more than thoy can do and have not suf ficient funds to carry on tho work of providing rending matter for the sol dlors. Tho Amerlenn Library asso ciation will ulillr.o the resources of theso ni'Kanl.ntlons for collecting and disseminating material but by the agreement of all concerned tho primary responsibility for Becliig that the soldiers are supplied with library resources aro upon librarians. Tho war council of tho Y. M. C. A. has scut a circular letter to all or lis secretaries In tho various camps outlining tho work which tho Ameri can Library nssnrlallon Is planning to do nod repuestlng their co-opera tlon with tho libraries. In tho moan- tlmo tho Y. M. C. A. Ill tho various ramps arc furnishing books to the soldiers temporarily. I AS FOHT ()(!!, KTIKIItPK. tin.. Sept 80. Sergeant Alfred llonhnupt of the Hlxlh l ulled Stales Infantry, who served with Ocnernl Pershing in Mex Ico, has been discharged from the amiy. It was learned today, and In terned nt the (iorman prison eami here as an enemy alien. Ilonhaupt's dismissal from the ar my followed the Intercepting of a lotter which he wrota his sister in Germany, in which he expressed re ftret that Die Culled Slates had en RUSSIA'S DANGER GERMANY is the hist stronghold of feudalism because the German people never experienced a revolution. J he leveling mtluence of the r rench revolution democrat ized a large part of Europe, but left Germany untouched, The failure of the revolution of M8 left Prussian militar ism supreme, and the democrats migrated to America, Hence Germany is still feudal-minded and the chances of a democratic revolution are small. Russia, on the other hand, never was feudalized. The Romanoff autocracy, created by Peter the Great, was a foreign feudalism imposed by force upon the Russian peo ple, but never took root in the life of the masses, who ac cepted at as philosophically as the Chinese accepted the Manchu dynasty, for Russian life was an outgrowth of the primitive patriarchal and tribal system, elementally demo cratic. Republics flourished in Russia centuries before the advent of the Romanoffs. In addition to the menace of a destructive war waged for national preservation, Russia is also staging a revolu tion, involving fundamental social and economic changes in the life of the nation. The extreme radicals are reported to be gaining control, with anarchists in ascendancy, re peating the history of the French revolution. Democracy is not the object of the revolution, for the Russian people are already democratic, but the socialistic state, long the object of dreamers. Extreme socialism is a product of and complement of autocracy an exchange of the tyranny of a tyrant for the tyranny of a bureaucracy called the' state. ihe Aerensky government is a socialist covernment but does not meet the demands of the radicals that prop erty owners be excluded from participation. It has the dis tinction of being the first socialist government the world has seen, barring the brief regime of tho Paris commune. and if unfettered by the war, might solve problems vital to the progress of the world. .Democracy ditters from socialism in that democracy believes and practices individual liberty without too much government or too much restriction. . It believes in the protection of private property, but not at the expense of the community, and in the curbintr of forces tendinsr to de stroy the rights of the small property owner, abhoring equally the communistic state and the "communism of pelf," as G rover Cleveland described tho reign of private monopoly, socialism preaches the total abolition of the! rights of the individual in property, whether they conflict with community welfare or not. socialism has yet to prove that it has constructive eher- gies. Hitherto it has been purely destructive. It has shown tho will to destroy existing conventions, but never demonstrated capacity for practical reconstruction. In so far as socialism is democratic, it has the support of demo crats in the war against autocracy, who realize that the progress of the 'world depends upon evolution rather than evolution, and that democracy is in process of evolution. The danger that Russia faces is the triumnh of extrem ists, who would destroy existing foundations without wis dom ot reconstruction, who , would force fundamental changes in a world as yet unprepared, and hence cause a reaction that would shackle democracy, restore autocracy and set back the progress of humanity towards its goal the establishment, of social justice. Our Part in War BY llKIlUKUT KAUFMAN. France dally bleds upon her torn frontiers and counts her waning wealth of men and gold with still un- quniling heart. Belgium, a shnmblcs and a house of shamo, superbly keepB tho faith wllh exiled flag and king beneath the banners of a conqueror. Bewildered ltussin, groping, nian- unniltted serf, plays perilously with sudden rights as children with a toy they do not understand, who, in tho search for a revelation, break tho works beyond repair. Tho path to Austria has taken an tnllan llfo In toll for every foot of progress niado, and after two years spent upon tho stubborn heights, the farthest sentry on tho last outpostlng peak Is not a night removed from his own boundaries. Itiimaiilii struck one blow and then liecamn a Ucnnnn camp, a looted realm; and Servian Peter leads his homeless waifs on alien soil.. Britain In vain burls her full strength Into tho west, recruits un ceasing levies for tho slaughter-heap. ler constant transports ply tho Sev en Seas. I'athan, Egyptian. Amak promptly answer oacb fresh call and tho ever astounding Prussian, with Falberland, calmly enls their steel, presents unbroken fronts, maintains his bold from Antwerp to thcUarda nelles, and Insolently challenges the world from pole to polo to pool Its mlglit and come In arms against him. The end of this grim war Is not In sight. Whoever thinks tho allied cause Is won has read his facts amiss. Wo havo our part to play a sad and heavy dauntless part. Wo cannot, dare not, fail our plodgos. Should Europo yield, as Europe may, beforo we can nssdrt our strength, America alone must meet the Central rowers, free then to de vote their undlvldcd.fleot8 and armies to our desolation. This Is tho tlmo for mlnutemcn. for tho right mlnutemcn tho tlmo for tho best to lend and tho rost to heed; for swift minds, for bold minds; for vnst, audacious plans; the tlmo for unity, for sacrifice for action by the fastest!) clocks. We've sworn to save democracy If we tlolny, wo may not savo our selves. October Cosmopolitan. FORIINSULTING FLAG CALKX1CO, Calif., Sept. 20. Oc tavlo Flores, a .Mexican resident ot Mexlenli, was today ordored shot by Colonel Esteban Cantu, military gov ernor of tho Northern district of Low er California, for his alleged offense In tearing an American flag from the automobile of Ben Uulso Satur lusJ : n-- in" I -in i easy staraitg Low boiling points the first links in the continuous chaingive easy Starting. Stamford Oil Company "Jib Garonne of Oirafifr MANY FIRES IN ' OF: Forest fires have been causing con siderable trouble to tlie state fire fighters the past week in the Jack son county district, none of which assumed very serious dimensions. Last Sunday nine fires of suspected incendiary origin were set in various pnrta of the county, most of them being in tho Evuns creek and Pleas ant creek regions. The fire which started lust Sunday in tho Meudows district, and which gained considerable headway in the heavy timber, wus gotten under con trol last night. Another serious fire in this section bad just been con quered when tho new one broke out Sunday. A new forest fire started at the head of Birdseyo creek, between Gold Hill and Rogue ltiver, yesterday afternoon and swept up the moun tain. Lnto last night it was thought to he under control. The rain of last week wns not heavy enough to do much good in tho way" of preventing forest fires, and on account of the excessive dry ness existing in the timber regions the . fire situation is a constantly menacing one. tieinian Reply to Pope. HF.IU.IN, Sept. 20. While the text of tho German reply to Pope Hencdiet s peneo proposals will not bo announced before Saturday, the Berlin press and parliamentary cir cles concur in the prediction that the message will not bo confined only to discussions concerning Belgium. Impression prevails in well-inform ed quarters that the note will not leave the subject of Belgium in nbey-aneo. The German nttnek on this point might he tersely expressed this way: "(iermany considers Belgium too vulwililo a pawn to he exposed to jeopardy thru an ill-timed or hasty move." JOHN A. PERL UXDEKTAXIB I July Assistant. 8 BOOTH BARTLETT. Phone M. 4 una 41-J-S. AuBtomoblle Hearse Service. ambnlanc Bervln. Oorener. Ml odgbBrothers MOTOR CAR If the car is reasonably well treated it will render faithful service for years. . That is why it always commands such a high price when resold. Visit Our Exhibit at the Fair Tho gasoline consumption is unusually low. The tire mileage is unusually high. Touring Car or Roadster, $835; Sedan or Coupe'."- J12G5. (All prices f. o. b. Detroit.) i TKEICHLER -PEIRSON ' ',". Opposite S. P. Depot, Medford. Salesroom and Service Stations at Ashland and (.Iraiits Pass FRED ALTON HAIGHT Teacher of Piano and Harmony. Composer and Ar ranger of Music, announces season of 1917-18. THE HAIGHT MUSIC STUDIO 401 Carnett-Corey Building Phone 72 Medford, Oregon EDWARD CHARLES. ROOT MUSIC STUDIO 31 North Grape Street Announces Season '17-'18 Teacher of Violin. Also Clarinet and Fretted Instruments. Uovs Wanted for Juvenile Band DENNEY& CO. Fruit Marketing Agents Specializing in the dis tribution of northwest- ern boxed fruits. M. E. ROOT, Representative Medford, Phone 294 Main Office Chicago, III. Western Office Payette, Idaho F. H. Hoguc, Western Manager, THE UNIVERSAL CAR World-wide distribution and the con tinually growing- demand for Ford care are the best proofs of Ford value. Ford cars are utilitiest they are pos itive necessities for they have revo lutionized modern business, brought country and city together and opened up new life to the family. The Ford car bas become a necessary part of everyday life. Touring Car $3(.if), K'unabout $:."(), Coupelct $510, Sedan skooO, Town Car (HX nil f. o. b. De troit. On display and for sale by C. E. Gates Auto Co. Kivcrsidc Ave., Medford, Ore. m Go East lO Union Pacific ffBllI III! . System . fiwE IBBl Low Fare iMfM pphi Round -Trip Tickets W$M. 85"? "1 i Sahmlim to Sept. 23 via thacenic JM UV- H 5r-7, -Y1 Columtn Hirer Roult. Truirllitcr- j ..J-l - ' '( Qpfjit ettin and Mnict upon application to --V- T''v"-V?M ml $ -Nlfi fePi'?-. m$mmmmm. tered tho vr.