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PAGE FOUR COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1924 “I---------------------------------------------------- nation iu too lengthy to be repeated here. He stand* head and should A Weekly Newspaper With Plenty ers above his democratic opponent, of Backbone Milt Miller, who is without the support of a largo number of mein- ..•Publishers i bers of his own party ‘who do not Bede A Smith---- ____ Editor feel that he measures up to the Elbert Bede-------- A firxt-claas publication entered at job. Senator? McNary is on the Cottage Grove ai second-clam matter job and knows the job. Keeping Democratic Paper Scoffs at . tried men on the job is the only Business Office____ 55 North Bixtj , hope Oregon has of getting that Cock-and-Bull Story of to which it is entitled from con- SUBSCRIPTION BATES greHM. Senator McNary has earned State Officials. One year..... »2.25 I Three months 05c Six months- 1.15 I Single copy— 5c another term and it is to Oregon’s j advantage to return him. Portland, Or. — (Special). — The Member of For Sheriff. National Editorial Association bogus campaign issue raised by Gov- Hhcriff Taylor him served Oregon State Editorial Association ernor Pierce and his appointee, Jeff months following his appointment Oregon Newspaper Conference Myers, that of bad loans to farmers, Lane County Publishers'Association to succeed Fred Stickels. During is flouted openly by the Capital- that time ho has made a record Journal of Salem, as staunch a demo for performance of duty and for in THINGS VOTERS SHOULD KNOW spiring respect for law that has cratic paper as there is In the state. BEFORE THEY VOTE. It decries it openly as campaign bunk, not been surpassed by anyone who Continued from last week.) has filled that office. Tho only useful only for political purposes in reason there cun be for displacing the hope of electing Myers state treas The Income Tax. him is a political one. Ho is a urer. The Sentinel believes in the prin Spanish war veteran, has made his The Capital-Journal calls attention eiple of the income tux und did home in T.-ane county for many to the oock-and-bull scandal in the not oppose it when it whs up under yiars and is in every way entitled state highway department at the time the referendum, but it has become to tho support of every voter who convinced, from the evidence pre believe« that an officer who has of the election two years ago, which sented, that Oregon should <lcv nwtiy made good should be retained in was put forward merely for campaign baker with it. It may bo true that we office. Ho is tho republican nomi purposes to aid only In Pierce’s elec aro prosperous—more prosperous nee. tion. Ot course It was all forgotten than ever before, but such is not as soon as the votes were cast. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE tho case in Cottage Grove. It would No voter in an industrial or The Capital-Journal, too, points out bo wrong, however, to put tho lumbering center should fail to that any time for the past 14 years blame 'iltcgethcr on tho income swat the proposal to wreck the books of the state land board have tax. We aro a lumbering center, workmen’s compensation law. The been open to Inspection and any delin and our prosperity goes up and compensation law as it is has quencies could have been unearthed down with lumber. Regardless of saved both the employ© and ent- tho income tax The Sentinel be ployer in the lumber industry, The long ago if there were any merit in lieves thnt by this time next year amendments which the Portland the hue and cry that has been raised. wo will bo more prosperous than radicals propose would again make Many loans are classed as bad by ever before, because the prospect tho employe and employer victims the Pierce adherents that show In is thnt tho lumber business will be of the vultures who grew upon LaFollette Has Not Helped terest delinquent from six months to in hotter condition than ever bo- the misfortune« of employe ami two years By applying the same rule foro. Working Man in State omployieir before tho days of the of delinquency, delayed payment on It is possible that the income tax compensation law. •lx months’ Interest, the records show will not greatly uffiv-t the lumber He Controls. that during 1923, when Governor Ing business, thanks to the fact 14i Follette may have more that tree« cnn’t bo moved out of strength than many imagine, for Pierce was chairman of the school •the slate; but Industrie« allied the reason that many who are for Portland Or. — (Special.) — Labor land board, 70 loans he approved are with the lumbering _ industry, or him may be ashamed to be seen that is following LaFollette had bet now bad loans. This seems to show using its products, are likely to be in some of the company which the ter look to performance of the LaFol that the governor has not made any slower to come. radical senator from Wisconsin and In The Sentinel's explanation of his mudslinging radicul compunion lette program elsewhere rather than notable Improvement in the handling whnt tho income tax would bo are keeping in their wild scramble rely upon the promises of what the of state funds, although he and Jeff Myers have very little to say about likely to do—published during tho to land the jobs they seek. plan offers labor, according to a state thq, ourrent loans. They point mere campaign—The Sen tinol said the ment issued by Chairman I. L. Pat ly to the trumped-up delinquencies of tax would not do nil tho dire things FOOTPRINTS OF PIONEER DAYS terson of the Republican State Cen their predecessors In office and do that its opponent* «aid it would Concluded from first page.) tral committee here. He said a study not. In any case, blame themselves. do—nor accomplish half tho things ot the way the LaFollette program its proponents claimed it WlMlllI The pitiful part of the newest porunco workers begun to plan for nccompliah. Events which have tho erect ion of u hall. Rev. U. 11. has worked out in Wisconsin will . Pieroe “scandal" Is that he is seeking followed its enactment bnvo proved Wiiltiico having moved into the prove a bitter disappointment to labor. to make political capital at the ex tho soundness of those contentions. neighborhood and taking an uctivo One would suppose, be said, that In pense of tho good name of Oregon Building did not stop, and there part in church and tivmporanee Wisconsin, where LaFollette and his farmers. Ot 002 loans he has classed was no great emigration—tho work, unitisl with Samuel Dillard policies have been enthroned without as bad, by figuring interest delinquent state did not go to tho domnition and they secured from Harvey Interruption for a quarter of a cen after six months, interest was paid on bow-wow»— neither is our condition llnz-olfen to tho Cumberland Pres tury, the status of the laboring man all last year and on all but a small such that the proponents of tho byterian church a deed to a pint would be ideal. If not entirely per percentage of them in the fall ot 1923. tux can claim that it has brought of land in Cottage Grove upon fect, it would be assumed oonditlons Therefore, when the audit was made, us liny prosperity that wo should which a hall wus built. The hoc - there would certainly be far better as of June 80, out of the whole 602 not otherwise have had. Tho great end story was used us a Good Tem than in any other state ot the union. notes, there were more than 520 on property tux reduction that was plars hall and tho ground floor as As a matter of fact, the contrary which a year’s Interest was not yet to follow o)siration of tho income a place to worship, tho Cumberland Presbyterian church meeting once Is the truth. An examination of of due, but on which, without doubt, the tux Ims not materialised. Tho Hontinol is satisfied that and sometimes twice a mouth und ficial wage statistics shows that wages Interest will he paid this fall after the there can bo no great prefierty tnx tho Christian church und Methodist In Wisconsin fall far below the aver- crops are sold. The audit shows that 181 notes and reduction through tho income tax, ehureh once a month until 1892, tge wage level of the country as a unless tile tux is made stiff when tho congregation sold cut all whole. mortgages have been sent out for fore- enough to do material injury to their interest to tho Methodist The msnufacturlag section United eioeure and of this number, interest church and moved into their new States census of 1919 shows that the was paid In full in 1922 on 68, In 1923 business and industry. Tho Methodist average monthly wage in the manu The Sentinel is satisfied thnt tho church building. on 45 more and In 1924 on six. There income tax is discouraging invest ehureh owns and occupies the old facturing Industries of the country was, therefore from six months' to ment in tho state. Regardless of building, which at this time is be was 396.50. Tie same report shows one and one-half year's interest due land how grout our prosperity may bo, coming one of tho oldest wo uro yot lagging behind our marks of our city, in fact, it is the average wage in Wlsctfgsin was on more than 100 of these 181 notes neighbor states. The only way we tho oldest public building in the only »91.69. When ranked with other now under foreclosure. The last legislature, recognising the can overtake them is to make con town that is still used for the pur itates, Wisconsin stands 29th tn its iverage wages. ditions for investment ns agreeable pose for which it was built. plight of the farmer, amended the Later studies of wage scales show •chool law to the effect that the time hero us elsewhere. The Catholic Church. that the situation still obtains. The for payment of such interest on loans Tho income tax seems to Tho Cot- Services were first hold at Hontinol to bo right in theory but average weekly wage paid in Wiscon- as v.as then due might be extended to destructivo in practice when im tage Grove lit a private house in tin In all industries in June, 1934, as two years. posed by ono statu while its neigh 1888 aud were continued until 1895. itated in tho report of the Wisconsin Despite this, and the well known Owing to tho growing congregation bars do not have it. it became noeossury to build a Industrial commission, was »38 93 fact that the governor la a warm Strange to say, while wages elsewhere friend of tho farmer, the land board, church, Tho grounds wcro very For United States Senator, Senator McNary has been ;>ecii generously donated, by a 11O11- have risen, they have declined In Wis which he heads, Is foreclosing mort consin In the past four years, the C'utholic. The funds for building gages on many lands they are not re liarly the friend of the agricultural „ class and has earned the Hupport of purposes wore donated by the citi- tveruge wage In July, 1920, being quired or expected by law to fore every voter in all agricultural sw sons ot Uuttnge Grove und vicinity. >27.73, In comparison with the above close and the only explanation must tion who believes in showing ap Tho ehureh was dedicated and do- tlgur» for thl* year. Yet lAe LaFob be that the action taken Is tor poli- precintion of faithful service, lie nominated tho church of the Im lotto group has been In undisputed tloal purposes alone. has been active in the halls of maculate Conception, Dec. 5, 1897, control In Wisconsin during these four Estimate of losses as made by congress and the record of his se by the late Archbishop Gross, assist rears. Pierce and Myers has been grossly coinplishineiits for the state rt nd ed by Rev. W. Daley, who was Hours of labor in Wisconsin are exaggerated, as ie shown by the pastor at that time. The main body of tho church is octagon long. In the country as a whole, 48.6 record and this too, te purely for shape, with seating capacity of be per cent of wage earners in the manu polttloal effect. Farmers of the state tween two and three hundred und facturing Industrie* work 48 hours or who have been out-lucked by poor has beautiful stained glass windows less a week, acoordiog to the U. 8. prices will no doubt be willing to donated by members of the church. census of 1919. In Wisconsin, how call it dirty politics. Tho cost of tho ehureh was about aver, only 31.3 per cent of the workers Por Instance on 80 notes that have »1590. Tho membership is small, In the manufacturing industries snjoy been foreclosed, assessed values ot numbering 35 or 40 persons. a 48-liour week, or an eight-bour day. the properties represented are from Among the states, Wisconsin takes 40 to SO per cent in excess of the ♦— the humble rnnk of 39th in the per •mount the state has loaned on them, centage of its Industrial workers who hi Malheur oounty, for instance, where enjoy a 48-hgur week or one of less * is said the worst risks are, prop Presbyterian Church—E. V. Os hours. trander, acting puxtor during the erty represented by 11 notes, on which ObvlouBly, then, tho political ecoa- aboence uf A. Ralph Hpeurow. the state has Invested 121,173, Is as jmr of the LaFollette regime in Wis Bunday school at 10, forenoon ser sessed at »81,070 and appraised at vice lit 11, evening servieo nt 7:30. constn has not made the lot of the ITT,000. wage earner any happier than in the Midweek iwrvieea Thuraday even The state has already sold 15 farms' ings nt 7:30. rest of the nation. Indeed, It Is less • • • on which it had foreclosed and receiv advantageous than that of the work Baptist Church—Truth und Adams, ar In most of the qtatos, viewed from ed an average ot 40 por cent cash R. Clevenger, minister. This the double standard of hours and payment, and yet none of these farms baa been sold at » loss. church stands for tho full gospel wages. message. A welcomo is given to all These tacts show that talk of Im- If LaFollette, with a free bead for who come. Bible school at 10. manse losses Is all bunk, put out by his policies for 36 years In hie own preaching at 11 and 7:30. Young the Pierce administration clique for people’s mooting at 6:30. Frayer Prayer State, has been unable to help the politloal purposes only and calculated working man there even ae much ae meeting Thursday evenings at 7:3v to hoist Jeff Myers Into office, so that After tho prayer meeting tho pastor Io pines him s^well off as the average be may continue to threaten hard- working man throughout the country, sunducts a class iu bible study. because their looHenesa per • • • how Idle It Is for the working man in pressed farmers who have not made mits the wearer to pull them Christian Church, the “home liko’’J Oregon to expect any benefit ter hl«- totereet payments on state loans with-. up quickly and easily when he shureh—A. J. Adams, minister. lelf by voting for LaFollette. in six months. scrubs deck or wades in the Sunday school at 9:45, sermon and water. The quick and easy oummuuion at 11, Christian endea I Ooolldpe for Reclamation Work. Publlo Debt Reduced. ver at 0:30, evening service at 7:30. action of Although he has lived all bls life The public debt has been cut down Mineral Oil Mothodiat Church—Rev. J. H. ■ere than )3.»00.000.»00 since 1331. fa a country whore reclamation la Russian Type Ebert, Pastor. Bunday school at This means an annual saving of more eomowhat meaningless. President • :45, morning worship at 11, Ep than 1138.»00.000 in Interest alone, Coolidge la responsive to the needs accounts for its wide use in worth league at 7, evening service the treatment of constipation, at 7:30. Everybody is welcome to relation has been reduced by the ot the west as shown In his letter to dosing Republican »dmlnlstratton II.- the convention of the American Mln Pureteg» Minei ral Oil is a attend all of these services. 130,000,000 annually, or more than 10 ing Congress at Sacramento recently, gentle lubricant that cloanaea Free Methodist church—Corner of per cent la three years During the ■e said water power and Irrigation go tho intestinal tract without the Monroe avenue and south Fifth present fiscal year, tax receipts will band tn hand and continued. "It is my unpleasant effects of some ca •treet—D. B Forrester, pastor, Bun ihow a saving to the people ot ap purpose te unremittingly stimulate thartics. Colorless, odorless, day school at 10, forenoon services proximately 10,000.000 a day, com and encourage the development ot these great protects by every author eltsy to take, and absolutely at 11, evening service at 7:30. pared with 1»81. Prayer meeting at 7:30 Thursday My e< the federal government." pure. evenings. Foreign Polley Sound. • • • (hie of 2oo Puretest prepara Real loenomlea Made. The republican platform on foreign tions for health and hygiene. Munday School i»er vices in the Th* number of federal employee has Latham school house every Sunday relations outltneo a policy which, car Every item tho beat that skill at Mrs. Hugh Trunncll, su ried out wry the evminoa sense, clear been reduced more than 105 000 In and care can produce. perintendent; Mrs. Winnie Hagerty, risloa, and courage of Calvin ‘"cxlAga, we past three years. 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