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could collect unem
ployment insurance. We have heard
of one man in this county who quit
his job in order to collect such insur
ance but it would be rather pointless
for a manufacturer to do that. In
the first place, there are no profits
when machinery is idle, though the
depreciation is as great or greater,
and, in the second, our understanding
is that the social security assessments
are proportionately increased against
an industry which furnishes only part
time employment and less for one
which operates continuously.
I
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Legislators and
newspapermen
covering the session were guests of
the Order of Antelope at a luncheon
at the Salem armory Saturday night.
The Order of Antelope, incidentally
is an organisation comprising some
of Oregon's most prominent citizens,
formed several years ago for the
purpose of creating a great wilder
ness park on Hart mountain in
Lake county for the preservation of
antelope and other wild life.
to carry away anything they can lay
their hands on in spite of the vigi
lance of janitors and other employees
on duty about the building.
The so-called Kansas plan is now
Taken from the files of The Sen Romanoffs.” was shown at the Liber
before the legislators in a measure
ty theatre with tbeXoquille Commer
tinel of March 7, 1919):
introduced this week by Senator
cial club as guests of the management.
Vast improvement of the communi
Kenin of Mulnomah county. The
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cation outlet for transportation and
plan calls for the creation of an in
The younger “500” club was enter
commercial travel is shown in Co
terim commission composed of sen
tained by Mrs. Hal Pierce Wednes
quille at this time. The county has
ators and representatives who would
Entered at the Coquille fnstogfice as
day. Prizes went to Mrs. C. L. Tuttle
Second Class Mall *(attar.
appropriated 620,000 to construct a
meet at stated periods to consider
and Mrs. T. B. Currie.
bridge across-the Coquille river and
proposed
legislation.
Suggestions
Oregon
voters
will
go
to
the
polls
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Office Corner W. first and Willard St
the city council is debating the land
Dr. G. O. Wilhite arrived in Co In September instead of May to pick considered by this commission as
for the approach. It is suggested by
quille this Tuesday to open up a med their candidates for public office if worthy of further consideration by
THE MACHINE AGE EXONERATED
The Sentinel that the Lamb grove be
One of the columnists at Washing
ical practice. He took rooms in the the house follows the lead of the the legislature would be turned over
There are some who believe that
bought and the bridge be built at
senate which last week passed the to a research department which
ton, D. C, says they frankly admit
First National Bank building.
our modern “machine age“ has con
the point where the grove to tangent
September primary bill by • vote of would gather all information avail
there that only a foreign war can
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tributed largely to our economic ills;
to the river.
save the third term chance for the
Homer Oddy returned home from *19 To 0’.‘ Sponsors of the measure able on the subject for the informa
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that making things better by ma president. Under one of those "emer
Loe Angeles this week after being urged its passage as a measure of re tion and guidance of the lawmakers.
chinery has caused unemployment.
Another project that, will give Co
gency” laws passed by the rubber
enlisted in the Navy for the past nine lief for both the candidates and the The plan is designated to expedite
An official federal census of unem
quille
its first real highway with the
stamps, in case of war powers would
months. He was stationed at Mare electorate, inasmuch as it will ma action on important legislation and
ployment, however, sheds some in be conferred upon the president outside world is the construction of
Island during the war and later terially shorten the political cam to materially shorted legislative ses
teresting light to the contrary. Un which would make even Hitler a the highway from Roseburg via Myr-
paign. Governor Sprague has en sions by weeding out trivial and un
transferred to San Diego.
employment to highest in the least piker as a dictator. With a war and te Point. It is estimated that this
dorsed the measure and urged its worthy proposals before the session
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mechanized occupations, the census a dictator, we could not save dem project will take at least two years
convenes.
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The wettest, most miserable Feb passage.
has revealed.
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A
bilj
sponsored
by
Senator
Ross,
ocracy for ourselves, let alone for to complete.
ruary
ever
noted
was
observed
by
0
For instance, agriculture tops the
thè rest of the world.
Negotiations for a state offioe of Washington county, which would
all of Coos county here during the
field with more unemployed than any
The marriage ot William Zinner
past month. It has been character building in Portland will be discon have required county courts to adver
other occupation. Personal and do
President Roosevelt insists that the and Miss Rose Boativlck, of Baker, ized by aeet, wind, rain and hail.
tinued for the time being. Under tise for bids on all purchases in ex
mestic service to next and building loss of democratic seats in congress Oregon, was solemnized here this
an act passed by the session of 1937, cess of 3500 was defeated in the sen
occupations third. The census show
week. The groom is a violin instruc
st last November election was due to
"Due to congressional filibuster and the board of control conducted ex ate. Roes claimed the measure would
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ed about 630,000 unemployed in agri “local“ reasons. Yes, lots of local tor in the city.
senatorial fight against the league of tensive negotiations with owners of result in great savings to the counties
culture. In more highly mechanized democrats voted republican. Here
nations, Butler county in Pennsyl a number of Portland office buildings and put a stop to the practice of fa
occupations unemployment was found in Coquille we know several demo
The Coos County Jersey Breeders’
vania elected a democrat for the first in an effort to acquire one of them voritism in placing county business
to be lees.
Unemployed \ textile
crats who have been the backbone of association was organized this week, time in 50 years. The people are with for use by state departments quar Opponents of the measure contended
workers numbered only abojt 187,-
the party for thirty and forty years with the following officers: J. D. Wilson on this issue and the republi tered in the metropolis. After con that it would only result in increased
ObO and miscellaneous manufacturing but are now anxiously waiting for Carl, ot Arago, as president; Theodore
cans are running their party into the ferring with the board the ways and expense with not resulting economies.
workers without jobs totaled approx
1940 to register their opposition to the Clinton, of Norway, as vice president; ditch,” said The Sentinel In comment means MBimlttM has recommended County courts over the state general
imately 150,000.
W. C. Cutler, of Myrtle Point, as sec
new deal.
ing on the national situation after the that the act be repealed and that no ly were said to be opposed to the bill.
This to added evidence that tech
retary, and the following directors:
effort be made to acquire a building
war.
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nological development under the in
With the conviction of Hine«, a Ed. Detlefsen, of Coquille; C. D. Jar
in Portland for the time being.
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centive of the American Patent Sys
Tammany boss, good government man, of Billiards; I. Nordstrom, of
Passing of Oovemor Withycombe
tem both, develops and protects jobs; won out in New York City last week Bandon; Henry Hervey, of Lee, and
Clarence M. Rynerson, for the past
this week gave Oregon a new govern
that in the long run, machines make
H.
B.
Sanders,
of
Marshfield.
and Thomas E. Dewey has achieved
25 years editor of the Oregon Labor
or
in
the
person
of
Secretary
of
State
not only more jobs but also more and
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what was considered impossible a few
Press, is to succeed J. C. Joy as labor's
Ben W. Olcott.
better goods for more people.
A seven-reel film, “The Fall of the
years ago. That young attorney has --------
representative on the Industrial Ac
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brains and, in the president's chair,
cident commission on March 15, ac
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he might figure out a peaceful way the senate is ahead of its' bill rec I and were said to have the requisite 16 cording to apparently reliable but aa
Again Thomas E. Dewey, the ag to bring the gangster, bullying na ord of two years ago while the votes necessary to its passage on yet unconfirmed rumors about the
gressive district attornej^ef New tions into line without bloodshed. house was almost up to the 1937 rec Friday when two of their supporters capitol. Joy, a democrat, was ap
ord with each day finding a grist of threw a monkey wrench into the ma pointed by Governor Martin in 1936.
York county, has demonstrated he
A great deal has been Mid about new measures being ground out by chinery by disappearing from the Thia change, it to believed, will be
to on the job. Some nine months ago
senate, necessitating a postponement the first among many which Govern
Dewey, in checking to see that the relief breaking down the morale of its the lawmakers.
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of the battle that to expected to pro or Sprague will make in his offioial
New York tax laws were being ob recipients. Undoubtedly that is true;
Whatever the fate of the milk con vide a real test of strength with re family, although he to expected to
served, came across some very for instance, we beard not long ago
strange transactions involving Fed of a family whose “breadwinner” trol act at the hands of the legis spect to the attitude of the lawmakers wait until after he has cleared hto
eral Circuit Court Judge Martin Men had the offer of a job in another sec lators at this session, residents of toward this highly controversial bit desk of the legislative grlat, before
tion. Quietly he pressed his inves tion of this state but they stay here smaller communities throughout Ore of legislation.
beginning the task of reorganizing
tigation, laying the revelations as on relief because his wife prefers to gon are to be relieved of further in
state departments and commissions.
Special requests for state appropri
terference by the milk board with
they developed before hto grand jury. live in Coquille.
THANKS FOR THE TRIBUTE—
ations
not Included in the regular
the
distribution
of
their
milk
supply,
It developed that over the last five
The house put the finishing touches
budget
aggregate
more
than
31,440,-
Hundreds of Hsaltry Children
The public health service at Wash A bill by Representative French, of
or six years Judge Manton had re
to the state bakery board Friday
000.
Most
of
these
have
already
been
ington
is
the
authority
for
the
state
Sherman
county,
covering
this
sub
ceived more than 3400,000 in the
when it passed a biU abolishing the
and rugged adults testify to
form of loans from various litigants ment that only about half of the adult ject has been approved by both house disapproved by the ways and means board* by a vote of 36 to 23.
The
to
pure, pateurized milk eur
appearing before his court and that population of this country enjoy nor and senate and is now in the hands of committee which to attempting to senate had previously passed the
confine
appropriations
to
available
Routs
Ma* delivers to your
mal
hearing.
If
that
’
s
the
case,
hear
Governor
Sprague.
a large part of these loans had never
measure which is now in the hands
revenues In line with Governor
been repaid. These litigants, more ing aids will become as prevalent as
of Governor Sprague, who recom
deer.
The milk control act, passed by the Sprague’s insistence that no new mended such legislation in his in
over, won favorable decisions from eye glasses when their exorbitant
price to lowered. At present they special session of ¿135, has been the taxes be Imposed by this session.
Judge Manton’s court.
augural message.
News of Dewey’s shocking findings cost from one hundred to one hun subject of bitter controversy ever
The proposal by the Association of
leaked out a few weeks ago, before dred and forty dollars and the ac since. Attempts to repeal the act
The services of the state polioe have
he had completed his case. Among tual value of the merchandise to less were made in the session of 1937 and County Judges and Commissioners been called for in an effort to put
renewed in the early days of this ses that the old market road tax of one a stop to acta of vandalism in the new
the first apparently to learn about than one-third of that money.
However, the problem to being met sion. Bottled up in the senate com mill be restored has been definitely capitol. Souvenir hunters continue
this scandal was the newly-appoint
ed Attorney General Frank Murphy. in a better way tor now the public mittee on agriculture for six weeks, rejected by ths legislature, the house
Saying not a Word, he paid a secret health work in the schools detects in the measure was finally brought out voting to Indefinitely postpone the
visit to Judge Manton and under cipient deafness and corrects it while last week with a majority of the com measure after the taxation and rev
mittee recommending against passage enue committee had reported it out
took to negotiate the jurist’s resigna this is still possible.
of the repeal bill. Friends of the bill, with a "do not peas*' recommenda
tion. But then Chairman Summers
In an article in a recent isssue of however, succeeded in mustering 15 tion on the ground that it was “just
of the House judiciary committee
heard ugly rumors about Judge Liberty magazine, former Governor votes to temporarily save the meas- another tax.”
Manton and announced he would in Frank Murphy, now attorney general,
vestigate. Dewey, as was hto duty, excuses the breakdown of law and
at that point made public his findings order in Michigan at the time of the
in a letter to the house leader. Then sit-down strikes with the specious
statement that there might have been
came the Manton resignation.
6ET THESE ADDITIONAL VA EUES
Now some New Dealers, always bloodshed if he had acted otherwise.
thinking of politics, are putting oqt That is a splendid argument for never
THHU THE EINST NATIONAL BANK
propaganda to the effect that Dewey enforcing any law.
“homed in“ on the Manton case. It
seems to us that if anyone “homed
in,” it was Attorney General Mur
phy and not the man who spent nine
months developing the facts
this scandalous situation. Were it
not for Dewey’s alertness. Judge
Manton probably still would be on
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the federal bench and none would
have been the wiser regarding hto
The present session of the Oregon
questionable activities,
legislature now threatens to estab
lish a new record for longevity. To
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date that record is held by the session
KENDALL DAIRY
RURIRG R CAR?
Make a Cash Deal
Enjoy Low-Cost Financing
Fragments
“It’s character that counts in na
tions as in individuals. Only in loy
alty to the old can we serve the new;
only in understanding of the past can
we interpret and use the present;
for history is not made but unfolded,
and the old world entire is ever pres
ent in the new.”—Benj. Ide Wheeler.
A good argument against govern
ment in the public utility business
was supplied by one of its advocates.
Intimating that the government broke
down in regulating utilities, the de
fender of the present competitive
power policy was asked why gov
ernment incompetence could be ex
pected to do better in operating such
utilities than in regulating them.
Read about “The Man Who Talked
Baek“ in the Saturday Evening Poet
of February IS.
of 1933 which adjourned on the 60th
day. Hope of terminating the pres
ent session on or before March 4
(next Saturday) was practically
abandoned by legislative leaders
when they recessed for the week-end
with much of the major problem still
uncompleted. If the session contin
ues until Thursday of next week, as
now seems probable, it will have
equaled the record of 1933.
If it
continues past that date, it will have
hung up a new record for endurance.
The session also gives promtoe of
establishing a new record for the
number of bills introduced. Already
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