TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, AUGUST
Community Optimism.
tract for war materials, through that,
of course, may also be inspired in
Standing up for the ltome town" part, at least, by a belief of the Brit­ $
is a form a patriotism not less to be
The daily attendance at moving esteemed than the more spectacular ish that the war may end in the not
pictures shows is estimated at twelve variety that shoulders its musket on distant future.
It will be interesting to see what
millions. There are shallow reasoners occasion and marches away to the
who give the credit for this great in­ sound of trumpet and drum, to brave effect the new clause will have on
novation in the world’s amusements the perils of war. The one is contain­ American Manufacturers. They arc
to their inventor of the movies in­ ed within the other; the other, we be­ apt to be so keen for war contracts
stead of to Charley Chaplin.—-Tele­ lieve, cannot exist in its greatest unless they are protected to the limit
of the volume of goods contracted
phone Register.
sense without the one. Town and for. British producers can say noth­
community patriotism lie at the foun­ ing, for they are under strict govern­
The Hillsboro man who tucks a dation of our domestic life. The sen- ' ment control. The British connot be
blanket about him prior to his night­ timent is one with love of home, and blamed, of course, for trying to pro­
ly rest finds it hard to realize that it is love of home that ultimately tect themselves in this or any 'other
people are dying of heat in sister makes men fight and die for country. way. The cost of the war is enormous
states of the east. Pectic faught for a Much is embodied in it. There are and the British cannot wish to go on
chance to enter the lake at Chicago neighborliness, and friendship, and piling up debts when there is no need
Sunday while here it has not been optimism, and sense of proportion, I therefor.
warm enough to tempt people to the and more. No man who is loyal to hi»
community is going to be a traitor to
coast.—Hillsboro ’- dependent.
Bovine Blue Blo°d.
his country, it is no port of the
scheme of things; and he is not built
Bright farmers hold no longer to
The doors of a certain new house that way.”
the theory that a cow is a cqw . On
had shrunk horribly, as is the way of
"One meets enough pessimists, the contrary, they stick to the princi­
the modern door made of unseasoned enough of the class that are expressly
wood. The builder would not send called "knockers” in the course of an I ple that a good cow is an excellent
the joiner to repair them, so the everyday round of business to grow investment and a poor cow is a
householder tried the ironical method instinctively to dislike them. Perhaps waste. That sale of Coopersburg of
and wrote: “Dear sir—The mice can they are thoughtless; that is the most 126 animals for $80,000 proves that
run under most of our doors, but our favorable construction, for their sakes the bright farmers have their pocket
cat cannot follow them. Will you that can be put upon them. But there books in hand ready to pay for the
please send a man at once to make are no two opinions about the man pure blood. The man who gave $3000
room under the doors for the cat ?”— who always has a good word for the tor a cow knows that she is cheaper
than another cow that would cost him
Seaside Signal.
home folks. We like him and we al­ $50. A cow is a living machine which
ways shall.”
converts hay, grain and fodder into
His appearance proclaims him a
T tie above is an editorial from the milk, and the greater her capacity to
tramp, as he knocked at the ..........
kitchen Oregonian. When the home paper perform this process of conversion,
door, His voice carried a professional speaks on community spirit, some
whine. “Please kind lady, I'm a sick people imagine the editor does so to the better the cow she is. One of ’he
man. The doctor gimme this medicine promite its own selfish aggrandize­ best things our agricultural schools
have taught is a knowledge of the
but I need something to take it with.” ment. It’s a wrong accusation.
superiority of first rate stock. It has
The lady was ready to help, "Poor
Ttte home community spirit needs
fellow!” she said, “do you want a to be developed. The Oregonian sure­ come to a point where a knowing
spoon and a glass of water?” The ly doesn’t give expression to those farmer can measure the quality of
tramp answered: "No this medicine sentiments because it thinks it may other farmers easily by tiie cow he
has to be took before meals. Have be re paid. It does so, just as the keeps.
you got a meal handy?” —Seaside home paper, to foster a spirit that is
Rural Credits.
Signal.
purposeful and that will accomplish
worthy results.—News Reporter.
In recent years much has been said
Having practically
made peace
about loan tunds for the benefit of |
with the United States, Carranza is
the farmers. For such a fund there is
People’s Land and Loan Bill.
now confronted with the difficult task
need. In carrying on his business the
of making peace with his own coun­
The Oregon ballot is again cum­ farmer requires capital, just as does
try, and the dispatches state that he bered with a radical single tax meas­ the merchant, the mar ufacturer and
is likely to do this soon by retiring ure under the absve disguise of giv­ the miner.
soon as first chief of the de facto ing the people land and loaning them
The popular impression has been |
government and going before the peo­ money.
that all the farmer needs is a team, a ’
ple fur the election to the presidency
The Constitution is to be amended wagon and a few farm implements.1
at the hands of the voters. Should he by a self-operating law to do away T here are lots of inefficient farmers. '
be elected, the matter of making with all other forms of state taxes This may be the result of men who
complete peace with the United Stat­ and confiscate all land rents.
know nothing about anything else en­
us should be rendered easier, as he
The bill of about 30U0 words, gage in farming. They may have the
would come nearer having the will of nearly as long as the constitution it­ idea that all that is necessary is to
a majority of the people behind him. self, provides that taxes shall be lev­ plow and plant, and then watch it
—Telephone Register.
in that case is, '
ied only on land and such land taxes grow. The trouble
shall equal the sum of which the land watch as one may, he will not see it
Lili Nye had truth well told when would rent in the open market with­ grow.
he said: "A man may use a wart on out considering improvements. Two-
To be successful, the farmer must
the back of his neck for a collar but­ thirds of the tax revenues shall be de­ have the best of implements, just as
ton; ride on a back coach of a rail­ voted to current needs of government, the manufacturer must have, and he
road train to save interest on his one-third shall become a fund which must have a chance to improve his.
money till the conductor gets around; shall be lent in amounts not exceed­ soil so as to get the best possible re­
stop his watch at night to save wear ing $1500 to owners of land for the sults. All this costs money and the
and tear; leave his “i” or “t” without improvement thereof, such loans to profits of the farmer at all times,
a dot or cross to save ink; pasture his draw no interest for the first five over and above what it costs him to
cow on his mother’s grave to save years and to be available to persons live and to support his family, are not
corn; but a man of this sort is a gen­ or families whose wealth does not ex­ sufficient to enable him to get what
tleman and a scholor compared to the ceed $2250. Personal property and he needs in his business and do that
fellow who w ill take a newspaper two improvements may be taxed for local which will add something to his prof­
or three years and when asked to pay needs, but only by affirmative vote of its.
.
'
for it puts it into the office and has it the people effected.
This means he must have capital,
marked refused.”—L^mpqua
Valley
With the State Labor Federation, and must have the use of it for a long- I
News.
the Single Taxers, and other Reform er time than is wanted by the merch­
organizations
now backing
the ant or the manufacturer. These latter
The average production of 4081 campaign for this revolutionary sys­ look to the seasons when their wares
cow s in various Western Oregon dis­ tem, there is no likelihood of invest­ and their products are expected to be
tricts for the year 1915-16, was 4997 ment in Oregon lands until after in demand, and govern’ themselves
accordingly.
pounds of milk yielding 227 pounds election.
The success of the rural credit sys­
of butter fat, as shown by a summary
It is a very bad legislative system
of the official reports of seven cow that allows the development of a tem will depend upon the manner in
testing associations. The summary state to be arrested by groups of re­ which it is handled. In making loans
further shows that of the entire num­ formers with special fads to promote, from a rural credit fund, what is loan­
ber of cows reported 4 4 produced that threaten to unsettle the value of ed is not to be a gift, it is what is
called, a loan, something that must
more than 400 pounds of butter fat all property.
each. 210 produced between 340 and
No one can tell what would be the be repaid. Those who handle it will be
400 pounds, 801 between 275 and effect of such a change to a single governed by the same policy as other
340, 1237 between 225 and 275, and tax on land absorbing all the rental bankers. They will consider the ca­
657 under 175 pounds. The number value, but to destroy the credit of the pacity of the borrower to handle the
of 2 or 3-year old cows whose rec­ state and of property owners in gen­ tunds in such a manner as to make
ords entered ....
him able to repay.
into this competition is eral.
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It is believed that this will, in the
699.—Hillsboro News Times.
Once Philosopher, Now Candidate. end, meet with such success, that the
farmer who needs capital with which
Bends and Good Roads.
President Wilson has lately busied to carry on his business, will have
himself, especially in the newspapers, no more trouble in securing it, than
Governor Withycombe will find in advocacy of the pending child labor the successful merchant, miner or
that in his opposition to road bonds bill now before the Senate. He has manufacturer. It will result in more
he has many supporters. State road even offered certain senators from successful farmers. It will stimulate
bonds have never been popular in Southern States (which are sure for those who are in the business and
Oregon, and while several counties him anyhow). The gist of the bill is arouse an ambition to do the very
have bonded themselves for large to forbid railroads from
carrying best. It will encourage ambitious
sums for road construction the elec­ goods made by children. Here is young men to get into the business,
tions have been hotly contested and what Woodrow Wilson had to say of and to master the science of agricul­
in the majority of cases have been a similar proposal when he was a his­ ture. It will add to the volume of
farm products. It will inspire men
won by the argument that voting the torian and philosophical writer:
bonds and getting to work would
“If the power to regulate commerce with a determination to make the
provide employment for a large num­ between the states can be stretched product of an acre double that of the I
i
ber of people and thus help to make to include the regulation of labor in I present yield. It will show many more |
times better.
mills and factories it can be made to men that the life of a farmer is cap-
Bonding enthuisasts and those who embrace every
particular of the able of being made the ideal life.
This cannot be done in a day, or a (
are for paved roads at once, no mat­ industrial organization and action of
ter what the cost, contemptously the country. The only limitations year or even in a decade. But it will •
refer to all who oppose large bond Congress would observe should the come, and the country will see less i
issues as mossbacks and point to the Supreme Court assent to such ob­ and less of slipshod agriculture. The I
fact that nearly all private enterprises viously absurd extravagance of in­ soil will be less abused. The soil will
of large nature are carried out with terpretation would be the limitations be treated as it should be, as the
prime source to which all must look
borrowed money. They say that pay­ of opinion and of circumstances.”
ing as you go is a picayune plan and
Now he favors this “absured ex* for comfort and for the preservation
will never get anywhere. They assert travagancej " It may make a desirable of life.
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that, the only way to do a thing is to campaign issue. There was no cam-
da it and therefore that the only way paign on when he wrote what he Notice of Appointment of Executor.
to get good roads is to issue bonds thought.
and go to work.
Notice is hereby given that by an
This all sounds very well, but they
order of the County Court of the
British
Munitions.
forget that the spending of private
State of Oregon, for the County of
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money and the spending of public
Durin ga debate in the House of Tillamook, made and entered on the
money are governed by different
28th day of July, 1916, the under­
standards. The man who borrows a Commons this week it was stated by signed was appointed executor of the
large sum for a private enterprise the parliamentary Sec. of munitions last will and testament of Jacob Luthi
guards it as carefully and proceeds that his department was trying to re­ deceased.
as economically as if he were spend­ duce contracts for munitions of war
All persons having claims against
ing a small amount. A huge sum of in the United States by increasing the the said estate are hereby notified to
public money in a single lump, how­ output at home. In one class of ex­ present them, properly verified as re­
ever, breeds recklessness and poor plosives, he explained, the department quired by law, to the undersigned at
business methods and the almost in­ had undertaken the construction and the office of E. J. Claussen, attorney,
evitable tendency is to go ahead re­ equipment of factories to provide in Tillamook City Oregon, within Six
these explosives in “un-heard of”
gardless of cost.
months after the date of this notice.
Oregon cannot be developed in a quantities. A cable from London An­
Dated the 3rd day of August, 19H.
day. We venture the assertion that if nounces that in all new contracts
I
Emil Benscheidt,
bonds were voted tomorrow and a made bv the British government for
Executor of the last will I
complete system of paved highways materials used in war there appears
and testament of Jacob
constructed before
fall prosperty a clause providing that such contracts
Luthi, Deceased.
would not overwhelm us immediately may be canceled at any time after
We should merely find that hasten­ September.
Our experts of munitions of war are
ing road development ahead of other
development had,upset normal pro­ now breaking all records, which
DAIRYMEN.
gress. The various factions that will means that an enormous bill of ex­
be responsible fefr Oregon’s growth pense is being met by the British
I have inquiries for weaned calves
in the future are closely related and government. Long ago it was report­ of all kinds. If you have any for
one should not b« given undue prom­ ed from London that every effort was sale, call me up on either Phone or i
being made to reorganize British in­
inence over another.
...
write me, giving full particulars as
If the various counties of this state dustries so as to increase thy home to age, breed and condition with
will give sincere and earnest atten­ production of munitions of war. It is price of aach, and I will call aad
tion to the problems of road building impossible to bring about such a look them over—Remember—I can
instead of going at them in a hap­ change rapidly, which explains why use anything in the baby calf Hne
hazard manned »hose only recom­ we have not felt the movement thus and can use them any rime, summer
mendation is that it has come down far. But it is inevitable that we shall
unter Call up when you have
to us from the forefathers, the need feel it before very long Evidence of or winter.
and I will call for it.
i_. tale
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for large road bond issues will not that is found in the inclusion of the one for
SMITH, "The Calf Man".
cancellation clause in this new con-
be apparent.— Eugene Register.
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10 1916.
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