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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
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Editorial Page of the Tillamook Headlight
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It is almost awesome to witness
this spectacle when one first opens
Ms eyes to it. The old timer has
made this city and county his home
tor the past 30 or 40 years may have
a hard time realizing the scale upon
which nrtdentis; and business p-e-s
erty are being constructed. Tilla-
Tillamook Jjeatiliaijt
independent Weekly Paper
published Every Friday by the
ge,djight
Publishing
Company
Tillamook, Oregon
Manager
t^lie Harrison
Entered as second class mail matter
¡n the U. S. Postoffice at Tillamook,
Oret°n
has witnessed nearly quarter of a
million dollars in building construe-
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
tion, and this is Tillamook city alone.
$2.00
On, Year. By Mail ................. ....
Six Months, By Mail ................ $1.00 Outside districts are witnessing the
same thing.
Three Months, By Mail ............. $ .75
Yet they say that the demand far
Payable in advance
exceeds the supply. This can mean
Telephone
but one thing that Tillamook county
Pacific States, Main 68
has entered into an era of substantial
prosperity which is reflected from our
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EDITORIAL
POLICY
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One who banks his faith in Tilla­
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county will not be betrayed.
advocate,
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port any measures that will +
THE NATION’S DEFENSE
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people
PROGRAM
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4 2. To encourage industries ♦
Aside from a few milk-fed pacifists
4 to establish in Tillamook ♦ who have always been an annoying
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♦ county.
3. To urge the improvement ♦
the nation as a whole will enter into
♦ of a port for Tillamook City. ♦
the observance of Denfense Day on
♦ 4. To insist on an American ♦
September 12.
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standard
of
labor.
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In spite of the outcries made by
♦ 5. To be politically indepen­ ♦
♦ dent, but to support the can­ ♦ the pacifists dwellers of this country
* didates for public office who ♦ that the establishment of this date is
♦ will bring the most good to + a warlike and unfriendly movement,
Tillamook «
♦ the people of
the sturdier element of our country
county
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of
the
State of ♦
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appreciate its real value as a pre­
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server of peace and as a systematic
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War there will be as long as human
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1924
greed and hate exist. A month from
01R UNSUSPECTED GROWTH
now or a year from now may see us
The average Tillamooker as he goes pitted against some powerful foreign
about his daily routine probably never country, bound to invade our shore
line and take possession of our homes
realizes what a rapid but still sub- and property.
stantial growth is taking place both
Are we going to peaceably allow
in wealth and population in Tilla- this to occur, or resent it and defend
our firesides?
mook county.
Judging from arguments of the
To cite as an instance one may
glance about the city here and see pacifists they leave their doors un­
the vacant lots and weed filled corn­ locked and their valuables unprotect-
ers developing into neat front yards , ed. ready to be stolen by the first
I thief who comes along.
and home sites.
BOY scours
Not many years ago several boys
organizations were built up for the
purpose of developing in the youth
of this country a spirit of wholesome
service and citizenship. Most of them
lived a few years and then gradually
withered away. But one of these has
survived ar.d is still growing. The
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the best existing exmaple of suceess-
ful
1 organization through service.
The code of the organization, to per­
form one good deed a day without
thought of remuneration has been a
leading factor in building up the man­
hood that is being built up in these
young fellows’ lives. When called
upon they willingly take the jobs that
have always been hard to fill, Dur-
the Editorial convention that was
held here last month the local troop
were on hand to assist in many ways.
They have volunteered their services
o the county fair board and will act
as guards and policemen during the
fair. Support of such an organiza­
tion is certainly commendable.
EDITORIAL RESOLUTIONS
(Continued from page 2)
To the paper trades association of
Portland for badges.
To those who have appeared on
the programs at different times for
their interesting, entertaining and in-
structive contributions.
To the Tillamook Creamery associ­
ation for the gift of cheeses to the
newspapers represented.
To the Whitney Lumber company
of Oregon, Rosenberg Bros, and oth­
ers for entertainment yet to come.
And finally to the newspaper men
of Tillamook for their unceasing ef-
forts toward making the meeting the
success it has been.
Whereas, it has appeared to the
members of the Oregon Editorial as-
sociation through personal observa­
tion and a presentation of facts by
those conversant with the situation,
that the present highway connections
from the Tillamook country to the
lower Willamette Valley and Port­
land, although their completion is of
comparatively recent date, are al­
ready loaded beyond capacity with
FEATURES
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traffic, and
Whereas, There is a vital need for
all increase in facilities both for in-
dustrial traffic and that steadily in-
creasing movement of tourists from
the inland points of Oregon and the
far and near places of the nation to
T'dam—'k -‘tj »rd tVt increasingly
popular beach resorts; now, therefore,
be it
Resolved, Tha* the Oregon State
Editorial association does hereby
give its hearty support to the move­
ment to secure such new highway
facilities, realizing their need both
from a local and statewide stand­
point; be it further
Resolved, That copies of this reso­
lution be forwarded to the Oregon
States Highway Commission.
RELIGIOUS DEBATE
By N. W. Phelps
I notice by your paper of August
15th that Mr. Davey has turned Arab,
folded his tent, taken his “Benedic­
tine” still, and departed. A mighty
actor has passed off the stage. We
feel to speak of him in the language
of Carlyle: “We speak of him secret­
ly as if it were a kind of Melchizedek,
without father or mother of any kind;
sometimes, with reference to his
great historic and statistic knowledge,
and the vivid way he had of express­
ing himself like an eye witness of
distant transactions and scenes.”
We must admit that he did about
as well as could be done defending
what he defended. His defeat is to
be found, not in his lack of ability,
but in the impossibility to defend an
organization that makes “booze” for
profit in the name of Christ in a pro­
hibition country. Which shows rev­
erence to images and calls itself
Christian.
Which divides the em­
blems in the communion to uphold a
dogma.
Which counts beads in
prayer, believes in the sacredness of
‘shin bones’; dips itself in ‘Holy Wa­
ter,’ and declares that in its hands
are two swords, the one of ‘spiri ual
life’ and the other of ‘physical death.’
Which professes to be founded on the
Bible yet has no Bible for its founda­
tion. Which declares that it is just
and Christian to take little children
and work them 12 hours in ‘sweatshop either reform or hang. Mr. Davey laymen are rebels in heart, when they
hell-mils’ that fat priests might loll brings forth labored paragraphs cannot be in fact; with a very few
in luxury on soft cushions. Which about a ‘moderator’ which shows a exceptions they are publicly in favor
spreads out Holy hands while it de- j clearly that all his talk about a dear of slavery. I understand now why
frauds hundreds of young women out intelligent public was pure political the patriots of France, who de er-
of their God-given birthright by per­ bunk. He thus informs this ‘intelli­ minded to see th colors of liberty
suading them that it is the will of gent’ Dublbic that its intelligence ia
God and to hs glory that they shut so low that there was need all the floating over their great anu beou«
them elves up' in walled bastites and while that some one with wisdom ful- country, were forced to shoot oi
become the servants and prey of should judge for it what was revel­ hang almost all the priests «¿id monks
those who drive them with lashes and ant, true or false. What Mr. Davey as the irreconcilable enemies of lib­
browbeat them with floor-kissing. really meant to say no doubt was, erty. For it is a fact which is now
Which says to Helen Jackson in the that the Church of Rome should have
language of heaven, “What a pins supreme political power so they could evdent to me that with very few ex­
sweet little face, and Oh, how Jesus act as moderator, set in judgment on ceptions, every priest and eveiy ‘true’
woud like you to be His Spouse” and the press, and allow nothing in print Roman Catholic is a determined
later ducks her in the bath tub until that would show’ up the malevolent enemy of liberty.
she is dead, then beats her upon the character of the Church of Rome. Mr.
“Their extermination in France was
wet gown to see if she can bear it Davey is very sorry that the laymen one of those terrible necessities which
and live. Which has left no ‘holy now know, some of them, that the no human wisdom could avoid. May
word’ our of its ritual and no crime Church of Rome, byt its priests and God grant that the same terrible ne­
against humanity out of its acts, Monks is in the business of making cessity be never felt in the United
Which dreamed out the “spider” with scofflaw “booze” in a prohibition States! But there is a thing which is
which they tore out women's breasts. country in the name of Christ for very certain; it is, that if the Ameri­
Which dreamed out^ the thousand filthy profit.
No wonder we find can people could learn what 1 know of
,uot;isinbu], aqj jo soauou 3 uuo 3J b ; s popish hatred belching its spume at the fierce hatred of the generalities
and poured over it the “blessing’ of the wrold’s Magna Chartas.
of the priests of Rome against our
a Pope. Which writes a list of ques­
Mr. Davey tries to make it appear institutions, our schools, our most
tions with which they make the ‘con­ that we have said hard things against sacred rights, and our so dearly
fessional’ a pest-house of obseenity ‘holy women.’ This of course is not bought liberties, they would drive
and a highway to blackmail.* It is true. We have all the while directed them away from among us tomorrow,
‘impossibility’ Mr. Editor to defend our words at a depraved priestcraft or they would shoot them as traitors.
a thing like that. There is no more which is willing in its sodden selfish­ The history of these last thousand
defence fort it than there is for the ness to delude young women into be­ years tells us that wherever the
slum.
lieving that by serving THEM in the Church of Rome is not a dagger to
Mr. Davey does a strange thing. surrender of both themselves and pierce to the bosom of a free nation,
He debates before the public and their labor that they thereby serve she is a STONE to its neck, and a
then undertakes to tell the public how God. God knows I pity the sad-eyed ball to its feet, to paralyze her and
nicely he won the debate. How ‘very’ Sisters in their maternity dresses, prevent her advance in the ways of
truthful he has been and what an bearing burdens too heavy to be born, civilization, science, intelligence, hap­
awful liar his opponent has been. which a drunken priestcraft, eating piness and liberty.” Lincoln’s death
Like Saul of old he is saying, “I their man-made christs, will not lift was declared by Roman Catholics in
have kept the commandment of the with so much as their Ittle* finger. St. Joseph Minn, hours before he was
Lord.” But Samuel is saying, “What The girls are not to blame, they are killed.
meaneth then the lowing of the oxen VICTIMS of wiley priests just as
If man cannot use the Bible as a
which I hear?” Again and again Mr. much, and in the same manner, as guide in his religious life he has none.
Davey instructed this same public some are victims of Dr. Cook, the The priests say, We are the mess­
that it was very intelligent, now he oil grafter. It was this same cunning engers of Christ you should listen to
Resumes on this intelligence to tell that published in Democratic papers us. We reply, We will most asured-
iWwhat its verdict must be. We are that Lincoln was born and baptized ly listen to you if you will first prove
of the opinion Mr. Editor that the a Roman Catholic and that he was that you are the messengers of
eaders of your paper are well able because of this an apostate, in order Christ. I offer this as a challenge
to judge who lied and who is that to build up in the minds of Catholics o Roman Catholic laymen who have
could find no scripture to sustain an just grounds for killing him. It was been reading this debate: You CAN­
“ever virgin” Mary, and no history the pressure of this demonic cunning; NOT read your New Testament with
to deny that J. Wilkes Booth a Roman that woke Lincoln’s heart to the facts an open mind, with an unwavering
Catholic killed Lincoln nine months and caused him to say:
purpose to follow its teachings, re­
after aRoman Catholic traitor had “The fact is, that the majority of gardless of perverting footnotes, and
been told by Lincoln that he would Roman Catholic bishops, priests and , remain a Roman Catholic.
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TILLAMOOK COUNTY FAIR
SEPTEMBER 9-10-11-12, 1924
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Pendleton Indians with race horses—camped on grounds in native
War Dances, etc.
coutumes
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acrobatic, slack and tight
McMahon & Wheeler Attrapions
nies, monkeys, dogs, and bear
wire, trained
FREE
MOTION
PICTURES
EVERY
EVENING
(Note: All the above attractions are free)
Program
Friday
for
Old
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Settlers
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Tillamook
The Fair Board asks you to cooperate with them by placing an exhibit.
Livestock entries should be made not later than Sunday, Sept. 7th.