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J • TÏB COQUILLE TALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE. OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST It, 1>M- PAGE FOUR The Sentinel * tWD Wrtfe I« A SfeM T0W« H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES Publishers H. A. YOUNG. Editor Subscription Rates One Year................................... 12.00 Six Months ...................................... L00 Three Months -w No subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is lmpera- Advertising Rates advertising. 25 than 5 inches, 30 inch. No advertisement in: less than 50 cents. Readings notices 10 cents per line. No reading notice, or advertisement of any kind, insert ed for less than 25 cents. ______ • Entered at the Coquille Postoffice “ Second Class Mail Matter. ! I Office Corner W. First and Willard St N. R. A. DEMANDS PROFIT But «till Jackson county is not qui- esceot and a resident from over there say« he would not be surprised to see warfare flame anew at any time. With Banks and his trouble-making out of the way (and it is devoutly oo be hoped he remains out of the way, in a steel-encioeed cell for life), the Good Government League, composed co a large extent of those who were receiving help from the county, is without a leader, and the danger of civil war should be over. IN THE MORNING The following poem by Coos coun ty's poet, Mrs. Frances Holmstrom, appeared in the August issue of Kalei dograph, a national magazine of poetry, published at Dallas, Texas: They came to wake her early, morning in the spring, When the sunlight touched the peach buds and the bursting daffodils. They came and found her lying—it were ill to call it dying— Repeal of prohibition has been With her Bible on her bosom, her face toward the hills. urged as a means of improving re spect for law, but apparently some The hands were coarse and roughened thing further remains to be done be that held the old Book open, fore even regulation or a tariff law For life was one with labor, and it was good to rest, will have the complete respect of the .iquor trade. A writer in a French There were garments cut for making, trade paper, Le Capital, advises - there was bread o’er light for baking, French cognac distillers to continue But she lay there never heeding, with dealing with American bootleggens the Bible on her breast. and gangsters unless a reduction of And her face had light upon it that duties on intoxicants accompanies re was not of seu or land. peal. No one has yet suggested that In the Book the old, old story, in her American farmers and automobile face the new, new glory, .nanufacturers should subsidize smug rhe morning touched her rosebush glers to express their dislike of where it budded at the window, French tariffs. But, of course, bread And ‘To him that overcometh” were .naking and metal working are not the words beneath her hand. ' • .he liquor trade.—Christian Science The face was marked with sorrow, for Monitor. <• . ............. .■■-¿U.-. .¿—L.. life can be full cruel, But Death had tanoothed the wrinkles —ay, Death had loved her best. In a greater morning’s breaking she By W. 9. SicUlB had found a gladder waking, With her face toward the mountains and her Bible on her breast. According to the State Department —Frances Holmstrom at Washington, on January 1, 1933, The Sentinel is reproducing the fol lowing editorial without credit. We have seen it in at least two week!} newspapers, neither of which crediteu it to the other, so all we will say is that it is not original with the Senti nel. But it does point out so interest there were 404,317 American citizen« ing a point of view on the N. R. A. resident abroad, exclusive of tourists. that it is well worth repeating and Contrary to general belief, less than reading: ine-fourtb of these innocents abroad ire living in Europe. Over one-half If under the new recovery plan for jf them, or 223,36«, are in Canada, business the nation is to be forced into the province of Alberta leading with thinking for awhile in terms of hu 10,477. Among European countries manity rather than in terms of dol :France takes the lead in the matter lars and of profits, that will go rather .¡f American residents, but the num- herd with a good many individuals The □er is placed at only 23, M0. but it will be of incalcuable benefit to British Isles have only 8386. the masses. But it must be kept in mind that the driving wheel of busi Jews throughout the world control ness is profit—not only profit to the 1 huge amount of international com- owner of the business but to his em nerce and Germany is no longer on ployees—and to eliminate this entirely ‘he commercial map of the Hebrew ------ would not be for the good of anybody. lusinese man. An American dbeerver The first consideration of everybody m Germany reports that shipping is in these difficult times must be the ilmost at a standstill in the great welfare of the people, and othei port of Hamburg. That this condition things must give way, if necessary, is due largely to Hitter's persecution to that consideration, but that does of the Jews seems apparent For not and should not preclude the idea economic reasons his policy regarding of money-making. No great enter treatment of the Jews has been great prise can go forward without being ly modified, but the Jews will not soon backed by an accumulation of capital, forget. and such accurftblation implies the ■ - making of profit«.----------------- ———— The next total eclipse of the sun, Wage« cannot be raised, credit can visible as such to the Pacific north- not be advanced by a business that west, will occur July 10, 1972. Make ie in poor financial condition; that is, You might forget a note of this. by one that is not making money. As about it. Even now, astronomers well try to win a horse race without know the exact hour and minute it owning a horse. will begin and also the number of Just now the main business of all minfites and seconds of the period of business should be getting the people totality. Thus in unerring cycles the back on their feet For the moment heavenly bodies move. we cannot think much about making money but neither would we be forced Nuisance 'No. 174,676: The fellow to lcee money since if the latter hap who stands in front of his postoffice pens, just as certainly will come, and box to read his mail. before long, ■ economic parfelysis that will be incurable. The eighteenth amendment was We cannot be our brother’s keener ratified by decisive majorities by all unless we are permitted to have the jf Ohe states except two—Connecticut substance to keep him with. and Rhode Island, which did not rati TABLOIDS » ^Reports that many small employ- . era, particularly owners of shops, are being subjected to prtweure because they have not found it possible to comply overnight with the provisions of the blanket code, despite their de sire to do so, have reached the Na tional Recovery Administration, says a bulletin from the N. R. A. at Wash ington. A« a result, the administra tion has requested newspapers to aid in obtaining fair play for this class of employers. , Explanation was made that read justment of working conditions so as to comply with the re-employment program is very difficult, in many cases, particularly for the employer of only two or three pensons. Em ployers have signed the agreement and complied, so far as possible, with its provisions, hut they have not been able to adjust Their machinery to all of its provisions immediately. Pend ing complete compliance with the terms of the re-employment plan, of course, these employers do not have the Blue Eagle. Hence, pressure has been brought against them. The hope of the administration is that consumers will deal fairly with the employer who is willing to adopt the re-employment plan but who re quires time to make adjustments^ The fact that an employer has «igned the agreement and does not have the Blue Eagle through nro fault of his own, should entitle him, it is felt, to the same consideration as those who have obtained the insignia. L. A. Banks is sentenced to life im prisonment for murder of Com table Prescott at Medford in connection with the Jackson county ballot theft: Judge Fehl is given four years for hi« pert in, th« stealing; ex-Sheriff Schemerhorn get* three years; Mayor Jones and Art LaDieu not to exceed four years each; and the ex-Coquiile boys, the Sextons, are paroled after fy. Twelve states were already “bone dry,” either by popular vote or legis lative enactments. They were: Wash ington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Georgia and Flori da, representing only 11B per cent of the total population of the United States. There were eighteen states with state-wide restrictions and hav ing 82.5 per cent of the population; the remaining eighteen states, with 55.7 per cent of the population, were "wet," that is, without any state-wide dry law. This was only fourteen years ago. The great change that has taken place is explained by the assertion that the people had no desire for the return of liquor, but were just tired of being regulated, etc. We are being “regu lated” in many other lines, now. Therefore, if it is the Ameriacn dis position to have as little regulation as portable the NRA win not last long. However, the above figure« respect ing prohibition show that a minority had imposed its will upon the major ity, which is probably the best ex planation for prohibition’s breakdown. There are 12,000,000 negroes in the United State«. In Oregon there are 2,000. In Coquille there are none— a condition enjoyed by all of our citi zen« who have at time« in the past been compelled to reside where there were great number» of the black«. In 1M2 the death rate from alcohol ism in the United States Was 5.8 to 100,000 population. In 1920 it had de creased to 1.0. In 1980 it had risen to 3.5. However, in another table of statistics we note the death rate per 100,000 from cirrhosis of the liver (which i« the same thing as alcohol ism) to be as folowa: 18.6 in 1912; 7A in 1920; 7.2 In 1990. So it ap pears that prohibition has aided the liver. There are no statistics at hand i to tell us the death rate per 100,000 being sentenced to terms fa the PM.;from overrating—th« those lethal weapons, the knife and fork. Paper currency is not money, only represents money. Money is a thing of instrinsic value. Whenever all of the «people lose all confidence in that which represents intrinsic value, a million dollars of it will not buy a postage stamp. ■V A paragrapher in the Oregonian stated the other day that there was a county in Kansas named Loving, fol lowed by one of those wise-cracks that are so often directed at that state. In the first place, no county in Kansas bears that name, but it would be all right if it did. In the second place, many writers like to shoot darts at other states. Kansas has pulled off a few stunts that I, as a native son, am not proud of, but the initiative and referendum is one mis take she never made. All of the peo ple in Kaneae haven’t tried to crowd themselves into one town. She has fifty-three cities of over 3,000 inhabi tants and ranging up to 120,000, af fording widely scattered markets for the products of the farm, and tax delinquency back there is not over 15 or 20 per cent. And none of this means that I don’t like Oregon. I do. like it Governor Meier is seldom seen in his office these days and then only for a few hours at a time, once a week or every two or three weeks. But politics is funny. Like catching a bear by the tall, for instance. While there are many arguments in fhvor of hanging on there are just as many in favor of lotting loose. Meier came into office with one of the largest majorities ever given a gubernatorial candidate in this state. No one realizes better than Meier him self, perhaps, how he has lost caste wiith the public since the novelty of a merchant prince at the head of the state has worn off and no one realizes better than Meier—again perhaps— that re-elecion to a second term is go ing to be an entirely different story from that of election to his first term at a time when "free power without cost to the taxpayers” was • tempting mirage on the political horizon. But it is still more than eight months until the May primaries and at least three or four months until it will be necessary for any of the candi dates to make any definite committ ments, and in the meantime— Day by day in more ways thar. one the political straws are pointing to the candidacy of Julius L. Meier for re-election as governor. A few weeks ago the wise boys who pretended to possess the low down on matters political were telling the world that Meier was through with public office; that he had tasted of If present prospects are any indica the honor and glory that attaches to tion the Oregon voters are going to the job of chief executive and would have a lot of problems to pass judg be glad to retire to private life at the ment on at the next election. Four end of his present term, some 16 initiative measure« are already in cir months hence. culation. The latest one is sponsored Now, however, they are not so sure by the Home Owners Tax Exemption of their ground. While some still con League with headquarters in Portland. tend that Meier is through with poli This measure would grant a tax ex ties there is a persistent and insistent emption up to >1,200 on all property. rumor to the contrary. In fact there Then there is George Bylfender’s pro are many who regard the governoi’s posal to repeal the county civil ser address to the American Legion dele vice law; A. C- Buchanan’s measure gates at Klamath Falls last week as amending the small loan act and the the opening gun in his campaign for measure sponsored by the Oregon another term in office. If this is true Truck Owners association repealing and Meier has decided to enter the the truck and bus law passed by the lists in the primaries next May it is last legislature. And there are still a fisirly safe bet that his course is not 11 montha to go before the ban will prompted so much by his own political I be raiaed again* further filings. ambitions as it has been influenced by the pleadings of some of his own ap The status of Oregon’s liquor laws pointees primarily interested, in pre since the Anderson act has been re serving their own seats at tie politi pealed, provides food for interesting cal table. speculation if nothing more. Some Henry Hanzen, state budget direc attorneys claim thtat repeal of the pro tor and Meier’s political right bower, hibition law* has automatically reviv- would be particularly interested in 1 ed the old laws which the later acts continuing his liege lord in power. So repealed by implication. Among these also would William Einsig, state pur was a law forbidding the sale of spir- chasing agent, Charles M. Thomas, itous, malt and vinous liquors outside utilities commissioner and many oth the limits of incorporated cities and ers. Their jobs depend upon it and towns. If the "revival” theory is cor jobs with salaries ranging from >4.000 rect then, it is contended, beer parlors to better than $6,000 a year are not to operating fa rural districts are in viol be sneezed at in these days of econ ation of the law. Bo far, however, omic readjustment. no district attorney has evinced As far as the governor himself is enough faith in the theory to test it concerned, left to follow his own de out with the arrest of a beer dfapens-. sires, there is little question but that er although inquiries received at the he would prefer to quit politics now capitol indicate that one or two of while the quitting is good. Public of them is seeking for moral support fa fice ha« long since lost its glamor so a move of thia kind. far aa he is concerned. Whereas, early in his administration he was overly Of a total of $1.078,440 in federal wWding "if;zealous"fa the" hh duties, funds expend«! mi the national guard in Oregon during the past two yeans, $26,249 went toward the pay and equipment of units in Coos county, acording to records in the office of guard headquarters here. Oregon's 52 guard unit« now muster a total of 3,07« officers and men. This state, records show, spends $75 a biennium for each guardsman com pared to $255 in Washington and $161 in California. Oregon guard units are located at Ashland, Medford, Grfents Pass, Roseburg, Cottage Grove, Springfield, Eugene, Corvallis, Albany, Salem, Woodburn, Oregon City, Lebanon, Silverton, Gresham^ Dallas, McMinnville, Forest Grove, Hillsboro, Marshfield, Tillamook,, As toria, St. Helens, Portland, Klamath Falls, The Dalles, Pendleton, La- Grande, Union and Baker. Mileage Around the House Long distance walking records should not be exploited exclusively by mail carriers. Perhaps some of them have trotted from door to door for a distance oqud to four times around the equator. But persons in other oc cupations are qualified to figure up quite a bit of mileage in their long c..r<H'.». • There is the policeman, for instance. Perhaps he has been in the Service ever since helmets were invented. He haz worn out enough shoe leather to stock a tannery. His beat may not have been arduously long but the to tal of his daily rounds present fig ures that even an investigator into the age of the earth might envy. Re duced to actual mileage, it is quite possible that he, too, has made an equatorial foursome and perhaps thrown in a little side trip to the north pole. But the average housekeeper of “the old school” has been entirely overlook ed. No thirty-hour restrictions short en her little journeys. She does a lot of footwork from the time «he rises in the morning until she tucks the children into bed in the evening. Let her figure up her_mrle*ge in the the srjprlefege in course of a year. Then Tnen multiply that by the number of years she has been covering the Humdrum Trail. Maybe it. would not quite reach to the moon, but it would give the man who thinks he takes « lot of steps in the course of a day a more accurate idea of the “soft job” that falls to the average housewife.—Christian Science Moni tor. Public utilities find themselves caught between the upper fend nether mill stones in the present period of economic readjustment. While private industry meets increased payrolls with an Increase in the price of its product, utility corporations, subject to state regulation, must first secure the consent of the regulatory body be fore increasing rates. Oregon’s util ity commissioner, Charles M. Thomas, has just served notice on the tele phone companies that he will approve no rate increase except upon a proper showing of necessity and following an investigation and hearing. The same ruling will no doubt apply to all other utilities. Under the circumstances utilities employees will probably have to await for an increase of volume of business to something near the pre depression level, rather than an in Coquille Butter at State Fair crease in rates before they can hope to benefit through any substantial ad Butter from the Swift and Co. dition to their pay checks. creamery at Coquille has been entered in the state fair exhibit this year, ac Max Gehlhar, state agricultural di* - cording to «*. J. D. . iJi'CKje, Mickle, s supcrinten- . ** vsi .aaasag vu if peri rector is in hot water again over his dent of dairy product«. Exhibits were 'id** itr P0 ,Cy' • •*“* entered by 27 wiv|çx»ii Oregon creameries, creameries, he - . - r» - ne able and growing deLeit in the fair «aid, by closing time on August 5. when he took oyer that institution I All exhibits are being kept in a Sa- 1 Thn ".thl overh,ad The operating personnel was greatly reduced and the pay of those retained was slashed without mercy. This year many of the workers at the fair are donating their services. This poi- 1CV has has brought hnninvkl a a nV* —. — — «. from « icy sharp protest organized labor which condemns I Gehlhar’*’’’persistent exploitation of labor by payment of low wages and failure to compensate for overtime " The «ituation ha« been brought to the attention of the heads of the State Grange and Farm. Union with _ an _ ap- _ _____ l**l these organizations that they i°fa faith labor fa the demand for ’fair wages and fair working condi --------- * • tions” for those employed at the state’s big agricultural exposition. — b See Man«ell Drayage and Delivnrv Co. for Mill Wood, $2 a load Onten at th« filled promptly. com storage plant until Septem- 8> ’ the d«y before — wsvsc the uiie fair open?, vjjcii .-, when they will be withdrawn an 1 scored. The long storage period is to fast the keeping Qualities of the but ter, Mickle explained. The 1933 state fair opens on Labor Day. * Calling cards 100 for $1.00. SAVE MONEY! Have Your Tire« . Re-Groved at SOUTHWESTERN MOTOR CO.
