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THURSDAY
T he Coquille Valley Sentiel in its
current issue contains a long editorial
about the cows running at large in
side the city limits.
This is a sub-
ect for reflection by any city coun
cil.
O regon men are being recognized
in diplomatic circles at the White
House.
Former Senator Charles
Fulton was tendered the office of
Ambassador to China and although
he has declined to accept, yet the
offer is a recognition oi his ability
by the president. Harvey Scott,
editor of the Oregonian has also
been offered and will probably ac
cept the ambassadorship to Mexico.
This office carries with it the fat
salary of >17,500 a year, with com
paratively few social duties, so that
the man holding down the job will
be able to lay aside a considerable
sum of his salary.
T he Coquille Chamber of Com
merce at a recent meeting adopted
strong resolutions in favor of estab
iishing a Port of Coquille River.
The R ecorder has been advocating
this ever since the Port Commission
bill was passed by the legislature
and we are glad to see other towns
in the valley becoming interesed in
the project. It is high time that
the Bandon Chamber of Commeice
was doing something in this
connection, and it is believed I hat
active steps will be taken by that
body in the near future. Let s get
busy and do something before it is
everlastingly too late.
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April 22, 1909
enjoy the cool sea breezes and view
1 he beautiful Bandon beach. The
city needs a thorough overhauling;
that is, the lawns, streets and alleys
need cleaning up, sidewalks need
repairing and a number of other
improvements might be mentioned,
but a word to the wise is sufficient.
So far as natural beauty is concerned
Bandon has every place along the
Oregon coast bested, two to one,
and we are told by men who have
visited all the famous beaches, in
cluding the famous Long Beach and
Redondo Beach in California, that
our Garden of Rocks is so far ahead
of any of these that there is no com
parison between them. It is certaiu
that the “Beautiful Bandon Beach”
cannot be surpassed by any place on
the face of the earth, and our peo
ple should appreciate their advan
tages and come to the front with
the proper improvements.
S omething ought to be done to
eliminate the shoal in the river just
above the bend, opposite Cody’s
mill, as some of the schooners have
had difficulty in getting over the
shoal when loaded. Up on the Co
lumbia river they have greatly as
sisted navigation by getting a long
t >othed drag, and just at the
time the tide was beginning to ebb,
hitch the drag to a tug boat and
drag it over the shoals, the water
then washes the mud out to sea.
that has been loosened, and this
process is repeated at the beginning
of each ebb tide until the shoals are
We are
completely eliminated.
told, by men in position to know
that the shoal in the Coquille river
at the place mentioned could be
deepened six feel in a week’s tune
The mills along
by this method.
the river would no doubt gladly
donate the fuel for the tug, during
her operations and we are told that
tariff adjustment lever since we
came into possession of t he islands
There has been an abundance of
protest to securo. better tariff con
ditions fur the Philippines; but so
tar, although urged by President
Roosevelt on several occasions, sup
plemented by much argument on
the part of Mr. Taft, this protest has
failed. This recommendation and
argument, backed bv public sen
timent, should have been effective.
Congress, however, has shown no
friendly disposition toward proper
Philippine tariff making. and it is
now a matter of speculation if Con
gress will experience a change of
heart. —Telegram.
N ews from Salem is that the at
torney general holds that th-' Ore
gon Agricultural college is not en
titled to an increase in its maintain-
ance until January 1910. An act
pa sed by the late legislature pur
ported to increase the annual al
lowance from $50,000 to $80,000
per year, and it was supposed all
along that it would be available
for the current year. Under the
new developments the la..’ will not
become effective until January, 1910,
at which time the first quarter’s al
lowance u ill become due. That
means that none of the increase
will be reachable during the present
college year and cannot be used un
til the last term in the college yeaJ
of 1910. It further means that if
1 be Ashland referendum should be
consummated the only increased al-
1 >wance that will go to the college
f om the’slate fcr the current two
years will be $30,000. With the
Institution congested in its every de-
paitment by 1400 students from
e\ ery part of the state, and with a
certainity that even larger demands
through increased student attend
ance will be made upon it next
year, it would be most unfortunate
if the Ashland referendum against
the college should succeed. The
loss of the increased mainlainance
that it was supposed the college was
to get, mak s the case of the pro
posed referendum infinitely less
justifiable. If the latter should suc
ceed it will result in widespread
indignation throughout the state.
The growth in attendance is a sign
of the usefulness and the demand
for the instruction at the agricul
tural college, and to limit it to an
increase of only $30,000 in the very
midst of that growth would be little
less than a public shame.—Journal.
J udge Bean’s appointment to the
new Federal judgeship will be satis •
factory both to the bar and to the
public. It was brought about, no
doubt, by the general indorsement
of the judge for the place by the
lawyers of Portland and elsewhere,
and by the necessarily favorable 'he drag would not cost over forty
result of whatever inquiries the or fifty dollars. This might prove
president may have made about him. a very valuable process, and it surely
Judge Bean has had a long and would cost nothing to investi-
honorable record on the bench in gate the situation
The old tug
Oregon. He is intelligent, studious, Triumph would be amply able to
There will be perform the wo'rk if the Klyhiain
and conscientious.
no disposition in Oregon to criticise owners would net want to use the
Anyway something
the president’s choice-ncertainly not new vessel.
among those who think that long ought to be done to get rid of the
service on the bench is entitled to shoal ahd that at once.
.C h i cago proposes to print its
continued recognition and reward.
U pon recommendation, or rather own school books. At least there is
—Oregonian.
As the
with the recommendation of Presi discussion to that effect.
matter
is
suggested,
a
board
of
|. “P ierp ” Morgan has peeped dent Taft, an equitable tariff measure
again and said that Roosevelt is offered on behalf of the Philppines. teachers from the city schools are to
would go down into history as a Whether or not Congress will fol- prepare the books and the city
man who had done incalculable low the recommendations of the government itself will do the rest.
harm to American business interests. President will be determined later. If Chicago tries the experiment the
True he has done harm to the ”in- The appeal lor fair tariff dealing result of it will be watched by the
but he has done untold toward the Philippines is one that rest of the country with peculiar
terests
There is not a doubt
good for [business integrity and in- the average American feels to be interest.
dustry. The "Old Guard” suchas, just; and upon that basis Congress that the school-book problem is a
Morgan, Rockefeller, Harriman and i should act favorably upon a measure vexed one in a great many cities.
others who have been plundering that appears to be fair to all parties School book publishers have ! ong
A very encouraging since created conditions in their
the people and doing all manner of concerned.
evil things, will ever have a sore feature about the measure just trade with school boards. which in
spot for Roosevelt, for it was he submitted is the initiative of the innumerable instances have been
who made life miserable tor them Filipino, and the intelligent effort he detriinetal to the schools. In the
and showed them up in their propei has made to consider the in old days of sharp competition be-
light It has cost them millions of terest of continental America as tween rival publishing houses condi
plunder money and ot course they such interest is to be considered tions were bad enough; and in later
feel it keenly, besides having been in a tariff sense. The bill is a man- years, with competition more or less
put into disrepute by the American iftstalion of what we might call a eliminated, they are worse rather
family spirit. The colony propose.-. than better.
The production of
people at large.
equity rather than demands it; and scoool books, vhether they are pur
Now is the time for putting Ban equity that removes obnoxious fea- chased by the school authorities, as
don in clean, healthful and attractive tures which in a degree have re in certain cases or whether they
condition for the summer months. tarded trade with the United States. are purchased altogether by the
Hundreds, yes thousands of camp It is a give-and-take arrangement parents of school childrerf, is one
er* will come here this summer to prompted by an apparent desire fo that touches the public pocketbook. J
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And what is more to the purpose, it
touci es the
pocketbook more
heavily than, it ought. It any svstein
can l>e demised that will bring about
a new deal in this*school book bus-
iness; that will keep the price ol
books within the limit of reasonable
profit; that will prevent the foisting
of worthless textbooks on the
schools, and that will better ser.e
the actual need of the pupils; that
system will be of great benefit to the
educational interests of the country.
The very commendable feature of
the Chicago proposition is the
preparation of the books by a corps
of city teachers. Teachers who are
competent for this work should by
all means understand what is needed
in the schools better than anyone
tlse. Their labors should produce
something much more to the pur
pose than what is now in use.
Chicago’s proposed experiment is
novel and interesting. It may re
suit in material benefit to schools
throughout the country.—Telegram.
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