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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1925)
City of Homes VERNONIA EAGLE Splendid Schools VERNONIA EAGLE Adrertlsiof Rakw-Mots par htate. single tfolamn measure, sack vtkk. We collect for advertialnp the Sr»t of every month. PAUL S. ROBINSON. E ditor and O wner . Issued Every Friday. $2.00 Per Year. Entered ss second-class matter Auguat 4, 1922, at the post office at Ver nonia, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Editorial shooting of “Handsome Hans,” declaring and defining a “stool pigeon” and “police agent.” Mayor Baker has placed his sympathies with the enforcement crowd. The Oregonian might explain its policy, and no doubt is equally sincere and equally law abiding as the Mayors fnenda—but the impression so widely gained from utter ances in its columns cannot be overcome by explanations. Ask the Readers. They know. The Oregonian could I not serve on the jury in the case of “Hanlsome Hans” death. It has forfited its right and duty to serve, as it has declared its unmovable belief and opinion and pro claimed aloud that conviction could not be reached. Yes, to this great law enforcement question, there are two sides, and the public knows how big men and big papers side. To bridge or not to bridge. They will bridge between Longview and Rainier in spite of any Portland opposi tion. Now, here is the wise plan for Portland Boosters, if trullv interested in “Oregon First:” Support and secure the immediate hard surfacing of the Inland High way from Astoria to Portland, through Vernonia—by State or Government aid. Why? When the heavy traffic of the Roosevelt Highway from the. south is dumped on the already conjested Columbia River Highway at Astoria, they will have to turn off at Rainier and go north, to avoid danger. All tourists crossing the new’ bridge! will miss Portland. See the point? Route them from Astoria to Portland by the Inland Route and be sure of them. They w’ill have a new and different scenic drive. Then, the Government needs this route as a war measure. A SERIOUS PROBLEM More and more it becomes apparent that something will have to be done in this country, and within a very short time, to solve a transportation problem that touches every citizen, either directly or indirectly. We refer to the gasoline traffic. There was a time in Vernonia when gasoline played little or no part in our lives. Today every resident is more or less dependent upon it, not only those who own and drives automobiles, but those who arfforced to buy merchandise that in many instances is transported in motor trucks. When we consider that there are mil lions of autos in this country and that every one of them is dependent upon one single corporation for motive power, it can readily be seen that the proposition is a has been much discussion in recent years of how serious one. Think of one corporation being in position to There eliminate facilities and accidents at railroad grade to dictate the cost of fuel that goes into every car, able crossings. The popular cry has been to build overhead to raise or lower its price at will, able to put that price or underground approches. has been estimated that beyond the reach of consumers if it choose to do so. the cost of such a procedure It would almost equal the Railroads can go to competing companies for their fuel, value of the railroads. To offset the carelessness the or buy and operate their own mines. But automobiles public, the American Steam and Electric Railways of have —-now a far greater means of transportation than the done much educational work to show the danger of railroads—must depend upon one corporation, and is at crossing track without stopping to investigate. Figures the mercy of one gigantic monopoly. that there were738 fatalities from June 1 to Octo We have recently talked this matter over with sever show ber 1, 1924, and that this was 131 less than during the al of our citizens, and we find them firm in their belief corresponding period in 1923. that the time is about here when the government will Crossing accidents be practically eliminated if peo have to step in and take a hand. As a rule these men ple can be awakened can fact that it is their own lives are not in favor of government ownership. But this which are endangered to by the their own carelessness at grade problem is different from any other we have faced, and crossings. they do not hesitate to express the belief that sooner or later Uncle Sam will have to regulate the price and the Talk poor business and hard times—you’ll have it sale qf gasoline. Talk prosperity and good times—you’ll have it. Fact! A Comparison of Conditions It is entirely up to you. Do you want to spend the best years of your life in a wild goose chase for a quick-rich plan that will leave you in poverty in your declining years, or do you want to start on a plan of systematic saving that will bring you financial independence? We will be glad to help you plan a savings scheme. BANK OF VERNONIA Vernonia, Oregon VERNONIA STEAM LAUNDRY QUALITY WORK GUARANTEED A Vernonia Institution, Modem in Every Respect ON THE GARDEN FENCE We are more interested in our house cat than in the fact that a $150,000 black pearle neckless was recently At this season of the year in nearly every garden stolen from one “Princess Vlora,” a former Gould. hangs a scythe. Its long, sharp blade we pass without notice or thought, yet there is no tool or instrument more eloquent or suggestive than the scythe. It speaks to us CONSERVATIVE UNIONS SHOW GROWTH of decay, decay of manly vigor and womanly beauty, the Four-fifths of all wage earners of the United States, termination of all schemes of pleasure, of business, of (based statistics obtained from the unions and from ambition. All are interrupted by the scythe’s relentless U. S. on Census figures), are nonunion or open-shop sweep. Its motions are perpetual as the revolving houra; workers. its presence is as universal as life itself; yet its lessons worthy of note is that those unions which are not all sad, nor do they always announce a final de are A the point most and conservative have shown cay. Over the undulating hills and through the broad largerincrease businesslike in membreship than the radical valleys, the scythe takes its untiring way, and the grass and the flowers fall before its fatal strokes, but its vic affiliations. tories are momentary. In another spring green grows the grass again onthe smiling hills, and the lilliea again DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK? embellish the valleys and thus is repeated the great story of life in death, the perpetual renewal of nature. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul is even written on the blade of the scythe that hangs unnoiced on the ga** den fence. THAT the best judges of the merits WHOLE NATIONS MAY HEAR It is announced that the inauguration ceremonies, March 4, will be broadcast by a chain of station! scattered across the continent so that eViery nook anc corner of the United States will be in tune with Washington. ( Fory stations will be linked together by telephone wires, breaking all records for interconnection between broadcasters. When President Harding was inaugurated in 1921, the public address system was employed enabling the crowd of 125,000 which lined the plaza and overflowed into the park to hear his voice. Think of the wonderful advancement during the short period of four years ! President Coolidge’s voice will be carried to a national audience of 25,000,000. AN EDITOR’S GRIEF A lawyer charges a man $10 for 10 minutes’ conver sion—the man insists on paying it. A doctor charges $1 for a prescription, and the patient says, “Oh, pshaw! Is that enough?” An undertaker conducts a funeral and charges $100, and is just perfectly lovely to everybody inside and outside the family. A man buys a gold brick and apologizes for not having bitten sooner. An editor walks a mile during a blizzard or in the hot sun to get the facts of a sudden death or wedding or social func tion and he spends three hours writing it up, and tells lies and praises people till he hates hinwelf; then if he makes an insignificant omission or error, or charges 10 cents for three extra copies, he is a stingy cuss who never gets anything right. The Oregonian, Grand Old Paper and Pride of all Oregon, is “off” and has been “off” for some time on the law enforcement question in Portland. Mayor Baker recently took issue with an Oregonian editorial on the • of merchandise are the people who uea them. THAT it is no pleasure for a shopper to visit a store where the stock looks like a lot of scrambled merchandise, and to be waited upon by a grouchy clerk. Mac Says We see THAT it has a bad effect upon them, by the papers and they leave with their minds that three made up to shop elsewhere. people were THAT with a few such experiences, killed in a it don’t take long for them to learn that the store of advertised goods FEUD. carries clean stocks of seasonable merchandise and that their clerks We’ve always are courteous. claimed that THAT the stores that advertise al those cheap ways carry snappy, quality merchan cars were dise at popular prices. dangerous. THAT many of these stores adver Don't take tise sales each season, in order to re duce their stocks or to get rid of chances like olds and ends of good mercandise. this in buying your THAT at these sales they give su Drugs or perior goods with perefct serivce, at with your money-eaving-prices. Prescriptions THAT people who really appreciate just get good foods cheap, should jump at them at the the chance to buy at theae sales. M & M PHARMACY THAT there b lomethinff feecinat- in* about advertised sales, because and play at them you have such a great op-1 SAFE. portunity to secure real barrains. > Quick Service—Watch for Our Car STATE LAUNDRY CO. ALL KINDS OF LAUNDRY WORK Washable tygs Blankets Lace curtains Feather pillows Wagon Comes to Vernonia Daily Sox Darned Free “QUALITY AND SERVICE” Vernonia Agents Are: VERNONIA CLEANERS COLUMBIA BARBER SHOP A Test of Purity « I AT THESE SALES you often Corner FIND GOODS THAT YOU THOT YOU COULD NOT AFFORD, AT | PRICES WITHIN YOUR REACH WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER t AcroM from Gilby Motor Co. Our Drugs are all subject to a most rigid test of purity before we use them in the compounding of medi cines. This insures the action the doctor expects from the medicine he gives. Silver Fox Pharmacy VERNONIA, OREGON On comer across from Bank of Vernonia i