TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT JULY 18. 1918.
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. er, more earnest, better protected
troops than those from the United
F. C. BAKER. Publisher.
átales are not to be found in Europe.
Both In Great Britian and on the
their
Puritanism has
created a deep impression. By their
idealism they have made their power
felt; they are men with a vision in
.ueir eyes, who have traveled three
thujsand miles to keep a rendezvous
soh death. That those for whom
iiiey are prepared to die should sus­
pect them is a degrading disloyalty,
.¡¡at trackers should be sent aftei
m from home to pick up clues to
their unwortbiness is sheerly dam­
nable. To disparage the heroism is
„ad enough; to distrust the heroes
of your own flesh and blood, attrib­
uting to them lower than civiliza-
.iou moi al standards, is to be guilty
of the meanest treachery and in­
gratitude."
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IF
WORLD
MOVED
FASTER GATUN LAKE IS BIG AFFAIR
Raeervolr, Built by Ariorleana, Far
Outdoes Anything 11 m That the
World Hao Known.
■ stating Conditions Would Bo Very
Oraatty Upoot by Increased Rota-
tatlon, as Shown Hero.
Conjecture has often been made as
to what would happen If the earth
were to rotate faster upon Its axis
than it does. Of course. If it went 18
times as fast as ft does now, bodies
at the equator would weigh nothing—
a person would Jump up Into the air
and fail to coine down again. A man
might weigh 200 at the poles and
nothing at the equator, while his
weight would vary for Intermediate
points. If he approached the equator
he would get lighter and If he re­
ceded from it he would get heavier.
A man could carry a house on bls
shoulders very near the equator, while
near either pole he could only carry
what one can now. On this account
labor would be very dear near the
poles snd very eheap near the equa­
tor. It would certainly be interesting
to know which section of the earth
would be more populous—whether
everyone would go north for good
wages or go south for cheap work­
men. The railroad problem would bo
momentous unless the railroads all
ran east and west, whea a uniform
rate wen Id ob'ala on aay particular
ekst-aad-west lint.
Journeys to the south would be oven
more popular than they are now, for
they would make everyone feel better
and In buoyant spirits; more springy,
too, so that people could walk far­
ther without getting tired, and could
juasp over any obstacle that present­
ed Itself without earning down with
too hard a thump.
There Is no planet now known that
has such a rapid rotation as la pic­
tured here, but there are eeveral
where man would weigh a great deal
lees than on earth. On the moon a
man would weigh only fifty or sixty
pounds and could Jump as many feet
without suffering serious discomfort.
But this state of affairs obtains over
the whole planet, because it Is due
to absence of gravitative force and
not to centrifugal, as would be the
case on the rapidly rotating earth.
Get ready for the next Libertyf
Loan Drive, which will start in Oc-
tob< r, v. hen Tillamook Coun* s quo­
ta will be $400,Otto. That looks a big
amount of money. So did other quo­
tas in other drives, especially the
last W. S. S. drive with a quota of
$151,000. Lui st figures available
snow that the county subscribed over
$1'00,000. There is nothing small
about Tillamook County when it
comes to assisting the government.
It may take a little hustling to raise
$400,000 for the next Liberty Loan
drive, but the people of Tillamook
county will do so with a cheerful
Newspapers in the Willamette val­
smile, by Hooverizing their money ley are being hard hit on account of
from now on.
» crop failure and the exodus of the
people from the valley towns to ship
Germany It would seem, is wanting ouilding and saw mill localities, so
peace, that is the junkers and those much so that a large number of them
who were responsible for the war, are hanging on by their shoe strings,
but they know full well that they while others have given up the ghost,
cannot obtain peace as long as the i'hls is what the Oregonian says
Kaiser and the junkers are in con­ about Newberg newspapers:
"For fifteen years or more New­
trol in Germany. One of the condi­
tions of peace should be the de-| berg has had two good weekly news­
thronement of the kaiser and he and papers. Their columns contained all
some of his war lords are banished that was "fit to print”, and editor­
to some island. That is what is ially they held to good ideas; but the
troubling the kaiser right now, for little city is one paper size. Mr.;
it is only a question of time when the Woodward has bought the Entet-
German people will throw off the kai­ prise, and the Graphic, first in the
ser yoke, but Germany will for years field in 1888, will be the sole news­
to come be classed as the most bru­ paper, unless "some fellow from
tal, barbarous nation under the sun Kansas,” where they have notions,
and other nations will refuse to have crowds in. Other places in Oregon
business relations with it.
might follow the Newberg plan.”
There are a. good many cities as
When anybody asks you to do some the Oregonian says, that are "one-
patriotic duty, don’t raise a thousand paper size.” but which have two or
and one excuses about this and the more. Tillamook City is in the latter
other thing. Just smile and butt irf class, but we are free to admit that
and do it. It may work a little hard^ one newspaper, from a business point
ship upon us, and we may all have of view, is ail that is necessary. But
to forego a little pleasure and cause) •so may persons are induced to butt
us to neglect our business, our homes, into the newspaper business where
our social affairs, and other things, the field is well supplied, the result
but this is no time to complain andj of which is instead of having on^
stand back and criticise. There is too good newspaper there are two poor
Buyer Gets Rare Volume Cheap.
much of this, when there should be ones. Another trouble with the news
First editions and rare books often
hearty co-operation with those who paper business is starting newspapers
are giving their time and energies to boost real estate, and Tillamook bring prices at sales which excite the
to some patriotic cause. Personally, county have that class of newspapers wonder of the uninitiated, but large as
|what are you doing and what sacri­ However, it is plain to see that a the sums received sometimes are, it
fices are you making? Does it show, good many newspapers of the Will­ often happens that a volume goes for
up big, are you proud of your efforts, amette Valley will go to the wall, less than had been paid for It by the
or are you one of those who sit and it may be a good thing after all, preceding owner. This Is illustrated In
the case of a Douay Bible which
around and do nothing and criticise for one newspaper in a country town
brought $8,250 at a New York auction
is
all
that
is
necessary,
and
if
the
others and make mountains out of
sale a short time ago. It had belong­
mole hills? There is urgent need of business men would not patronize
ed to the collection of the late John D.
women in the moss room of tne lied more than one newspaper it would
Criminlns, who hnd paid $5,565 for It
(Cross, hut what a few w t.tmt, me1 be better for everybody.
17 years before. Because of Its Intrin­
taking part .n 'hit wi-k compand
sic value as a bibliographic rarity, It
to the large number of women in the
The snap shot man is very much in had increased $685 In that time. But
city ad vicinity.
earnest about better fire protection, Augustin Daly, from whose estate
and we want to Impress upon the Orlmmlns bought the Bible, had spent
The Christian Church people ar­ people of Tillamook county that it is $20,000 on It In Illustrating It with
ranged a moss picking picnic to their imperative duty to be constant­ rare prints, original drawings and old
Sandlake last Tuesday. That is what ly on the look out and report im­ engravings of Biblical events, thereby
we call good practical Christianity, mediately any infringement of the enlarging the original book to 42 vol­
for it was to help suffering human­ law in regard to starting fires. This umes. However, the confirmed collect­
ity, no matter of what religious sect is an exceedingly dry season for this or does not usually buy books as an
or nationality, they belong In this county, which makes the situation Investment, but for the pleasure of
horrible world war where men are much more serious and alarming. owning them, and probably Mr. Daly
being killed and wounded by thou­ What is needed is that proper pre­ got $20,000 worth of entertainment In
sands. It is the best kind of a chrfs f caution be taken to prevent a fire gathering the prints and In extra-ll-
tian act to do something, no matter getting started. "Safety First” is a lustratlnj’ the book.
how small, to provide something that good slogan and it is a good one for
Rooks In Noisy Conclave.
will allay the suffering of men who this county this year. We are anx­
The ways of rooks In France,
have been wounded in the war, and ious to prevent the loss of timber
•that is what moss pickers of Tilla­ and farm houses and barnes, and the somewhere In the army zone, pusale
mook county are doing in hurrying .way this can be done is for every­ a correspondent who writes that their
behavior at ’he advent of mild weath­
up the moss production. The picnic body to co-operate with the fire
er was peculiar. They congregated In
party Sunday had this in view when wardens and state and county offi-(
Immense numbers on a few trees near
they gave up their day of rest and cials. We would like to see more fire
his billet; the trees were literally
religious worship. Other organiza­ wardens in the county and paid for
black with them; every twig and
tions might foflow the example of the by the county, and we think it would
branch was crowded with a screaming
moss pickers on Sunday and that of be money wisely expended when one
mob of birds, that wheeled up and
the Christian church on Tuesday, in takes into consideration the damage
down In greet excitement. Sometimes
this great work of helping suffering that a bad fire would do. Let a firte they settled on the fields, hut not to
fweep
over
any
farm
section
of
the
mumanity, and amongst our own
feed. The writer surmises that, hav­
boys on the Western front and in county, and with the loss of one ing on a fine day resolved to visit their
farm
house,
furlture,
barn
and
hay,
other partB of the world.
many dairymen would be at a loss of old nests, as Is their habit, they found
^10,000. Take a large number of that the woodcutters—busy In France
For good and various reasons the’ farms swept by fire and it would as they are In England, had destroyed
The hurly-burly
Fair Board postponed this year’s fair mean a big loss to the dairymen. their nesting sites.
and there were persons who believe Then, consider, the loss of timber, In the trees was probably then dne
that the Chautauqua should have upon which the timber owners have to the rooks all giving their advice si­
been postponed as well. There is this been paying taxes for so many years. multaneously as to what ought to be
difference, however. A number of They, we believe, are justly entitled done tn such untoward circumstances.
our citizens guaranteed a certain to better fire protection. We want to
Malaria In England.
amount of money to assure the Chau­ impress upon the people of Tillamook
Malaria was once common In cer­
tauqua, and it is up to them to make county the Importance of taking
good, for a contract In the U. 8. is proper precautions to prevent fire. I tain parts of England, but as a result
binding and It cannot be torn up like We are confronted with a serious sit- I of dralnag“ nnd the use of quinine. It
a scrap of paper. We are free to say! nation and it is just as well to look it * was completely stamped out, notwith­
that there are many things more im­ squarely in the face and for every i standing the fact that anophellne mos­
portant just now than Chautauqua body to do their best to prevent any- • quitoes remain In the country. The
In the prosecution of the war, and one from a serious fire loss. The parasitic cycle was broken, and the
probably before the war is over the' Oregonian had a good editorial on 1 Insect was no longer Infected. Now
people of the country will have to this subject, which we will give. It j comes I lie report of a recrudescence
of Indigenous malaria In England. Ac­
make many sacrifices, not only In says:
"Patriots will not smoke I
amusements and in pleasure but a while traveling through the forests ‘ cording to a circular Issued by the lo­
decided tightening up on the food and others must not, is the spirit of cal government board, many men have
situation. As the
Ellison-White the proclamation by Governor With- contracted the disease while fighting
Chautauqua comes here according to ycombe calling for special care to­ on the enstem war fronts, and have
contract, we hope it will be well ward the prevention of forest fires. brought It home with them; thus they
patronized, otherwise
those who All the other precautions enjoined serve as foci of Infection for the civil­
guarantee the money will have to remind us that nearly all forest tires, ian population. Measures are being
make up the difference. It may be those caused by lighting excepted. | tnken to deal with ths carrier mos­
well to consider seriously whether are the result of carelessness or of quitoes.
another contract should be entered ignorance of the extreme inflamma­
Air-Raid Signs.
Into for next year.
bility of the carpet which covers the
Londoners can tell by looking at ths
forest floor. This is the reason for night sky whether to expect Goths
Coningsby Dawson, C. F. A., writ­ the requirement that no fire shall be raids or whether to go comfortably to
ing In the Bed Cross Magazine for. built until the ground is cleared for bed. If the moon shines and the night
July says. "There Is one type of fool six feet in every direction “to min­ Is clear he studies the clouds. Should
exclusively American, whose stupidi­ eral soil”. Otherwise the camper they be at some height racing from the
ty arises from love and tenderness, who is a novice might think that he east It Is safe to assume that the
very often she Is a woman. She has had extinguished his fire when as a Gothas will not come, for they cannot
been responsible for arrival inFrance matter of fact he had left behind make progress against a west wind,
of a number of narrow minded and him the seeds of a disastrous con­ which holds them back from the Brit­
well intentioned persons, their er­ flagration. Campers, fishermen and ish shore. If. however, the clouds are
rand Is to Investigate vice conditions all others will do a patriotic service flying from the west the Londoner pre­
in the I . 8. Army. This suspicion oQ by observing the spirit as well as pares for a lively evening.
the women at home concerning the the letter of the proclamation. The
The Main Point
conduct of their men in the field, Iff country needs all of its resources,
“When I looked at the poor man you
directly traceable to reports of de­ and it cannot even spare the time of
basing influences of war set In cir­ the army men who w'ould be needed sent out to work In the garden for
culation by the anti militarists. I to check a great fire if one were per­ his breakfast I saw he was very
much hurt. His face was working."
want to say emphatically that clean- mitted to start.”
“It was! But wbat were his hands
doing F
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The government fisheries bureau Is
planting Gatun lake with fishes. Ths
first shipment for the purpose, made
by steamer the other day, consisted of
catfish, sunfish, carp and black bass.
all of “fingerling" size. The bass were
planted In the Chagres river, the prior
clpal tributary of the lake.
A Pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty
constructed a reservoir (known today
as Lake Moeris) which covered 83
square miles. It was an Artificial lake,
regarded In Its day as one of the
wonders of the world, and was de­
signed to regulate the flow of the Nile.
In Its way It was the most remark­
able engineering achievement of an­
tiquity. But Gatun lake, on the line
of the Panama canal, beats It, being
about three times as big. Its object
la similar—namely, to take care of
the flood waters of the Chagres river
and prevent them from doing mis­
chief.
Gatun lake is the largest artificial
body of water ever known in the
world. It Is, In fact, the most impor­
tant feature of the transisthmian
canal, extending two-thlrda of the dis­
tance from the Caribbean sea to the
I
Pacific ocean.
It occupies a basin that was dry
land before the canal was built; and
because the area covered by It Is very
hilly and topographically irregular,
It stretches In a multiple of arms far
np Into Its marshy shores.
One reason why its shores are
marshy Is that in its shallows there
develops with astonishing luxuriance
a kind of grass which sends out run­
ners In all directions. On this account
Its banks are not easily accessible
even to small craft.
As for fishes, It Is hoped that they
will multiply and furnish a worth­
while food supply.
“Hush Hush!” Cruiser.
The Idea that Great Britain Is se­
cretly constructing tremendous cruis­
ers, carrying batteries of 15-fnch guns
and traveling faster than any na­
val ships now float, has become
almost an obsession with the Ger­
man press, whose naval experts
recognize that these ships present
a problem that cannot be met with
submarines. The new British cruisers
are termed “hush hush” cruisers be­
cause of the supposed secrecy with
which they are being constructed. Cap­
tain von Kuhl waiter, a famous Ger­
man naval authority, believes them to
be 888 feet In length and probably
more effective naval units than any
yet constructed. No doubt the prime
cause of interest in their building is
the realization that a complete fleet of
fast cruisers could annihilate a whole
squadron of slow and ponderous Ger­
man dreadnoughts If the German fleet
ever again aspires to the open sea.
In the Jutland and other fights such
a unit of fast and heavily armed ships
might have cut off their retreat. That
England is constructing a number of
large battle cruisers of a new type Is
not denied by the admiralty.
ONE DELIVERY A DAY.
Complying with the Request of the National
Council of Defense we shall, beginning MONDAY,
JULY 22nd, make but One Delivery a Day.
Deliveries will leave our Store as follows :
Southeast, 9:30 A:M.
Northwest, 12:30 P.M.
Northeast, 2:30 P.M.
Southwest, 4:30 P.M.
C. 0. & C. M. DAWSON,
Groceries, Flour and Feed.
BRING THESE
PAYCHECKS HERE
T\ONT cash them--but deposit the money to your
credit in a Savings of Checking Account. You
will find that the First National Bank not only
affords you a safe place to keep your funds—but con­
venient methods for using them.
EVERY DEPARTMENT OF BANKING
DIRECTORS :
A. W. Bunn. Farmer.
P. Heisel, Farmer.
C. J. Edwards, Mgr. C.PowerCo. J. C. Holden. Vice Pres.
B. C. Lamb. Building Materials. John Morgan. Farmer.
tP. J. Riechers. Cashier.
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The First National Bank /
TILLAMOOK- OREGON.
Three Seasons In Year.
The Egyptian year was divided into
three seasons. These were Shalt, the
season of waters, being the time occu­
pied by the rising spread and reces­
sion of the Nile; Plrut, the season of
vegetation ; the Shonmu, the season of
harvest. These seasons are supposed
to have been arranged by the god Thot
Each season was divided Into four
months and they were known In official
documents by numbers only. Thus we
have the first, second, third and fourth
months of Shalt, the months of each of
the other seasons being designated tn
the same manner. Each month, how­
ever, had a patron god and the people
ordinarily gave to It, In their daily in­
tercourse, the name of its god. These
deity names of the months were tran­
scribed into Greek, then Into Arabic
and are now largely used by the Chris­
tian Inhabitants of Egypt in prefer­
ence to the Mussulman appellations.
Faith.
Wt had a new experience the other
day when we picked up two boatloads
of survivors from the ------ , torpedoed
without warning. I will say they were
pretty glad to see us when we bore
down on them. As we neared, they be­
gan to paddle frantically, as though
fearful we should he snatched away
from them at the last moment. The
crew were mostly Arabs and Lascars,
and the first mate, a typical qpmlc-mag-
azine Irishman, delivered himself of
the following: “Sure, toward the last,
some o' thlm haythens gits down on
their knees and starts calling on Al­
lah ; but I sez. sea I: ‘Git up afore I
swat ye wld the ax-handle, ye benight­
ed haythen; sure If this boat gits
saved 't will be the Holy Virgin does
It or none at all. at all 1 Git up,' sex
I."—An American Officer, In the Atlan­
tic.
To Unify Work.
That the whole of the Gilbert group
of Islands tn the South seas should be
given over to the care of the American
board of commissioners for foreign
missions was decided at a meeting of
the London missionary board, held
some little time ago. The American
board had long been anxious for this
arrangement, which unifies the work
there, and offered to pay $27,000, with
which sum and the contributions of
the Islanders, all expenses o£. the ;
staffing of the Northern Islands can '
be met for ten years. The group Is I
under British government, and In 16
years of vigorous work In the South­
ern islands, a strong church has been
built up. and many able native pas­
tors have peen and are being trained.
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