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TILLAMOOK. OREGON. OCTOBER 25, 1917.
»I.5o PER YEAR.
TILLAMOOK COUNTY MUST RAISE $80,000 !
Or Classed as a Slacker County in the Liberty Bond
Drive
—
Show
Your
Patriotism
and
buy
a
Bond.
Tillamook County Bank Heads List with $15,000—North End of County Comes Through with $12,000.
Our Last Appeal to
the People of
Tillamook County.
What a contrast! A large number of Tilla
mook young men not waiting to be drafted into
the army or navy, volunteered their services, giv
ing up good situations, some earning as much as
$125.00 a month. It will be noticed in another
page that quite a number of the young men of the
10th Company C. A. C., have subscribed for Lib
erty Bonds to the amount of $2,450.00. The
young Tillamookers are imbued with a genuine
patriotic spirit and they deserve to be commend
ed. But what about some of our wealthy citizens
who have done nothing to help the government
when it appeals to them to subscribe for a Liber
ty Bond? The editor feels a little disap
pointed that more of our citizens, especially the
dairymen, have not followed the splendid ex
ample of William Maxwell and others. The total
amount of subscriptions in Tillamook County
would look exceedingly small if it had not been
for the $10,000 subscription of the First National
Bank and $15,000 by the Tillamook County
Bank and a few others. Considering there are so
many persons in Tillamook County who are able
to subscribe, the number of subscribers, as will be
seen elsewhere in this issue are small in compar
ison to those who are financially able to come to
the nation’s assistance. We make another earnest
appeal to the people of Tillamook County to help
the government and this can be done by buying
a Liberty Bond. Do not delay. 1 he happiest peo
ple in Tillamook County today are those who
have bought Liberty Bonds. Consider the sacri
fices thousands of our citizens are making, giv
ing their lives for the country’s cause, as will be
seen by the casualty list, which grow larger
every day. Don’t let it be said of any of our citi
zens that they were well fixed financially, but
would not buy a Liberty Bond and assist the
government of the United States when it needed
their assistance. Tillamookers ought to be the
most patriotic citizens in the L nited States, con
sidering the many blessings and privileges they
enjoy. Those of our citizens who have not gi\en
this matter serious consideration should do so
immediately and come forward at once. 1 his is
the last opportunity the editor will have of ap
pealing to the people of T illamook county to do
their patriotic duty before the Liberty Loan
drive is ended. About $30,000 more is needed to
make up the $80,000 which is the quota for 1 llla-
mook County. It should be and can be raised it
the people of Tillamook County will do their bit.
It is now up to them to do so. Don’t let it be said
of Tillamookers and Tillamook County t lat 1
was in the slacker column.
Jim Dale.
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Young Jimmy Dale, across our street,
Is iust a gawky lad,
.
He grew so fast, the doctors said,
His heart was might bad;
They wouldn’t let him do much work
Or any hearty play
But just the same they dratted Jim
And Jim has gone away.
Jim was a sort of great, big kid
And fooling all the while
So when they ordered him to camp,
He went there with a smile.
AMERICA SPEAKS.
By William T. Perkins, Portland, Or.
Ye sons of Freedom, bring to me
With flaming hearts and bending
knee
Your offering to Liberty.
Ye are my sons; my bounteous breast
Hath nourished you, and on you prest
Its richest gifts; nor sought I rest.
Gaze now upon the golden fields;
Mark how the earth its fruitage
yields
Beneath the star strewn flag that
shields.
Behold thy cities, proud and strong;
Behold thy homes, where evensong
Ascends to heaven, free from wrong.
My noble sons! awake! arise!
Behold sad Europe’s smoking skies,
Gird ye my limbs ere Freedom dies.
Think now of Belgium’s fields °Ijed'
Behold where stricken France hath
bled;
Remember Lusitania’s dead.
My sons! my sons! your hearts I
know;
Being, then, thy gifts and let me go
"•th blazing sword to meet the foe.
Jim Dale is in the army now,
Lank legs, bum heart and alt
To fight like other drafted men
Who got the country s call.
'God, yes! Jim's heart may drop him
I
dead
.
1 Or he may live to be
Shot all to piece, over there
What odds to you or me.
Bv thunder! it’s these odds to you
If'kids like Jim can go.
With smiles, to fight our wars for us
We can put up the dough.
If we can buy a bond or two
\nd don’t, while Jim. poor cuss.
Goes smiling off to.death or wound,-
Then hell’, too good for us.
Don't forget those busted castings,
—Elfls Parker Butler of Vigilant,.
be welded for half. Goods sent
Free,—WhTle it lI,tS. T lb. G. K.
ky parcel post and express promptly
«turned. Hiner & Reed, Tillamook,
Oregon.
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Ray & Co.
alent in value to taxable bonds bear- time of war merchant vessels, wheth
! | ing as high as 9 per cent interest.
er neutral or belligerent, should not
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It was found that out of 4,UUO,000 be sunk by an enemy war vessel un
subscribers to the first Loan 3,960,- til the lives of the passengers and
000 subscribed in amounts of $10,- crews were first made safe.
Germany consistently since the out
000 and less, their aggregate sub
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scriptions approximating $1,300,000- break of the war has destroyed mer
America, says President Wilson, 000, or 62% per cent of the firs* is chant vessels on the high seas with
will not make a peace that is not bas sue. To most of these the exemption out warning, sending to death non-
ed on a rightful settlement of the from the supertaxes was of no value, combatant men and women and chil
principles for which the nation is and in many cases of little value, dren without mercy and in the most
fighting. The only end of the war is whereas to the 40,000 subscribers of brutal and ruthless fashion in defiance
a complete victory for the nations wealth who bought large blocks of of international law and every accept
representing democracy ideals over the Liberty Bonds the exemption ed rule of humanity and civilization.
the nations adhering to the German from supertaxes was worth much, to . The crowning act of infamy in Ger
many’s ruthless policy was the sink
doctrine of force. A German success some very much.
would mean not only the prevention
The Liberty Loan Bonds of the sec ing on May 7, 1915, of the Lusitania,
of the spirit of democracy but possib ond issue bear 4 per cent interest and i an unarmed passenger vessel, by
ly might include the suppression of are exempt from all State, municipal, which 114 American citizens, some of
that already existing.
and local taxation, except estate and them babes in arms, lost their lives.
On September 1, 1915 the German
The president voices the ideals and inheritance taxes, and all federal taxes
the determination of the American except superincome taxes, excess Government gave assurance to the
people. 1 here must be no compromise profits taxes, and inheritance taxes. United States that liners would not be
with the things that the German Im From these bonds the average Amer sunk without warning or without pro
perial Government stands for and has ican citizen, the moderate investor, vision for the safety of the lives of
practices. Germany sought to impose will receive a good return on his non-combatants. Six weeks later the
her “kultur” on the world; the result money loaned the government, 4 per British steamer Arabic was sunk and
is going to be that the American cent, which will be practically free three Americans lost their lives. The
ideals of liberty and right and justice from taxation. To the investor of German Government promptly dis
will prevail throughout the world, large income they give a fair return avowed the act, but scarcely had the
even in Germany.
subject only to those war taxes im disavowal been received before the
promise was broken again by the de
posed on large incomes.
The Liberty Loan Must Succeed.
struction of the Italian steamer An
The
principle
is
now
firmly
ground
How vital to the success of our
cona, by which seven American lives
ed
in
our
national
policy
that
grad
country in this war, how absolutely
were destroyed. The promise was re-
uated
taxes
shall
be
laid
upon
wealth
necessary to the success and the safe
ncwed many r times and violated many
in
order
that
the
burden
of
taxation
ty and the well being of our soldiers : may be equitably distributed and I | times, the ( j ierman
<
Government keep
and sailors who are offering their
ing no faith with the United States.
made
to
bear
more
heavily
upon
the
I
lives to their country is the success
Finally, on January 31, 1917 it
of the Liberty Loan is well expressed rich than the poor. The correctness of ■ brazenly declared that it would sink
the
principle
is
not
challenged.
It
is,
i
in the following extracts from the
neutral vessels within the war zone
speech of the Secretary of the Treas therefore, essential that government without warning, whereupon diplo
bonds
should
be
issued
upon
a
basis
ury McAdoo made before the Amer
matic relations between the United
ican Bankers’ Association at Atlantic which will be equally just to the poor States and Germany were severed.
man and the rich man, so that they
City:
But the sinking of theseships con
' "It is unon the Treasury of the may purchase government bonds up- trary to her pledged word to America
United States that every demand in on practically the same interest basis was not the only instance of German
time of war focuses, because every after allowing for the scales of taxa- perfidy. While professing friendship
tion.
thing goes back to the gold pile.
The second Liberty Loan Bonds to America', and while her ambassa
‘Every dollar that is paid to a sol
dor and representatives and citizens
dier, every pair of shoes he puts on are put upon such a basis. There will were enjoying our hospitality and re
his feet, every piece of clothing he not be created in this country a great ceiving our protection, the German
mass of securities congested into the
wears, every gun he carries, every
icr?i hands of the very rich i and wholly Government through these very men
catridge he fires, every 18-inch sl hell
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was plotting against the honor and
that is hurled from the monster guns free from taxation. The burden of safety of the United States, was
of our battleships, and every shovel taxation will not fall heavily on the blowing up munition plants, forment-
ful of coal that is consumed in their many to the exclusion of a few.
ing strikes and disturbances, dissemi
To Shorten the War.
boilers—everything that touches this
nating false information, and poison
war and involves a government ex
The effect of shortening the war of ing the minds of the American people
penditure— depends upon the money a heavy oversubscription to the sec and foreigners among us. Ambassador
in the United States Treasury. » » » ond issue of Liberty Lotn Bonds can Bernstorff was asking for money to
“The problem of the
American hardly be overestimated.
influence the American Congress, and
Treasury is the problem of the Amer However brave a front Germany may Zimmerman the foreign secretary in
ican people; it is the problem of endeavor to present to the outside Berlin, was urging .Mexico to make
keeping the Treasury supplied with world and to he,r own
people, the war upon us.
the means to carry forward the great truth is that she is facing
fearful odds
ug icanui
vuus . In all the history of the world there
business of the nation under the di and is in dire straits. The embargo I is no parallel in international infamy
rection of the Commander in Chief placed by President W ilson of Ameri- to compare with Germany’s conduct
of the Army and Navy of the United can shipments to neuti .Is s.ruck Ger toward the United States. "Punic
States, your President, whose glor many a body blow, and shipments to faith” furnishes no parellcl; Carthage
ious stand for America’s honor and her from South American countries professed no friendship for the nation
America’s rights, justice, civilization, are going to be stopped or greatly she broke faith with. It remained for
and democracy have made him one of curtailed through our influence and Germany in the twentieth century to
the world’s greatest outstanding fig our control over coal supplies needed establish a record for national perfidy
by their navies and industries. Ger and dishonor toward a friendly nation
ures.
“The problem is twofold. To supply many’s efforts for peace are dictated who had been not only fair and hon
essential credits to the allied Govern largely by fear of America and Amer orable but charitable and generous to
ments, because it is vital to our cause ica’s power. The German people are her people and her government.
that their strength and credit shall be crying for peace, and the time has
sustained; and, secondly, to meet our come or is shortly coming when the
German Imperial Government must
own requirements.”
Germany is Watching.
needs listen to the German people.
A Double Significance.
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They
are
being
fed
now
on
hopes
of
Special investigation has been com
After more than three years of war
pleted by the Pennsylvania Railroad victory and stories of dissensions
as to the purchase of the first issue of among the American people and a the German people have oversubscrib
Liberty Loan Bonds by its employes. lack of support of our Government by ed the seventh war loan. The amount
Two very significant facts were our people.
No more convincing
argument for which the government called was
brought out in the investigation—
$3,000,000,000—the same as the
first, that the employees of the rail could be made to the people of Ger minimum amount asked for as the
many
of
the
hopelessness
of
victory
road were liberal subscribers to the
second liberty loan of the United
Liberty Loan Bonds, there being beiryf obtained by continued fighting States—and this sum has been ex-
among them 52,782 subscribers, with than a great oversubscription to the ceeded by $107,500,000, not includ
subscriptions aggregating over $3,- Liberty Loan, demonstrating not on ing subscriptions from the front.
400,000. The other significant fact ly the tremendous power of America
This loan brings the total which
was that 8,146 employees of foreign but the fact that the American people Germany has borrowed to nearly
birth were subscribers to the loan. are whole-heartedly in favor of pros $16,000,000,000, or one-fifth of her
Thirty-four per cent of the native- ecuting the war with vigor and will national wealth. If the United States
born employees subscribed to the ing to finance our government to the had borrowed the same proportion,
bonds and 32 per cent of the foreign- limit.
Every purchase of a Liberty Loan its war loans would have reached a
born employees subscribed.
total of $48,000,000,000, If we should
The fact that the workingmen of the Bond not only supplies the sinews of raise the maximum sum set for the
country were liberal supporters of the war but it shoots a fact into the Ger second liberty loan—five billions—the
Liberty Loan is a fact of deep signifi man mind—the fact that the Ameri total would be only seven billions, or
cance, and the added fact that the for can people are behind the American a little more than one-seventh as
eign born work-men were practically army and behind the American presi much in proportion as Germany has
as strong in support of the loan as dent, and that there is no end to this raised.
the native born increases the signifi war except the achievement of the
Germany has done this with her
ends that America is fighting for.
cance.
foreign commerce dead, her industries
The figures of the Pennsylvania Every purchaser of a Liberty Loan dying, her people steadily growing
Railroad are given because they are Bond docs something to er.d the war, weaker through living on half rations.
known, but there is abundance _ of does something to shorten the war.
When you shorten the war you Notwithstanding all peace maneuvers,
reason to believe that an investigation
domestic agitation for peace, mutinies
of other large employers of labor will shorten the terms of our soldiers who in the navy and defeats on the west
show a similar result—that the work serve in France; you save many from ern front, there is no faltering on the
ingmen of America, whether born in death and suffering and privation. part of the German people as a whole
this country or abroad, sympathizes You save others from the dangerous They will back their government with
with the uses of the Liberty Loan, voyage across submarined seas and their money. While subscriptions to
appreciate the value of the bonds and the dangers of service in Europe. The the second liberty loan lag, we should
the patriotic nature of an investment success of the Liberty Loan will be a watch Germany; there is no lagging
shortening of the war and saving of
in them.
American lives. We have given our there.
Liberty Loan Bond»—Why the Inter cons to battle, we must lend our dol
Germany is watching us. If the
est Rate Was Changed.
lars to back them up, to make them loan falls short of the minimum of
The Liberty Loan Bonds of the first powerful and effective, and as safe three billions, or barely exceeds that
sum, it will be notice to Germany that
issue bore 3% per cent interest and and as secure as may be
were exempt from all taxation—Na
Our unconquerable determination America's heart is not in the war; that
for
lack of money'we shall not be
tional, State, municipal and local— to fight to the end, to fight to the last
except estate and inheritance taxes.
man and the last dollar must be mani able to send to France that great
They were exempt from superin fested between October 1 and Octob Army which she fears. If the total
come taxes and excess-profits taxes, er 27, 1917, and bring to the German should fall short of the maximum of
which have been imposed to meet ex people the hrrpelessness
of their five billions, it will be notice to Ger
penses of the war.
struggle in behalf of the German Im many that we are not disposed to put
The exemption from taxation is of perial Government against liberty, forth our full strength, as every other
little value to small subscribers, and right, and justice and the American warring nation is doing.
Failure to raise the maximum sum
it is desired to make the Liberty Loan people.
would be equivalent to an American
a great popular loan from the body of
The Perfidy of Germany.
reverse in baffle Failure to raise the
the people. The first Liberty Loan
It has been the rule of international minimum of three billions would be
Bonds were worth to small investors
law
honored
and
accepted
for
centur
equivalent to an American disaster.
only 3% per cent per annum; to men
of very large income they were equiv- ies by every civilized nation that in It would be a German victory which
Assistance.
would bring joy to the heart of the
cruel Kaiser.
The liberty loan must not fail. It
should not stop at three billions. It
should go on to five billions, even if
an extension of the time for receiving
subscriptions be necessary. The Am
erican people should arrange their af
fairs so that they can promptly raise
each sucessive loan for which the
Government calls. We have provided
the men, but money is as essential as
men. Not to provide the money is
desertion to our men.—Oregonian.
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What Tillamook People
Have Done in Drive.
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As the United States is at war, it is
the patriotic duty and responsibility
of every American citizen to rally to
its support, and by so doing hasten
the day of victory and the return of
permanent peace with all its blessings
With this knowledge of thç condi
tions actually confronting us, it is
incumbent upon all of our people to
subscribe to the Government’s Second
Issue of Liberty Loan Bonds to the
fullest extent of their means, both
present and expectant, to help defray
the W'ar expenses of our national gov
ernment. All should therefore com
mence at once to regulate their pri
vate and business affairs with this
idea and obligation clearly in mind.
A liberal subscription to this loan
will not only serve the National pur
pose but will also prove a sound and
profitable investment for you, in the
safest investment ever offered, name
ly 4 per cent interest paying bonds of
the United States Government and
our own beloved country, the land
and people upon which the preserva
tion of human rights and the unin
terrupted progress
of civilization
now largely depend.
It is a duty you owe to your coun
try and yourself to subscribe liberal
ly for the Liberty Loan ,Bonds. Let
us make sure that Tillamook County
shows her patriotic spirit by re
sponding generously to the demands
which our government is now mak
ing for financial support in the great
struggle to preserve democracy to
which our country is committed.
Any bank will handle your sub
scription without cost either to you
or to the government. Any informa
tion regarding these bonds will like
wise be gladly supplied you by any
bank.
Do not fail to enter your subscrip
tion for just as much as you possibly
can handle.
Nehalem Valley Bank.
North End of County Raises $12,000
H. E. Rinehart ....................... $ 100.00
Frank E. Cross.......................
200.00
W. A. Snyder .........................
100 00
A. C. Anderson .....................
200 00
Geo. C. Wilson .......................
50.00
C. E. English .........................
200.00
Geo. R. .MeKirnens ...............
250 00
I’. F. Cooper .........................
100.00
B. J. Cooper ...........................
50 00
R. J. Turner ...........................
100.00
L. L. Cooper...........................
100.00
Carl Plitzkow .......................
100.00
H. F. Effenberger.................
200 00
Rosie May Seeley .................
50.00
L. H. Riefenberg ...................
100.00
Eli Kopuntich .........................
100.00
R. S. French ...........................
500.00
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Editor Headlight, Tillamook Ore.
Dear Sir:—In addition to the list of
subscribers published in last week’s
issue of the Wheeler Reporter the
following subscriptions to the Second
Liberty Loan have been transcribed
by this bank:
Douglas Aitken
John W. Fonger
R. H. Cady
Nehalem \ alley Bank
Harriett M. Ford
H. V. Alley
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Mary M. Anderson
Laura Ruth
B. J. Cooper
Bert F. Ros,
S. Scovcll
F. P. Hiimke
Wheeler Lodge A. F & A. M.
Wheeler Lumber Co.
Chas W. Shunk
Mrs. G. L. Archibald
Mrs. A. S. Tilden
The total amount of these »„b
scriptions is $12,000.00 even and our
quota is only $7,000.00 making our
percentage 170 Of these $12,000.00
subscriptions $6050.00 will be paid
in full on the date of the bonds, Nov.
15 th.
Your, very truly,
W. C. Madden,
Ass’t Cashier.
Nehalem Valley Bank.
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We notice that the Brighton Mills
Co. subscribed $10,000 jn Portland
which should be credited to Tilla
mook, and would swell the subscrip
tion in the north part of the county
that amount.
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