TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT AUGUST 15, 1918,
THB TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. ity in buying bonds, and It is going cles with flaring headlines which their hearts side with Germany or
F. C. BAKER, Publisher.
to require a whole lot of discretion do not give any new war news and won’t believe the truth coming from
to avoid these persons being placed which appear to be written by spec­
ial writers from old news. It may al­
so be noticed every once in a while
Seems funny if the government can a sensational article appears about
force the people to use a certain Austria being on the verge of a rev­
amount of substitutes with flour, it olution, and it is about time this
can’t compel the manufacturer of dope was reashed and become a first
these substitutes to keep the price page article in the daily newspaper.
within the bounds of reason. Why Well people are hungry for war news
did the price of substitutes jump and these are some of the dishes they
skyward as soon as they were order­ are being fed on.
ed used?—Telephone Register.
Some of the government officials
As one Portland business man has
think it is unpatriotic to criticise the undertaken to do the newspapers in
government and they are enclined other counties an injustice, why
to feel sore whenever this is done. wouldn’t It be a good Idea for the
The above is honest, legitimate crit­ country editors to advise the mer­
icism, for when the price of substi­ chants to quit trading with Portland
tutes increase 240 per cent there is jobbers and trade in San Francisco,
something wrong somewhere and and advise the people to discontinue
somebody is growing rich out of the subscribing for the Portland Journal
war.
and advise them to take the Oregon­
ian which is by far the most reliable
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This is an iuea of the Oregon newspaper in that city and gives the
Journal's justice. The publishers of best and most reliable war news?
newspapers in Multnomah county Portland is naturally a good trading
are to receive double pay for legal point for most parts of Oregon, but
advertisements to what newspapers now that the editors have been forc­
are to receive In other counties of ed into a fight for very existence by
the state. That is what Jackson one of Portland’s business men, it
wants put into law. Now if it is right is up to county editors to roll up
for Jackson to fix the price for ad­ their sleeves and fight for Justice,
vertising in that way, then it is per­ and fight as well the arrogant dom­
fectly proper for him to initiate a ineering methods of the Portland
bill fixing the price of butter fat Journal. We respectfully submit
produced in Multnomah county at 37 these suggestions to the businessmen
cents a pound and for butter fat in of Tillamook county, and advise them
the other counties at 15 cents a lb. to buy their goods in San Francisco.
But this simply shows the injustice
methods that Jackson is using to fat­
As we have previously stated, the
ten his own banking account and de­ Oregon Journal has started a fight
prive others of theirs.
on the country press, Jackson invok­
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ing the initiative law to aid him in
We are informed that the Master his efforts to do the country news­
of the State Grange has one of the papers a rank injustice. Jackson, it
worst looking farms in Oregon. That seems, has made the threat that he
may not surprise some people, for is going to put a lot of newspapers
when political agitators with non­ out of business, so that he can mono­
partisan leanings can make a fat liv­ polize the newspaper business. It is a
ing out of the grangers of the state flagrant abuse of the initiative law
it is not to be wondered at that the for personal gain and spleen on the
Master of the State Grange farm is part of Jackson, who evidently ap­
a woefully neglected affair. But in pears to think if a large number of
all seriousness, Grangers who com­ Republican newspapers can be put to
plain about men in cities not enlist­ sleep lie will be better able to control
ing, they have a come-back at the the state politically and with his
grangers who pay a man to air his Hun methods. That is the reason,
nonpartisian idea, when the money and for no other that there are two
could be more profitably expended in initiative measures to be voted upon,
providing some assistance to our the petitions being circulated by
wounded and sick soldiers when they men paid for out of Jackson’s pocket.
return from France.
Eivry voter should vote "No”, and
thereby show Jackson that he can­
We have received a letter from not use the Oregon System to carry
the managers of the next Liberty out his dirty, contemptible scheme
Loan drive that a page of plate mat­ to injure the country newspapers.
ter is sent us, asking that we publish
the same. It may not be out of order
Coos Bay people certainly did
to state that those who prepare the themselves proud in entertainifig the
copy get pay, the storotype company Oregon Editorial Association last
is paid for casting the plate, the ex­ week, for it was a series of enter­
press and railroad companies are tainments following one another in
paid, but the newspapers are called quick succession for three dayB. If
upon to devote, free, pages of matter ever a section of Oregon appreciated
to boost the Liberty Loan drive. So a visit of editors from all parts of
everyone gets paid but the newspap­ Oregon, Coos Bay people did. They
erman. One million dollars was ap­ were anxious that the editors should
propriated by the government for become better acquainted with the
the last Liberty Loan drive and al­ coast county, and took great pride in
though a large number of persons showing the wonderful resources of
received payment for their services, Coos county, especially its large lum­
especially the printers who printed bering and shipbuilding activities,
the posters, etc., the newspapers re­ where they are doing things to hur­
ry up shipbliding and spruce produc­
ceived nothing for their services.
tion. And the editors found in com­
As the government intends to in ing into closer contact with L. Simp­
crease the army to 5,000,000 men son that he is u prince of a fellow,
this is going to raise the question even if he did not have many of the
where these men are coming from. editors to support him when he ran
That they will be taken from non- for governor, the editors, however,
essential lines of business is assured, have it figured out that he will
and as there are a large number of eventually obtain his ambition and
men employed in large cities not em­ will be the logical candidate four
ployed in essential work. It is front years hence. We would like to see
this class that the government ex­ the Oregon Editorial Association
pects to obtain a large proportion of come to Tillamook county, for the
the men to be called. But there will Editors of Oregon are a bunch of
be a tightening in all lines of busi­ boosters and live wires and as a re­
ness and young women will have to sult of this year's meeting Coos coun­
fill the places of the men, while in ty will come in for much boosting,
many cases men will have to close up which is a section of Oregon with
their businesses. So when the call great possibilities, with plenty of
comes to increase the army to 5,000,- splendid opportunities for capital.
000 it is going to bring about a One thing that greatly pleased the
change and reduce the number of editors was the activities in war
stores in all towns and we believe work and the spirit in which it was
this to be a good thing, for there being prosecuted, as well as a deep
are too many store keepers in every interest in Red Cross work. It wasn’t
town with one to half a dozen clerks long after the editors reached Marsh­
who should be in the government field when they were wearing Red
service.
Cross "Goat” badges.
Subscription............................... $1.50 yr. in the yellow column.
Editorial Snap Shots.
It is none to soon to ask how many
hundred or thousand liberty bonds
you aie going to buy in the next
Liberty Loan Drive.
'i here are a large number of men
who have been drafted and taken to
cantonments who hope the war will
not ue over be.ore they reach France
a..d do their part in licking the
Kaiser.
The brute power of money is re­
sponsible for two initiative measures
which will appear on the ballot next
election which goes to prove that per­
sons with an unlimited amount of
money can use the Oregon System to
crush others.
Single men in non-essential em­
ployment, who fall to enlist, should
do so at once. It is not the proper
thing however to call them slackers,
lor that is decidedly wrong, but one
cannot help hearing unk’nd re­
marks about unmarried men above
21 years of age.
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We don’t believe the assertion that
Marshfield is the dryest, wet town
in Oregon. And the State Editorial
Association will substantiate us In
making this statement.
Maybe,
John Barleycorn, looked upo« the
editors with more or less suspicion,
for the editors played an important
part in making Oregon a dry state.
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The Oregon State Editorial Asso­
ciation went on record as opposed to
the non-partisan movement in Ore­
gon. It was the efforts of the pencil
pushers who enlightened the people
on this new political nostrum and
stopped its growth, for there is a
strong opinion that it is a pro-Ger-
man movement.
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The Germans don’t believe that the
French are bled white, that England
has a little bit of a contemptible ar­
my, and that the United States army
did not amount to anything because
it could not cross the Atlantic, after
what
took
place
in
France
the past few weeks. The pig headed
Germans are getting some sense
knocked into them.
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The casualty list is growing larger
every day of our boys who are being
killed and wounded in France, and
I his is sure to produce a more deter­
mined sentiment against pro-Ger-
mans. When the war is over and our
boys return home it will be a sorry
day for soap box orators who attempt
to speak against the United States
and our form of government.
1 The Oregon Sportsman has been
suspended during the war. A great
deal of time, labor, paper and money
would also be saved if the state, with
its numerous departments, as well
as the university and agricultural
college and other institutitons would
suspend the printing so many books
and other printed matter that the
taxpayers have to pay for. Here is
where some real Hooverizing could
be practiced.
The managers of the next Liberty
Loan drive believe it necessary to do
considerable advertising to make a
success of it. As it was by the loyal
assistance of the newspapers that all
previous drives in Oregon came out
so successful, so it will be with the
next drive, only that the advertising
will have to be on a bigger scale, for
the quota for Oregon is big and a
strenuous effort is to be made to
raise the money as quickly as pos­
sible.
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Under the West spectacular admin­
istration, the honor system at the
state penitentiary came into vogue
and it proved a failure. Why not try
another system and allow some of
the convicts to enlist in the army?
We believe it is worth trying and be­
lieve also that It would be an incen­
tive to these men to become better
citizens if they were given an oppor­
tunity to fight for Uncle Sam. This
would not only reduce the number
of inmutes at the penitentiary, but
would add men to the army.
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Several preachers in Portland on
Sunday opposed church unity. It it
is left to the purchasers there will
be a conglomeration of different be­
liefs and people quibbling over some
trivial matter of belief for some
trivial matter of belief, for some
church is the only highway to heav­
en. If left to the people many
churches could and would consoli­
date and prevent the present waste­
ful methods of so many churches in
small towns. The preacher who ad­
vocate consolidation of churches has
his ear to the ground and sees what
Is going to happen.
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The Fourth Liberty Loan drive
will start the end of September and
it will call for a large amount of
money, which, for the most part will
have to be subscribed by wealthy
persons who will be expected to sub­
scribe large amount«, while those
who are employed in war work will
come through with goodly sums.
There is one thing that should not be
overlooked at this time, that Is the
Indiscriminate use of yellow cards.
There are thousands of persons who
went the limit of their financial abil­
With five papers in Tillamook
county, the Headlight is the only one
that Is identified with the Oregon
Editorial Association. What’s the
matter Bros., are you too poor, indif­
ferent or too grouchy to take a va­
cation and mix with the best boost­
ers and meet with some of the most
prominent men of Oregon? One Mar­
shfield gentleman, in an address of
welcome the evening the editors ar­
rived in that city said he was pleas­
ed to welcome the editors for the
reason they were a great factor in
the development of Oregon, and
by co-operating with the newspaper
men that this would come about.
That was the reason why Coos Bay
people wanted the editors to visit
them. The snap shot man is pleased
he went to Coos Bay. not on account
of the splendid entertainment, but to
keep In closer touch with every coast
county and co-operate with them in
their Industrial development and
prosperity.
There are war articles appearing
in the daily newspapers which have
the ear marks of being manufactured
In the United States. When you read
an article which describes a serious
battle where the allies charged the
machine guns of the Germans, who
put up a stubborn fight for several
hours, and It winds up with the alli­
ed loss placed at a few men. then
you know you are reading one of
those made in the United States war
stories. And there are column arti­
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The Gerard letters that appeared in
The Oregonian were highly interest­
ing and no one questioned the verac­
ity of the Ambassador’s statements.
After what Mr. Gerard wrote about
the kaiser we cannot see how anyone
should question the veracity of Dr.
Davis' letters that have appeared in
the Oregonian, for there is a great
deal of similarity between them. We
have heard the remark made by a
few persons that Dr. Davis should
have killed the kaiser when perform­
ing dental work, and that it was a
patriotic duty he should have done.
On the face of it, with all the cruel­
ty and barbarity perpetrated by the
kaiser and the German people. It
would have been a serious and grave
mistake had Dr. Davis taken the life
of the kaiser, which, no doubt, he
could have done. The American peo­
ple do not believe in assassination and
had the doctor assassinated the kaiser
he would have been shot, and
according to the brutality of the Ger­
man people, they would have taken
reprisals in shooting a large number
of prisoners and probably every Am­
erican prisoner In their hands. We
all have more or less hatred for the
kaiser and the German people for
the cold blooded murders they have
committed upon men. women and
children, but notwithstanding this
Dr. Davis used the best discretion.
When anyone discredits the veracity
of the Davis letters and believe the
Gerard letters they either down in
a man who had been intimately as­
sociated with the Kaiser for a long
number of years.
The Liberty Loan.
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The United States entered the war
on April 6, 1917. Eighteen days later
by a practical unanimous vote Con­
gress passed the Liberty Loan Bond
bill.
On May 2 the first Liberty Loan
was announced, on May 14 the de­
tails were made public, and on the
lath the campaign began and closed
one month later. The issue was for
$2,000,000,000, the bonds bearing
3 Vi per cent interest and running for
15-30 years. The bonds carried the
conversion privilege, entitling the
holder, if he chose, to convert them
into bonds of a later issue bearing a
higher rate of interest. Four and a
half million subscribers from every
section of the country, representing
every condition, race and class of
citizens, subscribed for more than
$3,000,000,000 of the bonds. Only
$2,000,000,000 was allotted.
The outstanding features of the
First Liberty Loan were the prompt­
ness with which it was arranged and
conducted, the patriotism of the
news papers, banks, corporations, or­
ganizations, and people generally in
working for its success, and the
heavy over-subscription of more than
50 per cent. Another notable feature
was that there was no interruption
to the business of the country occa­
sioned by the unprecedented demand
upon its money resources.
The Second Liberty Loan campaign
opened on October 1, 1917, and clos­
ed on October 27. The bonds of this
issue bear 4 per cent interest and
run for 10-25 years. They carry the
conversion privilege. It was announc­
ed that 50 per cent of the over-sub­
scription would be taken. Nine mil­
lion subscribers subscribed to $4,617-
532,000 of the bonds, an oversub­
scription of 54 per cent. Only $3,-
808,766,150 of the bonds were al­
loted.
This campaign was marked with
the same enthusiastic support of the
public as its predecessor. The labor
and fraternal organizations were es­
pecially active in this campaign, and
the women of the country did effi­
cient organized work which greatly
contributed to the success of the
loan. The men in the Army and Navy
worked for and subscribed largely to
the loan.
The Third Liberty Loan campaign
opened on April 6, 1918, one year
exactly after our entrance into the
war, and closed on May 4. The bonds
of this issue bear 4
per cent inter­
est and run for 10 years, are not sub­
ject to redemption prior to maturity,
and carry no conversion privilege.
The loan was announced for $3,000,-
000,000, but the right was reserved
to accept all additional subscriptions.
Seventeen million subscribers sub­
scribed for $4,170,019,650 of the
bonds, all of which was allotted.
A great feature of this loan was
its very wide distribution among the
people and throughout the Union and
the fact that the country districts
promptly and heavily subscribed to
the loan, in a great measure making
up their quotas earlier than the
cities. Secretary McAdoo pronounced
this loan the soundest of national fi­
nancing.
A little over a year ago there was
some 300,000 United States bond
holders; there are now somewhere
between 20,000,000 and 25,000,000.
Awakened patriotism has made the
American people a saving people, a
bond-buying people. The effect of
the Liberty Loans on the national
character, on our national life, on
the individual citizen and our home
life is immeasurable—of incalcuable
benefit. Not less incalculable is their
effect on the destiny of the world
as our ships plow the seas and our
men and material in Europe beat
back the Hun.
The Fourth Liberty Loan campaign
will begin Saturday. September 28,
and close October 19. No American
doubts its success; no good_*.tneri-
can will fail to contribute to its suc­
cess. The blood of our men fallen in
Europ«1 calls to us; our answer must
be and will be worthy of them and
our country.
A Crime to Slander the Red Cross.
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A jury verdict of guilty is a sharp
reminder to Louis P. Nagler, former
assistant secretary of state of Wis­
consin, that the law and public sen­
timent will not tolerate sedition ut­
terances. Nagler spoke of the Red
Cross and Y. M. C. A. organizations
as " a bunch of grafters” when
friends asked him to contribute to
war funds.
There exists no law to compel a
citizen to subscribe to any war fund.
Unpatriotic individuals can refuse to
buy Liberty bonds and war stamps,
or to contribute to the Red Cross
and other war alleviating agencies;
but there Is a law against the sedi­
tious slandering of the loyal men and
women who devote their time,
thought and labor to essential war
work.
A few men and women of disloyal
spirit aad unbridled tongue have yet
to learn that reckless and foolish ex­
pressions that are overlooked In
peace times take on a graver aspect
when the nation is engaged in a
deadly war. A few convictions like
that by the Wisconsin jury will have
a salutary influence on such per­
sons.—Spokesman Review.
I greatly improved. They have suggest­
ed to the wealthy publisher of The
Journal a method by which he hopes
Wants to Kill Oil Country News­ to attain could be accomplished with­
paper and Become the Political out doing away entirely with the
wise advertising feature, but that
Dictator ol the State.
would not suit his purpose.
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Why?
So far as affording a hieans for the
His own representative gave the
people to legislate, the Initiative
might as well not be in existence this answer at Salem last winter. Because
doing away with the publicity for
fall. But it does afford the means
the delinquent tax sales is merely
whereby the brute power of money
the first step in the direction of sin­
may place measures upon the ballot.
gle tax, the one object at which all
—Oregon Voter.
the activities of The Journal are
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directed.
It was intended that the initiative
As an example of the methods of
should be a protection for the com­
camouflage, deceit and hypocrisy em­
mon people against wealth and en­
ployed by this would-be kaiser of
trenched special privilege, and it has
performed some service of this kind, Oregon, he has fought the correction
especially in conjunction with the of certain points in connection with
the publication of the delinquent tax
referendum.
But the initiative and referendum list which would have the publica­
can only perform their functions tion method in condition satisfactory
when the common people, in whose to all, for the reason that his single
interest they were enacted, take due tax ambition demands the entire re­
Interest in their operation. When peal of the publication method and if
the people cease to take that interest the vulnerable points were removed
then the Initiative and referendum he would have no argument to use
in gaining his nefarious end.
fail of their purpose.
Another example is that he has at­
When the people take the interest
necessary to cause these methods of tached to his measure to do away
legislation to function properly, they with the delinquent tax list publica­
will study carefully every measure tion another to decrease the maxi­
that is proposed by thé initiative mum rate for the publication of legal
and they will also stand ready to notices in the State of Oregon. He
give some of their time in circulating knows that the present maximum
the petitions that are necessary in rate is fair, that the rate in many
getting a meritorious measure upon places was reduced by the enactment
the ballot, or in causing an unmer- o a maximum rate, that many pa­
itorious measure enacted by the leg­ pers now charge less than the max­
islature to be subjected to a refer­ imum rate allowed by law (The Sen­
tinel being one of the many), but in
endum.
When the great mass of the com­ order to put over his single tax prop­
mon people do not stand ready to do aganda, in order to become the kais­
this, they thereby turn these meth­ er of Oregon, he must put the count­
ods of legislature over to those who ry newspapers out of business or re­
propose to the people measures which duce them to a state of subserviency.
the legislature wisely refuses to en­ So he attaches this measure to the
act, or wish to invoke the referen­ other in the hope that he can carry
dum against wise measures which the second one through with the
the legislature has enacted. When stigma he hopes to attach to the
the common people neglect the ini­ other.
The wealthy publisher of the Ore­
tiative, they leave in the hands of
wealth and special privilege a great­ gon Journal imitates the kaiser in
er power than that which the initia­ more ways than one. He is an expert
on camouflage. He knows that he
tive was to take from them.
The question from the Oregon cannot gain his ends except by the
Voter indicates that this is what has grossest, yet most plausable, decep­
tion. He must dupe the common peo­
happened this year.
Several measures were proposed ple in order to use them for his own
but none will be on the ballot except ends. This method he has developed
two that were drawn up at the be­ to a degree that might make the
hest of one person—the wealthy Hohenzollerns turn green with envy.
The wealthy, imperial, imperious,
owner of the Oregon Journal. As the
Voter says, “the brute power of mon­ impious publisher of The Oregon
ey” and nothing else, has resulted in Journal is an adept in all the subter­
these measures being placed on the fuges by which the other kaiser was
balle). No one but the rich publisher maintained his hold upon the people
of the Oregon Journal cared enough which he refers to as his property.
about these measures to put up a The Oregon Journal would imitate
cent to get them on the ballot and the methods of the German kaiser
the "brute power of money” which but improve upon them in several
he used in getting them there is important details.
We are at war with the kaiser in
characteristic of the method he pur­
sues to gain any purpose to which Europe. We are not going to let
he sets himself. Brute force is the another pull the wool over our eyes
in a more diabolical manner than
only method he knows.
At the legislature last year he had his Hohenzollern counterpart. The
the opportunity to achieve the end people are not going to stand for one
Grove
which he says he hopes to accom­ man legislature.—Cottage
plish by these measures, but he Sentinel.
would not accept what he could get,
What Are We Getting.
simply because he would not then be
recognized as the dominating influ­
ence in Oregon politics—because he What are we getting out of this war.
would be accepting as wise the coun­
With its death, its destruction, its
sel of someone else— because he
strife?
could not bear the idea that he, the Are we holding our hands while we
great I am of the Oregon newspaper
hvail at the loss
world, should budge one iota in the
That’s disturbing our selfcentered
direction suggested by Oregon coun­
life?
try editors. He was going to have a Do we spend just as much for the
complete knock-down and drag-out,
clothes that we wear.
or notning at all. A brute, yet a babe
And the frills that we wear for a
in wanting his own way, he made
while,
his threat that if every point for And cast them aside just to purchase
which he childishly contended was
some more.
not granted by the Oregon legisla­
Because they have gone out of
ture he would invent new formt of
style?
frightfulness that would make can­ We are deeply concerned with the
didates for reelection yell "kamerad”
shortage of dye?
and beg for mercy. He was going to
Are we missing the imported lace?
be master of politics in Oregon or Are we feeling impatient because
know the reason why. He would
thoughts of war
make no concessions. He would listen
Have slackened the swift social
to no advice. He knew what he want­
pace?
ed and he was going to have it. He What are we getting out of this war
had his General Hindenberg Hagood
As we read of the dying and dead.
there who advertised a drive upon And hear of the widows and orphans
Paris and named the day upon which
by scores
he would arrive. "We are going to
Who plead for their portion of
put the screws on and make you
bread?
squeal,” were the exact words of Are we really
beginning to see
this pastmaster of frightfulness.
through it all
But the Oregon kaiser received the
The selfcentered life that we live.
same kind of surprise that the one And are we beginning to measure our
whom he attempts to emulate has re­
worth
cently received. He was caught in a
By the unselfish service we give?
pincer movement and had difficulty God grant we are getting out of this
in extricating his forces, after what
war.
up to the last moment seemed certain
With the murder, destruction and
victory for those who took and exe­
strife,
cuted his orders without asking the A deeper, a truer, a nobler sense
reason why.
Of the things we should get out of
Where the wealthy owner of the
life.
Oregon Journal ruler of Germany he
would put the Hohenzollern family
Boy of 17 ii Contractor.
so far in the shade that they would
A boy of 17 who Is a government
never even dream of any kind of a
place in the sun. The forms of fright­ contractor with 11 men and 8 wom­
fulness used in the present war en on his payroll, is one of the unus­
would seem child's play and the am­ ual figures of the war, says a Lon­
bitions of kaiser Bill would seem don reporter. The young magnate is
Robert Scott, and two years ago he
very modest indeed.
He is determined to fasten single was earning $7.50 a week in a ma-
tax upon Oregon. Anyone who stands , chine shop. Later he and another
in the way of his doing this must be poor boy formed a partnership to
put up against a brick wall. Anyone
_____ manufacture nuts and screws. The
his ' Pa,’tner joined the army last year.
who disputes the wisdom of
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judgment is an enemy of the father- Scott then invested all his savings in
land and a traitor to his country. He . machinery and opened a shop for
1 the manufacture of airplane parts
must be put out of the way.
The country press stands in the ' and soon obtained government work.
way of the ambition of the wealthy
owner of the Oregon Journal. There­
Wants to Rent Dairy Farm
fore. the country publisher must be
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put out of business.
Practical farmer and
rancher
The country publishers are reason­ wants to rent dairy ranch for half
able. They want only what is fair. the proceeds, everything furnished.
They do not claim, for example that His son and wife will assist him In
the present method of publishing the a systematic and workmanlike man­
delinquent tax list could not be ner. Apply at the Headlight office.
THE KAISER OF OREGON.