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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1943)
...................................... 11 .HgJi-iaMggJ!,----------- J JB .-.............. — —■ | on the production line of other etn-' of American»—and a different- center« in ployees caused by individual absen- I special code for the benefit of the majority of teeism which, during the past year, privileged few. aircraft now being used against the By Capt. Eddie Rickenbaeker has run well into hundreds of mil The demand for real sacrifice is Axis in the Solomons, New Guinea, The symbol that has made America lions of man-hours. from the inarticulate mass uf Aineri- China, ti>e Aleutians and North Afri great—in»p|red throughout the gen Cut this absenteeism in liaif and . can fathers, mothers and daughter» - ca are modification Jobs, the OWl erations by our forefathers, and our fighting forces throughout the ¡while special privileges and licenses announced Saturday. The Japanese which has woven i|a wa* through I world will be grateful, as it will add [are granted to the tabor racketeer— at Midway met disaster from modi the history of these great United ■ ¡sufficient planes and parts and other the labor profiteer—and the labor fied fighters and bombers. States like a golden thread—is com The modification centers are able , weapons for their use to hasten final ¡loafer. _ prised of imagination, individuality, I say you cannot have national to take outmodeled American pursuit ~ -— tl unity unless the' leadership of the planes and adapt the.n for desert thousands of our boys. not least, eternal but simple faith' There is no absenteeism in the fox nation sets an example of unity warfare in Libya and Eiypt as high in the Supreme Being holes in the jungles of the Pacific or land that leadership should include ly effective strafing and light bomb Aa all of you have either heard or the burning sands or mudholes of Industy, Labor and Government. ing planas. read of my Pacific mission, there is You cannot demand that the mass Africa, for if attempted there the ab little need of my dwelling on that sentees would get a bayonet in their of common folk shall think only of subject with the exception of stating winning the war if the aristocracy of tallies from their buddies. . . . that after visiting with General Mac Why should not our Congress show labor unionism is thinking only of Arthur’s boys in New Guinea—Port the common sense and intestinal for more dues and more power—and the 6 Moresby—Buna and Gona—I return titude now and clarify aur labor laws inner clique of bureaucracy is The angling season for trout not ed to Australia, and then through so that millions of innocent men and thinking only of a fourth term. » less than six inches in length opens the Fiji» to Guadalcanal, a veritable women will have the same protection Any administration that demands Saturday, April 17, in all counties in hell-hole—as the rainy season had from our Government as do the rack unity must begin by setting an ex the state except ten in eastern Ore just started. eteers’ * ample of unity. ’ gon. » Henderson Field runway is a metal ' » Let America come back to the fun Any administration that talks of Lt The trout bag limit is 15 fish or 15 strip that has been bombed and "equality of Sacrifice” must honestly pounds and one fish in any one day damentals that made it great. • shelled for months, and is also the Let us all be realists instead of mean sacrifice by all, not sacrifice but not to exceed 30 fish or 30 pounds airplane graveyard of the Pacific, emotionalists, sentimentalists or self by the many for the financial and- and two fish in any seven consecutive not only for enemy planes but our 1 ish, greedy human beings in this pollitcal advantages of the few ■. . ', days or in possession at any one time. own as well. ”, 1 I speak on behalf of the millions of hour of our country’s need. > Exceptions to the generui season Dugouts were filled with mud and Or must we wait until hundreds of honest men and women in unions and limit are to be found listed in water. Men were working in jump thousands of the cream of our youth who want their unions to stand clean the 1843 synopsis of angling regula <! ers without shoes or socks. Marines Sons, brothers, husbands and fath ami respected before the bar of tions published by the Oregon state 3nd soldiers were in the fox-holes ers— have been slaughtered and American public opinion game commission and available now with millions of mosquitoes. Malaria I speak on behalf of the future at all agencies. wrecked — mentally or physically — was prevalent, as was diarrhea. leaders of the United States our before we recognize our duty? The game commission again urges Here you will find a Catholic Yes, I am opposed to overtime pay boys in Africa—in Australia—in anglers to cooperate by reporting the priest, Protestant preacher or a Jew- for forty-eight hour week during Guadalcanal — New Guinea — the results of each fishing trip on the rabbi—all preaching the simple faith Aleutians — Iceland — England — especial orange colored “Catch Re this life and death struggle. to Catholics, Protestants and Jaws In times like these, I do not ap China and India. port Cards” that are being distribut alike. I say that this bloody war can be ed by license agencies, sporting goods prove of overtime pay for a forty- Oh, men and women of America, if eiglit hour week with present high won only If we at home show that we stores, fishing lodges and boat con you could only understand what our 1 wages, except for those men in the deserve to have it won. Only if we cessions. For each fishing trip made ooys—your boys and mine—are do- _ig in those hell-holes throughout 1 fox-holes, swamps, jungles, deserts, have the Intestinal fortitude to throw a card should ba filled out and mailed out the profiteers—punish the shirk to the game commision even if no the Pacific and the burning sands of 1 and the frozen north of ths Aleu Africa, that your way of life may be [ tians, and Iceland, for they are ths ers—and demand that there shall be fish are caught. Information gather a single—not a double—standard of ed from these cards will help de men making the supreme sacrifices. preserved, and the character that has For there is little reason why those justice in the United 8tates—an even termine the results of past made this nation great may be car of us back home should not expend distribution of sacrifice on the home planting programs as well as the fu ried on, you would not worry about every effort and energy—If not for front imposed with a degree of poli ture policy. eight horus a day — overtime — or our boys in uniform then—at’ least— tical courage M home—comparable double time for Sundays and holi- to the moral and physical courage ‘See our large dismay « choice, pot to save our own skins. Give the milljflm oC banest men * being: s K mto by' our men abroad . , plants at Berjsen’a, across highway struggle for the welfare of this na and women ta this country an op- I For what price social security from from telephone office. Not the tion I portunity to do their beat—they ask j from the cradle to the grave—if we cheapest but the best. Phone 64. Without victory — social security, no more. dig our own graves in advance’ old age pensions, wage and hour bills And to the labor leaders who are!-------------------------- will mean nothing. prone to criticize so feebly, I say AA^Ivifl K ami WritAC France had her slow-down and sit- so petition your Government for the I “Civ 111 Ike 111 vT FlICS down strikes—had her social legisla of'flying to the hell-holes ■ E Alrek/imA tion, which I am not against—but privileges Pacific and the battlefields at AWUUWmM they failed in the realization that Africa, and , see , ' for yourselves ________ _______________ Following h a letter from _______ Melvin without work and without produc N ing something of value, they could as I have then, and then alone will Kern who left here about nine years I 1 listen to you for I havi earned ago arKj j, now looted Birming not last. ham Alabama: Today, they are serfs and slaves of my right to citizenship. And to those few scUmmistlc, syn Hitler's hordes. Millions of man, women and children are starving. thetic communists in labor, com That goes for Holland, Belgium, the merce and Government, who are so prone to smear 1 say__go back to “** "•** »uuacripuoo « j jwr Scandinavian countries, Bataan, Cor- Russia where you will find millions ?aPer 1 d™’‘ know wh«‘ we wou,d regidor, Hong Kong, Singapore and I ' _ •-r .. . rl/A tasiihressf aoaw i of men and woman willing to die and do .without the paper every week the Philippines. from liome. We get very lonesome Accept your responsibilities with starve for their country in turning here for the Pacific Coast, and read Hitler ’ s hordes from their land — THUMBS UP FOR the privileges that you are enjoyingr the paper from cover to cover, even Remember patriotism without ser there you will find bow transparent | the want ads, and houses for rent. I BITTtR TOAST you are. ... vice is a hollow .word........ always enjoy Lans’ Sports Review We bear a lot nowadays, that in Do not let these boys come back each and every week, although I Mrs. Brown is using me from their graves in these hell- this war there must be “equality of don’t always agree with him on ev sacrifice. ” ' » more efficiently for the holes scattered throughout the Pa- Tlie phrase is false and demagogic erything. cific, and other parts of the world. duration. When she treats The fishing here is not very good. —hollow mockery With wliat bit and from the depths of the seven me right I give perfect We have very few streams and lakes sea»—do not let them come beck and ter laughter it must have been greet perfect toast, to fish in, and generally these are plague you for having failed In your ed at Guadalcanal—-in New Guinea located so far away that with ration obligation on the home front to give —and Tunisia. ing, etc., we are unable to take ad What sacrifice can you or I, or MOUNTAIN STATES them mor« and more of everything vantage of them. any man or qioman in America, that is needed to hasten a final vic I am enclosing a few clippings from POWER COMPANY make that deserves to be mentioned tory. our local newspapers which will For we have the need to conduct in the same breath with the sacrifice give you an idea of the work we are ourselves now so that we can look of the boys in the hell-holes of the doing in thia part of the country, and Solomons? those others in the face when they Who dares to talk of sacrifice when th* company I am working for, the come home again—those who live to he reads of the bodies of our young Bechtel - McCone -Parsons Corpora come home. tion, is one of the largest contracting I know you realize that I have men being crushed under the weight companies in the world, and I am of German tanks into the mud of said—and I say again—we have in very proud U> be able to contribute a ' the past several years spent billions Africa? small part to the tremendous effort Yes — sacrifice — by putting a little of dollars to destroy self-reliance, ini that they are putting forth here. I tiative, imagination and individual of your swollen pay into the safest am the construction superintendent ity, trying to plan — the of 130,- • , lives lrc> vi itj<j _ | investment in the world. 000,006 people by a superior few. Sacrifice—by not taking your fam- of this big project, and at present we 000,000 Now we are spending billions tn *** 01,1 ,or * rtde ™ Sunda* aiUfr are working between four and five thousand men. recreate self-reliance, initiative, im noon. 1 have seen two or three boys from Sacrifice—by keeping your home agination and individuality. . . . As I have said before, if'necessary!™** **fln*r than thr home who ore stationed at Jackson ville, Florida, and I have received to make us appreciate our duties, homes of England. letters from several who are station Sdcrifici » — by agreeing not to «trike bring back the troops from the hell ed in and near this vicinity. holes of the world, place them in the —but, of course, you can stay away Our family is somewhat split up from the job as many days as you factories—take the war workers, par Mary is in Seattle; Lucille is in ticularly those single men without want. Thie is what you read in your Nurses Training School at St. Louis; dependents from' eighteen to thirty- and Betty is here working for Bech * eight years of age, and place them daily newspapers, and hear on the tel-McCone-Parsons on this project. in the fox-holes with the filth, ver radio which will have its day of We expect to leave here about the reckoning when the war is over min, diarrhea, malaria and the Jap .irst of June to go on another big job. anese, and I will guarantee you that and the boys come home. We are fighting to distribute the our production will be incresed, and Following are extracts from the much of it doubled—within thirty blessings of freedom to everyone— newspaper clippings mentioned ¡everywhere — all over the world. days. < We are in a great and bloody cru above: Wo would have no more feather- The mighty arm of Vulcan, Bir sade to export four freedoms — one bedding—no more «low-downs—no of which is the freedom of speech. mingham’s man ~ of steel, will be ‘more restrictions on effort. Yet freedom of speech at home is ready to reach out across the country The perpetual slow-down in war industry caused by absenteeism— rapidly diminishing. It is not being Thursday afternoon when the first particularly in the aircraft industry, forbidden by law, It is not being B-24 Consolidated bomber modified in Birmingham’s new alrplaine cen where it exceeds an average of ten crushed out by the Gestapo. ter is given his name. » No, it is being subjected to much per cent—is probably the most fla This bomber, first of hundreds of grant abuse of our obligation since mere* subtle restraints and pressures. The Nazis and the Fascists long giants of the air which will rain Pearl Harbor. In the Boeing factory alone, the ago showed us the way to discourage I destruction upon the Axis after they have been modified at the Bechtel- unwelcome free WP 'Equality' of Sacrifice'^ i = S! _JJ Li--------------- 6- Woman’s Club Annual May Dey I Large Rand-McNally maps of The Danae. Saturday, May 1, in Coquille World and of the United States, on i heavy paper at Norton's, only 25c Community Building. Come and nee the queen crowned at 8:00 p. m. J each. Admission 55 cents per person. 13t3 Trout Season To Open Saturday absentees, and our aviators in those hrll-hoiM are crying their eyes out for only a few more Flying For tresses. In the Douglas plant there was an absenteeism of eleven thousand em ployees the day after Christmas—a ¿hocking and deplorable condition. It is not the loss of individual man hours that is so deadly, but the ac- cumulated loss of thousands of hours J Mor«9r»OMng I ms gassing! n»v»r have realised that regular transmission and differential lubrication, can improve your gas mileage aa well as protect your car. Much of the gasoline you use is only to overcome friction inside your car. Proper and frequent lubrication can keep that friction down to a minimum. Manufacturers* specifications for most oars can ft» greasing at each 1000-mile period. And you know experts at lubrication. •AlSitttt — Coupon 5, A ¥»••»All«» At*» VlHHM Ration Book, good through May 21. SURAR— Coupon 12, Book One, good for 5 lbs. through May SI. coma Coupon 26, Book One, good through April 25, (SroseMsd) — Blue Stamps D, E A F, Book Two, good through April 90. 6MO(6— Coupon 17, Book One, good through June 15. M6ATS, SATS, BTC. — Red Stamps, A, B, C, Book Two, good through April 30. SUSI 0118 -r Coupon 6, Zones A, B, and C, good through September 30. Make Every Coupon Count! Qne of the things that we’re mighty proud of la the way our refineries, with all their heavy wartime burden, have been able to maintain rigid control of Standard Gaeo- line’s quality. Whenever you buy Standard Gasoline, you get quality even higher than the specifications Unde Sam sets for mili tary motor fuel. Standard Gasoline—■' Unsurpassed, every, coupon count. STANDARD TAKES BETTER CARE OF YOUR CAR ficatlon center in Birmingham, will be called "Vulcan of Birmingham.” Before long "Vulcan of Birming ham” may be accompanying the Birmingham Blit«,' a Flying For- trees that already has caused the Axis some headaches, even more misery. I am not attacking unions. I am The OWI revealed that plane« attacking a cancerous condition in used by Maj. Gen. James H. Doo- our body politic—the attempt to im- little in his raid on Tokyo were poet one code of conduct on the bombers equipped for their special Smear it to depth by crying aloud that it is an attack on the Fuehrer— that it gives aid and comfort to the enemy—that it promotes disunity. That is the modern technique for getting rid of troublesome free speech. I