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THE COQUILLE VALLET SENTINEL. COQUILLE. OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL «. 1M4.
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SBC
chorus presented their numbers in a
splendid manner. Solo parts were
taken by Mrs. Lyman Carrier, Mr.
Leslie, H. H. Hartley and O. T. Gant.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. APRIL 6 - 7
UPSETTING THE DOPE ON THE FOOTBALL ‘GRAFT’
At last a football picture that waves no pennants . . . that
leads no cheers ... that turns the raspberry on the rah, rah
boys . . . that actually tells the truth about certain men
who are trying to turji the gridiron into a gold mine!
ol L ece
OACH
DICK POWELL
ANN DVORAK
ADMISSION 10c & 25c
PREVIEW
sat
FRONTIER
MARSHAL
with
Oe«rg«
O’BRIEN
Irene Bentley
Telling About
People and
Eventa in the City and
Connty
Ask Ned C. Kelley for fates on Fire
Insurance.
Tbe Women of Mooseheart. will
bold a cooked food sale at the Safe
way store on Saturday,
April 14,
starting at ten o’clock.
Mt- and Mrs. Frank Chase return
ed Monday night from Eugene, where
they spent the week-end visiting
their parents and friends.
Taxpayers League to Meet
The third annual meeting of the
Corn County Taxpayers’ Equalisation
League will be held at the Circuit
Court room of "the Court house, City
of Coquille, Ore., on Thursday, April
12th, at 8 p. m., 1934. After the regu
lar business of the meeting the candi
dates for nomination at the coming
primaries will be invited to speak.
The public and all candidates for office
are invited to attend.
Signed, Coos County Taxpayers’
Equalisation League.
E. G. Opperman, See. Trees.
u,..k. POWDER r‘
like the powder. Others prefer the paste,
your choice. But if you want the finest spark
ling white teeth use both!
Rexall Milk of Magnesia Tooth Paste and Rexall Milk
of Magnesia Tooth Powder will neutralize mouth acids
and cleanse the teeth super white. Do as others do . .
use the paste at night, packing it into the gums and
leaving it there overnight. Then brush gums and
teeth in the morning with the powder.
You’ll be
amazed at the way this combination will add new
beauty to your teeth.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Claver left
Is There a Hell?
yesterday morning on a combined
“
Hell
“
will be the sermon theme
business and pleasure trip to Port
at the 7.-90 o’clock service next Sun
land, expecting to return Sunday.
day evening at the Church of the
Mr. and Mrs. 3. A- Lamb drove Foursquare Gospel, the Rev. Cecelia
over to Medford last Sunday. He re Nixon, pastor, preaching. The ques
turned the same evening but she re tion as to whether or not there is
mained for a visit with relatives and such a place as hell is much debated
old friends there.
TOOTH. PASTE or
these days. Would a loving God
Washed Coal. Lump >3.00 .per ton, «end any man, however wicked, to a
TOOTH POWDER
I
s
15s a sack. Nut >2.00 per toh, 10c a hell of eternal fire and brimstone?
/
This
question
will
be
answered
from
sack.
Warrants accepted. Johnson
r i, yjB
0
Coal Co., Riverton. Phone 1R13 for the scriptures. Mrs. Nixon is preach
ing
on
this
theme
by
request.
Come,
delivery.
.
9t5
it will interest you.
Applicants for drivers’ licenses will
be able to take the examination at the
Errol Sloan Goes to Chico
Coquille city hall, next Wednesday,
The Eugene Register-Guard
last
April 11, from 8 a. m. until 4 p. m.,
DRUGGISTS
STATIONERS
when Ward McReynolds will be here. Friday carried the annoncement that
à
Errol B. Sloan, who had been pastor
Body and Fender repair work done
of the Fairmount Christian Church at
by experienced mechanics. Our body
Eugene for the past five yeans, had
children taught by teachers of high
la the Rural Child
painter is an expert. Let us prove we
resigned to accept the pastorate of
, quality and excellent training, when
have the beet of repair service. South-
Getting an Even Break? we offer them a wage lower than that
the Christian church at Chico, Calif.,
wstern Motor Co.
lltf
where he would enter upon his ruties
, paid for cleaning streets or digging
(Prepared by the Committee for the
The county court thia week endors April 8. The Guard stated that near
; ditches 7
ed the proposal made by the Powers ly 100 had been added to the Fair- Conservation of Education of Pi
These very low salaries naturally
Lambda
Theta,
a
national
honor
so
and the Coos County Chambers of mont-church during Mr. Sloan’s min
do not attract to our rural schools a
ciety for women in Education, Gene
Commerce that the forest road from istry.
highly trained teaching staff.
Al-
Powers to Grants Paw be widened to
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. vieve Knigfat Bixler, chairman.)
! though they must assume almost com
In
these
days
of
economic
stress
standard construction.
A. Sloan, of this city, is a graduate
plete responsibility for the education
when farmers and other rural people
of their charges, between one-half
Mrs. F. 8. Bunch and daughter, of C. H. S., received his theological
need
more
and
more
to
learn
how
to
and one-third of the 145,000 teachers
Miss Bessie, arrived here Wednesday training in the Eugene Bible school;
co-operate, how to plan their produc
employed in one-room schools have
morning from southern California, took his B. A. degree at U. of O. in
tion with a reference to economic con
had a training not to exceed gradua
whore they have been visiting for 1932 and completed the work for his
ditions,
how
to
market
their
commodi
tion from high school.
Many have
several months. They are the mother M. A. degree at the University in Jan
ties advantageusly, and how to adjust
uary.
scarcely more than completed the ele
and sister of Dr. J. R. Bunch.
themselves
to
more
modern
standards
Mr. and Mra. Sloan left for Chico
mentary grades. Despite this limited
Mr. and 'Mrs. J. E. Benham and the middle of this week.
of living, education is coming more
training, rural teachers receive little
son, Virgil, and Mias Gail Sannon, of
and more to hold the key to their
or no guidance or supervision in
Portland, spent Easter here with
welfare. The welfare of the farmer
their work. Before the depression one
R.
H.
Lawhorne
Mrs. Benham’s mother, Mrs. Sarah
is at the present time receiving much
county in six employed a trained su
Democratic Candidate for
Wickham, at the Nels Oemundson
attention from our social and ecnomic
pervisor. Efforts to retrench have
Commissioner
home. They came in Saturday and
planners. It seems, therefore, per
caused
the dismissal of such super
McKinley farmer and stockman— tinent to inquire if it would not be
left Sunday afternoon for home.
visors in many localities. The super
born and reared in Coos county.
well to consider ways and means of
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Martin intend
vision of instruction in rural schools
An economic constructive adminis providing him with a chance to ob
leaving Sunday for Portland, where
is, therefore, almost wholly dependent
tration of county affairs.
tain
an
education
which
would
better
he will attend the J. C. Penney .Co.
upon the county superintendent of
Will strive for more valuo-aoceivod fit him for his task, and then to trust
managers' convention all next week.
for every dollar of tax money spent. his good common sense and resource schools, an elected official who is near
Vice President Day, who is manager
ly always overburdened with admin
No new highway projects but more fulness to compete on even terms with
of the nationally operated concern,
istrative tasks, who is seldom provid
and better maintenance of roads we other groups in the social economic
will be in attendance at the conven
ed with sufficient staff and equipment,
already have.
order. Could not our virile farm peo
tion.
and who is seldom technically trained
A fair and Just representation of all ple come near solving their own
for his work. With an average of 55
A card fpom Rev. P. D. Hartman Coos county.
problems if the educational opportun
schools and 145 teachers per county, it
to the Sentinel, written at Corvallis,
On these pledges I respectfully ask ities vouchsafed them were more
is moat difficult for this official to do
Mont., where he is now located, ex your support.
nearly equal to those available to
more than make one or two inspector
tends regards and best wishes to his
other classes of producers?
ial calls to each school in the course of
friends here. He says he is getting
The educational conditions of farm
the year. Even though city teachers
back to his old self physically, and
people are not showing much im
are as a rule much better trained than
that Mrs. Hartman is enjoying per
provement. Indeed, in many respects rural teachers, moot of* the work of
fect health.
they are growing worse. A machine
the city schools is carefully super
breaks down at its weakest point. The
The Sehtinel regrets making er
vised. Thus we continue one of the
depression has taken heavy toll from
rors, but it has never made any
strange paradoxes of American edu
all schools. Rural education has na
claim that it is error-proof. Last
cation.
turally suffered .most both because of
week’s was in naming Anne Barton as
Even before the depression nearly
its inherent weaknesses and because
taking part in the girls' vocal trio
3,000 rural schools were open fewer
the retrenchmnts effected have had
at the style show when it was Audrey
than 90 daya per year. About 10,000
to cut more deeply into the quick.
Aasen who took a proimnent part,
others were in session only 90 to 120
Comparisons with city schools are not
and was really the one who put the
days. Rural schools average one
intended to suggest that school con
act over in such good shape.
month less per year than those of the
ditions there are satisfactory. They
cities. For the twelve years of a
A pothick Foster dinner was held
serve only to make rural conditions
child’s school life thia means that the
at the A. O. Culbertson home Sunday.
stand out. The following facts, pre
average child who attends rural
Those present were Messrs, and Mes-
WILLIAM A. OERDING
sented in terms of averages rather
schools gets fuMy one and one-half
dames W. O. Terry and family, B.
than extremes, point to some of the
years less schooling than his city
Nosier and family, Joe Tharp, and Candidate for Democratic Nom
outstanding problems of rural educa-
ination for Sheriff of
cousin. The child attending a school
family, H. Steward and son, John
ti«m.
which is open only 90 to 100 days
C om County
Jayes, Ralph Barnes and eon, Dave
For public school buildings and
receives only about half as much ed
Stearns and family, H. Pointer, Wal
equipment society has invested only
ucation as the average eity child,
ter E. Cox and family, of Bandon,
32 Yean of age.
>143 per rural child against >354 for Many rural schools are
no* closed
Mr. Hawke and the Culbertson fam
Graduate of Coquille High
his city cousin. In many rural com
entirely or are being kept open
ily.
munities investment of this type ap
School
through Federal relief funds.
Insure your car with Ned C. Kelley Attended Oregon State College proach taro. Schools are still housed
Not only are the rural schools very
in barren log-houses, sod-huts, and poor, but the last census revealed
In a reliable Oregon stock company.
shanties. During the depression re more than six million rural young
Dr. and Mrs. Dean Osborn and lit
Coos County needs a sincere, able,
pairs are not being made, and as a people from five to twenty yeans of
tle daughter, Barbara, of Klamath young man for sheriff.
result many schools are more insan age not attending any schools what
Falls, arrived Friday at the home of
I sincerely submit the following
Mrs. Osborn’s uncle and ount, Mr. statements for your enthusiastic sup itary and unfit for habitation than ever. Only about 40 out of every hun
ever. For instruction and other run dred persons of proper age attend
and Mrs. Wm. Knabe, of Arago. They port:
ning expenses society spends an aver high school, and only about five attend
were accompanied by ' Miss Helen
I will enforce the law with strict
age
of >54 per year per rural child college. In cities these percentages
Huebner, of Medford, Wisconsin, who impartiality, rigid economy, and effi
and >109 per city child. Four states sre 50 and 12 respectively. Since the
is visiting them and is also a niece ciency, tempered with eornomn sense.
spend leas than >30 per child in rural depression these disparities are grow
of Mr. Knabe. The doctor continued
Ten years actual business experi
schools. Although the social and ing wider rather than narrower. Not
on to Marshfield to visit his brother, ence qualifies me for the office of
economic problems of society have un only has migration of rural youth to
Fred Osborn, end family.
sheriff. It la an executive office, not
dergone vast changes, the instruction the city stopped, but there is a back
Wsde ArstiM writes the Sentinel to a police office, and should in respect given to our rural children is ntill
wash toward the country.
A hope
correct an error made in mention of to the people be treated as such.
largely limited to the ‘‘readin', ritin’, less damning up in rural communities
Every
hit
of
available
time
will
be
his visit here a couple of weeks ago.
‘rithmetic’’ of our ox-cart days.
of unemployed youth, unemployed en
He is not principal of the high school spent in the duties pertaining to the
Even in normal times there were ergy, unemployed leisure is resulting.
at Milwaukie, but is principal of the office, with an eye toward saving ex over 40,000 rural teachers who re
Agricultural surpluses make the
grsde schools, in which a corp« of penses and demanding respect for ceived salaries of less than >500 per
constructive employment of these
eleven teachers is employed. He also our laws.
year. The National Education Asso young people difficult in the country.
My ballot slogan will be “A new
feels that Coquille is more his home
ciation estimates that at the present Industrial conditions offer them lit
deal
in
the
sheriff's
office
with
Jail
than anywhere else as he owns a
time ther^ are 84,000 teachers in rural tle outlet elsewhere. Suitable school
home here and became greatly at room for grafters."
schools who ¿repaid less than >450 ing, recreational activities, and other
If
you
desire
this
sort
of
s
new
tached to Coquille during hie five
per year, and 210,000 who receive less social programs capable of dealing
deal I earnestly solicit your support
years’ residence here.
than >750 .annually. Since the Presi with the problem are ail but absent.
in the May primaries.
dent’s Code fixes >14 per week, or Even the fullest benefits of the vari
Cantata Wan Very Fine
>55 per month, as a. minimum for
If You Want a New Deal Sheriff common labor, it appears that about ous relief measures have been moot
“The Story of Easter,“ cantata pre
difficult to put into operation in the
Vote for
one-half of our rural teachers are country. Rural youth more than any
sented by a chorus of t*enty-t*o
WILLIAM A. OERDING
rendering social services regarded as other group at present looks out upon
voices, with Mrs. M. O. Hawkins at
inferior to those of common unskilled closed doom in all directions. Whether
the piano, and Mrs. E. A. Woodyard
Washed Coal. Lump 18.00 per ton, laborers. About one rural classroom in school or out, the education provid- *
at the organ, at the Pioneer church
last Sunday evening, was enjoyed by 15c a sack. Nut >2.00 per ton, 10c a In five is presided over by a teacher ed the rural child does not give him
Warrants accepted. Johnson whose compensation is only about an equal break.
an audience which nearly filled the sack.
church, upstairs and down.
Under Coal Co., Riverton. Phone 1R13 for one-half that fixed as a minimum for
tt# Industry. Can we hops to have our
tilt able direction of F. 0. Lerile the delivery.
Calling card« M f«r 11.00.
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