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H. A. YQVNG and M. O. GSIMJM
1 (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday.
H. A. YOUNG. Editor
June2,lW2)
Subecriptten Batea
Body of. J. C. Hutchins, of Dallas,
»2.00 , was found in the River here last
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three Months
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SO I Friday afternoon, three months after
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No sul ibscriplion
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__ — unless
,____ _ paid i suicide.
for in advance. This rule is impers-
ti ve.
Mrs. Mary Randleman, of Beaver
Hill,
is the only one of all women
Entered at the Coquille Poetoffice as
jurors drawn for the June term of
Second Claas Mall Matter.
court, who will appear for duty next
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Monday.
H. L. Johnson was yesterday after
noon appointed jailer by Sheriff El
lingsen to succeed C. C. Price, who
resigned.
Pillit
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Mrs. F. L* Greenough and children
left this morning for Astoria, where
they wiH visit her parents during the
summer.
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certainly fortunate in the number of
hie personal psychical experiences
for he lists a half dozen or so. He
not only feels the horror of haunted
dwellings but in one instance “strayed
into another region of time.” His
belief is that former human emotions
leave their mark upon the physical
rocks or walls and some of these
emanations are happy while others
are evil, the most horrible being of
Washington, D. C., June 9—Oregon
sufficient strength to be felt by later
farmers are rapidly discovering what
residents.
All this could be dismissed as a is meant by priorities, and that even
“false creation, proceeding from the when a priority rating has been ob
heat-oppressed brain.” However, in tained there is no assurance that the
many people’s lives there are unex material will be available. Sample:
plained phenomena which are often A grower of turkeys on a large scale
put d<pvn as pure fancy and forgot In the Willamette valley (he sells his
ten. It may be that in the building of turkey eggs to John Townsend, for
Ajnerica so much hard work went mer U. 8. senator, who sells many
into the clearing of the wilderness thousand turkeys each year.) has been
and the construction of its homes that trying without success to secure suf
there was not any time or thought for ficient chicken wire to pen his birds.
evil spirits. Indeed, ghosts in our Another farmer in the Valley is un
United States are decidedly out of able to purchase hoes because it will
style and haunted houses are a sub not be used for irrigating crops. An
other who had need for a few bags of
ject for Jest.
But the fact remains there occur cement cannot get the material. As
many phenomena which are unex a special favor the munitions board
plainable and unwelcome to the sci released 300 tons of nails for farm
entific student who in seeking for the use, but this tonnage must be divided
basic laws of the universe does not with Washington state.
Oregon State college is a land-grant
appreciate anything which sets at
i college and students have military
variance his logical findings.
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Take for example the case of Mary tralning- «OTC. Recently navy re-
Keagy a century Jgo in iuinoi. Mary; -UlUng «Hirer. were on the campus
” ”e 'attic to lay swsy her, J
such, but always referred to her as law.
At University of Oregon the
GET YOUR RUBBER
HEELS and SOLES
Ko Keel
F Shoe Shop
Glen Jones
sa
From where I sit...
¿y Joe Marsh
Berry growers, those with goose
berries, may lose a large part of their
crop this s sa a sn, and rationing and
priorities are responsible. War pro
duction board is husbanding every
pound of tin. Canneries are allowed
a percentage of tin based on the crop
they peeked teat year. It was a poor
year for gooseberries and the crop
was light: now there la a heavy crop
and the canneries could put up a sub
stantial increase over
last year
WPB has heard the complaint of the
gooseberry growers but is standing
like a rock on its original allotment
plan, refusing to make a concession
for more tin. With this situation con
fronting the canners, the grower will
get it in the neck.
grower
lai ability, hard work and self-de-
nial have made, savings over and
above their subsistence requirements.
There is no guarantee that these
savings will earn a' profit—In fact
there is no assurance that the inves
tor will not lose all or part of his
saving*. It la «11 vary speculative
under Free Enterprise. That is our
quarrel with planned economies—
under them everybody is supposed to
lime this just can t be
The history of American busi
ness shows that the failures greatly
exceed the successes, that there is
more than an even chance the inves
tor will lose «11 or part when he in
vests his savings.
Even if the investor does make a
profit on his invested savings, at best,
it will amount to only a small an
nua) return on his invested savings,
ever and. against which he takes the
risk of losing 100 percent of his in
vestment. At the race track, a gam
bler betting on a horse at even
money, really t^iea no more risk of
losing his entire bet and stands to
make a quick profit of 100 percent
plus a quick return of his entire in
vestment. Please do not infer that
we are holding any brief for betting
on horses or that we consider busi
ness is gambling.
Neverthless in
vesting one's savings in a business
venture is risky, and men and women
must have reasonable assurance of
a profit commensurstg igith the risk
involved, in order to indue* them to
invest their savings.
The advocates of the various
socialistic systems loudly decry the
huge profits made under what they
erroneously term the "Profit Sys-
tern.” They pick out the few isolated
instances where big profits have
been made and say nothing of the
Such more numerous small profits.
ley are very mum about the losses
and completely tongue-tied regard
ing the big losses. Zealous crusaders
for impractical reforms are ever
prone to paint only one side of the
picture—they only cite one part of
the facts.
This brings us back to what we said
at the outset—there is no such thing
as a "Profit System.” That is a mis
nomer, just as inaccurate as referring
to the dual personality of Dr. Jeckyll
and Mr. Hyde by only one of the
names. The right name of this splen
did system' Is “The Profit And I-os.
System." In misnaming it, .we lend
encouragement to its defamers—those
critics who either are sublimely
ignorant about losses or are not fair
chirellng ln
She never recognized her mother, as may require a change in the. federal
Phone 82 M.
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Just Exactly What k
The Profit System?
*7 ■ pjwtty.gi/1, had just
ioo I Work al
bocks. In standing up after this act/”a’*o*e^-want*‘d by th* aJn'3r' Th*
she hit her head against an attic cbarter
“ l«nd-grant co liege pro-
beam and drove a nail into her brain
that it has commitments to the
After a long ijlnes. her physical body
arniy ra^d • h«s and the
recovered but her mind was "touch- 'recruiters withdrew. Army and navy
ed” and she had the gift of second
now ,n consultation to determine
sight. Not that she could «ee into I whether they ran effect a cotnprnw®^
the future but she was clairvoyant, and both groups solicit students. It
Cant
Blame The Negro
Here’S a priorities story that is not
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. a military secret. A garbage man,
rum off the ball team this summer,
going through an army post,, in ad
The crew at Cedar Point had just
before the sapply run« out.
dition to the garbage had picked ufc
started to work and were loading
a negro. When halted by a sentry
poles. Bill had hold of the chain I
It la doubtful If we we ran
(the man’s answer to the challenge as
around the poles when it slipped and
By GEORGE PECK
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repleaisk our stork-....
the hook cut the end of his right i There is *o answer to that question. to what he had there, was "garbage
thumb off just below the first joint. There never has been any such sys and a nigger.'
After the third answer of that kind
tem, is not now nor ever will be.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Fuhrman and There is, however, a “Profit And the paasenger spoke up, “Mr. White
children and Mrs. Emma Lyons Loss System,” a system with which man, can’t you #11 give me number
started Wednesday morning in their we are an familiar— one that entails one priorittes?” -
Reo for Vancouver, B.
where they both an opportunity for profit and a
Calling carda, 50 tor »1.00.
will spend two or three weeks. They chance of loss. Men engage in busi
bä —
have a cottage there and will enjoy ness primarily in the hope of making
the sea breezes of Puget Sound.
a profit but unfortunately their hopes
are ■ not always realized and often
M. D. ltietman, a brother of Dr. there Is a loss instead.
C. A. Rietman of this city, came down
Profit in industry is what is left
from Portland Wednesday afternoon after all materials, power and every
for a visit with the doctor, and is as thing but human labor have been
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sisting in Fuhrman’s Pharmacy dur paid for. Profit represents that part
ing the latter's absence.
contributed by human imagination,
planning, skill and hard work. Loss
J. E. Perrott was this week ap- is
| the
- deficit
• •• •• which
• • ■ arises
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because - the
pointed night marshal by Mayor] penning has been faulty or insuffi-
why tho Pilgrims landed at Ply
mouth Reck instead ef oeasewhavo
Hamilton.
cient skill has been exercised or there
«tea.
has not been enough hard work or a
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C. R. Hancock the first of the week combination of all three.
moved his Groceteria from the Rose
This profit over the combined
Interesting, isn’t it, th^ way
building on Front street to the W. O, manufacturing industries of the coun
simple, everyday beverage like
W. building recently vacated by the try is shown by government reports
beer can get tangled up with his
Farmers store.
to be divided 02 percent from each
tory!
dollar to labor which does the work,
Maybe it’s because there’s some
The Coquille Service Station baa three cents to .management which
thing fundamental and human
sold four Fords the past week, J. L. does the planning and superintend
about beer. It’s the beverage of
Smith, Perley Crowley, M. O. Haw ing, end 14 cents to capital which puts
moderate, sonaibio, well-behaved
Por Instance -1 read the other
kins and Jensen Bros., of Norway, both labor and management to work.
people in every part of the world,
day about a piece of pottery some
being the purchaaers.
and always has been.
Capital does not take all of its 14
scientists dug up in Mesopotamia.
cento in cash dividends because a
On the pottery was a picture aS
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two brewery workers making beer.
At high noon, Sunday, May 28, a portion of it is set aside to build new
pretty home wedding took place at plants and buy extra machinery so
That picture was 8,000 years
the residence of the bride’s parents, that more people can be employed,
old!
see'
kum, when Ethel Paulino Laird and while another portion is set aside as
kum, when Ethel Paulnie Laird and rainy day insurance in order that
«dwin P. S. Abernethy were united business can be carried on and peo
in marriage.
ple employed during unprofitable
periods of operation.
After these wise precautions are
There will be 35,OOtF troops at Med
ford's Camp White. How these sol taken, the balance of the 14 cents
diers will get to Medford and get out is paid to stockholdrs’in cash divi
of there when they have a few days dends. This really is rent on the saV-
The people around the county
The pronunciation of ration has
f-WFAiA*111
i v V- raowV
VVC, predict vinifc
become Cl
a r Hye
issue. 1 We
that clerk’s office were dumfounded this
those who hold out for that form' m‘>rning when the record book was
which rhymes with nation will go ■ opened and a notation showed a mar
evening to
down to defeat before the newer riage license issued last
...
sounding ration that rhymes with ^oy Kl|sw<iUh Nichols and Ada Pearl
It is
fashion.
h recalled'
recalled here that Witteman
Witteman. The ceremony was per-
.when the first world wsr started and f<,rrncd at the home of Mrs. Ada May
the word “allies” became a household Newell Eckblad at Marshfield at■
word that the common pronunciation en
,M* evening, the knot being
for the western half <rf United States, tied by Rev W E CouPer-
at least, was that with the accent on bride is the very efficient stenogprah-
the first syllable. So complete has
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has *rve?Jn lb**
Men the change, however, that today capacity in the sheriffs office for
those who formerly thus spoke the ye“rs.
word would not recognize it today
Earl Leslie came down from Eu
and would think of bowling alleys
or street alleys rather than comrades gene last Saturday for a short vaca
in arms if “allies" were not given tion at home, returning to the Uni
versity Tuesday.
the accent on the second syllable.
—o—
There is another word, the pro
Wm. Howell suffered an accident
nunciation of whifli is being rapidly
changed by the radio. Cantonment Wednesday morning, which will khep
—
should be pronounced with accent on
th* first syllable according to the die-1 explained her sudden laughter by
Honaries. Secondary use gives the ac- saying, “Old Jarie got a spill in the
cent on the second syllable but the snow." When her mother returned,
“o" in the “ton” even then is short. UR developed that the sleigh in which
A third way allows the “toon” pro- she had been riding had been upset, off is a problem to be determined
nunciation.
However a few years Mary could predict the coming of later. The Southern Pacific, which
hence all authorities will hav* to callers and visitors and one* an- ran through Medford when it used the
bbw to usage and give the preference nounced that a family friend at a dis- Siskiyou route, now runs its trains
to fhe “tone” pronunciation now so tance was passing “through the via Klamath Falls and Eugene and
pearly gates.*’
Subsequent news gives Medford the go-by. A freight
common.
confirmed the death of the friend at service is given Medford and that is
Some airplane builders are dipping that precise moment. , Mary died all. The passenger service was aban
into the future like Tennyson, and from eating rat poison which had doned without consulting anyone. The
Interstate commerce commission h'as
predicting that the freight of the been .hidden(?) from her!
Jhe above might be put down-as control over freight and a freight line
world will in time take to the sky.
with “pilots of the purple twilight an old wives’ tale but It happens to cannot be abandoned’without specific
dropping doyrn with costly bales.” be true and doubtless every family orders from IOC, but that
Time magazine says one aeronautical
_______ 2__ has a psychical tradition founded on body, as Medford citizens bava.dis
covered, has no jurisdiction over pas
engineer predicted that New York an actual occurrence.
Some scholars try to explain the senger trains.
will be “shaken ou( of its commanding
The cantonment is rapidly being
trade position, envisaged the Panama European wars as the return to earth
Canal as a ditch of no importance of resurgent military spirits whose built and will be ready for occupancy
as the world’s cargoes moved through motal bodies had been kilted at the within a few months, but how the
the clouds.” Even that would not be prime of life in long past conflicts. 35,000 soldiers are to be transported
as strange as the fact that Tennyson We place no credence in this sugges to the training field is not determined.
foretold that the heavens would be tion but if it could be regarded as And how, in the event of a troop
filled with commerce one hundred possible what a reign of terror this movement, the men are to be moved
years ago, sixty years before the old world is in for when those dying to the coast or embarkation point re
mains a mystery.
Meanwhile the
Wright brothers flew their first air today return at some future time.
unions at the cantonment are said to
plane.
have already cleaned up some »200,-
000 in initiation fees and dues, with
’ "Common Sense About Ghosts” is
much more to harvest from the car
the name of a short essay by Robert
penters, plumbers and day laborers
Graves in the current issue of "The
the latter receiving M cents an hour.
Atlantic Monthly.” The writer is
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(and civilians) and the fats and lano
lin, the latter two items being used
fpr making the war machines, operate
smoothly.
Bee pa for estimate
WML PAPER
awl PAINT
We can SAVE yea am
Greene fir Jensen
T he T own P ump
My tires are going to
laet five years
You could have knocked Doc Perking over with a
butterball when I told him that But I didn’t I just
said: Doc, you’ve got 25,000 mile* coming out of those
time yourself if you let Standard give ’em the right
prescription... and maybe only 10,000 if you don’t.
“What’s the right prescription?” he asks.
First let me stritch ’em
•cientifically so that the
wear is even all ’round.
Then, I said: you come
here once a week regu
larly and let me check the
air—even if you don’t buy
any of that swell Stand
ard Gasoline.
Meet America’s Most Popular
Wild Flower!
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Just think a minute about
the most beautiftil field of
California poppies you’ve
ever seen. Then add 25%-
and you’ve got the field of
poppies that’s pictured in
the Scenic View that we
Standard men are
to start
June 5.
DON'T BUY OIL WITH A HOLE IN IT!
If some of Standard’s famous RPM
Motor Oil and a few drops of some
other oil were heated in watch
crystals, do you know what «would ’
happen? The ordinary oil would
run away from the heat, leaving a
hole in the center! But not “RPM.”
It sticks to the hot spots other
n