? f ; f FOTTK rEDHftb MATL TOTtfyNE, fEDFORP, QKEflOy. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUATIT 2S. 1023 Medfobd 31ail Tribune IWDEPENDKNT NEWSPAPER FlUlLlKHEl UVI-.UY AKTEKNUON XJfc;T SUNDAY. II Y TUB MKUFORU 1'HINTINO CO. The Medford Sunday Morning Bun la furnished HUbNcrlhere duitlrlnif a seven aay cutuy nvWHjmpcr. Office Mull Tribune Itulldlng, 25-27-29 worm j-ir turei, mono vu. A consolidation of the Democratic Tlmen. the Medford Mall, the Medford Tribune, the Southern Oregonlau, The ABiiianu iriuune. ROriEHT W. KU1IL, Editor. 8. SUMI'TEit SMITH. M imager. BY MAIL In Advance: Dally, with Sunday Sun, year $7.R0 Dally, with tiunday Hun. month..- .75 Daily, without Sunday Hun, vear.. 6. 60 Daily, without Sunday Hun, i.'.unth .65 Weekly Mull Tribune, gnu your 2,t)l) Sunday Bun, one yuur 2.0U ,HY CA n HI IS H I n Med ford, A ahlu nd, Jacksonville, Contra I Point, 2'hoenlx, Talont and on Hlthwava: Daily, with Sunday Hun, month .75 Dallv. without Sundav Sun. month .65 . Daily, without Sunday Sun, year.. 7.60 Dally, with Sunday Sun,' one year 8.-0 All terms by carrier, cunn in aovunco. Official papnr of the City of Med ford Official paper of Jackson County, Entored as second on a matter at Med ford, OrtiKon, under act of March 8, 1X79. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Thp ARRoriatod ProHH In oxclualvely entitled to tho uho for republication of au news dlapntcboa credited to it or not otherwise credited in thin paper, and also to the local news published herein. All rlKhta or republication or special dispatches hpreln are uIho reserved . Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. March Is duo tomorrow, uncording to tho calendar, und barring the un foreseen, will mnko It. "llewaro the Ides of March" also tho Snides there of. This month comes in like a lamb, and tcoes out vice versa. The vice versa has nothing at all to do with the inevitable deluge of spring poots. It will be a windy month, both in climatic and legal circles. , It is in March that Spring officially arrives. Then nil Nature awakens, and some of the victims of tho world rest and unrest, start to toss in their sleep. The meadow lark and the robin and the oval-tailed bluejay, start to sing, but they have no taxes to pay, on the 5th and 15th Inst. Youth gets exuberant in March, and feelB-of its oats, playing hookey, and going on nlghtriding journeys to social hops In tho rural districts. Then the Switch and Swat division of the liod and Gun club steps to tho front , and center. The women folks In March bloom forth in new got-ups, and Btart to plan their summer get-outs. MISSOURI JOURNALISM (Oxark Monitor) We have to apologize this week for the non-appoarance of Tho. Monitor last week, due to tho fact that at the Jefferson Davis Memorial mooting on tho Saturday previous, our foreman, 'I-iige Perdue, partook too fraoly of the moonshine distributed, which Haiti moonshine, being too now for good drinking, overcame him. As 'Ligo is tho only man In this office, who enn manipulate tho type-setting machine, and no printers can bo obtained short of Jefferson C'lly, wo wero compelled to omit an Issue. , Wo regret this exceedingly. Wo wanted to comment extensively on the death of Storllng Prlco Torwlllger, a worthless old coot who has Bponged a living for the lust fifty years on the good peoplo of fancy's Fork, never doing an honest day's work or a dls honost one in all that time, and being about the fctch-takedest, ornery, good-for-nothing that ever dragged out sixty years of no-account existence. Also wo wanted to say a few words on the elopemont of Beth Morgan's oldest girl who ran away with a St. Ixmla drummer nnd will probably go to the bad, hecauso in nil tho twenty two years of her llfo the poof girl has never had a decent dress or a pair of shoes to fit Jirr on account of tho Btlnginess of her Pud, who has labored under tho impression that all women are good for nro to work. Whatover happens tho girl cannot bo any worse than her homo llfo, although wo hope uho will not bo led astray and aban don tho paths of rectitude, because, in spile of her handicap at having old Setli for a father, uho was a good girl at heart. Thoro wero several other mutters wo would huvo discoursed upon, but It is too lute now. As for' l.lgc. ior, repentent old 'I.lge, wo haven't a word of reproach for him. Ho fit with .Marmaduko all through tho war between the Suites und was wounded several times, lie was a devoted adherent to the Lost Cause, lost but glorious vital, and car ried tho Stars und liars to many and many n victory. That ho wuh a faith ful man Is manifested by the fact that ho refused to bo reconstructed until Cleveland's second election and bus soceded every time there has been n republican president since. Ulght now ho is out of tho union In remain until the screaming bird of Victory again perches on tho banners of Democracy. 'Liige Perdue has earned the right to got on a high lonesome on such occa sions as these, and far bo it from us to reproach him. However, noxt year when the time for thlB festival draws niyh we shall greet it with less misgiving than we ordinarily would, because we are tuk- ., lnfi lossons In typesetting, so that If 'Llge should fall In the contest with white llkker, tlilnBB will go on Just the same. THE REAL STAND-PATTERS. H EAD COLDS Melt in spoon; Inhale vapors; apply freely up nostrils. V V A o Rub Owr 17 Million Jan Vtti rW ASCOKK of individuals in Salem ask that tlu-ir names "hi taken from a petition dumundiiift Ww leiiovnl of State Hank Kxuiu- ini'f Rramwell. They signed the petition, it seems, uikWt u .lusiiiipre. lieiision. Of course, A large imiiilitT of petition Boners never know what they ure si;iiiii(,'. Jt, is a inuttT of. common knowledge Unit a peti tion demanding anything, from free heel- to compulsory hair clipping, can secure the required niimhcr of signatures if a Mifficient fund is raised to pay a sufficient mimU-r of professional petition circulators. The abuse of the initiative is .notorious, and the ubif'iit'i! of sensible safeguards has reduced this esscidly desirable privilege to the very brink of farce. ' Yet at the recent session of the legislature a finmt hue. and cry was raised, vociferously led by the TeVtliiihl Journal, whejn it was siitf- Kcsted that the Initiative be safeguarded and reformotl. Tim idea was, in brief, to have the voter to the petition instead of liavhif? Ihe petition brought to the voter. Utttt this sane and excellent pro posal never hud a chance. Nor did a measure which wVnild do away with the sale of signatures at so much "f. er." . The reason of course was the sanctity of the initiative. Such a flawless mm of nomilar government must not bo touched. No one denied the present abuses. No one denied ample room for improvement. lint the first suggestion of modification was promptly interpreted ns an assault upon the inalienable rights of a free people and every nrononent of the measure was promptly labelled unclean, " a ser pent lurking in the stand-pat grass." Of course, the reverse was true. To stand-pat means to stand still , to stubbornly oppose all change, to hang out until Hades con goals for the status quo. That was the attitude of the majority. They refuse! to budge. The Initiative must be held inviolate. Any suggestion of change was taboo. So the stand-pat minority, so called, formed the real Progressive Bloc. They refused to consider any legislative enactment saneros- anct. They didn't wish to kill tho initiative. They did want to im prove it. They held it to be quite possible for a group of sensible men to amend the initiative law, do away with some of its most flagrant abuses, without outraging the Oregon system or destroying civiliza tion. lint the tribal taboo was too strong. The time honored supersti tion too potent. Any reform of the initiative law is, therefore, post poned for another two years. All of which is both ridiculous and stupid. There is no good rea son why the abuses of the initiative should x allowed to grow and multiply. Nothing made by human hand is incapable of improve ment. To oppose all suggestions of improvement with the parrot cry of political treason is merely to emphasize the reformatory need. Quill Points Thrift consists in the knack of saying ''No" when friends come a-borrowing. Friendly nations are those that pretend to see altruism iu one another's grafts. VI FLAG AGAIN SAYS J. J. M'GRA NKW yOIMv, Teh. 28. With more Ramos to spare thai) last year, the .sew J oi k (.Hunts will win the Na tional league eliaiiinionsliln ami re tain their world's title nexc season, in the opinion of .Manager John J. JW Gruw, en route from Cuba to his team's training ramp at Sun Antonio. McOi-aw, according to thoso who quote him here today, will use O'Con nell, 7u,000 star from the Pacific. Coust league regularly at center field. nltely set for Juno 14 in London. The innteh was previously scheduled for. .May Jl. At Kulcm: University of Oregon CI: Willamette university 20. At Pullman: Whitman enlkgo 23; Washington State college 15. Persqnms Modest people wouldn't be so annoying if Mhey had anything to be modest about. Our idea of zero temptation is licrlin's offer of marks to keep the IJulir miners loval. ' The widow at Doom was old enough to know better, and if she has to take in washing, we shall waste niTSynipnthy on her. France didn't intend to annex the Huhr, but she may have bitten off more than she can eschew. Ilcinie's stubborn determination not to give an inch would indi cate that he has changed since 1913. There is something pathetic, also, about the fender till furrowed and wrinkled with careless driving. The average man can't tell the, difference, between a spiritual blessing and the way he feels after a good dinner. Correct this scntenue: "They hail been married eight years, aud his heart beat madly as he bent to kiss her lips." It is the ignorance of the mass that makes war possible; it is the mass of ignorance that makes peace impossible. , What man, being flattered by a newspaper write-up, ever was wholly satisfied with the number and vigor of the adjectives used? RippitngRhuraes py wen rreon ON THE STREET. THK NlliHT was dark and windy, the raindrops on mo beat, the thunder raised n shindy, as I went down. tho street. My lonely way pursuing "I'll walk around." I said, "note what the boys are doing, and then go back to bed." The night was wild aud juti'eful, no stars were iu the dome; it. was no errand useful that took me from my home. A vain and foolish longing had led me thus astray, to see the people thronging along the limit White Way. And ns 1 passed an alley, two highwaymen took toll; while one of them kept tally, tho other pinched my roll. They smote me with a spanner and knocked me cold and flat, and, in a brutal manner, they spoiled my Sunday hat. And when the twain ske daddled on brisk and lawless legs, my brains seemed badly ad dled, like last year's storage tugs. Yet I had sense remaining, enough to see the truth, as. struggling, weeping, straining, I jour neyed to. my booth. I sighed while pouring cruses of ointment on my dome, "1 would not have these bruises had I but stayed at home. My nutty, dippy yearning to roam the streets by night, and sec the white lights burning has got me in this plight. Here after l'l be wiser. I'll stay at home and read the Memoirs of the Kaiser, and then mv head won't bleed." TAJtlK. Kel. 28 Ueferring to the arrangement for a bout between Cicorges C'arpentler nnd Hattling Sikl tho Keho des Sports, say that tho winner will tako 25 per cent of tho gate receipts and tho loser 20 per cent. Tho Petit Parlsien says that the contract will bo signed today. PARIS Negotiations are said to be under way for a boxing contest for tho world's light heavyweight cham pionship between Georges C'arpentler and Buttling Slkl us the principals. CHICAGO Jess WUIard, who is matched to box Floyd Johnson of Iowa 10 rounds May 12. announced ho would establish a training camiii at Kxcelsior 6prlngs, Mo., before going to New York to complete his conditioning for tho bout. i no r.iKB .Minstrels again scored a hit last night before the second largest .Medtord audience at the Pago theatre. Tho house was packed und the audi-. enco was appreciative. Delegations from Grants Pass and Ashland wore present at tho American Legion meeting of tho local post lust night. lingular meetings of tho post I and auxiliary were held. Tho Ashland ' women took charge of tho auxiliary j meeting and put on initiation cere-! monies, while paBt commanders of post No. 15, Ralph Cowgill, Frank Fur-; rell, George Codding nnd Elmer Wil son were presented with watch chains containing past masters' jewels. Cow gill was the principal speaker of the evening rcixirting on legislation dur ing tho past session of the state, legis lature,, which was of intorest to the legion. The moetlngs of ost and aux iliary were followed by dancing and refreshments. Studio Light, a magazine issued by tho Eastman Kodak company for tho information of the profession contains four reproductions, in tho last issue, of Oregon scones. Crater Lake, Cres cent lake, the McKonzio river and a section of highway are shown in this magazine which reaches thousands of photographers all over tho country. Sure Relief FOR ! IND5GESTIOM I.OS ANGELKS, Feb. 2S. 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