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■ COQUILLE V. ✓ I The Sentinel À SMS' SATU UI A SM« I i One Year — r- 100 Three Months -60 No subscription taken unless paid tor in advance. This rule is impera tive. • - fig Mgattw-- Entered at the Coquille Postoffice Second Class Mall Matter. tt ATI 01 ■ill 8I8SWJ I I „i lllillll IRlRI RMMWM^BMaa«---------------- (Taken from The Sentinel ofTrMBy? August 11. 1922) The Coquille Jubilee, celebrating the 50th birthday of this city, will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 30, and will be in the nature of a pioneer’s reunion and a picnic dinner for every one, to be held in the Myrtle Grove. —o— Mr. and Mrs. Archie Walker are getting settled in their new home at the south end of Coulter street—the former Riley Clinton place. Lena May Parrish was born ^ugust 20, 1889; married to Robert Henry Bryant on June 11, 1911; died at hsr home on the Middle Fork near Bridge, July »1, 1622 THE FACTS ON PROFITS The Axis partners have some ac- Coquille now has 200 paid up mem . tive American allies who because of ignorance of the actual status of war bers of the Coos county Health Assn. profits are, unintentionally and un-; , ° knowingly? serving as very effective Without saying anything to any- demoMtiou squads to attack American i one, exeept possibly their relatives, morale and carry on campaigns start- Arthur L., Hootori and Miss era ed in the propaganda Bureaus of Ber- Kelley left for Bridge last Tuesday. Un, Rome and Tokyo. Unwittingly, ¡Arthur had previously provided him- these individuals who lack accurate 1 self with a marriage license andJhey facta accuse American industry of ex 'expected to have Rev. T. M. Mac cessive profits and thus help the ene Donald, of Myrtle Point, perform the ceremony that evening. my’s work along. To show what the facta really are, The Sunnyside Woman’s Club held J. Cheever Cowdin, chairman of the national association of manufacturers’ | their annual dahlia show at the Ter committee on government finance, A- rt?s Groves Wednesday, Aug. 9, and cently made public A study of the dor- it was a very successful affair. . The Mrs. Chris porate finances of four thousand prize winners were: Mrs. ------- manufacturers. He described the re- Terras, Mrs. M. D. Sherrard, Mrs C. port as “the most authortative study Vernon Smith, Melba Varney, Edra of corporate finances, as affected by, Johnson, Rachel Sumner, Lyle Var- the war, yet undertaken." “ I ney. Carlton Smith and Orville Clin- Mr. Cowdin, revealing a marked ton. ___________ decrease in income available for di-1 U~-JUras vidends and profits in contrast to i the soviet policy of child hygiene and billion dollar increases in volume of; care has resulted in saving many • production, asserted that “there is children. Statistics show that ln the last war leas danger of creating war milion- aires than of impairing the ability of 1,700,000 Russian soldiers were killed industry to cope with post-war prob- or died; 4,950,000 were wounded and lems under the present tax proposals, that two and a half million were pris- “Although net’ profits before taxes ’ oners of war and mtesing. T«e have risen from a bilion and a half I percentage <4 total Russian casu- in 1940 ,to an estimated three and a, aides was the second highest of any half billion in 1942, net income after country engaged in that struggle, tgxes has declined from a over a bil- amounting to 76.3 per cent of the lion to something under a billion? . 12,000,000 mobilized forces. Austria- As Mr. Cowdin points-out, there! Hungary’s percentage was highest, are much graver concerns than war I it being 90 per cent; United States* In addition to ¡rate was eight per cent and next to millionaires today. merely being an echo ef radio propa the lowest, which was Japan’s two- gandists Ln Berlin, popular sloganiz tenths of one per cent ing against “profiteering” has be; The fellow who used to cheat at cOme a futile occupation and should be replaced by efforts to develop a solitare is now peeking at the an sincere public concern with the de swer in the back of the book when velopment of industrial stability and filing out the magazine quiz ques tions BF financial resourcefulness. • Fragments •••••••• of Fact « and Fancy • ••••••• Did you know; ? That paratroops and submarines were American inventions although Russia and Germany were the’first to make use of them in warfare? That it ■ is expected next year’s shipments of chrome concentrates from itan Hell Roaring Mountain in Mon tana will be 420,000 tons and that ten years ago all the chromite mined in the world did not amount to 600,000 tons k* year? That the Free French fighting force now numbers 60,000’ That, in spite of all our lease-lend to everyone, it was necessary for the British to rush anti-aircraft guns to Panama canal immediately after Pearl Harbor? In 1941, instead of equipping the world, United States was not producing as much war ma terial as Great Britain. . This war is accomplishing things for the northwestern corner of United States that peaceful exhortations and pamphlets by Chambers of Commerce never could effect. Wealth and pop ulation are shifting from the north east to the northwest. It is found that the northwest is leading the na tion in new factories and in the de veloping of those already established; probably due to the proximity of the mineral output for war necessities. It is doubtful, however, that all this hubbub of activity and growth will make the residents any happier. The old adage has it that happiness cornés from within and it is possible that those who liked this coastal region I With the fighting in Solomon because of its mossback proclivities may have to. adjust themselves to a Islands and in India . starting this faster tempo of living and find they week, gradually more and more of the did not “get away from it all" by world comes to know the conflict which is burning to the far corners coming weal. of the earth. Instead of World War Among the Dead Sea fruit which Il or War of Survival, “The Global Japan is acquiring in the conquest ot War” may be the name for it. ■ Netherlands East Indies is quinine. In leas than two years, one war ma Ninety per cent of the world’s supply terial maniffacturer has placed 3,800 of cinchona bark formerly came from subcontracts with 725 companies in those islands. At present a chemical 151 cities. * company in the United States is ma-- By the end of • 1943,.U. S. produc- keting enough ilvuhb cnuujfri Atabrine, Aiaurme, -which »winvn is jb I synthetic quinine, to treat over twen- Uon ,of wil1 «* approxi- ty-six million malaria patient, and mate‘y * blllio" Pounds-six-and- - - 4one-hulf times 1939 production. soon this oompany expects to manu y ■ -M----------- -- —.— ' facture enough for all the world odt- ------- -----------------... side of the axis domain—at one-half the cost of the same amount of qui nine. The use of cinchona bark in the The most delicate, the most sea treatment of intermittent ‘fever cases ,lblc of all pleasures, consists in pro dates from the seventeenth century noting the pleasure of others.- when the wife of Count Chinchon, | Pleasure is very seldom found the viceroy of Peru, was cured by the where it is sought. Our brightest use of the bark.« On tier return to 'Wtue» «* gladness are commonly Spain she did much to spread its kindled by unexpected sparks—Sam- was given to it. Bruyere. Gems of Thought ■ Ing under this false accusation are licity that tons of cargo have been just as unreasonable in their criticism taken to England in the planes oper of workers. ated by --------------- the ferry impor- ------- -- « 'command; ------ ———v — r—,- By By ueNB-lV* George Peck , l . m hatred is Un-Ameriean._ It tant ^ght, »uchas meAcnne.Bp»re-..Xhuu»edivi<ir-<i agljlnst iteelf £ J tiie stuff that breeds civil wa. parts. Another military secret was mugt.faU_ - The baine is true of na- £ We don’t want class hatred in this »JfrrMary M. Randleman, treuaur- tluit troops have been sent by trans tions. We have had considerable to country.’ that is mast of us don’t; un er id llli*<Saq|£goprainage District, port planes to various parts of this say about the minorities in the ranks fortunately there are a few who do was in town Ii ill Ulus m country and its possessions. When of industry, labor and politics who The fundamental interests of business She says that McLeod Bros, iuli dUll* Raiser made his proposal army offi- are using the war for their own sel and labor are identical, tf-we. jne excellent work in- the marsh over cerjTwniqjped that they werp already fish benefits. to win the war; if w'e are to have peace there and have the 12-foot ditches using guide targe planes As we get deeper into the war, in this country after the war; if we fifty per cent completed. The North <or freight and transpSft^kq^iot the Government is buying- an ever-in-« are to rebuild and rehabilitate, we Bank road is nearly all graded and size of a 70-tonner. greasing proportion of our industrial must have a united people. We will as soon as a couple of short bridges ou I pill *-/rhe American people are not achieve these things if industij A postal star route running from footing thebftXtaJhis. It is axima- are built the road will be open to is at naggers drawn with labor and Riverton Baker south to Ontario needs a large tic that the tugiui II* ¿¿refits made vice versa. truck, for all the goods shipped ln and the higher the wages Hitler got his start by stirring up The con war production, the greater that rJIta Mr. and Mrs. Richard Danielson, of comes via parcel poet Ms, pf his people against a Parkenburg, mourn the loss of Baby tractor’s present Ford is too small. is goipg to be. minShsx’ike must disabuse our Beatrice, who was born to them July Rep. Waiter Pierce went to the pri Now. inasmuch ax we are paying the minds ofU>*aggne<>us idea that all orities board to see about the con profite and the wages, surely our in 27th, and died August 6th. businessmen, workeJTtessd^olin^J tractor being authorized to buy a terest lies in holding both down. Pro ire selfish and unpatriotic. W<! lllUen The county court suggests to the truck. He was told that no priority fits, so far, with few exceptions have keep our heads. The great bulk of Coquille Commercial Club that it would be given and the ranchers been fairly well restricted by taxation the laboring .people and the great would be the logical thing to do to along the route could drive to town but should be much more so. The bulk of the men engaged in big or have the postoffice department route and pick up their parcels. “You wish great majority of business executives little business merit our respect mail for Fairview, Dora. McKinley to. save rubber and gasoline,” said agrees that this is a sound economic Stabilizing the profits of industry will and Sitkum out of Coquille instead of the congressman. “Instead of wear policy. restore confidence on the part of la ing out one set of tires on the mail- out of Sumner as at present. We believe that with profits further bor in the integrity of industrialists than’s car you think It better to have restricted and stabilized, the rank and By the same token, stabilizing wages Tuesday "evening/ we met a couple 20 or more farmers wear out their file of labor, both union and non* will restore confidence on the part of of prominent Coquille citizens, of the tires driving as much as 100 miles.” union, weuld be satisfied to have a Industrialists in the integrity of the grandfather class, who said they were ceiling put on wages. It is too much workers. Both tliese things can not In the government printing office to expect that the racketeering ele- going up to pitch horseshoes with happen too soon.’ Lou Hazard and Sam Nosier for the (the largest in the world) the proofs •ment in labor’s leadership will con championship of Coquille. **If we have been taken for a universal ra cur in this. But then, who cares One large ,U. S. ordnance plant has win we want some publicity,” they tioning book. When these books have about that? 120 miles of railroads or enough t«> added, “and if we lose don’t say any been distributed Leon Henderson can. These greedy labor leaders tell of service a city of 100,000 people. thing about it.” Evidently they took over night, announce rationing of any the great profits industry is making. in too much territory for they were article and it will come with such They pick out the isolated cases. The beaten three straight games. They suddenness that no one will be able to industrialiste are not simon pure for claim now that the other fellows had rush to the stores and stock up. they recite the faults of labor, too, MAXIMUM The book will have pages of vari picking out the isolated cases. Add all the luck, so we won’t mention their names, but their initials were ous colon and all Henderson will ing fuel to the fire, certain politicians Frank Leslie and Rube Mast. Where have to do is to announce rationing who are more concerned about votes do Harry Oerding and Ed Loreriz of something and designate the green, than patriotism and truth, drive a come in when mentioning the quoit or blue, or red page. Such is the ma further wadge between capital and chinery being set up for the ration labor. It is a vicious circle, certainly champions of Coquille?_________ ing to. come. One book will serve for not conductive to the unity so essen friiWì»rni L F' 11 the rationing of any article, eFen tial of winning the war and the peace clothing. to follow. • There was so much confusion and In 1941, profits of stockholders of Criticism over the sugar rationing that General Electric Corporation in For better results and increased ’ this will not be repeated once the creased but 2 per cent while wages . profits, feed one of Triangle Dairy Feeds . . I Triangle Milk books are in the hands of the custom- advanced 17 per cent. The exper £> w fíú'nt Maker, Bar-None Dairy Feed, ience of General Electric parallels Triangle Milk Ration and Albina that of most of oùr large corporations. Daily Feed. Each ia built from a i Wooden-soled shoes, designed to In not more than 5 per cênt of all carefully balanced formula of conserve war essential leather^are cages do excessive profits And exces cereal grains, minerals and con centrates for maximum milk noiy being produced by a Midwestertf sively high wages obtain, but the peo production. t shoe manufacturer. Hard maple and ple of this country are getting the A sb your local teed (■ V. ■ sugar pine are the woods used. daaler about Triangle impression that all businessmen and Dairy Feeds Now! all workers are greedy and selfish. Four-motored bombers are rolling Labor is being told "by its leaders off the assembly line of an American that business ir exploiting it, using * Washington, D. C., Aug. 12—Farm aircraft manufacturer six months the war as a smoke screen. A great - MULING COMPANY security administration .is providing ahead of schedule. N Tillamook Street nine camps in Oregon for migratory Portland, Oregon in the minds of the workers against workers, FEA advises Rep. Homer Calling careta, 60 tor «1.00. all businessmen. Industrialists amart- Angell. One camp is stationary and «U i A House Divided TWENTY YEARS AGO TSWS H A. YOUNG and M. 9 H. A. YOUNG, L COQUILLE. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13. 1942. - •........ —/ ... ----- * ------- ‘W thority for the statement that more jworthless Ufe, not worth the living; than 45 per cent of the Russian peo- ¡always unsatisfactory in its course, pie, numbering upwards to two hun always miserable in its end.—Theo <■/. , - / dred million souls, are under 19 dore Parke? The pursuit in which we cannot years of age. Why this is so we do not know nxk God’s protection must be crim Possibly it is because of the lass of inal: the ‘pleasure for which we dare _ _________ __ _ not thank Him cannot lx» innocent.— men in the last war or the purging adults following i Richard FuNer of whole classes of c_--------- the revolution. TM starving those __________ . of -_____ 1 ! whii can at all times sacrifice unregenerate toward collectivism may pleasure to duty approaches subltm- have played its part and doubtlessly—Lavater. MILK TRIANGLE MIRY FI1DS ’ííi'H:: HT TRIANGLE eight are mobile. The mobile are moved to three locations the season, being shifted to where the migrants are needed to attend to the crops In the permanent camp there are 267 family dwelling units with an Individual capacity at any one time of 1148. The eight mobile camps have family dwelling units for 1428 with an individual capacity at any time of 6149. Grand total of fMrrtUy dwelling units 1695; total in- dividual capacity 72M. thu Gót tin oeetfn We’ve got the cars ! number of migrants there is a large shortage of labor for the farms. Lt.-Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air force, plans to settle in Oregon, somewhere in the Wil lamette valley. The general used to fly at Eugene and is still enamored of that section. As the war is oc cupying all of his attention, he has sent Mrs. Arnold to Oregon to survey for a home to Try to * The tenant-purchase loans in Ore gon are eligible in Clackamas, Coos, Deschutes, Jackson. Lane, Linn, Mal heur, Marion and Wallowa counties. There were 66 loans made as of June li with a total of «594,909, and there were on hand applications for loans from 489. For each loan made for the 1941-42 fiscal year, there were 23 applications for each of 21 loans made. There are 3858 families known to the government agency who are eligible but are not receiving rehab ilitation assistance. After a year, filled with obstruc tions, the plant Site board has finally approved the Oregon electric steel rolling mill plant at Portland. The plant will have a capacity of 30.000 tons a year. To date only private money has been invested not a red cent of taxpayer funds-ramounting to several hundred thousand dollars Plant site board raised many reasons against authorizing the plant; saidj there was no electric power, no labor and, finally, that the scrap the plant would require was needed at the steel mills in California ■ add It should all be shipped to San Francisco The Henry J. Kaiser pulled the lid off u military secret when he proposed that 5000 70-ton carriers be buifl Already under contract for cargo and trans port purposes are 20 per cent of the army’s multiple engine aircraft pro duction and a confidential report of a special committee at WPT was made a month ago recommending an elaborate cargo plane program. It also came Into the glafre of pub- /^X j . nsidhr the reasons for present rules and regula, tions governing the purchase of new cars. deluded ln fhis list? They were not meant to handicap owners whose cars fill necessary purposes. They were simply meant to see that cars now built and ready for sale got into the hands of those who needed them—as their needs demanded. 'OH oo yOu » u If your car serve« a really necessary purpose, Buick dealers are prepared to make immediate delivery on brand-rfew, gas-thrifty, dependable new models built for tho turion of sooiug you through thr duration. With such a car, you travel safely, make beet use of gasoline and oil, start fresh with brand-new tires on wheels designed to get maximum life from them. For dependable performance of necessary jobs, such a car is frequently far more of an asset to the country than one which has passed its prime. YOU Why not drop in on your Buick dealer and talk over all details of the whole situation? Southwestern Motor Company, 484 1st St, Coquille, Ore. Southwestern Motor Co., 7th & Spruce, Myrtle Ppint, Ore.
