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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1918)
TILLAMOOk. HEADLIGHT MAY 16, 1918, TO CUT WHEAT USE ONE-HALF Military Necessity Demands That Each American Eat Only 11/2 Pounds Wheat Products Weekly. r k You can be the one to send him a pouch of Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug It pays to know the facts before you spend your money. You will be sending your friend more tobacco comfort and satisfaction in one pouch of Real Gravely Plug than in half a dozen plugs of ordinary tobacco. CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES. Allie» Mu»t Have Wheat Enough to Maintain Their War Bread Till Next Harvest If we are to furnish the allies with the necessary proportion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest, and this Is a military necessity, we must reduce our Give any man a chew of Real Gravely Plug, and he will tell monthly consumption to 21.000.000 you that’* the kind to send. Send the be»t! bushels a month as against our nor Ordinary plug il false economy. It costs less per week to mal consumption of about 42,000,000 chew Real Gravely, because a small chew of it lasts a long bushels, or 50 per cent, of our normal while. consumption. This Is the situation as If you smoke a pipe, slice Gravely with your knife and add set forth by the U. S. Food Adminis a little to your smoking tobacco. It will give flavor—improve your smoke. tration at Washington. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army SEND YOUR FRIEND IN THE U. S. SERVICE A POUCH OF GRAVELY and for special cases, leaves for gen Dealer» all around here carry it in 10c. pouches. A 3c. eral consumption approximately lVfc stamp will put it into his hands in any Training Camp or Sea- pounds of wheat products weekly per port of the U. S. A. Even “over there” a 3c. stamp will take person, the Food Administration’s it to him. Your dealer will supply envelope and give you official statement continues: Many of our directions how to address it. consumers are dependent upon bakers' bread. Such bread must be durable P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO COMPANY, Danville, Va. »nd therefore requires a larger propor The Patent Pouch keeps it Fresh and Clean and Good tion of wheat products than cereal —It is not Real Gravely without this protection Seal breads baked in the household. Our Established 1831 army nnd navy require a full allow ance. The well-to-do In our population can make greater sacrifices in the con sumption of wheat products than can the poor. In addition, our population In the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abundant, are more skilled In the preparation of breads from these other cereals than the jrowded city and Industrial popula tions. With Improved transportation condi Cranking a camera, like cranking a machine gun has its exciting mom tions we now have available a surplus ents—quite! of potatoes. We also have In the Captain Donald C. Thompson, war photographer and correspondent who spring months a surplus of milk, and took the picture to be shown at the Princess Theatre, Tuesday and Wed we have ample corn nnd oats for hu nesday, May 21-22, under the title “The German Curse in Russia”, was man consumption. The drain on rye arrested fourteen times while snapping photographs on the battlefields of and barley as substitutes has already Europe. He was twice knocked senseless by concussions, thrown into greatly exhausted the supply of these prison by the secret police on four occasions and then rescued by revol grains. effect the needed saving of wheat utionists. He was decorated four times and wounded three times; and we To are wholly dependent upon the now he is going back for more—you just simply can’t satisfy some voluntary assistance of the American people. people and we ask that the following Another such picture probably will never be sfiown in Tillamook, as very rules shall be observed: 1. Householders to use not to exceed few men are willing to risk their lives as Captain Thompson did, and even pounds per week of if they did it would be a mericle if they succeded in getting away with a total of their lives and the picture. When we offer this picture to the people whent products per person. This not more than 1% pounds of of Tillamook at the exceptionally low price of 50 cents for Adults and menns Victory bread containing the required 25 cents for children we expect to fill our theatre to capacity both nights. percentage of substitutes and one-half pound of cooking flour, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, all combined. 2. Public eating places and clubs to observe two wheatless days per week, Monday and Wednesday, as at present. In addition thereto, not to serve to any one guest at any one meal nn iggrogate of breadstuffs. macaroni, _ ____________________________________crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat .breakfast cereals, containing a totnl ' of more than two ounces of wheat flour. No wheat products to be served unless specially ordered. Public eat ing establishments not to buy more than six pounds of whent products for each ninety meals served, thus con forming with the limitations requested of the householders. I 3. Retailers to sell not more than one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any town customer at any one time and not more than one-quarter of a barrel I to any country customer at any one ' time, and in no case to sell wheat j products without the sale of an equal ■ weight of other cereals. 4. We ask the bakers and grocers to reduce the volume of Victory bread I »old, by delivery of the three-quarter , pound louf where one pound was sold ; before, and corresponding proportions I In other weights. We also ask bakers I not to increase the amount of their wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per eent. of the average monthly amount HEN the Germans re purchased In the four months prior to treated from long held March 1. positions in Northern 5. Manufacturers using wheat prod France they girdled ev ucts for non-food purposes should ery fruit tree that time cease such use entirely. permitted. Here is 6. There Is no limit upon the use of such a tree, hacked be other cereals, flours, and meals, corn, yond chance of the . barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et tree’« surviving unless cetera. first aid measures were Many thousand families throughout quickly adopted. In many cases the the land are now using no wheat prod advancing French troops brought the ucts whatever, except a very small first aid material and sometimes suc amount for cooking purposes, and are ceeded in saving the trees. Where the doing so In perfect health and satisfac tree was absolutely cut down—as hun tion. There is no reason why all of dreds were—there was, of course, no the American people who are able to relief measure to employ. Members cook in their own households cannot of the U. 8. Food Administration subsist perfectly well with the use of brought this picture to America. Ear less wheat product» than one and one- ly tn the war the German govern half pound» a week, and we specially ment introduced a policy of strict ask the «cell-to-do households in the food conservation at home and has country to follow this additional pro- endeavored to curtail tn every possi , gramme in order that we may provide ble manner the French and English America is today the great larder of the necessary marginal supplies for supply. Ü boat warfare and destruc- tbe allied natioos. Out of our food | those parts of the community less able lion of fnrmlng property are parts of stocks we must save enough to feed to adapt themselves to so large a pro the same campaign. our European associates in thia war. portion of substitutes. The Greatest War Picture Ever Filmed. “ A Great Net of Mercy Drawn Through An Ocean of Unspeakable Pain. ” If You Were "Over There” Instead of Over Here. TF YOU should see a French child—a tiny 1 girl—sitting by the roadside, sobbing quietly because she is too weak from hun- ger to cry very loud, you would sell your watch to buy her breakfast. Of course you would 1 If you should hear somewhere in the restless wards the low moan of an American soldier, you would gladly sit by him all night long, if that would save his life. And consider it an honor too ! You are not “over there” but here, where these sights and sounds are not brought home to you in all their intensity I But the RED CROSS is there— m A you can make it your representative ! “Over there”the Prussians are crucifying the incarnate Liberty of Man, and they are making the world black for little children ! The money you give to the Red Cross now will give you the right, when the Beast is beaten down, to think. “There are happy children, clear eyed women and strong men alive today, because my money went across.” What Are You Going to do About It? CONTRIBUTED TO THE RED CROSS BY TRY TO GET IN AT THE PRINCESS Tuesday and Wednesday, May 21-22 D estroy F rench E ood S dui ^ es In order that we slmll be ntde to make the wheat export» that are ab solutely demanded of us to maintain the civil population and soldiers of ths allies and our own army, we propose to supplement the voluntary co-opera- ttoo of the publie by a further limita tion of distribution, and we shall place at once restrictions on distribution which will be adjusted from tiros to dore to secure as nearly equitable dis tribution as possible. With tbs arrival st harvest wa abould be able to relax such reatricttoM. Until then wa ask for the nsceeaary patience, sacrifice atMl co-operetioa sf 0>e dtotributlBg The Store that Sells for Cash Only—and Selling for Cash Sells for Less. JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER MONTHLY CONSIGMENT OF Matchless Wirthmor Waists —Good to look at and just as Good as they are good looking. < As Always-Just One Dollar. —No other Dollar Waist can be like the Wirthmor for no other Dollar Waist is made and sold in the same efficient and economy effecting manner. The values are truly matchless and every Waist is unconditionally guaranteed to give entire satisfaction. Four new Models are illustrated, and if anything, they are prettier and better value than any we have ever received heretofore. Sizes 36 to 50. Wirthmor Waists are Sold by One Good Store in Every City They are Sold Here Exclusively. The New Spring and Summer White Shoes for Women Arrived thia Week. N T Last after much patient waiting we are able to an nounce the arrival of these long-looked for Shoes. They were, however, worth wait ing for, styles are good, values are splendid and they are shown with the popular Mill tarv Heels as well as the attractive Louis Cuban Heels. Come to the store for a fitting as early as possible, for the earlier you come the better the selection we will have to show you. Timely Purchase of Extraordinary Values in Turk and Huck Towels. Enables us to Announce a Showing and Sa/e Without Precedent I F your supply of Hand, Face and Bath Towels I neec s replenishing we urge you to examine nf T. k°n<lewU1 values offered in this showing • ’1 Huck Towels at remarkably low »rnroh" fef^nt indications point to a decided i °f tlie8e K°od8 and a steady advance in prices, ! So all we need to say is “Buy Now.” You will appreciate our advice later undoubtedly. White Turk Brown Turk Towels Towels 17 X 34 Hemmed - 25c. 25c. 18 X 36 Hemmed 20 X 38 Hemmed - 18 X 36 Ex. Heavy - 34c. 35c. 20 X 40 Hemmed - Huck Towels 49c. 25c. 22 X 44 Hemmed - 17 X 34 Hemmed 65c 18 X 36 Ex. Quality - 35c. 22 X 44 Ex. Heavy» 75c. See Displays—Under Balcony,
