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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1920)
V BEDFORD MAIL. T3IBUNE AM TwnpPRMnpMT NRWRPAPER PCHLISHED UVRKT AFTERNOON EXCEPT BUNUAT BY TIM MEDFORD PftiNTINO CO. Of floe. Mall Tribune E-iIMIdb, 26-J7-29 riortn rir street, i'none id. 'A conaolidatlon of the Democratic Time. The Medford Mali, The Medford Tribune, the Southern Oregonlao. The Anbland Tribune. The Medford Runday Bun la furalehed ubacrlbers dealrlng a aevon-aajr amiy newspaper. ROBERT RUIO., Editor 8. 8. SMITH, Manager. jrOBIOBXPTIOH TEBMII RT Mill IN ADVANCE: Dally, with Sunday Sun, year 16.00 riailv. with Sunday Sun. month. .66 Dally, without Sunday Sun, year- 6.00 r.-. Dally, without Sunday Sun, month .60 WeeKly Mall 'I'riDune, one year i.ou ! flunday Sun, one year 1-60 BY' CARRIER In Medford. Anhlatid, jNitkannvllle. tVntra.1 Point. Phoenix: Dally, with Sunday Sun, year 17.60 Dally, with Sunday Hun, momn .tt Dally, without Sunday Run, year.. 00 Dally, without Sunday Sun, month .60 Official paper of the City of Medford. . urriolal paper or jacKaon uouniy. Entered as second-class matter at Medford, Oregon, under the act of March a, fjworn dally average circulation for six month! ending April 1919 1,074 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Vull Tjeaaed Wire Service. The Asso- elated Prens la exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not other wise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches Herein are aieo reeerveu. ' 1. . Ye Smudge Pot By Artku Fanr The ohnirnmn oC llio ilnmocriil ii1 national committee unnoiuuws that the reirrettiililo illness ot the presi dent will bo cnpitiilized ilurine tlio campaign samlini; forth the pica Hint the chief executive was "hounded," nnd the victim of consnirntorn." Triimminp; on u tientimcntul "CI" string was protilulilo in 1910. ,i Keturns from Michigan prove ninoni; other things that Jnrkson county ih not the only neck of the woods where thoy aro still votinir for Bryan. ' Tho Federal Trade Hoard reports that there is less coffee than ever, and nixes people to save it. This is exactly what the nvorueo hennery lias been doing. Wutch out for a reduc tion: In the strctmth, and a boost in tho price. Perhaps voti recull brand of 10 years ano, which could b smelted lor two miles and tasted 1 afc'. two weeks, the outside covel being: tixclimiireublu for .iuekknives, and a full cup would floor a mule. After heinG short of fruit hnx nia. terinl every fall for 10 yoarsi some Renins is luyini; up n store now, and it is truly wonderful how original ideas wil hit somo people, Picturos of Orovcr Cleveland Men doll, tho millionaire slacker of Phila delphia, who hid dnrimr tho war, show him wearing a "Chaplin" inustncliio. One fault of this form of whisker abortion is that is makes the wearer look guilty though innocent. His de fense should have been inability to rid himself of the growth, nnd the jury would huvo held his hiding justi fiable. No presidential aspirant has come out on a platform of "Any other land beforo America." It is too bad about Mnrv Pickford who now feels that sho has been un duly noted in the publicity "attendant uyxm my marriage." If there is any thing nn actor or actress hates worse than money, it is cold tvpe, nnd (hoy never get, over shying tit it. As December is tho month for men to meet accidents by having their false whiskers catch fire while play ing Suntn Onus, so April is the tiim of tho year when farmers arc chused und gored bv angrv bulls. Washington, I). C. reports that the lack of raids on tho border bv Mexi cans is a sign that American pa- tienco is bearing fruit, hut people who know the Mexicans, opine it is duo to luziuoss. Now is tho time to sell washing powders lor lace curtains, with the smudging season nigh. What Editors Have to Say president Wilson will make his Flfinnier home lit Wood's Hole. What if tho. general should need it himxelt ttfter tho Chicago convention f Kir geno Guard. If men and women both would talk a little less about high prices and try q little harder to find the irnoil Sure Relief 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION DON'T START A RECALL. WE ARE well aware of the unpopularity of our posi tion. Nevertheless, we are opposed to the wall of the school board. A recall in our opinion, will do no good and may do great harm. The supreme issue in this con troversy is the welfare of the schools. Regardless of the outcome of a recall, a factional bitterness will be injected into the school system from which it will take years to recover. If a recall could be instituted at once, there would be stronp- P-round for the claim that the controversy could be finally ended, and the tables cleared for a new deal. Rut the recall can't be held until June. At that time the budget will come up for a vote. At that time two members of the present board retire.. Plunging the city into a recall campaign for the next three months will completely distort the essentials of the situation, and render a calm and intelligent judgment im possible. Why do this when, by the natural order of events, the make-up of the board is to be changed anyway. Concentrate upon the regular election is our position. and in the interest of the public welfare, forget grievances however justified. The fault with the school board has not been in their aim, but their methods. They have un doubtedly been sincere in their efforts to raise .school standards, but in their zeal, thev have antagonized the very people whose support they; must have to raise these standards. . Nearly a year ago when the, school budget was voted down, we urged the school board to call in a representative citizen's committee, lay all their cards on the table, show the need of the increase, and, by taking the people into their confidence, secure their support. The suggestion was not only ignored, but condemned as a policy of weakness. Where tho school board secured the conception of its public obligations we don't know. Some say it came from the White 1 louse. Others that it came from Mr. Davenport. AVherever it came from it is wrong, and is certain to lead to the very situation which is now here. But a recall, we are convinced, will only make a bad matter worse. All that is good in a recall can better lie secured in the regular election, A better group of men, individually, could not be elect ed than the men now on the board. 1 The fault has been not in the personnel, but in tho group spirit, the hard boiled attitude that the people who pay the school bills have nothing to say about how the schools should be run, that they .haven't even the right to know what is going on, or pass upon what their elected representatives do That policy is hazardous under the best circumstances. But when that policy is joined with what is virtually a program revolutionizing the school system, it is fatal. Popular support in such a program is imperative, popular support can only be attained by giving out all the facts and putting all tho cards on the table. The election of two new members to the school board will go as far toward securing a different spirit, as the election of four. And the obvious and serious objections to a recall will.be avoided. A POOR POLITICIAN. IT IS refreshing to have a man like Hoover in politics for he is such a poor politician. A good politician always throws mud at his opponents. He does it in a subtle way perhaps, but he throws it, nevertheless. The day after Mr. Hoover announced himself Johnson and Borah started after him. For a number of weeks they had been after General Wood. The cry of boodle, snowed the general under in Mchigan, and they figure the cry of pro-British will snow Hoover under in this country. If Mr. Hoover were a good politician he would start after Johnson and Borah. He would call them pro-German. Then he would remind the republicans how Johnson elected AVilson by deserting Hughes in California, and how Borah proclamed himself an atheist, by declaring he wouldn't accept the League of Nations if it were offered by the Saviour himself. That would be good propaganda. It would be clever politics. But .instead of that Mr. Hoover requests his friends to keep personalities out of the campaign entirely. Regarding his opponents he had this to say : ' "All these men are patriotic honorable Americans. They have served their country well nnd aro entitled to respect." We can see the wily Hiram and his strong fisted comrade from Idaho laughing in their sleeves at such guile less innocence. Think of a candidate for political office actually complimenting his opponents. It has inner been done before. More than that Mr. Hoover frankly admits his profession as mining engineer called him to foreign lands considerably and that his poli tical record does not commend if self to political partisans. Both fatal admissions, according to Hie professional politicians, whose first rule is to claim everything and the! second to admit nothing. And yet we have a sneaking i suspicion a majority of the people like it. As a matter oi' fact many good citizens are rather tired of mud slinging, They are more than tired of the old political skull dnggery! which assumes all tho men on one side are horse thieves and ! all on the other are dciul gods. There Is a widespread do-! maud for a presidential candidate who has the courage ! put self-respect above politics, nnd principle above party We admit that according to the rules of the game Mr. j Hoover is Hopelessly oiuciassou as a politician. Hut wi refuse to concede that this weakens his hold on the imagi nation, the respect and affection of the American peopl p wait Mason , SPRING MUSIC. I LIKE to sing of balmy spring, the season most in spiring; my harp I swat and keept it hot, until it needs new wiring. J like to prai' the woodland ways where we will soon be roaming, and shady nooks and babbling brooks with cascades brightly foaming. No gent, I wist, can well resist the Spring, with all its gla mor, unless he's old, with blood so cold it gives him katzonjammer. When I'm so chilled, my heart so filled with wintry slush and water, that I don't sing to wel come Spring, then lead me to the slaughter. My eyes are weak, my hinges creak, I bend them with a lever; my thews are stiff, but what's the diff? I'm just as young as ever. And so I prance, and whoop and dance when Spring comes up the valley; and if a cop should bid me stop, ! chase him down an alley. The winter's flown, the coal men groan, and idle is the plumber; the birds and bees and bugs and fleas have come to spend the summer. The vernal rain has come again, a resur rection bringing, so let-us sing a song of Spring and chortle while we're singing. ' sense patriotism of the country, thev ! meaning that congress i to net nnd can take'tbe control of the nation oul , not talk, however, is too good to be of the dismal swamp of polities nnd true. Kugcne Register. make Hoover president. Salem Capital-Journal. and useful things which can still he purchased at fair and reasonable prices, thev would do them-iclves and the public including the would-le. honest retailer a good turn. lr:i'iN Pass Conner. Hoover organizations should br formed in Salem ami elsewhere for the purpose of making Hoover presi dent and if enough of such Hoover clubs arc formed, representing the independent, uutraiuiuelcd common "l S. to-Have no Voice," unvs a ."ndl!i" 'I'he possibility of this I flunrd. 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