The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., May 17, 1918, Image 1

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The Cooe County Executive Com­
m ittee o f th * L. L . L. L . wiU hold *
m eeting tom orrow evening w ith Copt.
Arnold, in chorgo o f Loyal Legion a f­
fa ir « in the county, a t which tim o the
location fo r holding thoir monster
celebration on July 4th w ill be deter-
O. A. C. President TeDe Us How
Nearly thn H u m Had Won
the War la March.
L ast F rid ay m orning whan L. A .
LUJaqvist told us that President K arr,
< f O. A . C , had the night before made
the boat speech aver heard in Marsh­
field, w e thought that eras pattin g tt
very stron g; but a fter wa had hoard
that speech a t H easlet H all w e had no
mason to question M r. U lje q v ie tfs
conclusion.
President K arr had a massage fo r
man in the United States needs to
haar. .. H e gave ns hard, cold facts,
w ithout a scin tilla o f huasor to lighten
the somber picture he presented.
He had ju st come from a conference
a t the national capital where he was
summoned
to
moot
w ith
.our
w ar leaders and repräsentatives o f
our allies, that ha aright go out and
prsain t to te e people o f this and other
states the things we e ll need to know
in order to recognise the g ra vity o f
the situation that confronts a ll who
are opposed to Huh domination o f tho
fo r frs s governm ent in the world.
T o a group o f people w ith whom
ho was convsrsing a fter tho moating
Dr. K arr told a story about addrass-
in g tho chiaons o f a sm all town in
N orth Dakota on his w ay homo from
W ashington n fo w weeks ago.
It
was a Gdrman community; every one
■poke that language, even though un­
derstanding E nglish; and the only
newspaper in tho tow ? was printed in
German. N atu rally t o fe lt his w ay
carefu lly at the first in addressing
such on audience but when he closed,
dm leading man o f the place, a doctor,
came to him and in vary broken Eng­
lish told kirn to telegraph to Wash­
ington righ t aw ay and ask tho offici­
ala to commandeer all thoir wheat to
send across the w ater. And tills, too,
in a section where wheat is the one
RED CROSS'
NEW DRIVE
the drive is over.
Compared w ith our nearly 970.0Q0
subscription to the Third Lib erty
w aitin g to withstand the shock o f the
threatened Hun drive on the western
fro n t would be unable to stand up
against it; that they would lose their
m orale, th eir figh tin g edge would bo
gono and the w ar wbuld be loot.
A n Arm y Without a Gun
By MEREDITH NICHOLSON
O f the lAgtlantea.
*
m ercy the world has ever seen. N oble as the
service o f m ercy and helpfulness was in C iv il W a r
days, the Red Cross surpasses it immeasurably not
only in the range and variety o f its effort, but in
efficiency and effectiveness.
T h e Red Cross is, we m ay say, the arms o f the
m others o f the world reached out to their sons to
bind up their wounds and com fort them. T h e Red
Cross is an army without a gun that wages war
©nly upon suffering and hearta£hg^J>Where the
flag o f the stars goes there the banner o f the Red
Cross must fly beside i t
W e watch a u rb oys go
forth to war w ith a spirit o f hopefulness because we
know that this great agency o f hum anity presses
dose behind thqm ; that its work is not incidental,
but the intelligen t directed effort o f one o f the
m ost m arvelous organisations ever contrived by
*
Am erican genius.
W e have all contributed to th e R ed Cross; we
shall be called upon again to contribute to its
funds,— again and perhaps again.
A n d we w ill
respond again and yet again I F or this is a, war for
the defense o f d viliza tio n , and we o f great, free,
splendid, glorious Am erica, have every intention
that it shall be fought“ w ith ^he arm y o f the Red
Cross solidly supporting our soldiers.
CROSS
v
By AM ELIA JOSEPHINE BURR.
O f the Vigilantes.
quickly
A ll the w hile many o f no hero wore
grum bling about having to oat war
bread, and throw ing opr substitutes
to tho chickens and the dogs because
w e ware determined to have the b est
O f course, the people, who acted thus,
did not realise that they ware not only
■lackers but traitors, nor that they
Private Banks to Talk Here.
w ere doing m ore to help tho K aiser
J. E. Norton, chairman o f our w ar
win tho w ar than i f they had boon board, thie morning recete od a mes­
w earing Ms uniform and shooting at so gè from Marshfield inform ine him
our boys from the German trenches. te s t P rivate Banks, o f thè Canadian
It was about that tim e, too, that tho nrmy, arili he bere Wednasday even-
storm o f protest arose a t W ashington in g to addisse thè people of this city
because fu el supplies w ere cut o ff and and district in thè interest o f thè Red
heatlees days w ere dictated; but It Cross. The m eeting w ill be held in
was in order to got fu el fo r ship« to Anderson’« Hall.
sail from our ports with tho wheat e f
P rivate Banks ia also scheduled te
which our allioa stood in such supremo ■peak at Pow er« on Monday, at M yr-
need. I f that wheat hadn’t gon o; i f tie Polnt on Tuseday and nt Bandon
our allies hadn't been fed then, Ger­ on Wodneaday.
many would have won on tho wee tern
fro n t; our cause would have boon loot,
Valuation Board Is Hare.
and what would have happened to tho
hundreds o f thousands o f our own
The county board fo r assessment
boys in Europe, it makes one shudder purposes is now ready fo r work in Co­
quille, with J. A llen C ollier taking the
to im agine.
But the crisis was m e t The Am er­ place that H. J. Kim ball holds at the
ican governm ent sMpped not only 76 north end e f the county. A . A . in ­
m illion but 94 m illion bushels o f lander and Dennis McCarthy are the
When the work in
wheat to Europe and that situation other members.
was saved. But tho need still remains Coquille, Bandon, M yrtle Point and
and the first applause which broke the Powers is completed, the board w ill
solemn silence w ith which our people go up to the north end o f the county
listened to Dr. K err was when ho and begin on the ranches tim ber
■aid that to hoop up tho supply o f
broad fo r our allies across the sea un­
til the new crop was harvested, the
governm ent waa going to comman­
deer a ll the wheat in the country; and
then tho people who had been eating
only w hite broad because they had
“ the money to pay fo r it ,” and those
others, who had bean fending {h e sub­
stitutes they had had to buy to the
pigs and the chickens, could go w ith-
OUR RED CROSS
Broken with pain and weariness
And sapped with vile disease,
Back to the land of ruined towns.
O f murdered men and trees,
Through Switzerland from Germany
The trains of wreckage ran,—
And oh the French frontier they found
A Red Cross Man.
And when to what had once been homa
Those haggard exiles came, *
Young wheat was green above the scan
Of steel and blood and flame
Round new built houaea where once mora
The work of life began.
And still they found to welcome them
There the husband clasped again
The wife he mourned aa dead—
The child was on its mother’s breast.
The old were comforted.
What wonder if they hope to find
The Angel of God’s Plan
Who meets them at the heavenly gata
A Red Cross Manl
Tried to Hold Up Stanfield.
The first sensation
of
the
Cooe
county campaign was sprung Thurs­
day by A . K. Peck in aa addresa to
the employes o f the Cooe Bay Ship­
yards at Marshfield during the noon
hour. In it, he told o f a demand
made by A . R. O’Brien, ot the Marsh­
field Evening Record fo r $600 for
supporting the candidacy o f R. N .
Dr. Gilbert to Make Address Stanfield fo r United States senator
and which Stanfield refused.
It eras not until Wednesday that
The demand was reiterated in a let­
Superintendent Alm ack succeeded in ter in which it was in substance
ironing out a ll the kinks in the ar­ stated:
rangements fo r the H igh School eom-
“ U p to now, we (T h e R ecord) have
no preference fo r U. 8. senator. Send
been changed to Friday, M ay 24, and
us a check or a d ra ft fo r $600 and w e
the speaker w ill be Dr. James A.
w ill launch a campaign fo r you and
G ilbert, of the departm ent o f Econ­
do everything possible fo r you.”
omics at the State U niversity. He ia
Mr. Peek said that a demand had
■aid to be one o f the very strongest
been made personally by M r. O’Brien
men in the facu lty there.
when Mr. Stanfield and Ms secretary,
M r. Pru itt, visited Cooa Bay some
months age. Mr. Peek said:
fo r United States senator, was down
hers, the Record askod him fo r $600
fo r its support, representing that H
waa in a position to deliver the labor
vote. I at that tim e stated to Mr.
Stanfield and Ms friends that the la­
bor vote o f Coos county would not be
fo r sale and that th ef Record or no
other newspaper could deliver i t Thu
action on m y part is sufficient to ex­
plain the Record’s h ostility toward
ms. I have been sick in bed and en­
able to come to the men and m eet the
attacks o f the Record.” — Cooe Bay
Tim m .
The idea o f holding a three days'
a ffa ir has been abandoned and it
■earned to be the purpose o f the Bay
em ployers to frow n on area a one day
celebration, bat word from Col. Dis-
que is to
effect that the men shall
not work on the Fourth and ha also
is strongly in fa vo r o f a patriotic
celebration.
■W ith the colonel backing them up
in their determ ination to appropriate-
ly commemorate Independence Day,
the Loyal Legion w ill stage the show
somewhere in Cooa county. Lakeside
has been considered. So has Coquille.
W edaeeday evening the local Com­
m ercial Club went em phatically on
record as endorsing and approving
the plans o f the fou r L men fo r colo­
brating and extending to them a cor­
dial invitatim i to hold it in C oquill«.
The number o f men required .from
Coos county is 49, and the follow in g is
the lis t It w ill be noted that thè
M arshfield express robber, who is in
ja il Bare now, is on« o f the number.
There are also three from Alaska who
cannot possibly reach hero in tim e;
and in whose ploces it may be neces­
sary to call the three next on the list.
Four o f tho 49 are from Coquille:
Order No.
Nam e
Address
263A— H . G. Sumeri in, Nenana, Alas*
S32— Christopher Claud Richardson,
North Bend.
333— John T . Royer, Bandon.
846— O tto G. Schneider, Powers.
846— Geo. M erle Scott, North Bend.
362— Guy N . Brewer, Coquille.
868— Tho«. J. Curry, Coquille.
868— Wm. C. H eller, Marshfield.
361— Lester R. Jensen, Beaver, Ore.
368— Antonio Lento, Beaver HH1, Or.
393— W alter S. Bryant, Rosedale, Kaa
the kind o f work Christ did and urged 899—Chas. E. Wood, M yrtle Point.
409—John G. Leuthold, Leneve, Ore,
others to do 1900
411— Joe. E. W illiam s, Portland.
4 1 3 -W illia m W . Davis, North Bend.
416— Em il Erickson, Lakeside.
460— Abbey E. Breen, Chemawa, Or.
463— A lfred Centers, North Bend.
466— Andrew A . Thor haven, Bandon.
472— Chas. R. Fourier, Liberal, Kaa.
The Sitka Spruce Club is composed
478A— Hugh J. LawLcrn, Nonana,
o f a live bunch who make things hum
at their w eekly m eetings on Wednes­
479— Edward Mon son, Bunker H ill.
day evening. This week those pres­
486— E a rl L. McTimmonds, M fld.
ent a t the Commercial Club m eeting
498— John W . Culbertson, Coquille.
attended tho session o f the Sitka Club 4Of,__M eelf W fla n * r.M v a l g e r il
n . u a iii, u r a v e i r oru.
en a special invitation and it is safe
507— James H. Howe, Bandon.
to say they haven't enjoyed aa hearty
611— G lu t A llen, Marshfield.
laughter in a long tim e aa the stoats
514— Resnous J. Cochran, Parkers­
pulled off by the fou r-L men evoked.
burg.
•
Capt. A . W . Arnold waa an Inter­
516—Guy A . CutUp, Marshfield.
ested attendant a t the meeting. He
620— Edmund W . GaDier, Bandon.
made a good talk to the men, during
522— Roy L. Spires, M yrtle Point.
623— Harold L. Young, Bandon.
respond liberally to the Bed Cross ap­
626— Clarence F . Stock, Sumner.
peal next week. H e also expressed 528A — A lbln Granstrom, North Bend.
disapproval o f»tE e newspaper prac­
630— Julian Kappel, M yrtle Point.
tice o f “ eam ouflngiag” the serious na­
5 8 1 - C a rl E. Finnell, Marshfield.
tu re of the recent German success« « 532A— Arthu r E. Rand, Marshfield.
in Flanders. “ W e, o f Am erican,* are 5*3— W illiam Peart, Coquille.
men,” he declared, and don’t have to 541— H arvey C. Paxton, Marshfield.
be kidded into believing wa (th e A l­ 642—Jas. D. W est, W o lf Creek, Ore.
lies) have won a tactical victory when, 646—Jesse R. Cochran, Parkersburg.
aa a m atter o f fact, w e received a 664— B. C. Chynowith, San Francisco.
blamed good licking. L o t us havs the 668— Lawrence Rackleff, Florence, Or.
truth.”
566— Ray W yant, Bandon.
A fte r the captain’s talk, there wars 678— A lv a E. H arry, Sitkum.
speeches mads by R. A . W em ich, A . 681— EU E. Doyle, North Bend.
B. Robert, and others and then chair­ 582—
Elm er Flanders, Bandon.
man T . J. T h rift called on the mem­ 686— M ilton F. Taylor, Canadian, Tax.
bers o f the Commercial Club fo r re­ 691— Frederick J. Stock, Sumner.
marks, all responding.
The men in this call w ill be sent
The business part o f the session
out within five days from M ay 29 to
ended, an initiation in the nth degree
June 8 and w ill go south to Camp Mc­
o f the Sitka Spruce Club was pulled
Dowell, C alifornia.
off to the huge deligh t o f the specta­
tors.
A fte r this came a blindfolded
Chattel Mortgage Helds.
boxing match and a battle w ith stu f­
fed dubs in wMch tw o participants la y
L. A . L jljeq vist has ju st received a
en their stomachs and endeavored to decision by the Oregon
Supreme
slam each other over the head. E v­ Court which disposes o f ■ controversy
ery blow waa greeted w ith roars o f in the bankruptcy proceedings o f the
applause.
Pacific G rocery at N orth Bend. Cred­
Several impromptu boxing matches itors represented by T . T. Bennett
w ere staged, the one between Mr. claimed that the action o f the Scandi­
W ernkh and Kay W illard producing navian-Am erican bank in foreclosing
m ore solid blows and a tendseny to on n chattel m ortgage was w rong and
m ix it up than any o f tbs others.
the $2,000 realised by Trustee Ross
A
simple
Hooverixed
banquet, would have to go into the bankruptcy
which was yet substantial and delec­ fund. The supreme court holds that
table, was another o f tho main attrac­ where the holder o f a chattel m ort­
tions o f the evening.
gage forecloses before other attach­
Th at-th e federal departm ent w ork­ ments, the p riority o f it is establish­
ed out n highly successful plan o f se­ ed.
This w ill reduce the general
curing co-operation between em ploy­ creditors’ fund but w ill save private
er, employe and the governm ent property o f P. N. Re berg and Mrs.
through the medium o f the Loyal L e­ Davis which otherwise m ight have
gion was demonstrated very fu lly I had to make the m ortgage good. Mr.
Wednesday evening. The Sitka Club ] L iljeq vist says that it affects every
is pulling aa one man fo r the m ill ana <
chattel m ortgage.
fo r the winning e f te e war.
It is the intention to organise next
“1 Don’t Hardly Know.”
Wednesday n Indies au xiliary, com-
Down
a t the Sitka m ills the other
poeed o f the w ives and sweethearts o f
day jone o f the numerous republican
the L . L. L . L .
1
candidates fo r sheriff was interview ­
ing the voters in the interest o f his
Bflderbock la Beaten.
candidacy when somebody in the con­
W . A . Bilderback was arrested at siderable crowd about him threw n
Bandon Tuesday fo r indecent expos­ bombshell in the shape e f the fo llo w ­
ure, and Was released by Justice W ade ing inquiry:
“ How do you stand on the liquor
on his own recognisance. He is n
m arried man o f about 46 w ith several
F or a little wM le there waa a si­
children.
A little a fte r Ma release
his brother-in-law took a hand in the lence that m ight be fe lt as M r. Can­
a ffa ir and bant him up so seriously didate’s w ita w ent wool gathering fo r
F in ally, however,
that ha forthw ith departed fo r re­ n suitable Veply.
g i one unknown.
B elieving that he he got up the courage to dispose o f
started down the coast the sheriff’ s this live w ire by replyin g:
“ I don’t hardly know,”
office here has wired Sheriff Telm an
N o t another word waa said.
The
at Gold Beach to keep on the watch
subject was dropped by unanimous
fo r him.
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