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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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© 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.
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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?
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Comer Third and Coulter Sts.
Phone 100 Ambulance Service
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