THE COQUILLE VALLET SENTINEL. COQUILLE. OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 1«. 1933. PAGE FOUR — The Sentinel * «Mt mhi i« a SMO raw« H. A. I DUNG and M. D. GRIMES Publishers H. A. YOUNG, Editor Subscription Rates .One Year ........................................82.00 Six Months ..................................... L-00 Three Months....................................... 60 No suuceription taken uniere paid tor in advance. Thia rule is inip«ra- Advertising Rates Display adverti ing. 25 cents per . inch: less than 5 inches, 30, c«nta per inch. No advertisement inserted for lese th..n 50 cents. Reading* notice« 10 cents per line. No .reading notice, or advertisement of any kind, insert­ ed for lea* than 25 cents. - -------- fr- • ---------- - ■ : . Entered at the Coquille Pestoflice as Second Glass Mail Matter. I | ticn is afforded by the trend of gaso­ line consumption a* affected by th« rate of taxes imposed in various state«. In Connecticut, Missouri, Rhode Island and the District of Col­ umbia for the first six months of 1982 the tax was two cents per gallon. All of these states showed a slight in­ crease in gallonage over the like per­ iod of 1931. In the state« with a threc- cent tax there was a decline of one per cent in gasoline consumption. Seventeen states levied a four-cent tax and their volume decline was sev­ en to eleven per cent. In nine states With a tax of. five cents the decline was as high as fifteen per cent. More­ over a similar showing was made in automobile registration. Later fig­ ures respecting the effects of the gas­ oline tax are now Iteing compiled, and indications are that the trend will be abput the same. >’ .• “The good old home of direct prop­ erty taxation has been ridden hard, and has stood up wonderfully under the load. But the old plug just can’t drag his present load, and it won’t do any good to use the whip or more stringent tax-collection laws.”—Cqpnt- •y Gentleman.. f We people of Oregon have done our Office Comer W. First and Willard St. art in overloading the faithful old 'orse During the 20 years from 1910 □ 1930 the population of Oregon in- •roased 42 per cent, while taxes levied lirectly on property increased 243 per By W. S. Sickels •ent, or five and three-fourths time* is fast as the population. Hornes were once used by mankin ’ in this region. Here in Coquille we laical Grange I’roteata have reliable evidence of this, for at Coquille Grange No. 306 at its lant the south end of the plaza in Willard egular meeting adopted a resolution street stands the remains of an anci­ ogarding the new law for the licens­ ent drinking fountain «till in a fair ing of privately owned trucks and has state of preservation, that was erect­ sent a copy of the resolution to the ed especially for horses. This old itate organization for consideration at fountain ha., the appearance of having ts next meeting to lie held this month been constructed of what is now In that resolution the local grange known as reinforced concrete; how­ nesents the following pointe: ever, it was doubtless hews from solid 1. The annual coat of a license for rock, a* cement was probably unknown operating privately owned automobiles to the people of that remote period. !n the state of Oregon has been lower- As we pause in wondering contempla­ d to $5 as a result of legislative sc­ tion of that old fountain we are re­ ion taken thia year, this reduction to minded that the people of that era >e offset in part by an additional one held to the doctrine of showing kind­ •ent gasoline tax. ness to animals, a quality that wae 2. The flat fee for farm trucks re­ all but lost to humanity during the mains at $10 with the reductions only dark ages, but which is5iow the law from 90 cents to 70 cents for each 100 of the land. Permit this panegyric to Aiunde for vehicles weighing between -be brought to a close with the sug­ 1700 and'3000 pounds, and from $1 to gestion that steps be taken to pre­ 90 cents for each 100 pounds for ve­ serve from possible vandalism thia hicle« weighing from 3000 to 4500 specimen of antiquity. Let there be •'ounds, the trucNW also paying the ad­ constructed about it an ornamental, ditional one cent gasoline tax. but substantial, iron fence. Travel 3. Thia change will raise rather over the Coast Highway will soon be -han lower the cost of operating farm heavy and they do say that Californ­ ’rucks used for hauling farm produce, ians like to collect souvenirs. -finch action is in direct conflict with ‘he national program to restore pros­ Edward F. Flynn, of the legal staff perity by increasing the farm buying of the Great Northern railway, was« power. a -speaker at the annual atate meeting The Grange went on record .as. fav­ of the Oregon Bankers Association. oring an adjustment in the cost of He devoted some time to a discussion licenHing farm trucks and suggested of taxes paid by railroads and the a flat fee of 85 for vehicles in this competition they had to face and de­ 'lass weighing up to 2500 pounds and clared the highways of our country an additional cost of 81 for each ad* are “a Hell of a place to .run freight iitional 100 pound« in weight. trains.” It might also be stated they Some of the farmers feel* that the are a hell of a place to run gigantic new rates are almost prohibitive, es­ buses—operated by the railroad«. “ecially for short hauls with light loads. Astoria and other cities on both sides of the lower Columbia are again A Schoo! Editorial discarding the annual experiment with “daylight saving” time. Farmers, The Dollar, The School, and The Child. dairymen, suburbanites and many Quoting from the Peabody Journal other people have to work from dawn of Education, March. 1933, “In 1930 to dusk anyway, in order to make a we spent for the maintenance of pa«- living, and they think it best to leave aenger automobiles, eleven billion, the clock alone. The differences in •■ight hundred seventeen million dol­ time between the Pacific coast and the lars. We spent for the construction of teat of- the country afford sufficient building« five, billion, eight hundred exercise in mental arithmetic. six million dollars; for life insurance three billion, five hundred twenty-four A writer on scientific subjects tells million; for education slightly more us how to reproduce the rainbow) Any­ than two billion, five hundred million. one who has toygd with a garden hose por every dollar spent on education, in the sunshine knows how to per­ ’wo dollars and a half were paid for form the trick and it is a pleasant candy, chewing gum and admission to little diversion when mentally depress­ nlaces of amusement.” These facte ed. and figures should be carefully con­ sidered when we are planning for the Gasoline storage tanks and those welfare of our children. attached to automobiles are continu­ Another quotation from a very ally being raided. It doesn’t require a prominent business man of our count- Sherlock Holmes to deduce that driv­ ■v. “A new generation of pupils, your ers of cars who are known to have ■hild and mine, enters our public neither jobs, cash nor credit will bear »•chools every year regardlees of our watching. financial conditions and attitudes. The nresent group of children are entitled In the coming struggle for its adop­ to the same rights as those who have tion the sales tax will be up against previously been deceived into tta a mental hazard—-loss of confidence in schools. This particular set of youlQ officialdom. , The taxpayers never people will never pass through the leave anything in the public treasury •chools again.” that will serve as a surplus for a rainy Bruce Barton says, “In times like day. Voters will not give much these, invest in boys and girls. Men thought aa to the merit of any pro­ ‘alk about buying stock at the bottom. posed new method of extracting from When you invest in a boy or girl you them the coin. I have talked to ma>y are always buying at the bottom. You intelligent people about the sales tax. are sure that the youngster is going Several hadn’t taken the trouble to up and there is no telling how far. learn what it is all about or how it You are sure to get a man or a woman will operate. Many had, however, be­ snd you may get a great man or a come familiar with the old eaying. great ’woman." “the power to tax is the power to The worth of your boy or my boy destroy”. The way they will vot« 'annot be measured in terms of dol­ seems apparent. • lars and cents. Chester L. Ward One example of the effect of piling Superintendent on the last straw by imposing heavier taxes is shown in the experience of the postoffice, where the increase in postage was followed by a decrease in mail. Now it M planned to restore two-cent postage. It may be too late. Stated Communication Many l*rge concerns have adopted a Tuesday, July 12, 8 p. m. messenger system and they may not give up the practice. Another illustra- i i I TABLOIDS Chadwick Lod county gov­ ernments. Other measures referred to the MOUNTAIN voters by the legislature, four of which involve amendments to the 4 state constitution, are; Soldiers’ and sailor«’ bonus amend­ ment—Providing that payment of cash bonuses to war veterans shall cease after Jurte 36, 1938, and author­ ising the issuance of refunding bonds to pay bonuses. rates now charged by private utili­ there were only 6,451 foreign car« date and duration is expected to stand, County manager form, of govern­ ties. registered in Oregon compared to 7,- but definite word has not yet come. ment—Authorising county voter« to 371 for May, 1932. Registration for Eligible applicants, however, will be adopt the county manager form of Approximately 300,000 motor ve­ the firat five montha of 1933 total« advised as soon aa possible. government and abolish the present hicle operators in Oregon must renew only 18,880 cars compared to 21,236 elective county offices except schtol their drivers license between now and cars for the same period' last year. Summer Sessions at O. S. C. superintendents. September 1. Records in the opera­ Indications are for an excellent Prosecution by information—Auth­ tor’s division of the state department Hospitalisation of Oregon’s insane summer session at Oregon State col­ orizing accused persons to waive, show that there are approximately is giving state officials no end of lege starting June 19, despite the de­ grand jury investigationa except for 400,000 licensed operators in the worry. The state hospital at Salem lay necessary in perfecting final ar­ capital crime«. state. Approximately 100,000 of thia ie overcrowded necessitating frequent rangement« because of budget adjust­ Debt and tax limitation amend­ number; have secured new licenses transfer« to th#1 Pendlton institution ments. says Dr. M. Ellwood Smith, in ment—Authorizing the legislature to since July 1, 1931, which are good where recent additions provide ac­ charge of the session at Corvallis. restrict the powers of municipalities until June 30, 1935. Moat of these comodations for new committments. A drawing card at the se«Mon this as to taxation and indebtedness and were experienced drivers who took With a view to avoiding this transfer year is the holding of the only ath­ requiring two-thirds vote to carry a advantage of the 50 cent rate to se­ the board of control several weeks letic »coaching school of the entire bond issue except refunding bonds. cure their new permits before the ago requested Judge Tazwell of Mult­ system at Corvallis for the first two State power funds—Authorizing new law became affective laat Friday. nomah county to commit that county’s weeks of the sea«ion. Football, track, the issuance of bonds in the amount Those who failed to. get their permits inaana directly to the eastern Oregon basketball and baseball will be taught of 8103,779.45 for use of the state under the old law must now pay |1 hospital in the future. Relatives of by A. L. Stiner and A. T. Gill* head power commission in making pre’ for the license but they will not be liminary' surveys of state’« water required to undergo any examination insane there, however, object because coaches at Oregon State. Next year of the greater distance to the Pendie­ the coaching «school will be held at power resources. unless the records show that they ton hospital and the inconvenience the state university. Oleomargarine tax bill— Impoaing have been involved in a traffic ac- and expense in visiting that .institu­ Noted visiting instructors in home an excise tax of four cent« cents a pound ?ident or have passed the age of 70 tion. So the board’s request has been economics and industrial arts, first on all oleomargerine sold in the state yeans. ignored and Multnomah county’s in­ work to be offered under the school proceeds to be apportioned among sane continue to pour into the Salem of science in summer school, and a the counties for indigent relief. Incidentally the new automobile H-- hospital at the rate of more than one full program in the usual subject* The ninth measure on the ballot cense plates wUl begin to make their a day. State officials are agreed that taught in summer are other features will be the Grange Power bill passed appearance this week, The registra- the logical solution to the problem is of the-seasion. by the last legislature and referred to tion department will begin selling a third hospital to be located in Mult- the people by the Security Owners plate* over the counter Thursday. League. The act create»* a new com- Plates will be mailed out on advance nomah county which provide«, mor* j Old Beaver Hill Vein Coal, »4.50 than one-third of the state’s inaane per ton for lump delivered in Coquille. mission of three members with auth­ applications Wednesday to reach ority, to develop and conserve the their destination by Thursday. Be­ population. The fly in the ointment Leave order« at Roosevelt Service state’s water power resources. If this cause of the reduced rate at which there, however, is finance* with which Station, phone 114. C. Jack Shumate, to build, especially under present con- 7tf act is approved by the voter« next the new plates will be sold it is ex­ ditioas with the taxpayers insisting month three commissioners win be pected that early registrations will noon economy and retrenchment in named at the regular election in No­ be unusually heavy. Plates issued at public expenditures. vember, 1934. this time will be good only until Jan­ Mil ABM HE CIIIE: Last but by no means ef least in­ uary 1 when another new set must be terest in the list of measures up for .«ecured at the same low rate of 85, C. M. T. C. Camps Will Open I WAS FLATOCSTERRUN DOWN ANO consideration will be the Bylander but these will be good for the entire SMNNY UNTIL I TOOK VINOl IRON 7DMC. With continuance of the Citizen’s proposal for a repeal of the two pro­ '•alendar year. THEN MY FIGURE BEGAN TO FILL OUT Military Training camp at Vancouver 4 ’ - hibition amendments to the Oregon Barracks assured by an order revers­ AND I GOT MORE CURVES TO MY BODY ’ ---- ____ constitution. This measure 1 • , . —— ’ had been ueen I I More .wore than man 400 »w men men and ano women. women, ing the recent cancellation, camp auth­ I HAVE NO TROUBLE GETTING BOY th .7 .u P July b,,,ot *rf'*n young and old, are now enrolled dn orities today are now revising their f RlEND5 FOR DANQ S AMD PARTIES NOW the petitions th.i^K °ni were filed on °" th. ,h* ground rrourKi the the "reading "reading jrith prith a a purpose" purpose" courses couraes lists and will issue travel orders to BET W AT MXIR0RU66IST i , election act did not offered by the state library. Inaugu- such Coos county applicants as are I TASTES GOOO itiadve measures. The rated at a luncheon here last Deeem- □< e _in initiative Decern- eligible under the new restrictions as tlA* thia we*lt ber experiment has exceeded the soon as more detailed orders are re­ *1 ,U .**• °5viously the intent of fondest hopes of it« sponsors. Origi­ ceived. Get Tow th* legislature to include initiative nated by Miss Harriett C. Long the The cancellation of the annual sum- VINOL Today at idea speedily gained the support of mer Course at Camp Hurlburt hare, HUDSON’S r^red.uthVeC’*tary of 8t*t* to in­ educators all over the state. Young ordered a few day« ago by Major-Gen­ DRUG STORE clude the Bylander proposal. men and women compelled to give up eral Malin Crs:g, Ninth corps area their college careers because of lack commander, hr.« been reyersed by him Condemning the attitude of public of funds turned to the "reading with and he has directed that the camp be “f dL.C0rP0+rati0n* tow,rd regulation a purpose” course as a mean« of car­ held, but on a somewhat curtailed bas­ * their rate, and services by the rying on their education. Older men ts. It will be limited to such anpV- state commissions, Chas. M. Thomae and women have also been attracted canta as have completed at least the on all kinds of cl«*0"»! commis«ioner, de’ to the course aa a means of sup­ basic or beginner’« course. According the tim* when plementing their earlier education— to preliminary estimates by Lieuten­ MlfPUp* mU8t Drepar* •*"*'*- in many instances very meagre ant Thomas J. Cross. camp adjutant, *lf. Power districts, Thomas de­ There is no charge ifor the servk« thia will cut the original quota down Ix>cal and Ixing Distance clares, are proper and essential in rendered by the library staff. The from 590 to about 425. How thia cur­ ntuMhent"liti*8 thr°U*i’ Which the only coat is that for postage op the tailment wiH affect Coo« county, how­ books. Courses are outlined by train­ ever, haa not been determined. Final order« and letter« to eligible and Mun’c,P*1 ownership ed librarians to fit each individual Phones 101J—224L ' «nd operation of transmission lines case. Courses outlined to date cover applicants, who were advised a few y* h*M. by *** commissioner to 132 different subjects, moat of them days ago by the adjutant to stand by »N proper functions of cities and vocational indicating a desire on the in case of further developments, have ST,, 5 part of the student to prepare him­ not yet been issued because informa­ Mansell Drayage & X ch • "'”"*** hoWin* tion is lacking aa to when the camp self for a job when one appears. Will begin and how long it will runh Delivery Co. f are condemned by the com- Tourist traffic continues to lag be­ It was scheduled to start June 23 and mieaioner as responsible for the high hind that of last year. During May run four wsshs, and unofficial!? this <4 IN ELECTRIC COOKERY states to power company •ULI! 1017 BE SHUT! New low Price COAL HAUUNG !