inAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1923 I TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT COMMENT Editorial Page of the Tillamook Headlight FEATURES »>'7 »V. » 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,- «. • 5 ■ 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. 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