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The Sentinel
TWENTY YEARS AGO
In Coquille now when a residence
property is sold it starts an endless
chain of real estate transfers and
moving. After Fay Jones purchased
the Nick Johnson house on First
street, where Owen Knowlton has
been living, the latter began to look
around for a place to buy and on
Tuesday he purchased the former
Bert Folsom home at the corner at-
First and Beech streets, where Alex
Peterson has been living.
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Washington has been chuckling
since the opening of congress at a
column of Ernest Lindley, a syndi­
cated writer who often serves as a
New Deal spokesman. Mr. Lindley
wrote: “The fine literary craftsman­
ship of the president’s annual mes­
sage is chiefly the work of Adolf A.
Berle, Jr., assistant Secretary of
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State. . . . The beautiful clarity of
the president's budget message was
largely the work of Lauchlin Currie,
former economist for the Federal Re­
serve Board, now an assistant to the
president.** Around Washington the
comment waa being made that it was
nice of the president to deliver the
two message to congress after his
Edgar Bergens had finished their
jobs.
A PROBLEM PRESSING FOR
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SOLUTION
There is frequent mention of the
National Labor Relations Act in the
newspaper these days. Most of this
news has been the kind of smoke
that really indicates the presence of
a fire.
Not the least important item of thia
type was the recent decision handed
down by the United States Supreme
Court to the effect that Federal
courts have no power to pass on the
rightness or wrongness of Wagner
Beard certifications of labor unions.
The case in question was
the court by one national labor unton
which felt that a Wagner Board de­
cision had been too sweeping and
had disregarded minority rights.
The problem of the Wagner Act
has cried out for solution for a num­
ber of years no*. So far, the Act’s
defenders have done a skillful job of
thwarting the desire of the public
and of aU groups in the country to
- have it amended. But the knowledge
that the wide powers of the Board
cannot in many instances be checked
by the courts ought to make the need
for amendments to limit that power
seem even more urgent to those most
concerned.
Coupled with this recent news
event come continued revelations
, made during the Congressional in­
vestigation of the Board itself that
tend to show that the body with
these extremely broad powers does
not always employ them wisely.
Those revelations—of bickering
among Board members, of bias evi­
denced by Board representatives, of
wide powers assumed or unirped by
the Board—point, of course, partly to
an unsound attitude on the part of
the Wagner Board itself. But tar
more significantly they throw the
spotlight on the flaws, omissions,
and loose constructions of the Act
itself which make this sitsatten pos­
sible.
Congress, with the international
situation growing hourly and daily
more tense, must be wise enough to
do everything in its power to help get
our domestic affairs shipshape. In the
field of employee-employer relations,
so important both to recovery and
national defense, Congress can best
serve this end by amending the Wag­
ner Act along lines that will mean a
fair deal for management as well as
labor. This action would mark a
substantial contribution to real em­
ployer-employee harmony.
That Congress will follow this Use
is a consummation devoutly to be
wished by all real friends of labor,
of industry, of the consuming public,
and of Congress itself.
“g** to
Goo. A. Robinson started We^nra-
ayd morning for a two months* trip
to California, during which ho will
The change of bank officers at the
visit San Francisco and Los Angeles. First National Bank this month is
noteworthy. L. H. Hazard, who has
F. B.PWlUps has sold 100 acres off occupied the position of cashier there
the east side of his Beaver Slough for seventeen years and performed
ranch, which includes all the build­ the duties of that position so faith­
ings, to a Mr. Church from the Bay. fully and effectively as promoted, be­
coming both vice president and man­
As it stands Graham & Sons Gar­ ager, while Oliver Sanford, the for­
age represents an investment of near­ mer popular assistant, takes the cash­
ly $20,000. Just a little row of tires iers* place and Miss Bess Maury be-
hung along the wall of the front of­ cotnes assistant.
fice spells $3,000, while the gas and
air pumps at the curb stand for $1,000.
Postmaster Leneve, who is in a
Mr. Graham says that the plate glass position to come as close on a guess as
on the street side of the building cost to Coquille’s population as anyone,
as much ass a good sired ranch used thinks the figure of the 1920 census'
to.
enumeration will not exceed 1700. It
will be upwards of a year before def­
inite information te given out from
Washington.
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THRIFTY IN (URRÍNV
GE!
THE BUY OF
YOUR LIFE'
THRIFTY
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400,000 over 1038 but waa $22,707,000
leas than in 1037.
Government payments to Oregon
farmers (included in total farm in­
come) for the 11 months of 1030
amounted to $8,581,000. and for
Washington $7,$08,000. In the big
year of almoat recovery (1137) gov­
ernment payments in Oregon were
less than half those paid in 1830; only
half as much as Washington received
last year.
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¿.If-
You**
Instruction for taking the farm cen­
sus direct enumerators to omit any
tract of land of less than three acres
unless its agricultural products in
103S were valued at $250 or more.
Included as farms are bam dairies,
for O«Är
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1129.95
GENERAL £3 ELECTRIC
BIEGGER & GUNDERSON
NEW FURNITURE USED
Purkey Says—
We have in our basement
12 Used Heaters
which have been
t Olympic
Circulators
just
Washington
idea had become so popular that the
shops at Cedar Point were putting in
extra chairs, while the nine men who
had imposed the gouge tax found even
more time to occupy their own chairs
or rub their noses against the plate
glass at the front of their shops. And
with so much time on their hands
some of them began to think. So
they called a meeting one night and
discussed the problem. Two of them
announced that they were going to
close their Own shops and start to
work up at Cedar Point where they
had been offered positions.
Then another of the nine spok up,
"I move that we rescind the 15c
gouge tax on hair-cuts, and that we
also advertise special 35c hair-cuts
for all youngsters under ten years of
age, in order that we may win back a
part of the hundreds of potential
customers who are now patronizing
these bootleg back-porch places.'*
The motion was discussed at length,
then unanimously passed. And when
it was announced in the local paper
there was much rejoicing in the town
of Quilleco, and before long all of
the nine men had-developed corns
from standing by their chairs working
so many hours each day. Selah.—
Howard L. Graybeal.
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Anyone having Cream O’ Coos ice
cream tube is requested to tall 113J
and the driver will call for them im­
mediately.
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Purkey Furniture
for either John or BUI and the fur
was flying for quite a while. Nobody
seemed to notice the 15c gouge ex­
cept visiting salesmen and they soon
learned to get their hair cut in other
towns or up in the big city. But the
citizens of Quilleco gradually became
more seedy looking and the children
began coming to school with back-
porch hair-cults and the nine men
became more and more lazy as they
lolled in their own chairs so much of
the time.
Then one day a bright idea came
to one of the citizens. He called up
his neighbor and explained it to him.
The neighbor shouted, “Say That's
the best idea I*ve heard in three years.
Wait ttll I spring it down at the union
hall tonight.” And that night he
explained the idea of forming five
o’clock and Saturday afternoon cav­
alcade to the negihboring town of
Cedar Point, nine miles away, and
patronizing the union barber shops
up there where no extra tax was
imposed.
The idea took like wildfire annd the.
secretary was instructed to write
letters to all the other local unions
in Quilleco suggesting that their
members also organize cavalcades.
Within three weeks the cavalcade