FAGE FOCI The Sentinel a mm ton is a mm raws 1. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------— TWENTY YEARS AGO 1 are finished, > items i this session will end. Weekly Letter From Washington, D. C. I ' TO WHOM IT MATr CONCERN BY CONGRESSMAN HARRIS ELLSWORTH- -------1 Notice is hereby given that I will] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ be responsible for no debts contracted -J ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- want to see to it that the Ger ­ (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday, ' Harrison E. White, an executive of- Washington, D. C., December Deeember 7, 1923) ficer of the national Boy Scout or- The now fa tton in- man leadership cannot make war by anyone other than myself, after At the regular seasion of the city ganization,; has been in the count quite a stir here. It again, it seems likely that the an­ this date, Dec. 9, 1943. »100 council Monday evening Mayor-Nos­ the past week seek Elmer B. Spurgeon. It* was discussed on the floor of both nouncement of the results of the con­ ier announced the appoin -JAL formatiurr a county unit which can Houses of Congress and everywhere ference in Iran—the sentence there C. T. Skeels, be tied up to the national organiza­ 11 went people were talking about it. passed upon the culprit German na­ If you are looking for a gift for whose resignation became effective tion. . , Rev. C. S. Bergner, Coquille (Other and more important news has tion-may not look nearly so bad one who loves poetry, remember that scoutmaster, at the meeting of the now shoved the Patton story aside to the German people as the contin­ Frances HoTmstrom’s book “Rich i last Saturday. Commercial club here Wednesday and, I hope, the affair may soon be ual bombing of their cities. Lady” is still on sale at Norton's Sta­ Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as Towards ISO ladies and gentlemen evening, told of some of the difficul­ I forgot ton. tioner^ and by Mrs. Holmstrom her­ , Second Class Mail Matter. were present at the banquet and party ties lye had had, not with the boys, By the way of a final round-up of The Congress is getting just about self. Office Corner W. First and Willard St tendered by the ladies of,the Eastern who are eager to keep the troup go- ■ gossip and comment about the incl­ ready to wind up this session and Star to the cast which so successfully ine, In securing help from the■dent, here is the gist of the talk here: adjourn for the Christmas recess Pinpies Disappeared staged “The Mikado" at the Liberty father! and men of the town. One ' Patton is known as an exhibitionist- Each Congress is for a two-year du- ' and J something ___ of . a < bully; ... . there ____ .. — This . . is .. the . first .___ I___ of I the man cannot do it all. Theatre last May, last evening. session were ration. Over Night several similar incident»—more than 78th Congress. When this session is Tss. It Is tree, there Is a safe harm­ At the cloM of the city’s budget The pupils of the grade building ; two; the Army handled the entire adjourned, just before Christmas, all less medicated liquid called Klaer«x » that Arlee up plmpies over night. year, November 30, City Treasurer O. are very enthusiastic over raising affair badly which resulted in un­ pending legislation remains “alive." . Many report that they had a red sort pimply,face one night and surprised C. Sanford made a resume of the money to buy more books for their usually bad public reaction. Sum ­ When the second session convenes on GOVERNMENT OWNS ONE-FIFTH their friend* the next day with a city’s business for the year. The re- . school library, mary: Patton incident unimportant, the constitutional date of January clear complexion. There Is no risk. THE U. S. — STATES flrst application must convince port shows that the city spent »1097.38 'an isolated, unusual case, is a prob- third, or such other darte immediately The you or you get your money back. EXPRESS CONCERN Only 60c. Join the happy Kleerex Passengers on the boats from Ban- lem for Army discipline and is not thereafter as the Congress may name more than the budget estimate a users who are no longer embarrassed One-fifth the land area of the year ago amounted to. . don yesterday reported that the Gal- incase for trial by Congress or com- in its adjournment resolution, com­ • /with unsightly pimples. Mold and * recommended by United States is owned today by the lier Hotel had a close call there during menta tors. mittees will take up their work right BARROW DRUG CO. government! where they, left off, the legislative A. N. Gould and Lafe Compton, the high tides and that when 30 feet When Congress' Joint Committee who has the lease for the Hotel Co- on the south bank of the river slid i There is less optimism and “early calendar will go right on. The only on Reduction of Non-essential Fed­ quille, returned Sunday from Port- off, it looked for a few moments as peace” talk around Washington now change worthy o( note will be the eral Expenditures found that out the land, where they went last week to though the hotel might go too. than for the last several months. Re­ fact that all actions taken by Con­ cent conferences have not hai the ef­ gress—all printed hearings and other other day—with “apprehension”— purchase the furniture and equipment there followed an immediate de­ lor the new hotel. High grade fur­ Jewel Peart, the 18-year old daugh­ fect of bridging out war-end talk. documents that are produced dur­ mand that liquidation of surplus gov­ nishings were selected for the 42 ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Peart, died Strangely enough there seems to be ing «he next session will be labeled ernment holdings be started immedi­ guest rooms, and the promise is that at her home on the highway, just les* interest in these conference* than “78th Congress—Second Session.” ately. it will be as handsomely furnished a this side of the high school, Tuesday in previou* ones. This i* doubtless When the second session adjourns - I | morning at one o'clock. “Growing concern” exists in many i r.tel as there is in Oregon. due to the fact that the novelty of at the end of 1944, this Congress ends See us for photographs of states, the committee asserted, over such meetings has worn off. Fact is, —the slate is wiped clear—and all the situation. It added that “ex- ■ curnference of which consists of job in handling the enormous war > these meetings are the most impor­ pending legislation must be reintro­ ceMive amounts of land" have been , wage* and pricM. It Is very evident traffic. • Family Groups » Both railroad tabor and ' tant developments of the war to date. duced, and the legislative calendar purchased by the government since , that the squirrel has a hopeles* task management have wrought miracles i It is assumed the result of them will , begins new with the new Congress • Service Men 19M. I of trying to run away from’the whirl­ In transporting the huge quantities I be a flat, clear and positive statement ' January 3, 1945, which will be known, More than 600 Federal establish­ ing spiral of inflation. Mr. Quincy, of war goods which are now bring- to ®ur enemies as to exactly what of course, as the 79th Congress. • Babies ments are on a parity as to admin- i Scott, author of this cartoon, has been ing Germany to its knees and are they may expect for their future, • Copies of Pictures istrative control arid responsibility, noted for hi* skill in cleverly de­ striking devastating blows against Japan has already been told—and in There was no action in the House the committee declared, and no cen­ picting item* of national Interest. Japan. It is one of the bright spots no uncertain terms. Before this letter this week.' We are awaiting Senate tral agency keeps track of “how much This is one of his best. Phone till. in the present Administration pic- appears in print it is likely the state- disposition of the Tax Bill and the land the government owns, where Oftentimes the creation of such ture that the railroads have not been meni to the Germans will have been Commodity Credit Corporation (sub­ it is, or how must it costs.” ¡artists does not receive due recogni­ tinkered with by government offi- j released. It is believed here that this sidies) bill. When these two major The committee, headed by Senator tion until after their death, and ciala to the extent that their teffi- statement will have a direct and def- Byrd (Dem. Va.), estimated the gov­ often the very creation that they dis­ ciency is impaired. It proves that to'¡nite bearing upon the length of the ernment land holdings equal in size carded as being Worthless has turned get best results for the public, Ameri- . European phase of the war. The to the combined areas of Maine, N. H., out to be the thing that made them can industry should be left alone to German people have never been told, HOMES Vt„ R. I., Mass., Conn., Pa., N. Y., immortal. An illustration of this is work out its own problems; it proves (by us, at least, what unconditional i * How change the changeless things! Today N. /„ Maryland, I. ” W V, Va. Del, North i the “Unfinished Symphony” by Franz that there must be a general retreat i surrender will mean to them and to olilíq, Ga, Fla., Ohio, and South Caroli! Home, which has ever been a compact nest, .Schubert, which that great master of government from business if pros­ their future liyes. Their own lead­ Ala., Ky., and Ind. - Safe and enclosed, feels its strong bough asway, I threw away as worthless, and the perity is to come to us in the postwai ers have apparently told the German The Byrd committee said that In Christmas hymn, “Heilige Nacht” by period. Feels its wall thrust toward the East, the West, people that defeat means slavery and the last two and a half years alone i the Bavarian schoolmaster, worse—thus forcing them to accept Franz For home is, after all, a heart that hovers, , the government has acquired real Gruber, which the latter wrote and the lesser of two evils, to keep on Birdlike its brood, and if the fledglings roam estate totaling 14,783,000 acres—ap­ then forgot about as.a part of a fighting hoping for some breaks and To distant isles, love’s feathering still covers. proximately the area of seven east- Christmas program for his school *n ultimate relaxation of terms. Love's walls, still hold them, in the heart of home. ern states. Since we do not, of course, contem­ children. plate the enslavement of the German Strangely elastic is the housing heart These creations by the great mu- people or of any other people, but That cannot, will not, let its inmates go, ter* have done far more to shape That holds' the lives which of itself are part the couna of humanity than a)l the administration candidates, though By R. T. Moore Even in lands whose names it does not know. war* and diplomacy since history be­ just how it would do this was not We received an interesting bit of gan. If one bird flies where winter never ends, rriade clear in arguments on the floor It is hoped that this terrible con­ mall from Seaman Harold Mullin And one keeps vigil where the great nuts fall, of the senate. somewhere in the South Pacific. It flict will never be repeated and that The circle of their keeping only bends. the tenets of Christianity and of was our lumber brand whittled with But still, distorted, compasses them all. Reports to OPA officials in the na­ jack-knife from a piece of lumber brotherly love will be backed by such tional capital of eight Waahington used in construction work at the overwhelming military and economic . . . The home walls sway, but we who keep them know power as to be the predominant force state communities being deprived of battle front. They will not break, but only grow—and grow. milk because of the inability of dair­ ' We had heard that our lumber was in shaping the eburse of the world —Frances Holmstrom being used by the armed forces In hereafter. Washington, D. C., Dec. 9—If de­ ies to operate under OPA price ceil­ the several campaigns of the Soutfi, feat in the senate of th« administra­ ings on milk and dairy stock feed ■ A contributor to a small California tion bill for soldier voting in th« are indicative of conditions which Pacific, but this is the first tangible daily has finally succeeded in solving coming presidential election is th« prevail in many parts of the country. evidence offered to prove it Mr. Mullin is a valued employe«, the fuel problem, according to their final word of congress ther« is slight Dairy herds ranging from half a At first he used prospect that any considerable num- d°*en to scores of milk cow* each are who drove one of our lumber trucks editorial page. which he obediently ber of the armed force* abroad will being sold by their owner* because hauling lumber from Bandon to Co­ fuel oil, quille and to Empire. It is not un­ changed to coal upon advice of the have an opportunity to cast a ballot. these prico ceiling* and in every likely that he hauled the very lumber fuel coordinator. Then he changed — ' ‘ Th« measure adopted by a coalition state small town newspaper* are filled which he saw in this military base. ; from coal back' to fuel oil when the of republican* and southern demo­ with auction sale advertisements. It gives a feeling of great satiafac-' first mine strike took place. Then he crats leaves the whole machinery of The immediate crisis thus created is tion' to have our products used to ran out of coal when the second mine soldier voting in the hand* of the not so serious as the prospect for the shelter the boys in the army at the strike came on, and not being able to state, and in most states the arrange­ future, and it now seem* inevitable battle front. No doubt the products get fuel oil in sufficient amount, he ment for absentee voting is so com­ that the 1944 shortage of both milk of all other Coos County mills are io had to cast about him for a substi­ plicated that it will be physically im­ and meat will be much greater than similar service at this time. Truly, tute. No matter possible to provide the boys in uni- had been anticipated. He appeared in a happy frame of form with ballots in time to have what change* may be made in OPA the lumber business is an essential industry and those employed in it mind one moring, because he had suc­ them returned and counted. ■ rule* and regulation* it is now too can feel that they are taking an active ceeded in solving the problem. He Under the administration bill, late to remedy the situation in many part in the war. had changed his grates so that he which the senate rejected, rejected,- ballots balle: for communities, according to reports re­ could burn government pamphlets, president and members of congress ceived by member* of congress from There is probably no more effec­ which came in quantity with every would have been distributed and their constituent*. tive way of teaching people and of mail. Possibly this is a suggestion counted by a bipartisan committee There is a very definite movement illustrating a point in question than . that can be followed by other inter- appointed by the president and the in congress to abel.sh OPA when the results would have beeif certified to time come* next summer for renewal through the use of pictures or car- ; ested people, toons. . —o— the states. This plan was resented by of the emergency price control act, On the cover of the Saturday Eve- I It Is customary for politicians to republicans and southern democrats and so far it hM aroused no deter­ ning Post under date of November : “view with alarm” and I take this as an invasion of state’s rights in suf­ mined opposition from the White 27 is the best illustration of American I prerogative in regard to a bill now ficient number to bring about its de- House. A bloc of some 70 members Today you can't aliord io take dependable ar needs recharg­ foreign policy that has been put forth before Congress provided for certain f«*t. , ,_i has been loosely formed in the house chances with an old battery. ing. Our Protective Battery to date. It tell* the whole story in. a ' adjustments in the railroad rate - In most states the law for absentee t0 iight for continuance of the price For U it iaile. the car you need Service ie absolutely FREE. very striking manenr and should be schedules, voting requires the prospective voter control agency, but no similar sup- Why pot plan to use this serv­ for OMential driving will be a very potent influence in shaping^ This question should not be tin­ to make application for a blank bal- P°rt *» observable in the senate. Just ice soon? tied up . . . possibly for days. public opinion. kered with by the Congress because lot, which is mailed to him if he is wh®t the administration plan is can­ That's because emergency If you look at the picture, you will it is the result of years of adjust­ otherwise qualified. The ballot is not b* determined from present indi- service is hard and costly to note that it is of a young Italian I ments, compromises and speciarcon- then returned by the voter in a , catlops, but there is a rumor that the get The smart thing to do is woman presumably sitting upon _ __ __ a I cessions of unequal geographical sit- roundabout way to his local election (a8encX> because of its unpopularity, to let us take battery worry broken column in the ruins of Naples, i uations. The work of years of stfen- board in time to be canvassed witfr^T become the victim of political off your mind. So bring in A V. S. army sergeant seeing her uous effort by the railroads and by the other ballots and included in the expediency. It is expected the situa- shivering in the cold dawn of the I the I. C. C. should not be destroyed general count. Because the deadline t,on ma> b* clarified when President your car. We'll teat your old day has thrown his overcoat about1 by an ill-conceived, although well for filing by candidates is so near Roosevelt returns, battery and tell ycu if it's still her shoulders and has given her a meant, act of the Congress. the election day there is not time to —0— of biy fo.-,d ritiui; lu Lia G. I. Thg iüllioüd structuré ha* tfccn uuii balluu to útet- jii pat is of the Announccn.c nt or the purenase of frying pan. She, being thankful for ; up in traditional American demo- World with any assurance that they 19,687 acres in Grays Harbor county, this unaccustomed kindness on the cratlc manner. The railroads, the will be returned before the votes are Washington, it.r the purpose of estab- part of a soldier, is offering up her shippers and representatives of the canvassed as provided by existing lishing another “tree farm” serves to thanks^ to God for the goodness he public, have met many times to de- statutes. call attention to a movement inaugu- has wrought. bate the rate qeustion, and they have the older -your The administration bill provided rated in 1941 by the Weyerhaeuser When you think of this picture; can always arrived at conclusions which, that ballots for federal officials should Timber Co. and consistently carried battery goto . . . you conceive of a better way to il- though they favored no particular be sent in advance to army command- out since that time, under the aus- MIW the quicker it's lustrate the American foreign pol- ; group, were a compromise acceptable ers and by them turned ovér to indi- pices of the West Coast Lumbermen's B. F. icy which would embody the true to all. For Congress to upset this vidual* in the armed forces. The association and the Pacific Northwest apt to quit feelings of the American people to- i procedure would be a long step back­ marked bailóte would then be re- Loggers association, for the protec- ward the Voor suffering ones in Itjjy’ ward. anÆ would. invite chaos. turned- to-the bipartisan Vommixsion.^tion and consensetlon ' of jjrtvfftPTy Tru|y this is a masterpiece and Mr. The western states would suffer counted by the commission and by it ' owned timber. To receive the destg- Norman Rockwell is to be congratu­ severely because the proposed bill certified to the secretaries of state nation of “tree farm" definite stan- lated upon his creation. embodies the wishes for more fa­ in time to be included in the regular dards of planting and protection must Another «outstanding picture, a vorable rates for southern states, sueh canvass. be maintained and the tyork is eare- cartoon, appearing in the Oregonian as Texas. It injects power politics Southern democrats objected to fully supervised. These tree firms of November 28, illustrate* the econ- into this vital and important portion what they termed federal control of are becoming more numerous in the |.r