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MEDFORD MATL TRTBDNTJ, MEDFOTCD, ORMfiOX. . THURSDAY. JUN'K 27. 1018
SAN . FRANCISCO, Juno 27.
"Keen men intent on vktory." That
Is the Imperative need ol the allies
Just now according to E. O. McCor
mlck. vice president of the Southern
Pacific who has Just returned from
an American mission to KiiKland, ire
land, Scotland and Franco, where ho
represented the railway Interests of
the United States.
McCormlck and others of the com
mittee, which was Invltod by tho Brit
ish government to confer with Eng
lish and (French leaders toured the
English labor halls, visited the great
llJUt.l'Hl l.fcuv. UBI'D, I IOIIVU U1U UUl.
industrial centers, wore received by murder.
WASHINGTON, Juno 27. Repri
sals against Gorman prisoners of war
In the United Stutes aro threatened
by Socrotnry of State Lansing as a
result of Berlin's demand for the lib
eration of Franz von Itlntelen, arch
spy. jftVhnt will America's reprisals
moan? j
Tho treatment Germany has ac
corded her prisoners of war since tho
war began Is notorious. It can tie
summed up In one brief sentence:
Hundreds of tbem havo died of
starvation, delHioruto torture und
King George, dined by Gonoral Porsh
lng, went 'within a few miles of tho
firing line on tho wostorn front, slept
nndorground at Verdun, saw tho
grand fleet and got a realistic taste
of both submarine warfaro and air
raids.
A proposed International labor con
ference In which the Germanic alllos
woro seeking representation -was
abandoned after the labor lcadors of
'the American mission had flatly de
clared: Ciermnns Arc Burred
"Never will American labor sit
down to a conference with German
labor so long as there is a slnglo
German soldier on the soil of Bel
gium or France."
"Men are more needed' now than
supplies" said McCormlck, "and tho
number wo are sending over is only
limited by available ship spaco. Our
great duty is to give to the govern
ment all tho man power it needs tor
we may have to have five million men
over there to make our presence de
cisive." McCormlck said tho British army
is standing like a stone wall and the
fighting ability of the French is ono
of the most marvelous things in the
whole -war. The Americans have
made a splendid impression and are
fhoorod wherever they appear.
"American railroad engineers are
building the largest railroad yard In
the world, equipped with 222 miles of
track."
Building Hallway
, "It Is told that It became necessary
to build a certain line of railway in
France recently In a hurry. English
railway engineers looked at the map
and figured it would take six weks;
French englneors looked at tho map
and guessed four weeks; American
onglneors Insisted on going over the
ground and said ten days providing
the men and material demanded
could .be had, which was promised.
"The Amoricans were back In eight
days Baying 'It may not look pretty
but the line is ready and will take the
hoavlost equipment you have.'
"Everyone Is hoping, of course, for
the collapse of tho central empires as
the rosult of Internal stress but the
allies are taking no chances. With
Amorlca's help, they plan to crush
tho Prussian military mncliltio and
win a victorious pcaco as soon as
possfhlo. To this end every outiro of
man power will count.
"The Atlantic and Pacific const,
the middle west, are no longer divid
ed by mountains, prairies or politics.
They constitute ono country, ono poo
plo, ono creed, ono thought, ono twin
aim to win this war and make It
impossible to ever have another.
"Evory loyal American would foci
as proud as I did at tho enthusiasm
provoked at even tho mention of
President Wilson's name. We wit
nessed ono exhibition of this in the
French chamber of deputies that
every member of our party will al
ways remember.''
1'OltTl.ANI), Ore, June 27. All
DUBLIN, Muy 30. (Correspon-
iiorsniis who mi uive information in. denco of tho Associated Press) "Ire-
On the other hand, what kind of
treatment havo German prisoners In
America r:cclvcd?
Treiited as (iuoMs
Tho general public is not porniltted
to visit the Internment camps, so tho
gonoral public does not know. If it
knew that America treats Its prison
ers more as guests, that they are
more comfortablo, In fact, than our
own soldiers In tho cantonments and
camps, it is likely tho question would
bo raised:
Why wait .for Germany to murder
American prisoners as she has mur
dered those of our allies?
Why not begin a policy of reprisals
now?
"Reprisals" do not mean that
America will torture, starve and mur
der her prisoners of war as Germany
has done. Americans are not Huns.
They do mean that the German
prisoners in this country will be de
prived of the comforts and luxuries
they have enjoyod In their Idleness
and will be made to go to work.
5(MM) Huns Interned
A summary of tho prisoner situa
tion shows the following facts:
T total of 349 American frisonors
have been located In German prison
camps. Of this number 133 are sol
diers and 2 1 0 are civilians and sailors
taken from American morchant ships.
About 5000 Gormans aro Interned
In this country.
Of this vast nunvber, all but about
1000, who are 'being used in cultivat
ing gardens, are living in luxurious
idleness. . - .
While Germany's citizens In this
country are living pleasant, easy lives
how are our men in Germany faring?
Germany, of course, is not permit
ting them to tell. But there is no
guaranteo that Americans faro any
better thun British, Kronen, Russian,
Belgian and Serbian prisoners who
havo been worked, starved and tor
tured to death, in many enscs killed
by the shells and bullets of their com
rades while working behind the Ger
man lines.
Killed for Trifles
In Germany British prisoners
havo been killed for not stopping con
versation when ordorcd to, for resent
ing insults by Gorman officers, for
refusing to load German guns with
ammunition Intended for thoir com
rades, and for other brutal causes.
They havo been beaten while wound
ed, operated on without anesthetics,
forced to tho hardest kind of manual
labor without tho proper food or rest,
and, In general, subjected to Inhuman
treatment such as only Gormans
know how to apply.
regiinl to any ilrult registrant whose
stains is affected by the work or
light regulations, which become effec
tive July 1, are particularly request
ed by the war department to do so.
Ill fact, the regulations mnliu it tho
duly of all citizens to report at once
all facts which limy come to their
knowledge concerning registrants who
are idle, or who are engaged in a non
productvo occupation or employment.
This report should be made to tho
nearest local draft board.
Persons writiii" or giving Ibis in
formation in person need linve no feari
their mimes will lie revealed, ior the
inl'oriiinlion will he regarded in this
sense as slriclly confidential.
Voder Hie henil of "idlers," who
will receive scant consiilei'iilion from
the local boards in their re-elassil'i-calioii
of such registrants who decline
lo enter a useful occupation or em
ployment, (he government lists such
occupations as "gamblers of all (In
scription und employes of race tracks
and bucket shops, nnd fortune tellers,
clairvoynnls, palmists and the like."
And here are the regulations defin
ing non productive occupations or
employment
laud is not pro-Gormau," declare all
the Irish leaders, but there is a con
siderable element in Dublin, Cork,
and othor Irish cities, that is ready
to cry "Up tho Hun" at evory oppor
tunity. During the week following tho ar
rest of Do Valera ana uie o:nor Sinn
Fein leaders, the strains of the
"Watch on the Rhino" were frequent
ly hoard on Dublin streets, sung by
small crowds of Sinn Fein sympathiz
ers. It has been frequently recorded
that Irish hodlums at tho moving pic
ture theaters have hissed pictures of
British and American soldiers and
sailors, and a lotter in a Dublin news
paper this week, states that a moving
picturo uudlenco cheered a picture of
the medal cant by tho Germans to
commemorate tho sinking of the L.U-
sltania.
tlieer Hun IViosiiorK.
Ono of tho most re.narkablo scenes
which tho Associated Press correspon
dent witnessed in Dublin was the
enthusiastic cheering of a shipload of
German interned prisoners,1 who were
being taken from a camp in Ireland
to a camp on tho isle of Man. A crowd
of several hundred persons, mostly
Tl,,. i.mitbivmmif nr f.ima
m-nt ..f miv iililc-liotlirH mrfdtrant oH wiring Sinn Fein colors and waving
milium- in nv of tho folio? Slnn Koin "a8- stood on 1,16 u
m-mpHtinns or employments is no('mI Sinn Fein "Soldiers'
siiflM.ii.nl I v ..ffrHivt.. in It... nrpsenl " io me aoparuns pribonem.
emergency ,( justify tho postpone
men of his ciill into militiiry orviee, '
notwithstiindiiij; lie may liuve n lille
order mimher nnd iiolwithstiindinj;
he limy have heen pi need in Class II,
Til 4ir IV, on the ground of depeni
dency; and nil registrants cniied as
follows are to he considered by local
and district 1 oards ns engaged in
non-productive occupations or em
ployments :
"1'eisuns enijaired in the serving of
food and drink, or either, in public
places, including hotels ami socfctl
cliihs.
''1'asscncr elevator operators nnd
attendants, and door men, loot men,
cnrqiai:c openers and other attend
ants in clubs, holds, stores, apart
ment houses, ol 1 ice buildings and
bathhouses.
.TRADE ACCEPTANCE
I.OXIXl.V. .lime 27. The trade ac
ceptances which are doing so much
In America today lo rcinovo the old
"lack of capital" difficulty were
based to a great extent on the older
International accentances. But the
way In which they have served Ainer.
lean business at homo suggests that
jircat Improvement can be made In
American sales abroad by similar
moans. It appear to be the belief of
the American chamber of commerce
liore that so long as American manu
facturers feel that they mint demand
including ushers and .
Many of the members of tho crowd
wore relatives liy marriago ot,'tho lu
torned aliens.
The prisoners wore practically the
entire population of a camp estab
lished early In the war at Oldeastle,
Ireland for Gorman civilian prison
ers. Thoy wore 450 In numbor, and
wore embarked from a Dublin dock
on a Sunday morning. From an early
hour their Irish friends began gath
ering along .both sides of the river.
A strong military force was present
and took complete possession of the
quay alongside which the steamer
was berthed. ,
HngM;it f ('erninns
Before tho special train carrying
tho prisoners arrived at tho dock
there appeared a freight train of ten
fears, containing tho ' baggage" of tho
olhcr iitlendiiuts, engaged and occu
pied in and in connection with games,
sporls and amusements, e.vcpliiig ac
tual performers in Jcgitiuiiitc con
certs, uperus.or lliciitrical perform
ances. "Persons employed in domestic ser
vice. "Sales clerks and other clerks em
ployed in stores uud other mercantile
establishments.''
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WWSmNC.TOX. June. 27. To pro
vldo puro drinking water for Amer
ican soldiers In tho trenches nnd at
other places whero permanent water
works havo not been established, mo
bile, water trains have been const nit-t-etl
and are operating la France under
tho jurisdiction of the army medical
department. A statement today by
tho Burgon-Keneral Rays each train
has a filtration plant and enrries an
expert chemist, bacteriologist and
pnmprnn n.
LONDON, June 'J 7. The war has.
revealed to seient i-ts another new
dieae.
It's incsenecphalilis.
Its common or garden name is "in
flammation of the brain.''
lint .jiif-t heeause you know mmiic
one is a "nut is no sijMi In- lias nic-ciiecphiilile-
it i-n't that kind of a
dUene.
Although it. nffeets the brain, it re-
from a number of en u--.es Mich as
rood poisoning, pis poisoning, bodily
injury, alcoholism, or the reaction
from various levels, particularly in
fluenza. The new disease is so similar in
-ymptoius and e;iu-es to holnliMii, 11
nerve disease due tu uaeooked food
which lias al te'-ted many soldiers and
i ilians that many phy-icijins
thou;:t it was identical until recently.
It, symptoms seem to be drnitsj
nes mid lack of ne nf the leg-, and
very frequently is fatal.
The investigations now being ear
ned on mav reveal some microbe n
the cause ol the di-ciise.
10 CROSS ATLANTIC
NKW YOUK, June 27. Signer (V
pronl, the Italian ulrplaiin Inventor,
already has a machine capable of
flying across the Atlantic, and is
cash against goods In .New York there ready to send It lo this country, or to
will 'be serious weakness in American
foreign business.
The American chamber of com
merce is making a detailed atudy of
the terms at present demanded by
American firms doing business with
Rngland. It Intends to propose
plan for extending tho advantages of
American trade acceptances to all
American firms willing to export.
build one here, according to hi
plans, tho executive committee of ie
Aero Club of America, was advised
tonight by Lieutenant lUilloni of the
Hoyal Italian Flying corps. Hundreds
of aviators, lie declared, would wil
lingly undertake the Initial flight.
,The plan. It was stated after the
mooting, will he laid berore the pro
per government officials.
M-;W YOKK, June 2 7. ir. K. W.
Buckley, supreme physician, .lames
J. Metlraw, supremo director and
Lawrenco O'.Murray, deputy oversea
commissioner of tho Knights of Co
lumbus, have arrived In France to
supervise expansion of the organiza
tion's war activities. A cablegram
received today told also of tho arrival
at headquarters In Pails of a large
party of Knights of Columbus chap
lains, secretrles nd other workers.
Officers of 1ho organization an
nounced that approximately $.",(I0H,
000 had heen appropriated to dato In
furthering war relief prnjert here
and abroad.
Gormans. This amounted to ten ear-
loads of tho most unusual bnggage
that was ever handled on tho bank of
the Hlver LI f fey. "fhere were pianos,
doulilo-liass vlolins,Sind tho whole net
of Instruments for the camp band;
thero wero sailors' ueu. trunks of
great variety; thero was a grandfath
er clock of huge proportions, nnd a
complete sot of theatrical "proper
ties" and stage scenory, which told I
of entcrtninmcnts past or for future
production.
Khaki-clad dockmcn porsplrod over
tho job of arranging these mountains
of! baggage into slings, hoisting them
on board tho stoamer. and stowing
tho stuff away In tho hold.
Tho train wilh tho Uoriuan and
Austrian travellers arrived In Die
station across the road from the rlvor
and was cheered by the crowd out
sido the gates. Ilaudkerchlefs were
waved by the women, and the prison
ers waved back on: of the truln win
dows. (eriiian Tunc- Played
Several Union the crowd made ll
rush towards tho quayside, hut the
military and police allowed no en
trance to tho dock sheds and the
crowd of onlookers finally took up
positions on lop of lumber plica lower
down the river wall, where the boat
could bo seen and cheered as II start
ed down the river.
Sinn Fein scarfs and ribbons were
worn by most of the women In lb"
crowd. A similar crowd quickly col
lected on the south wall, across tho
river, where the men and women
sang over and over II. e Sinn Felti
song, and cheered themselves hoarse
as tho departees wero brought onto
the decks of the slcamer.
Then suddenly tho strains of a
l.niKH band, playing a medley or Her
man airs, floated out on the water.
It was tho aliens' rump band In ac
tion. As they played, the bout sti.rl
od. cheers were raised again, the
.slciimor gained headway, Hi" cheer
ing died down anil tho crowds began
1. 1 disperse. The .soldiers and pollie
on Hie do. ks filed ..ai k to their iar
racl,s and the fextivltle were over.
Says It Acted Like a Charm
Coughs, colds, sore throat or bron
chial troubles which persist at till
tlmo of tho year usually are of an on.
stlnalo character. That Is all the more
reason why a truly reliable remedy
like Foley's Honey and Tur Com
pound should bo used. Mrs. II.Marga
retBmalo, Bishop, Calif., writes: "Fo
ley's Honey and Tar Is a grand reme
dy; more than is claimed for It. I
was suffering from, a cold last week
and used tho medicine and It acted
like a charm.'' Contains no opiates.
Sold ever;, where. AJv,
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in the red and green
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To spend hours on wash
day, boiling and rubbing
dirt out of clothes?
Or to let Fels-Naptha wash them
in water of comfortable temper
ature, while you attend to some
thing else? No boiling, no hard
rubbing is necessary.
Wash the Fels-Naptha way. IiY-sensible.
FeU-Nnplhn keeps
white clothes
white
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of Good Tires
Your cat' is a vital war-time neces
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war work and war service.
Make it give the limit of service.
But don't add one extra dollar to
your driving expenses.
War-times make economy imper
ative. Practice it in operating your
car or truck.
Keep down your tire costs.
Use good tires United States
Tires.
Increasing thousands are recog
nizing the war-time value of United
States Tires.
They are getting away from hap
hazard tire buying.
. They are buying mileage choos
ing tires that give most miles per
dollar.
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economy.
both absolute essentials today.
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