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which public office mean* nothing.'
Fatuous Fragments
Governor Martin issued a state­
A GOOD PAMS IS A GOOD TOWN
ment uPfcing every person in the state
H. V »04 N« and M. D. GRIMM to co-operate with the Stream Puri­
Publia hers
fication league of Oregon in ob­
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serving “Help Clean Up Our Rivers”
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week which started Sunday.
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It is proper that we do this,” the
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governor said, “because the rivers
too
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No subscription taken unless paid of the state's great assets, not only
for in advance. This rule is impera­ from the recreation and health
tive
standpoint but as avenues of com­
merce for our shipping, and as es­
L> splay advertising 30 cents per sential units in the successful propa­
■ncii No advertisement inserted for gation and preservation of our com­
less than 50 cents. Reading notices
10 cents per line. No reading notice, mercial fishing stock.”
u advertisement of any kind, insert­
'd for less than 25 cents.
There were 455 fewer traffic acci­
dents during May than during the
.niered al the Coquille Postoffice as
same month last year, Secretary of
Second Class Mail Matter.
State Earl Snell reported this week.
tffice Corner W. First end Willard St It was the best single month record
in many years and brought the five-
WHAT AIL8 BU8INE88
mouth totals for accidents, injuries
Here's a letter from a man in Wau­ and fatalities well below the figure
sau, Wis., who signs his letter to the for the same period in 1937.
Christian Science Monitor with the
Approximately 2500 «electricity con­
nom-de-plume, “Fedup.” A news-
paper column would not make his sumers in Clackamas and Yamhill
meaning more plain than what he counties will be able to save about
condensed into a few lines when he $13,000 annually as the result of
rate reductions by the Portland Gen­
wrote:
eral Electric Co.
“I am a retail grocer in constant
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The P. G. E. Co., this week, filed
and intimate toubh with conditions as
they exist on the average in this reductions in minimum monthly
country. If anyone in my position charges for customers formerly serv­
cannot probe this problem of recov- ed by the Molalla Electric Co., and
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can. Things were going along good
last year until this goofy Wagner Act
was put into operation.
It simply
turned all industry over into the
hands of racketeering labor organ­
izers who for the most part were ac­
tuated by no other motive than selfish
gain and self-advancement. These
are now exploiting labor and indus­
try for all they are worth, and while
they do this, industry cannot recover,
cannot undertake -anythingof- an err«-
terprising nature, because these rack­
eteers will wreck* it with labor
troubles.”
CHEAPE8T 18 MO8T EXPENSIVE
You get just what you pay for in
this life, whether it is an individual
or a community who doe^the buy-
Twenty years ago, or about that,
the city council of Coquille, to save
a few dollars, possibly a th^fd on
the coat of the pipe, put in a wood
pipe mein between the east side
of the court house block, on Second
Street, and on Willard.
Naturally it rotted and ten or
twelve years ago it was replaced with
Matthison steel pipe, at a small sav­
ing in material but nothing in lay­
ing.
Now a new line for that four
blocks is being laid, of cast iron this
time. Had cast iron been used when
the first line was laid, It would still
be in good condition. The first cast
iron water pipe that the manufactur­
ers know anything about was laid
275 years ago and it is still in use, and
many instances are known of that
kind of pipe which has been in use
for the past hundred years.
Of course a growing city has to
enlarge its main supply lines and
looking at it from that point of view,
perhaps the cheaper pipe was justi­
fied, but the city has had to pay
nearly three times what it should
have cost in experimenting with
slightly cheaper pipe.
the Portland General system.
The state hydro-electric commission
was this week requested to investi­
gate the advisability of creating a
McKenzie River Peoples* Utility Dis­
trict. The district would include an
area extending from a point one and
a half miles east of Vida to about
two miles aboove McKenzie bridge.
BY FERNANDO FABRICATUS
At a convention of the American
Newspaper Publishers’ association, its
president declared that journalism
schools are the«bunk and the gradu­
ates not property trained for their
chosen work. It would be hard to
make one of said graduates believe
that; although all great journalists
are like poets—bom and not made.
The pitiful pictures in last Satur­
day’s Oregonian of some of the desti­
tute in Cleveland, where relief funds
are exhausted, made us remember a
friend telling about a letter received
from there recently. The writer of
the letter stated that conditions were
terrible in that city and that graft
was universal, even the captains of
police cashing monthly relief checks.
“Vicarious pleasure” were only
words to us in our youth, devoid of
meaning and quite beyond our com­
prehension. Now, however, our less­
or joys of living are often thus ex­
perienced. z A day or two ago we saw
a youngster coasting downhill on a
bicycle and for a fleeting instant we
were a child again rushing against
the wind on a downward flight.
It's wonderful to have Nature as
an ally. When the New Deal adopted
the doctrine of scarcity, the drouth in
city. And now Nature takes a hand
in China and by floods is snuffing out
more lives than all of the Japanese
bombers could ever hope to.
While
you can’t say they have been hoist
by their own petard, in both cases
Nature’s help has proved very embar­
rassing.
The “Salmon Bake” at Roseburg
last Sunday was quite an undertak-
rtmpttfypnt ‘An invttsrtton to fee«fr alt romers
handling of unemployment claims has naturally drew quite a crowd. After
been made by the state unemploy­ watching the trap-shooters shatter
the clay pigeons to the best of their
ment compensation commission..
Beginning last Sunday the com­ ability, we moseyed over to the tables
mission adopted the calendar week, where the barbecued salmon was be­
It smelled tanta­
ending each Saturday at midnight, ing handed out.
as the claim week for benefits to cov­ lizing. The line waiting to be served
ered jobless worker» tathe state. stood six abreast and to. our hungry
They previously designated an in­ eyes extended back a quarter of a
dividual's claim week as the seven mile. We decided to eat the lunch
consecutive days following initiation we had brought minus the salmon.
And yet there must have been
of claim, but hereafter when a
claimant files an original claim on plenty for everyone with a little pa­
any day of the week, the first week tience. They had baked 1800 pounds
of such claim will be the calendar of salmon and estimated they served
week in which the claim is filed.
4,000 people. Probably there were
more than that there for if each pota­
Farmers dominate the list of 141 tion was a third of a pound, more
republican and democratic candidates than 5,000 were fed because the big
who will battle for the 76 legislative pans were all scraped clean.
One
positions to be filled this fall.
hundred and fifty gallons of coffee
An occupational survey reveals were also dispensed free.
that 32 at the 141 candidates are
The crowd was typically American.
farmers. Next high is the legal pro­ Figuratively speaking, representa­
fession—with 29 lawyer-candidates. tives were there from every walk of
Three candidates are stockmen, two life and what impressed us most was
dairymen and two fruit growers. The that they all came by private convey­
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candidates are engaged in 38 occu­ ance. Thirty years ago most of us
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pations. Others an brokers, physi­ were dependent on shanks-mares.
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clerks, real estate men and timber
The code of a southern gentleman
workers.
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the pseudo-squires of other sections
Farm security loans totaling $2,- of this country. The news reports of
207,400 were made to 2900 Oregon Garner’s refusal of a large sum of
farm families during April, according money reminded us of a story about
to a report filed with state officials Robert E. Lee.
Mr. Gamer, when
by the Farm Security Administration. offered a munificent stipend for a
The loans were made to farmers who writing contract, declared that what
were unable to secure adequate John Nance Gamer could write was
commercial credit for livestock, feed, not worth a nickle and what the Vice
seed and farm equipment.
President of the United States had to
say was not for sale. Even if he had
The Salem Linen Mills this week heard the following tale, at least he
received a contract for supplying was living up to the tradition of honor
15,000 pounds of flax twine to the set by Lee:
United States navy through the ef­
At the close of the war of the re­
forts of Governor Martin.
A Scot­ bellion, Robert E. Lee was offered the
land firm had submitted a lower bid presidency of an insurance firm at the
than did the Salem firm, but the gov­ salary of $50,000 a year. When Lee
ernor telegraphed navy department doubted his services would be worth
officials that he belived the contract so large a sum, he was told, “We don’t
should go to a United States firm.
want your services, we want your
name.” “That,” replied Lee, “is not
The state supreme court this week for sale.”
decided Henry Albrecht, of Baker,
[The above was written and in
was entitled to $29,000 damages for type before the current issue of the
personal injuries received while rid­ i&turday Evening Port was received.
ing in an automobile with his broth­ In it is an article on “White House
er-in-law, H. M. Howard, district No-Man," which confirms the spirit
manager for Safeway Stores. The if not the letter of the story about the
court upheld the opinion of a jury vice president.]
and Circuit Judge Calvin S. Sweek,
of Pendleton.
Albrecht contended
For the benefit of ,our mid­
that he was not a “guest” in How­ western friends we state that we have
ard's car, but had gone along to help just ordered a ton of coal to see us
his brother-in-law.
through the summer.
gasolines
are those that give you
Governor Martin has returned to
his office after a two-week vacation
in the Mt. Hood ana -and again
aroused speculation as to whether or
not he would attempt to find a way
around a state law which forbids a
primary candidate from running in­
dependently in the fall elections.
It was the governors first vacation
since the strenuous primary cam­
paign. One at the first things he did
was to confer with his campaign
manager, Edgar W. Smith, where it
was presumed he was testing polical
winds. After the conference neither
the governor nor Smith would admit
or deny that the meeting had any
political significance. However, ob­
Following the 1936 riot at the state
servers hero still believe that Gov­
penitentiary, 10 men were placed in
ernor Martin will not be a candidate
solitary confinement. The 16th was
in November.
released this week as his sentence at
the institution had expired.
A former republican vice-president
gave the governor a pat on the back
Bids for paving and widening the
this week. The “pat” was a wire
North Summer street approach to the
from Charles G. Dawes, vice-presi­
new state capital will be opened at
dent of the United States under the
Portland June 30.
Coolidge administration and ambas­
sador to England. His message road:
. Well Drilling
“I am at home and well again af­
ter seven weeks in the hospital at
For that new well, see or write
New York. I want to congratulate W. F. Kernin, Roseburg, Ore. 16tl3*
you upon your splendid courage and
the great reputation you have made
as a law enforcing governor of Ore­
gon. You leave office decorated with
universal public respect, without
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We took a walk in the garden after
a mist of rain: the peony blossoms
hung fat and heavy as though asham­
ed of their own opulence; the del­
phinium spires mirrored the blue ot
the heavens toward which they
reached; the seedling primroses, ro­
bust in the shade of a rock, kept se­
cret the magic of next spring’s
blooms; the lingering columbine were
tremulous with elfin charm; the
Japanese iris were round platters of
radiant color, while the opening
petals of the regal lily, transcendent
in beauty, made Easter come again in
June.
Ask Ned C. Kelley tor rates on
Fire Insurance.
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