TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. SBPTEUBER 19, 1918.
is making to round up agitators and
soap box orators, who have been in
the habit of denouncing the govern­
ment and men placed in responsible
positions.lt will have a wholesome ef­
fect, for these agitators are simply
trouble makers and endeavor to un­
dermine the government and its in­
stitutions. They are anarchists, pure
ar.d simple, and too much levity have
been given men like Haywobd and
Debs, both of whom have been sen­
tenced to long terms for fomenting
trouble in a national crisis. We hope
no leniency will be shown these men
and others who have been decidedlv
disloyal to the United States
Probably the snap shot man is
responsible for the fight for the of­
fice of county treasurer that is now
being waged. Our contention was
that it was a waste of county money
to pay the county treasurer $l.S00 a
year with very little work »0 do, and
that a saving should be made by the
county treasurer doing the recording,
which would save the wages of one
person in the clerk's office. We are
more interested in that point than
we are as to who is elected to the of­
fice of county treasurer. Does the la­
dies who aspire to the office fully
understand that they will have to
pledge themselves to do the record­
ing? We will want to know this and
so will tl s voters and taxpayers be­
fore the day of election.
For several
weeks
rumors
have
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. Allied Churches of Tillamook. It may been afloat that the central power»
not be out of place to ask, “If three were endeavoring to bring about a
F. C. BAKER. Publisher.
religious denominations can get to­ conference of the allied powers with
Subscription ............................ Î1.50 yr. gether to prevent waste in church af­ a view of obtaining peace. The only
Editorial Snap Shots.
One section of the Mothers’ Parade
»on Saturday will be for the sweet­
hearts. We bet that will be a sweet
bunch of girls and patriotic girls as
well.
Here’s a good chance for Bro.
Trombley to toot his horn. The gov­
ernment is wanting musicians for
band masters, with the title of Lieu­
tenant.
Now that some of the women of
Tillamook county have thrown their
bonnets into the political arena it
looks as if It is going to be a lively
fight for the office of county treas­
urer.
Tlie fishermen who get pulled for
stretching their nets too far across
the rivers are not onto their job.
They should set up the plea that It Is
a war time necessity and that the
people need the food.
One of the requests that the gov­
ernment ask newspapers to comply
with is not to give out information
as to the number, size, character, or
location of ships of the navy ordered
laid down at any port or shipyard or
Jin actual process of construction.
Before John Boyer relinquishes the
toll road on Salmon river, the county
court should see that that gentleman
puts the road in good shape, for hav­
ing scooped in the summer travel
business, It hardly looks right to
abandon the road the coming winter.
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The Germans ridiculed the idea of
the United States being able to send
u large urmy to France. They ridicul­
ed the British army, and by the looks
of things the first direct blow of the
United States army, must have con­
vinced the Germans that they are not
the only people In the world that can
raise u big army of fighting men.
We don’t see how some Grangers,
most of whom own land, should favor
a single tax newspaper like the
Portland Journal, which, should the
single tax become u law, the burden
of taxation would fall on the grang­
ers and those who own land. Some of
the grangers of this county think
their taxes are too high now, but it
would be a flea bit to what it will be
If the Portlund Journal can find
enough voters to force land owners
to pay the taxes.
We are informed that two young
men, brothers, ate running over the
county doing very little work, and
that their mother is drawing a wid­
ow’s pension from the county. There
is no complaint about the woman re­
ceiving money from the taxpayers,
but young men who have not the
manhood to support their mother in
these days when work Is plentiful
and wages high should be given a
wholesome lesson. The case should
be submitted to the grand Jury for
Investigation.
fairs, why can’t more do likewise?”
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Before gasoline become scarce, why
not prohibit the use of automobiles
for pleasure? It would conserve a
whole lot of man power and release
thousands of men for essential em­
ployment, for there are a surprising
large number of men employed in
garages fixing autos that are used
for pleasure. Probably the govern­
ment intends, in the new draft, to
round up these men as quickly as
possible and place them in the army,
to operate and repair autos and
trucks used for war purposes.
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One would naturally think that
with so large amount of bonds being
taken up in this county, it would re­
duce the deposits of the local hanks.
Not so, however. The two city hanks
show splendid financial conditions.
The First National Bank's statement
is a hummer, the biggest ever pub­
lished in Tillamook City, amounting
to $752,517.7". The Tillamook Coun­
ty Bank is not far behind with a fine
allowing of $662,018.05. For the two
city banks the amount is $1,414,-
535.82. This gives a good criterion of
what is happening In this city and
vicinity, as well as the industrial ac­
tivities.
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Was a person giving us taffy when
he informed us that all the Oddfel­
lows and Rebekahs were for one can­
didate for county treasurer? We did
not know that these fraternal orders
could be worked in that way and we
don’t believe they can. But we sup­
pose it Is all fair In love, war and
politics to pull the legs of the Odd­
fellows and Rebekahs, if they allow
their legs to be pulled 111 that way.
We don't miss It much when we say
that some persons
are talking
through their hats and talking for
political effect, for nobody has the
votes of the Oddfellows and Rebek­
ahs carrying round In their pockets.
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The United States army bagged
20,000 prisoners last week, which is
a good record for the first real Yan­
kee scrap. That is only the beginning,
for it won’t be long before General
Pershing will bag 100.000 of the
Hun barbarians, the men who have
committed the most horrible, inhu­
man crimes on a wholesale scale. It
makes one’s blood boil when we read
accounts of the Germans, after they
round up English prisoners, turning
liquid fire upon them, and no doubt
some of our own boys, who are un­
fortunate to fall into the hands of
the Germans, will be treated by the
same barbartous methods.
A somewhat elderly gentleman
stepped Into out sanctum and Intro­
duced himself. He said he had been
in the newspaper game all his life
and had to quit because he was al­
ways on the grind stone and never
any money ahead. He went to work
In the ship yard over twelve months
since at $2.50 a day, but is now re­
ceiving over $7.00 a day. He was out
from Portland with his family taking
a short vacation, and drove his own
auto. No wonder that newspapers are
dying natural deaths and all kinds
of people are flocking to the ship
The Bny City Examiner has given yards, and to be the recipients of
up the ghost again, this time for a high wages now prevailing.
long while, for the government has
put its foot down on starting up
If we do not miss our guess. It Is
papers until after the war. The Ex­ not the persons who were not born
aminer has had a queer existence, In this country that will require
somewhat after the proverbal cat looking after tn the Fourth Liberty
with nine lives. The lid Is now nail­ Loan Drive True there may be some
ed firmly down on the Examiner H>at still have the pro-German sptrlt
ghost corpse. And with the Clover­ in their system, and It will probably
dale Courier corps In the same coffin, always remain there, but we believe
these newspapers, for which there foreign born citizens will come
never was a need, will be hard to through splendidly. They did In the
resurrect.
Third Liberty Loan drive. Maybe It
la natural to be a little Inquisitive,
The allied churches of Tillamook but. maybe. It might be well to go
sounds modern and up to date.' The after men who are well fixed and
war not only brought home to moat able to buy large amounts who only
of u> that there was more or leas take small amounts, as well as men
waste, not only In our method of liv­ who are receiving big wages, brought
ing. but ’n religious matters as well. about by war conditions.
With that idea In view, three reli­
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gious denominations of thia city have
The government is deserving of a
come together, U tn known as the great deal of credit in the effort it
terms upon which the allies should
consider peace is unconditional sur­
render by the central powers, the
terms to be decided by the allied na­
tions. If Austria and Germany won’t
surrender and want to dictate terms
of peace it is no earthly good getting
into a conference with them. The
war must continue until they do ad­
mit of defeat and the barbarous
methods they hav* used in the pros­
ecution of the war.. Our prediction
is they are squealing right now and
they will squeal ntucty louder after
they have butted up against the Un­
ited States army a few times more.
A good many persons have doubted
statements about German gunners
being chained to their guns to pre­
vent them front retreating. The let­
ter in our last issue from Private
Coates, one of our home boys, is con­
clusive proof. It shows, however,
what iron rule the German soldier
is subjected to. who is simply a poor
slave in the hands of the, war lords
of Germany.
They were willing
slaves when the war started, for the
German people were imbued with the
spirit that they were Invincible and
could lick the whole world. They are
getting a lot of that nonsensical stuff
knocked out of their craniums, and
as men have to be chain to their
guns to prevent them from running
away the German army now realizes
it is not what it was cracked up to be
now that it is confronted with a big
army from the United States.
President Wilson hit the nail on
the head when he declared that there
must be industrial peace in the Unit­
ed States. With high wages now be­
ing paid to men, in fact too high,
this is no time to strike for shorter
hours ami higher wages. A whole lot
of men who are doing the fighting
and risking their lives are receiving
only $30.00 a month with no ques­
tion Involved as to the number of
hours employed on the firing line or
in the trenches, while the men at
home engaged in war work are re­
ceiving all the way from $5.00 to $10
a day and working but eight hours.
We thing the men at the front are
entitled to just as much pay as the
man at home if not more, but it is
not the boys in France who are com­
plaining about small pay and long
hours, but it is the men belonging to
the labor unions who do the com­
plaining and who appear never satis­
fied. but always agitating for higher
wtiges and shorter hours.
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“How long will the war last?”
The majority of people think next
year, hut military men and diplomats
seem to think that it will take at
least another three years. We are In­
clined to think that the morale of the
German army is at a low ebb, much
lower than most people imagine, and
for that reason there is ftome ground
for belief that the allies will win
out victoriously next year. What is
scaring the Germans more than any­
thing Just now is the formidable air
raids that are of daily occurrence,
and they are becoming more so every
week There is no doubt whatever
but that the people of Germany are
scared on account of these bombing
raids, with thousands of tons of ex­
plosives dropped with deadly effect
upon different parts of Germany.
The allies are now victors of the air
and it won’t be long before they are
victors on land as well, for these
bombing raids Into Germany are a
most Important factor just now, es­
pecially at a time when the morale
of the German army Is going to
pieces, and the people are sick and
tired of the war.
We were given to understand that
the mill company gave its solemn
promise that it would remove the
lumber from the county road north
of the city. Promises, however, seem
to be like pie crust, made to be
broken The county officials have
been exceedingly considerate with
the mill company, which have failed
to fulfil Us promise. We have been
confronted by thia remark. When a
fisherman extends his net across a the wretchedness of the population.
river and he is unfortunate to be
caught, he is pulled and fined. The
same applies to the man who violates
the prohibition law. Our contention
is that it is hardly right to fine a
fisherman for extending his net too
far across a river and then allow the
mill company to pile lumber on the
public highway, interfering with the
traffic and endangering people's
lives. That is the situation right now
and we believe the mill company
and the county officials will agree
with us that the fishermen are not
getting a square deal. A newspaper
generally takes the side of the under
dog, and that is why we say that
fishermen's fines should be remitted
until justice is doled out fairly, and
that they should not be made the
"goat”.
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It greatly depends as to whose gog­
gles one looks through in the matter
of essential and non-essential em­
ployment and the demand for men to
fill the ranks of the large army that
is now being raised. It is the young
men employed in stores who appear
to come in for more or less criticism.
That is not exactly fair to single
them out for criticism and call them
slackers. True there are too many
non-essential business houses in most
every city and by consolidating them
a large amount of man power could
be saved. The same thing applies to
the rural districts, but to a lesser ex­
tent. Some few cheese factories could
be dispensed with, and at this season
of the year a whole lot of man power
is going to waste, when one auto
truck could take the milk of 20 or
30 dairy ranches to a factory, thus
saving the lime of thZlt number of
men. It is easy enough, to see where
man power Is going to waste and in
some other person’s business. But
where are we going to draw the line
and who should be the first to save
man power by consolidating business
establishments? The same thing ap­
plies to the professions and the news­
paper business as well. Well, the
government is going to call consid­
erable more men front all parts of
the country and they have to come
from non-essential enterprises. It is
just as well to look this problem
fairly in the face. The government
needs the men and they will be tak­
en from non-essential industries.
The Oregon State Editorial Asso­
ciation went on record as opposed to
the Non-Partisian League. It is the
country newspapers that have fought
this new political monstrosity, hence
it has made but poor headway. It was
some of the grangers and especially
Stale Master Spence who have fallen
all over themselves to get it started
in Oregon, but, somehow, the people
of Oregon have become tired of new
political fads every few years, for
that is what
the Non-Partisan
League is. Following is the resolu­
tion. unanimously passed by the Ore­
gon State Editorial Association:
“Whereas the National Non-Par­
tisan League has announced its in­
tention to invade the state of Oregon
in behalf of its propaganda and or­
ganization ana
"Whereas, the advent of said Leag­
ue into this state is inimical to its
welfare for the following reasons:
"1st. That its leaders have failed
to support tjie Government in the
prosecution of the war and have
made seditious utterances.
“2nd. That it is boss controled and
holds its caucuses and meetings be­
hind closed doors.
3rd. That in its attempt to further
its propaganda it has sought to in­
timidate public officials and the
press.
"4th. That it seeks to foist upon
the people of Oregon radical changes
In our system of government at a
time when all oub energies should
be devoted to the single purpose of
winning the war.
“Therefore be it resolved by the
State Editorial Association in con­
vention assembled that we heartily
congratulate the National and Ore­
gon State Grange on their outspoken
opposition to the Farmers' Non-Par­
tisan League and do hereby urge
every newspaper in the state to warn
its readers against the aims, meth­
ods and records of said league."
The Destitute of Belgium and North-
________ era France.___________
Back of the German wall that has
hemmed in Belgium and a part "of
Northern France, ten million human
beings look to us for clothing as well
as food. We, who are well clothed,
can hardly appreciate in what dire
need these people are for lack of
necessities. Stocks of clothing and
raw material are long since exhaust­
ed. There are no imports other than
those the Commission far Relief of
Belgium has been permitted to make
and these never have been sufficient.
The world is now short of both
clothing and raw material, so the
Commission can no longer purchase
what is needed. But you can give it.
Every household in the land has
some spare clothing, worn or out­
grown. of little use here, but desper­
ately needed by the destitute there.
This extract from a letter of a well-
to-do lady of Brussels shows the con­
ditions exactly.
"Perhaps ywu will laugh when you
hear that 1 wear a cloak made from
my husband's garde civique overcoat,
a waist made from his football shirt
and a skirt made from a dyed bed­
sheet Mother had a «ult made of the
tablecloth: J. and M
have suits
made of woolen blankets, and S a
dress made of burlap. But all this is
only amusing in comparison with
AMERICAN BREASTS
SWELL PROUDLY AT
GREAT WAR AIMS
After all, we remain calm and con­
fident of victory.
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A recent Brussels advertisement
says: “I will give up to 125 francs
($25) for new or worn bedsheets.”
There is an immediate need for every
sort of garment, blankets, sheets and
shoes.
The very wonderful results of the
clothing campaign of last March as­
sisted in helping to meet the de­
mands. but when we realize that
there are ten million inhabitants in
the occupied regions, most of whom
must look to the outside world for
protection against the rigors of win­
ter, it is seen that we cannot send
too much. As long as the war lasts,
Belgium and occupied France must
depend chiefly on America for aid.
To insure the steady supply of gar­
ments which are so needed, we ap­
ical to the generosity of the Ameri­
can public to give and give largely.
Nothing in History Compares to
Army of Five Million Men
in France Next Year
The breast of every American must
■ well within him at contemplation of
the sheer size of our plans for our
war part next year.
Five million men in France!
The nation which for more than a
century has sought only to be left
alone in the West with its Freedom,
| has roused to the call for help from
1 its sister democracies on the Eastern
• side of the globe and is pouring
BUY YOUR LIBERTY BONDS NOW 1 across the Atlantic a mighty stream
i of men and arms, a stream so great
This Means Yau!
j that history offers nothing in com-
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' parison.
,We are all busy helping lick the
German military autocracy, which
Hun. There is no time to waste— sought to supplaqt the “Liberty,
we’ve got them on the run, but we Equality and Justice” of France with
must not let up until the job is fin­ Its horrible “will to power” under
ished. The soldiers at the front are the doctrine that “might is right”
on the job—they haven't time for has already found that Right has
anything else and we ought to be hidden sources of power for self­
just as busy and do nothing which protection.
will slbw up the work.
I The unwelcome lesson of American
Now if you wait for someone to valor, learned by Germany at Can-
come around and solicit your Liberty tigny, Chateau Thierry, and since at
Bond subscription you are taking a score of other fierce battles, has
valuable time which he might be us­ shown the Hun an inkling of the
ing to help win the war. You can mightiness of right.
subscribe just as well without any AMERICAN VALOR
one coming to ask you—-you are go­ AWAKENS HUN
ing to subscribe—no doubt about it,
For every man on the battle line,
then.
the rudiments of military tactics tell
Do It Now!
us, ten men must be behind.
Go to your bank and make your | Not all of the five million Ameri­
subscription—as large as you can cans between the Channel ports and
possibly make it—and you will have the Rhine next year will be in the
helped the boys at the front. If you battle line. But we at home may
can do anything more, do it, but if justly consider that all of France is
you do this much you will have help­ our battle line. We must see that
ed that much and done your duty for every man in France, giving his
that far. If you don't, and take the utmost efforts daily, ready to give
time which might have been used to his life, ten men at home are strip­
better advantage in war work, then ping their daily lives of every non-
to that extent you have helped and essential effort, dropping every task
pleased the Kaiser. Don’t do that.
that does not help to win the war.
You won’t be overlooked—the so­
With fifty million men at home
licitors will be on your trail and see guarding the interests of the fighting
that you subscribe anyhow, so come men abroad, they cannot fail of suc­
across without waiting. You’ll feel cess if those fifty million are active
better and the boys in France will and not passive in their efforts. It
feel better—everybody except Wil­ they are not active, watching every
helm, and he’ll feel as good as he chance to make war work effective,
ought to.
denouncing and punishing every at­
Tillamook to the front and all of tempt at delay or hinder, ten million
Oregon over the top the first day is men in France would be helpless.
the motto, and its’ up to you to help. FIGHTERS MUST
You will help and help mightily, if
HAVE BACKING
you do what we ask about subscrib­
Five million men in France means
ing—NOW.
that every resource here at home will
Liberty Loan Committee. be strained to support them—to give
them food, to give them arms, to
Theda Bara, At The Gem Theatre. give the wounded care, to pay them
that those dependents they left at
The great William Fox photoplay, home may live in comfort, to give
“DuBarry,” in which Theda Bara them safe transport across and safe
does her most brilliant work, will ap­ passage home again.
pear at the Gem Theatre, Tuesday,
No less authority than Gifford
September 24. This play is the most Pinchot has said recently that one-
wonderful creation of its
* kind that third of the population of the United
has ever been presented on the films. States is agricultural one-third of
Ail that Miss Bara has done only the men are farmers.
gives a suggestion of the charm and
One-third, therefore, of whatever
elaborateness of this great produc­ glory comes to us in our crushing of
tion.
autocracy, will shine in the farm
The story is a heroic one, wljich homes whose stanchness has been
many have attempted to write, aad It eur safeguard. One-third of any one
has even been seen upon the stage, of our co-ordinated war efforts can­
but it remained for the film and not be allotted to the farmers any
Miss Bara to give the world the rev­ more than any other one share to
elation of the character of this won­ any other class.
derful women. It is known that the
The farmer must raise all of the
great actress spent a long time in wheat and all of the meat, without
studying the times of Louis'XV and which our army. would be helpless.
the women who prevaded them, be­ But the miller and the packer must
fore she attempted the creation of prepare them.
The banker must
this photoplay. There is no doubt handle all of the war funds, since he
that she has succeeded in a marvel­ is the accustomed channel for our
oils manner in grasping the subject, money, but he cannot provide it all.
and in putting it upon the screen.
FARMER HAS
One of the most remarkable feat­ TWO-FOLD PART
ures of the play is the dresses that
Every man and woman must have
Miss Bara wears, which were espec­ a direct share of our national war
ially designed by hqr, after long con­ loans. Vast sums of money come to
sultations with experts on the period the farmer. Instead of the ordinary
of Louis XV. These dresses are pe­ forms of investment, stocks and
culiar, however, in one way. They bonds, or stocks and mortgages, or
might easily appear in drawing more acres or a better house or
rooms of today. Every one of them is barn, the farmers’ money must now
a study of the art of womanly adorn­ go into Liberty Loans.
ment, and is a thing of beauty in it­
For fifty years after peace treaties
self.
have been signed, the great war will
Miss Bara has discovered and re­ be fought over and over again
vealed a thousand little details of the wherever men gather for discussion.
womanly fbilette which will be 1m- The fierce light of unconcealable
mensly interesting to every woman. tacts will reveai every angle of the
These secrets are revealed upon the conduct of the war at home and
screen in a most fascinating way and abroad.
make the film additionally attractive
The finger of righteous patriotic
to ail whom women charm.
scorn will point out every man who
In this play Miss Bara does her has helped the barbarous Hun by not
best work, due to the fact that she helping America to his utmost.
has grasped the possibilities of the
The record of the American farmer
drama and has entered into it with a has been proud thus far. whether
spirit which only she possesses. written by him at home or by his
There are myraids of gorgeous scenes sons abroad.
The Fourth Liberty
each filled with
brilliancy and Loan gives him new opportunity to
charm.
pledge his full strength toward
Victory.
Notice to Contractors.
Notice is hereby given that the
County Court of Tillamook County,
Oregon, will until 10 o clock a m of
Sept. 20th, 1918. receive blds for the
clearing of the right of way on the
Derby County road rear Garibaldi,
from Station 0 plus 0 to Station 8
Plus 50. according to the plans on
file in the office of the County Sur­
veyor and the specifications on file
in the office of the County Clerk.
On the date mentioned above the
court will publicly open and read
the bids but reserves the right to
reject any and all blds.
Erwin Harrison.
County Clerk.
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Don't envy a fighter—buy Bonds and
be one.
Take the Helm from Wilhelm—Buy
Liberty Bonds.
Buy Liberty Bonds—the buy-way to
Berlin.
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He lends best who lends quickly—
buy Bonds NOW I