TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
WITH THE EDITORS
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Discuss Questions oí
Interest to People.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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. SHRODE
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