==============■■ The Sentinel Fatuous Fragments BY FERNANDO FABRICATUS H. A. YOUNG. aad^M. D. GUMM “Teach your grandmother to lap ashes,” is a very pat phrase at times, H. A. YOUNG Editar though it borders on vulgarity. A| child’s first idea of the verb, “lap," comes from watching a kitten lap milk and though the years have Oregon republicans, taking re­ brought us a realization of other newed hope from the wide split de­ meanings for that verb, there still veloped to the ranks of the demo­ persists a childhood wonder if any­ cratic party in the recent primary one’s grandmother ever lapped ashes campaign, are counting strongly an< and why she would want to. a return to j^ower with the fall elec­ hnv.-red at the'Coquille Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter. DEATH TOO KINDLY The almost simultaneous reports ot the finding of the decapitated body of Peter Levine, kidnaped at New Rochelle, N. Y., over three months ago, washed up on the shores of Long Island Sound, and the snatching of a five and one-half year old son of a service station owner at Princeton, Florida, is inflaming anew the hatred this nation feels for such dastards. Most of these snatch crimes are eventually solved, but almost never is the innocent victim returned to his It has come to the point where parents might better give up any hope at the outset of ever recovering their child, and turn the matter over to police and G-men the moment it -happens.- -Feer o»r the- pert of the gorillas that they may be captured compels them to end the life of the child, whether they receive the ran­ som money or not We realize that the suffering par­ ents cannot bring themselves to this view, for while there is life there is . hope, but hope that such desperadoes have one spark of humanity to their beings and will return their “snatch” is being shattered with every new as­ sault. The right of trial could very justly be abrogated in such cases—if the snatcher was caught with his victim. But he is not; he kills the helpless youngster. tions. In this they are banking strong­ In a recent article in the Liberty, H. ly on the permanence of the bitter­ G. Wells paints a dire picture of the ness developed between the support­ deluge which is to follow the Euro­ ers of Governor Martin on the one pean dictators’ brief hour in the sun. hand and those of Henry L. Hess, the The whole depressing prophecy seems successful candidate for the demo­ to be a bid for the United States to cratic nomination, on the other. join forces with the English diplomats Democrats who supported Governor and pull their chestnuts out of the Martin, they feel, will support Charles fire. He concludes with the state­ A. Sprague, the republican date. ment that “the Monroe Doctrine this fall. would not survive th? British Empire In their optimism, however, it la tor a year.” Mr. Wells evidently has entirely probable that the republicans not heard that President Roosevelt are overlooking two very important scrapped the Monroe Doctrine « year I ’^Vrstoth ¿‘which ¿iti pliyTv^’ Oregon’s new $2,500,000 building, now nearing completion, will be ready for occupancy by July 1 but formal dedication of the build­ ing will probably be postponed until next January when the legislature is in session, it was decided by the cap­ ital commission here this week. Car­ pets are now being laid in the legis­ lative chambers and finishing touches being rushed on the interior of the building. Rugs, drapes and furniture for the House and Senate and the executive suite will not be ready for several months. The contractor ex­ pects to be off the job by the middle of this month and the work of mov­ ing into the new building will get under way as soon thereafter as ths janitors can make the building habi­ table. r 4 Work on the new $1700 adminis- tration building at the «tate fair grounds is well under way and the first unit will be ready for occupancy before this year’s fair opens on Labor Day. This unit, in addition to the administrative offices will also pro­ vide quarters for the press, telephone and telegraph offices, a first aid sta- ' tion and a radio broadcasting booth. and a half ago. 1 important part in shaping up the fall ■' One reason dogs are so near a man’s heart is because their traits of char­ acter are so remindful of our human foible,. Some children, even grown­ up children, cannot stand sympathy. And we recently heard of a dog, pet of the family, >hicfBuffei«d a 'campaign. One of these is time, the great healer, which can be expected to do a great deal toward soothing savage democratic breasts during the Veterans of the Spanish-American intervening six months before the than next election. The other factor which and World Wart have • utUe 11 must be taken into account in the • month left ln wWch to uke advan- aonnnifffatlon and its “New Deal" 8°" so,a,er8 dohus i«w. , after the leg was as good as new, at program. The forthcoming campaign O*®1« executive secretary to the the words, “Poor Shop,” uttered in a y not _ ~ _ confined to the per- _ World ___ going __ to be War Veterans State Aid com- sympathetic tone, he would seize the the two candldates^for misaioii, warns that the dead line for healed leg in his mouth and whine governw>Wp. Th« New Dert Ioan application« expires June 30. ptttfully; • ' . - bating given lte official blearing mi.. -------- :-------- -------- Hess prior to the primary election can Pump-Priming And be expected to put forth its best ef- I Bubbles forts to see him safely through this fall. And no one at all familiar with ’ Once upon a time, I stood on a the political situation is discounting twenty acre tract in the Sacramento the popularity of the New Deel, here Valley and looked across to the twen­ in Oregon as well as elsewhere ty acres of my neighbor where he was throughout the nation, and the power coupling up a windmill to the walking r « poltfcal .¿Mn ¿^¿nl bead» of a six-inch irrigating pump. mitted to the task of supporting some Then the wheel was turned Into the favored candidate. wind and a few strokes of the plunger • Not only will the national admin­ brought a full stream of water out of istration be Interested in the electian the spout. In a short time the water of a democratic governor in Oregon slacked and soon became a dribble this fall. It will also be intensely in­ and bubbles came out of that pump terested in the election of a United as though poured from a cornucopia State senator and three congressmen and as the sunshine struck them, committed to the support of its pro­ those bubbles were as beautiful as gram. In view of all the New Deal ratobpws. RELIEF—THE FOURTH has at stake here in Oregon it may be The windmill was turned out of “The best governor Oregon ever assumed even at this early date that LARGEST BUSINESS ,” is an eulogy frequently ncTYtone will be left unturned to keep the wind; my neighbor and his helper ---------- f looked down the well wondering what America is a land that prides itself applied to Governor Martin late­ Oregon in the democratic column it caused the bubbles. ly. To many of us his probity and possible. * on its high standard of living. And .__ „ ... , i They did not seem to know foe, ___ pride, for ___ __ ! fortitude entitle him to higher hon- __ a false That the ■i^rnX.d* < it is not Americans J n?h * ’’huf* "f,tr lot*in< ,nd walUn« «nd waiting haw merowcomforti and coovonAncas ** UJ**™ thinkin» were potent can not be disputed, ‘urned the windmill | he would occupy the chief executive’s is the feeling . between the two factions andlook1"«' than any other people—all because i chair for another two years. (Indeed, can best be gauged by the fact that into the wind and out came water; America has pioneered to the devel- opment of the«- modem thing. “ hone, and beggar. so far Governor Martin has failed to then a dribble, then a cloud of wind­ could ride, Governor Martin would send his congratulations to his suc­ bubbles that were turned into rain­ through industrial expansion. With now be in the White House striving cessful rival, Henry Hess Further­ bow bubbles by the sunshine. , that expansion millions of jobs were Those men did not look down the to be “the best president the United more he has declared that he never created so those millions could buy well any more. They knew it was a States ever had.”) will. Sprague, the republican nom­ the things they produced. However, we are faced by the cold, inee, on the other hand has received shallow well. Now, however, America finds itself A man whose business it was to alarmingly going backward instead hard facts of politics. For him to run the congratulations, together with as­ bore wells was sent for. He came as an independent candidate for gov ­ surances of whole-hearted support of forward toward an even higher with his outfit, the pump was taken ernor this fall would divide the anti­ from all seven of his rivals. * standard of living, says an I. P. S. out pf the well, the boring auger was radical element to the state and en­ Rumors that Martin might yet enter dispatch from Washington. put Into the well and the well borers sure the very dangers he woul