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PAGE FOUR <Cottanc (Grove Sentinel WHATS THE USE By L. F. Van Zehn The Big Question A Weekly Newspaper With Plenty of Backbone Bede & Smith.. Elbert Bede----- ...Publisher» _____ Editor A first-class publication entered at Cottage Grove as second class matter Busiuos» Office. 55 North Sixt* SUBSCRIPTION BATES One year..... 42.25 I Three mouths 05c Six months.. 1.15 I »Single copy— 5c Member of National Editorial Association Oregon State Editorial Association Oregon Newspuper Conference Lane County Publishers ’ Association RELIEF FOR FARM PRODUCTS. It is not much of a strain to re- member when the cry was to keep the boy on tho farm in order to keep the world from starving to death. The cry to keep the boy on the farm was not notably suc cessful, but the tractor and other r labor saving machinery came along not done so. Possibly he has be and production was increased to come u more far-sighted business such an extent that there was an man during recent years and will overproduction, instead of under organize for the market control production. This was particularly which has been such a subject for true of such crops as wheat, which oratory during recent years. Let us W. H. Oi.ken, Jr., editor of the could be handled entirely with inn hope so, for in the next era of low prices for farm products other Rotting Boarding House at Once Electrical World, has been a recent chinery. industries are likely to be more af Busy Saw Mill Yields Copies of Oregon visitor and, while in Port The use of machinery made fected than they were under the un Cottage Grove and Eugene Papers land, he told the business men of boy on the farm less necessary usual conditions of recent years. ■ ----------- ■■ ■ ■ ■ »■*» that city how politics helped ag the trend to the city, which gravate the grevious water shortage tho cause of tho cry to keep r The spoken word usually is soon COMMON COURTESY IN A NEW situation in southern California. boy on tho farm, has continued forgotten. Not so with the printed FORM. This is what he said: til the ratio of population between word. The spiteful things that are *4 At the present moment there is city and country has been reversed. merely spoken leave no scars that Even the most, thoughtless usually a serious shortage of water in the Formerly two thirds lived in the i the passing of tho years will not show some courtesy to a host. Even state of California, Buffering from country. Now two-thirds live in the the most selfish would hardly par erase. The printed word may arise the worst drought ever known in cities. The Sentinel months ago called tako of the hospitality of a friend [ at any time to plague the one who the history of the state, California attention to the fact that this re and then despoil th»- home of that wrote it and embarrass the one finds itself in the grip of a shortage about whom it was written. of electricity. Her hydro-electric versal of ratio of population, coupled friend or burn it down. A few days ago some outers vis companies in the southern juirt of Nature is host every year to , with the fact that low prices were ited the old Klondike mill on Mosby the state have limited users to 80 forcing thousands of acres out of thousands who on joy its hospitality, cultivation, could have but one re sleep in Nature’s forests, eat of creek which ceased operations many per cent supply. years ago. At one time it was the “The shortage is not due to any sult; curtailed production, with Nature’s food and enjoy the beau many more mouths to feed whero ties of Nature’s art gallery. Thero bustling center of a milling in- lack of foresight on the part of the , dustry. In the days when this prop are u few of those thousands who power companies. The company, the hands were producing nothing, would force farm prices upwards, are not so courteous to this host erty was in operation, the mill which is the w’orst hit, is noted over for its enter while prices of the things which as they are to other hosts. There hands did not own automobiles. the world Dur tho farmer has to buy won 1<1 go are a few who carelessly leave fires Very few others did, for that mat prise and progressiveness. ter. The first automobile did not ing the past five years it has ex down because of the multiplicity which destroy Nature’s forests, come to Cottage Grove until after drive wild life elsewhere and de pended from $20,000,000 to $30,000,- of hanjs in industrial centers. the saws were removed from this 000 a year. It is a matter of record It has been a tiresome wait of stroy Nature’s art gallery. mill. As means of conveyance were The carelessness of a few robs that that company sought to de rial years for the farmer, but th», reversal of conditions has Nature of the wherewithal to enter slow, the workers lived at the mill. velop the waters of the Colorado Tn what evidently was once a pre tain others. river four years ago and guar started and it may not be longer The camper should show more tentious boarding house, several anteed to deliver power from the fii:m a y*ar before we will again hear the* cry for greater farm pro courtesy to Nature, the greatest, copies of old newspapers were Colorado to any buyer by 1923. Had duction to keep tho world from most cordial, most hospitable of all found. One was a copy of The it not been interfered with by the Western Oregon dated July 10, municipality of Los Angeles and by hosts. starving. 1908. Another was a copy of The other politicians there would be Thera have been similar dis Cottage Grove Leader, of July 24, ample electricity for all of Cal couraging conditions for the farmer NO LONGER YELLOW. 1908, Conner & DuBruille, publishers, ifornia today. at regular periods during our na and two were copies of The Eugene 44 A private company cannot do tional life and each time remedial Following the lead of the Stan of May 28 and July 30, the impossible, even in California. legislation from congress was asked. da rd Oil company, which set the ex Register 1908. ...................... No editor ’ s name appeared 4 4 The water supply is 40 per cent B i' ll tImo alio there wa* as muab ample, tho Shell Oil company is difficulty in finding a legislative eliminating its yellow signs, but not on Tht» Western Oregon, but an less than the low’est record known _ to man and Los Angeles is growing lolutlon and ii is not recorded actually to follow the lead of its editorial squib in The Eugene This incident by leaps and bounds. ~ ................. that man enacted laws have ever competitor (so it would seem) it is Register read as follows: 44 C. J. Howard, who has been will suffice to show that even th? done :m\thing to iIghl a condltion simply repainting them with a pos actively engaged in newspaper work best of hydro-electric plants on the of over-production. Economic ilia ter which emphasizes the hazards to of the farmer have never yet been which the woods are liable through nt Cottage Grove for the pfist ten Pacific coast and in the northwest years, has disposed of The Western must because of water conditions < nir.l . x< ept by t he law of supply a variety of careless acts on the Oregon to J. 8. Bath, formerly of keep large steam stations in reserve and demand. part of motorists. The name of the the Bandon Record. “ Jack ” is for emergencies and during low It is vv»»ith while to remind OUT company is appended nt tho bottom selves that things never get so bad or the poster, which is a work one of Oregon’s best known news- water periods. These stations, while pa per men and will be missed from they give insurance to the supply but that nt some time they hnvc of art, produced by a well-known of electricity, cost money and hence been worse. During tho recent, de artist, and the signs as repainted the ranks.” All of these papers were filled that much additional capital must pression prices did not get uh low should do much for the protocti >n with the speeches of national can bt included in the investment sunk as they did in tho depression of of tho beauties of nature which didntes and the platforms of national the early nineties, which can be re bring the tourist here. Even parties. Taft had just made his in the enterprise. “There are those who think that inernbored by many of us. We can though tho advertising feature re- remember that, corn sold nt 8 cents mains, tho company is to bo coin speech of acceptance and Bryan, government ownership would obviate who had just been nominated at much of the difficulty. The gov tho bushel, when it could be sold mended for removing _ „ the „ gobs of Denver by tho democrats, had ernment already regulates the elec nt nil, and was often more vnl yellow which irritated us more than stated that Taft was green with tric public utilities of the country unblo for fuel than ns a food pro any sigil appearing on the high duct. Potatoes sold as low as 3 ways. The color simply did not envy when he found that the demo and the same persons who regulate crats had a better platform that w’ould undoubtedly be called on to cents the bushol ami million* of ha rmonize. the republicans. This was not the operate the systems were they state bushels were left in the ground fol first time that Bryan had been owned. I submit if they cannot fertilizer. We would like legislation Th,» 8entinel has proof that nominated and the reports of the regulate them they certainly will to guarantee against any such prices tics have not advanced much iu in New York never be able to operate them. in tho future, if it wore possible for a century. A request has been re recent convention would indicate that ho is not ex legislation to give such a guaranty, ceived from the democratic state but it is more than probable that central committee saying that it actly opposed to another nomination CARELESS SMOKERS ARE even at this late date. prices are going to be such that should be pleased to receive coin RESPONSIBLE FOR FIRES A Fourth of July celebation had the farmer will not want his prices plimentary copies of The Sentinel been held in Cottage Grove, with E regulated. during tho campaign. The com company, the pride of Cottage According to forest service fig- During the era of prosperity that mittec offers to reciprocate with Grove, lending the onrade. Ed Tub ures, 168 fires during 1923 in the iK ns certain for the farmer as it anything it can furnish out of its Oregon and national forests of _ has been immediately following office—presumably boiler plate cam lar was marshal of tho day, B. R. Washington were directly due to Job was mayor, E. O. Potter de fivrmer eras of low prices he could paigu stories and tailor-made edi livered n stirring address, Lulu Wil smokers. On account of this hazard, prepare to regulate the supply by torials. Tlie Sentinel suggests that lard was tho Goddess of Liberty many areas in the national forests , ontrol of distribution. the things it will have to say dur of these two states have been closed In oth ’T I’lns of prosperity he has ing the campaign will be worth to and Victor Chambers and Neita to smoking this season. Compton impersonated George and tho committee from an educational Martha Washington. This carelessness with cigarettes, standpoint far more than the price J. T. Short had suffered a severe cigars, pipe ashes and matches was of h subscription. the cause of 862 forest fires in all monetary loss, his trousers, which he had left by an open window, the national forests of the United The Cottage Grove Sentinel is having been picked while he slept, States during the year. According running a series of traffic hints to to forest sorv ice data, damage A Masonic its readers. Traffic, it seems, IS nie had been and Eastern Star pic caused by the careless smoker in held and O. O. Veatch Of mighty bothersome to the people and T. C. Wheeler had been voted the woods was estimated at $31,000, quiet Cottage Grove, and they need the champion pie enters. outside of the indirect and intang educating in the pastime of dodging The marriage of Miss Celia ible damage to young forest growth, motor cars. Corvallis Courier. watershed protection, recreation and Yes, traffic is more bothersome Lurch and James McCredie had just wild life. Forest officers attribute been solemn iced. in a city where they have it than the greater number of smokers ’ I.. N. Konev was engaged erecting in a town like Corvallis. n bridge over Brumbaugh creek for fires to the use of the ** tailor made” cigarette, the jmper on which the county. Did some one say something about is said to be especially treated to An odd coincidence is that a news hard tiniest The Ford company re hold fire. It is said that many story in 'The Lender related that ports the sale of over a million cars lumber operators in the Pacific Armand Wynne, in remodeling the and trucks during the first six northwest are forbidding the use months of this year, an average pioneer home of Dr. A. L. Wynne, gain of 22,182 for each of the fix had run across an old copy of The Daily Or,»gon Herald published in months, ’rhe Ford company remarks i Portland in 1871. In this old paper that this shows a remarkable in- appeared crease in the buying power of th»» marriage the announcement of the of Benjamin^ Marlow and country. SO NOu'tta TH’ Margaret Galloway, This probably OLE BUSMBOUN THAfC* was not the same Margaret Gal First the dear things bobbed it | lowav who is now a resident of »KEM SPSKMMM’ TW Otrr because everybody else was doing Cottage Grove. it Now thev are clipping it in ABOUT OUO. BOM* ' m G Ali, One copy of The ___ Register win order to be different. HEM At VJELL. AUV » addressed to John Gray, who may because they coinpose<l| GOT V be remembered by some who were residents here in 1908. The Register by Mrs. Isaac Goone and sung AMPLIFIERS CARRY KING 8 TH' 0WCKIM' STOOL WUt VOICE TO 100,000 SUBJECTS was at that time, 16 years ago. a Io her grandchildren. “ Mother'* ASOHSM«n TOO BOOM, weekly newspaper and did not carry Goose lived ill Massachusetts With fanfare of trumpets and nil a third so much advertising as is and died at the age of 92. If the medieval pomp and circumstance now carried bv The Sentinel. If th? with which Merry England is wont growth of the two cities continue mothers would freely uae to greet its royal family on state ir. the same proportion. it is reason occasions, the British empire exhi able to expect that 16 years from Baby bit ion was recently opened at W cm now The Sentinel will be a much Comforts blev, Englund, by the king. bigger paper than either of the An unusual touch of modernity I Eugene imper* is now. they would not have to ■pend was added to this accasion by the ' What changes may occur in 16 ho much of the summer sing .scientific achievement of present rears is well illustrated bv a pic ing and rooking fretful infants day telephone engineers. His nuij i turc of the 1908 summer girl, ar- ostv’S utterances were heard by al c, mpani »d bv the following rend to aleep. vast audience of more than 100,000 ing: Glycerin Suppositories (Infant) loyal subjects gathered in and about ! “This is the very latest for the Zinc Stearate Sugar of Milk the rgeat concrete stadium by 1 I9t'8 summer girl, She must wear means of the public address system, a collar that cuts th? neck and Castor Oil Boric Acid «lev eloped bv the engineers of the shuts off her hearing, skirts that Pive of the 2iM) I hi re teat prep Bell system, and installed by th? have enough material in them to Electric company. make a „ gas bug for Roy Knaben m at ions for health and hygiene. Western A demonstration of the efficiency I shue’s airship, and a hat. big ns a Kvery item the beat that Hkill of tho public address apparatus on 1 washtub, that r«»quires a course in and care can produce. a large scale was first made in this , juggling to keep it balanced country when on inauguration day, straight. ” March 4. 1921, President Harding, We hesitate I to say how women delivered his inaugural addreas and will dress 18 year« , from now if was hoard clearly by a vast asaem i the slashing of ’ clothing continues binge, estimated nt more (han nt the same rate as during the I 125.000. pant 16 years. INTERESTING ITEMS FROM PAPERS OF 16 TEARS AGO of such cigarettes in their woods operations. Forest officers are endeavoring to prevent the starting of forest fires by smokers by four means: By try ing to get tobacco and cigarette manufacturers to include fire cau tions or warnings in package and boxes; by closing certain areas on the national forests to smoking; by urgilULJdl automobile and truck All Full. It is told of Charles Lamb that one afternoon, after he had taken his seat in a crowded omnibus, a gentleman looked in and po- stout „ litely asked: “All full insidef’’ “I don’t - know* how it may be ” an with the other passengers, „ swered I-anib, “blit that last piece of oyster pic did the business for Watch the label on your paper. You Should Be An Investor Sound Investing is Not Spending WHEN YOU INVEST SOUNDLY YOU SAVE. BUY ING A DEPENDABLE SECURITY MEANS BUYING AN INCOME. Our semi-annual distribution of interest to our in vestors now represents a large amount of money. 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