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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT What tie Editors Say. ----- o- That Texas minister who announces that he is going to leave the word "obey” out of marriage ceremonies i* probably starting a movement for the conservation of useless words.—News 1 tines. ------o- - The news dispatches report many more of our boys now over in France Many more will go within the next few weeks. The movements thus far have been accomplished without loss of a single man. We may have five or len million there before we stop the Kaiser’s mad onslaught.—News Times. The "calling down” the German submarine commanders undoubtedly received after that week when they sank only one large British vessel must have been something to remem ber, for they have been stirred to fearful efforts since. Even at that, however, their score has been under the average.—Oregon Register. ------ o------ Why docs not the administration at Washington begin a drive on the excessive tobacco users? By limiting this absolutely useless and expensive habit to one or two “smokes” a day, and investing the surplus in govern ment war securities. A few millions would soon be added to the war chest —Willamina Times. Every man who speaks in praise of the kaiser’s actions is thrusting the swords of unrest into the vitals of his own country. It is these çhaps, infest ing every town, village and hamlet who are discouraging our young men from the path of duty. They are worse enemies to the flag than is the enemy in the trenches. Fight the foes at home.—Seaside Signal. ------ o— 1 lie inter state commerce commis sion has at last recommended to the government what the press of the country has been prophesying, nam ely that all the railroads of the land be taken under control as a war measure. It is proposed to pool every railroad into a mammoth system to operated under the direction of some central body.—Sheridan Sun. ------o------ It took France twenty years to emerge from a monarchy to a repub lic. The “reign of terror” which be gan with the destruction of the Bas- tile in 1789, as compared with the do ings today in Petrograd, will give much hope to the lover of humanity and liberty that the Russians will yet emerge into the sunshine of liberty such as has the great French nation. Give Russia time and she’ll make it. —Telephone Register. ------o------ From local grocers it is ascertained that some people went to the stores Triday morning to purchase sacks of sugar, because an announcement had been made by the state food admin istration to limit purchases to $1.00 worth. The fellow that wanted to buy a sack was not as patriotic as he might be. The proclamation has gone out to save sugar, and it must be ob served. Grocers have been asked to report buyers of sugar who infringed on the new regulation.—McMinnville News-Reporter. The Brazilian Cabinet resolved to send the six best units of the Brazil Navy to European waters to aid the allies. Brazil is showing her faithful colors and does not propose to let that egotistic ruled, Big-Bluff-Bill, the blood-thirsty, satisfy his satanic low-lifed greed by stealing their coun try from them as he had planned. The Brazilian people were informed of the kaiser thing’s uncqualed low down treachery just in time and it did not take Brazil long to send everyone of the kaiser thing's official tools back home where they belong, And they were sent home in disgrace, consider ed pirates and highway robbers. 1 hey were lucky to escape.—Banks Herald ------— You may be surprised to know that there is no flag of truce in this war for burying the dead and caring tor the wounded between the fighting lines. It was abandoned by the allies more than a year ago. Time alter time the German soldiers advanced under a flag of truce, only to deceive English and French troops and then make a bloody attack. Other times when English or French advanced un der a flag of truce they were deliber ately shot to pieces by order ot Ger man officers. The allies put up "* 1 this as long as they could • sking for flag J>f J™« is never used. i------ — 1 Telephone coast to° coast meat and From wheat saving days are gaining in - * New ’ r York a majority popu arity. In -- ----- are of the restaurants are observing the ,;„g of these commod- days for the saving < Thc New York Stock Exchange UK'S, ini' itics. Club has officially adopted two mea heatless days » cacti less and two whcatless ■ -in 160 week. - In Wisconsin — hotels in one saving of approxi- month effected a mately 17 per r cem ccnt j", meat, and 14 AU Pub,\ 7?.’" s per cent in „ wheat. w Colorado houses in C-------- observe whea ano meatless days. d.,.x More ‘ban and the 00 '1,n,,'K.car.St^'C'hC’v" ..... atlcss meatiest trv have pledged to hav govs all and whcatles. days. And so it over the country.—Itemizer ----- o— — remark: We overheard one man •Why should I cat k»’.,ha" the . sol- vy ha.« 1.1 «1 Ih« Th««««, several reasons, but lhre ,ol. cient: So as to be sure that 01 I * p him alive; because the man at i “ sarv ¿ ? uh,"g real,y man It h"” hJ‘*n al‘Ve; because ‘he man at home does not risk his prec- •ous hie in defense of hi. country and property interests, and the boys at the front do Some men are not ex- \V y’.but ,hey do not think — Woodburn Independent. ----- A California editor was walking down the street one day, feeling rath er gay—probably had just landed a two inch double column "ad." from somebody—when he ran across the sheriff holding a public auction. He forthwith bid two dollars on a parcel of land which the official was selling tor taxes or something. The property was "knocked down" to him. Mr. Editor Man kicked about paying the two plunks—probably didn’t have them by him—but by some hocus pocus managed to raise the money and paid it over. Afterwards he dis covered that he had bought 500 acres of land, worth $1500. The historian doesn’t say what the editor did next, but as California is not a prohibition state, it perhaps may be surmised.— Observer. —0— There is no reason why the smelt of our Oregon rivers should not take the place of the world-famous sardine and the food economists are begin- ing to find this out. The number of true sardines now consumed is small in proportion to the whole nu^iber canned under the name. Vast quanti ties of sprat serve the purpose in the English markets, and only epicures are able to distinguish them from the Mediterranean sardines which orig inally derived its reputation for su perior excellence from French skill in treating it with wine and olive oil. The manhaden of our own Atlantic Coast also does duty as a sardine when canned for export. There is no good reason, however, why the Pa cific Coast smelt should require any camouflage to insure it a market. There is no prejudice against it, and it is so good to cat that it ought to make a name for itself on its own merits if marketed with care.—Ore gonian. No Place or Time For Treason. In 1776 the War of the Revolution, there were hundreds and thousands of Tories, and the colonies were far from united: yet they achieved their freedom and founded a republic, "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” In 1812-15, the second war with Great Britian, the young Nation was so far from a unit that some of the states refused to furnish their levies of soldiers—notably Massachusetts and Conneticut. In 1846-48, the war with Mexico, with a background of extension of slavery, the South dragged the North unwillingly into conflict with a weak er neighbor. In 1861-65, the war of the Union, no state, and no county in any state, was free from the taint of copper- headism. In 1898, the war against Spain, the sentiment was farely well united; but the controversies over the result of the war were serious. Now, in 1917. in the great war for the freedom of the world and the preservation of civilization, the Unit ed States is of one mind, one soul, one heart, one voice, one body. Witness the declaration of war against Austria passed by Congress without a dis senting vote in the Senate, and one in the house—a Socialist. The one Sen atorial obstructor, I.a Follette, is ob viously so awed by the determination of the people and fearful of their wrath, that he absents himself from his place in the Senate. He is a lone some traitor. Let traitors—actual, potential, sec ret, or fifty-fifty—beware. The time is here when the people, sobered by the deadly nature of the conflict, and im pressed by the knowledge that the National existence and their personal fortunes are in the balance, will assess treason or half treason at its worth, and deal with it accordingly.— O r e g o n i a Now, Come Across. now be purchased at any postoffice. 1 The certificates are in denominations of $5 and the thrift stamps in denom inations as low as 25 cents. Can any one say the chance lor war invest ments has not been placed within the ■ reach of all? Those who were honest in saying that the bonds should have been issued in smaller denominations will buy the “baby” bonds and thrift stamps. Those who were merely talk ing may have to shut up for a while. —The Signal. DECEMBER IS, 1917. Why Pay More for your Smoking and Chewing Tobacco or Cigars. Good Havana Cigars—5c. Each. SMOKING TOBACCO: Potability of a German Offensive. Already German appears to have begun on the Western front the proc ess, to which it has long looked for ward, of using its eastern armies in 1 offensive action against the soldiers . of France and England. General Byng’s surpise victory in front of Cainbrai probably forced the German hand, but it is only reasonable to sup pose that some such attack as that of last Friday would soon have taken ( place in any case. The Russian situa- , tion now is such that, regardless of the ultimate outcome of peace or ar- | mistice negotiations, the bulk of Ger- ( man troops can safely be withdrawn , for concentration opposite the allied lines in the west. That this concentra- : tion of large numbers of men and guns has for some time been going on . there is little reason to doubt. The heavy German attack in the | Cambrai sector, accompanied by a > less violent onslaught at Verdun, may | prove to have been only the first j waves of a really important attempt by Hindenburg to take the offensive in the west after more than a year of being satisfied with holding his own. If this turns out to be the case it will be because he has now sufficient men for a desperate undertaking of this kind. Reports from Cambrai state that the German forces in Friday’s attack were the greatest since the first battle of Ypres. In that battle there were 600,000 Germans against something like 150,000 English. If 20 divisions were in the German at-t tack of last week, as the English dis I patches assert, the odds may have I I ’ been almost as great as they were at Ypres. The issue at stake was, oi course, much less. Would a great German offensive ! overwhelm the allied lines? With | Verdun in mind, there seems very lit tle danger. The possibility that any ; new German effort could excel that ( of Verdun is most remote; and the ( net gain to Germany in that campaign 1 was practically nothing. But this does 1 not alter the fact that the Germans may now be pulling themselves to I gether for another Verdun, in which American troops will be among the participants.—Spokesman Review. Hun Cradle Song. In a note accompanying, the writer of the subjoined verses says: "The enclosed is horrible—it has a horrible subject. Will you print it? It may help impress the horror of the forced child bearing in Hunland! What manner of viper will be bred?” Sleep, little Frankenstein, sleep. Thy mother o’er you her watch will keep. I, thy mother, was but a child, From my play and books beguiled, By the kaiser’s will defiled. Sleep, little Frankenstein, sleep. Sleep, little Frankenstein, sleep. The kaiser o’er us his watch will keep. Child of rape and trembling fear, 1 know naught of thy father, dear. Save his eyes with their lustful leer. Sleep, little Frankenstein, sleep. Sleep, little Frankenstein, sleep. The Beast o’er us his watch will keep, Begotten, born and bred for war, Spawn of the Dragon’s Teeth you are! On nature’s face a monstrous scar! Sleep, little Frankenstein, sleep. —Jessica Margaret Arthur. Ashland, Ore. Germans Lose East Africa. ------o------ London, Dec. 3—"East Africa has been completely cleared of the enemy This official announcement was made tonight. German East Africa, which has a coast line of about 620 miles and an estimated area of 384,000 square miles was attacked by the British forces, including South African troops under General Jan Christian Smuts from the north and by Belgian and Portugese troops from the South and West. The campaign began early in 1915- Prior to this, British East Africa has been invaded, and General Smuts found that he had to contend with an army of about 50,000 native troops aided by 3000 Germans and possessing power ful artillery. Starting on March 8 the British troops in two weeks of hard fighting drove the German army off British territory and had cleared a consider able section of their country. With the loss of East Africa, all of her colonics have been taken from Germany. These had an area of more than one million square miles and a population of about 14,000,000 includ- ing 25,000 whites. ------o------ During the’Liberty Bond campaign there were a few who persisted in saying that the war was being con ducted for the benefit of the men with money. Despite the fact that the bonds were put in denominations as low as $50, there were many who claimed that that put them above the reach of many. Many who made such statements were honest in making them. Others made them just to have some excuse for argument against the manner of the conduct of the war, and still others made them merely be cause they didn’t know any better. Jf any war has been conducted in a manner to give the wealthy no ad vantage over the poor, this war has bcm conducteif in that manner, The | intention was to place the bond» | within the reach of all. In the c ' sertotion law no advantage was given the'rich in fact they got a little the worst of it. In the Red Cross and Y. How To Prevent Croup. M C \ drives, the amounts to be o------ subscribed were apportioned accord- | In a child that is subject to attacks ing to wealth and the wealthy were first indication w. croup, the _______ __ tbe visited bv local committees who knew of 1 disease is hoarseness. Give Chamber I how much they were able to g.ve. The final stroke that forever takes lain’s Cough Remedy as soon as the Awav the argument that any advant child becomes hoarse and the attack age is given the rich 1. the placmg on may be warded off and all danger Mid sde of "baby bonds" or saving ser- 1 anxiety avoided. For sale by Lamar s tificates and thrift stamps, which can | Drug Store. Prince Albert Texedo Velvet - UnionfLeader - Pedro, 16 oz. Dixie Queen, 14 oz. Gold Shoe, 16 oz. - Petterson Seal, 14 oz. Union Leader, 16 oz. 10c. a Can. 10c. 9 9 10c. 9 9 10c. a Package. 65c. 9 9 60c. 9 9 65c. f 9 60c- 9 9 60c. * • CHEWING TOBACCO: Star - - Horse Shoe - Climax - - Spear Head • Tigar - 10c. a Cut. 10c. a Cut. 10c. a Cut. 10c. a Cut. 5c. a Package. 60c. pound. 60c. > » 60c. » * 60c. Buy your Tobacco from us and save Money XMAS GOODS ! “Cured!” Mrs. Gus Griffith, of Everton, Mo., writes: “I suffered for three years ■with various female troubles. My life was a miserv. 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