LLAMOOK HEADLIGHT DECEMBER 30. 1915 ADVERTISING RATES. Legal Advertisements. First Insertion, per line............... $ • «» Each subsequent insertion, line. .05 Business and professional cards ont month ................................ 100 Locals per line each insertion. .05 Display advertisement, an inch, one month.......................................... 5° All Resolutions of Condolence and Lodge Notices, per line.. .05 Cards ot Thanks, per line..................05 N-ticcs. Lost, Strayed or Stolen etc., minimum rate, not ex ceeding five lines.............................. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. (Strictly in Advance.) One yeai ........................................ Çt-S0 Six months ......................................... 75 Three month»..................................... 5° THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. Editorial Snap Shots The world's greatest crime is the horrible war now raging in Europf. We only express the sentiment of the people of the county when we hope that the County Court will get busy as soon as possible and get n< xt year’s road work arranged for and contracts let without the delay that took place last year. The County Court has gained some experience the past yei ar, and, no doubt, it will be used to good effect. There is this satisfaction. Tillamook County was not the only section of country by a long shot which had a juvenile deluge last week. Old Sol . rough and we soon forget peeps th These little inconveniences. But the over flow of rivers have some good features. The thick sediment that is left on the meadows is a wonderful fertility to the soil and will insure a bumper crop of hay next year. The prohibition law prohibits the manufacture of liquor in Oregon, but it allows that manufactured in other states to be sold here. It prohibits one person from shipping, in more than 24 quarts of beer or two bottles of wine or spirits, but a family of a dozen persons cannot obtain more than the one person. It prohibits papers from carrying liquor advts., but it cannot stop newspapers published in other states from carrying advts. f 0111 being circulated in this state. ■ —o------ A letter writing campaign is pro posed for next month to help adver tise Oregon in the East. Better plan yet. Send the home newspaper to your friends in the East, and then they will have 52 letters instead of one. The citizens of Tillamook county should send the Headlight to their friends in the East, anyway, for it would be a good new year's present, and it would certainly help to adver tise the county, for it is the home newspapers that are leaders in this respect. Saturday the State of Oregon will go, what is commonly called, “dry.” It is a freak prohibition law like so many laws in this state. Our idea of a prohibition law is to take it “straight”. There is one good thing about the law however, and that is the people hammered the lid on the saloon coffin good and hard and we do not expect to see a repetition of those institutions. We do, however, expect to see a reaction of public sentiment in regard to the manufac ture and sale of malt liquors in the state, and should this come about the medium of trade will not be through the saloon, for it is not the malt liq uors that cause Brunkness as much as other liquors. Advertising schemers can always put <xte over on somu business men ami make them punk up several dol lars before they realize they have been "stung,” Some business men arc awfully "easy” in that respect, for they do not realize that the local newspaper is the best advertising medium, but the most economical as well I.ike for illustration the Tilla mook Headlight. It goes into the homes of most families in the comity, and it is safe to say that from three to six persons in every home reads it every week. I here is no better ad vertising medium anywhere. But for all that business men can be wiggled into fooling away their money on all kinds of advertising schemes. Road levies made by districts, to gether with money set aside in the Clatsop County budget, indicate that the through road from Astoria to the Tillamook County line, via the Necanicmn \ alley, will be opened up during 1916.—Oregon Voter. This is a bit of good news for Till amook county. \\ ith the Necanicum road in the North and the Sour Grass road in the South completed, it will stimulate the summer travel wonder fully through the county. To those who have striven lung and earnestly for better road facilities between Clatsop and the Yamhill counties, it will be a source of great pleasure to see this accomplished next year. . Are you one of those live wires who are going to get together, pull together and work together for the future development oi this city? If not, why not, The ladies are organiz ed for development w ork and to beau tify the city, so what's the matter with the men folk doing their part and work together with the ladies? 1 he snap shot man does think the men folk need a little jacking up along these lines, and the business men and professional men who won’t lend a helping hand should be tagged with a bit of white ribbon to show that they are drones in a live com munity. Now is the opportune time to get together and the time to start is at the court house next Wednes day evening. 1 his good angel, known as the local merchant, has helped more men out of tight places and made success possible than any other institution, where without the credit he extended failure was inevitable.—Molalla Pio neer. And, like a great many other good things, these good angels have been imposed upon, and instead of being grateful to the local merchant for credit, people have abused it and failed to paj the bills, That is one kind of ingratitude. Another is when a person is hard pushed for ready cash, he goes to the local merchant for credit, but when he has a few dollars in his jeans he sends to a mail order house for goods. By the way, did it ever occur to our readers what a large number of millionaires the people are making by- trading with mail order houses. ----- o—— A Clatsop County attorney com plains that the '1 illamook County newspapers are robbers because they charge a nominal rate of five cents a line for legal advertisements. Attor neys, doctors, dentists, etc., have fix ed rates that they charge for their services, and banks have certain rates of interest, so we do not see why any one should complain because the Tillamook county newspapers make a reasonable charge for their services, especially attorneys, who are Johnny on the spot when it comes to charg ing for their services. The trouble with the newspapers is that they have had no fixed charge for their services, and the attorneys catching onto this fact, insist upon getting their work done at starvation prices. The fault with sume of our local newspapers today is they charge one business man 5 to 6 cents an inch for space and sock it to others for I2’/ j to 15 cents. 1 he snap shot man was a little in terested in an editorial which appear ed m the Dallas Itemizer, which should stop the growing nuisance of our citizens being annoyed with ped dlers and agents, who often become insulting when they find they cannot sell their goods. This This is what the Itemizer said: “You will not ice, if you walk around the resident streets of Dallas that a number of houses have the sign, "No Agents” posted at their front doors. That means more than the average person stops .t?..l’O|"ll<'u.It 8 PrctJy Kood sign of true loyality to one's home —„2 town. It means that agents of mail order houses can’t do any business there and won't be given the __ ___ chance. It means that the persons living there believe in spending their money where they make their money and thus do their part toward keeping thetr neighbors prosperous. No agents is a good sign for any one to post at the front door.” 1 he snap shot man extends to those who religiously read the editorial »nap shots every week a happy and *1 prosperous new year. \\ e may say HI this connection that in writing two columns of snap shots every w eek, it is hard to avoid stepping on sonic person's corns and to please those who disagree with us on local and political questions, but, for all that, we hold no feelings of prejudice against anyone. It is the duty of a live progressive newspaper to express its opinion. We do that from week to week without fear or favor, and we intend to be a little more aggressive in these columns in the future, as well as more outspoken on matters pertaining to the interests of the peo ple and 1 illamook County in particu lar, for the snap shot man is loyal to all parts of the county and want to sec it develop. We want the co-oper ation of the citizens—the live wires_ to help make Tillamook prosperous next year. —— o------ "After all. the business interests of any town have to bear the expense of more newspapers than a town can A Happy New Year to All. WE HOPE FIRE WON’T COME to your home during the coming year, but there is a possibility that it may, and if it docs you should be prepared for the consequences. It seems to us so foolish when a man says he doesn’t need fire insurance, that he has nev er had a fire and don’t expect to have one. \\ hen a fire starts you can never tell where it will end. Be prepared in any event by taking out a fire insur- 4nce policy. BOLLIÈ W. WATSON. “ The Insurance Man.” CALL ON L^ WRITE VS. TODD HOTEL BUILDING, TILLAMOOK, ORE. properly support, and they should have a voice in how many newspapers there should be.”—Jefferson Bee. In the end the business interests de cide how many papers there shall be in a tywn. The business interests of a town include the subscribers to the newspapers. The subscription list is the basis if the newspaper's existence. The advertising is based on the sub scription list, and the newspaper list and its advertising. So in the end the business interests control the situa tion. Certain cases there are where an “angel” supplies the deficit and a newspaper continues to exist as the plaything or tool of some person wdio is both able and inclined to pay its losses. But that usually grows oner ous, except where the paper is sub sidized in such a manner that its power of publicity may be commer cialized sufficiently to make it to the interests that employ it. - . -o----- There are those who believe that polygamy will be restored in Europe owing to the terrible slaughter of the male sex in the European war. “There are too many women” says an Eng lish newspaper, “and what are we go ing to do about it when the war is over and this undesirable predomi nance of women is still further in creased? There was a surplus of near ly 2,000,000 women before the war, and now the men are being killed at such a rate that only women will be left alive unless something is done very soon. And the problem will be nearly as pressing in Germany and France. Germany had before the war a surplus of 845,000 women and France of 645,000 women, and since Germany and France are losing more men than England their plight will be correspondingly serious. If one may be permitted to take a somewhat friv olous view of the situation, the lot of the few surviving males in these coun tries will be rather a happy one on ac count of the competition, which was quite severe even before the war be gan and which may now become fran tic." This newspaper, however seems to have the best of the argument when comparing the right and wrongs of polygamy and the butchery that is now going on in human life, for it says: "Yes, polygamy is wrong. There cannot be any doubt about that. Also foolish, w hich is worse. But one could suppose that Europe, just at present, would not be saying much about right and wrong with some 25,000,000 sol diers trying to cut each others throats. It is almost as though a burglar should discourse on the sin of pro crastination of Sabbath-breaking.” ------ o------ The snap shot man is convinced of this, and a good many of our citizens agree with us, that if we started in to agitate the question of bonding the county for a hard surface road through the county, it would carry. There is no *01161 whatever in our mind about that, for the snap shot man has been approached by a large number of substantial citizens who want us to take the lead in the bond ing campaign. Our attitude on the bonding question is well known to our readers, who are fully aware that for several years we have opposed it every time it bobbed up.. We are con vinced that there are some good arguments in favor of bonding for hard surfacing, for it would cut out the growing and heavy expense of maintenance, and the argument is made that by bonding it would re duce taxation. Perhaps. The snap shot man has seen enough and knows enough of public affairs not to look for any reduction in taxation as long as there are so many tax levying bodies and under our new fangled Oregon System. Suppose the county did bond and cut the road levy down to four or five mills, we will gamble that it will be only a few years before the road levy is back to where it is now. However, the people should be cautious and go slow during Dcmo- cratis free trade conditions for this is no time to put a mortgage plaster on the county. We believe that a large proportion of the road fund should l>c put into hard surfacing the main thoroughfare through the county, all present projects completed, no new projects started, and the county to pay as it goes. That is the policy we intend sticking to and advocating from time to time, but it may be that if outside agitators intend to ruffle our wool, why we are liable to put on our fighting duds and whoop her up to bond for a hard surfaced highway from ( latsop to Yamhill county lines. Wheeler Reporter Discusses Matters. Road ( Wheeler Reporter.) This paper does not wish to be un derstood as opposing the construction or improvement of any road in the county. In fact, all the roads are needed and each road will have its benefit upon the county as a whole. But we do believe that it is hardly fair that this road district should have to contribute toward the building of a road in the extreme South rn part of the county. If such an attitude is to be taken, would it not be fair for this district to ask districts No. 2 and 3 to contribute $5,000 or $6,000 each, to be used in widening and fixing up the roads up the Nehaletn, to con nect with the Columbia Highway? In tact, would it not be just as feasible to join with Clatsop county in a joint road district and spend the money in district No. a and 3 in building a road in Clatsop County, as it is for us to be spending money in the Sour Grass joint district, where most of the work is in Yamhill county? 1 lie Tillamook Headlight attempts to justify the juggling of District No. t's money by saving: "Gentlemen, the Sour Grass road is of inestimable benefit to all parts of the county, and the citizens should hold a big cele bration when the road is completed next year.” Parlying Bro. Baker says further, "The \\ heeler Reporter wants the people of the North of the county to attend the budget meeting and demand that that part of the county have more of the road mon 7, because the timber assessment in that part of the county is greater than in other paxts of the county. 1 hat is not the right way to consider the the farming community pays, in the central part of the county exceeding ly more taxes than elsewhere and we nave no hesitancy in saying that where the population is densest and travel over the roads is heaviest this is where a large proportion of the road money should go. In other words, Bro. Baker seeks to inform us that the timber interests of District No. 1 should pay for the building of roads for the cheese in THE BEST STOCK OF HARDWARE IN dustry of Districts No. 2 and 3. He well knows, and can t get away from THE COUNTY. the fact, that the north end of the county pays over 51 percent of the See Us for Prices Before Ordering Elsewhere. total tax of the county, and the law specifies that at least one-half of all money raised in any one district, shall be spent in that district, which law the "Honorable" County Courts have OOCGGOOOGOOOOOOGOOOOOOOGOWOGOCOOOOGGOOOOOOOGQCCOGCOe» in the past years barely complied with by “the skin of their teeth, so to speak. , . , , . He also knows that this end of the county needs toads and improve ments as much, if not more than the the other two districts of the county. Bro. Baker’s pet district is so used to relying upon appropriating, or po classed at the price and equal to many of the higher priced litely stealing, the funds of the net Mi hard wheat flour on the market. | end of the county, that if a move US es :r- If you want your boys and girls to grow strong and started to raise money to buy mer :r ¡zed underwear for the “poor farn •cs’ healthv serve them with plenty of the products from Yam- of that district. Bro. Baker would X- ¡hill Family Blend Flour. YAMHILL MILLING CO. .0 pect the North end of the county appropriate its 50 Per ,cent or more- We shall have something to say at the budget meeting. RUEX.’MeNAlR & CO. general HARDCURRE Kitchen Ranges and Heating Stoves. ! BREAD | ! made of Yamhill Family Blend Flour is ! a life giving food. It cannot be out- j I O 8 J The Headlight made the suggestion on Dec. 2nd that road districts No. 2 and 3, appropriate money for the Ne carney road, Here is what the snap shot man said: “Tillamook and Yamhill counties succeeded in getting $9000 of the state Highway funds. Why c'an’t Clatsop and Tillamook get together another year and ask for an aprpopriation for the Necarney road, That is a trump card the commissioner from the north part of the county should be ready to play at the first opportunity. We be lieve there would be no difficullyin ob taining an appropriation for t' at pur pose which would give Tillamook county one of the most beautiful scenic highways in Oregon. Tilla mook and Y’amhill counties did not get as large appropriation for the Sour Grass road as it should have done, and this should be a good ar gument in favor of obtaining $20,000 for the Necarney road. And to insure this improvement, and a give and take spirit, Commissioner Owens should be willing to give $7,500 from his appropriation and a like amount from the judge’s district. That would be giving each end of the county a square deal in an expensive road pro ject.” That surely dispenses with the first part of the Reporter’s editorial, and shows that we are willing to assist district No. i in that plaudable un dertaking, for it will benefit the South part of the county as much as the north part of the county. The Reporter then says “We have no hesitancy in saying that where the population is densest and travel over roads is heaviest, this is where a large proportion of the road money should go.” That is what the snap shot man is contending for and we are glad to know that the Reporter agrees with us. The south part of the county produces one third of the cheese manufactured in the county and this goes to prove that the roads in that part of the county are used by more dairymen than in district No. 1, where a very small proportion of the cheese is produced. And the south part of the county is without railroad connections, consequently the travel on the roads is exceedingly heavy. In regard to the other portion of the Reporter’s editorial, it seems to want to make Bro. Baker the "goat," and as it is punctured with a fault finding, grouchy spirit, we do not think it is necessary to answer it further than to say that we do not know of anybody who wants to de prive the north end of the county a just proportion of the road fund. It is safe to say that the editor of the Reporter has never been in the south part of the county, and when he takes a broader, liberal view, with the fault finding, grouchy spirit eli minated, it will be better for the north end of the county. ROAD DECISION MADE. State Engineer to H*ve Full Charge of Highway Work. Salem, Ore., Dec. 28 — Final chapter in the controversy waged for the last six months over who should have supervision of the state highway de- I partment was written today by the Supreme Court, when in an opinion by Justice Bean, State Engineer Lew is was declared State Highway En gineer to have charge of state road work in place of E. I. Clantine, chief deputy engineer. The decision was given in mandamus proceedings instituted by Peterson * Johnson 1 contractors. In allowing the applicaption for a writ, the Supreme Court construed the measure passed by the last legis lature consolidating the state high way department with the office of I the State Engineer, declaring the pro vision which placed the state high way work in charge of a chief deputy engineer invalid. The court held that the provision conflicted with the title 1 of the act. Under the consolidation law, the Governor is given the appointment of the thief deputy engineer. Today’s, decision does not remove this power j from the executive, through the right of appointing deputies in the high-1 way department, hitherto accorded the chief deputy, is declared to be-i ■ong rightfully to the state engt»*-/ 11W We are the largest wholesale liquor dealers north of San Francisco We can assure you a prompt er, more efficient service and lower prices than you can ex pect even from San Francisco We handle nothing except standard brands. Price list now on the press. Northern California agents for Ranier Beer. Delaney & Young Box 114, Eureka, Cal.