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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1941)
S' « ? I 'N 3* PAGE FOUR The Sentinel a asso mou M a «seo rene M. A. YOUNG j • I* I • •••••••• • ••••••• Fragmenta of Fact aná Fancy _____ TWENTY YEARS AGO “Spring, the sweet Spring, is the (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday, i year’s pleasant king; March 11, 1921) Then blooms each thing, then tnaids Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jackson moved dance in a ring, out on to their ranch at Fairview the Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds first of the week, do sing. 1 __ o_ Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta- Mrs. F. F. Norton, mother of J. E. wool ■ Norton, who has been visiting in San Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as The palm and may make country Francisco for several months, left Second dani Mail Matter. houses gay ¡them for home the first of the week * Redding Office Cerner W. 1rMtafWfortU Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds but win ,toP 8 ■ to visit * her son, " S. ” S. Norton. pipe aU day. ---------- I I i 4 I ■ ■ I 4- i I I J ■ ♦ to McKinley last Saturday, found the old plank road over Bullack mountain in a slap dash condition and one of them arrived with an earful of mud, another with an eyeful and a third with a mouthful. None of them were entirely disabled, however. Andy Davis, who came over from the Bay Tuesday morning to visit Co quille and Bandon on one of his reg ular inspection tripe, says that the chief work in this section is inspect ing white cedar. “And a peculiar thing about it, says Mr. Davis, “is that nearly eyery foot of it is being purchased by Japan. I don’t like to see it, either, for I think one of these days some cedar is coming back to us to plague us in the form of war planes'* And we hear aye birds tune this The new schooner, North Bend, merry lay, whose projected trip we noted last A.|$ fr’tl - i » c 3 | Cuckoo, jug-jug. pu-we, to-witta-' week, sailed from the Bay for Callao, wool Peru, Wednesday. The fields breathe sweet, the daisies MARCH FURNISHES THE I kiss our feet, a . o. Walker has sold his two resi- “PERFECT DAYS” IN COOS Young lovers meet, old wive« a-aun- dence3 at the „outh end ot the Knowl- ning sit, _ Heights _ bridge to O. Gustafson, “What is ao rare as a day in June? In every street these tunes our ears i ____________________ of Auto Lines. -__ • Mr. Gus- : Then if ever come perfect days." 1 do greet, 1 jafgon and his son, who come here The Coquille valley, Coos county, Those from the second to the fourth Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-! from Marshfield, will occupy them. southwestern Oregon, and in fact The Oregon counties that register woo! ----- - And now W. W. Elliott and N. N. grades, perfect in spelling, this week nearly all the state of Oregon, can, ed the greatest percentages of popu Spring) the sweet Spring! were: Menalkas Salander, Walter I Neiman are looking for houses. answer the poet’s inquiry. A day, lation increase in the 1930-40 period —Sixteenth Century verses Rames. Allington Glaisyer, Paul Vin several of them, in March 1941, were ( | 0 " , ' , were predominately agricultural. by Thomas Nashe Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Houch moved cent, Rita Varney. Elnore Elliott, Leia just as perfect as those of which the Leading the counties in percentage poet, James Russell Lowell, sang. I i over from Marshfield the first of the Ocheltree, Helen Wickam,' Laura Pol- of increase was Malheur With a 75.4 We are developing a pet peeve week and are now settled in the larF, Agne Ice, Georgia Leatherwood, per cent rise. In that county, two . It ctn be added that when this section I Thompson just west of the , Bennie Hill, Helen Belloni, Flora .... . such . .. a .. fixation . ___ ___ cottage .__ of the Pacific coast has “perfect which may become large federal reclamation projects May Johnson, Martha Jane Webb, that we ’ ll end up in a padded cell. ; Sentinel office. > days” it is usually in February or opened thousands of acres of new Emma Flitcroft, Leslie Robbins, De March. In June there is certain to We do not like abbreviations and the land for settlement with diversified William Rohm, of Riverton, one of lores Lamson, Alice Jenkins, Neil Mc- be more or less wind, which makes use of initials for words is driving us farming. Gilvery, Gilbert Ice, PameUia Ward. the first month of summer not to be | crazy. How mgny of you know what, the oldest and most widely known cit- - died ■» Tuesday — *— that section, compared with our early spring days. the following letters stand for, even izens of *-«-■«- Pribble, Audry West, Jean Pierce, sephine, Curry and Lincoln listed The beach at Bandon on Sunday : if you have a vague idea of the agency morningS* Everett Seeley,'* Ralph Barnes, Lisle gains over 25 per cent during the pe \\ —V * was enjoyed by score* and scores, and its purpose and duties: AAA, riod. These gains resulted from pri Varney. CAB, CCC (two of them), EHF A, some sporting in the breakers, and The Coquille party, which went out vate and public reclamation projects, EIB, FSA. FCC, FDIC, FHA, WT—^1 J----- —---------- ------ every one without a Wrap. the revival of the lumber industry, FWA, Since last Thursday the weather FHLBB, FPS, FSA, is good—is essential, but it looks as especially in manufactured plywood, NY A, has been ideal and the southern Cali HOLC, ICC, NLRB, though our present methods of educa and the opening up of new arreas REA, RFC. SEC, SMA, fornia enthusiasts—in their sunny j PWA, tion are not the right ones to inculcate with better roads. spasms between deluges— have noth I TV A, USHA, WPA? our children with Independence of The greater population in Washing- All of these are federal government ing to compare with what Oregon thought and integrity of character. boards, bureaus or what-nots and if j GEORGE PECK) ians have enjoyed for the past week. At any rate, it is worth thinking you have a haAkering to know more We have had considerable to say about and lookins into. tinually in the process of change. Yet i about any of them we can tell you I in this column regarding subversive under this law of change in our social | what the initials stand for and the j teachings in some of our public and moral structures, lies a basic law i purpose of the agency. Nor do they schools. A business man whom it that is as strong as the law of the Senator Rufus Holman In a letter | include all the new commissions, posi- was our pleasant duty to interview primary elements. (Noble H. Chowning) to the press of Oregon, accompanied: rfc., of the new deal’s creation, recently, expressed another criticism These primary elements of social .u. Congressional <- _> -i » ’-t When we read ajXHIt Harry Hopkins of our school system. Each year his I think every tangible or material by the Record . reprint and moral conduct are truth, honesty, thing we observe, or come in contact of his speech in the U. S. senate, in and his OPM for an instant we felt company finds It necessary to take love, honor, charity, meekness, and opposition to the Lend-Lease bill, that on his recent trip abroad he on an additional number of young with, or hear about is continually in all the rest. They are as indestructi the process of change, either in build writes: *. had strayed into Russia and brought men. Ht was very pessimistic about ble as the material elements and never “You may or may not agree with back their OGPU. the quality of applicants in recent ing up or disintegrating. change. They are always being Under this law of change, and I be my position, but you cannot ques After due consideration we’ll with years. He said: shuffled around in their proportions, tion my motives because while the draw ____ _______ _________________ _ “Most of the boys who apply here lieve it is a law, is even a greater law. even as the material elements, to our complaint and acknowledge election to take either side of the | that any confusion we suffer is due for jobs are totally unfitted and un The law of the 90 odd elements. They form many different forms of so issue was freely mine, I chose what to our own carelessness in reading; trained. Our schools, at least those never change in themselves. They cieties, of persons, of - groups, and probably is the unpopular side be far example, the headline, “British in this city, have ceased to turn out change in their proportions with each give us a myriad'bf sociological cause I believe it is the right side Say Dozen Axis Ship K. O’d,” didn’t self-reliant- students. We want boys each other and the results are infinite, structures. In thomaelves, however, for the welfare of the American mean they were O. K. as was our first to enter the employ of our company but the elements themselves are in- the fundemegfol truths never change, people.” who have initiative and imagination destrutible thought. even as in the material elements. *' I ' think every intangible or moral We certainly do not agree with and who can figure things out for It remains for you and me to put thing, which by the way cannot be Oregon’s junior senator and we be themselves.” During the last war a check of the lieve he mis-represented the people called a thing, we observe, come in those fundamental elements, both “ But our schools are going in the soldiers revealed that they listed the contact with or hear about, is con physical and moral, together in the of Oregon just as much as did the cardinal virtues as courage, unselfish opposite direction in training our tinually in the process of change also. best possible fashion. others in the senate misrepresent ness, generosity and modesty or hu youth. The child is taught to look Our social laws, our rules of conduct, Furthermore. I believe the eminent their states in opposing this measure to his teacher for the method of doing mility. A warrior would naturally our inhibitions, if you please, are con- scientist that skillfully handles the so vital to the future welfare of the place courage first for cowardice in things, even for the way he should United States. a soldier is near treason. Unselfish think about them. The pupil is taught We do not in any way question ness and generosity are almost syn to memorize and not to think. The Senator Holman’s honesty of purpose, onymous and might be called the bed next result is that when boys enter but we do think his judgment was rock for all other virtues. However, our employ, we really have to start rotten! it is humility which is the most dif their education. This is particularly ficult of attainment. From the cock unfortunate because not only our KEEPING AMERICA POSTED sureness of youth to the settled ways company but nearly all companies f are crying out for young men able to Throughout the country during the of age, we are all too prone to think take responsibility, possessing sound we know more than the other fellow. next few months, outdoor posters are judgment and real imagination." appearing that tell a story all Amer Humility is a fragrance which sweet Perhaps this is one the answers as icans can understand and appreciate. ens all other beautiful traits of char to why so many of our young people They speak of matters of direct con acter. are experiencing difficulty in find cern to every one of us at the present ing jobs. Many of our educators do moment, and they speak of these mat After robbing France of her food not seem to be perturbed about it; ters in simple, effective terms. stuffs Germany tries to lay the blame simply shrug their shoulders and say One poster shows Uncle Sam— for the consequent shortage upon the that if there are no jobs for the young, symbolizing Americans in every walk ! British blockade, If the French of life—laying aside his familiar' really want to be fed, the quickest they should be kept just that much longer in school. striped Hat and putting on a work- way is for the remnants of the French That, of course, means larger en man’s cap, preparatory to doing an fleet and the colonial armies under rollments in the schools, necessitating industrial job we are all conscious General Weygand to join the English more class-rooms and more teachers. needs doing. The slogan on it reads forces and bring the war to a speedy It leads one to wonder whether our simply—“Defend American Freedom end. If Hitler gains complete dom- schools are run for the benefit of the —It’s Everybody’s Job.” Thus we ¡nation of continental Europe, French teachers or of the pupils. Needless are reminded that industry can only stomachs will be hungry for years to say, and this is rather important, ' provide the defense materials to make > to come, it adds to an already top-heavy tax « this country and its freedom secure —o— if it has the cooperation and the un- Garden Note: It you are preparing burden. Even as recently as a generation derstanding of all other groups and flats for seedlings now, be sure to individuals in our economy. 1 provide tor drainage in the bottom oL ago, most of our young people were The other poster bears the slogan:’ the box, sift the upper soil In the flat, through with their Schooling at 13 or 14 years of age. They went to work. “Industry—Working for Your De- cover the seeds about the depth of fense.” And it shows a typical their diameter with sand or fine dirt. Our standaid of living was constantly American family with a bakground After firming the soil over them, wat- rising. Let it not be argued that this of busy factories. It complements er well and place a damp newspaper was because we then had untold We still have the first drawing, bearing as it does on top of the box. Watch it carefully natural resources. the reminder that it is industry, pro- I and remove as soon as the shoots them plus synthetic resources greater dnetive industry, that provides the • break through the ground. Shade the than anything ever known in the real safeguards for our American lib- young plants but do not water during past. Is the afore-mentioned business erties and our American security, in seed germination nor too soon after- man correct’’ ’Is it possible that our ordinary peacetime and in times of wards. , system of education is smothering the extraordinary stress. These two posters, seen in towns of However mucn we may begrudge initiative of a formerly free people all sizes throughout the land, have the money going to Uncle Sam now Can it be that our educational meth been painted by the distinguished ar for all the experimenta, relief rack ods are fitting our children to be the tist, McClelland Barclay, for the eteers and hordes of unnecessary of slaves of a communist or nazi govern National Association of Manufactur fice holders, the additional ten per ment, under which they will be told ers. Members of the Outdoor Ad eent assessed for defense is gladly what to do and when and how to do vertising Association have made their paid. ■ We wish that the whole of our it? For 150 years we developed a peo widespread appearance possible by income tax could be so applied, in donating the space for them in the stead of the greater pert being fbt ple who relied upon themselves and interests of the national welfare and government deficits due to appropria- whose courage and free enterprise build the greatest nation of free peo- for prò)« - f níiisqivy « Agricultural Sections Leaden Oregon— Population Increases What's Wrong With Our Schools? I. What Do You Think? I . i : Í£- » Ì t f I I ! j 1. Germany 1s pledged to destroy Athens if a' single bomb drops on Sofia. Germany is good at destroy ing things and probably could keep , that promise better than she has many others; for instance, “last ter ritorial acquisition,” “dine in Buck- [ ingham palace Sept. 15, 1540,” etc. T we took to “government“ in our every extremity, forging that in a re- 1 public, we ourselves are the ‘govern ment’ and that we should take care of ourselves. Our so-called ‘Liberals’ think that we are through. Why do they thjnk sb What fundamental change has come over us? Education, we know ton county came from the influx of suburbanites from Portland and the vast Bonneville project caused the great growth of Hood River county. For counties with population in creases from 10 to 25 per cent, the reasons were much the same but not so forceful. Klamath county’s gain came from an increase in logging and lumber manufacture, extension of its agriculture, and growing importance as a distributing center. Coos and Douglas counties showed gains be cause of Jogging and smaller fanning. The cluster of central Willamette valley counties gained because of the increase in logging, smaller fruits and vegetable growing and the general expansion of industry, particularly the lumber products and food pro cessing industries. The declines in population in seven counties came from the return of sub marginal lands to the federal govern ment, logging off lands and the block ing of small farms together for tractor fanning. 1 1 " L ' " —' lì ■■ physical elements, and eventually demonstrates to you and me the won derful results he attains is no more to be honored, adored, admired and praised than the humble citizen who has handled the moral elements in such a fashion, that he exhibits a wonderful character. It takes per sistent, conscientious effort to attain either. □ Tournament Play MON.. TUES. - FRI. NITES Bowling l«c par line Till « P. M. t Except Satuday and Sunday Coquille Bowling Alleys I ; Southwestern Motors Coquille Myr|le Point e ¿andon ♦’ 5 «te* W» r