TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT OCTOBER 10,
JUST LIKE TIMES OF PEACE FOUND
BIRDS ARE VALUED
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Carrier
Pigeons
Do
Service for Army.
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Many Now Being Trained at the Unl-
vereity of Wisconsin Under the
Direction of the Government-
Made Splendid Record.
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Carrier pigeons for the army are
now being trained at the University of
Wisconsin, and special experiments
with the birds are being carried on
under the direction of the government,
This new war work has been taken
up under the direction of Prof. L. J.
Cole, head of the department of ex
perimental breeding.
Twenty-five young pigeons have
Seen received from the signal corps
for use In flying investigations, and
14 old birds for breeding purposes
have been donated by a Cleveland
pigeon fancier.
Lieut. W. L- Sutler of the central
department of the signal corps at Chi
cago and Maj. Frank Griffin of the
Washington office were at the univer
sity recently making arrangements for
the work.
A warning not to ahoot pigeons has
been issued by the bureau of informa
tion at Washington on account of the
large number of homing pigeons which
are being trained in various parts of
the country. Now that the training is
also being carried on in Wisconsin, the
people of that state are being warned
not to shoot pigeons, and if any bird
la found bearing the label “U. 8. A.
O. 18,” the mark borne by all govern
ment pigeons, it should be reported to
the chief signal officer at Washington.
In the present war homing pigeons
prtiy a large part in the carrying of
Important messages, because they cun
fly home when telephones, telegraph
and wireless have been destroyed, and
are rarely hit by gunfire.
The process of training a pigeon for
military purposes consists In first tak
ing It about 1,01)0 yurds from home and
loosing it so that It can fly back; then
the dlstunce Is Increased and the di
rection changed as the training pro
gresses.
The average speed of a homing
pigeon is from 1,400 to 1,700 yards a
minute, although many make much
higher speed than this.
Important
messages in the army are usually sent
by two birds in order to Insure safe
delivery and but few messages are n«t
A small aluminum container is
fastened to the birds’ legs to carry
messages, or else the bits of paper are
tied directly on the legs.
Stories are recorded dally in the
war of life-saving feats accomplished
by homing pigeons. A crew of a ves
sel struck by u submarine recently had
I just time to free a homing pigeon be
fore the ship sunk. Although the bird
was wounded by shots from the Ger
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man submarine, it flew to another
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craft 12 miles away and saved tho
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lives of the men floundering about in
I the water.
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Men are In great demand In the
homing pigeon operator branch of the
t signal service,
No man of draft age
can be Inducted into this service, hut
there Is a call for men below twenty-
b one and over thirty years of age for
J this work.
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J< Not Charila Chaplin but Lloyd George.
After a meeting which Lloyd George
had attended a cheering band of ad
mirers escorted the prime minister to
his car. There, in the freedom of her
r*rags and tatters, stood a typical cock-
hiney girl. She gaaed at the enthusiasts
clwith astonishment and then her eyes
t
(■listened as they fell on the features
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M>f Lloyd George. "It’s Charlie,” she
BIcried. "Charlie Chaplin. Give anoth-
g^r three cheers."
“No, my girl,” ex
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plained one of the crowd; "it is not
t
. ,'harlle Chaplin. It is the prime tnin-
ster."
"Lloyd George?
Goed old
”*Joyd George. Give hltn stx cheers."
1 ^Admiration could go no further.
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Launching Seaplane«.
“ph
Jel<
* th« When a big aesjtlane
la to be
scapili
J ke«unched from the ffecl ■k of a ship it
J'| 0 first "tuned up" on the launching
jUtage. Then the ship la swung Into
}u»e teeth of the wind and put at full
I S. At a signal the pilot starts his
e full speed, while two me-
A
ca braced against cleats on the
, lllVck, hold back the tugging seaplane.
'■ *>o*hen th«« “tone" of the engine Is
e rorght' the wing commander brings
’■ luQwn his flag with a sharp-Jerk, falls
' net hla face to nvvld a collision, and
61 Oe machine freed from the grip of
Ju-oie men holding IL Jumps away Into
gg ace from th«» launching stage.
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til haibbon* Substituted for Iron Crosses.
’ (lM.In Genuany Iron is so scarce that
.J , i.ough cannot be spared to make all
° “*> Iron Crosses needed to carry out
t tty government’s policy of wholesale
»retribution of war honors. At least,
" '«s»h a condition is strongly Indicated
“ Hi a souvenir from a battlefield that
. -ask been rereived in this country. It
’ (<ptk black and white ribbon which the
* allfder. a medical officer, asserts is one
Ain«m,,ny ,hl,t h"v,> b’"’n
ln
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ot crn*H*'** The ribbon was found
L ,ntlthe body of a dead enemy.—I’opu-
f 1 • Mechanics Magaslne.
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Cannon Balls Ara Roun«.
partial—There’s one good
feature
ALERT
Cereeependent Finds That In Warfare
It la the “Little Things” That
Really CeunL
Captain Batlcfied No Bnemy Would
Get by tho Colored Soldier WKb
Challenged Hie Commander.
A few hundred yards to tha rear wa
“I was recently breaking In a squad
came upon a soldier sitting on a stump. of raw country negroes," remarked
From the waist up he was as naked as Captain C • , stationed at a Virginia
a skinned rabbit. In his hand he held camp not far from Washington, "and,
his shirt turned Inside out. and he was despite their and my good intentions,
studying the garment as Intently as a it was not proving the easiest task ln
young son of one of the best families the world, since most of them knew
stealing a chapter of a forbidden dime much better how to follow a band than
novel. But the expression was more military rules. This particular group
. gave me a lot of hard work and I
that of a man digesting bad news.
“What are you doing, son?" the cap kept pretty close watch on them. One
night I decided to give my sentries a
tain called out.
The soldier on the stump slowly surprise visit, but had not got far on
raised his eyes and looked us over. His my rounds when I was stopped with
expression was that of a detached and a peremptory:
“’Halt! Who goes darF
world-weary man breaking under the
“I gave the word, but was again
burden of a secret sorrow. We didn't
seem to ease his mind much, for he brought up with a sharp: ’Halt agin!
sighed deeply and returned to his In I wants to know who you is!’
“ ‘Your commanding officer,’ wus my
tent Inspection.
"I’m readln’ over the personal col answer, which did not suffice, as my
umn o’ my shirt to see If there were sentry came back quickly with:
any new arrivals las’ night,” he an
“ ‘Dat’s all right, suh, but Is you
swered the captain's question finally. got de right to go traipsin’ roun* camp
“I think I must be In a convention, the at dis ungodly time o* night?
way they're flockin’ in on me. If I'd
“ ‘Don’t you know whether or not I
been a small town a week ago, I’d be have such a right?’ I answered him
a big city by now.”
sternly. ‘It’s your business to know.’
“Are you finding any?”
“ ’Excuse me, Cap’n, but I was’n
“Flndfn’ any? I ain’t lost any yet!" quite sho’,’ he said—and in a perfect
He raised his tired eyes and studied ly respectful tone—‘an’ I axed you fer
me carefully.
InfohmatiOn when I wanted to know
“You're a newspaper reporter, ain’t ef you did have de right to go prowl
you F’
in’ roun* dis here camp like er hant
“Yes.”
(ghost) F
“You lookin’ for news to print?”
1 “He got his answer, and I am sure
“Sure.”
of one of my sentries at least”
“Well, listen. Did old General Mis
fortune ever billet a whole army corps
Modern Military Balloons.
o' starvin’ cooties on your personality
Great Improvements have been
an’ leave ’em there to fatten up an'
made ln the construction of kite bal
multiply an’ replenish your shirt?”
loons ln the past two years, according
“I’ve had ’em.”
to
Henry Woodhouse, the leading
The soldier Immediately lost all In
In
terest In me and took up his duties American aircraft authority.
Everybody's he says: “The old de
anew.
“Goo'-by," he mumbled. “If you’ve sign based on the original German
had ’em, you know all the news there druchen balloon was sausage-shaped
and could stand little wind above 30
is to know around here.”
In war as in peace It's the little miles per hour. The present design
things that count I—William Slavens used by the alller and to some extent
by the Germans, is based on the de
McNutt, ln Collier’s Weekly.
sign of Captain C’acqou of the French
army. It is pear-shaped on one side
Jonah Vark.
and has three huge fins, one on each
Well Al one of the burgs along
the line Is where Jonah Vark was side and one underneath the aft end
born when she was alive. It seems of the gas-bag. On the ground these
like France was mixed up ln another fins give It the appearance of a huge
war along about one hundred years elephant
"This type of military balloon Is
ago and they waa getting licked and
Jonah was Just a young gal but she much steadier and safer than the old
dressed up ln men's coat and pants type and can stand a wind of up to
00 miles an hour. They are from 70
and went up to the front and led the
charges with a horse and she carried to 80 feet In diameter, and have a
a white flag and the Dutchmens or hydrogen cupaclty of from 20,000 to
whoever they was fighting agulnst 25,000 cubic feet.”
must of thought It was a flag of tru-
More Women Dentlstsf
unts and anyway they didn’t fire at
DentlBtry as a profession may have
them and the French captured New
Orleans and win the war. The Ger few attractions generally, especially
mans Is trying to pull the same stuff for women. Nevertheless, It does af
on our hoys now nnd lots of times ford steady and, in many cases; highly
they run up nnd holler Conrad like remunerative work, candidates for
they was going to give up nnd when which cannot but be reduced ln num
your hack Is turned they whnng away ber by the exigencies of the war. A
at you, but they won’t pull none of certain branch of dental work known
that stuff on me nnd when one of as dental mechanics offers a field
them trys to Conrnd me I will percu- which seems peculiarly suited to wom
late them with a bayonet.—Illng W. en, or, at any rate, to those who have
Lnrdner In th«» Saturday Evening th«» natural dexterity uml fineness of
touch usually possessed by them.
Post.
Dentul mechanics do not, of course,
extend their training to the surgical
Dogs of War.
side of their undertaking, though
The canln«» department in tho French those .qualifying ns dental surgeons
army Is a command In Itself; Its four- have to be adequately expert me
footed recrufts ar«» enrolled almost chanics—the greater Includes the less,
more carefully thun real soldiers. They here ns elsewhere—hut the work Is
hnve an official record, a number, an fairly lucrative and distinctly regular,
Identity plate, and nr«» never lost sight so that It seems certain that more and
of. The dogs already hnve their roll more of it will fall into the hands of
of honor. Several have been cited In competent women ln the future.
orders for having saved whole com
panies by their sagacity; others have
Th« British Officer.
ennbl«»d surprises to be brought off as
A young American soldier, writing
well as avold«»d. As liaison agents
they are Invaluable, while as ammuni home to his mother, and referring to
tion carrters they are practically In the British officer, remarked that he
dispensable. While a few of them can always thought of him as a monocled
never get use«! to shot and shell, the dandy, t«x» effeminate for hard usage;
majority quickly get as case-hardened but never again. He found him cool,
as old soldiers. A dog carrying a mes resourceful, and unaffected ln danger,
sage through a terrific barrage fire has taking his dally hazardous duties as
been seen blown Into the air, to come a matter of course, and setting an ex
down with a thud that made it sense ample to bls men, and a aolldtude for
less, to remuin stunned a while, then their welfare, that Inspired the utmost
pick Itself up, give Itself a good shake, confidence In them. It Is no new pic
ture, but fittingly portrays his charac
and resume its Journey.
ter, for generations past.—Toronto
Mail and Empire.
Got Cinplsysris Day's Income.
A woman who was for many years
Long Undersea Tunnel Planned.
a housek«»eper In the family of the
Plans for a railway tunnel, costing
late Alfred H. Nobel, the Swedish
founder of the Nobel priiea, was leav approximately »7.000,000. and extend ,
ing to be married. Mr. Nobel wished ing more than seventeen thousand feet '
to reward her services and asked what under the sea for about one-fourth of
she would like for a wedding gift, its length, have been made In Japan. '
saying that he would be glad to give The bore will pass beneath the Mojl
her whatever she ask«»d. After con straits, connecting Shlmonoseki and
sulting with her fiance, the woman ap- Dalrl, mnklng p«wslble a Junction with
proach«»d Mr. Nobel and said she had the railway trunk line of Klushu. It Is
decided what she wanted, but doubt estlmat«»d that five years will be re
quired to complete the proJecL
ed whether she woul<1 get It.
"Go ahead," said the rich dynamite
China May Restore Canals.
maker; "I told you to ask for what- ,
China, In Its pressing need for trans
ever you wlshe«!."
"Will you give me your income for portation facilities. Is considering the
restoration of Its old-time system of '
one day. then, Mr. Nobel T’
It took 11 men to figure It out, but canals, of which there were at one time I
the housek«»eper received for a wel 00,000 miles within the empire. Cen '
ding present the sum of J28.(XX).—, turies before the Christian era the
great rivers of the celestial empire
Young I«adl«*«’ Journal.
were diverted from their natural
courses to form theee ancient water
“Silver Bullets.”
When Mr. l.loyd Ge»rge use«! the ex ways.
pression “silver bullets" he probably
No Proof.
took the Idea from some Welsh
Bacon—I see a statement In the pa
legend about witches. It was once
believed both In Wales and Scot per that the Chinese coltivato odor
land that only silver bullets could less onions.
Egbert—But how can they tell they
hurt a witch when disguised as a
are onions, then?
hare.
¡••4 s*it this war: there won't be any
Not This Year.
An Imitator.
i“ iyj«iou balls to stack up In ugly piles
“What if baseball cloaca for the sea
Jack—Our curate haa hero appoint
|, ur parka. Thee« old cannon balls
son?”
, .absolutely Inappropriate for our ed an array chaplain.
.Jc square«.
Btlll. you know, you can't
jTequare cannon balls, can you»—
Vlggaa Magazine.
TREES SPARED BY LIGHTNING
Belts
Seem
te
Pick
Out
SpaclM
for Destruction, and Leave Their
Companion? Untouched.
Excellent
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ONE SENTRY
1918.
Bthyl—Well, be may have It In him.
bat I don’t believe be ever caa bo as
fanuj as the ort^oa! Cbariaj.
“Nobody can deny that we might
have won the pennant"—UmUvtlle
QMrter-JaaraaL
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The lightning seems to have its
favorite victims among the trees. I
have never known it to strike a beech
tree. Hemlocks and pines are Its
favorites ln my woods. In other
regions the oak and the ash receive
its attention. An ouk on my father's
farm was struck twice in the course
of many years, the last bolt proving
fatal. The hard, or sugar muple, Is
frequently struck, but only ln one
Instance have I known the tree to be
Injured. In this case a huge tree was
simply demolished. Usually the bolt
comes down on the outside of the
tree, making a mark as If a knife
had clipped off the outer surfaces of
the bark, revealing the reddish-
yellow Interior. In several cases have
I seen this effect. But a few sum
mers ago an unusually large and
solid sugar-maple in my neighbor's
woods received a charge that simply
reduced it to stove-wood. Such a
scene of utter destruction I have
never before witnessed in the woods.
The tree was blown to pieces as If it
had been filled with dynamite. Over
a radius of 50 or more feet the frag
ments of the huge trunk luy scat
tered. It was as If the bolt, battled
so long by the rough coat of mail of
the maple had . at last penetrated it
and had taken full satisfaction. The
explosive force probably came from
the instantaneous vaporization of the
sap of the tree by the bolt.—Century.
In This Space
Each Week
Hereafter
E SINCERELY believe that no matter what
may be your station in life, the establish
ment of a banking connection—then the full
use of its advantages is the most important step that
can be taken.
<J Many persons in this vicinity do not know to what •
a large extent the services of this bank can add force
to their undertakings, and it is our purpose to use
this space on this day each week, hereafter, to tell
you point by point of their use and advantages.
(J Unlike any other business enterprise, the bank has no
bargains to offer—but it has services that apply directly to
each person’s individual problem.
<J If you follow these advertisements you will receive use
ful intimations that will serve you well, and you will be
welcome to the benefits of what we have learned about
solving business problems.
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Keep learning, keep teaching, keep going, that is the voice
of conscience in the souls of those who realty desire success
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Tillamook County Bank
1 ihamcok, Oregon
ACHIEVEMENT DUE TO WILL
Determination to Succeed Is Far .
More Powerful Facter Than the
,
Possession of Ability.
Charles P. Steinmetz, the »100,000- ‘
a-year consulting engineer of the
General Electric company, tells us that
men don’t do big things until they
grow discontented, remarks a writer
in American Magazine. He quotes
an old Turkish proverb—thut the
world belongs to the dissatisfied. No
truer word wus ever spoken.
There is another fact that ought
to be brought out ln this connection:
The big differences between human
beings do not lie ln ability and in- j
telligence. People come nearer being
equal in brain than we imagine. The
really big variations lie ln force and
ambition. One man achieves a thou
sand times as much as another—not
because he is a thousand times as
smart, but because he is a thousand
times more determined.
On no other theory can you expluin
man. Yet we see it all the time.
Look around your neighborhood and
you will find plenty of cases. The '
"ordinary man” who begins to rise
nt unprecedented speed does so be
cause he suddenly gets a vision, de- i
velops a desire, sees a goal. Having
done this, he begins to travel at a
pace which he has never shown before.
Jap Islands Made In a Hurry.
It is said in the Ainu folklore that
the Island of Yezo, in Japan, was made !
by two deities, a male and a female,
who were the deputies of the Creator, j
The female had the west coast al
lotted to her as her portion of
work, and to the male deity were I
assigned the south nnd easteru parts. '
They vied with each other in their J
tasks to see which should get
through first.
But as the goddess i
was proceeding with her work she
happened to
meet the sister of
Oionlno and instead of attending to
her duties, stopped to have a chat
with her, as is the general custom
among women when they meet.
While they were thus talking the
time sped until the male deity, con
tinuing to work away, nearly fin
ished his portion. Looking up and
seeing this, the female became very
much surprised and frightened, and
Is order to hasten matters did her
work hurriedly and In • slovenly
manner. Hence it Is that the west '
coast of Yezo is eo rough and dan
gerous.
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What la Cowgrdloe?
However many phases there may
be of courage, bravery, valor and fear,
there seems to be but one of actual
cowardice. It Is moral panic—an ab
solute destitution of courage.
It
comes about through surrendering to
the Initial fear and letting It demoral
ise one. Panic quickly follows and
one flees In terror, oftentimes In ter
ror of something that does not exist,
something purely Imaginary and born
of a fear-erased brain. The cans« of
the original fear often becomes insig
nificant In comparison to the Imagined
one. This state of panic Is contagious.
This Is best Illustrated by a flock of
cheep when one of them becomes
alarmed an«! bolts. The others rush
pell mell after IL bleating and terror-
stricken. not knowing why, or of what
they are afraid.—Physical Culture.
We do a general Transfer and Delivery
business, with speeial attention to
moving Furniture and Pianos. •
Coal and Wood a Specialty.
T he Q ugle (X ll -
Summon, ail the forces and resources of the Republic to
the defense of Freedom
Another Kind of War.
THE OREGON AGRICULTURAL Cm i Fr.F
The warfare between man and his
Insect competitors Is only to a small
degree waged at the point of the bay
onet ; It Is generally a struggle for the
means of subsistence. Man has many
times been beaten by locusts devour
ing his pasture«, meadows and grain.
Crawlers on the ground and huxsers in
the air. moths with wings like silver
down and caterpillars with brilliant
regimental stripe« flutter «bout tho
gardens and orchards and march up
and down the tree« and shrubs. either
devouring ea they go or planting eggs
from
which
future
devourere
DRUGGISTS.
will
winch the United Sute. authorities have ranked .. one of the
fifteen dut.ngui.hed in.tituuon. of the country for excellence in
m.ht.ry trainmg, ha. reaponded to the call
The Colfere »
di.tmgui.hed not only for its military instruction, but
Dirnscvtsarn
also
roe—
It. strong industrial course, for men and for women-
In Aancuhurt. Cammem, F.nguM-nriaa 'unlii
It. wholesome, purpoeefu I student life.
Its democratic college spirit.
It. successful graduates.
Students enrolled last year, MS); sun on its
•creice tags, tsj».
over forty percent representing officers.
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