TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT JANUARY 10. 1919 Tillamook Jottings. Help Find Work for Soldiers “Reports gathered from all rell- Indian Louise, a county charge, is liable sources in Oregon show today that there are approximately five dead. thousand men out of employment in J. Altenburger died at Blaine from the states," says Wilfred F. Smith, the flu. He was a cheesemaker and Federal Director U. S. Employment made cheese at the Upper Nestucca ' service. Valley creamery. It was to meet an emergency of A southwest rain and wind storm this sort and devise some methods of struck Tillamook county in the early relief that the Reconstruction Con­ hours of this morning, which was vention was called in Portland by Mayor George L. Baker last week, at the first “hummer” this winter. which representatives from nearly A telegram was received this every section in the state were pres­ morning that G. F. Apsley died in ent. Out of the session came the Portland the previous day. The de­ knowledge that immediate action is ceased resides in this city and required. recently lost a child. He is a member Hundreds of soldiers are being dis­ I of theorder of moose. charged every day and returning to Joint Representative C. J. Edwards their homes to once more enter civil was appointed on the following com­ pursuits. Some have been unable to mittees: Commerce and navigation, secure employment, and where others forestry and conservation, railways have been given their old places upon and transportation (chairman), and their return, the civilian who held the Job now finds himself lacking for salaries of public officials. other work. The Shakespeare Club met at the Large bodies of idle men are not home of Mrs. B. C. Lamb. Jan 10, conductive to the welfare of this 1919, when eleven member» were state of a community, and the co-op­ present. Guests of the afternoon were eration from every source that has Mesdames Haltom, Koch and Robin­ any influence Is sought to relleve son. The afternoon was spent read­ the situation. ing the first chapter of Cymbaline, It is hoped that this will not be after which a guessing game was in­ looked upon as a pessimistic view. troduced which afforded much mer­ but a plain statement of cold facts. riment, Mrs. Crenshaw was the The attention of every employer in prize winner. A delicious luncheon the state is directed to the situation was served which all present enjoy­ and they are urged to expand a lit­ ed. tle if possible. Those who have de­ layed some needed improvement un­ The Flu Situation. til after the war should start it now. ----- o----- If each employer of labor will ar- The flu situation in Tillamook is range to absorb only a few of the not growing any better, in fact, it is idle men the new problems will be somewhat worse in the rural dis- easy of solution. tricts. Three deaths are reported this Unemployment breeds soup houses, week two in the Beaver district and and soup houses have no place in any one in the north part of the county. well regulated community. Then, it J. Altenberger and Mrs. Trinkley may breed something worse. were the persons who died in the Questionnaires in the form of a south part of the county. blank card will be mailed to all em­ Tne City Council met on Wednes- ployers in the state this week. Upon day evening and took under consid- being filled out and returned to the eration a drastic ordinance to grap- Federal Director with the informa­ pie with the flu situation. tion asked for he will know exactly Ancther meeting will be held this how many men may be placed evening for that purpose. throughout the state. Opening vs. Closing Schools ------ o------ Postal cards were sent out to par­ ents of the public school children to ascertain whether they favored or disfavored opening the public school, and of 191 replies 148 were in favor of closing and 43 in favor of opening the .schools. This is a overwhelming majority and shows distinctly the sentiment of the parents. ------ o------ ’ Tillamook, Ore., Jan 16, 1919 Editor Headlight: Herewith summary of results In re­ ply to my circular of last week for an expression as to public opinion regarding matter In connection with the present "flu” epidemic. Question 1.—Are you in favor of prohibiting all gatherings of people, in schools, churches, lodges, fire meetings, card rooms, pool rooms, dances, crowds in stores, etc.? Answers received, Yes. 74 No 58. Question 2—Are you in favor of strictly quarantining the individual "flu” cases and home where confin­ ed till he or she 1 b assuredly past the state of communicating the disease, and prohibiting visits to and from the home, and for prohibiting the in­ discriminate mixing with other peo­ ple by those immediately waiting on , the patient or those otherwise expos­ ed to the disease, till time for taking and communicating the disease is past? Answers received: Yes 141. No 3. From this report It would appear that the public Is not as one regard­ ing the question 1, but practically all are decidedly In favor of No. 2. I believe, however, after talking with several that voted against being in favor of closing meetings that no serious objection will be made pro- viu’ng a strict and impartial closing order is made for a short time, and providing the Individual quarantine of those having or exposed to the “flu” be enforced strictly. Respectfully, Erwin Harrison. For Sale For a Short Time Only. ----- o----- One of the best ranches in Tilla­ mook County, close to town, fine im­ provements, good buildings, eleetrlc lights, thoroughly up to date. This has never been offered for sale before and is only on the market now for a brief period. It will pay you to see Everson. Letter from Serg. C. M. Hall. ■ -u—<— Contress, France, Dec. 4, 1918. Dearest Mother. 1 received one of your most wel­ come letters tonight, and will answer it now. Of course 1 am well. .You mentioned in your letter about 'me being at the front. Now the ban of censorship has been lifted somewhat, so I will make this an explanatory letter. To begin with we were on dock guard last winter at St. Nazaire, where we landed on the 27 th of De­ cember, also Provoost guard. We were there for a little over three months, then we moved east to St. Aignon, where our divisional head­ quarters were, and is still located. From there we walked over to Con­ tres, a distance of 17 kilometers, or about 10 miles, carrying all our possessions on our backs. Then we took up our abode in French attics as our billets. We were issued gas maskes and helmets. ThlB was last April and May. After about a week's drill we began to lose our private sol­ diers. An order, for instance, would come In for 40 men to go to mounted Military Police, but most went di­ rectly to the front.. We lost all our company but about forty-five non- coms. We drilled for about six weeks about eight hours a day, with two hikes a day to our drill field, which Is over three miles from thfe village. During this time we went to Lyons. We had a memorable trip, seeing most of southern France. Then the I drafted nlen began to come in, We had from 25 to 50 men each to drill. We outfitted them and sent them on tp the front after from five to seven days here. We—that is the two battallions of the 162nd Inf, have drilled over 25,000 replacement men to fill In the gaps. I went to 3rd corps sehool for a course in gas defence. I had been on several convoy trips to’ the front, but never got to visit Paris until 1 went on the last one, after having returned from school. Then went on a pass to St. Malo, so you see I have had lots of traveling and have seen the greater part of France. On these convoy trips, we take our men right up into the front line, and were often up right under shell fire. We were often up there for a week at We Must Economise -Everybody is Doing ft ! a time. So I do know considerable about it. We are marking time now, and drilling has slackened up a lit­ tle. Don't know anything as yet about returning. It is very muddy here, not very cold, thank goodness. If it was like a year ago, I know we would not be so very comfortable without a stove. I sent you a small package with some trinkets. Don’t fail to keep the shell cap, it will make a good paper weight. I picked it up hot just back of the lines. Chaplin Gilbert has left us for a better position. We have another, though not so satisfactory. We have our^regiment at church every Sun­ day. You can see by the address that i have been made Sergeant. Much love from, Cllf. PERTINENT BEMAEKS. Secretary of Labor'Wilson wants the government to build one mllLon houses at three thousand dollars each We know they would want to pre­ sent every deserving democrat with a house and lot before the big show was over. Attention is called to the lavish use of first person pronoun in the speech delivered to Congress by President Wilson on his way to the boat. There seems to be a big ..r. in “President" as well as in "kaiser" ------ O' ■— It cost the American people about $18,1000,000,000 to run the war gov­ ernment and make loans to the allies in the year ending Tuesday, Decem­ ber 31st, according to computations from treasury reports. —o----- Although hostilities ceased nearly two months ago, the government’s outlay each day is mounting on ac­ count of the liquidation of tremen­ dous war contracts, and Treasury of­ ficials said indications are that the demands on the government in the first month of the new year may be even more than for December. o------ The reason eggs are so high is be- cause the price of chickens is so high and the price of chickens Is so high because eggs are so valuable, The same theory accounts for the milk’s getting into the cocoanuts. ------ o------ What has become of the old-fash­ ioned Democrat who was violently opposed to all vain pomp and glory and especially to royal flubdubbery? He is now puffing out his chest be­ cause a Democratic President ate din­ ner with His Majesty the King of England at Buckingham Palace on gold dishes worth fifteen million dol­ lars. What a time some people have with their press agents. William Bayard is following into the discard by Geo. Creel, who has just given up the job of discovering America to Europe. I NAVY BEST PLACE FOR HIM Reason Why That Department of the Service Would Bo Most Appropri­ ate for the Town Drunk. REFLEX SLICKER Waterproof Absolutely.' Its loose Fit and "^ood feel ’putyou at ease on any job that turns up. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED A J TOWnt CO BOSTON COAXING YOU TO SMILE. o Nothing Doing. Apropos of the attempts that are continually being made to asslssinate the bolsheviki leaders of Russia, Ring Lardner, the humorist said: "Charlotte Corday stabbed Marat in his bath. Dora Kaplan wasn't so successful with Lennie. She did her best, but, of course, to catch a bol­ sheviki in a bath tub is an utter im­ possibility." ------ o------ Where He Belonged. "A great business success must have honesty for Its keystone,” said President Grace, of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. "A dishonest business never devel­ ops. There's no hope for the business of Grocer Boggs. "What ye been doin' down the cel­ lar so long?” snarled Grocer Boggs at his new boy. "Been cleanin' out the quart mo­ lasses measure, sir," the boy answer­ ed, lightly. ‘It was so clogged up It only held about a pint." ‘Say, you're fired” growled the gro­ cer. ‘You go home and tell your fath­ er to educate you for the ministry. The tow« was not exceptional. It Statistics have been collected by ths had a weekly newspaper which had an clothing and equipage, subsistence, editor who ran It seemingly on natural conservation, reclamation and hard­ gas, and it had a town teller of fish ware and metals division of the quar­ stories, and It had a town pump. But termasters' corps. United States army, this town wouldn't be complete with­ to lndlcnte just what it costs a year to out a town drunkard, and this town, maintain a soldier overseus and In the somewhere in America, of course had United States. him. The drunkard, as is usually the These, according to the Army and case, was the subject for much earn­ Navy Journal, show that the cost Is est conversation among the children, <423.47 a year to equlp'and maintain a and home-loving eldera would bold soldier overseas and $327.78 to equip him up as a horrible exampls to their and maintain one In the United States. worldly Ignorant heirs. This drunk­ Subsistence, figured at 09 cents a day, ard was not unusual, either. He had amounts to $251.85 yearly for each his sprees, and his alternating mood» man overseas; figured at 51 cents a when he would “hit the sawdust trail." day tn the United States, It amounts The war camo on, and it shared with to $189.80. The cost of the initial the drunkard as a topic of equal Im­ equipment for the soldier the flrat year portance for the town. Many of the In the United States Is $11530, while boys enlisted. Some of them went the cost of his additional equipment tnto the infantry; others into other for the first year overseas Is $42.41. branches of the service. Thus It appears that If the soldier One evening the banker's little son going overseas did not take with him came in earlier than usual from Ma a great deal of hie equipment already 'nevitable baseball game. supplied In the United States the con­ "The old drunk's enlisted I” he an- trast between the cost of equipping nounced breathlessly to the family, and maintaining a soldier tn this coun­ who always did manage to get start­ try and abroad would be much more Sperlo» Versenkt. ed eating before the young son did. marked. Not only Is the amount of He was a professional conjurer. "What?" demanded his father, T equipment needed abroad greater than “Now, ladies and gentlemen," he law him drunk this morning.” that needed In this country, but the said, with a wave of his hand, "this “Yes, I know,” replied the son. statistics of the conservation and re­ is the magic cabinet. I Invite any “Everybody saw him drunk. But Tom clamation division show that equip­ lady in the audience to enter this McDonald, the big kid that goes to ment and clothing overseas are subject cabinet. I will then close the door, high school, and Is a sophomore, an' to much harder use, wear out more and when it shall be opened again umpires our games, an* thinks he quickly and are less effectively re- the lady will have disappeared, leav­ knows everything about everybody, claimed than similar material, cloth­ ing no trace.” There was an impres­ well, he said he did. ‘Ole Drunk's ing and equipment used In the United sive silence until a little, undersized gone again,’ I said. ’Yep,' answered States. The amount of reclamation of Tom. ‘I heard he’d joined the tanks.' each Individual soldier’s equipment in man In the second row turned to an enormous woman, who sat by him, Now, what do you think of that?" this country Is $75.80 a year, while the "He’d better join the navy,” mut­ amount of reclamation of similar ma­ and breathed eagerly: "Maria, dear, won’t you oblige the gentleman?" tered the banker, as he slowly but­ terial abroad Is but $33.31. tered his war-bread. Getting What We Want. Since America wants nothing at TRAGEDY ABOVE THE CLOUDS AFRICAN DEMAND FOR LACES the peace table, she will probably draw “the part that went over the Trade of That Section 8ure to Be Well Individual Combats and Disasters That fence last..” Test the Nerves and Wits of the Worth Cultivating, According to a Flying Fighters. Consular Report. The press agents said that Presi­ Though airplane battles are tre­ dent Wilson, visiting the eoldiers at No laces, embroideries or dress trim­ mings of any kind are produced tn mendously exciting for all those par­ the front looked "weary and worn”. West Africa. Of machine-made goods, ticipating in them, it Is not ulways in Two days later the same press agents principally cotton, large quantities are actual conflict that the nerves and wits reported, in connection with Presi­ Imported, being supplied chiefly by of flyers are tested to the utmost. Many dent Wilson’s reception in London, Englund, Frunce and Switzerland. The adventures may be met In tamer pur­ that he “looked extremely well.” Let the sob-sisters get together, so we native women use them In embroidered suits. Every now and then comes the roar will really know when it is up to us under and top skirts, chemises, chemi­ of a gun from below, followed by flash­ to cry softly. settes and kimonos. ------ o------ This is true as regards the native es of blue and red, harsh, angry explo­ It must be admitted that the Dem­ women in all West Africa, even in the sions right and left, front and rear; far Interior. They fancy the top chemi­ the disappearance In flames sometimes ocratic politicians show a positive sette, or short chemise, worn us a ki­ of what till then had been a welcome genius in making a dozen public jobs mono. For the most part the goods companion on the wing, the drone of sprout where only one grew before. are embroidered, but many have begun some hardy adventurer strenuously en­ to wear garments with insertions and deavoring to climb Into the night, and When President WilBon said to the laces. Light figured and flowered now and then the awful spectacle of soldiers that every man in this coun­ a machine emerging safely from a voiles and dimities are well liked In smoke cloud only to go smash Into an­ try was eager to go to war and that Senegal. • other traveling in a different direction, it really took more moral courage to Many of the women are seen weal­ An awful smash, a hideous explo- stay than to go, was he thinking of ing some of the best qualities of these sion, smoke, human cries, flames and friends EdBel Ford and the Scripps goods, especially the votles, though, of then, with volcanic Intensity, the sud- brothers? course, the cheaper grades of the dimi­ den plunging into the abyss not only ties find a larger sale. While no sta­ General Crowder declares the se­ tistics of Importers are available, the of what a few moments previously trade undoubtedly Is of sufficient im­ were two magnificently equipped bomb lective service law has sounded portance to cultivate. All the large Im­ throwers, but four human souls, brave, "taps to the volunteer system of rais­ porters are more or less Interested In proud, youthful and adventurous.— ing armies in the United States. In 18 months it registered 23,740,000 these articles, as In cotton goods gen­ Washington Star. Americans, put 3,000,000 fighters in erally, and would appreciate samples the field and held in readiness for Blondin's Feat Recalled. with price lists.—Consular Report. In the whirligig of momentous training 2,000,000 more. He believes world events it Is not strange that the law will remain our permanent New and Powerful Explosive. method of raising an army. For many years mercury fulminate there should pass almost unnoticed a few days ago the fifty-eighth anni ­ has held its place as a detonating substance superior to all others. Of versary of Blondin's exploit of cross­ Chamberlain’» Tablets. recent years, however, its place has ing Niagara gorge on a four-inch ------ o------ been threatened by other compounds tight rope, a feat that still stands as When you are troubled with indi­ the acme of daring and nerve. One which bld fair to replace It. One of gestion or constipation, take Cham­ the most promising of these Is lead of the thousands of spectators that berlain's Tablets. They strengthen lined the river bank was the prince azIde, a salt of hydronitric acid. This the stomach and enable it to perform acid forms a great number of salts, of Wales, late King Edward. This was its functions naturally. Indigestion the first tkne anyone had crossed Ni­ as mercury nzlde, silver azIde and so­ is usually accompanied by constipa­ dium azide. Large crystals of lead agara gorge on a rope. Blondin car­ tion and is aggrevated by it. Cham­ ried a man on his shoulders on one azide and mercury azide have been berlin’s Tablets cause a gentle move­ found to be very sensitive to mechani­ trip, wheeled a wheelbarrow over on a ment of the bowels, relieving second trip, and on a third trip car ­ cal shock, says the Scientific Ameri­ constipated condition.—Paid Ad. can, the sensitiveness Increasing with ried a stove on his balancing rod and fixing It on the rope, cooked cakes and the size of the crystals. Even the threw them to people in small boats breaking of a single large crystal Is below on the river. Blondin was after­ said to bring about explosion. Crys­ ward killed In Paris. tals as large as 3 mm. In length, when He made a test In 1859, and In the What Doctor Pierce Has dry, often explode when brushed with following year successfully car­ ' Done_Por Humanity a feather. ried out his feat. October 10, I860, When President Wilson tells the French people what a tough tinft he had pushing the American people In­ to the war, the said people, recalling the 1916 campaign slogan, just grin. ------ o---- • , Secretary Baker says the govern­ ment has spent more money in the past couple of years' than anybody ever dreamed of, and that none of it has stuck to anybody's hands. Im­ portant, If true, but if true It may be because the money has been moving so fast it didn’t have time to stick around anywhere. ■------ o------ The United States Supreme Court has decided that news is property. A good bit of the news handed out to us during th« past year or two, how­ ever, has been damaged goods. ------ o------ Under political ownership railway service cost the people of the United States $130,000,000 more in Sep­ tember, 1918, than under private ownership in 1917, and virtually all of this increase was used up in in­ Contrivance Defies Germs. creased operating costs. Yet there A Baltimore woman. Miss Cornelia was an actual decrease in travel, due Fiske, has devised a simple scheme to to the increased cost of fares, and there was probably no greater vol­ prevent the possibility of contamina­ tion when making use of a common ume of freight thaa in the preceding drinking glass. It consists of a square year. Great is politicalized Industry! of rather stiff waxed paper, folded through the center, and when desiring a thirst quencher of any kind the paper is placed over the edge of the glass . >.rn