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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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years’ voyage to the Pacific ocean tion, but a life; not a philosophy of Oregon
have notified the joint con-
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bq^a life, and a living process.—
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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.
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Real Danger To
America May Come
After The . War
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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. Even the
British Empire experienced severe
insurrection after its disastrous and
costly wars with France’s Napoleon.
America could be next.
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