THE SENTINEL, COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON
Established 1889
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W. C MARTIN ................................................................... Editor-Publisher
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HUGH S
JOHNSON
Jour:
—
Uun and «wsÿ frufii
isn't altogether caused by advances
in science and Invention Every
time a manufacturer instulla a new
machine operation displacing labor,
he makes a certain logical calcte
lation.
FROM
GOATS TO
T t ’K K K Y N
THURSDAY, APRIL 4. 1940
Pea Growers Can
Control Weevil
N. L. Bolton oelebrated his Noth
hit inlay last Wedneaday.
Hm alleal Known H int
The sm allest known bird Is be
lieved to be Melllsugn m inim a, a
specks of hummingbird native to
tropical America An adult of this
l.ane county growers of Austrl-
un winter Held |x*as have an op-
portunlty to obtain without charge species Is scarcely more than two
the services of Ivan Brnnton, agri- Inches long and weighs less than
cultural engineer. Oregon State 1/210 of an ounce.
college, in constructing dusters
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for the control of pea weevil and
aphis, according to (>. S. Fletcher,
county agent. This service is mad»
possible through an arrangement
between the Oregon State college
and the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration of the U. S Ik-
Agriculture,
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P L A N E S F O R T H E A L L IE S
Escondido. California
'p 'H E policy of the President to
March 23rd. 19-10
permit the allies to buy our Cottage Grove Sentinel,
g o
z
most advanced type of military and Cottage Grove, Oregon,
naval planes Is 100 per cent correct. Gear Mr. Martin:
A principal problem In our prep-
Thanks so much for your short
aration for defense is productive ch*’ on ,h,< ra,'d-
ari‘ attach-
can icitv Tim.. 1« "nt th« »««..nr» ink our <*<*k for the subscription,
ir. war N a tX m used to sav "I You should have collared me when
m war. Napoleon used to say.
I j was
jn
f
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
may lose a battle but I will never ,eft for south; , rn CaUfomia.
Mr. Itranton is in a position to
lose a minute—and hence few
So far we |Jke |h b
f | of
The right to act, speak and think as we pleas«* is an Ameri
assist
farmers and others Inter
wars.
We have the best industrial country just fine, but will wait a
can . . . privilege few
of us . have
u p to now, , but this pjan”t ln
world But in our mod- full year before making any fav- ested
in .. constructing -, dusters,
.
x , appreeiat«*d
.♦
- t h e world
,
, , in
p riv ileg e may be appreciated more as t ime goes on and we ob- ern system of manufacture, the best orabie or unfavorable comments. s,,|ec,lnli ,he l’" ’«M'1 »»*• ',|
serve its conapiciona absence in many European countries.
plant in the world can't get into Ant neck deep in the turkey busl-
, eauipment. measuring the out
F ew of us have the sam e ¡«leas as to how our public and Production without first going ness. From goats to turkeys is
private business should be conducted. Since coming to C ottage 'hrougl?.“ sl<’w i,nd cotnP’icated
Quite a venture and if we make a
. (,m ,
f ,r ,,lwt dlstrlbu-
r
fort called “ tooling-up.
success of this business, we will
Grove the w riter has heard many expressions for and against
. trv a babboon ranch next
tion and other construction dc-
This means the arrangem ent of
J
iancn next.
l a na
the
a m odern trend in our 4 buildings and machine tools to pro-
, establishment
x
x of a , union
m. high school,
A
We have tne champion turkey
ed u catom al system today. The most common expression against vjde a C(>ntlnuoug ftow from onc flock of this country and no doubt
Mr- Ketcher states that any-
th e building o f a new union high school hen* is that it has raised operation to another without back- oi the who,‘> United States. Day nn*' wishing this service from Mr.
the tax rate. Believe it or not, but in most d istricts involve«! the tracking or lost motion. It means ol<* P °UJJS
<M,r l*‘st breeder
•*!'' ' r / i . " J " m i -
pens sell at $1.50 each and eggs ’> «gent s o ffic e at once, as Mr.
ta x rate is the same and in some instances lower than the cor- the making of the working points at 75c each. We have a fine dress- Branton will be visiting luine
responding rate of last year . If you have pai«i your 1940 taxes
these tools to insure absolute ed turkey trade here on the place, county in the near future.
We dress from two to 15 birds
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an«l are living in the union high school district, an exam ination
daily. Today we dressed twelve,
of your 1939 and 1940 rcciepts will give you a com parative
but our main business is breeders
figure.
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and day-old poults and hatching
Gail O’Neal of Eugene and
eggs. So far we have shipjxul ,i Miss
I f we have heard an expression once we have heanl it a doi-
f r ie n d \ is iie d a t th e ( i W Me
It has teemed to us for some
breeding
st«x'k
and
hatching
eggs
en times and recenty too that the s«»hool facilities in such and
Farland home Saturday evening. time that we could Improve our
to
six
states.
This
year
we
have
such a district “ were good enough for me and ought to be goo<l
-W i
M is s ( ; u l is a h a lt s i s l r r n t 1 ' u
a fltx'k of only 300 turkey hens, rel Mayes and used to reside here service department by concen-
i i . i iin e . " i i i . eli" work.
With
enough for my children. ’’Perhaps so but «lid you ever stop to
but next year we hope to have several years ago.
this
in
mind
we
sold
our
house-
think that our grandfathers rode in ox wagons an«i on horse
1200 making it possible to pick
The Neighbors Friendship club wiring and small uppliance re
1000 eggs per day, which we al will
back, while about ninety-five percent of the present «lav genera
meet for an all day session pairing depai inients Io Mi
ready
have
tut
outlet
for.
tion rides in autos, and good on««, fh ir grantlfathers never even
April Uth at the Henry Rohde l^eon Godard, lust October. Re
Valencia oranges are ubout
Hn«| Miss Ly,c w,n be ,ircs. sults have shown that w e were
had ice as a preservative, most of us to«iay have m echanical re
ready to pick. \o u better run en( f,,r „ f,MX| demonstration,
corroct.
Our radio service
frigerators, our grandfathers never had telephones, pave«! roads,
down and help us pick ours and
Mrs Frankie ( ’allwon of Eu- shows a 21% Increase over bust
a trip to tow n represented at least a day and was not usually
get a real fill on oranges fresh K,.ne an(J Mrs. Jones of Jasper year and our sales of radios,
from the tree.
were wc«>k end gu«*sts of W. A. refrigerators and washers a
made under once a month and sometimes only tw ice a year.
Give my best regards to the Hemenway's
O ur grandfathers never saw a movie much less a talkie and
folks in Cottage Grove and with
Mr jm(| Mr„ j M
lcf, 11% Increase.
misstxl many events which we now enjoy.
! kindest personal regards, 1 am.
In vt«*w of th«1 g«sxl tlm«**
last Tuesday for Washington af-
Yet we talk of the things that are good enough fo r us ought
Yours sincerely.
which all Indications show are
ter spending the winter here.
A. C. BALL
to be good enough for our children. But how many of us would
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Th«1 heavy gale last Friday did approaching for Cottage Grove
w ant to go hack to the horse and buggy days? Tt is conceivable Once the original tooling is done
a good deal of damage. Many trees we are now arranging to move
th a t we shall buy b etter automobiles, b e tte r household appli- teUf‘r • • • experts are n ttt tt
fell. Some telephone lines were to <|uarters which will give us
down.
The el«*ctric line was brok- more nxim for service work,
ances. build b e tte r roads and still not spend any money to mod- uniformity in all the thousands of
better [rnrking fncillti«*s for our
cluh
*'n
by
«
large
tree on Herman
The
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.. Ru-
em ize our educational svstem ?
separate
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and a nicer display
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assembly of any such complex and met at the home of Mrs. Mildred dolph s place. It was repaired that customers
room
for
our
upi>linn<*cs.
Besides :dl of this if you really want to sec how a system wonderful
„ a modern war Sharon. Thursday afternoon with evSJ,‘ngB„ . . .
v r„nV Unit „r Watch for our large
large advert!«•-
w orks w here the children follow«xl m the fo o tstep s o f their par- pjane
21 members and one visitor pres-
Mr- nJ*d Mrs. rranx nail <>t ment In celebration of our 16th
ents and grandparents, look at China and look fu rth e r what is The scarcity, due to the depres-
Mrs- Carter. Plans were made „’¿ Mr „nd^Mrs'W a " H.-m« nwa? anniversary.
happ«*ning to 400.000.000 Chinese. W ho would want to be a sion. of sufficiently skilled pattern for ‘n,PSF ’‘dave'night8 at "th e^schixd They were accompanied by Mr
Chinese and live in China, vet this is an outstanding example of and tool-makers is one of the great «uppt r r rmay mgn
n
and Mrs. Ed Flnnorty of Cottage
what will occur if we practice and preach the doctrine of what i? ° ttJe;" cc,ts” retard,n« production
Grove and attended the burial of
Once the original tooling is done JMrs R
Fisher's father W B Aunt Emma Hall in I.O.O.F. cem-
was good enough for me ought to be good enough fo r my fewer
of those experts are needed Smjtk of £ pring, ield. died' at his '•|er> lhat afl"in,l<,n____________
children.
Everybody who is old enough will home there last week.
remember that preparatian to build
Mrs. Chandler of Roseburg
FICTION ABOUT LUMBER
the radically different successor to spent Thursday at the home of
the old Model T tin Lizzie, para- her sister, Mrs. L. Clark.
Recent visitors at the William
The statem ent frequently pops up in print that the annual lyzed the production of even the
home were Mrs. A. F.
forest drain due to lum bering operations is four or some other Kyeat Ford plants for the better part Sharon
Johnson, mother of Mrs. Sharon
m ultiple times the annual growth in the Douglax fiA region. It 0 two years 11 is balleved in the and son of Roseburg and Mr. and
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•
T IH
motor
UM/r uiuusurv
industry that
Uldl d a single
nlllKiP id9i
last
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appeared not long ago in an article in Fortune magazine, and minute change ta arrangcment and Mrs. George Neat of Coburg
this article is given additional circulation by R e a d e rs Digest. design co»t the Ford company mil-
Dward Millsap of Elmonte, Cah-
The statem ent is not true, except in a technical sense.
lion» of dollars and months of time .2™*?,'
'hr.™?. r' <tn ' a
the Jim Abbott home
C urrent annual growth applies only to growing stands over When this great preparation work
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Benston
16 inches in diam eter. It applies to only 30 p er cent of the re- *s dyne. increase in speed and re accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence Montieth and daughter Iris
foresting region. The other 70 p er cent is ignored because its ductlon ln C08t «re very great,
trees have not attained 16 inches in diam eter.
To put 1116 Aa^eric®0 airplane in- to Oakridge, Sunday.
”
‘
„ dustry on this kind of mass produc
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Rand and
By the same m athem atical system one might forecast a tion bagls would give
gorJ;ething children spent the week end at
Chase & Sanborn
shortage in pork. Pigs are being m arketed so fast th at if we do
hasn-t existed and, under con Roseburg visiting relatives,
not take into account im m ature pigs and pigs yet to be far- servative plans for our own equip-
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Keene and
rowed we shall want for ham and bacon.
ment, might never have been com children of Creswell were_vi.x ito rs
Honey Maid
Moreover when forest depletion is calculated, hewed ties, pletely attained. But a billion dol-
‘
wa
fence posts, pulp wood, mine tim bers, poles and piling are in- la.” worth oi allies business coupled
and Mrg rta|ph i^)nK and
eluded in the total, yet they come largely from trees under 16
win chi,dren of Cottage Grove and
They’re good for growing children
inches and from trees th a t are not included in calculations of do exaclly
regult
<lv. Mr and
^ n t^ u n d ^ y
th e grow th of presently m erchantable tim ber.
ing the allies our most advanced with r(?iatives here.
In a great deal of the m ature tim ber stands decay and fire designs is the most fortunate thing
Herman Abbott and Mabie
and insect depredations exceed annual growth. W hen this tim- (bat could happen to us from the Highland were married last week.
They are living near Portland
her is removed the land will become productive of new tim ber. an6!e
our own.defense.
Package
Help boys and girls
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Krebser
Growth of fir to merchant-able size is. it is true, a slow process.
TAX
machines
of Cottage Grove were dinner
grow taller and stronger
But there is expert opinion th at current growth can be, and is
Senator o'Mahoney's proposal to guests Tuesday evening at the
being, so increased th a t it will have reached the level of th e cut tax machines has had a panning home of Mrs. Krebser’s parents,
Better
by the time present stands are exhausted. On th a t yet distant from every editorial that I read— Mr. and Mrs.
I»well Benston,
day the new growth will not have attain ed the preeminence for
and I have to read a good many £?™ring Mrs^ Krebser on her
lum bering purposes of the present stands th a t have been grow-
recurring note is that Joe hails ‘ Mrs g tiger, and daUghter, Mrs.
0 R E 1 ( Í Í j N E W S ÌA P E R
P ublisher ^ 1 4 ¿so ci a t i
o n
Radio Ray has this
Cedars
to say
Saginaw
RADIO RAY
C O F F E E ..... p°und 2 3c
Graham Crackers
M U FFETS
Weiners SILVER
i n , fo r KO ycare and upward», but 1, will meat the ».andarda
Tuea-
of utilization prevalent in other p arts of the country.
toow anything about machinery. , day
St g
daughter,
Fortune also finds gratification, now wholly well taken, m the happen to hail from the great open M” r and Mrs ’ Cagle and daugh-
va«t reserve of m ature tim ber in the national forest«. The same spaces of Oklahoma, but that Isn’t
' Dexter «Dent last Tuesday
factors of decay, insect depredation, disease, and fire, th a t more going to prevent me from homing vrith°Mrs. Cagle's parents, Mr. and
than offset growth in overm ature tim ber stands, are as preval- “ on
argument. Mrj} g kjdge|
ent in the national forests as in private holdings. There would
1 can’t recommend the senator's j Mmes. S. K. Adams, L. Clark,
be economy and conservation in m arketing much tim ber that bill- In the first place, although I Ray Fisher and Earl Fisher spent
i-a ui
i
a, k
it, I don t understand one day with Mrs. Perry at Low-
eannot , now J find t a profitable
m arket.
Such tim ber is not a fixed ,1 have
H , studied
haye g djm
¡dea thgt R taxes u
reserve; it is a dim inishing asset.
, the producer who makes more than j Mr. and Mrs. Frank Krebser
The charge th a t consumption is rapidly overtaking forest average use of machines and from received word of the marriage of
growth is. as already said, not borne out by analysis. It is a the avails, (correct avails) subsi- their daughter Kathleen of Ridge-
charge dam aging to the west coast lum ber in d u stry and an u n dizes the producer who uses less 'field, Washington, to Ervin Gluth.
fair one. For it encourages the false belief in uninform ed q u a r than the average machine power
Soviet A g ricu ltu ral Show
and hence employs more man
ters th a t hindrances provided by foreign trad e agreem ents and power.
An elaborate agricultural show of
otherwise to the profitable operation of this m ajor in d u stry of I can’t go for that It is not tax the Soviet Union’s strides in farm
the northw est is a good thing.—The Oregonian.
ing for revenue. It is using the ing technique in the past 22 years
power to tax as a power to punish
one group and reward another in
proportion to their degree of depar-
X m e T r X T S 'how they “hSuld
run thcir business. It is both "puni-
tive” and "incentive” taxation and
both are dangerous ground,
Furthermore, it would be utterly
impossible to apply. The labor-
wage-element in the cost of various
SOME SENTINELS WELL THUMBED
Some coph-s of The Sentinel are p retty well worn before
they are discarded, a recent check of where Sentinels go reveals.
Many copies are read by as many as three or four families and
finally sent to a relative at some distant point. B ut even at that,
the paper still is mighty good kindling to sta rt a fire.
We might suggest a more appropriate way of getting a
fresher paper if we thought it would do any good. Any way
more and more people are now buying th eir papers over the
c e T ’aV ST laigS y'
counter at the office and more and more new subscribers are by forceg entirely beyond the pro
being added to our subscription list, fo r all of which we thank j ducer’s power to control.
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Nevertheless, there is something
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very valuable in part of what the
The present adm inistration was considerate of th e ir 120,000 aenator has at the back of his
census enum erators if they w eren’t so considerate of those to (bought. We ought to re-examine
be questioned. They started them out on April second instead of J*1*’ lde® °.f financin6 aI1 «ocial legn-
A pril fool s day Even so many of the enum erators no doubt more
to taxeg on mach^ „
will wonder if all fool’s day don t run all through April this Or machine hours.
year.
I
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ing about 335 acres, the exhibits
have been prepared by 2,000 artists
and 8.000 workers
Films Developed
and
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