The Coquille Valley sentinel., September 21, 1928, Page 4, Image 4

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Entered at the Coquille Postofflce as
Second Claaa Mail Matter .
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The total registration for Coos
county on Sept. 6 was 8,749. Of this
number 5,734 were registered as re­
publicans, 2,401 as democrate, 14 pro­
gressives, 17 prohibitionists, 30 so­
cialists. and 553 miscellaneous. The ROLL CALL OF EMINENT WETS
The following appeared as a com­
total for the state at that time was
316,113, of whom 221,465 were re­ munication in last Friday’s Oregonian
and is as interesting comment on
publicans and 82,962 democrats.
that list of frames of prominent men
The outstanding bonds of Oregon at who are opposed to prohibition as we
this time aggregate $64,163,960.00. have ever seen. It wap written by
Of this sum $33,555,000.00 are State Jos. E. Harvey, whom we do not
Highway Bonds; $28,000,000.00 aro know but who evidently is not a sup­
World War Veterans’ State Aid porter of Tammany Al:
Bonds; $2,158,960.00 are Irrigation
District Bonds, and $450,000.00 are
The recently published list of direc­
Rural Credits Bonds. By January 1, tors of the Association Against the
1929, the total will be reduced to $62,- Prohibition Amendment is an inter­
826,46030 through the retirement of esting document It would be a sim-
$837,500.00 of Highway and $500,- I pie matter to name perhaps ten big­
000.00 of World War Veterans’ State ger business men who are on the dry
side for every one that is namd here.
Aid Bonds.
Now to call the roll, as given the pub-
In a folder just ‘issued from J. A.
Ormandy’s office in Portland, and en­
The first name to catch the eye is
titled, “Southern Pacific, a Citizen of that of R. T. Crane Jr., president of
Oregon,” it appears that that railroad the Crane company of Chicago. lit,
pays 3.28 per cent of the texes col­ this not* the company that for yean
lected in Coos county, $51,007.10 out has been selling plumbing supplies to
of $1,554,088.17. That appears to be thousands of sober and industrious
a pretty good percentage for a tr'ans- prohibitionists? Then come three of
portation company which only rune the DilPonts. They may keep their
two trains a day into thf Coos Em­ powder "dry, but not their politics
pire, one passenger and one freight. Anyhow, it will never be said of them
Its total expenditures in the state, that they kept us out of war.
aside from new construction, la $1',-
The next shining light is Stanley
517360.68 for texes, $8,960,616 for Field, director 'of MarsMIl Field A
wages, and $3,000,000 for material Co. It is*not Jard to understand his
and supplies.
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attitude. Since there is more liquor
sold under prohibition than formerly
In view of the figures mentioned when we had saloons (accordnig to
below it would be very interesting to wet propaganda), he doubtless feels
know what Oregon’s monthly produc­ that with the return of the saloons
tion of butter totals.
We' have a there would be less money spent for
wonderful dairy section on the. west
~ ''Tido'oT iSe* Ckacadea '-aJUT-lwa 'which'
will continue to increase in productiv­
ity for years to come, but when- we
Then there is Frederick J. Fisher,
read an Associated Prose dispatch vice-president of General
Motons.
that Minnesota shipped
13;400,000 Who says gasoline and plcohol won’t
pounds of butter during August to I mix ? The more booze there is con-
the three largest markets—Chicago, I sumed, the more automobiles will be
Philadelphia and Boston—that Wis­ I smashed up, and that’s good for the
consin shipped 6,115,000 pounds and General Motors. •
Iowa snipped 5,004,250 pounds, it
Haley Fiske, president of the Met-
leads one to wonder where Oregon I ropolitan Life Insurance company, is
ranks. Iowa’s estimated total pro­ another big man who is wet. Try to
duction for June was estimated at 22,- I insure in his company and tell him
x 135,500 pounds. Such figures are as­ I you do not believe in prohibition and
tounding but it gives an idea of what practice what you preach and aie a
the dairy industry in the United heavy drinker.
See how promptly
States amounts to. And Oregon is in you are turned down.
a position, when its resources are de­
Another is Edward S. Harkness, a
veloped, to take a position among!
director of the Southern Pacific com­
the leaders.
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pany. What chance has the ultimate
consumer, even the “light-wine-and-
beer” drinking engineer, to get a job
HE DOES NOT MEASURE UP
There is always a flnst time for any­ with this man’s railroad ? Not a bit.
thing, and if Al Smith should unex­ They believe in prohibition and en­
pectedly be named as chief executive force abtinence when it comes to
of these United States, it will be the their own employes.
Then we have a literary man, Charles
first time that an occupant of the
White House has enunciated in his Scribner, president of Charles Scrib­
speeches Much words as “woid” and ner’s Sons, publishers. Last, but not
“foist’’ and “poipoSe..” To one who least, is Dr. Lirdsley R. Williams,
has strolled down the East Side of managing director of the National
Wouldn’t
New York city and heard its dialect, Tuberculosis association.
the words as Smith used them Tues­ it be terrible if the Christmas seals
day evening in his speech at Omaha this year should appear with some
•«uch well-known slogan on them as
were typical of the Bowery.
But there is a more serious COM- this: "All for Alcohol and Alcohol for
ment to piake on the Smith talk, Thc All”? I have pasted this in my hat
entire discourse was devoted to a as a shopping list, as a consistent dry,
44, raising” of the republican party and and have added these words: “Millions
of “Candidate Hoovah.” Not one item for the public weal, but not one cent
of constructive legislation was men­ for boose.’’—Joseph E. Harvey.
tioned. His farm relief promise con­
tained no mention of a concrete pltn.
except an endorsement of the Mc­
Nary-Haugen bill; and its working out
would be done by a committee which
he would appoint. He left his position
on the liquor question to his hearers’
imaginations, but he did say it was
not an issue in this campaign.
We have heard mighty good demo­
cratic speeches in the past, but never
one from a man aspiring to so high
an office as Smith doe«, which said so
little.
“The sidewalks of New York,”
played by the band before his speech,
also suggested the idea of a Tam-
manyised United States.
O. S. C. Ready for Big Class
Opening of the fall term at Oregon
State Agricultural college
Monday,
September 24, will find many new con­
ditions wrought in the past summer.
These involve new buildings and some
rearanged interiors, some new equip­
ment and 57 new staff members. Ad­
vance • preparations
for
Freshman
week is complete and the campus is
ready to receive the largest class in
history in the 1932 group.
Advance application for admis­
sion exceeded 16QU though several
hundred of these are »till pending and
more than 200 others were definitely
rejected where indications showed the
applicants were poorly prepared to
carry on high grade scholastic work.
BILLBOARDS TABOO IN KANSAS The campus Y. M. C. A. which handles
The following is quoted -from the employment and housing has had
Worcester, Maes.. Telegram, and in­ more advance calls than usual and
dicates that the Plymouth Rock state other evidence leads E. B. Lemon,
ii not even a« advanced as Oregon in registrar, to expect a slight increase
keeping billboard* from marring the over last year.
scenery.
And Oregon will have to
take another forward step if she is to
keep up with Kansas in this respect.
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