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PAGE THREE RAILROAD PLEA 4TH SECTJON RELIEF 10 COMPETE WITH OCEAN TRAFFIC : BLOW 10 OREGON INTERIOR TOWNS DR BRUMFIELO 9 PRESIDENT TELLS LETTER TO FORGER I METHODISTS THEY Ill MDEA1 LLL VT f -A'-:! .Mi:iF01,M .MAI I, TKir.l'N'K. MKIF0K1. OKKiiON. Tl'KSDA V. NOV KM l!Kll 15, l'J'Jl 1 mm Ml The public should he advised of the many applications y the railroad companies which are now pending he fore the Interstate Commerce Coin mission for so-callnd Fourth Se;tioi relief, that is, permission to charge less for the hauling of freight to Pacific coast terminal points than to the intermediate points, the carriers contending that such relief is neces sary to enable them to compete with the boats operating through the canal from coast to coast, and between Pacific coast seaports. Should the carriers succeed in these requests, interior points will apain be placed at great disadvantage through the intermediate territory again assuming the burden of sup port of the country's rail transporta tion system. I'nder such conditions, r do not believe interior points can safely in vest in local industrial and commer cial enterprises for the reason that such investment may he jeopardized and perhaps confiscated by the subse quent lowering of rales to the coast points under the guise of meeting water, rail and market competition in one form or another. Such policy, to my mind, restricts opportunity and development as well ns restricting In crease in population and taxable wealth. Rather than to reduce railroad rates to meet boat competition at coast terminals, would not the equal ization of rates throughout the country have a higher beneficial ef fect by placing all communities upon an ahsohite equality? Those of the intermediate points will not oh feet to their railroad rales as long as they are reasonable and free from unjust discrimination, undue preference and prejudice, for the intermediate points would then he upon an equal foot ing with all other localities and would thus be enabled to manufacture their products at home and compete in a healthy manner with other lo calities and will obtain the disadvan tages of community bettermeuts and prosperity. thus permitting the spending of their own money at home iustead of allowing it to go to a few terrnlnia! industrial centers. , Such n schedule of rates would per mit industrial development at the in termediate points, and increase the population, wealth and taxable prop erty of such cities as Salem, Albany, Corvallis, Eugene, Koseburs, Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland, Maker, La Grande, Pendleton and The Dalles. . I am not an advocate of the theory of making rutea on a mileage basis. I am, however, as a general proposi tion, opposed to the grunting of a lower rate for the longer haul over the same route and in the same direc tion. Such practice should not he again permitted as existed prior to the war. In 191S, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued a Fourth Section Order Xo. tlTilO, owing to the absence of boat competition during the war, under which tariffs filed by the car riers, dated January !Mst, became ef fective March 15, 191S. These tar iffs provided that rates to interme diate points could not be higher than to the terminals. These tariffs pro vided for Increased rates to the coist points but not in any reduction to the intermediate points, since which time railroad rates hhvo been on a parity, any many new industries at interme diate points have bene fostered, with no appreciable detrimental effect upon the carriers, and the present rate urrangement has proven highly beneficial to such communities. It Is to reestablish tha old basis that the carriers are now making numer ous Fourth Section applications. Per sonally, I do not think thuic applica tions should be allowed. I do not believe it necossary that the carriers he permitted, in every instance, to meet water competition, as they will be able to secure a great, portion of the business without these! lower terminal rates, for the reason that water transportation service is inferior to rail service In many ways. Pimples Denote Waste Products In The Blood So Do niack!icac?a, Boils and Sim ilar Skin Disorders. 1 he linman sy;!em i1; forcverstrivinc; toget rid or the waste products. It is a life-work which rocs on forever. bcl waste products Ft in the hlooii, they cai-.sc 11 lowered vitaittv. As a result, we heionic M:!;e-r to many pain ful and cmharrassi'iK aii.ninrs. V. i.en these symptoms appear, Nature is warning us. To throw off the w aste products, the blood mut be purified. Don't clos vcur blood. Just clean it out. Nature will do the rest, l'ure, rich, red blood nourishes the body and fights of? difcare. S. S. S.; the standard blood purifier and system builder, is the ideai remedy lor skin eruptions. The effect of S. S. S.' is to tid the system of ihe waste products width arc causing the trouble. Tor -over 50 years S. S. S. has proven to Le of unusual merit. Berjn taking S. S. S. fndi-y and write for 56 pare illustrated Lcokie;, "Fails J bout the PJood" tree. l'ercna 1 mffdif.il a .-i vice, without charge, mav fllsn In had hy scrnjt.-g a complete descn prion of ynur c. A Jure s I'hrff Medical I.hrtvtn- Svr Specific Co.. 7-41 it is elower. uncertain of arrival, and offers none of the privileges such as diversion, stopping in transit, with no switching services at terminal points. Claims for loss and damage are not so readily settled. The marl time laws seem to give more protec tion to tile boats, and the shipper iiust i;o to the courts for redrebs, and there are other advantages which the laMroid have over the boats. I do not believe the public should expect a hish standard of service, nuch as is offered by the railroads in normal times, at nearly as low rates as uppl by water. It seems to me it would he as reasonable to expect the expr,'s companies to ship at as low a rate as by freight. The points served by water can use boat transportation If they so I'.eiore. n fact, should do so, it doubtless ! e !n to tiiefr advantage, hut this would eem to be a handicap to int-rnr points to whS'h the railroads "h: ild not add by further rate discrimina tion against the m. It is true. lh..t businesses have been built up at sea port points, many of which have in vested on account of lower rites which obtain. The retaining of the nrewmt parity of rates would not, of course, inure to their benefit, but It would enable the intermediate po!:ts to retain their recently acquired in dustries, jobbing and wholesale houses. To Illustrate: the disastrous effect the grunting of the carriers' pe lit'on would have upon intermediate points, cattle, sheep and hogs, under the Fourth Section applications vio lations, could ho shipped from the Sacramento valley in California to Portland find Seattle packing plants more cheaply than to tiie Kalem and Albany packing plants, or to points as far south as Medford. .Mercantile houses buying in the east or San Francisco, will be compel'ed to pay a higher rate upon their merchandise than that which will be enacted to the terminal points. It is not to he overlooked that if the pending proposals of the carriers are trt prevail, the following ports only of the Pacific coast are the des ignated terminals to which the re duce d rates are to apply: California Terminals Kant San I'edro, Oakland, Uichmond, San Die go, San Francisco, San Pedro, Wil mington. Oregon Terminals Astoria, Port land. Washington tormina's Hellins hani, Everett, Seattle, South Helling ham. Tacoma. British Columbia Terminals "ew Westminster, Prince Kuperl, Van couver, Victoria. The carrier application for Fourth Section relief provide that "to points Intermediate to the "terminals" (des ignated aijovet it is proposed to ap ply rates made by adding lo theiate therein proposed to the "terminal" (designated above) which is nearest do3tination of shipment, the local rate published for use upon interstate traf fic from nearest "terminal" point to such destination. H. II. COKEY. ROSEIU'ltn. Nov. 14. (Special). "Chief Palliet. a prisoner in (he cnu: ly jail, Saturday, received a letter from Dr. It. M. ilrumfield now in the state penitentiary awaiting execution. WhlM lliurnfield was confined here "Chief," who is being held for the grand jury on a charge of passing worthless checks, promised that he would call on Prumfiehl at the pen as ,"on as he is sent to that institution. In the tetter received, Ilrumfield st: esses this promise. The letter is as follow s: "My I rear Chief: 1 have been here now for ruite a while. I am quite a little stronger than 1 was and am im proving each day. "Chief, you hu e no idea of the calibre of the men running this inst: tutien bi ; hearted I'e'Jows who neat a fellow very nitieh like a man. They certainly have been fine to me. The place is spotlessly clean and the meals as good as you e:nid g:'l at the rm;Mii;i, I am ni're closely ronfpied and have less change for exer.-i-i-. is my only objection ; but a 1 el low couldn't well evpe; t t find everything tti his liking in a state penitentiary, could he? if the railhirds and vul tures of Koseburg knew how wvll I am being treated, 1 suppose they would raise an awful holler. "Chief. I shall never forget you never cease to appreciate what you meant to me for several weeks past. We were certainly about as agreeable companions as a fellow could lind. We must not forget the promises we made each other. "1 hope Sain carried out his promise as booh us ho returned to Itoseburg. 1 am pretty sure he did if he could for Sam is a real white man. Remem ber me to him als i to Finis. ".My wife and sister will visit me this p. m. Merle is as much of a brie'; as ever always brave always ready to fight for me. They treat us quite differently from what Frank Hopkins did. They provide us with comfort able chairs and allow us to sit and hold hands and chat for two hours at a time. George has nothing to say in the matter. "Chief don't forget, lie good, and write some day to your quondam cell mate, ll. M. Brumfiehl." j DETROIT, N.iv. 1" If the churches ; fail in their high and Inly tasks then1 small hope tor civilization, iVesi iort Harding told a national ronfer ' ence of the .Methodist Epweopul i church here today in a message read :ly Ilishop William F. McDowell, of .Washington, D. C. The message was I l ead at the opening of the conference. ! regarded by lea-iers of the denomiua . ti n as one of the most important in 1 the church's history. I "Whoever halls the churches must I march forward more swiftly than they .have done," the president's message continued. "The churches must not j fail." j The president paid a tribute to the ; church for its work during the war, adding: ! "The world never before was in such neei of right morals, right ideals. : right relations among men and na tions, right spirit for meeting unparal led conditions and sound religion In personal, social and public life." j The president closed his messago by ! extending "best wishes for the work your churches and other churches are tiying and planning to do iu all the : countries." 'SUPREME JUSTICE i GETS ijp PAY; OI.Y.MPIA, Wash.. Nov. 15. Peti tion of Justice Chester it. Hovcy, fill ing out the unexpired term of the late Wallace Mount, for compensation of JG.000 a year as provided by statute was denied today in a supreme court decision. Th court held that the state constitution is specific on the point that a salary of a supreme court judge cannot be increased after elec tion or during the time for which the judtfe is elected. Judgo Mount re- , reived StIODO. Says Chemist Is Public Benefactor Marble Works Burns LOS ANGFLKS, Cal., Nov. IS. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the marble and tile works of the Joseph Musto and Sons company here early this morning, causing a loss estimated by police at ?20d,UUO. Spring Train tug' Camps. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 1 f. The St. Louis nationals will return to Orange, Texas.' and the Americans to lioga lu.sa, La., for spring training, the local baseball managements announced today. j "Peing a doctor, and suffering for many years with stomach trouble, I feel I cannot do justice to so great ja public benefactor in writing. Mayr's (Wonderful Remedy is everything you have claimed for it. 1 can now eat land relish victuals I have, not dared ,to cat in many years. Am feeling like Kiewly born." It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catar rhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which 'causes practically all stomach, liver land intestinal ailments. Including ap jpendieitis. One dose will convince or money refunded. At all druggists. I Adv. FIRST PURCHASE Of MEDICINAL BEE! MILWAUKEE, 'Win., Nov. 15. .Tuck Schneider, oC this city, waa the first resident of the United Suites to purch.'isc medical beer under the new federal reKUlatio'.is. Schneider presented his prescrip tion at a local pharmacy two minutes after a brewing company had deliver ed the beer to the drliKulst under a permit the brewers had just received. mm The work of the hatchery school is proKrcssiiiK nicely. Klcm pupils are enrolled. Mr. and -Mrs. Charley lllas were Sunday guests of .Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart. .Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe and little daUKhter, Wanda Joy, were callers at tin' Stewart home Sunday. Stewart -brothers sold a large stack of hay to Karl l lrich last week. J. Dunlap and son are pawing wood this week. They just completed 20 tier for the hatchery 'school district. S. W. Hutchinson has been seeding this week. John (irieve was looking after busi ness in our community Aloud;; and Tuesday. 1 Iirt Smith and T)elbrt iVirkrr of Walla Walla are visiting Mr. and Mrs. j Oscar Stewart. Mr. Smith is a brother of M rs. Stewart. I Mrs. O. S. Hodsdon and little grandson of Walla Walla. Wash., re turned home Tuesday after a month's visit with her daughter, Mrs. Oscar ' II. Stewart. This community sold about two hundred head of steers Wednesday to .Mr. JamoJt Campbell of Medford. Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson is visiting several days in Medford and Ashland. I Mrs. Oeorge Thomas spent the ! week end visiting and shopping in Medford. ! The Train saw mill has resumed 'work after s-.ral days' lagging, j Miss I ;.irr, county school super j visor visited the hatchery district last BaMeg Powder than of higher priced brands it goes farther. for more than 30 ye&rc ggOunccsfcggt Millions cf pounds bought by the gov ernment Quality the best. WHY PAY WAR PRICES? IS Y0 YOU WANT your friends to avoid vou? Thev SJ will certainly do so when your breath is bad. : There is no excuse lor anyone having a bad breath.( I It is caused by disorders of the stomach which can be corrected by taking Chamberlain's Tablets. Many have been permanently cured of stomach troubles by the use of these tablets after years of suffering. Price 2 5 cents per bottle. i m m m t7 M.' mM Pvl mw warn m W TRADE..MA.RK. REGISTERED .U.S. PATENT OFFICER 1 , m mmw A Samson Ton Truck tor $1150.90 in Medford The Greatest Truck Value Ever Offered PATTON and ROBINSON, Inc. Tel. 150 112 So. Riverside GOOD YEA Tires and Tubes A I7F ( AKPj Bill UK Size. Rib or A. Fabric - Regular Heavy W. T. A. W. T.- Tubes Tourist Cords Tubes 30x3 I I $12.83 j $2.08 $2.48 30x3j I $18.70 I 15.32 2.33 2.89 32x3j I 26.49 19.89 2.64 3.20 31x4 I 30.54 1 22.85 3.21 3.62 32x4 I 33.65 26.44 3.36 3.82 33x4 34.69 27.84 3.47 3.98 34x4 I 35.57 28.41 3.62 4.13 32x4 1 43.52 j 35.37 !. 4.91 33x4 I 44.51 I 36.57 1 j 5.06 34x41 I 45.60' I . .. 1 i ' 1 , 5.27 35x4 46.95 . 5.42 36x4 I 46.95 . . 1 1 5.58 33x5 1 54.17 j I 1 5.89 35x5 j 56.87 6.20 37x5 59.83 j . 1 6.51 These Prices Include War Tax Medford Service Station, Inc. Cor. Main and Pacific Hiehwav Phone 14 S. S. S, Lelurariiry, A:UnEu, Ga, All good diug tiorct id S. 5. S, . - i j
