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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1946)
THE COQUILLE VALLE»’ SENTINEL. COQUILLE, OKEOON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY i l , 1946. 91600 of wealth from the other four. The one would get $2600 of wealth ■ and the other four would get $600 of wealth each. If each would use $400 of wealth in his own business, his buying power would be $200. The one man getting $2600, spends $400 on his own business, would have a buying power from the other four of $2100 and this is more than he can poossibly. Over-production on the one hand and starvation on the other. REFRIGERATION SERVICE O Any Kind, Any Place Phone 4R32 YoAith Camp Backers Meet Here Tuesday FIRST CAR SOLD AND DELIVERED in Coquille was this new 1946 Studebaker Skyway Champion sedan sold by the Coquille Auto .company to Dr. Gerald Stark of Coquille. Dr. Stark now has his Skyway Champion, according to Ralph Menning who with Mrs. Menning brought the first 1946 cars to Coquille Monday for display. Backers of a Coos County Youth’ camp at the site of the McKinley con scientious objectors camp met at the Hotel Coquille Tuesday, Feb. 12, end voted to raise $1,000 to back the rec reational area for Coos county youth as an aid in giving them better privi leges. Representatives were present from Bandon, Myrtle Point, North Bend, and Coos Bay. Present were Lans Leneve, Ira Tucker, and O. S. Val entine, Bandon; Franck Shaw, Mrs. R. L. Hill Coos Bay; William Vaughan, Mrs. James Scott and Rev. Ivan Correll; North Bend, and H- A. Schroeder and Paul Hammer, Myrtle Point. Mrs. Hill was appointed chairman; and Rev. Mr. Correll, secretary-treas urer. Quotas set up for aid to the camp are. North Bend, $350; Coos Bay, $450; Bandon, $100, and. Myrtle Point $125. Coquille's Chamber of Commerce committee under the leadership of Carl Morrison voted to reject the proposal of the government to go into the project and the committee’s recommendation was accepted at the last Chamber meeting. According to representatives from other cities they plan to go ahead without Coquille in furthering the recreational facilities for their youth. ■ C. C. Smith and Sons WATCH FOR CHANGE OF PHONE NUMBER SOON Coquille, Oregoh BIG W tcM M U OU often hear peopLj coy ihat / making funeral arrangements in to another, ostensibly to right an as sumed economic wrong but in re Timely Topics ality to respond to political pressure. We have a refusal to trust the people By HON. R. T. MOORE and a tendency to give them limited By DR. JAMES RICHMOND rights in prescribed dosages. We — The February birthdays of Wash have seen a vast political machine Over production is only one form ington and Lincoln bring the usual built up with bureaucratic largess dissertations on representative gov into a power sufficient to wrest con of the labor problem and if we anal ernment as practiced in America. trol of government from the people. yze the orobiem we will find it to The subject is unusually opportune We have a militant, arrogant govern be our old friend, private property in as we grope about for a solution to ment that wastes the labor of the land. It is really worth while to domestic problems and for a world people in lavish tax expenditures and spend some of our time and to think r wide formula to Insure permanent aspires to dictate private pursuits geriously of the element in our eco under cover of serving the huge pub nomic structure that gives land . a peace. Oregon Journal lt seems to this writer that large lic debt. The government has be sale value. segments of the American people ( come the master, the people the serv Production as to the factors in Ceqnllle Representative ntjed to be re-sold on the superiority ants. There can be no lasting peace volved is always the same, land (all MRS. L. E. HAMLIN of our constitutional government over aad prosperity until this situation has natural opportunity); labor (man); capital (wealth used to produce more any other type. For years we have been sternly reversed. >25 East Tenth St. If one were to look for irrefutable wealth). The distribution of the allowed an unchallenged infiltration Phone 197L of state-socialistic theories among proof of the worth of traditional. wealth should be as nature intended American representative government it to be. Rent or location value of our schools, labor unions, and other mass organizations. We have as- ** could be found not only in the ac- land should go to society or govern sumed that acceptance of our form of ccmplishments of our industry but ment. Wages should go to labor government was impregnable and in- 4 *n the mute testimony of the greatest and interest should go to capital and violate in the minds of our people. of living authorities on geo-politics, for the simply reason that the forces Disappeared OverniqM We have believed that that our social Joseph Stalm.- While Mr. Stalin con- named produoe that particular ele- Tss, West Fast progress and unmatched industrial demns capitalistic American enter- ment. achievement proved our constitution- prise and our government as hope- The elements of wealth today go • W B ic U a a U acta $ • looam a ad ret al government to be the ultimate. , lessiy futile and inefficient, note th a t. as follows: Rent or location value ■glr M r i b -da. Tb— who Tulfawgd_ pU d ir e c tio n aad applied * > ■ » ■ upon We have ignored the mouthings of he carefully copies our industrial ; to landlords, part of wages to labor retiring were anaxingty aurpriaed wben they l a a a d their piatplaa aad blackhead» had disappear— . collectivists as inconsequential and methods in bqjjding Russian economy and nearly half of it to taxes; in- Tbeaa user» eatburiasdcailv praiae K k s r a i aad cfabn they are no longer — b a r r a w d aad are now have not troubled to combat them. and is careful also to preserve a sem terest, some goes to capital and the happy with their Dear c a o p lr ilo M U w Klaerai. I f bna appttaaMna do— m e — you get doable Now the fruits of their labors are blanee of our voting suffrage in his rest goes to taxes. ' POOR r a n ? back Ask far K i a r a today, aura ridiculous elections. As an astute made manifest in the serious domestic If we will look for the cause. of BARROW DRUG CO situation. The solid citizens have politician ,he finds it expedient to over-production so called, we will condemn our theory of government in been suddenly jolted into realization find it in the way wealth is dis that extreme danger confronts the protection of his dictatorship but he tributed. We will also find the recognizes the value of, and attempts cause of our depressions and ail the nation. Our constitution holds that all men to appropriate, the economic results rest.of our major problems, as well. are created equal, that the only legi of American free enterprise.» If Mr. Let us take a simple illustration Tn refuses to he- gold-bricked and it w llll be much easier to see so- timate foundation for government is authority of all the people, that an with any substitute for American free called over-production. informed people can be trusted to enterprise, why should we relinquish Suppose there are five men pro govern more wisely than the most it* ducing wealth on 40-acres of land Those who advocate a return to the or a city lot and this is a picture of talented dictator, and that represen tative government products the most frugal, simple government of Wash our economic structure in a small happiness and the greatest good to ington, Jefferson, and Lincoln are way. We cannot see clearly over mankind. It was early recognized called reactionaries by the radical such a large field as the entire coun that representative government elements when the exact reverse is try. v If $5,000 of wealth were pro would degenerate, once the people true. Centralized government is the duced and each man produced $1,000, lost control over their elected repfe- oldest form known. American con- if each man got what he fw&iuced, sentativea. Short periods of election stitutional government hr the newest. no over-production would be possi were provided as a safeguard. Care Those who favor paternalistic gbv- ble. Let us suppose each man used was taken to keep the government ernment are the reactionaries. The $400 of the wealth he produced, his honest and to avoid invasion of pri- progressives are those who favor a buying of exchange power from the vate rights. Men were restrained return to constitutional government, other four would be $600. No one frorft hurting one another but left | It will be impossible to restore would take less than the $1,000 that free to regulate their own pursuits, the essential principles of our consti- he could make on free land. Now These theories were assiduously fol- 1 tution in this generation. But it is let us change this picture some. One lowed until after World War I and ’ our duty to strive with determination of the five men now own the 40 they directed the building of the to make all possible'progress toward acres "or city lot and this ownership great economic power and the high lifting the mortgage now resting upon is recognized by the other four. Also est living standards in history. But the heritage of future generations. It notice, such ownership produces what has happened during the past nothing. is not fair to burden them for our twenty years^ The five men are working and The theory that men were created penefit exclusive of the war co&ts. $5,000 of wealth is produced. Each ecual has been rejected. Instead, They should be permitted to enjoy of the_fpur pays $400 for the right to we have a consolidated government the fruits of their own labors In the use the land. One of the five would ♦ nat takes from one citizen to give fullest measure possible. get the $1,000 that he produces, also Over Production - © Day or N ig h t advance of necessity is like making a will, or purchasing a cemetery lot WelL there IS a lot of similarity, because they're all sensible things to do; things which anticipate an inevitable need. f{ There are two BIG difference', however: when you have a wL. drawn. It costs money; when you s seek our counsel, it costs you noth ing. When you buy a cemetery lot you pay for i f when you pre-arrange funeral services, you p a y nothing. Why, then, don't you phone fc? cr, appointment—today? ( . f P IM P L E S Gano Funeral Home Comer Third and Coulter Sts. Phone 100 Ambulance Service Coquille b YOUR last r l t t t a r t .Y O U R responsibility S tudebaker C ham pion COME IN AND SEE IT N O W ! ! Z H E Skyway Style Studebaker Cham and almost unbelievable gas economy every pion! I t ’s here a t last in all its clean - mile you drive! lined, colorful;1'air-curve distinction—the Here’s sound, solid Studebaker father- best-looking car ever designed to «ell in the and-son craftsmanship th a t fends off repair lowest price field ! expense—and assures you a top trade-in Here’s fresh, youthful, vigorous, lively, price for your Champion years from now! exciting beauty th a t makes you proud to We haven’t received anything like a full be a Studebaker Champion owner as you stock o f new Skyway Style Studebaker “ ’ by! Champions ju s t yet—b ut we cordially In Here'» b rilliant Studebaker engineering vite you to come in now and get an eyeful th a t gives you thrilling top performance of this stand-out among lowest price chrs. T e Auto Company Ralph Menning «» 369 Front Street ,
