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COOVnXB VAIXBY SENTINEL. COOUnXR. OREGON, FRIDAY. JUNE 12, 103«. --- - ---------------- --------...... The Sentinel • mob mpu ia • sees rowa H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES Publishers >1. A. TOLNG, Editor I I 1' I II 'I Bl I .-I,' ■ jx . i . i ... i, a U's: Subscription Ratos One Year_________________ __ 42 00 Six Months —..—*----------- — 1.00 Three Months........ ............................. 00 No subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is impera tive. bor officials ia fixed by statute. ' “Oregon agriculture is not antag- onitsic to organized labor. It has an understanding sympathy for the la boring men and women and their battle for existence. But we do have an utter contempt for the labor lead ership which deludes its own_ mem bers so shamefully, and so brazenly attempts to say it is friendly to agri culture. Its sorry record during the past two years has branded both these claims as preposterous.” Advertising Rates Display advertising 30 cents pei inch. No advertisement inserted for less than 50 cents. Reading 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 ar Second Class Mail Matter. Office Corner W. First and Willard St SHOWING THE COST Gouvemeur Morris, the world-re nown author, has made a very pertin ent suggestion in a letter to Merrylt Stanley Rukeyser, newspaper col umnist. He suggests that everything sold bear a label showing the actua' value of the article and the taxes on it. And he adds: **The suggestion is by no means off hand, but may not be practical. I myself have no notion of what my in visible taxes amount to on any given necessity. But if everybody did know, especially the" poor who arc taught that the rich and successful pay for everything, I believe that we should have an immediate revolu tion downward in the cost of govern ment. "It would cost the manufacturer and the merchant something to get at the exact figures. But to change the wording of labels need not be ex pensive. I picture in a grocery store shelves of cans of soup with one com prehensive announcement: “ ‘Soups 14 cents a can. The value of the soup which nourishes and warms ypur stomach is only 0 cents. The extra 5 cents goes to pay the salary of a bureaucrat who does noth ing for you and doesn’t give a damn about you.’ ” LEADERSHIP IS POOR. NOT THE MEMBERSHIP If the rank and file of laboring men and women of Oregon could vote their honest convictions In secert, every labor union in Oregon, with a very few notable exceptions, would be under state regulation. ” • Such is the conviction of W. H. Perkins, manager of the Oregon Pro ducers and Shippers association, in a report to his executive and to other state-wide agricultural groups. "Organized labor here, as well as elsewhere on the coast, is divided into two separate and distinct groups,” he reported. “In one group we have the high officials and high salaried sec retaries and business agents of labor Unions. In the other are the thou sands of men and women who con tribute hundreds of thousands of dol lars annually for the support of the labor movement. "During the last few months I have talked to scores of labor union men and women. Many of them, natural ly and ’aightfully, have told me they are firm believers in organized labor. They believe that organized labor has done a great work during the past decade in bettering conditions for those who must toil for their daily wage. They are right in their con ception of the labor movement. But many of these same persons who so staunchly uphold organized labor have been just as vehement in their condemnation of the present labor leadership in this state. “These are the men and women who would welcome a law which fixes the responsibility of labor unions. , At the present time they openly admit they do not know where their money goes There have been riots and sluggings and killings and great distress to themselves and to the public during the past two years particularly, and they agree that the irresponsible leadership is largely re sponsible for this state of affairs "Then there is another group to whom I have talked who frankly ad- ¿nit that they are not in sympathy with the labor movement in Oregon. They say they have been forced to join labor unions through threats and coercion. It meant they had to ac cept this present-day labor leadership nr see their wives and children go hungry. "I have talked to still others who, a few years ago, were members of various labor unions, but who with drew because of the ill repute into which the labor movement in this state has fallen. One man told me that in his particular union in Port land, he. was only given about three days’ work each week because he re fused to play politics, and also be cause he refused to chip in his dime or quarter every few days to buy a bottle of whiskey Tor the business agent and some of the other boys.’ “It is the judgment of this organ ization and other large agricultural associations affiliated with us, that much of this irresponsibility in labor leadership in Oregon can be remeded if the legal responsibility of these la- With the deadline for filing less han three weeks away petition push- ?rs interested in the success of pro posed initiative measures are abroad in the land importuning the voters for heir signatures, 16,371 of which are lecessary to satisfy the requirement or a place on the November ballot. Ballot titles have been prepared for ’ :2 different measures but it is not ex pected that more than eight or ten jvill make the grade. Unofficial re ports received at the capital indicate hat many of the measures have al- eady been abandoned by their spon sors. The list of proposed measures nclude three dealing with old age pensions' four fishing measures; six lealing with the subject of taxation md licenses; and two dealing with he subject of liquor regulation. Only one petition has been com pleted to date. That covers a meas- ire forbidding by constitutional imendment the prohibition or regu- ation of any advertisement of any pusiness, vocation, or profession, so ong as the advertisements state the ruth. • Three of the proposed measures are <eing sponsored by the State Grange. )ne of these would put the state in he power business, another would* •reate a state owned and operated 1 , ba7k? a*nd7he'third*would auTho’ri« state have now been purged of all employables. Only the halt and the blind and the unemployable« remain. Total registration for direct relief in this state now numbers only a few in excess of 11,000, which is about back to normal. Smith Wood-Products, Inc. Governor Martin will head a party ‘ of highway officials and egineers on' a six-day tour of highways in eastern Oregon, leaving Salem Friday find re- ! turning to the capital city next Wed- ' nesday. The trip is being made es pecially for an inspection of the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada highway. The trip will extend as far east as Cald- • well, Idaho, and as far south as Reno, , Nevada, and Susanville and Alturas, California. C J Knotty Sugar Pine 1 x 4 to 1 x 12. First year’s contributions of Ore- i gon's unemployment compensation fund will exceed 01,009,000, accord ing to D. A. Bulmore, secretary to the unemployment compensation commission. Bulmore bases his esti- i mate on receipts of more than 0325,- ! 000 for the first four months of the year. Next year the levy against em-1 ployers will double and the following! year it will treble this year’s levy, I Bulmore pointed out. Sugar Pine V Rustic he board of control to administer proposed laws covering the acquisi- ion and transmission of power until i power board could be elected. Othere proposed measures jor vhich ballot titles have been prepar- d include the following: I M . Homestead tax exemption and ad-^ * oquille Boy Who Made Good 0 1 x^4 to 1 x 12 Douglas Fir Moldings & Finish All Designs in Stock gon forests offers the only hope for a continuation of this state's lumber in- ' dustries, Governor Martin pointed out this week in urging Oregon congress men to support a federal measure | providing for financial aid to timber ----- f , owners in the transition from the I present wasteful cutting program to a new program designed to perpetu- ate the timber crop. Attomey General Van Winkle has ruled that the state land 'board can not collect royalties on sand to be ‘“ke" °f the Columbia river by the Portland port for use in filling in its now airport since the sand is not for commercial use. The opinion will cost the common school fund approx- imately 0112,090 but will save the Port of Portland the same amount. For fine paneling i A policy of sustained yield for Ore- ' State Treasurer Holman has ac cepted an invitation to judge the bathing beauties at Taft’s annual "red head” celebration on June 21. Holman admits that he is color blind but declares that he can see a red headed beauty at any time. UILLE, OREGON ‘ a f We have a Complete Line of Pulley Stile and Door Jambs . I 1 i We carry a complete line of 1x3 to 2x12 No. 1 and No. 2 Common Cedar, suitable for all building purposes, surfaced or rough. Consult the Retail Department for our low prices on Cedar. Let us show you our Lumber Stocks in warehouse and on dock at the Smith Wood-Products Plant No Order Too Small—A Stick or a Carload ditional Income tax amendment spon- The following extracts from the pored by the Home Owners Tax Ex- Champaign-Urbana, Ills., News-Ga- emption League of Portland. I zette concerns a man who got his Old Age and Disability Pension bill start in the printing business in Co sponsored by Bjorn Johannson.- jquflle, as publisher, editor, printer ......... .. Authorizing limited commercial and devil of the Sentinel, of which ■J telegraph editor. Mr. Leiter ’s boost | he* and J. A. Lamb were the founders. fishing in the Rogue river. Regulating the sale of motor fuel Mr. Lamb sold out within six months, was from reporter to assistant city oils. but Ben Lawrence continued to pub editor. All in less than iive years. Then came Nov., 1904, and Mr. Providing for annual state-wide lish the Sentinel for a year or more Bross was called to become editor of longer. elections with no primaries. the Indianapolis Star. Mr. Leiter’s Regulating gill net fishing in Col umbia river and its tributaries. Today they meet as newspaper ex superior was promoted, and he be came city editor of the Oregonian. It Forbididng use of seines and fixed ecutive and journalism professor! gear in Columbia rivet. Thirty years ago, they were cubs was only a few months until the Law rence-Leiter combination was broken Levying graduated annual tax on together on a Portland, Ore., daily. chain stores. It’s a far cry from that June day as the former was called to Indiana Giving municipalities exclusive when the 20th century was but six to become telegraph editor of the control over retail liquor sales. months old, that Benjamin F. Law Star. Rapidly he advanced. His fore Diverting 75 per cent of liquor rev rence, like a man without a country, sight and integrity carried him to the enues to school purposes. was a man without a newspaper. managing editorship. Fifteen years ago, Mr. Lawrence, Providing flat tax of 010 on real He'd just sold a country paper at Co property up to 02500 value. quille, Coos county, Oregon. O. having served for many years in the Creating elective commission to ad Clarke Leiter had a bachelor’s degree top position of the editorial room, minister old age pensions. from Leland Stanford and a year of was advanced to the business office, Forbidding tax on any article of graduate study, but was broke ffhd where he became general manager of the Star. At one time his position food for human consumption. eager to work. Abolishing compulsory military If Mr. Lawrence as a young men included the manaegement of the training at state schools. had gone to Stanford no doubt he Muncie and Terre Haute Star. But Creating non-political game com would have been on the staff of the today only the Indianapolis and mission and forestry board. Daily Palo Alto, of which Mr. Leiter Muncie newspapers are included in Authorizing Portland school district was editor, and the two perhaps this Shaffer chain. to increase 1937 tax levy. would have occupied seats next to Mr. Leiter is now professor in the Limiting and reducing permissible each other in lecture halls and plan taxes on tangible property.----- I rooms. But when Leiter was getting University of Illinois School of Jour Increasing old age pensions and his education from books, Mr. Law I nalism. providing for new excise taxes. rence was obtaining his from a print A. L. Hooton, electrical contractor er’s case and by pushing a pencil Rumors persist of a plan to attack Fate, however, was kind, heading and dealer, 274 Second St., Coquille. the validity of the new unemploy them towards Portland and the great Complete stock of wiring supplies. ment compensation act but so far no northwest. There, within one week one has gone further in opposing the in 1900, they both landed jobs on the act than to voice vigorous protest Portland Oregonian. Not at fabulous against the compulsory contributions pay. But 010 a week. Enough to eat to the new fund. and sleep, at least. a Washer or Ironer stop in at So it was that on the Portland Ore Norton’s and see the New Oregon materials will be used in-------------- . lcpurle „ lne gonian as ------- two ,------- young reporters, the the capitol building as far as prac- ( Lawrence-Leiter friendship was bom tical, Francis Keally, architect who More than three and one-half will design the structure, declared on decades have passed. The years have a visit to Salem this week Some! more firmly cemented the friendship doubt is felt, however, as to the abil- between the two men and their wives ity of Oregon quarries to supply the' Happilyjhey have settled in the mid Music and Stationery necessary materials. At any rate die west. Over Saturday and Sunday Oregon woods will be used for the Prof, and Mrs. Leiter are entertaining decorative panels in the main lobby Mr and Mrs. Lawrence from Indian- of the building and for finishing the apolis, Ind. Last fall the Leiters vis- Interior of some of the rooms in thè ited them in the Hoosier state. capitol. The careers of these two men, even during their first quintet of years on Oregon will receive 09,432,000 in the Oregonian are characteristic of l^ocal & Long Distance federal funds for highway work dur those great figures in fiction. The ing 1936-39 providing the state can “L” twosome had a mutual friend, dig up 02,045,000 a year in match Ernest Bross, managing editor of the money, according to R. W. Baldock, Oregonian, who took a great interest Moving a Specialty state highway engineer. The federal in them. He had a reason, however, allotment for 1938 will be available because these cubs workd, and work about July 1, 1937. ed hard. They’d get their copy in. Then they’d fill in reading, editing Reporti that men and women on copy and writing heads during rush relief rolls were refusing to accept hours. jobs in the berry fields were declared When the opportune moment came Phone 178-L to be unfair by Elmer Goudy, state the young _ men were ___ ______ — to step prepared relief administrator, in a report to! into higher positions " The " m V”— Insured Carrier ' Governor Martin this week. Goudy I Mr. Bross—promoted Mr. Lawrence pointed out that relief rolls in this I from reporter to northwest editor to Before Buying Thor H. S. Norton H. E. HUDDLE HAULING COAL Notice of Establishment of Lighting District and Installment of Lights, Under Act of April 27th. 1938, Adopted by the People Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Co quille, Coos County, Oregon, did by resolution adopted by the Council on the 1st day of June, 1936, declare its intention to establish a lighting dis trict, embracing generally the follow ing streets; Second Street from Hall to Taylor; First Street from Hall to Willard; Front Street from Hall to Willard; Taylor Street from Front to Second and Hall from Front to Sec ond Street, and to install lights on said Streets, according to maps, plans and specifications, adopted June 1st, 1936, and on file at the of fice of the City Recorder, which said maps, plans and specifications, by reference is hereby made a part of this notice. Estimates of the costs of two classes of lights are made in the Specifications, and the boundaries of the district to be assessed for the costs are set out in the plans and specifications; said improvement will be made at the expense of the prop erty within said district and bene- fitted thereby, which said resolution, maps, plans, specifications and es timate of costs, together with the boundaries of the assessment district are on file at the office of the City Recorder and by reference made a part of this notice. Remonstrances against same may be filed within Twenty days from the Sth day of June, 1936, first date of publication. By order of the Council. F. G. Leslie. rm Record*r SPECIAL PREMIUM OFFER! FOR A LIMITED Take advantage of this tptrUl pro- igtr. You can get these love ly gifts easily. Just save the coupon found on every can of Alpine Milk. 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