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'l'AUir'l'lLUEM'
OHAill'S
LEADERSHIP M If
WAR PROGRAM
Enormous War Bills Put Thru by
Coalition of Democrats and Repub
licans, Regardless of Party
'' Chamberlain Becomes Leader of
t . Senate Thru Competence.
lj r: BY BIL30N GARDNER
..'- .WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. The
;f; enormous war program carried out by
( j the war congress was made possible
liy non-partisan action,
and democrats voted
Republicans
together for
necessary measures.
The nominal leadership fell to the
democrats who are in the majority.
In the house the great money bills
were framed by Claude Kttchin of the
ways and means committee, while in
the senate F. M. Simmons of North
Carolina presided over the committee,
, aided by Boise Penrose, representing
the republicans. In the house Julius
Kahn of California aided Kitchin.
When the bill to create the select
'IVe army was in debate Kahn acted
"as spokesman for the "war depart-
meiit. The prominence of Kahn was
"'due' to two things his position as
; Senior republican member of the mill.
tnry affairs committee, and the fact
that James R. Mann, titular leader
of the house republicans, had little
real sympathy with the war program.
Krpiihlicniis Assist.
Democratic memberB of the house
committee on military affairs were
also tinged with pacifism and several
opposed the declaration of war. So
; S. Hubert Dent, Jr., of Alabama,
chairman of the military affairs com
mittee, Is not heard of In the connec
tion with this legislation generally
spoken of as the Kahn bill.
In the senate there was perfectly
" good team work on army legislation
between George B. Chamberlain of
Oregon, democratic member of the
military committee, and Francis E.
Warren, republican senior member.
Warren is futhor-ln-law to Pershing
iind has for years been beloved of
. the regular army. Chamberlain was
' In full accord with the administra
tion's war plans.
Chamberlain headed a subcommit
' tee which conducted hearings on con
scription which wero completed long
before war was declared. In co-op-.
oration with Brigadier-General Crow
dor, law oUcor in the war depart
ment, the Oregon senator hnd mapped
out every detull of the sclcctivo serv
ice law, including the lottory draft
tho local civilian boards of selection
and the construction of the 16 canton
ment camps. When the moment came
for action It was only necessary to
present the perfected bill.
' Clinmliei'lalii the Louder.
In handling army legislation Cham-
Aborlaln showed his competence and
S?u became administration spokesman
. on' tho democratic side. Senators
lodgo and Penroso on tho republican
side gavo unvarying support, and the
-only opposition which developed camo
;. from La Follette, Norris, Konyon,
f Borah, Cummins and Hiram Johnson
of California, who wero suported by
a group of democrats Including Var
daman, Reed, Kirby, llaidwick and
..Stone of Missouri.
Jlost of the opposition was centered
on the taxation program and the food
control bill, tho thcrewas a bitter fight
. In the house over the compulsory fea
ture of the army bill. Champ Clark
Claude Kitchin. William E. Mason of
Illinois and Robert Crosses of Ohio
. were opposed to giving up the historic
volunteer plan, but wore overridden
f ' hy a big majority from both parties
who supoi tcd everything recommend
cd by President Wilson, on tho theory
'that he ought to be given every aid in
prosecuting the war to a successful
conclusion, and held strictly to ac
count for any failure.
BANDIT RAID UPON
RIO GRANDE VILLAGE
MISSION'. Tex., Oil. 1(1. Swm
inirly reliable report hnvp j 1 1 t reaeh
ocl hen- nf u liniiilit rniil nt (Iriinaciw,
ii Mexican village on the Hio (irnnile,
six miles southeast of Mission. Xntli
inir ennecrning i-nsmillit-a hits heen
learned here. , The 1 1 rititr euulU be
plainly lit-iinl lit Mmlern City.
flip Wliolo Xelglilmrhooil Knows.
Mrs. Anna Pelzor, 2."26 Jefferson
St., So. Omaha, Neb., writes: "I can
recommend Foley's Honey and Tar as
a sure euro for coughs and colds. It
cured my daughter of a bad cold. My
neighbor, Mrs. BenBon, cured herself
and her whole family with Foley's
Honey and Tar, and everyone In our
neighborhood speaks highly of It."
This reliable family remedy masters
voup. It clears the air passages and
rases the gauging, strangling fight
for breath. Sold every wboro.
WINTER PALACE
ELD'S BIGGEST
Gigantic Building Crowning Folly of
Monarchy Several City Blocks
Long, Housed 6000 People and
3003 Once Danced In Its Ball Room
Roof a Gallery of Statues.
(Uy Churles Edward lEussell.)
Tho human race must certainly
have n mixture ox insanity , in Us
make-up, or it would never tolerate
sik-Ii an institution as monarchy
The kins; business is at all times a
protesipie and monstrous absurdity
but m the o.-.s-c c K::;:s:a it was :ust
one long? delirium.
Take tho winter piilueo at Pctro-
grad, the place where' we wero quar
tered, for one symbol of this' mad
man's droam. There never was a
crazier thing in all tho works of
man's hands, and it exactly express
ed the institution it sheltered.
It is the largest permanent buildimr
in Europe. William G. Sheplianl,
correspondent of the United Press,
made careful and repented calcula
tions while we were there and came
to t tie conclusion that from I lie en
trance we used to my room was ex
actly onc-qiinrter of a mile. I wasn't
as far away from the entrance us
sonic others of the erew.
A Bewildering Pile.
The vast, bewildering pile is built
along the left bank of the Neva, and
when you stand ut one end of it and
look to the other it seems to stretch
into an infinity of space. Shepherd
asked to have a trolley line built in
it for (he accommodation of visitors,
but this was never done.
On the city side, the palace fronts
a huge square of which it makes one
side, and the war and foreign offices
built like a crescent with an arch be
tween them, make tho other.
These buildings, palace included,
are colored n warm red.
The winter palace was begun by
Catherine II, sometimes called the
Great, and was about a hundred
years in building. When the whole
imperial machine was going it used
to house (iOOO persons) and was the
largest madhouse in the world. Three
thousand persons arc said to have.
iillended one ball held in the largest
of its three ball rooms.
I he thing is three stones high, and
the top all tho way around is adorn
cd (that is what (hey call jt) with i
crowd of slatucs. Nobody knows now
whom lliey are statues or, and it
makes no difference, because you
would have to go up to the roof to
get a good view of them and the joy
of it wouldn't be enough to pay. From
the ground you can just-make out if
you look bard that thov are .-tallies.
and yet they are said to be ten feet
in height.
The late czar, now Mr. Nieholai
HoniiinolT, a private cilizcii pone int.
deserved retirement, used lo keep i
herd of cows on (he roof of tho p:il
ace. This is the best thing he did and
the only sensible use the building ;i
ever put to before the revolution. .
Also, on the roof nre a great many
stands for machine guns and hawlv
places where soldiers could hide and
shoot down people in the square Ik
tieath. The gentlemen that planned
the huge castle overlooked no bets o
this kind, und January, 1!)0.j, provei
that they were .wise for their own
purposes. Two ' hundred thousand
people came into the. square then
ask for bread and the soldiers on the
roofs gave them bullets instead and
killed ."lOIIO of thorn.
Connected With Troops.
ino gancrics, one above anil one
under Hie ground, connect the palm
with the barracks of the impe
criul
guard, close nt hand. A single alarm
would bring 10,(1(10 armed men
swarming into the place. The czars
knew what their people thought of
them und purposed to take no
chances. Wise czars!
The interior of this monstrosity i
an endless maze ot pnssnges and
suites, corridors anil stairways, pas
sages and doors, until the mind get
tired of trying to follow them mid
wants lo sit down and ret. Then
is one man Hint knows his wav all
about the puzzling place, but h
knows nothing else, so that docsii
fount, lie couldn't very well know
anything else.
For the' first three days T had t
have n guide to find my quarters and
was then able to dispense with him
only because I had memorized n scr
its of landmarks and headlands bv
which to steer, like this:
(itililc is Necessary.
(lo to the top of great staircase
and turn lo left; pass under first
arch, turn lo rijjht, oon second pair
or folding door and keep straigl
nhond ncrnss the short gallery with
Ihc big windows mid the shakv floor
SANE ASYLUM
'NofE Indivisible
"polandsought
Minister of Foreign Affairs Declares
Russian Policy Emperors of Ger-
1 many and Austro-Hungary Appoint
Members of Council of Regency
for New Polish State.
l'ETROGKAD, On. 1 8. 51. I. Ter-
estehenko, minister of ; torcign af
fairs, nt a meeting lust night, in ob
servance of the lunth anniversary of
the death of Kosciuszko, the Polish
patriot, declared it was the convic
tion of the entente powers that "any
peace should recognize the indepen
dence of an indivisible Poland."
This differs from the declaration
issued by the provisional Hussion
government last March, 'in which it
urged that Poland should be given
niitonomv under' nominal Russian
uidancc.
American Ambassador Francis
drew a parallel between tho American
ind Russian revolutions, suying that
iVmericn's problems had been solved
and her issues settled, so would Rus
sia's problems be solved by the so
ber second thought of intelligent nnd
patriotic citizens.
Itcgcnts Alumlntcd.
AMSTERDAM', Oct. l(i Arch
bishop Alexander von I.aeksoki of
Warsaw, Prince I.uboniinsky, mayor
of Warsaw, and Josef Ilonostrowski
have been appointed members of the
ouncil of regency of the new Polish
state by the emperors of (iennany
and Auslro-llungnry, according to a
l'lcgram from Berlin. Emperor Wil
liam of lierniany has sent the follow
ing message lo General Von liescler,
the governor-general of Poland: .
I have found it advisiible, in
agreement with my illustrious ally,
the emperor of Austria-Hungary, and
in the spirit of article 1 of the decree
of September 17, 11117, to inslall as
members of Hie council of regency of
the kingdom of Polnnd, Iho nreh-
bishoi) of Warsaw, Alexander von
Lneksoki; the mayor of Warsaw
Prince' Lubomirskv, nnd the landed
proprietor, Josef Ilonostrowski."
The emoeror requested General
Von Rcsolcr to carry out Jhe decree
in conjunction . with Count,. ry.ap
tycki, the Austrian governor-general
thrii the double llooiv at end and, set
a watch for the big clothes press; at
i,.n,... i,,,.,, I,. i iiwni li.n
then right, and watch for the door
that bus thu small paintings hull:
around it; thru that, turn to left,
then right, left thru the low arch to
the long corridor, down that and then
it's the third door on the left.
I took a lieutenant in tho British
army twice over this course and ex
plained lo him nil the marks, bear-
s and .soundings, but when he at
tempted lo make it ulonc he got tun
gled up among the shoals anil had to
sit down ajtd wait until someone came
ng with n licensed pilol. Other
wise, I suppose be would be there yet.
At Staggering Cost.
All this glgunlic establishment.
created at a stagirering cost and
maintained with a river of money
wrung from the toil of a hundred mil
lion peasants, the whole immense pile
filled with tile bewildering extrava
gances I uin to tell you about later,
existed for just one purpose.
It was lo shelter a ruler that had
no right to rule, shelter him und the
army of servants and parasites
flittcrcnt degrees that waited upon
him, while he dwelt in ceaseless tor
ror of ipssassination by the people
upon whose backs be rode.
Compared with this idea, the wild
lest notion (but ever cnlered a poor
stricken brain nt Ward's Island or
.Malteawan, Kankakee or Mt. Pleas
ant. .eems sweet and reasonable.
SHINE
IN EVERY
DROP"
Black Silk Stove Polish
stt1nft. Itdnca nit
dry twit; curt h wrt to lh I
ait dnp; liquid and pn(e I
One quality; aWiliitely pn I
WMt; nnrl.mt onl fl, Yuu I
Bt your monaya worJi.
Black Silk
Stove Polish
It rwt otily rror rwni'v-!, hn H HM a brlVI
ant. oilkv lu-tre llnti'.ir in! Itr r.btj.("-i if It art
ftfhiT Jftlnh. tll.v k tiuK .Slnvr I '(-h (l- ri'rt
tt;tt fff ht4 (niir ii:ir a V njr nlnsry
poiWi so It yuu ..ne, wort tii.iJ mo-c)-.
Pnn I lorjrM wi.cn yJ
,1 r?'iv in-ii'h.t ur to
.k for i:!nk Stlk. If itli-n't
lln- lx t '(Mfh yn rvr
iimI- ..ur dealer will refund
your money.
Black Si'lc Sc Potliti
Wof'.ii, Sterling, Illinois.
If is riUrSi S:::i AirPrytuB
tm I .Llirti pt.' r g
i..ir, BtoTf pr, .ir.il aitto
mibfln Lir tl i. 1'rwvsnU
r..i-.)-ir. T.f.
Ih fur M,v. it.im kc!,l;n.
v.-ra or t j. It M'irki
n i. -My, r m'k and I'-ave a
lw i Urt. ilt Irut, I. h.-n no
e ijut loruwun atitorcbbllca.
1
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IS
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SCHOOLS ADOPT LOWER KLAMATH
THRIFT TRAINING LAKE UNDER WAY
The Cent ml Point schools, have
adopted a new savings plan to stimu
late thrift among school children. As
outlined by Superintendent E. It.
Stanley, the plan is as follows: Hovs
and girls in the sixth, seventh nnd
eighth grades will bring Hie money
which thov earn, or anv amount they
can rsare, aud deposit- it ,at tfic
school. When any pupil's total de
posit amounts to as much as 1 the
child will be allowed to go to the local
bank, during solum! .hours, and (le
posit it. At tho time of the first
deposit the bank will loan the pupil a
neat little savings bank which he
mnv keen 'as long as he has an ac-
ount with Ihei bank. Interest will
be paid at tho rate of 4 per cent.
Nearly all tho tmpils in the upper
rades work more or less nnd earn
money ol their own, and there is no
reason why their thrift should not be
judged by their savings. While the
total amount of money saved may not
be grent, it will be a start on a pol
icy which, if followed thru life, will
make independent men nnd women
out of persons who might otherwise
work for n lifetime without saving
up money to buy the comforts of life.
An early beginning in habits of thrift
lias made most of our successful
business men wluit they nre.
Parents should co-opernto with the
school in encouraging their boys and
iris to put their money where it will
earn something while it is being sav
ed. After all, the interest is not so
important ns the acquiring of the
saving habit. Any adult knows how
much harder it is to keep a dollar in
lus pocket than in the bank; the
same is true of children, even to a
greater extent. Train them to snve
and when they nre old they will bo
independent; tench them to save the
dimes nnd iho dollars will take cure
of themselves.
Later in the year the eighth grade
pupils will begin the keeping ot a sim
ple set of accounts, in which eiich pu
pil's receipts and expenditure are re
corded in detail. This work is plan
ncd to teach tlie value of keeping ne
counts in any business or occupa
tion. IVcn the fanner ' in modern
times finds accounting indispensiblc
THERE'S
NO DOUBT
ABOUT
POSTUM
AS A
HEALTH
IMPROVEMENT
OVER iA
COFfEE
9
BUICK
Power Auto Co.
WESTON'S
Camera Shop
208 East Main Street,
Medford .
' The Only Exclusive
Commercial Photographer
in Southern Oregon.
Negatives Made any time oi
place by appointment.
Phone 147 -J.
Well do the rest.
J. B. PALMER.
j lHSTMT.P0STUl 1 '
I POSTUH Q '
What Is believed to have been the
final wind-up of all necessary logal
preparation for the reclamation of the
marsh lnnds of the Lower Klamath
lake has now been completed, and
tho lumber is now on the ground tor
the closing of the gates at the Kla
inath strait, which will eventually re
claim a tract ot over 54,000 acres of
the richest soil In this part of the
state.
Lower Klamath lake is supplied
with water from the Klamath river
thru the Klamath strait, and the In
stallation of gates at the Southern
Pacific strait crossing will divert the
water on down the river and reclaim I
the marshes.
The installation of the se gates is a
simple proposition, and could have
been accomplished years ago except
for legal complications which havo
handicapped In one way and another
the directors of the Klamath drain
age district, who have. worked tire
lessly to accomplish it. The Kla
math drainage district tracts comprise
about 20,600 acres of the marshes.
There Is also considerable govern
ment land there, in addition to a na
tional bird reserve. The marsh land
reclamation Is one of the projects em
braced in the United States reclama
tion project, and considerable work
has been done by the service In the
preparation of this move. There will
be a charge of about $5.5Q por acre
against all the lands of the district
for Its drainage.
Altho the final election ot mem
bers of tftc drainage district does not
come until the 31st of this month, the
result is a foregone conclusion, and
the gates are now bolng Installed by
the officials 'to stop the fall rains
Deafness Cannot lie Cured
by local npplli'atloitfl. " tlipy rnnnot rcurh tho
dleacd lwHion of tho far. TIhth Ut onlr "
. ,t -ml tliat In hv constitution
al romedlt'ii. Deafm-ns in raiiard bj- an Inlliwneil
ronrtHloii of thf miifoua lining of tho hntnch1ati
(Tube. When thla tiibo l Inflnmi'd you hnvo a
ruuiblinir sound or liun-rprt hearing, and when
It In entirely elowd 11,'iuftienB la the reault, and
unless the inflnmnintkra can he taken out and
this tnbo restored to He nornnil condltloii, bear-i..-
m (, itnuirnvi-il fnrnvt'r: nine cases out.ol
ten nre cruised br Tatarrh. which I nothlnji but .
We will Rive nun Hundred Hollars for nny ease
of Dpitfnewt (caUKed by cntnrrh) 1 hut cannot he
cv-:ed hy Hall'a Cutarru Cure. Bend foe clrcu
Ion, free. CHENKY Ct CO., Toledo, O.
' Kohl by DruBKlsta, 7r,c.
Take Uall" FnniUy I'llla for eonaflimtion.
Judge Sam Garland
Hon. W. S. U'Ren
will address the people of
Medford and Vicinity
TUESDAY
OCT. 16 at 7:30
The same speakers will make
dresses as follows:
CENTRAL POINT, Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 2 p.m.
GOLD HILL, Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 2 p.m.
ASHLAND, Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m.
A good program and a large crowd expected. This
will be the formal opening of the subscription campaign
to raise Medford's quota of the Liberty Loan Bonds.
No bonds wiil be sold and no collection will be taken at
this meeting. .
from flooding tho lands, on which
the wnter is unusually low.
It is claimed thiit the land which
will eventually be reclaimed by this
Sure Mom.we found
your boy. He is hero
now eating
Kmmbles:9
Jshealltight?'
surcyou
ought to
yQ IJ7tK.T,CF.U.
IN CASE OF FIRE
To Give the Alarm
Call 50 Medford Fire Dep't.
To Insure Yoar Property
CALL 123
McCurdy Insurance Agency
Medford National Bank Building
. " ' '"'
Some folks prefer to do the latter first
and
stop yvll bo capable -of euDorting as
lurgo-ar population as is now In Kla
math' county.--Klaiuath Fulls Her-
uld.. - 4 ! ;.- rr- ' ,. ,"-.
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