T S S V . ■ f > < ... THE COQUILLE V A L L E * SENTINEL, COQUILLE. OBBttON. FRIDAY, PACE FO U * - IE USL ing two million dollais, not a cent o f ,1, lation to build the greatest fleet aa 1 the proposed tax for a Portland Fair. | > . . which was recovered. If punishment' the seas, to outdo all other nations It says: was proportioned to the offense how in the race for armaments and to be- And The Caq aille Herald “There is an underestimate in Port­ many lives of sixty years would he come master o f the seven oceans, a O O O O PAPER IN ~A G O O D TOWN have to do time. On the other hand Unfortunately, he didn’t explain land of the up-state opposition to the BY H. W. YOUNG. In fuxther considering how much real eiyoyment will be ever why America should do - a ll these exposition. get out o f that stoln two millions. things. He didn’t explain why we plans it is vital to take a reckoning. ^ S u b s c r ip tio n R a te s How he will come t8® The one thing in which this Christ­ for the fleet, navy yards for the fleet of the mistakes when the- hig exposi­ No subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is impsra mas, differs from all the other Christ­ and billions more in operating the tion conference was held at the Mult­ mases of the past nineteen hundred fleet, the bases and the navy yards. nomah hotel. An unsound. appraisel live. j- and odd years, is thJt a conference He didn’t give any reasons why was given the Portland delegates by | æ . Advertising Bates of the leading nations o f the world the people of the United States should some of the delegate»-jyho uune in cents is now in session to promote the spend their money in defeating the from outside cities. It was then that | Display advertising, , 2# •er inch, Its« thin 5 inch©«, »tt c«pt« ‘peace on earth and good will towards other countries in a race o f arma­ an unfortunate change was made in to do your share toward helping to give the per inch. No -advertisement inserted men,” of which the angels ju n g on ments instead o f spending it to In­ the financial program. , for lass than 60 celts. Readinj- year 1922 a better reputatipn for prosperity that first Christmas day. More than crease their own prosperity and hap­ “ On the basis o f a property tax, it | Mess 6 cents per lins; und than poor old 1921 has had? Want that the progress so far made war is very doubtful if the exposition piness. - Mention, 10 cents per line, No rants a confident hope that the time _ _ cuiciibn W iiv vv«v -------A advertisements one cent a word- measure would have been approved Nor did he explain what America If _______»a eilweldinaviiav Why. not give this first place among your reading notiee, or advertisement may be at hand when the nations shall would do after she became master if submitted. Men who think other- j any kind, inserted forç less than New Year resolutions-? learn war no more. It has'long been of the seas. What would we do ? Go wise have not had the advantage o f | cents. considered disgraceful for individuals out and 'sacrifice a few million prec­ following the expressions in the up­ One way to help is by keeping all surplus OMec Corner Second and Taylor Sta. to fight and it looks now as if na ious lives and a few billions in wealth, state newspapers. They must have money in the bank where it will earn interest tions that insisted on fighting would in order to lick some otheY country glimpsed something they had not! ~ ______________ 1 il ■ I f soon be sent to Coventry. ’ ■ for you and be Available for business pur­ and subjogite her people, just to seen before in the overwhelming op­ Enteral at the Coquille Postoffice Second Class Matter. ass Mail Mi show them that we had won the^ar- position in the legislature to the pro­ poses in the community. v Whether the. act raising "the gaso­ maments race and become masters perty tax. Having seen that, it is line tax to three cents a gallon vital now to be discreet and certain of the seas? The weather reports from Portland Oregon, to finance the fair was Perhaps Mr. Reed would like to in future moves.” and the Columbia Valley this winter adopted or not at the special session see the American jieople trained - to haven’t made us regret that we live last week, it is left up to the supreme MARSHAL FOCH drink a couple of quarts of blood in Coos county. court to determine, and how that body before breakfast, eat two pounds of In giving his impression o f Marshal The dry goods dealer, who adver will, settle it can hardly be in doubt raw meat before noon, and go out Foch in the American Legion Weekly tised “ Woman’s hose half o ff/’ in i As it seems to us, and we have been and shoot up a few hospitals before J. E. Darst says: o f Coquille, Oregon recent sale perhaps told more truth up against a similar question a good ¿¡inner, just to keep on a war basis.— than he intended, in these days of many times, fifteen cannot be a m* Oregon Journal. “ Above all he is a plain man, sim­ jority of thirty. And when the con­ bare knees. ple, unaffected, unspoiled. He is com­ stitution says it requires a majority A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT panionable, interesting and interested The difference between alcohol in of all the members elected to pass This thought for Christmas and to­ —a human being. The man who ^ sir automobile radiator and in the bill in the senate, it might just as well day, says the Oregonian: We are planned the defense o f France smoked. | radiator’s, owner is that in the for­ ha^e said it required sixteen votes nearer now to the hills of Utopia than a corncob pipe and enjoyed it; this mer' instance, it prvents a bust-up and The fact that one member didn’t at­ ever we were before. There is no re­ soldier who wrote the armistice terms, tend the session would cut no figure in the latter promotes it.—Journal. trogression. There is no vertigo that shaved himself with a Steady hand and ^even if he failed to attend because shall draw us into the abyss. There an oid-fashioned s'traight-ed&ed .ra­ In buying garden seeds it is best he was no longer living. need never again be fear. Destiny has zor; this student of the are of war we believe, to give the preference to toiled so many qges, to us a bewilder­ was also a close and canny student The Sentinel believed the southern those grown in Oregon. Our summer ing period, that tlge little race o f men of every-day humanity. At a cer­ weather is so markedly different from cotton growers were not justified in might find itself and justify its soul tain formal dinner after the armistice cutting down their acreage last year that of most sections o f the country so many ages that she will not, a foreign dignitary became over­ that it counts to have acclimated seed while so many people in the world dare not, strike the temple o f her toil whelmed with Foch’s greatness and were unable to get clothing enough He When sugar went up to thirty odd to keep them warm through the win and scatter it in shrads. She is mak­ with the sparkling Burgundy. ing ready for the consummftion of persisted in leaving Jiis place at the cents a pound less than two year ter. But in the case o f the farmers eons, when the science o f the spirit iable and running up to the marshal ago, it looked as if no one but a lunatic it the central west, who have decid­ would have predicted that the whole­ ed, through their farm bureau federa­ will function with the .science o f brain to shake hands while he kept ex­ and brawn. There are portents that claiming, ‘ Marshal, you are great, sale price would fall to less than 6 tions, to cut 'down their corn acreage never gleamed befoie, visions that tell us how you did it.’ Foch, smiling cents the following year. And yet this year, it is an entirely different are near enough to touch. Be patient and imperturbable, finally answered that was just what happened in New proposition. Corn is a very bulky yet a while. the query. He lifted his glass 6f York City day before yesterday, when iroduct and cannot be transported When Christmas walks’ With you water, bowed to his bibulous admirer, ,o foreign countries without danger it was quoted at 64.90 a hundred. today, know also that it walks witn and said, ‘ By drinking this, my friend.’ it spoiling. More than that Europe­ How futile it was for the southern an people don’t take to it like a duck many millions of men, diverse and That is Foch—alert, serene, ready, planters to plan to reduce the cotton Joes to water, but shy at it. Alto far apart, yet near in fellowship. This but kindly and tolerant. “ Newspapers made much o f', the supply o f the world by letting their ¿ether farmers will be doing much lay is not as other days. It is the acres lie fallow is indicated by the better for themselves if they stop armistice to self, whereon, prith the marshal’s purported statement that November crop report of the statist! raising corn to burn for fuel and utmost good will one may give and he would abstain from wine in defer­ ake the greeting:"' ^ ence to the law of our land. He did cal bureau of the international insti raise more alfalfa, clover, soy beam; “ Merry Christmas to you!” so abstain, but his aides declared that tute of agriculture, which indicates and other leguminous crops that will as a matter of fact the marshal sel­ that Brazil produced 182,000,000 tons, increase the fertility of the soil” as HOW IT FIGURES OUT How glad you will be this summer if your house has been dom touches anything, even in and thit the Crop is 86 per cent above .hey now propose to do in Illinois The gasoline tax'figures of the fair wired for electricity 1 * _ France.” last year’s, ______ (ndiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and enthusiasts have set our long-range An electric range heats the food and not the cook and an Missouri. calculator to work, especially the en It’s just like Japan to say that she WHERE h e g o t OFF electric fan gives cooling breezes to offset the heat o f nature. doesn’t care to have any power quar The people of this county certainly thusiasiic predictions that the fair To a friend who was talking of But that is not all— it is only in a wired home that your antee the integrity or independence of ought to appreciate the fight made visitors from outside tKe state would borrowing money at three per cent | housework can be lightened by the numerous motor-driven her home dominions. Indeed, from by their representatives in the legis­ buy enough gasoline in .Oregon for a a month for six months, Peter Cooper cent a gallon tax on their purchases labor-savers now in such common use. what we have seen o f Japanese bump- lature against the proposition to add said: “ Why do you borrow for so tiousne^s we imagine those people mother |80,000 to our back-breaking to amount to the needed three million short a tim e?” “ Because the bankers Our estimates will show you how really inexpensive the would consider the suggestion of such .axes to pay for a Portland show dollars. many advantages o f electric service are. will not give any longler time.” Let us see how that would work a guaranty was desirable as in the All know the stand Tom Bennett took “ Well, if you wish, I will discount nature o f an Insult. Japan has no i t the start and his strenuous strug­ out. A t a cent a gallon it would re­ your note at that rate for 3 years.” doubt whatever as. to her ability to gle in the house in the interest o f the quire three hundred million gallons “ Are you in earnest?” asked the take care of herself—and then some. taxpayers was just what was expect­ of gasoline to produce three million, young man. “ Certainly, I will dis­ ed from this valiant leader of the op­ dollars. Counting twenty miles’ trav count your note for 610,000 for three In its big holiday edition the Coos position. And it was Hall’s vote in el to the gallon, that three hundred years at that rate. Just sign this; Bay Times gives the income from ce­ the senate, as .one o f the unyielding million gallons would carry a car six note written on your own terms and dar lumber in this county during the fourteen who stood like a rock billion miles. That is something over give me your check for 6600 and the past year at 81,760,000 and from the agatnst any attempt to impose upon the average, but we taken AP even transaction is complete.” “ But where | .dairy industry at 6760,000, or a good .’the people so* much aa a necessity to number and by no means an impossif is the monily for m e?” asked the an­ deal less than half as much. No won­ fight to save themselves from that ble one for illustration. xious borrower. "You don’t get any der, if these figures are correct—and Portland imposition, which saved Supposing now that each car that money because your interest fo r 86 we suppose they are approximately— the day— and we feel sure it was comes to Oregon on a trip to the fair months at three per cent a month that the ranchers feel that they are saved. Not one of those fourteen travels 600 miles in the state. Some amounts to 108 per cent of ten thous­ paying mòre than their share of tax­ otes could have been spared and not might cover more ground than that, and or 610,800. Therefore your check ation. As soon as the timber is : one o f them flinched from his duty. but others wouldn’t go nearly so far. for 6800 makes us even until the end moved, the land on which it stood, of All honor to Hall and Bennett and To travel'’the six billion miles at 600 of three years when the note becomes course, drops to a mere nominal value. Peirce. They did their duty, of per there must then be ten million due when3 you will pay back the ten cars, which comes quite near the en­ course; but we believe in showing thousand borrowed today.” Thus does ] What are women bread winners do­ appreciation o f representatives who tire number o f cars in the United interest eat up profits. ing. A daily paper before us has States. With five people to the car ■do their dqly. Appeal to countless thousands each year delved into the census, returns and •__ these would bring into Oregon half d e a t h R a t e s l u m p s finds that only 87 per cent, or a little Why not go to California’s Sunny Southland this winter? Tuesday we received from our old the population o f the United States. over a third, of the millions working There you will enjoy the warmth o f an, unclouded, sun, The Department o f Health for With three to the car, which would friend, Dr. S. S. Estey, who has been for hire, are employed in stores the bathing beaches, outdoor sports and the fragrance of for seventeen years pastor o f the be nearer the average, they would, Hartford, Conn., shows the smallest flowers and oranges. mills, factories and other mechanical First Presbyterian church of Topeka, bring only about a third o f the peo­ death rate for September ever re­ establishments or in offices. The corded in any month in the history o f Kansas, a fifty page booklet, entitled ple of the country. other 63 per cent are engaged in the But that distance— six billion miles the city. The rate was 7.23 deaths for “ Business Proverbs.” These proverbs professions, in agriculture, or In do­ —intrigues us. < It would take twenty- each 1,000. The following is a. par­ were written or collected and put in mestic or personal service of some Observation and Dining Cars permanent form some thirty centur­ four thousand round-trips to the moon agraph from this report: kind. There were fewer than 2600 The comparative figures on the ef­ ies ago, but they are just as applica­ to equal it; and, though the sun ie so Via women physicians and surgeons in ble to the business life "of this age of vastly farther away that it takes fect of alcohol on deaths from spec­ the country in 1880, while the number ial causes may be found from the fol­ the airplane, the railroad, the tele­ tight darting through space at the The Scenic Shasta Route had Increased in 1910 to more than phone and the wireless telegraph, as rate o f 176,000 miles a minute eight lowing: For the five years previous 14,000. to 1919 the average deaths from cir­ Provide all the comforts of modern travel. The rail journey affords they were when camels laden with the milte to reach us, - thirty-odd round i opportunity o f seeing many interesting places along the way. gold of Ophlr and the corn o f Egypt trips to the great source o f our light rhosis of the liver fo r the year were When Gov. Qlcott vetoed the bill and heat would be needed to run the 17, and from alcoholism 18. In 1920 met those carrying the silks of Cathay making bonuses paid the soldiers ex­ and the apices of Ceylon at the fords speedometer up to the six billion mils there were 4 deaths from cirrhosis o f empt from attachments for old“debts, the liver, and 4 from alcohol, and in notch. of the Jordan. he called it an insult to the war veter­ the first nine months o f 1921 there - are on sale to Black is black and white is white ans. Lawyers, too, think it would _ . ' j ust the same now as it was then, and WILSON’S VINDICATION SWIFT were 4 deaths from cirrhosis of the have been entirely futile in attempt Santa Barbara - Los Angeles - San Diego liver and none from alcohol. The ratification o f ythe four-power the recipes for a successful and hap­ ing to create'a class who needn't pay py life were the same in Jerusalem Pacific treaty, says the Springfield For fares, tram schedules, descriptive folders or sleeping their debts, instead of making the pro Pure Clover Seed Etc. and Jericho then as they are in To­ Republican, should alarm po one who par reservations, aak Ticket Agents, or write visioir general. Even then it would Wanted 600 customers to buy peka and Coquille today. To commit favored the League o f Nations.' The have run head on into that provision memory these proverbs o f Solo­ fact that article 2 is now deemed Square Deal Brand Cloverseeds and o f our national constitution, which mon now is to be just aS well guarded necessary by our foremost Republican vetches from your local dealers. Place says that no law shall be passed, “ to against the tempter's snares .as it statesmen, fo r a reason besj known your orders now aa the wholesale impair the obligation of contracts.” JOHN M. SCOTT, was when Solomon’s temple was to themselves, in the limited region prices are advancing and stocks are Come to think o f it the proposed General Passenger Agent building. In them one finds the cry- of the Pacific, brings to the author o f limited. Give your dealer- a chance bonus exemption runs afoul o f that article 10, which was meant for the to order early and protect you. De­ tallised wisdom o f the ages. provision, too._____________ world, a vindication in its swiftness mand Square Deal Brand, put up by “ SHALL WE DRINK. BLOOD” if not in its completeness almost Leq L. Herhsberger, Hubbard,. Ore. The people o f Chicago have lost $2 4fttL apiece this year on an average by Senator Reed waxes eloquent in without parallel. "BILLIONS” with the Great Na- Two dollars and fifteen cents- robberies. That maks a total o f four piling up all the thinga America simova in the leading role at the Lib­ secure the weekly visits of the HOW THEY WERE MISLED millions; but the hundreds o f men “ could have done" had she remained Very often people here in Coquille erty . next ___________________ Monday and Tuesday. See tinel'and the Oregon Farmer for guilty o f this pilfering were mere out o f the Paeifle Union. The Portland Journal isn't the find it difficult to gel dry wood at this I the program on page th fW year. Both papers will interest you* I pikers compared with the bank presi­ He tells the senate that the United least bit befogged to what the people season. No trouble now. Just phone dent who broke his bank by steal- States has the wealth and the popu- of the rest o f the state think about (OSx. 62.60 per tier delivered. 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