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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1942)
TWENTY YEARS AGO| without penalty is very much smaller U an. 1 ast year in th is county.------- _ Fragment» of Fact and Fancy I Mrs. W. C. Laird, who arrived here ■frtim Honolulu last Friday, expects i to remain for a two months* visit be fore starting back. Fewer Religions More Religion By GEORGE PECK y What America, and the world needs today is fewer religions and more re- ttgfon; fewer tenets sad damns and '¿‘ a bit more of the milk of human kind ness. Recently we had the pleasure of seeing “How Green Is My Valley?” the motion picture adjudged the best of 1M1. It sets forth all misfor tunes of mankind brought about by brutality, evil-mindednete and thoughtlessness It emerges a great film, achieving dramatic power be cause the baser qualities of mankind are contrasted with tne sweet and fine. It made us realize once again just Ixiw unnecessary is most of the suf fering we see about us. A little.of it can be cured by Government regu lation and legislation, but it goes deeper than that and becomes our .responsibility—yours, dear reader, and'ours. . ' ■' Club and church women are active ly engaged in promoting the Bundles Some of us are deluded with the Day Campaign designed to collect and ship.spare clothing to help clothe idea that Government by itself can adjust the relationships of men. the near-naked of the Near Rast. Others among us, believe that going* Archie O. Walker left Monday to church or supporting the church morning for San Francisco in re ends our obligation to‘society. The sponse to a telegram that his mother, former is futile, the latter false. Mrs. Anna Walker, was not expected Only by being more patient, more to live. a thoughtful, more tolerant of others about us, can suffering really be al If th? world owes Uncle Sam eight leviated. Sympathetic understand een billions, as « Washington dis ing and consideration of our nelgh- patch affirms, the world la, certainly " • ■ •.... ■■ . J bankrupt. It wouldnt sell for ever, they add, The Bailes Ik too close ; enough to pay the MIL to the ocean and the policy is to push ' all new industries inland at least i -. would be impossible for the machines 200 miles, if possible. No- powder I to operate. From Curry to Clatsop plant will be built, however, uness counties detachments of horse cavalry WPB decides that existing plants are will be spread supplementing exist- insufficient. One story is that the plants now operating have capacity ! ing forces. '• - Gold Beach, at thejnouth of Rogue to provide all the propellants required river, has asked for an army air base fur a global war. but for the present, at least, nothing r. will be done, - •................................... — .. For several years growem_of beW War production board is interested in the lime deposits of Wallowa and Baker counties (lime plays an im portant part In a number of materials grass in Clatsop county have been urging an appropriation which would permit department of agriculture scientists to study grasses to deter mine which are best for cértain lo- loc'ating a war industry in Grant county adjacent to the chromite de posits in the John Day country, and transporting lime to the site. Nothing definite as to this, but it is in the conversation stage. bore, our friends, yes. even of our enemies will enable us to overlook their supposed faults which so great- I ly , i u i a s us. America. is fighting a [great war against cruelty anil oppres sion against the pagan doctrine that any pedple has the right to force its dictum on another people. So lg£. the battle has gone-against-us. We i<-.u the tide will not turn in our favor until we abandon our mater- I lalism and stop demanding rights which we ^either have earned nor deserve. Even if we defeat our military ene mies, we can Still lose the war if we do not as a nation * experience a spiritual regeneration; if we do not substitute the words “sympathy, un derstanding and sacrifice” for “my rights and gimme.” • ‘ There is too much of hatred, bru tality and suffering running rampant in the world today, Let us resolve here and now, not to add to the world's woe by any harsh word or covert act of ours, Let us further resolve to be more cheerful, more kindly, more self-sacrificing to those about us, beginning with our own family and reaching out to all with whom we come in contact. Self-sacrifice is the child of love and love is of the being of God. Yes, wu need fewer religions hnd more re ligion— less hatred and more love less cursing and more prayer- less •'gimmes”- and more giving. 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