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macbln* Three men are need-
The President’s acceptance speech i *** 10
«trips mukt be
i outlines the basis of his campaign. thorou*hly dry befor* U,in* *Dd *>
¡Three salient pointe stand out. He
■ He is probable that these synthetic
I saved the country from depression.
Jaos
¡boards will be more expensive than
I has defeated the Germans and 3
/l
i sawmill boards but they will be uni­
His experience and foreign policy are I
form irf strength and texture, shrink­
essential to the peace.
AU three of these statements are J proof, and made to order. The pos­
sibilities for utilization of ordinary
vulnerable to attack by the opposi­
sawmill waste in this fashion are
tion on the grounds that F. D. R. is
almost limitless.
merely an opportunist taking credit
Cur air-force has developed a
Entered at the Coquille Postoffice a» for world-wide happenings over wooden container, bound with special
Second CUas Mail Matter.
which he had practically no influence
steel wire, that can be dropped from
nor control, that he was merely a pas-
in the observation car and not “ “b-plane as high a. IQJJOOfeet
without parachute and without dam­
the engineer.
age to its contents. The container
The foreign policy element will be
is stountly built of any soft wood or
heavily stressed and a continuous
plywood and its contents are packed
smoke screen thrown ever the bad
in excelsior or similar material. The
domestic
muddle
which
now
threat
­
I
secret
of its astounding ability to
ens the post-war econoqjy. Mr. Roose­
FZ
stand the terrific impact is the tex-
«it lor
. . ¿7.
velt will take full credit
for me
the tor-.
for­ ;
. The
•tee‘ bin?lna
tunate turn in the war. His campaign *“* <*
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nn* „r
will march to the tuna
of win
win th*
the I,Uct mu,t ** °* P«*«** «nartufi
with Just the righ amount of tensile
war and never mind home affairs, ;
'strength to aci as a powerful shock­
His role la to be that of the great,
absorbing spring. The formula for
crusader, not greatly differing from
the wire is a military secret that
It is no longer a decent war.' that of Woodrow Wilson at th« end
will be available to the public in
of
World
War
I.
To
voters
skeptical
.
Thus did a young soldier of Germany
of
this
sort
of
thing
after
ppst
bitter
po
J._arl
write home to his wife. In Nor­
Even articles as fragile as glass
experience,
he
will
attempt
to
justify
|
mandy mud he died and his unposted
containers of blood plasma are
hifnself on the grounds that a strong
letter was found.
' dropped without damage from speed­
paternal
influence
on
European
af
­
He wfrote: “We all wonder how we
ing airplanes. Where the use of para­
«rill ever get out of this hell. We fairs.will be the best protection for
chutes resulted in the tip off of lo­
begin to doubt fh God. What must Uncle Sam’s interests and for pre­
cation to the enemy and extreme in-
serving
the
peace.
.
And
.then
the
we human beings suffer? It la no
I accurarcy of aim, the dropping of
longer a decent war, it is wholesale role of crusader becomes Mr. Roose-{ 'these containers can be done with
murder and butchering of men, a velt. It presents his best side to the
{great precision and without defection
disgrace to the JOth Century. And public. -
I by the foe. There is the added ad­
The
two
parties
meet
head-on
in
what for?"
vantage of low cost, only about one-
■ Before any sympathy is felt for - the matter of poltical interference
conduct
of the ------------
war. The
m the parachute type
this disillusioned follower of Hitler, ‘ with the ------
----
- Dem-
ocrata inrist upon Mr. Roo^eitrun-,The ^‘b‘UU*
,th* **»»•«*«
we must remember the arrogance of
war. The Repubii- | ““ / ,th^" alner *>r
the German war when their war ning the fighting war.
*e «ht ™ tremendous
was “decent” and it was the helpless cm. think 4hat Marshall, King,' Mac- :°*
Arthur and company should do It I Bo‘h J»1
*"^ng device,
people of Warsaw, Rotterdam and without political interference. Th. H
‘"J»* profeM
London who felt the German bomba;
Demccrataride-step
the
Constitution
greater
»Ulization of our
t-.en the war was glorious and the
and
Interpret
ths
President
’
s
post
in
Greste.
Adding
to
them
the advances
barren v oik the master race.
« prof^onal i.ry wnw.' The I
Id our enlightened country «re
plastic, alcohol, charcoal, and the
■-
r. ’. — .—
know there never wu, nor ever can Republicans hold to the constitutional
chemical
derivatives which are by-
provision
that
th.
President,
aomin-
0
^*1 ^«tiro.
by­
be, a “decent war." It is a grim
1
n/ fhnee nrAnoaozM urea aawY
business for our sons abroad and ally the Commander-in-Chief of theI prod“cta of them proc^e. wsare
promised a vast expansion in forest
armed forces, is not a professional
heart-breaking for many at home.
industries after the war. The de­
soldier and should confins himself to ,
pletion of vtrgin forest stands will
It was ten years ago Tuesday, July selecting competent leaders who are.
'more than be conpensated by the
25. 1034, that the Nazis in Vienna They think the lives of young Amer- ,
greater utilization of surviving,stands
shot Chancellor Dollfuss to death. leans are safer In the hands of highly
of timber and the perpetuation of the
However, it is not to be imagined trained military men of proven skill,
lumber industry will be assured. The
that this was a “shot that rang acting without political Interfence
potential new industries will go far
around the worM.” Of course this and under their own initiative. It
toward guaranteeing employment to
assassination prerodod both the Ital­ looks as if the Republicans had the
present personnel and the creating of
ian-Ethiopian war and the Spanish best of the argument in this case.
Tlie President’s foreign policy is thousands of new Jobe. The war has
civil «rar but the Reichstag had
presented us with much of the wood
burned in Berlin the year before and not doing so well at the moment. The
technology painfully built up by thp
that fire enabled the. Nazis to gain Atlantic Charter has been dropped
Germans after World War I. We will
control of the German government over-board, quietly so as not to make
use it for the more noble purpose of
by playing upon, the fears of com­ a splash, by Stalin and Churchill. '
bringing happiness and prosperity in­
munism by the unsuspecting people. The much-publicized Teheran Con­
stead of brutal murder and destruc­
As John Gunther has said: "The fire ference has turned out to be another 1
tion.
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was discovered at about nine-fifteen cocktail party. The good neighbor
on a winter evening back in 1833, policy in South America has stirred'
up a hornet’s nest. Recognition of Two Cows Under Different
but Its embers are burning yet.”
the present Italian government was Philosophies of Goveramei
Someone has recently suggested forced on our reluctant State Depart­
Have you got two cows? Accord­
that potency of the robot bomb may ment by the Indomitable Stalin. The
ing to a reader who signs himself
bo the greatest peacemaker ever in­ provisional French government under
“B. A. M.,H here’s what happens to
vented. The idea is that, revolution­ DeGaulle was rammed down F. D. R.’s
you and your two cows under dif­
izing and intensifying warfare, it will I throat by our Allies in spite of his
ferent forms of government:
cause nations to try to avert war. stubborn personal dislike *Jor the
Socialism , . . you give one of the
That might sound plausible if it Frenchman.
Russia is polite but
two cows to your neighbor.
were not that the very same idea very firm in jt. stand on monetary
Communism . . . you give both
was advanced some forty yean ago policy. After Uncle Sam. M t Stalin
I cows to the government and in ro­
when it was first realised that a new insists on coming first in the post-war
turn it gives you some of the milk.
invention, the aeroplane, would make financial batting order, which prom­
Fascism . . . you keep the two
possible the bombing of non-com­ ises plenty of trouble later.
.ows and give the milk to the gov­
batants and the destruction of whole
Mr. Roosevelt has had no luck with
ernment.
cities from the air. The argument 1 Russia to date and seems to be un­
Capitaliihn . . . you sell one cow
then was that this death from the 1 able to do more than to go along wtth
and buy a bull.
skies would be »0 horrible that man 1 Mr. Stalin, This lack of power to
Naziism ... the government shoots
would be compelled to forswear war 1 influence Russia may checkmate She
you and keeps both cows.
entirely.
?
; presidenfs ambition to be the Moses
New Deal » . . you shoot one cow,
of Europe. Certainly it discounts his
keep the other, throw the milk away
Not long ago the statement was value at the peace table.
In regard to domestic matters it is i and apply for relief.
published that the rayoh manufac­
turers preferred government control comforting to hear that the presi-
,nd
after the end of the war. With al­ dent «rill take care of small business,'
for , everybody, and
,work on 1
lln*' 01
lotments of material limited, evident- provide
_______ , jobs
__ ____
ly the consumer could be victimized \ clean up the gosb-awful bureaucratic hot sllot b*ttery. or automobile bat-
and higher prices maintained than mem In Washington. It will be nice 1 ****'
A1’° H°, sho* Ratenes for
would be justified otherwise. Now for those of us past middle age to'*“*- Oeo-
D,,rr Motor-
latfl
The Sehtineli 1
arm
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you should know about
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it is said that large retail groups have a few years of pekce and com­
are afraid of too rapid conversion to' fort after bouncing but of one crisis
peacetime production test the shoddy into Another for the p^st twelve
or ersatz goods remain unsold on years. But well have to take "hl.
their shelves. Again the consumer statements on faith for his Progress
would be the loser
in this direction prior to the war was
Much has been promised in the Imperceptible even after expenditure
way of new materials and scientific of incredible rums of the taxpayers'
achievements to make living, more money. There are signs that F. D. R.
pleasant but, instead, the old theory has had a change of heart in his atti­
of scarcity and inferiority is threaten­ tude toward state socialism. Whether
ed to be maintained.* We can never this came to pass voluntarily or
grow rich by limiting our resources through political opportunism is not
and our energies.
yet clear. Though the Administration
does not propose to change the horses
“We are but stewards of what w|s In the middle of the stream, it looks
falsely call our own.—Seneca.
■ X as If we are about to witness an at-
If that was the cpse nineteen hun- tempt by the rider to change his
dred years ago, as the old Roman ■
pant», no mean feat while on horse­
said, it surely is as true today. War­ back.
time teaches us that we really own
nothing in the material sense,
As * Two significant development, of
stewards we contribute to the Red lntereat to lumbering communities
C tom and other charatable and reli­ are the invention of a board and
gious organizations, as stewards we plank-making tool and the uw of
return part of our earnings to the special wooden containers by our
government in taxes and by. buying air force in dropping supplies to out­
bonds. If we are niggardly in the post» surrounded by the enemy.
latter reepect,^ heavier taxes will be
A machine tool manufacturer, who
the answer. As people we must sup- gpecisllzM in wood-working machin-
port armies abroad and provide the ery, has perfected a contrivance that
weapon, of victory.
Ag ,teward* takes strips of wood, from
inch
we should gladly give of what we to 3 inches thick, and makes boards
falsely call our own.
or planks out of them in one opera-
, tion. The strips are fed in at one end.
g | machined in tongue and groove pat-
Bay mera Wsr
Banda — a a d
disertali? sttend
lo olher homo-
front dulie*. Lei’»
gel ibi* war «rea
quiriti?!
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You may make a loan for any
worthwhile purpose.
Q
The cost is low
You repay monthly over
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a year’s period