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shared by many when he declaied that
leges think more about footbai. than any
this belief is perhaps exagoeiaied, we have to admit tha«.
the publicity and newspaper space devoted to college foot
ball is sufficient to warrant such opinions. The antics of
college professors during the iuotball season also tends to
make outsiders believe that they place about as much val
ue, or more, on a good football player than they do on a
student who shuns athletics for his studies.
We know of one boy who told his friends that he was
entering college mainly because he had for years wanted
to become a football star. In one year, or right after the
coach told him he was too small to make a good football
player, he was back home. It wasn’t an education he was
after, at all; it was an opportunity to become a football
star.
We would not for the world discourage the boy who is
ambitious to go to college. But if he is not going to col
lege to get something that will help him in after life, in
stead of something that will merely win him the cheers of
a football audience, he is wasting his time and money.
Athletics are necessary, but football, and baseball, and
rowing are secondary to a college education. Even if a
young man becomes a professional football player he is
good for but a few seasons, and at the end of that time
he finds himself up against a stem, hard world and with
out a trade or profession. College football is a part of col
lege life, and probably always will be. But the boy who
thinks it is the biggest part of it will find out to his sor
row a little later on that he was dead wrong about it.
PAUL S. RDBfNSON.
E ditor and O wner .
Issued Every Friday.
$2.00 Per Year.
Entered as second-class matter August
4. 1^2, at the post office at Ver
nonia, Oregon, under the Act
All Accounts Must Be Settled in Full
of March 3. 1879.
Every 30 Days
Editorial
GIVE US A PAPER MILL
There has been much talk about another large saw mill
going to locate in Vernonia, but from investigations we
conclude it is only rumor. Vernonia, however, needs two
enterprises that we haven’t got. It would behoove the C. of
C. to write letters, and put effort and work into the job of
securing a Pulp and Paper Mill and a Brick Yard. We have
a down-hill pull to Portland markets and the waterfront;
we have the timber, the river and an ideal location for a
Pulp Mill and men who claim to know, say we have the
clay for a brick yard. Vernonia wants two things: A Pulp
and Paper Mill and a Brick Yard. Wood product plants
are needed and will come.
The Creator of all things, through his W O R D, an
nounced nearly 2000 years ago that no man would know
Anyhow these warm February days have filled us all when the End would come. The truth of the Word was
with the urge to dig in the ground, to clean up and to paint proven last Friday night in spite of “False Prophicies”
up our premises. The city council evidenced the fever from a few Adventists and “Holy Rollers.”
Monday night by giving their official approval of an im
of the work carried on by it, but na
VERNONIA HIGH INVITED
mediate clean up campaign. We will want to don our most
tional
figures in the educational
impressive garb for the thousands of tourists who are go
world will be here for the period to
By Mabel Wills
ing to file chugging through our mid-Columbia hub this Oregon Agricultural College, Cor confer with the students regarding
summer. But even though we never saw a motor tourist we vallis, Feb. 10th—Vernonia high their choice of a career and whether
should make our town appealing with flower gardens, im school has been invited to send dele- the students’ bent in life can be de
maculate vacant lots and lawns just for our own sake.— ’gates to the second annual Educa veloped at O.A.C. or not. Dr. Stan-
tional exposition to be held this year ley Coulter, dean of men at Purdue
Hood River Glacier.
university, will counsel with the
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DOES IT PAY?
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If you want still another answer to the old question,
“does advertising pay?” reflect on this: Wasn’t it adver
tising that made the Victrola dog famous; didn’t it put
Sozodont and Pebeco on your tooth brush and a Gillette
razor in your hand, along with a cake of Ivory soap and
William’s shaving cream? Didn’t advertising put an Ar
row collar around your neck and Holeproof socks on your
feet and Paris garters on your legs? Hasn’t it eased your
nerves with Spermint chewing gum, quieted your head
ache with Aspirin and comforted your stomach with Cam
pbell’s soups and Swift’s premium hams? Sit dowi and
take an inventory of what you’ve got on, or what you have
in the house and you will be surprised at the number of
things you buy simply because you are, through reading
ads, familiar with the brand.
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during the Washington’s birthday
holidays, February 21-23.
More
than 600 high school student dele
gates and faculty members attended
the exposition last year and indica
tions are that more will be here this
year.
Educational and vocational guid
ance is one of the chief aims of the
annual exposition.
Not only will
every school and department of the
college prepare an elaborate display
EAGLE FEATHERS
DON’T BE HASTY
It is not fair to condemn all ministers because one goes
wrong, and neither is it fair to look with scorn on all pub
lic officials because a cloud of suspicion has recently fall
en across the pathway of Gov. Davis, of Kansas. Accept
ing a bribe is a serious proposition any way you look at it,
but far more serious when it is accepted by a man elected
to the highest office in a state. The average Vernonia vot
er knows that politics is a pretty crooked game the way it
is played nowadays, and more than one good man has
been “framed”. When enemies organize to “get you” they
usually do so regardless of cost. For that reason it is never
a very good idea to pass sentence before you have heard
all of the evidence. Even then if guilt is proven it should
not be taken for granted that all public officials are of the
same stripe. There are several hundred good, honest, up
right citizens in Kansas, just as in any other state in the
union. So with only one or two of that number under sus
picion, Kansas doesn’t need to hang her head in shame.
THE RIGHT START
When all is said and done, the
most dangerous word in the English
language is “yes”.
Suits with two pair of trousers are
now in demand, but what the average
Vernonia man wishes for is that they
would throw in an extra coat and
vest.
One thing that puzzles us is how
a girl can eat a tiny piece of toast
for breakfast and still be alive when
dinner time comes.
The old-time illustration of a bull
in a china shop has given way to a
congressman trying to solve our
foreign problems.
Our advice to Vernonia citizens is
to try to get all they are looking for
in this world. They may get some
thing they’re not looking for in the
next.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The other day a Vernonia citizen expressed a belief
Another time a Vernonia man feta
the last word is when he saya: “AU
right, then we’U bay the cloeed one.”
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And he saved on an income that would not be
pift money for the majority of people today. But
the big thing is that he saved. You can save, too,
if you but make up your mind to do so. Let us
help you gel started.
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men, and an equally prominent
woman will meet the girls.
While the exposition is primarily
educational, recreation for the visi
tors will not be neglected. Friday
evening a night horse show is sched
uled, while Saturday evening an all
school stunt show is scheduled.
One or more basketball games have
been tentatively arranged, and Sun
day afternoon concerts by campus
musical organizations will be fea
tured.
Water and Wood—Pulp Mill need
ed—Vernonia.
MEAT HE WILL EAT
Your skill as a cook is fully exemplified and reward
ed when you use it to prepare one of our delicious
Roasts for your table.
Mac
Says
Let us send you one for dinner today.
Poultry, Eggs, Choicest Beef, Pork and Lamb, Cold
Meats, Fish.
A call
for “Scott’s
The Nehalem Meat Market
Convulsions”
may often
be filled
by supplying
a bottle of
VALENTINE
STATIONERY
Scott’s Emulsion.
But nothing
can take the
From barbers’ chair to governors’ chair women are rap
place of our
idly crowding out the men in places that have always been
thought to be sacred for men only. Two women have been You’ve also probably noticed that hand lotions
many of the good deed» men forget
sworn in recently as governors of two great states.
to
Just what men are going to do about the invasion of do are written on their tombstones when you
their age old rights and privileges is not exactly apparent, With Florida and California both need something
assuming that they want to do anything. It is of course scrapping, it looks as though the next
entirely too early to predict whether these women gov civil war in the U. S. is going to be to protect
ernors will make good or not. They seem to have made fought over “climate’’.
your hands
pretty fair members of congress and state legislatures, so
Our idea of a wonderful wife is
it is expected that with extra training in public life they the Vernonia woman who can look
from the harsh
will be fully able to hold their own.
like she is interested while her hus-
winter weather.
It should be of interest to the male persuasion around band is doing his bragging.
Vpmonia to learn that only 14 years ago, or in 1910, less
has about gotten so in thia coun One application
than one woman in 20 had entered business or commercial try It that
if parents want to kiss their
life. Now one in every ten is engaged in some gainful oc children good-night
they have to stay will bring relief,
cupation—and filling jobs that were formerly filled by up until morning.
and you can
men. Whether this ratio means that man will finally have
to give up the field and retire to domestic work, we cannot The length of a skirt is no longer a always buy
of age—and for that matter
say. But the fact seems to be that if a man wants a place, sign
neither is her face.
either in a barber’s chair or the governor’s chair, he had
them at the
better start out early and keep in mind the fact that a wo A St. Louis crook stole |4 from a
man may be after the same job, and that they have a habit blind man. All we hope is that he
bought poisoned bootleg liquor with M. & M. PHARMACY
this day in time of getting the things they want
it.
LINCOLN SAVED
A delightful manner
of remembering St.
Valentine’s day is to
give boxed stationery
Our stock includes*
many of the newest
papers, some imprint
ed with initials, oth
ers plain.
Perfumes and Toilet
Articles are proper
Valentine Gifts. We
have them.
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Corner AcroM from Gilby
Motor Co.
Silver Fox Pharmacy
VERNONIA, OREGON
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