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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1911)
THE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHF1ELD, OREGON,, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 91 1-EVENING EDITION. r -SSS e COOS BAY TIMES Entered nt the postofflce at Mnrsh liold, Oregon, for transmission through tho malls oa second class mall matter. 1'ilHor mill Pub. Xcus IMItor M. T. MALOXKY DAN K. MALOXHY An Independent Republican news paper published every evening oxcepl Sunday, nnd Weekly by Tho Coos liny Times PuhlMiliig Co. Dedicated to ttie servtco of tho people, that no Rood cause shall lack a champion, and that evil shall noi thrlvo unopposed. Tho Coos Uay Times represents n consolidation of the Dally Coast Mall ond Tho Coos Hay Advertiser. The Coast Mall was the first dally estab lished on Coos Uay and Tho Coos Day Times Is Its inimcdlulo successor. sunsciiiirrio.v katks. DAILY. Ono year $0.00 Por month BO When paid strictly In advance the Bubscriptlon price of the Coos Day Times Is $5.00 per year or $2.50 for elx months. UTKKIiY. Ono year $1.50 only shall count. At tho present time tho ofllce of county superintendent is n farce. A superintendent's duties consist chiefly in performing somo petty oillco work nnd In consulting with legislators regarding an increase In salary or In behalf of some meas ure like tho Huntington bill. Official Paper of Coon Count)'. OFFICIAL PAPKR OF TIIF. CITY OF MAItKIIFIKLR. Address all commrntratlou to COOS MAY DAILY Tl.MKS, Ulnifilifk'ld :: :' :: :: Oregon filCT IMCAL Sri'lIltlXTK.VDK.VTS A DILL has been passed by tho Orogon loglslatitro that looks good upon tho Bitrfnco but whl '. will bring about little If any thing In the way of results nnd add conslduiablo to tho expense of tho nrlous counties. Tho hill Is suppos ed to provide for Huporvlslon for country school districts. It provides for n county, oduuutloiiiil board with tho county school superintendent as ix-olllclo chairman. The other mem Lira of the hoard are to bo named by tho county court and are to assist the county superintendent In super vising tho work of tho rural schools. Each supervisor is to lmvo charge of 20 or more school districts and must bo paid of course. The trouble with this bill which Mas Introduced by Representative Huntington Is that It does not go to the root of the dlllleiilty. The trouble nt present lie ehlelly in the fact that In Oregon the olHce of county super intendent Is n political olllce. Doing n poor pnylug olllce It Is Hoinetlnios llllod by some third olnst politician who wants an easy berth, fiononilly tho man selected Iiiih had soino ox- porloneo as a teacher but It froiiuont ly occurs that tho superintendent of mi Important county bus never taught n graded school. Coos county Is more fortunate In this respect but the nystem Is at fault. Seldom do you find n competent educator In the su perintendent's olllce. The reason for this Is that being a political olllce the Hiiperlnteudeut must he selected from nmnng people who reside In the coun ty, and the few men capable of rilling the office with credit generally haw bettor portions already. So the of lice really noes a-begging. In cities, where tho sehools are conducted with a view to rompetenc) . tb school superintendent Is selected upon hU uutlts as an educulor. Wheu tie Marsh Held school board wants a ilty superintendent It does uot try n employ u local man. The board lnoks tu au pait of the state or coun ty for a luuu. The man selected must hold his position by virtue o,t good work. If he cannot make good lie la discharged. That is the busk v .- -like way to do things. In the view of The Times tali sume sstetu, lu a uiodtnvd form per Imps, should be applied to the schools or the county. The county superin tendent should be employed, uot elected. He should be employe 1 either by the county court or by. a couuty school board chosen much as city school boards are choseu. There khould be a clerk to do the small of. lice work and the superintendent should supeivlso the work of the ru- lal schools, lie should outline work for the schools and see that the schedules ate followed. He should Ult the schools personally aud keep In close touch with the work by cor respondence He should be real superintendent not a dummy. IX Till: .MHLTIXO POT. OMi:TIMi:S as men look upon the enormous stream of Itnnil-Ki-Rtlfin Hint nours n flood of foreigners Into this country they bo come pessimistic. Such largo num bers of the newcomers arc wrotched Iv poor; so many nro ignorant; so i any heir tho marks of grinding op pression; so ninny seem hopeless ns prospective citizens; so many come from wldoly different nnd antagonis tic races, doubt nrlses that these hosts will ever bo fused In tho melt ing pot. There Is another side to nil this, however. It comes out In such little storloB ns was told recently by nn eastern newspaper of the son of nn Immigrant who, perhaps, In his time was Just ns hopeless ns ninny who are coming today, Just as poor, Just us uneducated. This son. who Is lu buslnoss for himself, recently took n stand for ro foim that was not popular, where upon he gave his vlows.of his tint) as nn Amerlcnn citizen, its follows: "This country hns been good to my father and to Its sons. 1 owo nil I am or ever expect to be to the op portunities given mo by this coun try, and it there is anything I can do for Its upbuilding, or moral up lift, it Is my duty to do It regardless of. tho result to my personal Inter ost." Thou thoro is this other story, told again nnd ngaln In tho gubernatorial ennipnlgu In an eastern statu by ono of tho candidates: "Not long ago, lu one of our small er towns, thoro was talk of lmvlng a night watchman employed to pntrol the village. A Pole, who had bought n rundown farm lu tho community and wns making It run up, canto to tho selectmen nnd snld ho would be glad to serve as such n watchman one night In ovory week. "What would von charge?" ho was asked. "Oh, nothing," wns the ontliuslustlc reply. 'I love the town so,' " These stories, nre but typos of countless stories that might be brought together, livery community Into whleh the foreign -Immigrant tho mnn who thinks he knows, but If It was nothing more than n habit, It bents tho habit of the fellow whoso only variation from a week day ex istence is to stroll downtown for his mall, sit on the sunny side of the street and spit tobacco Juice on the walk and gossip. There is a certain family in town In which the woman talks bass nnd the man soprano. Of course tho wo mnn Is tho boss. A man with n womnn's voice who marries a woman with a man's voice Is so foolish ho deserves his fate. Ho is always so subdued that people consider him more of nn ornament than a neces sity nround the house. Tho worst troublo with grouchl nes8 is, that n grouch begets a grouch. The writer, strange to say, woko up with n snippy, dlsngreeable grouch the other morning. Doforo breakfast was over all tho family Had caught It. Snmo wny In tho olllce. He hadn't been nt work half nn hour until evcryono wns surly and cross. Same way at dinner. The whole dny was unplensant for nil of those nround him, until about 4 o'clock ho began to renllzo what a childish, dlsagrceablo sort of a fol low ho was and tool; himself nround the comer nnd administered n good cussing nnd overhauling. Thoro was some dlsntisfactlon in routing the grouch, but there was no sense iti wasting most of the day lu doing It. Some time during the Inst years of his lire tho lato John Qulney" Adams wrote, bonenth n portrait of hlmsolf, somo lines of which the following Is one: "An ngo of sorrow, nnd a life of Btorm." Thoeo words wore not wrltton by n wrotchod outcast, dying lu tho poorhouso, but by ono of the ninrkod favorites of external fortune. Tho Into Ilnrrlson (lrny Otis, In n public speech of his Inter days, said: "As I look back over my existence I seo a pathway of mingled roses nnd thorns, but the roBos have long since disappeared, nnd tho thoniB only re rain." This wns tho confosslon of n mnn who had everything Hint nl most every liumnn bolng of our gon orntlon fnnclos worth having, nnd 1b striving distractedly to got honlth, strongth, beauty, grace, oloquenco, culture nnd popularity. People Use Electric Flat Irons the Year Round t WITH THE i has come can furnish Its quota. Kve-, TOAST AND TEA t ry community can point to men of foreign birth who stand high as suc cessful citizens, nnd ns for their chil dren they are ns good Americans as though their ancestry hud come over In the colonial days Instead of lu these modern days. Coos Uay has many men of this typo. Among those people, too, may bo round citiz enship Idoals ns flue and noble as the finest nnd noblest. It Is doubt ful If anywhere In Amorlcn may be found better uudursttindliig of the iiuues anil oniigaiioiiH oi ciuzeiiui than these men hold as their guiding principles. Though there may be n limit to the successful fusion or races In this country. It Is doubtful If that limit has et been reached. cool) f.vf.xixc t They are equally as convenient in fall and winter as they are in the hot weather. There may be less discomfort from kitchen fires, to be sure, but the electric flat iron has many other advantages than saving heal. They save drudgery. They save footsteps between ironing board and stove. They never need changing. They arc always clean and uniformly hot ready at your elbow. Thousands of Women use them who prefer to iron little things themselves in their own room, or elsewhere, on short notice. An clec trie iron once tried is never afterward dispensed with. Why not try one yourself. Ask us for particulars. . Oregon ee 3 Powei N ;s.l.-i -V --T-m lhJ l mps Lily Forget past triumphs nlso. Do not rest on your laurels, or be content with past victories. Thank find for those, nnd ask for more. It Is uot enough that wo hnvo had a great past, wo wnnt n grent present nnd n greator future. Look forward. In the coming yenr, let faith widen our coast, and expand our vision. Look out, not In. Look forward, not backward, look up, not down. Standard. storm, And still, oh Sister, o'er tho western sea Hold thou, unchallenged, proud su premacy. THAYER. thi: quikt ohsi:ryi:r s.vvs: "About tho moBt unlvorsnl habit of Coos Day nion is to hnvo too many pockets and too Httlo money to put into them." HOME LAND Co. 8oo ue for luvesiiueuis on Com Bay. Wo guarantee owuor's price to bo our price. Phono 7-1 L. 2lt Front St Have That Roof Fixed NOW See CORTHELL Phono tillM. UIISIMIVATIOXS. "KINDLY MAIL CHIH'K." How dear to nur hearts Is the steady subscriber Who pay In advance at the birth of the ear. Who lays down the money and does It quite gladly. And casts round the orhee a halo of cheer. He never says "Stop It: I cannot afford it. I'm getting more papers now than 1 can read." But always aas "Send It: our peo ple all like It -In faqt. we all think It a help and a need." How welcome his cheek whan It reaches oar sauctum. Hew It makes our pulse throb: how It wakes our heart dauce. We outwardl) thank hint: we In wardly bless hint The steady subscriber who pays lu advauee. sax fraxcisco. offspring of tho shore and Proud sen, Home of tho millions yet to be, No more thy billowy smokes nrlse No more thy minarets fret . the skies, All! Iceland all; the haughty domes, The lab'rers' huts: the lordly homes. i The earth rose 'neath thee, aud her hand Cast on thy pile the burning brand: The waters failed thee lu thy dread And left three mourulug o'er thy dead: Hut. ever graud. thou airest birth To all that's brave on mother onrth. for ere upon the crushed hearth- stoues. White are the ashes of bleached bones, 13re shelter rises o'er defenseless head. , Or walling ceases for thy dead' Thy ory rings out Triumphant note Hold, high nnd raucous from thy llanie-scorohad throat, Above tho fragments of the rooking throne Y'ou enn lonru n Httlo ovory day, and most pooplo do n very Httlo. Coos Bay-R.oseburg Stage Line Dally stuge between Itoncbtirg umi .Miii-hiuicld. Stngo leaves dully and Sunday t 7 p. in. Fare, $(I.O0. OTTO S''i:OTTi:U, Agent, 120 MARKI5T AV Murslillcld. PHONIC 11 i;. P. IIAUNAItD. Agent. nOSKnilRO. OR. qckstiox von Tin: day. o Ry the by, have you dono ' your Raster shopping yet? ' I When we see a man hurrying In every family there Is a sort of tradition that the boy of the family has n common streak in him, dating back, probably, to some of his father's folks. TDK II.U'IIKLOK film. SAY'S: O "A man never marries for any particular reason: he takes n wife as he does a cocktail, "Just because" and then In- vonts tho reason afterwards." e do uot stop him aud ask a bunch of questions. He Isn't in a humor to stand for anythtug like that. The If the legislators w ant to lmprovo . cbauces are he Is having troubles of the rural schools they should lay the his own and does uot euro to bo foundation for such Improvement by bothered. t -king the olllce of county suporin tendent out of politics and placing It To dress nnd go to church Sunday upon a basis where melt nnd merit r M-nlug u:ay be dabbed a hnbit by Klercoly commnndeorlng nil thine along with soot over his face and a own, "Jlnt" of stovepipe under oue arm, nomnndliig still the wardship of the sfons With sholtor to the homing argosies. Swift It Is yielded. In thy dnrkost hour No hand of ours would clip thy Bplondld power. Rebuild thy palaces, reclothe thy form, Hotly defiant of both shock and Somo nion soom Interested In lenrnlug tho rules of etiquette In ar dor that they oan violate them more frequently. It Is n safe hot that, if the suffra getto falls to look the part, she will act It, and there nro instances whoro you win both ways. Speaking of that old chestnut, per potunl motion, gossip continues to bo about the only thing that anyone can start and no oue can stop. Every woman's foar and dislike of other women Is based on the belief that somo oue of them will somo day be her husband's second wife. If You YYKItH TO ASIC AXY .MIJKCHAXT, LITTLK) WHAT PAPKIt Tl) ISI AXD PKODICK YVOl'Ll) UK UUSl'LTS, r.lK AXY ADYKRTISKIl (RIO TO COVKIt COOS COl'NTY ItMPl.Y VXROriVlTRlY i He TIMES It's absolute pre-emlnency lu this field U unquestioned. BEST FOR ADVERTISER. BEST FOR THE HOME It blazos the way ror others to follow. PHONE YOUR WANTS Courteous clerks to fulfill your wishes. The Coos Bay Times 133 -J GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE TIMES' OFFICE. !&' RtiSMftT V tt W" i'ly'!T'11' ft" ? sTr" mag Tf.i