Cottage Grove sentinel., August 10, 1915, Image 4

ployed. The workman, for instance,
might have spent those three years in
engraving the beautiful sentiments of
W EEKLY NEWSPAPER WITH PLENTY OF BACKBONE the Lord's prayer on human hearts. Tf
he had done this a powerful microscope
BEDE à TYRRELL, Publi*her* and Proprietor*
would uot be necessary in order to see
ELBERT BEDE. Managing Editor
his work.
W H TYRRELL, Local Editor
It muy be that in the final reckoning
spending
three years in engraving the
second
class
matter
A
N
publication
entered
at
Cottage
Grove
A h-*t-class
Lord's
prayer
on a pinhead will win a
Tuesday, August 10, 1915
shining mark of approbation. No no
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OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY.
ple settled upon what they do want and
business conditions would be kept up
set during the time the experiments
were being made.
In addition, another bitter fight at
this time, conducted in the same man
ner as the recent one, would set a large
number of “ neutrals’ ’ permanently up
on the side of the prohibition forces
The prohibitionists could ask for noth
ing better than repented campaigns like
the last one.
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HE American people as a whole
—and the same is probably true
of the other nations of the
world—have a very harv idea of right
and wrong concerning the marriug or
destruction of the property of another.
Particularly is this true of public prop
erty or property to which the public
has free access.
It is no unusual thing to see a well
dressed mau of apparent intelligence
furniture of a depot or a passenger
The Sentinel does not believe in many
coach.
of the features of the Oregon system,
It is no unusual thing to see a man but it has insisted upon a fair trial of
lay a lighted cigararctte or cigar upon these features, to the end that its posi
the highly varnished furniture of a tion may be proved correct, so that
banking room.
when the objectionable features are
It is no unusual thiug to see all the ( done away with they will be done away
windows smashed out of an empty with for good and not be bobbing up
building.
every two years or so to harass busi
It is no unusual thing to see a man ness and industry.
whittle on the woodword of a building.
The Sentinel espoused the school
It is no unusual thing for the lender supervisory system and insisted upon
of a book to receive it back carelessly ; its being given a fair trial before be
torn, or its pages turned over for book ing tampered with. After the system
marks, or its blank pages covered with had been given a fair trial and did not
pencil and ink marks.
grow in popularity, The Sentinel sug
It is not ususual for a person to bor­ gested the law that was afterwards
row a piece of property and then neg enacted by the Legislature and which
lect to return it until called for, which leaves the matter in the hands of those
quite often means not at all.
directly affected by it.
People who do these things think lit­
It is plain, therefore, that The Henti
tle of doing them. If they think about nel believes in the same course fur laws
them at all they probably think, “ Oh! it opposes as it does for laws it es
well it's not mine so what difference pouses, or vice versa.
does it make.”
Therefore, we say, give our ao-called
These people would probably be
prohibition law a fair trial. Perhaps as
astonunded if anyone told them they
a newspaper we are inconsistent in this
were dishonest.
position for another wet and dry fight
But is it pretty close to dishonest to
destroy the property of another. We j means money for the nwspapers, but
The Hentinel never lets money stand in
are permitted to use it and the least
the way of expressing its honest
we should do is to care for it. This is
opinions.
especially true of borrowed property.
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The administration continues to run
behind at the rate of about three quar­
ters of a million dollars per day. By
strenuous efforts to induce early pay­
ments of income taxes and by urging
prompt remittances by collectors, the
Treasury Department was able to make
a book showing of a balance of about
♦82,000,000 on July 1. That this was
a forced showing for effect at the
close of the fiscal year is now proven
by the fact that from the first day of
the new ficsal year, the expenditures
exceeded the receipts and the balance
dropped to about $67,000,000 at the
close of business Saturday, July' 24 . On
the corresponding date two years ago,
with Republican revenue and appropri­
ation laws in effect, the balance was
♦ 129,453,000.
ANTI PROHI8 GIRDING LOINS.
PUBLICITY department of
M J the National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers’ Association of America
is out with “ The Anti Prohibition
Manual,’ ’ which is being mailed
throughout Oregon. The purpose of the
manual is stated to be to give the re­
cipient the war material with which to
refute arguments of the prohis. Anoth­
er purpose not stated is probably to
act as a forerunner of the 1916 cam­
paign.
The Hentinel took little part in the
wet and dry fight of last year other
than to accept the advertising of both
sides. It is therefore in a position to
speak impartially.
The opinion of The Hentinel is that
whether prohibition is right or wrong
next year is too soon for another wet
and dry contest.
To be effective the campaign would
have to be started while Oregon’s so-
called prohibition law hud been in ef­
fect but a few months.
Even if our prohibition law is even
tually going to prove unsatisfactory to
the majority, a few months is not a
sufficient time in which to reverse a
30,000 majority. Ho that a campaign
next year would in all probability prove
a useless expense to the wets.
But if the wets should win (which
is not likely) they would gain little for
the people would not in that time have
become convinced of what they do
want. The wets would likely become
too arrogant after such a quick defeat
of prohibition. The result would be
that prohibition in one form or another
would be tried off and on until the peo­
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A ny unpiotccled check ever written could be raised from ten to a hundred times it*
original amount — using a man's genuine signature as a tool to steal his money out ot his
hank account.
Do you realize what this means f Look over the next lot of your cancelled checks
that come back from the bank. Sec how many people have handled them. Ate all of
these people honest /
A few pen strokes, or a drop of acid, will change the amount on your check so you
wouldn't recognize it. And yet— your signature remain* to show that you ate responsible.
There is hut one form of check protection that has stood the test of hlteen years. 1 he
Todd “ shredding" patent as embodied in
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
shows impatience with I'ostmnster Gen
eral Burleson, who declared the postal
deficit to be “ due to the war.” The
deficit was ♦6,500,000, and the Adver
tiser points out that postal receipts in
the lust year have decreased only *600,
000, while the expense of running the
department increased nine millions.
And this,” says the Advertiser, “ mi
face of the work of reorganisation in
the interest of economy, which has
gone on for several months in the pos
tal system of the country. The shake-
up in the service was done for no oth
er reason, we were told at the time,
than to run the department on less mou
ey. If it cost ♦0,000,0410 more to run
the postoffice department during the
year just ended, and if the receipts
were only *600,0(8) less than the year
before, how is it that to tnc war is *di
reetly attributable’ the deficit which
is now confronted by the department f ’ ‘
The Protecto^raph
C h e ck W riter
★ ★★
THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS SIX CENTS
h is repeatedly defied am ateur and professional
check-raiser*. It stands guaid over the world’s
biggest hank accounts.
'I'hi* beautiful instrument prints a whole word
at each stroke of the handle— last as the hands can
move. W rites checks z$ to 50 percent,
faster than the old way— and absolutely
protects the amount at ti e same time.
It “ shreds" clear through the paper,
filling the shredded fibres w ith two colors
of hrav v, insoluble ink— denominations
in black,amounts m red. I his uisuies
beautiful writing, positive legibility,
uniformly neat checks, enforces sys­
tem in writing checks and — your cbti it
Things W e Think
Thing* other* think, and what we
think of the things other* think.
Writ»* full amount
in body of dwik in
two color*.
a re protti l e J bef ore iber a>e sij[ne,f.
Anyone can operate it.
While n task is yet in the future
most people underestimate the time and
energy that will be necessary in per
forming it.
Y » u ought to see this beautiful Check \V ru in g instrument,
and try it on your own checks. W n h the new improvements
recently added it is certainly the finest office appliance on the
market— and the price is so low you’ll wonder how it can he
done.
When folks talk about you it is go*
sip—when you talk about them you are
simply telling things that ought to to
told.
I lir r t ' t another Pvuv#ctofvi|»h
the famous “ N O T O V K R '* m o d el-— k r.» w n
the world over for u n ip h t it y , d u ra b ility, re lu b ih ty
( O v e r J0 0 ,0 0 0 of tin* model in
d aily utr ) It | i » r i per f r it protection wh ere h iy h *perd in s h e i k w riting ti not uf firat
im portance
H ere 1« ti»e fam iliar " ih r e d d e d " line —
NOT OVER THIRTY DOLLARS S30S
The man who wears stripes usually
has a checkered past.
T h e P rotectograp h
(W ords in Red, f igures in lila c k j
Model K
The woman about whom people uever
gossip feels that she has made a failure
in society.
A good thing would be all right if
it vvasn ‘t so easily secured as to make
us believe that we could just us well
have gotten something better.
I f some girls never married the
world would be better o ff—and if we
were selected to pick out those who
-.houldn’t marry we would pick them
more because of the men they would
marry rather than because of any short
’ HE SENTINEL does not intend comings of their own.
i
J to lead anyone to believe that
The person who laughs at someone
we are going to have prohibi
else who has the toothache certainly
tion. The law which the voters enacted
couldn't have ever hud it himself.
might better be termed a temperance
When a man tells his wife he is sorry
measure and the Legislature in enacting
about something he is usually thinking
a measure to make the law effective
more of his own feelings than of hers.
left all the leeway the anti prohibition
If there are people with whom you
temperance forces could ask. If the
know you can't agree, why in the name
wets honestly believe in temperance
of common sense will you stick around
they should have no complaint to make
where they are!
of Oregon’s so-called prohibition law
Its only prohibition is in the manufac
A pessimist is one who won't believe
ture and sale within the state—and
there is a core in the apple until he
many real prohibitionists doubt if it
has eaten down to it.
would not have been better to have a)
Why are there so many mother in law-
lowed home industry to remain under
joke*—a mother in-law is no joke.
the same regulations it has made for
Home folks just can ’t get over a
outside industry.
spite
fence erected by a neighbor.
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Woman never gets her clothes so tight
P THE anti-prohibitionists are
around the limbs that she can’t jump
planning another campaign, and
at conclusions.
there no longer seems any doubt
that they are, The Hentinel could give
I t ’s pretty soft for the young couple
them some good advice and that is not who have their nest feathered for them.
to make their campaign as disgusting
as was the last one, in wuich their ad POOR QUALITY PRODUCT 8TOP8
vertising made votes for prohibition.
BUTTER EXPORTS
Don’t attempt to make Abraham Lin
The bad effects of handling a poor
coin, and other of our revered dead,
grade of cream and manufacturing in
apostles of the licensed saloon and of ferior butter are shown in the decline
unlicensed personal liberty. Don't ridi in butter fat prices which was in turn
cule the opposition.
I f convincing induced by stopping butter exports
arguments can not be presented it from the Pacific Northwest, especially
to certain of the English colonies, re
would be better to keep quiet.
ports the Oregon Journal. Market re
ports state that the export demand for
Teddy says it would be impossible for butter has entirely subsided. Former
him to enroll as a Republican. He also advances in prices had been due to in
dications that trade export demands
made the now famous statement that would continue strong and furnish an
he would not be a candidate for a third outlet for surplus products and would
term. When the time comes, he may steady the market. This indication did
find that he didn’t mean the Republi­ not materialize, due to the fact that
can party of 1916 when he said he the poor quality of the product put an
end to the foreign demand. In refer
couldn’t enroll under its banners.
ence to this matter the report states:
“ There is no doubt that the ’ rotten'
deal that the I’acific const creamery
WASTING TIME.
interests gave the foreign butter buy­
ers recently, has killed the export de
N THE streets of Albany the mand for butter ao far as the English
other day there was displayed a colonies are concerned. Home of the
pinhead upon which was en­ butter which went forward from the
graved the Lord’s prayer. The charac­ coast was reported ns rank when it
ters were so infinitesimally small that
they could be seen only with the aid of
Nuf Ced!
a powerful microscope. The pinhead
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In answer to romment on the
was only forty seven one-thousandths of
street we publish the following para­
an inch in diameter, but it contained
graph from the bill of sale given
65 words, 254 letters and 17 punctuation
W. H. Tyrrell by W. C. Conner:
marks. Eighteen hundred and sixty-
two incisions of the engraving tool
It is further specified and agreed
were required to complete the work and
as part consideration flint said W. C.
three years were employed in the task.
Conner will not as owner operate a
newspaper or job printing plant in
No doubt it is a notable curiosity,
but think how much better three years
Cottage Grove, Oregon, at any time
of a man's life might have been em­
within ten years from date hereof.
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Do You Know How
Y our Checks Cun Be “ Raised” ?
W hen may I give vou a demonstration,
011 your own checks, in your own office *
R. E. OLIVER, Representative
HOTEL OREGON
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COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON
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was shipped, therefore its condition up
on arrival in New Zealand can safely
be imagined. If New Zealand ever en
ters the Pacific coast butter markets
for its requirements such action will be
a big surprise to the trade.’ ’
THE REFINED TOUCH.
i Editorial in Eugene Register.)
For a considerable length of time it
was supposed that there were only two
ways of gratifying the wanderlust—
one by traveling in the ordinury ac­
cepted ways und paying for such ac
commndutions us were reecived and the
other by taking frankly to the road ns
a tramp. The first involved an ex
penditure of rash und the second a loss
of self respect—or. to be more strictly
uceurate, the respect of the public
Recently, however, bright minds have
devired u middle course that culls fur
no sacrifice of money and is presumed
to call for none of self respect. The
method is simplicity itself. The would
be traveler arranges a wager potsildy
iti his mind- that he will travel around
the state or the uution or the world ami
is careful to specify tuat this journey
shall be made without spending u cent
of money—and usually there is a men
tal reservation, at least, that it shall
be done without soiling his hands with
labor.
Thus equipped, he sets forth joyfully
on his nay. lie approaches the de
spis*-d stay at homes Mho know nothing
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better than to grub away at the task
of making n living und explains his
case to them He cannot pay his way
for he has made a vow not to, and he
cannot ncrept charity; O dear no! He
is u respectable citizen just like you
are, atol such a thing would be out of
the question. Mot he ran exchange a
worthless postcard for a perfectly good
dime or quarter without unduly wound­
ing his delicate sensibilities. And so
it goes,
(letting something for nothing is
said to be an impossibility, but there
are plenty of people who are willing to
put in their tilín- in dcmonstrntng that
the statement is an untruth. And they
will continue to demonstrate just as
long ns the public will stand for it.
Madam, Allow Me
To Introduce the
New
Post Toasties
You may have eaten "corn flakes" but
you have never tasted any that equal the
New Post Toasties.
These new flakes, madam, are crisp and
flakey, and have a substance and toastie fla­
vor, a snap and zest that make them distinc­
tive.
Dainty to be sure in their sweetness, the New Post Toasties have a body and
firmness that don’t mush down when cream or milk is added; and a true ripe-corn
flavor that makes one feel that here, at last, is somethin)» really new and good
to eat.
I
New Post Toasties—selected Indian corn, prepared for the table as it was
never prepared before.
Your grocer has them now.
Buy and Try and Smile Awhile
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