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New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Rotarians at Dutchess Meeting

\ great big patriotic banquet was
given by the Duchess County Society
in the grand ballroom Of the Hotel
Astor on Saturday night. One -of the
most enthusiastic tables was. hosted by
VIM. II. Brady, president of the Ro-
tary Club of New York and member
of the society. His guests. all MEM
bers Of the Rotary Club, were Piric
Macdonald, j. j. Goldman, Arthur
Doremus, r. l.. Hatch, Raymond
SCHNEIDER, Richard Shea, VIM. Morris
and Arthur Woodward. During the
evening two other Rotarians that are
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

The Umpqua Valley Fruit union
is making arrangements to handle
the wool clip of their members. The
clip will be assembled at their ware
house in this city and shipped direct
ly from here to Portland and grad
ed. Government prices on the wool
will be obtained. The report that
the wool shipped by the farmers to
Portland will be charged with a
commission for storage is false, ac-
cording to a statement issued by c. J.
Hurd, county agent, who said that
the government is going to give a
good price fob at Portland for all
wool received there. Licensed dealers
will grade the wool at Portland and
it will be appraised by agents of the
government. The government has as
sured the farmers good price for
their wool clip. On account of the
present stringent wool situation for
the government to/take the wool pro-
duce in charge e.-Roseburg Review.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
SEE WHAT 1T WILL DO FOR YOU
Paul'S Electric Store
MedfOrd, Oregon

every ship maintained a perfect dis
tance These formations were fSrm-
ed and reformed in the air upon the
signal of the leader.
After this came realistic battle
in the clouds between two airplanes
The darts and lodging and maneuv-
ering out of range of the adversary
we're shown. What struck me as be-
ing the prettiest stunt in this was a?
one ship was chasing another, the
front ship suddenly did an upward
loop, going over the following air
plane and coming down right side
up behind the other ship. Thus Their
positions were reversed and the
chased became the chaser.
The program was brought to a
close by the most daring feat of all
Rodman Law went up in an airplane
plloted by Edward Stinson and when
they had reached an altitude of 5000
feet, Law jumped from the airplane
and came down safely by means of q
parachute. While he was coming
down, Stinson circled about him in
the airplane. Lieut.. Leo G. Devaney
took part in this great exhibition.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
AVIATION EXHIBIT is
HELD AT KELLY FIELD

A Roseburg boy of the 115th aero
squadron at Kelly Field, gives the
following graphic description of an
aerial exhibition witnessed by him
recently in a letter published in the
Roseburg Review:
Long before A o'clock when the
program was advertised to being,
more than 100 airplanes were lined
up side by side with their noses to-
ward the flying field and their tails
toward the hangers on Kelly Field
No. 2. This lineup was almost per-
fectly straight and reached for a dis
tance of a mile of more. Suddenly
the motors began to purr and then
the ship fartherest westward took
off" The remained of the ships~fol-
lowed in their order until there
were 103 ships in the air. They flew
about in single column formation in
a zig-zag course, much resembling a
huge snake crawling through the
air. About the time the last planes
were leaving the ground the first
ones to leave were landing again.
Thus there was huge zig-zag circle
Of airplanes from the field out
around to the north and back. All
of the ships left the ground in about
half an hours time, so you can see
there were no delays. This exhibit
tion certainly was a marvellous sight,
and one that comes hardly once in a
lifetime.
Before these airplanes had landed
four of the stunt flyers were in the
air gaining altitude and when they
had got up about 600O feet they be4
gan their stunts of looping the loop,
tail spins. slide slips, etc., and kept
this up until they were only few
hundred feet from the ground. One
of the most thrilling of the stunts
was when Joe Lievery, a French IN
structor, flew upside down for mile
or more.
The exhibition by this time had
reached the stage of three-ring cir
Gus, for also there were a couple of
cross country squadrons up making
formation flying only about ten feet
apart a feat that requires the ut
most skill and control of the air
plane. Several forms of battle for.
nations were shown by these ships.
Then came the v-shaped battle for
nation of IS airplanes, in which
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
Ashland Lumber Co.
Phone 20

law, including those called this
month.
These figures are made, public In
an announcement by Provost General
Crowder at Washington, in which he
gives the warmest praise to local and
district draft boards.
His interesting statement and re.
view of the first year of the opera.
tion of the draft follows in part:
One year ago occurred the first
registration for military purposes OF
the young manhood of the nation
Ten million men responded in a sin
gle day. This accomplishment was
nothing short of marvellous. The
task of utilizing this enormous force
seemed unbelievable. But the work
of classification of this great mass Of
man power in such way as to per-
NIT of it's organization and mould.
ing into an effective army was en-
trusted to 1863 local boards and 1856
district boards constituting a force
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

of nearly 10000 of. the leading citi-
zens of every community who, assist
ed in their work by more than 100,-
900 equally patriotic volunteers, have
performed work that challenges the
attention and excites the admiration
of all our peole.
Well may We pause today, while
another million of our youths enter
the lists, and survey the results of
the years work. Each registrant has
been examined and his availability
for military service has been deter
mined. In orther words, these mil
lions of men have been classified in
such manner that the nation may
now call for them to come forward
into the army. No call can be so
large that it will not be filled imme-
diately whether the number be such
as may be filled by those who have
been found to stand in the first rank
Of available, or so great that men
standing in the second, third or in
the fourth ranks of availability must
go forward. In other words, all of
these millions of men who one year
ago were an inert mass, have become
a mobile army. Each has found his
place and each in his proper turn
has marched or awaits the order to
march.
These results could not have been
accomplished except through the de-
voted and unselfish labor of patriots.
The local and district boards have
scored an unprecedented triumph and
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
LIME BOARD MAY
CONTRACT DEBTS

Assistant Attorney General Van
Wrinkle of Salem has Informed Chair
man Cordley, of the state lime board
that since the state lime industry has
prospective income it legally can
go into debt on contracts providing
that payments fall due when the
board has funds. The hope Is eS-
pressed that the emergency board
many be induced to authorize the
creation of deficiency in the lime
board funds to provide money for the
completion of the plant at Gold Hill
and starting its operation.
The question will probably be
placed before the emergency board at
a meeting this month, but instead of
$4,000, the amount at first desired,
it is expected the board will be asked
to provide only $4,000. About $4,000
is needed to complete the plant.
On the basis of information fur
nished by the attorney generals Of
flee and the hope that the emergency
board will come to the assistance of
the enterprise, the lime board expects
to go ahead with the completion of
the plant.
If this is done the first lime turn
ed out in the early part of July. The
lime board held session last week.
Warden Murphy, of the penitentiary;
Chairman Cordley and Benton Bow
ers, of Jackson county, as the COM
mittee of the board, had just com
pleted an inspection of the plant at
Gold Hill.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
THE WAR, THE FARM @
. Y .se.. ..s AND THE FARMER
BY Herbert Quick
Member Federal Farm Loan Board

der as thing against which We
could not defend ourselves.
We should have allowed this new
horror to become part of all future
wars, and have been responsible for
its incorporation into international
law.
We should have proved that be
cause the fire which burns up our
farms usefulness is beyond the hori-
zon. we would submit to the kindling
of it.
We might have accepted the sew
enty cents for wheat and the six cents
for cotton, but we could not have
done 1t merely because we were
commanded to do 1t. BY SO doing
we should have accepted degrade
tion. We should have begun, after
winning our freedom in our own
revolution and establishing union
on the foundation of liberty in the
blood and tears of our war between
tuS otdtco, W hhuShiC uuuOi w ouoO
racy! We should have basely yielded
up our blrthright as Americans. Z,
Such a thought is intolerable. Peace
at such a price would not be peace.
but only a preparation for future
revolt against subjugation. Better
any sort Of war; better war forever.
that that.
Whenever the time comes for new
sacrifices, let us remember that we
fight, not for our liberties tomorrow.
or next year or twenty years from
now, but for our freedom today. Not
for the right to live in the future. but
for the right to make a living this
year.
German oppression had begun to
pinch US before we entered the war.
II we had not declared war. but had
accepted the conditions of life ordered
for us by the Kaiser, we should today
be a poverty-stricken people. Our
factories would be shut down, our
workmen unemployed, our people
starving, our farmers ruined by the
poverty of those for whose consump'
tion they grow their crops. There is
loss and sacrifice in the war, but
there would have been far more OF
loss and sacrifice in accepting the
German terms We should have lost
more in money than we have spent
in the war, but we should have lost
something far more precious. We
should have lost our souls.
1e third to be published next week.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
1000 MEN LOOKED FOR AT
ARMY CANTONNIENT

Camp Lewis officers have received
instructions from Washington to pre-.
pare for approximately $4,000 new
men to come in the June draft, it is
announced. The men are scheduled
to leave their local boards during the
five day period starting June "a.
What states will send troops tc
camp this month could not be learn
ed. Whether the Dakotas and Mime.
sofa would be included this month
as they were last was not known to
officers of the depot brigade, where
the new men are quartered. Califor-
MIA and Oregon did not send men
in the May contingent of the draft
and officers here have not been noti-
fled whether these states will be rep
resented this month.
Slightly more than 12,200 came to
camp last month, the largest move
ment to camp of draft men in many
months. The last of the new draf;
were sent through the mastering Of
flee last Wednesday, and definitely
accepted or rejected from army serv-
ice. The percentage of reflections
was slightly higher than in the pre-
ceding month, this being due to the
closing of the limited service detach-
ment men found unfit for general
service, The reflections averaged
seven and fraction per cent, which
is considerably less than the average
last fall, when the first draft men
came to camp.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

What the Imperial German govern.
ment offered the farmers OF America
In its ruthless submarine warfare was
not the loss of profits. but slavery to
the saberrattler Of Potsdam. He pur-
posed to make US slaves by murder.
Ing the people who took our products
to market. By ,all the laws Of civil
lied warfare, commerce under neu-
tral flag was free from any hindrance
except the legal interference justified
by war. But the Germans not only
stopped merchant vessels, they sank
them. Sank them without warning,
without trace--the most devilish
thing war has seen since the savages
scalped our ancestors and threw
screaming babies into the flames of
burning cabins.
The German plan of sinking mer-
chant vessels without trace is based
on the murderer's maxim that dead
men tell no tales" 1t was exc
cuted by the massacre Of men, wom-
en- and children, who, having COM
mitted themselves to small boats In
the open sea after their ships were
torpedoed, we're mercilessly raked
with gunfire, and exterminated to the
last unprotected, unpitied soul! These
are the murders that stain the hands
of the Kaiser, his advisers and min
ions. These outrages we're perpetrated
on neutral vessels when all that civ
ilized warfare gave the Germans a
right to do even with the merchant
vessel under a hostile flag, was to
stop 1t at sea and make 1t prize OF
war.
To kill the civilians on board, even
under a hostile flag, was nothing but
unmitigated murder. And these mur.
ders we're committed In order that we
might be enslaved! Having the
right to take the sea with his feet,
but being afraid to do so for fear he
might lose 1t, and being unable BY
fair means to stop the selling Of our
products to his enemies. the Kaiser
declared that he would do it by the
foulest methods ever resorted to in
war. He declared the sea closed,
and that he would keep 1t closed, not
by war, but by murder.
To have submitted would have cost
us dear in prosperity but that would
have been the least of our loss.
We should have had to grovel be-
fore the German government.
We should have had to accept muir
(This is the second Of three articles. T
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

have earned the undying gratitude
of the nation. Their achievement Is
one of the great successes of the war.
They have already sent into camp
including those under orders for
June mobilization an army of more
than a million and a half men.
They have already produced as SOL
diers one man out of every six regis
trants and the world stands in pro-
found astonishment as it views this
accomplishment.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
ELECTRIC LIGHT is the best light
ELECTRIC POWER is the best power

You can have electricity right in your home This plant brings
you the many labor saving devices the city dweer enjoys IL
gives you gready for every hour the day and night
The snap switch floods the house and barn with as much gn
as you could wish for Snap another switch and the motor turns
the washer and wnger It snap switch than 1t to
6 and clean oil lamps It's safer and better light and it saves
vast amount of when electricity does the washing and the
other distasteul tasks. Install
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
DRAFT PUTS LARGE
ARMY IN OPERATION

Portland, June TO- Since draft
registration day on June 5, 1917, one
year ago, when the draft machinery
was put into operation for the first
time, total of 1,595,70S men have
been called to the colors in this
country under the selective service
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

The pestiferous house fuy in on his
way. Soon he will breed and bloom
by the million and attack the food
and milk of the younger generation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

The return ticket for our boys il
France will be secured largely b.
American saving of wheat, sugar
meats and fats.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
Western Electric
POWER AND LIGHT

Begin right now and enjoy
this boon of electricity.
Western Electric Power and
Light can be installed on
your place with little trouble
and small expense. You owe
it to yourself to know just
what electricity will do to
help make the days work
lighter and the evenings
brighter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

We'll send man who will measure
your entire building and give you
the exact cost of perfect fitting
screens. There is no obligation to
buy.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

Why not beat him to it? Screens
are absolutely the greatest preven-
tive against the enemy the greatest
death-dealing animal known to SCI
ence. Screen every door, window,
and porch.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

Phone Job orders to the Tidings.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-17
tSN|LLPROBE
!. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FCharues Approaching a Scandal
win Be Hooked lnto-+0ther
Army Branches Untouched

n WASH INGTON, May 10 (Associat
Cd Press --iFulb, aud thorough invest
'Gatioh Will be made of the failure OF
the air craft production in the United
States to come up TO expectations ac
.r0Tding to tile 'showings made in recent
reports TO fItel senate aud house com
smitfces on military affairs. This in
,ysstigption is not to extend beyond
,aitcrRft production which is in defer
.cnef to the wishes of the President.
Tho senate committee on expendil
lures yesterday ordered a favorable re
rort on Senator Chamberlain s resolbj
ton calling for an investigation upon
aircraft, expenditures. This was done
after it had been amended to meet the
wishes Of Wilson by not affecting other
branches Of the war department
Hughes has accepted the offer to head
the illSestigatioq.
SenRtor Chamberlain introduced the
resolution following the charges thai
the pfodnction had fallen behind and
WINS not Commensurate with the 2reat
expenditures which have been made,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-17
MARVELLOUS TINE IN !
1SHIPBUllB|NG MADE
ThirtyIseven Days After Laying
II Of Keel Steamer IS Ready
10 Take Cargo

PHfLADELPHIAS May To- tkssocia.
ted, Press Slnpbuilding records have
again gone by the board and laurels now
clearly rest with the Eastern shipyards.
Past performances are completely over,
.shhdowcd BY the figures that have
Just been set up by the. Tuekahoe ship
yards 3 . f.t y. I, .atfti.}
\ Thirtyseyen days after the laying
of The keel Of a new. vessel the ship is
-eady to take on cargo. She has. been
completed. launched, engines and boilers
nre in, she has met the Requirements
and been delivered to- and accepted BY
the shipping board, She now lies at
5her deck renHy to- take on cargo and
depart on her maiden yoyage. "a u
Reeeptly there have been llumbRfs
Of feats in rapid completion of ships
but the new figures set up at TuekRhoe
have been the greatest surprise of all.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-17
IDEN|ES'RE|;P'OR|iTlS''|||N| I
chinese NEWSPAPER
New Japanese Foreign Minister
Says Alleged Texts Of De-
: niands Were Inaccurate

. TOXIC, japan, May l5-(Special TO
,Nibp,i gJijil-Baroh *, Goto, mihisteF
81 foreign affairs of Japan, made an
.3fficia1 statement today in which he
aid that Japan had made no demands
poR China. He said that press rpe
ports of the sn-called demands we've
entirely unfOuhded. ~ ST. -
& No, demands for any special right pr
favor has been made by japan at any
time, he said, and the only ground for
the report was the fact that negotiRy
tions are, now in progress to creatc
q Chihese'J Japanese military agree
AS d consequence of Rpssia's down
fan and the danger of German aggres.'
Jon ins the Par. East, which light be,
ONE . reality, khe Japanese govern
nIeIit decided that cooperation was
necessary in preserving the peace OF
the Far East. In case Of German AZ.
tack the Responsibility rests with Jap:
IN, and China to guarantee the peace
of!Gthe Far East. Negotiations, are now
progressing to meet the military ne,
cessities of these times, stated Baroh
NHtysss -. IL = ~ ys-nsg.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-17
French. NEWSPAPER
men ARE PUNISHED
One Must Die While others VIII
Serve Long Prison Terms I.
For Their Treason =

40
Isl PARJSiiwMsasiRPTa( Assoc lated Press1-
The death penalty for the publisher
and prison terms for others connected
with Bonnet Rouge were imposed yes
terday. by the court which has been
trying the defendants on charges bf
treason because of the PrO-German
tine the publication formerly adopted
aid Of the developments which have
been discovered through the BOlo Pa,
siig and Huaibert Investigations. -.
AZ. Duval, the director OF publieation
of .Bohpet Rouge was sentenced, to
Heath BY the court, he being held ps
chiefly responsible forythe objection
q sle articles and the equally objection
able general policy of the paper, hs
we'll as more closely. connected with the
GoImanl plOtters thsy evidence showed
NJ. Marion, the assistabt MANAGER
must serve term, of ten years ~
hard labor. A., landau, = reporter viii
tsrvf sight years, n. Joueia, Z aRotheI
.HetWtst ,fNe years al az hard labor
NJ. Go1sky will suffer military dc
TRADITION ard be incaTeeTated for
eight years while jean IeymaTiail !
fDfmer dIerLoT of the publication ane
r'i,ai9ier Of interior viii serve g. .tw'
Z year sentence,fa,ta 1a3 At.trt,l
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-17
CAN SEE =.
DUTLOsESNEMORY

Within forty eight hours after az
nouneemeht was made in Washington
that Sig1aller Tom Skeyhill, the Anzac
orator who thrilled Honolulu with his
war addresses, had recovered his sight
through an operation, a second an
nonneement was made that he had ut
terly lost his memory as a resnlt Of the
same operation. r. ~ r,'. y u. ID, 9. K /.
Z His loss of memory and subjeetivity
to color blindness. are phases of an
hysterical state due to she'll shock, &C
eording to Washington physicians, com
menting on his unusual case. ,..... a..
His sight was restored after blood
less osteopathic operation only to eRnse
him to lose all remembrance of events
since he was injured at Gallipoli three
years ago. San FraR2iseo, specialists
commenting on Skeyhill's case, areSre
ported to have explained the strange
/ results, as follows: &C.,
"a DR.. Henry Hart, chief specialist OF
Mount Zion hospital, characterized
Skeyhill' IS blind condition as "hyster
zeal amblyopia" or hysterical blindness
Doctor Hart 3 theory WAS supported by
a number Of specialists, all of whom
join with him in doubling that the An
.zae,'s sight was restored by the replac
luz Of a misplaced vertebra. &.
On Explanation <'',
4 Doctor Hart explained that no condi
{tion about the vprtebra would caus'
blindness, ms in this case. Pressure Oh
the optic organs, arteries or nerves TO
such long time would have eauset
their decay and they could not function
after the pressure had been released
owe must turn to a nervous Shys
terra for an explanation, " he said
~ have treated hysterical blindness
Hysterical speechIesSness, hYsteriGa
deafness. and there can be loss of sen
satiop' and loss of memory due to TIM
hysteriu, which is functional cOndi
tion Of the mind, )" ="
/ 1t is possible that SkeyBiII was toIc
that he had a vertebra which wa
pressing on the optic nerve, and tina
.IWhen that pressure was removed. b
would see, As his blindness vas 1nen
tai, he probably recovered sight ,whe
! told that the pressure had been rt
[ lieYed. Surgeons have noted simila
cases in their practise. .,.,.. -
Hysteficai Blindness ,.. .....
j Doctor KiRgwell characterized by,
? terical blindness as a sort. of Rypnoti
state and cited cases in his own ,pra'
tise where sufferers had been cured 0
such delusion by change Of belief.
DR. Jerome D. Writ osteopath, d
clared that the blindness of Skeyhi
lad been caused by displacement Z
. the uppermost vertebra in his neck an
. that this caused serious checking 6
the flow of blood to the eyes. {. He adj
ed that be knew of several instance
=. where adjustment Of the vertebra ha
: restored eyesiGbt. .4s.'..