exist among thousands of war Indus- ground this summer but they haven’t
try workers who are not keeping up been especially invited. Now, how- plies! They have everything that
Buy
wlth the production schedule, which ' ever, they have, a special invitation youngster needs for school
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has slumped to an alarming degree. | to attend the .playground Friday af- Now!
The same feeling ot “it’s about all I ternoon. August 27. No doubt, they
over,’’ is the cause of much absentee- would enjoy parading for your boys
ism in war industries, say those who and girls. Don't you think so? Of
should know.
Anyone with an course, the masters and mistresses
ounce of sense should know that the will see that they have on their best
war is far from being won, and one ¡“bib aiM tucker." Three prizes will
of the best ways to prolong the strug­ be given: one prize will be given
gle—yes, even lose it—is to think, to the owner of the most pets; one to
More Accidents—One to Tiiree a
SOUTHERN FRIED
act and talk that “it is .bout all over . the owner of the oddest or most un­
Day Have Occurred During the Past
CHICKENS
usual pet, and one to the best-dressed
Week --Wednesday morning the J. E.
STEAKS & SEA FOODS
or best-cared-for pet
Begin now
Paulson Ford roadster was wrecked
Are Our Specialties
to prepare your pets for their show.
near the, Aasen railroad crossing on
Perhaps
your
pets
will
be
the
prize
(By Miss Page, Supervisor)
Dinners $1.00 and $1.25
the Myrtle Point highway. ... Mr.
winners.
and Mrs. R. E. McCormick’s Hupmo- | Many enjoyable days have been
Friday, August 27, an extra special
Open every day except Wed
bile was struck by a California car . spent at the Playground this summer. picnic will be held. This will be the
nesday each week until
If
you
haven
’
t
attended,
you
have
Monday evening, one mile above;
last
day
of
Playground.
Everyone
8:00 P. M.
a good time. Come this next
Bridge. . . . Alton Classen's Star , missed
week, the last week of Playground come, bring your lunch and have a
roadster turned over on the North j
activities this summer, Jind have fun ' grand time.
Bank rqpd, two miles above Riverton,
Attend the Playground this last
last Sunday afternoon and pinned | with your friends and playmates; play
and swing on the rings and bars; have week. Make it the most fun of all.
four occupants under it.
1 a game of croquet, badminton, horse­
Dr. H. M. Shaw reports the birth of shoes or ping pong; play your fa­
a nine pound baby girl to Mr. and vorite circle or running games with
Mrs. it Finley Schroeder at Norway your friends and read and visit.
I Have you participated in our lively
last Friday.
tournaments? If you haveh’t, you
j Two members of the Public Service have missed an exciting time. . Come!
Commission were in Coquille yester- i Perhaps you will be surprised at
how well you can play. You many
day to hold a hearing in the county
even be the winner. The winners
court room. .
. Electric wigwag
of the tournaments this week are:
signal will be installed at Cunning'
Loren Steward, badminton, croquet
ham crossing.
and table-tennis;
Preston Willis,
horseshoes.
Mrs; E. N. Harry, who is taking
Boys! Don’t forget the model air­
care of patients at the county poor
plane boat, etc. show this Friday.
farm, had the misfortune to have the
Bring them to the playground for
fingers of her left hand caught in
display. A prize will be given for
an electric wringer Sunday morning.
the best-built model or for the one
with the most intricate construction
Mr, and Mrs. John A. Martin, re­
or design.
turned Wednesday afternoon from a
Some pets have visited the play-
4,000 mile trip in their car during
which they visited relatives in Idaho,
the Yellowstone Park and Wyoming.
Mr. Martin says that after covering
as much territory as they did he
oomes back better satisfied with Co­
quille than ever.
TWENTY YEARS AGo]
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Playground News
Edw. W. Lorenz, who is employed
at the Cedar Point loading boom, was
taken sick last Thursday and he now
has a well developed case of typhoid.
At the annual meeting of the Coos
County Health Association held here
Wednesday afternoon, the following
A BUSINESSMAN SPEAKS
officers were elected for the ensuing
. Of Edgar Monsanto Queeny’s new year; president, C. E. Mulkey, Co­
book. “The Spirit of Enterprise,” quine; vice president, Mrs. C. A.
John Chamberlain says,in the NeWt Boyrie, Bandon: Secretary, Mrs. C. C.
York Times. “It is good to see a Farr> Coquille; financial secretary,
representative of American industry Mrs. l . jj Hazard, Coquille; treasur-
standing up on his hi nd legs and er> Mrs. H. A. Annin, Myrtle Point,
yelling back.”
j
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As Mr. Chamberlain points out.
The budget committee for school
"throughout the thirties businessmen district No. 8, composed of L. H. Haz-
.. . madelittle effort to explain them- ard> E. o. Opperman, H. N. Lorenz
selves. The Marxians were vocal, i and the directors, A. T. Morrison, H.
the New Dealers had Stuart Chase A. young and C. C. Farr, met at the
to make plain their case, and labor First National Bank last Thursday
finally crashed through with a first evening and prepared a tentative
rate book........ But the book to justify budget. The amount to be raised by
American business remained unwrit- special tax for the coming year is
ten.”
820.4S1.23 or 8309.71 leas than it was
Mr. Queeny has stated industry's for this year. The budget committee
case after perusing at great length the approved the board’s plan of building
works of such men as Adam Smith, a piay ,hed at the grade building
Karl Marx, Thorsteln Veblen, etc. and it
expected to have it done
And as Albert Jay Nock of the Econ- ’ this fall.
omic Council Review of Book says: >
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“In importance, this book stands
Andrew, the nine year old son of
side by side with Mrs. Isabel Pater- Mr.
Mrs. Jo,. Collier, died at
son’s ’The God of the Machine’ . . . jhelr home below town on the Ban-
Mrs. Paterson’s work deals with the don road, at 7:40 Wednesday evening
theory and philosophy of individu­ from dysentery.
alism, and Mr. Queeny’s deal^ with
the practice of it. Taken together,
should have at least five years ex­
the two make a complete manual for
perience in that industry. One of
the American individualist who really
the principal charges laid against
wants to know where he stands and
OPA is that It has taken professors
why he stands there.”
without practical business experience
and permitted them to' write the
TEN BILLION IN TAXES
ticket for industries concerning which
An interesting fact to be noted at they had only a theoretical know­
this time is the news that American ledge.
industrial plants paid federal taxes
of nearly |10;000,000,000 for the
fiscal year ending June 30. This Is
the figure of the U. S. Treasuery.
Individual income tax payments of_______________________ ____ _
officer*, executives, and stockholders utlcal fences, say that farmers
of American corporations are not in- hopping mad at OPA and the
eluded in this figure;* nor are the manpower commission, particul
large sums returned to the govern- the latter: Farmers are squaw
ment through renegotiations.
loud and long because the war n
Facts like these, on black and power commissioner didn’t fr
white, should and will carry more farm hands on their Jobs.
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weight than idle accusations. The farmer is short-handed and to
producers of this nation’s war weap- tain experienced farm help seem
ons, through whose hands pass huge be out of the qeustion. North'
war sums, soon part with the profits, farmers say if it hadn’t been for
and these revert back to the govern- hundreds of school childreh
»rvevit.
housewives who were recruited
Several members of the house
committee on military afafirs have
just completed an investigation of
the food situation in several large
military camps where upwards of
half a million men are fed three times
Washington. D. C„ Aug. 19—Here
ure some of tl)e reasons that congress
is “mad" at the way OPA is run. The
price executive for meat, fish, fats
and oils is a professor from Iowa,
without business experience.
The
price executive for building materi­
als is an oil econdtaist.
A college
professor is the price executive for
steel and iron. The price executive
for the paper division is a professor
of political science. The price execu­
tive for the machinery division is an
accountant , an economist and a pro­
fessor.
In charge of non-ferrous
metals branch is a professor with no |
business experience. Price executive I
over drugs and chemicals is a Har­
vard professor with part time work
in the labor department. The chap
who handles the restaurant division
is an economist formerly with the
Illinois emergency relief. To control*
solid fuel prices is a young Harvard
statistical economist who has been
with the national planning board and i
has had no business experience. The
man handling rents la a* lawyer, has
been a special assistant tn the secre­
tary of agriculture, was an assistant
to Triple A, was legal adviser to the
national defense advisory Council,
worked with the federal communica­
tions commission and has had no
special rent experience.
The list could be expanded. To
cure this state of affairs the house
decided that anyone who formulates
a price policy for some industry
TOWN CAFE
A publicity drive of gigantic pro­
portions will be undertaken by gov­
ernment agencies in an attempt to
bring the public out of their lethargy
in regard to the war. By far too
many people think the war is all but
won. This same feeling seems to
"Makes me feel extra good bearin' you talk that
way, Judge,.. never realised I was contributin'
to the war effort in the way you mention."
“You certainly are. Hank. Part ot the
grain you farmers grow is used by the bever­
age distilling industry to make alcohol for
war purposes. Hundreds of millions of gal­
lons are required every year for smokeless
powder, medical supplies, chemical warfare
materials, shatterproof glass, lacquer for
camouflaging equipment, fuel to propel tor­
pedoes and in the making of critically needed
'A First National Bank LOW-COST
for an emergency"
synthetic rubber. But. Hank, the grain used
in distilling this alcohol is not thrown away.
It is processed aftd comes back to the farm
again in the form of distillers’ dried graine
or dried solubles which you use for dairy
feeds, hog supplements and poultry mashes.
Thia year alone it is estimated 388,000 tons
ot these much needed feed stuffs will be
produced by the distillers.”
" / can Mt now, Judge, why you »ay it’s a
mighty good thing we hare a legal distilling
industry tn times like these.’*