TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. MAY 30,
WHAT THE EDITORS SAY.
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Nebraska farmers, in convention
assembled declared their belief that
the town pool halls should be closed,
at least during the harvest season, it
is getting so now that a fellow docs
pot have the personal liberty to do
whatever he pleases when that inter­
feres with the big job the country ilai
on hand.—Ite .-tizei.
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The present war conditions have
hit the newspaper and printing busi-
ncss m the smaller towns worse than
any other line of- business. But you
hear mighty little complaint. Further­
more, nearly every country newspa­
per ir the country is qet.ing behbid
every war activity that vom-s up ard
and doing more than its share boast­
ing for Uncle Sam,—Enterprise.
How much would your wealth be
worth should the United States fall
a prey to the greed of the military
heads of Prussia? And what would
your liberties be worth were you en­
slaved by force? A prudent person
will consider these things and exer­
cise his power to avoid these not
wholly impossible conditions. The
way to do this is to back up the boys
at ’the front by Red Cross assistance
and loans to the government.—Sheri­
dan Sun.
We know of one business firm in
Newberg who came near being stung
to the tune of about 50 per cent on
some job printing. There are plenty
of other business houses who get job
printing done in Portland that arc
losing money on every job they order.
The local printing offices can do just
as high class commercial printing as
any job office in Portland. Y, e knew
of one Newberg house who recentl.
came to the Enterprise for a favor
which was nothing more than a bid
for some free advertising and, at the
same time, they were getting printing
done in Portland. Don’t do it brother,
either cut out your unmitigated gall
in working the newspapers for free
advertising, or get your printing done
at home.—Newberg Graphic.
Admiral Sims is an exceedingly im­
portant factor in the part that Ameri­
ca is taking in the way, but Ins talk­
ativeness is in nowise proportionate
to his importance. He has spoken sel­
dom and has said little since he was
sent to command the torpedo boat
fleet. His high position, his intimate
acquaintance with the naval situation
gained at close quarters and the fact
that lie is far from garrulous all com­
bine to give his words weight. He
says that within a fortnight the cor­
ner may be turned and the U-boats
placed definitely on the losing side-
through the increased effectiveness of
the defense and the growing speed of
ship production. Knowing as he does
that the United States uupes to have
an army numbered in millions in Eu­
rope and that it will be his duty to
keep the sea lanes open for them and
their supplies. Admiral Sims would
not have ventured such a prediction
without good groutids, and the Ger­
mans, who are not striving desperate­
ly for a decision upon land, know
those grounds as well as he does.—
Observer.
In the casualty list of last Friday’s
primary appears the name of Elbert
Bede of the Cottage Grove Sentinel,
who aspired to represent Lane coun­
ty in the legislature, but who is now
numbered among those who also ran.
One of the gladsome rifts in an other­
wise deadly dull campaign was the
tilt of Editor Bede with Secretary Ol­
cott, the feature of which were two
extremely embarassing letters which
must have caused the secretary to
prespire more than a trife for a few
moments. But while the state owes
Mr. Bede a debt of gratitude for the
few light moments his letter gave,
he should really have known better
than to run for office. Level-headed
men all have their weak spots, and
political ambition may be the Cottage
Grove scribe’s obsession. He should
have known that if an editor is worth
a hang he has trod on the toes of *0
many people that they are laying for
him with a stuffed club when he runs
for office, and if he runs the kind of
paper that no one has it in for him he
isn’t worth a cuss anyway, the people
know it, and wouldn't have him for a
legislature.—Independent.
All newspapers have again been
urged by the Navy Department,
through the committee in Public In­
formation, to discontinue the publica­
tion of news items and advertisements
which may in any degree indicate the
location or movement of vessels. 1 his
notice has not been issued because of
new circumstances endangering ocean
shipping—none has arisen—hue be-
cause it is felt that voluntary censor­
ship has not yet achieved the fullest
measure of essential secrecy in the
Protection of merchant shipping. 1 he
notice asks that all references to
names of ships, dates of sailing and
arrival, information of routes, sched­
ules,, cargoes, location and movement
of ships be declared from news and
k advertising copy. But in spite of this
Uhe city papers only last week pub-
Ahcii accounts of ships in the harbor
/at Portland, even showing pictures
and how the ships were painted to
fool the enemy. This is playing strong
into the hands of the Hun spies.
These papers go to New \ork and
to England, where they arc
bought up by enemy spies and this in­
formation is carried in this way al­
most to headquarters of the enemy
*>‘hout any cost to the enemy. I he
(neniy can study the deceptive nov-
ef‘y and get ready to inflict damage.
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Primary Election Wrong Time.
th.,t|iSJh\bC,icf Oi the Sen‘«"»l ‘hat
‘he lack of interest in the primary is
caused partly by the frequency of
elections, hoiks just naturally get tir­
ed Of voting SO often. When we have
plenty of anything we tire of it.
Another reason is that voters do not
vet realize that the primary is all im-
por ant, that it is necessary to vote at
‘he primary m order that a candidate
may be on the ticket
in November.
■ : 1,°“Sa.nds
Oregon
I'l.i
’ o * say,
V t "Why, I
didnt know that the primary made
any difference.”
l he primaries make lots of extra
advertising
— . for the
— newspapers,
r 3, so no
newspaper is expected to want to do
away with them.
But if we are to have the primary
there should be some way of getting
the voters to use it.
The Sentinel’s belief is that the
greatest reason for the lack of inter­
est in the Oregon primary is the fact
that it come at a time of the year
when people are not in the habit of
voting and loses interest because of
being so far removed from the gener-
al election.
In this way the interest that attach­
es to the general election will attach
to the primary. It will not be neces­
sary to get up enthuiasm twice during
the same year. It will eliminate one
of two long campaigns, another thing
which tires both the voters and the
candidates and will make the cam­
paign much less expensive for those
seeking office, that would bring it as
a time of the year when the farmer
has time to vote.
If we are to have the primary, let's
fix it so we will use it.
The forthcoming legislature could
propose such a measure to the people.
—Sentinel.
Germany To-Day.
I his is the day of German disillus­
ionment. Ever since the first order
for the spring drive, .March 21, there
has been nothing but disappointment,
sickening bereavement, doubt and dis-
pair for the German masses. Hindcn-
berg is no longer the colossal figure
of military genius who was te> lead the
German people to world conquest.
Although there has been a relentless
censorship that has kept the full par»
titulars from the German people, dis­
asters that have caused such appall­
ing loss of human life cannot be hid­
den. The German people know, for
one thing, that America troops are-
arriving in France in alarming num­
bers. 'lhe Huns have felt American
steel, they have stood against the
American soldiers and they know
how these formerly despised troops
can fight.
l he German press is urging the
masses to have patience, to suffer on
and exhibit faith, But the spur has
been applied to the German masses
too long and too often to be effec­
tive. The victory of the west has not
been realized even through the plains
of Flanders have been carpeted with
German slain. Germany is suffering
from lack of food as never before.
Austria is seething with rebellion, and
school boys have been torn from their
mothers’ arms to be fed into the hop­
per of the German military machine,
Even the captured German soldiers
arc dispirited. No longer is there a
ring of confidence
in their voices.
They reflect the depression of all
Germany and they are no longer sure
of victory. What is more, they look
upon the American uniform with sin­
cere, if sullen respect. Therefore, look
for the beginning of the end of this
war before the present year is finish­
ed.—Telephone Register.
One Language Only in Schools.
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Speaking at Chicago Friday, Secre­
tary Lane of the interior department
directed national attention to the star­
ling fact that there are 40,000 men
now a cantonments who can neither
fe.k. nor write English. Mr. Lane in­
sisted that only one language—our
language—should be taught in the
public schools, and instruction in for­
eign language should be left for the
colleges.
Today that council is sympathetic­
ally received and Mr. Lane’s view is
shared by a great majority of the
American people. I wo years ago a
public man making that declaration
would have been assailed by a storm
of protesting criticism. It would have
been said that he was narrow, a zeal­
ot, intolerant, and favor-currying po­
liticians would have joined in the hue
and cry.
W ar’s dreadful lightening is vividly
revealing. By its intense glare we see
now a fact that was not understood at
all by the majority of the people, and
but dimly by others, that the Ameri­
can people were not yet a nation to
the true sense of the term, but a con­
glomeration of divergent races drawn
to prosperous and inviting shores
from every quarter of the globe. We
had drawn into the body politic mil­
lions of men and women possessing
slight conception of the foundation
principles of our
institutions, and
some of these mistook liberty for
license. Others brought here their old
world feuds, passions and prejudices,
as well as their old world customs,
many of the latter innocent and unob­
jectionable, but the former highly
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considerable number who could not
even speak the national language.
| W e arc going to correct that, first,
by making the teaching of English
I compulsory in the public schools, and
. second, we trust, by adoption of uni-
versal compulsory military training,
I so that the nationalizing influence
that is now operating in military can­
tonments in time of war will go on a
continuing process in time of peace.
—Spopesman Review.
Wonder Wheat.
It will require at least the official
assurance of Luther Burbank himself
and this is said to have been forth­
coming—that the plant wizard has
succeeded in developing a strain of
wheat which will increase the yield of
American farms to an average of
forty bushels to the acre.
I he promises that have been made
in behalf of numerous "wonder”
strains of wheat in the past have
made the fanners suspicious of all
such enterprises. It is a case of re­
peated cry of "Wolf! Wolf!” when
there was no wolf, and which result­
ed, as the story runs, in a fatality
when the wolf really appeared. In
this case it is the‘other way round,
but the principle is the same.
It would be a real pity to delay by
a moment the development of a genu­
ine Burbank discovery, and a produc­
tive wheat strain never was so badly-
needed as now, with the average yield
for the nation at something like fif­
teen bushels of wheat to the acre.
Growers will do well to remember,
however, that even a Burbank is not
a substitute for painstaking methods
of farming, and that his gift to them,
if it materializes, will require intelli­
gent use if the grain is not to deter­
iorate rapidly to the old level which
everybody is now seriously trying to
escape.—Oregonian.
Make Price-Fixing General.
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Price fixing has so curbc«l extortion
so far as food is concerned, that we
wonder the experiments is not ex­
tended to other necessities of life.
For example, why should not the
price of wool and cotton, and of
woolen and cotton manufactures, be
fixed by the government during the
war?
Raw wool and cotton, whose prices
are uncontrolled by the government,
have mounted in price much faster
than coal and flour, which have been
controlled.
When one of the frequent rises in
selling prices
is announced every
manufacturer, jobber and wholesaler
immediately and naturally adds that
increase in price to the stock he has
on hand. For the cloth or the manu­
factured suit which he would have
sold at $10 before the rise in price was
announced he immediately demands
$11 or $12 and sometimes more. He
has to protect himself.
Now it is evident that, whatever ex­
cuse may be offered for raising the
price of goods that are yet to be man­
ufactured, that excuse does not apply
to goods that have already been man­
ufactured, and which could have been
and which are formerly sold profit­
ably at the lower price.
The individual or the firm who at­
taches this increase of goods already
in stock and formerly held at a lower
price is simply getting an unfair prof­
it out of war conditions. He is a prof­
iteer pure and simple, so far as that
increase is concerned.
And nobody ought to be allowed to
be a profiteer in these times.
The only way to remedy these con­
ditions is 30 place clothing and every
other necessity of life under govern­
ment control, exactly as food has
been placed under government con­
trol.
There should be a textile commis­
sion to regulate the price of wool and
cotton.
If something of this kind is not
done soon ordinary folks w-'l be un-
able to wear decent clothing after a
while.—Chicago Herald.
UNSHAKEN TESTIMONY
Time is the test of truth. And
Doan's Kidney l’ills have stood lhe
test. No Tillamook resident who suf­
fers backache, or annoying urinary
ills can remain unconvinced by this
twice told testimony.
G. A. Gocldner, building contractor,
Mill & Pine Sts., McMinnville, Ore.,
says: “B: ckache and kidney trouble
came on me from a strain which
weakened my kidneys and caused a
dull ache through my back. 1 tried
different kidney medicines but never
found relief until 1 began using
Doan’s Kidney Pills. They helped me
from the first and always gave me
quick lasting relief when 1 needed
them after that.” (State given .March
3‘. I9U )
On April 22, 1916 Mr. Gocldner
said: ”1 am ready to back up every
word of my former statement for I
recommend Doan's Kidney Pills as a
reliable kidney medicine.”
Price 60c. at all
dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Goeldncr had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo. N. Y.
Paid Adv.
Get Rid of Your Rheumatism.
Now is the time to gel rid of your
rheumatism. You will find Chamber­
undesirable.
lain’s Liniment a great help. The re­
There could be no adequate avenue lief which it affords is alone worth
imtni-
of approach to the minds of
many times the cost. For sale by La­
grants incapable of reading and writ­
mar's Drug Store.—Paid Adv.
ing English, and none whatever to a
1 ATLANTIC
I «.PACIFIC
I MOUNTAIN
i PRAIRIE
’ LAKE
DIXIE
FLEET
F LEET
“FLEET
FLEET
FLEET
2 5+', ÒI 2 TIRÉ
16 6, 960 TIRE
5 5
796 TIRE
19 8, 744 TIRE
2 I 7 ♦ 3 72 TIRE
FLEET 3.285
TIRE
» 86 0
M iles
MILES
M I LES
M ILES
MILES
MILES
TOTAL 4,178.744 TIRE.MILES
GOODRICH
TIRES
TESTED
T the City of Goodrich, they
have officially announced the
grand mileage of Goodrich's
nation-wide Test Car work of 1917:
1,044,686 linear miles.
4,178,744 tire miles.
coldly, calculatingly, puts the seal of multi­
plied jiroof on Goodrich Tires, and stamps
them “Tested." In that searching test, no
slightest defect, no hidden short-coming
could escape the sight of the Goodrich ex­
perts.
Those figures indite the Emancipation
Act of motorists, freeing them from tire
mishaps and amputated mileage.
Compressed in them is the story of the
famous Six Fleets, and how they hurled
Goodrich Tires the length and breadth of
our nation, over city pavement and country
road, ploughing them
through sand and mud;
mauling them against rock
and gravel.
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Mathematics has no fa­
vorites. That multiplied
mileage of 4,178,744 miles
SIL VERTOWN CORDS, and BLACK
SAFETY TREAD", under light and heavy
cars, defied the rough going of roads wher­
ever the Test Car Fleets rushed them.
The spiral-wrapped, cable-cord tire body,
and Goodrich’s tough black tread rubber
fought the hard fight and conquered.
Seek tire surety and long mileage in the
proven service of “America’s Tested Tires."
Goodrich guarantees you will get it because
Goodrich tested and got it
Tested Tires mean 100 per cent, quality.
Demand it. Tested Tires mean supreme
service. Demand it.
THE B. F. GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY
PORTLAND
! THE
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CITY
More Grazing on Reserves.
To meet the war needs of the coun­
try, sheep and cattle will be grazed
on the national forests in increased
numbers this year. Half a million
more sheep will be taken care of than
last year, according to the officials of
the forest service. This will bring the
total number of stock grazed under
permit to about nine million sheep,
2,36 o , o « jo head of cattle, and 51,000
swine.
This increase is on top of an in-
crease of 200,000 sheep and 100,000
cattle made last year, when it was
recognized that the country’s need for
beef, mutton, wool, and hides called
for the fullest possible use of the na­
tional forest ranges. Through con-
I servativc handling of these ranges for
more than ten years their productive­
ness has been steadily raising. With
the country at war, the Secretary of
1 Agriculture felt it was nececsary to
take some chances of overgrazing in
I the interest of larger immediate pro-
OF
BRANCH—BR(>Al>Vt AV AND RURNH1DK HT MEET.
PORTLAND« OREGON
GOODRICH • AKRON,
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duction. The results of admitting a
larger number
of livestock were,
i however, carefully watched. The fur­
ther increases made this year arc
mainly made possible by finding out
how additional stock can be grazed
without injury to the ranges, through
more intensive methods of use.
These include readjustments in the
allotments of range, closer utilization
of the forage, and the opening up of
country not before used for grazing
stock. In order to make the new areas
accessible to stock it has been in
many instances necessary to construct
trails or driveways. Watering facili­
ties have also been improved. The
various increased allowances have
been authorized only after car« ful
consideration.
The largest increase has been made
in the Colorado an«l Wyoming forests
where 51,000 additional catth and 151-
000 more sheep will be grazed. In the
state of California there will be 137,-
o«x> more sheep. The provision for
more cattle is wi«lely
distributed
OHIO,
u Ti~rrTTr n
through relatively small increases on
practically all of the forests.
In Colorado virtually all of the ad­
ditional sheep to be grazed are owned
in small numbers by settlers of the im­
mediate vicinity. Under present war­
time conditions it is no longe r neces­
sary to handle sheep in large bands
in order to make the handling profit­
able.
Proper Food For Weak Stomachs.
The proper food for one man will be
all wrong for another. Everyone
should adopt a diet suited to his age
and occupation. Those who have
weak stomachs need to be especially
careful and should eat slowly and
masticate thfcir food thoroughly. It is
also important that they keep their
bowels regular. When they become
constipated or when they feel dull and
stupid after eating, they should take
Chamberlain's Tablets to strengthen
the stomach and move the bowels.
I hey arc easy to take and pleasant in
effect. For sale by Lartiar's Drug
Store.—Paid Adv.