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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JULY CHEESE SITUATION IN THE EAST Prospect of Markets Being Over stocked—Foreign Shipments Stop less in England as they are in Ameri ca), had played sad havoc with the consumers' purse by charging the most exhorbitant prices (presumably in consequence of the war and they played this for all it was worth, the same as the retailers are now doing in this country.) So, at the end of the opening of the new season, it was de cided to reverse the order of things and to start out by fixing the maxi mum selling price at retail, which was made 16 pence (about 32 cents our money), and then to regulate upward the position of the jobber and the wholesaler in turn. By this changed order of things the importer was eliminated because the Government, commandeering all the cheese arriv ing in Englond after May 29th, be came the sole importer of the article, as well as the principal wholesaler. When the maximum wholesale price was placed at 160 to 162 shillings last November, the position of the different middlemen was arranged as follows; an importer must sell to the wholesaler but could not sell to another importer, except at cost; the wholesaler must sell to the jobber but could not sell to another whole saler except at cost; the jobber must sell to the retailer but could not sell to another jobber except at cost. This classifying of the handlers of the product made speculation iji the article impossible. At the opening of the new season this year, the English Government commandeered the exportable quan tity of Canada’s output during the war, and a Canadian Commission was appointed to regulate the prices the government would pay for it. There was a most vexatious delay in arriv ing at the maximum price the Gov ernment would pay which caused considerable inconvenience and loss to the regular Canadian exporters. When the maximum prices were fin ally established which were 21)4c. for Firsts, 21J4c. for Seconds, and 20^c. for Thirds, it threw the trade in Montreal into a great state of ex citement. Exporters that had former ly been accustomed to handle the cheese product of Canada, found their occupation was gone, and the only thing left for them to do in handling cheese after this, was to secure cheese from factory men as best they could so as to sell the same to the govern ment at this range of prices, and it has resulted in a very poor business to these former exports, as they have been forced to pay factorymen at their doors 20(4c. to as high as 21 Since these cheese have to be freight ed into Montreal, paraffined, each box strapped with iron hooping, and delivered to the steamer that the gov- eminent might designate for its ship- ment, it will thus be seen tliat the margin of profit in doing the business is exceedingly small. With this state of things, perfectly plain that in consequence of this loss of our exporting business to Great Britian. the American cheese* has onlv a value that will enable it to lie consumed at home, and the soon er this is realized by those engaged in the trade the better for them? George A. Cochrane. The erroneous impressions prevail ing in cheese trade circles of the United States, as well as some of the newspapers, seem almost incredible to those who know the altered con ditions that now confront the indus try. A very small percentage of the trade, as well as the newspapers, treating of the article realize that the matter of exporting any of our cheese to Great Britian has entirely ceased for the time being, if not for an in definite period. A very large per centage of the cheese trade, proper, appear to think that the present ab sence of exports from the market is only temporary, and are quite con fident that any day they are likely to resume operations. Many of the prominent trade journals are laboring under this same delusion and only a few days ago, one of the most prom inent trade journals in New York, said there was then some buying for export going on, and treating the matter of the absence of exporters from active operating as only tem- porary. Now let us see what are the actual facts in these premises: Tim last edict of the food controller of TTreat Brit- ain, May 29th, gave thc finishing stroke that completely ended the oc- cupation of exports in the article to Great Britian for an indefinite period. This edict was to the fact that, on and after May 29th, the food con troller of Great Britain would com mandeer all cheese arriving in Eng land after that date if consigned to individuals or corporations. The re sult of this was that all of us that were engaged in exporting cheese and consigning to our different con nections in Great Britain, found our selves debarred from doing so after May 29th. In my own case, which is similar to all others, my last two shipments of cheese to I.iverj.ool, one per steamship Pruth, that ’ left Boston about May 11th, and I the other per steamship Etonian, about May 18th, were taker, possession of by the English Government as soon as these two steamers arrived in Liverpool. My consignees have in- formed me that, in consequence of having shipped these cheese prior to the government’s edict of May 29th, that the Government, in cotnman- drering them, would allow me actual CO*t of goods landed in I .iverpool, but would not allow me my profit, Under the circumstances I think the English government has treated me very fairly. I, and others that have had similar experiences, now realize that it is impossible to get a box of cheese into Great Britain, except through the British Government, as it would be to pass an elephant through the eye of a cambric needle. Therefore, there is not the slightest possibility of exporting being resum ed, until after the English govern ment has exhausted the Canadian and New Zealand stocks of cheese. Should, however, stocks of these prove insufficient, as the season wears on, for the Government's re The Valuable Hog. quirements, as well as civilians' needs then the matter of American cheese Raise more hogs! We may not have would come in for consideration. realized it, but pork is the principle Such a condition of things .is not at meat of the army as well as of the all likely to take place until after the city and farm. The department of ag turn of the new year, if at all. The riculture says the hog is the most im English Government has quite a con portant animal to raise for meat and siderable stock of commandeered motley. New Zealand cheese, of 1916 pro In the first place the hog calls for duction, in England now, and it is al less labor, less capital, less equipment so a well known fact that there is than that required in ranging other quite a heavy amount of New Zeal domestic animals. The return in meat and cheese, of 1916 make, still in and meat products arc greater than New Zealand that has not been ship for any other animal. Ami the meat is ped out in consequence of an insuffi the most satisfactory of all for pack ciency of freight space obtainable to ing and longdistance shipping. get these cheese into Great Britain Pork has been placed on the market and it must not be forgotten that in a great variety of attra^ive ami there is a very considerable quantity p datable forms. In fact, there is no of the spring make of cheese of this other meat which can be obtained in year’s production in Canada at the so many different forms anil from moment awaiting shipment. They are which so many products are inantt- now in the flush of the make of factnred. And it keeps well. cheese in Canada, with every prof Why not take our liats off pect, at the present time, that itiere humble hog and give him a wifi be a very» heavy make. honor? It is most important to bear in Many farms where no hogs are rais mind the extraordinary changes that ed ought to have them. And farms have taken place in the matter of ex where hogs are already a valuable porting cheers from United States product should produce more than and Canada within the short space oi they ever did before. Three-fourths eight months. Early in November of the world's international trade in last year the Controller of food in pork ami pork products came front Eugland decided to put a maximum the United States before the war. wholesale price on American and Since then the proportion has greatly Canadian cheese. Before doing so he increased. The need is greater than called together the most prominent ever. America's opportunity and <lu- dealers in the article in all the prin ty are plain. cipal cities of Great Britian for a con ference in order to decide as to what Fair Play Demanded. the maximum wholesale price should be. The result of that consultation (From Leslie's) was that these representatives of the “The American Newspaper Publish trade advised the Controller that 160 ers’ Association, in meeting June 21, shillings for American, and 162 shil earnestl- and emphatically protests lings per cwt. for Canadian and New- against a special discriminating war Zealand cheese would appear as just tax in any form levied against the and equitable, although cheese at that newspaper business. That business is time had reached 172 to 174 shillings not a war industry. It is at this time per cwt. in London, but as everyone bearing a vey onerus and special was very lightly stocked then, that burden of expanse due entirely to the by fixing such prices would war, and it is making no profit, di couse little or no loss 1 trade in rectly or indirectly, out of the war. general. The Government is relying on the Business went along on 1 the basis of newspapers, as shown in the organ these prices, although it 1 will have to ization of publicity in connection with be admitted by those at all familiar the recent National Registration Law with market conditions that, Xnmed- the Liberty Loan and the Red Cross lately after the maximum prife was Fund, for the cordial and unreserved fixed, in consequence of light supplies cooperation without which the issues week after week, it would have beefi of the war loan and the national mili quite within the possibilities that tary registration could not have been prices, in London, would have reach successfully achieved. Such coopera ed as high as 180 to ISO shillings per tion with the Government the news cwt. but for this Government's max papers render always cheerfully and imum price at wholesale. promptly ami at their own expense, It must be born in mind, that from and they expect and desire in addition last November, to the opening of the to bear their just burden of taxation new season in May, this year (cover The newspapers recognize the need ing a period of six months), this max of special war taxes, and they will imum wholesale price for the govern pay anv rate of taxes that Congress ment was not altered once. When the finds necessary to impose on all other uey season opened this year, the legitimate and necessary business. As Controller had discovered, so to lor the postal rates, they have been speak, that they had started at the top established for generations upon a of the ladder instead of the bottom public policy that the diffusion of last season in not having controlled knowledge and information in news the retailer in any way in the matter papers was necessary to the unity and of prices he was to charge the con welfare of the Nation and therefore sumer. This individual, true to his ought to be encouraged by moderate species (and they are just as merci- postage rates. If this policy is now. QK. J. G. TURNER, (after more than half a century, to be reversed, it should be done only after full consideration and investigation; it should be done only in the public interest and not in the guise of a war tax upon a business which is neither a war profiteer, a luxury, nor one properly subject to punitive taxation.* EYE SPECIALIST. PORTLAND — OREGON. Regular Monthly Visits to Tillamook and Cloverdale. WATCH PAPER FOR HATES. Flour Cheaper in England than in United States. -------O' Food Administrator Hoover told a special committee of the New Work Produce exchange that for the 1916 wheat crop, so far, the difference had been so great between the price of cash wheat and the price of flour that the extra profits had amounted to, $139,000,000 up to the date of the records, and this will be increased probably $20,000,000 more before the end of the season. These figures stagger the imagina tion, but this illustration will help us to a clearer understanding of their magnitude. The excess profits of a year in flour alone would cover the Red Cross fund of $100,000,000 and leave nearly enough to meet one year’s interest on the $2,000,000,000 Liberty loan bond. The fact was brought out by Mr. Hoover that prices of wheat and flour are lower in England than in this country. The New York delega tion thought that impossible unless the difference was absiybed as a war expense by the British government, and asked Mr. Hoover if that was not the explanation. The food administrator told them their explanation was erroneous— that the price of wheat and flour in England was regulated on the cost of the entire supply of a year, and had nothing to do with the high prevail ing prices in America or elsewhere. The British food controller strikes an average of the cost of all wheat bought in the year, and flour is sold to the people on that basis. The speculator finds it impossible to get his "bit.” Yet in the face of these revelations congress halts and haggles over food control legislation. Perhaps some of its members halt and haggle because of these facts.—Spokesman Review. J^KLAND E PIANO INSTRUCTION, Diploma from Chicago Musical College.—Beginners receive the same careful training as the most advanced. Terms:—$4.00 per months Instruc Lubricant itch, Oakland oil — forms an Heal lubneant FO-California asphalt-base for a Ford car. STUDEBAKER -- ‘■having used Zerolene for over six . ERWIN . tion. All lessons given at Studio. County Representative for the Wiley B. Allen Co.s’ line of high grade pianos, player-pianos, Victroloi etc. years, feel justi fied in Recommending it to users of Studs baker san. DODGE— McArthur B. . ., Pha. ■ “have used Zerolene exclusively in all our Dodge Brothers cars.” OAKLAND -o k 11 * “Zenilene has proved a sa.tsLu.t ry lubneant m our Oakland cars.” _ _ J—) A VID ROBINSON. M. D , _ _ ZEROLENE PHYSICIAN 7%e Standard OH for Motor Cars AND NATIONAL Endorsed by Leading Car Distributors SURGEON BUILDING, TILLAMOOK -becanw the records of the=r service departments show tint Zerolene, correctly refin. J fro.11 Uai..ui...a .ophalt- has. crude, gives perfect lubri-ation- Is- we". u,ore pov.er, least carbon deposit. OREGON. I. BUl lb ATTORNEY-AT LAW. i.omplete Set of Abstract Ho< ks in Office. Taxes Paid for Non Residents. STANDARD OIL COMPANY T illamook B lock , Tillamook Oregon .... Both Phones. T. BOAI.S, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Surgeon S. P. Co. ALEX. McNAIR & CO. KING CRENSHAW CO. (I. O. O. F. Bldg ) Oregon Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned C. R. Braden as adminis trator of the estate of Cecelia H. Childs, deceased, and also of the part nership estate of Childs & Braden, Cecelia H. Childs and F. I.. Braden, partners, Cecelia H. Childs, deceased, has tiled his duly verified account in the County Court of the State of Oregon for Tillamook County. The 1 said court has fixed Saturday, August 25th, 1917, at eleven a. m. in' the county court room of said court in Tillamook, Oregon, as the time and place for the hearing of objections if any, to said final account and the petition for final settlement of said estate. All persons having objections thereto should file the same on and before said date or be forever barred; and the said estate will then be finally settled and the said administrator and his bondsmen discharged and ex onerated from any and all liabilities by reason of their connection with such estate. R. C. Braden, Administra tor for said estate. II. . A. Klicks, McMinnville, Orc. 11. T. Botts, Tillamook, Oregon, Attorneys for said estate. Notice of Sheriff’s Sale. Notice is hereby given: That pur suant to a writ of execution issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of Tilla mook, dated the tqth day of June, tql7, upon a decree rendered in said Court on the 18th day of June, 1917. in the cause wherein Louise Wein- hard, Anna Wessinger, Paul Wessin- ger and Henry Wagner, executrixes and executors respectively of the last will and testament of Henry Weinhard, deceased, were plaintiffs, and F. H. Astmann, Veronika Ast mann, and Veronika Astmann, as asignee of F. H. Astmann, for the benefit of the creditors of F. H. Ast- tnann, were defendants, in favor of said plaintiffs and against the said de fendants for the sum of twenty-seven hundred dollars, together with inter est thereon from January I7th, 1912, at the rate of six per cent per annum until paid, and for the further sum of two hundred fifty dollars attorney's fees and for the costs and disburse ments of this suit, taxed at $17.75, which s&id execution is to ntc direct ed, commanding me as Sheriff to satisfy the said decree by sale of the real property hereinafter described; Now, therefore, in order to satisfy said decree, 1 will, on Saturday, the 21st day of July, 1017, at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the front door of the Court House in Tillamook City, Oregon, sell at pub lic auction (subject to redemption) to the highest bidder for cash in hand, all the right, title and interest of the said defendants in and to the following described real property, situated in the County of Tillamook and State of Oregon, to-wit: The East .................... ...................................... Half (E. !4) of the North East quarter (N.E. '4) and the South West quarter (S. W. ' 4) of the North East quarter (N. E. ',) of Section five (5). in Township One (1) North of Range Ten (to) West of Willamette Meridian, containing one hundred ninteen and 82-100 (119.82) acres, more or less. Dated this 20th day of June, 1917. W. L. Campbell, Sheriff of Tillamook County, Ore. EBSTER Low Round Trip Fares ATTORNEY-AT LAW COM M ERGI A L BUILDING, FIRST STREET, OREGON TILLAMOOK, 'T”1 H. GOYNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. RFTWFFN O pposite C ourt H ouse , Office: TILLAMOOK COUNTY BEACH POINTS Tillamook Oregon. R. JACK OLSEN, These round trip tickets will be on sale daily until Septem ber 22nd. Limit 2 days. DENTIST. (I. O. O. F SPECIAL SUNDAY FARES Tillamook Bldg.) Oregon - 0R. L. L. HOY, Oil Sundays, until September 9th. especially low late tickets will he sold, limited to date PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON T illamook B lock , Tillamook, MOTOR CAR SEVICE Do not forget that the motor car makes two daily round trips «between Tillamook and Mohler, in addition to the • steam service. J O11N Oregon. LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR. AT-LAW T illamook B lock , Ask our local ajfent for information, John M. Scott. General Passenger Agent, Tillamook - - . ROOM NO. SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES. Oiegon 2Ö1. C. HAWK, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Oregon Bay City Closing Out J E. REEDY, D.V M., VETERINARY. Hotii Phones Tillamook QARI, Goods at greatly Reduced Prices, Consisting of - - Oregon. haberlach , attorney - at - law . Harness, Saddles, Sweat Pads, Collars, T illamook B eock Oregon Tillamook And everything in a First Class Harness Shop ; also GLOVES, SUIT CASES, GRIPS WATER PROOF CLOTHING, Etc. t I Have Your House Constipation and Indigestion. "1 have used Chamberlain's tablets and must say they are the best I have ever used for constipation and indi gestion. .My wife also uses them for indigestion and they did her good.” writes Eugene S. Knight. \\ illiming- ton, N. C. Chamberlain's tablets are mild and gentle in their action. Give them a trial. You are certain to be pleased with hthe agreeable laxative effect which they produce. For sale by Lamar's Drug Store, HOLMES, Wiring Done by CUT W. A* WILLIAMS, Tillamook, Or Coa$ power Co. DONE RIGHT at RIGHT PRICES