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About The Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1915-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1915)
Bandon Recorder Published weekly on Tuesdays by The Recorder Publishing Co., Inc. Entered at the Post Office at Ban don, Oregon, as mail matter of the second class. , RICHARD H. SWENSON, Manager .Jake all checka payable and address all communications to the company. Subscription price, $1.50 per year- 'n advance. INTERESTING IP TRUE The people of Bandon seem to be the only people in Coos Co. who favor the bond issue for trunk roads. The reason apparently lies in the provis ion of the petition, which clips off $70,000 to be spent from Bandon south while the remainder is to be spent "where the county court may direct". North Bend has a few men who will vote for the bond issue, likewise n large majority who will vote against it. Coos Bay Harbor. BARROWS AT SALEM On his way to Salem to attend the mcoting'of the Oregon State Bar asso ciation, Charles R. Barrows of Co quille, representative in the legisla ture from Coos county stopped in Sa lem yesterday and paid his respects to state officials. Representative Barrows said that business conditions in Coos county Were satisfactory. The mills at Marshfield nnd Bandon are operating he said, despite the depressed state of the lumber market. Whether Mr. Bar rows will be a candidate again for the legislature he has not yet fully decid ed as he says the sacrifice of so much time from his business affairs is dif ficult. Coos county must elect a sen ator next time and also two repre sentatives. Senator I. S. Smith's term expires in January, 1910. The friends of Mr. Barrow have nlready approach ed him with a view of getting his con sent to run for the state senate, but he says he has not yet made a decision. Salem Journal. SECRETARY DANIELS ON SEX EDUCATION Secretary of the Navy, Joscphus Daniels has become deeply interested in the problem of sexual immorality among the men of the navy. Recently he addressed a letter to all the com manding officers, emphasizing the Im portance of adequate instruction. He closes his letter as follows: "10. The spectacle of an officer or hospital steward calling up boys in their teens as they are going o leave and handing over these 'preventative packets' is abhoront to me. It is equiv alent to the government advising these boys that It is right nnd proper for them to indulge in an evil that per verts their morals. I would not permit a youth in whom I was interested to enlist in a service that would thus give virtual approval to disobeying the teachings of his parents and the die tates of the highest moral code. You may say that the ideal raised is too high and we need not expect young men to live up to the ideal of conti nence. If so, I can not agree. It is a duty we can not shirk to point out the true ideal, to chastity, to a single standard of morals for men nnd wo men. If, unhappily, experience has taught us that too few resist tempta tion, that in no wise lessens our res ponsibility to seek to guide the youth to whom we owe a solemn duty .We need not hope to induce young men to New Stock of Hardware Just in Sec our display in ROYAL HOLLAND BLUE GRANITE WARE Acid Proof A general line of SHELF HARDWARE See ui before you buy Starr-Mast Hardware Company become strong In will power, firm In resisting temptation, if we say to them: 'Go in the ways of sin. We have no admonition to you to refrain from evil. All that we have to say to you Is to be careful not to contract disease.' Such admonitions to boys in their teens would make me, as Secretary of the Navy, an apologist for looseness of morals. I could not look a boy in tne navy straight in the face while I ap pealed to him to lead a clean life, if I were approving the policy and the use of a measure of this kind. 11. We come now to the main ob ject of this letter which is to empha size the fact that our attention has become so engrossed with the purely medical prophylaxis that I feel the moral prophylaxis has become ne glected, and wish to arouse and re awaken interest and activity in the proper teaching of the personnel with regard to the dangers of venereal dis eases and to ask the hearty co-operation of every officer and man to see, ho far ns his influence and example go thai e sry associate and ship mate doc ri become the victim of any of the . .seases through lack of moral sup o- in all that makes for conti nence and for a clean and moral life. 12. Certainly with this attitude no harm can be done nnd while we may lot be able to wipe out this great evil yet it is my firm conviction that much good will surely result and the bad condition be materially ameliorated. I. 1. To this end then, it is directed that commanding officers consult with their medical officers and that a regu lar and systematic course of instruc tion be given along the lines indicated in this letter and it is further directed that such efforts be continued until ev jry man is fully aware of the dan gers that will overtake him and the nature of these diseases. II. Nothing in the above is to be considered as minimizing or interfer ing in any way with the present au thorized medical prophylactic meas ures which fill an important place in tending to limit these diseases and which insure the best possible care of those who are infected. Prom the Oregon Social Hygiene So ciety Bulletin. Elbert Hubbard by Walt Mason Down in the depths went Elbert- Hubbard, with smiling eyes that knew .10 fear, and all the lovely mermaids rubbered and Neptune shouted "See who's here." Well might there be a great commotion throughout the sea from .east to west, for seldom has old Father Ocean clasped hands with such guest. The ink stand waits upon the table, his pen is rusting in the sun; there is no living hand that's able to do the work he's left undone. There is no brain so keen and witty no voice with its caressing tones and Elbert in the dead men's city is swapping yarns with Davy Jones. And all the world that reads, evinces its sorrow that he's dwelling there, not all the warring kings nnd princes are worth a ringlet of his hair. Death keeps a record in his cupboard of victims of the mon arch's hate; a million men and El bert Hubbard, so would bring you back Elbertus, so goes the tally up to date. If it twang your harp with golden strings.it would not worry us or hurt us to drown a wagon load of kings. ASPHALT BASE OILS MAKE niHT LUBRICANTS Lieutenant G. :5. Bryan, of the Na vs.l Engineering '', icmnent Station, Ann-ipolis, Maryland, in a paper pub lished in the Journal of the American Society of Naval En.;'i:eers for Febru- aiy, 1015 says:- "Oils made from anplialt-baae crudes have shown themselves t be much Inter adapted to nvi'os- cylinders, as far as their carbon forming procliv; ties are concerned than are the para f- fire-baso I'ennsylvn'a oils. The car bon formed from the latter is, as a nile, cxtrenH luiui a M dings to the metal surfa h while that from (In former is soft and can easily be wiped off any surface that it is deposited on. This would bo expected from a con sideration of the nature of the hydro carbons composing the oil, nnd it has also been demonstrated in practice. "The explanation lies in the fact that the paraffine-base oils are gene rally composed of the paraffine series of hydrocarbons, while the asphalt base oils are composed mainly of the ethylene and naptheue series. One of the characteristics of the latter two series as compared with the para f fine series is their tendency to distill with- out decomposition. Consequently, no gum will I) iiformod on the cylinder wnl I a, and the carbon liberated will be mostly dincharged with the oxluiuit guc. FAITH, I Oil) not know llwr on rurth, Nor IW'I I llHMltrttl f MUillHtf r Ni-r ilu I kMutt (twil lktr mint to fiuiu ufaMMi t mum, mdI I fl ' mw I'm mm (Imi 1 jtmM m win i (um ML w wmm i ii mwl mum ill m hmmtJmmi ft Imt. i urn iu 5toJgr Since the rivermen have success fully appealed from the sentences of the inspectors it looks as if the next thing on the docket is to appeal the inspectors themselves. The gentle drp of the drops reminds us of the coming of the winter rains suggests coal and rain coats and like wise renews the niory of what has be come of last summer's wnj;es. In noticir.g the accounts of .arious doings in Bandon as they are dished up by the press of neighboring com munities we are pained to notice a tinge of acrimony in the comments there on and are minded to resurrect the old adage that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. The report of the condition of the Bank of Bandon ns published in last week's Recorder showing deposits of over two hundred thousand is a fine increase over the business of late months and gives ground for hope that the low point has been past in our present period of financial depres sion. Certain citizens o: North Bend are exercised because there is objection raised to the iejui-iii of $10 through the selling of oomctti and that there appears to be no available place; for nuto races in the carnival proposed to bo held to celebrate the omplction of the new railroad bridge Wlun you come to think about it why should people throw confetti or race automo biles to commemorate the completion of a railroad bridge. Where is tiie connection? The Recorder hns sometimes felt minded to start a "Cussedncss Co lumn" and the following would make a good start. The son of E. i3. OaXcs has had some pet rabbits of whom ho thought considerable. The other night some one visited the hutch, pulled the wires apart far enough to insert hand but not wide enough to extract the rabbits without trouble. In the process one leg was pulled off and two tails left to indicate the brutality of the perpetrator of the deed. Win. Button is telling an old story in a now way. It is the story of the evangelist who wound up in the usual manner and after ascertaining the number of people in the audience who would announce their desire to achieve Paradise, then called upon those who porferred the infernal regions to rise to their feet. The solitary riser in this instance was a Jew who when the reason of his choice was inquired into replied "Well the becsness is all gone to H anyway, and sure, I want to get my share." In an article in a recent American Herbert Quick puts forth the subma rine as the peacemaker of the future He argues that a nation equinned with submarines need fear no invader by sea. Now that the possibilities of the submarine have been demonstrated, all this nation will have to do to pro icct ltseu irom an over sea invasion is to build a swarm or rather school of submarines and no transport or oiner war vessel can approach near enough to be dangerous. The only way iney might he escaped is to convey men and munitions under sen where they could not be seen or in the air where they would be out of reach of the torpedoes. Neither of these meth ods of invasion look practical at this time. The submarines can not rope with one another because under ceas they can not find one nnother and in the way of target accuracy, the submarine needs a largo one. It is possible for gun boats to cope with submarines when their numbers nre few but with numbers they would soon cripple any naval armament ever afloat. Since the advent of the submarine into the present Europeun conflict the dreadnoughts have kept carefully in the background and when naval battles huve occurred it has usually been the submarine that has caused the great est damage. It looks as though a new era in naval warfare was upon us. That the western virus for Improved economic and social cond lions in working in the staid old Earn was ev ident from tho deliberations of Hie eonititutiunnl convention which ban Iuhiii In tfiwilofi at Saratoga, N. Y. for ioini) wtudu punt. HHliu Hoot ni'tt-d uv Iwirnuiii of the mnvenUnii und oint of M kpwivhuit Imftnv (lie UMtunbluKo ww iIMMwtJy ;.milinf u( Uw tui UmI KmwUn IWb U'i.Uu wmmJ Ih 4Wj mil tm lUu wUte uf w Utttm ymn . Mm utv mm W U MtfttNM Ut Uw nm -trxUlMlifiM mHimtg U mtUi mm mh mmmmammf. UmUnmml t-. 1 9 "1 HHMWl only electlva state officers, An executive budget system where by the legislature might eliminate items from the -budget of the govern or but make no additions. Votes for women. The convention merely provided that if the proposed suffrage amend ment nlready passed by two legisla tures is approved at the referendum this fall it shall become operative. A broader power for cities in rela tion to regulating their local affairs and revising charters. Raising the annual salary of the governor from $10,000 to $20,000 a year and the salaries of legislators from $1500 to $2500 n year and rnil roadfare from their home to Albany. Giving the legislature power to pro hibit manufacturing tenements. Bringing victims of occupational diseases under the provisions of the workmen's compensation ac. Reapportionment along lines which would prevent Greater Nov York from having a majority in the senate for ten years at least. Substituting serial for sinkit.g fund bonds and otherwise changing the bonding systems for the state and cit ies, Which it is believed will save millions in interest chnrges. Giving the legislature the right to permit the state tax commission to tax all personal property for state and local purposes nnd to tax the property of all corporations. Constitutionalizing both public ser vice commissions, which have been formed since the last constitution was adopted. Humanity Unmasked HYPOCRITES Prologue An Aristocrat.. . .Adele Farrington Gabriel, an ascetic Courtensy Poote The Abbot Herbert Standing A Nun Myrtle Ste-iman A Magdalene Dixie Carr A Queen Adele Farrington and Truth Margaret Edwards The Play Gabriel, a minister. . .Cnurtenay Poote A Choir Singer .Myrtle Stednian A Pillar of the Church. Herhert Stand ing A Magdalene Dixie Carr mil Truth Mnrgarel Edwards Gabriel, an ascetic uiou'v of olden time, labors to perfect an image of Truth consecrating hinnelf with fast ing and prayer, and keeping his work a secret. One monk, bolder than the rest spies upon him hut is blindcl by the light ofTruth and car. see nothing The unveiling of the statue is made a Fete Day, and all gather to listen to the address .of the Abbot, who himself consents to unveil Gabriel's gift. The covering is pulled as'cie and there stands a figure of Truth, naked. Un able to see with the eyes of the spirit. the people with one accord, rush upon Gabriel, and kill him. Only two can look upon Truth unflinchingly, a little child, and the woman vho loves Gab riei. a maguaienc iooks upon the statue and falls prostrate, weeping bit terly. The woman who loe-i him covers the dead Gabriel with her vei which turns from white to black as she bends over him. Nearby t!'e Magda lene crouches. This forms the prologue of the story which, told in a reverent and deeply religious vein, makes an indelible im pression, and preparcT the spectator for the modern scenes which are the main theme. We see Gnbriel n? the minist9- of a presentday church, frail and ill, but fired with divina inspiration. In th congregation art- tho same people who in the prologue, stoned tho monk to death. Now they are bored or shock ed by this denunciation of hypocrisy. Only the woman who lcvcil bin, now a singer in Ins choir, and tho .Magda lene, who kneels in praor after the others have left unlcrstand. The spy ing monk is now n choii-boy, surre ptitiously reading a newspaper during service. Left alone after service the ir inisler finds the newspaper with its repioduc tion of Puugeron's famous painting The Truth" nnd vague memories stir He sinks into a dream His body in the form of Gabriel, the ascetic, leav es his present-day body, and accom panied by Truth w;lh her mirror, vi sits the various scenes of the story, allowing him In this wondrous mirror of hers the real actions oi the charact ers. (I'rund 'lln-alcr, WVdiii'iiihiv .Sent. Hi TRUTHFUL, ANYWAY. I'M it lunic why ("" llttTurjr, !'V4 H luiitf vay lo vu; I'm a Uidx wuy from liurury AM (ha I luiitf fur o. QnuAU iimuwIIIIi )fUrMU, (lilM) hwIi 'uuroi I'm h litis. I r tium llirrr, Hut mr M' HtfM KUm TMIIHE'fJ A HCABOf. IM'lUTT mM ml t l. " lib mllm --'J iuU mm la.. " Ml 4m M mmi tm h- limm Mm MM Umm Pmd if m l News of Earlier Days Interesting Item rrom Kecnraer rues oi Ten and Twenty Years Ago (From Recorder, Sept 13, 1895) Twins, an 8 lb boy and a 6 lb girl were born to Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Her mann at Myrtle Point Sept. 5th. J. A. Smith of Coos River und Miss Lou Danielson of Bandon were mar ried Sunday by Justice A. D. Morse. Bandonians were very much inter ested in the international race for the America's cup run during tho week in the neighborhood of Sandy Hook. The news of the races was received by tel egraph. The contestants were the De fender and the Valkyrie. An auction was held on tho calvngc articles from the wrecked steamer Barmore and quite a sum was realiz ed. Everything went high and many people were anxious to get something as n memento of the wreck. Every thing saved was sold, even the live stock and the owners went to San Francisco to get some one to buy the hull and machinery, leaving some one to watch the wreck and keep it from walking away. Tom Wheeler and Dick Svilhus with a load of hay were making a turn in a canyon near From hill when the load tipped over and rolled fifty feet be fore it found something to stop it. Wheeler sustained some severe bruis es in the process. Dr. Kime was putting up a residence on Wharf street. The Bandon Woolen Mills shipped quite a consignment of woolen goods to Frisco. It look as if the winter hnd begun Wednesduy night as the rain everlast ingly came down for a while. It is reported there is another month work on the light house. I. N. DoLong of Prosper had built a handsome residence in the south ern part of tho city and expected to move to Bandon shortly. Lee Simpson was to establish a real estate business in the city. There were 125 boats engaged in fishing on the Coquille this season and the prospect was tliat if there were any fish in the river they would catch them The first catch of salmon in the river this season were turned in at the can nery Monday. Fisher Bros, had 30 and Josun cc Andrews 20. I ho canneries were paying 15 cts a fish this season. The Katie O'Neil, the new tug, ar rived from ban l-rancisco. She was to remain here permanently and to carry freight from Marshfield and Em pire to Bandon and also tow on the Coquille. There were several new bicycles in town but as yet no bloomers. The Coquille Bulletin said that Pish- trap was a thing of the past. Its pro gressive inhabitants had decided on the name of Willowdale and by that title the place was to be known in the future. (From Recorder, Sept 14, 1905) A baby daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alva Leo at Myrtle Point. Shields & Kennedy were repairing a new donkey Doner lor aneau s log ging camp on Bear Creek by putting in new tubes. C. B. Zeek, the black sand miner of Randolph beach was in town one day f 4f BANDON GARAGE CO. For Your Automobile Troubles Largest Line of Tires and Acessories in the City Export Machinist FOSTER & HENRY, Props. TolupJiuno ft J Hwuml hJU and Chiang Avo- this week having business that called him here. Arthur Rice, tho popular Bandon jeweler returned during the week from a visit to the Portland exposition. Evan Morgan moved his family from Parkersburg to this city to have tha benefit of Bandon schools. A. J. Hartman had started work on his new building which was to be of concrete. J .P. DeGesen was overseer and J. H. Giles and a couplo of other men wero at work on it. Mrs. A. D. Morse nad purchased a lot of D. E. Stitt in Block 22. Postmistress Mary E. Walker re turned from a visit to the exposition at Portland. H. F. Morrison, wife and child had arrived and would settle in Bandon. Mr. Morrison came to run tho barber business of Geo. Hite. Captain Johnson of tho tug Tri umph took a lay off and would visit San Francisco. Cap. H. C. Butler had charge of th tug in his nbsence. The Prosper, the first three masted schooner built in Bandon was reported wrecked in Alaska during the week. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Button died during the past week. Fred P. Davis was drowned in New Ijake while trying to move logs in tho water. Ho attemped to jump from ono log to another but miscalculated and his chest struck tho log, rendering him unconscious. He died from tho effects of the blow. The steamer F. A. Kilburn had a narrow escape from a sand spit close to tho entrance to Coos Bay. Sho was aground for threo hours und was con siderably injured from the pounding of tho waves. Her stern post was lost as well as propeller and rudder, thero was also a bad leak in tho boat's bot tom. With all her pumps working tho water gained a foot and a half in tho hour it took to tow the boat to her dock. She was beached at Emnire. Three million dollars more of the Australian and New Zealand gold con signed to San Francisco banks hero today aboard the steamer MoaU from Sidney and Wellington. The great er part is in gold coin with some bul lion. Today's shipment brings tho to tal gold brought in from the Austral ian and Now Zealand banks within tho last 30 days to $8,000,000. FOR CASH ONLY Flour, Dalles Diamond, per sack, S1.G5 Flour, Liberty bell, sack $1.51; Compound Shortening, S lb paiL 55c Compound Shortening, 10 tb pall $1.10 Pure Lard, 5 lb pail, 70c Pure Lard, 10 lb paiL $1.3 Good Side Bacon, Smoked, per Ib,22c Good Bacon Strips, smoked, per lbl'Ji Bacon Backs, Smoked, per lb .... 19c Bacon Backs, sugar cured, lb . . 22c Fancy Breakfast Bacon, lb 28 to 30c Best Hams, per lb, 22c Picnic Hams, per lb 15c Salt, Best Dairy, 10 lb 20c Sail, Best Dairy, 20 lb 35c Salt, Best Dairy, 50 lb 60c Salt, Half Ground, 50 lb 30c Splendid Coffee, Spark's Blue Label, per lb, 25c Tea, Pine Red Ribbon, per lb, .. 45c Tea, Uncolored Japan, per lb . . 40c Beans, all kinds, per tb, 7c Sparks' Grocery Store PHONE 291 t at your Service ia ml warm H I