TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
JULY
6, 1Ö17.
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, 1 to our ports despite the war. Mr meat on it to satisfy the hunger of an
McAdoo is on record a’ saying that ordinary kitten and out of which the
• 5-or. 000 000 a year could be added to poor people of this country mage
their soups." It used to sell at t^ to a
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the articles which we now admit free cents a pound, but is now not far he.
“How dry I am,’’ doesn t even get Doubtless more than that could be low rib roast, which retails for «
an echo in Oregon. Business along raised in addition by .'"^easing he cents.
There may be some relation be
the “wet” line is done on a very quiet duties upon other articles where the
scale. A sort of slow and easy plan rates are" too low to be either protec tween this advance in the cost of the
worked strictly on the quiet. Lup- . tive or revenue producing.—Lmpqua poor man’s soupbone and the charge
of 10 cents for use of the tablecloth
qua Valley News.
| Valley News.
which, Maude Redford Warren says
■
in the Outlook, is made in a Paris
The Kaiser calls it an “infamous
One American State.
restaurant with the
explanation-
outrage” to deprive King Constantine
“C’est la guerre.” (It is the war.)
of his throne, but he can see nothing
By count of the people who paid for
wrong in what Germany did to King I Oregon has furnished
its use, that tablecloth paid for itself
Albert and the people of Belgium, the regular Army since April ,
every day.
Evidently it makes
a diiference outbreak of the war, than any
That explanation was given in dif
whose ox is gored.—Observer.
state, with a single exception, tn pro
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I portion to population
ferent form by an Indian who sud
The food speculator who charges
Oregon ^JX’v anT'leads the denly raised his blackberries from 75
one-third for his risk and trouble may quota to the! na >,
cn|jstinc.nts. cents to $1,25 a gallon. He gathered
be a pirate, but what of the big land Western Dep
marine them in the.same place as ever and
speculator, who does nothing and
Oregon has provide for, the marine they were as plentiful as ever, but lie
raises prices as his community labors con>s far more 1
-
{ found ample justification by saying:
and plans to increase production?-
Oregon subsenbed $¡2,2050» to "There’s a hell of a war in Europe.’’
Mt Scott Herald
the liberty loan with an allotment
That may explain a large part of
Mt. Scott Hi raid.
i of $8,500,ooo-the heaviest oversub the $50,000,000 a month which Mr.
Hoover says the speculators have ad
On the heels of an election at which scription among the 'acific states.
Oregon gave $1,000,000 and more, ded to the cost of grain this year.
only about half of the registered vot
ers cast their ballots the state grange to the Red Cross, with an allotment War and high prices are so intimately
adopts resolutions in favor of abolish of $600,000. Portland, to which was associated in the people's minds that
ing the state senate. Abolishing a assigned $200,000 gave $400,000, and speculators trade on the fact.
A large part of Mr. Hoover’s job
thing is all right if you have some thus takes rank among the most lib
thing better to substitute, but if we eral of givers among American cities. will be to cut this psychology out of
The Oregon National Guard was prices and get them down to the point
are to substitute direct legislation for
representative it might be well to first in all the states to be recruited which the present cost of production
plus a fair profit justifies. It is sig
make sure that the substitutes will at to war strength.
It is a proud record of militant and nificant that the war advance in Eng
tend to their business.—Independent.
I efficient patriotism. Oregon will not land, which buys much food from this
C. W. Spence, master of the Oregon only do its bit—no little bit, as some country but which controls prices,
do—but more than its part.
has been only 66 per cent against 85
State Grange, was the idol of the may
Good old Oregon! Loyal Oregon! per cent in the United States. With
state convention at Astoria. His op
position to the road bonding act and Noble Oregon! True Oregon! Your like control, American prices should
his campaign was endorsed. In fact, fathers founded here a state—the first be less than English prices by the
and insurance
his opposition to that “piece of con American state in the Far West—con amount of freight
structive legislation” appears to have ceived in liberty, dedicated to free across the ocean, which are no small
made him stronger than ever with the dom, consecrated to human rights. items in these days, when ships pay
grangers. It must be admitted that Your sons will keep the fires of for themselves in six months.—Ore
whatever it may stand for, the equality, opportunity and fraternity gonian.
Grange is fond of radical doctrine. It burning, the flag of democracy for-
1 ever waving.—Oregonian.
likes new frills.—News-Reporter.
Women Workers in Japan.
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There is only one argument in this
Leave This To Germany.
The women of Japan are coming to
war, now that we are in it, and that I
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play a more and more important part
argument is that our own safety and
Thus far in the war the Germans
future happiness depends upon the and their allies have had a practical in the nation’s activities, even so
defeat of Germany and the other cen monopoly on practices of ruthlessness much so as to be now encroaching on
tral powers of this war. The people and wantonness, and it is better to let the domain of man. Many positions
of this country cannot afford to give them keep this monopoly than try to once occupied by men are now filled
a thought of anything else. Germany meet it with practices of similar kind. by women in almost every section of
must be crushed or democracy and Just now’ the British authorities are industrial and business activity.—Ja
treedom of the world's republics must being urged to adopt a policy of re pan Magazine, Tokyo, June, 1917.
perish. That is why every American prisals for a cruel slaughter of non-
The magazine then goes on to spec
citizen's heart and soul should be in combatants by German airships, it be ify some of the lines of employment
tins war.—Itemizer.
ing argued that if Germany resorts to and wage-earning that are attracting
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such barbaric methods her enemies the women of Japan by many thou
Don't think for a moment that the are justified in following the same sands. From this may be learned the
newspaper man isn't hit by the war. plan. It sincerely is to be hoped, • extent to which that enterprising
How far do you think the govern however, that none of the allies will I country is enlarging and speeding up
ment would have got with the liberty yield to such arguments. Germany _ I its industrial productivity; also the
„... : increase
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¡n successful trade
loan subscription or the suppression and Turkey have brought infamy on —
great
of tile anti-draft sentiment if it hadn’t themselves by the lawless and revolt- competition, which must menace the
called upon the newspapers for free ing character of their war policies, domestic markets of the Western
advertising in large chunks? And now and practices. But this does not alter . world.
having got millions of dollars worth basic principals of right and wrong
Every woman who enters the field
of free advertising from generous and their enemies cannot afford to ! of lighter labor, for which women are
publishers, the government proposes place themselves in the same cate-1 fitted, releases one man for emplov-
to lax the profits of advertising to gory..
’ment in the heavier branches of in-
pay for the bonds which the free ad
It was very largely
in protest • dustry. For example, the four thou-
vertising sold. With the increased against the inhuman war policies of sand women now employed as ticket
cost ot paper the publishers are the Prussian militarists that the Unit- sellers, cashiers and accountants in
caught at both ends and in the middle ed States decided to enter the war. : the Japanese Imperial Railway Bu-
—'telephone Register.
The German military masters have I reau,’ and who w’ork from 8 a.m. to 10
shown by the slaughter of innocents p.m. at 20 cents a day, make available
Some rich Americans have adopted on the high seas and on land, by the four
'__ thousand more men for the _."L
mills
ruined town and villages in the sec deportation and enslaving of Belgians and factories that turn out low priced
tion of France which has been evac by the bombarding of hospitals and goods for shipment to the United
uated by the Germans and have un sinking of hospital ships and by other (States. Girls between the ages of 13
dertaken to rebuild them, to restore ruthless methods that they will balk and 20 in the Japanese cigarette and
the people to their homes and to at nothing to achieve their ends, to j cigar factories are paid 10 to 15 cents
bring the land again into cultivation. keep their skins whole and to pre a day. Girls working in Japanese
There are about 250 such ruined serve their power. There is no telling hanks get from $5 to $10 a month,
places, and the number promises to of what future degrees of barbarity while Japanese newspaper women
increase as the Germans are driven they might go if allied retribution receive $to to $25 a month, “accord
back. Here is an opportunity for the should take the form proposed to the ing to experience.” Story writers may
overflowing generosity of the Amer British authorities..
I possibly make as much as $75 a
ican people. Each city and town
Thus far the enemies of Germany month. The Japanese
._____ women
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physi
might adopt a town or village of pro have kept themselves singularly free cians employed in hospitals receive
portionate size in France and under from the inhumanities. They could the princely compensation of $25 to
take its reconstruction. By this plan not do otherwise and remain true to $50 a month. What would our Ameri-
a tie might be established between the ideals for which they are fighting. con medicos, male or female think of
die two places which would never be Let them not profane the age by such reward for their scientific ser
severed.—Oregonian.
sinking to the brute level, whatever vices?
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the provocation. The women and
In addition to the new women ar
It's the home in a city which index children of Germany are not to blame
its progressiveness. The business dis for German frightfulness. If the forc rivals in the domain of Japanese in
trict soon looses its freshness and at es of righteousness are not strong dustrialism, numbered by thousands,
tractiveness in the discriminating enough to prevail with worthy weap there are now employed in cotton and
mass of brick and mortar, glaring ons against the forces of malignancy, and other factories more than a quar
signs and noisy automobiles, a sight there is no hope of preserving what ter of a million workers who are paid
anywhere from 10 to 20 cents a day.
tiresome to the eyes and wearisome civilization has gained.—Observer.
If there be any one who doubts that
io the nerves. But, in the resident
a protective tariff is going to be need
section is where one forms the opin
The Psychology of War Prices.
ed as against the invasion of cheap
ion whether they would like to live i
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labor products from the Orient, let
in this city or not. Modern homes
A few facts which were cited
portray characters and individuality,
.
by them read the article from the Japan
‘
Magazine for June.
radiating cheerfulness and content Representative Lever in t submitting
ment—a standing invitation to be the food-control bill to the House go I
come a member of that community ui to show that war is accompanied by
Tax and Luxuries.
city; an assurance of neighborly an advance in prices, whether there 1
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neighbors, for who would like to live is sufficient justification in market i
in a city where they would not have conditions or not. A state of war has I If a great revenue is required, why
effect in causing not get it through taxing luxuries?
good neighbors? Cities with modern a psychological
homes are cities with high standards every person who has anything to sell Imports of luxuries, or articles in the
of morals, so modern homes better a to raise prices and to give war as the nature of. luxuries in time of war,
cause. 1 hough we may conceed that showed an increase of nearly 50 per
city morally—Mt. Scott Herald.
conditions have changed to a degree cent, for the calendar year ¡916 over
A new Oregon law suspends the which warrant an advance in most that of 1915. A list of twenty-five ar
statute of limitations on foreclosures staples, there is some reason to doubt ticles complied from the official re
during the period of the war where whether the price of every article port gives a total value in importa
title to real property is held by men should have risen and whether the tion for 1916 of $454,400.000. compar
who enlist in the nation's military price ot many things should have ed with $311.900,000 for 1915.
service. The chief objection is to the risen as high as it has. Skepticism is
A Republican member of the Ways
opportunity given to mortgagors by strengthened when we find that the and Means Committee has said re
deeding property to uk . i enlisting in rise in wages has not nearly kept pace gardless of the duty levied on im-
the war to defer indefinitely the in with rising prices.
1 ported luxuries there would always
The Bureau of Labor Statistics be a- healthy demand for them from
fliction of penalties for non-payment
shows
that
while
wages
have
risen
of principal and interest, but the be
the American public. If an increased
lief is that there would be few who tv per cent by the hour and t6 per rate on luxuries should curtail im
cult
by
the
week
between
1907
and
would take advantage of the situation
ports, then American manufacturers
to the detriment of money lenders. 916, retail prices of food have risen will profit thereby, and so will the
Some attorneys contend the law is 3V per cent and in February, 1917 had government in the way of increased
unconstitutional because of its re !"'il<le a further jump of 62 per ’cent revenues from the tax on profits.
troactive features, but nevertheless above the 1907
- . level. Between April t
makers of mortgage loans are bccom- .via
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an^ A^I,
April, ,9,7. the '" April
Constipation and Indigestion.
ing fearful of the possible effect of a sixty articles of food had risen ° ;
moratorium, such as prevails in Great average of 85.34 per cent, and these
I have used Chamberlain’s tablets
Britian and Canada for the war per ¡percentages ranged ail the way from
iod.— Evening Telegram.
I an" must say they are the best I have
It irsrwhennwe4°° f°r MbbaRe
ever used for constipation and indi-
ticular items that we find^evidenJr ?'j.tlon-, My wife also uses them for
\\ itliin the past month more than
$8.000.000 in gold has been released o the psychology of war. Sugar in ,nd.,Kc»,’°n and they did her good,
Kene S. Knf-
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Eugene
Knight,
Williming-
bv the federal treasury for shipment '^»••■"gton D. C, rose from 7 eem. writes tu
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G. Chamber!»
.ain’s tablets are
to Japan in settlement of the trade .n January to ,o cents in May ,9", L°1
mild and gentle in their action. Give
balance which continues to remain so
them a trial. You are certain to be
largely favorable to that country.
pleased with hthe agreeable laxative
This balance is made possible by the
f'tect which they produce. For sale
large sales which Japan makes to us
hv Lamar’s Drug Store.
bv reason of the free access which
the Democratic tariff gives her to time an incXe in n°* “ ,hi
Ynierican markets. Yet in considering acreage elsewhere of whkh’thl b'et
I |>lans for the production of war rev
Twenty-Five Cents is the Price of
enue, the democratic financiers in -L'alers discreetly said nothin/ War
Peace.
Mr.
Lever
quoted
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; congress have resolutely refused to woman in Pbiladelnhi* *,,e.r ,TOTu a
TJ1' *err’I)le itching and smarting,
pay any attention to suggestions that •he »••in of beef i, n„ say,ni that
additional duties shall be laid upon
incident
certain skin
. —-. to wi.ain
sxin diseases, > • ’
pound
and
explained
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the foreign goods which are coming •»ref i< “a’bone wh h' “ lhe shi"
»'most instantly allayed by applying
°ne which has not enough Chamberlain’s Salve. Price 25 cents.
or sale by Lamar’s Drug Store.
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Keep clean inside, as
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Headache, a sign of sell
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numerous other troubles
which are sure to follow.
Keep yourself well, as
thousands of others do,
by taking, when needed,
a dose or two of the old,
reliable, vegetable, fami
ly liver medicine,
Mrs. Maggie Bledsoe,
Osawatomie, Kan., says:
“Black-Draught cured
me of constipation of 15
years standing, which
nothing had been able to
help. I was also a slave
to stomach trouble ...
Everything I ate would
sour on my stomach. I
used two packages of
Black-Draught, and Ohl,
the blessed relief it has
given me.”
Black-
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your shelf. Get a pack
age today, pri.e 25c.
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GIRL'S STATEMENT WILL
HELP TILLAMOOK
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Here is the girl's own story: "For
years 1 had dyspepsia, sour stomach
and constipation. I drank hot water
and olive oil by the gallon. Nothing
helped until 1 tried buckthorn bark,
glycerine, etc . as mixed in Adler i-ka
ONE SPOONFUL helped me IN-
Stantly.” Because Adler-i ka flushes
the ENTIRE alimentary it relieves
ANY CASE constipation, sour stam-
ach or gas. and prevents appendicitis.
It has QUICKEST action of any
thing we ever sold. J. S. Lamar, drug
gist.
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