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• <* ■ ■«' « VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE. OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY M, ■ •— The Sentinel * S00D FOCI IS A MOD •..¡■uà ■—- '.i- ■ TWENTY YEARS AGO | |j TOWS — -........... .................. Etonomic Equality Is Not Possible • I .a. ' . M XJ H. A. YOUNG and M. D. GRIMES Publishers H. A. YOUNG, Editar Subscription Rates (Taken TrOm The Sentinel Of Friday, July 28, 1922) Chas. Collier, one of the oldest settlers in Çoo» county, died at his home on the Myrtle Point road, just outside the city limits at five o’clock last Sunday morning and was buried in the Masonic cemetery Monday af ternoon at two o’clock. The services at the Ellingson Chapel were con ducted by Rev. A. B. Pendleton. “Peggy“ Norton last night, about! ByGeorg* Peck be the losers thereby. It would be idle to maintain that under our American System, rewards always are fair and equitable Amer-. ■cans haVe made contributions to sci ence. medicine, art, literature, etc., and have not received commensurate compensation. We do claim, however that they are*the exceptions and not the rule, and that* in the great ma jority of cases rewards are meted out in keeping with the service ren dered. Every decent American, and most of us are decent, has an underlying desire not only to improve his own condition but of others as well. But by the same token, every clear-head ed American knows that society as a whole cannot be improved except for a transitory period by arbitrarily re distributing wealth as we are doing now or through the adoption of state socialism or collectivism or any of the manifold other Isms which differ , in name only and have the same un sound theories unedrlying them. Economic equality is not possible —it is a fantastic delusion. Our American system of free enterprise, '> with all i|s faults, has demonstrated it is the best ever devised—and it is a system based on disparity of in- com*. ■ ■ Man never has been able, despite 1:30, noticed fire burning outside the* many attempts, to set up and maintain new chimney which Chas. Willey has! a civilization in-which there was ab One Year ._—------ ------- ............ $2.00 just had built for the bakery going A state school fund apportioned on solute equality of incomes. The 5ix Months---------- -------------------- 1.00 in next door to his place on Front ¡either a teacher or days’ attendance drastic failures of the past would Three Month»......... ......... 80 street. Mr. Norton, Night Marshal "basis would work a serious hardship No subscription taken unless paid seem to indicate it is doubtful that Perrott, Clyde Gage and Lloyd Mast1 on the sparsly settled counties of cen- tor in advance. This rule is impera he will be able to do ao. The various tive. soon extinguished it with buckets of tral and eastern Oregon according to water and no alarm was given. ! opponents of this plan. While the religious faiths teach of heavens Entered at the Coquille Postoffiee at where all will share alike, but they —O— . -* | unfairness of such an equalization Second Class Mall Matter. teach that this ideal state will come Mr. and Mrs. George H. Chaney are plan would not be so evident as long after man’s death, not while he treads touring Canada via the Canadian Pa- as it was financed out of income tax thp earth. Marshfield Fire—$200,000 Confla cific railrqad and will be at Lake revenues it would become immedia- There never has been and never tely evident upon a return to a levy can be on this earth, a civilization in gration Wipes Out Part of the Busi Louise for the week end. —o— I against property dor support of such ness Section—The worst fire Marsh which each individual has made or field e<er had started last Sunday Elsewnere in this issue Water Su a fund, it is pointed out. will make an equal contribution to tTIH For example a state levy against the needs of society. Granting the morning in ’the Portland Rooming perintendent Epperson has a notice .... , ^,^,...9 House about 3:30 and for a time forbidding the use at any time of city property would take nearly four times truth of the aforesaid statement, (we as much money out of Sherman coun cannot see how it can be controvert INFLATION”—IN ONE-CYLINDER threatened the whole business dis water for irrigating purposes. ty as that county would receive back ed), it becomes apparent that re trict of the city. WORDS on the basis of actual days attendance. wards cannot be equal and that, When the steamer Elizabeth dock Inflation, as described in the dic The Marshfield city council Mon ed In Golden Gate harbor last Sat Gilliam and Jefferson counties would therefore, there must always be a tionary, is a disproportionate and day evening expressed their appre urday it marked the completion of contribute approximately three times disparity of incomes. - ~ . relatively sharp, and sudden Increase ciation of tlie Coquille Fire Depart as much as such a fund, if financed We have come closer to equality of her six hundredth round trip to by a property levy as they would re incomes in this country than has any in the quantity pf money or credit, ment's services last Sunday morning Bandon-by-the-Sea. ceive back in the form of an equaliza other nation in ah history. This is or both, relative to the amount of ex by sending them a check 'for $75. tion subsidy on the basis of actual change business. In accordance with Alton Grimes and James M. Caugh- days’ attendance.» Other counties because we have operated on a sound the law of quantity theory of money, . Bert and Ernie -Folsom are enjoying theory 'under a system which gives a inflation always produces a nise in a visit from theif father and mother. ell intend leaving next Tuesday on a which would stand torose money un greater reward for a job better done. twQ weeks' vacation trip down the der such a plan include Douglas, the price level. Mr. and Mrs Geo' F. Folsom, their coast in the former’s car. to San Grant, Harney. Lake, Morrow, Mult If it were possible to have every man In simpler language and applied to brothers, Roy and Louis, and their born with equal intelligence, with Oregon’s Traffic Fatalities Down Francisco and possibly Los Angeles. nomah, Tillamook, Umatilla, Wal equal ambition, with equal skill and More Than In The U. the present situation, inflation is niece, Florence. * lowa, and Wasco. - caused by a shortage of consigner with equal energy, then ail could be Traffic fatalities in Oregon show a The lumber mill owned and oper On the other hand the proposed paid the same rewards goods and a tremendous increase in W. L. Kistner this week made a strong downward trend this year, as ated by John Aasen, near the South- w .... equalization plan would work to the the amount of money paid out in deal for Pollock's Confectionery, next One has but to catalogue and index compared to the fatality toll for the wages. door to the Farmers & Merchants ern Pacific depot at Myrtle Point, > advantage to the more populous and one's own circle of friends and ac corresponding periods of last year and was completely destroyed by fire i more prosperous counties of the Wil- For the time being, we have stopped Bank. Mr. Kistner is purchasing the quaintances to realize the absolute the year before, according to Earl making automobiles, refrigerators, place for his son, Kenneth, who took which started shortly before six • lamette valley, the lower Columbia disparity of these virtues or talents Snell, secretary of state, who pointed o’clock Monday morning. [river section and southern Oregon bicycles and other useful, peacetime charge yesterday. __________ or whatever you may care to call out out the Oregon trend in this re U1JL —s-uiL—ia. I mOst of which would take* out Of the them, existing among them. products that we could buy and use .Ji_—JLJLJ________ XJ-----------------U X l -il-1 ■St-LST' . -J------- «. . ... Some spect was better than the national any time, and have concentrated on I Indies and the PtUllipines but as has been repeatedly said, in proposed state fund substantially will be found to be contributing trend. the production of warplanes, tanks, It is to be hoped the gum chewers war time this country will need a die- more than they would put into it much, others not so much, while At the beginning of the third week guns, bombs and other things that of today do not revert to the prac tator for the duration, and among through a levy against property.- still others little qr nothing to the in July, fatalities to date were 28.8 ! are useful only in wartime. We have tices of a generation ago, when be- others who have said that is former needs of society ahd its general wel- per cent under the 1941 toll for the Automobile and tire rationing il tate. No sane, right-thinking per stopped making the things we want .neath every chair seat could be felt President Herbert Hoover within the same period and 27.9 under the toll and are making the things we must the hoarded wads of gum parked past few weeks. •• beginning to be reflected in the reg son would prescribe equality of re for the same period in 1940 istration figures. Secretary at State have to win. the w»r. .. 'there for future use. This thrift in wards for his friendl making such For the nation as a whole, the toil Thousands of formerly unemployed the use of chewihg gum, now happily Several small packers in Oregon Snell reports that’ there were 8,300 unequal donations to the public weal. this year is a little over ten per cent now have jobs. Added thousands . lost in our moft prodigal age, recalls have joined in protesting against the fewer passenger cars registered in It would be the height of ataurdity under the deaths for last year, and are making more money than they an incident of our childhood which no ceiling on livestock and a ceiling Oregon during the first half of this to cut the reward of the biggest down about the same as for the same period ever made before. So, with more has been remembered as our first in on processed meat. The department year than for the same period in 1941. to the level of that going to the small in 1940. money in our pockets to spend and troduction to stark poverty. of agriculture is trying* to work out Registration of trucks, however, show est contributor. Not only would it Snell said he believed Oregon driv- less to spend it on, either the value apian which will prevent small pack an increase of approximately 800 ac Visiting a country school of the be unjust but sooner or later would ert were according wide compliance of money is reduced or the value of one-room type as a very young ers from being forced out of business. counting for a substantial increase jn adversely affect every individual be- | with President Roosevelt’s request for the goods has increased—figure it child our only recollection of the day’s It is suggested that the government the grand total of motor vehicle reg cause the aggregate contribution to either way—the result is the same. events there was an occurrence dur purchase 78 per cent of the product istration fees. Gasoline consumption society" would be smaller, and all S 40-mile maximum speed. The re They both mean inflation to the man ing the recess period. Among the at lend-lease prices, which are going also shows a sharp decline, dropping from the highest to the lowest would duced speeds tend to eliminate many- serious accidents on the highways in the street. pupils at this school were the children to the large packers, and then sell from 134,824,451 gallons for the first and at the same time, they tend to - The danger in inflation lies in the of a poor family. the meat to retailers at a price which six months of 1941 to 127,257,071 The- father had ing the railroad tracks The new increase the life of present automo fact that when it is in operation, all recently died and had left the prob will enable them to make a profit gallons in the corresponding period of regulation was ordered by the high tive equipment. the money we e«yn and all the money lem of getting a livelihood from their and at the same time protect cus this year, a decline of 5.4 per cent way commission acting upon a pe ' Significant of the way reduced we have saved is worth less to us and small rocky farm to the mother. That tomers. The government will lose on for the six-month period with June tition filed by the railroads as an speeds reduce fatal accidents, accord Another consumption figures nine per cent to everyone else. Inflation is just as she tried to do a man's work and with tne transaction, of course. additonal precaution against crossing ing to the secretary of state, are the simple as that and just a* dangerous. little success did not arouse our ad proposal is for the government to buy under those for June, 1941. accidents that might result in loss of figures on rural accidents in Oregon That is why the manufacturers of the miration then, it only set her children the livestock and pay the packer a vital war materials or serious delay Fatalities in rural areas are down country are so interested in combat apart as different by the cruel stand fee for processing it. The war boom has boosted Oregon’s in delivery of these shipments more than 28 per cent, while fatali The lend-lease program is upsetting industrial payroll far the first six ting IL ards of childhood. When one of the ties in urban areas are about the same brood came running to another dur- domestic prices, Il is causing the big months of the current year approxi level as last year. Most of Oregon’s Oregon residents turned itr a total concerns to outbid the small packers ing recess and demanded the family mately 50 per cent above the figures fatal accidents occur in rural areas gum the latter was chewing, saying for livestock. The price of butter has for the corresponding period in 1941, of 10,221 tons of rubber in the recent drhere higher speeds are common, scrap drive, an average of 18.75 been upped three cents a pound for it was her turn, we felt a shock re according to figures compiled by the Snell said, pointing out that if re pounds per capita, ranking second the lend-lease. This, in turn, is af state industrial accident commission. membered to this day. duced speeds cut the rural accident highest -in the nation, according to fecting the price of fluid milk, but if It is no longer shocking to us, how While Oregon industries paid out information received at the office of rate appreciably, many lives will be Words and their meanings are al ever, for some of the succesful citi a dairyman can find labor to milk $96,398,292 in wages during the first the state salvage committee in Salem. saved in this state. the cows it is a benefit to him. There six months of 1941 the industrial pay ways interesting. It is because in zens of America have come from just roll for the first six months of thia these symbols of thought we have such poverty-itricken families and we is no ceiling on butter. Ships are being built at an unheard- year totalled $145,153,523, an increase Forest protection crews are ready tried to store up the experience and have lived to see the day when there Ralph Mitchell, executive secretary of $49,358,221. Multnomah county, throughout western Oregon to cope of-rate by auto-assembly-Une meth learning of the race from the dawn of are so very many children starving ods. Throughout the country new intelligence. The derivation of some in the world and who would consider of tire Oregon state salvage commis the center of the state’s industrial ac with any emergency, according to and converted factories are manu words is frequently surprising. For the limited means of that earlier fam sion, advisee that organization will tivity, accounts for $42.821,044 of this Governor Sprague who spent three facturing the “bits and pieces” which have between 1500 and 2000 patriotic payroll increase. instance, take the word “offing;” we ily as luxury and riches. days last week touring the forested one shipyard alone, for instance, will volunteer workers in the national had a vague idea that .it meant the areas of the state in company with soon assemble at the rate of 24 ships drive to save waste matertai. Inci indefinite future; instead it relates to More married women teachers will State Forester Nels Rogers. a month. dentally, Walt Disney will have a place rather than time and owej> its be moving back into the school rooms cartoon movie urging conservation origin to ships and the sea as so this fall, according to Rex Putnam, of fats. It is Disney’s contrifution. many of our words do. The offing is state superintendent of public in that part of the visible sea at a good struction. The shortage - of teachers To harvest the pear crop in Rogue A ARANO OLD CANADIANWNIBKEY NAME distance from shore; thus a ship jn has made it necessary for school river valley Senator Holman’s office the offing is one In deep water which boards to hire anyone qualified to has been asking the department to teach, Putnam said. can be seen at a distance. permit CCC enrollees at the several camps in that vicinity to go Into the Although there are ten million Stop signa will be installed at 32 BLENDED WHISKEY SPECIAL orchards to do the heavy work—the cases of leprosy in the world, United "mainlirw” grade crossings in Oregon lighter work being handled by women States has only, about 1200 of them. just as fast as possible, R. H. Baldock, and children. The answer is that the The term, “leper,” has meant un state highway engineer said this government will take all the boys touchable, but now it is shown that week. As soon as the signs are in home (as their parents had been leprosy is not readily contagidtu un place all motorists will be required promised) and that all will go to less there is the attendant malnutri to come jo a full stop before cross- gether. The suggestion that the boys tion and unsanitary surroundings. As ' - ■■ - Washington, D. C., July 29—A few American soldiers are now going of the stove-making concerns, a lim who woAld like to pick pears be given abroad to foreign countries where this ited number of manufacturers of their transportation and return home disease is more common, it is com farm implements, etc., will be desig after the harvest met with emphatic refusal. forting to know science has proved nated ____ by _ _______ ________ ______ A war production board ___ to that healthy people are almost iiw produce "for th/non-mllitary public In the ^»unties of Clatsop, Tilla I mune to this most ancient disease. and all other plants in those particu mook, Lincoln, Lane, Douglas, Coos lar lines will be closed by the govern This summer will be remembered ment unless they can find war work. and Curry the proprietors of resorts as the year of the fleas. For some The object is to give to civilians as have banded together and asked con unknown reason fleas are as plentiful little as posible of durable goods and gress for relief. It is estimated that in the grass and weeds in the county save materials for the war effort $20,000,000 is invested in resorts in now as the chiggers are in the middle The program will result in hundreds those counties alone. They can be west. Once let Bubonic plague get a oj gman factories being closed for the reached only by automobile and the start on this coast and we d all be juration, while their competitors tire situation has caused business to %rop at an alarming rate. Next year, doomed. operate at full capacity. The selected factories will make they fear, it will be worse. Senator Mrs. Ernest Lundeen, widow of the one oj an artjcle for the industry; McNary has introduced a bill au To be eligible for a purchase certificate one must be One has to walk a total of at least three miles in senator from Minnesota, evidently trade lnark <oodg will ..out„ for thorizing RFT to make loans to dis engaged in a gainful occupation or in work which going to and returning from work, using the most does not listen to Walter Winchell s the duration aj least and the shops tressed resbrt owners tip to 75 per corfVeiiient public transportation; or ■ contributes to the war effort or to the public wel- broadcast Sunday evening or else she j Will receive some sort of pay- cent of the value. This proposal is - fare and show that: intends to try to refute his accuse- mei^t from pro0tJI ot the oparatlng simila? to that of IJorne Owners Loan , ..One must travel quickly or often to deliver mer One has to spend at least one and one-half hours, tions of the treasonable activities of :plante How thig will affect Oregon Corp., which loaned to the home chandise or messages or in doing -work at least including walking and waiting time, in getting to her late-husband made by the col- !Jg not C(>rtaln yet> but it touch owner to pay off a mortgage. ■ The three days a week and would be better able to do and from one’s job, using public transportation, and umnist. It will be interesting 1° [the furniture factories or some of the McNary bill requires that taxes shall | so by bicycle than by walking or using public —... .................... .....------------ --- ’<T»-w«aBess*!W> K- - i ■ctories-m that area, B si mU on Pmusq • • •••••••••• Fragment» of Fact • and Fancy DY’S •LU $ Bicycles Are Unfrozen We have Bicycles All Ready to Roll $34.50 Here Are the OPA's Eligibility Rules for Buying Bicycles S elected her husband. of electric power condition and insurance kept up. No (plenty in Oregon), the abundance poyments would be required by RFC Among new casualties of the war is of labor (shortage in Oregon), dwell until two years after the end of the '•__ ;, ,>,1 . war. chewing gum The first report was ings, etc. While the bill was Inspired by re that the sugar quotas for the factories The government, through WPB, is had been cut in half, later it was an stepping in and telling these small sort owners on the Oregon coast, the measure, if enacted, would help prac nounced that the supply of chicle industries what they can do and what tically every resort in the mountains had been curtailed. The reason for they must do It is a close parallel as well and also hundreds of resorts this is evident when it is remembered that chicle comes from the West to what Hitler is doing in Germany, in the Atlantic coast states party i^TVvailabUity Available public transportation facilities are overcrowded; or a bicycle is clearly needed because of other circumstances. Local Ration Boards will accept applications right now! Phone 181 Coquille 352 S. Hall St. ► Ï r
