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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1945)
18, 1945. ÍAO1FOU» The Sentinel a sees saMS is a TWENTY YEARS AGO H.A. YOUNOaadBLD. (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday, October 16, 1925) It looked like a rogues’ gallery in Circuit court this morning when the sheriff’s force assembled twenty-two of those indicted by the grand jury this week for arraignment. There had been 29 Indictments. removal of war-time restrictions, the t;,ienlpioyment Compensation Com- h.. opened a campaign to obuln ^re complete coverage among subject firms. Newly 11,000 concerns now are covered by the law J. E. Norton stated at the Chamber and the commission expects this of Commerce meeting 'Wednesday number to increase gradually for the that the Pirates of Coos Bay and the next year or two. _ Sheriff Gage and Deputies Male Beachmen and Mermaids of Bandon ; Although agriculture, domestic pubMc r agencies add small horn, Bohrer and Osmund “cleaned were favorably Inclined to accept «^vtaa. __ ___ _______ up” Marshfield and vicinity Wednes- Coquille’s invitation to attend the concerns generally are not subject, day evening, starting at seven o’clock, j Corn Carnival here on Friday, Oct. the employment and payroll figures and by eleven you could have heard 130. gathered by the commission tor a pin drop anywhere in town. nearly ten years past have become | Lans Leneve received notice Wed- the most complete tabulations avail The. Hotel Coquille was the scene nesday from* the State Game Com- able and are being used by most of a very interesting gathering last ston that in fairness to the other groups as an authentic index of busi Monday evening when about forty of counties of the state his services ness conditions. the business and professional women would have to be dispensed with as All firms which" employ four per of Coquille met at a six o’clock din state trapper for Coos county Novem- on any one or have a »500 ner and later organized themselves ter 1. He is the only trapper now arterly p.y roU are subject to the , By HON. R. T„ MOORE - person is ................. - a 1 into a Business and Professional employed in county work. I tax. If a fourth added to Women’s Club. three-man operation even for one When the economic atmosphere Mr. and Mrs., A. J. Sherwood ar-, day, the concern would come under clears enough to discern the pattern 1 Coquille High tackles a tough pro rived home Sunday evening from the coverage of the law, officials of wage and price levels and the labor ' position here tomorrow when its their six weeks' eastern trip. They .point out. unions quit making chests at each football team lines up against the visited relatives In Iowa and Mlnne- The tax started in 1936 at 0.9 per other, we can settle down to the main . unbeaten Marshfield eleven. The so ta. ; cent on aU subject, rising to 2.7 per task of the next quarter century, the 1 cent in 1938 and now averaging about i making of goods. Wage and price I they produced. These two elements 2.0 per cent. Individual wages of levels will not matter much if they In rent, the association of the activi more than 3,000 a year earned with are stable •nd controllable. More ties of the community, the greater one firm are exempt from the tax. dollars on the pay check will not the number and the greater the ac In order for a subject firm to be improve the worker’s lot but he will tivity, the higher will rent be. If come exempt, the request must be The question was asked me the feel richer and will be more likely other day if it would be right to this value were taken all over the filed with the commission within 30 to spend freely. United States (820,000,000,000), with days after the beginning of the cal With the war behind us, we can remove the selling value of land. this value you could pay every tax endar year. _ ___ ___ ____ ___ l That is, if a person bought land in safely plan and build to meet de mands of a new era“of tetter living. ' would r‘«h‘ do I that is paid today and do away with An examiner from the Secretary _ . . - _ ,. ’ away msmw ursih with sssaesh such suallfncv sellftig vnllia" value? HrndS The taxes. But before we attempt to underwrite question may be asked in another | The doorstep to the temple of wis of State’s office will be in Coquille a program of full employment there must be an adjustment of ideals and 'orm-what is bought with rightful dom is a knowledge of our own ig again on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 9:00 a. m. norance.—Jas. Richmond, M. D. to 4:00 p. m., to receive applications attitudes from the gross wastefulness __ for drivers’ licenses and to conduct I think we will all agree that no of war to the competitive efficiency Notice Of Public Hearing On I examinations. one can transfer any better title than of peace. Workers accustomed to earning their living with ridiculous be possesses. If I stole an auto South Coos Biver Splashing ease in big war industries find it mobile and sold it to someone else, Complaints have been made by in hard to adjust themselves to peace I would have no title to transfer terests on South Coos River against conditions. Reduction in pay due tq and the other party would have re the practice of the Coos River Boom re-conversion of industry is highly ceived to title. . If I bought a slave Company, of Coos Bay, of splashing resented. In fact, it is not economi in this country, before the civil war, and running loose logs and sack rafts Trespass Notices, printed on tuff cally safe to lower the worker’s in I would have a legal but no moral on the South Fork of Coos river. In come while tax demands of the gov title. If I bought one since the war, consideration of the various interests tai, for sale at this office. ernment are at such a high figure. A I would have neither legal nor moral involved on this river and waters, 4Hte----------- _______ compensatory raising in basic pay below, it has been decided to hold Let us look at’ the morals of pri and basic prices was inevitable as a a public hearing in the Council re-conversion step. Present labor vate property in land and that of Chamber of the City Hall at Coos trouble stems from a groping around slaves. If‘everyone has the natural Bay, Oregon, at 9:30 a. m., November to find the proper level. Such a pe right to life, and land is necessary 8, 1945. riod of uncertainty has been ex to life, then it is clear that all have This meeting will be held in order perienced after former wars and • natural right to land. Nothing can to determine the advisability of the interfere with this right, All law seems to be a phenomenon of every establishment of regulations by the must conform to it. If you give post-war era. Secretary of War to control the run There is every indication that full land a selling value, then everyone ning of loose logs or sack rafts on production of our industrial machine coming into this life must pay for the the South Fork of Coos river, and can be marketed for a long time to right to land thus to life. This is the scope and specific provisions come. The war’s terrific destruction, not the essence of slavery, It is slav considered necessary in such regu the arrested demand piled up dur ery. Slavery is the taking of one lations. ing the past four years, and th. person’s labor by another without his AU interested parties are Invited to awakened desire for higher living consent be present at the above time and If ten men were an an island and standards in the Orient will combine place, particularly any property to absorb all the consumer goods we none could (the earth is the island) owners or the offiicals of any coun get off and one of the ten claimed can supply for several years. There ty, city, town, or local association is no foundation for the fear of un ownership of the island and the I whose interests may be affected. other nine recognized such owner- ' employment for any one who wants ¡They will be given an opportunity ship, would the condition of the nine ‘ to work. But the will to work is to to express their views and to make be more essential than in war years. be any worse than if they were held I I any suggestions concerning the for Opportunity knocks and free enter as chatel slaves? If anything, chatel : mulation of regulations for such prise will take full advantage if not slavery is not as bad as ownership of operation. , __ A the land the man has to live on. In hindered by political interference. _______ a.,1 The world looks to America- for the case of owning the slave, you , •3 Per Cent Of Buicks In Use help and leadership. Foreigners are would have to feed, clothe and house la 1M1 StiU Being Used therefor dismayed over the serious him; in the other case the slave would have to come to you and ask for a Ninety-three per cent of the Buick labor unrest sweeping the country. t cars that were on the highways when They fear it is a sign of the same chance to live. Let us look at it from another i automobile production ceased nearly moral and political decay that de j years ago are still in use, a na stroyed France in pre-war days. viewpoint. The site is the location four There is also the suggestion that value of land and is produced by 1 tionwide survey of car registrations « Russian agents are secretly fomenting society or government and it is not discloses. An analysis completed by a slow-down of American industry ini something --------------- that is - produced in the . ■ — i -------- ----- ------- - attempt ‘ a well-planned to take away , P"t. It I s not something that anyone sales department shows that 1.542,736 our industrial supremacy. The p r es has. It is produced every day as Buicks are at present registered in ence of so many leftists in govern we go along. The highest rents in the various ’ states compared with ment personnel lends credence to that the city of Portland, when I first 1,665,084 registered In 1041, the last theory. And we must admit that our came to this country, were on 3rd, count taken before production ceased national scene is not one to inspire 4th and Sth streets; now it is Sth, February 12, 1042. Of the Buick M confidence in the efficacy of Ameri 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th. The rents cars currently registered, 689,282 aré can democracy. We appear to be shifted as the community shifted. 1040, 1041, or 1042 models, 683,272 in danger of selling our birthright of The party that lost, took his loss and were manufactured in the model' industrial supremacy for a mess of the parties that gained were just years 1036 to 1030 Inclusive, while that much ahead. 143,557 are from 11 to 40 years old. collectivist pottage. It seems to me if government took Not identified as to model year were It is our immediate obligation, and what government produced, site, 16,612 of the total Buicks registered. let us hope our destiny, to place our value or rent, that would not be domestic house in order and to get taking anything from anybody which Don’t take chances on something on with the production job. To us Just as good! falls the duty of bringing prosperity of government yet devised. It is also F. R. Ball and contentment through full use the most difficult to mainitain in Night 106-L of our ability to make things. The good political health. Its preserva Phone 303 key log in the present industrial jam tion calls for eternal vigilance, is the need for orienting the thinking strength of character, and a high in of our workers in the direction of telligence. It gives far greater op maximum productions rather than portunity and a happier life to its 0r«fw maximum pay. Living standards can citizen than any other form of gov not be raised until goods are at hand ernment. It also demands more of for people to enjoy. Money, of it fits citizen. self, is utterly worthless. It becomes i The security of America depends valuable only if and when it can ¡upon a working majority of worthy, He will give be exchanged for goods. The fable 'patriotic citizens interested more in you full details of Midas teaches an immortal lesson «public welfare than in personal ag- applicable to each generation. oa th. insur- , grandizement. There is no reason to following will probably start the game for Coquille: Floten, Holm- strom, Seeley, Mansen, Watson, Rob- inson, Finley, Stonecypher, Wilson, Richmond Curts, Call, Pbwnder. Timely Topics Should Land Have A Selling Value? Rom where I sit... ¿y Joe We have only just begun * We were sitting around Bill Webster’s fire the other night, enjoying a mellow glass of beer, •nd talking-now that the war is over-about what Peace really means. - “1 cob tel! yo« oae thing It doesn’t mean," says Bill. "It doesn’t mean that we can all re lax-and taka things easy-and flgnrs we’re living in Utopia.” "You’ra right,” Judge Cun ningham agrees. "Peace means, among other things, eternal vigi lance. Free men are still at war with hatred, prejudice, intoler- ♦ to fight" ance—whether It’s Intolerance of a man's political beliefs, of of his right to choose between a glass of beer or buttermilk.” From where I ait, the Judge is absolutely right. Peace means continued vigilance — continued struggle against all the forces of intolerance that caused the last war, and can sow the seeds of future conflict. Maybe we should paraphrase the slogan of a Rcvo- lutionary hero: “We have only o fight.” ♦ ♦♦ O Hi Folks!... £ Ask Geo. P. Laird JUhtial llh GOLDEN HAUS’ PLAN Our industrial strife is causing a believe that we lack such a majority slump in the prestige of democratic! at the moment. These sort of people government because foreign peoples , are not articulate nor are they or- tend to take our squabbling» at face ' ganized They work quietly to in value. They can not comprehend 'fluence those about them and thus how Americans can be united firmly shape public opinion. They cOme in national defense one' minute and from every walk of life. Not one of fly at each other's throats the next. them realizes that he is a cog in What to us is harmless fun is to this national balance wheel. They them serious trouble. They mistake just go at things sensibly and intel the blowing off of steam through the ligently. In every crisis when the safety valve for a boiler explosion. chips were down they have calmly Democracy with all of its ad done the needful. 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