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MEDFOTID MA17; 'tRTBUNV?, jfBDFOHni OREd'ON. "WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY :1fi. 1924"
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O'f'elal paper of the City of Medford
Official uuui-r of Jackaon County.
Sworn dall' avrniK circulation for
l montha endlnir Oct. 19211 3221,
'. Kntered.' a aecond-chiHH .matter nt
Medford, Oregon, under the act of Marcl
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Ye Smudge Pot
: 'By Arthur Perry '
The Portland youth who attempted
to .rob, tin old pt by- hitting jWih over,
the bond. aufl'Vatit- cray-i'mhiP4iat(ly
ti)on fanturo,,t?gurid lilt. rolud. Tues
day ()ob eiwngh to escape front the
stale Byrnn, wltcW and clean.
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" Thofj'vllle Muxtlu V BUffrfrlng from
debility Incident to . old age, ,nnd a
dlBlocated oowcatcher. The. venerable
pioneer was cavorting gully down the
right of way, as spry as- any engine
many years younger, when without the
slightest -warning, the cowcatchor
dropped and fell prone. ' Mogul is not
convalescing very rapidly. .
." lloth branches of the legislature are
getting ready to tear the pants off the
"vested Interests." This is an old stall,
doesn't hurt the corporations, but
tickles the constituents' with uncurrled
whlskors!; -"'
1,1 GUARDING HI8 BAY WINDOW
j (Eugene Register) :
' ' 11, ' V, aiass, president nf the'
.bank, fjtales that ho Is glad he wan '
Vnot Jn the vicinity at .the time the
hx was being" wloldod or his front .
might also have been duuiaged.
""What oman Does Kot.Weiir Qur
Dainty . Lingerie With l'rlil"-T( Port
land Telegrhm.)" A fine question to
ask? offhand. :; ' -' t
Soiuo of the' auto mec1anlcs look
like oil had been struok in the valley
in 17 places, and, they hud been forced
'td' stay out all night with a gitshor.'
..Their- employers could save money by
wringing out Ihelr overalls Wednes
days and Saturdays.
The 'imposing edifice planted by the
esteemed Espoe at the Undertaker's
Hope, and which also comtnanUs an In
spiring view of the Main Stem has
been painted straw yellur. .
'.' "TOCA" 18 RIGHT
. 1 (Oregon City Enterprise)
Mrs, R, It. Gibson walked ovor
to Mrs. Katie Douglass' the other
. day aud took dinner with her.
At a meeting of the Jack Co. liliila
torB Assn last night, light palpitations
were Indulged In till a lute hour, und
arrangements ujefor a flual quiver
on Man 4tn, wnen tito exoconu a.
Uncoil, and "alosslnh" - will retire,
after tight years ,of fultle effort to
estubllih Utopia. eMIyi sporiinrtirdur or
the Most Completely llunkad Mastor,
nil members will wear Ihelr rings In
their nose as a fiiiul murk of respect. '
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The ornery Btoors Wig Ashpnlo bo'
friended last fall, und kept all winter,
will be turned out next week to hustle
for their pwn grub. Tile wuy buy Is
they would eat up John 1) Kockufullow.
If the reformers hud 'their way, and
the Anti-Flirting law was working, n
red beaded iiuild from No. Cal. would
have been shot nt sunrise this mom.
The Oregonlnn wants Homebody to
buy the millions' of pounds of surplus
, prunes In Oregon for the starving
Chinamen. In spite of the Tact that
China has alwuys been a good friend
of the li. 8. A.
''! Mike Womack hits suspended work
on his red paint mlno In the Aplilegale
district and is devoting all his time to
the development of n nitrate prospect
,ln western Chile.
. WAGES DECLINING
(Klamath Herald)
Entrance to the Klumuth Fulls
' creamery on Klamath uvonue was
, ptfected Saturday evening by some
unknown iierson or persons, who
' took $1.90 front the caHh drawer
tint' made no effort to open tho
Bare.'" Tho entrance was made
'through the front window.
' ' DeBplta the unusual rains, tiioro han
been no change in the old rule that
February aiolsture don't help the crops
any. In a dry August. '
' "The course of true love" Is running
quite smooth' In Los Angeles, as no
female cutle has shot her male sweetie
la at least three days.
WHO 8AID "PRUNES?"
VIRT7E,is not its own' reward, for observe Ihe lowly prune.
After eent'iiries of social obscurity, uncomplainingly endured,
(he prune is at lust coming into its own. Honored . by 'a governor's
proclamation, aided by the leading financiers of the state, the sub
ject of sermons, and the beneficiary of a thousand dollar advertising
campaign, 1his modest and retiring poor relation of the dietetic fam
ily, is now occupying the center of the stage leading the ranksif
stardom, cn.wnt'd with thej fulsome encomiums of a grateful consti
tuency.. . ,
. : It pays lo be good, that is the lesson, of ihe .Oregon prune. The
faithful friend of the unKtvcly bearding house, kind to theybung and
helpful to the 'dyspeptic ; thrifty, unpri tensions; asking little, giving
much ; springing to sudden and unsought affluence during the war now
in its adversity a great state rises in its majesty, and proclaiips, "Thou
hast been a good and faithful servant, now slialt thou enjoy the fruit'
of your virtuous anil simple life." ' '
Twenty-one 'million pound.s'of Oregon prunes, thrown out into the
cohl, cruel world, arc to be provided with warmth and shelter, dress-
d and sugared and pampered, the doors of every home in Oregon
(.peri to them, and if then; are prunes slill unprovided for, transpor
tation lo CWuh and oilier lauds of sunshine is provided.
AVho says virtue is its own reward ! that penurious survival ol
n puritanical iilul pauperized morality. Virtue carries in its train,
for every faithful subject aewanls of a warm and gladsome, nature.
I'ruues and prisms are dead, hong live 1'im, I'runes and I'rosperiiy !
BLUE BLOOD AND RED.
(IKOKOK'S spcecln from the throne is an eloquent tribute;
IN.,' to flic decline. of royalty.', !,
.-For here is a blac-blnoiled monarch of the ermine and purple, voio.
ing approval of a closer. and more intimate relation with Russia's
bluod-spullcred monarch of direct action and sabotage. ', ' '' ,'.
. If anylliing were neetd to show that the speech from the. throne,
with all its 'Medieval pomp and circumstance,' is merely an empty ges
ture palliclie in its futility, yesterday's ceremony in Loudon sup;
plied it. ' ' ' . : : . '., ' , :
And yet that di fnoiislialion is an example of the. iioliiical adapta
bility, which has allowed Oeat Urilain to retain a genuhie. love and
respect for its royal line, while it has. led tho natimis of tliej world
in' a constructive evolution toward the purest type of Democracy.
The government. lias not only survived the democratic pressure, but
absorbed it, while. the British crown is the most secure Cmblcm' of
royalty in Europe todays (because it has been .content lo become. np
ornamental symbol of the past, rather than a det'enninihg fores' in
shaping the affairs of the present aild future.
ed by the foreign interests which con
,trol 97 per cent qf the Alexican .oil
IllllllHiry. iUllUl 11UH yUUIl lilKUU UJlll
through diplomatic i Cbanuels and in
the Mexican oiurts, but ho. final docls-
ions have been reached."
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THE SOREHEAD.
IOR yeais I went 'to Orocer Gregg's to buy my prunes ("find
cheese ami eggs'; ( went tea thousand tinios. or niore, and :
wore a path arountl 'liis store, till-every bounUI could rehall, and;
every nailhead in lh wall. And when each 'month of trade was"
done, I always paid him luiiid li'iade mon, and never said "IMease '.
chalk it down until my goat conies buck to town." Then, for a'
change, I bought my goods, iny prunes and cheese,' at tlrocer
AVootl's, I thought'I'd tratle there for a while, since change of.
base is all m style, Und Ihen return to Gregg's once more as in the
festive days of. yore. Hut, meeting Gregg upon the street, and giv-
ing Him a greeting sweet, he handed me a frozn stare,, as grouchy ;
as a.griz.ly.benr. Oh, he was sore aud lull of-bile because' I left ,
him for a while; be seemed to think, he owned my soul and hud a'
morhwye Im my, roll. The good old years will -roll away,'si(i'd '
whiskers red will change to gray, and dynasties will rise and burst,'
and bow-wows turn to weinerwiirst before t go to Gregg's again
lo blow my. hard-earned iron meii. The merchants in this world
Of ours Should' always speak their thoughts with flowers; if they
express their thoughts with bricks, they drive oil' patrons by such '
itricks.'" , ' ; . ": ,,, '
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The Mexican Oil Fields
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'r Tho Jap question Is Vapidly getting
to the point where 11 will be necessary
tcWiave a Keep-On-Your-Shlrt Week,
WASIIINCTON. D. C Since the
world war emphasized tbo Importance
V piitroleum In modern warfare and
nwukeiied a keen realisation of the'
even greater part it will be called on
to play In reconstruction and In the
Industrial and commercial develop
ment of the future, Interest has turned
more und more to Mexico, which con
tains .the most spectacular of tho pres
ent producing oil fields. This nearby
oil region Is tho subject of the follow
ing bulletin issuou by the National
(icographle society: .
'Sloxlco. camo Into tho world race
for oil production late. Kb first nro-
dirclng well, ylol ling a modest SO bar
rels a' day, was brought In nut quite
twenty years ag ). Now It bus n group
of the grcatesl gushers In, the World,
a number of which are capable of pro
ducing from 7li,000 to 100,000 barrels
each ef 'liquid gold' dally, llv 1011
Mexican production reached twnlvn
und a llalf million barrels annually hud
surpassed that of lliree of the long
standing leaders among tha oenntries
to which the world looked for Its oil
supply Rumania., (lalleln, and the
lutch KubI Indies.
Mexico. Passes Russia
"In I ! 1 3 this production was doubled
and by 1917 It had mora than doubled
again. In IMS Moxlenn oil wells yield
ed nearly 61,000,000 barrets, anil In
1919. more than 87,0ito,uo0 barrels.
This latter production was in excess
not only of the current annual produc
tion of Russia, previously second
among oil producing countries, but
also exceeded Russia's high watermark
of 85,000,000 barrels in IStOl. Now only
the United States, with a production of
nearly 400.000,000 barrels, is ahead of
Mexico.
Biit Mexico is accepted as having
the greatest demonstrated oil field In
the world, and It Is estimated that If
all Its producing wells had been per
mitted to flow ut tholr maximum in
1919 tho .resulting production, would
have been 32,0110,000 barrels more-than
tho actual production of the entlro
World In 1918. As n'uiutter'of fact
only about 12 per cent of the potential1
flow of th6 Mexican wells is permitted
bucauso storage, refining,, and trans
portation facilities are Inadequate to
take care or more. These facilities are
being steadily Increased, however, and
experts alone for 1920 probably aver
aged ten million barrels a month, tho
rate doNnltely established for tho first
six months of the year.
The World's Greatest' Stream cf Oil
"Tho pructlco of . Mexican natives
of collecting fragments of asphalt and
bitumen which flouted on tho Waters
of a huge lagoon near tho coast of tho
Clnlf of Mexico such of, Tumpicb, and
selling them la tho neighboring city,
led to' tho realization that there must
bo underground petroleum sunnlics
nenr. famuli producing wells und even
fairly large producers were brought In
How Much Do
' You Know?
from 1901 onward, but it was'not until
1908 that the first of the. tremendous
gushers that -Tiavo- astoutehed the
world was brought in, near San Geron
imo, spouting between 60,000 and 75,-
000 barrels of oil a day, . i if no candidate for president has
"No such stream of oil bad ever a majority in the electoral college who
been encountered before and the drll- chooses the president? -
lers-werq entirely unprepared to cope 2 How old was George Washington
with the situation, The great geyser when he assumed command' of the
jf oil caught fire from the boiler of Continental armies?
;he drilling outfit and for two months 3 what women jise their hoods for
constituted the greatest and most spec- cradles? .
tacular oil fire that the world has ever( 4 For what is Posa noted? -known.
The roaring . pillar of flams G What alliance in history is known
ihot upward during luS greatest fury as the "First Triumveratu"?
to a height of 800. to .1400 feet, illumSu- 1; What cathedral contains 6000
iting the countryside at night for many statues In niches in the .qutslde of the
mnes, ana was, visiiic 10 snips more bunding?
than 100 miles at sea. It wat finally 7-i-whnn worn Moat-in- hnn
extinguished liy huge pumps throwing established? " ..
itreams of gravel and mud. 8 What has raade Miles Slandish
"The gigantic gushers of Mexico are famous? . . . . .... :,
believed to flow not from oil sands as 9 Does the pitch of sound affect its
In many fields, but from caverns Jiol- speed? .
lowed, from limestone by. erosion and. 10 When are bodies said' to be
a,ter filled with oil. It Is supposed '"rigid"? "
. s What
mean? Ans.
I American fiction ;ln' Blizzard, tJio' le8..'
less wonder or -me renaity,' aoj
n.i.,,,vnrs of cities.
congressmen . ( ..
uoes " - , .).,...,, f .ho nnilnrwnrlil nt S u
ltcomesfromaiieoi..u. -
word meaning, "the rising sun.
llgion of, theatre, commencing, today, for the re-
iprnno .'.Christians, The prevan-
: ing religion is Roman Catholic.
I io-,When was the first internation
al exposition held? Ans. It was held
in Paris in Ji9.
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that the underground lakes of oil rest
:)n water under artesian pressure.
What may evontuully be expected is
illustrated by 0110 of the most famous
)f oil wells, the: Potrero del Lluno.
This well flowed a mighty stream of
ill for eight years, producing - more
than a million .barrels legulurly each
I Answers to Yesterday's Questions
I 1 Where are blind fish found? Ans.
They are found in the caves of tho
United States and In the depths of the
ocean. . '
2 What did the potato bug feed
upon before learning fo 'eat potato
..f, .. m, ,., 1 ' k,n'vll'9? A"a- The hug fed upon the
for it to make Its way across the coun
try.' It ' caused much damage to the
the golden stream turned to worthless
salt water over night.' ,
remerujous 1 erqiory unocveiopcq potato crop In 1874. . .. "
"lUch. as the known oil fields" of .'. 3 How do'bees make wax? An3.
Mexico are, it is possible that Only, a' The workers gorge themselves with
begjnnlng has been' made lu uncover- honey and then remain quiet for twert-
iug.iilie liquid mineral wealth .of -the, ty-four hours. Th wax comes out a6
republic. TJie fields now tinder.exploi. mtlo plates from the wax pockets on
tatlon 'cover only, about 800 square the under side of the body. It' takes
.niles. . Geologists liafe round promlB- twenty pounds of honey to make one
Ing slruciuro for oil in Mexico over an- pound of wax Jnit this is sufficient to
arxia aggregating 2110.000 squaie mllcs. 'manufacture 30,00ff cells.
The future of the Mexican oil in-: ' 4 When and where was the largest
dustry Is likely to be profoundly ar-: gold nugget ever discovered? ; A1i8. It
lected by political developments.. The. was found .in Hallarat, Australia, in
Mexican constitution of 1917 In effect 1858. it was sold for $50,000.
declures that oil found under land does 5 What 1s the nicanhuf. pf Phi Deta
notibelong to the owner of the land but Kappa? Aus. The society Is a Greek
to the state. Tjis provision and regit- letter fraternity. Its mntto is Phlloso
latlons based on It have been contest- phia Uiott Kubernuto3, Philosophy is
me guiue or 1110. . ' . v 1 .
. 6 ift what siato Were the first bat
tles of the revolution fought? Ans In
Massachusetts. , .. ' ' , .
. 7 What oaicials are entitled to'the
'.prefix "honorable'1? Ans." ' Senators,
NORMA TALMAD6E
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TH fi 8RAN DED .WOMAN
i .iNoi hW Jl'ttlinaiige' plays the part fif
a runaway Wife In. her latest First Na
tional ;p'ikiire,-"Tlie Branded Woman,"
which will be shown at the Rialto
theatre, commencing today for four
davsj flow a baby figures inj.the
Straightening out of a maze of domes
tic '.entanglements, via the telephone ,is
revea oi in .the film version of: thin
fnscinutuig play by Oliver U. Ualley.
Legless Devil Fascinates In
,i"The Penalty"
If you thrilled over "The Hunchback
of Notre Dame," if you sat up all nlgbt
reading "Oliver Twist", or siniqaereil
over but re-read "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hvde," then '.The Penalty" is just the
kind of a picture for you. It telle the
amazing story of one of the most orlg. 1
inul characters m itcuon. No more
bizarre forceful yet convincing charac.
ter is to. be found In any book than
Mr. Morris' skilfully drawn "Illizzard,"
master mind of the. underworld, who
might have been a genius and a power
for good had it not been for the mis
take of an unskilled surgeon who made
him a cripple for life.
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Quickest Relief Known . ,'
Don't stay stuffod-up! , Quit l.low-'
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hours until three doses are taken usu
ally breaks any cold light up.
' The very first'-dose" opens clogged
nostrils and the air passages of the
rnlt; stops nose'runnlng; relieves the
hcuduchev dullness, fcVerishness. .
'-.''I'spo's' Cold Compound"' costs only
n' fl'Wi cents, nt 'druK stores. ' It acts '1
without ussistaucc, .tastes nice, . con
'tititui.lno t;uUiine Insist'upon Pape's!-
Adv.
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Scratch Feed, Shelled Coni. Cracked
Corn. Corn Moal, Oround Oats, Mill
run, Morentilk, and other dairy feeds, '
Orlt, Oyster Shell and all kinds of '
Poultry supplies. 1 lieet . pulp and
other supplies. '' '
We. have Fisher's Blend and Olympic
Flour. . . '.' . . . . ...
Prices are changeable, - so furnished
Gouvarneur Morris has created one -omnntitors. Cull ani4 nn at 39? .
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If yor.r nontrils are clogged and your
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every air passage of your headi and
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How good it feels. Your head is
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Only; the choicest eastern "hard
wheat and the choicest of west
em wheats are used in the man
. ufacture of gfa. Blend Flout
. Science has given us the mechanism with
which wheat may be tested. Our wheat
is tested in the fields; again before it enters our
mill, and before turning it into flour there is a
final test in our own laboratories. , .
That's why we are safe in'saying to the house-'
wife that Fisher's Blend Flour is always uniform .
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Ouo, Fisher's Pancake Flour ani
Fisher's Qrantilate 1 Wheat Berriej.
Your dealer will supply you
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