TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, NOVEMBER 13, 1919
FIRE-PROTECTION
FIRE INSURANCE
(from the Mooseheart. Published by could not carry on without food and
request.)
supuplies front other countries; and
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the United States was the only other
Never before has the United States country sufficiently near and with a
of America gone through such a ser sufficient surplus to help out. Those
ies of dangers and crises as during governments bid high for food and
the last six years. Even in 1913, al munitions. They furnished capital to
though the country was in the full build new factories. They guaranteed
tide of prosperity, the relation be to take rifles and shell at very high
tween labor and capital, between the prices. These war Industries broke up
producer and the consumer, between ¡the balance of wages in the United
the railroad and the shipper, between States.
If I had all I've SAVED,
the big corporation and the small
How could you keep a girl at a
if fire broke out ?
business men were very uneasy. In loom earning seven dollars a week
believe me. I'd be
that year Congress established a new | when she could get into a munition
some rich kid!
Are you leaving her with’«
Trade Commission, straightened up factory and earn forty dollars in
the Sherman Act for dealing with about the same number of hours?
out the panic-proof protec«
trusts, set in action a new system of Why should a man stay on a farm at
tion of
Reserve Banks, and made changes In twenty-five dollars a month and
one-quart hand chemical ex
the railroad laws. In 1916 it passed board, when he could get work as a
the Adamson Act for settling disput ship carpenter at seven dollars a day.
tinguisher; instant and panic
es between the railroad men and the After all, only a small part of the
Don’t delay getting this ex
proof in operation; child can
railroad companies. Things were not wage earners went into the new in
“THE INSURANCE MAN.”
tinguisher in your home,
work
it perfectly; for fac
dustries, and millions of women and
moving very easily.
Call or phone right now,
tories,
offices, homes, garages,
men
saw
prices
rising,
while
their
OREGON
TILLAMOOK CITY,
Changes of the War.
Bear, labal
autos.
Install at once; call
In 1914 came the European war, wages stood still. When the war was
of the
NATIONAL BUILDING.)
over, the demand from overseas con
aoderwriter
which within a few months caused a
or
phone
now.
tinued. The farmer got more than
great demand for food and other sup
twice as much for wheat as in 1913,
plies to be sent to other countries,
but had to pay twice as much for
and the building of immense factor
, what he bought, and nearly twice as very little" service, and take a rake- math reactions? Ask the teachers,
ies for mutions and other material of
off on every pound of flour and meat the clergymen, the clerks, the writ
much for his farm labor.
war. in which the operatives earned
ers, the editors, the tens and tens of
| Another thing that has caused and potatoes.
wages unheard of up to that time.
In the course of the next two or thousands of professional and semi-
' prices to rise is the rapid increase of
Never was there such an overturn in
taxation. In many cities, large and three years, we must expect that a i professional men, the men and wom
conditions of labor and business; and
small, the tax rate has, risen to new balance of wages and prices will en of small incomes sufficent for
this confusion was increased by the
,three percent of the value of houses be established, but only after many I their smallest needs before this orgie
tffort of German agents through >.ce-
disturbances, of high prices, but now cut to half si
and lands, and the owner of a small heart-burnings and
n i metpr ds to divide the people of
1 house is pretty sure to be assessed I People have got to recognize domes- 1 and less than half in purchasing Lr
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the United States and set them
up to or above the selling value, tic service, for it is impossible to find power, and at this day spelling de Ci
against each other.
where
privation
to
the
verge
of
want
enough
people
for
the
old-fashioned
war
loans
and
taxes.
Then came the
In 1917 our own war with Ger-
You cannot defend your country, and system of house-work. People must before they spelled a modest inde-
many caused the creation under forc-
help to defend the world with four learn to make more use of co-opera pendence. These are the real after-
ed draft of shipyards, arms factories,
' I million men, without paying a big tive methods, so that part at least of the-war suffers. Their name is le-
nitro plants, and farms. Within a few ¡bill. Our bill is about 30,000 million the large profit of the retailer may gion.
months four million men were taken
Compared with current living ex rJ
dollars. Whether it is paid by taxes, go back to the buyer in dividends.
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right out of the work shops, the rail-
n=
or out of loans, everybody in the ¡Many people can simplify their lives. penses, the salaries paid to clerks, to
roac , the farms, and the offices, to
I United States has to share in making , ¡Prohibition has brought about an teachers, to writers, to editors, to
put on the khaki and go and fight | that good; and that means that one’seunexpected
clergymen are derisory. Likewise
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of the demand
lessenin
for their country, immensely enlarg
¡income, whatever it is, is reduced by for expensive rooms and meals at the they are an infamy.
ing the demand fur food and supplies
Where other salaries and other
hotels, for people find their happi-
. those necessary taxes.
of every kind, while cutting down
ness does not depend oir a three wages have gone up. here they have
Labor.
the workers by something like a
dollar dinner. Everybody can pate either stood still or increased by fig
Now comes in the effect of organ- down in some direction without ures that are naggardly. Men and
fifth. Naturally the good old Republic
i ized labor. The right of labor to or much.........................
rocked under this strain.
diminishing
_ his comfort, and women of learning, of the highest
In 1918, the war was practically ganize into a trades union is just as without at all affecting his self-re attainments, those on whom depends
over, and shortly after the boys be clear as that of the same men to or spect.
the education of American children,
gan to come home. The result was ganize into a fraternity or a church
The thing that will do most to 'the moral guidance of the American
the demand fell off for many lines of or a political party. Modern industry cause a tumble in prices and a reduc people, are paid salaries that a hod
good’s. The railroads had been taken is, however, full of specialties and tion of the high cost of living is to carrier or bricklayer or a stevedore
over by the government, and found it ¡groups of skilled laborers so that a Increase the product of the worker. would scorn. It is this submerged,
hard to meet the changes in service comparatively small number of shirk If the same force of hands can im unorganized, inarticulate
middle
and in labor conditious. Wages be- iers can throw everything into con- prove machinery and organization so group, the very flower of the coun
gan to go up in many industries. I fusion. The United States is full of as to produce 2,000 shoes a day in try’s intelligence, the group on
Then the returning soldiers wanted ¡key industries. If the railroad switch the same hours or fewer hours that which we all depend to maintain the-
their jobs back or wanted better jobs, ¡men strike or the freight handlers, were formerly necessary for 1,600 Republic through clear thinking and
for which their military service had or the motermen on the trolly lines, pairs, they are helping to reduce the staunch fidelity to basic American
helped to prepare them. For a time or the power-house men, or (as has cost of living for others while keep principles and traditions—it is upon
people thought everything would recently happened in Boston) the ing up their own wages. There is no those that the present day burden of
quiet down when the boys were all 'men who inspect wheels and brakes other road toward an adjustment living cost falls with crushing
out of the service. They expected that of passenger trains, before they leave which will leave all classes in the weight. It is they who shoulder their
the country would return to the 'l he terminals, or the firemen on United States contented. Piofiteer- disproportionate share of the ever-
place where it left off in 1914 when 1 board steam craft, or the repairers ing is a frightful evil which is very increasing load shoved upon the con
the European war broke out. Had on telephone lines, a whole city or a hard to deal with. The income tax sumer’s and the rent-payer’s should
not the nation settled down after ¡whole district may be left without 'on corporations takes away part of ers by the granting of extortionale
'that surplus for the public needs and union demands; by conscienceless
every other war, and gone ahead power or transportation.
with greater prosperity than ever? i All our American cities are depend- [it those great incomes were mude profiteers; by reckless waste of Gov
On the contrary, there has been on ent on frequent shipments of food, so public as they ought to be those who ernment funds wrung from the
period of peace for a good hundred that a complete stoppage of trans enjoy them could be called to ac- country’s overburdened taxpayers.
years when there has been so much portation into a great city for a week ! count. In the long run we must ex
They have been a patient lot thus
commotion and pulling and hauling or two might bt-ing people to the pect that progress of invention, nta- far, these real sufferers from rite t
as today. What does it mean? Where famine point. The great bodies of ¡chinery and organization combined war’s inevitable consequences. Their
shall we come out?. Is the country in railroad men and other transporta ¡with economy and saving habits will voices are seldom heard in complaint.
danger? What can we do tor the Re- tion men are absolutely necessary for give a living income to all who aro They are inarticulate and unorganiz
keeping things going, and their un will to do a reasonable amount of ed. But the thing cannot go on for
public?
ions have corresponding power.
work for that blessing.
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The Old System.
Hence, in nearly all the controver
ed out in some way and soon for this
We may as well admit at the start
vast group, or we shall pay the pen I
that the United States can never go sies over the wages *of transporta
Danger Ahead.
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alty by seeing them join the turbu
back again to the relations which ex tion me n, the managers in the long
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lent forces of unrest and disintegra
isted even six years ago. The first run give way. The transportation
reason is that the great World War meii ask that their wages shall have
The unceasing and, in many cases, tion. And when that happens, sheer
has broken up the organization of the same purchasing power as wages exhorbitant wage demands of organ ruin will not be far away. When such
trade and business which had worked not half as great six years ago had ized labor may or may not be justi Americans as these cannot earn
itself out in the previous fifty years. at that time. Of course, if the cost of fied by the Increased cost of living. enough money to live their frugal
Gas and Motor Oils, Auto Robes
Six years ago the commerce of the transportation rises the cost of every That is the question on which there lives and educate their children, then
world was all fitted together like a thing that is carried also rises, in are wide differences of opinion. But, indeed is there dauger ahead.—Har- & J. A. PARKER, 1 door West of Wcolfe’s blacksmith’s shop. pi
£
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Corliss engine, where every valve cluding the cost of the food and whichever view of the matter is cor- vey’s Weekly,
and pocket and gear works in har- clothing, and other things used by rect, the wage demands go on, the
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mon with every other. The great the railroad men and their families. increases are granted, the extra
Poor
Bankrupt
Europe.
That
is
the
"Vicious
Circle."
world trade in stable raw materials
burden is passed along to the con-
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such as rubber, lumber, iron, and
Remedies.
sumer, and the cost of living rises
coal was all adjusted like clock work.
to
correspondingly
higher
levels.
“
Poor
Bankrupt
Europe,” sighed
Little hope can be found that the
The carrying trade of the world ex cost of Hying will go back to the
Labor, both organized and unor Raymond Hitchcock. “Poor bankrupt ■j
actly fitting into if.
same place as before the war. All ganized, has gained, not lost, by the Europe. A room at the Picadilly is -o
In the United States, there was over the world prices are rising. In war. Higher wage standards are es ithree pounds ten, a dinner for two in g
always coal enough, and iron ore the countries ravaged by the Euro tablished do not come down. Once up a cozy corner at the Ritz at least
enough, hnd silver enough and cop pean wars, there is no way out but always up, is the rule. And while la ¡five quid and a suit of clothes ten
per enough, and flour enough, and for the people to eat less food than bor has thus been the gainer and not times that figure. That’s London.
potatoes enough, and cotton enough, they were used to. to wear their old the loser by the war upheavels, the !Multiply it by two or three and you
and cars enough, and
steamers clothes longer, and to get on without same Is true of the farmer. The pric .have Paris. Yet thete Is a waiting
All Work Guaranteed.
enough, because wherever people saw many things that they used to think es of farm products, particularly cot list a block long at every London ho
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Let Me Keep You Out of Trouble. I carry a Stock of Goodrich
a demand, they arranged for a sup necessary. The people of the United ton, grain and live stock, have gone tel. You can’t get a table at the Ritz
Tires, Tubes and Tire Accessories.
ply. This country was better organ States are accustomed to live well, to up by leaps and bounds. The farmers unless you know the head waiter
Your Patronage Solicited.
ized than any other, because there is dress well, and to enjoy themselves. have more mqpey to spend, more lux personally and even it you were
hardly an important i<w material, They know that it is also to give uries within their reach than they wearing a barrel it would be three
J. C. HOLDEN, 2nd STREET, OPPOSITE O.P., TILLAMOOK.
except rubber and sugar, and cocoa- their children a better chance than had known for decades before the months before any Bond street tailor
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nut products, which we have to gel they had themselves. The intelligent war broke out.
would deliver you a pair of trousers.'
outside.
from
“Poor Bankrupt
Europe!” the
Neither are the very rich nor the
working man want an income that
So with labor, plenty of laborers will enable him to see his children bankers war sufferers. Such bankers comedian sighed again. "You can’t
were underpaid, and many of ttyem properly educated so as to give them as handled foreign government busi ¡buy a seat in any playhouse except
were dissatisfied; but most of them' a start in life. We do not wish to cut ness and invested in munitions man- ¡for weeks in advance, The jewelers
had at least a living for their fam down the average scale of living.
ufacture are heavy gainers. Many of and silversmiths are running three
ilies at the prices that then prevail
The only way that seems at all them, as well as thousaids who en- shifts and a lot of the aristocrats
ed. Even the very low rate of wages 'hopeful is to get rid of the preposter gaged in miscellaneous manufactur- don’t know where their next Rolls-
and poor conditions of unskilled la ous profits of the middlemen In fur- ing, have piled up enormous war for- Royce is coming from. Yet we Amer-
borers in factories and mines were ' nishing the necessities of life and es tunes.. The very rich, even though leans are told that we must help poor
ho much better than those in central pecially food. The five farmers who taxed as high as from 50 to 75 per Bankrupt Europe. I've chipped in to
Europe that millions of immigrants i paid |11.60 for a dinner in Wash- cent on their incomes, still have so three different collections today tor
came over to find work on those con .ington, and figured out that the ma- muehjeft that they need not and do Indigent Europeans. It was so funny
ditions.
‘terials for that dinner netted the not deny themselves anything. In all 1 couldn t resist.”
Many people then believed that the [producing
Mr. Hitchcock has just gotten back
money-spending
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whole system was such thatJhe l»-;were on the rlght track. Somebody 'going on at a prodigious patee. Hotels from Europe. He makes bls money in
borers as a class got less than their I ought to get after the cereal trust 'demanding
enormous
rates are 1 America. Consequently
he tells a
HELL PHONE. MAIN 3 MUTUAL PHONE
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fair share of the total product and which buys wheat at cents a pound, ¡crowded
to capacity,
capacity. The
of'¡very
different
from ( thOIM. ¿J,,.
crowaeu io
me theatres
ukkiiu vi
umc.
that the employers and owners got and puts not over 3 cents of labor New York and all over the country interested I humanitarians, those su-
k i n V hlinlnPHM
DPfb Sri
mil
too much
Still the country as a land manufacturing upon it, and un- ¡nra
the International rd525a5Z5252S252SB5ZSZ5Z52S25Z52525Z5Z5BS25ES2S25^52K5H52S25252S2S?5.'!>?’
are doing a a ronnrd.hron
record-breaking
business. |perb
Samaritans,
whole was very prosperous, Many blushingly sells the product at 25 So are the high priced restaurants, ; Bankers who are so deeply worried
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small business men enjoyed good1
the dealers in jewelry and in the ¡lest the "heart of Europe” be broken .
cents a pound.
profits and a good living; profession
—
before
they
get
their
money
out
of
most
expensive
kinds
of
men
’
s
and
You may pay 85 cents a dozen for
al men got on. and brought up and
eggs, but the chicken farmer does women's apparel, the purveyors of it.—Ex.
educated their children. Low wages
verieties of things
well if he receives 45 cents out of ail the infinite
and low prices seemed to fit together.
Another camaign has been started
unnecessary and of high cost. It has
that.
We are just completine 14 years of bank service for the people of
The New System.
The people of the United States are been and is a riot of money spending in Washington to reduce the high
Bay City and tributary country.
We invite your further patron
That state of things has gone by. famed for their skill in organizing such as the country has not known cost of living. But has anything been
age, and full co-operation so we may be able to give you still
done to reduce the high coat of
Prices began to rise as soon as the great industries. It's time tor them for years
better service, tou are cordially invited to carry your business
Are there, then, any real sufferers Washington’s campaigns to reduce
war broke out in Europe, because to cut out these ridiculous profits of
with us. Depository for City, County, Port and Slate.
Great Britain, and France and Italy men who run almost no risk, render from the war and the war's after- the high cost of living.
THIS AGENCY
OFFERS
YOU BOTH.
FYR-FYTER
*
FYRFYTER
ROLLIE W. WATSON,
Expert Dyeing
I
That Old Coat, Dress or Suit
can be dyed to look like nezv at
at a Small Cost,
CALL
Pacific Cleaning and Tailoring Co.
g THE NEW HARNESS SHOP
S Repairing Auto Tops & Curtains.
City Vulcanizing and Tire Shop.
Expert Tire Service.
Vulcanizing and Retreading.
Dr. E. L. Glaisyer,
VETERINARIAN,
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County Dairy Herd Inspector
FI RST BAN K of BAY CITY