TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT.
Billions of Receipts
The President’s Billion
flLiEX. McRfllR & co
Swallowed in Expense Dollar Sugar Saga> it /
(From the New York Sun)
There are slightly different esti-
mates of what the Government has
lost in the two years of Federal op
eration of the railroads, what the
roads have lost and what the public
have lost. There are varying opinion-
as to the cause®of this, that, or tl^e
other item. But, whatever the exact
details, the total cost to the public
is staggering. What has befallen our
railway system is appalling.
By the calculation of the Bulletin
of Railway News and Statistics the
rentals which the government pays
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N’l LARGE
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the owners of the roads, includihg
other items, were not earned in the
two years by some 9700,000,000.
This of course all comes out of the
Fine, Dark 25.00 to 20.001 18.00 10 15.00 14.00 to 12.00 10.00 to 8.00 10.00 to 5.00
American taxpayers.
Usuai Color 18.00 to 14.00 12.00 to 10.00 9.00 to 750 7.00 to 6.00 7.00 to 350
I
Gross revenues of the roads repre
12.00
to
10
001
9.00 to 7.50 7.00 to 6.00 550 to 450 550 »0 3.00
Coast
sents the bills which the public pays
directly. For the first ten months of
1917 they were 13.350.000,000. or at
the rate of 14,000,000,000 a year.
6.00 to 5.00 4.75 to 3.75 3.50 to 2.75 2.50 to 1.75 2.50 to 150
Winter
For the corresponding period of 1918
450 to 3.75 3.50 to 2.75 2.50 to 2.00 1.75 to 1.50 1.75 to 125
Fall
they were «4,043.000,000 or at the
rate of «4,850,000,000 a year. For
1919 they were $4,293,000,000 or
GOOD UNPMMI
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grrWATQ AVIAAC» AITO UltSStfAyrry
IXTRAVO AVCRA0C
at the value of $5,151,000,000 a year
EXT« A VO AVtRAOt
UTBATO AV(«Mt
In the two years then, as compart d
350
15.00 to 12.00 11.00 to 9.00 850)0 8.00 750 to 7.00
BLACK
with 1917 the public got piled up^a
3.00
10.00 to 9.00 8.50 to 7.50 72510 6.75 6.50 to 550
SHORT
its back an additional two billions of
150
7.50 to 650 625 to 525 5.00 to 450 4.00 to 3.50
NARROW
dollars of freight and passenger bills
.75
5.00 to 4.00 350 Io 3.00 2.75 to 225 2 00 to 150
BROAD
and nearly three quarters of a bil
lion of dollars of Government oper
These extremely high prices are based on the well-known “SHUBERT”
ating losses (to be paid for with
literal grading and are quoted for immediate shipment. No. 3, No. 4,
liberal
taxes, or in all nearly two and three
and otherwise inferior skins at highest market value. For quotations on
quarters of a billion of dollars.
other Oregon Furs, write for "Vtlt Atiubert »tapper." the only reliable
and accurate market report and price list of its kind published. It’s FREE—
But if we go back to 1915 we find
Write for it.
that the American people were then
A shipment to "SHLBEHT” will result In "more money” — "quicker.~
paying a transportation bill of less
II you have no "SHUBEBT TAG ENVELOPES” on hand, cut out tag
than $3,000,000,000 a year. Com
below__paste on piece ol cardboard and attach to your shipment.
pared with 1915 the American peo
ple paid in 1918 and 1919 an aver
age of two billions of dollar? more
frept. 1898
rom
transportation bills a year, or for
the two years four billions of dollars
NAME.
more. With the $700,000,000 of
Government deficit the additional
cost to the American people of their
transportation in the last two years,
COUNTY
STATE
as compared with the two normal
years, has not been far from five bil
lions of dollars.
In the last two years the public
THE LARGEST HOUSE IN THE WORLD
has paid for its transportation a
DEALING EXCLUSIVELY IN
total of ten billions of dollars in
freight and passenger charges, and
on top of that prodigious outpouring
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CHICAGO, U.S.A.
another $700,000,000 to cover the
government operating losses etc.
And of the nearly five billions of
dollars more which the American
people have paid than they paid in
a similar two year period before
1916 not a dollar of it has gone to
fke government, not a nickle of it
has gone to the owners of the rail
roads, not a penny of it has gone
even to the bond holder creditors of
the railroads.
Where has it all gone—these four
For disenfecting where Contagious or
billions of
dollars of increased
infectious diseases are prevailing.
charges upon the public in direct
transportation charges and the near
CARBOLIC COMPOUND is a power
ly three-quarters of a bilHon more
paid in taxes to make up the govern
ful Germicidal mixture and by its '.use
ment's operating losses? It has all
will improve general stable conditions.
gone, every red cent of that nearly
five billions of dollars more. Into in
creased operating expenses.
While the railway revenues—the
traffic bills paid by the public—have
been going up from three billions of
RELIABLE DRUGGISTS.
dollars a year in 1915 to more than
five billions of dollars a year in
1919 the expenses have gone up
from two billions of dollars to four
and one-third billions of dollars.
The operating ratio, which for the
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1915 and only 65.52 in 1916, has
gone up to 84.22 in 1919. What does
this mean for the railroads them
selves? It means physical wreck in
the present; and as traffic rates now
Armoured Inner Tires are a practical, common sense,
stand and operating expenses now
money-saving tire necessity for all tire users. By
run financial wreck in the future. It
means for the public heavier traffic
preventing punctures and blowouts, they add plea
rates or a national breakdown of ser-
sure, safety and economy to motoring. Lubricated
vice.
inside and out, they require no cementing aud no vul
By the authority of the Bulletin
canizing. Placed on your tires as easily as inner tube.
there has been a deferred mainten-
auce of way and ' equipment w hlch
threatens that the national trana-
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The bulletin says:
"It conceals an annual shortage of
tie. rail and ballast renewals am-
outing to over $200.000.000. Until
this is made good transportation by
rail cannot be made safe for democ
JACK HARPER,
racy. plutocracy, or plain ordinary
Americanism."
BALL SHOP, TILLAMOOK.
As they stand today the plight of
Take your Herses there and get
the American railroads taken alto
First Class Shoes for them.
gether Is desperate. The prospect of
the public which mdst pay still big
I guarantee all work to be
ger transportation bills io save the
satisfactory, if not, bring it back
roads is dark. But the roads must
and I will make good without
be saved. Only higher traffic rates
extra charge.
can save them until the calamitous
operating expenses can be somewhat
We pay top prices for Hides.
squeezed down.
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Shubert'* will pay these extremely
high prices lor Oregon Furs
MINK.
MUSKRAT
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F
AMERICAN RAW FURS
CLOUGH’S CARBOLIC
COMPOUND
C. I. CLOUGH CO.
ARMOURED INNER TUBES
Prevents Punctures and Blowouts
c MILLS, Agent, Tillamook, Ore-
HORSE
SHOEING
Bids Wanted on Wood.
City Vulcanizing and Tire Shop
Expert Tire Service.
Vulcanizing and Retreading
AU Work Guaranteed
Let Me Keep You Out of Trouble. I cany a Stock ol Goodrich
Tires, Tubes and Tire Accessories.
Your Patronage Solicited.
J. C. HOLDEN, 2nd STREET, OPPOSITE O.P., TILLAMOOK.
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The Red Clover Creamery Company
wishes to receive bids on sound four
foot wood delivered at Its factory,
wood to be either fir, fir slabs, hem
lock or alder, in lots up to one hun
dred cords. Half the wood to be de
livered by June 1st and balauce by
September 1st of this year. Leave
blds at office of Carl Habenlach. Sec
retary. Tillamook. Oregon, on or be
fore Feb. 1st. 1920. Company re
serves the right to reject any and all
blds.
Red Clover Creamery Company.
In footing up the total of wanton
war waste, that little item amount
ing to something between
OoO and $1.000.001.000
£ whoilj
unnecessary increase in the Ameri
can people’s sugar bill, should not be
overlooked. Neither should the iu. t
be overlooked that for this add-on
to the already s*: tigering burden of
American
their cost of llv
Wtl-
people have to tn.. • - \.c .f
son, and him alone.
It\ August last, the Cuban iUB-11’
crop could uave been bought at from
five and a half to six cents a pound.
The Sugar Equalization Board, for
whose guiding advice American tax
payers were paying liberally, urgen
tly recommended to the President
that the purchase be made. Mr.
Herbert Hoover, internationally rec
ognized as the foremost expert in
food distribution and economics, was
particularly insistent in pressing the
President to accept the Sugar Boards
advice. This advice was given unan
imously, save for one dissenting
voice. Had that advice ben taken,
the sugar for which, as we are now
threatened, we shall have to pay a
price of from 20 to 25 cents per
pound, would have been retailed to
us at from 10 to 11 cents. Within a
few days. Federal experts have fig
ured that the President's stubborn
refusal to take the advice urged up
on hint will cost the American peo
ple, in round figures close to a bil
lion dollars.
But it there is one thing above an
other on which Mr. Wilson prides
himself it is his own omniscience. To
accept advice on any subject what
ever, no matter how far removed
that subject may have been front his
own orbit of experience and informa-
tion, is probably, for him, a sheer
impossibility.
Needless to say, the President re
fused the advice of the Sugar Equal
ization Board. Needless to say, he
spurned the urgent advice of Mr.
Hoover. He turned from these gen
tlemen, who had the advantage of
knowing something about the sub
ject, to the "opinion” of somebody
who demonstrably knew nothing
whatever about it .
There was one dissentient voice in
the otherwise unanimous advice of
the Sugar Equalization Board, and
that voice was the voice of a Profes
sor Taussig. Chairman of the Federal
Tariff Commission. It is going to
cost us only a billion dollars or so to
enjoy the blessings of the Wilsonian-
Taussig brand of economic wisdom.
That is all.
And the American people submit
to it—well, why? Probably because
they have to.—Harvey's Weekly.
GENERAL! HRRDCjUflRE
Kitchen Ranges and
Heating Stoves.
the best stock of HARDWARE in
THE COUNTY.
See Us for Prices Before Ordering Elsewhere.
J F your immediate need is a de
pendable, painstaking handling of
some business or financial matter,
read the last paragraph of this ad
vertisement. Our desire is to go
less directly to the point.
LADIES, reeogniiiax the many ad-
new
▼aotaffM in a personal checking ae.
problemi almoet daily and thu bank
count. will find us ready to do every,
has prepared itself with facilities very
thing possible to make their transac
valuable to a wide vanety of intereats.
tions with this bank a pleasure to them.
AND
maturing
TO THE FARMER AND RANCH
ER, our memberahip in the Federal
fyter* Syitem u an advantage.
It
gives us a broad and practical ability
to meet their particular needs.
The
TO THE
THRIFTY, we offer 4%
interest coutpounded twice yearly far
their sarings plus the security of d
Strong Home Owned Bonk.
same connection aerves The Biuinui
Here each of these differing lines
TO THE VISITORS IN THIS SEC-
of endeavor will find that conferences
with our officers often bring out ad
T1ON, this bank is a place for them
to enter and feel at home and they
vantages which anxiety and business
are invited io call and make
cares have hidden from them.
desires known.
Man
their
y.V
the final analysis, it will be found that this in
stitution is governed by a spirit of helpfulness, and,
whatever your business interests in this section may
be, you can confidently rely upon its cordial, intelli
gent and personal co-operation.
TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK
The Strong Home Bank
NOTICE
The "Matter With" America.
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What’s the matter with America
these days?
Too many diamonds, not enough
alarm clocks .
Too many silk shirts, not enough
blue flannel ones.
Too many pointed toed shoes, and
not enough squared toed ones.
Too many serge suits
enough overalls.
Too much decollete
enough aprons.
Too many satin-upholsteded
ousines and not enough cows,
Too many customers
enough producers.
Too much oil stock
enough savings accounts.
Too much envy of the results
hard work and too little desire
emulate it.
Too many desiring short cuts
wealth and too few willing to pay
the price.
Too much of the spirit of “get
while the getting is good" and not
enough of the old-fashioned 'Christ
ianity.
Too much discontent that vests it
self in mere complaining and too
little real effort to remedy condi
tions.
.. much consciousness and loo
llttk common democracy and love of
humanity.
Use for Wasted Wliey—Looks Like
Hot Air.
FINANCIAL
BUSINESS
CONDITIONS are
Have sold my interest in
the Tillamook Transfer Co.
and have bought into the
City Transfer Co., and all of
the old customers who wish
me to do their work will find
me on the Job.
Prices Right.
H. BROOKS
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Development of a method of utiliz
ing whey as a human food is the ob
ject of work now tn progress in the
Bureau of Animal Industry, United
States department of agriculture It
is thought probable that whey repre
sents a greater actual loss of food
than skim milk—which now has be
come an important by-product in the
dairy industry—because its feeding
value is not generally recognized.
Cheeses have been made from whev
but the demand for them has been
limited, rhe use of these cheese
might be extended if their value for
cooking could be brought to the at
tention of housekeepers Investiga-
nons of the use of the whey solids as
p> uitry food also have been begun
Considerable work has been done on
the development of easin for use in
waterproof glue, and a sacein of low
ash and acid has already been pro
duced^ A method of producing cas.ln
from buttermilk is also being worked
Out. By use Of a solvent to ext
he fat front the buttermilk, small
ots of casein have been made, and
this product was found to be of gen
Lrt'
«n fat and Ci
ash. but it had the objection of dis-
solving slowly.
i •1
LAMB-SCHRADER CO
WHOLESALE and retail
C
LIX i E- plaster , lath and
BRICK; DOMESTIC STEAM AND
SMITHING COAL.
WARKHOl’SK AND OFFICE—
(-OR. FRONT ANDHun AVE. WEST. TILLAMOOK. OK-
Expert Dyeing
t Gid
t, Dress or
can be dyed to look like new
at a Small Cost.
Pacific Cleaning and Tailoring Ctf
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