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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1942)
Y, JULY tl. IMS. The Sentinel a of the bill was to elimin- in the north- «.A. TOPNO fl. A. TOUNG, I I Offioo Comer W. First and Willard 86 » • • ••••••••• Fragmente of Fact * . ■ * ... . • _ — . ..... A. B. Gidley, who was awarded the contract for building the water works dam on Rink creek, put six or eight men at work on the dam site Tuesday morning clearing the underbrush and getting ready to start operations. » Southern Oregon is destined to be materially benefitted by the develop ment of a big coal field on the Co quille river, near Riverton, Ore., ac cording to H. C. Day, of Eugene, who is interested in the project and is now in Portland. • •••«•• flflflfl • a/uf Fané y • At the meeting of the directors of school district No. 8 last Friday eve ning the contracts of Mrs. Rosa E. Glosaop and Miss Ella.M. Beneman were approved. / Just before the bell game here last Sunday Art Berg was presented with a |7S watch and chain by local base ball fans in recognition of his ser vices . to Jhe team. Being a resident of Coquille, he has pitched this year without salary and the fans took this means of showing their appreciation. A charivari party last night made things very interesting for Hugh T. Finley, who was married last Monday to Alda L. Vowell, by Justice J. J. Stanley at his office here. T1TT7 Jr circle our string is Time To Ont Down. There are 17 auto freight lines giving service be tween Portland and a certain Wil lamette Valley city. No one line, as a general thing, carries capacity loads. The time is fast approaching when all these trucks will load at one cen tral terminal, leave only with full loads and take turns making the trips. This U only sensible from every standpoint. The same condition ap plies to almost every run and the sooner the operators get together on this thing and rotate their trucks with capacity loads the better it will be for everyone. Washington, D. C.,-^July 33—With in a few months thousands of addi tional draftees will be taken into the army from Oregon. The reason is that the war department plans doub ling the present size of the army and sending enough troops to Europe far a second front. Arrangements far the second front are now under way and thia has. been one of the important matters discussed at the secret confer ence of Prime Mniister Winston Churchill end President Roosevelt. It was also discussed at the conference of the president and Foreign Minister Molotov when the Russians was in the national capital. In anticipation for tiie second front expeditionary force the quartermas ter’s department has been on a spend ing orgy freezing food and clothing for the soldiers. Tons of supplies will be required for each soldier There will be fewer canned goods on grocery shelves; no woolen blankets or suits in the stores; less coffee. First of everything, of course, must be furnished the troops; civilians must take second place, as is natural in war times. In the building up of the armed forces there has been reclassification of ail with dependents. Heretofore a dependent had kept a selectee from being taken into the service, but so great will be the demand for more troops that invasion of the" ranks of married men and of single men with a dependent will be made. As a rule the man working in a war industry, such as a shipyard, will be kept there, but as women are infiltered into in dustry many of the men will be called to the colors. It is all a phase in the changing lifg* which is sweeping the United States. marking on fl* globe with San Fran cisco at the center, we find Tripoli next and then the eastern coast of Africa slightly below the strategic port of Dakar. But will Dakar be so important, even as an enemy sub marine base, when the allied freight takes to the air? Crossing the Atlantic ocean and the equator we touch at Rio de Jan eiro and finally at the Straits of Ma gellan. That old Portuguese navi gator who discovered these straits would probably not have been so It is said that the cantonment greatly surprised if told that some now under construction at Corvallis day men would fly from Spain to the will be the largest in the United tip of South America in a couple of States. It will be several months days for the race then was not so far before the troops begin arriving. Es ... advanced from the belief in wizardy timates vary as to the unmber of sol and magic carpets as later, say some diers that will be stationed at the 300 years later when New England whaling Vessels were rounding the Corvallis camp, but It is said that it Horn. Just what these sturdy old will contain more people than the en A wise man win always be a tire population of any city in Oregon salts would have thought of a two- day journey from Cape Cod to Cape Christian, because the perfection of outside the metropolitan area of Port - Horn is impossible to imagine for wisdom is to know where lies tran land. their voyages were rather lengthy. quillity of mind, and how to attain it, As one writer has put it: “For a which Christianity teaches.—Lender. Notwithstanding He who shall introduce into pub Homer T. Bone, of Washington, in whaler’s wife to have doubled the Cape half a dozen times was nothing lic affairs the principles of primitive i sists that the Columbia power author unusual and many a bride stepped Christianity will change the face of . ity bill he sposfbors is what the peo from her home aboard her husband’s1 the world—Benjamin Franklin. , ple want and that they are crying Christianity is not theory or specula- 1 for its enactment, various. cities in ship for a honeymoon on a three i years’ voyage to the Pacific ocean tion, but a life; not a philosophy of Oregon have notified the joint con- - Ik1 ft trwirpoclrin bq^a life, and a living process.— .. »»■»■ 1 * .. , zi,, • » IMr.'ii tes of Plato,’ the controversial be dropped 1, hl, kind oi lh,l will win th, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that for the duration. On the other hand, war for us. A dreamer of great the specific difference between their the state grange* of Washington and things who is practical enough to words and Christ’s is the difference Oregon are supporting the bill as are make his visions come true is the between en inquiry and a revelation. certain PUDs in the two states. Rep. rarest genius of alL Called a miracle —Joseph Parker. Walter M. Pierce, a public ownership man, ho may be the instrument by «Christianity is the companion of man told the committee he favors which this nation achieves a more liberty in all its rnntlhrtr , »a cradle the bill but that it must be amended, speedy victory and millions of lives of its infancy, and the divine source for he prefers a local board rather are thereby saved. Tocqueville. than the secretary of the interior in Gems of Thought Airplane carriers, never before built in Oregon, will be rolling off the ways in a few months. The Kaiser outfit in Portland will have a contract to produce two score of these small, speedv carriers, each to carry about 30 fighting planes. All of the carriers are to be completed and delivered by the end of 1943. There is such a rush for carriers that all larger types of warships will be pushed aside temporarily to make room for them. Radios will soon be hard to get, but Nelson Rockefeller, coordinator of inter-American affairs, intends distributing free in Central and South America sets manufactured in the United States. Also he will print and distribute a weekly, similar to Life, gratis to the people of Latin America. He will spend >3,600,000 this fiscal year on radio entertainment; 62,700,- 000 on free moving pictures; he will subsidize Latin-American newspapers to print favorable reports of the United States. This much has leaked out, but in handling the 628,000,000 appropriation Senator McKellar said Rockefeller's testimony k was not printed in committee hearings “be cause it was thought it would not be beneficial to the United States” to reveal what Rockefeller would do with the «honey. Senator McNary tried, ineffectively, to ascertain what Rockefeller would spend for “enter tainment of officials and others of the other American republics.” This, too, was a “military secret.” However, Rockefeller has arranged to have RFCC spend 6100,000,000 in the build ing of 100 wind-jammers in South America to bring bananas, coffee and other products to the United States in these sailing ships, which could be built quicker along Columbia river or the Puget sound down as a panic-stricken alarmist who peeps under every filing cabinet and desk in search of Reds and Pinks. We do not'tremble in our bods in the fear of menacing Fuehrers lurking in our political catacombs. They and their ilk are ever with us, and are never the ones to lend substance to revolution. Revolution occurs only when an enraged middle-class (the back-bone of every nation) sees’ its savings, its property and Its liveli hood swept away on a tide of phoney money. Thia class is the only one that has the ability, the courage and the weight of numbers to carry on either war or revolution. The jackals, the Hitlers and the Mussolinis, always are lurking behind the pack ready to close in, but the preliminary work always is done by the normally sound, honest middle-class driven to hysteria by economic chaos. Steps must be taken now to safe guard our post-war solvency. Such measures must not and need not in terfere with our all-out war efforts. Government must tax instead of bor row. Borrowing simply means that we will pay twice—once while we are fighting the war and again after we have won it. The extra billions now flowing into America pay enve- lopes are of little value to the wage earners. Already priorities have re duced tiie number of things which can be purchased, with even more drastic reductions in the offing. Our money today is being used to outbid our neighbors for the few things still left for sale. This serves only to drive prices up leaving us with noth ing more than we had before. If this mpney were drawn off in taxes, we would be no poorer for the im mediate present and would be insur ing our economic future. *Tis an unpopular note we sound but we would be less than honest and forthright if we didn’t shout it from the housetops. If we are to avoid the necessity of Inflation and repudia tion. Uncle Sam must tax us to the hilt. He is a smart old fellow—some times a bit slow to act—sometimes too indulgent of his nieces and nep hews- but in the long run ho always has taken the proper action. We are counting on him to run true to form In this present emergency. We pre dict that he only has begun to tax-^-l that we “ain’t” seen nothing yet— that he is gradually awakening to the fact that nations even as indi viduals and business concerns can not indefinitely borrow beyond their incomes without coming a crdpper. This tax program will call for a high degree of political courage in Washington. Let’s teU our Congress men that we can “take it"; that if or dinary government expenses are pared to the bone we will not quibble about any legitimate expenditure foi prosecuting the war. Let’s stiffen their courage by letting them know we have the intestinal fortitude to pay for the war as we go so that in winninr<t abroad, we also will defin itely avoid defeat at home. 1 4 Coquille Studio Phone 121L K / Real Danger To America May Come After The . War 2 .. __ * Make no mistake about it. America is fighting for economic security. If we lose it at home-while winning the war abroad, the terrible disillusion ment of America’s middle-class might precipitate revolution. The war on which we have ein- barked must be won. The nation is girding its loins. We have absolute confidence that victory will be ours abroad The real danger to America la what may come after the war. If the gov ernment goes bankrupt in defeating the Axis powers, there is little hope of avoiding a worse conflict within our own borders. We mean revolu tion—not a revolution at the polls but a revolution with guns and corpses—with Americans slaughter ing Americans. All history proves that revolution inevitably follows in the wake of governments gone broke. It hap pened in the Russian Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Roman Empire, the Italian Empire and the German Republic. The French Empire’ is the most recent upon which the blight of insolvency has fallen. 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