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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1922)
¿ja SEA VOW CALLS TO WOMEN Unela Sam Can Employ Feminina Junior Engineers and Deck OffU cere—Other Positions Open. They are About Gone Modern girls who desire to eater the proverbial “man's sphere" of busi ness now have their chunce. They •may enter Into a vocation which for merly was decidedly masculine. Do you think you could powder your nose on the bridge of a schooner In a 00-mlle gale? Could you save your suede pumps from the ravages of a deckhand armed with a mop? Do you doubt that you conld preserve your dignity and your standing In a boat that was trying to turn Itself upside down? Have you an Idea you could stop the brawls of rough sailors, sbln up s mast, throw a half-hitch with a slight movement of the wrist and do all the other things which go to make on one-fonrth cash, balance $10. per month, life on the high seas • joy? If you can answer yes to all those questions, go to the secretary of the United States civil service commis sion, In the federal building In Low Angeles, and enter in the competitive examinations which soon are to be » offered, eaye the Expreee of that city. Just put your John Henry on the dot ted line, opposite “Junior engineer and deck officer,” which position carries 1 a stipend of $2.000 a year. The Job Is open to any man or woman wno can paas the examinations. Other positions open are laboratory and field aid In cotton breeding, pyro technic assistant. Junior laboratory aid VERNONIA G. A. R. In plant physiology, computer. Insur AND CORPS FEASTED ance claima examiner, technical office assistant, petroleum economist, teach The Compulsory Educasional er In the Indian service, stenographer and chauffeur for the veterans’ bureau The Women’s Relief Corps of Bill, which v/i'l «ppear on the In Los Angeles. The last-named po Clatskanie entertained the G. A. R. ballot at th» Nc • •»mber election sition is open to men exclusively. posts of Vernonia and Clatskanie and the W. R. C. of Vernonia at a big w»s signed by the undersighed NEEDS OF “YOUNG AMERICA” dinner at Eagles hall Saturday noon. ‘ when the bill was circulated for Forty were present, six of whom the required signatures to be j, f European Critic Think« That Youth were old soldiers of the ‘wo towns.; ,aced Qn tfa ludson Weed, commander of John of Groat Republic 8uffere From Bucher Post, No. 70, responded tn a * believe that all children Too Much Freedom. short toast following the feast. Com- should be educated in the public George Santayana, famous philoso mander Payne, of Shepardstown post, schools; that it makes better cit pher and writer. In an article written presided over the tables. Those present were: Judson Weed, izens of them than if educated especially tn the Forum on “America’« Comrade Schaefer, Mrs. Sarah A. in a private school. Young Radicals,” says: “I have made a severe effort to dla- Spencer, president of the Vernonia I do not think this bill is a cover as well as I may from a dia* Corps; Emma Weed, Nannie B. Hall, “ drive ” at any religiouj denom ■ Ao tance what these rebels want. I Bv” Mamie Lane, Minnie Johns, Kate Mc It effects Catholic and wbat they are against—they are Donald, Emma Greener, Inez Powell, ination. against everything—-but what are they May Mellinger, Alma Mills and May Protestant alike. I would not fori I have not been able to discover Rose, who brought a number of Ver send one of my children to a pri IL This may be due to my lack of un nonia women over. Those present from Clatskanie vate school, unless he were phys derstanding or to their incapacity to express themselves clearly, for their were: George Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. ically unable to attend a public style Is something appalling. But per R. S. Payne, Joseph Powers, Mrs. E. school. I h tve no ill feeling haps this scandalous failure In expres Harding, Mrs. Eva Pressler and son, sion, when expression is what they Mrs. Nellie Popham, Mrs. Geo. Dye against any Catholic nor any yearn for and demand at all costs, and daughter, Mrs. Lois Reed and Protestant. It is merely a mat may be a symptom of something deep grandson, Mrs. Matilda Matthews, ter of opinion and inasmuch as I er; of s radical mistake they have • Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Eastman, Mrs. made In the direction of their efforts Fannie Tracer, Mrs. Mary Hoyt and signed the Compulsory Educa and aspirations. They think they need children, Mrs. William Holmes, Mrs. tional bill, I do not wish my po more freedom, more room, a chance to Charles Lind, Mrs. Emma Hiatt, Mrs. sition to be misunderstood nor be more spontaneous I suspect that Lena Daly and children, Mrs. Caro misquoted. they have had too much freedom, too line Hill, Mrs. Snider of Mayger, and much empty space, too much practice Art Steele.—St. Helens Mist. (Signed) A. E. VEATCH, In being spontaneous when there wss Republican Nomine» for Rep- nothing In them to bubble out. Their HOW ABOUT IT? resentative. style Is a sign of this; it is not merely that they have no mastery of the Eng Uncle Sam has just given out some lish language as hitherto spoken, no interesting figures. He shows that clear sense of the value of words, and the people of the United States are no simplicity; that they are without spending at the rate of $15 each per the vocabulary or the Idiom of cultl- year for magazines, books, newspa Geo. Bnrdick manager of the vated people, . . . No, It Is not pers and printed matter. We want more freedom that young America you to study over that figure and sort Vernonia Power Co., with his needs In order to be happy; It needs of make a mental note of about how chief engineer have been in the more discipline.' close you are coming to spending city this week in the interest of your $15 a year for these things. We KNOW little boutamerica can answer for quite a few citizens the lar* around Vernonia because there are and li Traveler Telia of Odd Beliefa That still a number who can’t see wherein here, Are Prevalent Among Even Well- a year's subscription to their home Educated Europeans. town paper is an excellent invest orders ment. And we have reason to believe the route« Austin Stack, minister of home af the man who can’t support his home as soon as the ordered material fairs In the former cabinet of Earnonn town paper isn’t spending very many de Valera, tells of some of the curious dollars toward the support of papers arrives. Impressions regarding life In the printed elsewhere. Personally, we United States still prevailing among don't believe a man need spend all of Mr. Joe and (leo. Nashif, of Europeans. “Among other curious $15 a year to keep posted. A good beliefs Is that every one who Uvea in daily, a magazine or two, and AL Portland were visiting Mr. Cory America, particularly In the Western WAYS the home-town paper and he Tuesday. states, must be a cowboy. I find that •s going to be well abreast of the many people habitually refer to resi times. Rut without the home-town dents of the Far West as ‘cowboys' In paper all is naught. For taking it a figurative sense, and I suppose that not only shows wise judgment, but it accounta for part of the notions that displays the extent of a man's inter are circulated.” est in the community in which he Mr. Stack recounted a story told to lives. him by a friend from Butte. Mont., Largest and beat equipped shop in who was entertaining a visitor from PRIEST RAPIDS POWER the valley. Bring in any kind of Europe. The visitor expected to see PLANT GETS BACKING work; it isn’t the streets of Butts built and peoplefl along the lines shown In the erstwhile 4 Too largo or too small for uo popular western movie, and hts lest General Electric Interests Said to Be noticed that he seemed to be con- Interested in Projecti New Rail stantly on the lookout for some one Corner of Maple St and R om Ave. way Also May Be Constructed or something. Vernonia, • Oregon “Finally,” Mr. Stack said, “the ▼ia- WENATCHEE, Wash., Sept 30- Itor turned to his host and asked: (Special.)—The building of the largest ‘But where are all the cowboys? dam and hydraulic electric power Knowledge Begins Where “ ‘Oh. they are never seen In the plant in the world at Priest Rapids is daytime,* the other replied. They believed assured by the fact just made Believing Stops are very shy. They only come out at known that the General Electric in nights, like the fairies.' " Many pains and aches are due to a terests are backing the project. The And the visitor believed It, Mr. plant will develop 300,000 horse power, wrencked Spine or Skeleton. Stack claims. and will furnish water to irrigate Don’t tell the doctor where yon are 100.000 acres of land owned or c«n- suffering. As a •’pi'-olcgist he is train I FREAK LEGISLATION DITCHED i trolled hy the Washington Irrigation ed to locate your weakness. Let him A Development Company. The power plant and irrigation tell you. A strsight Chiroprsctor is one who system will cost $40,000,000 and the Owing to frauds in circulating pe company contemplates an ultimate adjnsts the spine with his hands. titions not many of the nine initiative | expenditure of $100.000.0°0 in building Dr. Breitling is both a straight Chi bills will get on the ballot. The state Up other enterprises, such as smelters, ropractor and Spiaologiat, having had would suffer nothing if they were all factories and mining enterprises. 16 years of setive pretice in Portlsnd, ditched. Ore., and over 10,000 patients to hie be Young man you will never There is going to be a big NO vote credit. He ia an able man. greater than your' ambition. on all these bills except the one to Also Specializes on Babies' and allow Portland to hold an electrical One strike that never fails is strik- exposition in 1925. That enabling act Chlldaen’s DI mosos i mg out for yourself. will probably go through The five per cent interest bill, the Graduate of Palu.cr Seh.'ol of Chiro Return of the prodigal long skirt bill to abolish private and sectarian practic. Davenport, la,. Class of ’07 sure Villa the fatted calf. schools, and nearly all the rest of 6th Floor Broadway Building, Bet. them are bills to increase tax burdens Rroadway and Morrison Sta. Loyalty to your own town causes and hamper the development of the Phones; Main 8608. East 2454. others to feel loyal to you. state. ____ Those Fine Large Lots in Central Addition 50 X100 Feet $75. to 150 Act Quickly if You Want One G. B. RICHMOND Gen. Sales Agt., Vernonia The Educational Bill Supreme The United States Bakery Capacity 75,000 Quality Loaves a Day Bakers of Franz HEALTH BREAD lÜhere Sxtra Sendee is Demanded Firestone Cords Predominate HEREVER the exac tions and tests of tires are most severe—there you will find Firestone in universal use. The hard jobs seek Fire stone. And so well has Fire stone responded under difficult conditions—so consistently has mileage mounted to totals im possible to obtain from ordi nary tires that today Most Miles per Dollar is the buying slogan of thinking motorists everywhere. The blending and tempering of rubber, gum-dipped cord construction, air-bag cure—all these mileage methods have W T been developed by men whose life work is the production of constantly increasing tire val ues for the public. Cords Users in this vicinity verify Firestone reputation, and re- g>rt almost daily some new irestone record of extra dis tance travelled. Don’t be satisfied to buy tires—buy values—the longest mileage at the lowest price con sistent with such reliable per formance. • Make Most Miles per Dollar your principle of tire economy — choose your next, tire on that basis. Vernonia Brazing and Machine Works ANO AVTO REPAIR MSP MOST MILES P«»' DOLLAR r Gum-Dipped Cords O. R. MILLS