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TWENTY YEARS AGO
tows
has [»egged price* to prevent sky
rocketing thus: Hogs *9 per 100;
dairy products, basis of butter pound,
31 cents; chickens IS cents a pound,
eggs 22 cents a dozen. These are the
principal items needed by the British.
Providing the right kind of cromite
can be found, the U. S. Vanadium
Co. of New York intends coming tq
the Pacific northwest, locating in
either Washington or Oregon. .. Rural
population of Oregon is 588.00», an
increase of 93,069 in ten years.
Washington rural population is 814,-
222, an increase of 135,365 in ten
Among the advertisers in this twen- years. The increase is due to better
ty-year old paper were Fuhrman’s farming and living conditions.
Pharmacy, Mrs. Bonnie Walker’s Mil
linery Store, E. G. Opperman, City
Calling cardi, SO for SI.00.
Cleaners and Tailors, The Busy Cor
ner, W. H. Schroederft Sons, Bankers
Life, Co., A. T. Morrison. Agent;
Hillstrom Transportation Co., H. N.
Lorenz, Racket Store, Gould & Gould,
Nosler’s Cash Store, Mt. States Power
Co,, Coast Auto^Lines, P. E. Drane,
Hall & Ireland, Farmers & Mer
chants Bank, Liberty Theatre, First
National Bank, Gardner’s Garage,
See Quick First, Coos & Curry Tele
phone Co., Title Guarantee & Ab
stract Co., Coal by Leo J. Cary,
Fraedrick’s Grocery, Coquille Laun
43* Front SL. Coquille
dry Co., Long’s Machine and Repair
Shop, Knowlton's Drug Store, V. R.
Wilson, Coquille Hardware Co.
Insurance
Fragmenta of Fact
and Fancy
Paraphrasing the famous remark
of one of the signers of the Declara-
! lion of Independence, we are impelled
1 to remark that if the dairymen do not
stick together now, it looks as if
they would be Sluck separately.
The Economics of
Our Notional
Defense Program
In a previous editorial we stated
> that the ultimate function of the De-
; fense Program would be to sink the
nation further into the slough of de-
pression unless certain precautionary
measures are taken NOW.
There are those who believe that
at the end of the war or of the Defense
Program, it is inevitable that we will
experience the severest and longest
depression of our entire history.
They point out that depressions have
always followed in the wake of war
and that the one to follow this pres-
Washington D, C„ April 0—Despite
ent war will be extremely acute be- the assurances given by President
cause of the highly unstable economic Roosevelt that no American soldiers,
conditions that have prevailed in re- sailors or aviators will be sent to fight
cent years all over the world Includ- in Europe and that United States
ing the United States.
help to Britain will consist of sup
We beUeve this can be avoided if plies, there Is a defnlite belief than
we maintain financial equilibrium an A. E. F. will, within, a year, be
during this emergency and that we operating in north Africa. The con
shall be in a much stronger position voy question also worries congress
at the end of the war than will be and this is one reason that congress
the case if we permit an extensive in will not adjourn this year but will
flation of commodity prices and a remain at its post on a hop-skip ba
I great increase of the public debt
sis, prepared R> cope with any situa
One factor that has always made tion within a few days’ time.
i for post-war depresssion has been
It is now certain that the admin
I deflation with its paralying and dev- istration will give aid to Turkey and
I astatlng effect on Free Private Busi- to Yugoslavia. Apparently, the only
’ ness Enterprise. It we do not permit way to send supplies is around the
i inflation of prices during thia war Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of
• period, then we will not have to fear South Africa, and then up the other
a resultant deflation at the end of the coast to the Red sea and Suez canal.
i war or of the Defense Program.
An expeditionary force could also fol
If we manage to balance the budget low the same route,
and hold national debt to somewhere
Whenever the subject of convoys
near its present level, thia will great has been broached to the president
ly minimize the depressing effect of as at press conferences or to his con
high taxes after the war. But tran gressional leaders, his reply has been
scending all thia, we will have built that question la preposterous.
This
it is not strange that foreigners up our morale by having proved to answer, however, has not quieted the
find the English language difficult. ourselves that we can maintain fiscal members of congress. It is generally
Those born to it find it that way, stability in times of emergency. This admitted that if American supplies
too. Take for instance the plural would give us confidence in our abil are to be sent to England they must
forms of words ending in “f” or “fe.” ity to maintain financial equilibrium be accompanied by a convoy, either
The plural for most of the common in the future, come what may.
American or English naval vessels.
During this Defense Program, Under the lease-lend bill destroyers
words of this description, whose roots
are deep in the language, change the there is bound to be some curtailment can be turned over to Canada and
“f” to «y» with the adidtion of “es,” of production of certain peace-time the American crews can volunteer
In addition to this, in the Canadian navy without loss
for example: wife, wives; loaf, loaves; commodities.
thief, thieves; calf, calves, etc. There there are large accumulated shortages of American citizenship. What con
are about fifteen such words; then resulting from ten years of restricted gress knows (and the president has
there are the others which only add capital expansion. The housing situa said a convoy means shooting and
“s” to form the plural, leaving the tion can not be expected to improve shooting means war) is that an Amer
“f” as in the singular, as scarfs, during this emergency and we will ican convoy will be attacked by the
dwarfs, etc. But there are a few emerge with a further shortage of German submarines, and then “we
in I let ween words whose plural form homes. All these shortages and many are in.”
is not definitely fixed: staff becomes more, too numerous to mention, must
staves except when it' means a corps be produced in the post-war period.
Congress is taking time by the fore
By making prompt use of new sci lock. It is starting to investigate the
of officers, then staffs; wharves is
used in United States, wharfs in Eng entific discoveries and by continu national defense contracts now in
land and hooves and turves are losing ously installing more efficient plant stead of waiting until after the war
and equipment, we should be able,
out to hoofs and turfs.
is over and more damage is done. A i
It may be confusing but at least after the war, to produce at lower cost special committee’of the senate will |
ttie language is not a dead one, cast than ever before. Europe will be in investigate why contracts have been
in an unchangeable mold, rather it is a sad state physically, financially distributed geographically; why cer
a live, flourishing tongue growing and morally, no matter which side tain sections of the county have been
wins, but this country, provided we
richer in meaning every decade.
given contracts (and in exposed posi
are wise enough to prevent inflation
tions within 200 miles of the coast)
What a differencse one little word and hold down the public debt, can and otheis have been ignored. The
confidently
expect
to
emerge
from
makes and how much it reveals of a
sale of land for certain cantonments
person’s prejuidces and outlook on ti>e debacle in a strong international and defense plants reeks with scan- .
life. When Madam Perkins said last competitive position.
dal. One cantonment was estimated
What Is needed Is a national pro
week there were "onlj^ eight strikes
to cost *9,000,000 and it will cost
tlueatening defense industry, she gram which will coordinate the pres *22.000,000 because of being improp
showed her biased viewpoint. If she ent administrative agencies of the
erly located. This committee will in
had said there are at least eight government. No new agency need be vestigate the reason for giving a few
strikes threatening defense, her at set up, but under the leadership of general contractors more than one
titude toward the present crisis would the president, team-work can be ef billion dollars* worth of work while
have appeared very different. We also fected. Only by this method shall we scares of others were ignored. Strikes,
differ with her on limiting the num be able to adjust national consump
too will be probed where they have
ber to eight, any strike now is a blow tion in the interests of National De
halted defense orders and some effort
to our national unity and water over fense, maintain financial stability, will be made to determine how many
prevent serious inflation of prices,
ttie axis wheel.
millions of dollars have been collect
’carry through the Defense Program,
ed by dues before an American citi
Probably some learned scholar could and minimize the difficulties of post
zen can work for national defense.
supply u< with all the dope. on a war readjustments. Congres* should Estimates range from *30,000,BOO to
question that ha4 been intriguing our immediately pass the necessary leg >80,000,000
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lion and the fever of production, and
the fact that congress is investigating
will prevent graft and crookedness,
for not all are patriots.
The lengths to which national de
fense can be stretched is remarkable.
The government, through one of its
bureaus suggests that rats be exter
minated in the .cause of defense. This
report says that is one rat for every
two persons in the city mentioned and
one rat to every person in rural
areas. Annual destruction caused by
rats is estimated at *180,000,000. On
the farms rat damage is about *10
a year, or *63,000,000 for all farms,
the rodents eat grain in shocks and
granaries, from mangers, pig sties and
poultry yards. No estimate is made
of baby chicks and eggs destroyed,
but the report cites 188 chickens
killed one night on a «ingle farm.
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biology, physiology and physics.
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