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HB COQUILLE FÄLLST SENTINEL. OQQMLLtr ORÉGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IL IMS.
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arid sn~Teactianary groups w4io«e at
forts tend to disrupt the full produc­
tion necessary to egrry out the plans'
of Admiral Nimitz and other great
leaders whom we ure so fortunate as
to have st the head of our Army and
Jas. Aiken; S. D., V. N. Perry; J. D„
Navy. Let the public take heed; let
Geo. Leneve; Chap., Rev. Z. Cook.
the people act promptly to correct this
The charter members were: Thom­
shameful situation.
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as R. Willard, Christian Lehnherr,
The prospect of the State of Ore­
Ralph H. Rosa, Joshua Wright,' Wm.
gon becoming a stockholder in liquor
Mbrras, Wm. H. Harris, Geo. W. Len­
distillery for the sake of supplying
eve, James Aiken, Ambrose H. Moore,
the liquor stores with goods for
Vale N. Perry, Eben Huntiy,
1 thirsty customers, is the cause of un-
| easiness among people who are op-
A tag day will be held here on Sat­
posed to government in business and
urday, Nev. 24, for the benefit of the
also those opposed to the use of al-
Albertina Kerr nursery home in Port­
çholic liquors.
land. The tags will be sold at 25
The motive behind any interest by
cents each.
the State in such a deal is, of course,
concern for the Old Age Pension Pro­
Assessor J. P. Beyers returned Sun­
gram, rather than concern for thirsty
day from Portland, where he attended
customers of State liquor stores. It
the meeting of the state assessors' as­
is unfortunate that this vital pension
sociation and the livestock show.
fund is dependent upon liquor rev­
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enue, for this source is neither stable
C. A. Gage and R. H. Creager have
■ nor morally desirable. However, it is
purchased, through the Geo. T. Moul­
the only source open at present, un­
ton agency, the R. S. Knowlton build­
less some ether tax is levied, such as
ing on Front strete.- so long occupied
the proposed sales tax.
by Mr. Knowlton with his drug ■t."ie. i
The care for the aged is a State re-r
sponsibility that should be financed
Chas. C. Evland is a lang going,
by all of the people, and not merely
craft; he isn’t a sea captain, never
by the selected few who pay property
was, and, after his experience on the
taxes. All of the people are eligible
bridge, he never intends to be. Which
for relief under present pension laws
is to say that Mr. Evland resigned his
if need can be established. All of the
position with the state highway de­
people should pay for this protection
partment as bridge tender here be- j
as a part of their civic duty during
cause every time he swung it he be- |
their earning years. Any Source for
came deathly sick. E. C. Church has
financing this fund should bear this
been appointed to succeed him.
in mind and should be one to which
all of the people contribute.
As statistics show that a majority
of relief eases nave intemperate use
By R. T. Moore
of liquor as a background, revenues
from the liquor traffic are properly
Armistice Day brought several fine
set aside in the future for that pur­
radi<9 speeches bearing on the prog­
pose./ But they should be augmented
ress of the war and of American in­
by funds from a more stable source,
dustry supporting the war.
to which the entire public contributes'
The most outstanding, in my opin­
as a type of insurance against old age
ion, was the short terse, well-worded
destitution. The stigma of pauper­
statement of Admiral Chester Nimitz,
ism could in that fashion be elimin­
delivered from headquarters at Pearl
ated from the acceptance of old age
Harbor. This extremely able and ef­
relief by those who need it.
They
ficient commander of our sea forces
would be paying for it out of their
arrayed against the Japanese does not
own earnings while they were able.
have the habit of talking for the fun
, It would be theirs to command, by
of it. When he says something, he
their own right, if and when needed
means It.
in the waning years of their lives.
The statement Admiral Nimitz
A promised relaxation of restric­
made that he hoped there would not
tions against liquor manufacture for
be a relaxation of support for his
the two-fold purpose of supplying
men by industry and labor at home
State liquor stores and of confoùnd-
was. to me, profoundly disturbing; «j»¡‘ves^ri^“ 'to‘the
indicated that the haunting fear of |hJ
Kuo/store £a¿ cun
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taxes
The greet majority of the public in­
cluding those in public office have In­
dicated their desire that free enter­
prise rather than government supply
Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
■»nd author—gf the pay-a»-)...
income tax. has come fbith w rr i
practical suggestion.’; He proposes
that instead of levying high taxer t<>
keep a large public works -program
going.Maxes should be reduced after
the war so that money can be left for
individuals to invest in industry,
____ who really
_ want
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To those
to see
privaU, industry embark on a
production program aft<|r the war and
provide the bulk of employment, the
logic of this recommenadtion is ap­
parent. It is * businessman’s way of
: putting the horse before the cart.
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jobs after the war.
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This is all well and good, but it
U. A. YOUNG, Miter
November 16, 1923)
takes more than saying to accom­
BulMcripitea'Rates
Arthur Covell, convicted of first da-
plish. Industry has emphatically ac-
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cepted the task of keeping production
by
Judge
Kendall
on
Tuesday
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at a high level during peacetime. It
No subscription taken unless paid ' noon to be hanged at Salem on Fri-,
knows that prbduction would mean
for in advance. This rule is Impera­ I day, Dec. 21. There was no delay In
tive.
more goods, jobs, and 'u higher stan-
starting him for the penitentiary and
ard of living.
that evening Deputy Sheriff Male­
Entered at the Coquille Poetoffice ar
However, more and more people are
horn left with his prisoner on the
Second Class Mail Matter.
also coming to realise that industry
¡evening train from Marshfield.
cannot possibly plan for expanded
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production after the war If it con-
The new Masonic Temple, which is
tinues to be taxed to its very utmost.
to be dedicated at noon next Wednes­
For one thing, business must have
day, Nov. 21, houses one of the finest
Oil
capital invested in it—and people who
lodge rooms in southern Oregon and
iilis
have suffered tremendous ( income
there are very few lodges in the state
taxes will be loath to risk what is left
which surpass it iii.furnishings.
iri any businesses which will yield
Dr. Leslie G. Johnson, who has been
little profit after its taxes have been
named by Grand Master Cochran as
J-duitid.
deputy grand master for the dedica­
tion ceremonies, has asked the mas­
And if private enterprise does noL
ters of the lodges in Coos, Curry and
supply employment, government will
aurely g|ep in. This means vast pub­
Jt is with trepidation that we think Western Douglas counties to act as
lic works programs, to be paid for
of the future. 1 We look forward to 8rand officers in assisting him with
by taxes.
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■ Beardsley Rumi, Chairman of the
it will . have
its prob- ’ At tiie fjrst meeting of Masons held
; in Coquille July
lems as well, as its blessings.
. - 3, -, 1875, the grand
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How an enduring world order of lodge was petitioned for dispensation
justice and tranquillity is to be 1® organize a lodge. . ,
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achieved challenges the best thought pensation was granted Aug. 26, 1875,
of our statesmen and of those of other and the charter issued June 14, 1876.
countries. If it were possible to be ; The
officer, of the lodge were
proud of government of our union of ai follows: W. M., Thos. R, Willard;
states then a federation of the world s- Yf., Christian Lehnherr; J. W.,‘R.
would seem to be an Utopia within l^Jtosaj^Ti^as^JA^n^Momrs^Se«^
our grasp. However, the graft, inef- i
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ficiency and greed for power in thè quest and the inevitable clash with
federal set-up is only equalled by United States.
Our boys are not fighting to save
poor leadership inimical to the best
interest of labor and by the selfish­ the French empire for a ruling clique
ness of the great and the small in in France and every obstacle that de­
lays the successful operation of the
all lines of business.
Neither is thl negro problem in allies and the defeat of Hitler means,
United States a closed issue. If the not only the starvation of more of
white and colored people here have ’ the children of France but also more
not learned to get along in the more gold stars on the service flags in
than seventy-five years since the this country.
close of the Civil War, it evidently is
not within our power to give equal I It is reported that seven out of
advantages to all the diversified races ten children in Persia die in child-
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of the world as soon as the war ends, j hood. Public health in that ancient
A good many years ago we read ’ country will find virgin territory af-
an article that expressed a view of ter the war when modern medicine
our social body quite new to us then, will endeavor to supplant supersti-
Service men an furlough and other essential
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The author said that while tbe Amer- ’ tion and the cruelties of ignorance,
war travelers now have the “right of rail” with
ican people were not divided into
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Southern Pacific. It’s the railroad’s,job in war-
classes as were the Europeans, we had
Did you know that there is such
the foundations laid for a caste sys- fs phase as “loan god,” meaning a
time to carry such travelers wherever they need
tern. Since then the yean have wit- deity adopted from a foreign religion,
to go, and without delay. If you don’t need to
nessed the division into classes of the jIf there could just be "loan good­
reagonably fu„. This.tate-
take the train, we hope you won’t.
great bulk of our population and, - ness” instead and the better attri­ ndustrial betrayal was lurking n ;be
under the Roosevelt regime, the di­ butes of one people exchanged for h. mind, of hl. men, who are so gal- ment couid also be applied to the
lantly fighting our comon enemy.
vergence of the laboring class from excellent ones of another nation I
steady customers of the liquor stores.
It is a shameful Indictment of.
the formerly all-inclusive middle United States might trade our iso­
There la little likelihood of the
lation proclivities to Germany for her American labor and industry that State entering the distillery business.
class of this country.
such
a
thought
ahould
ever
enter
However, the origin of separate physical culture education among
Too much opposition will come from
castes goes back to the first shipload youth. Great Britain might share the heads of our boys in the armed those who do not believe in the use
services.
It
is
so
grotesquely
at
a
of slaves sold in the colonies and the her devotion to “what is cricket” with
of liquor, as well as those who don’t
yvynidrwf/br&P.
variance with American tradition as
racial question will continue to plague the German people and take in turn
like the entrance of government into
to be incredible to those who have the business field.
our descendants long after we are ' a little of their regimentation for the
set up in their hearts pictures of high
all dead, would-be reformers and , public good. Some of the Russian
ideals of American life.
nigger-haters alike. Under a caste ;and German willingness to die for
Admiral Nimitz spoke of this mat­
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fatherlands
could
be
used
by
system there can be no inter-marriage
between the upper and lower castes a few Lavals in France who love to ter in a rather hesitant, apologetic
and when such unions do occur, the bow the neck to Hitler’s yoke, while way. He spoke as one who could not
member of the higher caste automati­ freedom-loving people in France and bring himself to believe that Amer­
cally descends to the lower level. Also the world over would be glad to ican labor and industry could be
there can be no social equality be­ disabuse the goose-ste, pers of the guilty of such a moral crime; he
tween members of different castes idea that the state is everything and spoke as one who was witnessing the
nor do they eat at a common table. the individual nothing and to restore crashing down about him of all the
high ideals that a lifetime had built
If our white population could as­ the belief that the human soul'is of
up in his heart, the utter destruction
similate the colored people as it has prime importance.
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of preconceived respect and admira­
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the foreigners from Europe then we
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tion for achievements of American
might exalt ourselves as the arbiters 'Traffic Death Rate Increases
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industry that has made possible the
Chamber
for the destinies of all the brown, Even Though Mileage Is Down
fine fighting force under his com­
yellow and black races of the world
While motor vehicle travel in Ore­ mand.
but the repugnance felt at the sugges­
gon for the first nine months of 1943
And yet, each day as we pick up
tion of such an idea only proves the
drooped 15 per cent in comparison the newspaper or listen to news over
strength of the caste system in effect
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with travel for the same period a year the radio, we hear of strikes, walk­
here in the United States.
ago, tHS traffic death rate remained outs, slowing up of work, lack of dis­
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In spite of all the difficulties now
' about the some, according to a report cipline and general irresponsibility of
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visioned as attending a world left
1 from the safety division of the secre­ industrial groups, including labor
broken by war, the peace may be­
tary of state’s office.
unions, all over the country. Here js
come the promised millenium if we. „
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irrefutable evidence that large sec- j
a. a people Can purge our^lve. of1, G“o, ne *"*
tions of American industry value the
selfishness, If we can place in au-
toT ** month *
possession of gold more than the lives
thority leader, who follow the tenet. th ’
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of the Christian religion and if all "’¿‘"«’L r€«>rd*d for SeP*mb*r uf of our boys at the front. Here is
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last proof for those reactionary detractors
American, put a.ide their feeling of ,M2,k
Deposits
of American industry in Europe that:
superiority and learn the humility ¡nonth. *mou*^d *L^70°7a ?
of true service.
lon’’ ««»"pared to 25,020,978 a year they were right in saying tnat every
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American has a price for which he
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Public opinion is volatile, inc«-L Por
ADVISABLE EVERY 10,000 MILES!
. will sell anything—even the life of
«tant and ever changing. A few year. ,h<^
>72,253.737 gallon, i of his own son. Here is proof of a moral
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gasoline used in Oregon which is a decay among American institutions
ago we abhorred Stalin and all hi.
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decrease of 30,971,691 gallons.
that is extremely dangerous to the
works. Today we admire him, are I
The traffic death rate for the first future of our country.
proud of the courage of the Midlers 1
three quarters of this year was 8.7
It is high time that the American
of the Red Army and accept them as
persons killed per one hundred mil­ people were thoroughly aroused to
an honored ally.
lion miles of travel while for the same this situation; it is time that the pub- ,
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France, on the other hand, whose
period a year ago, the rate was 8.2. lie take steps to provide a leadership ,
very soil is hallowed ground where
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that will resolutely and thoroughly
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has disappointed us sorely The cor-
X wan stamp out every movement or act
that would interfere with complete
ruption of her leaders made her a ■ * * y **** r'
6. Prolong the life of your angina.
support, industrially and morally, of
ripe plum for Hitler’s taking. Her
SILENCE^ ITS VIRTUE
our armed forces. It is time that the
internal bickering and the personal
Silence never shows itself to so public demand an end to all internal1
safety and prestige of too many
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Frenchmen overshadowing their loy­ great an advantage as when It is and trivial bickering for the dura­
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alty to France itself, has darkened the I made the reply to calumny and def­ tion. The public has been far too
Screen
complacent
in
permitting
the
disrup
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light which freedom-loving people amation.—Addison.
MK> TOUR WAR BOND RJRCNASES-Spead tho Day of Victory
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formerly believed to be a sacred trust i There is an eloquent silence: it tion of maximum production.
of France for the inspiration of all serves sometimes to approve, some- have been far too willing to let some­
humanity.
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¡tlrtwsto condemn; there Is a mocking one else du the Job for. us. Admiral
Instead we hear of the crÆlties <,f !gilence; there 4« a respectful silence*. Nimitz hat delivered the Warning.
It would be unthinkable for the pub­
her
Imperialism practiced on help­ I —La Rochefoucauld.
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lic not to give heed.
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Silence is the element in which
exile more solicitors for the perpetu­
A type of leadership is demanded
ation of the French empire than for great things fashion themselves to­ that will tirelessly prosecute any
the prosecution of the war which gether; that at length they may other conception of the proper place
would free the mother country' from I emerge, full-formed and majestic, of American industry in the war ef­
bondage to Germany. Nor can Amer­ into the delights of life, which they fort than that of full and complete
icans forget the treachery which are thenceforth to rule.—Carlyle.
support to our armed forces. We
turned Indo-China over to Japan
need a leadership that will deal firm­
Insurance Specialist, F. R. Bull
and made possible the Nipponese con-
ly, strongly and fearlessly with any
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