TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. FEBRUARY 25, 1916. What the Editors Say. careful when they are driving the family auto. The other day, the Unit­ ed States Court of Appeals declared that the father is responsible for the acts of his auto driving, minor son when the latter destroyes the lives or limbs of pedestrains. 1 he interest­ ing case originated in Cleveland, Ohio, where a women was run down and seriously injured by a machine driven by a mere lad. The woman sued and the jury gave her a verdict for $10,000, whose payment the fath­ er tried to escape by declaring in his appeal that he was not responsible for the acts of his son, who was using the car without parental knowledge or consent. 1 he Court of Appeals sustained the lower court, deciding that the father must pay the damages and declaring that the fact that the boy was using the machine without permission did not clear the parent from responsibility for the minor s acts. The father who has been mul­ cted in this interesting case asserts that it was a 4-bit boy and 2-bit ma­ chine that cost him $10,000. Our auto bovs should be taught carefulness.— The Spectator. - "Business is looking up,” says the Portland Journal. Sure it is, answers the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Ever ” __ „ Journal's ________ _ presidential can­ since the didate was elected, business has been flat on its back looking up—the only direction it could look. A Kansas editor has figured out the reason why leap year is apparnetly a dead letter. He says that the girls who have the necessary nerve to pro­ prose never wait for leap year, but pick off the "good things” and leave a bare market for the leap year girls. —Observer. The hog market at the Portland Union Stock Yards last Monday stood second highest in the United States, the top price being $8.25, only to cents below the Chicago “top This is a most favorable situation for the farmer who has nice fat porkers to sell at this time of the year.—Paci­ fic Homestead. Of course we are all subject to cer­ tain lapses of memory, but there is one subject close to hearts which should never be lost sight of for one single moment. That is good roads— better roads for this community, Think it over—talk it over—push it along with every breath of life. We want better country roads.—Ione Journal. Sounds funny when a Tillamook newspaper complains of a butter famine because of railway blockades. For Tillamook, though primarily a dairy county, makes cheese and not butter of its milk, and the great dairy county of Washington would soon experience the same famine should trains stop running.—Hillsboro Inde­ pendent. Oregon Democrats object to the re­ union of the Republicans and Pro­ gressives, of course. And why not? They have profited substantially by the division of the Republicans, and can see the end of their power in sight with the Republicans re-united. It is to be hoped that Republicans t will take the proper caution and ad­ I vice so freely offered by the Demo­ cratic mouthpieces.—News Times. ------ o------ Perhaps it may be thought to be fun to get out a newspaper when we can’t even scare up a dog fight. Do something, hit somebody or fall dawn and break a lot of your legs, any­ thing for news. If this blizzardy weather continues much longer, we’ll | be forced to publish extracts from the Bible. It will be news to the type setter and proof readers anyhow.— St. Helens Mist. An old friend of ours dropped in the other day and was discussing the McAdoo method of bookkeeping in i the federal treasury. “It reminds me,” he said, "of a butcher whom I knew in my boyhood. A woman was buy­ ing some liver and the butcher reck- | oned the account like this:: “Eight 1 pounds at eight cents a pound. Eight eights is eighty-eight. Take it at eighty cents, ma’am.—Dallas Observ­ er. The Myrtle Creek Mail thinks that the women in that vicinity are show- j ing more interest in city and school 1 matters than the men, and thinks they should be able to vote on questions I relating to these when it come to l raising money or levying a tax to ¡keep them up. It advocates the plan ! of having every woman voter make [herself eligible to do this by getting herself on the assessor’s list as pay­ ing taxes,* even if the amount on vvhich she is assessed is not over one dollar.—Umpqua Valley News. ------ o Now here comes the report of the ¡audit of the state fair accounts with the statement that Instead of the profit of $8000 claimed last year I there is a deficit of $1592.29, and the management is soundly rapped for its ¡lack of business methods and failure Ito safeguard fair funds. And, alas and alack, it was only a week or two ¡ago that partisan newspapers were. roundly abusing Governor Withy- combe for his shake up of the fair I board which resulted in the retire- Imentof last year's secretary and res­ ignation of two members.—Hillsboro ■ Independent. • What he believes has thoroughly and efficiently demonstrated , its worth as a compound gear for an automibile has been perfected and patented by J. E. Kellenbcrger of Pendleton, formerly with the Inde­ pendent garage. Mr. Kellenbcrger has done all the work on the device since coming to Pendleton and is now negotiating for the manufacture of his product. This morning, a car, equipped with the device, carrying six persons, made a flying trip up the hill at the south end of Main street without difficulty On the hill the car was stopped and a new start was made at that point. The demonstra­ tion was witnessed by a large crowd containing many automobile men who are interested in the work.— Pendleton Tribune. ------ o------ As is usual in election years, all the papers th^t have been so violent­ ly nonpartisan in the past few months have become rabidly Democratic. It is queer how quickly and easily the change is made. Today, the newspa­ per boasts that it owes no party alle­ giance; that it is as free as the birds to whistle as it pleases; that it is non partisan first, last, and all the time— and tomorrow we find it solicitously Wetnursing the Democratic donkey, "tte.public is beginning to view with «nsph-ion those papers that are non­ partisan in off years and Democratic at*elections. This is something uncan­ ny about the way they change their colors. They remind us of the evil old buccaneers, who, while scouring the main for their prey, displaved the flag of the peaceful merchantman, but who, on coming within striking distance of their victims, unfurled their banner of piracy.—The Specta­ tor. ^e must teach our boys to be more Another Wilson Mistake. 1 Although the latest bulletin issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not quote exact comparative prices, it reveals clearly enough that the high cost of living which the Baltimore platform, adopted in 1912, declared to be "a serious problem in every American home” is as serious now as then. The platform on which Mr. Wilson stood and was elected, insisted that the Republican party was “attempting to escape from its responsibility for high prices by de­ nying that they are due to a protec­ tive tariff. We take issue with them on this subject,” it continued, “and charge that the excessive prices re­ sult in a large measure from the high tariff laws enacted and maintained by the Republican party.” W'hile a great majority of the vot­ ers did not think so, and voted again­ st Mr. Wilson and the theory of his platform, their vote was so divided that he and a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress were put in office. They immediately proceeded to make a sweeping reduction in tar­ iff duties as if the country had given them a direct mandate. While this work was in progress, people were being assured that the bottoms would drop out when the new tariff law be­ came effective. 1 he bottom of many things did in fact drop out, as was clearly and quickly shown in the heavy declines in railway freight ton­ nage. But that the bottom has not dropped out of the prices of things which enter into the cost of living, this offisjai bulletin clearly proves. Take too as the average of price in seventeen commodities and forty-five cities during 1914, comparison is made with the average of prices in the same commodities and cities be­ tween January and September, 1915. The most damaging admission is found in the statement that “In Sep­ tember, 1914, of 5 per cent, and were the same as for September, 1913- I*1 September, 1913, the country was still under the protective tariff law, and still, according to the Baltimore platform, groaning under the high cost of living entailed by “the high tariff laws enacted and maintained by the Republican party.” DEMOCRATIC FREE TRADE. ' Opinions Culled from Leading News­ i I papers of the Country. | Augumented expenses abetted by deplorable deficits are the afterbirth I of free trade. | A free trade stamp stamps the seal i of incompetency in financial manage­ ' ment of the nation’s affairs on every ! 1 document it touches. A national expert refers to free trade as a "great injustice” but that denomination is so tame as to be al­ most a compliment to its real injury. ------ o------ Expecting a free trade tariff to pro­ mote industry is like giving an arm­ less man a pair of boxing gloves and a deaf man a phonograph, and ex­ pecting them to entertain themselves ----- o------- Even if there were not a thousand other reasons why a protective tariff is preferable for this country’s inter­ ests, the fact that it prevents the un­ fair competition complained of even by the free trade officials is sufficient argument for its adoption. Mr. Redfield is fond of references to the "outreach of American indus- tries,” but when free trade forces ____ to reach out of the national them boundaries and hand over industrial earnings justly due the American laborers, is it not high time to with­ draw some of the “reach?” ------ o------ Press dispatches from Washington state that the free trade members of Congress are working overtime to devise a means of repealing the War Tax, “because they fear its effects on the coming election.” In other words, our free trade Congressmen would, like to shift the onerous blame fro.m their shoulders temporarily so that they can be re-elected—immediately to increase the burdens of the help­ less taxpayers. The Democratic method of econ­ omy always contemplates the expen­ diture of more money. Secretary Red­ field urges the "protection” of our markets, not by a protective tariff, but by the passage of a law "to pre­ vent unfair competition,” and the ap­ pointment of additional clerks (Worthy Democrats) to assist the work of its enforcement. For the practical effort of "preventive” laws in unfair competition not the anti­ trust law. But what’s the matter with a protective tariff? Has any other little school boy an idea? Speak right out. Several years ago the prosperous city of Galveston was damaged to the extent of millions of dollars by a tidal wave which swept over the city. The weather bureau had done all in its power to warn the city of the dis­ aster that was coming, but the night before the inhabitants of Galveston slept peacefully. In the due course of time an enormous sea wall was built and the city made safe from another such a calamity. To-day, big business and statesmen are warning this country to prepare for peace, but we are sleeping peace­ fully. We need the “sea wall” before the country goes to the bad. "Tariff for revenue only” may sound nice, but it won’t protect the country from the tidal wave of cheap foreign-made goods that sweep this country when the European war is over. In time of war prepare for peace. while its agents have beaten all about the bush in telling the country of how they are to “relieve the dye sit- uation,” has persistently refused to admit a change in the tariff or cus­ toms methods is necessary to bring about a permanent relief. The ostrich like policy has made manufacturers hesitate about building plants just in order to have them ruined by German competition after the war is over. 1 hat is the only "dye situation" that counts. nhii a Republican administration giving its assurance in definite words that the American industries will be protected, the dye plants in this coun­ try, assured of permanency, would to­ day be practically equal io the com­ ing demands of the trade. The real dye situation is a political, not a scientific, economic, chemical or in­ dustrial problem, And all this is made perfectly clear at the hearings now on in Washington despite the efforts of the Democratic committeemen to becloud the issue and to pick up a few merger crumbs of fact with to bolster up their ___ _ anti-dumping scheme of legislation, a purely doc­ trinaire plan invented to save the face of their sacred cow, the Underwood Tariff law. Tariff Out of Politics? A Distinctive Reason What is the chief reason for the superi­ ority of Royal Biiking Powder ? There are several good reasons, but there is one which distinguishes Royal from other baking powders. This reason, which every woman should know, is that Royal Baking Powder is made from cream of tartar, which comes from grapes. This means a healthful fruit origin. It means natural food as distinguished from mineral substitutes used in other baking powders. There is no alum nor phosphate in Royal Baking Powder. ROYAL New _ oix To Editors: The New York Even­ ing Sun started it. Below are numer­ ous variations of the thought that the tariff cannot be taken out of politics. Please amply with one line of your own. Keep it goihg. Also, kindly forward copy of paper con­ taining your addition.—Editor Amer­ ican Economist. “Take the tariff out of politics”— “take the sentiment out of love.”— New York Evening Sun. “Take the letters out of the alpha­ bet.”—New York Press. “And the mirth out of laughter.”— Philadelphia Inquirer. “Take the oxygen out of air.”— Erie (Pa.) Dispatch. “Take business out of business _____ _ by free trade.”—Lyons (N.Y.) Republi can. • “Better say the present tariff put notes on much property."—lazewcll (Va.) Republican. Take the Satan out of Hades, Take the headaches out of booze Take the motion out of movies, Take the sleepiness from snooze. —Lackawanna (N.Y) Journal "Oh well! take politics out of poli­ tices.”—Ney Work Evening Sun. “Take the notes out of music.”— American Economist. ------ o------ We will add to this: “Take the milk out of cheese.” Hello. Texas! MONEY RIGHT IN YOUR HANDS is what an insurance policy cioè» for you when a fire comes along. No on« can afford to be without the protec­ tion of a fire insurance policy. Should a fire occur, which is always liable to happen, you will be reimbursed at once for your loss. Let us giv« you this protection by writing you a pol­ icy to-day. ROLLIE W. WATSON, The Insurance Man.” it CALL ON US. PHONE US. WRITE US. TODD HOTEL BUILDING, TILLAMOOK, ORE. YAMHILL MILLING COMPANY, The “ict-Texas-Feed-Herself” cam­ paign starts off with some very dis­ agreeable facts to face. There are in Texas 92,000 farms which have no cows, and a farm without cows is no farm at all. It means a farm whose I occupants are poorly fed because of I the lack of milk and butter, a table that is not supplied with this whole­ some food of which both milk and | butter are ingredients are, and a fam- j ily treasury depleted of the money which cows bring to the thrifty ' housewife. It also means a farm with­ out the garden that barnlot manure Another Fable. makes possible. There are 124,000 farms in Texas A minister once wished to ascertain which have no pigs, and each of 'hem All great business men agree that what influence the hard times had up­ could without no expense produce 10 on his congregation, and said at the the United States to-day occupies an hogs annually worth at the lowest I evxtraordinary position industrially. close of his sermon: estimate $120. That would mean $14,- “1 would ask everyone who is still There are unusual activity, very high 880,000 to the ocupants of these farms prices, big earnings, large prifits and able to pay his debts to rise from his and would more than pay for the cur­ heavy exports, but we are feeding an ed meat that is now bought at the seat.” > unparalleled war. When the war i The whole congregation rose with store. the exception of one man. The par­ started our industries were sick and There are 60,000 farms without semi-paralyzed. Huge war orders son then asked that all who were un­ poultry, In food for the table, and have been like champaign to a pros ­ able to meet their bill should rise. poultry and eggs for sale, poultry on Thereupon the fore-mentioned soli­ trate man. They haye given the coun­ these farms would yield $6,000,000 tary individual got up; a hungry-look- try a real “jag” which is delightful that the ocupants lose by their lack ing, poorly clad man, whose features while it lasts, but wise men are look­ of thrift. revealed the terrible struggle of one ing for a safe place to land. It is There are 306,000 farms in Texas fighting hopelessly against the vicis­ simple as A, B, C, that when the war which produce no forage. That means ends Europe will stop buying from u* situdes of the world. a loss of at least $20,060,000 for which "How is it, my friend, that you are and at the same time will attempt to there is no excuse. Texas is capable sell us in quantities more prodigious the only one among all these people than ever in order to recoup her of producing forage enough to feed who cannot pay your debts?” ten times the number of animals with empty treasuries. That is the condi­ in her boarder without diminishing "Sir,” answered the man, hesitat­ tion tor which Congress, by wise ingly, "I am a publisher of a news­ laws, must prepare 11«« country. The production on other lines. paper and those who rose just now There are 369,000 farms in Texas I time has come to sober up, and to are all my subscribers; and—” but the change our fisical affairs to meet the which do not raise sweet potatoes. minister interrupted him hastily by new conditions. No champaign "jag” Here nearly $4,000,000 at the lowest saying: "Let us pray!” estimate is lost to the tables of these can last forever. farms, to say nothing of the millions Killed Wild Boar. Rulin' Oat Worry. ------ o — - » ■■ ------ o------- WHY PRINCE ALBERT WINS. Before Mr. Wilson with his free- of dollars that might come in cash Ben Vantress has received a news- Yoa’ve got to follow dir hart rule trade isms and ologies can ever be re­ for a surplus. If agriculture in the German Em­ paper clipping giving an account of Patented Process is Responsible for elected, let’s see how many hurdles ol | > Whenever you driver a stubborn sja pire were conducted as it is in Texas, the willing ol a wild boar by hi* mule: its International Popularity. he must get over: o — First—His methods in dealing with the German nation would have starv­ brother, (J. E. \’antrc*s, which is a* All what hr kin do, make him do; Smokers so much appreciate the t Germany All what h* hr can't do, den t bother in regara regard to her murderous ed to death by now, but with far less follows: -juuiduy m arable area than Texas, Germany has flavor and coolness and aroma of submarine warfare. y»«. Danville, Jan. 25.—After an exciting Prince Albert pipe and cigarette to- I Second—His fiasco in Mexico and fed a population of more than 60,000- hunt through the rocky fastnes» of An' dat ol« mictr'bl« thing called bacco that they often marvel that the way he allows our American citi- ! 000 people, or nearly fifteen titties the the Garden of the Jungle God*, a fan­ worry this one brand could be so different zens to be murdered and plundered, population of Texas. With resources tastic group of rock formations half You kin «end «boat hi* b«tiDetta in • from all others. hurry without any protest other than a “few scarcely paraleled by any similar area way to the summit of Mount Diablo, in the world, Texas is compelled to The answer to this question is to be hot notes.” If you treat kit« lik« a aiggah trMta a the wild boar that has inhabited that found on the reverse side of every mule— I hird—His free trade policy which spend the proceeds of her money region for the past three years, wu* Prince Albert package where you will I have ruined the sugar industry in crop to buy food outside. slain yesterday by M E. Schields and Arid« way to do is to fellow hi« y*r« read: “Process Patented July 30th, I Louisiana and the Northwest. rula: O. E. Vantress, employes of the Gave Her Fair Warning. 1907.” That tells the whole story. Fourth—He will have to bear his When you kin help anything, aevar Mount Diablo Scenic Boulevard Co. Prince Albert is made by a patented part of the awful business depression worry; The anima! weighed 350 pounds A physician tells this story of a when dressed. It* carcass will b« When you can’t kelp anything, tarn process that cuts out the bite and | which spread like a pall over this parch .which makes the tobacco so country after Underwood’s Tariff bright boy, his own, who had reached served as food to the men at the in a hurry mighty agreeable and satisfying to , bill got in its work and which con- the mature age of 9, after an early road building camp. Having lived.on To »omethin’ you kin help, an' men of every taste of every civilised . tinued, until his unneutral acts let our career marked by many wild and acorns and roots and other rich food whistle a tune — mischievous pranks: nation on the globe. mills ship anything in the way of war the boar was in splendid condition, An’ you’ll be feeling happy tal'able His restless nature had made him and the meat is said to be exception­ Smokers should realize that this supplies to Europe. *oon. somewhat of a torment to hi* teacher patented process cost three years’ Fifth—He has to contend with Bry­ ally delectable. at times, and one afternoon not long continuous work and study and a an, whose creature he is. Shield* and Vantres* set out to >100 Reward >100. ago she kept him after the others find the animal in the early morning fortune in money to perfect. But the — o ■ were dismissed and had a serious talk result has proven to be worth all Th« rea>l«r« of I hi* paper wlU lx ploxl There i* a great deal of unnecessary with him. Perhaps she was a little Shortly before norm they came apo« l.n.ra that th«ra la al l«a«i o«« 4r«a4«4 that was expended upon it, because it ! confusion as to what the real dye sit­ it. The boar crashed through the un­ dlaraar that aelatirr has bran able to mrr in has set free men who believed they uation is, since after all it is a very afraid that her admonition* were fall­ derbrush and took refuge in the deep all Ita stagra. and that Is Catarrh Mill's could never enjoy a pipe or a makin's simple matter. In the first place, the ing on stony ground. Anyway she ravine. It wa* finally driven from its Cainrrh Cure {• the On!▼ poniti** ear* nov known to the mrdleal fraternity. Catarrh finally said: cigarette. shelter and Vantres* fired four beine a eonatltntlonal dlaense. require« a I American chemist knows how to "I certainly will have to ask your shots, two of which struck tlm aniaml eonotltotlonal Prince Albert makes it possible for make the synthetic dyes as well and treatment H.ill's Catarrh Is taken Internally, actin« directly upon every man to smoke a pipe or to roll as easily as his German brother scien­ farther to come to see me.” Later two more bullets w«M by nrugglste. TSc. the scamp. has made three men smoke pipes of a new venture. Notice to Matusi Telephone Patron fake null’s Pamllv Pills for constipatlen where one smoked a pipe before! All this with the enormous home [ Ford Auto For Sale Cheap. Notice i* hereby given, that patrons demand seems to give a rose colored Don't forget those busted oastiag*. Piano for Sale. look to the situation and the "serious ____ second hand Ford Automo- of the Tillamook County Mutual Tet­ Can be welded for half. Goods sent Good problem” would therefore seem to be I bile, 1914 model, iL «. for sale lor $’"»». rphone Co, are to pay their monthly by parcel post and express prom »tty For »ale, a Hollett & Davi« piano» imaginary. Exactly, it would be - but a „ good young — Wil! take —- _ 4 hoc«» for I in good condition. Inquire of T. P. . for one thing, the Democratic ad- part payment. Apply at the Headlight rentals at the Tillamook County returned. Hiner A Reed, THtemocdc, Johnson, Tillamook, Ore. ministration at Washington, which, joffice. • | Bank in the ftrtare. | O»«