FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,1924 TILLAMOOK COMMENT HEADLIGHT PAGE Editorial Page of the Tillamook Headlight inn 3 FEATURES uiiiiiiniii M + + ♦ PROCLAMATION * Tillamook Day at the County + Fair + “Lets Go!” + The County Fair Board hav- ♦ mg designate Thursday Sejrt. + 11th as Tillamook Day. Let us ♦ do our part and make this the + biggest and best Tillamook Day ♦ ever held at our Fair. Therefore + I. J. Merrel Smith, Mayor of ♦ Tillamook City, Oregon, do here­ + by request the citizens of this ♦ city to help make this the “one ♦ big day.” ♦ Respectfully, + J MERREL SMITH, Mayor. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + iillamook 4 n Independent Weekly Paper published Every Friday by the ge8dlight Publishing Company Tillamook, Oregon Harrison. Manager "YnTered as second class mail matter id the U. S. Post office at Tillamook, Orégon SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, By Mail ---- ............ $2.00 $1.00 Six Months, By Mail ... ....... $ .75 Three Months, By Mail ......... Payable in advance Telephone Pacific States, Main 68 ♦ ♦♦ ♦ + *«*♦♦♦ + + ♦ ♦ ♦ OUR EDITORIAL POLICY ♦ * 1. To advocate aid and sup- ♦ port any measures that will ♦ bring the most good to the * most people 1 ♦ 2. To encourage ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ industries to establish in Tillamook county. 3. To urge the improvement of a port for Tillamook City. 4. To insist on an American standard of labor. 5. To be politically indepen­ dent, but to support the can­ didates for public office who will bring the most good to the people of Tillamook county and of the State of Oregon. + ♦ + ♦ * + ♦ ♦ + + ♦ + + + * * ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ « ♦ + ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ + ♦ ♦ + ♦ * ♦ ♦ + + ♦ a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called stand­ patter, but don’t be a standpatter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don’t be a demagogue. Don’t hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don’t hesitate to be as re­ actionary as the multiplication table.” ♦ ♦ ♦ “Don’t expect to build up the weak by tearing down the strong. Don’t hurry to legislate. Give administra­ tion a chance to catch up with legis­ lation.” * ♦ ♦ “There is no problem so great but that somewhere a man is being raised up to meet it. There is no mortal standard so high that the people can­ not be raised up to meet it.” ♦ ♦ ♦ FRIDAY, SE1TEMBER 5, 1924 “It is only when men begin to wor­ ship that they begin to grow.” “It is not a change that is needed John T. Nolan, self-styled Com­ in our Constitution and laws so much as there is need of living in accord­ mander of the National Disabled Sol­ ance with them.” dier League, Inc., which, to the best ♦ ♦ ♦ of our information, consists of the ‘The law of life, the law of pro­ above-mentioned Mr. Nolan and two gress is the law of obedience, the or three grafting confederates, is law oi aervie<" flooding the state of Oregon with ap­ ♦ ♦ ♦ peals for money under the guise of Accom- “Education which is not based on helping disabled veterans, religion and character is not educa­ panying a cleverly worded circular, well-designed to gain the sympathy tion.” of the unsuspecting reader, is a pack­ Tl’NlNG THE SCHOOL IN ON LIFE age of five pencils. These profes­ sional beggars who are trading on the misfortune of our wounded comrades The funny column of a daily paper do not ask for charity—they only ask tells of a teacher who asked Willie you to send One Dollar in payment to locate several cities and he an­ for these pencils, which probably cost swered, “1 can’t locate ’em but I less than five cents wholesale! know how to tune in on every blamed This National Disabled Soldier one of 'em.” League has absolutely no standing That story carries a first rate idea in veteran circles and its agents are for teachers. The schools will open not recognized in any of the govern­ soon and millions of children will ment bureaus handling veteran busi­ come from the free, playful, natural ness in Washington. It is the same social child life to the different at­ organization that Mayor Edward L. mosphere and life of the school. Bader kicked out of Atlantic City Teachers will try mistakenly to after breaking up a so-called conven­ change most of the child’s physical tion of the “League” when he read and mental habits in a day. The an advertisement in an Atlantic City shift from hours of activity to hours paper calling for fifty delegates to be sitting still will cause much illness among them if the teacher is not careful. From learning what is in­ teresting and what appeals to them they will be forced to change to set lessons about things that they do not use daily and that they probably feel never will be any help. Fortunately more and more schools are fitting themselves to make the child life in them more free, easy, and natural, i The rows of stiff desks are being re­ i placed with study tables and chairs; the textbook is giving way to the li­ brary; the deadly silence, to the hum of busyness; and restraint and re­ pression, to encouragement and ex­ pression. The schools are “tuning in” on life. ♦ ♦ ♦ OUR CHILDREN “There is no need for Americans The opening of school draws our thoughts toward the children, with to lack confidence in themselves or in their problems and the perplexities their institutions. Let him who they must meet, and the future that doubts them look about him.” is in store for them. Through the day they are aided and guided by the teacher who bends every effort to be helpful to them in all ways. Do we always give her the help she deserves and needs? Do we take an interest in what she is doing for our children and for their future which means the future of a great nation? Let us awake and remember that Now is the time to can them for winter use. they are our children in school hours They are plentiful and cheap. Also remember as well as at other times and do what that we have a big, complete stock of Fruit Jars, we can to help the teacher help them. paid $3 a day each.—Pacific Legion. matic officers of other consulates in I Calcutta. The planning, preparation, and serving of wholesome and attractive meals from products readily avail­ able on the farm was a 4-H club activity In which over 18,500 farm girls enrolled in 1923, according to reports to the United States Depart­ ment of Agriculture, and carried to completion the work outlined for the year. Greater use of milk and milk products and of fruits and vege­ tables, and more varied use of sea­ sonal foods are some features of the improved methods of meal prepar­ ation demonstrated by these young homemakers under the direction of cooperative extension workers. Calcutta, India. August—On the occasion of the brief stop here by the American round-the-world flyers to have their planes transformed from sea to land planes, a dinner was given in their honor by the Calcutta Post of the American Legion. Mor than 200 guqgts were present- including civil and military officers and diplo- r The Intense Fire Place Heater Transforms a Fire Place into a Pow­ erful Medium for Heating It converts on ordinary fire pace into a prac­ tical, efficient heater. Becomes a permanent fix­ ture. There is nothing to adjust, replace nor get out of order. It draws the cold air off front the floor con­ tinually and discharges it back into the room at a high degree of temperature, distributing it every­ where throughout the apartment, and a constant­ ly higher temperature is the result. FRED J. PYE & SON “Anything Made of Wood” Mill Work Plans Drawn y RIPE TOMATOES and GREEN BEANS COOLIDGE ♦ ♦ ♦ “Men do not make laws. They but discover them. Laws must be justi­ fied by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of the ma- jority.” Pl eSSUGAR—$8.20 per sack, Cash with order. TEAS—Nothing of cheap quality; our 60c bulk teas will please. BROOMS—The Little Polly, the housewife s ♦ ♦ ♦ “Statues must appeal to more than material welfare. Wages won’t satis­ fy, be they never so large. Nor houses nor lands; nor coupons, though they fall thick as the leaves of autumn. Man has a spiritual nature. Touch it, and it must respond as the magnet responds to the pole.” frlCIlIt doesn’t cost you anything extra to trade at Satisfaction Store-Market ♦ + ♦ ~ E. G. Anderson “Do the day’s work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, who­ ever objects, do it. If it be to help unnuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimii Ulti I Caps, Rubbers, etc. FRUIT—Pears, Apples, Prunes and Grapes are now in good supply. COOKIES and CRACKERS—We always have a good assortment of the best lines. COFFEE—Growing in sales all the time. Our 45c Satisfaction Coffee is all its name im- PHILOSOPHY AND DOCTRINE = The Corred Styles Oregon State Agricultural ____ H College OFFERS A Liberal and Practical in Fall Millinery I I Education In the several pursuits and professions in life trough the following schools and departments- The School of Basic Arts and Sciences I I Mt Oregon Agricultural College CORVALLIS - OREGON I —.............................. ■ I --------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------