LLAMOOK HEADLIGHT DECEMBER 30. 1915
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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end of the county, that if a move US
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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.
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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»*-/
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