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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1935)
J*——' ", r ; The Sentinel a sees easts •* * ase» tews II. A. YOt/NG and M. D. GRIMES PubUsbers H. A- TOC NG. Editor iitaiirij11r~ Bairs One Year........----- ---------------- $2.00 Six Month» ............. — 1 2/ Three Mop ths..... ~~..... «¿er,—......... TT No subscription taken unless paid for in silvan«*. This rule is impera tive. Oisp u> advertising. 2& cents per inch; less thin 5 inches, 30 cents pe» inch. No advertisement inserted for less than 50 cents Reading noUou 10 cents per line. No reading norice. or advertisement of any kind, Inaert- „ k ed for less than 25 cents. Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter. Office Corner W. Fir»» »“* Willard St ialature who have bean qn relief roils. Five of them are in the house and the otiier in thesenats. 7he report has been conri.med from the records, available to^ny citi’en desiring to learn who these legisla tors are. Hut to off-set this phase, the house .'■as a group of young members, both democratic and i epublican, who aie taking rhe issues seriously and who are well capable of so doing. Most of them are lawyers and all ere under 30 years of ags. They have formed ,t group which Jias been labeled by tome gs the -Holy Jo’s." ' ' " ■ This group includes Harry Boivan, pl Klamath Falls; Walter Führer, of Salem; Moore Hamilton, of Medford: William Knight, of Roseburg; Roscoe Krier, of the Dalles; Walter Norblad, of Aftoria; Millard Rodman, of Culver, and Lyle D. Thoma.;, of West Salem. They meet regularly and are a popular octette. CHOOSE CHEVROLET Obstruction tactics and veiled threats of a recall arc entirely out of t>UM la a discussion of a workable th. Htv of Co- agreement between the city of Co quille and the Mt. States Power Co Yet those were the tactics employed at the council session Monday eve ning. Any public official should know that popular esteem to a very fickle thing and thyt the high vole ol today may easily become “thumbs down” at the next election, whether it be regular or special. Coquille cannot do without electri city. Business of all kinds demand» it; the lighting of business houses homes and streets depends upon th« best electric service obtainable. And even should Coquille, in the future go into the business of furnuhin» light and power, what to the city to do in the meantime? The Mt. States Power Co. is under no obligation now to furnish free lights at the city hall, the community building, and power at the chlorination plant; it 4s saving tire 4100 a month payment to the city which it did pay for several months before the franchise was defeated; and there to considerable question as to the authority of the council to pay for street lighting when there is no contract, franchise or agreement in force. ’ The only sensible thing to for the obstructionists to get down off their high horse, work for the city's best " ’ interests by making a contract of some sort—and then if the people of the city want to spend from a quarter to a half million dollars building a power plant, transportation lines, etc., it wlB be time enough to cancel any contract with the power com pany. And a man who says a city cannot enforce a cancellable clause tn its contract with an utility com pany to simply talking through his hat. The courts have always given a municipality the benefit of any doubt in cases of that nature. Lack of harmony in city affairs would be most disastrous at the present time. Predictions do not mean much, but if the question of a contract between city and power company to submitted to a vote the chances are about ten to one that it will be approved. One feature of the inaugural cere mony at the opening of the session has oetn generally overlooked. Thatl was he presence of The Rev. Joseph fxm- >rgan'who gave the invocationHe vas sent here as a repr.sentative of -he governor of Illinoto to gree the ncoming governor since Mariiu was >orn in Illinois. Lonergan'wru; chap- a in under Martin during the World War and is a brother of Frank Lon- l‘gan of Portland. One newspaperman is haying a lot »f fun in the house as a member and it the same time injects sa^rte humor much to the disgust of Hannah Mar- .Ln, Marion county's woman repre- jentatlve. He is Clint Haight, editor of the Blue Mountain Eagle at Can yon City, who has been giving daily weather reports of Grant county and who‘'wants to go home, he says. Haight is one of the smartest of the house members. First meetings of the Board of Con trol' have aroused the ire of some newspapermen because the sessions .vere closed and Rufus C. Holman, »tate treasujyr, calls them ‘'confer ences** rather than board meetings. He says there will be some open meetings this week, but the so-called conferences would be much more in teresting. Those who have watched the pro cedure declare that for once Rufus la .•njoying- full sway and is actually governor at the present time because he is the hold-over member of the board. But these observers also state | his reign will not be for long—only as long as he is not crossed up in his wishes and desires. William Einzig ruined one day for . the state treasurer The purchasing . agent resigned orally at once ahd Monday tendered hii written resigna , tion, thus robbing Rufus of the . chance to fire him. Ein rig has been a thorn in Holman's flesh for a long STATE HOUSE GOSSIP time. His resignation, however, has not yet been accepted by the govern (By Ernest L. Gray) In the meantime Einzig is The state legislature, now in its or. second week, got off to one of the anxious to quit and start on his pri most hectic starts known in Oregon vate enterprises. history, and several times there was No new appointments have been enough of an undercurrent of un made the first week of Martin’s ad easiness to cause a complete blow-up, which would have resulted in even ministration, but several are expect ousting the speaker, John E. Cooter, ed at any time. These would include a budget director and possibly two and his entire organization. The reason—.too much Multnomah members on the State Liquor Control Others will perhaps county and a certain group in Port Commission. land who were doing the dictating, follow regularly. . blinding Cooter with their demands and ending up with so much power in Letter Approves Judge’s Stand committee that they “hanged” them January 23, 1935 selves. And as a result the rift was Dear Editor: I read with a great narrowly averted through the timely deal of interest the brief news item intervention of the administration in your columns of last week con and up-state republicans. cerning the statement from our new While Cooter received a vote of courfty judge relative to his attitude confidence on the floor after several toward the marriage ceremony. Judge days of unrest, there will be a tot McLain to to be congratulated upon more dissention, and even among the his opposition to the county judge Multnomah delegation rifts are being performing marriage ce ies. I noted. Cooter, it is plainly seen, is realize this entails quite a concession not the leader Earl Snell was the last on his part, for pe the cere session. The job appears to bit too mony by the county judge had be large for the genial Lincoln county I come quite a remunerative business. representative. From time immemorial the marri In the meantime the'demands of age rite has been held a sacred insti Governor Charles H. Martin for im tution. and as such has been definite mediate action on his four major ly associated with the Church. Be proposals—general funds scope in lieving that matrimony is a Divinely crease, planning commission, budget appointed institution, it was natural control, and county unit system of that even from the earlieat times education—met with opposition and amorous couples came to the Church all four measures are floundering and the minister to make their vows around in committees and sub-com under the blessings of God"» repre mittee». sentatives I am of the opinion that ' AU of the unusual conditions of the one reason for ao many divorcee and 38th assembly so far have arisen in broken marriage vows today to to be the house only. Senator Harry Cor-’ foundtn the fact that so many mar bett as president of the upper body, riages were performed in an atmos has kept that branch of the legisla phere of secularity and mere legality. ture in smooth running order. But It to an undeniable fact that we have this week it was expected that both lost too much of the sanctity of the houses will be well under way on the marriage vows in these modern days. major measures of the session. It |s to be sincerely hoped that this recent commendable statement from our county judge will direct every couple with intentions to wed to the that ever bora tho Chevrolet name ... andi Jlio yfOfT ECONOMICAL to operate and maintain E PREPARED for * real thrill when you take the wheel of a 1935 Chevrolet. These new Chevrolets are faster on the get away than you’d be willing to believe if you didn’t actually aee and «eel their abilities. They are equally impressive in power—speed smoothness of operation—and B QUALITY The legislature this year is being TIME TO FORGET PERSON Al. AMBITIONS covered by twenty press representa tives, including the press associations daily papers and trade journals and weeklies. group only sever w,iK"es Of _ that . C ’« re«ular state-house correspon- lento. And the house and the gov ernor*» office so far have been the nost closely watched. THE GREATEST PERFORMERS driving safety. Moat surprising of all. this new performance is accom panied by an entirely new economy of operation. Your Chevrolet ’dealer cordially invites you to drive one of these car» ... and prove it» greater performance ... at your earliest convenience. We sug gest that you see him— today! CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY. DETROIT. MICHIGAN? LOW COST • pnce is tub|ed to /CHEVROLET *560 CHEVROLET for 1935 Coquille Oregon Southwestern Motor Company CHEVROLET - PONTIAC • OLDSMOBILE Churches, where all marriage cere- i A Year of Repeal monies rightfully belong.. The first year of repeal has ended Sincerely yours, W. Raymond and where, oh! where, are all the WUder. promised blessings’ The federal government itself has announced the Dunham’s, of Course, southwestern continuance of bootlegging in huge Oregon leading food distributors, proportions, and all the hip flasks in lowest |n price, highest in quality, tf the world during prohibition could not possibly have contained one-tenth Dr. C. G. Stem. Chiropractor. 292 of the liquor that is being sold in Moulton St., phone MJ. 22tf saloons, hotels, cocktail bars, night clubs, drug stores and vicious dives. So that knocks out any consideration of "less drinking ” The only argu ment won by the repealists is in re Coos County gard to mounting revenue • But School - General Fund where does that come from? Doesn’t the money spent for liquor mean just and Road Fund warrants that much less for legitimate com accepted for Merchandise modities, to say nothing of the trail it leaves to be paid for in ' illness, J. H. MILLS death, accidents, and property de struction. The Chicago Daily News sums it up editorialy, by saying, In part: WARRANTS BUICK - LA SALLE “The saloon was never to. return; liquor was to be taken out of politics; bootlegging was to be ended; drink- « t0 d77MVe?perance was to be promoted. Furthermore, un- employment was to be mitigated greatly; new revenue was to roll into state and federal treasuries in vast sums, and the nation was to be saved many millions in the cost of enforce ment . » . "None of the promises has been ful filled The ratoon is back, liquor is in politics, bootlegging continues, drinking has increased, unemploy ment is worse, the revenue returns to the state treasury are far below the hopeful estimates of 1933, and the coat of fighting the illicit traffic is burdensome .... . . ' “The friends of real temperance, multitudes of whom voted for rtepeal, are now challenged to solve the prob lem which the dry extremists failed to serve. The new order of things CADILLAC must be made to work for social good In that effort education must be a chief factor, but the issue of effective ’«•«‘-•lation for sane control must also be studied with greater care and pressed with stronger urgency. If repeal is left to the liquor traffic and the politicians, drastic reaction is •certain to result.** While the “pally News’’ declares for "Legislation for sane control” its readers must-wonder just what that kind of "control” might be. Certain ly there is nothing in history any where which would lend a hope that liquor can be controlled. It to as un controllable In the body politic as it is in the human body There to and always has been only one answer— it must be completely abolished. If there ever has been any question of that policy, certainly the first year of repeal would only have strengthened the doubt Into conviction. Signal
