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(- Tillamook Headlight, Octc has imposed a war income lia has a right to do this, Russia is at war. Over here dy have one "war tax” and Is threatened. But we are at (hat’s the answer?—Gervais I ' 1 I I I 1 ioni. met J «Uni 5 mill, i B»r.,J Hl board menace has invaded ^^Krove. They came without against the wishes of our 'people, and with the determination to do about a please. They put the question squarely up to you, ‘what I are youi.go>ng to do about it?—News- blames this to improper returns. Evi- dently he believes the republicans ex- aggeiated the facts in order to retain themselves in power. According to Mr. Rogers’ system of addition there arc 19,154 deaf and dumb persons in the United States. However, the reas on for this difference of 25,554 is easily acounted for: They are former mutes who have been shocked into profane lingual activity by the devil- ish antics of the democratic party, and who are aurally alert to the pros pect of the republican administration in 1917. l he president once said that the country was “vocal in spots". Sam has put his finger on one of the spots.—Astorian. Many of the editors of the small pa pers refuse to give their readers edi Anent the short cuts different ed torials on the ground that editorials itor* take. in their personals of the I are for large city papers and the pub '9 ¡J movement of buzz wagon drivers lic does not care for the views of the Carlton Sentinel sagely inquires country editor. As a mater of fact, 4 «5. 1 I “ the if ‘Forded in Portland’is good form, the rural population are realy reflect »5. I why not 'Studebakered in Portland’ ed by the large editorials of the large ó .. -I (or anvFother place)’"—Hillsboro ln- city papers, which glean them front i ..¡-I the country papers which run editor dependptit. nd 1 ials. lhe sound thought of the lie Multnom ah county farmers are country is to be found in the rural en- I kicking on the new hard surface districts. Here, in the more or less road* because their youngsters im auiet of the country, men and women mediately demand roller skates when read and study and gather data which the hard surface is done. Roller skat results in conclusions founded on the ing Qty-county roads is going some solid basis. Sometimes this thought and’WiHbe good dope for next year’s may be biased by the enthuiasm tooritt - literature.—Hillsboro Inde aroused by the impractical reformer or selfish politician who runs off at pendent. a tangent with some new fad or I. ---- 0 ---- Thiffireport of the various banks of ‘ism,” but generally such fads are , the country at the last call of the con- short lived and the sensible thinker troller'shows a grave situation. For | of the country returns to the sane and instance 1 one of the large banks of solid conservative attitude which has . Portiam _._jnd is carrying a sixty per cent always distinguished him. The editor re»drirt. It’s no wonder there are idle of the country paper, therefore, has a men'when in one city alone more than duty to perform in crystalizing this iifteeh million dollars are uninxested. thought and sending it out to the nens Wha t is wrong, anyway?—Amity world, as the contribution of this sec tion of the country to the agitation of Standard the day. The country editor, usually Aproaimately eight million people is a comparatively poor man, but he attHKlconutry are now enjoying the has sand and independence and a advantage es of automobiles. How long pride of work usually foundin profess will it be j until the motor car is re- ions and he is brought into closer sur __ garded j as a an obsolete, as old Dobbin personal contact with his constituen ît .. today, and the ferorish public will be cy than the editor of the big city pa contested with nithing slower than pers. It is safe to say that never be air craft? Then after the air ship, fore in the history of Journalism have SBkpt (Kxt? Will some Burbanknia bi editorials been more widely read, not, ologist succeed in grafting wings upon perhaps as in the old days, to base an oiogist — " ’---- of ' ” -j!- - the views the editor, of the human race pro- opinion on ■ami >. »the »boulders sho a people that is scarcely lower but for the purpose of getting all id. sides of the question.—Ione Journal. t and than „_ie th angels?—Itemizer. cing The decision of the Suprc :me Court ■ that it is unlawful for cigar ■g grocery, or other retail stores ®ain open on Sunday and ex- to -O rema; etMUtg drug stores, theaters, , doc- tor’» «ft’ices, etc., is certainly a a most b JBK .law. There are a large percen- 4f people who for various and Seasons cannot make necessary Kses during the week; on these Krdship of the Sunday closing Mt the hardest. But Oregon is V all over the United States as |Bk law state.—Coos Bay Har- SST,............. o----- en you see someone doing good >ay so and say it so some one (ear it. Don’t be afraid it will ie the big head; that it will up- jc judgment; that it will be tak en for flattery; that it will be mts- unddrstood. If you sincerely believe ^Tfood work has been done there none of these dangers in say- Probably one thing in the Js history has contributed more 1 success, maybe after years of (downs than ups, than the help ed uttered by some one who ad- the untiring zeal and pertin- that proceeded final success.— glens Mist. - —-o----- ie moonshiners of North Caro- have invented a new drink called ¡key rum” that is 100 proof and )s a man to see all kinds of ex animals and snakes ouicker than boncoction dispensed by the boot Bs of Oregon. It is said to be [of steeped tobacco water, mo ll and stewed devils and a saucer kill burn for five minutes when Id. The monkey rum . jag lasts 1 times as long as a whiskey It, and ends with a frightful ium tremens. As a text for a pro- on sermon it obscur s all the of a silver-tongue'd orator.— dan Sun. ten Democrats sought power pursued the trusts and promised punishment for those responsible hme and the high cost of living. Jryan passionately advocated the entiary for malefactors of this , but the democratic administra is rapidly approaching its close a-e cannot recall a single instance ein trust magnates have been 1 anything more severe than a ocf whitewash. Mr. Bryan makes e figure on the Chautauqu plat- , and he leaks language just as ive leakes water, but when it es to carrying platform pledges execution Bryan would rather fn.—Lebanon Criterion. ----- o the city would only put in proper ipment and do its own paving k, what a lot more old _____ streets Id come in, how much money it Id save to the property owners, what a lot more work it would ride. I them to pieces, and when properly constructed, with flat crowns and gritty surface texture, there is little danger of horses and motors slipping. In the long run the best road is always the cheapest, and if it is built economically and the farmer is not required to pay more than his just share of taxes it is sure to prove a good investment.— Farm Life. SUIT AIMS TO DEFINE ROAD DISTRICT LAWS. Conflicting Requirements cf Legi3 »-non iSesult in Embarrassing Expenditure Conditions—Sen ate Bill Expected to Prevail. To reconcile conflicting legislation adopted by the last legislature rela tive to the districts in counties, a friendly mandamus suit will be start ed next week by District Attorney Evans, as an officer of the State or Oregon, against the Board of Corn missioners for Multnomah County. E. E. Coovert, as attorney tor Roadmaster Yeon and a friend of the good raods movement, will handle the Board's interests. The object is to have the case determined by the Su preme Court with as much expedition as possible in order that the boards of the various counties of the state may have clear legal ground on which to work in the matter of road districts. 1 he trouble arises through conflict between house bill 91 and Senate bill 198, the former of which passed both houses just a few hours prior to the latter. Senate Bill Expected to Prevail. . I The House bill provides that “every incorporated city’and town shall con stitute a separate road district, and the County Court shall not have au- theory to divide such territory or in clude, any of it in any other road dis trict, while the Senate bill provides for restricting annually at the option of the courts, but does not require that incorporated cities and towns be made separate districts. Mr. Coovert contends that the Sen ate bill, the last expression of the leg islature on the subject, undoubtedly will be held to prevail, and in this District Attorney Evans agrees, but in order to eliminate the possibility of illegal action on the part of the County Board in road expenditures it is necessary to have an expression form the courts. Save the Lumber Industry. Expenditure . Embarrassment Caused I When considered in conjunction The lumber industry is Oregon’s with the fact that the law also re greatest commercial asset; when the quires 70 per cent of the road money industry is sick, the state is in poor raised in a district to be expended financial health. In the number of em within that district, the embarrassing ployes, the lumber business ranks nature of the bill as far as Multno first in the United States. In our saw mah County is concerned becomes mill plants and their accessories— apparent. wholly exculsivc of standing timber Taxpayers resident within the City and raw material—over one billion of Portland alone pay 94 per cent of dollars, the amount that Great Britain the road tax of the county. Thus, for and France need to finance their war, illustration, if $too,ooo in road reve is invested. There is invested in the nue was raised, $65,800 of it would standing timber and Taw material have to be spent in the city, leaving $1,500,000,000. Nearly three quarters only $34,200 to be expended in the of a million men are employed in the rest of the county. lumber business. Of this latter amount a large pro The condition of the business portion would have to be spent with most disheartening to those engaged in the corporate limits of Gresham, in it; it has had a depressing effect on Troutdale and Fairview, ail incorpor practically all other industries. Under ated, and therefore, separate road dis- normal conditions, it is the largest tric s, if this legislation were to pre purchaser of farm products. It uses vail. the largest number of freight cars, Disproportionate Taxes Loom. and is second only to coal in the ac This result would be that to provide tual tonnage given to the railroads. suitable roads for the rural distric's The lumber freight bill—to the rail of the country the farming coinmun roads alone—is $200,000,000 annually. ity would have to be taxed cxo’bitan- Eighty per cent of the gross price of tly, while the city would either get off lumber delivered to any one of the with little or no tax for road purpose large consuming centers of the Unit or have a large surplus of money. ed States goes for transportation, Officers of several counties have farm products, and labor. made inquiries of Secretary of State The business is in a bad way. It is Olcott regarding this conflicting leg sick from over production and uncon islation. The test case to be brought trolled competition and from a failure in Multnomah County will do away of demand. Our bénéficient govern with necessity of similar friendly ment, which passes laws permitting suits being brought for the individual unions to continue to destroy porper- counties. As far as Multnomah County is ty without fear of prosecution, has also passed laws that prohibit the concerned, the Board is satisfied with lumbermen from combinin? to save the present road districts and does their property. According to the laws not wish to redistrict. House bill 91 was introduced by passed by the politicians for the reg- ulation of business, the lumbermen Representative Hunt, of Clackamas may not agree to limit the output, County, a resident of the City of Es _____ which would be considered an act in tacada. restraint of trade, But, in their appli cation to the lumber trade, these laws Sunday Closing Law. are not just, nor is the interpretation of them wise. The lumbermen are not Following is the Sunday Closing trying to limit the output to destroy Law which the courts of Oregon the business, but to save it. Their have upheld and which is the cause of purpose is not to raise the price to stores closing on Sunday: the consumer, but to reduce the ex Section 2125 of Lord’s Oregon laws pense of manufacture to themselves. passed in 1864, amended in 1903, They are not trying to kill competi reads as follows. “If any person shall tion, but are trying to prevent unions keep open any stere, shop, grocery, and unregulated competition from bowling alley, billiard room, or tip killing them. The Sherman law was pling house, for the purpose of enacted to restrain the strong from of labor or traffic, or any destroying the weak; the lumbermen place of amusement, on the first dav of keeping arc looking for a means of the week, commonly called Sunday the law from ruining the weak and or the Lord's Day, such person, upon strong alike. conviction thereof, will be punished There are bénéficient as well a* by a fine not less than $5 nor more maleficent combinations. The one the than$5o; provided, however, that the lumbermen are trying to effect be above provisions shall not apply to longs to the former category, lt theaters, the keepers of drug stores, would permit some mills to shut doctor shops, undertakers, livery down without the aid of the sheriff, stable keepers, butchers and bakers; and would, by reducing expenses, and also circumstances of necessity save the leading industry of the" coun and tncrcy may be pleaded in defense, try from what'now seems inevitable which shall be treated as questions of bankruptcy.—The Spectator. fact for the jury to determine when the offense is tried by jury.” Building New Road*. L. _____ !____ 1______ ■ ----- o----- When there are 400,000,000 people Illinois is planning to spend nearly in a nation it is helpless. Look upon $200,000,000 to improve the roads of China and India. the state. It is proposed to build these Germany efficiency would do good roads of the most durable materials applied to the Russians; but East is known—that is, of solid concrete, or East and West is West; and Russia of brick embedded in concrete. The is Oriental. State Highway Commission promises The British censor occasionally that the tax on farm property for the shows gleams of intelligence. He was pavement of these roads will not ex wise in trying to surpress the story ceed 8 cents per acre, per year, at about King George proposing a toast least 6o per cent of the cost being im to President Wilson. posed on corporations and municipal Don’t suppose those packers who ities. If the tax on farms is thus kept lost $15,000,000 worth of meat to the down to a reasonable figure, these British Government will turn their durable "roads wilt be a fine invest bank deposits over to the billion dol ment fbr all country property. Good lar loan, and they have some weight roads always increase the "value of in Chicago. After all the talk of regulating the land. It is said that the cost of keeping jitneys, they finally regulated them up a concrete road is less than $30 selves. There is just as many as there per mile per vear, while the cost of is demand for, and no more. These street cars which pull the building may run from $7,000 to $12.- 000 per mile. The roads are passable hole in after them, are to be thanked. at all seasons, and are free from mud Not so many people make a spectacle and dust. Automobiles do not tear oi themselves chasing one. flb GEfil Kite H THE BES See Us for Prices YAMHILL MILLIN Dealers in Flour, Grain ana BRANDS OF FLOCK ; “Morning Star.” “Y. Family Bend.” E. T. ULLMANN, Manager, Commercial Building, Tillamook, Oi Mutual Phone. QOOMOOOOiOCOOOOOQCOOOaCOOeOOGOOCOOOOGOOCQGQGCG'. 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