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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1917)
\ The Amount You Spend for Your Clothes is of Little Concern to Us— The Thought W e Want to Drive Home 1« This: No Matter How Much or How Little You Spend You’ll Get More Real Value For Your Money From Our Clothes Irving Clothes $15 BROMBERGER’S 08780250 TH E BIG STORE FOR MEN & BOYS Marshfield, STREET Ore.—Landos Old Place Federal Regulation Should Not Be A l lowed to Exclude Exercise of State Authority, He Contends—Thinks Rail road Stocks Should Represent Actual Value and Be Stable as Government Bonds. ¿w EXTRA ' HANDS” ' Use more HORSE FO W E R and less M A N PO W E R in your shop/ You can turn out more work in a given time or same work in less time with G-E ELECTRIC MOTORS A motor oo each machine or group of mat Junes items power fermomy, dnee power need not be consumed except as i**ded. by thcrummuro i * a Eager, no skilled attendants are nscessanr for the care iuid uperaouu G-L mo Let us plan a G-E drive for your shop. OREGON POWER CO. Coquille, Oregon nr DEI mi 3E DE r INCOME and OUTLAY One aide of your Paaa Book will ahow all the money you have received. The other aide will 8how all you have paid out, and the cancelled checks are your receipts. This fine arrangement is yours if you will open your check ac count here. Your account will be given careful and considerate attention. C A P IT A L and SURPLUS $60,000.00 A. J. SHERWOOD, President L. H. H AZARD , Cashier R. E. SH IN E, Vice President O. C. SANFORD, Asst. Cashier B A X T E R Under New Management Having leased this well-equipped hotel, I propose to conduct it in such a manner as to merit pat ronage and give satisfaction to the traveling public. CHARLES BAXTFR, Proprietor r > ■■■Mil • « M M * ............... I n n « and a n i l Curry t .n r r v Telephone T p ln n h n n n Co. Or* Coos Please remember that no other servant will save as much time for you and so add to your prosperi ty in 1917 as the telephone. Use it. L. * I Wishes Its Patrons A Happy New Year I .J ItH tltjf * H TJPPOSE that tomorrow you see it chance where by investing $500 or $1,000 in a busi ness venture you can double your money. Are you ready for that opportunity? i f you are not, the man with the ready check book is. Ho always carries a goodly balance in bank waiting for the opportunities which daily present themselves in the business world. This is an age o f quick action. Heal estate and busi ness deals are consummated within the hour. Your credit in the community may be excellent. You may be able, if given a little time, to borrow enough money to put through a deal. But the man with the ready cash, the man with the chock book, will get the prefer ence. BE R E A D Y W IT H A C H ECK BOOK TO GRASP A N O P P O R T U N IT Y . Farmers and Merchants Bank Against Government Ownership. “ Personally I cannot say that I de sire government ownership,” he ex plained, “ because I lean to the Indi vidual Idea rather than to the collec tive Idea; that Is, I believe that gov ernment ownership is desirable only where competition is Impossible.” Alfred I'. Thorn, counsel to the Rail way Executives’ Advisory Committee, previously had presented before the members of the Newlands Committee as one of his reasons for urging a bet tor balanced and more systematic reg ulation of railroads the argument that this is the only alternative to govern ment ownership. Calling attention to the restrictions imposed upon the transportation lines by conflicting state laws and regulations, to the practical cessation of new construction ami to the impossibility under existing conditions of securing the new capital needed for ex clusions und betterments of railway faculties, he warned the Congressmen that unless they provided a fair and reasonable system of regulation that would enable the railroads to meet the growing needs of the country’s busi ness tlie national government would be compelled to take over the owner ship of the lines with all the evils at tendant upon such a system. Preservation of Competition. Mr. Bryan, on the other hand, holds that the further extension of federal authority ¿»ver the railroads would bo a step in the direction of government ownership, lie advanced the view that the centralization of control In the hands of the national government would impose too great a burden upon the regulating body, would offer strong temptation to railroads to interfere in politics and would encourage the gen eral movement toward centralization of power in t lie federal government at the expense of the states. lie said that he did not object to consolidations of railroad lines so long as they did not destroy eomi>etition, that he knew of no complaint against great railway systems because of their size and that he believed that the preservation of competition was the test to be applied to all consolidations. F IR S T N A T IO N A L B A N K H O T E L — its flavor is so different and so delightfully good; — it can’t bite your tongue; — it can’t parch your throat; — you can smoke it as long and as hard as you like without any comeback but real tobacco hap piness ! PR EFERABLE. COUNTRY S E fiiilD S ACTION Washington, Dec. . — William J. Bryan, who startled ¿he country ten yearn ugo by advocating government ownership of ruilro/.tls, appeared be fore the New lauds ,'oint Committee on Interstate Commerce last week In sup port of the claim that the states should he allowed to retain authority over the regulation of all transportation lines within their borders. Mr. Bryan ex plained that he had long regarded gov ernment ownership as Inevitable, but only because of railroad opposition to effective regulation. the because Gliss M a n d s Commuted His P o s s o n o m i Forced by Press Views oo Railroad Control. of Congressional Business. Sophomore Clothes $20 to $35 250 FRONT Prince Albert gives smokers such delight, BRYAN AGAINST PLAN TO RESUME OW NERSHIP BY RAILWAY INQUIRY THE GOVERNMENT A F E R MARCH 4TH I Regulation of Securities. Mr. Bryan declared himself in favor of national regulation of railway stock ami bond issues, but added that he saw no reason why that should exclude the states from acting on the same sub ject as to state corporations. "I would like to see the stock of n railroad, as long as it is in private hands, made as substantial and as unvarying ns the value of a government bond,” he as- I sorted. lie suggested that railroad capitali zation be readjusted to equalize it with actual valuation of the property rep resented, making due allowance for equities, and that when this was done the roads should lie allowed to earn sufficient income to keep their stock at par and to create a surplus. The latter, he tentatively proposed, might lie allowed to amount to 25 per cent of the capital. On the reverse side of every Prince Albert package you will read: Shippers, Investors and Represents* tives of All B anches of Business De mand Unification of System of Rail way Regulation— Roads Ask Fewer Masters. Washington, Deo. .—The Congres sional Joint Committee on Interstate Commerce, which has been conducting the inquiry Into government regulation and control of transportation, last week decided to suspend its lie«rings I on the subject and adjourned, subject I to the call of the chairman, because of i the pressure of other work before Con- l gress. According to the resolution cre ating the committee, it is required to submit a report by January 8th next It is understood that before that time the committee will ask for an exten sion of time and that tlie hearings will j he resumed at a later date, when some of those who already have appeared i before the committee will be question ed further and a great many others will be heard It Is probable, howev er. that the hearings will not lie resum ed until after adjournment of Congress on March 4th. In addition to regular routine business tlie commerce com mittees of the two houses are charged with the important duty of preparing and presenting the legislation asked for by President Wilson to make im possible a railroad strike without pre vious investigation. This will leave little or no time for tlie consideration of the general questions of railway regulation. Country Wants Something Done. Members of Congress und others who are interested in tlie inquiry un dertaken by the Newlands Committee insist that there is no intention of abandoning it. It seems doubtful, indeed, if tlie country would permit the matter to be dropped if there were evidence of a desire on the i art of Congress to do so. The nation wide evidences of in terest evoked by the initiation of the Newlands inquiry show that the peo ple of the country—shippers, consum ers and investors, as well as railway men themselves—are alive to the fact that tlie railway situation is highly uu- \ satisfactory and that steps must be taken without unnecessary delay to make it possible for the railroads to meet the growing needs of the nation. From reports received here it seems as though almost every commercial or ganization and business interest in the country were engaged in studying the railroad question. The Chamber of Commerce of ihe United States has been conducting nil elaborate inquiry into various phases of the subject for many months past. Many local and state commercial bodies in every part of the country have committees en- ! gaged in stud}’ of the problem and ! have indicated a desire to come here and present their views. National or ganizations of manufacturers, lumber men, coal operators, wholesale and re tail dealers, have expressed through resolutions their desire for the unifica tion of the system of railway regula tion. The National Industrial Traffic League, speaking from the viewpoint of shippers using the railways, has indorsed exclusive federal regulation providing it is accomplished in such a way as to give full protection and prompt adjustment in matters relating to transportation within the states. " PRO CESS PATEN TED JU LY 3 0 th . 1 9 0 7 " That means to you a lot of tobacco en joyment. Prince Albert has always been sold without coupons or premiums. W e prefer to give quality I i A lbert the national joy smoke X in goodness and f O U ' L L . fin d a c h e e r y h o w d y -d o o n ta p n o m a t te r h o w m u c h o f a s tr a n g e r y o u a re in th e n e c k o f th e w o o d s y o u d r o p in t o . F o r , P r in c e A lb e r t is r i¿ h t t h e r e — a t th e f ir s t p la c e y o u p a s « th<it s e lls t o b a c c o ! T h e t o p p y re d bat¿ s e lls f o r a n ic k e l a n d th e t id y re d t in f o r a d im e ; th e n t h e r e ’s th e h a n d s o m e p o u n d a n d h a lf-p o u n d tin h u m id o r s a n d th e p o u n d c r y s ta l-d la s s h u m id o r w ith » p o n g e - m o is t e n e r t o p th a t k e e p s t h e t o b a c c o in s u c h b a ñ é -u p t r im a II-1 h a t im e I in pipe satisfaction is all we or its enthusi astic friends ever claimed for it ! It answers every smoke desire you or any other man ever had! It is so cool and fragrant and appealing to your smokeappetite that you will get chummy with it in a mighty short time ! W ill you invest 5c or 10c to prove out our say- so on the national joy smoke? R. J. R E Y N O L D S T O B A C C O CO., Winston-Salem, N . C. Sulphur and a Volcano. Sujpbur deposits are found on White island, in the bay of Plenty, on the const of the North island o f New Zea land. about thirty miles from the main land. This island, which covers about GOO acres, attains a height of IKK) feet on one side and opens to the sea on the other, its topography indicates an old crater, and tlie boiling lake on the Is land, which is one of the awe inspiring sights of New Zealand, is a further evi dence of voicanism. After the New Zealand Sulphur company had spent $100,000 in preparation for mining sul phur in this locality a volcanic disturb ance wrecked the camp and killed ten men.—Argonaut. Standard Bearer of The Socialist Party Allen L. Benson, candidate of the So- rialist party for president of the Unit ed States, is a native of Michigan and is forty-five years old. From 1901 to 1900 lie was editor of the Detroit Times ind later was editor of tlie Washing- Many Interests Studying Problem. All these organizations represent pri marily the shippers of the country, but they are not the only ones who are taking a hand in the discussion. The investors of the nation, through their own associations and through commit tees representing the savings banks and other financial organizations, are pre paring to show tlie necessity of improv ing railroad credit and protecting the rights of those whose money is invest- ed in railway securities. Finally the | railroads themselves, being vitally con cerned in the Improvement of existing conditions, are planning to submit their | views through their executives, oper ating officials and traffic experts and to assort their willingness to uccept far- reaching federal regulation along lines that will enable them to attraet capital and to provide the faeilities needed for the prompt and efflelent handling of file country’s transportation business. Railway Earnings Low. This subject of railroad capitalization and the amount of railroad earnings received further attention from the committee during its recent sessions. In answer to questions by Senator Cummins, Mr. Thom submitted figures showing the net earnings of the roads in recent years. These figures show that during the five years from 11)05 Main Trouble Is Too Many Masters. Not all of those interests are in ac- to 1010 the average net earnings were 5.25 per cent of the net capitalization, ord as to the remedies that should lie while for the five yea is from 15)10 to adopted. There seems to be a general 1915 tlie average was only 4.50 per agreement, however, that many o f the cent. The total earnings on tlie stock, ilifficulties which confront the railroads computed by adding to the net oper and which make it impossible for them ating income the income from the se- • to meet the requirements of the na ciirities owned and deducting bond in ^ tion’s commerce promptly and satisfac terest, were for 1010, 7.01) per cent; torily arise from the haphazard and for 1011, 0.17 per cent; for 1012, 4.07 often conflicting measures of regulation per cent; for 1013, 5.04 per cent; for that have been adopted from time to 1014, 4.00 per cent; for 1015, 3.44 per time by the federal government and the cent, thus showing an almost contin forty-eight states nnd that what is uous decrease throughout tills six year needed is a well ordeit-d. systematic period. It was announced that Hal scheme of federal regulation that shall ford Erickson, formerly chairman of cover the whole country and make It the Wisconsin Railroad Commission, possible for the railroads to provide the would submit more complete informa extensions nnd improved facilities so tion on this subject to the Committee badly needed, while at ^he same time protecting fully the public interests at a later date. X Copyright ills by K. .1. Reynold» Tobacco Co- Wmmm TOBACCO IS PREPARED FOR SMOKERS UNDERTHE PROCESS DISCOVERED IN MAKING EXPERIMENTS TO PRODUCE THE MOST DF.- LiCHfrUL AND WHOLE SOME TOBACCO FOR CIG- ^JjSAXBMUi y PROCESS PATENTED' . ^ J U L Y 30-1207 RMu^ififTOBRoCOKPAKY W inston S aiem .N.C.U$. A. DOES NQYRITE THE TONGUE This is the reverse side o f the Prince Albert tidy red tin. Read this ** Patented Process” messaae- to-you and realize what it means in making Prince Albert so much to your liking. C O M IN O i The Thrilling, Patriotic UNIVERS L SERIAL Lib The Timeliest Serial Ever Produced. Life on the Mex ican Bor r; Aeroplanes and Machine Guns in Ac tion; Thrilling Stunts; Ten der l ove Interest in Story Eddie PoSo Ss GUARANTEED TLN YEARS ton Times. He lias been a mem be i of the Socialist party for nine years and has written books and magazine ar ticles on economic and politic al sub jects. Among his hooks are ‘ Socialism Made Plain.” “ The Usurped Power of the Courts,” “ Truth About Socialism” and “ A Way to Prevent War.” Care of Table Linen Do not let linen become too soiled, because hard rubbing is likely to break the fillers. Remove ad stains before linen Is to lie washed. The stains come out much better if remi/ved as soon as they occur. Do not use r. wringer, but wring linen by hand. Rinse the n*ap out thoroughly before linen Is placed In bluing water, for sometimes rust spots are caused by a chr.ni *a1 rea tion between the bluing anti the soap, and these are hard to m- move. Do not starch good linen, as It does not need It, and the linen will last longer without It. Hang In the sun to whiten Use a hot Iron, but do not scorch. Iron with the grain of the material. I f linen Is to be stored for some time, wrap it iu blue t »sue papei cloth. DON’T FOTGET THE FREE TICKETS Given with Herald Subscriptions,orluablueU The cxira o* die Res Type writer can be seen. folds frem Z lo 20 uuh.:: one writing. The type-bias ere o f 1-16 inch thick ness, instead of the usual 1-32. The type-bar-bcaiing surface is, on the averap», four times greater than on any othc r typewriters of standard de sign. In every part there is extra »trength. The tabulator and back-spacer arc operated by keys. They are in-bulU— not added attachments. When the end o f the line is reached, the Rex locks automatically. The Rex is built to outlast all others. Factory tests show an equivalent o f 25 years’ daily service. 'ine manufacturers consider 10 years a reasonable guarantee. Why buy strength? a typewriter of less at The Rex is a full visible writer—not necessary to move any part of the typewriter to see all you are writing and have written. V ’hy buy a typewriter that lacks any c f these features? E xLaordin ary Price Letter writing is not all a typewriter should do. $57.50, f. o. b. factory, would be a low price for any standard typewriter. For a typewriter o f extra strength, extra capacity, extra features, it is an extraordinary price. The carriage on t.ie Standard Rtx ' iodel is 11 inches instead o f 9. I t is built for writing cn wide blanks, in- Why pay more and receive less? Compel those who ask more to give more. Extra Capacity 3*_rrn/*c policies, deed3, abstracts, contracts, etc. Monthly Payments wr .es letters? For a little more the Rex can be bad on monthly payments. It will pay for itself from earnings. It v/rite3 on cards, labels, tags. It prints in two color without changing ribbon—serves as • check-protector. It is made ready or stencil-cutting v ithout removing ribbon. I t mani Make us prove our claims o f superi ority; if we fail you lose nothing; if we succeed you save about 40%. Why buy a typewriter that only ROY Ask for Demonstration M. AVERY, Agent H'-Ld 'M r» Coquille, Oregon