/ A / 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. —o------ 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. * 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 ' 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 — o------ 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 —L ( rr 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. ------ o------ 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. I What Tillamook People Have Done in Drive. 1 Ï 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 ------ o------ 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 * 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. O 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. 1 k (Continued on 7th Page.) I 1