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The Nentinel, Cottage tiróte, Oregon Thur*., April 8. 1918 Letters to the Editor Published Every Thursday at Cottage Grove, Oregon In a hurriedly written state Established August 15. 1889 ment regarding the closing of the - ------------------- Editor, Publisher i Blackbutte post office which ap Cottar tf. C. MARTIN OREGON 01.0 PENSION \<T THOUGHTLETS By Earl B. Balch A burlcy, Idaho, newspaper edi tor suggests that tin' senior sen ator of that state should be re cant'd b> his constituents. That iloes not sound advisable. Senator Glenn Taylor can't do his state much harm for the next two years and if the voters should throw have read. “Two or three years”. him out he could then pose as a Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. . martyr. To the Editor, and Mr. and Mrs. Senator Taft is pushing a meas NATI ON AL EDITORIAL- 1 John Q. Public: Are you the gullible kind who ure through the Senate to appro believes any and all gossip or ru- priate three hundred million dol mors that you hear? If you are lars for Federal aid to schools. It is refreshing to see the prospect don't read this article. There seems to be a great deal of an appropriation for something UNCERTAINTIES j of mud slinging and to my know- that will really benefit others than ipe , I ledge a lot of false rumors in cir- the military. Senator Lester Hill w 1 i rt' a,Ci* ‘ S o* un<’er1ainties when the average individual eulation both the pro and con on of Alabama calls it the "Marshall would like to know what to believe, more especially with refer- ’he question of the abolishment of plan of America.” ence to the world situation ami the outlook for pea'ce. Minor in-1 our present City-Manager-Council ' " , Il is with real relief tbat thc cidents are sometimes magnified such as sighting submarine^ type of government. ott the roast as if we might be actually at war. TheMt nation is ! According to authoritative T1*a#,Jlre known as the "Marshall ,n was final 1} passed without o doubt more perplexing to the German residents living in or sources there is now on file with near V*mn, vvho-may not know which way to turn and whether the city recorder a petition to 'nciuding Spain in the European abolish the charter amendment ua)|ons to receive funds. I’o have to be in the British. French. American or Russian zones. which established our present 'iwluded that Fascist government \iewing the outlook from all angles, it seems part of the form of government, and to re- 'voukt have helped commurilsm American press n trying to build up a war hysteria, which if turn Io the old Mayor-Council and *atge!y and lowered our prestige very much in the eyes of western earned far enough might plunge its into a war reganlless of elective City Recorder. fa«t!Europe' the necessity of such action. We are not sure but that some of Rumors travel far and the brass hats are back of the i fforta against anything new that this ■ To show that all measures The army brass hat element can be just as much of a dicta- city ever has tried to do that spells progress. However can sane : &F Congress are not polit- or as any bureaucrat and this in our mind is the worst thing and sensible people expect one educational bill passed by (bout any sort of military preparedness—the fact that the boys man or group of men to rectify. Senate which was drawn by. might .reach a point where they would want to show their in just six months, the mistakes or and pushed through by Senator (Uthonty The custom of carrying arms in civilian life would mismanagement of the past 35 Taft, received the support of many democrats in that body. mt hine been outlawed so quickly had it not been for the fact or 40 years. peared in our issue ol April 1st. ’ Bubecription rates, cash in advance. No subscription for less than 3 Mrs. Lillian Stimmel wishes a t>onth>. 1 Yr. 6 Mos. S Mos. corri'ction. Siu- stated that if the proposed rural mute extension In Lane-Douglas Countie« ...2.50 1.50 1.00 running out of Cottage Grove was Putride Thl* District „ -3.00 175 1.50 approved the post office at Black- । butte would be closed in two or Foreign Rates on Application. । three months. The article should ÄS:,’,.. hat the armed individual quite often found occasion to use his Can the present government be ux shooter when matters might have been settled peacefully. expected to rebuild the water sys • . e a? nOt SUF^ hut that thc international situation is much tem in 6 months when the past ad- ike the American lawyers, i who ‘ often like to resort to nanii': minstrations failed to get the job ailing in a court trial ami leave the impression that they are Can they repair and rebuild the eady to spnng at each other’s throat. When the sneech making streets overnight, when they have ¡V't^ tell?- S’“1” an« in arm. Ami this is been allowed to fall into a deplor ike the Berlin incident of last week, when the Russian freight able condition for the past several mbargo threatened to set off the needed spark, but when the years. The former limited budget elision loosened the generals went out to dinner together. alone would tie their hands on At least the situation has most of us guessing regardless of much of this wotk. Can this present government be he fact we would like to know the truth. A JOB FOR YOU T2iis spring, the State foresters and the forest service of the epartment of Agriculture are conducting a nationwide pro- am to reduce forest fire losses. And that campaign can be a '> d(‘a? with it th<> P" ’,C LS made aware of the problem and how Because the economy of this na tion is so closely bound with the needs of the whole world, there are four major industries that should be prevented from strikes by the unions and shut downs by the employers. These are coal. oil. transportation and steel. The clos ing of any of these industries for any great length of time brings industrial paralysis on not only this nation, but also on many oth blamed for someone's mistake of er countries. laying light cable right in the open ground only to rot off the cover The State Department has set ing in a few short years. Then to a precedent by refusing a passport require a complete rebuilding of to Congressman Leo Isaacson, left our Main Street lighting system wing member from the Bronx and at a much greater cost. Put the for whom Henry A. Wallace ac blame where it should be. tively campaigned. Never before Would you close your business has a congressman been refused or backslide in your system if your a passport, but he wished to at management did not seem satis tend a gathering in a country in factory * Europe which is actively aiding Weigh the facts and figures not the guerillas of Greece. Since our the opinions or rumors before you government is aiding the Greek decide on this all important Issue government against these guer I tell you in all sincerity it is very- illas. it is surely consistent to important to the welfare of this t efuse a passport to a man wish community and the health and fu ing to view the activities of an ture of everyone concerned, that aggregation aiding the guerillas. progressive government be con tinued. . Secretary of State Newbry in Think carefully, choose wisely, don’t be swayed by personal releasing the figures on motor fa talities in Oregon for February, prejudice or rumored opinions. states that one of ten fatalities Yours Respectfully. were due to drink. We wish to L. D. Kent. •ommend Mr. Newbry for making this statement. Too often officials repress, or at least fail to reveal, the truth in these things. Fortunately some progress has been made in dealing with .18 1?rest »w menace. In prewar years, we averaged 210,000 ires m our forests, woods and range lands. Since the war the and 172 000 in 1946 But »° ^ould ccept these statistics as an indication the waste is unimportant. 'S uUrned enouKh sau-timber size > build 86000 5-room houses, and enough pole sized trees to loude a 12-nionth supply of newsprint for every newspamr 1 this country. 1 What eauaes forest fires’ The experts have the answer to hat based on years of correlated experience. Only one in a erv fpd 1S ,htK r?Ulf "Parks from machinery. A try feu are the handiwork,of arsonists. Less than 10 per cent , re started by lightning. And here is the big point: 90 per eent re rauaed by people—by the carelessness of the campers, hunt- rs, travelers, loggers, farmers and the others who live in th onsta, who work in them, or who visit them. During the campaign, these and many other facts will be nade available. Forest tire prevention — like any other kind of Editor’s note: Happenings of It may seem a paradox, but the ire prevention — isn’t a job for the ‘other fellow.” It is a former years has never been a best realist is also an idealist. ,ob for you. AGE । $25 The ix'nidcntial nx)ulrem 'iits i would I»' the same Method of raising the funds to be left up to (Elmer J Kent) A statewide group of (tension the legislature. minded people propose this act to While t h e measure la being be placed on the November ballot sponsored by Townsend dubs, it if possible, Instead of the case carries none of the features of the 1 worker plan as we now have It. with the relatives dependent former Townsend bills. This writ- . clause, they propose to establish er has been appointed to manage $50 monthly for all men over 65 the petitions in southern Lan« Cb. and women over GO whose income and Would like volunteers from I is less than that amount, plus every district to circulate them j emergency medical care etc. This It requires about 20.000 registered ' compares with about a $39 aver- voters to place it upon the ballot : age at present with many being Copies of the act may lie seen at' compelled to exist on less than Kent s Market. Q a RROTS IMPROVE FOUR VISION, w THE VITAMIN A CONTENT 19 AN ENERGY BUILDER FOR GOOD MEDO-RICH MILKis now at YOUR GROCERS in Paper Cartons • No Bottle Deposit! • No Washing ! STYLISH "GUARANTEED GLASSES • No Returns! IMPROVE YOUR VISION, TOO . . . THEY GIVE YOU RESTFUL, COMFORTABLE EYES. PAY NOTHING DOWN, $1 A WEEK DR. T MULHOLLAND with office* at iilfOO-filCH mu« 820 Willamette Avenue in Eugeiio It’s Homogenized The LADIES by Cottage Drove Pharmacy CHLORINE CRADE A PASTEURIZED m IIIILrl Glancing Backward regular feature of the Sentinel in the past ten years because of crowded quarters, however, now NO OIL SHORTAGE non^1 nn™ niaj£ fi“d ^n,e comfort the recent statement of that we are in our new location, we hope to make this a weekly "^tern Oil and Gas Association, made feature, that is if the public likes last March. Mr. Gilman says there is no danger of the United this column. Mates running out of oil or gasoline in the foreseeable future. Sentinel Files 1928 Despite an all time record consumption, the total proved oil Scott Lyons announced this TO?™™ ?0Wltry at ¿he end °f Iast year ’’early week that he would be a republi 7U.I.UW.000 barrels greater than in 1946. And during 194» the can candidate for county commis sioner. oil industry expects to drill 35.000 more wells. One of the best and most fertile There is considerable misunderstanding of the so-called ranches in this section is the 160 oil shortage according to Mr. Gilman. The so-called shortage was acre ranch of Finley Whipps, sit dislocation rather than lack. The problem was to get oil where uated seven miles up Mosby it was needed. Creek. This year Mr. Whipps has a fine stand of clover growing on John I,. Lewis is said to be a great student of Shakespeare about half of his lower field. The cinnebar mines at Black and he frequently quotes from the latter’s plays. Mavbe that is butte is being operated to the full- where he gets his instinct for the dramatic. Once again he • est capacity possible with the acted a little scene when he ignored the subpoena of a lawful present equipment. Two shifts are body, the fact-finding committee named by the president, and being employed at the mines and appeared only after the court had ordered him to do so. It was three shifts at the furnace. just his way of publicly thumbing hi.s nose at the government The Lions club silver loving cup, (stopping short of the court with which he had a rough brush a gift of the Huntington club in some months ago). But he had a chance to strut on the national California was taken to Eugene stage and he took it. Really he will be missed when death, the Wednesday afternoon and pre master of all players, calls him from the stage.—Ore. Statesman. sented to that club. It was accom panied by Pres. Earl Hill, H. W Lombard and C. A. Bartell. Harry L. Brown has filed notice of his candidacy for the democrat ic nomination for sheriff. A tentative route for the city’s auxiliary pipe line, which is to be extended south to the remanu facturing plant of the W. A. Presents Woodard Lumber Co., was adopt ed at Monday night's meeting of the city council. From the File* of the Sentinel •April 8, 1938 Orlo Bagley and Pete Anlauf tied for first place with a net 27 in the inch tournament at the lo cal golf course Sunday. They won over a field of 18. The district meeting of the 4-H leaders association will hold their regular monthly meeting in Cot tage Grove next Tuesday evening. S. T. Rose, chairman will be in charge of the meeting. A pageant, “The Challenge of the Cross,” will be presented by the young people of the Methodist church Sunday. This is Palm Sun day and the beginning of Passion Mountain sheep, caribou, grizzly bear, wolves and wolver Week. The Sentinel’s motion picture ine in original habitat. Pitcures taken only 70 miles from cooking school, “Star of My Aretic circle. Kitchen" will be presented for three days at the Diane Theater, starting Monday, April 11th. Admission 50c - 25c The Rev. E. L. Kechley, the new pastor of the First Christian JAMES H. BOND. Photographer, will appear in person. church and Mrs. Kechley, have moved into the church parsonage. He was pastor of the First Church at Wenachee, Washington for twenty years before coming here. T * s Homogenizedl The fact that Russia has backed down somewhat, when the United States refused to give in to the Soviet government in the Berlin mcident, is plenty of evidence that Stalin is not ready fbr immediate war. emet wo tow r emt ta Two men, employees in a hop yard, were recently engaged in a drunken brawl. One man stabbed the other over the possession of a bottle of wine. This is another one of the blessings of being a devotee of John Barleycorn. Our Timber State Atjout one-sixth of the total stand ing timber in the United States is in Washington state. Office Supplies — The Sentinel. Hey y-y—How about coming out of your fog, dreamboy, and remembering that I’m wasting the beat years of my life here waiting to take down your prattle. 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