THE SENTINE^ COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON
Gotta#* t&rove J$rntrnrl
W. C MARTIN
Published Every Thursday at
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Established August 15, 1889
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THURSDAY. JVNÖ 21. HH.'
LAWRENCE KENT WRITES
HOW TO TELL IF HIOH HEELS ARE HARMFUL
Central Pacific Area
June 8, 1945.
W. C. M artin
Editor, The Sentinel
Dear Sir:
Just a line to let you know we
fellows out this way still enjoy
the home town paper. 1 receive
mine quite regular and up-to-date
via my dad and first class mail.
Your armtxi forces column is al
ways first on the list as it gives J
me news of the other fellows and
gals working for Uncle Sam.
I have been quite lucky in meet-
L e tt n t * F a n t
tu Nrher
T er
US.AIOOERKlSl '7”
I
I'M QUITTING A rT E i?
THIS HAND..... T'VE GOT
ENOUGH TO SU'»
BUY A 4
,
W Aft^BONP ! \
J
! ing and locating a lot of Cottage
¡Grove boys out this way in the
past 20 months I've been over
NATI A U D IT O R IA L - i seas.
SSOCIATION
Two or three months ago. five;
ATi
of us even managed a fishing trip
together. Any how we did visit a j
lot and hash over old times in C.
LIVING MEMORIALS
|G. Don't ask how many fish. In
in the current issue of the League of Oregon Cities bulletin, eluded in our party were: Pete
there is considerable disetussion on w hat is term ed com m unity Beach, MM3 c. Seabees; George
w ar memorials. All over the country cities, towns and eonimuni- Glass, Pfc„ I'.S. Army: Vlnal
ties are giving oonaideration to the question of providing living
Jr- ^ 2 t '
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mem orials to the w ar dead, l.icas differ of course as to w hat i ¡Y*
¿ J '«‘ r
eonstitutes a suitable memorial and among the types of memori-
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als-suggested which in ou r case w ould be in addition to the all; S,nce my last communication
- A M YOU BETTER BUŸ ONE TOD"
veterans building sponsored by the American Legion and Veter- with you, I also visited with Del
ans of Foreign W ars, are comm unity recreation buiklings. parks. Farmer Ph. M. 1 c, U.S. Navy;
athletic fields, hospitals and airports. In addition to the veter- Fred Phillips EMI c, U.S. Navy:
ans building, all of these p ro jects would.be ap p ro p riate anil are Wm. F. Githens SHD 1 c. U.S.
needed.
Navy and Howard Dulley. U. S.
With public spirited citizens, it is a question of centering o n ' M * r ‘ne f orPs- Previous to this
the type of public project needed the w orst. P ractically all of the I?” c
ha<?
T ' th
In spite of an "off" season so far
Test your know ledge of your
above types of memorials, if they are made as m em orials have , n
J
/ ir" t i ,i,>h as income is concerned, farm War
Government's War Uond Flnan.--
been discussed but this is as fa r as the m a tte r has gone with Rvchard. , who ism my own unit» Bond leaders are now making prepa
I iik program. The amwers to
these questions, given at the end.
exception ot the veterans building.
and two of my wife's brothers. rations for selling more bonds to
farmers during the Seventh War
Look to your shoes, ladies, Io find I he answ er to the q ues
tion, “ Are high heels hurml'ul Io my I’ccl
If the heels and
soles show wear on the inside, and the In els tend to be belli out-
ward, your ankles and call' luuseles are not strong enough Io
eop«> sueeessl'ully with high I icc I n . This type of wear shows that
you do not m aintain (lie proper erect ankle line. ,
D ll the oilier hand, if your high heeled shoes wear out norm
ally the heel show ing wear at the very back, either in the mid
file or slightly to the outside, and the sole showing wear under
the exact center of the ball of the foot you are able Io cope
successful!v with high heels.
DR H A HAOEN
i by fingers of the wind 1 saw them
It chatu'ixl upon a hut afternoon stand, as III joy, meeting sun, and
of the August Inst past thnl I fell wind, and time!
Again, after I know not how
In with one of the noblest of eom-
panions, the Spirit of the W ild long, 1 was hearing the voice of
wood. 1 was making my way in The Spirit of (he Wildwood: "You
the heat and among the stumps have seen . . You will remember":
to a knoll overlooking the I huiu I i - and lin n there was the luir form
ful Pend d' OreiU 1-nkc and. our going away among the trees; then
the fading and the dimming of
piths falling together, we made
the smudgy,
our way to the crest of the knoll, the trees, then
sharp-angled,
sa w e d
seated ourselves u|»on son«' large smoky,
sawed stumps and hxtked out as stumps, the snags, the drab, the
everyone must who comes upon dead the miles and miles of ugli
and there I
it upon one of the fairest lakes ness untellahle;
of this earth: silver water through alone unit lonesome upon the
miles and miles; mountain walLs stump the while the moaning and
all sides; green-lopped peak be the groaning of the wind In the
yond green-topped |x-ak every crevices of the dead snugs told me
where, distanees, hazes, spienikir, I was far from templed woods I
saw lhat there, too, Profit had
grandure, magnificence!
A lter drinking, for I know not ls*en blowing her breath of death
us she is now blowing It upon
how long, from the lieuuty of that
scene and in a mood of medita «•very man, every woman, every
tion, I nntieed that the stump up child of civilization today!
OSO F HIBNER,
on which I sat had stood at least
Got I age Grove.
two hundred years "two green
Centura*"
before the woods
should be known by every
one in the navy and one in the Loan than in any previous drive,
man's saw had come, and I ven M TOKAtiE ( H A M M i IN » n o n
American. How good are you?
army in months past.
according to M. L. Predmore. Chief
1. 85 million Americans have pur tured to say to The Spirit of the W A STE IIK T E R M IN K D A T <>M<
SUGGESTED RBTA
Sounds like C. G. was enjoying of the Agricultural Section, War chased Series E Wnr Bonds.
Wildwood, "These trees were old
The past ten years will go down in history as the e ra when
2. 84‘« of all the money ever in when they met death It must have
a
little building boom. I hope Finance Division. Treasury Depart
Storing of Douglas fir hogged
we look to some adm inistration to solve ou r difficulties. Among
ment.
With
the
help
of
country
bank
vested in E Bonds is stiU invested been very different here then."
wood and sawdust up to 10 months
the latest adm inistrations which some congressm en are seeking you’ll be able to wake the old ers they're out to convince the men in them.
fogies up and get some industries who till the soil that they should
3. If a Bond is lost, stolen or de Something in my tones, |M*rha|ts results in some loss of heating
to create are the Rural Telephone adm inistration and the Co- that they have
up in years,
convert their expanded bank ac stroyed. it is just the same ns if the more than In my words, touched value but more loss of fermentable
lum lna Valley authority. The au th o rities are usually created pæjt. j own property in Cottage counts into bonds.
owner had tost the money he In my fair companion and she said. sugars, according to rescarc hon
u n d er the guise to help some class of people.
Grove and intend to make it my
"Farmers, like all Americans, vested
; "Oh, you see what this means," this subject just completed at the
4. E Bonds may be cashed at any i and she waved her hand back to Oregon Forest Pnxlucts lalxira-
It is logically assum ed that if the ru ra l people have no tele- home when this is all over. Keep have been building up bank deposits
qualified bonk for their full cost any
phones they have n o .to ilets nor bath tubs. On the assum ption up your work and get that town
cver *1‘,nce..tJ!le
ward the millions of blackened tory at Oregon State college.
th a t the RTA is beneficial to the country people it has also been'w
oke up before it's too late.
January'L^920*agr'cuHure"heid cur- lime after 60 days from dateof issue stumps, the countless thousands ot
been woke
A research leaflet Just Issued on
5. The U. S. Government's prom
suggested th a t a ru ra l bath tu b and toilet adm inistration should
1 hope to get home this year, rency and bank deposits totaling ise to redeem War Bund« any time snags and shufts of dead trees, the subject giv<*s details of the
be form ed. And perhaps such an adm inistration could point t h e ; ^ut 8uess that will have to re-1 slightly over 4 billion dollars. The after 60 days from date uf Issue is barren of leaves, barren of limbs, study made at the suggestion nt
Just as strong as its promise to barren, even, of bark! "You love the Eugene water board, interest-
w .y
of the d im ,.„ h ie s of the toile, p ap er .short«....,
stand back of a dollar bill.
Lord and the fortune of war.
beauty?", and could answer only ed in changes in fuel value of stor
lion."
s.
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6. You have to hold a Bi nd the with my eyes . . . “I shall remove
Sincerely yours
ed sawdust, and the W illamette
With
larger
operations
and
in-
full
ten
years
to
get
any
interest
LINCOLN’S IDEA
L. D. Kent SK2/c
oc.u xi
z-
. d . ■ creased costs farmers must have
7. The lowest-priced War Bond a half-century, and you may sec." Valley Wood ^'henucal company of
Lincoln, addressing a deputation of w orking men, stated.)
yetn .sav. const Bat. more operating capital than in 1940. costs $25.
She made a wave-like movement Springfield, which needed accur
“ The strongest bond of hum an sym pathy outside the fam ily re
but they don t need 10 billion, in
8. War Bonds are better thancasb of her arm and hand, and all ate information on changes during
Predmore’s
opinion.
He
believes
F
IL
IP
IN
O
BOY
W
R
ITES
9 Two persons cannot own a War things about were touched with storage in the chemical properties
lation should be one uniting all w orking people of all nations
Mrs. Raymond Wicks of Dor- farmers can and will put a substan Bond jointly.
a n d tongues and kindreds, nor should this lead to a w ar upon
change; the stumps, the snags, the of sawdust used in making alcohol.
tial
portion
of
these
cash
reserves
10. The only reason we should buy
drab, the dead faded, dimrmxl and
p ro p erty or th e owners of property. P roperty Is the fru it of ena received a letter recently into War Bonds.
War
Bonds
is
to
help
pay
for
food,
When
they go out to sell War
labor, p ro p erty is desirable: is a positive good in the world. from a 15 year old Filipino boy.
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ammunition, etc., for the armed died away, and it was as if 1 were
Nlrrrsihrn Seam
T hat some should be rich shows that others m ay become rich has become- a Rtxxl fnend £
War Fmancc C a « th re u Both,
X a , ,OrCC,‘
looking into emptiness us were
To strengthen a narrow or loosely
throughout
ANSWERS
I
looking
into
a
northern
sky
in
stitched seam on an inexpensive
and hence is ju st encouragem ent to ind u stry and enterprise. Let The letter follows:
the nation will stress personal solici
1 True.
bright day. Then came first as a garment a house dress, for exam
tation. A survey made follow ing the
not him who is homeless pull down the house of others but let "Dear Mrs. Wicks:
2. True.
dimly drawn picture then vital and ple— restilch seam about | /lf l tneh
3. False. War Bonds are regis
him work diligently and build one fo r himself, th u s by exam ple
I am forced to write a letter Sixth War Loan showed that 57
percent of the formers who were tered in the names of their owners, real as life a great forest. Just deeper. Set machine at 14 to 16
assum ing th a t his own shall be safe from violence when b u ilt.” to you according to my great ac- n a -s n n a llv e n lie ite d h o i,e h , l-nnrla
before me stood a splendid tree, stitehes per Inch, On a better gar
and lost Bonds can be replaced.
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quaintance with Wicks, your son.
its great shaft reaching near to ment. rip out and restltch any
4. True.
EXCERPTS PROM EDITORIAL COMMENTS ON STATE ' ,Mayl\ you are sorr>' to rcad m>
5. True Compare wording on a two hundred feet into the heaven's broken knotty, drawn or crooked
Chipped Enamel Ware
Bond and a bill
BUILDING FUND MF. A STlR f}
etter because 11 secms to
“ »
blue. Fur up there the shaft di stitching If material frays, run a
There is danger in using chipped
6. False. Your Bond increases In
*PhA
ii.4 in Rond Anoo-nn -.mi.
k
*TUt®n ingramatically. We
n e Bend v B n ulletin,
Bend, Oregon
The purposes of t . the
ap- 001
acquainted each other here in the enamelware. Now ab.ut copper. value after one year. See the values vided into limbs, the limbs into row of machine stitching near tfie
Acid foods shouldn't be cooked in on the back of the Bond But you twigs, the twigs into ever thinner cut edges
propriation, we believe are w orthy and should n o t be th w a rte d Philippines during their arrival,
a greater increase in value the leaves as would it fuse into the
by m isunderstanding. It has been know n fo r long th a t such state
I'm showing proud to my F ili- copper vessels. Miss Lawrence says. get
And milk and foods containing sac longer you hold a Bond, up to $1 heaven’s air. And that was but
Strengthens Joint
in stitutions as the state hospitals, boys and girls tra in in g schools pino friends about him because ot charine shouldn't be kept in copper at the end of 10 years for every $3 one of the millions of trees of thnl
Animal glue sticks to wood be
and pen iten tiary are inadequate and badly crow ded.”
his wright treatments and the way containers, since acids they contain you paid.
forest.
cause In its thin, warm solution It
7. False. A $23 Bond costs $18 75.
A storian B udget, A storia, Oregon: “ The voters should bear he
hls friends-
may dissolve the copper. Further
I saw their crowns up there penetrates the pores while still fluid.
8. True. They enn be replaced if
in m ind three th in g s: the building program s are v itallv neces- •
eD.aye a nic® s iluation here more, never fry foods in copper lost, they increase in value and they kissed by the gold ot the sun. I When II solidifies and dries, Ils tre
sary and will provide much em ploym ent o n postw ar years ; the time in shows havm| interesting pans. Cooking foods in brass may can be converted into cash in case saw them bowing to the matchless mendous shrinking power draws
be harmful, but off-flavors may of need.
lake. I felt the sweetness of their the fibers of one piece to the other,
five-null ta x levies will not be collected, fo r th e funds will b e ' stories about his manhood in not
9. False. War Bonds can be owned
make the food impossible to eat.
the Joint stronger than the
available from income tax surpluses; and. if the bill is not ap- America and I also tells about my And incidentally, lard made in an by two people as co-owners or as shade "shot by splintered sun". I making
wood Itself and of equal durability.
heard
their
harps
when
touched
proved, the income taxes will be collected anyw ay and the $10,- boyhood in the Phil. Every day I
AM T II E T R E E S GO D O W N
..íitfíÜS; PH ea
Farmers Plan Greater
Buys In War Bonds
iron pot will become rancid more
000.000 will m erely be an unexpended balance in the sta te treas- am visiting him in his tent, he quickly than lard made in steel or
u ry .”
gives me something what he got, aluminum kettles.
Oregonian, P ortland, O regon: “ If there is any lingering 2 ^ e n ?g me n?cL siOu eSu °i thQ8e
doubt in the m inds of the voters, let them consider also th at the d' i ~ nK. pasx ___ H c d
„
vNe*' ?,*rU s “u'*a ,
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i m a six grade promotion
New York City'» subway system
money already is m the state treasury, in fact is frozen there and during the Japs penetration „ the largest pyasgengpr ycaryry?n™
and th a t taxes wtll not be any higher or any low er if the meas- were nearly broke out aurt our railroad in the world. 5.718.000 fares
1 ure
1 SW
A is
it, approved
<> AAH/tlFoJ or A,
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. . . . every day as 7.000
defeated. “
situation,
and 1 I » thanks
to God being collected
Labor Press, Portland, Oregon: “ Many veterans have seen
We could nearly see Liberty, trains speed over 740 miles of sub
the im portance of higher education and realize its value as never t'?.e daM,n
Peace and the Japs terranean track.
before. 20% of them have indicated th e ir in terest in going to p 1
l . e *VTL
those *ono-
eollege on re tu rn from the arm ed services. The only possible'
Y ou^kt^^0 the'v letn«t
w ay they will obtain this advantage will be th rough the financ- multitude of Filipinos without
EDITOR CLEM
ing o fb u ild in g s for this purpose. ’ ’
single mistake to them I thanki
By Ralph Kemp
Oregon City Enterprise, Oregon City, Oregon: “ The Enter- to the American navy and to
prise btdieves th e voters should strongly endorse th is proposal Wicks because he is one of the
and it believes they will when they realize th a t th e en tire levy members of the U. S. N. I hope
will not cost a cent in p roperty taxes, although fo r technical w<?b be allright here in Philip-
pnrposes the legislature and the voters m ust provide for a spe- Pines> » nearly clear up, wc are
'
cial levy.”
here in Philippines. I hope I won’t
forget them all especially Wicks,
the best friend I ever had in the
Philippine Islands.
two
I will never forget America the
CIGARETTE TAX
Ju n e 22nd. tom orrow , voters will approve or reje ct
m easures at a special election, one the state building fu n d meas- Peace Loving country whose peo-
ure, which ought to be approved and which costs the taxpayers pie possessed human hearts with
nothing. The other is a cigarette tax in su p p o rt of the Oregon human feelings, who defended our
public school. If this m easure is approved a tax of one tenth of nation now and forever.
Sincerely yours,
one cent will be assessed against every cigarette sold.
Elbe
This m easure was not what the school people ask for, but
M r. Elviro M. Bautisls
i t ’s the best the legislature offered when the schools asked for
more money to meet increasing costs. In the absence of a sales
FISHERM EN TAKE DIF
tax, the cigarette ta x is offered as a tem porary source of reve
IN OCEAN
nue until a better tax can be devised.
We have never heard any objection to the cig arette tax.
Last Sunday C. O. C lark promis
aside from the fact th a t it is classed* as a nuisance tax. The ed his brother, O. G. Clark, that
m erits of the m easure are m any at th is p a rtic u la r time. It w*ill he would take him on a fishing
provide tw o m illion dollars to meet current school needs in the trip that he’d never forget and it ¡
out that way. The C lark I
slate and each class room will receive $250.00 annually. H un turned
brothers were joined by Clarence |
d reds of school d istric ts in the state are this y e a r having to vote
Caudell of Reedsport, a former
on the six percent lim itation m easure to meet increased costs. resident, and started fishing in the
Included in this num ber are forty-tw o districts in Lane county Winchester bay south of Reeds
alone. The tax w on’t apply as an offset to taxes on real p roper port. I t was not long before C. O.
ty , b u t will prevent a large num ber of districts from exceeding hooked a big one and broke his
the six percent lim itation, which is really an offset tax.
line. In trying to land the big one
In short the m easure will enable the’ public schools to main- Clark fell overboard. Then the
taut a high stan d ard of efficiency at a time when this efficiency fishermen decided to change loca- "This next stickful o’ type is goln’
tions and in tying up to a dock te
i***1 •’• n * <*«*"«—* « »»* J» mll-
may be retard ed by lack of funds. Vote 302 X yes.
lions of Japs to beat.'
upset, the boat and all three took
a
dip. The big task was getting
Ito y — Do you enjoy K ipling!
dry and cleaning the salt water
Girl Well, I d o n ’t w ant to appear ignorant but I d o n ’t out of the motor. This was finally
know. How do you k iple!
accomplished and the fishermen
brought back thirty sea perch.
A fiery-tem pered gentlem an wrote the following letter-
*»-• I e ' my NtenoKra Ph<*’’. being a lady, cannot type what I
think o f you. I being a gentleman, cannot think it. You, being
neither, will u n derstand what I m ean.”
“ Oh, d e a r,” she said. “ I ’ve missed you so m uch.”
zm
?hp
the revolver and fired again.—Camp Bowie
(Tex. Blade.)
1
s
Short for ‘Kaput"
"Nazi” came into general use with
the rise of national Socialism in the
1930s as an abbreviation, apparent
ly of South German or Austrian ori
gin, of the German "National-sozial-
lst" which reproduced the first two
syllables in phonetic spelling.
True or False
owner and beneficiary.
10. False. Your savings Invested In
W ar Bonds will also help to stabilize
prices now and to provide for your
own security in the future
Roy M. G re e n
T e lls a Farm S to ry
By President Ror M. Grren
t'o'oradn A i t M Cnllego
Fort Collins, C'ol irado
Big crops and good prices left a
wheat farm er not ton;’ ago with
$30,000 cash in the bank. Said he.
" If 1 don't invest this in inflated
land values, what can I do with it
to earn anything?” I said to him.
“ Did you ever think of using part
of it to insure yourself a steadier
farm income after the war? For $150
a month, or $1,830 a year in War
Bonds, you can begin to collect ten
years after the war $200 a month
As you will be getting older by fia t
time, wouldn't that be a better sup-
plcmant to what income th« farm
then pruducos than having to turn
again to the cream can and what
your wife eon make out of chickens?
Wouldn't it be a nice retirement fund
for a fellow that is now 5ft years old?
Wouldn't you like to have had $200
a month cash coming in !a;.t time?"
In addition, if you can put In War
Bonds a lump-sum as reserve for op
erations in bad years, far deferred
purchases of equipment, for repairs,
for up-keep, for new household
equipment; and then whatever the
postwar adjustment, you would have
an easier time of it than you had
lost time.
You wouldn't have to wait on
somebody's extra special plan; you
would have already completed one
I of your own.
If you are proud of the independ
ence of your occupation, and jealous
of preserving as much of It as pos
sible. don't orate and speculate—
) order WAR BONDS!
Greyhound
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Alphabet In One Verse
The 21st verse in the seventh chap
ter ot Ezra in the Bible contains
every letter in the alphabet.
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per thousand on dwelling and contents.
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Phone 34
Residence 122 R
Cottage Grove Hotel Bldg.
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