TILLAMOOK HKADLIGHT, AUGUST 29. 1918
What the Editors Say
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Never were people so close to their
newspapers as they are today. Never
were the newspapers, great and
small, performing such splendid ser­
vice. They are rallying the people to
war duties. They are taking up, one
after another, the calls of the gov­
ernment and directing the mass­
thought and mass-action.—Observer.
As the casualty lists come in in­
creasing size from across the seas,
sadness is brought into more and
more American homes. But personal
grief will be tempered by the light-
eousness of the cause In which
these brave men have given them­
selves, and by the pride which all
free people take in the magnificent
results of their heroism.—Itemizer.
The local milk condenser Is now
paying 82.85 per hundred for milk.
A year ago the price was $2.50. In
1916 it was $1.60 and in 1915 it
sold for $1.35. Over 100 per cent in­
crease in three years is surely mak­
ing the "cow jump over the moon,”
when it comes to high prices. The
dairymen ought not to complain
even if feed and labor are high.—
News Times.
Iiupirug Showing by Qtegoa Vol­
unteers.
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For every four men from the na­
tion at large who have volunteered
for service in our country's army and
navy, seven have volunteered from
Oregon.
The latest published estimate of
the number of volunteers in military
and naval service is that issued by
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
He gives the figures
as 1,400,000
men as of August 1, and states that
this is the revised estimate.
From Oregon at the same date
16,112 men have volunteered.
Set down in graphic comparative
form, In relation to the 1910 census
of population, the figures show up
as follows:
Nation 1,400,000 volunteers or 1.4
per cent.
Oregon, 16,112 volunteers or 2.4 per
cent..
This matchless showing, unap­
proached by any other state in so far
as we can ascertain from the many
published records, is undoubtedly
Oregon’s chief claim for distinction
in supporting our country’s right­
eous war. All contributions of money
or of men, or material for shipbuild­
ing and airplane spruce production,
pale into significance when compar­
ed with the individual sacrifices in­
volved in this high proportion of
men who volunteered their lives.
Oregon is an intensely patriotic
state, but it takes the official rec­
ords to reveal the superb intensity of
a patriotism that impels seven of her
sons to serve when only four volun­
teer from other states of the nation.
The foregoing figures do not in­
clude the draft men, except as they
were released to volunteer in the
navy or marine corps. Oregon’s con­
tribution of drafted men up to Aug­
ust 1 was 11,790, or 1.8 per cent of
her 1910 population, as compared
with 1,988,804 drafted into military
service from the entire nation, or 2
percent of the nation’s population.
This disparity in favor of Oregon
was due to the fact that in the first
draft volunteer enlistments were
credited to the states, while in later
drafts they were not taken into ac-
count.—Oregon Voter.
Everybody wishes he was of the
oheertul optimistic nature of the
gent who writes the war bulletins
for the German government. He said
not long ago, “We retired from south
of the Marne unnoticed." When it is
recalled that about 20,000 Germans
were captured and more than twice
that number killed or wounded, one
see readily how difficult it Is to at­
tract notice during a battle.—Tele­
phone Register.
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“Well, the other fellows are doing
it, why can’t I?" said a violator of
the food regulations when called be­
fore the food administration. Yes,
they were, and still others of the
fellows were leaping from mudsoak-
ed parapets to face the shower of
Hun bullets, or to be smothered in
the kind of air poison that stupifles
then kills by agonizing tortures. It
you want to do as the other fellow
does than go across and do as he
does and don’t howl with the other
Why Not Now?
dissatisfied fellows at home. Sheri-
dan Sun.
While the government is probing
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into various alleged grafts in con-
When the truth is known of the nection with the carrying on of the
Japanese riots it is safe to guess that preBent world conflict why would it
lurking in the back ground will be not be a good idea for every state in
found the Hun propogondist just as the Union—Oregon not excepted—
he was found% when the I. W. W. at­ to have a little investigation “all
tempted reign of terror in the Unit­ their own” on some of the big war
ed States was investigated. German problems each state is compelled to
plans for world dominion were com­
finance. Many people are beginning
prehensive, for as the slimy trail is
to wonder and pause, and occasion-
followed there is first discovered the
ally are doing some down-right hard
attempt to embroil America and at- thinking, trying to figure out why
Japan in war, and as the further in- some fellows are making big money
surance against interference in the
out of a common cause, while others
German plans In Europe enternal perform equally as arduous duties
attempt to embroil America and merely through a spirit of patriotism
probably in Japan, but the attempt —asking nothing and getting paid
failed in the first just as it will in oy the same method. While it is
the last because the German has perfectly right and proper that any
never been able to understand any person who devotes nis entire time
nation except his own and judges all to the government war program
by the same
standards.—News should be properly reimbursed it
Tinies.
does not look like sate and sane,
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business judgment, neither is it hon­
It is not known whether the fol­ est patriotism to put a few people in
lowing creed was composed by a the state at the pie counter—and
German or by a foreign student of keep them there—while the great
Germanism. If it has the ring of gen­ majority are being fed from the swill
uineness it is not far fetched or over
barrel. We are all working in and
drawn. The military masters of Ger­
for a great cause but witness a few
many have acted upon this creed, ’’patriots” gathering in all the sheck-
and the German army, their deciples,
les for a no greater work than is be­
has lived up to it. "Ye have heard ing performed daily by many a loyal
how in the olden times it was said, and patriotic citizen, sort of gets a
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall fellow's goat and causes us to wond­
Inherit the earth’; but I say unto er how much longer we can tolerate
you, "Blessed are the valiant, for these conditions. There must be a
they shall make the earth thy throne. leveling, 'the public is fast beginning
And ye have heard men say, 'Blessed to realize that tar too many indi­
are the poor in spirit’; but I say un­ viduals are ''milking” the govern­
to you, ’Blessed are the great in soul ment through alleged patriotic meth­
and free in spirit, for they shall en­
ods that redound to their own per­
ter into Valhalla,’ And ye have heard sonal benefit.
Why any person
men say, ’Blessed are the peacemak­ should be placed in a position to ex­
ers’; but I say unto you, ’Blessed are
tract fabulous sums from any war
the war makers, for they shall be cause while other boys on the firing
called, If not the children of Jehov­
line fofthirty dollars a month are
ah, the children of Odin, who is
giving up their very lives, is a ques­
greater than Jehovah.”—News Re­
tion that should not go unchallenged
porter.
and the person who would—at this
When a person gets something for
nothing, said something, usually con­
tains a joker or has a string attach­
ed to it. For instance, a certain
preacher received from a patent
medicine company an offer to pro­
vide his church with song books free
of charge. It was explained that
there would be a few ads in the
front and back of the books, but
that these ads would not be offen-
sive to the members of the congrega-
tion, since the books were being se-
cured for nothing. The preacher
gave the order and the books arriv­
ed. He found the words to be mildly
worded and decided to use the books.
He explained from the pulpit how
the books had been secured, and an­
nounced that they would sing No.
247. Imagine the people’s surprise
when, on reaching the second verse,
they found
themselves
singing
“Hark, the Heavenly angles sing,
Johnson's pills are just the thing;
Angelic voices meek and mild—two
for man and one for child.—News
Times.
Chronic Constipation.
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It is by no means an easy matter
to cure this desease, but it can be
done in most instances by taking
Chamberlain's Tablets and comply­
ing with the plain printed directions
that accompany each package. For
sale by Lamar's Drug Store.—Paid
Adv.
time—take from this government,
the people, more than is rightfully
due him for labor performed for the
nation is a species of humanity that
will sooner or later be dealt with in
a way that will brand him as a
traitor to the civilized world.—Ump­
qua Valley News.
Face a Long, Hard Struggle.
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There is one way in which we
m ight lose this war—in letting the
thought slip into the public mind
that victory is near at hand, Those
persons who are holding out an ex­
pectation that the uermans will be
defeated this year or in a few months
are hurting the allied cause.
No one in high authority in ally
circles entertains that improbable
thought. Several months ago former
President Taft said It would taae
4,000,000 or 5,000,000 men from the
United States and two or three years
to win, and the consensus of official
judgment in England and France
cotirms that belief; It is obvious that
the administration's revised plans
for extending the draft ages to 18
and 45 were adopted on grave infor­
mation from the French and British
governments that the German armies
are still capable of striking mighty
blows and that 5,000,000 soldiers
will be needed from this side to
bring the kaiser to terms.
We have now, overseas or in train-
ing h«e, as General March, chief of
staff, told the house committee yes­
terday, an army of 3,000,000 men.
General Crowder explaiued that the
new program is expected to raise
2,300,000 mure men and that 2,000,-
000 will be called by the middle of
next year. General March added that
“we must not delude ourselves with
the idea that those in the 18 and 19
classes are going to be deferred any
length of time. They will have to be
called early next spring in order to
get their training in time to get to
France."
Foch, Haig,
Pershing, March,
Crowder and others deep in military
knowledge and high in command
know that the enemy is far from
beaten. He is falling back just now,
but he has fallen back before, only
to resume the offensive again and
again with renewed fury, and noth­
ing could better suit the kaiser now
than to have the thought take root
in the United States that the job is
as good as done. Once let this impres­
sion become general and there will
follow a widespread and dangerous
letting down of purpose at home. Ef­
fect would slacken in many ways—
in shipbuiNJng, in food conservation
in purchase of Liberty bonds and
war savings stamps, in raising and
training armies, in supporting the
Red Cross,
Most races are lost in the home
stretch, often by riders or drivers
who think the purse is as good as
won and ease down. Many wars have
been lost utter the seemingly victor­
ious armies and generals thought
the victory was clinched. We must
not lose this high cause by easing
down and assuming that the Ger-
mans are whipped and will be rout­
ed soon.—Spokesman Review.
Two Bad Bills.
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The Oregonian prints elsewhere, on
this page, the resolutions adopted by
¡,he Oregon States Editorial Associa­
tion, at its recent annua! convention,
in opposition to the two initiative
proposals on the November ballot for
the regulation of legal and delin­
quent tax notices, respectively. It is
a subject on which the Oregonian
has only a limited interest, but
which is of moment to the country
press of Oregon and to the people.
rhe papers are entitled to fair pay
tor services, and they wijl not get it
under the new bills as to legal publi­
cations. Indeed, the clear intent is
that they shall not get it. The motive
behind the measure is spite and re­
prisal, for it is but the newest phase
of the long standing controversy be­
tween the Portland Journal and thte
state press. The measure affects the
state presb. The mcksure affects the
smaller newspapers, for no metro­
politan journal is, or could be, a
competitor for business of any kind.
The second bill is of immediate con­
cern to the taxpaying public. Its os­
tensible purpose is to change the
policy of the delinquent notice stat­
ute so as to substitute the mails for
the newspapers. In other words,
there shall be private, written notice
of individual tax delinquencies, and
not notice by publication through
the papers. The real effect of the
change in the law will be to throw
the process of delinquent tax collec­
tion into confusion through failure
to give adequate and complete no­
tice of the delinquency either to the
public or to the recalcitrate owner.
Tax affair is not an affair of pri­
vate negotiation and arrangement
between the property owner and the
collector. It Is primarily a public
function carried out through official
agencies; and the interest of the
state is to collect its taxes. It is clear
that any law which impedes reason-
able facility in tax collection is a
bad law, and it is equally clear that
any law which expedites it is good
law.
It is pretended, with much show of
sympathy for the sad lot of the real­
ty owner who is not able to keep up
his tax payments, that he is entitled
to commiseration and protection and
that his failure to meet his proper
obligations should not be exposed to
the public view. So the ways of the
non-payer are to be 1 made easy,
and the state or county is to take
the load from him, and await his
pleasure in clearing up his arrear-
ages.
The state has no such duty. It has
the larger and more imperative duty
of imposing its tax burdens with ex­
act impartiality and of giving no
preferences to anyone, particularly
not to the taxpayer who does not pay
as against the taxpayer who does
pay For if the amount of delinquen­
cies is to be increased through lax­
ness or leniency to delinquents, the
deficit must be made up somehow
and somewhere, and it will be done
by the taxpayer who pays.
The Oregonian admonishes the tax­
paying public that the two tax bills
represent not merely a quarrel be­
tween the newspapers—more par­
ticularly one Portland newspaper
and many state papers—but is a
larger matter. The people should be,
and doubtless will be, suspicious of
any tax bill emanating from a notor­
ious* single tax source; and will be
likely to think that it is a part of a
far reaching design to make all ac­
cepted taxation methods odtetls HO
as the sooner to reach the goal Of
single tax.—Oregonian.
Dairy Ranch for Sale.
TWO BAD BILLS FITLY DENOUNC­
ED BY STATE EDITOILS.
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Motive Believed Initiative Measure»
of a Portland Paper Exposed.
Resolutions adopted by the Oregon
Editorial Association, August, 1918.
Whereas, a bill has been initiated
by C. S. Jackson and his attorney, R.
W. Hagood, of Portland, which said
measures come before the legal vot­
ers of the State of Oregon at the No­
vember election, 1918, the purpose
of the bill being to limit the charge
for newspaper publication of all le­
gal notices.
And, whereas, such rate proposed,
viz: 30 cents per column Inch of nine
lines of solid brevier type the inch is
only
cents per line for each in­
sertion which is 25 percent less than
the prevailing
commercial rate,
against 5 cents per line, the present
prevailing price for the publication
of all legal notices, unjust and unfair
in every particular to the newspaper
publishers of the state.
Therefore be it resolved, that it is
the sense of the members of the
dtate Editorial Association, now in
regular session, that the newspapers
of the state launch a publicity cam­
paign that tlie taxpayers may be ap­
prised of the true intent of the im­
pending law. that is nothing more
or less than the mailed fist of the
Portland Journal which under the
disguise of alleged economy, is at­
tempting to carry out a pet measure
and punish the country press be-
cause they have not, in the past, and
will not in the future, bow to the
will of the self-styled czar of news-
paperdom, and which would endeav­
or to crush the country press into
submitting to a most unreasonable,
unfair and unjust compensation for
a service they are now only receiving
a fair price for performing.
Whereas, the Oregon Journal has
submitted to the voters of the state a
measure providing for the repeal of
the statute relating to the publica-
tion of the delinquent tax list, has
conducted a campaign of misrepre-
sentatlon and in behalf of said meas-
ure, has vilified the newspaper pub­
lishers of the state and placed them
in a false position before the people
of the state.
Therefore, be it resolved by the
State Editorial Association that the
newspapers of the state make plain
to their readers the following facts.
First—The uniform practice of the
state of the Union is to notify own­
ers of delinquent property of such
delinquency through publication no­
tice.
Second—That because of the fail­
ure of county assesses,
or fu­
ture to correct assessment rolls so as
to conform to the deed record,
sheriffs are not in possession of the
names and addresses of owners of de­
linquent property and a written no­
tice is thereby impractical.
Third—That under the system of
mailed notices the mortgagee of in-
cumbered property is not notified
tax delinquency.
Fourth—That the entire cost
the publication notice is paid for
the owner of the delinquent property
and not by the general taxpayers.
Fifth—That the owner of delin­
quent property is not the unfortun­
ate toiler, but the boom real estate
operator or the careless person. The
former should receive publicity for
the protection of poor persons who
are purchasing property from him on
installment contracts and have no
other means of learning of tax delin­
quency. The latter needs the pub­
lished notices to direct his attention
to his delinquency.
Sixth—That the discontinuance of
the published notice will result in
far more property becoming delin­
quent than by reducing available
revenue to the state and its political
subdivisions, and receiving the op-
portunity for the operations of the
delinquent tax shark.
Seventh—That by increasing the
amount of unpaid taxes the general
taxpayer is compelled to raise addi­
tional revenue. Therefore the reten­
tion of the present publication law
is for the protection of the general
taxpayer.
Eighth—That if the end sought is
to reduce the cost of permitting tax­
es to become delinquent then the
subject should be approached in a
rational and scientific manner. A
measure should be framed providing
for reduction In penalties or interest,
but in such manner as will not en­
danger delinquency.
Notice of Final Account.
Notice is hereby given that the un­
dersigned has filed her final account
as administratrix of the estate of
Gust Nelson, deceased, in the County
Court of Tillamook County. Oregon,
and said cougt has appointed Monday
September 9, 1918, at the court room
at the Court House in Tillamook
City, Oregon at 10 o’clock a.m., as
the time and place for hearing ob­
jections to said account and the final
settlement thereof.
Dated August 8th, 1918.
Luella Nelson, Administratrix.
H. T. Botts, Attorney.
Stomach and Liver Trouble.
No end of misery and actual suf­
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fering is caused by disorders of the
160 acres on Tillamook River, half stomach and liver, and may be avoid­
bottom land. 13 cows and other stock ed by the use of Chamberlain’s Tab­
Price $12,500. Net income from farm lets. Give them a trial. They only
In 1917 $1,800.—E R, Garner, Hem cost a quarter. For sale by Lamar's
lock, Oregon.
Drug store.—Pa' » Ad».
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