. . T - t '. - ':■■■ - r - ------------ 1 1 ' ' • " . 1 E - Ü - l UHEFÍLELÍROÍD í a aooD papen H. W. YOUNG. R ii ter YOUNG, Mrs. Flak Still aa Ardent Advo- ot River ÜSSJBHä f f B e a d ¡«E55- admires theh fighter even in a lost causa, we give place to the following communi cation from our F at Elk road corres ■ to V : ■ i É É f e É f l f l f e H l and Taylor Sta. Entered at the Cogitile Poetofflce aa Second Class THE PLAN IS RIGHT If wa are to have a state income tax in Oregon- we like the suggestion that the amount paid by one who is also paying taxes on property shall be deducted from his other taxes. The amount of income tax to be paid will probably Tie a curtain percents <e of the federal income tax, to be paid at the same time the tatter la paid. .The suggested percentage for the state varies from one-fifth to one- half the amount paid the United States. So long aa it all goes to re duce the amount of State tax paid on property the amount will make lit tle difference except to those who have been paying no state tax here tofore—and those are just tha guys it is intended to catch. , The federal income tax now paid H Oregon is stated to be fifteen mil lions of dollara and even one-fifth of that will makb a tidy sum for tha state and ease the burden considera bly far those who are paying state taxes on other property.' TEACHING NOT MONOTONOUS Somewhere recently (probably in Lyman Abbott’s books) we cross a now idea in regard to the teaching profession. An old teacher was asked if ha did not find L very monotonous to go over the same lessons year after year without an y-v aria tion. Ha made the entirely unexpected answer that he did not, and then proceeded to tall tha reason why. Although tha lessors were tha same tha pupils ware different and they all reacted in entirely differ ent ways, and ne two pupils are ever exactly alike. This la obvious enough when it is stated, but during the writer's brief experience as a teach er, it never occurred to him in just that way, though we, of course, knew the infinite variety of mentalities that developed among the young. Of all tha hundreds of billions of peo ple who have lived on earth no two have ever looked exactly alike, to say nothing of having just the asm« minds or souls. The endless variety ia human beings, aa wall as ia other products of nature is evidence of the infinite resources of their creator. When e man makaa a box or a book, after he gets started at tha work he ia liable to go and make a hundred, a thousand or a million more exactly like it. Not so the one who makes man and the trees and the flowers. CHAPMAN KNOCKING HARD We a n a little astonished to see our friend Chapman in tha last issue of the Oregon Voter make a bitter and vindictive attack an tha bill pro viding for free text books in the pub lic schools. In an iasue of money vs. manhood, it is disappointing to sac any newspaper become a protagonist of money. About as long ago aa the 8eHttnel scribe can remember, he heard an uncle of his tailing how when he proposed to pay for some text hooka in tha college of the city of New York, he was ivbeked by the statement that that city was not too poor to pay for tha text books its stu dents used. All our life long wo have been hoping to so# the tame fading pre vail in all tha states, aa we believe it already does in moot of them. Lot the opposition to this altogether wholesome measure bo left to soulless corporations and childless bachelors. In one legislators of which ths w riter was a member ha was happy to vote and work for suck s ' meas ure, and if be wore a member of tha present Oregon legislature he would he glad1 to do so again. Suppose it does eoet $900,000. No ana but a chess# paring skinflint should oppose I am pleased that the editor of the Sentinel saw fit to comment on my article of last weak foe by so doing we both may be set right on ■ points. While I knew the demand for 160 feet was made for the read across the marsh land I was not aware that the road in general called for so much. I thought I t needed, that much so as to make the grade as high aa it will need to be made to be three feet higher than the river bank. But I did hot think that the Pacific high way, as I rode over it through other counties, seemed to be 160 feet wide Not th at 160 feet would be any too wide but I had thought sixty feet was the usual width. That ia the reason I spoke of twenty or thirty feet more being purchased along the river bank. But even at a 110 feet more to be obtained along the river bank I find by talking with many of them th at they were willing to give that much more and only ask a^th at their build tegs be moved for them and one or two have orchards of some value. But th e n are not many orchards of value. One pear orchard that haa stood for twelve or fifteen years with-' out ever producing a half dozen boxes of pears can’t be considered very valuable. One young orchard, small, but Just coming into Bearing, may be considered of some value. And one old orchard that was stand ing 36 years ago may be of soma veins h it if there are nay more they are only scattering trees. You suggest that it would bo bat ter to move their buildings oaek to the new proposed highw ay,» which would to move them about a quarter of s mile back in the low marsh lands and sat them or piling ', which should be at least tea or twelve county, ovary one that tha road should ho placed where will benefit the citizens of the lo cality through which it Or if ft ia tourists of which you apeak, they neither know nor where the road fit laid aa long aa it ia on a good grads, smooth traveling and tha more scenery the better. They won’t atop long enough any one place to he of any great ben efit to tha place or know much about surrounding countries. Whan wa build roads for posterity it is as uphill buatoeaa. Each gen •ration knows mors, or think they do, than the last generation, an-i wherever ft is laid, in time it win be remodened, wondering why the people of long ago didn’t know better than to do it this way or that. This piece of road will h* out of data ia style or engineering and they will want something more modern. Even the old Roman reads which have stood for hundreds of years áre reported to be giving away since the automobiles and trucks havs been use and those roads have been c< aidered marvels of structure. As for ths state having control of ths road, it may be all right, la not exactly a business proposi tion to let ths heaviest paying part ner have no say in the business. The gt-t# ia (a no B0 larger Bor •tato nor stronger stronger than than y ,. citiMng that Iiv, within h„ bor- et mismanagement to put Urn state into benlm ptcp. While wi all want roads and gtrid roads ws don’t havs to have a state road. If the roads of the county are put right—where they will benefit the most people, and put on a firm four dation, and kept constantly in repar.i kind of a patrol tha: with the the railroad keeps—what matters if It is not n state road T The state roads are comparatively new everywhere sad our state is practically a young state, net up to her highest development as many other states of the m ica are, sad a , child must creep before it walks and quits a while before it leaps sad The First Doll Friday. Jam. 13 8AFE FROM ALL EVIL:—Tha Lord shall preserve thee from all evil he shall preaarva thy soul. — Psalm 131:7. Saturday, Jam. 13 TRUST HIM ALWAYS :-C om m it thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him. Psslm 87:5. . Sunday, Jsn. Id THY KEEPER:—The Lerd ia thy kaapar: the Lord ia thy shade upon thy right hand.—Paahn 121*. Monday, Jan. Id ALL NEEDS 8UPPLIEO:—The Lord ia my ahepherd; I shall not w ant Surely goodness and mercy •hall follow me all the day* oi my lift; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord far ever.—Psalm 28: 1,1. ‘ Tuesday, Jan. I f THE CHRISTIAN’S MISSION:— Preach, saying, The kirgdom of heav en is at hand. Hfal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, east out devils: freely ye have received, free ly give.—Matthew, 10:7, & Wednesday, Jan. 17 GREAT POWER FROM GOD:— Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you. —Luke 10:19. " Thursday, Jan. IS SUPPLY 18 SURE: Trust in the Lord, and do good; so «halt thou dwell in the land, and verily you shalt be fed. . • Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.—Psalm '37: S, 4. Leads to the F irst Hundred. - The Next Hundred comes Easier. S ta rt Saving Now, the H abit will Grow. One DoHar or More sta rts a Savings A cco u n t Farmers & Merchants Bank o f C oquille, O regon JIJ uiatv G a r d in e r ’s G a ra g e hundreds at years. T h an a n or have bean tree trunks along the river banks many y ean older than any grown back in tha marsh. That shows that until civilisation came in and brought with it tha stern wheal boats, tha river bank did ro t c u t Out port commission is anpoprtad on pur pose to remedy this evil which It don’t seam to be doing. T h e n is w hen I propose tha road gats some help. When the feuas Developing Co. came in h e n it was their intention to clear sad drain this marsh and sell it off in tracts as the marsh land would soon ha all settled up 4a small river bank or through the marsh— makes not so much difference to us who live on the foothill, only for the difference in eoet which affects taxes, because we will have to have a road built between us and tha highway any way. But I have aa much inter est in the road aa any tax payer and I feel aa if other U xpayen should gat value received for the pries they ; Mrs. V..D. Fish. go t e a boat from their houses beck to the highway. We certainly have no intention of They might aa w dl cross the riv er and use the highway on tha north trying to answer this lettor. Aa to side which would mean they could as the n u tte r of moving the buildings wall taka tha stage for Marahfleki at- ovsr to the dyke, ws simply meant the the one to Coquille, again cutting Co- proposition to movt them was satira- quille’s trade with what ought to bo ly impractical, sa it required no ar her own people. But aa long as peo gument to convince us that it wasn’t ple have to have a host or an air feasible to move them hack to the plane to get onto the highway H won’t make any difference what town they patroniaa. Tha roads on tha back of their farms are simply no good to thorn for several months in the year. They will be no better off with them there than they are now without much of grave tion to stand and look over at a road that they can’t use than to s a t be able to sea a ry road and . know that they must depend on tha river for tranpoartation. I think it asoot proper to consider tha families of today, who are paying W here you can get all kinds of Machine W ork. Automobile repairing as well Phone 46J - - Coquille 200 TONS OF HAY Now Is ths Time to Buy I have fourteen carloads of Willamette Valley Hay Cut and stored'' before and rain Clover, Cheat, Oat t Vetch mixed Come and See it if you w ant Hay Will sell in any quantity from * ONE BALE UP TO 200 TONS This is the biggest and best shipment of Hay ever brought to Coos bounty. P. E. DRANE Phone Sitka MiU No. 17 COQUILLE OREGON Human Derelict nt Bandon farther out to sea with thè galla in perseli. Bandon World No marine accidente had besn re- John R. Smith, Cut creek miring operator, who was in town Wednes ported along thè coaat of lato and day, reported tha bedy of a dead man thè source of thè body i* a mystery. It la boiler ed thè body had bear in thè water long enough to ria# to thè surface which would be at leaat nino or ten days. • • T, - « - What $3.11 Will Do For $$.16 you can have the weekly visits of the Coquille Sentinel and the Oregofl Farm er—62 of each—for a year. How about th at cylinder of yours, *>aa h need raboringî You caa get eshorp, but was unable to get closer It done 4at GARDNER’S GARAGE than about twelve fari from I t The Phone 4M. tide was Just turning and tha body was later asm drifting farther and C^Ung Cards, 100 far $1*0.