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 ------ o 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 K 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. 31 J. 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 ..... ...........—‘ng 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. ever. Either salvation must be work­ 2SH525H5?525H5?5HSa5H5ZSc!SH5HSESZ5a5e5H5a5ZS?5H5E5?5?5ES25?5HSa5aSiSH5BS 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. «> alty by seeing them join the turbu­ back again to the relations which ex­ tion me n, the managers in the long §-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 £ & 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 SE5H5H5ESBSB5a525H5H52SBS2SHSa52S25ï5a5aSZ52SZSa5HS25eS2525ï52S?5ïSB5H5H 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- ------ o------ 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 3 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?’ 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 .... ... _ i------------------- -- -------- - ------------------ — ..... ____— . — 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, § County Dairy Herd Inspector FI RST BAN K of BAY CITY