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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 18. 1919.
What the Editors Say
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A Portland speed fiend was given a
fine the other day that will be a real
punishment to him. He was forbid
den to drive a car for a year. More
fines of this kind would doubtless
prove effective in curbing reckless
driving. A sigh of relief would go up
from the public if similar punish
ment were inflicted on the paranoi
acs who persist in driving down
resident streets at midnight with
cutouts wide open.—Eugene Register
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
CEMENT LIME, PLASTER, LATH AND
BRICK; DOMESTIC STEAM AND
SMITHING COAL.
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COR. FRONT AND 3RD AVE. WEST, TILLAMOOK, OR.
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FOR YOUNG AND OLD
IVORY—The Largest and Best Assortment ever Shown in the City.
considerable furor
There was
among the papers of the Idolator’s
Club when Congress adpourned last
February leaving unenacted seven
great financial measures and the
black-legged Republicans were ac-
cused of being responsible. If so,
then they are also responsible for en-
acting the same important measures
with amendments within a month
after congress reconvened with a
saving to the country of $1,888,000,-
000. They cut the administration es-
timetes that much, which is equiva
lent to $16 of taxes for every man,
woman and child in the United
States. There was never such a reck
less extravagant administration in
the history of America and it is high
time somebody was cutting appro-
priations.—Gazette Times.
B00KS-A11 the Late Books, Large Assortment of Reprints, Leather Covered Poems,
Leather Covered Bibles and Testaments.
Income Tax Plan A Failure ?
FRESH PURE CANDIES, in bulk or package, or in pretty baskets
MANICURE SETS--Leather Roll-Ups in Manicure Sets.
All prices.
LETTER KNIVES, Clocks in Ivory, Gold Watches, Ivory Picture Frames.
FLASH LIGHTS, Fancy Pipes, Cigars in Christmas Package, 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.
TINKERTOYS, Building 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 News Year’s Cards, Package
Perfumes.
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C. I. Clough’s
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"In 1914 our national wealth wa.tjture,” says the clubman, “I offer
estimated
at
$250,000,000,000. this:
Measured in dollars of the present i “Desiring to mark his laundry for
value, it is probably $400,000,000,-I purpose of identification, he inscrib-
000. Our national debt is about $26,- ed his name on one piece and marked
000,000,000. Even if the relatively the others ’’ditto.”
' mpecunious were exempt, a 10 per
cen tax upon property would pay this
The Echo.
debt, reduce the inflation and enable
He was fond of bragging about the
us to start again with a clean slate. wonderful echo to be heard on his es
I “Germany has imposed such a tax. tate. One day, when expecting friends
England is
thinking
about it. to dinner, he placed his servant in
.Would it not be well for us to con- the wood, with instructions to repeat
sider it?
every word he had heard said.
| “The tonic effect of paying one’s
Imagine the language when he
'debt is wonderful.”
called out: “Are you there?” and the
answer came “yes sir”; I’ve been
here since 1 o’clock.”
COAXING YOU TO SMILE.
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“Every moment dies a man, and
every moment one is born.”
When this poem was published a
statistician of the British census bu
reau wrote tlie poet laureate a re
monstrance: "You are making no al-
' lowance,” he said in substance, “for
tile increase of population. According*
to your statement the population of
* the world would be absolutely 'sta
tionery, while, in fact, there is a con
siderable surplus of births over
deaths. I suggest, therefore, that you
|change this line to read:
j “Every moment dies a man and
one and one sixteenth is born."
Announcement.
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Nehalem, Oregon, Dec 15, 191!
Tired Tim sat in his prison cell list To the voters of Tillamook County;
“So you really think your memory
Teaching schcol has been my pro
is improving under treatment. You less and despondent.
I remember things now, then?”
“I tell yer I ain’t don nuffin,’ guv fession for 34 years, 16 years ol
"Well, not exactly, but I have pro nor,’ he declared to the prison chap- which has been in the state of Ore-
I gon, and 9 years of which has beet 1
gressed so far that I can frequently lain. “I ain’t hurt a fly.”
“Come, come!” said the chaplain in Tillamook county. During thest |
remember that I have forgotten
something, if I could only remember “People don’t get Imprisoned for years I have endeavored to give t« I
nothing, you know, my man. What the public schools the very best ser- |
what it is.”
was the charge against you?”
vice possible.
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"Blest if I know, guv’nor. As far as
Teaching school Is no very easy
Fresh from Fleet Street.
I can make out, they put me in here task as some people may infer ani
’arry ’ad a ’awk,
i
from fragrancy!”»
oft times remark, and the compensa
'arry ’id the 'awk in a ’at box;
tion paid teachers today, no matter
The 'awk stuck its ’ead out of the
how careful a teacher may save, will
Wouldn’t Be Missed.
’at box;
•
Recently a man who fancied he had not insure one a comfortable living
I 'arry 'it the 'awk on the 'ead with a
six or seven different diseases was in alter years, when his teacliin/
’ard 'animer;
staying at a coast resort for his days are over. I have remained witl
The 'awk ’owled 'orrible.
health. One morning the invalid met lhe teaching profession all the*
And ’arry said.
the doctor that lit was accustomed to years, becau ■ I liked the work, it
”0 ’ell!”
call upon every time he thought he has been in, delight to help boys an!
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girls, young men and young women,
needed a new brand of pills.
After the Revival.
"Good morning. Mr. Jones,” said to higher and better things. But a
“Ask and ye shall receive,” said
the doctor cheerily. “How are you man’s first duty is to provide lot
the evangelist. “Pray for anything
feeling this morning?”
.himself and family. During my re»-
you want, with faith, and your pray
"Rather good for me doctor.” 'idence In Tillamook County 1 have
er will be answered."
weakly answered the patient. ‘While never asked of the voters their sup
That night the grocer’s youngest
bathing yesterday I swallowed about port for any public office; but be
son was heard to pray for the first
a tablespoonful of salt water, which lieving that I could well serve them
lime, as follows:
seemed to ben -fit me. Do you think in a public office, I have decided to
“O Lord, here Is a small trial order.
1 might take a little more?”
-announce myself as a candidate for
Please, 3end us ten palls of candy,
"Why yes,” answered the physi- Icounty Clerk on the Republican tick-
ten sacks of sugar, ten barrels of
cian. with an inward smile, “I don’1 let, subject to the will of the voters
flour and ten barrels of pepper. Oh!
think another tablespoonful will be at the primary election next May.
h —1! that’s too much pepper.”
missed.’ ’
Respectfully submitted,
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H. S. Brimhall.
Improving.
A Fragrant Vagrant.
A recent Issue of Commerce and
Finance has an interesting article on
the income tax by Theodore Price,
financial expert, in which he claims
it greatly increases the cost of living
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the poor, while not costing the rich
anything like a proportionate amount
in the final analysis. He proposes a
system of national taxation to be
JACK HARPER,
j built around a tax levied on capital
BALL SHOP, TILLAMOOK.
I instead of on income. He says;
Take your Herses there and get
| "The time has come when some re
vision of the income tax law ojight
First Class Shoes for them.
|to be made. It is greatly aggrevating
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I guarantee all work to be
the inflation and greatly increasing
1 satisfactory, if not, bring it back
I the cost of living. In order to recover
i tile tax that must be paid to the gov
and I will make good without
ernment, everyone is demanding a
extra charge.
large profit on his goods, a bigger
We pay top prices for Hides.
price for his property and higher in
terest rates on his capital. The word
’spiralysts" has been coined to de
scrib? the result.
"The Income tax has been passed
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on to the consumer and he in turn
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has to ask more for his work, so ad
ding again to the cost of production
and tlie cost of living.
Won't Answer Purpose.
“There is a great deal of building
Stick to Facts.
A clubman tells of a young friend
Armoured Inner Tires are a praclical, common sense,
Editors get a great many letters
It is evident that the apostles of
and constructive work that ought to
of
his,
a
very
methodical
youth
re
money-saving tire necessity lor all tire users. By
questioning the literal accuracy of the unamended covenant, having
be done in this country. It is held up
preventing punctures and blowouts, they add plea
because those who own the realestate cently graduated from a northern some of their statements.
failed to put It over, will now try to
sure. safety and economy to motoring. Lubricated
Which reminds us of an incident in slip it over.They are already talk’^f
required won't sell it even at the tuniversl|y, who, upon setting up his
own
establishment,
undertook
to
the life of Alfred Lord Tennyson. In of a compromise on Mr. Wilson3
inside and out, they require no cementing aud no vul
[q high prices offered, because they
canizing. Placed on your tires as easily as inner tube.
K would have to pay most of the profit look after his own domestic affairs. one of his poems he had written the original scheme, with a few meaning
"As an evidence of his orderly na- line:
Di realized to the gogvernment.
less phrases embroidered on it.
Ml “In the stock market securities
D) have advanced to figures that are in
many cases absurd because the larger
capitalists cannot dispose of their
holdings without Incurring an in-
come tax liability that would absorb
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a
.most of their gains.
“The theory upon which the grad
uated supertax was imposed assumed
that it was possible to take from the
A money-maker and hard work saver for land clearer« and wood-cutting
rich without mulcting tbe impecu
contractors. One man can move it from cut to cut. Simple and reliable.
nious. but the result has only been
Hun edi in ue all opr tb« U. S. Wben not in UM tor wood cutting, the « H. P. motor will
run ..ilia. feed mills, feed cutters, pumps, etc.
to make capital inert and so restrict
Qnirk èttlrfria from ovr
“u,
lx» << r«w»r Mf fa Im Oun S oM
100 point, throaptml
enterprise
and
opportunity
while
' ard.**—r. J IdiUlmu, bbrwi. O».
For disenfecting where Contagious or
«A. Unit'd Stat".
increasing the cost of living for the
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dim fa,, -.IW. *—N. r. Mm Lam, cats
poor.
infectious diseases are prevailing.
America must burn more
I “We hold no brief for the rich and
wood for fuel. One Wad«
think they ought to pay a higher rate
CARBOLIC COMPOUND is a power
will do 10 men's work at
one-tenth tbe cost. Writ«
of taxation than those who have less,
for free Book, Bow Dan
ful Germicidal mixture and by its use
but we are coming to the conclusion
Ross cuts M cords
a day.” full de
that u tax on capital or property is
will improve general stable conditions.
tails and a
tai
price.
to be preferred to a tax on income.
"A great capitalist said to us the
other day that he would be glad to
surrender 10 per cent of his wealth
to the government
at once if he
could be free of the inquestional in
RELIABLE DRUGGISTS.
come tax. and we are inclined to
think that there are many rich men
who feel the same way
SHOEING.
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Buyers of raw hides are paying
enormous prices for them. If any
body wonders why furs are so expen
sive just read this. A price list before
us offers $10 for raw skunk hides;
$2.75 for muskrats; $12 for minks;
$15 for coons; $250 for “cross” fox
hides and $60 for red foxes; $18 for
wolf hides and $55 for raw lynx
hides. Almost any man who reads I
this can remember when he was
tickled to death to trap skunks, skin
’em, leave in the barn for weeks and
sell the hides for six bits.—Gazette
Times.
In spite of the mysterious move
nient which has resulted in covert
suggestion from many sources i of the
unfitness of Coioned Wood I for the
presidency there are a surprising
number of people scattered all over
the country who refuse to be al
armed by the warning against "the
man on horseback” and find in the
general’s long and honorable record
the administrative qualities coupled
with executive ability which they be
lieve so essential in the present em
ergency. Indeed a very large number
of people are midly wondering why,
if the general is as unfit as his mys
terious detractors hint, such a fuss
is being made about his candidacy,,
for if it were true and not imaginary
it would be so apparent as to easily
eliminate him. And while they won
der they also remember that often
the assault of organized politicians
is a recommendation and in it many
people find good reasons why the
victim should receive support.—
Hillsboro Independent. .
LAMB-SCHRADER CO
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ARMOURED INNER TUBES
Prevents Punctures and Blowouts
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a C. MILLS, Agent, Tillamook, Ore-
A WADE does IO men j work ;
CLOUGH’S CARBOLIC
COMPOUND
cords a day!
C. I. CLOUGH CO
Sold by Standard Feed Co., Tillamook, Agent