TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT SEPTEMBER 12, 1918.
What the Editors Say
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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.
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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.
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HIS is a year when service writes
history.
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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.
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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.
HE wonderful thing about
Fire comes first as causing the
Hartford insurance service
is its scope. It provides against greatest losses, but is first for
that reason alone. Some other
losses you never think of until
form of fatality might be far worse
they happen to you. You will
for you than a fire. Do not learn
never know that you could
these things after they happen.
have been saved from the con­
The two Hartfords can protect
sequences of them unless you
you on all sides. The policies
talk to this agency today. Every
will surround you with an inter­
loss of property can be measured
locking coat of mail, leaving no
in money. The loss may be
unprotected point.
caused by fire, accident, sick­
This agency will be pleased
ness, theft, storm, carelessness,
to explain the complete protec­
circumstances. All these have
tion offered by the
been foreseen and provided for
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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.
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ROLLIE W. WATSON, the Insurance Man, Tillamook.
■ Banners bearing the inscription
’’Set Mooney Free” were carried in
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.