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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
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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
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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
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