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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, - MEDFOBD, -OREfiON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25,. 1923
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Parry. .
i Many people may wonder, why no
j'ilrm action baa , been outlined, by
those elected to do the outlining, tor
.the handling of the IWW'8, an organi
sation ot nuta who ' are playfully
.planning a young revolution in this
.state, on May 1st. Discard your fears.
the IWW's are no .different than the
Xc M. C. A., or the Epworth League,
,or the Spanish War Veterana, or the
jNeedlecraft Society, and have been
unjustly aocused ;.by the ' hostile
sireBS." And,., furthermore, '.tilers Is
jsbme. Toting, to. do, next year, and
i J WW's have votes,. and the capitalistic
.class is getting too fresh, and talking
about spending some filthy lucre in
; Oregon for the development ot natural
resources. . - ;
,i WOU'VE. HEARD THE 8TORY
(Portland 'Oregonlan)
' Mr. Luckey, who is engaged in
: , the automobile business, and Miss '
4 Watson had attended a party, the ;
, flight before. Miss ..Watson lost
J certain essential artlclos of dress
at , the affair. In soma way or .
another, they reached the cornor
of Third and Washington streets .
,' i an automobile.
..; Spring fever, of long standing, , is
prevalent, with no . available cure
south of the Dominion, ot Canada!
President Harding's Ner . York
'speech was disappointing. He failed
to grow flowery, and create an Utopia;
and seemed to be more concerned
about his native land than European
nations. Neither was there any soft
soap about "the new freedom," and
"the dawn of a New Tomorrow in the
reddening East of the masses," . . ,
This community Iovob Us art and
drama, but It still lives to see a barrol
stave j unllmbored, ' to Intensify the
action of the play. ,. Many will recall
the diabolically clover comedian of a
few years back, who was a niastor
. at sticking his foot in his mouth, and
how Admlrors flockod to the theater
without their evening meal, to seo him
doit. 1
.A FINE PLAYMATE
(Marshflold News)
,,. Whooping cough seems to bo
;.,the prevailing pastime or,.t,ho chil
li dren these dayB.
' The Swiss cheoBo section ot the
"Main Stem Iiub practically beon eliminated,'
Now that all danger of catching
; pneumonia has passed, the Gulnue
vlkls are hiding their nocks and wish
bones behind furs. This Is highly
sensible, considering the weather, and
cheaper than buying moth bulls.
' There was a shindig consummated
t by the upper strata last ovo. A num
bar ot the .male guests . will never
' break auy record s tor endurance
dawncing.
1 c.
..; The leading member of our metro
politan press Is foarlessly publishing
the vital document relative to a gent
who missed being hanged by a hair
and a rod one at. that .
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! , ,YE8 THEY WlU.
( " troniana yvurnai; , j
, ruamaiu riiB, April it. 'ino t
' ' l. . W VV. , strlko here has boon
, called for tomorrow. ThlB was an- .
nouncod In .. circulars distributed
"."'today.' The men are urged to go
'.'out for a few days and show the '
; lumbermen what they can do.
"'. With 1134 members of. the fellno
family, sleeping by day and cavorting
by moonlight in the bis. dint., . tliq
. community has, the groundwork tor a
creditable Cat Show at the, ..county
fair noxt fall,
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' Mrs. Minnie Woo rut ot Cklcag". Is
visiting at ,tho home of, her sister,
,Mra.', Mary Wuniter. (Kaukaiina,
Wl i Oaxette). Sounds bad.
"MarT is a curious animal. Ho spends a lifo-trme searching be
. low the gruund for gold find precious atpnes and .obi, whon in most
cases his rexil wealth Is air about him, r In' tho . (iinU. . it is the
' gambling Instinct I suppose. ' Or .perhaps' a naturtul avorslon to
hard work." s .' t
rrt III9 EXTRACT from a letter by the late Frajiklin K.,Lnnc las
X a certain application locally. - TJiere may bo a lu mine at the
City Reservoir, there may bo an oil well in Eden Valley, and The
Mail-Tribune believes in discovering ail the gold mines and oil wells
that can be discovered, but as this is Fire Prevention, jveek, we be
lieve itjs. appropriate'.to consider the, wealth that lies all about us,
before our .very eya. . - t 4J,.fcJtoj
i , We refer particularly., to our timber.-' Of course everyone knors
in a vaguo way that' Jackson county, lias timber, but how many know
how much timber , or whut its value .would bo if it were .. cut into
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. , Here are a few figures not compiled by any' booster organization
but official figures from the Unitcd.Stitt.es Forest. service.; i
There are approximately 4,C57,8770l)0 board feet of yellow, white
and sugar puie in Jackson,, county, , with a stiimpagcyaluq of,l(),
8.02,600 and a lumber value of $93,157,500, .' , '
Including fir and all other species, there are 24,722,000,000, board
feet in Jackson county 20,000,000000 outside the National -.Forest
and the remainder inside. . - ...... ,
There are 110 official fiRures available .rcgardiug the jjnoiietary
value of. this tremendpns timber acreage, but using the department s
estimate of tho value of all timber in Crater National Forcsit at $132,T
.001,900, a fair and conservative estimate would be $350,000,000, for
t 1 ' ... . 1' il ' r'"; ' ' ' '' . (
me ) acKson county 101111. ........ ., . ....(
:.Not only that. If this timber were marketed today as lumber,
majority of the proceeds would not go to tho operators. At least
$200,000,000 would be paid out in wages and these wages would- go
to local workers and in turn a largo proportion would be distributed
among local merchants..
. furthermore if the young growth of .timber ;is protected frpm fire
and reforestation continued, there will be a perpetual supply of tim
ber in Jackson county. , , ,. ,f.
As the Forest Service pertinently, inquires "Do we want to burn
it upt" ' , ; "' ! ; ' v.';',; .': ' ; :, .vJ'.,-,'
Fprest protection is not a Forest Service responsibility, it is not
a timber owners' responsibility, it is a public responsibility. ; Pne
reason alone. should be sufficient to make every resident of Jackson
county an ..active participant, in (..forest protection, and -that
reason is merely this, forest protection means more money in every
one's pocket. ' ? ) ; i
COMMUNICATIONS
Quill i Points
Another good memory test is the drip pan under the ice box.
' Homo is a place where some woman works for her . board and
clothes. .', ' '. . '
Tho chief cause of social uurest.is.thq sight ofnothcr cll,ow ,who
manages o-livo well, without working. , yf . ,1
pddly enough, nations nqver think it their Christian duty to civ
ilizo a peoplojthat is able .to lick jthem. , -"" ! ,
It frequently happens. that tho(gjrl vho, looks good, enpugh. to. eat
doesn't look fluite so good while eating.
When the citizens of southern. Europe wish to speak hard words
to ono another, they can just namo their towns. u , I ,.i
About tho, only thing that receives loss respectful, attention than
a speed limit is tho ban who was a hero last year.
Ads are much more naughty than they were. ;n. the old days. "We
,saw pne today that referred to an undressed kid yamp.
Congress l)as adjourned, li( spring building operations will con
tinue, the sound of tho hammer. . . . , : "' "" '
Tho gods on hih must smile a(littlo when they hour mortal germs
on this little. floating pill call ono another aliens,
"Footprints on the sand of lime" is a noble lino, but the world
has more need of footprints on the pants of time killers.
, There is a Rreat fiiti)ro for tjio man who will invent, children's
toys that won't skid wben you step ton them. in the dark. . .-.
The chap who says it is Impossiblo to do two things well at the
same time, should observe ii,flappcr chewing the rag und gum. 1
THE PRAIRIE.
WHERE once tho herds of Jmon spread for seven leagues or
three, and shook' tho prairie with their tread, as tempests
shako tho sea, tho farmer, keen to earn his bread, is busy as con
be. Whom once tho Indian would rouse the echoes with his
whoop, tho fanners push their. gloaming plows, an earnest, toil
somo troop and hired men calmly milk tho cows, and feed tho
swino their soup. I often hoor old boys lament tho happy golden
days, when all their shining hours were spent in shooting other
jays, when 110 ono tried to earn a cent by growing, corn or mnizo.
Tho old boy always views with scorn the humdrum life, wo lead;
we ko forth in the golden morn to sow our nutmeg seed, when wo
should chase, wtUi bound, and horn, until a bison's treed. And
yet 0119 farmer with n boo is better than a ton of gents who do
, not ploy or now, or make, a grindstone run, who only strive to
carve a row, of notches on a gun. Tho hired man doing useful
chores, who gives the lions their swill, repairs tho roof and cellar
doors, and plows tho sunlit hill, is 'better far than all tho borea
who only hjint and kill. Whero onco tho herds of bison tramped
rlrar to the prairie's rim, now handsome dwellings may be lamped
by one who has a glim j where once. tho, unwashed savage camped
we siiin our evening hymn.
Jiwt a Kenuiilhtt'iice.
, To, the KtUtor:
' Permit me; Just a little reminis
cence. -As wo g-row older and the
forward reach srowa Bhortcr wo are
Inclined to review the past; some lit
tle circumstance stirs up the treas
ures or some long neglected pigeon
hole of memory and we are carried
back to tho days of marbles nnd
hobby horses. CJrow as old as you
ficuse, wnon thut thing happens,
youu "Stop. Look. LlHton!" Jim
nuen tning has happened to me and
i want-to' tell about it.
a ow days ago a man entered my
office' and with a smile offored his
nana.; 1 took tho oroffered hnml mil
after scanning his features a minute,
was prompted to say. "There is somc-
ining in your features I seem to have
seen, nut I cannot now nlaca vou.'
Ikll. . . . . ... ...
back, when you were a bov. ' See if
you remember a bov vouneer than
you. who was known as 'John Wes-
' "h how a man will tear open
aoor way . to- pigeon , holes of
inumciry , jpng ago closed and what
treasures of reminiscence' ho . will
tometimos retrieve. I ndrln.i tho m.
f rnalnlng word "Johnston," his grip
ugnronea and at once we were back
among boy-hood scenes of B7 years
ago. v. Our - families "were nearest
neighbors on farms in central I11U
nois during the Civil War days and we
hadn't seen each other for 67 years.
He is younger, than I but wo went, to
the same school. and played hide-nnd-seck
In the same hay-mow. What
questions were' rupldly naked and
answered and momories of things and
spots long forgotten. What a won
derful thing memory is. and how im
portant, it is. that our enactments
should be of that character tho mem
ory of which will bring no blush nor
regrot.
, The father of my new found frlnnri
waB known . In tho neighborhood as
"King Billy." It was a name of en
dearment not reproach. In 1868' my
father and '-'Uncle Billy," as ho was
generally called by his nearest neigh
bors had ooncludod that the manu
facture , of sorgum would bo profit
able j. and In partnership bought a
largo steel cane crusher and evnno-
rator to .manufacture sorgum syrup
and sugar, and planted large fields of
sugar cane. A few months later.
Uncle Abe" made his call for son -
000 more soldiers. The war was grow
ing in fury and the patriotic senti
ment caught all but a few "Conner-
heads." -My father was caught in the
excitement and enlisted for three
years or during. the war. "l was left
the oldest boy. In a. , family, of nine
chijdren to Join the noblest mothor
God ever created to ."carry on" at
home. I'm not going to tell of those
toarful years', but am" proud of the
work. Which as a boy I did under the
direction of that wonderful mother.
Many , things happened - which this
visit with 'John- Wesley' calls up. I
only a little ot. which I want to toll
about. .. ., . - rKi :
"King Billy" was too old for the
war and too valuable a help in that
time of need to too spared. Tho wives
of those who went to the front and
most . of. them, wore there were called
i'war widows," and' It was . Uncle
Billy's voluntarily chosen duty to soo
that they did not suffer. Ho was an
Irishman of great executive lability,
and the head of a Inrge colony that
had settlod In central Illinois on lands
thut by. Industry made all of them
rich men. He was a devout, man and
proud to be called a "Shouting Meth
odist." He was 'stern In domeanor,
but with the kindest and most symr
pathetic heart and snont his money
lavishly where there was need. Ho
loved his adopted Country, Its' flag
and government.. It waB his weekly
habit, oftener it needed to go all
through the neighborhood, visiting
every wnr widow and enquiring about
their needs and supplying them. I
have -known him to go to more than
ono family and finding ' the wife
sweating over a broken and wrecked
stove, make a memorandum of it, and
against .the protest of tho. proud wlfo
send to town, and buy and Install
new stove and all. its furniture. To
other houses he would go, making
memorandum of what was hpodod
f'ur, bacon, sugar and what-not;
then to town and -distribute' wagdn
loads among a sorely pressed commu
nity of , families, without a 'thought
of remuneration, save a consciousness
of having, done a . sacred patriotic
duty. Ho believed that the laws were
mado to be obeyed and that courts
were established to ' enforce' them.
Such men are tho truly "100 -per cent
Americans" and never wore hoods
nor masks. Uncle, Billy's. Klan were
patriots and were inover i 1'Invisible."
He bowed first to bis God and then
to his President :Lincoln.. -
Those war days Jeft Ineffaceable
memories. Mine alone would make a
book wore I to write them al down.
4ut In these days when men are talk
ing about one . hundred, per1 'cent
Americanism it Is well to .glvo some
concrete facts already proven that in
dicates , what, .genuine patriotism is.
The mask is the, insignia of tho high
wayman. We need more men' like
"Undo Billy , Johnston", whose light
was never hidden undor a bushel. "I
cannot seo how It is 'possible for a
man with Buch a father and mothor
ns -blessed John-"Wesley t Johnston's
birth and boyhood to "be. other than
a good man, and as such I greet him.
C. B. WATSON, , ,
Cold Hill, Oregon, April 24.
tREADY We are thinking
Jot the wonderful trips
we'll take this summer per
haps to a picturesque moun
tain resort or- to a camp-ite
on a placid lake or peri.i.
we'll take a coastwise tour
from town to town, And well
keep in mind that happy tour
ing days and ;Shell Gasoline
are inseparable companions
they go hand In hand always.
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0 . '.'Stan is tho only animal that can be skinned more than onco." :' 1
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tramp typewriter mechanic more than the job could be worth and findsi
the next day the machine in. worse shape than ever. . jj
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samo. Knot satisfactory you havo redress. .' ' j
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