T illamook headlight ,
september ’13, ii 917.
THE SIGNAL CORPS,
INTERNATIONAL PEACE
This Branch of the Sorvic« 1«
Nerve, of tho Army.
An army must have eyes and ears as
veil as muscles and legs. It has a
brain to direct its members In accord
with the things the eyes and ears bring
to the attention of the general in com
mand. But it must also have nerves
to carry the messages of the eyes anil
ears to the commanding brain.
The eyes and ears of an army are its
jeouts, its cavalry, Its aeroplanes, Its
balloons, its spies, its photographers,
Its observers. The brain Is the com
manding general and his staff. The
nerves are a hundred different activi
ties of that branch of the service
known as the signal corps.
It is the duty of the signal corps to
transmit information. It performs this
duty in many ways, ranging from the
courier to wireless, from rockets at
night to heliograph flashes by day,
from permanent telephone and tele
graph lines to the curious “buzzer"
and its wire on the ground, on fence
tops, strung among trees, anywhere it
can be put. It uses the wigwag code
with flags, searchlight signals, tele
phones, signal flares—any and all
means of communication which the In
genuity of man has devised are em
ployed by the signal corps as necessity
may dictate—Brigadier General Squler
In American Boy.
Plans to Securo It Have Boon Tried
For Throe Conturioe.
THE TILLAMOOK
HEADLIGHT
Admirable and farsighted pinna for
securing a peaceful international order
have been before the world for 300
years. M. Emerlc Cruce submitted his
plan, which lualuded liberty of com
merce throughout all the world, as
early as 1023. Following the peace of
Utrecht, tho Abbe de St Pierre devel-
ojied his plan, which Included media
tion, arbitration and au Interesting ad
dition to the effect that any sovereign
who took up arms before the union of
nations had declared war or who re
fused to execute s regulation of the
union or a judgment of the senate was
to be declared an enemy of European
society. The union was then to make
war upon him until he should be dis
armed or until the regulation or judg
ment should be executed.
Some twenty years earlier William
Fenn had produced his quaint and real
ly extraordinary plan for the peace of
Europe, in which he, too, proposed to
proceed by military power against any
sovereign who refused to submit his
claims to a proposed diet, or parlia
ment, of Europe or who refused to
abide by and to perform any judgment
of such a body.
All these plans, like those of Rous
seau, Bentham and Kant, which came
later, as well as William Ladd’s elab
orate and carefully considered essay
on a congress of nations, published la
1840, were brought into the world too
soon. They were the fine and noblo
dreams of seers which it Is taking civ
ilised men three centuries and more to
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In Early Editions They Turned a Poet
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The first 'New York city directory
was printed in 1786 and was a scanty
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Ye ragged pates, your hair we’ll crop
And drees it vastly pretty,
Or If your blocks are bare walk In,
I warrant we can fit ye,
With bag or queue or long pig tall
Or brushed wig or grizzled—
It was pointed out that the poet evi
dently had no trouble finding inspira
tion for each of the different business
es be was called upon to sing about un
til be came to the list of restaurants,
which was published without verse,
leading to the belief that the strain of
singing of food had been too much for
the bard.—New York Times.
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A great many people imagine that
the arms of flywheels and pulleys are
curved for the sake of beauty and
graceful appearance. But this Is not
so. In the making of these wheel« they
are cast in sand from molten Iron
poured In. As the arms are of less
thickness and body than the heavy rim
and the hub, they begin to cool off
quicker. By the time the arms are
’’set’’ the rim and hub are still cooling
and contracting, and the effect of their
shrinkage is to cause a very powerful
Pull on the arms. As the latter are sol
idly set they become severely strained,
but If the arms are curved they with
stand the pull that goes on during
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Tho Beginning of Brazil.
Rising brisk and early one bright
morning toward the close of the fifteenth
century, a nice Portuguese gentleman,
to wit, Cabral, going for a sail, decided
to take bls comical little fleet down the
>est coast of Africa, turn to the east,
totter across the Indian ocean and, be
fore he grew quite old, reach the Indies.
The opening voyage was shorter than
•xpected. He awoke one day to find
land on his right Instead of on his left,
land which Pinzon had scratched three
months earlier, land In the west and
hot In the east It was Brazil.—London
Chronicle.
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Withaut Fear.
"The first shall be last and the last
•ball be first,” quoted the devout cttl-
sen.
"It makes no difference to me how
P>u arrange ’em," replied the expert
commercfallst ’TU' get mine either
**y 1 in the middleman.”—Washing
ton Star.
Hard Task.
“What’s the matter, my dear?”
“Oh, I’m trying to tell that Gotrox
Peraon how perfectly beautiful we
think her horrid old wedding present
fc-”—Life.
Vary Good.
*Did he get a good wife?”
'Good for a million.”
“Good enough.” — Louisville Courier-
eournal.
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Pluck is always trying to forget that
“ w«s beaten yesterday.
making the County Fair a success. Five
new
members were obligated.
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The next Pomona meets at Oretown
Tillamook County Pomona Grange
met with Fairview Grange Thursday, the first Thursday inJDecember.
R. Y. Blalock.
Sept. 6. There was a good represen
tation from White Clover. Nehalem,
Oretown, Cloverdale, Nestueca and Home Boys Tackle Big Guns at Fort
Columbia.
Fairview. The regular order of busi
ness was attended to.
Fort Columbia, Sept. 8—The big
Mrs. C. J. Edwards addressed the
Grange on the Women Registration for noise started early in the week, th«
first company of Fort Stevens and
next Saturday. The chairman of Wom the seventh company from Medford
en’s Work Committee of each local i making the noise, up to date we have
Grange was appointed to look after been spectators, and it looks as
wurK in their local
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I though we will continue to be the
that work
Grange.
The matter of the County Fair waa same. About all the shooting that we
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of the sruard«
guard, acci-
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brought up. Mr. Maxwell suggested ' dently pull the trigger and he gets
that the management of the fair be i court martialed when that happen,.
appointed early in the year. Mrs. M.
This will be a week of intensive ar
F Worthington spoke on the fair and tillery drill, infintary drill wa, to be
thought the Fair Board should publish discontinued entirely We actually put
receipts and disbursements so the peo , in five hours in artillery drill, the rest
of the time wa, devoted to watching
ple could see what the expenses were. the other companies at drill and
A motion was made that the Pomona waiting for dry weather. It wa, neces
appoint a committee of one to w«rk ( sary for the first company of Fort
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with a like committee of one tn
in each Steven, to use our telephone system
local Grange to bring up the names of in connection with heir shooing, also
the observing tower which we use for
parties to recommend to the Court as our own battery.
member, of th. Fair Board to be ap
Telephon, form an important part
pointed and to recommend a manager j in artillery work The range finding
of the fair. Oscar Tittle wz. appoint, instrument, manned by observer,
ed for the Pomona Grange.
The from the company are located some
Grange, seemed to be interested in I distance from the gun and after the
Pomona Grange Meeting.
. range of the target has been deter
mined it is sent by telephone to the
plotting room and from there to the
guns after some corrections have
been made for wind and atmosphere.
Artillery is a very exact science and
no shots are ever fired until it has
been determined definitely that they
will land near the targe.
The sevenh company has been
gloating over the fact that they had a
fifteen foot road in front of their
tents to use as a company street
while the tenth company had a croolc-
id narrow lane. Since the rain started
the seventh company street is one sea
of bottomless clay. Fortunately our
camp including the company street is
on a foundation of crushed rock, and
the drainage is good. Until the real
sou' wester starts! we will not need
to worry about weather.
During the past week the boys have
been sticking much more to camp
than formerly. This was due to an
order published limiting the number
of passes to five per cent of the
Company’s strength during the week
and ten per cent from Saturday to
Monday. The boys are very much dis
appointed at the order as most of
them arc anxious to take a trip home
before the rainy weather sets in.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Imlah were vis
itor, last Friday. Mr,. N. J. Myer,
ha, moved to Chinook and is seen in
camp more or les, frequently.
\ye are rejoicing in the fact that
During one of his esritar campaigns
Francisco Villa had an America*
movie photographer, Burrud by name,
attached to bls staff, who spent *
good deal of his time taking picture*
of the excessively vain “general’’ him
self. Sometimes, however, Burrud wa*
called upon to undertake more stren
uous operations. The following story,
for instance, is told tn Francis A. Col
lins’ “The Camera Man:“
"Burrud was called outdoor» unex
pectedly at sunrise one morning and
directed to report, with hta camera, at
once to headquarters. When he arriv
ed, coatless and breakfastless, before
Villa's tent he was told that the gen
eral had decided to have aome twenty
prisoners shot and wanted a moving
picture taken of the execution. The
prisoners, most of them political mere
ly, were to be butchered to make a
moving picture scene.
“Burrud feigned to examine his cam
era closely and then explained to the
general that his films were bad and
that it would be impossible to take the
picture until a new supply had arrived.
Villa was disgusted to miss the enter
tainment, but the camera man Insisted
that there was no use In mnklng the
exposure, and the picture and the ex
ecution were put off several days.
“By the time the next supply of films
arrived the general had fortunately
changed bls mind and the men were
saved.”
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there is but one more shot in the arm
to come. We have now receiver five
besides one and in sonic cases two
small pox vaccinations.
The tenth company is surely not
starving to death. Most of the boys
are gaining in weight. Our meals are
probably more plain than we had in
Tillamook but we are getting a liber
al quantity at each meal and the food
is well cooked. As a matter of fact a
number of officers of the post who
aree not assigned to any particular
company have acquired the habit of
coming to our table foj their meals.
From coal we chiefly draw the sun's
stored energy, which is required to
meet our Industrial and commercial
needs. According to statistical records,
the output in the United States during
an average year Is 480,000,000 tons. In
perfect engines thia fuel would be suf
ficient to develop 500,000,000 horsepow
er steadily for oue ^ear, but the squan
dering Is so reckless that we du not get
more than 5 per cent of Its beating
value on the nverage. A comprehen
sive electrical plan for mining, trans
porting and using coal could much re
duce thlj appalling waste. What is
more, inferior grades, billions of tons
of which are being thrown uwuy, might
be turned to profitable use.—Nikola
Tesla In Collier’s Weekly.
The Color Cure.
To cure smallpox was apparently a
very simple matter In the good old
times. John of Gsddeston, court doc
tor to Edward II., has recorded that
he got rid of the disease by the simple
expedient of wrapping his patients In
red cloth. “Let scarlet red be taken,”
he says, “and let lilin who is suffering
from smallpox be entirely wrapped In
It or In some other red cloth. I did
thua when the son of the illustrious
king of England suffered from small
pox. I took care that all about his lied
should be red, and that cure succeeded
very well.”—Loudon Tatler.
Raising Gwoo.
Constipation the Father of Many Ills
The raising of geese was a profitable
occupation of farming in England
years ago, and some farmers bad flocks
of 8.0UQ or 10,000. Each goose pro
duced a shilling's worth of frathe ns
every year and quills to the value of
threepence. The quills were used for
pens.
Of the numerous ill that affect hu
manity, a large share start with con
stipation. Keep your bowels regular
and they may be avoided. When a
laxative is needed take Chamberlain’s
Tablets. They not only move the
bowels but improve the appetite and
strengthen the digestion. For sale by
Lamar's Drug Store.
Easy.
Bill—He always said he'd never mar
ry until the right girl came along.”
Jill—Well, how does he know that the
one be Is about to marry la the right
one?
“Oh, she told him she was.”—Yon
kers Stnteainau.
How to Give Good Advice.
The best way to give good advice
is to set a good example. When
others see how quickly you get over
your cold by taking Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy they are likely to fol
low your example. This remedy has
been in use for many years and en
joys an excellent reputation. For sale
by Lamar’s Drug Store.
Neighbors.
“Whqt sort of neighbors have yoti?“
“The usual sort Cost us just s lit
tle more than I earn to keep up with
’em.”—Detroit Free Press.
What a happy world this would bo
If every man spoke ss well of bls Hr*
neighbors as be dues of his dead uneel