TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT AUGUST 29,
1918
A total tax roll of $16,825,367. axclu-
■ive of the public service utilities, in
Klamath county was announced by
Assessor J. P. Lee on completing his
rolls.
Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull, secretary
of the board of child labor inspectors,
Principal Events of the Week has advised Secretary of State Olcott
Briefly Sketched for Infor­ that the appropriation for that board
has been exhausted.
mation of Our Readers.
The monthly payroll of the ship­
building industry in Oregon has in­
Fire destroyed the Dufur Lumber creased nearly fifteen-fold in the past
company box factory and warehouse at 20 months, according to figures recent­
ly compiled by the statistical bureau
Dufur.
A move has been started In Coos of Portland's chamber of commerce.
county with a view of installing a Whereas $302,400 was dealt out in De­
cember, 1916, reports show that $4,471,-
visiting nurse system.
LOYALTY IS ASSURED.
An officers’ training camp for all 200 was paid to employes last month.
State Highway Engineer Nunn has
county and state Christian Endeavor
But Next Congress Will Need Men of
officers of Oregon is being held at announced that the state has taken
Brain« to Work out Difficult
over completion of the Comstock-
Turner.
Problems.
(5ne million pounds of Bartlett pears Leona section of the Pacific highway
will probably be the record established In Douglas county because of financial
The following interesting editorial
this year for the Wallace orchard In difficulties experienced by Hall &
appeared in the Indiannapolis Star.
Solen, contractors. The stretch covers
The Democrats are trying hard to
Polk county.
create the impression that the war is
The Fargo Orchards company, own­ about four miles, grading and macad­
the issue in the approaching elect­
ing several hundred acres four miles am, and the estimate of cost is about
ions and that in some unexplained
from Aurora, will harvest 10,000 boxes $85,000.
way it would be an act of disloyalty
Numerous complaints are being re­
of apples this fall.
to vote against the president’s party
ceived at the offices of the Fish and
Ont
of
a
total
of
more
than
500
men
candidates. The war is not in any
called to the colors from the number Game commission regarding pheasant
sense an issue, and never has been
registered in Umatilla county, but six hunting out of season. Reports of
from the moment the United States
entered the conflict. The President,
men have failed to answer their calls. such violations are coming from vari­
to be sure, went back into power on
Cranberry picking begins ia the dis­ ous sections and as a result State Game
a “he kept us out of war” argument,
trict adjacent to Astoria about the Warden Shoemaker has Instructed his
HE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, tions and the rest of the state anoth- but even that has been forgotten
first of September. Pickers will be deputies throughout the state to en­
er it is right to say that butter, milk, since we became a belligerent.
F. C. BAKER, Publisher.
paid 25 cents per peck by growers, force a rigid patrol and punish all of­
No self-respecting Democrat would
1 cheese, etc., shall sell for one price
being the price determined by fenders.
this
in that county and for any old price undertake to tell any audience of in­
Crook and Deschutes county farmers
bscription
$1.50 yr. dealers in other counties can get. telligent voters that the winning of
the various associations.
Secretary of State Olcott has re­ and stockmen have placed an order for
The Headlight, might have gone fur­ the war is in any wise involved in
ceived from former governor Oswald four ears of sulphur consisting of 126,-
ther, however, and emphasized the the result of the November contests.
West the latter's acceptance of the 000 pounds, through R. A. Ward, coun­
1 inconsistency of the bill, for the buy­ He and they know that Democrats
prohibition nomination for the United ty agricultural agent. The extensive
ing of butter, cheese and milk is not and Republicans are united in an ef­
Monday being Labor Day, why
use of sulphur follows field demonstrar
obligatory while the law says liti­ fort at bringing early and complete
States senate.
vouldn't it be a good idea to close
tions based on experiments conducted
gants must publish certain notices. success to the allied cause, The Re-
Since
the
Emergency
Fleet
corpora
­
Up all businesses in the city and go
Under the proposed law in Multno­ publicans in Congress and out have
tion's shipbuilding program was start­ by the Oregon Agricultural college ex­
moss gathering? This is the last
mah county he must pay a certain worked loyally to support the ad-
ed, the Columbia river district has periment station, largely at the south­
holiday for some time and probably
definite sum, but if he brings his suit ministration in its war program.
launched 103 ships, with a total ton­ ern Oregon branch.
the last opportunity to obtain the
in an adjoining county a smaller The war will be won regardless of
| Lumber operators and workmen com­
■ om .
nage of 461,200.
which
party
is
in
control.
charge is apparently fixed, but as a
posing the central council of the Loyal
All
records
for
peach
packing
were
»,
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The issue in the campaign is not.
matter of fact is not, for a provision
If your auto has not taken any part
broken by Miss Pearl Taylor, a 19- Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen and
stipulates that it is but a maximum the winning of the war—that is a
In the moss gathering drive, it muBt
year-old high school girl of The Dalles, representing lumber interests in Ore­
and anything less can be charged. In point on which there is no difference
De that it has a "yellow” look about
who packed 151 boxes on a short hour gon, Washington and Idaho adopted
other words, the Portland publisher of opinion but the rehabilitation of
it. Well get into the moss gathering
shift. The high record so far as resolutions at Portland thanking Col­
who initiated the bill asks the state the nation after the war. At present
drive and don’s let it be said that it
to make sure that his charge is fixed the United States is involved in the
known has been 147 boxes.
onel Brice P. Disque, head of the
gas u "yellow” appearance. The Red
while the publishers in other coun­ greatest money spending orgy in the
Governor Withycombe has appointed spruce production division, for his
Cross needs cars for Sunday as well
ties must tUAC what they can get. history of the world. The situation is
General Charles F. Beebe, of Portland, services and pledging themselves to
■s workers.
Irrespective of whether or not the accepted as inevitable, under exist­
as acting adjutant general of Oregon, support him "to the limit.”
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ing
conditions,
but
it
cannot
contin
­
aims of the bill are good or whether
to
succeed Lieutenant Colonel John M.
Slightly more than 500,000 cases,
It is a little hard to understand
the definite price fixed in Multnom­ ue indefinitely There must be an end
Williams, who has resigned to accept valued at $4,600,000, is the total pat .
ow persons who operate dairy farms
ah is just or unjust, the discrimina­ to borrowing and the spreading of BACKACHE- IS DISCOURAGING
Or own land can support a newspaper
a commission as major in the regular sof salmon on the Columbia river for
tion is so glaring as to doom it to treasure broadcast. The nation must
like the Portland Journal, which ad­
i the spring season of 1918, which closed
certain defeat. Hillsboro Independ­ get back to normal, and that return But Not so Bad if You Know How to army.
vocates single tax. Should that be­
Reach the Cause.
Mrs. Olive E. Osborn, of Medford, Saturday at 6 o'clock. The total is
era will be one of the most trying in
ent.
come a law It would confiscate every
Nothing more discouraging than a and Dr. George T. Parrish, of Portland, equal to that of the average for the
the history of the country.
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dairy farm in the county. The dairy­
The present prospect, is that, even constant backache. Lame when you were appointed by Governor Withy­ last several seasons, in spite of unfav­
We want to recall the time when
men had better get their eyes open
Bro. Trombley used to accuse the with an early termination of the awaken, pains pierce you when you combe as delegates to attend the an­ orable early indications. The cold
is to what is on the tapis.
snap shot man of being a Republican war. we shall come out of the strug­ b bend or lift. It’s hard to work or to nual meeting of the American Hospital storage product, mostly pickled salm­
'Standpatter”, and when our es­ gle with a public debt in excess of rest. Backache often indicates bad association at Atlantic City, September on, fell 50 per cent below normal.
The K. of P. proved themselves
teemed Bro. used to quote freely $20,000,000,000. That will mean an kidneys and calls for prompt treat- 24-28.
During the week ending August 22
patriotic and splendid sphagnum
from ins political bible, the Portland annual interest charge of $1,000,- ment. The best recommended remedy
There Is a decided scarcity of teach­ a total of 573 accidents was reported
Jnoss gatherers, and the Oddfellows
is
Doan
’
s
Kidney
Pills,
profit
by
this
000,000
or
more,
besides
money
Journal and laud the Oregon System
ers for the rural schools of Polk coun­ to the industrial accident commission
And Rebekahs last Sunday smashed
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U wa8 that was to cure all political ills. We must be provided for the amor­ nearby resident’s experience:
the record
with 2000
sacks,
Wm. Tupper, 1009 Furr St. Hills­ ty and County Superintendent Fred S. and six of them were fatal. The fatal
tried to convince the people of Tilla­ tization of the debt. The total of
lomething to be proud of and the
mook county that the Oregon System congressional appropriations for 19- boro, Ore., says: "1 have tried several Crowley states that unless relief is in cases are P. V. Solberg, Multnomah,
Oddfellows and Rebekahs are not
had its defects and could be used by 16, the year before the war. was on­ kidney medicines, and I have found sight soon some of the smaller dis­ sawmill; Charle Pellette, Portland,
only proud 'of their record, but we
scheming politicians and wire pullers ly $678,677,858.70 and that was there isn't one equal to Doan’s Kid­ tricts will be unable to resume school shipbuilding; Harvey Vincent, Klam­
are all proud of their patriotic and
| ath Falls, lineman; Marten Saloskl,
to outain their objects. C. E. Jackson higher than the average in the ten ney trouble and lame back. At times, this fall.
unselfish exertions on Sunduy. The
editor of the Portland Journal, who years previous. The normal after- sharp twinges catch me in my back
The Oregon hens entered in the In­ Powers, logging; H. W. Stoddard, As­
Masons and Eastern Star are now
advocates single tax, and assumed war appropriations, exclusive of in­ and when 1 get down I can hardly ternational egg-laying contest at toria, shipbuilding; W. H. Bryant, Cor­
g^ven an opportunity to make a rec-
the position of political dictator of terest and debt items, will be, of straighten up. After I have taken a Storrs, Conn., by the Oregon Agricul­ vallis, lumbering.
olrd In moss gathering next Sunday,
Oregon, is now iuvoking the initia­ necessity, much higher than in other box or two of Doan’s Kidney Pills, tural college are now 91 eggs ahead of
and It is up to them to beat the Odd-
LeRoy Childs, superintendent of the
tive law to further his scheme to years to take care of developments my kidneys act all right and my back their nearest rivals, having been
lellows. Will the turn out and do so?
Hood River experiment station, I b ad­
is fixed up in good shape.”
carry single tax, which is to make resulting from the war.
Sure they will after what the K. of
The people of the country must ex­
Price hoc., at all dealers. Don’t sini- awarded blue ribbons for both June vising Oregon apple growers to apply
P. and Oddfellows huve done In the people who own land pay the taxes. pect, under most favorable condit- ply ask for a kidney remedy—get and July.
a spray of arsenate of lead late this
The county newspapers are opposed
iuohs gathering drive.
With the filing of a $100,000 bond week or the first of next for control
to single tax and the big political ions, to pay to the support of the Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same as Mr. I
government after the war at least Tupper had. Foster-Milbourn Co., with the desert land board by the Jor- of codling moth. Mr. Childs says that
The Cloverdale Courier announces bully In the Journal bundling at three and more likely four or five Mfgis., Buffalo, N. Y.
I dan Valley Land & Water company, the recent cool weather has retarded
Portland wants to punish the country
that it will discontinue after this
times as much as they were formerly
- all is clear for immediate progress to the development of moths to such an
paper«,
and,
it
possible
put
them
week, making another newspaper to
Notice.
I begin on the lower unit of 38,000 acres extent that they will emerge and be­
out of business, but in his endeavor assessed. That money must be raised,
go to the wull on account of war
not for a war emergency, and by sell­
1 in the Jordan valley irrigation project come active in large numbers when
conditions. Frank Taylor has been a to stab the Republican country news ing bonds, but-as a regular thing and
One
hundred
and
thirty-two
acres
papers in the back, why there are
of Malheur county.
warm weather returns.
progressive citizen in the south part
as a business proposition. The na­ of land, near Devil’s Lake, for sale at
of the county, and he has always some Democratic country newspapers tion has to get back from a spend­ $16.00 per acre, between 20 and 30 | Of 26 members of the first and sec­
Excessive freight rates are causing
been on the Job boosting for the that 'wont' stand for Jackson's ing to an earning and saving basis. acres good bottom land, balance ond summer military training camps Portland to be deprived of a prolific
scheme
to
enact
legislation
for
county, and the part he took in the
And all that will Involve a far- slightly rolling. Small brush in crcck • at the University of Oregon who were source of fuel in screenings from the
numerous drives was exceedingly newspapers outside of Multnomah reaching
economic reorganization bottom, easy cleared. No improve­ examined for admission to the central Coos bay district, and a reasonable
county,
by
the
Oregon
System
route,
creditable. We have known for some
and
readjustment.
ments to speak of.—Address R. E. artillery training school at Camp rate, probably about 75 per cent lower
time that Mr. Trylor had contem­ and ouV friend, Bro. Trombley, is
The Democratic party is notorious­ Winter, Grand Ronde, Oregon.
Zachary Taylor, near Louisville, Ky., than that granted to Utah fields, would
one
of
them,
who
is
fully
convinced,
plated discontlni lug the publication
ly a money waster, whether in con­
, almost all passed with exceptional bring such fuel into Portland from
now
that
he
sees
how
the
Oregon
of the Courier, and considering the
trol of national, state or municipal
Too Busy Knitting.
credit.
Coos bay, according to a letter sent to
advisability of conserving us much System can be worked by a political affairs. It has been lamentably weak
“I proposed to Miss I’eaeher last
Superintendent Churchill is sending General Freight Agent Hinshaw, of
dictator,
that
the
system
was
not
labor as possible, he has acted wisely.
on
constructive
business
policy.
The
night."
out copies of the synopsis of the the Southern Pacific, by Public Serv­
We, however, regret that Mr. Taylor what it was cracked up to be. It is a people know that. They have watch­
"Did she sccept you?"
course of study for Oregon high schools ice Commissioner Buchtel.
la leaving the county, for he and his splendid object lesson that comes ed Democracy perform in New York
“She snld, ‘Yes.’ In an nbsont-minded
for the year 1918-19. covering all
family are highly respected. Mr. home to Bro. Trombley, and the last City. In Washington and scores of way, but I'm afraid that isn’t final.”
Lumber mills of western Washing­
schools outside of Portland.
One ton and western Oregon, by a success­
Taylor and fnmily will move to New- issue of the lieraid almost gave the other places where it lias gained
“
Why
not?
”
snap shot a duck fit. fur we could
berg.
“She was knitting nt the time. I amendment has been made to“the rul­ ful speeding-up program, for the sec­
temporary power only to be ousted
not help recalling the time a few
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don't believe she understood what I ings covering credits for the next ond consecutive week have cut more
because
of
its
own
excesses
and
ln-
This is an extract from a letter years since when we, as well as compenence.
I school year.
asked her.”
than their normal capacity. Actual
written by a person who was born other Republicans, were classed as
Even
in
the
excitement
of
war
the
Early estimates of $50,000 for the production for the past week was 80,-
In Switzerland that is right to tlu> "standpatters" and nun-progressive, public has not forgotten that four
Less Trouble.
evergreen blackberry crop In Lane
point: "Although Switzerland has a 1 and the Portland Journal was the years ago there was widespread un­
"My wife hates to answer the door­ county will be eclipsed as the result I 899.245 feet, an excess of 999,245 feet,
,
Simon
pure
political
god
in
the
eyes
or 1.25 per cent, over the normal pro­
contract with the United States
employment in the United States; bell Sunday afternoon when she's com­ of the recent heavy rainfall, in the
duction of 79.900,000 feet at the 12i
which releases citizens of Swltzer- . of Bro, Trombley..
that industry was slowing down; fortable in a kimono.”
opinion of buyers, who are offering 6 mills contributing to the reports of
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land from military service in thls I
"Mine, too. But she says she’d
that we were in the throes of a buy
cents a pound for the product. The the West Coast Lumbermen's associa­
It tuny not be out of place to re-
country, if your heart is Swiss and I
a bale movement to save the south­ rather take the trouble to dress than
wants freedom you will serve this 1 print part of an editorial from the ern cotton planter from ruin; that to wear herself out guessing around picking season has just begun and will tion.
United States In every manner pos- . Oregonian pertaining to the two in- the Underwood tariff law was mani- the circle of her friends trying to fig­ cover a period of several weeks.
Charges lodged
with Governor
alble and necessary to bring thls 1 illative bills now before the people, festly failing to do what the Dtmo- ure out who rang."
The public service commission has Wlthycombe by Dr. William M. Camp­
war to a successful end. You came to , which C. E. Jackson, editor of crats had said it would; that Secre­
i been notified that the interstate com- bell, of Portland, against Major Rich­
Ths Work Hater.
this country to make a better living; the Portland Journal, is using to tary McAdoo was Juggling the treas­
' meres commission will grant a sup­ ard Deich, head of the military police,
“This idea of an age limit Is all plementary hearing on diversion and__ _ ____
this government gave you the same , punish the country newspapers be­ ury figures to minimize the import­
have been forwarded by the executive
“But it
protection as it gives Its own cltl- cause they are opposed to single tax. ance of the rapidly increasing deficit right,” said Plodding Pete.
■ reconsignment rules affecting ship- to Adjutant-General Williams with ln-
gens, and now you earn more than j The Oregonian knows that it wrong that he was "reimbursing the treas­ stops too quick.”
' ments of fresh fruits and vegetables, > structions to have them presented to
"What do you meant’
you have ever earned before, why to enact a law making a legal rille ury" by selling Panama Canal bonds.
the hearing to be conducted by Clyde ' the general staff for consideration It
for
Multnomah
county
and
another
“
There's
nothin
’
to
look
forward
to.
should you not help this Government
The nation four years ago and in
B. Aitcbison In Portland, September 23. Is charged that Mr. Deich used lan­
with all your power you possess? In , state.
time of peace was paying current ex­ A man soon gets too old to tight, but
His accounts short anywhere from guage unbecoming an officer when Dr.
"So far It is obvious that the fad­ penses with borrowed money. The he’s never too old to work.”
my opinion any Swiss who Is physi­
$500 to $3000, according to city of- Campbell visited his office and diffi­
cally fit for military service and dists. changelings and abolishera who administration was headed straight
' flcials, Claude W. DeVore, city record­ culties arose over certain claims which
takes advantage of the existing con- have been always busy at every elec­ for enibarrasment and nfianclal con­
er of Estacada, has disappeared, and were presented by Dr. Campbell.
tract between America and Switzer- tion in devising new ways to run the fusion when the world war was pre­
The complete Electric Light and
land to escape such a service Is Government have kept pretty well cipitated in Europe. Soon war orders
a complaint charging him with mis­
The state tax commission has voted
Power Plant
nothing else than a pro-Oerman and i out of sight. But the ballot Is never- from the allies began pouring in and
appropriation of city funds has been to Initiate for the election ballot In
Self-starting.
Stops
Automatic
­
slacker, and should be sent back to I the-less not w holly free from legls- prices soared. Exports doubled and
filed in the Clackamas county courts November a bill providing that the
ally So simple a child can op-
his place of birth. These lines are I lative adventuring«. One qmlnent redoubled. Wages were advanced,
at Oregon City. DeVore is believed to tax levy for 1919 Include $940,000 in
erate it.
!
publlclt
is
there
who
is
not
yet
dis-
not only for the Swiss, but for every
the farmers got higher prices for
have gone to Berkeley, Cal.
excess of constitutional limitations,
foreign born person in the United 1 couraged by niuny failures to put their produce, the manufacturers
A sort of referendum on the question which will amount to an assessment
, over single tax anld other oddities, were deluged with allied gold and
States of America.”
of adding to the forest reserve the of about 1 rnfll. The special amount
and «ho purposes to take the club prosperity w as extended to every­
-
o
southern tier of townships In Jackson provided by the measure. If it is passed
The Tillamook Headlight com­ i from behind the door every time he body. It was all war prosperity.
county is desired by Representative by the people, will be used to meet
ments logically on the proposed Ini­ sees an unfriendly head. This time
Then the war came to us. The bars
Hawley, who has Introduced a bill pro­ necessary expenditures of state depart­
tiative bill fixing the charge for le­ it is the unfortunate country press, were thrown down and every re-
viding that the lands shall be added. ments for a year's time that could not
gal publications by holding that If It and two bills are there designed to strain! on spending was removed.
ACKLEY A MILLER
right to say that Multnomah county | tts hurt. One purports to regulate We began to borrow by the billions
The area comprises about 100.000 be
Tillamook Garage,
met wav
under
6 per
liml-
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v k”- the
* vvui
xcaja cent
iiiur tax
1
•hall pay one price for these publics- 1 be price to be paid for legal notices and taxing ourselves by the hundreds
acres, practically all of it steep and tation amendment to the state conKA
Tillamook
Oregon.
rough, and suitable only for grazing.
tutlon.
, printed in newspapers published in
counties of less than 150,000 Inhabi­
tants (all but Multnomah) and the
other would do away wifh entirely
the practice uniform in all states of
newspaper publication of delinquent
tax notices. These measures emanate
from a Portland paper which has a
great desire to punish other newspa­
pers, and to do so has fathered apoli-
cy which declares that newspaper ad­
vertising is all wrong. It is strange
doctrine, coming from a newspaper
cource, and shows how far out of
tune with ethical considerations
which control other papers this par­
ticular wrong-headed journal finds
itself.”
Í
Editorial Snap Shots
of millions. The people, in the spirit
of loyalty, accepted a 25 per cent.
Increase in their freight bills, ap­
proximately 50 per cent Ip their rail­
way fares; they paid taxes and sur­
taxes without even inquiring why or
wherefore, believing it was necessary
to have the money to win the war.
They have stopped at nothing and
tjuestioned nobody, but there will be
an end to that when the war is won
and we have to get back to a every
day schedule.
It will not be possible then for
Secretary McAdoo to sell Panama
Canal bonds “to reimburse the treas­
ury" for money the Democratic rev­
enue laws do not produce; he cannot
expect every year to have Congress
appropriate $200,000,000 of borrow­
ed money to make up for the failure
of his farm loan bank plan; he will
not always have at his disposal the
$3,500,000,000 Congress handed to
him is his war finance corporation,
from which to dole out $20,000,000
loans to the Bethlehem Steel Com­
pany, or other sums to various indus­
trial concerns seeking funds.
Business will have to stand on its
own bottom eventually. The Gov­
ernment cannot continue indefinitely
to pour out funds. In fact, even now
McAdoo's war finance corporation
can make no advances for a term of
more than five s years. The billions he
is putting out with such a lavish
hand must be returned
1
within the
period of the next administration,
That would involve
tremendous
economic readjustments even in nor­
mal times and is certain to be par­
ticularly difficult in the confusion
of post war conditions.
There will be an end to the time
when every situation may be met
by shoveling out gold from the treas­
ury and borrowing more millions
when the supply runs low. That
term will be an anxious one for the
people, even if the government is in
the hands of the nation's ablest
economists and constructive states­
men. That crisis is inescapable, and
now Is the time to prepare for it. The
issue before the voters this fall is
whether they prefer to entrust to the
Democrats or to the Republicans
the very practical proposition of get­
ting the nation and its Industries
back on a firm basis after the war.
They know the records and policies
of both parties. The question before
them is not mere politics, but one of
business judgment.
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