TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT DECEMBE0 le. 1918. With eggs bringing nearly 70c. a c /,.t n at the stores, and batter above 7' c. per pound, it is easy to see who v> ui soon be our multi-miliianaires. It must be the Democratic adminis- I. anon fouters wealth.—Willamina Tinies. ------- o------- More then ten thousand Americans r ..uiers have married French wives, 1 is said. Whether the boys will i rig the French lassies home with i or the girls will keep the boys in Fiance, doesn’t appear yet. Many men are needed in France. Probably most of them will remain there.— Telephone Register. ------- o------ It cost a lot of money to send our boys to France. It will cost just as much to bring them back. Uncle Sam is spending money by the millions on the job he undertook. The fight is over, but the "hall rent" is not all paid. Another Liberty (or Victory) loan is coming up soon after the first of the year. Better start preparing. We have got to see the whole thing through. While the fighting is all finished, the job is not yet completed —Itemizer. is a state statute making it a misde­ meanor for dealers to sell guns to minors. A dealer at Salem was re­ cently fined by the justice of the peace $5 for such an act, when some citizens were laboring under the im­ pression there was no such law. When a child is killed by careless and immature judgment in the use of fire arms it is too late to mend the uatnage, and all we can do is to re­ gret, .which gets us no where. Let’s guard the young. They are in our charge.- Telephone Register. ------ o—— No matter how it turns out, Presi­ dent Wilson could' have saved much wear and tear on the nervous system of tne world had he made clear be­ fore he sailed for Europe just what he proposed to do and defined the ex act meaning of his peace terms, and especially that relating to the free­ dom of the seas. Utterances of both English and French statesmen and newspapers betray their anxiety as to what the president has in mind and they are losing no time in mak­ ing their own intentions plain. It may be the worry on both sides of the Atlantic is without cause, but why should have there been cause for worry? The war was won by the American people they are entitled to a voice in the settlement, and thereis thus early unmistakable evidence that there will be no settlement which they do not approve. The president may give his terms, but unless they are ratified by the people they amount to nothing, and this be­ ing so it is hard to find a good reas­ on why they should not have been told in advance just what tiie presi­ dent considers so important that he insisted upon laying personally upon die peace table. Such a course might liave suved possible later complica- llons. —Independent. Hun Spirit Unchanged. CHRISTMAS GIFTS 1 • • —°— • Here’s hoping the new year will see a paved highway from McMinnville to Portland and from here to the c i. Certain portions of this high- v.... should be completed the coining year anyway.—News Reporter. seconded later by that of Italy, France and America, made it impos­ sible that Germany could win. It was not easy to see the part played by seapower, for much of it was everted behind the curtain or in the wings, nor any easier to under­ stand its effect. Yet the fact remains that the navies of England ruled the seven seas and silently held the Teu­ tonic powers in the unbreakable grip of vice. Tiiere probably has never been so perfect use of sea­ power as the use of the British navy during the recent war. It is the one arm of service that has dont what it was set to do aud has done with scarcely a slip, setback or instance of recklessness. The -defeat of Craddock off Chile is the only instance ot fail­ ure that now comes to mind. Bismarck knew that neapower had overthrown the great Nepoleon, and BKmarck took pains to wage wars in which seapower could not be used against Prussia or Germany. But Emperor William, who is said to have told Mahan that he had devour­ ed his books on seapower, misread them and mistook shadow for sub­ stance. He deluded himself into the belief that his navy was a match for England's and that Germany's future lay on the sea. His delusion caused him to lean on a broken reed and brought him to a Waterloo.—Spokes­ man Review. For Young and Old IV « k IV0RY--The Largest and Best Assortment ever Shown in the City. I CUT .GLASS ^We are Closing Out our Stock of Cut Glass at a Great Reduction. Now is the Time to Buy Splendid Cut Glass for Christmas Presents. FRESH PURE CANDIES, in bulk or package, or in pretty baskets. MANICURE SETS-Lsatber Roll-Ups in Manicure Sets. AU prices. LETTER KNIVES, Clocks in Ivory, Gold Watches, Ivory Picture Frames. FLASH LIGHTS. Fancy Pipes, Cigars in Christmas Packages, Amber Cigar Holders, Travelers Sets in Genuine Leather, Purses of All Kinds. SHAVING SETS, Shaving Mugs and Brushes, Safety Razors, Card Games, Fancy Playing Cards in Leather Cases. B00KS--A11 the Late Books, Large Assortment of Reprints, Leather Covered Poems, Leather Covered Bibles and Testaments. TINKERTOYS, BiLHing Blocks, Dolls, the kind that will not break, Candles and Holders, Potted Plants, Cut Flowers, Bulbs. CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS, Seals, Tags, Tape, Cord, Crepe Paper, Holly Paper, Festoons, Very Choice Engraved Christmas and New Yeai’s Cards, Package Perfumes. When the Prussian Guard returned io Berlin last Tuesday, it was feceiv- The Irish are to ask the President eu with distinguished honor. Streets to work for self-determination of Ire­ were decorated with evergreens and land at the peace conference, and if Llags, the troops marched under the it could be made to apply only to ulu national colors, and the bauds those Irishmen who had the courage played "Deutschland uber Allies," to fight for the right in the great Hie same national song whose music war, and not to those who spent and words tilled Bering August 1, their time in resisting conscription 1P14, when the Kaiser’s invincible and in philandering with the ilun, army started to make "Germany we have no doubt that Mr. Wilson over all a hideous reality. would be glud to act.—Eugene Reg­ According to the head of the new ister. High Cost oí Living and High German government, the army of the kaiser was not defeated. Premier Wages. A Corning. California girl adver­ Ebert, tne chosen leader of a new tising for a position in-the Tillamixik Elbert H. Gray, chairman of a spe­ democracy, addressing thu soldiers, dices opposing the general trend of Headlight says: "A strong healthy cial committee ot the American Iron niadq this astounding utterance; public sentiment ria away with country girl wishes permanent em­ and Steel institute, gives wise coun­ "Your deeds aim sacrifices are un­ ployment on a large ranch. Can plow, sel when he urges employers not to exampled. No enemy overcame you. their judgment. It also teaches that milk cows and do anything out doors attempt to reduce wage scales at Only when the preponderance of our the judgment of the aver» ge man on and wear overalls.’ That girl should- present. He sees that while labor is opponents in men and material grew the street is more apt to be sound not be required to look long for em­ receiving higher compensation than ever heavier did we abandon the than that of many a man to whom we entrust the training of young ployment when hundreds of bache­ ever before, wages are no higher struggle.” men’s minds. In fact, it is a warning lors who shy at the high heeled girls than are "proper and just" ill view Germany does nut admit defeat, qot to permit our colleges to fall in- with a low cut dress are searching of the cost of living. He predicts that When the figuting got too heavy, she for a wife not afraid to work. - Sun. if business will be fair to its employ­ merely quit, in the sume breath, ., to the hands of men who have violent prejudices or peculiar opinions or ------ o------ es, its customers and its competitors, Premier Ebert tries to convert Ger­ Already a number of people who the next five years "will be the most man atrocities into German honor by who become cranks on any subject. We want level-headed men as pro­ went from this section to Portland progressive, prosperous and success­ saying: fessors and teachers, and educators and other places to work in the ship ful in our history.” i "You endured undescribable suf- should strive to keep their heads yurds liave commenced coming back Ou the »ther hand labor should ad- ferlngs, accomplished incomparable and more will follow shortly. A lot just itself to the fact that continu­ deeds, and gave, year after year level.—Oregonian. of them won't be anything ahead for ance of present high wages must proofs of your unshakeable courage. the move. Wages were high, but so mean a continuance of the present You protected the homeland from in­ Eagles or Dodoes? i were living expenses, and, since the high cost of living, for, as Judge vasion, shielded your wives, children The naval appropriation bill, now I war elided unexpectedly, the job Gary says, "labor constitutes the and parents from flames aud slaugh­ Isn’t lasting us long as anticipated. greater cost of production from the ter and preserved the qaiions work­ under consideration in the House Those who had reasonable good Jobs raw material down to tne linished shops and lields from devastation. Committee, is furnishing an oppor­ tunity for the Republicans to initiate here would have been wiser to have product and its use by the eoiistim- You can return with heads erect." their announced program of re­ remained with them, itemizer. Many Americans believe that hos­ er.” trenchment in «ar expenditures. The Take wheat for an example. It tilities should not have ceused until proceeding before the committee Henry Ford is going to- give up costs the farmer mole i to produce the German army was destroyed. The have brought out already some start­ the management of the Kurd motor breadstuff and high i labor is the over reception of the Prussian Guard and plain and begin the publication of a whelming factor in that increased the premier's sptech will strengthen ling facts. For instance, it appears national weekly newspaper. Weil, if cost of production, It touches the the belief that the armistice was that of the 112 eagle boats to be built by Henry Ford only one is in Ford embarks in the newspaper busl- producer at every angle—in the signed ten days too soon. commission, and 12 more are about ness, it is very tortunale for him higher wages he paye directly, in in quite another way, and right over to the that he made his fortune first, He high cost of seed, of farm animals here in Oregon, we have proof that ready to be turned won't need to die a rich man if he and their feeding, of machinery, of the military autocratic spirit of the Italian Government. The entire con­ »ticks to tiie game long enough. And gasoline, of harvesting and threshing plain German people has not been tract is to cost about $50,000.000, it may be tliut lie Is looking ahead, charges, of delivery to the railroad, changed by defeat. Miss Wilhelmina yet the navy department recom-1 for the Bible tells of the difficulty of transportation to the mills and Doerlier, teacher of a country school mends that it be proceeded with un- | til completed. It is suggested that of a rich man entering the kingdom from the mills to the consumer. not tar from Salem, pasted a picture while they are no longer useful for , of heaven.—Observer. Beyond all that the farmer must of William Hohenzollern alongside war purposes, the eagles can be used ------- o pay higher prices for everything that of Woodrow Wilson on the wall in the Phillipines and along our If anyone wonders why the politi­ bought for his family's consumption of the school room. It scarcely need coasts. Such arguments are not ap­ cal complexion of the senate was He must have a greater profit to live be added that Miss Doerfler has re­ pealing to the Republicans of the «banged in tiie midst of the greatest as well as he and his family lived be­ signed.—Telegram. ’ committee, and it is probably that war the world has ever known the fore on a smaller profit for his dol­ they will insist that the Ford con­ answer is found in the report of the lar has sh- uuk in purchasing power tract be cancelled. The appropria- Only Unconscioutly Tools. National Security League, which, by exactly as the workiaginan's dollur ! tlon for the navy last year amounted - —o------- the way, is non-partisan, and which has shrunk. to $1,800,000,000 but this year the What 1« true of wheat is equally I It would not be fare to assume that concerned itself with records of votes estimates call for $2.400,000,000. It and not politics. This record shows true of meats, dairy products, vege- all of the nien whose names appear is certain that when the bill emerges that on what are now considered the tables, fruits, metals, fuel, wool, on the list given by A. Bruce Bielas- from committee the republicans will main war measures but 16 per cent leather and every other commodity. ki as "actively pro-Germans” before have succeeded In lopping from it of the Democratic senators voted Increased wages have gone Into pro­ the United States went into the war some huge slices. Representative T. right every time while on the same duction at every stage of a commod- knew that thew were working for S. Butler, of Pennsylvania, ranking Germany or that they were counted measure* the record shows that 57 tty. republican member of the committee If wages stay r up the high cost of as helpers of the German cause per cent of the Republican senators has signified his intention to insist < down. If the against the allies. Many of them on the elimination from the bill of voted right evary time. With 50 living cannot come Democratic and 39 Republican Sena­ high cost of living stays up, wages have such distinctly German names all war items that can now be dis­ tors the proportion voting right was can not fall. Any attempt to ignore that they no doubt intentionally did pensed with.—Umpqua Valley News. 66 per cent ot the Democrats and 81 or disregard that economic fact will all they could for the Fatherland, per cent of the Republicans. Which be mischievous and demoralizing.— but many other names are as distinc­ tly non-Gernian, and, with rare ex­ goes to show that the voters had a Spokesman Review. ceptions, other motives for their con­ very correct line on the situation duct must be sought. ufter all.—Hillsboro Independent. I A Bloodless Trafalgar and Its Mean­ With the great majority of this ing. last class the moving impuls must Why not settle the war of words have either been devotion to the pa­ over the issue of cigarettes by sol­ The British navy and the Gernian cifist cult or a prejudice against any diets by leaving lt to the soldiers navy met on the high seas at last, cause which was supported by men themselves? The literature of the but It was after the war and without of wealth, or a mixture of both. Col­ war appears to be practically unan­ fighting, and the Briton and the umbia University seems to have been imous in showing that most sol­ American together could have said: a stronghold of this type of man. for diers smoke cigarettes. and the eon- "We have met the enemy and they no less than three of its professors sumption seems to be only limited by are ours”! The meeting of the two are on the list of the Kaiser’s’ friends the available supply. So why not let armadas, although it was not a ra­ while Princeton has two. Dr. David it go at that? It is of course proba­ ging tragedy of the ocean, neverthe­ Starr Jordan would not knowingly ble that the American habit of de­ less had grandeur and struck the heip the cause of such an urch-crtm- ciding a question to suit ourselves note of grand drama. The surrender Inal as William II, but he let his •nd then attempting to force others of the German fleets marked the hatred of war ran away with his to do us we think best will prevail, downfall of Germany as a naval pow­ judgment as to when war was not but when a man gives up about er. put the American navy into the only justifiable but necessary. Pro- everything else aftd goes across th .-<' er prices then elsewhere CROSS THE ST. i 1\ ’{Mu WOMENS FROM CLOUGH’S 1 DRUG STORE. SHOP. The Store that give»» you more goods for les»»» Money. TILLAMOOK, ORE. ï5?j;as?. t ÆS? 1 whether the young boys are sold pis- What the Editors Say Itols, or whether they associate with boys permitted to carry them. There