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
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