TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JULY 11. 1918.
The crosses stand in serried rows, so
WEEK'S LOSSES ARE 703.
closely that they make a very thicket,
The Germans who oppose the Am­ witii scarcely room to walk between The American Casualties Total
ericans on the Marne battlefront are them. They were all new, of painted
11,806 Men to Date.
said to be troubled with "jumpy wood, alike except for the names and
nerves". And they will have jumpy the ages—thirteen to eighty-four. But
Washington, July 7.—Casualties in
hearts and stomachs, also, before they they all bore the same sinister date—
the Army and Marine Corps in the
are through with the Tanks.—Obser­ August 22, 1914.
'The Germans began to pillage and American expeditionary
forces in­
ver.
burn the houses, 076 of them; then creased by 703 during the week, com­
1 :-jh?r freight rates hav • gone into they turned all the inhabitants into pared with 497 the previous week, and
cffi ct throughout the entire country. the street promiscuously marching aggregate 11,086 with the inclusion of
And this time the public cannot blame the mahout. It went on for long hours today’s Army list, giving 117 names,
it on the railway managers, for all and they were given no food or drink. and the Marine Corps list, giving 53
the latter did was to put into effect During a halt they forced them to lie names. Total deaths including 219
the odred of the federal director.— beneath the machine gur.s, then they men lost at sea, men killed in action,
lined them up against the church wall died of wounds, disease, accident and
Observer.
and performed a mock execution, other causes, number 4414; Army men
With hay now at $20 in the hay About <xx> men were massed in St. 3917; Marines, 497.
The wounded aggregate 6169, Army
country, many a horse may as well Martin's Square, on the river bank,
figure on a traw diet this winter. and their wives, mothers, daugiiters men, 5200; Marines, 969.
Those missing in action, including
Straw, by the way, is best fed after were assembled by the soldiers to
prisoners, total 503—Army men, 452;
run through a cutter, with a few oats witness the scene.
"They lined up their victims in Marines, 51.
thrown in, that the animal will not
Of the week’s increase. 438 were
lose heart and think bad things of his three rows along the Salubre and
tumbled 150 of them li-.ad over heels Army men and 265 .Marines. Killed in
ow n er.—Oregonian.
into the river, shoving back with their action and other deaths numbered
1 he power of tho government in bayonets those who attempted to 285, those wounded totaled 303 and
wartime has never been better illus­ cling to the bank. Only four or five the missing and prisoners 115.
The Army casualties summary, as
trated than in the case of Astoria. escaped by swimming. During this
That city w-anted the capital issues first execution the machine guns were officially announced today, follows:
Killed in action (including 291 lost
committee of Washington to au­ trained on the remaining lines. When
thorize a bond issue of $125,000 dis­ the firing had ceased that night, there at sea), 1574; died of wounds, 532;
trict bonds with which to erect new were more than 400 dead; their bodies died of disease, 1322, died of accident,
school buildings. The authoriziation lying there, women too, and children. and other causes, 489, wounded in ac­
And the graves are there near by, in tion, 5,200; missing in action (includ­
was declined.—Telephone Register.
■ the cemetery, and tl.e aces given are ing prisoners),452. Total 9569.
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Owing to the shortage of school from 13 to 84.”
The Marine Corps casualty sum­
The p.>l that these civilians play- mary follows:
teachers in Linn county many grand­
mothers have taken the examination ed in this war was to bring to the
Deaths, 497; wounded, 969; in
and will teach. Based on our know­ civilized world the realization of hands of enemy, two; missing. *9.
ledge of grandmothers we would what it would mean for German arms Total 1517.
prefer to go to school to one of to conquer. In playing their part they
Officers included in the Marine
them rather
than anyone
else, 1 gave their lives in the most cruel way Corps summary were:
and we believe the small boy will a beastly enemy could devise.
Deaths, 21; wounded, 28; missing,
What part will our civilian popu­ two. The Army summary docs not
agree with us.—Telephone Register.
lation play in the war? Will it go note the number of officers included.
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An American correspondent tells I along living as it did before the war,
us that our boys in France are always I or will it glory in the opportunity to
War Prayers at Noon.
smiling, even when they enter the I serve in the tremendous task of de­
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trenches, when they charge and when feating civiliziation’s enemy? Each
A church bell at Peabody, Kipi.,
they return from battle. If they can I individual must decide that question,
rings at noon every day except Sun­
face death with a smile, certainly we I—Umpqua Valley News,
day, to call every citizen of every de­
can do our part at home without I____________ —
grumbling. And that part consists in Qjy. Losses fa Light in FraflCe. nomination and creed to spend a few
me ments ir prayer for our armies and
producing all possible and consuming I
0
the ration, the triumph for right and
as little as necessary.—News Times.
•<•5 : BEST IN THE LONG RUN
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I Relatives of
soldiers with the tor a complete and permanent peace.
Tite
Presbyterian
bell
calls
tiiem
to
The poor, deluded German people I American
expeditionary forces in
>1
arc made to believe by their war lords I France w ill find encouragement in the prayer one week, the next week the
bell
of
t!.<
Lutheran
church
continues
that New York c'ty has already been war department’s statement of cas-
taken by their forces, that German ualities. The term covers killcd in the summons, then the Methodist,
troops are marching onwa.J to Phil­ action, including 291 lost at sea; and se on,. This noon observance of
adelphia and th il things geneially arc deaths from wounds, from disease, prayer lias become a custom in many
topsy-turvy aver on this side of the | from accident and otther causes, cities and towns both cast and west.
pond. But we should worry what a wounded in action and missing in ac-
German high commander says—judg-I tion.
England and tbe War.
ing from what we know of his truth
The total, 10383, seems graver than
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an 1 veracity concerning all matters I in reality it is, for we arc to keep con-
A report as to the “man power
pertaining to the big war—and other stantly in mind that our overseas supplied by Great Britian in the pres­
well.—Umpqua Valley I forces number 900,000, and only one
things
as
ent war was recently made to the
man in 90 has been affected, and only
News.
English House of Commons. This re­
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one man in 242 has lost his life.
port was made public and shows the
The risk of moving our forces s following facts:
Japan has offered every purchaser
of an automobile or truck in the em­ across the Atlantic, dreaded in anti
n American, in 1776
England has furnished 4,530,000
pire $500 toward the purchase price, I cipitation
by millions of parents, men; Scotland, 170,000 men; Canada,
and $150 yearly to help pay for the wives and other relatives, has been al­
Australia and other colonies 900,000
maintenance of the vehicle, in ex­ most negligible. Only 1 soldier in 3100 men; India, Africa and other depend­
by 1
change for the privilege of speedily has lost his life from submarine as- encies 1,000,000. This is a total of
to fasten it to the hull cl
commandeering motors when the oc- sassination, a remarkable record when 7,420,000 men. Enormous as is this
steel plunger; then explode it by clock werk.
casion demands. If that plan was car- it is remembered that hundreds of
contribution to the greatest of all
ried out in America, the automobile I heavy laden transports have been causes, that
His torpedo—too much of an experiment—failed.
of Human Freedom,
factories would run day and night to voyaging through mine-strewn and U Great Britian
is ready, willing
Safeguarding the user against failure, Goodrich
meet the demands. Then everybody boat infested waters, and many of our able to make her contribution
would lie a good road booster.—News I men in the transport service have much greater.
never markets an experiment, tires or anything else,
Reporter.
I made half a dozen round trip voyages
foodrich b ires, though built with the experience and
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Guarded by the gallant and efficient
sk:l! of the oldest and largest rubber factory, are proved
His “Divine Rights.
The Amsterdam correspondent of navies of the United States and Great
out by the practical road travel of Goodrich Test Car
the London Express has obtained an I Britian, our boys have been convoyed
Flcct3 to make them in morJ end deed—
Berlin news is to the effect that the
interview with a neutral journalist with almost the degree of safety that
who was the guest of the German I attends a transatlantic voyage in young "Divine Rights” Crown Prince
of Prussia is greatly interested in the
staff during
the recent fighting | peace times,
around Soissons where scenes were I This splendid guardianship is a high Germans long range gun which bom­
acknowledged more “terrible than I tribute to the zeal and efficiency of barded Paris and has personally fired
anything witnessed in the war.” The I Our navy under secretary Daniels, and it off,” to the high honor of the reg­
German lossess in the battle were will carry cheer and confidence to ular gunners."
We believe it. Shooting people up
terrible,” the neutral journalist said, American hearts in all parts of the
at a distance of 70 or 75 miles is just
“Whole regiments were wiped out in L'nion.—Spokesman Review.
about that Crown Prince’s size. This
no time. 1 saw whole masses of corps
feebl; minded but bloody minded sci-
tied in bundles with wire to be burn­
Let the Kaiser Lite.
on of the house of Hohenzollern,
ed." The Germans could not spare
which gave to the world its curse in
enough men to dig graves for burial
purposes.—Sheridan Sun.
The wish of the death in some dia- crazy William, is accredited with the
Ibolical manner of kaiser Bill Hohen- command of a grand army. Its simple
America may not be methodical as I zollern and that militarist bunch of in his name for the sake of .lie family
For Coouneh rccegr.mcs but one value in tires—
Germany or some other nations, but vons and buns which surround him glory.
their SEBVK\ .'.LL .i c.i your car end on the road; one
That
long
range
gun
has,
thus
far,
we get results in this country when I has been expressed millions of times
tire value*—S1TIVICE VALUE.
the necessity arises. For instance: in America during the past year or wiped out several homes of non-com­
Whatever pounej cf rubber end other material go
batants, a churchful of people on their
When we went to war we were sadly I so.
in tire ; whatever hours - f work e..d skill, their
knees on Good Friday and a mater­
short of ships. Less than a year ago
But why kill them?
VALET, to mote..’
jj t'...ir E1.AV1C2, in con>
45,000 men only were employed in
No manner of death at this time nity hospital. It would be interesting
fjrt,
i'
.pcr.dabili.y
er
d
d.;ra’„
to
know
which
of
these
the
Crown
our shipyards. Today 3.000,01» men I conceived would be in harmony with
And you arc s..re to get it if your tires
are employed in the ship yards and the crimes of which the members of Prince's "to the high honor” of the
GOODElcii SiL'./ :RV i V.l'J CUWDb, cr
an additional 256.000 employed in I the militarist machine are guilty. No regular artillery, brought down. The
DLAG.t SAF l _ 2 V TKBAL3.
making engines, boilers, winches, and 1 I death sufficiently cruel and agonizing Prince has .ill the arrogance, conceit
Z;.Z:e cure cf c:cxz:::;> and ccc::ri:y tn t
other ship machinery. America can I lias yet been invented to atone for and brutality of his sire, besides the
be trusted to rise to the emergency. I the crimes of this gang of super-thugs trait.: cf a coward, a cad and a rogue.
andir.g tig, masterful ULIWICE VALUE
To make tlu.t gun’s massacre appro­
That's the way a free Democratic land super-murderers.
pipplc do tilings. That's why democ
Instead of death, which would close priate the Prince's shot should have
B. F. GOODRZCZI RUBBER CO
racy will win throughout the world. I their eyes upon the awful crimes, slaughtered the newly born and un­
Portland
Branca;
Broat'.rray and Eumzido Ci., Portland, Ore.
I which must prey upon their minds, bor,. b. lies in that maternity hospital.
—Itcmizer.
I may God damn them to eternal life— Maybe it did.
■
r:,y. - .
But, we're altrustic enough to hope
to wander from now until the end of
Living in Security.
time through a dead lake filled with that the Prince will yet be reformed.
A?:BV*-?:
V* THE CITY OF GOODRICH • AKRON, OHIO. -
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the coagulated blood ol the victims We hope to yet sec him engaged in
Separatcd by 3,000 miles of ocean
of their unreasoning, unreasonable some honest vocation, like hauling
and protected by our navy, our civil­
I ambition; may the dead rise from fertilizer on a farm.—St. Paul Daily-
ian population can during this war
their own blood to taunt their mur­ News.
continue to live in the same security
Wages at Home and Abroad.
000 people in Japan arc engaged in abundant supply of match stick wood,
derers, may these murderers never be
as in peace tunes. The Hun invaders
the match industry, 73 per cent of while Japan has it on Sweden in the
permitted to close their eyes against Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea
are not in our midst. We are spared
Remedy.
The Tariff Commission,
which whom are women, while but 30 per matter of cheaper labor, a factor on
the evidence of the terrible carnage
the agony that came to the women wrought at their behest; may they
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jumps from piano to shoe buttons, cent of the employes here arc women. which the commission finds itself un­
and children and old men of Belgium
Now is the time to buy a bottle of and locomotives to manicure sets, in
Now the Tariff Commission is on
have no food but th. t of their own
and France and Serbia and the other remorse, nothing to quench their this remedy so as to be prepared in its desultory study of the tariff, esti­ record as declaring that “differences decided as an^advantagc of any sort.
Anyhow, it stands to reason that the
over-run countries. White thus secure
thirst but the recking blood of their case that any one of your family- mates the output of American match­ in the rate of wages have comparativ­ commission, to be consistent, should
form harm we must not forget that
ely
little
to
do
with
trade,
”
yet
that
should
have
an
attack
of
colic
or
diar
­
es
in
1917
to
have
been
28,805,000
own victims; may they be unable to
recommend that we give up the man­
the civilian population of these deso­
close their ears to the cries of little rhoea druing the summer months. It gross. It finds that our greatest com­ “cost of production is the central fac­ ufacture of matches in this country
lated countries are as much our allies
is
worth
tor
in
determining
competitive
condi
­
a hundred times its cost petitors are Sweden and Japan, the
babes mutilated at their behest, to the
and get our supply from either
as are their fighting men. Let us
moans of mothers torn from their when needed. For sale by Lamar's latter country having multiplied her tions. It is pretty hard to assimilate Sweden or Japan. This will entail the
realize more deeply their tragedies.
sale of matches to us in 1917 over those two statements, but they have dismantling of not less than 25 plants,
children and made the victims of Drug Store.— Pd. Adv.
Read this testimony of Brand W hit­
1914 by about 40, while
Sweden been made by members of the com­ capital $12,000.000, value cf products
German lust, to the deathbed agonies
lock. who as our minister to Belgium
doubled her exports to us during the mission. Furthermore, the attitude of $12,000,000, value added by manufac­
ot Belgian ami French maidens forc­
Doing Good.
knows what it means for a land to be
same time. The commission says that the commission is that where any- ture, $7,000,000, and chase 2,000 wage
ed into maternity by the will of those
occupied by German troops:
“Sweden's proximity to Germany competing country has any special earners into other occupations. This
overlords of German militarism.
"Tamines is a little mining town
Few medicines have met with more gives her an ample supply of potash, advantage in manufacture over us in
This, in our judgment, is the only
is Taussigian idealism as applied to
on the Sambrc. The little church
favor or accomplished more good and her nearness to Russia gives her the production of commodity, we
fitting punishment tor the kaiser and
the “mad-: in America.”
stands on the village green overlook
than Chamberlain’s Colic and Diar- advantages in the acquisition of suit­ should give up its manufacture in this
the outcasts of hell who surround and
ing the river, its facade all blotched
rhoea Remedy. John F. Jatzcn, Del- able wood for the match stick, while country as a bad economic policy,
counsel him.—Sentinel.
where the bullet- and grapeshot spat­
meny, Sask., says of it, "1 have used Japan is both a producer and an ex­ and, purchase from the country or
That the results of free trade are
tered against it. And in the little
Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea porter of potash and has an abundant countries possessing the special ad­
graveyard beside the church there are
The war has erected the greatest Remedy myself and in my family, and supply of match stick wood and cheap vantage. In this instance both Sweden taxes and the wages of Democracy is
debt, are two truths as old as the two
hundred:, of new made graves, long tariff wall in the history of the world. can recommend it as being an excep­ skilled labor." It is also conceded by and Japan
would appear . to have great political parties.
Therefore,
rows of them, each wi-.li its small When the war ends the ttariff will tionally fine preparation.”
For sale the commission that labor is cheaper special advantages over us with re- |
brethern, let’s do our best to put De­
wooden cross and its bit of flowers. crumble.
by Lamar's Drug Store.— Pd. Adv.
gard to supply of potash,
in foreign countries; that about
mocratic free traders out of power.
WHAT THE EDITORS SAT.
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