TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. APRIL lfl. 1917.
What the Editors Say.
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Why the Evening Journal should
lie to the public we cannot imagine,
unless it be that its publisher believes
he can get more circulation by lying
appeals to prejudice than by Felling
the dull uninteresting truth.—Oregon
Voter.
Last summer Senator Lane toured
Oregon delivering campaign speeches
in which he urged support for the
President. Now, when the president
needs support more than any presi­
dent has needed it since the Civil War
Lane turns against
him.—Oregon
Register.
the industry will brint "d °“S . s,il1
ands of doHara t« / * many ,hous-
dners in the Umpquar,Va71ey InT
neighborhood of Greens » 1.1 m
track about five miles ^outh o'f’tt
a dayKrar'derS “* ,oadin« about a car
point alone thin“ caZ^ad^’r th>”
nutely'1’ 3^ cra%,COandn\hePPp?£
crlfr C
g a? avera*e of $1.20 the
crate, Greens farmers will realize
Ur?7ir,nH 'lke tWdve tb°usand dol­
are is «'E 7°PS’ 0,her »eCtions
cMitiw
i0VUna,e’ and in s°me lo­
calities much larger acerage is being
harvested with consequent larger re*
o/mnv “ by sP*c*al*z*ng “long lines
of proven worth that farmers can
secure these excellent results. A big
crop of any staple will bring the east­
ern buyers right to the ranchman’s
door, assuring ready market at prof­
itable prices,—Umpqua Valley News.
cipal brand of poison they spread is
‘oattack ®ensou-Amos Benson and
John 1 eon, charging them with being
Ktaftcrs. By thus inflaming popular
Prejudice against a group of rich men
they are influencing many to oppose
K°ou. roads legislation.
I hink this over, honest farmers,
who want good roads. Who is busiest
in your own home neighborhood for
or against the road bonding bill?Think
twice before you allow yourself to be
poisoned by the venom which springs
from a graft that is threatened.—
Oregon Voter.
IMPROVED ROADS
Plan That Will Insure State
Better Highways to Be
Voted Upon in June.
Everybody wants good roads, The
seed tor improved highways is admit­
ted. Uvery citizen is anxiouB and
willing to pay his share towards the
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We regard a republic as a coming eeat of building good roads. All the
A Missouri editor refuses to publish
inevitable development in Germany.” individual ever has insisted upon and
obituary notices of people who failed
lhe speaker was not an American <• asking today is that the public re­
to subscribe for his paper. He says:
or Englishman, a Frenchman or a ceive one dollar of value tor every
“People who do not take their home
Russian. The place was not the cap- dollar expended in road construction.
paper are dead, anyway, and their
jtol at Washington, the parliament Frequently in the past the public has
passing has no news value.” We
house at London, the legislative halls not received full value from these ex­
at Paris or the Taurida palace at penditures. But this haB been due
don't look at it in that light. Some­
one might be glad to read that they
Petrograd. The speaker was Herr invariably to the lack ot a systematic
were dead.—Seaside Signal.
Ledebour, a German socialist, and the plan ot road building and an intelli­
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I Senator Harry Lane is credited I ’ tl Was tbe re*chstag at Berlin.
gent supervision ot the work by public
Town and cities all over the United I with the statement that he voted' I I hese are the words of doom for officials charged with disbursing the
States are considering every possible against the war resolution because he the Hohenzollern as truly as “Mene, fund.
means for combating the high cost of was firmly convinced that had the nle?,e’,tdcel, uparsin" for Belchazzar
The last Legislature, however, pro­
living. One of the essential ways is by I resolution been referred to the peo­ of Babylon.
vided the necessary legislation for in­
I reason, treason!” was the cry troducing in Oregon a systematic and
Utilizing every foot of ground and ple of Oregon it would have been vot­
every vacant lot for gardening pur­ ed down ten to one. Lane saye he is that resounded through the parliment Intelligent campaign tor the state-wide
poses. By cultivating all the waste absolutely certain his constitutents do of Germany as the socialist represen­ construction of permanent hard sur­
places, each family can do much to­ not want war. Quite true indeed. He tative of the peopjle uttered his fatal face highways. A complete road code
ward raising the vegetables for their is a most sanguine person who wants word. 1 reason it surely was iai the
own use ami thereby reduce the de­ war. He is a most inhuman person ears of Emperor William and other was adopted and a Highway Commis­
mand for these articles of food.— who wants war. None of us want war. believers in the divine right of kings. sion created for Its administration.
Heppner Gazette-Times.
But President Wilson and Congress 1 lie scene repeated the historic occa­ Auother measure provided for issu­
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have not wished war upon us. War sion when Patrick Henry heard the ance of bonds aggregating $1,800,000
Demonstrations of loyalty are being was not of their wanting. The apol­ cry of treason hurled at him, and re­ with which to match an equal amount
torted: "If that be treason, make the provided by the Government, under
held all over the country and Oregon ogy of Lane’s is like the two by four most
of it!”
the Shackleford Act, for the construc­
has not been the least among them patch that was used to cover a six by
I he Germon foes of despotism have tion ot post roads and forest roads.
The Third Oregon Infantry regiment eight hole. The people of Oregon
Most important of the Legislative
has been recruited to war strength. were not going to vote on the resolu­ been emboldened by the Russian rev­
Patriotic nieetings have been held and tion with the same knowledge of in­ olution. Their speaking openly about measures was that authorizing the is­
speakers have aroused the feeling of ternational relations that the leaders a republic brings rhe possibility of a sue ot bonds to the amount of $6,000,-
sincere loyalty in men and women. of the nation would. The people of German revolution into the vision of 000 tor the construction of main trunk
millions of the plain people. It should lines throughout the state. At the
The flying of flags, the marching of Oregon would have voted “yes” or not
soon. It is less un­
patriotic societies, and the playing of “no” on what they would have want­ likely be to expected
break out first among the same time, another bill was passed
national airs by bands have contribut­ ed, and undoubtedly they would have
peoples of Austria-Hungary. Yet it doubling the annual license on all an
ed to the surging wave of patriotic voted “no” and “no” overwhelmingly. may
be nearer than wre can guess. tomobilea and motor vehicles. The
ardor.—News Reporter.
In an issue such as the present one I here are many men in Germany and revenue from this source, together
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is there must be quick and decisive Austria-Hungary who cherish the with the money derived from the ex
With the return of the gardening action. The people vote intelligently tradition of the revolutionary risings latlng one-fourth mill road tax will
season, the. magazines are again full when they are educated to it but ed­ of 1848, when the people frightened meet all interest charges of the pro­
of hints and suggestions just how to ucation takes time. There was no their rulers into promises of progress posed bond issue and retire the bonds
garden to the best advantage, A time for education in this matter. and reform. The war and the terrible without adding a dollar to the direct
whole lot of that stuff, however is Referendum would have been the suffering and loss it has brought to taxes of the individual.
,
highbrow stuff. The best way to do 1 height of folly. Leaders of public < the Germans and the Austro-Hungar­
Of these various measures, only one
gardening and to do it effectively is I thought became responsible in a time j ians must inevitably quicken the re­
to get a spade, lake, hoe and an as- like the present and it is they who . sentment of the people against Haps- —the $6,000,000 Bond • Bill—will be
submitted to the voters for their ap­
sortment of seed and go to it. A sug­ then are the real constituents of Lane. burgs and the Hohenzollerns.
proval at the special electton, June
gestion from your neighbor who has Had he canvessed them he would
The deliverance of Germany from
had practical experience for years, have found the real war sentiment. It absolutism depends upon either or 4th. This measure asks nothing of
will benefit you much more than any is true the people may not want war, both of two forces. One is the people anybody except that whicta'Jie must
of the magazine articles.—News- but once war is declared the people themselves of the German empire, the pay under laws which go into effect
are welded together as a unit.—Sheri­ other the nations waging war against regardless of whether the bond issue
Times.
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dan Sun.
the German and Austro-Hungarian be adopted. All manner of safeguards
Every man who has failed to enlist
governments. The German people have been provided outside the bond
is not a “slacker”. There are many
The Problem of the Slacker.
could have peace in a week if they 1 Ing act. The Highway Commission
whose patriotic duty lies in their re­
would depose
the
Hohenzollern ' has been reorganized, methods ot road
maining at their posts of labor. Skill­
In America we have a very large dynasty, put the
militarists and oonstructtbn have been reformed,
ed workmen in every industrial pur­ number of young men who will not bureaucrats out of power and set up competition in contracts has been
suit are just as essential to the suc­ voluntarily enlist. There arc thous­ a constitutional government responsi- I made compulsory and an anti-conspir­
cessful carrying on of a war as are ands of these young, fellows in all the ble to the people’s representatives. acy bill has been passed. Amortiza
soldiers. The army must be fed, cloth­ large cities and many of the larger Or they can receive peace months or tion tables show that the income now
ed, munitioned and transported and towns who either are chronic loafers years hence through the extirpation irrevocably provided will retire the
there is the still larger army of civil­ or are living off the industry of their of autocracy by the superior force of $6,000,000 bond issue, meet the re­
ian—women, childrtn and the aged— relatives. America should solve the America, England, France, Italy and quirements of the Federal Act, pro
who must be provided for and pro­ problem of a slacker. Congress has Russia. The world is so sick of war, vide maintenance of roadB and leave 1
tected. It is only the fellow who has the power to order every one of them that this war cannot
cease till the 1 a surplus even if there be no increase
no excuse whatever for not enlisting into the federal service, and the soon­ German form of government and its in assessed value or number of auto
who should be branded as a “slacker.” er they are rounded up and put to absolutist immoralities, which have |
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work the better it will be for them been the chief cause of this war, have mobiles.
—ltemizer.
Approval of the bond measure by I
and for the country.
been destroyed. Militarism and auto­ the voters is all that is needed to car- I
What splendid men now wear the cracy have been the banc of Germany.
Without entering into the merits of
the road bond law, there can be no uniform. They are serious-minded, America was against
the German ry out the good roads campaign effec­
question of the urgent necessity for well-behaved and dignified young government not merely to safeguard tively. Indorsement of the bonds at
Hie adoption of some plan or system men who represent the very cream of American life and rights, but to help the June election would mean that
that will give to the State of Oregon the country's youth. Soon we may sec bring about the deliverance of the actual road construction could begin
the roads necessary to the develop­ these fine men march to areas of German people.—Spokesman Review. this year. In passing on this measure,
voters are not asked to vote blindly.
ment of her agricultural prosperity. danger to defend our homes and our
The pending bond bill describes the
Oregon has regions rich as the riches people. But what kind will be left be­
Grim, Unromantic War.
roads that are to be constructed and
of earth, lying idle for the reason that hind? The loafers, gilded youths and
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defines the general character of their
the cost of transportation of product joy-riding sons of the rich and hang­
from farm to market is forbiddingly ers-on at street corners and idling The handicap that we bear is that our construction. All roads will be built
war will not have on the surface the
great. People should give this great places. The same responsibility that romantic
glamor that sent a thrill under the supervision of the State
and profound thought before refusing rests on one able-bodied young man through the youth of Europe. The foe Highway Commission which was cre­
to
come
to
his
country's
help
rests
on
to vote on the first big chance they
was at their gates, insolent, flaunting, ated for that specific purpose.
have had to begin a comprehensive every other. Conscription has no ter­ for a time invincible, and therefor
The members of the Commission
system of state-wide road construc­ rors for the right kind of young men. leaving no question in the minds of are men of the strictest integrity.
Of course there are a great number
tion.—La Grande Observer.
of young men that arc not fitted for the high spirited men as to where They are among the state's most rep­
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their duty lay. Our foe will not show resentative citizens who have achiev-
It is significant that following active military service. These should us his face. He lurks in the water be­ ed enviable success in the business
President Wilson’s plain declaration not be allowed to rely supinely upon neath a metal rod and spies for us world. As appointees of Governor
placing responsibility for Prussian their unfitness. 1 here is work for through a device of little mirrors. For Wlthycombe, they may be depended
outrages upon the imperial govern­ everybody, and the government has a the present at least, war will be more upon to conduct the business of state
ment and not upon the German peo­ perfect moral and legal right to re­ like routing out the mermin than
road building with the Baine fidelity
ple the emperor promises drastic re­ quire all its men to do the work they fighting real men.
they have shown In their personal af­
forms at the end of the war. He even arc capable of doing. There is a great
To the youth of Europe the appeal
states that there will be no more field of agriculture. The question of to action was inevitable and irresisti­ fairs. The personnel of the Commis­
elections by the classes, and that se­ food may be a cerious one. Why not, ble. Women did not try to keep men sion is a guarantee that all road funds
cret election of deputies by the peo- when necessary conscript men lor home. The maidens, the babies, of coming into its hands will be dis­
pl'must be adopted. Just how much work in the fields? This is no time those nations were—are still—im­ bursed wisely and economically.
the president’s attitude and the hand­ for drawing fine lines of distinction periled. Once the battle was joined,
writing on the wall in Russia had to between men. Every persons owes a what there was of chivalry in German EVERY PRODUCER
do with this changed attitude can fundamental debt to his country, and life appeared face to face with the
WILL BE AIDED.
only be surmised, but that there is a if he is not enclined to volunteer to men of the allies. The German sol­
discharge
it,
he
should
be
forced
to
radical change in attitude the world
diers charged machine guns. Their
Good roads concern and should in­
do so.—Telephone Register.
well knows.—Independent.
foes could feel that these brave fel­ terest every citizen. They reduce the
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lows were worthy 06 their steel, how­ cost per ton to the producer in mar
We like the spirit of State Treasur­
Road Grafter».
ever contemptible might be the offi­ ketlng his products. This is an Im­
er Tom Kay shown in informing the
cers who spurrd them on. England portant factor in determining the ulti- I
government of a need of check spec­
Among the farmers of Oregon are has buried heroic Germans with mili­ mate coat to the consumer. Good I
ulation in future on the wool market. thousands of road grafters.
tary honors.
roads mean a substantial saving in I
Mr. Kay says that contracts are now
These road grafters are fighting the
In our immediate task we shall have the operating cost of 36,000 motor ve­
being made on future wool fleeces be­ road bonding bill.
little
of
war's
romance;
but,
instead,
.
. .
fore they are shorne, a practice un­
There is a real reason behind their the concentrated essence of all that is hicles In this state and will effect a I
bard of before. Mr. Kay rightly be­
bad on the Prussian system—for the further saving of at least 10 per cent
lieves that a government that can re­ “gr he reason is that genuine road im­ U-boat symbolizes all its wickedness j In the depreciation of all vehicles.
quire its men to offer their lives to provement knocks out their graft.
—and nothing of what is good in , These two Items amount into almost I
Incredible sums annually. All money
serve the country should require
The graft depends on poor roads. Germany
Yet in the long and tedious self­ raised for good roads will be expended I
speculators in the commercial world A road that needs grading, rocking,
not to raise the price of commodities graveling and puttering each and sacrifice before us, unillumined by | tn this state, contributing to the wel- .
where it will reduce the poor of the every season is a perpetual source of pagentry, ruggedly practical, there is fare of all. Good roads increase the |
country to the level occupied by the employment of men and teams. From really the possible test of our nation- I value of all land contiguous to the
Peasantry of Europe. He says this $5 to $8 a day is paid to each one of al character.
highways that are Improved. This
action is unwarranted by market con­ these grafters for lazy work in haul-
stimulates road construction in other
For Constipation.
ditions.—Telephone Register.
communities Could more material
"InHrme^ who work on roads are
Mr. L. H. Farnham, a prominent renaou be urged for supporting the
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druggist
of
Spirit
Lake,
Iowa,
says:
Already the government is out with not grafters but some of them are.
good road* bond bill at the ■pedal
Those farmers who do honest work "Chamberlain’s Tablets are certainly election June 4 th ’
urgent advice tn everybody to get to
the
best
thing
on
the
market
for
con
­
work and produce something more on roads earn their money. But not
than they have ever before. The food all of them are honest. The dishonest stipation.' .” Give these tablets a trial, STRONG ARGUMENT
supply is one of the serious problems farmer rejoices at the opportunity to You are certain to find them agree-
FOR GOOD ROAO BONOS
cd preparedness for the national crisis get a lot of road money every year— able and pleasant in effect. Price 25c.
which the United States is now fac- enough to more than pay hIS taxes For sale by Lamar’s Drug Store.
One of the moat forceful appeal»
■ng. It is urgent that every foot of often enough to yield the greater part
far good road, wu that offered for
Double Proof.
cultivated ground be planted to some­ of his cash income.
the Orange measures, which provided
The honest farmer wants
thing that will help to relieve the high
A tramp knocked at a farmer's door for a bond Issue and was printed In
cost of food stuffs and supply the roads. He wants permanent improve­
the lilt official state pamphlet. From
and called for .omething to eat.
army and navy. If everyone who can, ments. especially drainage
“Are you a Christian?” asked the that argument the folhswing Is quoted
will get in and plant and raise a good roads will not have to be <•««•***£
good-hearted man.
Business Men and Farmer. Produc
garden, grow a few more bushels of year. This is why so many
“Look at the holes worn in the er and Consumer;
Vote for the
Potatoes than will do for their own ire supporting the road bonding bill
use, can and dry more than enough -because they feel the state w. I get knees of my pants. What do they Grange Measures, for you one and all
are Interested tn the development of
vegetables for their own family, the some good roads, roads that are so prove?”
The farmer’s wife promptly brought the state, that oan never be secern
food supply proposition will be solv­ well drained and crowned that the
ed. We know that the European na­ terrific expense of annual lazy patch out the food and the tramp turned to pitshed without the construction of
tions have had to do, and should ‘"MeanwdiilVthe grafting farmers are go.
"Well well! asked the farmer. good sirnisinl roads, built ooonom
Profit by their experiences. If we do
Spence.
"What
made those holes in the back loaily and scientifically
poisoning
their
neighbors
minds
®°t, we may be compelled to pay very
Shaw, Leedy. Mason, Committee Ore
of
your
pants?
”
against
the
road
bonding
bill
or
any
dear for it
"Backsliding," replied the tramp, as gen State Orange.”
other measure that means permanent
he
hurried on.
improvement
of
highways.
The
prin
­
Die broccoli growers arc busy har-
Doom of the Hohenzollern» Sounded
in Reichstag.
We are now located in our new
stand at the FRYE WAREHOUSE
at the S.P. Railroad, near the S.P.
Depot, where we welcome all our
customers to call and see us. We
carry a full line of Feed. Silosand
Farm Implements. Our prices
are the lowest for the value re­
ceived. Let us know V your wants
Down town ofiice at A. C. Ever­
son's Real Estate Ofiice. ' • Both
phones at warehouse and office.
W. KUPPENBENDER
Tillamook, Oregon.
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