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The Sentinel Weekly Leiter From Washington, D. C.
BY CONGRESSMAN HARRIS ELLSWORTH
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A. YOUNG
Washington, D. C., September 25— ' effectively stalls our chances of hav- (Taken front The Sentinel of Friday, mously took a stand In favor of the
county unit system of levying taxes
September 28. 1823)
' ¡The Congress has not moved very ' Ing a plant for the production of alu­
The Sentinel is in receipt of tele­ for the support of schools in thia coun-
I rapidly during its first two weeks mina clay installed ip .Oregon or
Mr. and Mrs. Ubyd Oddy have
Representatives from grams from J. L. Smith announcing ty-
following the summer recess. Some Washington.
sold their place on the East Fork to
" ‘go of the new members are grumbling the two states are meeting on this that Coos county won the first prize
Bill Otoean. . . Lloyd has a good Job
. paid in the halls and corridors about thei subject, and are cooperating with in the coast division at the State
B. or Wood came in from Eugene as bookkeeper in a veneer plant at
Fair at Salem this week, with 29 Wednesday to take the position of
rule to tmpera slowness with which we are getting the local interests.
Marshfield.
points over Tillamix.k. Although it pharmacist in the Fuhrman Pharm­
1 under wdv but Oie Contre» ot» the
Entered at the CoquEi/p^tofflc. « i United States is not a fast moving
The concrete for the basement of
It Is anticipated that the bill to did not win the sweepstakes, this acy Max Rietman, who lias been in
Second Claes Mali Matts*.
organiaztlon. Committee have been prohibit the drafting of fathers. In­ county was given the highest score the store all summer, expects to re­ J. W. Miller bungalow opposite the
busy holding hearings and discussing troduced last spring by Senator in the state on appearance and effec­ sume his studies at the dental college court house was poured yesterday.
Finishing lumber has been received
legislation, and I believe we will soon Wheeler of Montana, will be up for tiveness of exhibits.
Office Cerner W
in Portland
and John expects to move into the
see very busy legislative days.
debate in the Senate Tuesday. This
Another pioneer of Coos county
bill, S. 783, has had a peculiar his­
Sheriff E. P. Ellingsen returned house shortly. There is not a hand­
Tuesday, the House passed an ap­ tory. It was reported out by the passed to her reward when Mrs.
Tuesday evening from a, two weeks* somer home in the city.
propriation bill to take care of | Senate Committee July 2nd, with Price Robison of Norway died at Ban­ trip to California. He took his mo­
Work has been st a standstill on the
ITIIR emergency maternity and infant card
Sepate Report No. 384. It has been don last Monday.
torcycle with him on the boat from new brick building being built by
for wives of enlisted men in the ! on the calendar since that time. Since
Marshfield to San Pedro and came A. N. Gould on Front street, for a
The present court and all the act­
armed forces. The higher grades of the recess, however, hearings have
back on it.
FOB TAX RBCFUFICATION
week or so. . . Gould A Gould expect
non-commissioned officers, grades 1, been held on the bill.
Ordinarily, ing members of the budget committee
to move into it some time between
Is there anyone today who does_____
2 and 3, and commissioned officers. hearings are held before a committee at their sessions yesterday unani-
L. H. Hazard is out again, though the first and middle of November.
not feel the impact of the complicated were eliminated f.-om the benefits of makes its report, but that apparently
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tax system? Can there be anyoneI this appropriation.
Previously, a was noi
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not the
procedure in this
who does nbt feel the need for sim- The appropriation Just passed by the any rate, the bill comes before the 1 »«»W. with the result that 25 per
plificatlon?
the months of April, May and June. Senate during this coming week, and fent of the distributors of milk in
Let these people take heart, for The »proriatlon Just passed by the indications are that it will not be Oregon
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’ have gone out of business in
from Senator Walter F. George, House is for the fiscal year. Dtotribu- passed by the Senate. The Army and the last twelve months and numerous
Chairman of the Joint Congressional tion of the benefits to those who are the Navy and Selective Service of­ dairy herds have been sold or slaugh­
Committee on Internal Revenue Tax- «,«4^ to them is handled by the ficials have vigorously opposed any tered. In holding the line, the dairy­
atlon, whose duty it is to investigate ltate,. The money, will be handled action by Congress that would pre- man has been required to take money
measures and methods for the sim- in Oregon by the Oregon State , vent the drafting of fathers. If the out of his pocket and give it to some­
plificatlon of taxes, comes this state- j Board of Health, and I understand Senate fails to pass the bill, then body else.
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! that Board has completed its ar- Chairman May of the House Military
O m of ths best-liked farmers Folks are pitching in to help
“Tf a statute is supplemented by rangemente for taking care of these Affairs Committee has a bill ready to
In discussing the ceiling on apples
in these parts is Bert Childers! their neighbors harvest grain,
complicated regulations or technical caaea
of the federal funds be- act upon, but has withheld action,
before Fred Vinson this last week,
And he has the best way of and trait, and vegetables - and
interpretations, li|tle is accomplished ginning October 1st.
pending the decision of the Senate. I noticed the same type of thinking
beatin* the man shortage, too. are taking their reward in soci­
by a simple law.
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| Obviously, If the Senate will not pass going on with reference to that. Ap­
Come husking time, Bert In­ ability when the Job's done.
"However, X believe that the first | The hardest problem, not only be- such a* bill, there is no use taking parently, the War Food Administra­
And from where I sit. that's a
vitee all of his fanner neighbors
step towards simplification which fore Congress, but for the whole the matter up in the House.
tion and the Office of Price Adminis­
over to have a glass of beer. mighty healthy picture of Amer-
-hould be undertaken by the Com- country, now, is the manpower abort­
tration are expecting the apple grow­
When they aak politely lean life —peo, iple working lo­
mil tec is to make the income tax law a<a j heard Bernard Baruch made
The milk problem, whifh has been er to take money out of his pocket
"Where’s the beer?” Bert points gether to get I in the food this
more simple and understandable. . .1 hi, report to the Senate Military Af-
critical in Oregon for some time, has to give to somebody else. This seems
to a bucket-full of frosty bottles country needs - and afterwards.
"I believe that emphasis should air, Committee. It was an excellent
finally become a national headache, to be known as the “squeeze” policy—
Bittin' around like good friends,
in the middle of the field.
first be directed towards the income aummary. He suggested that a Pro­
and is No. 1 problem now before the a term borrowed from the Canadians.
over a moderate glass of whole­
“
All
you
got
to
do,"
he'
says,
tax rather than the excess-profits tax ductton Priorities Committee be cre-
administrative agencies. The simple It is becoming apparent that the
some beer. I'm for it'
"is
work
your
way
out
to
it.
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tax, as I hope the excess-profits tax
for the entire West Coast, com-
facts of the milk problem, not only “squeeze" in so far as milk is con­
can be repealed immediately after
ot representatives of the gov-
Well, Bert’s Mee has craght
In Oregon but nationwide, are that cerned has gone Just about as far as
the termination of the war, in order ernment agencies affected, with the
n all over the coentry side.
the hold-the-Une policy has been it can go, and now something must be
to encourage new ventures and stim- ! ' War Production
production Board rep
reprqsenta-
resen ta-
dumped alomet entirely in the lap of done and done quickly. I cannot,
ulate private enterprise.”
Itive as chairman.
In making this the producer of milk; nothing or very . at this time, however, predict what
This is a very definite step in the suggestion, he points out that such a
No, 70 of a Serit»
little has been done to hold the line that something will be.
right dhcclion, and, more fortunate- 1 committee would be helpful in the
ly, it comes from a man thoroughly1 future when greater emphasis /w
conversant with the nation’s tax pic­ placed on fighting in the Pacific, and
ture. Less preoccupation with the new demands will be made on the
excess-profits lasts which are drain­ West Coast Donald Nelson recently
ing industry’s post-war reserves, and issued a directive in which he de­
more attention to the tax quandry clared no new plants of any kind
of the large majority of the nation 1 would be authorized on the West
would make this phase of the war Coast. They all seem to be taking
program far easier to take.
a swing at our part of the world, and
I for one am beginning to wonder if
it is a fair designation. Manpower
is short all over the nation, and from
Fact
my own observations when I was
and Fancy
there this summer, I do not believe
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the difficulties on the West Coast
The destruction of Neples by the are any greater than in many other
Meanwhile,
German vandals is apparently the parts of the country.
first step in the fulfilling of Hitler’s however, this clamor about the short­
throat that, If he went down, he age of manpower on the West Coast
•Would pull all Europe down with him.
The process of destruction is so much ery last mother's son of us will be
easier than that of creation it does willing to forego all our rationed
seem possible that Hitler may make gallons of gas and count the sacrifice
good (or should we say make bad?) as nothing.
that prediction. His other prophecy,
Needless to say, when that time
made wher^his hordes rolled over the comes there will be no hint of it
frontiers of France, is also being com­ given in the press and it is to be
pleted but in a manner he failed to hoped that those who are bound to
foresee. He appealed to his soldiers know about it will be as mum as
then to settle the future of the Ger­ the English were when a practice
man people for the next thousand invasion across the Channel was
years. The doom of the German em­ staged recently.
pire was sealed then but it has taken
over three years of bloodshed to make < The absence of German fighting
apparent the fate in store for the craft on all fronts grows rather om­
"Fatherland."
inous. The Luftwaffe cannot all have
been wiped out. Possibly the German
Pictures of King Christian of Den­ airforce is being massed for one last
mark appeared in the press recently suicidal bombing of Great Britain.
when reports of Danish insurrection On the other hand, all the fighting
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against German rule were making the ships may have been called in for
headlines. We fancied Wist there was refitting with the new German rocket
The road to Victory must be paved with War Bonds. The purchase of bonds
a resemblance between Christian and shell, which is proving more deadly
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King George VI of England and in- in attacks on our fortresses.
will help win the war and assure a sound post-war economy. Every dollar you
ves'tiagtion proved that the Danish
king was first cousin to George V of
When President Roosevelt accused
put into War Bonds does three vital jobs:
Great Britain. Incidentally he was I the Congress of exceeding their pow­
also first cousin to the last Czar of ♦ ers recently and treading on execu­
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It helps shorten the war and thus saves American lives.
Russia and to George I, former king tive preserves, it reminded us of a
of Greece. Of course, It to well! ____
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smoky
calling
a bright,
shin-
It protects your future as an investment.
known that Christian Is brother offing aluminum kettle black,
that other courageous old king.
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It prevents inflation now and after the war.
Haakon of Norway.
j ¡ Today marks the end of September
Attempting to trace the ancestry and tomorrow will be the first day
of these two regal septuagenarians, of October. Did you ever apply the
Our Government needs >15 Billion from War Bonds this month to ’’back rhe
we found they were the sons of L.Un you learned lh school to these
Frederick VIII of -Denmark and that months and realize their names in-
their mother was the daughter of diCMted! they were the seventh and
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King Charles XV of Sweden and Nor- ^<hth months of the year and No­
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way. Beyond that the royal line was vember and December, the ninth and
difficult to follow
because there tenth.
The old Roman calendar
were so many King Fredericks and from whJch our calendar today is de-
Klng Christians.
rived had only
months in the
It makes one thankful that custom year the laat four
the same as
Buy War Bonds from your local Bank or Po« Oft te
allows ordinary people to have in- they arc today. The fifth and sixth
•vidual names and not a numeral to months were once known as Quintilis
an overworked name of a popular and Sextilis. Various Roman dicta­
predecessor. As recent as the ascen­ tors remade the calendar at will,
sion of King George VI to the British adding or dropping months, changing
throne, it was deemed advisable for names to honor caesars or to satisfy
him to continue his father’s name other whims.
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325; ' Tl’* Pr°P°««<l. simplified calendar
called^ Bertie tof thirteen months of twenty -eight
¿ A. YOUNG,
Pnm
Rom where I sit ’..
/y Joe Marsh
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Fragments of
HIGHWAY to VICTORY
and your highway to a better futuro
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GREYHOUND
Increasing restrictions on the use
of gasoline here on the west coast
may portend the outfitting'of a vast
armada of planes and ships to be sent
to the heart of Japanese empire for
a knockout blow. When such prep­
arations are actually in progress ev-
days each is often advocated for
our modern world.
Each month
would begin on Sunday and the extra
day at the end of the year would be
a holiday.
It is* doubtful if any
change will ever be made. It would
take a world-wide dictator to enforce
the new way of counting days and
even then the result would be confu­
sion confounded.
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