THE COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934.
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Enternd at thè Coquille Postoffice Af
Second Class Mail Matter.
< Corner W. First and Willard St
CongVcHsman J. W. Mott write*
newspapers in this district that ho is
quite hopeful that his house bill, pro
viding for an annual reimbursement
to O. & G. land grant counties of the
amounts they lose in taxes each year,
will
reported upon favorably by
the budget director, and that congress
will pas« it. The bld Stanfield law,
which this would supersede, provides
for the payments to the counties from
funds derived from the sale of timber
and there are no fund« from that
source now for reimbursement for
that purpose. If Mr. Mot’s bill should
become a law the amount due would
become an obligation of the United
States, payable annually.
peaceable, of eoprse, and by the ballot.
The people, as a whole, have had
everyTaith in" the President’s sincer
ity. Th« writer has that faith. He
believes also that Franklin D. Roose
velt will not in 1938 go before the
country as a candidate on the proposi
tion that he saved us from economic
ruin and national disaster. A formei
president Went before the people for
.«-election on the proposition that
“he kept us out of war."
Within
thirty days after his inauguration we
were into that war. This was politi
mi bunk, .but nevertheless it ia his
tory. It will not work the second
time.
The depression wae a condition ef
fecting the entire civilized world.
Time has always overcome these dif-
icultiee.
Certain other countries ,
lave experienced recovery io the
urne extent as have we, and without
lictatorial interference with eonstitu-
.ional guarantees.
Again, let me assert my belief in
he President; but he has relied on a
treat army of politicians to carry out ,
lis plans—plans that were justified
>y a great emergency—but he has
>een betrayed by cupidity, greed and
dishonesty. Hia support by those in
authority has-been rotten!
A strike in a motor industry, preci
pitated by union labor agitators, and
involving MOO employees, wan settled
this week. That strike threw out of ’
employment 18,000 men in another
industry who had no interest what
ever in the other fellows’ quarrel,
lust some more Americana.
There is some criticism of banks in
general on account of the high per
centage of
liquidity that obtains
throughout the country.
This is a >
great advantage to depositors, but is i
not so important at this time, as de .
posits are now insured. Perhaps the ,
IT REDUCES THEIR TAXES
banks are justified in not handing out :
Notwithstanding the misinforma loans to industry. Under NRA busi .
tion peddled by Ray Gill and his co ness doesn’t know “where it is at”— .
horts, that California people are op it says so, itself—and banks do not
posed to the .sales tax, such is not the loan money to concerns or individuals ,
case.
J. N. Jacobsen tells us that he has
talked to a great many people down
in Humboldt county, where he former
ly lived, and to a man they stated that
the «ales tax there had cut their taxes
materially.
Carl Jergenaon, who formerly lived
on one of the Russ tracts, and now re
sides at Montague, at the foot of Mt.
Shasta, says his taxes were cut in
half as a result of California’s sale»
tax.
No taxpayer—property taxpayer—
is ever going to regret the adoption
of the sales tax. Naturally the non
taxpayer will feel it; because he is
enjoying the benefit of our schools,
and the protection of government,
without its costing him anything.
If you are a property taxpayer you
cannot afford to oppose the sales tax.
It you are not a taxpayer there is no
use expecting you to vote a tax on
yourself.
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TABLOIDS
By W. 8. Bickels
Just a word about the boys
places who pose for their
graphs. Here is the stance
most familiar: Fountain pen or pen
cil poised over a sheet of paper while
the subject, with a serious or dignified
look, gasro into the camera. What
the pen, pencil or paper have to do
with the highly strained moment doos
not appear.
Photographers are to
blame for this. They should coach
their subjects to unlax and look like
regular felleni—as most of them are.
Henry J. Allen, one of the ex-gov
ernors of Kansas, while on his way to
New York recently, stopped off in
Washington and is reported to have
made the following remark regarding
present conditions: “The country is
a lunatic asylum with a laughing
keeper in charge.”
Some of these days the smile is go
ing to disappear from the face of the
President. His sincerity and high
purpose cannot be questioned,
He
probably is aware of the fact
that he is not being sincerely sup-
ported by the sub - organizations
throughout the country that have
been delegated to carry out his plans.
He will come to know that polities is
circumventing the purpose of the
New Deal. Every one of the alpha
betical activities is infested with ad
vantage for party, perpetuation of
employment for worthy (?) parti
sans, graft, chiseling, waste, and
whatnot.
The pity of it all is that some of
these activities are here to stay. Take
the NRA for example. How are we
ever going to get rid of it? A million
salaried leaches with huge expense
accounts are fastened to the thing
now. They can vote. They will not
give up without a struggle. Clotbod
with authority from an indefinite
somewhere they are telling everyone
how to run his business, including the
farmer. An attempt, seemingly, ’is
being made to set aside that immu
table law, the survival of the fittest
It is an experiment that Is doomed to
failure. The American people ‘ wiH
watch it patiently for a time; but
there will be a revolt. It will bn
who do not know exactly “where they
are at.”
The greatest argument against any
new form of taxation is that no mat .
ter how great a sum may be raised it
will all be spent, to be followed by
a cry for more. Taxing bodies have
lever adopted a policy that would
•reate confidence in them. The plight
>f the district schools is due largely
.o extravagance, engendered by jeal-
>usy of some neighboring school that
das this or that which “our" school
loes not have, but could get along
.vithoo*. The county unit plan of ad-
ninistration is the answer to this
>onsense and it is having wonderful
ntccess, and at greatly reduced costa,
n all of the counties of Oregon that
have adopted it.
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Referring to the 17th anniversary,
(April 6, 1917), of our entry into the
world war, Oregon Journal says:
ISuppose the scene were to be re-en
acted today? Suppose the explosion
of another war should rock the world ?
There would be a let of instant
changes. For example, every pound
of food, every mineral resorce, ev
ery employable person, would be Hat
ed among the nation’s precious assets
. . . and every horsepower of en
ergy would be indexed and com
mandeered in the nation’s defense . .
. Agreements to disarm seem impos
sible. The arms-makers arrange for
all attempts at disarmament to fail."
Quite true.
Capital only would
not be drafted. Every owner of ma
terial would be paid high prices there
for and given an opportunity to be
come rich, while our young men
would be foreeably taken to the slaugh
ter. One wonders if it is possible for
our nation to again experience such
a calamity. The way to end war is
to conscript capital along with men.
What is the lofty idea that prevents
congress from taking some such ac
tion ? It is a plan that seems so
simple. World courts and leagues of
nations fail.
State Institutions Crowded
Superintendents for the state hos
pitals for insane and feeble-minded at
the montNy conference with the board
of control this week warned that the
next legislature must make provisions
for additional accommodations for
these state wards. All three intitu
lions are already almost filled to ca
pacity. The state hospital at Salem
has a population of 2252 patients, a
gain of 70 in the past year; the East
ern Oregon hospital at Pendleton re
ports a population of 1801, a gain of
nearly 800 in the past year and the
feeble-minded institution has 901 pa
tients. a gain of 35. There is only
one alternative to continued increase
in all three of these institutions, the
superintendents pointed out. That is
sterilization to check both insanity
and feeble-mindedness at its source
rather than take care of the victims
in tax-supported institutions. While
Oregon has a sterilisation law on its
statute books public opinion has not
yet been sufficiently crystalised in its
support to make its use at all effec
tive.
Judge Eddy, A b Able Can
didate for Circuit Judge
The BonneviHe project, liquor con
trol and the eales tax are the three
major issues around which the cur-
rent gubernatorial campaign will re-
volve.
So far as the Bonnoville «i»ue is
concerned there is little choice be
tween the nine candidates if their
campaign pledge« are to be taken at
their face value. All nine of them
have declared themselves as favorable
to the development of 'Bonneville in
the interest of the consumer as op
posed to the interest of the public
utilities.
Holman is the only’ gubernatorial
candidate who mentions the «ales tax
in his platform, iu which he declares
himself as opposed to the tax, a stand
which he has consistently taken. Sam
Brown while not including this issqe
in his platform bitterly opposed the
measure in the 'legislature so that
there w,ill be no question as to his
stand on thia issue, Lonergan makes
no direct reference to the sales tax
in his platform but his slogan reads
“Save Our Schools” and he was one
of those who led the fight for the
tax .both in the regular and special
sessions of the legkdature last year.
Dunne, as a member of the state sen
ate. is also on record as (supporting the
sales tax. None of the other candi
dates are so far on record on thia is
sue.
Holman ia committed to a fair trial
of the Knox plan of liquor control and
sale by the state as also is Brown,
Lonergan and Martin.
Mahoney is
openly hostile to state control and is
making home rule one of the big
plank,: in his campaign platform. He
wants th? state to keep hands off the
liquor question entirely. Hall ia op-
-posed to the state dispansery system
as also is Dunne, both of whom favor
atate control but sale by licensed re
tailers in original packages only.
Dodd declares for “temperance” and
so
far
MaeAlexander who was
dragged into the arena too late even
to formulate a platform has not de
clared himself on this issue.
Martin is standing for the demo-
ertic nomination on his record as a
soldier and a congressman. He re
fuses to make any “idle campaign
nromises” but declares that if elected
governor he wnl “undertake the job
with an open mind” and an eamwt
endeavor to solve the problems con-'
fronting the state in the public inter
oat. Mahoney for his part ia not so
sparing of his promises which include
state unemployment insurance, liber
alization of the old age pension, a
state public worti program, increase
in the income and inheritance taxes
•n the higher brackets and redistribu
tion of wealth.
At the coming primary election
three circuit judges are to be nomin
ated for the second judicial district,
consisting of Douglas, Lane, Benton,
Lincoln, Coos nnd Curry counties.
Throe three positions are now being
filled by Judges Skipworth, Brand
and Eddy- Judges Brand and Skip-
wotrh have served the district for
come years.
Judge Eddy wss ap
pointed to succeed the late J. W.
Hamilton in the summer of 1933. He
has resided for some years at Rose
burg but is well known in varioua
parto of the state of Oregon, having
served for four terms in the Oregon
state senate, and having atoo been for
more than two years chairman of the
State Hydroelectric Commiasion. At
the time of his appointment he was
carrying on a sncceroful law practice
and went to the bench with an exten
sive experience in law as well aa in
business and public matters. Since
his appointment he has been diligent
ly serving the various parts of his
district, and has also been called up
on for service in the circuit court of
Multnomah county.
At the time of his appointment
Judge Eddy received many warm con
gratulations from men of the highest
standing in the legal professions, in
various .parts of the state, including
judges of the supreme and circuit
courts.
era’ salaries on the basis of their
contracts for the remainder of the
normal school year.
Ohly those
schools which have been compelled to
close or which are threatened with
closing will' share in the distribution
of this fund.
Only four counties failed to remit
their first quarter taxes to the otate
within the allotted time. They were
Curry, Deschutes, Jefferson and Wal-
Iowa. On the other hand six counties
—Clackamas, Gilliam, Jackson, Lin
coln, Multnomah and Sherman—have
already paid their second quarter
taxes in full in spite of the fact that
the payment was not due until July 1.
Income tax payments wen some
what of a disappointment this year.
The tax commission estimated last
December that the three income tax
measures should yield the state 11,-
900,000. Returns to date indicate that
the tax will fall about 5200,000 short
of thia figure. For one thing taxable
returns which were expected to total
45,000 fell far short of this mark with
only 31,000 returns filed to date. The
amendment to the intangibles tax law
permitting the deduction of stock and
bond losses from interest and dividend
income also cut deeply into the state
revenue.
Members of the tax com-
mieeion estimate that this amendment
alone cost the state between 5250,000
and -1300,000 in revenue this year.
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Hotpoint, automatic ranges fa your own
kitchen. Finances need bo longer provost you
from enjoying the economy and convenieBOs of
electric cookery, which adds a delicioBS fttfl
flavor and nutritious goodness to all foods.
Electric oookery is faster, cleaner, cooler and
more ecqnomical. By eliminating waste and
shrinkage, as much as one whole month's meat
bill is saved every year. Ask our salesman
about the big surprise. It will be a VERY
pleasant one that .will make YOUR ownership
of one of the new np-to-date electric ranges
almost a eertainiy.
Spring-like weather of the past
Sam Brown bases his plea for pri month had a wonderfully stimulating
mary votes on a pledge of a “new deal effect on Oregon’s tourist crop. March
for Oregon" and opposition to selfish registration of non-resident motorists
and special interests.
Broom pro was 500 above that of the same month
claims himself as a candidate of the a year ago. The registration record
common people and wants a chance for the year to date, however, still
to dean up Oregon polities. Holman continues below the first three months
wants more rigid regulation of cor of 1933 due to the poor showing In
poration stocks for the protection of January and February.
Oregon
investors, punishment of
swindlers and other law violators and
The doughnut dunking clubs in the
is committed to a policy of encourag
capitol and otate office budding have
ing greater use of Oregon products
temporarily suspended activities since
and Oregon labor at living wages un-
the board of control expressed its dis
ler wholesome conditions to stimu i-1
approval of lobby loitering on the
late industry and relieve unemploy
part of state employees. The board’s
ment Dodd who hails from eastern
order was particularly directed at the
Oregon stresses development of Bon
late sleepers who were in the habit of
neville dam, the Columbia and Snake
breakfasting on state time after
rivers for navigation purposes with ■
punching the time clock, but for the
view to securing cheaper freight rates
time being it has almost ruined busi
for farmers of eastern Oregon. He
ness for the lunch counters.
•Iso wants better highways to the
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small towns over the state.
Joe
Seven women are ineluded in the
Its Bonds Good Investment
Dunne wants s fair price for the
farmers' product, a decent wage for long list of candidates seeking nomi
R. H. Mast, Coquille, Oregon, Secre
They
the laborer and protection of the busi nations for legislative seats.
tary-Treasurer
of the Coquille nation
ness man from cut-throat competi ate Nannie Wood Honeyman, demo
al farm loan association of Coquille,
crat,
and
Mapril
Keasey,
republican,
tion. Lonergan promises to “vigor
recently received word from the Gov
ously advocate the use of Oregon both of Multnomah county; Hannah
ernor of the Farm Credit Administra
Martin,
republican,
and
Bessie
M.
products and the development of Ore
tion, Wm. L. Myers, telling him of the
Richards,
democrat,
both
of
Marion
gon’s vast resource« to the end that
ready reception which farmers and
industries may expand and pay-rolls county; Stella J. Henry, republican,
their creditors are giving to the bonds
Polk
county;
Grace
Kent
Macgruder,
increase, thus furnishing a greater
of the Federal Farm Mortgage Cor
field for employment.” Hall who pro democrat, Columbia county, and 'Belle
poration which are now being ten
Lydick.
democrat,
lame
county.
Re
claims himself as “always a republi
dered by the Federal Land Bank of
can—always a progressive” wants to vised figures in the elections division
Spokane, Wash., in place of cash in
shorten hours for lalbor, reorganize of the state department show that
settlement of farmers’ debts.
there
are
a
total
of
375
candidates
in
the accident commission, regulate of
"These bonds have been selling in
fice hours and reduce gasoline taxes. the primary race, 203 republicans, 184
democrats and 38 non-partisan candi the large markets at it little above
par, indicating a ready market for
dates for judicial positions.
A total of 73 fires in Coos county
them. Just a week after the banks
during 1933 resulted in losses aggre
began using bonds instead of cash,
BROCKMAN FARM FOR SALK
gating 3218,229, according to the an
the first bonds to be «old on the New
nual report of A. IH. Averill, state fire
The heirs of Peter Brockman, de York
market were purchased at
marshal. The report shows a total of ceased, request sealed bids for what 100-M. We anticipated these bonds
4820 fires for the state during the is known as the Peter Brockman farm which bear 3U per cent interest per
year with losses aggregating 32,713,- near Baetendorff Beach, Coos Bay, annum would sell at par or above at
380 which is a decrease of 35 per cent Oregon, (farm contains 180 acres, the time we set the interest rate, for
compared with the fire loss record for estimate 12.14 acres bottom under Government bonds maturing in 1941,
1932.
plow, 11.20 acres meadow bottom al bearing the same rate were selling
No school in Oregon will need to most clear, balance hill grating land, above par.”
close this year because of lack of small house and bam,) to be opened
Mr. Myers pointed out that these
funds. O. D. Adams, director of the at the I-aw Officers of Liljeqvist A bonds were not only exempt from
educational emergency relief program Swanton, American Building, Marsh local, state and federal taxation with
for this state, has been advised that field, Oregon, at hour of 2:00 P. M., the exception of surtaxes, inheritance
3177,000 in federal funds has been al Wednesday, April 25, 1934. Reserve and gift taxes, but that they are as
lotted to thia state and that the re right to reject any and all bids.
readily salable as Government securi
mainder of the 3265.000 requested
Ralph Barker,
ties. He said they are being quoted in
may be made available if evidence can
Administrator. the metropolitan papers but if such
be produced that it is actually needed.
quotations are not availaMe readily to
This money w» bo used to pay teaeh-
Calling cards 50 for 31.00.
farmers that they will be given the
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quotations if they will write to the
federal land bank of their district.
Records in the operator»’ division of
Che state department indicate that
Sunday is the most dangerous day for.
motoring with Wednesday indicated
as the least dangerous.
Forty-six
persons Were killed in traffic acci-
dants on Sunday in Oregon during
1938 with only 21 fatalities recorded
iq accident« occuring on Wednesday.
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