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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1918)
Wm 7AR Y PAGR FOUR M. M l*. On the T h e S e n tin e l A ndina * «o d e F argli ih a o o o a ET H. W . YOUNG. tuia, ioni w s i mm ESÌ“ “ It is not necessary fo r the newspa pers to run pussle departments now, as the draft questionnaires and in come tax returns supply the principal needs in this line. A boy in ■ Nebraska school w m so lacking in application that the teacher threatened to drop him from the reg ister if he didn’t do better. He meat and said the ten d er had threat ened to throw him in the furnace; whereat there was m u d immediate complaint and investigation. A fine illustration o f how stories grow in the t ilin g when they pass through un schooled aad untrained brains . Prob ably more than half the mistakes in the world are made by failin g to un derstand the words and get the idea expressed. A man with a 20,000- word vocabulary outranges one who uses only two or three thousand as far as a 42 -centimers gun does such can non as were used in the revolutionary war. W e haven’t yet got a fu ll realisa tion o f what war means. When we do Hun spies will be shot without cere mony as soon as they are found act ing the spy. There has been too much leniency for the dirty tools o f a nation that never shows nmrey anywhere. This softness has <U t us hundreds o f lives and uncounted meas ure. W hy not administer to the ene my who steals into oar country to de- Having bought at a church food sale for 60 cents, a cake that took 60 THE W AR OUTLOOK. Frank H. Simonda has recently written for a newspaper syndicate an article that would more than fill a Sen tinel page giving his idea as to the way the war looks to people on both sides now and the probabilities o f peace in tha near future. It seems to us that he has the situation sized up about right. He says that six months ago the working man and women in England and France were getting aw fu lly tired o f the war aad anxious to quit. The German Reichstag had vot Although only one out o f a hundred ed fo r a peace without annexations or ccw s in the United States are enrolled indemnities but non# o f the alliee had If in cow testing associations, there ai- plainly stated their war aims. peace could be had and the' wow o f 12,088 dairymen owning 218,881 weight o f war ended by ju st quitting o w e . There was a gain o f 87 per arid leaving every country to repair cent in the number o f associations its losses and build up its own waste places they were in a mood to “ W hy not quit right now ?” This timent was weakening the spirit and undermining the morale o f our allies. Since then the veil has been strip ped from the Prussian Mokanna in its negotiations with the present Rus sian rulers and Germany has shown she is not willing to quit without an nexations but wants to absorb all o f western Russia as well as Poland. Wood pulp la being manufactured Then cams President W ilson's into d o te in Gennany. The pulp is speech stating our entirely reasonable spun into thread and then woven into war aims. They have been approved a frabrie, thè warp o f which is linen as a whole by the British labor party. thread. It is said to ba durable and The French people say amen to them I to stand washing Uve or slx times. It Sr do the Italian. The Austrian is utiliaed for clothing o f all kinds, premier, Count Csernin, ia almost but espocially for underwear. persuaded to agree with them. The Grrman people who think and work Thrift stamps are war on the Prus can see nothing wrong with them. sian war lords. If you buy them you So a large percentage o f the cen help fight the junkers. And the beau tral allies can see no reason why ty o f it is that your purchase of when peace is offered on such liberal stamps is a-Joan to your country, and teim s they should not accept it. Be your country will pay back your mon sides thousands o f Prussian and Aus ey at the end o f five years with inter trian workmen went on a strike to est compounded. Can you find an influence their rulers to accept the easier way or a more profitable way peace terms offered by President W il to help fight the war lord s?—Oregon son. Journal. This time it ia the German morale and the German people who are rest The Sentinel as a republican news ive because they must still be dragged paper deplores the attempt o f some at the wheels o f the uggernaut o f republicans to make political capital Kaiserism, and compelled to spill out o f the mistakes made by our gov their blood to enhance Hohenzollern ernment officials in the conduct o f the glory. war. Help them all you can but don’t They are not rebelling yet and may throw stones at them. They are work not for some tim e; but they are weary ing for us and have achieved wonder and hungry and life as it la now In fu l results, despite mistakes that will the central empires isn’t enjoyable. not bo repeated. Let’s forget party Certainly all that can save the war polities until we have won tt lords in Germany from disaster is a big victory on the western front. Seattle has gone back en Hi Gill That ts all they have left to gamble again. This timo ha is probably on. Outnumbered, outcannoned and down and out to stay. He stood third outclassed there by the allies who have in the m ayorality primary there the held them at bay eo long and who have first o f the week. His attempt to ju st been reenforced by a million play fast and loose with Uncle Sam, fresh Asserican troops, the prospects and under a clean-up mask help decoy |ef such a victory do not seem f the boys at Camp Lewis to the vicious ,in g. Either side there may for a long resorts he was "protecting” was the time continue to hold the other in last straw that broke the back o f his check but neither is likely soon to support in that "w ide open town.” break through. And a stalemate there certainly spells German d efeat Speaking in London lately one o f W ithout the inspiration o f victory the moat eminent Englishmen said, and the prospect o f world domination "It is lucky for us that a man like Mr. the German peaple behind the Hoover is at the helm o f the allied are going to lose their grit— their food supply and that behind him is a gent as H is new term ed and lie V ictory must come soon, too, to da those war worn and war weary paoj any good; they have been fed up long on false hopes aad promii only made to be broken that they have about reached- the end o f their tether. 8o it seams that without victory th is‘ spring Germany can’t stand the gaff much longer. Not that aha may not remain on the defensive fo r many months but that she has passed the zenith o f her strength and will fast weaken if tha hope o f winning new is loot. So it is to look fo r the war to be decided this spring on the western front. When the words are written there— "thus fa r shalt thou some and no farther"— the wgr will be decided even if not yet finished. r, will have to i •The first o f Aped nday to M arte is tee tt ia meat likely to ba a TIME TO WOM We are glad to see that tee Corval lis Courier has come to a fu ll roaUsa- « o f the im portance o f tea war in w hite we are at death gripe with absolute monarchy ia a bon as foul as this planet witnessed. In its last Tuesday’s is sue the Courier says: The Courier thinks that licking Ger- aay is o f fa r more importance than electing a man to ofllce, and it lieves that any man or means that would seek to diaerdlit, fo r the pur pose o f putting souse other man in o f fice, deserves the same pitttless pub licity we give to tho slacker or pro- German. It is unfortunate that th ere-a re state elections to be held this year and that we must have a fight at with all kinds o f abuse aad atticism to win a senate or house. It doesn’t matter w hite party starts this fight, Republican or Democrat, the people o f every state should make up their minds fig h t now that they will not stand any' “discrediting” fight t- put their candidates over, and the minute it is attempted there should be such a flood o f protests sent to any state delegations in Congress that take part in It that it will put he fear of God in their hearts. Winning the war is o f a thousand times more ^consequence than win ning a senate or house, and the people should not stand fo r any fighting o f the administration at this time. Ono war at a time. Since the above w as written there conies the news that the Bolshevkl leaders, Lenine and Trotsky, -have signed a pact with the Kaiser deeding away an immense territory along the Baltic and agreeing to pay Germany a million and a half o f indemnity. A fter doing this they made haste to skip the country. O f course, they bad no more right to do this than the tramp who sleepa in your barn has to deed away your farm , and the pro ceeding looks very much like Satan’s propoeition to transfer the kingdoms o f the earth. Y et It will, no doubt, hearten the German people now, how ever it comes out in the wind up when Germany has the A llies to settle with. On the other hand, it is reported that Edison has so-perfected his sub marine detector that they won’t be able to hide from the destroyers any longer and that six months will see them all out o f business. This may be. too optim istic, but it is unques tionable that during the past year the number o f these wasps o f the sea that never return to port has steadily ABOUT "CAM OUFLAGE.” grown. And with the submarine peril Many a French word w ill be natur eliminated Germany will he like a man who has lost an arm. Sea power alized "when Johnny comes marching has always meant world power during home,” and no doubt even more Eng lish words will find their way into the modern times. French dictionaries, after five million English speaking men have fought fo r AN APPRECIATION. years in France. "Cam ouflage” is one The Sentinel has often fait like ex o f the words that appears to have pressing its appreciation o f the editor filled a long felt want in our speech. ial page o f the Sunday Oregonian. It is a noun derived from the verb W hile not always agreeing with the “camouflet” (pronounced with the fin political views aad aims o f the* Dig al t silen t). This verb has several Portland daily we have always ad meanings, one "rap over the knuck mired the thoughful, cultured essays les.” The meaning which has be which that paper preeents week by week. They give us in a more con come so general as to hide the others is teat o f em ittin g « puff o f smoke to densed form something like the fine conceal that which is behind it. Any articles we find in the pages of one who masks his inteteions by di our best magaslaee, something . mi a recting the minds o f o^her people higher intellectual plane than the towards something alas is therefore wranglee o f partisanship. resorting to camouflage. This word Last Sunday's issue o f that paper furnished an especially attractive is pronounced as if the last syllable were spelled "flash” with the a broad. menu. An especially thoughtful ar ticle, without a tinge o f irreverence So is the a in the first syllable; thus, cahm-oo-flash. was the one on "The Adequacy o f tee Church.” A s "O ur Inland Panama,” the new $100,000,000 Erie canal in I have a small farm o f 26 aegm to New York, and its connections, were ren t It is well improved with good giver appropriate reference Tho house, barn, orchard and silo. On “ March o f Prohibition” discusaad the Fishtrap, about 7 miles south o f Ce- question whether after the saloon had quille. I will rent this fo r $226 cash been relegated to the past we should rent in advance. Further particulars replace it with wine and beer gardens. can be had by addressing 8. Edwards, The "Triangular Conflict”, between Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, autocracy, democracy and the anar chistic socialism o f the Bolsheviki that TESTED AND PROVEN. now prevails in Europe is glanced at. “ Bard# o f the Forecastle” will delight those who live in a world o f poetry and song, but with a mentality almost destitute o f the sense o f rhythm and which metre is an occult science, we passed K up. This does not con clude the list o f interesting articles in that one issue o f the Oregonian lu t as this is a freew ill offering and we pay fo r our Oregonian and are denied the privilege o f an exchange, we will ring off. GOING TO START EARLIER. We are going to be required by law to set our docks ahead this su m m er- no doubt about that— but just when the fun o f getting up at five o’clock and calling H six will begin is aot yet settled. There are a lot o f old duffers in the Senate who would like to pass up the whole scheme, but see ing that is impossible, they are hedg ing on a five months’ proposition in stead o f a six. The House, with its younger membership and greater vim, counters with a seven months’ plan. The result will probably be a compromise on six months that is the rule in "daylight saving” coun tries. There are three very marked advantages about the plan. In the first place to cut the time artificial lighs are needed an hour a day for six months win save minions o f tons o f coal heretofore used to manufac ture juice for those hours. This sav ing was one that couldn’t be avoided in war times. A t the same time H will furnish office workers and practi cally everyone who works by the day an hour more o f sunlight after the day’s tasks are done. In the longest days we shall be shutting up shop at six o’clock, while the sun will not set until nearly nine. This will seem like getting off in the middle o f the afternoon. Then, too, the health o f all concerned will be promoted by spending more time in the open air and getting to bed an h ew earlier Lt you looked into there ExtiMirtunentf you w ould find countless places where properly ap plied electric pow er w ould li r e tim e, labor and m oney. H ave you considered wheth er your business cannot be helped by labor saving mar chinery ? OREGON POWER CO. Phone 71 Of All the Books known to man, the savings bank book ia tha ons that will some in handiest days o f trouble. Get ono o f these books by opening an account with this bank. an account and it w ill grow am azingly if yoa give it a t tention. 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