TH« COQUILLE VALLET SENTINEL, COQUILLE. OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, IMS.
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COMIC HEROES IN EXILE
American youngsters must have
been rudely surprised the other day to
learn that two heroes of the comic
Strips and animated cartoons had
been barred from a European dictator
country.
What, they must have
asked, could be objectionable abopt
Mickey Mouse and Popeye the Sailor?
—the two comic characters exiled by
a dictator’s decree.
To these awed young Americans,
the answer'offered to their question
must have sounded equally unreason­
able. That, answer, by the Fascist
Dictator, was that his country must
think of the future in such a way that
the children of today will become the
fighters of tomorrow; that children
should be trained in the principles
of "sleeping with the head on a knap­
sack.”
But, young Americans may coun­
ter, what better fighting spirit could
any man want than that characterized
in Mickey Mouse and Popeye?
¡.There, youngsters, is perhaps the
qflpwer. Our comic heroes are fight­
ers for what is morally right and just,
and that doesn’t fit in very well with
the objectives of foreign» isms.
HIDDEN TAXES
,
With the federal debt at an all time
high of close to $40,000,000,000 and
the federal, state and local tax collec­
tors taking a full quarter of our in­
come, a government agency has come
along and performed a real service.
Figures of the Security and Ex­
change Commission disclose the plight
of the user of electrical service as a
heavy payer of hidden taxes. This is
only one of the hundreds of unseen
• taxes that daily make a hole in the
family budget.
According to the Commission’s data,
the average electrical service user
meets hidden taxes equal to 12.6 per
cent of his monthly bill
Although the hidden, tax bill
throughout the country averaged 12.6
per cent, in some cases it ranged aS
high as 20 per cent of the payments
by customers of the utility companies.
The report covered 150 companies
operating throughout the nation,
serving more than 17 million custom­
ers in over 22,000 communities dur­
ing the year 1937.
The combined taxes of the 150 com­
panies were more than $181,000,000
last-year, or an average of $10.75 for
each customer.
This means that
about 90 cents of the monthly electric
bill wont to the government in taxes.
by these smart-aleck writers and
players.
Know Oregon: The gold mined in
our state amounts to more than
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$2,000,000 a year. AU the basic min­
Robert Train is making extensive
erals are abundant in Oregon but so
(Taken from the files of The Sen­
improvement in his two-story busi­
far undeveloped. Not only gold but tinel of Dec. >0, 1916):
ness block at the corner of Front and
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silver, copper, lead, chromic iron ore
Mrs. Virginis Lamb, president of HaU.
and platinum are mined.
the local Red Cross, reports that only
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C. R. Barrow has rented half the old
Early Sunday morning we found $700 has been received in the drive
city hall building from the Coquille
the cold weather had made a fairyland so far.
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Valley Mercantile Co. for his law of­
of our garden. The everygreens were
Al Fish was .in town from Rock fice.
more beautiful than Christmas trees
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as they sparkled with frost and ice. Creek on Salmon Mountain and re­
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Isensee went up
The cedar boughs and berried shrubs ports a very daring Incident in which
in their white dress were lovelier than he was engaged with a wild panther to Portland last Monday to attend
ever, while each' blade of grass and last week. He succeeded *in killing the funeral of Mr. Isensee’s only
needle were encrusted with silver. the animal without a gun, using only brother.
a rock and a club.
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Mrs. John Kronenburg is suffering
“. . . Within the hall are song and
J. A. Lamb appeared before thi city from a grip attack which she reports
laughter,
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The cheeks ot Christmas grow red council this week and offered the hits her every year at this time.
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myrtle grove which has been known
and jolly.
W. B. Doyle recently purchased the
And sprouting is every corbel and as Lamb’s Grove to the dty, for a
recreational center.
The council Geo. McAdams blacksmith shop on
- rafter
named
C.
W.
Gardner,
M.
O. Hawkins Second street, just west of the city
With the lightsome green of ivy and
and C. R. Barrow as a committee to hall.
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negotiate with Mr. Lamb for the pur­
As Sir Launfal mused with a down­ chase of this tract.
William Candlin, of Coquille, was
cast face,
hit by the S. P. electric car at the sta­
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A light shone round about the place;
8. R. Barnes died at his home in tion in Marshfield Saturday morning
The leper no longer crouched at his the Moon residence near the Catholic and was only badly bruised and shak­
aide,
en from the impact.
church of influenza this week.
But stood before him glorified,
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Shining and tall and fair and straight
There is some interest in the possi-
City Treasurer O. C. Sanford
As the pillar that stood by the Beau­ ports that there is $9,341.64 in
bilty of Lars Gisholt who was re­
tiful Gate—
ported to have been killed on Nov­
city treasury.
Himself the Gate whereby men can
ember 11th, the last day of fighting,
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Enter the temple of God in Man. . . .
Charles Oerding returned from in France being alive. His brother,
Not whst we give, but what we Benson Polytechnic at Portland the Hans Gisholt of this city, received a
letter dated on November 4 and an­
first of the week.
share,—
other d ate d on November 16 and
For the gift without the giver is bare;
Who gives fiimsiTf With hit ffimleeS
The ladies of the Episcopal Church whether the last letter w«« incorrectly
three— ,
will have a cooked food sale at the H. dated is a question. At any rate
there is hope here that he was not
Himself, his hungering neighbor and O. Anderson store Saturday.
killed..
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[Ed. Note-^-As he is very much
From “The Vision of Sir Launfal.”
Miss Mildred Dixon, of Reedsport,
alive here in Coquille today, the re­
was married here yesterday to George
port 20 years ago that he had been
Fleming, son of Mrs. John LaMure, of
killed in the World War was erron­
eous]
TWENTY YEARS AGO
any damage done by such pets. Suit
was recently fileld by a Portland
woman against Linden McCullogh, su­
perintendent of the. Oregon blind
trade school, after being bitten by ■
* If the legislators accept the recom­
dog on the school premises. <
mendations of Secretary of State Snell
top speed limits will be established
Revamping of Oregon’s blue sky
for the regulation of motorists on Ore­
gon highways. Snell points to the law is recommended by James Haz­
fact that excessive speed is a major lett, state corporation commissioner,
factor in practically all traffic fatali­ in his biennial report. Among amend­
ties. His recommendation to the leg­ ments suggested by Hazlett is one
islature will also include the estab­ giving the commissioner authority to
lishment of speed zones in which low- deny applications for the sale of se­
sr maximum speeds would be en­ curities which appear to him to pre­
sent an unfair, unjust or inequitable
forced.
In the early experience of this investment.
state with traffic regulation $ maxi­
mum speed of 30 miles per hour was
fixed by statute. This was increased
to 35 miles per hour in 1925 and so
remained until the session of 1961
ibandoned fixed speed maximums for
the so-called basic rule which few
people understand and which police
have found to be almost impossible of
enforcement.
Most states now operate under fixed
maximum speeds ranging from as low
as 25 miles an hour in Missouri to a
high of 60 miles an hbur in Colorado.
Snell will also recommend an
amendment to the Oregon traffic law
Christmas time is the time of giving. restoring
compulsory dimming of
Most charitably-inclined people en­ headlights on meeting another car.
deavor to find some less fortunate
ones to help at this particular period.
Delay in completing the stacks in
The present relief system of the fed­ the new library building has necessi­
eral government, however, steps in tated postponement of plans for the
and collects from one class of citi­ removal of the 390,000 volumes in the
zens and dispenses to another. For state library to the new building
this reason individual charity is leu which it had been expected to start
needed, although any act of kindness next week. Miss Harriet Long, state
that will brighten the life of another, librarian, estimates that it will re­
whether he be rich or poor, may be quire 12 days working two shifts to
performed by each one of us every make the transfer.
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day if we are alert to our opportuni­
ties
Institution heads who
Nevertheless, the Christmas spirit pets do so at their
moves us to hunt for concrete cases board of control has
t
where material aid is actually needed. the state would not be responsible for
We thought we had found one such
family. There were several young
childien in this destitute home but
after investigation we wondered just
how much help should be extended.
The fa.nly had been on relief for a
year or two, yet when the father re­
ceives any wages he deserts his wife
and children until the money is all
spent and then returns to live on the
food the relief agency had supplied to
keep his family from starving. Not
only that but he tries to tell the agency
just what it should do, and expresses
dissatisfaction with the benefits
given them. The problem now is how
can the children be cared for without
making the father more and more
Enjoy a jolly holiday trip by
worthleu. Of course, the need of the
warm, comfortable Greyhound
babies is paramount to any punish­
Super-Coach. Frequent, oon-
ment which should be meted out to
v.mient service everywhere.
their parents. A sentence to the rock
You
’ll have a marry time with
pile, might be a solution of this diffi­
the money you save on Gray­
culty.
Fragments
hound's unusually low fares.
Today the last quarter payment of
income taxes Is due. How many of
these taxpayers in the Northwest read
John W. Kelly's letter in last Sun­
day’s Oregcetian without seeing red?
Public funds are financing WPA
theatre projects in the east. Not only
do these plays tend to arouse class
hatred but they are filthy and profane
in language. Private utilities which
pay huge sums in taxes are pilloried
The Willamette Valley Lumber­
man’s association has asked the Board
of Control to make a study of the com­
parative costs of oil and hogged fuel
for use in heating state buildings. The
new heating plant now under con­
struction will be equipped with oil
burners althought space will be pro­
vided for the storage of hogged fuel
for use in an emergency. The board
has agreed to make the requested
study.
Multnomah county republicans will
not.be satisfied with the selection ot
P. J. Stadelman as state treasurer if
appointment of Rufus C. Holman’s
successor is postponed until after the
inauguration of Governor Charles A.
Sprague. This from no less an au­
thority than Floyd Cook, one of the
four horsemen of the republican or­
ganization. Not that the Multnomah
county poltical leaders have anything
against Stadelman. They admit that
he would be an excellent choice ex­
cept for one thing—he does not live in
Multnomah county and- that district
with one-third of the state’s popula­
tion, they insist, is entitled to repre­
sentation on the State Board of Con­
trol of which the treasurer is a mem-
In this insistence upon the appoint­
ment of a Multnomah county man to
the treasurership the Multnomah
county politicos apparently overlook
the fact that tor the past eight years
that particular section of the state has
had complete control of the Board of
Control—if that counts for anything—
with two representatives in its mem­
bership of three, first with Governor
Meier and Treasurer Holman and
mnr» recently u Hth Hn.,.—
and Holman whereas the first Con­
gressional district has had no member
on the board since the death of Treas­
urer T. B. Kay early in the Meier
administration.
All this, of course, is assuming that
Governor Sprague will appoint the
new state treasurer, ■ an assumption
which now appears to be rather far
fetched. While Holman refuses to
give any indication of his plans it is
understood through sources supposed
to be in the know, that Oregon’s new
senator plans to leave for the nation­
al capital shortly after Christmas in
order to qualify for his new job when
Congress convenes. That means he
must resign his state job while the
democrats are still in the saddle in
Oregon in which event his successor
will probably be some deserving dem­
ocrat about whose selection Governor
Martin will probably not bother about
even consulting the Multnomah coun­
ty polticiana.
Ijhnr tawdgra
have turned
30,000
Mts
of ... the
Labor
leaders nave
lurnea to
io the
uiv '■ More
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™ new
federal
security board in their J automobile license plates were placed
efforts to compel the repeal of Ore­ in the mails this week addressed to
gon’s recently adopted anti-picketing motorists in all sections of Oregon
law. Charges filed by Leo Pressman, According to Secretary of State Snell
C.I.O. attorney, that the Oregon law the new black and yellow tags may
conflicts with the unemployment com­ be substituted for the old black and
pensation section of the social sucurity white plates as soon as received.
act has taken three Oregon officials to
Washington this
to defend the
anti-picketing act before the federal
board. Should the Social Security
Board uphold the contention of the
C. I. O. attorney, it is pointed out,
Oregon will be cut off from partici­
pation in federal co-operation for un­
employment compensation with none
of its benefits accruing to workmen in
this state
The city of Salem will sponsor the
inaugural ball to be given in honor
of Governor and Mrs. Charles A.
Sprague the night of January 9. Ad­
mittance to the ball will be by inviJ
tatlon only. Prior to the ball Gov­
ernor and Mrs. Sprague will hold a
public reception at the new capito!
Calling card», 80 for *1,00.
Lighten Your Work
at Christmas Season
by phoning your order for groceries and making
our free delivery service.
Our grocers are experienced
in their lines and their first consideration is your satis-
faction with your purchase.
They are pleased to ass ist you.
Fresh Roasted Peanuts
New Crop Nuts—Fancy Mixed
Christmas Candies
Fine Mince Meat
Plum and Fig Puddings
Fruit Cake
Cranberries
Pop Corn
Fancy Box Candies
Candied Fruits—Gift Package
PHONE YOUR ORDER and shop eco-
nomincally and satisfactorily
Busy Corner Grocery
Telephones 69
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the price in trade-in or cash; we
lend you the balance required to
pay for both car and insurance.
LO8 ANGELES $14.66
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PORTLAND - - 5.65
KLAMTTH FALL8 4.66
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Plan to virif ths Golden Gats
national Exposition
by Greyhound
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Thornton Tire Service
340 W. Front
Coquille Tel. 27«
Broadway a* Cotts
Marshfield Tel. 652
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