TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT AUGUST 15, 1918.
j WHAT THE EDITORS SAY. I deprived of the second spoonful for quirements of war industry. Only in
Strenuous Time for Newspapers.
his coffee One look should be enough dustry essential to the war and the
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health and morale of the people can
I Now that the government has tak- —Itemizer.
Newspapers managers have been
be continued if the man power is
Bi over the telephone lines it will
notified that they must stop sending
Taxing
Automobiles
and
Gasoline.
drained
for
soldiers
as
rapidly
as
It
■ robably compel idle gossipers to in-
should be. Other industry must be out free exchanges as a means of
B.ilge in “work or fight” conversa
saving print paper. This is one of the
The proposed tax of 2 cents a gal- suspended.
ron.—Umpqua Valley News.
biggest pieces of bunk that has been
(Ion on gasoline production, agreed to
Just
what
industry
is
essential
to
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last week by the ways and means be continued and what is not need thrust upon the most valuable indus
I If the government sees the need of committee of the house of represen
try in the country for the carrying
I iving paper, it should start in tatives, would in reality fall upon ed will be a hard line to draw so far on of the war.
as some industries are concerned.
I Washington, where more than twen-
the consumer instead of the produc
What would the government have
? publicity bureaus, attempting to ers, for the producers would immed Take the publishing business, for in
done it the papers would have refus
stance.
It
is
typical
of
many.
ut out material intended for small iately add it to the price of the pro
The magazine, periodical, trade and ed to donate free hundreds of thou
apera, is spoiling several tons of duct.
newspaper press of the country are sands of dollars worth ot space dur
erfectly good print each day to
This proposed war tax on gasnl'ne
ing the bond drives, Y. M. C. A., K.
take fodder for the waste basket in is both meritorious and unmeritor- great factors in war work. They ed
ot C. drives, Red Cross drives, which
ucate
the
public
and
also
educate
i
j Juntry print
shops.—Telephone ious. In so far as it applies to pleas
business to what has to be done to has cost the department nothing?
I .egister.
ure riding it is meritorious. In so far win the war. Conscription, the liber Whatever advertising that was paid
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as it taxes business and Industry it is ty loans, the Red C. oss and other for was through the patriotism of
| We must feed 120,000,000 allies objectionable.
1 war work is carried on because the individuals. The government would
nd our own big army at the front,
In an amazing and revolutionizing press sets forth what Is needed and have fallen flat if it had not been
ood must go across the waters and way the automobile is perlor.uing in sets it forth so clearly that the coun for the press.
re must make it possible for that dustrial service formerly renddred by try responds. Business is educated as
Yet tons ot papea-is sent through
x>d to go. We can save in many ln- the horse. It is the farmer's errand to what essential or non-essential by
the mails free to newspapers which
enlous ways, besides denying our- runner, the machinists delivery as what is promulgated in the trade they are expected to print free and
jslves the foods most needed over- sistant, the physician's carrier on his and news press. Undoubtedly the
for doing this they have the postage
ifeas. Let us Bave till It hurts, and be daily rounds, the contractors inspec publishing business as a whole may
Jlad of the chance to suffer a little ting agency. A tax on gascPne con be regarded as essential to the con raised on them.
The greater part of this literature
inconvenience for the sake of those sumed in such ways would be com duct of the war.
sent the papers is absolutely worth
»ho are giving their lives.—Itemlz- parable to a lax on oats or hay.
Yet may not the publishing busi- less to the people at large, as most of
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If there were a clear line of de- J ( ness
ness be cut down without sacrificing
| marcation between the c mmmption ' efficiency? Steps in that direction it comes through the press dispatch
With five
es and the publishers get It ahead of
escapes from the state of gasoline in pleasure riding and its ' haVe been taken so far as the great
the numerous letters.
enltentiary last week Governor use in industry and commerce the ' daily papers are concerned by direct
If the government would use a lit
Vlthycombe very naturally reaches tax problem would be easy. But the ing reduction in size. This end is
tle conservation along the line of
■ he conclusion that there is no "hon- two uses blend into cnoll other. A I reached by reducing the supply of
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• thieves” and the honor farmer fills his tank in the morning, j paper to a less amount than was us print paper, they would not have to
t among
De asking these same papers that
[ystem is a failure, and he says it runs to town in the forenoon to buy . ed during the 6-months period end
I/ill be abandoned, Incidentally the supplies or have a broken machinery I ing July 31 of this year. This is a have done so much for the war to cut
lame conclusion was reached long part repaired, scurries over the coun step in the right direction and will otf a source of information that can
not be secured any other way.' What
I go by those whose business have try in the afternoon in search of har accomplish much.
difference does it make whether
brought them in contact with the vest hands, and in the evening takes
But cannot there be some consoli they exchange free or whether they
Irlminal class and whose observa- the family out for a pleasure run.
dation? Is there not a great duplica say you eend me a check for my pa-
lions have caused the dlagonis that
So the ways and meant ermmittee, tion of Journals, periodicals and ma
per and I will send you a check for
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gazines of
all classes?
Doubtless
I isease, and that while treatment of could find a feasable dividing line, i much can be worked out tow'ard this yours.
There may be consistency in this
I Unease varies according to the pa has decided to lay on a blanket tax 1 end, and by working it out much order
but we fail to see It.—Benton
tient there can be no greater folly that will reacn all gasoline, m hctLer J man power may be released for miii-
County Courier.
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more
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I hen to adopt one cure all and apply burned in a tractor or consumed in
And to add to the above assumed
It to all alike.—Independent.
poses.
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I Joy riding.
authority the war industries board
We cite the publishing business has prepared drastic economy meas
merely as an example of many.
I The county press is sharpening
Extends Age Limit.
ures prohibiting the establishment
The retail store business is another
I he meat ax and getting in readiness
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of
any new newspaper during the
I o swat C. 8. Jackson's Initiative bills
line in which man power may be
The Wgr Department comes before saved by consolidation. Two stores war, and requiring a reduction from
I vhlch are the only ones which will
5 to 60 per cent in reading matter in
I >e on the ballot this year. The boys Congress with its proposal to extend can Berve a small community with as weekly newspapers already establish
the draft age limit to Include all men great efficiency as can four, and
ire already taking cracks at the Port
ed and from 10 to 60 per cent reduc
, ,1. .from 18 to 45 years old.
land publisher,* and some c*
OI tuo •
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. save man _ power thereby. The same tion of reading matter in daily pa
hinge they are Baying are to say the
11118 lueana that all the active man applies to«the wholesale business,
pers.—Sheridan Sun.
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Much can uv be <.uvu
thought
out <. upon this
east unkind. However, It is well to P°wer of our country
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S»<. vuv
•member (hat scolding seldom wind ■
I“10*11* to Put an end 10 lhe llne- Undoubtedly the War ■ Indus-
(tries Board or other national author
’Un-Made in Germany.
flit, Itiid if anything counts in de-'
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In hulking war, speed is the main ity will do some of this thinking.
I 'eating these bills it will be sound
trgument. So far as both bills are factor. The more speed with which Many matters affecting our dally
The blatant claim Is often made,
xtneerned, both are as full ot holes we train and mobolizeour men paw life may be ordered differently. If
with brazen arrogance.
er
and
transport
our
masses
of
sol
the
result
releases
man
power
it
is
is a caliendar, and less scolding and
That German wisdom and research
nore calling attention to the holes diery to llie battle front, the quicker well that a new order be established
have made the world advance;
for the waf. —Oregon Voter.
nay do the trick, $ven If it doesn’t the war will be won and ended.
But when we start to itemize the
For a lime It looked as though our
relieve the feeling ot the newspaper
things of greatest worth,
pacifist secretary of war would did-
>oys.—Independent,
The Call For Nurses.
i 1 dle-daddle along on the Instalment
That benefit and comfort bring to
people of the earth,
plan of taking men. But all must
It the administration wants to save admit that whenever
Secretary I An urgent call has been issued for We do not find them emanating from
Kaper why wouldn't it be a good Baker is
Teutonic brains.
finally
convinced of more nurses, not only for war service
:beme to suspend the franking priv the necessity ot proceeding In a big but to take the place of those who go Although the Hun
yill utalize
ilege each member of congress has way he has the faculty of getting to the front. It is planned to estab
what'er another gains.
I, Mid which is abused lo beul the band quick action. Now tiiat he has been lish what will be known as the Unit
B while loading up the mulls in truns- converted to the idea ot assembling ed States Student Nurse Reserve, to The telegraph, the telephone, the
engine run by steam;
■ ' portation. A congressmun will get the total man power of fighting age, be composed of young women who
B permission to print a speech in the he will undoubtedly get the fit men are ready to volunteer for training Acetylene and kerosene, electric
lights that gleam;
B songresslonal record. He then has out of unessential occupations and in the work of nursing. The govern
I thousands of copies of it printed free into training al an early date.
ment asks for 25,000 volunteers of The ocean cable, the wireless, and
e’en the phonograph; —
I to him of course, and sent through
The speed with which our War De this class, of which Polk county 1 h
The motion picture, and, in fact, the
I lhe malls on his frank. He never de partment works will be the big fea expected to furnish ten.
common photdgraph; —
ll livers these speeches, but leads his ture in bringing the war to a right
Here is a golden opportunity for
I constituency to think he has made a eous conclusion without unnecessary young women who possess the neces All these would still be hidden from
the races of mankind
I great spread-eagle effort. In contrast sacrifice of precious life. Our ship sary qualifications for this kind of
I to this Is the new order that ex- ping program, our airplane program service and who are fired by a pa If their disclosure had depended on
the German mind.
| change of papers be discontinued, and our munitions program will all triotic ambition to “do their bit” for
■ unless checks ure exchanged between have to be enlarged to match the in-»their country. The American women The telescope, the microscope, the
■ publishers, which in no way saves creased man power, but it will be —God bless them!—are doing their
antiseptic gauze-;
■ ' paper. How fertile are the fields of done and can be done by the cupable duty nobly in various kinds of war The anaesthetic for relief of pain
I refoini!—Telephone Register.
men who are in charge of the ac work, but only a comparative few
from any cause;
will have the opportunity to engage The principle of vaccination to pre-
tivities.
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More heart will be put into the na- in the self-sacrificing and highly im
vent disease;
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Two elements uppeur to dictate to
service of nursing, a service The decimal and metric systems
I the county courts and officials of tion by the extention of the age lim portant
that
is
as
essential
and
as
Important
I municipalities the maintaining of it and the speedy calling of 1 these as that rendered by the soldiers which we use with ease; —
All these were given to the world by
I mounted police to enforce the traffic men into service than anything that
themselves. What is wanted is young
nations now at war
i laws— danger and road deterlora- baa happened since the original con-
j women who are intelligent and re- Against Teutonic doctrines, which
' tion. The latter is the main motive, scription.
sponsible,
with
the
further
require-
To me between 40 and 46, this con-
we heartily adhor.
i for where mecadaui or gravel roads
ment of good education and good
, are the main traveled highways, tbe scription will be a source of intense
I fast moving automobile acts as a satisfaction. Each will feel that he health, and the very fact that a girl Our aniline for dyeing, and our rub
can meet these specifications will be
ber valcanized;
vacuum cleaner and Bucks the rock will be registered, listed and classi
a mark of lasting credit, aside from Our automobiles and pianos, both so
j particles out of the road as tt& fied. It it is for his country's Inter whatever service ahe renders. To be
highly prized;
| wheels revolve at a tremendous speed ests that he be left in his present oc
enrolled in the student nurse reserve, Electric cars and air-brakes, and the
cupation
he
will
be
left
there.
If
he
forming depressions and ruts on tbe
in fact, will be both a distinction
soft pneumatic tire;
if surface of the road. However, the is more needed as a soldier, he will and an honor, and in all likelihood The plate glass in our windows, and
> work of the highway police to be ef be called to the colors. His destiny 18 so many applicants will seek this our fences of barbed wire; —
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ficient must have someth!ug beyond talden out of his own hands.
Many men of 40 and 4 5 have felt honor that It will be necessary to All these were ne'r discovered in the
mere application of fines upon vio
make selections from the beBt quali
land of braggart Hun,
lators of the traffic laws. "To Jump the burden heavily, the burden of In fied and most promising of those Although they try to fool us as to
[ in to fine automobile drivers Just decision as to what to do. They have who will Join the honor list.
what they’ve really done.
to get money will accomplish noth- felt the duty towurds wife and chil
The plan provides for an optional
dren
should
restrain
them
from
try
ing tor Just us soon us the cop Is re
choice by applicants, between actual Machines for reaping harvests and
moved the speeders will get busy ing to enlist unless they were need war service and service at home, or
machines for threshing grain;
ed. They have also felt that they had
| again.” remarks the News-Times.
The cotton-gin, the submarine, the
the
applicant
can
leave
it
to
the
fed
no right to enlist in spite of family
bird-like aeroplane;
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claims unless they were called. Dur eral authorities to designate her field Machines for sewing clothes, and
Some dissatisfaction hue been government has solved this problem of labor, after she has received the
machines to count our cash;
caused by the latest orders concern for them. If they are called to mili necessary training and is qualified
ing the consumption of sugar, but tary service they will tear themselves to take up the work of nursing. That Machines to write our letters,'all so
neatly, in a flash;
tbe discontented must 1 remember away from families and go chee -f'llly fighting disease at home is quite as
that the Food Administration is not knowing that they ure doing their Important as war service Itself is These also might have never come to
bless the human race
to blame. They should direct their duty. If they are not called, they can readily apparent, and the nurses who
criticism ut the Uerinun Junkers and remain with their families, and in stay in the home field will be doing If other folks had waited for the
Hun to set the pace.
not ut the administration, 'lhe thelr occupations knowing that the their “bit” Just as truly as t hose
for
sick
and
sent
to
care
wounded
shortage of sugar has been largely
I
government prefers to leave them
E'en implement ot warfare are not
caused by the U-boats. There is there rather than take them as sol soldiers. The romance and adventure
born ot Prussian hands.
appeal
to
of the latter work will
plenty of sugar in the world but the diers.
But they employ inventions that
will be no less a work
luck of shipping and the sinking ot
It will be a happy lot of men, those many, but it
have come from other lands; —
augur cargoes have caused all the of
lo »5 especially, who will go to of real patriotism to give service in Percussion caps, torpedoes, smoke
the
field
of
home
nursing.
And
while
trouble. Then it should be remem- register
rcg|a,er on the appointed day. They
less powder, dynamite.
bered that while the government is w((1 fecl tbal by tbe act of reglstra- a girl can give patriotic service in And nitroglycerine or sharpnel, all
asklng individuals to use 25 per cent non they have placed their fate in many other ways and directions, the
so deadly in a fight;
less for the next gix months, they |be hands of their country's service, girl who takes up nursing as a pa The rifle or revolver, or the quick
triotic
duty
unquestionably
will
en
•re still allowed double the amount no ,natter what the call may be.
breach-loading gun.
joy distinction that will be the envy
our allies receive. It is a small sac
Doubtless the single men who are
While w idly used, were non of them
for
various
reasons,
of
others
who.
rifice that has been asked the people. f(t wl|| be ca||e)j first. Then will
invented by a Hun.
and there is no doubt it will be com- conl,> the married men without chil- may be unable to get into this par
line of war work.- Observer. The Germans are mechanics, and are
ticular
plled with,
although
the married men
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skillful in that line;
aoine grumblers. It may be before the wttb children. The more men there
They copy work of someone else, and
six months has expired enough sub- are called and trained, the quicker
Ask Anyone Who hai Used It.
often do it fine; —
marines will be destroyed to make tbp war wl(| be ended. Better call
There are families who always aim But when it comes to doing things
the navigation of
the sea safe tbenl all at the earliest possible mo-
enough to secure sugar from the nient and end the war that much to keep a bottle of Chamberlain's . that never had been done,
more distant sources of supply. mmner than to refrain from calling Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy in the They simply are not in it, and no
■laurels have they won;
Meanwhile let the grumbler think of tbem and thereby delay victory and house for use tn case it is needed,
the boys who are giving all for their have to call them anyway when the and find that it is not only a good They talk of German "kultur", and
they boast and strut about.
country, who are .enduring cheerful- price of blood that must be paid is investment but saves them no end
Jy the sunt of all hardships and dang- far higher than If they had been call of suffering. As to its reliability, ask But yet their big achievements are
the pretzels, beer and kraut.
anyone who has used It. For sale by
er, and then look at himself fh the
Mrly.
—LeRoy Huron Keeley.
Due regard will be had to the re Lamar's Drug Store.—Paid Adv.
mirror when he complains of being
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E SINCERELY believe that no matter what
may be your station in life, the establish
ment of a banking connection—then the full
use of its advantages is the most important step that
can be taken.
<J Many persons in this vicinity do not know to what
a large extent the services of this bank can add force
to their undertakings, and it is our purpose to use
this space on this day each week, hereafter, to tell
you point by point of their use and advantages.
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Unlike any other business enterprise, the bank has no
bargains to offer—but it has services that apply directly to
each person’s individual problem.
<1 If you follow these advertisements you will receive use
ful intimations that will serve you well, and you will be
welcome to the benefits of what we have learned about
solving business problems.
Keep learning, keep teaching, k.eeP g°‘ng> that is the vofcel
of conscience in the souls of those who really desire zucceuj
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Tillamook County Bank
Tillamook, Oregon
AbEX. JWeNfllR & GO
GENERAL HARDWARE
Kitehen Ranges and
Heating Stoves.
THE BEST STOCK OF HARDWARE IN
THE COUNTY.
See Us for Prices Before Ordering Elsewhere
Keep the Pot Boiling
Y puttitiK tip an extra amount of fruits and vege
tables this year--Tillamook housewives will
not only reduce the cost of living for their
families next winter—but will render valuable aid
to the Food Administration—and also enable our
Farmers to market their perishable products to bet
ter advantage.
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DIRECTORS :
A. W. Bunn, Farmer.
P. Hebei, Farmer.
C. J. Edwards. Mgr. C. Power Co. J. C. Holden, Vice Pres.
. B. C. Lamb. Building Materials. John Morgan. Farmer.
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W. J. Riechers. Cashier.
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wholesale and retail
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Boiliqg Points
—•re vaporizing pointe. In Rad Crown
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Look for the Red Crown eign.
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