TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT DECEMBER 5, 1918. THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. all over the state are now urging country. It may—and very possibly that the country press make united F. C. BAKER. Publisher. will— but It is safe to say it will cause less Subscription.............................. $1.50 yr. effort to punish Portland for her un­ trouble here, simply because the fair vote and for permitting such an unreliable paper as the Journal to mass of Americans are too well ed- exist. When Mr. Jackson's other ducated and too intelligent to permit single tax scheme was emminent, it themselves to be misled by fallacious is pointed out that the Portland theories and dangerous principles, —°— One of the German armistice pleni­ Realty Board made strenuous efforts promulgated by visslonary radicals potentiaries expresses himself as to defeat it and part of their plan and irresponsible extremists. Never- peeved because Marshal Foch was was to fight it by furnishing free meiess, the American people will stiff, unsmiling and inhospitable. Did publicity to the country press, nave to lace and solve many difficult the uelegation expect the commander Portland has recently been con- and intricate problems connected to invite them to the sideboard and ducting a strenuous campaign urg- with utter the war readjustments, partake of wier.er wurst and Pilsner ing the use of Oregon products, most and in working out these problems beer, and then sit down to a game of of which, of course, are made in they can learn much of value by pinocle before talking business?— Portland, The country press is not watching and stuuying the exper- Telegram. nations, All naturally prejudiced against Port- ience of the European nations. laud, but it will be some time before the world now is going to school, so Prisoners taken on the Western it forgets that Portland expressed its to speak, and for many months to front before the urmistice was signed affection for the country press when come the people will be learning inquired if many Americans had it voted to cut every nominal rate it their leksons from the daily pa­ been killed when the Germans i took charges for legal advertising by 33^ pers. which will record the greatest Baltimore and Philadelphia and i if per cent and did so on the recom­ chapter in the world's history—and the march on Washington had been mendation of a notoriously untruth­ ! wmie this history is being nraae. completed. They know all about it ful newspaper which brazenly told now.—Sheridan Sun. it that the present rate is more than Push It Along. the commercial rate. ------ o---- President Wilson’s "Self Determi­ As a matter of fact there is not a Judging by the way the State press nation” proposition Is going to Btart newspaper of any size in Oregon something in about every neighbor­ where the legal rate is more than the has repuulisnea the Inaepeuucut s hood Just to see who Is who.—Sheri­ commercial rate whereas, because of suggestion ol a final Lioeity wan dan Sun. existing laws, there are many papers tor nation-wiae good road building where the commercial rate is double it appear to nave struck a responsive choru, but why should it end here? The U. P. is now claiming that its the legal rate. premature celebration of the armis­ 12,000 may have been the cost of We have been digging up billions to tice terms was the cause of the dis­ these bills to Mr. Jackson but it does save the world from the Hun, and appearance of the "Flu”, that the not represent the cost to Portland now that we are saved why not go "psychological" consequences were and Oregon. And the end is not yet. further and save ourselves from the such that It made the germ powerless —Umpqua Valley News. uiua and make the nation a better All of which Is set forth in a full place to live in? The raising of the column of serious argument In the billions for war hardly caused a rip- Another National Weekly. Oregon Journal, and all of which is pie on the surface anu adding a tew about as true and reliable as the or­ "I have definite ideas and ideals billions for roads would be Just as iginal fake story.—Corvallis Gazette. that I believe are practical for the easy, rhe macniuery mac sold prev­ good of all and intend giving them ious loans could be depended on to Vienna capitalists who are unload­ to the public without having them sell the good roads huerty issue, ing Austrian securities at any price garbled, distorted and niisrepresent- and tney would require no posters or they will bring for fear that Bolshev­ ed." appeals to patriotism, tor they would ism will render them worthless, can So says Henry Ford, automobile be ottering each person not only a find no comfort in the reflection that builder of Detroit in announcing he gilt-edge investment, but a chance to the kaiser alone is responsible for is going to publish a weekly national get in on something ne knows he putting into power in Russia the Bol­ newspaper. Henry has the money needs and whicn will contribute shevik government which destroyed and won't have to worry about ad­ more greatly than anything else to the value of all property.—Telegram. vertislng space. tils comiort anu prosperity. Further­ Ford’s ideas will not move the more, there will soon be available Belgium wants full freedom In the world. His "peace ship" trip to Eu- road making iacilities that will nev­ future, without being tied down by rope will ever live in the minds of er again ue avanauie in the lorm of any neutrality restrictions. And it thinking men and women us one of the organized road builders who have certainly would seem that little Bel­ the chimeric schemes of the century. constructed the military roads in gium should have her wish.—Ob­ Ford is another of those individuals France, lhe load engineers Horn all server. who thinks his granted interviews sections ot the country who will have been garbled; his ideas misrep­ soon return home and who must be A subject for debating societies: resented and his unweigbed public adsorbed into our industrial lile Which will be the bigger day In this statefnents distorted. Such things. without disturbance. Putting them country hereafter, the fourth of July never bothered Joe Cannon. to wont on tne roads to be paid for or the eleventh of November?—Tele­ The weekly national newspaper Is by tile road liberty loan will solve a phone Register. another dream. Lafollett’s Weekly, large part ot this problem and give Bryan's Commoner, and Watson’s them an opportunity to utilize the The "taffy" that is being given to Jeffersonian have had . their day and i experience tney have gained. Mo the newspapers for having done their have reached their zenith. No per- why say it is a good thing and then duty during the various war drives sonallty can continue i for any long let it urop? 11 a hanutul in each sounds good and is naturully apprec­ period to mirror itself through a community believe it is good, that is iated, for it Is meant in earnest, but newspaper, Lafollett’s Star is but all that is necessary. Let them shape after all, that kind of thing doesn't twinkling; Bryan's pacifism and res- their ideas into practical form and pay bills, The war has worked havoc ignuted as secretary of state has can upon their representatives to do with the small newspapers of the diminished his popularity; Watson's the rest. With a demand for such country and the recent legislature in radicalism finds no following. legislation pouring m num all sec­ this state will make going still more Henry Ford’s millions may make tions congress must take notice, and, difficult. Hence it is likely that his newspaper flourish but hi i Ideas as we have said before, as there is newspapers will have to charge for will not startle the world. Ford, he everything in iavor ot such a move many notices that they have hitherto best advertised man in the co._i.iiry, anu no good arguments against, run free. It is likely that steps will will naturally advertise ills news there can ue but one outcome,—Hills­ be taken in this direction by the paper and out of curiosity people will boro Independent. Oregon press before long.—News buy it. Name It "The Dover," Henry, Reporter. and let 'er fly! The Germans and the British Pris­ What the Editors Say I i WHEAT SHOWED SPIRIT OF U. S. TOUCHED BY SERVICE FLAG Youngster on Brink of Disgrace Re­ solved to Be Worthy of Emblem Displayed in Hia Honor. “Why the service flag?" is an old question, but from one of our middle Doubters Declared Saving Sta^ West towns comes a new answer. pies Would Be Easy Compared A wealthy family in an Indiana With Sacrificing Luxuries. town hud a son. who had never done anything to reflect honor on his fam­ ily—a family which was proud of Its SUFFICIENT SUPPLY SHOW RESULTS. famous ancestry. He didn’t enlist FIGURES when this war broke out. and then tried to evade the draft, but was com­ American* Demonstrated Sturdy Sup­ All the Nation* Will Be Able to Re pelled to go in a recent call. He en­ turn to Their Normal Sup­ port of War by Conserving for tered a training camp a few miles from his home town. ply of White the Benefit of the Rules and a regular life were hard Bread. Allies. for him. Smarting under a well- deserved reproof, he one night decided Overshadowing all other accomplish­ to desert He slipped q^vay from the When figures began to show def- ments of the American people under camp and, under coveT of darkness, 1 lnltely that the people of the United the leadership of Food Administration made his way to his home In order to States were actually reducing their la the history of wheat exports in the get his civilian clothes and better ef­ consumption of foods needed abroad. past sixteen months. Our wheat ex­ fect his escape. the United States Food Adtiiinla- port program proved conclusively to Just as he was ready to scale the tratlon was told that It was com- the world that Amerioa was In this front veranda of his home he noticed war from start to finish ar.d willing to i the service flag in one of the house's paratively easy to bring about conser­ make any sacrifice that will hasten i great front windows. There it was— vation of staple necessities, but that It victory or maintain the health and in the most conspicuous place the would be far more difficult to accom­ strength of people overseas, upon house afforded—a great silk flag with plish nn actual decrease In the use of whom rested the heaviest weight of its one blue star. luxuries. The doubters took sugar as our war. an example, and declared that it would “It’s for me,” the boy thought. Now that pressure on ocean tonnage Through his mind passed the mem­ be practically Impossible to bring our Is eased by the stooping of large move­ ory of his life—a failure in winning consumption of sugar down to a point ments of troops to Europe, we may re­ any of the honors his family had that would meet only the food need» lax our efforts to save wheat. The ac­ wanted for him. No college diploma, of the people. cumulated surplus In Australia. Argen­ not even a high school one, had he re­ Now that demands upon ocean ton­ tine and other hitherto Inaccessible ceived—nothing except this one star nage will be lightened. European na­ ' market» will become available, and In this flag had he ever let his people tions will be able to go farther afield probably no mora than our normal sur­ claim as his contribution to the family for foodstuffs, and will no longer be plus will have to leave this country. famous name. entirely dependent for sugar upon We In America and the nations which He turned back toward the sidewalk. North American supplies. With the have won the world for freedom will “They’ll get to keep that honor.” he stocks now tn prospect, we will have ba enabled to eat their normal wheat told himself. "I’ll make It bigger, too," sufficient sugar to place this country loaf at the common table of the peo and he slipped back to camp, elated back upon normal consumption If the plea of democracy. to find that his absence had not been present short rations In Europe are not materially Increased. If the Eu­ We entered the past crop year with i discovered. ropean ration Is to be materially In­ a wheat supply which gave us only creased over the present low amount 20,000,000 bushels available for ex­ port. When the crop year ended, we WHO CAN RISE TO OCCASION? It can be only through the American people's making It possible by con­ had sent 141,000,000 bushels of wheat to Europe. The American people had Name of Man Capable of Formulating tinued restriction to a greater or less saved out of their normal consumption extent here. “Umbrella Regulations" Will 121,000,000 bushels. The fact thnt the Food Administra­ Live In History. A survey of export figures shows tion has been able to relax the volun­ that the conservation of Hour brought With the passing of each rainy day tary sugar ration is In Itself proof that about by the whentless meals, wheat­ it becomes Increasingly strange that the ration of two pounds per person less days, substitution In our kitchens no benefactor of the race has been per month was generally observed and bakeries, enabled us to send to prodded, gouged or spattered into pre­ throughout the country. Tills conser­ our armies and the allies 33,000,000 paring a “Manual of Umbrellas.” Peo­ vation allowed the Food Administra­ barrels of white flour—wheat figured ple have been carrying some sort of i tion to build up a reserve, and to tide as flour. Had we exported only our protection against the rain ever since over the period of scarcity, until the visible surplus, we would have been anybody can remember, yet the only the new crops of I-oulsiana cane and able to ship less than 4,500.000 barrels. thing they have really learned to do beet sugar were ready for distribution. Before the 1st of December our sur­ well is to lose umbrellas. No two The records of the Food Adminis­ plus had gone overseas, and an addi­ persons, not even lovers, can walk un­ tration show that in July, August, Sep­ tional 30,000,000 bushels had been tak­ der one umbrella without getting wet, tember and October 995,000 tons were en from the stock reserved for home raincoats probably were first de­ distributed. Normal consumption for consumption and added to the surplus and vised by a man who tried to carry an | that period Is 1,000,000 tons. Th!» already shipped to the allies. It seem­ umbrella over his wife’s hat. What | shows a definite, concrete saving of ed hardly possible that we could bring excuse Is there for the person who I over 500,000 tons. These figures ap- . our total exports above 100,000,000 goes through a crowded street holding' ply to sugar consumed on the table, la bushels by July 1. But In January the the kltbhen and In the various indus­ him in a charge-, tries, and show conclusively that In an umbrella before late Ixird Rhondda, then British Food bayonets fashion? An apology does Controller, cabled that unless we the homes and public eating places of could send an additional 75,000,000 not exactly meet the requirements | America, where 70 per cent, of all our bushels be could not take responsi­ after the tip of an umbrella rib has sugar Is consumed, the sugar consump­ bility for assuring hia people that they been thrust into some one’s eye. tion has been reduced by more than would be fed. The American people Folded, the umbrella is just as dan­ one-third. responded by sending 85,000,000 bush­ gerous, when some one comes plung-1 In the four-month period begin­ els of wheat, saved from their home ing along the sidewalk holding the ning with July, this country normally consnmptlon, between the first of the umbrella at an angle of about 45 de­ uses 400,000 tons of sugar per month. grees ahead of him, tripping every Last July 260,000 tons entered Into year and the advent of the new crop. By October 10. 1918, we had already one but himself. Then there Is the < distribution. In August only 225.000 shipped 05,960,305 bushels since July person who tucks the handle under tons were distributed. In September ------ o------ L Absolutely the only limitation upon the arm. so that an innocent person the figures showed 279,000 tons, and I Even though hostilities have ceas­ oners, our wheat exports since the latest har­ may become speared on the sharp end then fell to 230,000 tons In October. ------ 0------ ed in Europe, there is to be no let up Watching History. I vest has been the scarcity of ocean which sticks out like a 60-foot tele­ There could be no more definite Tlie outburst ot lhe indignation in tonnage. If exports continue at the phone pole on a 15-foot truck. Fur­ In the government's campaign against proof that the American people have Although the war has ended, at England over the mistreatment ot present rate, by July 1 of next year disloyalty and there should not be. thermore, wet umbrellas never were given their loyal co-operutlon and sup­ As a matter of fact the hunt for dls- least so far us fighting is concerned, British prisoners of war by me Ger­ we will have sent more than 237,500,- Intended as partitions between seats, port of the war. loy alt Isis should be prosecuted more events of the greatest .importance mans is not to be attributed entirely 000 bushels to Europe. even at a motion-picture theater. vigorously than ever. Enemies are will continue to be chronicled for to me newest revelations ot Ger­ Thus are we making good America's There Is no desire to distract the best Just as dangerous In times of peace many months to come, and during many’s knack lor abusing her cap­ pledge that the bread rations of Allied brains of the country from consider­ AN AMERICAN HABIT THAT WA8 EXPANDED. as during times of wur and they must this period public Interest in each tives. From the very outset of the Europe shall be maintained. ation of war problems, but some sort be dealt with accordingly.—Observer days’ developments will remain at war one ot tne outstanding charac­ of umbrella regulations are needed. Coming to the relief of the dis­ ------ o ■ ■■ high tension. The progress of peace teristics ui the German system has A Memorable Achievement I tressed Is not a new sensation to us. If only a per cent of the talk of plans naturully will absorb much at­ been its studied brutality toward Silvery Bark of the Yellow Birch. Having sent shiploads of food to the of the Titanic Struggle investigating profiteering mater­ tention. while of course there will British prisoners. Germany has treat­ The bark of the yellow birch can be famine sufferers of India as offhanrl- ializes the fellows who have been be lhe keenest changes which Inev­ ed all prisoners barlly, but the Bnt- Amerle* saved and sent to Europe compared with nothing else. The tree edly as the housewife hands out a cut gathering In the velvet on a cost itably will follow the wake In the isn anu the Russians have constantly In a year of crop failure 14t.00O.tMJ0 18 unique among trees. The yellow of the loaf to the wayfarer. It seemed plus basis without caring very much various countries that have been en- had me worst ot it. The Russians birch, often better called the silvery the most natural thing In the world to what the cost was are due to have 1 gaged in the great struggle. Personal were auused because Germany de­ bushels of wheat, which saved Europe. birch, has a bark more tlnsel-like than succor Belgium, to take on the feeding some unpleasant bumps.—Independ- I interest In the men at the front also spised them for ignorant peasants, that of any other tree, It seems to of a nation quite Informally. I w ill cause an eager scanning of each the British because Germany hated + + -r + + + + + + t + + + + + + + + + have been made for campers to ad- ; ent. «---------------------- ♦ ♦ day's new», for of course, the. relativ­ all things British. I mire, or perhaps, In an emergency, to The test of peace Is to summon for ♦ A ÛIRMAN HOPE DISPROVED ♦ es and friends of the soldiers In for­ This malevolence has been carried 1 ' What It Cost. AND + use to kindle the camp fire, says Ed- ' the healing of nations devotion equal eign service will Increasingly anx- right through to me eud, tor tn flee­ i ♦ ward F. Bigelow in Boys' Life. But. to that given ‘he tasks of war. i Ram Jackson has filed his state­ I lous for the time when "the boys" ing British prisoners tn accordance ♦ A GERMAN FEAR CONFIRMED ♦ do not allow the appreciation of the ♦ ♦ ment of costa for getting even with ' will be sent borne to rejoin their fam­ with the terms ot the armistice the ♦ useful to overcome your appreciation 1 A statement made by a promi­ lhe country newspaper men for re­ ilies and loved ones. In fact, the Gentians iiave in many cases simply ♦ nent German official soon after ♦ of the beautiful. It Is true that the j ♦ fusing to take his political dictation. coining months promise to hold much turned them loose u luug way from ♦ this country was declared in a ♦ bark may thus be used for kindling, ■ His sworn statement shows that in of even greater interest to the gen- their lines, without tood or proper ♦ state of war with Germany ♦ and it Is also probably true that the order to satisfy his spite, he was wil­ era! public than have the months al­ clothing, uud left them to ge*. liouie ♦ shows that even In the enemy ♦ removal of the loose bark does not in- that -we may share ling to spend 12,000 says the Cor­ ready passed. For now that the ftght- as best they could, with dts'iesiing ♦ country clear thinking students + jure the tree, but such removal Injurea vallis Gazette. If the country news­ |lng Is over, expectancy and fond an­ results. And this, too. at a ilnu when ♦ did not undervalue the strength ♦ the beauty of the tree, as you then de­ papers had made a little effort they ticipation will take the place of Geruiaus were sending out pt*.n< lor ♦ of the American republic. Only ♦ prive it of its chief characteristic. The could have defeated Mr. Jackson, for fears und misgivings, and constantly charitable relief, especially in 'tie ♦ in his confidence that ws could ♦ manner in which the bark breaks on in every county where an education­ the people will search tor something mutter of fund. ♦ not land In Europe sufficient + the main trunk, expands and rolls hack al campaign was strenuously con­ to stimulate their interest und feed t here is no doubt that the British ♦ troops to affect the final decision ♦ In ribbonlike curls and strips, which! + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + ducted (except those bordering on their craving for the latest news i The Telegram wasn't interested ot decisions affecting the duties, re­ prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. When they got there they were re­ + confidence In the strength of de­ + enough even to make a recommenda­ sponsibilities and obligations of good Yet his crimes were slight compared quired to wash them off. However, + mocracy has been clearly reflect­ ♦ inmiimmiHmiiiMimmimiMMwrnwius one car got away from camp in some + ed by the measure of support we ♦ tion. didn't effect the legal rate citizenship. Thanks to the wise and ■ to those of certain German command­ t in Multnomah County. so why wor- liberal education system which has ers. + unexplained fashion, while these words + have lent the Allies. been established in this country, the I + "If democracy Is worth any­ + still adorned its sides; ry? + thing," Mr. Hoover declared, “we ♦ Mr. Jackson says his campaign American people, as a whole, are ex­ “This is the bunch that's going to + Stomach Trouble. cost him 13.090. Perhaps that is all. ceptionally fortunate In possessing make the kaiser wmsUe the ‘Star- + can do these things by co-opera­ tion, by stimulation, by self-sac­ ♦ but we doubt it. We are sure it cost the education to enable them to Spangled Banner.’" + rifice, by the patriotic mobiliza­ + Oregon more, To Mr. Jackson's glean first-hand the new# of the "Before I used Chamberlain’s Tab­ + tion of the brains of this coun­ ♦ spleeiilsli efforts, for instance, may world happenings and to form fairly lets 1 doctored a great deal for Peculiar Cause for Divorce. + be charged the defeat of the normal accurate conclusions as to the mean­ stomach trouble and felt nervous and In a divorce case at London. Eng» + try. If it cannot be done in this ♦ school proposition. Every editor in ing and significance of such infor­ tired all the time. These tablest ih land, the petitioner, a lance corporal + manner it Is better that we ac­ ♦ the state was asked to recommend a mation. They note that already a helped me from the first, and inside in the Gordon Highlanders, said hl* + cept German domination and ♦ § wife, an Englishwoman, refused to be confess to failure of our political ♦ vole of "no" on all these measures menacing cloud of Bolshevism has of a week's time 1 had improved in + as a matter of self protection. The replaced the war cloud that recently every way,” writes Mr*. L. A. Drtnk- seen with him on the street because + Meals, acquiesce In the superior­ + normal school measure's defeat may hovered over Europe and many in­ ard. Jefferson City. Mo. For Sale by she 'lift not like him in a kilt. When + ity of the German conception ♦ be directly charged to Mr. Jackson. telligent Americans are wondering if Lamar's Drug Store.—Pd. Adv. he was on leave later she greeted him + and send for the Germans to in­ ♦ + _ Neither le that all. Neyspaper men this same cloud will spread to this with "Oh. those d----- kilts!" The + struct us In Its use." + husband was granted a decree. Sacrifice to Ensure Allied Loaf Greatest Single Food Achievement. Save food Save food Who shares / a « struggle ’Till share Me triumph E *♦ + + + + + + + + + + +» + + ♦♦♦