Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1939)
THE COQUILLE! VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY », 1989. PAGE FOUR The Sentinel A MOO MMR 1 .Ja r .„■s— i , w , e—T-- Subscription Rate* One Year ................... 43.00 1.00 Six Months.... .00 Three Month*. _________ __ No subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is impera tive. L.------ Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter. FEED 8TEIWER, STATESMAN The passing of Fred Steiwer, ex- U. S senator from Oregon, last week explains something that many of us had never understood, why he re signed as senator when he was yearly becoming more prominent as a re publican leader in the nation. He was suffering from what is as yet an incurable disease and knew def initely that his days were numbered. The ex-senator, teho was 58 years of age, was a real man, a tried and true friend, whose passing is pot only a loss to Oregon but to the entire United States. THE “WHY” Of FIOTWi CAPITAL Reference is often made these days to “fro**n capital” as largely do blame for unemployment and busi ness depression. Many people, no doubt, wonder just what frozen capi tal is, why it exists and why it is so closely tied in with our current econ omic illls. Everybody know* that “capital” mean* money and that “frozen,” in this sense, means inactivity. A good answer to the “why" is found in a recent nation-wide survey of poten tial investor*. (Anyone with a sav ings account is a potential investor.) The survey, conducted by the Na tional Association ot Manufacturers, asked this question: “Do you have money available which you could in vest and would like to invest, but which you do not care to invest at the present time?" The reply of 75.1 per cent was “yes." The 75.1 per cent was then asked to indicate why they did not want to invest now. Here are some of the answers: Inadequate present profits and doubtful future profits because of .possible new legislation, existing taxes, prospects of new taxes, labor trouble and international trouble*. Facto** that would create a will- ingnea* to invest were also listed. These were: Improved government policies and attitudes affecting busi ness, changes in government spend ing and budget policies, less govern ment competition with business, re duced taxes, and a change in federal labor legislation. Remembering, now, that business must have money on which to operate if it is to give job* and pay safaries, it should be easier for everybody to understand why it is frozen. Fragments This is the time of year the lazy gardener enjoys more than any other season—when he can read the new seed catalogue* and day dream of the garden’s beauty, comfortable in an easy chair by the fireside and with no lame back nor sore knees, which he will have to endure within a few weeks now if he is a gardener in more than a name only. The flowers which bloom, in February in the mind’s eye attain a perfection not granted to those of June and July, WHEN You Buy. SALES BOOKS If You Want Service, you’ll like our prompt delivery. We can save you several day* when in a hurry. If You Want Quality, you’ll be proud to have our line of improved salesbook* go into the home of your custom er*. If You Want Value, you’ll appreciate our fair prices and low freight rates. If You TWENTY YEARS AGO I« A MM T0W« foil Want Ideas, we’ll be glad to suggest the proper style of book and the most convenient fornFfor your purpose. Just Call Coquille Valley Sentinel Coquille der-financed during ■ of C. B. McCullough, present as- /Mr*. I sistent engineer. The state of Texas now has two sets of quadruplets, the fourth set in (Taken from the files o< the Sen- the United States. Some wiseacre Unel of Feb. 14. 1919): ' suggested a while back that multiple Mias Eva Schreder, of the local births was old Dame Nature’s way of circumventing the practice of birth military board, want to Portland this morning to check up on delinquent control. ' Coos county men who- have not com The outcry of the Italian and Jap plied with government requirements anese press over President Roose in conei.ction with the war measures. velt’s foreign policy sounds like the She was sent there by Assessor Jess small boy’s cry of "unfair” when his Beyers. own underhand tricks are turned E. A. Folsom returned last Monday against him; nor do we mean to imply there was anything wrong in the afternoon from a two months’ visit president’s help of prance and Eng with his wife at Modesto, Calif. Mrs. land by this criticism of the fascist Folsom la down there caring for her mother. states. -O ■ "> * Good new* for the fisherman 1« that nylon, the new du Pont product which will replace real silk in the manufacture of hosiery next year, may also be used for fishing lines which will be not only tough but as strong as steel of the same diameter. Among other new products is one from England, a cloth of gold which can be sold for $2.50 a yard, and an other from this country is an artifi cial wool, costing only fifty cents a pound. The institutes of technology in this country are the fairylands of the twentieth century. A month doe* not pass without the announcement of some new discovery or invention In the chemcial, commercial, industrial or drug field, which will enrich life for all of us. The kings of old never enjoyed the conveniences nor pleas ures which the least privileged of our citizens now take for granted. I pany of Salem has started intense in terest in berry culture and growing with prospects of k cannery and crusht r here if the people will go into the berry industry and take advan- I ! tage of the natural inclinations Coos ------ •_ a berry industry. county ------ o The recall meeting of the Coos taxpayer* association at Marshfield went ahead this week and it is expected that Commissioner Ar chie Philip and Judge Watson will undergo a recall test after the matter was continually delayed and almost dropped at times. ’ „ ---- -o------ The auction of Pinkston & Young cattle on the ranch at Fish trap last week brought success. There was $6,247.85 raised in the sale of the cattle and the hay. An average of $94.57 was paid for cdws, while $215.00 was the highest price paid for any animal—this was a thoro- bred sold to A. Kellenberger. Fedele V. R. Wilson announces that he will Arami bought the hay for $29.00 per be at his office on Taylor street every ton—he had purchased the ranch. day this week. Sgt. Frank Norris returned to Port land this week after being released from the battlefield* of France, where he was confined due to flu in an army hospital and was' among the first in the contingent released from the hospitalization. ----t>~~ O The statement given last week about the Sitka mill contribution in dicated that the men raised $62.50 for this fund benefit -■ o County Agent J. L. Smith tells the story of Ellis Barker, of Fairview, a 12-year-old boy, who imported two registered Berkshire pig*—an invest ment of $40.00. His pig* now have a litter of eight litttle pigs and worth eight time* the price of their father and mother. ----- o—— Now they have a machine which Pheasant Northwest Products com talks like a man. Shucks, that’s nothing, -we’ve known plenty of women who talked like a machine. bringing out the big bill*. This criticism is not directed at the legis The new deal is calling Thomas E. lator* but at outside groups and state Dewey a publicity seeker because he departments Interested in special leg unearthed evidence In the recent islation and which are sponsoring scandals in New York before official measures they want acted on at this Washington knew anything about session. them. The justice department does The interim commission on state n’t like it because Dewey didn’t take and local revenues, for instance, has it into his confidence when he began only just released its findings and investigations which have resulted in recommendations. Appointed under exposures of the Whitney stock ex authority of a resolution passed by change scandal, the Coster-Musica the 1937 session this commission was fiasco and now the Judge Manton supposed to make a study of the case. revenue situation and to bring in a When election returns came in last report for the guidance of this November, we were ready with a session. This report should have huzzah for Dewey for the great race been in the hand* of the legislators he made for the governorship of New before the session convened in order York. We have a premonition that that the lawmakers might have op two years hence we will again be portunity to study Its contents and crying, "Hurrah for Dewey,” but that to act with some degree of intelli then it will not be for a defeat of a gence upon its recommendations. In governorship race — it will be for stead of that it was not made avail President Dewey! able until the 25th day of the ses sion at a time when all the other big problems are crowding to the front Did you know: That Crater Lake was the second and demanding attention. The education bills, likewise, have deepest lake in the world. Lake been unaccountably delayed In their Baikal in Siberia only being deeper. Sponsored jointly by That Japan's war bill is $4,000,000 appearance. the Stat* Teachers Association and a day. The United States* present peace expenditures amount to $20,- the State Department of Education and some of them at least bearing the 000,000 daily. That three of Queen Victoria’s nine blessing of the state administration, children are still living, the oldest these proposed reforms have been under consideration for months and being ninety year* of age. That a bronze plaque of Lincoln’s in justice to the legislator* who will Gettysburg Address hangs at Oxford soon be sojourning in Salem at their and is considered one of the most own expense, should have been in troduced much earlier in the session. perfect examples of English prose. The public power group, likewise, has added to the chaos and confusion One hundred and thirty years ago of the closing weeks of the session next Sunday, Abraham Lincoln was by withholding the debut of it* PUD born. That he was appreciated by child until the fourth week of the his contemporaries may be gleaned session was well under way. While from the following extracts of an the excuse of this group for their essay written by James Russell Low tardiness is that they wanted to iron ell soon after Lincoln’s death: out some of the rough edge* in their “We are glad that ... we have program, it is admitted that this ob had at the head of our affair* a man jective was not attained and that the whom America made, as God made measure introduced into the senate Adam, out of the very earth, un- hopper is no nearer perfection than ancestried, unprivileged, unknown, it was a month ago. to show us how much truth, how Otherwise the session is far ahead much magnanimity, and how much of previous sessions in its record of statecraft await the call of opportun performance. More bills have been ity in simple manhood when it be- introduced and a larger percentage of lieves in the justice of God and the those introduced have been disposed worth of man. . J. of than was the case in 1937 session "A civilian during times of the so that if the session drags out for most captivating military achieve 50 dr 60 days (Ke blame, if any, ment, awkward, with no skill in the should be placed on the procrastin lower technicalities of manners, he ating sponsor* of these big bills and left behind him a fame beyond that not on the lawmaker* themselves, of any conqueror, the memory of a moat of whom are anxious to adjourn grace higher than that of outward just as quickly as they they can de person, and at a gentlemanliness cently do so. deeper than mere breeding. A gross income tax ranging from one-fourth of one per cent on whole salers and manufacturers up to two per cent on retail businesses was recommended by the interim commis sion on state and local revenues in its report released this week. Rev enues from such a tax, estimated at 96,500,000 a year, would go toward support of the social security pro gram, with the counties sharing in its apportionment to the end that property levies might be proportion ately reduced. Other recommenda tions in the report of the interim commission include a. property tex on automobiles, better equalization at school taxes, tax conservation and supervising boards for the several counties, administration of public ------o----- R. H. - Sweet has purchased the cleaning shop formerly operated by Fred Slagle. He promises an aggres sive and serviceable business in stitution. ------ o-— J. D. Carl, of Arago, recently pur chased of Noah Black, of Reedsport, his fine bull, Merry Golden'Lad. His sire is Merry Miss’s Son and his dam is Golden Grand Olga, This bull which Mr. Carl bought is famous. In one herd he sired 15 grade daugh ter«, which averaged 466.45 lb*, of butterfat in ten months on grass alone. sistance through a state public wel fare commission, consolidation of the offices of county asssessor and tax collector, and state assessment of timber lands. ♦ Rumors ot a complete re-organiza tion of the state highway commission are current about the capitol. Gov ernor Sprague has already indicated that he intends to appoint Herman Oliver, of John Day, to succeed E. B. Aldrich, of Pendleton, when the latter resigns as he is expected to do soon. Earl B. Day, county judge of Jack- son county, Is now understood to be the governor’s choice as successor to L. TouVelle, of Jacksonville, when the latter’s term expires next month. But the big surprise, if cur rent rumor materializes into reality, will be the retirement of Henry F. Cabell, of Portland, present chairman of the commission, who will be suc ceeded by-H. B. Van Duzer, of Port land, a former member of the com mission. In the event of this pre dicted re-organizatin of the highway commission, it is also expected that R. H. Baldock will retire as state highway engineer, probably in favor Sponsored by Representatives French, of Sherman; Semen, of Klamath, and Snyder, of Lake, a bill providing for managerial form <>1 government for Oregon counties was introduced into the house this week. Under the proposed reform a board of five members would be elected in each county. This board wuld de termine policies and levy texes. It would also emplay a county mana ger who, in turn, would employ nec- esssary assistants in carrying on the functions of county government now performed by the clerk, assessor, re corder, judge, sheriff and other of ficials. The proposal is meeting with much favorable comment among the lawmakers but is expected to meet with strenuous opposition at the hands of county officials whose job* would be endangered if the plan is adopted. _____ ' County judge* and commissioner* apppearing before the legislative way* and means committee this week demanded a share in liquor profits or that the state take over a larger share ot the relief load. Earl B. Day, county judge of Jackson county and president of the state association of county judges , ana commissioners, told the committee that the counties were at the end of their financial rope and no longer able to carry on with the relief program. With the constitutional six per cent limit re stricting tax levies and relief need* taking the lions share of county taxe*. Day told the committee, ordinary county functions, especially road maintenance, have been greatly un- the paît The manner of disposing of bonds to be issued by peoples utility dis tricts promises to provide the big hurdle in the proposed revision of the PUD act. Sponsors of the so- called Grange bill favor sale of PUD bonds through private negotiations with a liberal commission to go to the negotiator. This plan also has the support of J. D. Roes, Bonneville ad ministrator, and his assistants several of whom are taking an active part in support of the measure introduced into the senate this week by Sena tor Ross and others. This proposal, however, does not meet with the ap proval of Governor Sprague, who believes that bonds issued by these utility districts should be offered for sale to the- highest bidder. Peter Zimmerman, former state senator from Yamhill county and an active member of the public power group, is also opposed to the private sale pro posal and has drafted a bill of his .. own, covering this feature, which has been introduced by Senator Burke. A- third PUD bill by Representative Hosch has been introduced in the house. It was moving day last week tor a number of state departments, assign ed to quarters in the new library building. Included among the mov ers were the state library which will occupy most of the building; the de partment of education and the de partment of vocational education, . which occupy quarters on the first floor and the World War Veterans state aid commission which occupies an entire wing on the top floor,—_ FOR YOUR QUICK RELIEF WHY NOT TRY OUR HERBS! DON'T SUFFER ANY LONGER When Othea Fail - - - No matter from what you are suffering, try us. Our amazing successful herb remedies will put you on the road to glorious, vigorous health. HAVE BEEN AIDING THE SICK IN SALEM ALBANY and EUGENE FOR MANY YEARS. Disorders, sinusitis, heart, liver, stomach, gas and ulcers, constipation, piles, asthma, female com plaints, kidney, bladder, blood, rheumatism, back and headaches. CHARLIE CHAN CHINESE HERB CO. J. H. Leong 8 years Practice in China Open 9:00 a. «. to 6:80 p. a*. Monday and Thursday Only OVER PO6TOFFICE Citizens Building 32 yean of experience NORTH BEND THE ENTIRE COST OF THE CGC COULD BI PAID FOR By t-c the taxes OF THE BREWING- INDUSTRY ! c.c.c *** Department shows expenditures of J26 million dollars Con» for «be fiscal year of 1938. The brewing mduatry pays over a million dollars a day in taxes. What Beer contributes to the re-building of America would fill a great volume Over 400 million dollars in taxes every year. Over 1,000,000 jobs. A market for 3,000,000 form acres of produce. The brewing industry would like to pre serve for itself and the people the many economic benefits it has created in the past five year*. Brewers everywhere realize that this is a question bound up with the proper tew distribution of their mild and wholesome beverage through retail outlets whose char acter will be a credit to the community. Obviously, the brewers can enforce no law*. But they can-and wiU-cooperate with the local law-enforcement authorities. They will cooperate with every group—friend or critic —to the end that retell beer outlet* give no ofienae to anyone. Beer... a Beverage of Moderation ‘I u i-