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THE SENTINEL. POTTAGE GROVE. OILFXaON THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. IM7 mitted by hardened criminals and 'll Ca° <nd d° hap‘”fn ,Tp,r: •" of the., meeting* wili be of two .«ex perverts who have been once dividual fa.tulle«, how long would In our courts. what ibjntqrpretrd here a reply to days’ duration. Established 1889 convicted and too soon turned the job last him? A fellow who I. on the grami Howard Latourette, democratic na- Ijeonard S Goddard_______ Editor ioos « to prey upon society. Well, suppose he worked 9 hours jury quite often told me that it Is t fonai committeeman who last Fewer Turkey. This Year. Published Every Thursday by way case« get week charged the governor with The parole system has. too often, each day. In 9 hour« there are 540 surprising the I*it* government report* show Cottage Grove Publishing Coimnv minutes. But we know the Irish _ - and ----- turned --- - ~ .attempting to find a place for him-! that fewer turkey, will be raised Leonard S. Goddard.----- President been misused to say the leant. No man would want to stop and light twisted Don Don ’t you think we wv hould have self in the Roosevelt band wagon this vear than in ----- * tan per A. W. Shofstall----------- Secretary parole board should turn loose a 1936 A C. L Rynearson, Advertising Mgr. criminally minded prrwon If a pa his old clay pipe a few times dur a little more Justice along with our under false pretenses. la Indicated The cent reduction ing each day. so we will allow him Business Office at 25 North Sixth so long a* we have the "Every cheap trick In the bag of decrease In the Pacific coast states role board cannot discover whether 12 minutes for this purpose. This boose, here anyway ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES rabble muwia ha* been used but Is estimated at 0 per cent, and In or not a convicted prisoner ha-* would leave him a net working day MRS. ROBERT DECKER (Cash in advance) I am convinced that the people of the Rocky Mountain states at 23 criminal tendencies it should take of 528 minutes, and if he loaded 10 One year_______ 31 50 thi. state will not be hoodwinked,'' per cent. Six Months_____ blocks of ice each minute, he would 80 no chances. SHREWS, NOT MICE the governor continued. "In this Indications am that the market Three months .50 Cottage Grove. Oregon, modern day and age our people Ings will be somewhat earlier than Maudlin sentiment has, in many load 5280 blocks each day. One month _____ Thi* 5280 blocks would equal Just October 10. 1937 will be prone to accept with greater last year. Turkeys are a national Foreign rate—50c vear additional cases, caused pardoning governors one strip across the mile cube of To the Editor.—I read with in- confidence and assurance the un and misguided parole boards to for ice. But since there arc 5280 such tere.t th* article on the “midget, biased and sound calculations of crop, being raised in every state In get their duty to the decent ele- strips in each and every layer, it or vest pocket edition of mice" In trained engineer* rather than the the Union, while heavy commeroi- al production is found in the ment of society and to turn loose would require 5280 days to remove your October 7. issue. The minute convicts, who resume a life of the top layer. And since there are animal with the long snout, ears mouthing, of pundit* whose spec north, cast, south and far w**t ialty is In using words to conceal crime as naturally and instinctive- 313 working days in year, it and tall is a shrew, the smallest rather than reveal." Potato Grower. Vota for ly as hog returns to its wallow. would require nearly 17 yean to mammal known The shrews and AAA Goals, Courts. governors and parole each layer. 16.869 years, to be some mole* are Insectívora, ami not Ro- Although LeRoy Herschel Mr National Editorial Association small percentage of ths Ore- boards should err. If they err ait what more exact. dentia as are the mice, rats, squir Carty, convicted slayer of a Port gon Oregon Newspaper Conference commercial potato growers But there are 5280 such layer* rel* and gopher*. all. on the .«ide of society. land service station employe, is un took the trouble to vote in the rw in the entire mile cube, and »o it Mr. Jenks I* correct In stating der sentence of death Warden Lew cent referendum election called by Th. time is coming when every would require 5280 times 16 869 that they have a rapacious appe la of the state prison I* not going the AAA. The unofficial total was years to remove the whole mile tite. A friend of mine brought In to be In any hurry about the con state will have a law requiring a cube of ioe. And 5280 times 16 869 four shrews one day. Altho he struction of the recently authoriz 303 yea ami 178 against, in 18 rigid physical examination of both years would equal more than 89.000 placed food tn the cage with them. ed lethal ga* chamber. The warden countie* which are cl aa* I find a* commercial potato arena. lasne, parties before * marriage certifi year8 for the entire job. It did not appease their appetites recalls that it has been nearly six cate is issued. Several states al And what we have shown of this and the next morning only three years since * murderer paid the Kinmath and Crook counties voted ready have such laws. When this one particular cubic mile, would remained, The second morning only supreme penalty for his crime In against the plan, the latter by only on* vote law becomes universal it is going apply with equal force to each and two were left Insplte of the fact this state and that in the interim to cut down the enormous expense every one of the other 327,671.999 that their food ration, was doubled two convicted slayer* have been The third morning one lone shrew snatched from the gallbw* by occasioned the states for the care cubic miles. Also there art several cubic remained and it died that night eleventh hour commutations of Better some of a pudding than none of of the blind, crippled and insane miles of water in the great lakes from starvation! their sentences to life imprison Oct. 12. Mr. and Mr* Hiram persons who have been denied a and the lesser lakes and the great MILDRED BAKER merit. The warden has been inves Remington and son of l*engra vta OCTOBER fair and rightful chance in life be rivers, the little rivers and streams, tigating g*s chamber* In use |n I ted at the Alfred White home cause the «tate lacked the courage and so I suppose there will still be other states and is of the opinion Sunday. damage estimated at to insure them a clean birth. water to drink, after we are all $200,003.000. 187!. that Oregon * chamber can be con- A meeting of the Ijatharn Mar gone and forgotten. STATE CAPITOL atructed In les* than a month If ketlng club was held Friday The •—Forest fires broke out tn H. L. NADE. SELLING KOAC DOWN northern Minnesota and when the need for one is def club decided to call itself Many 1001 East Raleigh St. THE RIVER? destroying 6 town* and NEWS LETTER initely established. Merry Marketers. taking 400 lives, 1910. Glendale. Cal. Dame Rumor has it that the Voter* of Oregon will be asked to Nelson Garoutte of Mumner via 10— The United States Naval state board of education is consid- support a measure creating a sani- Hed at the W T. G*routte home Salem, Ore — A special legislative Academy at Annapolis Mr. Naie's figures are interest]^ session this winter is not entirely tary board for the purpose of over the week end. ering the leasing or sale of KOAC. Maryland, opened. 1845 the farmer’s station at the state and perhaps somewhat more accur without the bounds of probability. clearing stream« of pollution. The Mr*. Bula Robinson of Divide 11—First steam ferry estab agriculture college at Corvallis, to ate than The Sentinel figures in If Governor Martin is persuaded to proposed measure is being spon- visited at the Fred Harris horns Itshed between New private interests. We hope this a cubic mile of water, but we are convene the lawmakers in extra sored by the Oregon Stream Puri- Tuesday York and Hoboken. 1811. certain that he did not figure this ordinary session, however it will flcat Ion League of which State A meeting of the Latham Health । isn’t true. job of ice moving for WPA pro- not be on the strength of demands Treasurer Holman U president and club wa* held Thursday All mem 12— The first record of the dis If the station is leased or sold, jeot or else he would have had co very of a comet by pho Frank Franclscovich. president of her* were present The vice prMi tography. 1892 instead of crop reports, good pro more ice in that one layer than being put forth by Townsendltes the state senate. Is vice-president. dent, lx»«" Krause, appointed Alice for more liberal old age pensions. grams of music and information one man would move in 10869 Such a demand, in Itself could be Trunneli. Robert Moody and Alton 13—Molly Pitcher, heroine oi valuable to the farmers of Oregon, years. And in these days of big expected to roll off the governor’s Neither Governor Martin nor I^e Williams to prepare the pro the battle of Monmouth. they will be treated to lengthy dis figures what’s a little matter of shoulders much as water does off Ralph Moody, assistant attorney gram for ths next meeting. Rever sertations °n super-acidity, the few cyphers, added or subtracted, the back of a duck. But there are general, are exhibiting any consid al member* reported on chapter* 14—Nathanael Greene appointed to command need of a hundred and one quack which we feel certain Mr. Naie will other considerations which might erable concern over the $548.000 In health need to do since Robert Ripley in southern army. 1790. L C. Moffitt, county school su nostrums and high-pressure propa “Believe It or Not" tells us that one prompt the governor to act. Several suit filed against them by Earl H counties are known to favor some Fehl, former county judge of Jack- perintendent. visited the I-ntham ganda. cubic foot of ice will not make a action looking to the unearthing of son county. The governor points school Monday. The saving that might be effect new revenues with which to fi out that in refusing to liberate Fehl PROFLIGATE GOVERNMENT. ed is not sufficient to justify the cubic foot of water. nance the relief load. Multnomah from state prison where he was From the time of President sacrifice. — McMinnville Telephone- LIQUOR AND JUSTICE county is especially hard pressed serving a term for complicity in Washington (1789) to the time of Register. To the Editor—Liquor is ruining to meet the demands of its ex the Jackson county ballot thefts President Wilson (1913) the suc our morals, sending our children to chequer by those in need, and he was only acting on advice of the Oct 12 Th* Lynx Hollow Com cessive Federal Oongressos appro What would we do without the jails and prisons, making criminals would welcome any aid that a leg attorney general, whereas Moody munity club *ent $5 to the Iron lung priated a total of $24.000.000.000. department of agriculture. It an of them. Are the ill-gotten pains islative session might be expected insists that the advice given to the fund in Eugene. They will meet governor absolutely sound October 13 nt the home of the pre That sum paid all the central gov nounces from Washington that and political greed more important to produce. sldent, Mr*. Claire Thornton. ernment’s expenses for the 124 farmers get better yields if they do to us than our young men and However, one thing may be tak Jame* H. Hazlett, state corpora Brrwln Mattoon cut a foot while years, including the cost of a num not cultivate their crops and it women? en for granted. The governor t, not There wasn’t one-half the crime going to convene the lawmaker* tion commissioner, this week broad playing with an ax last week ber of wars, the War of 1812, the urge3 farmers not to cultivate the cast a warning against the pur Mr and Mr*. L 8. Curtis of th* Civil War and the Spanish-Ameri- potato patches. We wish thé de committed, especially by the young, unless and until some one comes either during the old saloon days forward with a reasonable sugges chase of oil and gas leases. Com Silk Creek vicinity were transact can war. partment had had that much sense or prohibition days. We ¿till have panies offering such leases for sale Ing buainea* In the Hollow last Fn During the last four years con- when we were a kid,—it would have saloons, called beer parlors (I sup tion for raising additional revenues. in Oregon are operating without day In that connection it might be sug gress has appropriated about $12,- saved a lot of blisters—and argu- pose to make it sound refined, cul Mlaa Hal), teacher at Walker and gested that the interim committee the required permit. Haxlett says. 000,000.000 more than the above ments What the eastern and mid tured or something), but the only on state revenues created by the His office has evidence that thou Lynx Hollow high school, hae rr mentioned sum. dle west kids hope for now is that difference is women and young last session is now busily at work sands of dollars are being invested Hlxned and Dorthea Hohman of in these leases. He is placing Cottage Grove has accepted the Taxation is sapping the wealth jdepartment will announce that people patronize them and we still on this very problem. A survey of evidence before several district his at* position She la a graduate of Ore have the bootlegger, just as bad or taxes levied by other states is be of the nation to a menacing extent. 's f°°bsh to kill potato bugs.— worse. tomeya and it Is expected that the gon State college. ing made and it is hoped that when Around 20 per cent of the people's' Corvallis Gazette-Times. I»rof Perry will go to Corvallis There was remark after remark thi* commission meets again, in promoters will be prosecuted un- earnings are taken by the tav der the Oregon Blue Sky Law Thursday to attend the Principal*' about Governor Martin saying, "if December, there will be some defi that cubic mile of gatherers. and the percentage meeting held there that day and the boys thirst increases we will nite suggestions to be made looking OCEAN WATER Eighty new school buildlngs-were Friday. would be much larger if it were not To the Editor.—I note in The need les* money for relief next to a solution of the state's money erected In Oregon dring the past The Lloyd Smith family have for the fact that a large part of Sentinel, little paragraphs of inter year ' He didn't say he was for or problem. Just what this solution year at a total co*t of $6,800,000. moved their hous« from the top of the spending being charged esting information, and these little against relief money which came might be not even the member* of according to Rex Putnam, state su Green ridge down closer to the against the future in the form of notes constitute the bright spots of from liquor traffic. He simply the revenue committee themseive* perintendent of public instruction. mill. public debt. the sheet. I always look for them stated a fact. And he also might are a* yet willing to Intimate. But All of the new buildings were Fred Klnaland ha« Installed a have added that our Jails, prison* they have indicated that real prog Such taxation menaces every- and read all of them. made possible through PWA funds. n*w pressure water system. I was specially interested in the and reformatories will be overflow ress is being made in their study. Twenty-eight of the state’* 36 one’s source of income, whether Among those who went to Hum note about the water hi the oceans ing if the boys thirs* increases In If they do succeed in pulling a fi countie« are represented in from a job or investment- the m«r I-ake recently on a hunting the next four years a* it has in the nancial rabbit out of the hat, one Real and permanent prosperity th® world The fl^ure* given in last four. and camping trip were Mr. and that will provide additional reve list of new school*. cannot be created by profligate enti“el ^« reasonably close W A. Renne and son Elmer. nues without adding to the load I think that would be true now, if „ to toe estimate given by the late ’Pending o the taxpayers dollars, ch^ x u Totten a?on€ Ume all crime were punished according already carried by real estate, iti. Frank Tierney, executive secre Mrs. Rrnne's nephew, Ralph Moo burg of Veneta, and Harry Brown Has the desperate attempt to at- professor of mathematics in Yale to law. I believe only about one would not be at all surprising if tary of the democratic state cen- They brought back a deer tral committee during the last Governor Martin should convene tain economic security through i University; at one time also asso- tenth of crime is punished. campaign, has just taken a posi Washington made us forget than in ciated with the U. S. navy. The Think of happening* in your the lawmakers for the purpose of A species of barklesa dog ha« tion as permit clerk in the Port referring a new revenue measure the last analysis it is the initiative figures given in The Sentinel are own communities. Here at home, been bred In Africa for centuries land office of the Public Utilitle* to the people. and common sense of the individu 327,672,000 cubic miles. The figures cases of drunken driver* being These dog. wash their faces with commission. Professor Totten are freed after killing people, And al upon which the welfare of this given by — their paws. Chas. H. Gram, state labor com nation finally depends? Depending 350,000.000 cubic miles, of which those boy* who went on a spree missioner, has called a meeting of upon Washington has increased the 300,000,000 cubic mile* fell at the and got into trouble a few weeks beauty parlor operator« and beauty time of the great deluge of Noah’s ago. Only one wa* punished out of national debt to a record high and day. six or seven. One other paid a fine college operators for Portland on the farmer feeds Oregon’s Traffic Deaths it is constantly growing. October 19 to discuss hours of em So far, so good. But the one of $10 for fighting.............. THEBB ALL. A Series of Weekly Artlclss on ployment and wages. The operators Contributed by Unknown Writer. This debt is an obligation which cubic mile, containing more than The boy who was punished was the Problem of Highway Safety comes ahead of your grocery bill 1,100,000,000 gallons, ha* been both a juvenile. Our law provides that have filed complaint against the The politician talks and talks. By Earl Snell, Secretary of State 44-hour week imposed by the State ering my think trap ever since I and every other bill for your fam The actor play* his part; minors get protection, but I guess Welfare commission which they The soldier glitters on parade. ily needs. It will have to be paid read it. those officers get a different im- claim to be impractical. "Slow down at sun dow i" is ad I do not know of course. Just pression. The goldsmith plies his art. by your children and your grand vice that can well be heed id by the who prepared these figure«, but the The scientist pursue* his germ children, if not by you. They apparently careful driver. The nation's record cubic mile of water 1* not the only njlnor. should be think half our kih^d in'Jram Per>on’ O’er this teirestrial ball. of after dark driving 1s a warning °“ly MUrCe °f *overnment wet spot in them. The figure* protected, give «e J" . " C acc,dento U a child Th* sailor navigate, hl, ship, to all motor vehicle operators. c edit is your property. The only themselves are also wet, yes they the other half the works. Ury o? State a8nerid‘ng8*C’* But the ,arm<*r ,e*d" *»' Throughout the nation it is estl There wa„ two juvenile« in that Sto r.it. taZ J . -.y**'' The Preach«r pound* hi. pulpit source of government revenue is are all so wet that I will try to mated that about 20 per cent of the trouble, both In the same things through taxation on your property, hang them up to dry. taa* 21 .th P** of driv«rs Brokers read the lengthy tape, When you total current bills on We talk about cubic mile» miles as a* that night, one was never arrested .Z • The tollor cut. and sews hl. cloth travel I* at night. Yet three fifths of the fata) accidents occur during Snell call* particular ait ten the tenth of next month, it might though they were our middle name or mentioned anytime during the sion. t ön ta thë r I 1par?cuUr *tten - - To fit the human shape the hours of darkness. trial. The other was arrested, tak- 1"/’”' '"'n' ««>• « '“"i»". I" be a good idea to add in an item and part of the vrork, but we A* the density of traffic de that you may not realize you owe_ ^re ap* *° en^r«ly to compre- en to jail ahead of his trial two or laws requiring motorists to give silks, creases, speed* generally Increase. three days and *ix day* before right-of-way to pedestrians in a Ooes forth to dine or call. your share of the national debt, mlle One out of every 45 day time in a «rot ’ In a lineal mile there are 5280 most of the older boy* were ar crosswalk. Or drive, or dance or promenade— vour^X n*8’ lin^' feet’ ln a m,la rested. Those last arrested were juries result* in death, a* compar But the farmer feed« them ah. your business and your home. are 27,878,400 square feet. In a only kept in jail one day and na- The supreme court’s opinion in Th* watchmaker wield* his shiny ed with one death out of every 28 roled. Injured in night traffic accident*. the case involving salary Increase* How long are you going to per- cubic mile there are 147,197,952,000 tools. Carefully compile«, data from mit continued and unrestrained cubic feeit. ____ In one gallon there ___ ______ ___ _ are I believe the boy was coerced and for Portland teacher* Is of inter The merchant shows his wares, seven states also shows that the 231 cubic inches and in a cubic derld«d pretty badly for a minor, est to every city and county as The aeronaut above th* clouds prodigality in government? six hour* of darkness before mid foot there are 1,728 cubic inches, j name in connection with one well as every school district in the As dizzy Journey dares. night account for a total of 52 per state. In the opinion the high court But art and science soon would Therefore in one cubic foot there °toer was in the Eugene papers PAROLE OFFICERS should cent of the fatal pedestrian acci are 7.48 gallons and in one cubic two or three times during those held that the Portland school dis fade, BE CAUTIOUS. dents. mile there are 1,101,040.680,960 gal- *,x ^Y« r« toat protecting min trict could not grant salary in And commerce dead would fall Again we are nt the time of year creases to it* teachers jn excess of If the farmer ceased to reap and Officers are criticized for their ion*. Well, The Sentinel said that ors? when driving becomes the most failure to take more Interest in the one cubic mile contains more than I heard a boy say, when speak- the budget estimate. The opinion difficult, and the ordinary hazards enforcement of the law. Such criti 1,100,000,000 gallons and we see in? of only one getting punished: also held that the ruling applied For th« farmer feeds them all. of traffic will be increased by wet cism. in many cases, it not Justi that the word “more” wa* correct ‘The cop* don’t care who take* the with equal force to city and county and slippery pavements, fog, and fied. There have been occasions ait any rate, for it is “more’’ than ^P just so they get some one." i governments. While the learned Educational Meeting* for other handicaps incidental to win ustice« held that monte* might be heard another say he knew a cop AAA Program. where officers have risked their one thousand times "more.” ter driving. Night driving in par The following remarks might who was paid to stay away from temporarily transferred from one A serie« of district meetings to live* to arrest a criminal only to help us to realize what a cubic certain places on certain night*. fund to another they also pointed Five county association leader* and ticular requires additional care and have him sentenced to a wholly mile means, if on gome cold winter caution in unfavorable weather out that these "loans" must be re That’A protection, of the wrong county agents a thorough under inadequate penalty by soft- our cubic mile of water should kind, and are those the Idea* we paid to their rightful fund* before standing of the 1988 agricultural Wot pavement and glaring head lights constitute a deadly combi the end of the fiscal year. hearted Judge and soon paroled and freeze into solid ice and then If we want our youth to get? conservation program so that they nation, particularly at dusk, and turned loose upon society again. could get this ice divided into 12 in turn may pass this Information I would think twice before I Governor Martin struck out at on to the farmers of the state has «11 of these elements must be con Too often some courts and parole inc* «ube« ”o that each cube would would have any one arrested I boards seem to stand between the f°nta,n J“8} one cubic foot, we would b* afraid thing« would ret critic* of hi* stand on Bonneville been arranged for the last two sidered |n motor vehicle operation for the next few months. power again thia week. week* In October, announce* F. I* “55? --------------------------------- turned about and I wrnld either Give careful consideration to all “Self seeking politician* and Ballard, vice director of the Ore- to Pay a big fine or get put demagogue* have tried to becloud There have been an astonishing' conditions under which you are gon extension service, which Is In number of shocking crime, com’-¡husky Irishman*^ loM JoJow Pm n-J^^ing to* the Bonneville Issue for their own driving, and regulate the speed of charge of educational work In con end* and at the expense of the J your car accordingly. Help eltmln- nection with the program. E*oh ate Oregon's traffic deaths. ggttacr (firove Srntinrl Latham Lynx Hollow FOR FARMERS
