Tillamook headlight., March 20, 1919, Image 8

TILLAMOOK HBADLIQHT MARCH 20.
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GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP RAILROADS
Large Sums of Money Squandered in Building
and Operating Railroads.
COAXDIG YOU TO SMILE
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A Whistling Wheeze.
Here is a new one, told as honest-
to- goodness truth:
One of the units of Camp Lewis.
Wash., had in its ranks a chronic
whistler. In barracks, at drill, every­
where and all the lime this soldier
whistled, and suggestions, threats,
sarcasm in re bis musical efforts all
rolled off him like water of a duck's
back. There was no stopping
wbistlng.
Finally an officer took the man in
hand.
’’You stand out there at attention”
the officer commanded, "and whistle
for an hour.”
The soldier grinned and obeyed:
For one hour he stood in the com­
pany street, whistling "The Star
Spangled banner.”
And for an hour officers and sol-
diers stod at attention with him.
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I cannot understand the reasoning
A few ,
years
ago
the high schools
I of Oregon were debating government that leads the Interior Department
Bethienem oominat-a the “Dependable De-
I ownership and operation of rail- to any such conclusion as they were
<
I road-, and when the debates were • led to in the adoption of the policy
ltyenr
field for ev ry kind of service every
I held it invarably followed that those pursued in the construction of this
kind of WMtner—on every kind of road; they
I who favored government ownership road. The percentage of all the men
are stout-hearted and strong of frame_ the fa­
had meet people on their side. In employed in overhead positions is 53,
mous Eethlehem motors are their hearts, and
I view of the fact that the government and the percentage of the men em­
the famous Eethlehem overload capacity chassis
I has been building and operating the ployed in construction work is 47,
their frames.
railroads, squandering large amounts, . so that there we have a case of where
Bethlehem trucks put your business in the
of money the high schools would now we are employing 53 per cent of all
vanguard
service because
have a hard time to prove that gOT- the men to do clerical work, to direct
-
, of good
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—are
unfaltering, . always ready—always equal to
ernment ownership of railroads was 47 per cent of the men who are pre­
a good thing. There was a good deal sumed to be constructing.
their ta»J«,^
o^theory in what the high school de­
Bethlehem IntamaT^ Gw Drive Motor Truck« have
This is the most outrageous per­
baters had to say at that time, and formance that I ever heard about in
Gray 4c Davi« Electric Starting and Lighting.
They
ara the trucks for today and tomorrow’« 1---- :-ui
now that what they preached have connection with government work,
efficiency test*.
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been put into practice, and did not but it is only another evidence of the
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They have that clean-cut look resulting from proper
pan out as they argued, this goes to extravagance and inefficiency of
OutnutneuTered.
Coportions, accuracy of workmanship. Ezamine ■ Beth-
prove that theory and practice are those who have charge of govern­
urn and get its story of "Dependable Delivery.”
"A police court isn’t all grim and
two different things. A large number ment affairs under this administra­
of speeches have been made in con­ tion. It is a beautiful illustration of sordid,” remarked Judge White the
U/a Ton Chassis
V/t Ton Chassis
3% Ton Chavis
gress on the operation of railroads. what government ownership and op­ other day. "Sometimes something
We have published several speches. eration means. We have gone along really funny happens. Not so very
and here is another by Representa­ in the operation of railroads of con­ long ago a chauffeur was brought in
r
F. O. B. Allentown, Pau l
tive Martin B. Madden, of Illinois. tinental America. About a year ago after having run down a man.
"Did you know that if you struck
He says:
we turned these railroads over to the
I was reading over some of the re­ government of the United States. We the pedestrain he would be seriously
ports the other day in connection gave them >500,000,009 as an oper­ injured?” I asked.
"Yes sir,” replied the chauffeur.
with the construction of the Alaskan ating fund. They have used it all up.
"Then why didn't you zigzag your
Railway, and I made some memoran­ and in the operation of the roads
da taken from the report, which in­ they have lost about >200,000.000 car and miss him?’
"He was zigzaging himself and
dicate that we have built 228 miles besides. They came before congress
of the main line of road and we have a day or two ago and asked for >1,- 0»t guessed me, your honor,” was
the answer.
purchased 71 miles.
450,000,000. the loss that we have
When the line was authorized >35- ¡sustained in government operation
000.000 was provided for its con- J of railroads in continental America
Tonsoral Art.
struction. The estimated cost per ¡in less than a year. In the meantime
"Poor Jim has been sent to a
mile at the time the authority was . they have raised the rates all the ''lunatic asylum,” said the barber,
| granted was >50,000 a mile. The ac­ I way from 25 per cent to 1.000 per flourishing a shining razor over his
tual cost of constructing the road ¡cent, and still, with all these in- customer.
thus far has been >141,441 per mile. I creased rates, we continue to iose
"Who’s Jim?” said the man in the
I The >35,000,000, except for the
■ fabulous sums of money every year. chair.
->4,000,000 that is contained in this
"Jim is my twin brother sir. Jim
Now, my judggment is that rot­
item, has been expended." One hun­
tenness of the conditions that exist kept brooding over the hard times
dred and twenty-eight miles of the
'in the construction of the Alaskan ■an' I suppose he finally got crazy.”
road are yet to be constructed, leav
“Is that so?”
Railroad should be investigated. The
ing the road thus far built absolute-
"Yes, he and me worked side by­
¡Secretary of the Interior is a man
ly useless.
I whose name stands out as a shining side for years, and we are so alike we
The road is being constructed
¡light for ability, integrity, system, couldn’t tell each other apart. We
under the direction of three com- ¡knowledge, experience and
patriot- both brooded a great deal toe. No
missioners, each drawing a salary
money in this business now.”
I ism.
of >10,000. Two of these commission­
“What's the reason?”
But he has not shown any of these
ers. I understand, have never taken
"Prices too low. Unless a customer
¡qualifications
or
qualities
in
his
con-
any part in the work for which they
takes a shampoo, it doesn't pay to
draw- this salary, and the one com­ (duct of affairs of the construction shave or haircut. Poor Jim. I caught
t
'of
this
Alaskan
Railroad.
When
we
missioner, whose jurisdiction is up
him trying to cut a customer’s throat
in Alaska, has never, so far as I have , I were proposing to authorize the con- because be refused a shampoo, so I
been able to learn, been employed in , ¡struction of that railway, in 1915 if had to have the poor fellow locked
connection with railroad work at 1 recall, I then said that 1 was quite up. Makes me sad. Sometimes I feel
any time during his life. The near­ . sure that >50,000 a mile would be sorry I didn't let him slash all he
est approach he has to any knowledge , but a small percentage of the cost.
; wanted to. It might have saved his
of railroad construction is that. I Everybody insisted that we would i reason. Shampoo sir?”
j assume, as a citizen of th« United I reduce the cost per mile below the j "Shampoo sir?”
¡States he has occasionally been com­ >50,000 estimate. Instead of that, we
"Yes!”
have the figures now to show that
pelled to travel over a railroad.
i
the
cost
has
been
three
times
as
The
estimates
of
expenditures
as
I
Whose Ocean.
made by the department for 1920— . much as the estimate. The railroad
is useless as it is today. It does not go
All the way across the ocean the
and I quote them —read:
anywhere. We assume that we are New York World cables a British
Salaries, >967,295.
going to build the road to get into joke which it says goes big over there
Wages >305,465.
That would indicate that 75 per the coal fields. We are going to sup­ This is the joke:
After the German fleet had sur­
cent of the amount estimated for is ply the American Navy with a high-
to be paid for men in overhead posi­ [ grade coal at a very low price, We rendered in deepest humiliation,
tions, and 25 per cent for building 'have not touched the coal in Alaska "one big round headed German" ex­
yet. We were denouncing the men pressed his disgust. He spat into the
the road.
Twenty-five miles of road that was who owned the lines that had been ocean three times, once for the
t improperly located has been washed constructed in Alaska. We were say- "damned British Fleet,” once for Ad­
away, simply because the men who ing that those men ought to be ar- miral Beatty and once for the British
located the road paid no attention to rested because they were enemies of nation, saying "That's what I think
where it ought to be placed. Inef­ the public. I then predicted that of you all.”
ficiency and extravagance have char­ when we authorized the construction Then a noble British tar hitched his
acterized the entire management of the road in Alaska the first thing pants, and says: "Look here, Fritz.
from the beginning up to now. Offers i ' we would ‘do to buy the roads of You can say what you please about
by responsible people to contract for [these men whom we denounced. That the English fleet and nation and
' the construction of this road at >44,- I 'prediction came true, because we did Beatty, but you be damned well care­
640 per mile was refused by the ' I buy the roads, and we have squan- ful whose ocean you go spitting in-
Secretary of the Interior, and still j ■ dered the money of the American .to.”
we are going on and building the ' ' people beyond all reason, and there
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road at a cost of more than >141,- ought to be a thorough investigation
Germany’s Position. .
of
the
facts.
441
a
mile.
EMEMBER ihut in accumulating a bank bal­
"Germany's position at the peace
ance here at the First National you are also
conference, reminds me of two old
building up yourCREDIT STANDING. Both
misers I used to know,” remarked
kind» of resource» are vitally essential to the
Senator Lodge at a luncheon. "These
business man or firm.
jtwo men. while they had plenty of
The legislature of North Dakota. North Dakota politicians who are to money, were very niggardly with it.
We accept little as well as big accounts.
controlled by the Farmers Non-Par­ conduct this twenty million dollar though they tried to keep the fact to
DIRECTORS :
A. IV Bunn, Farmer.
P. Helitl, Farmer,
tisan party, has voted to mortgage flyer speak well of them, however, themselves. Hence both were rather
C. J. Edwards Mgr. C. Power Co. J. C. Holden. Vice Pres.
and it is therefore to be assumed put out when they chanced to meet
the farms, homes and other property
H. C. Lamb. Building Materials. John Morgan. Farmer.
that they are going to do somewhat j each other in the top gallery of a
IV. J. Riechers. Cashier.
of the people of the state for twenty differently than politicians usually I cheap theatre. And what brings you
'million dollars, at the same time de­ do. and that North Dakota is going here?' asked ne. To which the other
clining to submit the plan to the to become a regular Utopia. We shall replied: "Ta till the truth. I'm suf­
J vote of the people of the state before see. These politicians now pass from fering with «. feaiful cold, and as the
it is put into effect. This twenty the vantage ground of knocking the heat of the theatre ascends, I felt It
million dollars borrowed on the cred­ other fellow- to the place where they would be safer for me to sit up here
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it of the people and which must later are going to have to deliver the goods than in the orchestra or boxes.”
be paid by the people, is to be placed they have been promising. It will Then he added "But what brings you
f In the hands of the politicians in perhaps be learned that just as it is here?" 'My opera glasses,' replied
power, to be used by them in estab­ easier to reduce the high cost of liv- the friend. ‘Your opera glasses?”
lishing enterprises of one kind and ing, and smash the plutocrats and Yes they enlarge so much I can’t
I
another, including banks. That this keep us out of war in a platform see from the boxes what Is going on
will be fine for the politicians is ap­ than in the actual _ procedure
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parent, and what Is likely to happen administration like the present one' in the gallery to
able J to see with
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sooner or later is also apparent to so it is easier to talk about making them at all."
Our French Dry Cleaning makes the
those who do not subscribe to the everybody rich and happy by giving
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Garment Clean anti Sanitary—also makes
theory that one's own politicans are the politicians twenty million dol­
Discovered.
always wise and honest, just as the lars to experiment with than It is to
them Moth Proof.
The pullman conductor on the fast
other fellow's politicians are by the bring down heaven upon earth by
We know How Nuff Setl.
— —, as
— the follow­
same sign incompetent and dishon­ (that procedure. The one real, hard mail was a misogynist,
ing
incident
will
demonstrate. Some
est. The usual experience Is of course, fact is that somebody is going to
that the politicians who promise the have to pay the twenty million dol­ unknown person pulled the bellcord.
PACIFIC CLEANING AND TAILORING CO.
most, deliver the least and that giv­ lar debt when the big show is over. The train came to a sudden stop and
Hell Phone- 31 J.
ing them twenty million dollars to But, of course, twenty millions is threw everyone forward on their
play with does not necessarily mean small change in these days of the faces “Is it an accident?" asked one
I that the millennium is going to be new freedom under the sway of that worried-looking man as the conduc­
! produced right away. The newspap­ "simplicity and economy befitting a tor rushes through the car. "Some
one pulled the bellcord." snapped the
52 £2 ers and magazines owned by the democratic government.”
conductor "We stopped so sudded
$1965 $2365. .$3465
ACKLEY & MILLER,
TILLAMOOK CARAGE
BUILD UP
YOUR BALANCE
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More Millions for the Promising Politicians
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KEEP
NEAT
Cleaning and Pressing
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CLOTHES
Dr. E. L. Glaisyer,
VETERINARIAN,
County Dairy Herd Inspector !
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PHONF^
' in the recent sale of safe spots in the
navy to persons desiring to avoid
In the connection with the recent combatant service. Pickford acted as
a go between in the negotiations
formation of the Bit
Four movie Because he turned state’s evidence.
combination, comprising Mary Pick- | he escaped prosecution, and his dis­
ford. Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie missal as a undesirable was recom­
Chaplin, with Wra. G. McAdoo as mended Through the Intervention
chief council and an apparent pro­ of Secretary Tumulty, who declared
gram of engaging in administra­ in a letter that Pickford's services
tion propaganda, the Interesting fact were needed In a government propo-
cornei out that Jack I’ickford. broth- ganda non ie. h.wever, Picktord.
er o. Mary Pickford, was one of the himself . well known movie actor.
petty officers of the navy involved 1urea an <*.*mnary discharge.
More Move» in the Movie».
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T.'y
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that the express car has jumped the
tract and we won’t be able to get
started for 4 hours.” "Four hours ”
gasped the worried one in horror,
horror.
j I was going to be married today"
The conductor raised his eyebrows
| suspiciously. I suppose you’ll try
and tell me you ain’t the chap that
yanked that bell cord."
,.
from ’•>* fa« that Henry
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a E' *i<‘ bOatF ,F"k thoy are in-
ended to run on some of the aouth-
rn creeks made navagable under the
I current rivers and harbor bill
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