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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1924)
PAGE FOUR «Cottane (Grove Sentinel A Weekly Newspaper With Plenty of Backbone Bede & Smith. Elbert Bede__ .Publishers ........ Editor A first-class publication entered at Cottage Grove as secund class matter profitable. Taxes are higher to day, to be sure, than a couple of decades ago, but the comforts that are paid for with tax money are also vastly greater. No one would go bark to muddy streets, flooded basements and all the other inconveniences in order to save the difference in his taxes. Business Office.......... 55 North Sixth it is—the limitation to one week. Why not extend it throughout the year! It is customary in certain circles to berate young people, especially the boys of today, because of their delinquencies. Various epithets of disapprobation are applied to them. They are lazy, rough, violent, law less and generally incorrigible. The blame for these conditions is placed upon the church, the school or the police; everywhere but the one place where the blame properly lies—in the home. Where father and sons are chums the boys seldom go wrong. When the father is too absorbed in business or lodge work or golf, anything but the home, the boys grow up not only without proper control but without right guidance. No lodge is as important as a boy; and no business has claims prior to that of tho lusty youngster in the home. Nor can father transfer his re sponsibility to the teacher in the school room or the judge of the ju venile court. Frequently boys are too much under the influence of women, and not one woman in a thousand is capable of understand ing the heart of a boy, especially in the adolescent years. We cannot emphasize too strongly the responsibility of citizenship, but there is even n greater responsibil ity, and that is the responsibility of fatherhood. If Father and Son week serves to impress upon the' men of the nation the supreme im parlance of cultivating the confi donee and companionship of the boys it will have served a treinen (lously important purpose. In other words, if taxes are twice as high as they were 20 years ago, SUBSCRIPTION RATES we demand twice as much from our One year..... 42.25 I Throe mouths 65c Six months- 1.15 I Single copy— 5c tax money and it is worth twice as much to live under conditions of to day which make our existence so Member of much more pleasant. We can't have National Editorial Association Oregon State Editorial Association our cake und cut it. We can’t get Oregon Newspaper Conference twice as much as we used to at the Lane County Publishers ’ Association price we used to pay for half as much. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1024 The educators of the state, in annual session in Port hi nd last PAYING FOR WHAT WE GET. week, reported that the people of the state are for the so-called frills A few days ago W. W. Calkins, in education. Education of the of Eugene, described to members of growing generation consumes half the Kiwariis club of that city the or more of our tax burden. A com Eugene of 20 years ago and com mittee reported to the convention pared it with the Eugene of today. that returns from 155 labor organ "Tho street» of 20 years ago,’’ izations, granges, women’s clubs and ho said, * ‘ were seas of mud, the organizations showed there were ties of an abandoned street cur 131 who proposed no eliminations line made traffic on the main drug from the curriculum of the elemen a problem of bumping safely from tary grades, 116 who wanted no elim one tie to the next, tho sewers were inations made from the high school wholly inadequate to carry off the courses and none who would favor surplus water and in no way did it eliminations of ¡»art of the courses compare favorably with the Eugene in either the high schools or in the grades. Those who did favor elim of today." The Eugene Register commented inations in the courses suggested upon Mr. Calkins’ remarks and we that agriculture, civics and drawing are struck with the similarity of should not be taught in the elemen what The Register said to what The tary grades und that teachers ’ train Sentinel has often said. We do not ing classes, »Spanish, stenography, suggest plagiarism, but we quote typewriting, bookkeeping, biology, what Tho Register says merely to French and cooking should be elim CRIMINAL DRUNKENNESS. show that those who closely study inated from the subjects taught to our conditions must arrive at almost the high school students. Votes for It is high time the legislative and the same conclusion. The Register these eliminations were scattering. One hundred and forty-six of the judicial authorities began to consid said: er the crime (the word is used ad People spend a vast amount of 155 civic organizations reported ithat time—particularly in election they found no fad» or frills in the visedly) of drunkenness when driv yeurs—contrasting the tax rate of courses of the schools, while 133 ing a motor car as something in today with the tax rate of 20 proposed some additions to the finitely more serious than is drunk years ago. Contrasts such us were courses, such as oral English and enness under ordinary circumstances. Prohibition is ns yet too new for made by Mr. more music. If a majority of the people of the world old opinion of the drunk the state do not think that any en man as one to be laughed at, thing can be cut from our educa pitied perhaps, put to bed to sober tional program—and we are not up, fined u small sum as a public finding fault with their judg nuisance, to change, at least over ment—then no cut cun be made in night. But drunkenness which can harm 50 per cent of the expense of gov no one but the inebriated man is eminent. Outside of those seeking public ono thing; drunkenness which is a office we have heard but few point mounce to all who use tho streets to specific instances where tax re and roads and which, via the car, ductions can be made. Of course converts the otherwise ¡nocuous vic there are instances but it takes tim of his appetite to a potentially united effort upon the part of a wholesale murderer, is entirely some large number to bring such reduc thing else. Sentiment is swinging over to re tions about. A majority would pre fer to pay a little more in taxes garding the drunken driver ns ono than to give any time to a united who commits more than a misde effort to bring about tux reduction. meanor; but it should swing faster If a majority of the people are and go further. The man who, when not ready to point out where tax drunk, drives a ear is a madman—a reductions can be made, and if they man without sense, without reason had rather pay taxes than to join ability, without judgment. He puts a concerted movement to reduce in jeopardy the lives of men, women taxes, it is quite certain that there and children. He endangers prop erty. He may cause frightful loss because it has no outlet and will be little tax reduction. salt does not evaporate. There It is more likely that 10 years of life, hideous mannings, terrible No maniac with a gun is fore all the salt in the sediment from now taxes will bo higher than accidents. allowed upon tho streets; the num thut they will be lower. which rivers have carried down who deliberately makes himself a Erecting magnificent tombstones from the land, remains in the We seem to take nn entirely dif maniac mid fits himself out with a sea water. Vast quantities of ferent attitude towards the "tea" car loaded with potential death for to our departed wives and mothers, that stops at our 12-mile limit than many should be dealt with with the with beautiful and endearing in wo did toward the famous cargo utmost severity. A few dollars’ fine, scriptions of love chiseled thereon, of real tea that caused quite u a few days in jail, the loss of a li show a proper respect, but often commotion in Boston harbor many cense, are not enough. The man times the departed ones might still years ago. We do not make any who runs amuck with n gun, killing be scattering sunshine among ns if complaint about the tux that is im and maiming, gets years behind the words of love hud been sfioken and upon this "tea,’’ although it bars. The num who runs amuck deeds of love performed while they which are carried into Ameri posed must be much greater than any im with a car while drunk is even more were journeying through this vale of tears. can homes, makes this the larg posed by the mother country upon culpable. • « • Let judges once get through their est-selling cpsom salt on earth. the old pioneer patriots. A new style religion, in which no precedent bound legal minds that it is not the drunkenness, but the hell is recognized, has been organ Freed from every impurity, Henator McNary has taken unto gentle in action, and thorough himself a wife—just as though he drunken driving, which is the crime iced iti Chicago. Of course, it is _ our already crowded hard roads easy for a . person living in Chicago ly effective. The one cpsom didn’t have trouble enough with and will be safer for us all; our chil to believe that a kind providence salt that is really easy to lake. several able-bodied and lusty lunged dren, our women drivers, as well as would impose no further punish citizens of the state attempting to our sober citizens protected, as they ment. One of 200 Puretest prepara take his job away from him. • • • have a right to bo, from a menace tions for health and hygiene. So long as we continue to send which has no excuse, legal or social, DAD AND TIIE BOV Every item the best that skill for existing.—Editorial in publica missionaries among the cannibals tion of the National Highways asso the high cost of living will not wor and conscience can produce. (From The New Age.) ciation. ry tho natives. One of the interesting celebrations of recent years is Father and Son It is better to lend money to an week, during which time dad is ex enemy than to a friend—for in the pected to cultivate the companion former case you are not diffident £>rug Star* ship of his son. This is a most ex altout asking for its return—besides, epilent idea. The onlv weak nnrt of you have disarmed an enemy by put ting him under obligations to you. Begins Saturday, January 5,1924 This is a yearly event with us and old customers will testify to the fact that there are always unusual savings to be obtained during these sales. Almost every depart ment of the store contributes its quota of bargains in seasonable and wanted mer chandise. Some lines of course are broken but your size or need may be here and the saving to be had is worth a look January Clearance Sales In Ready-to-Wear Underwear Sweaters Wool Dress Goods Pumps Oxfords Shoes Hosiery Wool Coatings Come Early! Epsom Salt Kern’s for Drugs Dresses Men’s Overcoats Shirts Domestics Umbrellas Hats Wash Goods Remnants Bedding Blankets Boots ( 'orsets Caps < doves Boys' Suits Grocery Bargains rTHE QUALITY STURE- goop servu Cottage Grove, Oregon LONDON. of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Pruett day. (Special to The Sentinel.) i. 1.—Guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Banton Sunday were the Geo. Sutherland and Howard Cox fami lies and Mr. and Mrs. John Suther land. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Roberts spent Christmas with Mrs. Roberts’ par ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Pruett. Miss Viola Welty, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs, Chas. H. Woods, left Monday for her home in Chehalis, Wash. Robert Powell and family, of Cot tage Grove, spent Sunday with Mr. Powell’s brother, Chas. Powell. The London school resumes Wed nesday, after a vacation of slightly over a week. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. John Small and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Roberts were guests HEBRON. (Special to The Sentinel.) Dee. 31.—Mr. and Mrs. Morgan and family, of Eugene, spent last Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. L. H. Gilcrist. Katie Gilcrist spent Tuesday night in Eugene with Francis and Elizabeth Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Piser, of Sa lem, visited over Sunday night nt the G. M. Kebelbeck home. Mr. and Mrs. Crollinger and chil dren. of Scio, visited last week at the home of Mrs. Crollinger’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Finley. The Misses Elsie White and Jessie Warnick, of Mulino, nre visiting at the home of Miss White’s uncle, Charles White. Miss Gladys Taylor, of Roseburg, visited over Friday night ’ t with her aunts, the Misses Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Aldridge spent a part of last week in Rose- burg visiting relatives. GRAND JURY INDICTS FIVE CONNECTED WITH ROBBERY Tom Murray, confessed leader of the trio of Florence bank robbers, Eddie Walker, accused of being a member of the gang, and three west I.ane county farmers, Nels Berkrem, John Herring and Charles Blazier, accused of aiding them after the robbery, were indicted by the grand jury Friday. They will be tried at the approaching term of court. For 35 cents a little wantad will sometimes do the work of a $5 a day auctioneer^^^^jne22g The fish you catch always eye you with baited breath. ♦------------------------------------------- Church News ♦------------------------------------------- Presbyterian Church—Rov. A. R. Spearow, pastor. Sunday school at 10, Men’s Forum at 10, morning hour at 11, junior Endeavor at 3, evening service at 7:30. Baptist Church—Tenth and Adams, E. R. Clevenger, minister. This church stands for tho full gospel message. A welcome is given to all who coiuc. Bible school at IO. preaching nt 11 and 7:30. Young people’s meeting at 6:30. Prayer meeting Thursday evenings at 7:30. After the prayer meeting tho pastor conducts a class in bible study. AN INFLUENTIAL INSTITUTION on it* a commercial batik, HuaineaM men are often ganged by their banks. It has an influence on their credit rating, on their financial standing in the community. A bank that is solid, con servative, Ion/ estab lished and widely pa tronized by influential jnople, like our», re flects credit on all its patron«. FIRST NATIONAL BANK (The Old Reliable) Seventh Day Adventist Church— West Main street. Services every Saturday. Sabbath school at 10, church service at 11; praper meet ing Wednesday evenings at 7:30. • • • Christian Science Church-—Corner of Jefferson avenue and Second street. Sunday services at 11 a. m. Wednesday services at 7:30 p. m. • • • Services will be held in the I ji thnni school house in the forenoon on Sundays for an extended length ; of time. Galan Jordan, of Eugene, will have charge. Sunday school at Christmas offerings will be accepted at any time up to Monday evening. • • • Christian Church, the "home like” I church—J. E. Carlson, minister. Sunday school at 0:45. sermon and communion at IL Christian endea vor at 6:30, evening service at 7:30 • • • Methodist Church—-Rev. J. H. Ebert. Pastor. Sunday school at 0:45, morning worship at 11. Ep j worth league at 7, evening service nt 7:30. Everybody is welcome to j attend all of these seriioes. IF YOUR GROCER ISN’T WISE TO THE GOODNESS OF Fedtherflake Flour tip him off to this famous flour. Once the good housewife has tried FEATHERFLAKE FLOUR there is no doubt left as to its making bread or rolls “light as a feather.” These quality stores sell Featherflake in Cottage Grove: Economy Feed & Grocery Store. Eads Grocery. Ostrander McQueen. Smith & Short. Umphrey & Mackin. Ask them for Featherflake Flour. *