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PXGB SEC BrEDFORD MAni TRTBUNE, MEDFORD, PREPPST, MONDAY, DF.CKMBFR 2, lflt8 PRESIDENT ADDRESSES CONGRESS IE DEPARTURE FOR PARIS FOR PEACE CONFERENCE WITH ALLIES : (Continued from page two.) Ne nave hitherto lacked stimulation tp undertake. ' ' I particularly c;rect your attention to the very practical plans which the secretary of the interior has devel oped In his annual report and before your committees for the- reclamation of arid, swamp and cut-over lands, which might, if the, states were will ing and able to cooperate, ' redeem some three hundred million acres of land for cultivation. There are" said to be fifteen or twenty million acres of land in the west, at present arid, tor whose reclamation water Is avail, able, If properly conserved. There are about two hundred and thirty million acres from which the forests have been cut, but which have never yet been cleared for the 'plow and 'which He waste and desolate. .These lie scattered all over the union. And there are nearly eighty million acres of. land that He under swamps or subject to periodical overflow or too wet for anything but grazing which it Is perfectly feasible to drain and protect and redeem..r. The congrers can at once direct thousands of the roturnlng 'soldiers' to the reclamation of the arid lands which it has already undertaken If It will but enlarge the plans and the appropriations which It has entrusted to .the department of the Interior. It Is possible In dealing with our unused lands to effect a great return and agricultural devel opment which will afford the best sort of opportunity to men who want to help themselves; and the secretary of the Interior has thought the pos sible methods out in a way which Is worthy of your most friendly atten tion. , Pleads for Ruined Lands ' I have spoken of the control which must jvet for a while,- perhaps for a lone while, be exercised over ship pine because of the priority of service to which our forces overseas are entitled and which should also be accorded to the shipments which are to save recently liberated peoples from starvation and manv devastated regions from permanent ruin. May 1 not so v a , special word about the needs of "Belgium and Northern France t No sums of money Daid bv wav of indemnity will serve of themselves to save them from hope less disadvantage for vears to come. Something more must be done than merely find the monev. i If thov had inonev nnd raw, mate rials in abundance tomorrow tliev could not resume their old place in the the very important place they, held judgment-ot mv own. betore the flame of war swept aeross . them.- Manv of their factories are razed to the ground. Much of their machinery is destroyed or has been taken away. Their"people are scat tered and many of their best work men are dead. Their markets will be taken bv others, if thev are not in some special wav assisted to re build their factories and replace their lost instruments of : manufacture. Thev should not be left to the vicia stitudes of the sharp competition for materials and for industrial facilities which is now to set in. I hope, there fore, that the congress will not be unwuiing. ii n snouid become neces sary, to grant some such agency as the war trade' board the right to es tablish priorities of export and sud- plv for the, benefit of these people whom we have been so bappv to as sist in.. saving from the German ter ror and whom we must not now tthoughjcssly leave to shift for them selves in a pitiless competitive market,'.' ' Taxation Necessary 1 For the steadying and facilitation of our own domestic busines read justments nothing is more important than the immediate determination of the taxes that are to be levied for 1918. 1919 and 1920. As much of, the burden of taxation must be lift ed from business as sound methods of financing the government, will per mit, and those who conduct the great essential industries of the country must be told as exactly as possible what obligations to the government thev will be expected to meet in the years immediutclv ahead of them. It will be of serious consequence to the' country to delay removing all Uncertainties in :tliis matter a single'! ,oay longer than the. right processeu pf debate justify..' It is idle to talk of, fciiceessful and confident business re-' construction before1 these uncertain-' ties are solved. .4 . . .-, Six Mlllon Program .... : f If the war had continued it would have been necessary lo raise at least 4eight, billion dollars bv taxation pay pblQnjn the pear 1919:. buft-lhe war has ended and I agree with the sec retary of the treasury 'that it will be safe to reduce the amount to six bil lions. An immediate rapid decline In the expenses of the government is not to bo lokcd for. Contracts made for war supplies will, indeed, be rap idly cancelled and liquidated, but thoir immediate liquidation will make heavy druins on the treasury for the months iiist ahead of us. The m'ain tences of our forces on the otber side of the sea is still necessary.' A con siderable proportion of those forces must remain in Kurope during the pe riod of occupation, nnd those which urc. brought home will be transport ed and demobilized nf. Iieavv exnenwc for inontli-t0'-('dii1o. ' The interest' hn our war debt must, of course,, bo puid nnd provisions made' for the retire ment of the obligations of the gov ernment which represent it. But these demands will of course fall much below what a continuation of military operations would have entailed nnd six billions should suffice to supply a sound foundation for the financial operations of the year. Future Taxation I entirely concur with tho secre tary of the treasury in recommending that the two billions needed in addi tion to the four billions provided bv existing law be obtained from the profits wfiich have accrued and shall accrue from war contracts and dis tinctive! vwor business, but that these taxes be confined to the war profits accruing in 1918. or in 1919 from busines Originating in war contracts. I urge your acceptance of his recom mendation that provision be made now. not subsequently, thnt the taxes to be paid in 1920 should be reduced from sue to four billions. Anv nr rnngements. less definite than these would add elements of doubt and con fusion to the critical period of indus trial readjustment through, which the country must now imniedintelv pass. and which no true friends of the na tion's essentinl business interests can afford to be responsible for ere atine or prolonging. Clearly deter mined conditions, clearly and simply charted, are indispensible to the economic revival and rapid industrial development which may confidently be exepcted if we act no wand sweep all interrogation points away, w,. Xwral Program I take if lor granted that congress will carry out the naval program which was undertaken before we en tered the war. The secretary of the navy has submitted to your commit tees for authorization that part of the program which covers the building plans for the next three years. These plans have been prepared along the lines and in accordance with the pol icy which the congress established not under the expedient conditions of war. but with the intention of ad hering to a definite method of de velopment for the navy. . I earnestly recommend the unintcrruped pursuit of that policy. It would clearly be unwise for us to attempt to adjust our jiroerams to a future would pol icy as yet undetermined. ... . ' The question which causes me the greatest concern is; the question of policy to be adopted towards the railroads. 1 frankly turn to vou for counsel upon it. I have no confident I do not see how any thoughtful man can have who knows anything of the com plexity of the problem. It is a prob lem which must be studied, studies immediately and studied without bias or prejudice. Nothing can be gained by becoming partisans of anv par ticular plan of settlement. Railroad Problem It was necessary that the adminls tration of the railroads should be taken over bv the government so long as the war lasted. It would have been imposisble otherwise to establish and carry through under a single direction the necessary priorities of shipments It would have been impossible other wise to combine maximum production at the factories and mines and farms with the maximum passible car sup ply to take the products to the ports and markets: impossible to route troop shipments and freight ship mcnts without regard to the advan tage or disadvantage of the roads employed: imposisble to subordinante when necessary all questions of con venience to the public necessity: im possible to give the necessary flnan ciol support to the roads from the public treasury. But all these neccM sities have now been served, and the ouestion is. what is best for the rail roads and for the public in the fu ture. ' Exceptional circumstances and ex ceptional methods of administration were not needed to convince us that the railroads were not equal to the immense tasks of transportation lm posed upon them bv the rapid and continuous development of the indus tries of the country. We knew that already. And we knew that , thev were unequal to it partly becnusc their full co-operation was rendered impossible bv law and their compe tition made obligation, so that it lias CHEERFUL WORDS For Many a Med ford Household. To have the pains and aches of a bad back removed to be , entirely free from annoying, dangerous urin ary disorders, Is enough to make any kidney sufferer grateful. The .fol lowing advice of one who has suf fered will prove helpful to hundreds of Medford readers. Mrs. ' Ida Kenworthy, 508 South Grape St., Medford, says: "I have taflen Doan's Kidney Pills when I have noticed my kidneys haven't been acting as they should and they have never failed to do me good. 1 also give Doan's Kldnev Pills to one of my grandchildren who Is often bothered with weak kidneys nnd they are very beneficial." Price 60c, at all dealers. . Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Kenworthy had. Foster-MIIhurn Co., lifers., Buffalo, N. V. Adv. been impiwisblo to iiKsicn to them severally the traffic which best could be carried bv thoir respective lines in the interest of expedition nnd na tional eeonontw ;' Put Vp to t)iurcss,. Wo mav hope, I believe, for the formal conclusion ot the war bv tvoutv bv the time spring has come. Tho twentv-ono months to which Hie preseut cunt ml of the railways is lim ited after formal proclamation vol' ponce shall have beeu made will run at the furthest, I take it for grunted, only to the Jununrv of 1921. The full equipment of the rnilwuvs whicr. the fudornl administration hiul plan ned could not be completed within any such period. Tho present law does not permit tho uso of the rev. cnues of the 'several roads for tin execution of such plans except bv formal contract with their directors, some of whom will consent whilt some will not. and therefore does not afford sufficient authority to under take improvements upon tho scale upon which it would bo necessnrv to undertake them. Kverv approach to this difficult subject matter of decis ion brings us face to face, therefore, with this unanswered ouestion: Wluu is right that we should do with ttie railroads, in the interest of the pub- lie and in fairness to their owners? So Answer Ready Let me say at onco that I have no answer ready. The only thing thnt is perfectly clear to me is that it Is not fair cither to the public or to tho owners of the railroads to leave the question unanswered nnd thnt it will presently' becomo my duty to relin quish control of tho roads, eyen be fore the expiration of. the statutory period, unless thero should appear some clear prospect in the meantime of a legislative solution. Their release would nt least produce one clement of solution, namely, certainty and a quick stimulation of private initia tive. . Untunes r odsiuiuties I belive that it will be serviceable for me to set forth as explicitly as possible the alternative courses that lie open to our choice. We can slm ulv releaso the roads and go back to the old conditions of private manage ment, unrestricted competition and multiform regulation bv both stnto and federal authorities, or we can go to the opposite extreme and estab lish complete government control, ac companied if necessary bv actual government ownership: or wo enn adopt an intermediate course of mod ified private control, under a more unified and affirmative public regula tion nnd under such alterations of the law as will permit wasteful com pction to be avoided and a consider able degree, of unification of admin istration to be effected, as. for ex ample, bv regional corporations un der which the ruilwavs of definnbio area would be in effect combined In single systems. -j .,, - The one conclusion that I am ready to state with confidence is that It would be a disservice alike to the country and to the owners of the railroads to return to the old condi tions unmodified. Development Xcedod , Those are conditions of restraint without development. There is noth ing affirmative or helpful about them. What the country chiefly needs Is that all its means .of transportation should be developed, its ruilwavs, its waterways, its highways and its countryside roads. Some new ele ment of policy, therefore, is -absolutely necessary necessary for the service of the public, necessnrv for the release of credit tthose who ure administcrinf? the railways, neces sary for the protection of their se curity holders. The old policy may be changed much or little, but surely it cannot wisely bo left as it was. I hope that the congress will have a complete and impartial study of the whole problem instituted nt once and prosecuted as rapidly as possible. I stnnreadv and anxious to release the roads from the present control and I must do so at a very early date if bv waiting until the statutory limit is reached I shall be merely pro longing the period of doubt and Un certainty which is hurtful to every in terest concerned. . Visit to Europe I welcome this occasion to an nounce to the congress mv purpose to join in Paris the representatives of the governments with which we have been nssocinled in the war ngniiiKt 'he central empires for the purpose of hscussing with thorn tho nmm fen Mires of the treaty of penes, I ronl ' the great inconveniences that will it tend bv leaving the country par 'iculnrlv nt this'tinio but the conclu sion that it. was mv piiriunnuiit ilutv o go 1ms been forced mum mo bv louvidoriitionH .which 1 hope will seem is conclusive . to you us thev have seemed to me. The allied governments have no 'epted the bases of ucueo which I atit 'ined to the congress oil) the eighth if Januurv lust, as the central em pires also have, nnd very reasonably desiro mv uersounl counsel in their interpretation and application nnd :t is liivblv desirable that 1 should ivo it in onler that the sincere do ire of our government to contribute vithout selfish purpose of anv kind o settlements that will be of com mon benefit to nil the nations con cerned ninv be made fully manifest. Peace Important The peace settlements which nre now to bo agreed upon nro of trun scendant importance both to us and to the rest of 'the world, nnd I know of no business or interest which should take precedence of them. The gallant men of our armed forces on land nnd son have consciously fought for the idculs which thev knew to Do the ideals of their' country; I have sought to oxprcss those ideals; thev have accepted mv statements of them ns the substance of their own thought nnd purpose, "as tho nsso- ciated Governments hnvo accepted them: I owe it to them to see to it so far as in riio lies, that no false or mistaken interpretation is put upon them, and no possible effort omitted to realize them. It is now mv duty to plav my full part in making good what thev offered their life's blood to obtain. I can think of no cnl of ser vice which eould transcend this. I shall be in close touch with vou nnd with affairs on this side the wnter and von will know all that I do. Censorship Unmoved At mv request tho French nnd En glish nnd French governments have absolutely removed the censorship of cable news which until within a fort night they had maintained and there is now no censorship whatever exer cised nt this end except upon nttcmpt ed trnde communications with enemy countries. It has been necessnrv to keep nn open wire constantly avail able between Franco and the depart ment of state and another between Franco nnd tho department of war. In order that this might be done with the least- posisble interference witli the other uses of tho cables, I have temporarily tukeii over control of both cables in order that thev mav bo used ns a single system. I did so at tho advice of th most experienced cuble officials nnd I hone that the results will justiPvimv hope that the news of the next few months mnv pnss with the utmost freedom and with the lenst possible dclv from each side of the sea to the other. Asks for Support May I not hope, gentlemen of the congress, thnt in, the delicate tasks I shall have to perform on tho other side of the sea, in mv efforts truly and faithfully to interpret tho princi ples und purposes of the country we love. I mnv have the encouragement nnd the added strength of vour united support? I realize the magnitude and difficulty of the duty I am under taking: I am poignantly aware of its grave responsibilities. 1 am the ser vant of the nation. I can have no private thought of purpose of mv own in performing such an crrnnd. I to give the best that is in me to the common settlements which I must now assist in arriving at in confer ence with the other working bonds of the nssociiited government h, 1 shall count upon vour friendly countenance nnd oncoiiriigenient, I shall not be mucoesnblo. The cables nnd the wire loss will rentier inn nvailahlu for nuv council or service vou mnv desiro off mo, and I shall ho liumiv in the thought that I iuu constantly in touch with (lie weight v ninltera of iIouhik tin policy with which wo shall, hnvo to deal. I shall ninko mv absence us brief as possible ami shall hope to return with the happv assurance that it has been possible to translate into action the great ideals for which Aniorriou has si riven, , TELLS OF TROUBLES Smith Unit Hern doing. Down Hill Kijilit Yenm iuln Seventcun Pounds by Taking Tauluu Relief from Eczema Don't worry about eczema or- other skin troubles. You can have a clear. healthy- skin bv using a little icma obtained at any drug store for 35cv cr extra large bottle at $1.00. Zemo generally removes Dimples, black- heads, blotches, eczema, and ringworm and makes the 8km clear and healthy. Zemo is a dean, penetrating, antiseptic liquid, neither sticky nor greasy and stains nothing. It is easily applied and costs a mere trifle for each application. It Is tlways dependable. ' The E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland. Ot "This Tnnlnc has put mo In shapo to whore t havo gained sevontcun pounds," said II. (J. Smith, living at tho ltraud Ilouuo, Ituttc, Mont., re cently. Mr. Smith hns boon book keeper for the Tramway Mine for tho past tweivo yours, and also owns a valuablo ranch at Jefferson Inland and Is ono ot tho host known und ro; spectod men In Montana. ".My stomach has glvon mo so nfuch troublo for tho past olght or nine years." ho continued, "that I was all tho tlmo taking something trying to got soma relief. My food didn't scout (o digest nt all, and my stomach was in such a bud fix that If I loanod against my desk I would al most cry out with pain. I tried do ing without moats, and that nor any thing else helped me. Finally my back got to hurting mo so ucross my kldnoys, and 1 got so tired nnd worn out that I would havo to lay off some days and rest up. 1 was troubled with constipation, and frequent headaches and lost weight until 1 got down to only ono hundred und twenty-olght pounds. I hnvo always been a steady worker, but I had got ten to whore I never felt llko putting in full tlmo so you may know I was a pretty sick man. "Whon I saw about Tnnluc In tho papers I was foaling so miserable that I was ready to try anything there was a clianco of giving me some relief. So I got a bottlo nnd soon started up hill. I now wotgh one hundred and forty-Ilvo pounds, which gives mo u gain of seventeen pounds, nnd makes mo heavier and stronger than I have been sinco my troubles started. My appollte Is o:i- ormoiiB, ovorythlng I eat agroos with mo, and all the troublo has disap peared from my stomuch entirely. My back stopped hurting me by the tlmo I had finished my first bottlo. and I'm never bothered any more with constipation and headache. My strength and energy hns all come back to me. and I cun work ovory day and feel nono the worse from It. My wifo is now Inking Tanlno, and I'm sure she will hnvo somothlnn good to say for It, too, as it cortalnly is a wonderful medicine. Hardly a day passes but what I tell somebody how It has hotpod mo." Tanlnc Is sold In Medford by West Sldo Pharmacy, in Gold Hill by M. D. Bowers, in Central Point by Miss M. A. Mee, In Ashland by J. J. McNalr. Adv. RECUPERATION of the vital forces of the body, depleted in the struggle with acute disease, depends not upon super ficial stimulation but upon ade quate nourishment. The body's needs to be nourished back to J strength and power. SCOTTS EMULSION a pure, wholesome tonic-food. absolutely non-uconouc, tone and strengthens by nourishing the whole syatem body, blood and nerves. 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