T1LLJLMOOK HEADLIGHT, JANUARY 15. 1920
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action of Attorney General Palmer of recommending awards; an officer,
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in the crusade to reduce the H. C. L. it may be added, between whom and
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come in the form of advice not to buy the Secretary of the Navy some dif I
now but to wait until later. The only ferences of opinion had recently
trouble with that advice is, that if arisen. Still another distinguished œ
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on going up and you're naturally by the board was rejected by the sec
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stood trial on a charge of running Secretary of the Navy.
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down and killing a woman. It is true
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he was acquitted by the Jury, but things can be satisfactorily explain
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notwithstanding, the bad taste still ed. It may be that the man who gets
remains.—Independent.
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beaten is more worthy of reward
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than the man who wins. It may be
We hand the palm to the Baltimore that the civilian Secretary of the
Sun. Hundreds of thousands of dol Navy is a better judge of merit in
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lars worth of automobiles belonging action than the expert board of of §
to the government have been stand ficers constituted for the purpose, or
ing out in the sun and the rain and than the commanding officer of the
the enow at Camp Hollbard. Efforts fleet who personally saw the service
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otherwise to get Secretary Baker to Hawaii, Sir Josephus is assumed to
dispose of them have been all in vain. be a past master in authority on dec
There they stand and ruet and rot. orations. Yet there are those, not
Now the Baltimore Sun comes to the only from Missouri, who will await
rescue of Baker by saying that the explanation of such circumstances as
fault rests with congress for not we have cited before they regard
spending $53,000 for more rail« ay them as impeccable; and who mean
improvements there and $120,000 while will be unable to rid them
for storage
warehouses.—Gazette selves of the feeling that Admiral
Times.
Sims would not have take so extra
ordinary a course without making
An Antidote for Sentimentalism.
sure of his ground.
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This is no mere bit of personal riv
Compelling the inmates of the alry, nor a question of comparative
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Cook Countyf Illinois) penitentiary ranks and merits, such as arose at
to witness the hanging of a murder the end of our war with Spain. It is i
er may seem a little severe, but the a matter which involves the honor of ,
fact is that nothing is such a deter the Navy and the integrity of the i
rent of wrong-doing as witnessing Administration. Upon its determina
the downfall or punishment of oth tion hangs the question whether na- |
ers. Many a person has been halted val decorations for service in the
in a headlong career by the fate of great War are to be valued tokens of
a friend, many a person has been merit or mere meretriciqjis Junk.
saved from sin by seeing what has Awarded impartially, by competent
happened to others who have sinned. I authority, for merit in tervice, they
This may not seem fair, but it is the would be precious possessions and
fact, and the experiment of Cook heirlooms to future generations. ’
county may leave in the minds of its Awarded at the personal caprice or
convicts memories that may in the favor of Josephus Daniels, their val
future save them from doing some ue would be measured by their '
thing that would bring them to the weight and the market price of the
noose.
metal of which they were composed. I
We would not be hard hearted to
The Navy and the Nation owe a
the unfortunate, but there is alto deep debt of gratitude to Admiral
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gether too much maudling sentiment I Sims for the brave and manly way
expressed for those who go the way in which he has brought the matter 1
of the sinner and land in the peni to a head and assured a thorough in- j
tentiary. Convicts still are human be vestigation of it. The honor of th?
ings, which cannot be said of their Navy and the integrity of the Ad- '
victims, if murdered. Their downfall ministration require that the whole
may be the fault of others than them truth shall be made known.—Har
selves, but often those with false vey’s Weekly.
ideas of ultruism make the lot of the
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felon more pleasant in Jail than It
The League of Public Opinion.
was out in the world.
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We have never yet seen an expla
nation of why women will tote
From the Enid (Okla.) Eagle.
flowers to the wife murderer and
Below we give
a letter from a
weep at the door of his cell. The traveling man published in the Kan
“We Deliver the Goods.”
sheriff of Cook county may be taking san City Journal which accords with
some of the sentiment out of incar our own view oFthe sentiment of the
ceration but no great harm will come country as it relates to the league of
of his action and some good may be I nations. If there Is any honorable
accomplished. He is at least original way to get out of the muddle Presi
in his idea.—The Sentinel.
dent Wilson's bungling has got
America into at Versaillies, it ought
to be adopted even to the extent of
When Medals Go By Favor.
repudiating the whole league cove
Admiral Sims refuses to accept^the nant, and we desire peace with the
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Distinguished Service Medal. In that whole world just as ardently as
money-saving tire necessity for all tire users. By
brief statement of fact is the sure President Wilson does.
"The .obstinacy with which the
preventing punctures and blowouts, they add plea
promise of a lifting of the lid from
sure, safety and economy to motoring. Lubricated
the mess of alleged favoritism that press generally adheres to the idea
has for some time been brewing at I that the people are in favor of the
inside and out, they require no cementing aud no vul
the capital. For when the foremost I leaguge of nations is. one of the
canizing. Placed on your tires as easily as inner tube.
officer of our Navy in the great war I most inexplicable things I ever met
refuses to accept from the hands of ■ with. Will you explain it?
the Secretary of the Navy the dec i salesman, I have, within tl
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oration which he of all men is en eight weeks been in the pr
titled to receive, of a truth "it is a I towns and cities of no less
condition, not a theory, that con- 1 eight states. In talking wi
fronts us
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cannot be disposed of without a whom I met iu a business way, I
searching inquest, the result of ' have made it a special point to try to ,
which can scarcely fail to have most 1 find out what public opinion is on I
serious consequences to one of two ' the leag ue. I sincerely believe that |
eminent men chiefly concerned. That i on a popular vote the league would
this fact has been forcibly brought not get one vote out of 20. And ' ru
home to the Administration is evl- 1 when it comes to a question of rati- I
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denced by Secretary Daniels’ panlcky fication without any reservations, I ,
action in reconvening the Naval absolutely did not find a man in all •
Let Me Keep You Out of Trouble. I cany a Stock of Goodrich
my trip who favored such a course. '
Board of awards.
Tires, Tubes and Tire Accessories.
Admiral Sims does not merely re I was in Louisville on election day,
Your Patronage Solicited.
ject the proffered medal. He puts in (that being my home), and I heard
strong
expressions
writing his reasons for that extra hundreds of
J. C. HOLDEN, 2nd STREET, OPPOSITE O.P., TILLAMOOK.
ordinary action. In brief these are against any league at all, but not
that the recommendations of com one for it. I am a Democrat and have (
manding officers have been overrul tried to remain neutral on the sub- i
ed and disregarded by the Secretary Ject of the league and treaty. And
of the Navy in awarding decorations, I want to say to you that if the ¡
that thus grave injustice has been league is made - a dominent issue in I
done to worthy men; that ridicule 1920, there is no use of the Demo- i
has been brought upon the awards; crats to spend a dollar In trying to
and that the morale of the service carry the election, They wouldn’t
has been seriously impaired. Speci have the slightest chance of success.
fically. he points out that the Secre Just put this forecast in your hat.”
tary has adopted the anomalous plan
of bestowing equal honor upon offi
For disinfecting where Contagious or
Bids Wanted on Wood.
cers who succeeded and those who
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infectious diseases are prevailing
failed, upon those who won victories,
The Red Clover Creamery Company
and those who suffered defeats.
CARBOLIC COMPOUND is a power
Admiral Sims Indulges, of course« wishes to receive bids on sound four
in no personalities. It is pointed out foot wood delivered at its factory,
ful Germicidal mixture and by its '.use
by others, however, that the Disting wood to be either fir, fir slabs, hem
lock
or
alder,
in
lots
up
to
one
hun
will improve general stable conditions.
uished Service Medal, the same that
Admiral Sims himself refused to ac dred cords. Half the wood to be de
cept, the high» est of all the honors livered by June 1st and balance by
bestowed, has been awarded to an September 1st of this year. Leave
officer whose chief distinctions are, bids at office of Carl Haberlach, Sec
first, that he was beaten in action retary, Tillamook, Oregon, on or be
and lost his ship, and second, that he fore Feb. 1st, 1920. Company re
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is a near relative of the Secretary of serves the right to reject any and all
the Navy. On the other hand, the bids.
Red Clover Creamery Company.
secrefary refused to
award a medal
What the Editors Say
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