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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT WITH THE EDITORS ——o— ■ Discuss Questions oí Interest to People. —o- Some silly bug who writes for the food conservation committee advises the people “to help themsedves to the potatoes. Eat one more each day.”— Willamina Times. It is claimed now by the food ad ministration leaders that congress made no provision for fixing the price of anything but wheat. If that is cor rect then it is high time that congress which organized the system in such shape as to permit of the great amount of profiteering get busy and change the law.—Capital Journal. ------ o------ It is reported that the county court of Polk county will expend from $7000 to $10,000 on the road leading from Salt Creek to Tillamook county through Buell and over the Butler lull When improved it is expected to cut of a considerable distance for all travelers from Salem to the coast. Much of the work will be done on the Butler hill and the grade greatly re duced.—Sheridan Sun. ■ -- 0------ This is no time for petty politics. The big fight is on over yonder. Our boys arc meeting death in one form or another by the score. Soon it will be by the hundreds of thousands. The men who put in their time lambasting some other men for something that may not have met their approval at the time, when the men attacked are using their strength and talent and time to help Uncle Sam win the war at the present time, are getting down to pretty small business.—Itemizer. The 50-50 rule on the sale of flour is all right. It is proper that persons buying white flour should be compell ed to use an equal amount of other stuff. But here is what is not right: Just as soon as the new rule went in to effect the profiteers raised the price of the substitutes a couple of times and now hav made them cost times and now have made them cost equivalent of a full sack of flour costs very near nine dollars. The 5°"5° rule may help the allies a little, but it helps the profiteers a whole lot more. But we will get this country organiz- ed after a while, let us hope, and handle that class of robbers as they should be handled.—'1 elephone Reg- ister. ------ o------ It is very plain to be seen that Chas N. McNary, alleged republican, and Ben Olcott, another alleged, are the two democratic candidates for United States Senator and Governor of Oregon, respectively, judging from the comments of the democratic press of the slate. Some more camouflage work to seat a couple of democrats at the expense of the republican voters of the state. As The News has said before they both need a good trini- tiling at the primary election. The ma- West-( Hcott-McNary political chine has been working overtime in Oregon for the past two years . No true republican will support either Olcott or McNary for the offices to winch they aspire.—Umpqua \ alley News. Every hamlet, every town and city, has its “war college” or rather a group of men who arc wont to gather to discuss various phases of the war. As one listens to the arguments and the theories advanced at these gather ings lie finds much of interest. Indi viduals who have scarcely been out of their home town philosphize on strat- egis army movements, give their im pressions of general::, and criticize or commend this move or that one, knowing little of the general lay of the terrain, scarcely knowing the geographical points they are talking about and still less of modern army tactics and movements as developed since the beginning of the war. The “War College” is an apparent evi dence of a keen interest in the mighty struggle "to make the world safe for democracy.”—News Reporter. ------ O ■ — Non-l’artisan l eague organizers ai< signing up hundreds of members a week in the state of Washington at $10 per, and are wispering the intor mation confidentially “that President W ilson is behind the 1 < ague.” . 0 support this they are exhibiting cop ies of a letter from President Wilson to Congressman Baer expressing his sympathy with the purposes of the league. So far as w< can learn this let ter has not been published, although it may have been. Information is also circulated that the president has writ ten direct to several organizers of the league commending their work and deprecating the assaults made on the loyalty of the league leaders. The or ganizers have no difficulty in over coming the newspaper allegations that the league is disloyal. Thcii con fidence that President Wilson is with the league is of the gleeful variety that indicates that the supposed pres idential support assures the future of the league as the dominating factor in the political and economic recon struction of the Pacific Northwest.— Oregon Voter. This is the way the food administra tion sizes up the situation: "One lump ot sugar in your coffee is pa triotism, two lumps slackcrism, three disloyalty, »nd lour treason.” Won der what class the fellow is in who doesn’t take any lump, asks an ex change. JtwseTelt'i Speed a Ckut. KissliC ike Flag. Colonel Roosevelt's Maine address is wise, courageous and inspiring. It is charged with virile Americanism and abounds in truths. The American peo ple, said Air. Roosevelt, should gird themselves for a three years’ war, the training of an army ot 5,000,000 men. preferably tlirougn universal military training, and the rushing of the ship construction “by working nignt and day, three shifts in the 24 hours.” “If we do not speed up to aid our allies," he declared 'in conclusion, "some day we shall sec our soils and our sons sons fighting here at home without allies.” 1 he American people could not find a better chart and compass in i this hour of flame and tempest than i this thoughtful address of its former j pres- ident. He points the way to victory, and it is the only way. f irst there must be the spirit of sacrifice and the heroic purpose without which all ex pectation ot victory should be futile. becond, there must be wisdom and courage 111 every department of the government. A e must take a lesson irom past mistakes, we must turn the searchlights on the weak places and the failures, we must help the presi dent and his administration with thoughtful, courageous constructive criticism. Mr. Roosevelt well says that this is the people's war, not the president's war, not congress’ war. The people, not the president and not congress, must supply the men to do the fight ing and the resources to carry on the war. “There have been very grave faults and shortcomings and delays in governmental work,” and the peo- pie must suffer for them, and the people must protest in order that they shall cease. But these protests must be fair. Criticism must be intelligent and must avoid exaggeration. It is the truth the country wants—not concealment on one hand or exaggeration on the other, for exaggerations are not the truth. Mr. Roosevelt speaks from the ful- ness of experience and with know ledge of existing facts. He hews to the line of truth. His statements re garding failures and delays and er- • rors he has substantiated in every case. They are seidome denied, and when denied he comes back with con- vincing proof. His mannerisms may give offense, but the patriotism can not be successfully impunged, his motives discredited, nor his profound knowledge of conditions gain-said.— Spokesman Review. D. E. Yoran told the students of one of the Eugene schools a few days ago that compelling the pro-Germans to kiss the American flag is nothing less than a shameful desecration, and we are inclined to think that we have heard no saner or more truly patriotic utterance than this in the whole dis cussion of pro-Germanism, -ays the Eugene Register. The mob that com pels a kaiser-worshiper to touch his blasphemous lips to the Stars and Stripes is profaning the nationa em blem. To our mind, the kiss of Judas was the greatest insult offered to Christ. The American flag is the emblem of liberty for the common man and of equality of opportunity for all. Thou sands upon thousands of brave men have died cheerfuly for what the flag stands for, and thousands more will yet die in the same cause, ft is uni versally recognized that wherever the American flag flies there will be (ound freedom and justice and guar antee of the rights of every individual The men who are following the flag in France today are fighting for an ideal that is so high and so pure that the warped and shrivelled intellects of the rulers of the central empires cannot even begin to grasp it. The pro-German in America is an upholder of the cult that might makes right. He believes in the divine right of degenerate kings to do as they please with the lives and the property of their subjects. He is an admirer of the oppression and all the butchery and all the foul crimes of lust that have been done in the name of Ger many. He believes implicitly that all men are not created free and equal and that it is the inalienable right of the few to tyrannize over the many. Shall we permit such a man to touch his lips to the American flag— let alone compelling him to? With Mr. Yoran, we say no.—Umpqua Val ley News. 1 "* Example of Patriotism. Exposing the Retail Profiteer. On purchasing a bottle of glue, for which he had to pay 15 cents, a cus tomer in one of the hardware stores in Brooklyn asked the reason for the advance of 5 cents. The retailer said “the war” had raised everything and these same bottles of glue, which he used to sell for to cents, cost him 10 cents per bottle now. When the customer opened the car toon containing the bottle he found a slip of paper neatly wrapped around it bearing the following: "To the con sumer: Owing to the high proce of tin and owing to the government de mand for the metal, we have discon tinued placing on our glue bottles the metal cap which could be used after the cork was withdrawn. We are forc ed to this so that the purchaser may get the same size, quantity and quality without any advance in price.” APM1A 11 An engine that hires pow er from gas and sets it down minus jerks, vibrations, into a softness of action that has never been surpassed; ‘‘Hot-Spot ” and “Ram’s-Horn Manifold (Chalmers devices) are responsible .< , • I ,f The perfect engine is the one that takes from gas all the power that’s there; and gives it up to you either brutal or violent, or soft, as you wish. That’s the Chalmers engine, now recorded all over America as a great engine, which comes closer to reaching 100% of efficiency than any motive device yet designed “Hot-Spot” and “Ram’s-Horn” Manifold are responsible The first named heats up rhe gas, “cracks it up,” “pulverizes it, gets it into wonderful shape for ignition, and then th “Ram’s-Horn” Manifold with its “easy air bends” losses it gently into the combustion chambers. So that after the flash of the spark plug there is so little residue, so little waste, so little power escaped into the exhaust as to be scarcely worth while mentioning. But the kind of power is a new power—a gentle, soft power like the “iron hand in the velvet glove” that entices you beyond words once you experience the thrill if your conscience still sleeps and your soul is still unstirred by your country’s need in this great world TOURING SEDAN »IV50 TOWN CAR LANDAULET TOURING CAR. 7-PASSENGER crises— CABRIOLET. »-PASSENGER »1775 LIMOUSINE. 7-PASSENGER TOURING CAR. 5-PASSENGER $14X5 If you are still a stranger to that LIMOUSINE LANDAULET STANDARD ROADSTER $14X5 TOWN CAR. 7-PASSENGER »2M25 sacred emotion of patriotism which ALL PRICES F. O. B DETROIT SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE animates and ennobles those who love their country better than them Women Mail Carriers. selves— If you have been unable as yet to The opportunities that opening to feel the hot blood of the patriot women are steadily widening, and the through your veins, and the coursing latest addition to this list is the rural spirit of self-sacrifice for your flag mail carrier’s job. The postoffice de stirring within you— partment has harkened to the call for ft will pay you well to consider the wider employment of women, and it case of the nurse, Edith Cavell, and is announced that the first examina to learn to what sublime heights of tion for positions as rural mail car nobility and service patriotism can riers to which women will be eligible elevate the human soul. will be held next month. These exam A frail little woman of calm and inations will be held in all sections w here vacancies are scheduled to oc noble countenance stood at the edge < of a newly dug grave. Facing her cur and when men carriers are was a firing squad of soldiers of , His obtainable. I bis is the hirst time since 1911 Gracious and Christian Majesty, the German emperor. So slight was I her women have been eligible for .statute that it seemed “a breath of posts, except in rare cases as substi wind would blow her away.1 And yet. tutes. Previous to that time the ser so greatly did the life of this fragile vice was opened to them for a short atom of humanity endanger the safety time, but while their work was satis of the German empire, and its boast factory climatic conditions in the ed army of ten million men, that she Northwest were such as to make it inadvisable to use them generally, and had been condemned to die. Iler life had been devoted to reliev the privilege of examination was de ing human suffering, in her nursing nied them. institution in Brussels she had cared New Army Officers. for all comers. Germans included. She was not a spy. She was charged with assisting a lew struggling soldiers of Congress has learned that there are Britian and Belgium to reach the neu 62,000 staff officers and fewer, rather tral soil of Holland. W hen arrested than more, line officers—more non- she frankly told her executioners that combatant lieutenants, captains and she had saved these men because she majors than fighting officers, The thought their lives would be of more w ork they do it may be necessary to value than her own in the great strug have done. But is it necessary to gle of human liberty. She neither ex swell the commissioned rank of the pected mercy or asked for it. l’here army absurdly to get it done? The were no dramatics, no bravado, no law prohibits, under heavy penalties, excited or bitter denunciations or de the wearing of the uniform by one fiance of her enemies. 1‘atiently and entitled to it. A lot of government s» uncomplainingly she awaited the hour employes in Washington aie wearing when she could otter the “last full it only because of a fiction that they measure of devotion” to her country. are entitled to i.t 1’he worst phase of the matter is W hen the hour came it found the gentle breast and the kindly heart, so that many of these titular arm offi : _c of soon to be pierced anil torn by the cers are draft dodgers. 1 hey a leaden messengers of German hate, draft age, and have escaped n_v rush- calm and unagitated. W ith sublime ing to Washington anil gri’ir.g com work heroism and with the sweet natural missions—by "pull.” Their dignity of true womanhood she laced could be done just as well by men her executioners and sank into her above or below the draft age, or by grave a martyr of human liberty women. Manifestly the solution of the prob w hose memory history will enshrine in the hearts of true patriots for all lem of what to do with the surplus of noncombatant officers is not to order time. She was denied the comforts of her them to France. Pershing docs not own clergy but the prison chaplain re want them. A way should be found to thec!apc’avc the sugar”staring hhn in The Sugar Hogs ported that she was courageous to tile dig them out at Washington and put in the trenches must be put on end saying, "I am glad to die for my them in the national army training tions. camps. co.nierztJ'''1''''11'31 Custon,fr "iH not country." Meantime, if you run into a 51‘8 Watch the sugar hog in the dairy uo to th? " ’Ugar’ thcn *» is hog when getting your noonday How dies this sense of patriotic NOTICE. duty compare with yours? Are you lunch or at the restaurant where an up to the dairy lunch rooms to meas take it upon yourself to rebuke ure out Ins supply ior hin, Thj ----- O- - - doing your part? If not, will yon not ample supply is within the roach. One x;.“ wle troub1'’but * "o It is your patriotic duty. I-ft All persons having an account 1 with permit the example of this glorious fellow know that there is a pub 1 of our readers reports seeing a speci little patriot to make the paltry war Grant Mills, kindly call, at the * City it for anv S?°°nfu>» « a good lim- inion in Chicago which wilt no^ men of this particular kind of selfish 'or any man in his coffee under ex- 1 sacrifices now so urgently asked and Recorder’s office and settle same, erate patoently such indifier*n human load six spoonfuls of sweeten •sungI condition,, and the man who the government’s request and to so justly due from all Americans in with Kathleen Mills. Grant Mills. civil life? ing into his cup of coffee, with a sign will not deny himself for the people needs of our allies and our own Ugium and France and the boys soldiers. Dealer, D. L. 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