• -¿p-w.
Kl. Jki
In that same year the major execu­
tives received a total remuneration of
$780,000,000.
a m« SAM« M a saaa i m
In 1935 the wage earners and sal­
H. A. YOUNG sad M. D. GRIMES aried workers saw $2,425,000,000
Publishers
.
added to their aggregate yearly earn­
IL A. YOUNG. Editor
ings while the executive managerss
found $75,000,000 added to theirs,
Qne Year......................................... 93.00 thus maintaining the 97 to 3 average.
The state capitol reconstruction
Six Months ....----------------------------- 100
commission is going to use Oregon
Three Months---------------------
-60
OLD-AGE PENSIONS
stone and wood in the new statehouse
No subscription taken unless paid
(Oregon Voter)
tor in advance. This rule to impera­
if at all possible.
Paying old-age pensions of about
tive.
Basic bid for the building will be
wice the size, to two-thirds more for complete facing with Oregon
Advertising Rates
>ensioners, the cost of old-age as­ granite, according to J. A. McLean,
Display advertising 30 cents pe>
inch. No advertisement inserted for sistance in Oregon bids fair to be Eugene, chairman of the commission.;
less than 50 cents. Reading notices more than $3,000,000 in 1937 under Alternate blds will call for granite
10 cents per line. No reading notice, he federal and state social security bases with marble or light-colored
or advertisement of any kind, insert­ lets, as compared with $1,000,000 in
eastern stone for the superstructure.
ed for leas than 25 cents.
1935 under the original Oregon old-
Bids will be sought immediately
Entered at the Coquille Poetoffice as ige pension act. The reason the pen- and opened Sept. 2 for preliminary
Second Class Mail Matter.
dons are twice the size is that the construction work on the capitcl, Mc­
tewer Oregon act, under which fed­ Lean said. First work will comprise,
eral matching is received, sets up clearing the site, fencing the building
tigher living standards than were zone, excavation of the basement, and
“DON’T KID YOURSELF”
set up in the original act A further erection of field houses for the super­
Below is reprinted an editorial evision of the Oregon act, setting up vising architects and PWA engineers.
which appeared first in the Union standards only as required in the Contracts for actual construction of
Labor News of Indianapolis, Ind. ederal law, to on the ballot under the building will be drawn in No­
What it says is so very true that ev­ eferendum, to be voted upon Nov. vember, and work should be started
eryone—the farmer, the business J, The standards set up in that in December.
man, the working man, the profes­ amendments would coat the public
Oregon woods will be used to fin-
sional man—should read and ponder materially less per pensioner than i8h the interior of the capitol. Black
what this insidious communistic those under which grants now are1 walnut will be specified for doors,
propaganda will do to the United made.
casings and wood-work, especially hi
States, unless it is driven back to the
While the federal government wUl the chambers of the house of repre­
Russia where it belongs:
pay $1,500,000 of the expected $3,- sentatives and the senate.
Myrtle,
000,000 1937 cost, the state $750,000 maple, fir and other softwoods will
Don’t kid yourself, brother, for re­ and the county $750,000, the entire also be used.
gardless of who is elected President sum comes out of taxpayers. The
Only catch to their use will be that
of these United States on November cost to the counties is somewhat less Oregon stones be quarried in time,
3, next, you are going to have to work than it was under the old law, when and at a cost which can be competi-
the counties paid the entire $1,000,- tive with materials from other parts
to get along in this man’s world.
And don’t kid yourself, in order to 000, but the combined cost to state- of the country.
work you are going to have to have and-county is 50 per cent, while the
a Job—if you expect to have a regu­ cost to federal, state and county tax­
Every county in the state got $478.-
T
lar pay envelope at the end of the payers is three times as great.
48 for its fair when the state racing'
Another million or two or three commission turned over $17,115.28 to
week or month.
And in order to have a regular job may be added to the 1937 costa if the Secretary of State Snell for distribu­
Wejiírfy a complete line of 1x3 to 2x12 No. 1 and No. 2 Common
it will be necessary for government, bars are taken down so that pen­ tion. The sum was per cent of the
business, industry and labor to pull sioners would be free to dissipate commission's receipts from dog and
- <edar, suitable for all building purposes, surfaced or rough.
together as never before. That much their property. Under existing prac­ horse racing. The state fair and Pa­
Consult the Retail Department for our low prices on Cedar
tice, applicants for old-age pension cific International livestock exposi­
to certain.
For don’t kid yourself, brother, are required to assign their property tion in Portland each received $21,-
whatever the government hands out to the county as a condition Of retain- 875.75; the Pendleton Round-Up and
will be just that, a handout, and ing it for their own use while receiv- the Eastern Oregon livestock show in
sooner or later you or your children ing the pension. Thus, an aged indi- Union each was sent, a check for
show you our Lumber Stocks in warehouse
or your children’s children will have vidual would retain his homestead, $3445; and the Northwest Turkey
to pay it back in one way or another, his bonds and stocks, his cow, his im- ' Show in Oakland, Douglas county,
and on dock at the Smith
no matter what might be said about plements and all other valuable real gets $1033.50.
Wood-Products Plant
^soaking the rich" . ... that to a estate or personal property, but he
lead-pipe cinch, to use the vernacu­ would not be permitted to give away
Governor Martin might turn cupid
lar of the street.
or place them beyond the reach of the for a man in west Los Angeles, Calif.
From the beginning of time man county for reimbursement for pen­ The executive received this letter re­
has had to work for a living. There sion paid. There would be no hard­ cently:
. ... ■
is no such thing as getting something ship on the pensioner. The surviving
“No doubt you are called upon for
for nothing. The world does not owe spouse also would be permitted to many things so I am going to ask you
any man a living, but ...
retain the property for use.
The to help me with my problem. I have
The world does owe every man the county would not come into posses­ been a resident of your state for some
right to work for a living. The op­ sion until both the pensioner and the time in the past and that is why I
portunity to work must again be re­ surviving spouse, who also might be am asking for your assistance. I do
stored to the American people. It to a pensioner, had passed away.
not seem to have much luck in find­ tion would mean unwarranted costa der consideraUonY The state has I New arrivals of Prints Dresses at
the opportunity that is moat needed
Agitation to remove this require­ ing the right sort of woman that
for buildings and maintenance. Em-. 700,000 acres of original school land Excel Dress Shop being received
now..
ment springs, as a rule, from lack of would make a good mate. Either
in Harney, Lake and Malheur coun- daily. The prints are attractive and
It is the business of the government information as to how it works in they like their liquor too well and ployment of more convicts on the ' — —-
ties to sell to stockmen, but figures it prices very reasonable,
prison
farm
would
help
solve
the
to help and not hinder private enter­ practice. There to no foundation for carouse or they want a lot of swell
can get better prices by trading with j -
prise. It to the business of Industry the oft-repeated statement that an clothes and chase to dances and their problem of overcrowding in the pen­
to initiate a forward movement and applicant for an old-age pension must their houses in disorder. I am look­ itentiary, It was suggested. Prison­ the government to get the land in r
G. T. COOK
it to the business of labor to co-oper­ sell his homestead, his cow and his ing for a girl that is free, white and ers cannot always be segregated large blocks.
ate' io the utmost. Government med­ Pepco stock as a condition of becom­ over 21, not over 130 pounds, with a merely according to age, state offi­
Brick Mason
Old Fort Dalles Frolic
dling in private business will never ing eligible for a pension. Likewise sweet disposition, affectionate, a good cials were told, “because anyone who
Fireplaces
and Chimneys
bring the desired results.
there is no foundation for the story cook and will stick with you at all has had any experience with penal
The twelfth annual Old Fort Dalles
Despite the huge expenditures of that the surviving spouse is evicted times and does not care to be dancing or reformatory institutions knows Frolics, staged in the early fall of
P. O. Box 62, Coquille
that a lad of 19 may be a more seri­ each year by The Dalles Post of the '
government money, millions of per­ from the homestead after the pen­ and drinking all the time.
ous criminal than a man of 35."
American Legion with the aim of im- I _
sons are still unemployed. That to sioner dies. The applicant is permit­
“I am 40 years old, not bad to look
The governor has already taken pressing on the modem generation of r
an unfortunate situation, yet the ted to retain his property if he will at, do not drink, do not dance, but I
steps to prevent further trouble at Oregon the historic background of
present administration deserves much sign the customary general assign­ do love the great outdoors.
I have
credit for its efforts to reduce unem­ ment, and the surviving spouse like­ been a steady worker ever since I the penitentiary. “Now that condi­ old Wasco county, which was once'
ployment.
wise continues in its use and posses­ was 14 years old. so I am not a loafer tions at the penitentiary are thor­ the nation’s largest and which includ­
But, when the millions of men and sion. The only requirement to that looking for a meal ticket. I am just oughly under control,” Martin said ed this county, will be held in that
Local & Long Distance
women now on relief or WPA are the property shall not be given away a workingman, but due to the de­ last week, "measures will be taken at city this year September 3, 4 and 5.
taken off these jobs, what then? . . . or sold so that it and its proceeds are pression have no large bank account once to prevent a recurrence of such
The Frolics this year has taken on
What then, indeed!
placed beyond the reach of the coun­ but am willing to work at all times. a riot. The leaders will be summari­ a tone that is prophetic, for features
This was taken to will include an emphasis of the re­
Agitators are busy trying to array ty to enforce its lien against the es­ Thought possibly you might know of ly dealt with.”
mean
habitual
criminal charges cent completion of a $250,000 port
class against class in our country. tate.
such a girl for me.”
Moving a Specialty
might be filed against some of the project, ready to greet ocean-going
For don’t kid yourself, brother, the
In July, there were about 10,300
ringleaders of the revolt.
Cummuntoto are not sleeping. These on the old-age assistance roll in Ore­
vessels when Bonneville dam is com­
The state unemployment compen­
self-seekers are using every means at gon. This is about one-fourth of the
pleted and the channel of the Colum­
sation commission will probably col­
their command to bring about a bu­ population of 70-or-over, which was
The tourist business this year is bia is
dredged from Vancouver,
lect $1,500,000 in payroll taxes in its
™ Washington, to the dam. The Frolics
reaucracy of Communism in this 39,133 in the 1930 census. It is ex­ first year. i>. A. Buï^ore, adminisU.-
country. With it all, it to our firm pected that, if the property assign­
out-of-state automobiles come into pageant is a picture of the past, but,
tor. said The commission was just
conviction, however, that the aver­ ment is not waived, the roll will be
Oregon every day, Secretary of State too, it bases on that history a pro­
Phone 178-L
organized this year. Nearly 145,000
age American will stand always as about 12,000 in 1937 and that by 1938
Snell’s registration records show. phecy of a new awakening in the In- I
employees are under the provisions
a bulwark against these insidious at­ it will be about one-third of those
July was the biggest tourist month land Empire as a result of attainment;
of the jobless insurance law, and ap-
Insured Carrier
who
are
of
eligible
age
If
the
prop-
I
¿vifm^tely'
tacks upon* our government and the
Oregon has ever known, with 30,MS of the dreams of Columbia river de­
'
' V 4800 employers have
Constitution!
non-residents registrations of motor velopment.
erty assignment to waived, it to be­
registered. Bulmore said he expected
He knows that the Red doctrine of lieved that fully half, or 20,000, would
vehicles. The previous all-time high
200,000 workers to be benefited by
hale is a false doctrine.
be on the pension roll by 1938.
month
was July, 1929, when 23,003
the law before long.
For, don't kid yourself, the Ameri­
was reached. More than 130,000 cars
More New Drivers This Year
can system of government is still the
from other states and countries will
Governor Martin's 40 years in the have traveled Oregon's highways by
most effective for the benefit of all
An unusual factor in increased
army siuvu
stood nun
him in good
.__ . ..
.
....
gooa stead
steaa when
the p e ople yet to be devised any . business
in the secretary of state s of- prisoners in the state penitentiary re- ' the end of the year, Snell predicted
where in the civilized world.
fice is the licensing of 67 per cent **«*>
beUed recently. An advocate of pre- Previous records have been 103,008 in
The honest working people will
1929 and 100,303 last year.
governor had virtual
continue in their loyalty and alle­ than last. In 1935, 8,271 drivers ap­
giance to this form of government plied for their first licenses, while in I “war plans” ready for use at the pri­
The state highway commission ap­
which our forbears fought so valiant­ the six-month period this year 13,822 son. The dispatch with which state plied to the federal public works ad­
police
mobilized
and
penitentiary
ly to establish and preserve.
operators were listed as new appli­
ministration for approval of a $1,-
guards went to their posts was the
Net neither Labor nor Capital feel cants.
000,000 secondary highway construc­
result
of
many
conferences
between
smug; let neither feel secure from the
“While some of this increase is due
tion program on which the govern­
"inside attacks” being made upon to the adidtional number of cars the governor, Marden James Lewis ment would grant $450,000. If the
and
Supt.
Charles
P.
Pray
of
the
state
them.
>
operating in Oregon,” states Earl troopers
project is approved, construction con­
The Communist threat to aimed at Snell, secretary of state, “some also
tracts on secondary roads will be let
The
riot
brought
into
the
open
both. Don’t kid yourself about that! is an indication of a more complete
for the first time since the depression.
again the oft-debated question of es­
observance of the requirements of
tablishing
a
reformatory
for
first-of
­
WORKMEN RECEIVE 97 %
the drivers' examination law.”
Bert C. Hoover, of Salem, witness­
fenders to segregate youthful peni­
According to surveys just com­
tentiary inmates from
hardened ed twd deeds in 189k The docu­
Pipm la Cherek
pleted. one by a government agency
criminals. Paul Foreman, state plan­ ments were found by State Treasurer
One of the little-known sights of ning board research expert and so­ Hohfian in settling the estate of an
and the other by a private organiza­
tion, the working men and women of London la a briar pipe factory which ciologist. advised the board of con­ Oregon pioneer. The witness is now
was once a chapel of the “Strictly
Herbert C. Hoover, only living ex­
the United States receive 97 cents out
Particular Baptists.” The machines trol that construction of such a sep­
of each dollar paid for salaries and are set In parquet flooring, and ten arate institution would be nothing president of the United States.
wages. The remaining three cents gain entrance you must knock on an more than “a raid on the public
per dollar go to the executive man­ unmlataknble church door. Urlar roots treasury .” Establishment for an in­
For the first time in recent years,
agement.
are kept tn the church vaults, and the termediate penitentiary, which has the state land board is in the market
In 1934, when employees in this old oak bennrs and atone arches are been considered a problem for the to make new loans. Clerk L. D. Grif­
country other than government em­ (•lain to see.
next legislature, would be unwise, fith said the board had a $105,000
A plan to trade
Foreman be’ic-es, “considering pres­ surplus on hand.
ployees earned a total of 26 billion
Ask for Cow Bell Dairy cream and ent facilities and the organization of Eastern Oregon range land with the
dollars, the wage earners and lower
federal government under provisions
salaried white collar workers re­ milk, the only milk and cream made Oregon’s institutions.”
Foreman said the separate institu- of the Taylor Grazing Act la also un-
ceived approximately $25,220,000,000 , safe by pasteurization.
The Sentinel
*
Smith Wood-Products, Inc.
C
UILLE, OREGON
The Retail Department is open for
business and will continue to be.
All Grades
Red Cedar Shingles
1 X 3 to 1 X 12 Clear Kiln Dried
Douglas Fir Finish
Douglas Fir Flooring & Ceiling
1x4 Tongue and Grooved
Port Orford Flooring and Ceiling
No Order Too Small—A Stick or a Carload
H. E. HUDDLE
HAULING
coal
Unarmed 'Spanish Marcher’ at State Fair