TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, FEBRUARY 11, 1916-
Convention Will Name Him.
county commissioner. It then gives
this good advice:
“Unity on this point is essential for
First Insertion per line ............ $ .10 the good of the entire district. Any
F.aeh subsequent insertion, lirffe.
.05 candidate who has the backing of the
people of this district will receive
Business and Professional cards
the Support of the balance of the
one month...................
5 • ■ > 00 county. For once let us quit our fight
Locals per line each insertion. .
05 ing and unite on some mart and pre
sent a solid front, demonstrate that
Display advertisements, an. inch
one month........................ -................... 5° we can get together and mean busi
ness.”
All Resolutions of Condolence
I he Times should remember that
and Lodge Notices, per line .
.05 some years ago, when the Republican
party undertook to recommend can
Notices, lost, strayed or stolen
didates what a great big howl the
etc., minimum rate, not ex
Democrats made when the latter
ceeding five lines............................ 25 were riding the Oregon System hob
by-horse to death. We, certainly,
would like to see the people of Ne
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION
halem united on county commission
(Strictly in Advance.)
er tor ttiat part of the county, but
One Year ........................................... D 5° the primary election law makes it
Six Months .......................................... 75 free and open for anyone to aspire to
do
Three Months .................................... 5° that the other public offices, we
not believe it wise to attempt I?
crowd out anyone who wauls to make
THE TILLAMAAK HEADLIGHT the race. But we will admit that if a
public meeting gives a candidate a
strong backing, it will have its effect.
It should not be difficult to ascertain
the sentiment of the people in the
North end of the county, and this
Say, Bro. Trombley, when is the can be obtained by circulating peti
Democratic party going to fulfill its tions, w hich we think should be done.
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promise by reducing the high cost of
The Women’s Civic Improvement
living ?
League, in taking hold of civic im
Now is the opportune time to start provements in I illamook, is to make
a real live Republican organization in a strenuous effort to make this a
this county. Every Republican is op dahlia city. We know the ladies will
posed to Democratic free trade and in succeed, but before this can be ac
iuvor of protection for the dairy in complished the citizens must take a
dustry, and for that reason it is neces much more active part in beautifying
sary to swat the free traders and their homes and the parking in trout
of them with dahlias. A visit to some
prosperity butchers.
of the progressive towns in the \\ il-
Most of us thought the weather was lamctte \ alley ami Southern Oregon
bad in Tillamook last week. I he de last summer showed us what pride the
layed newspapers which arrived in people take in beautifying their
this city on Monday proved that homes and the resilience part of those
other parir of Oregon and the North cities with beautiful flowers and shade
west had some really bad weather trees, which convinces the snap shot
and that Tillamook simply had only man that we in Tillamook are far be-
hind in that respect. We believe that
the tail end of the storm.
this city can be made wonderfully at-
It appears to us that somg of the tractive and pretty if the citizens
live wires will have to get together would pay a little more attention to
and put new life and energy into the beautifying it with flowers. True it is
Commercial Club, for it is absoutely that some of our citizens would prefer
essential to have an organization of more fragrant flowers, but climate
that character. The snap shot man conditions have to be considered. It is
will make one to put his shoulder to just as natural for dahlias to grow in
the wheel if other business men will this comity as grass. Both need plenty
of moisture. Dahlias are a decidedly
come forward and do the same.
showy flower, with a profusion of
The editor of the News-Times colors to satisfy most everybody’s
thinks that Tillamook should have taste or fancy, in fact, the new im
only one newspaper. From a business proved varieties are certainly pretty.
point of view this is good horse sense. I he snap shot man, in a short talk on
But, somehow, it is hard to keep peo dahlias before the Women’s Civic Im
ple from butting into the newspaper provement Club, advocated that prop
and printing business where there is erty owners plant their gardens and
only room for one office. The busi parkings with dahlias, that the public
house
and depot
ncss men and the public are the ones school, court
to suffer for too many newspapers in grounds be made attractive and pret
a town or community. Another thing, ty with dahlias, and a big display
made at the county fair. We want to
politics |daj, some part. A good
staunch Republican, who believes in luge our citizens to F.elp the Improve
protection and prosperity, has no use ment ’ eague 1. I . antifyim, lUr citv
for a newspaper that is preaching free for this is som’thing that v ■ highly
commend and want to help the ladies
trade ami runiation to local industries make a success. Thousands of tourists
for he will not support it, and it is
will visit this county the coming
perfectly proper that he should not.
.summer and w hen they do arrive here
they should be convinced that Tilla
We do not want to criticise the mook
City is not lagging behind in
postal service, but whenever an em
ergency occurs and the mail cannot civic improvements and in planting
be taken over the regular route, then flowers to benefit the city. Let 11s all
it is that the postal service breaks take a little time and pride in making
this the dahlia city.
down and is a failure We have sever
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al experiences of this in Tillamook,
I he snap shot man has received
for whenever the railroad is tied up
it takes a week or more to get a many complimentary remarks from
change of route. No doubt some high citizens from all parts of the county
salaried official at Washington thinks who have visited his sanctum in re
he knows more about the local situ» gard to the plan we suggested a few
lion than lohnny on the spot, and weeks ago for a hard surface highway
must be telegraphed to anil interview the entire length of the county. Some
ed by the Oregon delegation before of those who advocated bonding the
he consents to meet an emergency, county have changed their minds and
but we contend that the pastmaster agree with us that the best wav to
in a city like this should be given obtain this hard surfaced highway is
discretionary power. Then we would to cut out all new and costly road
not have to wait one or two weeks projects and expend $100.000 annual
for mail when the railroad had the ly of the road tund for hard surfac
I ing until the project is completed.
misfortune to be down and out.
We are glad to know that we have set
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Yellow journalism in Portland is a people thinking, and we are informed
that the South part of the county is
curse to that city, and the Oregon almost
unanimous in favor of this
Voter told some pointed truths in a plan. The hard
surfaced highway
recent issue when it said:
through the county will be a great
"Then, what’s the matter with our
evening papers? Thev impugn mo benefit to all parts of the county, but
tives.assassinate character, discredit perhaps a little more so to the South
worthy rffort and inflame discontent. part on account of having no railroad
They stir up controversy, split the and freight having to be hauled there.
I he snap shot man believes that hard
town, array neighbor against neigh
bor, create factions and feed envy. surfacing this highway should not
That's what’s the matter with Port cost the taxpayers any more in taxes
land -a spirit if destructive criticism than it is today for road work. For
lias taken possession of a portion of illustration. If $175,000 is collected for
work, $100.000 should be taken
our press, until a large part of our road
for this purpose and $75,000 used for
people have come to believe that
Portland's substantial citizenship is other road work in the county. It will
he necessary to economise on
in one giant conspiracy to ruin the latter work and oppose all new this'
and
town."
The glaring falsehoods published costly road«nork, and if this is done,
bv the Portland lournal in regard to and it should be. then it will not be
the decision of the prohibition law in necessary to increase taxes to obtain
Washington, was sufficient to prove a hard surfaced highway the length
of the county. The snap shot man be
what is the matter with the Portland lieves that it the question was put to
evening papers.
a vote of the people of the county
intended there would be over 80 per cent in
This little snap shot is 1
favor of our plan, for those who trav
to open old sores or to
el over the main thoroughfare of the
on the head with a big
county see that altogether too much
simply to set people to
few vears ago some of the dairymen money is being wasted every year in
of
macadam roads,
"feed" outside lawvers to defeat the maintenance
improvement of Hoquarton Slough, which is eliminated as soon as hard
surfaced roads are constructed. W e
now some of the dairymen are feed
co-operation of the citizens
ing their dairy herds with hav that is ask the
_ to
_ bring
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from all pi
parts of the county
costing them $?ooo per ton. Had the
this
hard
surfaced
highway
project
improvement been made a line of
steanterk would be pb ing between to a completion in a few years, and
this city and San Francisco and hav when it is constructed the taxpayers
will not only admit that it was busi
would now be selling at half the price
it is today, to say nothing of the sav ness economy, but they will be proud
ing in freieht on feed and other mer to think they helped it along W e
chandise Well, some persons can't may say further, no one can tell what
a great benefit and pleasure it
see further than their nose, ant way, to Tillamook people and the will be
entire
and as a result the dairymen are be county.
ing "stung” and have to pungle up
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more money than they otherwise
Some of the dairymen of the county
would, and at a time when the Dem
ocratic partv nroniised to reduce the are now confronted with a serious
hi»h cost of living and have sneceed- question of procuring feed at . a reas-
in bringing about the opposite re- onable figure, especially those who
subs' If this is not hieh finance what are dependent upon feed shippi ed into
i« it’
We want the diirvm*n to the county for their dairy herds. They
think this matter over without preiu- are paying too much for their hay
dire. but in a sober, business wav. and other fed stuffs, and considerably
and we believe they will admit that reduces their net profits. Had proper
the» erred in iwd'*ment when thev judgment been used this could have
did »0* co-operate I" the improve and wotdd have been avoided The
snap shot man has always contended
ment of Hoquarton Slough.
that one of the most important high
ways into this citv is Hoquarton
T
Slough, but owing to a lack of har
mony and some prejudice between
ADVERTISING RATES
Legal Advertisements.
Editorial Snap Shots
the roads the power to vary ,he‘f
rates as occasion demands it should
our citizens this important highway
1 at the same time take from railroad
has not had the attention it should
There are sincerity and truth in the
employes the power to change the statement of Chairman Hillis of the
have, and as a result of this freight
rates on hav ami feed and other mer- j
scale.
Republican National Committee that
‘ wage
It some fair and equitable arrange
chandise is what is causing feed stuffs
| ment of this kind is not mailt indus the Republican candidate "will be
to be so high in price and the dairy
, trial development in this country will born in the convention," Over half
men have to pay the high tariff. Io
the delegates will be chosen in pri-
be brought to a standstill at the hands candidatc will have enough instrucl-
make Hoquarton Slough navigable
of unscrupulous politicians and labor tions, while others will not. But no
for lumber schooners is only a matter
of an expenditure of a few thousand .
union leaders.
candidate will have enough enstruct-
dollars annually, which would be 01 '
Our law making bodies should take ed delegates to be a great factor in
Is It Right?
inestimable value to the central part ,
steps at once to prevent any body of the convention. There is one presi
01 Tillamook County. Had this 1111 I
men, cither railroad officials or rail dential possibility first in the talk of
portant improv omul been made nil The four great railway unions, en road employes, from wilfully tying up Republicans wherever they assemble,
years past, the dairymen who depend gineers, firemen, cngincmen and con- the transportation system of the Associate Justife Hughes. But lie has
upon their feed from outside would ductors are now voting among them- United States to the detriment of the
withdrawn his name from the primary
not be paying exhorbitant prices to- j selves as to whether they shall de-, whole nation.
ballot in Nebraska and will probably
day, for lumbet schooners would lie manti an eight hour day instead ot a
withdraw in every other state in
running to this city and the owners of ten hour, at present pay and time and
IN TILLAMOOK.
which it may be brought forward. It
these vessels would be giad to carry one half for overtime.
is possible that Justice Hughes will
Press reports say the vote will be
freight from San Francisco and other
Statements of McMinnville Citizens be nominated, but if he accepts it, the
ports at exceedingly low rates. Any in favor of this demand.
. nomination w ill have to be tendered
Are Always of Interest to Our
Now the question arises what right
one can see by improving Hoquarton
1 him with practical unanimity.
Readers.
Slough it will not only be a benefit have they to make this arbitrary de
The
presidential primary is ill
To many of our readers the streets
to the dairy industry of this county, mand and 11 their leaders say to tie up
but the lumber industry as well. 1 fie all the railroads of the country as well of McMinnville are almost as famil ■ adapted to such a situation as exists
snap shot man still contends that as thousands of other industries in iar as those of our own town, and we in the Republican party, with no out
those who opposed this improvement connection therewith. This would not I are naturally interested to read of standing avowed candidate for the
I happening there. The following re nomination. There will be something
were narrow in their veiws and they be called a workingmen's trust.
Supposing the railroad heads would port from a well-known and respect perfunctory in the indorsement of fa
would eventually have to pay directly
or indirectly, tor opposing this im get together and say we will increase | ed resident will be helpful to numbers vorite sons. Some are even suspected
of having no greater hope than sec
provement. They arc doing so today all freight and passenger rates 25 per I of men and women of Tillamook.
and will continue to do so in the fu cent and if the public doesn’t wish to
Mrs. J. O. Rogers, 603 Grant Street, ond place on the ticket. Great care
ture, or until such time as a boat ser pay it we will stop the trains. This 1 McMinnville, Ore., says: “I suffered should be taken in the selection of del
vice is established between this city would be called a railroad trust.
intensely from backaches and head egates, even under instructions. The
The railroads would not be allowed ' aches. Sometimes the attacks lasted ablest and most devoted Republicans
and California, carrying lumber from
here and bringing baek tiay, teed, to do this under our laws—in fact I for a week. I couldn’t move without should be sent to the national con
merchandise, etc., at low rates. But as they can no longer change their rates having pains in my back and hips. vention.
long as this improvemnet continues as they wish, to meet varying busi Sometimes when the headaches came
to be delayed or put off, the dairymen ness conditions but must get permis oh , I had to go to bed. I didn't know
Seconded, But Not Carried.
who ship in hay have
to pay sion from different state and govern the trouble was caused by my kidneys
more than they should for food stulls. ment commissions to either lower or but since I have been so greatly re
No one can deny this, present condi raise their rates.
lieved by Doan’s Kidney Pills, I
Paul Armstrong often told how a
tions prove this, for those who con
If under the law, railroads are no know what caused the trouble. They
lawyer acquaintance of his who lives
tend otherwise have no grounds for longer allowed to vary their rates to
not
only
regulated
the
action
of
my
in Seattle was retained to defend a
their arguments.
Therefore, it is suit the best interests of their busi
highly important for all the interests ness why should not the law deter kidneys, but relieved the headaches colored man accused of absconding
and
backaches.
“
(Statement
given
I wi’h the funds of a colored debating
to get together on this imperative im mine what wages their employes are
1 society. The outlook for the defend-
provement, for it is of vital import entitled to and protect the roads from Aug. 28 1907.)
Over
five
years
later,
Mrs.
Rogers
' ant was rather black. At the trial the
ance that the dairymen should be able any unusual increase in expense from
said:
"I
think
as
highly
of
Doan
’
s
I attorney for the defense arose as
to procure feed at a reasonable figure this source without an automatic in
Kidney
Pills
now
as
I
did
when
I
I soon as the charge had been read,
which can be done if they would crease in freight and passenger rates
recommended
them
several
years
ago
and said:
break away from a penny wise and a to cover the deficit.
Kidney
trouble
hasn
’
t
bothered
me
‘Your honor, I move that the indict
pound foolish policy.
I To a fair minded man it does not
for
a
long
time.
”
ment be dismissed—”
look right to use the law to hold
Price
50c.
at
all
dealers.
Don
’
t
Before he could proceed further his
down the revenue of a railroad on one
“Railroads Work of Satan.”
hand and turn right around and under simply ask for a kidney remedy—get client was on his feet, too, addressing
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Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that the bench without a tract of embar
N. A. Richardson, in Industrial the same law allow its expenses to be Mrs. Rogers has twice publicly rec rassment.
run up with no way for the road to
Problems, reports that the school protect itself.
ommended. Foster
Milburn
Co.,
“Your honah,” said the defendant
board .it Lancaster, CL, in 1828, re-
briskly, “1 second dat motion.”
If the government has taken from Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
fused to permit the school house to 1
be used for the discussion of the j
question ot whether railroads were
practical or not, and the matter was
recently called to mind by an old
document that reads as follows: “You
are welcome to use the school house
to debate all proper questions in, but
such things as railroads and tele
graphs are impossibilities and rank
infidelity. There is nothing in the
word ot God about them. If God had
designed that his intelligent creatures
should travel at the frightful speed of
fifteen miles an hour, by steam, he
would have clearly foretold it through
his holy prophets. It is a device of
Satan to lead immortal souls down to
hell.”
The first thought is one of revulsion
at the crude ignorance revealed. On
second thought, one is amused at the
Many attractions for the visitors to California in February.
childishness of men in official station.
Bathing; at thebeaches, picking oranges and lemons, motor
But one cannot think a third item
ing, playing golf or tennis. Thejbeautiful exposition at San
without noting a twentieth-century
Diego open till the year. Trips to Mt. Lowe or Mt. Wilson.
parallel. The same type of logic has
queered progress in many churches
Ocean trip to Catalina or Santa Cruz Islands, Everywhere
and Sunday schools. It requires pa
the door of hospitality stands open for YOU.
tience and determination to keep ones
eye stcadly fixed on the pole-star of
truth; to move confidentialy on to
Ask your local agent or write
ward the goal which the enlightened
John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.
Christian vision seeks to realize.—
The Lookout.
per cent of the face value direct to
states having such a constitutional
amendment.
“T his would obviate the necessity
of paving associations of national
banks, which are given this privilege
by congressional act, a big brokerage
fee and would practically
make the
bonds non-interest paying.
“ The Road of a Thousand Wonders.”
'
4
Trains
Daily
from
TO
California
Six Months Round Trip Tickets
on Sale
Portland.
Borrowing of Land.
Over a year ago the Land B.. iik of
the State of New York was establish
ed by the legislature to mobolize
farm-inartgage and tow n-martgage
credit. It was to act for local cooper
ative loan associations already long
in existence, taking their mortgages
on real estate and selling its bonds or
debentures based on such mortgages.
The primary machinery -for the
scheme—namely, the local associa
tions—had been in operation for
years. But it is only recently that the
Land Bank made its first issue of
bonds—fifty
thousand
dollars in
amount, bearing four and a half per
cent interest and sold at par. It took
many months to get the plan into
operation. Of course, if it h*d been
necessary to begin at the bottom and
first organize the local loan associa
tions it would have taken much long
er.
Settled business practices of any
sort changes slowly, even though a
better substitute is offered. To put a
national farm credit scheme into ex
tensive operation will be the work of
years Congress should keep that in
mind in its legislation on the subject.
A good many hopeful people think it
can be done in a few weeks; but they
are doomed to disappointment.—Sat
urday Evening Post.
Approves State Aid.
The position taken by the Oregon
Irrigation Congress at its Portland
meeting is referred to by the Wood
burn Independent:
"Resolutions were passed urging
the adoption by the State of Ore
gon by a constitutional amendment
and legislation necessary to institute
the guaranty by the State of interest
and principal of bonds issued by the
irrigation and drainage districts, also
for a system of State rural credits.
“That such an amendment to the
constitution, after thorough under
standing upon the subject, will carry
by a large majority there can be lit
tle doubt. That its passage would
mean great prosperity for Oregon is
also predicted.
“It is possible that the rural credits
plan advanced by Assistant State
Engineer Percy Cupper will be ad
opted by the conference to be held
under the auspices of the Irrgation
I ongress, on account of its simplicity
ami feasibility. Mr. Cupper proposes
that the State issue bonds and loan
the money to farmers at 6 per cent
interest with proper safeguards.
"The Independent would suggest to
this conference that it urge our con
gressional delegation to work for the
passage of Congress in a joint reso
lution empowering the national treas
ury to accept these irrigation treas-
agc and State rural credits bonds as
collateral and to issue currency to 90
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