MB COQÜttlX VALLEY SENTINEL. COGÜtttt. OREGON. THURSDAY,
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The Sentinel
TWENTY YEARS AGO
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Fragments
It was last Sunday, February IB,
that we saw our first hummingbird
in the garden', this spring. We asked
Entend at the Coquille Postoffice as it if it had returned from South
Second Class Mail Matter.
America aboard a gray goose but the
only answer was a whirr of wings,
for the nectar of the Japanese quince
was hte most important thing in the
WHAT WOULD HITLER HAVE
world just then.
DONE IN SAME SPOT?
In what other country on earth
would the police be ordered to pro
teet a meeting of foreign citizens
whose sole object in meeting is in
imical to the peace, welfare and
safety of the country where . they
meet Reference If, of course, to the
German bund meeting in New York
where 1500 police were ordered to
prevent attacks on the Nazi adherents
who should be back in their own Be
loved Hitler land. Protect them from
violence, yes! But forbid foreigners
the right to meet and plot against the
safety of the United States.
Germany where the press shrieks
anathema at the president of the U.
S., would not tolerate such pernicious
activity.
Whether we agree with
Roosevelt or not, the office he occu
pies Is sacred, and that is what the
nazi newspapers are belittling and
condemning.
PRESENT HIGH COST OF DEBT
Children of today are pointed to
by many as those who will have to
bear the entire brunt of paying off
America’s rapidly rising debt at some
future time. The national debt la
pictured as somethnig for future pay
ment. However, these people are
Last Sunday’s Oregonian devoted
one editorial to typographical errors.
It dealt with their elusiveness in a
delightfully humorous vein and, as
the writer intimated, amusement over
such errors can never be appreciated
in a newspaper office until they have
become ancient history.
We've always had a sneaking sus
picion of the hand compositor who
set up, before.the days of the lino
type, “It’s a poor mule that won't
work both ways;” for the “r” box is
far from the “m" and that latter letter
is too fat not to be recognized by the
sensitive fingere of the typesetter.
Another mistake, this one innocent
and by a linotype operator, was in
an obituary notice where, “The fun
eral services were held at two
o’clock," but instead of hitting the
“d,” the letter next to it, the “1,” was
touched a second time.
To those responsible, a typographi
cal error is never a joke, instead they
read them and weep, when a paper
just off the press blares forth with a
mistake which evaded the careful
eyes of the proofreader.
What is that old adage about coming
into court with clean hands? The
new dealer?, ar? w. aslng President
Roosevelt for his unbecoming argu
ment with Scnut-x« Glass and Byrd
over an appointment of a federal
judge in the state of Virginia by de
claring that the president is planning
to take the federal bench out of poli
tics and appoint judges solely on their
merit. Yes, they have the unmiti
gated gall to say that; indeed, they
must think all the rest of us are either
fools or idiots.
This country will suffer the effects
of Justice Black's appointment to
the Supreme Court for as long as he
lives; we might have said for as long
as he remains on the bench but the
two are synonymous.
Anyone else
would have resigned long ago but his
rhinocerous hide has made him im
mune to the justified criticism
heaped upon him.
Then this week brings news that
“Dear Alben’s” campaign manager
has been appointed a circuit judge in
Kentucky, by the president
And
that campaign was conducted in a
crooked manner, with bribery and
coercion of t|ie WPA workers. ,«
And are wp not all awaiting with
fear and trembling the appointment
of a successor to Justice. Brandeis?
If Schwellenbach, of Washington, is
named, in our opinion the purity of
the president’s motives will be less
than nil, for they already stand at
zero in our estimation.
Mrs. B. J. Smith was announced as
an agent this week for the Pacific
York.
Miss Laura Dimmick returned from
Portland with her brother’s two
young children, who will visit with
their grandparents for a time, while
their mother is ill.
If the oldest inhabitant can recol
lect a more stormy and unpleasant
February than the month which ends
today, we have not heard from him.
The rains have been cold ones with
very few of the Chinook variety.
Kennett Lawrence came up from
San Francisco on the Lindaur this
week, arriving here Wednesday after-
nota.
He has not been mustered
out of the army yet, though, as his
rheumatism contracted in the army
has not been completely cured.
VARY u, im.
en which mean “lunch" or “quit
work.” All of them are set by Ob
servatory time.
A. W. Clime is the government’s
official clock-watcher. When a fed
erally-owned clock gets out of whack
anywhere in the United States, it is
usually turned over to Clime, who
turns it over to a workshop hi the
basement of the Labor building.
Government clocks are either elec
tric or old-fashioned key-wound.
Most of the older government build
ings in Washington still have key
winders, which are periodically over
hauled. The Civil Service Commis
sion is almost entirely key-wound,
white the $17,000,000 Cuuuiteioe
in the Patent Office or how it got
there, but the Chief Clerk says that
the clock keeps time “to the min
ute,"
Two historic clocks at the
White House owe their accuracy to
Clime's men. One, said to have been
brought from France by Benjamin
Franklin, stands on the Green Room
mantel. The other, said to have been
given to George Washington by La
fayette, stands on the Blue Room
mantel.—Pathfinder.
trie.
About every third day Clime calls
up .the Bureau of Standards and
checks the master clock at the Com
merce department against Naval Ob
servatory time. If the hands of the
master clock are set forward or back,
1,000 other electric clocks in the
building automatically pick up their
master’s tick.
Probably the oldeet timepiece in
the federal service is a grand father’s
clock in the office of Patent Com
missioner Conway P. Coe. Standing
higher than Commissioner Coe, the
clock has a walnut case and dates
back to the early 1700s’. Nobody
seems to know how long it has been
Who?—SPEEDY
Electrical
Outlets
Mrs. A. J. Sherwood entertained
Monday afternoon for her two daugh
ters, Mrs, L. A. Llljeqvist, of Marsh
field, and Mrs. F. G. Jennings, of
Eugene.
E. A. Folsom and P. O. Lund made
a quick deal Wednesday when Mr.
Lund became the owner of Folsom's
Confectionery. Mr. Folsom'will leave
immediately for Modesto, California,
where Mrs. Folsom is caring for her
mother.
goes In once a week to make sure
everything is all right. The clocks
are read by periscope and their read-
11 ings broadcast by a crystal oscillator
i over four direct wires to Western
', Union, Postal Telegraph, the U. S.
Bureau of Standards and the tele
phone company. '
There are really two vaults, one
within the other. Each is controlled
by its own thermostat. The inner
vault is heated by electricity, the out
er one by gas. The temperature Is
M degress of Fahrenheit and it never
variea by more than one-tenth of a
degree.
Almost as aloof from the workaday
world as if they were th fee stars, the
Naval Observatory clocks tick serene
sway—timing breakfast eggs and
horse races and Charlie McCarthy
programs; numbering. the hours of
mortal man-
The government of the United
State» is just as much under the
thumb of the Naval Observatory'a
three Olympian time-pieces as any
body else. About 18,000 clocks tick
off the Federal work \day. Moat of
them are wired with ¡¡ongt or buzz-
Jugf Call
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