TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT SEPTEMBER 12, 1918. What the Editors Say ------- o------- Whose country is this, yours or the Kaiser's? If it is yours and you think it and your liberties are worth pre serving you will buy all the Liberty Loan Bonds that you can in the next drive, whch will soon be on in Ore gon. Get ready to do your part.— News-Times. GOODRICH T5VJCK TÍRE TruckTlre Service SERVICE The Ohio democratic convention has decided that prohibition is no longer a state issue. On the other hand democratic politicians at Wash ington are insisting that it is not a national issue. With so much side stepping someone’s toes are in a fair v.ay to be trod on.—Telephone Regis ter. ------o------ About $3,000,000,000 will repre sent the gross business of all the big and little packers combined during the present year. This vast ’um will be handled, with all its business risks, on a margin of less than three cents net on the dollar. No small business could survive on so small a margin.—Oregon Voter. ¡S3 HIS is a year when service writes history. T Your truck must serve as it never served before. The nation expects it to take the load off the railroads’ shoulders. Your truck can do all that is expected of it if possessed of proper tire equip ment About 2 60,000 unnaturalized male Germans live in the United States and have registered under enemy alien regulations. Reports on the reg istration of German women have not yet been fully tabulated, but It Is be lieved that less than 200,000 enroll ed. These figures do not include the interned Germans, whose number never has been made public.—Tele phone Register. Wise truck users are adopting Good rich Truck Tire Service. In the com bination cf the Goodrich De Luxe Truck Tire and our excellent facilities they have found the secret of proper tire service. The extra-thick tread in Goodrich De Luxe— thicker than in any other brand —assures constant service, security against road shocks and vibration, maximum mileage and low fuel con sumption. Let us put your truck on this basis. X ACKLEY & MILLER Tillamook, Even the Indian of these latter days has taken a fancy to the gaso line wagon. He has forsaken the cayuse for the automobile and Is finding pleasure in the chug-chug of the big horseless carriage. Nor is he satisfied with the commonplace "Henry” but he delights In the fast moving and powerful car. Only a few days ago, the Indians and their fam lies were making their annual pil grimages for huckleberries near Mt. Adams, in Washington. It seemed odd to see this nomadic people driving automobiles just as their pale-faced brothers are won’t to do and to find the same exilaration in moving along narrow winding mountain roads in their big cars. The world doeB move at a tremendous pace.— News Reporter. Oregon Distributor of Goodrich Motor Truck Tires If the authorities would show ac tivity in enforcing the glaring auto mobile headlight law it would confer a favor upon a suffering public, and at the same time lessen the danger of loss of life. Many motorists have narrowly escaped collisions merely because an approaching automobile threw a light that was absolutely blinding. There Is great danger In this unlawful method of illumina tion. and there can be no possible ex cuse for the negligence now being practiced by the authorities whose sworn duty it is to enforce the law. Laws are made for the regulation of our governmental system, and un less they are enforced there can be little use of their enactment. City streets and country highways nightly teem with automobiles carrying glar ing headlights, menacing the lives of others, and unless the practice is dis continued there Is certain to be all too many untimely funerals.—Obser ver. Protection from every form of loss Secretary of War Baker’s habit of talking first and thinking afterward was illustrated in his statement to newspaper men after one of the con ferences with the military affairs committee that In his opinion the marriage relation should in itself place a man In a deferred classifica tion. That sounded like a reasonable proposition until analyzed. Adoption of that rule would give deferred classification to a man who had de serted his wife, to a man who was dependent upon his wife for support, or whose wife had a sufficient In come to support herself in comfort, without his help. When these facts were submitted to Secretary Baker he announced that his statement on the subject had been misinterpreted. The number of newspaper correspon dents who heard and quoted the re mark was so great, however, as to lead to the conclusion that it was Baker who misunderstood and not the newspaper men.—Umpqua Val ley News. by some form of Hartford policy. 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All these have tion offered by the been foreseen and provided for T The bigness of our country is no where better illustrated than in the immenBe savings made possible by the Introduction of the farm tractor. There 1 b , for example, the estimate that it costs two billion dollars to ’ feed the horses and mules of the I United States. This is only *80 a head for the 25,000,000 such animals reported by the census bureau, and *80 a head 1 b too low an estimate If the value of the food for humans which could be raised on the land now devoted to horse feed is taken into account. It Is figured that one- fourth of the total cultivated acre age Is required to feed work animals. This acreage would feed 40,000,000 i people 'which is In round figures : the Present population of France. Thd relief from labor of "doing the che^res" in off seasons, when the h<rfse must be curried and fed but the tractor could be stored in the barn, la also a factor to be considered Viewed from every angle, the use of machinery on the farm is desirable and should be encouraged in every possible way.—Oregonian. INSURANCE Service » OF THE TWO HARTFORDS For over one hundred years the Hartford Fire Insurance Com pany has paid losses with unfailing promptness. The same responsibility is behind the Hanford Accident it Indemnity Co. J ROLLIE W. WATSON, the Insurance Man, Tillamook. ■ Banners bearing the inscription ’’Set Mooney Free” were carried in I the Portland Labor Day parade. Prior to the entrance of the United States Into the war San Francisco patriots, realizing the deplorable con dition of unpreparedness with war a certainty, organized a preparedness parade as a protest and to awaken the nation to the danger. During the parade a bomb was thrown and many persons killed and Injured. Mooney has been convicted of being implicat ed and sentenced to death. The Cal ifornia supreme court has confirmed the sentence and the governor has declined to interfere. The jury that convicted, the supreme court that reviewed and the governor who will not interfere are presumed to know the facts. At least it would seem that they are in a better position to judge than persons a thousand miles dis tant from the seen of crime. Do the persons that now ask that Mooney be freed assert that notwithstanding his conviction by those acquainted with the facts that they have certain knowledge of hiB innocence, or do they insist that notwithstanding his guilt he should be freed? It should not be forgotten that unpreparedness in America was what Germany counted upon, and by discouraging preparedness the Hun expected a free hand when he got ready to turn his attention to America, as he promised Mr. Gerard. It Beems that the least that can be demanded is an explana tion of just what those who carried the banners meant. Do they now be lieve that preparedness was such a crime as to warrant the killing of Innocent bystanders, and are they willing to admit that they would now willingly face the consequences had we continued to sleep and not prepare. It seems to us that the one who said that we have enemies in our midst more to be feared than those across the sea knew what he was talking about.—Independent. English for Americans. The importance of requiring that persons who make their homes in America understand the English lan guage was illustrated in a new way in a New York police court the other day. Among the defendants arraigned for violation of the traffic ordinance there were thirteen who spoke no English and required interpreters. It is plain enough that they had had small opportunity to know the laws governing motor driving, which are printed only in English. They were unable to read directions posted along the way, or to understand the orders of traffic policemen. One of the defendants said that he had been In the United StateB five years, but could neither read English nor un derstand it when it was spoken. Said the magistrate who sat In judgment: “I hope tlie day will come when every one will have to learn English or go back to the country from which he came.” We have not yet reached the point of compelling adult aliens to learn our language as the price of contin ued residence among us, but we have made marked progress in the centers of population by opening night schools for tlie teaching of the lan guage, and we have probably seen the last of the practice of teaching the common branches In foreign lan guages in school districts where alien population predominate. We can put a premium upon knowledge of English, even if we cannot prac tically impose a penalty for the lack of it. In the case of a driver of an auto mobile, danger to other drivers and to pedestrains would seem to be in creased by permitting non-English speaking foreigners to travel with out restraint. It would seem to be entirely leasable to require know ledge of the language as a condition of obtaining a license. The foreigner who will not learn the language is a menace in more ways than one. Traf fic are among the least of those that he will be unable to understand. Comprehension of the spirit of Amer ican institutions necessary to make a man a desirable neighbor requires that he should understand the lan guage of the country.—Oregonian. Farm Lands For Returned Soldiers. ------ o------ Something like a year ago congress discussed the matter of providing ag ricultural opportunities for return ing American soldiers after the war was over. It waft done In a tentative way and committees were Instructed to investigate the possibilities of the idea. At that time some very interest ing suggestions were made that would have a most Important bear ing both upon the agricultural de velopment of the nation and the fu ture of hundreds of thousands of young men returning from France. Walter M. Pierce, democratic candi date for governor, has voiced the same sentiment, and would place the matter under state control. It Is an important forward-looking problem. The people have prided themselves upon the industrial growth of the nation. This has been relied upon as a most important factor in winning 1 the war, But in this time of stress America has suddenly discovered that it has neglected development in its most important field of industry —agriculture. To be sure, the farm ers of the nation have done remark ably well. They have exerted them selves not only to provide food for America, but for the entire allied world They have worked under the greatest difficulties. They have Buf fered from labor shortage almost since the war began, and today their sons are In the army. Almont every farmer Is working harder than ever to keep up his farming operations, but the pace is beiginnlg to tell. It seems hardly probable that the farm ers will be able to produce as much food in the' aggregate next year as they did this year. When the war ends. American food stocks will be i reduced to the minimum, and unless the government takes energetic steps to place returning soldiers on farms, the food problem will continue to be acute. There are millions of acres that may be made very productive. Now Is the time to segregate these lands and put them into condition for cultivation. It would be a splen did thing if the government would be in a position to offer cheap farm ing tracts to its soldiers, and upon such terms as may be easily met. No doubt there are many thousands of men in the ranks who would be glad to sign contracts with the govern ment to take farms when the war m over. The food problem will not solve itself. There was a food shortage be fore the war, and in all probability there will be a shortage for many years after peace is declared. The soldiers must be taken care of, and nothing seems to present such splen did possibilities in supplying two needs in one act as providing farms for these men.—Telephone Register. No Peace Till our Armies are la Berlin. ------ o------ The Spokesman-Review is glad to give Its cordial second to the sound and ringing editorial of the Illinois State Register, printed in another column of this paper. The lllinoia Journal asks President Wilson to de clare to all the nations of the globe that “there shall be no peace entered into nor proclaimed until the mili tary forces of the so-called central powers surrender and an allied army, composed of the soldiers of and rep resenting the people of France, Eng land, America, Italy and all other al lied powers that have entered this war for the perpetuity of democracy and the safety of mankind, shall march through the streets of Berlin, unhindered and unmolested, as a con vincing, conclusive and necessary proclamation to the world that Prus sian militarism has been overthrown and that universal liberty and de mocracy still live.’ As the war wears on to victory the peoples of the allied nations will de mand with , constantly increasing emphasis that this unmistakable demonstration ot the crushing defeat of Germany’s military masters shall be set before the physical eyes of the German people. Unless that shall be done, the kai ser and his military leaders will find ways to befuddle the German masses. If our victorious armies should bo halted at the German frontier, and peace negotiations signed short of the triumphal entry of our armies into Berlin and other great German centers, the Prussian military ma chine would start vigorous glorifica tion propaganda for the kanser, the crown prince, Hindenburg and Lu dendorff the instant the peace pa pers were signed and we entered up on demobolization. “See how the good German Bword has saved the fatherland.” would be the burden of that song. “Our Ger man armies huve hurled back the al lied forces of more than 20 besetting nations. Now. henceforth and forever German arms are invincible.” March 5,000.000 or 10,000,000 vic torious soldiers of the allleB down the streets of the German capital and that sort of valngorlous propaganda would become so redlculous that the kaiser and his gang would incur the laughter of their own people. “The day” would have a very different meaning than that conveyed so often before the war in toasts at German banquets. "The day" would be that day when all Berlin heard the crash ing bands of our allied armies play ing "The Star Spangled Banner,” the “Marceillaise” and tlie national an thems of the other allied nations* with the German sky filled with the emblems of the allied democracies and allied cannon thundering victor ious salutes with never a German gun responding.—Spokesman Review Call for Bids. ------- o------- Trask Drainage District calls for bids for digging ditch—about 4000 feet in length. Details may be had by calling on Secretary. Bids received up to Sept. 16th, 1918, at 5 o’clock p.m. H. T. Botts, Secretary, Tillamook, Oregon, Experience the Best Teacher. ----- o----- It Is generally admitted that ex perience is the best teacher, but should we not make use ot the ex perience of others as well as our own. The experience of a thousand per sons Is more to depend upon than that of one individual. Many thou sands of persons have used Cham berlain's Cough Remedy for coughs and colds with the best results, which shows it to be a thoroughly reliable preparation for those dls- deases Try it. It is prompt and ef fectual and pleasant to take. For sale by Lamar's Drug Store.— I’d. Ad, Notice. One hundred and thirty-two acres of land, near Devil’s Lake, for sale at $16.00 per acre, between 20 and 30 acres good bottom land, balance slightly rolling. Small brush in creek bottom, easy cleared. No improve ments to speak of.—Address R. E. Winter, Grand Monde, Oregon.