TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JANUARY 18. 1917. * What the Editors Say. These bootleggers who try to ship liquor into Oregon in trunks forget the prowess of the baggage smashers. —Eugene Register. ---- o----- Our grandparents, should they come back, would be astonished at our ex travagance about our homes and in our method of living. Yet to most of us, it seems strange that they found quite as much of real happiness in this life as we do—if not a little more. —News Reporter. Talk about your mean men—here is a story about a man in Colorado who is forced to pay $45 a month alimony to his divorced wife and who makes the payment regularly in copper pen nies. And to still further show his dis respect he recently gummed up the coins with glue and molasses, thereby causing additional annoyance and vexation.—Observer. > This is likely to be remembered in after years as the junk dealers’ golden age. Old, discarded machines and other metals that for years have been kicked into old corners have taken on sudden values and been eagerly gath ered up. Garrents full of old maga zines have become vertible treasure houses. Rubbish has been found to be precious.—Umpqua Valley News. ----- o---- In its 1917 report to the state leg islature the state board of health states that there were 642 more males born in the last two years than females while in the same length of time there were 2,612 more deaths of males than of females. In other words in the last two years approximately two thousand more females were ad ded to the Oregon population than males.—Sheridan Sun. It is necessary to make the laws more liberal to encourage industrial development. Prohibitive measures keep out infant industries that would dovelop into large industries that would be a benefit to many small towns in Oregon. Industrial activity in Oregon and the coming session of the legislature should make every effort to hold down taxes to progres- sive and pass no legislation adverse to industrial and commercial develop- *ient.—Banks Herald. Former Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., president of the Republican Pub licity association, stated in a bulletin ¡Bsued recently that 10,000,000 per sons entitled to suffrage failed to vote at the last election. "According to the census of 1910,” said Mr. Bourne "we had a possible voting population of approximately 25,000,000, but the actual vote cast in 1916 was but 15,- 000,000. Ten million people or 40 percent of the total number, did not go to the ballot boxes.”—Itemizer. o----- Union labor counts millions of friends who cannot go with it all the way. To the average citizen who is neither the partisan of capital nor of labor but is inclined to sympathize with the latter, the right of any work ing man to decline union membership seems fundamental. His right to re main non-union must of necessity carry with it the right to work wherc- ever the conditions suit him. If these rights are his, then the practice of picketing is essentially wrong.—Ore gon Voter. With the direct primary, initiative and referendum, recall, etc., as well as a large number of commissions, costing Oregon from $3,000 to $10,- 000 a year each, is it any wonder that taxes are higher? Is it not about time we were waking up and repealing a lot of these foolish laws? It is not so bad for the man who does not own property, but it is pretty tough on the other fellow. Unless something is done, within ten years taxes will be double what they are today, for ex penses are increasing rapidly and val uations are decreasing.—Seaside Sig nal. ■o— A verdict of over eight thousand dollars was rendered by a Marion county jury to the father of a girl who had been seduced and abandoned by a young man, but the jury failed to indict the autoist who drove on the wrong side of the street and killed a worthy lady teacher of the city schools. The district attorney was surprised at the action of the grand jury. There are a good many decis ions in this state that make the pop ulace feel that their only salvation is to arm themselves to be prepared for justice in all emergencies. There ought to be greater respect for jus- tic.—Telephone Register. In digging the grave for Elmer J. Hanby in the Faternal Union ceme tery A. E. Schollmeyer and Sam Thompson struck a box about two and a half feet deep in the ground on a supposedly vacant lot. At first it was thought that the box might con tain the body of Joe West, who mys teriously disappeared last summer, but it was discovered a short time ' after finding the box, that it contain- ' ed the body of an Indian, whose skel eton was unearthed at Wheeler two I years ago when they were grading the streets there. The people who I buried the Indian either dug the grave on the wrong lot or failed to have the deed to the lot recorded.—Nehalem Times. ------o------ An Oregon freak regulatory law provides that gasoline sold in this state must be of 60 degrees gravity at 60 degrees temperature. The effect of this lay was to put Oregon in a special class requiring gasoline a trifle different and costing a cent a gallon higher. The gasoline sold in Oregon gives no better service than that sold in other states though it costs a little more to make. It is estimated this freak law put over by some reform politician to make the people think he hated the Standard Oil Co., cost the dear people $200,000 a year. The law is now to be repealed after costing the people about $2,000,000 and the $200,000 a year put in the road fund by means of a law taxing gasoline one cent a gallon.—Seaside Signal. From almost every county in Ore gon and Washington through the an nual reports of the District Attorney’s office show a great decrease of the cost of prosecution in criminal cases. In many counties these costs have been reduced more than one-half, in some of them there has been only a small amount of criminal matters brought into the courts. In every re port that has been submitted there is liquor as one of the greatest causes for this reduction of costs to the counties. The same reports speak of empty jails and a steady falling off in the number of arrests. If for no other reason than this the prohibition laws of the two states warrant their ad option and forever doom to defeat any attempt to appeal them.—Leba non Criterion. Our Oregon dairymen get a higher price for milk than the producers of any other Pacific Coast state, and a considerable higher price than is ob tained by dairy farmers in the big milk-producing states of the Missis sippi Valley and the Atlantic sea board. The following figures are com piled from the official figures for 1916 of the Department of Agricul ture; they are for cents per gallon: Oregon, 25c; Washington 20c.; Cali fornia, 23c.; Kansas, 22c.; Nebraska, 24c.; Iowa, 22c.; Minnesota 19c.; Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, 20c.; New York, 18c.; Massachusetts, 22c. The highest prices are obtained in the Rocky Mountain and hot Southern states, running as high as 29 and 30 cents in Nevada, Texas and Alabama.—Oregon Voter. Good Resolutions. I will try to be a lifter, not a leaner; an encourager, never a discourager; lighten and chare other people’s sor rows; start songs and rejoicing, not complaining; make the world a little sweeter place to live in; keep in mind the will of God; make sunshine in life’s shady places; see the bright side of everything; be clean in mind and body, working patiently, industrious ly, and honestly for a living; earning a spotless character; so that I can look up, not down, and meet death’s coming with a fearless smile; endeav or not to run away from my wicked nesses, but bravely fight them out; be glad of life; have hope and faith in everybody; try to live without hate, jealousy, temper and envy; avoid speaking critically and bitterly, re peating only the good 1 hear; love because I must, give because I cannot keep; doing for the joy of it; cheerful in disappointments, charitable toward the erring and fallen; protect helpless animals; do as I would be done by; smile more and frown less. More M°ss From Woods. Fishermen arc not getting rich this winter, a very small run of steel heads. The Woods ferry will be run again this season by Mr. Deuel. Charland Und Deuel are building a new garage. Seems strange how little it takes to amuse some small boys, Dickie Ro- bedec has a toy monkey that he at taches to his phonograph, he invites all the small boys to watch it dance. Mrs. Fischer was taken to the hos pital at Tillamook. Last report she is improving. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Deuel, Christmas morning, a baby girl, which died New Year’s day. What this town needs is a few more live men like Rev. Montgomery, and Rev. Northup. Rev. Montgomery expects to com plete the mission this month. Found a Sure Thing. I. B. Wixon, Farmers Mills, N. Y., has used Chamberlain’s Tablets for years for disorders of the stomach and liver and says, "Chamberlain's Tablets are the best I have ever used." For sale by Lamars Drug Store. the manufacture of steel ships, and it Thomas EUi*On. looked as though these contracts H. T. Botts, Free., Attorney J. H. Ellison, of this city, thinks at-Law. Letter Sent to the Oregon Voter by obligated the employers for delivery I within a certain time, the forces of that Thomas Ellison must be a re John Leland Henderson, Sec The Chamber of Commerc*. unionism suddenly realized that the lative of his. The following was taken retary Treas., Attorney at- -----o ■ ■ from a Walnut, Ark. newspaper: future of the industry depended upon Law and Notrary Public. To the Editor. In Thomas Ellison, better known as their controlling it. These facts reveal Labor troubles have been forced that Union labor has selected what Uncle Tom, who resides in Newton ' upon the steel ship-building industry seems to them an opportune time to County, it is believed the real cham- , of this community by the leaders of drive their own bargain, which is in pion of the pre-generation principles Law, Abstracts. Real Estate, unionized workmen. This trouble is tended to profit themselves only, and • of Theodore Roosevelt has been I Insurance. attacking a pay roll that would soon that, in selecting this time and pre found. Uncle Tom is 95 years old. Both Phones. aggregate at least 6,000 men if per paring a strike, the larger ultimate I The birth yesterday of a son to one mitted to develop along proper busi good of the State and society is not of his granddaughters caused a re TILLAMOOK—OREGON. ness lines. The State of Oregon, as being considered, but the men behind casting of Ellison’s record. Here it is. 1 Married three times. well as Portland is deeply interested the move are willing to risk the en Father of 50 children. in such a payroll because it is not tire industry to attain their own in Grandfather of 126 children. only a market for the produce of the dividual ends. Such a policy is not for Great grandfather of 60 children. state, but is an indirect contribution 1 Oregon _.-=— ’ _ s best ---------------- interets, -------- and we „a trust Great great grand father of 27 to every element of prosperity that it will not be sanctioned by the children. [ state at large. throughout the State. Our steel shipbuilding industry was ' His youngest child is li years old, The strike has been declared on the never, until the present, established the oldest is 65. Ellison was born in one issue alone of an open or closed shop. The demands made by the on lines that promised permanency Clinton County, Ohio. forces of Union workmen were that and success. It is a work of the ut the shop be closed and that no one most interest to the whole state. If it Bid« Wanted on Hauling Cheese and On Wood. except members of their organiza becomes a permanent success, it ----- o— ■ tions be permitted to work in these should lead to Oregon ownership of shops, and that all matters pertaining these vessels and the compelling of I The Clover Leaf Creamery Com to the pay and efficiency of these I these vessels to become, in due course pany wishes to receive bids on wood workmen in the closed shop be kept of time, delivery wagons for Oregon as follows, up to seventy cords of spruce body or hemlock wood de under the control of the Labor Union products. Our hopes are to get Oregon livered in 16 inch lengths in com organizations demanding the closed interested in such absolutely essential pany’s shed, wood to be in suitable shop. The employers have insisted lines of development; lines that have sizes to use in cheese factory, and to J^AVID ROBINSON, M.D, and will continue to insist upon the proven all important to every great be delivered one half June 1st, 1917, and the balance by September 15, open shop, which guarantees the priv producing center of the world that 1917, and to be piled in ricks in said PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON has seaboard opportunities. The de ilege of laboring to members of the shed. Company will receive bids on Unions and all other men on an equal mands of a limited clement of labor, less than the full amount. NATIONAL BUILDING, I status, regardless of its affiliations, when already well paid and enjoying I Also, company will receive bids on hauling cheese to Tillamook, dock creed or beliefs, and also guarantee to short hours, must not be permitted and railroad, for the 1917 season, and TILLAMOOK OREGON. the employer tue right of insisting to destroy this great opportunity for on hauling box shooks from Tilla mook City to factory and on hauling J BLAND K. ERWIN, upon that efficiency which will make the state as a whole. Only a small percentage of the la- i supplies from Tillamook City to fac the business live. tory. Company reserves the right to PIANO INSTRUCTION, This issue the employers believe is bor that seeks employment here bc- reject any and all bids. Leave bids at Diploma from Chicago Musical of vital importance to every industry longs to the forces of Union labor. A the office of Carl Haberlach, Sec., in the State of Oregon or elsewhere. very large number of men prefer to Tillamook, Oregon, on or before College.—Beginners receive the same January 20th, 1917, at noon. careful training as the most advanced. Labor is human, and, if given the work under other than Union condi Clover Leaf Creamery Co. Terms:—$4.00 per months Instruc control it is demanding through a tion/. The steel shops of this city are tion. closed shop, will take unto itself an able to get all the men they desire Bad Habits. All lessons given at Studio. earning that will ultimately destroy with satisfactory efficiency without a County Representative for the closed shop. Their right to secure this Those who breakfast at eight the business. Because of the disposi- Wiley B. Allen Co.s' line of high tion prevalent throughout human na labor we believe is a protection the o’clock or later, lunch at twelve and grade pianos, player-pianos, Victrolos have dinner at six are almost certain ture, in the ranks of labor or capital, country must guarantee at all times, to be troubled with indigestion. They etc. All we are standing for is to prevent do not allow time for one meal to to take more from industry than T. BOI lb society believes it should take when one clement of labor from preventing digest before taking another. Not less than five hours should elapse between the general interests of the whole through force and coercion, the priv meals. If you are troubled with indi ATTORNKY-AT LAW. people are not consulted, it is abso ilege of the employer to engage labor gestion correct your habits and take lutely imperative that labor be not not identified with that element, and Chamberlain’s Tablets, and you may Complete Set of Abstract Bo< ka in Office. given the full control of issues that the privilege of that labor to work I reasonable hope for a quick recovery. These tablets strengthen the stomach wfyere it desires. Taxes Paid for Non Residenta. mean industrial development. and enable it to perform its functions Yours very truly, T illamook B lock , naturally. For sale by Lamars Drug Portland had recently a very force Portland Chamber of Commerce. Store. Tillamook - Oregon ful example of the demands and ag OPEN OR CLOSED SHOP? Tillamook Title and Abstract Co. Have Your House Wiring Done by Coagt power Co. DONE RIGHT at RIGHT PRICES- gressions that organized labor, uncon trolled by society at large, would make. This example was found in the work of the longshore organization on the waterfront of this city.| For seventeen years the longshore unions of Portland took what they thought they were entitled to take from the business, and neither shipper nor society at large dared to question the demand. As a result of this excessive control by a body of organized labor, the efficiency of longshore work on the Portland waterfront became at least 30 per cent less than the ef- ficiency of the same work on the water front at Puget Sound, where open shop conditions prevailed, and, while the efficiency of such work in Portland had sunk so low, a charge was imposed for labor here that was by far the highest imposed in any port of the Pacific or the United States proper. This exaction and sel fish aggression of the laborer was one of the most powerful factors in reducing the shipping that came to this port. By eliminating so much of our shipping, the opportunity of the farmer, the fruit grower, livestock man, lumber manufacturer, general manufacturer and jobber to market his produce in the consuming terri- tory of the world reached by water routes was materially lessened and a great injury was done the state. After nearly a score of years of this con- trol, society in this community, ex- pressing itself through the Chamber of Commerce, wrested from this element of organized labor its abso lute control and put wage conditions and efficiency on an open shop basis and on an equality with other coni petitive ports. If the steel shipbuilders of Port- land accede to the closed shop de mands made upon them today, the way would be open for the same ex cessive exactions and the same ulti mate destructive rules in shipbuilding that prevailed in longshore work. We are determined that such a develop ment shall not take place, and we want the support of the State in this fair position. We note also that, during many years of struggle here when our ' practically ship repairing and build ing company had no business to speak of, the forces of organised labor were not so insistent upon the closed shop. During these periods employers were carrying men with considerable burden unto themselves to maintain a staff for the time when business should come. No purpose was expressed by organized labor to carry a portion of these burdens and share the losses sustained, but as soon as the employers had closed | contracts of a very large nature for • Both Phones. THE ON E P BEST SELLER Because it’s a re fined gasoline—not a mixture. T. BOALS. M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Surgeon S. P. Co. (I. O. O. F. Bldg.) Tillamook - Oregon. ^^KBSTER HOLMES, STANDARD OIL COMPANY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW COMMERCIAL BUILDING, FIRST STREET. (California) TILLAMOOK, OREGON J- H. GOYNE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Ofilce ; O pposite C ourt H ouse , Tillutnook Oregon. JACK OLSEN, DENTIST. (I. O. O. F Bldg.) Tillamook • Oregon QR. L. L. HOY, - It s the uniform unva rying heat of a good oil stove, and the perfect control, that keeps the juices in—that pre serves the savory goodness of the meat —and gives that even brownness all over. asiier ioasts 3 —a cleaner, cooler kitchen, and lesa fuel expense PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON T illamook B lock , Tillamook, JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW A NEW PERFECTION OIL COOR-STOVE All ths convenience of gas. Cooks everything any wood or coal range will cook, but keepa Jour kitchen cool. The long blue chim neys do away with all smoke and smell. In 1, 2, land 4-burner sizes, ovens separate. Also cabinet models with Fireless Cooking Ov ens. Ask your dealer today. Oregon T illamook B lock , Tillamook - Oiegon. ROOM NO. 261. HABERLACH, Rttt Rrtultt Ut. Ptarl ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 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