inAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1923
I
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
COMMENT
Editorial Page of the Tillamook Headlight
FEATURES
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being cut each day, conaiderable valu yearly lost to the road fund, which I it behooves the footman to ‘‘look four
mooli ^cabligbt ation
in being lost to the road funds han been figured at something like ways at once,” in some situations.
This is an advertisement of the ' educated. Those who had the duty
civic and religious bodies to secure
need
of good roads!
and responsibility of government, its most general and helpful obsetv-
Weekly 1 l’aper|by the failure of the varioux road $12,000 a year, is correct, it will ac In time, this habit of dodging autos,
Indeix'iidant
For if there has been no heavy road j must necessarily have the education ance, for the purpose of more liberally
JtMtohrd
! Friday bv th.
districts to vote special taxes for count for the action of the several will either make of us a race of neu
1 ®diigh'
” ‘ i
Company road improvement. In a single year, road districts in this county in voting rotics, or, we shall become like the grade, which cut down horse hauling with whW1 tl) discharge the obli- supporting and more effectively im
i I ’ ’uldiHhing
-:-u
to the point where the price was pro
proving the education facilities of our
Tillamook,
Oregon
multiplying the above production by a good sized millage this fall for the birds, that keep twisting and turning
gations of citizenship. The sover country.
future road improvement leading to their necks to escape the common hibitive, the motor truck, which could
318,
the
working
days
in
a
year,
the
II, flarri- n
Mn.aging Editor
make it, could have made it at twice eign had to be educated. The sover-
In Witness Whereof, I Lave here
road districts of the county are los the main road artery, and the r enemy, man and his dogs and cats. | the speed or with double the load and , eign had become the people, schools
markets.
unto set my hand and caused the seal
ntorwl a* aecnnd clan. mail ing valuation asset on a total of 400,-
and
universities
were
provided
by
half the cost
Clackamas county recently voted
of the United States to be affixed.
tar in 0»
U.S. pimtoffic at 000,000 feet thut goes out of the
Mud stalls the horse. Grade cuts ( the various governments and founded
special
road
tax
in
52
road
districts
Done, in the City of Washington
county, figuring the assessment at $1
■nook. Dragon.
and
fostered
by
private
charity
until
down his load. Mud stalls the truck
out of a total 56 in the county, show
e—-
1
---------- i- per 1,000 feet.
this twenty-sixth day of September,
’
their
buildings
dotted
all
the
land.
SUIISCRII I ION RATES
Grade cuts down its speed. “Load” i
ing that other counties have been wise
in the year of our Lord, One Thou
This county is already bonded for enough to provide the butter for
and “speed,” as used here, are both i The willingness of the people to sand Nine Hundred and Twenty-three,
, Year, I1 Moil
$2.00
'
bear
the
burdens
of
maintaining
these
Month«. Uy Mail
$1.00 its present main highway system in their bread in the matter of road im- 1
synonymous for “profit.” Good roads
and of the Independence of the Unit
proper grades, quick, sure, heavy . institutions, and the patriotic devo- ed States, the One Hundred and For
te Month«. By Mail
$ .75 the sum of* $430,000, and it is up to I provement, and most of these dis
|
lion
of
an
army
of
teachers,
who,
in
the communities whose poorly im tricts represent communities that
hauling at low cost—that's the an
Payable in advance
ty-eighth.
proved roads extend from the main have roads leading to the main high
swer to the farmers’ need of some many cases, might have earned larg
I
fri
ATI
C
NAL
Lite
hAX
’
AYS
Ì
er
incomes
in
other
pursuits,
have
Tele plumea
improved highwuy in the county to way of the county.
tz____ Afe .cu zyy i c : _
~a way to make his business pay better.
SAMUEL VIERECK
made it possible to accomplish results
Pacific States, Main 68
avail themselves of all the assistance
When the farmers of the United with which we may well be gratified.
r
Mutual Telephone
NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION MEM
they may la- able to get from the tim
States unitedly say that they must But the task is not finished, it has
Samuel Viereck died last Thursday
ber whickis now being manufactured
BER, NO. 5200
According to the weather bureau
have good roads everywhere, they only begun.
night at his home in this city of cere
will
get
them!
♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ The day will arrive, when this tim sharp at Portland, Oregdn is way be
We quote from the official organ
We have observed the evidences of bral hemorrhage, aged 61 years. De
♦ ber asset will no longer be available hind in precipitation to the extent of
of the Dairymen’s League:
a
broadening
vision of the whole ed ceased is survived by a widow and
as
a
valuation
basis
upon
which
to
♦
EDITORIAL
POLICY
several inches. The continued fine
OUK
“
A
farmer
of
the
famous
Aroostock
ucational
system.
This has included three sons, namely: Henry C. Vier
♦ make tax levies for any purpose, and weather this fall leads us to believe
potato-growing section of Maine, has
a recognition that education must not eck, Carmel, Cai., Albert Viereck of
many
of
the
communities
realize
that
♦
and
aup-
that
later
on,
when
the
now
shy
pre
mlvocute,
aid
1. To
160 acres devoted to potatoes, seven
end with the period of school attend Pittsburg, Pa., and Frank Viereck of
port any imaisures that will ♦ the timber should help to pay for the cipitation begins to fall, that there and one-half miles from market, pro
ance, but must be given every en this city.
will be some rainfall doing. Should ducing 24,000 barrels of potatoes a
bring the most good to th« ♦ roads within its borders.
couragement thereafter. To this end
Deceased was born in Pittsburg,
♦
Taking the selfish view, it is all the wet end of the weather come all year, and found it impossible to de BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE the 'night schools of the cities, the
most people.
Pa., June 20, 1861, and came to Tilla
2. To encourage industries ♦ right for the fellow who lives along at once, later on, we may see some liver the potatoes in season.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA moonlight schools of the southern mook about 15 years ago, where he
to establish in Tillamook ♦ u paver! highway to oppose the levy floods in this section on the coast.
“On account of the road grade be
Appalachian countries, the extension engaged in the bakery business. He
♦
A PROCLAMATION
ing of a special tax in his district for But, why borrow trouble. At this tween farm and railroad, one team
sounty.
work of the colleges and universities, was a member of the local blue lodge
I. To urg< the improvement
I a road that leads back to the fellow writing the weather is behaving—if of horses could only haul 20 barrels
From its earliest beginnings, Ameri the provision for teaching technical, of Masons, the Shrine, Scottish Rite
♦
if a port foi Tillamook City,
two or three miles out in the mud; the expression may be allowed—“like of potatoes at a trip. It would have ca has been devoted to the cause of agricultural and mechanical arts,
Masons, and Knights Templar, and
i. To insist on nn Amoriun ♦ but he should remember that the Iasi a real gentleman.”
taken 1,200 working days with one education. This country was founded have marked out the path to a broad also was an Odd Fellow.
♦
■tandard of labor.
named farmer wus taxed to pay his
team—just a little more than three on the ideal of ministering to the in er and more widely diffused Nation
The Tillamook Chapter of Masons,
5. To be politically nuiejien- ♦ proportionate share of the cast of the
After all, with the state income tax years—to haul the potato crop to dividual. It was realized that this al culture. To insure the permanence of which deceased was a member, held
jent, but to support the ca»- ♦ main highwuy that goes pust the door
market. It would take twenty teams must be done by the institutions of and continuing improvement of such services at the lodge rooms last Sat
iidatw for public office who ♦ yurd of the more fortunate neighbor. carried by a small majority, Gover
and
twenty drivers to do the work in religion and government. In order an educational policy, there must be urday al 2 o’clock, p. m. On Sunday
will bring rhe most good to ♦ In one case recently, the members of nor Pierce is to be recalled, provided
season, which would cost more than that there might be a properly educa the fullest public realization of its last the remains were conveyed to
the people of Tillamook ♦ a certain road district in this county his opponents get the necessary votes
$6,000.
ted clergy and well-trained civil mag absolute necessity. Every American Portland, where it is understood
eounty and of the State of ♦ vote heavily ugainst a special tax in on a petition now being circulated
♦ a district that wanted to improve a for that purpose. Evidently, his en “A motor truck was put to work, istrates, one of the most thoughts of citizen is entitled to a liberal educa services were held on Monday’
Oregon.
and based on the old price of 25 cents the early settlers was to provide for tion. Without this, there is no guar leading Masonic bodies of that
lateral road leading from the main emies want to send the Governor a barrel for hauling the potatoes by a college of liberal culture, while for antee for the permanence of free in to which he belonged. Interment
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ highway on which the objectors back to the bdnchgrass section, where horses, his truck paid for itself the the general diffusion of knowledge, stitutions; no hope of perpetuating had in Riverview cemetery.
lived, fhe fellows on the highway the “bald face steers” romp and ca first season, hauling 24,000 barrels.” primary schools were established. self-government. Despotism finds its
Besides the immediate family, de
fcïïËAÏ. NOVEMBER 23, 1»23
won out, leaving the back road mem vort over unlimited pastures, and
i
This is not an advertisement of the This course was taken as the neces chief support in ignorance. Know- ceased
is survived by three brothers,
where
the
inquisitive
coyote
raises
bers of the district to work out their
motoi truck. Any motor truck would sary requirement of enlightened so ledge and freedom go hand in hand. to wit: Fred and Henry Viereck of
its
long,
pickerel
snout
toward
the
ma’
■' the tut <■ where own problem of reaching the highway
Ir order that the people of the na Portland, and Ben Viereck of San
do it, provided it had the road and no ciety.
t is mui 1 '¡Hiding timber being with their milk and other produce, zenith and laments the scarcity of motor truck could do it unless it had
Such a policy, once adopted, has tion may think on these things, it is Francisco.
hen
roosts.
a good road over which to travel.
continued to grow in extent. With desirable that there should be an an
>i out bj he timber owners, it except over mud roads and chuck
Aggregate value of new building
This is not an advertisement of po the adoption of the Federal Constitu nual observance of Educational Week.
been deemed wise on the part of holes in the winter time, und a none
Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, permits in 134 American cities in
The auto traffic in this city is get tato farming.
The same economy tion and the establishment of free
Beople of the various road djs- too good road in the summer time.
ti ne may be had with any produce, wheth governments in the States of the President of the United States, do ' October totaled $187,822,241 against
t in whirii ''‘''h timbei stands, to The fellow who lives back off the ting to be quite a problem,
| advantage of the law which main highway who was tuxed to help doesn’t have to go to Portland to er lettuce or grain, hay or onions, al Union, there was additional reason hereby proclaim the week beginning : $157,526,857 in September and $142,-
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■ road districts the power to build the highway, naturally feels learn to dodge whizzing machines on falfa or corn, if there is a good road for broadening the opportunity for on the eighteenth of November, next, i 669,633 in October 1922.
We have them right over which to haul it. No crop, no education. Our country adopted the as National Education Week, and urge
( special tux levies for road im- that his was a case of "taxation with the streets.
Mrs. J. L. Gay of Cloverdale was
Irmciit. In counties like Tilla- out representation," or, lea it without here. Some of them toot a warning matter how profitable to raise, is as principle of self-government by a its observance throughout the coun
i
in Tillamook during the ear
to pedestrians, while others slide up profitable to sell, if it has to be mar free people. Those who were worthy try. I recommend that the State and shopping
L when- mere is un average of local benefit.
of being free were worthy of being local authorities cooperate with the ly part of the present week.
If the above computation of timber to one without a note of warning, and keted over a poor road.
fllion mid a third feet of timber
EDUCATIONAL WEEK
SET BY PRESIDENT
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