DECEMBER 20, 1917 TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT BLACKEST PAGES IN ALL HISTORY quSn:SUbliSh‘ng th' ,fUth b**°nd be a drag on them in the battle line. I “Review of German~War Practices’ With E/00" 1S J°U C°me 10 blows And I think they will—say, if you see Bill, or Jim, or Sam, or Lew, tell .nerev I, ,nlmy ,h‘ *«' b5 »>«“«• No i Just Issued. them Martha and Si said to fight and pages in all will be L-. * Slo*n- No prisoners die for old Red, White and Blue. Attila nin 1r AS thC ^uns undtr king history, comprising a documentary x chi n/T' f0r ‘hemselve, Good bye, boy, good luck attend, our in trad»>°ns and ' blessing and our prayer, and a mes record of “deeds that make one des- levenhl t ! pair for the future of the human race ’ m!n h day’ may ,he naine of Ger- sage of love to the stalwart six in the big ’out there somewhere.” found in a book named "German d ! J0 in China hy vour J are War Practices,” which has just been gain'.“1 no,ChineSC sha'' ever THE GUNNERS STORY issued at the Government Printing Unce t0 ’c°k at a German a office by the committee on Pubilc ' ’ . • -Open the way for Kul- Information for free distribution It is ure one tor all."—From the Kaiser’s A Fighting Soldier's Plea for the Suf fering War Horse. edited by Prof. D. C. Mun rue, of speech to the soldiers on the eve of lh™’departure for China i in 1900. Princeton, and other scholars Whenever a national war breaks By Lient. L. Fleming, British Army. The dumfounding evidence which this book presents to the jury of out, terrorism becames a necessary W hen the shells are buxsting round mankind is drawn mainly from Ger- military principle.’’—General --•-1 Von Making creaters in the ground Hartmann. man and American sources and in- I he city of Brussels, exclusive of And the rifle fire’s something awful > eludes official proclamations and ut cruel, terances of the responsible heads of UJ,Rburbs’ bas been punished by an When you ‘ear them in the night letters and diaries of German soldiers additional fine of 5,000.000 francs on I (My Gaud it makes you fight!) quotations from German newspapers account of the attack made upon a And yer thinks of them poor souls erman soldier by Ryckere, one of its and material drawn from the archives agoing ’ome, of the State Department which lay police officials.”—Baron Von Luett- When you ’ear the Sergean’ shout bare the story of inconceiveble Ger witz, Governor of Brussels. 1 am thirsty; bring me some beer, "Get y’r respirators out,” man atrocities. gm, rum, If you lie to me I will have Then you looks and sees a cloud of The purpose of the book is to show something white. you shot immediately.”—These sen that the system of frightfulness, itself the greatest atrocity, is the definite tences are taken from a phrasebook The gas is coming on policy of the German Government, so supplies to German soldiers, accord An yer knows before it's gone ing to Minister Brand Whitlock. 1 hat the ’orse wots with you now sinister that the German soldiers One cannot make war in a senti won’t be by then; have themselves at times revolted. Individual acts of wanton cruelty and mental fashion. The more pitless the \ er loves him like yer wife barbaric destruction are cited only to conduct of the war, the more humane An yer wants to save 'is life it is in reality, for it will run its But they aint no respirators, not for illustrate the operations of the remor course all the sooner.”—General Von them. seless system. Bernhardi. I was standing by 'is side The book supplements the Bryce "The innocent must suffer with the On the night my old ’orse died report which was the first official guilty. . . .All this must not in our An I shant forget ’is looks toward the survey of the path of horror, ruin and eyes weigh as much as the life of a last death left by the German army on the single one of our brave soldiers—the ’E was choking mighty bad, lands of innocent and defenseless righteous accomplishment of duty is An ’is eyes was looking mad people. The book is supplemental the emanation of a high Kultur, and An 1 seed that—'e e—was dying—dying also to the offical reports by the Bel in that the population of the enemy fast. gian Commission and the French countries can learn a lesson from our An I want to tell yer ’ow Minister of Foreign Affairs, and it armies.”—General Von Bissing. It’s the 'orses wots gets us through, reveals more of the damning German How to get the book—Address For they strain their blooming hearts war philosophy as expressed in the , Committee on Public Information, 10 out when they’re pressed. German White Book and various of Jackson Place, Washington D. C. Re ficial utterances, extenuating revolt quest one copy of German War Prac We was galloping like ’ell, When a bullet ’its old Nell ing crimes on the grounds of exped tices. I c’d see the blood a streaming down iency and the advancement of that her face “Kultur” which now mocks its own The Bugle Call. It 'ad got her in the ’ead, name throughout the civilized world. But she stuck to it and led The humanity of German soldiers Till we comes to action righ, (By Charley L. Gant.) was so torn by the system of brutal V es sir, all six of our boys have And then she fell. ity that they cried out in letters to Ambassador Gerard, one expressing gone; this here’s a picture of Jim, six I 'adent time to choose his protest against the slaughter of foot, one in his stocking feet, the rest 1 ’ad to cut her loose the Russians in the Masurian lakes wire taller than him—except Baby For she’d done all she c’d afore a gun and swamps by saying. "There is no Bill, who was five foot ten, and we When 1 looks at ’er again God, there is no morality, and no thought the runt would stay at home She was out of all her pain ethics any more; there are no human with us, but the little cuss he ups and An I 'opes her soul will rest for wot marches away. This is the likeness of she done. beings any more, but only beasts.” The illuminating reports of Brand Bill the runt, our baby, just twenty- If it ’adent been for Nell one. And 1 ’ 11 tell you stranger, he ’ s We would all have been in ’ell Whitlock, Minister of Belgian, tell of miseries inflected upon the Belgian got the grit and knows how to handle For we only got in action just in time people, Mr. Whitlock saying: “One a gun. Yes, 1 know they may all get Aint it once occurred to you is so overwhelmed with the horror killed "somewhere over there,” in the Wot the 'orses there go through? of the thing itself, that it has been, pit, But Martha and me arc proud of They ’elps to win our fight and does it fine. and even now is, difficult to write the fact that the boys are doing their bit. This one .is Sam, our oldest lad. calmly and justly about it.” When 'is blood is flowing 'ot Herbert Hoover, writing for this Let's see, he’s six feet, two, bone and From a wound that ’e’s just got sinew, and lightning quick, and trusty book of his experiences in Belgium, An 'is breath is coming'ard and short says: "The sight of the destroyed and brave and true. Sam started the and thin, thing when he volunteered in the city homes and cities, the widowed and ‘E can see the men about one night last fall, and when he come fatherless, the destitute, the physical home in his uniform that settled the Getting water dealed out misery of the people but partially thing with all. It was mighty hard for But not a drop is brought to comfort nourished at best, the deportation of him; to see them go, but we had to do our men by the tens of thousands to slav rlia-e, so our six boys are defending Tho 'is tongue is parched and dry ery in German mines and factories, the flag at the front "over there ’E can see the water by the execution of men and women for But’is wounds arc left to bleed somewhere.” paltry effusions of their loyalty to This picture here is four years old, An 'c can't tell us 'is need their country, the sacking of every it’s a photograph of our Lew, he’s just So ’e’s just got to bear ’is pain—an resource through financial robbery, think. the likeness of me, they say, along the fattening of armies on the slender about sixty-two when 1 volunteered— There are 'eros big and small OW much is spent in your family for Christmas presents given to produce of the country, the denuda this one is Walt, the other one is But the biggest one of them all one another ? Amounts to a substantial sum in the aggregate, tion of the country of cattle, horses, Nick’s and I’ll bet no parents in all Is the ’orse wot lays adying on the and textiles; all these things we had the land have given a nobler six than doesn’t it? And, after all, many of the gifts aren’t perhaps exactly ground to witness, dumb to help other than these boys of our hearts, boys of our ’E doesn't cause no wars appropriate. So often they reflect the donor’s tastes rather than the by protest and sympathy, during this lives, boys of our blood and bone who And 'e’s only fighting yours recipient’s. long and terrible time, and still these are fighting the fight in the trenches An ”e gives 'is life for you without a are not the events of battle heat, but while we wait at home alone. 1 he Nowadays many families are eliminating the numerous small presents. sound. the effect of a grinding heel of a runt, that’t Bill, we thought he’d stay, ’E doesn’t get no pay They achieve the little personal touch through a card or leaflet And race demanding the mastership of the but he hard the bugle call, so he vol Just some oats and perhaps some hay they pool their Christmas funds for the purchase of one really worthwhile world. All these things arc known to unteered and when they went, why If ’e’s killed no-one thinks a bit of im gift one which will pay for bigger dividends in real solid enjoyment to the world—but what can never be the runt he lead them all, and we just 'E’s just as brave and good known is the dumb agony of the peo felt a sad sweet pain, but we did not As any man wot ever stood each member of the family. ple, the expressionless faces of mi - plead nor sigh when we saw our But there’s mighty little thought or lions whose souls have passed the stalwart lads march forth to the field 'elp for ’im. whole gamnt of emotions. And why. to fight and die. We smiled and said: Because these, a free and den;ocrat‘c “God bless you boys," and as the Note: Since the above poem was re people, dared plunge their bodies be bugle blew we waved farewell to six ceived from the trenches in France fore the march of autocracy. “ The Photograph with a Soul” brave men who were willing to dare by the American Red Star Animal Frederick W. Wilcott’s description and do. And stranger, when the Relief, Lieutenant Fleming has given makes an ideal group gift. It adds some between the living artist’s rendition and of devastated Poland breezes waft to our ears the bugle s his life to the cause of human liberty. the monstrous woes inflicted y that of the record. This is not a mere blare, our hearts are fighting with The voice which comes to us as it thing real and vital to the life of each Prussian system upon those defense them in the trenches “out there were from a sphere where dumb claim ; it is a demonstrated fact. The member of the family. You can ’ t meas brutes do not suffer is a call to civil famous tone tests in which thirty great somewhere.” ure what it mean to dollars and cents. Sit up strangear and have a bite, ization to do his duty by the silent musicians sang or played in direct com the book, Vernon Kellog said. J let's see this is "Hoover day” and we heroes of wan____ It stands for countless happy hours ; de parison with the New Edison’s Re-Crea I went into Belgium and occupied got no meat, but sit right up and we 11 AND HOW ABOUT YOU? lightful evenings spent in absorbing the tion of their respective inter pretations France a neutral and I maintained make out anyway. I’m not an advo world’s great music ; listening to the proved the truth of our assertion, Out of while there a steadfastly neutral be cate of war; I’d much rather peace What Happens When We Try toSing more than a million listeners, not one havior, but I came out no ncutraU would reign, I’d rather see the field- world’s greatest artists. "Star Spangled Banner.” I could tell when the voice left off and the . . .1 went in also a hater of war, grow green than glow with crimson I Oh, say, can you sing from the start record began. The New Edison is comparable to no but 1 came out a more ar'¿'’neradic. stain, but I never could see that flag to the end, what so proudly you stand ! Come into our store and hear the of war, lalso came out with ‘««‘T hauled dawn by a war-mad kaiser % other phonograph, It actually re-create« for when orchestras play it; when the wonderful instrument. The proof of the hand and the rack of his desola- ably conviction, again, tha whole congregation, in voices that the artist's voice or the music from his tion spread throughout all freedom s blend, strike up the grand hymn, and New Edison is in the hearing. And think way in which Germany under it P instrument. By re-creates we mean thnt over our suggestion of its purchase as a ent rule and in its present " land. I’d give six more sons if I could then torture and slay it? How they mind can be kept from domg what >t for Liberty and right, to see that tag bellow and shout when they’re first no human ear can detect the difference family gift. has done is by force of «m»’ he forever float on Freedom s mountain starting out, but ' the dawn s early height-free and untremmi edas t he The book gives excerpts light finds them, floundering about, diaries of German solcacr^ q( wind above my native hills that tis "The Star-Spangled Banner” why our boys are at the front, to fight they’re trying to sing, but they donit these arc specimens. Saint- the’ fight that kills the tyrant hands know the words of the precious old August Maurice was punished . hurnt ¿at fain would bind the sordid chains thing. . , TILLAMOOK, ORE. ed on German soldiers by bemg du Hark! The ‘twilight s last gleaming has some of them stopped, but the to the ground by th' Cr'”urrounded, , . .The village was surr valiant survivors press forward ser- enelv to "the ramparts we watched , men posted about a yar * t another, so that no one couhl get where some others arc dropped and who fight in honor s nam Then the Uhlans set fire to d « Qf the loss of the leaders is manifest > H. T. Botts, Preu Attorney ’«nt'strängen why are you at home, keenly. Then ‘the rocket’s red glare DR. WISE < Ht-Lnw. by house; neither man th['grcatef £ xrra gives the bravest a scare, and there s child could escape, o J John Leland Henderson, Sec- carried oil, Can*be'*Found on That will produce four few left to face the “bombs bursting part of the livestock: wasi t-« who ' ret ary Treas., Attorney.at- in the air"—’tis a thin line of heroes Good Crops of Alai fa in / as that could be use • ■ down Law and Notrary Public. MONDAY AT TILLAMOOK that manage to save the last of the ventured to come ou village ? ear, at Prices in reach of I 1 Have some more o verse and "the home of the brave. — Freedoms sake Have , All the inhabitants left -> h« TUESDAY AT CLOVERDALE all. $50 to $ 165 per acre. Tillamook Title and were burnt with the o The ,hetHtken That’s righir let Martha Ladies Home Journal. Located in Northern Cali WEDNESDAY at TILLAMOOK “A horrible bath of to shake. T ,.,j „ yOur Abstract Co. fornia. Announcement. THURSDAY AT TILLAMOOK whole village bur , houses, civ- Law, Abstracts. Real Estate, ------ o------ plate- thrown into the burning For information write VV. v—- no, you .,rv and late. You re that FRIDAY AT TILLAMOOK Insurance. Mrs. J- C. Holden announces — .he will open her Piano Studio, Sept. stuff- ilians was the rest. , wa, KAmerica stuff B. S herman , Yreka. Cali Botti Phones. made >f the rea. /' “ '* ’ beer$ to the SATURDAY AT WHEELER The reign of «rigtit German fornia ; or I*. E. W ai . hew , 1 for private and class instruction . way to TILLAMOOK —OREGON. the definite pohey by an gSltha. let* K,',c his to France, France, ’ Mrs. Holden is a graduate cf the Agent, Rameey Hotel, Till rro*hlheevolunteers I wish that Dunning Improved System of Music Both Phone*. government is testi ie fnts and amook, Or. ,d >ct |,ke you Study* and will establish classes u> amazing c0,1'‘“£ ° an officialdom he’,one of th* utterances of Germa docu- this method. i Herewith are e*cer.Ph 1 by German mentary proof furnished by Some of the”bla°ckest Christmas GIFTS That Always Please ELECTRIC SWEEPER, costs about lc. per hour to run. See our special oiler this Christmas. ELECTRIC GRILL, convenient, handy and useful. ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINE, none better. Cost about one cent per hour to run. ELECTRIC WASHING MACHINE is a wonderful labor saver and costs about two cents per hour to run. And many other things that are USEFUL AND PLEASE. Coast Power Co As F amily C hristmas G ift This Wonderful Instrument a H The NEW EDISON LAMAR’S DRUG STORE Irrigated Land **< e - V*“