TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
What tie Editors Say.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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1 Telephone
coast to° coast
meat
and
From
wheat saving days are gaining in
- * New
’ r York
a majority
popu arity. In
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of the restaurants
are observing the
,;„g of these commod-
days for the saving <
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New
York Stock Exchange
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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sertotion law no advantage was given
the'rich in fact they got a little the
worst of it. In the Red Cross and Y.
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