Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934, August 17, 1916, Image 2

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    TILLAMOOK. HEADLIGHT, AUGUST
17 1916.
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FIRE ! FIRE !
FIRE ! ! !
tice. The dairymen who followed the body living in the Nehaelm Valley cial cataclysm that is appalling to
ADVERTISING RATES.
experience
of the first dairymen in benefit from it. A few thousand dol­ contemplate.
Legal Advertisements.
Now all this is going to happen; it
ey ahead and had less work, less wor­ lars front the road appropriation of
First Insertion per line ............. $
road district No. 1 two or three years cannot help but happen if at the close
ry and less money to pay away.
Each subsequent insertion, line.
would complete the job without any of the European war our country re­
YOUR FORTUNE’S SAVED
mains powerless to prevent the in­
who used to be extra taxation.
Business and Professional cards
John Harter,
dustrial invasion with all of its dread­
“
Honest
from
the flames if you protect your
in
Tillamook
as
known
one month....................................... l.oo
The agitation over the Bayocean ful consequences.
John” has hit upon a new route for
possessions
by means of a fire insur­
Locals per line each insertion...
Shall
our
country
remain
industrial
­
05 a road to Bayocean. It is to be built road is bringing out some strong ar­
Display advertisements, an inch
ance policy in this agency. Premiums
around the moon and is a direct road guments in favor c( bonding the coun ly defenseless? Yes, if the present
free trade tariff remains in force.
one month.....................................
• 5« to heaven or the other place. It beats ty for hardsurfacing the main high­ I hat is the big question of the day; a
normally low—just a few dollars per
way
through
the
county.
T
his
is
one
the band how real estate peddlers
ATI F< solutions of Condolence
far bigger and more vital question
thousand valuation for three or five
that
was
put
up
to
the
snap
shot
man:
promoters have given this county
and Lodge Notices, per line .
than that of military preparedness; a
•05 and
a black eye and how they do knock, Part of the property in the water vastly more exigent and more com­
years. 'Tis a rare investment and a
N-tiers, lost, strayed or stolen
knock, knock, when they have some­ shed of Tillamook bay is bonded for pelling question than the question of
small one—but far and away the best
etc., minimum rate, not ex-
thing up their sleeves they want to $408,000 for bar and harbor improve- how many mistakes have been made
,n< nts, and the project called for a
that you can possibly make.
cecding five lines .
•25 fool and beguile the poor taxpayers deep channel up to near the property by a schoolmaster administration in
with. It is beginning to get a huge
dealing with the Mexican situaton.
of
the
Whitney
Co.,
and
as
that
joke the number of new routes that
The thing to think of now, to talk
THE TILLAM/-AK HEADLIGHT. are offered for a road to Bayocean, amount of money is being used to
about, to urge upon the minds of the
but the funny part of it all is, there benefit the timber holdings and the American people is how to get rid of
1 are suckers ready to bite, and this property of that company on the a tariff law that will make our coun­
__ , why can’t Bayocean
_
be fairly
Editorial Snap Shots. moonshine route offered by Moon- bay.
try a dumping ground for all Europe,
(i
1 shine John, don’t appear to be any dealt with and what is wrong about and in its place give the country a
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The county court should lose no exception. But there is this much to bonding the county for $420,000 for tariff that is adequately and inten­
time in accepting that offer to com­ be said about it, it helps the knockers hard-surfacing? One bond issue is tionally protective. That is the great­
CALL ON US.
WRITE US
plete the Bayocean road for $26,000, in their effort to deprive Bayoccan of benefiting non-residents while a bond est thing to keep in mind when the PHONE US.
issue for hard surfacing would be a
< 18,000 of which is available for that a road.
benefit to residents in all parts of the campaign orators turn loose and
purpose.
The snap shot man will ask the peo­ county. The snap shot man had to when the voters go to the polls next
November.
Wouldn’t that jar the taxpayers! ple of Tillamook County to read the admit that the person who put up that
Would it not have been well if Mr.
The county has already expended letter of Paul C. Bates, addressed to argument had the best of him, but the Hughes, in his speech of acceptance,
about $12,000 on the Bayocean road the County Court and the Tillamook snap shot man is opposed to bonding had said: “If elected, I shall call con­
and about $2,000 additional was sub- Headlight, in regard to the construc­ if it can be avoided. We may add gress into extra session at the first
si. ri ed by property owners. And tion of a road to Bayocean and the here that it is an injustice to bond practical moment following March 4,
now it is proposed by some wise guys "hold up" methods used to deprive part of the property in the water 1917, to enact a protective tariff law
io abandon this work.
Gee wiz, that place of a way out, which ap­ shed of Tillamook bay for bar and that will defend our country against
what's the matter with some people, pears in this issue. The letter points hay improvements, which directly industrial invasion?”
out some facts that we have previous- benefits all property alike, all the
anj w ay.
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| ly referred to, but it makes an earnest property owners should equally share
That was a good idea of the Hol­ appeal to the people of Tillamook their proportion of the cost. But the New War Orders Prolong Prosperity
stein Breeders' Association in want­ county to do justice and act square burden of this is falling on a few pf
The allies begin the third year of
ing to get together with the Jersey by those who have invested consider­ the timber and property owners and
breeders and the Commercial Club. able money at Bayocean. It is a just not on others. This is not the only- the great European war by placing
That is the right community spirit, grievance that every fair minded per­ injustice. The project called for a 16 new orders for supplies in the United
and it offers a glad hand to those son in this county will endorse, for foot channel to the property near that States. Orders for large shells, for
who want to co-operate in bringing there is a strong sentiment in the of the Whitney Co., and notwith­ fuses, for powder and for flour have
about a more friend’y, better feeling county that Bayocean is not getting standing that at one time the govern­ been placed during the past week, the
running into
with one another.
a square deal, which is true, and it is ment engineers opposed the present aggregate contracts
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_ _ to
;j “swipe" the money that was channel for the reason that it would many millions of dollars. The new
i unjust
W ho says editors are not boosters? intended for the Bayocean road and cost too much every year to main­ credit of $100,000,000 recently es­
tain, this channel was finally decided tablished here for France does not
The State Editorial Association was put it into hard surfacing.
upon, no doubt because it was a di­ check importations of gold, as one
entertained by Ashland and Medford,
and as a result Southern Oregon is ’ The success of any movement in rect benefit and in close proximity steamship arriving during the past
getting a splendid boosting. T he hos­ any town depends upon the public to the Whitney Co.’s property. In week from that country brought $43,-
pitality ol the business men in enter­ spirited citizens. For illustration, Ash­ proof cf this most of the money rais­ 000,000 of the precious metal. All
taining the pencil pushers was thor- land, a town not much larger than ed in this city for harbor improve­ new orders placed in this country
c i.ghly appreciated, which will be re­ ' Tillamook, expended $200,000 on a ments is expended to keep that part must be entirely acceptable to the
membered for many years. The news­ public park. It was money well spent. of the channel clear of silt. There are American manufacturers who by an
paper men will reciprocate to the T hat amount of money proposed for a few facts that some of our readers experience extending over a period of
great advantage of Southern Oregon. a public park in this city would stag­ are not familiar with, but should be nearly two years have become accus­
ger most of our citizens, but Tilla- posted upon, and the principal reason tomed to the business of manufactur­
Up goes the price of flour and , inook needs a public park just as that we refer to them is because there ing munitions and complying with the
down goes De mocratic promises to I much as Ashland, and should have is injustice in “knocking" the Bay­ exactions of the European govern­
lower the cost of living.
_ Say, Bro. one. Isn't there some public • pirited ocean road by a few of the timber ment.
T rombley, what’s the matter with the ! person, who has made a whole lot of owners, and injustice in not taxing
When such contracts were first ac­
free trade party, anyway, that it is : money in
this city,
ben volent timber and property owners alike for cepted one well-known corporation
n >t keeping its pledges to the people? enough to make a donation o* a few the harbor improvements. Our con­ procured experienced men at the
Instead of reducing the cost of liv­ acres of land for that purpose? There tention is that property of every de­ Frankford Arsenal by paying them
ing, most of us poor imps, to our is a great deal of difference in public scription in the water shed of Tilla­ much higher wages than were paid by
sorrow, have had to pay more to keep spiritedness in different tov. .is, for mook Bay should help pay the cost the Federal Government. It is said
body and soul together and work its like drawing drops of bloo 1 from of bar and bay improvements, and upon good authority, that shells like
strenuously during free trade times some business men to get them to that the money should be used for the those which had cost the United
to make both ends meet.
pay $1.00 a month towards the ex­ benefit of the whole water shed and States Government only $9 to manu­
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penses of a Commercial Club while other parts of the water shed should facture were sold to the allies for $24
The County Court went on a goose others are liberal givers to eve ything not be discriminated against.
each. Of course, the cost of manufac­
chase last Friday to locate a new that they are called upon to subscribe
turing was greater, hut the difference
rente back in the hills for a road to to. Which class do you belong?
Seven Billion of War Debts: What in price gives some idea of the profits
Bayocean. The biggest goose in the
which American manufacturing con­
it Means to This Country.
crowd, however, was the snap shot
The party of Tillamookers who
cerns have made by manufacturing
man, for he knew before starting out went to Seaside on Sunday should
The accumulation of war debt by munitions for war-mad Europe. Such
*
that the goose chase would result in have taken the County Court along,
corporations as Bethlehem Steel and
a strenuous day’s work climbing hills just to show them the thousands of the European nations is the subject Madvale Steel did not have to learn
I
of
an
instructive
and
interesting
arti
­
and sliding down same a 90 per cent cottages, thousands of pleeasure seek­
this business, as they had been en­
grade. T hat convinced the snap shot ers and hundreds of automobiles cle in the San Francisco Chronicle by gaged for years in making the things
man some years ago that if Bayocean there were at that seaside resort. , John P. Young. So far as we have ob­ needed by the United States Govern­
served, no writer has hitherto gone
is to have a road it would have to be Well, everybody knows that Clatsop
so deeply into the matter and pre­ ment for the army and navy.
county
went
after
the
beach
business
constructed around the bay. If anyone
They had the plants and the skilled
i Ise advocates building a road to by building roads and making it con­ sented anything like so complete a workmen and were therefore enabled
totality
of
the
enormous
increase
of
Bayocean back in the hills they venient for people to reach them, and
national debt that has resulted from to work to the very best advantage
should be put in a straight jacket and it is justly entitled to all ‘he profit • the war expenditures. At the outset on the foreign orders. A continuation
and benefit that it is to that county.
packed off to the lunatic asylum.
of the war, August 1, 1914, the com­ of this line of business will afford a
With a little more magnanimous
bined debt of the warring nations was backbone for a prolongation of the
We see that a notice is published in public spirit, and a little more ginger ( $19,700,000,000, of which
Great prosperity which this country has en­
the Democratic organ that a Wood­ injected into our methods, there is no ; Britain owed $3,500,000,000, France joyed ever since Europe went to war.
cannot
be
..
nftl.
tow Wilson Club is to be organized reason .. why
• . Tillamook
.■ .,
.
. France
$6,bUOOOO.OOO.
Russia
in this city. It will be a misnomer to made the center of the summer travel, , ,4 600,000,000, Germany
$1,250,- Government Ownership their Aim.
Austria-Hungary’ $3\
call it by that name. It should be calf- for this county has Clatsop county 00’0 00’0
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’nnft
a
““ K“*/ ▼ >
id the Free Lumber, Free Fish, Free skinned when it conies to diversified 1 TKrt
750,000,000.
The Big Four Trainmen have taken
Dairy Products Club. The free trade senery, fishing and hunting and good i Two years later, August 1, 1916,
arty has "knocked” every industry roads. But Tillamook county can nev­ this total had reached $65,250,000,- a vote to determine whether or not
AUG. 24, 25, AND 26
i t 1 illamook County and brought it er get the beach business as long as 000, a debt increased in two years of they shall declare a strike on the rail­
i-lto competition with cheap foreign sohie of our beach resorts are bot­ $45,550,000,000. If the debt of Italy roads of the country, tie up commerce
and paralyze the nation’s industries.
labor and the free trade party is tled up and cannot be reached by I be added, the total would
nearly It is said the vote is overwhelmingly
wanting to perpetuate that kind of wagon road.
reach $70,000,000,00o.
in favor of the strike.
thing My, is there anybody left in
The man are asking for an increase
We see no reason why those who
i'illamook who is so blind that they
These are stunning figures, Two
Coos Bay Country invites the
want to get into the free trade band own automobiles cannot pay from years ago no man living could have in pay that would amount to a hun­
wagon and "knock” every industry in $500,090 to one million dollars into imagined such a tremendous bulk of dred million dollars a year, which the
world to celebrate the coining
I illamook County? That is what a the State Treasury for road construc­ national debt that some time and railroads declare they cannot afford
of
the railroad. Hospitality is
at
the
rates
they
are
permitted
to
tion.
Good
roads
makes
motoring
en
­
Woodrow Wilson Club amounts to.
somehow must be paid by the taxa­
joyable, and as autos and auto trucks tion of the people of those countries. charge by the Interstate Commerce
the
Keynote ol this celebration.
rhe County Court was informed on are using the roads more than any In the meantime interest must be Commission. The railroads offers to
submit
the
matter
to
arbitration,
and
other
conveyance,
and,
by
the
way,
PROGRAM
Friday that no road would be built to
paid. Mr. Young estimates the annual
Bay ’c<an until it had the approval of doing more injury to the roads, the interest charge at $2,700,000,000 a the union leaders spurned the offer,
he I ’oitgal-l>ougally-Do Man,and the owners surely would be glad to con­ year. This big charge can only be met and propose to call a strike.
Now imagine what the public would
I ’l. im i r of the S. I’. Company, W ho tribute a little more to help keep up by taxation, and as much more must
Aug. 24th
¡■. running Tillamook County, any- , the roads. We believe the next state be raised in the same way each year say if the railroads, dissatisfied with
v.ay, the county officials who were legislature should impose a good stiff in order to provide a sinking fund for a ruling of the Interstate Commerce
B»nd Concjrts —Speaking Ceremonies—Dedication. Simpson Park
Commission, should refuse to abide
elected by the people, or a paid agi-! license, especially on auto trucks. In the ultimate paying of the principal.
Street Carnival — Water Sports — Parades — Driving Goldenspike.
New-
tator, v h > has no property in the the number of registrations
Some of the contrasts presented by by it, and should draw’ the fires from
. at\ • For the information of the York state led in 1915 with 255,242 by Mr. Young are striking. France, their engines and cease running their
i eople of the county, the Dougal- autos; Illinois was third with 180,. with a population one-third that of trains. What would the press, that
Dougallv-Do man has to shoot off 832; California third with 163,797; the United States, has a debt of $14,- views with such complacency a gen­
Aug. 25th.
the United eral tie-up strike by the trainmen,
’us mouth with hot air to hold down and Pennsylvania fourth with 160,- 500,000,000, against
his job If he gets swelled up much 137. In gross revenues received from States debt, July 1, 1915, of $1,090.- say to that? No doubt, it would froth
Trips by rail and boat to Coquille. Bandon, Myrtle Point, Powers,
more he will imagine he owns all the I this source, however California led 148,006; a population one-third of at the pen. Back of it all is the threat
Coos Bay, Mussel Reef, Sunset Bay, Cape Arago. Sea food dinner
timber in the county and pays all the with $2,027.432; Ne# York was sec­ our own population, and a debt four­ that in the event of a strike the un­
at Charleston Lay. Fishing at Laxeside—Launch trips on Coos Bay.
t ixi s and the timber men and Resi­ ond with $1,991,181; Pennsylvania teen times larger than our national ions will ask the government to take
dents of this county are his lackies.. third with $1,665,276; while Iowa, debt. In France the debt per capita is possession of the railroads and thus ;
with 145,000 cars registered, came $287.50; in the United States the secure government ownership.
Aug. 26th.
! illamook county has been unfor- fourth in point of revenue, with $i,- debt per capita is less than $11.
Mr. Young has done a valued pub-
’-i.it<■ in not being successful in rais- 533,054.
After the European war America
pAUutr'aLParadf~W’ater. Sports—Auto Racing—Illnminated Launch
, lie service in bringing to notice the will need a double protection tariff.
ir China pheasants. The first China
Parade-Fireworks-
Dancing - Horse Racing.
1 arade —Fireworks--Dancing
There is a great deal being said dreadful aggregation of debt that has The hoards of immigrants that will
t
ints turned loose in this county I
w s about 16 years ago, when a num­ and written about Crater Lake and already been incurred by the fighting come to our shores from the war de­
Low Round Trip Fares
ber ot our citizens put up a ’’pot" and the Columbia Highway, Both are nations of Europe; a debt which con­ vastated countries will have to be em­
On Sale Aug. 21 to 26 inc.
■ <: ;ht a large number of young birds splendid scenic attractions, but a road tinues to increase at the rate of a bil­ ployed, fed, clothed and housed, and
in the fall and turned them loose. The around
Neah-Kah-Nie
mountain lion dollars a month while the war these requirements can not be met
Return Limit Aug. 31
tame wardens have turned quite a would surpass them in grandness. lasts. There is a lesson to be drawn with an open, free commerce to the
from
these
enormous
figures.
number of birds loose since then,* Considering the small cost of obtain­
countries that would divide our own
<4sA Local Agent
'•nt with no better success than those ing this magnificent scenic road into Through the exaction of more than industries with the inevitable low
• berated 16 years ago. We believe this county the people are making a five billion dollars a year from the wage rate that must follow the war in
John M. Scott, Gen. Pa»». Agt.
birds arc too young when liber­ mistake in not advocating its comple­ pockets of the people of these several Europe. More than ever before will
Portland, Oregon
ated. just as the wet season sets in, tion. Tourists from all parts of the European countries must come a America need protection then even
and some other plan should be adopt- United States and Europe would be serious drain upon the money of the greater than it will need a military
l to stock this county with China coming to Tillamook county by the people who pay th se heavy taxes. protection.
»
pheasants. We suggest that a number thousands every year if this road was That means a general loss of purch­
Why Mail Order Houses Win.
cal paper.”
, .
of our citizens raise them and get built. We hope, in the effort to bring asing power. That, in turn, means that
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Werd has just reached the foreign
In other words, through this by-
them u«id to the climate before lib­ the people of the Nehalem Valley to­ every one of these countries will con­ embassies in Washington,
The
advertising
manager
for
the
____ , and it is
t cau this mail order house hunts Held»
erating. them.
gether tor the purpose of developing sume less at home than heretofore of believtd the same word has been ; largest mail order house in the world tint arc not being filled by loc**
that section of the county, this will its industrial products, and hence transmitted to some of the financial ; I recently made a speech before an ad­ merchants, and then goes in and fin*
The dairymen who make a success be one road project which will receive must sell more abroad than ever be­ interests in New York, direct from vertising club in which he said some­ them.
i f the dairy business in Tillamook the unanimous endorsement of every fore.
London and Paris, that the present thing that every country merchant in
And the non-advertising country
Billions worth of surplus industrial offensive of the allies is not the long- the northwest ought to hear. Here i
County are the ones who follow the person living in that section of the
merchant sits in dispair, wailing over
i” nerience of those who started the county. We will gamble that there is products, unsaleable at home, must be discussed "drive.” The present offen­
the inroads the mail order house»
dairy business in this county. They not one person out of a dozen living marketed in other countries.
what sive. according to this word from an
"We have a bureau whose duty it is are making in his trade!
the In United
.
>
do not overstock their farms and raise in the Nehalem Valley who can fully countries? Chiefly in Here is the unimpeachable source, is but a test of to read each week, the county
news-
... ...... | If there is a country met 'nnt that
tb-ir winter feed. Had a good many realize what a boost a road around States, beyond a doubt,
uapers
from
all
over
the
<
world, the the strength of Germany. There is no
country. ■ can t take a useful hint from .hat M*
if our dairymen followed that prac- Neah-Kah-Nie mountain would bring richest country in the
__
any ‘ conse-
conse- , vertising
managers
speech.
intention of making the final and con­ There is not a paper of any
•ice they would be better off today, to that section of the county, F.very- country best able to take and pay for
quencc
in
our
trade
territory
that
our ' w ouldn’t wake up if a brick house feu
tinuous drive until next spring. Great
for last year’s feed bill for those who bady living in the Nehalem Valley Europe's vast industrial surplus. And
bureau
does
not
get.
This
bureau
looks
on him.—Duluth Herald.
depend upon feed being shipped in should be a booster for the Neah- that surplus will mostly come to the Br tian is said to feel that the great­ over these papers, and when we find i
est blows which have been delivered
•imounted to thousands of dollars. ‘ Kah-Nie road
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and for so small invest- United States, will flood our market against Germany have been econom­ a town where the merchants are not
For Sale.
New plans and methods may be all ment we do not know where money with products at price» with which ic and industrial blows, resulting from advertising in the local paper we ■
Small tract containing 1% icrt*
ht when feed can be bought at a could be spent to better adv -antage. our own producers cannot possibly the blockade. The longer the allies immediately flood that territory' with with house, bam, one hog. 1 c0<’
‘■>w figure, but when it more than and to the advantage
of
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— the
.— Nehalem
..i compete, and will create sue ha dis­ wait for their final drive, the easier our
cult« literature.^
f-r
I Italwavs brings re-1 garden tools, household goods, ’"5
iniL
,hXa,ne ,e.ffort. P”' ‘nd one half miles north of Tihamoi*
li-ibles in value, then new fangled \ alley
. and the entire county, for all placement of American labor wage
they
believe,
their
militarv
operation»
forth
in territory
the io^L
ideas won’t work out in actual prac- parts of the ! county would feel a earning and wage spending as to will be.
nil r.h3nt'.
”»Yt’;U . where
hfrc «ne
local on
<m Wilson
Wilson river-:
river—Inquire of Mrs x
merchants all the time use their lo- ’ Olson on place.
bring about an industrial and finan-
FIRE
INSURANCE
ROLLIE W. WATSON,
The Insurance Man.”
TODD HOTEL BUILDING, TILLAMOOK, ORB.
TILLAMOOK
COUNTY
?
FAIR,
4 TILLAMOOK,
?
OREGON.?
Bigger and Better
than Ever.
?
Aviator Munter will make
Flights Daily in his
Flying Machine.
$
Don’t Forget the Date.
$
AUGUST,
22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th
Coos Bay
Railroad Jubilee
I
oost
The Greatest Celebration in Years
North Bend Day
Coos Coanty Day
Marshfield Day
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC
LINES
LIP