The Coquille Valley sentinel., January 21, 1921, Image 1

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FRIDAY, JANUARY M, USI.
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evening Bar. lauto A fla t
tonal opoakor o f tho Anti­
gas and an orator at la-
• ternational fame, spoke at tho
odist Church hors am tho
“ W orldwide
With this issue begins d
toenth volume o f tho Coqufl
O f the sixteen
which have already been o
•even have
present management,
years our ambition hai
tho paper “ Mee a lettor tram
as interesting, ns ace urei
complete n record o f local
possible; and though wo 1
achieved our ideal the sise o f Its
in Ad vaneo subscription list
which has boon
alumna afford gra
evidence that neither have we
ty failed.
So far as light has
to see the way, we have tried
times te stand flor tho things
wore boot and moot worth 4
tho city, tho county, the state
nation, aad It vita ver
world war that wa
course we thought our
«6 take aad which it
take.
That war b o g «
la oar midst oao o f tho
tarera on tho Americas
will Introduce to you Dr. Louis A l-
U h.
.
.if
WHTTSETT-IS
tion o f
■ operated fly wo-
aad çhildrm and oM
o f thousands o f able bodied ama
Ig R
the manual o f
la the region through which he
d that day. Ha know what
it was breed
trouble for Europe, but did aot tl
of tho possibility o f tte making
aolfHors o f his throe little boys at
homo ia this peaceful land.
Tot when a ttttlelater ha saw
thousands o f
our
own
young
sm s marching away during the 8
ish-American war, ha b o g u te
dor tf ho was ratting ap his
bays for that sort of thing. And
later he saw one ef thorn go to
rope as a lieutenant at artillery te
tho world war and all of thorn soldi
on tho ambottlod fields of
all « «co u n t o f th o « men he
« « drilling te G erm uy.
T h « ho summed up the misery
that had b o « brought u p «
as a result o f tho G orm u pro;
tion for war; what a nation o f 79,-
' 000,000 inflamed by the spirit o f cm
quest, brutal, «v a g o aad lustful, in
flieted oa tho world. Their outbreak up aa inch or two er have slipped out
had resulted in tha killing o f ten mil a few inches from the lateral lina of
lions of h u m « beings, the woundinj the rood. The wonderful improve
of thirty millions, t e « at thousand*
of w orn « outraged, a hundred mil­ forcibly impressed on tho mihd while
lions o f children Mate, aad debts of swiftly rolling over this «Booth high
200 billions o f dollars piled up to bor­
V o f tho old dirt roadway winding
dan the generations to eon
What modo it possible that th o « up aad down over hills aad vales.
70 millions o f people should indulge
The tendency ‘ among some sutoists,
in such awful crimes and brutality t especially young driven, to “hit ’er
Burbank y u quoted as attributing up” ea this new runs la one that
It to tho atrophy of higher centers of should be parked. Sixteen foot Is am­
tho brain aad the brutalising of tha ple width for ca n to pass, bat them
lower, through generations of indul­
gence te alcoholic liquors.
If boose did this by its effects «
70 m ilito« at people, what would bo
tho result cm 900,000fi00‘ at tho least
educated aad most animal people of
tho world should they ba similarly
tmbruited by drink T That would bo
mote than one half tho entire human
raw.
Suppose they should ran
•musk; how would wo fare then T
In such an slig n m «t of tho black
and brawn raws o f tho world saadw-
ed by drink, thoughful m w aad ^
‘-a
*r.
aad away aa easier task to drive out
into tho residence section than to have
steered it safely through the business
streets leading te the railroad sta-
w »< ■ w
. . ,
,
,
hut evidently the relaxation
S a s tia d M an In dalgea in B oth from the strain o f tho drive she had
A a c a t E d itors’ M eetin g
|m*tU
>•« h « almost collapsed.
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The writer realised then, as he had
a t E u gen e.
1 not thought o f doing before, the
strain under which she had been while
la s t Saturday at Eugene the edi- taking her passengers to tho depot,
Mayor Hamilton and all councilman
tarial conference was entertained at I and the o b lig a ti« ho eras under to war* present at th* regular meeting
Hendricks Hall, with the University heri
at the common council last Monday
class in journalism as its hosts and
This littls woman was perhaps of evening, besides Recorder Lawrence,
hostesses, at 12:30. Note that, for middle age and though not of such Attorney Stanley, City Treasurer
time is one of the essential elements I striking beauty as te attract attention Sanford, Marshal Miller and Water
in this story—“ of the essence o f this I in n crowd, or markedly different from Superintendent Epperson.
contract,” as issom etim es provided I nine-five per emit e f her sisters,
A letter from Hi. Woman’s Club
tn agreements ¿for ,the payment of the principle o f the old adge that was read by the recorder, in which
money. Tho banquet was « appe
‘handsome la as handsome d o « ,”
they pledged their support to aay
tiring m s and at its conclusion there «fee one o f the most beautiful wo:
progressive steps initiated and men­
erere talks from some o f tho students wo ever saw. Of eoune, despite that tioned particuarly the need o f a
that did credit to them and their In-1 old insinuation that
greater water supply dad a better,
detect ft mouse they sre timid creft' cleaner city.
But between ’ he conclusion of tho I lures, entirely lacking in courage, wo
The hoods at O. C. Sanford, as
eating at 1:16 and tho departure o f ill know that both in war and peace treasurer, in the sum o f »1000 with
the Oregon Electric train for the they make good in this respect under L. H. Hazard and A. J. Sherwood as
north at 1:6» mly 40 minutes inter- very test applied te their brothers sureties; B. L. Hollenbeck for »600
vened. Though the railroad officials I nd we certainly taka off our hat to with A. T. Morrison and 8. M. Noe
gave the editors end members of Ithat little Eugene teaman as a real let, as sureties; and A. P. Miller, for
their families five minutes leeway and I heroine, who would face M y crisis f600, with 8. M. Nosier sad 8. N.
postponed tho deparluis of this train with unflinching spirit,
ball as sureties were read and er-
« t i l 2 o’clock, it c m ho s o « that I Wo don’t even knew her
i* time for many long I she will probably never see th e «
speeches, especially when it is remem-1 lines; but *we believe she wbuld do
that the University grounds are I her duty dauatieosly in
two miles from the depot, though it f geney »he might be called to face,
not take « « t o many minutes
President Campbell, however, took
the floor as the last speaker, and
I while those who were planning to go
north on the Electric nervously An­
gered their watches and calculated
I their chances o f being left, he weat ea
to repeat the speech he had made at
an banqqgt the night before with
great prolixity, aiming, it sesmsd, te
Use up the last possible available min­
ate in thanking and rethanking the
editors for the work they had done
last spring in putting over the Uni­
versity appropriation bills.
His hearers knew they were help-
THE OTHERS
ARE ALIVE
giwm.was Mary Ellen Bailey, a stu­
dent in the U. o f O. school at ¡oar
nalism. Miss Bailey is pretty and
graceful and talked with girlish
naivete and what seamed like artless
simplicity, winning unstinted ap­
plause from bed bearers. We have
never before heard a school girl make
so »«active an after dinner talk. Wtth
a becoming humility she said though
Well, when President Campbell
very unwillingly brought Ms remarks
to a dose and three score husky edi­
tors began to dig their overcoats and
hats out o f the pile into which they
were thrown, there was probably lam
hope always to stand for the bee’ then fifteen minutes left to catch
things, the highest ideals, the noblest that electric train and moat at them
and most helpful manhood and wo­
manhood. Humanity makes headway
course become a Homes Greeley be­
very slowly but, despite such great
cause Greeley was dead; aad d osed
relapses ss the world war, we fed
his sentence abruptly with a “ but”
certain that our race is moving for­
that implied that Bade aad Ingalls
ward and that it is, in the words of ed passenger had brought his room were still very much alive. This, of
Hugh Miller, the greet Scotch geol­ key with him; but hs entrusted it to course, brought down the house.
ogist: "That dominant race which no the little lady who was driving tha
Whereupon a probably feminine
other race shall ever supplant or suc­ car and ws ware off. That little wo* editor o f “ Gibes and Scribes,” the lit­
ceed, and te whom upward and on­ I man was n jewel, and though, the tle paper got out by the students of
O. C. Sanford directed the c
ward march the deep echoes at eter­ falling enow obscured the wind shield journalism in honor o f the visiting attention to the need o f str
nity shall never eeeee to respond.” so that she had te reach over and editors, earns back with this retort: provements, especially in the
peer around to obviate the danger of
"W e arise to remark that the
collision in the crowded streets where speaker was out of order. Thors are
it was impossible to see very far several single men left in the profes­
ahead, she piloted us safely to tha dt­ sion and they are having a. hard
ps*, At almost the Instant we stop­ enough time trying to get a wife, j
ped for safety twenty feet in the rear Lay off this married men staff. Don’t
of the veetibnled train— perhaps a sec­ get them into the contest It ain't
ond before—its wheels began to rw\ fair, and besides it is pom ethics, I
| The court went up short-handed, only volve, and so far as the writer was
whatever that may mean.”
Judge Wade and Commissioner Kern concerned the stuff was all off and
being in attendance owing to Com­ we missed the train.
j
W eath er la Spotted
I Nothing elm coming up the eeun-
missioner Yoakum going te California
But It was another cam of one be­ i The weather here this week has ' U ¿"otod an hour or more to the
for his health.
ing taken and the other left. Our given us some variations on the rogu-
Qu**tion. Moot of the mesnbers
The chief subjects for conference
fellow passenger jumped out and lar order which has prevailed most ^
tho trip op to the reservoir
were to be the Myrtle Point-Roseburg
rushed for the train.' Before it had of the time for the past five m on th »-
crt* k tho 8unday bofore, and
road, and the Coqnille-Myrtle Point
acquired much momentum he had that Is, eloudy with occasional rains, » « e r viewing tho lay o f the ground
section, also North Bend-Glasgow
found a hand bold somewhere around Tuesday there was a downpour, Wed n° " «
thorn wore disposed te fever
ferry matters, and the Glasgow road
the butt end of that train and was nesday afternoon wo had tho first snow ««ding a storage dam op there.
north.
being partly carried and partly drag- I of tho season, mostly melting as it I Cunningham was again urged by
State eo-operetion on the Band on
to Curry road on the basis o f 60-5fl speed. For a moment we feared to fell but by Wednesday morning the Councilman McLeod as a source o f
ground was white on ike hills and in I supply sufllclent te carry tho town
see him roll under the wheels but the tho higher parte of town, with ieo on J through tho driest of summer soo­
door was soon opened and the train the streets and slush almost every sons, but tho majority were looking
took him in. The writer is not where. Yesterday we had aa fine a I with favor on tha plan suggested by
ity road nutters for the]
enough at hie age to have taken winter day as was ever soon aay J. A. Lamb last year, that o f pumping
sr was to bo fully discussed any luch risks if he had wished to. where, with brilliant sunshine and from Lost crook Just bofore it flown
sd.
| 8o we w ait over te the Pacific to cloudless skim. The air, though, was Knto the North Pork, with that larger
«b e n o f the coart expect [see if we could make connections in. ■harp and the snow and ieo did not stream as something to fall back oa
today.
that way but found it impossible. entirely disappear daring the day. in the future when needed. Tho need
. . . . .. . i . i ■
What we thought o f President Comp­ This mtrning there has been a dense I of expert advice, however, was con-
el W ag m Reduced r
* enough fog to presage another bright tinnally urged by oil, aad Mayor
I will be just as well not to say.
day.
I Hamilton mid ho would write to a
•ter McCulloch has bom in-
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I ecu pic at man at Eugene whoso
tho County Court that it| rMM.hed tke nub
this story. While,
D r. 8 . J . S parks T a B a H are
"* * • « had been given him by U. e f
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* "* * !| o f coon s, we thanked the little lady
Tito thiH Ifram unfev th. ...pfc f t » ~
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an. 25 at the beguiling of fgr ^ itiodng,, ^ taking u s to the
edvtse tho boot c o m e COr
month, which redness the trmi„ ^
brin iin f M back to the Os- es of the American Legion will b e }“ " *
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Shor on county road work bm >
hept . look
around tho hold next Monday evening. Jan. 24,
. . Uto Ut>«rt, T it o .« , « 0 . Dr.
| ^
to tlto
? «
to $4M par day. Tho W ^
«Me o f that misted windshield as
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has been cut from »4.60
I ,he did on tbe left, for other ca n , we 1 B p .* .. • .P ~ k * r f ~U <to.l
prominence oa Chauteoqaa platforms,
"
I did not realise how muck nerve end m the attraction. See the advertise-
Whether the beads voted last fall
be noted from tho adver-1 grit it took for her to navigate tho
moat on tho third page o f this Issue would bo euAcisot te bring tho water
»•where published that the car on that day « t i l she remarked
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over tho hill la uncertain, but Eagfa-
* Beaver 8toogh dredging that in that storm she was going to
The
and tho * ------- Warm-
«^brnte is not greatly hi
t*m n Beaver Hill Junction take her oar to a garage and no homo
't o
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H W 00 I m h which can