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fig t : THB COQUILLB VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE. OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER I«. 193». PAGE FOUR ..I ess- menting on hm decision, “It is usual to call in expert testimony to fix the rea sonable value of services rendered. • MM FAMI M A M«0 TKM However, the National Recovery Ad H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIME8 ministration, after much research, hq» I’ublishara established a fair minimum wage. H. A. YOUNG. Editor Thia m , beyond question, a better de termination of the reasonable value of Subscription Rate. the service in question than the testi On« Year..................... ...... • « • « • *• !” mony of so-called experts.” Six Month« ...................................... Three Month« .......«• ••• ;• • • ■ *” No «ubaeription taken unisse paid for in advançe. Thi« rula ta impera- The Sentinel i TABLOIDS By W. 8. Sickels I > Display adverthing, 25 anti per inch- less than 5 inches, 30 Mnta oer inch. No advertisement inserted for less than 50 cent«. Readings noUCM 10 cents per line. No reading notice, or advertisement of any kind, insert ed for lesa than 25 cents. _____ Entered at the Coouills Posioffioe as Second Class Mail Matter. 1 ■ . .. t • That’s an idea which we oee in an exchange. If the people around Seat tle can juggle their clocks around in summer for daylight saving, why not jockey the thermometer in winter? Make the Puget Sound country a sum mer playground during December, January and February! Temperance courses will be offered in all grade schools in Kansas City, Kan., according to an Associated ■Press dispatch. Mra. F. V. Hays, head of the curriculum department, ie quoted as saying: “The Eighteenth Amendment came as a result, of many years’* teaching, and then we let down. This move is our answer to the im pending repeal crisis.”—Signal Press. TAMANY LICKED IN LAIR Once upon a time a little dog chased a railway train until it disappeared nto a tunnel. “Well, I chased that iern thing into its hole, anyway,” said the dog as he came back wag ging his tail with satisfaction. A .hort time ago this column remark 'd that Portland Oregonian's new feature “Candid Camera Clicks” was >ut of place on its first page and be longed in some other department of that paper. Well, I chased the thing >ff of the front page, anyway. ______ In these days of transportation by truck and trailer it is a common night to see horses being carried about in fenced enclosures on wheels. Always hey appear to have an interested and contented look, as though they were enjoying the experience im- mensely. Repudiation of foreign debts by the newly organised United States of Soviet Russia is one of the reasons that has held up recognition of Russia ’>y our government. In the eyes of a “capitalistic" nation that was a terri ble and not-to-be-forgiven thing. Yet t was the natural thing for those teople to do. Why should they as sume the debt burden of the old and hated regime? None of that debt was incurred for the benefit of ' the -ommon people. Thue they reasoned. And when repudiation was decided upon the whole world knew where they stood. There was no defaulting, squawking or evasion, ouch as has characterized the attitude of other na tions toward Uncle Sam. President Roosevelt has shaken hand« with Russia, but it isn’t likely that Mr. Litvinoff will ask for a loan. It is ■»aid the Russians are in the market for some of our merchandise. It is strictly a business matter. Business forgets and forgives. Another thing to bear in mind: The Russians are Caucasian«—not Mongolians. About once' in a generation the Tammany tiger is licked in its own lair. More often it is whipped in national democratic conventions, as it was a year and a half ago, but this fall it took a trouncing right in its own backyard—on the sidewalks of New York. Jno. P. O’Brien, Tam many candidate, was low man in the field of three candidates for mayor; Jos. V. McKee, running with the en dorsement of Jim Farley and on a “recovery” platform, ran second, whHe F. H. La Guardia, fusion candi date, former representative in Con gress, was elected, along with nearly all the other fusion candidate«. One year ago this month Oregon But Tammany will come up rmjling repealed its prohibition law. During again in the future. You can't keep that twelve-month twenty-five arrests the tiger down. for were made in Coquille previous drunkenness. During the REPEAL EFFECTIVE DEC. 5 prohibition, twelve months, under Four «tales this week added their only sixteen arrests were made, The vote to the prohibition repeal consti figures are not large enoqgh to ex- tutional amendment, and the wiping cite heated debate. out of the nation's dry law win be ac complished on the fifth of next month Another Buyers' Strike? when Kentucky’s state convention A year or so ago we were going meet« to carry out the will of the through a period of non-buying that voters as expressed Tuesday. was referred to as a "buyers’ strike.” North and South Carolina are the , It was not a protest against high only two states, of the 89 so far voting, prices, for prices were extremely on the question, to stand by the solid , low. People were afraid to spend dry south principle. | money.* Conseration of money was Pennsylvania, Ohio, Utah and Ken- f the predominating thought. People tucky are the four which voted wet were simply doing without things this week by majorities ranging up to other than necessities. Lines of busi four to one. ness outside of the necessities bore There 1« only one thing for the ad the aspect of paralysis and many did vocate« of a dry United States to do not survive. Now a real buyers’ now—to begin an education campaign strike is in prospect, and this time it to carry on until the whole nation be-! ' is in apposition to a “brazen pro- comes imbued with the idea that1 gram of exploitation»” to use the “wine is a mocker, strong drink is' I words of Senator Borah, that raging: and whosoever is deceived “troublesome” old fellow that Idaho thereby is not wise.” keeps on «he job in th« U. S. senate; Aa the first step toward the elimina and he serves a useful purpose there, tion of liquor from any place in the as he la an uncompromising foe of or- life of the United States, the Sentinel ; ganized pillage. He has come out in believes in the plan it has advocated opposition to the "Buy Now” cam for the past several years: that all paign, not that the idea is wrong—be liquor be manufactured by the federal cause it is not so regarded—but on government, sold in government retail account of the open advantage being stores — and without profit. The taken of the NIR A. The public had moonshiner, the bootlegger, the rack assumed that it would be protected in eteer, would all disappear if th!« plan the matter of price-fixing by the var should be adopted. ious codes. It would have been satis But—we realize there is little hope fied with price-increases commensur for such a program when the oppor ate with increased pay for labor, but tunity for raising funds for govern it will not stand for the arbitrary ment support, from the sale of liquor, prices that have been adopted by the is so much a part of the federal, state code-fixers in every line of business, and municipal consciousness as it is and which has resulted in elevating now. prices from 50 to 150 per cent, and In spite of the fact that the majority FIRST N.R.A. TEST IN COURT of people have no more money to n . In the first >|>>. test vw* of VI the vow NRA nwzi in rn a spend now than they had before the ’■ state court, District Judge John A. NRA was ever thought of. Let us Mears, in a «weeping decision which quote Senator Borah a little further: sets a precedent for U. 8. jurists, this “Many of these prices are high week upheld the NRA wage scale in beyond all reason and conscience. If Multnomah district court in the suit they were ‘Blue Eagle’ prices, it of Bessie N. Walker against Noble & would make this bird a bird of prey Sons, confectioners, for >14J>0, the instead of a bird of protection. They difference between the wages paid are in many instances, in my judg her and the minimum wage allowable ment, the prices fixed by combines . , under the Blue Eagle. and monopolies, sheltered by the Judge Mears, presiding in small broad wings of the double headed claims court, baaed his momentous de eagle. Hiding behind the increase of cision on the investigations of officials labor and the processing tax, making working under the direction of the these an excuse, prices have bean Multnomah county NRA compliance pushed up beyond all reaeon. There board, who reported to the court that fore, when people are urged to buy the wages paid by Noble A Sons were they are really urged to buy, in many below the minimum prescribed in the instances, at monopolistic prices.” NRA agreement The reader of these comments in “In all disputes of thia sori, the urged to bear in mind that the retail reasonable value of the services ren dealers have had no voice in the mat This has been dered are a recognized principle of ter of price-fixing. law," declared Judge Means In «om- don» by the manufacturers, in di|- i trict meetings sponsored by NRA, and with NRA representatives pres ent, and where control was in the hands of the “big fellows” in what ever busine«|i it happened to be. The “little fellow«” wanted prices left low enough so they could continue to make a sale to the public occasionally. In the lumber business prices were jacked up so high that it means sleeping sickness to the retail trade, the minimum price for the lowest grade of lumber living fixed at >23 and entirely out of proportion with increased coots of production. It is the opinion of the “little fellows,” who were run over rough-whod by the big guys, that a continuation of un reasonably high pried* will result in great harm to the lumber industry, fir especially. The “Buy Now” fetish wiTTnot work on those wh'j have' been seared to a crisp brown by late experience. The next spending erase will be indulged in by the crop of youngster« now coming along, and heedless they will be, a« were their elders before them. Welcome to the Ko Keel Com Show DUNHAM’S of Course Can Always Be Expected to Set Prices in Coquille WE LEAD-OTHERS FOLLOW! Corn Show Headquarters for Groceries RED HOT PRICES! BUY NOW! Wesson Oil 1/^ Gal. __________ »Letter frsALUJUd, • Governor Meier will confine his rec ommendations for relief revenues to a liquor tax and a gross utility sales tax, when he delivers his message to the .special session of the legislature,1 according to “leaks” from sources who are supposed to be in the confidence of the executive. The governor, himself, now busily at work upon his message, refuses to comment upon its contante or give any hint as to what plan« he may have in the back of his head for the solution of the knotty relief problem. The liquor tax, it has been estimat ed, will yield Approximately >1,600,- 000. If the public utility tax should be enacted'it would be expected to . (produce a similar amount to come out of the pockets of the rate payers. This total of >3,000,000 is still far short of the >5,000,000 fixed by the governor’s committee of 32 as the minimum to be put up by the otate ! Slightly Damaged Onions Feed Wheat 15c 100 10 ”>8- 98c t 57« Calumet Mince Meat. 2 n>8 17 P & G Soap 3 Bar8 Limit 5« 3 Old Dutch 6c CAN * 4 Crisco 3 GRAY SEED OATS & COMMON SEED VETCH Soap BARS 11C Ask us for Prices Flour Malt 47« Sack -, Peaches Raisins Large Sack LB. TIN Fels Naphtha CAN Rolled Oats Egg Mash 80 »>*■ 98c 47« >bs. No. 19« 2 Rice 10 ,bs- 27c Cans Vacuum Pack Purity Coffee to meet relief needs during the next 15 months. - The governor, however, is banking .itrongly on the public works program to reiteve lot «f atram on the unem ployment situation in Oregon. Thou sands of men, he believes, will bp put We feature to work this winter on road and on Cans bridge construction and other public Tall Tins works projects, lightening the burden on the relief rolls by just that much ‘It’s the KELP that Helps' so that a >3,000,000 state fund plus Winner whatever can be' chiseled out of the federal government to go with it,, Red Mexican should be ample. Of course, the public works pro-1 Early June gram, so far as Oregon is concerned, is still in the incubation stage. Nine Cans teen Oregon projects totalling ap a proximately >8,000,000 have been for-1 warded to Washington with the ap proval of the state advisory board but so far none of these have been acted on by the public work adminis tration. These include the five Coast LB highway bridges calling for an ex penditure of some >5,100,000. As yet the big >15,000,000 highway ' None to dealers— to reasonably limit quantities. program is still in embryo. The state advisory board has insisted upon a Free — Daily. Open All Day 8 the definite program, set out unit by unit, instead of the “blanket" request for ' federal funds to be allocated later by I CLOSED the highway commission. The legis lature, too, will probably have a lot NOV. 11 to say about thia program, especially since it involves pledging of current revenues of the highway deparment to retire the federal loan. Figure« prepared by die highway department, show that current revenues from au-' Oregon 81 tomobile licenses, gasoline taxas and other source« are ample to pay admin istration eosts, take care Of mainten ance, retire outstanding bonds and not waste any time in complying with | ment of their warrants. Of these 21 offoet by the anticipated increase of meet the principal and interest pay. ™ ^titiori of ihe^ied were a year or more behind and four >500,000 in the revenue« from the menta on a >10,000,000 or >12,000.000 W Truck Owners. In fact he did not were as much as two years or more amended income tax law. The excibo !*"* even .er me >ssue w — mj vr... even let the issue come to trial before in arrears. an* intangibles tax returns are ex tT lied? th * h“ *mPe ,Uth0rity withdrawing his moratorium on the For the state as a whole 890 of the pected to hold their own as a!so are th hr8e revenues m repay- tru<_k bill. The promptness of Ma 2271 school districts are shown to be revenues from inheritance taxes, cor TXaice tebl7n’ " . , "° compliance ought both side, to the six months or more behind in war poration and insurance fees and other awHirance that some future legisla-' truck controversy flat footed with the rant payments. Of these 441 are a sources. The levy will prcbably not ture might not reduce the license fees I Allied Truck Owners having nothing year or more behind, 112 are as much be made until late this month, the paid by motorists or the gasoline tax,1 left to mandamus and the Truck as two years behind and 50 are three tax commission ha« anounced. thus crippling highway revenues to a Owners and Farmers Protective group years or more behind. The picture as noint where the pledge could not be ! no moratorium to defend. A. C. An presented by Howard's summary of Payment of second half taxes now met. For that reason the legislature,' derson, leader of the force« opposed school warrant indebtedness is not a coming into the treasury department itself, will be asked to underwrite the to the present law has announced very encouraging one. Moro than 100 is being reflected in a gradual whit pledge to make it more binding upon i plans for carrying the fight into the districts face the prospect of closing tling down of the warrants outstand future seesions to honor the oblige-1 special session of the legislature. If »«cause of inability to finance their ing against the general fund. As tion. And here is where the rub ' the desired relief is not forthcoming operations from the winter months ?omeB, a« it is pretty well understood 1 there the fight will be carred to the unless relief is forthcoming from rapidly as taxes are paid additional warrants are called in for payment, that a lot of upstate legislators are1 people through an intiative measure some source, preferably a state fund the la«t call including all warrants up not at all friendly to the governor’s I raised from other than j --------- ‘ for repeal of the law. property, to September 1. Except for Jefferson ambitious program,'* particularly that ' taxes, Howard declare«. Unpaid and Tillamook counties all countie, nart of it which would allocate d>ore With 68 of Coos county’s 73 school school warrants in the state last June have now paid their first half taxes than half of the amount to the north districts faced with the prospect of totalled more than >6,000,000 and rep- in foil. Baker was the first county west counties. discounting their warrants this year.h-psents an increase —J of 37 per cent to remit a second half payment, since Neither is there any likelihood that the situation in this county with re over June, 1932. which time Klamath, Jackson, Yam the utilities, already hard hit by spect to the maintenance of school The tax levy for state purposes will hill and several other counties have ■ heavy property taxes, ar« going to this year was one of the most discour be about the same thia year aa H was sent in their contributions. ’ stand for a gross sales tax if they aging reported to C. A. Howard, la«t when it amounted to approxi can help it But it is little differences state superintendent of public in mately three mills, according to the The board of control has placed its of opinion like this that make for in best information available at this okeh on five state projects to be fi struction. terest in legislative session« and the Reports filed with the state super time. While the half-mill levy for the one just ahead promises fo have more intendent, with 23 'districts mist ing, World War Veterans State Aid com nanced by public works funds, includ ing a dormitory for the blind school, than ita.full quota of these differences show that as of last June, 35 of the mission, which has been omitted from state library building, tuberculosis 78 districts in the county were six the last two state levies, will be re hospital, psychopathic hospital and Utilities Commissioner Thomas did months or more behind in th« pay- stored thi« year thi« will b« more than Pineapple Salmon 29« Beans 39« 10 Golden West sold Centennial Feeds 9« Peas Dog Feed 3 CANS 19« 3 29C Mince Meat Tomatoes 2 lb»- 17« 3 Cans 19c we reserve the right Delivery Twice Store Friday until in evening STORE SATURDAY, DUNHAM’S of Course Coquille, PHONE 1 improvements at the «Ute prison. *4« — Wjy-- I tins 9
