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the pound rate when it should, rightly
speaking have been sent out by letter
mail. Now if the Democrats will im
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Each subsequent insertion, line. .05 work the extra edition camoflage in
that manner, there is no telling what
these self same democrats would do
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. if elected to slate office.
can primaries The Republicans, who en are doing everything possible, un
believe that party organization must j der most trying circumstances to bear
be maintained, protest that Xn outsid- | their great burdens cheerfully, for it
er should inject himself into their af is stated every woman in France is
draped in black as the result of the
fairs and tell them what to do.
It has placed McNary in an awk loss of a husband, son, brother, or
ward position. He has the friendship some other relative in the war. The
’
and
support of West, but \\ est is good old book says it is more blessed
F. C. BAKER, Publisher.
proving
a liability rather than asset. to give than receive, and it is doubly
the
awoke
to
Most people have not
With
the
open and vowed endorse true today, for the people of Oregon
seriousness of the war, and they ap-
ment
of
West,
McNary has lost the and Tillamook County have been
pear to be indifferent as well. We
support
of
thousands
of Republicans blessed in many ways, and should
want to say this, that, the war situa
gladly give their substance to help the
tion is taking on a most serious turn who dislike West most sincerely. French people, and if we all realize
These
Republicans
do
not
want
West
Democrats don’t appear to like the now that Russia is down and out. Our
what they have gone through, they
primary law by the look of the Dem government is- trying to impress the nor anyone under the W est influence are deserving of our assistance and
and
they
have
been
driven
away
from
ocratic ballot, for not one had the seriousness of the war upon the peo
help.
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nerve to become a candidate on the ple, for scores of men are being sent McNary by the public O. K. of the
former
Democratic
Governor.
county ticket.
into all parts of the United State»zto
After W ill R. King had become a
War Pictures at the Princess.
impress upon the people the serious
candidate for the Democratic nomina
One can readily see that there was a ness of the war, and although most of tion and after McNary and Stanfield
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political frame up, in which the* Re us are decidedly optimistic and expect were conducting their campaigns for
Another
big
scoop
for i’athc is re
the
allies
to
win
in
the
end,
yet
for
all
publican and Democratic parties were
the Republican nomination, W est en
to be prostituted, with Os. West as that it may take many years to bring tered the field at the last minute and vealed in the announcement that this
Company, which has made such a suc
the political dictator and Olcott and that about, and the entire industrial
then suggested that everyone retire cess with its Official War Films will
McNary to obtain the big political activities of the country devoted to
the presecution of the war. And, in from the race except his life-long the sole distributors of the most won
plums.
_
that event. A good many socrifices friend, McNary. Whatever effect derful official picture that has yet
The Socialist would be up against it will have to be made, and, probably a West hoped to produce, the actual re come from the war, “The German
sult was to rouse the ire of the reg- Curse in Russia." and that this film is
good and hard if they had the same good many privations will have to be
1 ular Republicans. In short, it served to be shown at the Princess Theatre.
organization they had a few years endured . One of the most critical
ago, when it was necessary to print a stages of the war confronts the allies as a boomerang to the McNary May 21 and 22.
This remarkable motion picture was
special ballot at the primary election right now, and no one can tell what cause.
Thus the spectacular proposal of brought b :ck to the United States by
for the socialist party. The color of the fortunes or misfortunes of war
the official ballot wculd be "yellow”. have in store. This is a time to grit I W est has pleased no one but himself, Captain Donald C. Thompson, the
Certainly a very appropriate color your teeth and make prepjarations as but if he sincerely wishes to help Mc- young Kansas known as the world’s
speedily as possible. It is just as well i Nary his action has produced the con- greatest war photographer, who has
for that pro-German party.
just returned after spending three
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to look at the seriousness of the war j trary effect.
years on every battle front in Europe
Governor Withyconibe has made a squarely in the face, and it would not
Tillamook county is to raise $5,000 and Russia, eleven months being re
good governor and is entitled to an surprise us in the least if the govern
other term, for his administration has ment called for five million men in in one week in a Red Cross drive, quired to obtain tlie Russian picture
commencing May 20th, and plans are alone.
been a wonderful improvement over the near future.
now being made to obtain the county’s
From the beginning of the first reel
the spectacular Democratic governor
who preceded him. The governor is I Labor is rent in Portland over the quota is as little time as possible. Wc of this feature to the end tliere are
heart and sole in sympathy with every political program adopted by the La arc heart and soul in sympathy with hundreds of the most unusual battle
patriotic movement, and no one can bor Legislative League, and C. L. [ Red Cross work, for it is doing more front scenes, and the most remark
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deny but what he has made a splendid McNary was indorsed by working
a for suffering humanity than any other able “over the top” charges that have
supporters 1 organization in the world. The good ever been photographed. Every foot
war governor.
I trick on R. N.
1 Stanfield
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among the delegates. The president of I ; women of Tillamook county, who. of the film that is shown helps to vis
With Oswald West placing his O. the league is Otto Hartwig, who was have devoted so much of their time to- ualize for the American people the
K. stamp on C. L. McNary for the one of' the men active in trying to Red Cross work, show the true Chris dastardly means that the Germans
Republican nomination for U. S. Sen bring the discredited Non-Partisan ] tian spirit and are carrying on the utilized in Russia to bring about food
ator, resentment has come from the League to Oregon. J. N. Rynerson, 1 best kind of Christian work. We want riots, street fighting and the final
loyal Republicans and the true-blue secretary of the committee which , to especially emphasize what the next overthrow of the government.
Democrats. This action of West is be fathered the Non-Partisan League in 1 Red Cross drive is for. It is to go to
lieved to have made more votes for Oregon, made the motion to endorse I France to help the French people,
O. P. Hoff, republican, for State
R. N. Stanfield than any other single McNary. The indorsement of McNary I who have suffered the horrors of war
factor since the primary campaign was brought around by a frame-up. ‘ for over three years, and are urgently Treasurer. Read the political Puzzle
opened. It has made what is coristru- The meeting adopted early in the neediing help. We want to draw a dif pages 26-27 election pamplet. Pd Ad
ed as a clear-cut issue on the party evening a motion that no senatorial ferent picture to impress the need of
rrenew people
pcupii upon the
me people
i.wpiv of
...
lines.
indorsement would be made for at line
1 tlie French
Tillamook County, Oregon, has a
least another week. Following this | | Oregon and especially upon the citi war crop that is cheese, the whole
Wc hope the Republican voters of decision many Stanfield supporters zens of Tillamook county. Suppose cheese and nothing but the cheese, so
Tillamook County will vote for Judge went home. As others remained in the instead of Belgium and France being help me Hoover! exclaims the Los
P. R. Kelly for justice of the Supreme hall, the McNary men began and subject to all the horrors of war and Angeles "Times.” Switzerland can re
Court, for he is an ideal jurist and continued a long tiresome arraign- 1 1 Prussian cruelty, destruction and main neutral and imported limburger
worthy of their support. He was ment of the conduct of the state asy- ; I murder, it had been Oregon and Til may cling to Hunland, but Tillamook
elected circuit judge of this district lum at Salem, this being for the pur- , lamook county that had been invaded will see to it that the lighters for de-
before it was divided, and he made pose of wearying the Stanfield men by the kaiser and his trained army, moGraey go not
checscless. The
and Tillamook Southern Pacific hauled close to 5,-
an excellent judge, winning the com who were still in the hall. When | ’ I W hat would Oregon
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midnight
| County look like today? A large part ooo.ooo pounds of cheese out of Tilla
mendation of the Tillamook bar and these later drifted
<______ out
— and
.
..
the people of the county. It was with came, Rynerson moved that an ...
in of our man power would have given mook in 1917 and the county received
a great deal of regret that this county dorsement be made for senator and
a..- 1 up their lives in defense of the state for it more than $t,000,000. The in
lost judge Kelly when the district-was he offered the name of McNary. No and county, and there would be thou dustry is now so well established and
re-arranged, but the people of Tilla ballot was taken but there was a yea sands of widows and children in is conducted on sucli a sanitary and
mook county have always held him in and nay vote was called for. The re- want, to say nothing of the cruelty scientific gasis that Tillamook cows
I I sponse was apparently equal accord- they' would have to endure on account work overtime willingly and the in
the highest esteem.
I ing to spectators who had no vote, of Germany’s inhuman and uncalled ternational cheese record for 1918 is
r
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State Senator Huston in withdrawing but Hartwig announced that the in for thirst of blood and conquest. All in sight, according to the Southern
from the Senatorial contest, hits the dorsement had carried. At this time of us read considerable war news in Pacific railway official.
nail squarely on the head when he there was a very small crowd in the the newspapers every day about the
progress of the war, but very little
says: “1 am not willing that ex-Gov- hall. The method of slipping the in
O. P. Hoff, republican, for State
ernor West shall dictate to the Re dorsement of McNary has aroused in- about the suffering of the widows and Treasurer. Read the political Puzzle
c_ f .orphans. But every once in a while we
publican party who its candidate 1 dignation among the thousands o
pcges 26-27 election pamplet. Pd Ad
supporters in the labor get a slight peep into the homes and
shall be”. Republicans all over the Stanfield
state resent West’s action in wanting ranks and they refuse to recognize
to dictate to Acpublicans who shall the indorsement.
be their candidate for U. S. Senator.
No one appears to be wanting the
But Mr. Huston also adds another
truth, when he says, "It is wi ll known office of county treasurer, and we will
in Oregon that there has been for the not be treading on the toes of anyone
last eight years, a bi-partisiau com if we take a snap shot at that office.
bination for the purpose of controll In our estimation the office is un
ing the principal offices ili the state necessary and the money paid for the
and giving them to a chosen few of salary would do far more good if put
into hard surfacing roads. Last year
each party.”
the co-operative creamery associa
“The Democratic party in Oregon tions did a business of $1,188,845 in
exists only for the benefit of two or T illamook county, and it was not
three men,” says
i_, State Senator Hus- necessary for them to employ a treas
ton. There are just six names on the urer at $10000 a year to look wise and
Democratic ballot, one of which is Os keep a chair warm in some nicely fur
West, the late speectacular and er nished office. The money that goes
ratic governor of Oregon, who having into the county treasury amounts to
succeeded in bossing the Democratic less than $400000 and the money is de
party wants also to boss the Republi posited in the banks and correst ac
can party, notwithstanding that it is counts are kept by them. But how can
the right of every person who desires wc get rid of the office? Have the
political office to submit their names State Legislature pass a bill abolish-
to the people. W est's idea is to take , ing the office or by the initiative pro
that right away and accept the person cess. The former is much more pre
whom he names for U. S. Senator. It ferable. Now the snap shot man is
seems only a few years ago when 1 not anxious to hold a public office,
a lew other Democrats were denounc ’ but we are going to offer a suggestion
ing certain Republicans and accusing ' so as to create a little interest, for if
I their party of being run by bosses.
I anyone lias a better plan wc will read-
' ily acquiese. The snap shot man will
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Bob Stanfield says in his announce agree to do this, if the people of the
ment, that Oregon has been discrim county will nominate and elect him to
inated against by Congress for many the office of county treasurer, he will
years and he promises, if elected, to have a bill prepared to abolish the of
see that Oregon gets a square deal. fice and will go to Salem and endeav
McNary says that Oregon has not or to pull the leg of the state legisla
been discriminated
against, How ture, and as soon as the bill becomes
about tlie Federal Reserve at Spokane | a law resign the office. If any of our
and Oregon farm loans being made citizens have a better plan and want
in the State of Washington?. Why are to Hooverizc and cut down on county
the naval stations and army camps in i officials and prevent waste, we will be
Washington and California? How glad to hear from them. If the snap
about a harbor appropriation and a shot man had been a candidate tor
submarine base for the Columbia joint representative and elected to
River? These matters are only a few that office he would have been in a
among many which show that I Ore* position to do some log rolling at
gon has been discriminated against, Salem to do away with the office. If
The Eastern Oregon man promises you arc in favor of what we have sug
to right these wrongs and he has a gested write the name of Fled C.
reputation of doing the things he Baker on your ballot for county treas
urer when you go to the polls next
starts in to do.
week The snap shop man will be per
There’s a trick in every trade even fectly willing to be bounced out of the
among office seekers This is how the office if a saving can be made to the
post oflice is being imposed upon. county of $1000.00 a year.
Ham Kautman, editor of the Colum
Throughout the state criticism
bia Herald, published at Houlton,
Columbia County, issued a special directed against’ West for assuming to
edition, a sheet ox it inches, contain dictate what Republicans and Demo
ing an article rubbing it in to Walter crats shall do in the primaries with
M. Pierce and praising Harvey G. ri spect to the senatorial nomination.
Starkweather, both of whom are dem Democrats of the old school are in
ocratic candidates for governor. This dignant that West, who has received
»licet is sent out similar to a news many honors from the pajtv, should
paper and went through the mails undertake to deliver the Democratic
that way, and, no doubt, paid for by primaries to his personal friend
Editorial Snap Shots
Vote 35 x PERCY R. KELLY
of Linn County
for
JUSTICE OF
THE SUPREME COURT
Practiced Law since 1892
Circuit Judge since 1910
Justice is patriotism's proudest boast
and loyalty’s greatest aid
-
PEOPLE ASKED FOR
FLOUR DONATIONS
I Nary, who is running in the Rcpubli-I conditions in France, where the wom
Freewill Offering of Excess
Stocks Is Requested.
MEN OVERSEAS NEED GRAIN
EARNS 14 CENTS A DAY;
HAS WIFE AND BABY
And Yet This Ime Story Has a
Happy Ending.
Plan Devised to Save Transportation
and Time—Local Donations to Bo
Resold Locally But Release Equal
Amount at Atlantic Seaboard For
Immediate Shipment to Allies and
Troops.
Opportunity is now offered, through
Even a Frenchman sometimes loses, Federal Food Administrator W. B
for awhile at least, his "unfailing” Ayer, for Oregon families and manu
facturing firms using wheat flour, to
■ense of humor.
Take, for Instance, the case of a j make a voluntary personal sacrifice
man from Lille, a soldier. Waeltele hy | for the benefit of Uncle Sam's boys In
the Army and Navy. Mr. Ayer has
name and only twenty-three. He hud
announced that any family, public eat
done pretty well, for the youngster hud ing place, or factory using wheat flour,
»Iready his own printing shop in that such as bakeries and cracker factories
northern French town, which is still In now has the privilege of directly con
side the German lines, in the trenches tributing to the flour bins of the Army
Waeltele developed tuberculosis, aud and Navy by turning back to the gov
ernment, at the market price, such
he was sent to a hospital at Grenoble.
There he was considered Incurable, portion of their wheat flour allowance
and after the usual three months of as they will patriotically refrain from
treatment he was granted his 14 cent» consuming themselves.
Such gifts of wheat flour, while not
a day pension. Said tils fatherly army
doctor, “My son, you can perhaps cure going directly to France for the boys
yourself If you will live in the moun overseas, will be turned into the gov
tains, If you will eat plenty of nour ernment commissary at the nearest
ishing food and, above all. If you don’t point, and will release an equal quan
tity of wheat flour on the Atlantic
Worry.”
Waeltele should have smiled, but he |
sea board for immediate shipment
didn't He was thinking of his baby “over there.” Under this novel plan
and his wife—and his 14 cents. “Don't !
when a patriotic Oregon family goes
worry!” The humor of It entirely es- i on a wheatless diet for a week or a
eaped him.
month, or longer period, the wheat
Then the Red Cross stepped In. He I
flour they save and turn back to the
was found by an American woman I government actually represents an
with some American Red Cross money I
equivalent of wheal flour three thou
for jnst such cases, and within » few j
hours he no longer had need to worry. I sand miles away, which immediately
He was sent to the mountains at La- | starts to move forward to the fighting
forces. This arrangement has been
mure. In the Freneh Alps, happy In made in order to save transportation
the knowledge that his family was be across the continent.
ing cared for by these amazingly kind
“I am Hoping for a splendid wheat
Americans.
saving. record in Oregon" said Mr.
And now the army doctor’s words
Ayer the other day, “For I believe
are coming true. Waeltele’s lung fa
when Oregon families and public eat
healing fast and he is dreaming of
ing places in the state know that the
another printing shop and of living
again some day with that little family. flour they save will go direct to the
There have been over 400.000 new boys af the Army and Navy they will
cases of tuberculosis in France since not hesitate to respond in the usual
the war started, and to care for these patriotic Oregon way. I had a tele
cases and check the White Plague'» gram, from Mr. Hoover today in which
spread is merely one of the big job» he asked me for an estimate on what
the American Red Cross has set out to I thought Oregon could be relied upon
to save under the new plan. 1 wished
accomplish.
to be conservative, and I replied that
my estimate, would be 30 to 35 per
cent of the normal wheat flour con
sumption. This is a much lower es
timate than other states had made,
and r realize that it will probably be
unsatisfactory at Washington. I am
hoping that the people of the state
will exceed this estimate by a gener
ous margin. The county administra
tors have in hand the full details of
the plan for saving wheat in this way
for the needs of our fighting men, and
any one wishing to personally contrib
The father kisses his wife and kid ute wheat flour should get in touch at
dles goodby, shoulders bis gun and once with the Food Administrator of
the county in which he or she lives.”
marches away to war.
The wheat-saving plan annoanced
For a time the current of life flows
smoothly for the soldier’s little fami by Mr. Ayer is a national one, and it
ly. Theu comes the tragedy. Mother is now operative in all the states.
is taken 111. The little brood of broth The states of Washington, Idaho and
ers and sisters Is helpless. No father Oregon are now co-operating In an
effort to make a big wheat saving rec
to turn to. A helpless mother!
To whofn can the American soldier's ord for the Northwest. Federal Food
family look at this critical period? Administrators R. F. Bicknell of Idaho
Must a brave man’s loyalty to his ! and Charles Hebberd of Washington
country mean desolation and suffering join with Federal Food Administrator
to those nearest and dearest to him?
W. R. Ayer for Oregon In the follow
No I Emphatically no I The Ameri ing announcement, which gives in <ie-
can people will not permit the fami | tail the plan of handling the returned
lies of their soldiers and sailors to j wheat:
suffer because their breadwinners are
“Mr. Hoover has wired all Federal
fighting for their country. And so the Food Administrators that the excess
Red Cross Department of Civilian Re stocks of flour held by public eating
lief has created a nation-wide organ places, bakers, dealers and consumers
ization for home service for the fami- may be voluntarily surrendered for
Res of soldiers and sailors.
the use of the Army and Navy and the
Under the banner of "Home Serv- Allies. This action has been prompted
lee” patriotic men and women have by the many voluntary offerings from
enrolled and are devoting themselves different paris of the country.
to the noble task of helping soldiers
"The practical method of handling
families to meet and adjust the prob such returned flour will be through
lems of everyday life and aiding them the local merchant, who is hereby re
to maintain the standards of health, quested to receive all such flour and
education and industry.
pay the holding consumer the actual
cost of same, and then re-distribute it
Home Service—True Service.
Home service means keeping the sol without any additional charge to the
dier's children well and In school. It ultimate consumer. Where merchants
means tiding the family over financial accumulate more than their thirty
troubles, arranging the household days’ supply and all hotels, bakers,
budget, meeting insurance premiums, etc., that have an excess amount that
adjusting a mortgage, bringing med cannot be disposed of locally, they
ical aid and legal advice to bear at the should immediately communicate with
right moment In short “Home Serv Mr. M. H. Houser, Grain Commission
ice' is true service, in that it provides er of the Food Administration, Board
| the warm handclasp of friendship, of Trade Building, Portland, and he
rather than the humiliation of charity. will arrange for the transportation to
I It calls for sympathetic understanding the seaboard. All flour returned to
and Intelligent consideration of the the merchant that is resold to the
most vital needs of the soldier’s family. consumer should be reported to Mr.
The Red Cross Is pledged to “Home Houser, In order that an equal amount
i Service" wherever needed in the Unit- may be released for shipment to the
j ed States. In each chapter of the Red Allies.
j Cross there will be a home service
"The whole object of the above ar-
■ section, under competent hands, whose rangement is to provide a channel
' ndsslon will be to protect the welfare through which all excess quantities
of the soldiers' and sailors' homes and I of flour may reach the Army and Navy
to safeguard the normal development or thé Allied armies as a voluntary
of their families In employment and in 1 offering of the people of this country.”
i ideals of self help and self reliance.
If you have a food conservation plan
** or recipe pass it on to your neighbors
and your friends—be "In the service.”
FATHER AT WAR,
TRAGEDY AT HOME
Just What Home Service Means
to a Soldier.
"The work that the Red
Cross Is doing in France
this winter Is worth more
than a million and a half
American soldiers In the
lines in France today.”
—General Petain.
FOOD
W THE
VIN iß. 1? 1
WAR