Splendid Schools
VERNONIA EAGLE
City of Homes
VERNONIA EA'LF,
Advertising Rates 25c ta per inch,
single column measure, !, each wozk.
We collect tor advertising the first
of every month.
THE COST OF A HOME
I.
Quite a few Vernonia people have doubtless gone
through
the winter contemplating plans for building
PAUL S. R BlNSON.
homes, and weighing the respective advantages of rent
E ditor and O wn ph .
ing and of home-owning. They will be interested in the
testimony of a local man after four years of owning his
Issued Every Friday.
rhe Original H r.ie Paper, Standing own home.
He had been a rent payer most of his life,
$2 00 Per Year.
for Progress, Fair Play, Home Pat
when
circumstances
influenced him to buy a home of his
ronage,
Law
Enforcement,
Good
own.
The
house
needed
a good deal of repairing, which
Entered »s second-class matter August Schools and The Homo Beautiful.
was
done,
and
at
the
end
of four years the man figured
4. 1922, at the post office at Ver
nonia, Oregon, under the Ast
all of his expenses, including loss of interest on th<
All Accounts Mint Bo Settled in Full
of March 3. 1879.
Every 30 Days
money invested, taxes, insurance, coal, etc., and the)
total was just about the same he would havepaid in rent
for four years.
But he declaies that the advantage is in favor of
owning your own home, because at the end of four
years he has a house that he can sell, whereas he had no
title
to the property he lived in during the years he
DRUNKEN DRIVERS
rented—the rent money was gone forever. Not only
that, but he reaped benefits by living in his own home
We have just read where a Columbus, O., judge fined he could not have had in a rented house; he had the
a man $500 and ordered him to the workhouse for six I comforting knowledge, too, that no one could walk in
months for driving an auto on the street when he was so1 at any minute and boost the price of his rent, or refuse,
drunk he could scaicely i emember his name. It oc when repaiis badly needed, to make those repairs.
curred to us that here is a judge entitled to a little praise,
The fact that it may be as cheap to lent a house as
so we are taking this mans of extending it to him.
it is to own a home should not discourage the man who is
Personally, we never like to see anybody in trouble, planning to build. For there is more than actual dollars
but this thing of driving an auto while intoxicated, or and cents to be considered—there is happiness and con
even while drinking, is too serious a matter to overlook. tentment. And people are always happier and more
The motoring season is opening up around Vernonia and contented when they know the house they live in is their
more cars are appearing on our hihgways daily. No house.
—
matter how careful or how skilled a driver may be, he is
powerless to protect himself against a drnken driver.]
We like to see our neighboring town of banks in
He cannot leave the load and avoid the oncoming ma-! joyful mood, and reports are encouraging for that com
chine that is wabbling from one side of the highway to: munity’s future. Talk to any Banks man and he will
the other, and even if he stops and pulls as far to the] will tell you they are going to be the center of a big oil;
side of the road as possible, he still is in danger ofo being boom—and they believe they have the oil. They have ,
run into.
interested a Mr. Miller, Los Angeles capitalist who is
The public streets and public roads of this country- drilling for oil now between Banks and Buxton with
Then another ad
must be made safe for the public, even if our jails and I prospects declared “excellent.”
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vancement
for
Banks
is
a
new
newspaper plant.
workhouses have to filled to capacity with those who I
disregard their own welfaie and place no value on the The “Banks Tribune” h is been printed in Foerst
lives of others. We repeat that we dislike to hear of, Grove, but we hear that a newcomer has purchased the
anyone being in trouble, but that if an officer of the law, Tribune and is putting in a good plant. Good for Banks,
in this communitv wants to sentence every drunken: may she be the “Oil Metropolis of Washington county.”
driver who comes before him as severely as the Colum
While new oil excitement is arousing interest at
bus judge sentences them, then we are for him, and so
will be every decent, self-respecting citizen in his juris Banks, Buxton and Scappoose, Vernonia is right in line,
situated between oil prospects. Vernonia will be the
diction.
“main entrance.”
“A MAN WITHOUT HONOR”
A “Man without honor” displayed his callousness be
fore a listening court room this week when he raised his
right hand and said “yes” when asked to swear on his
honor “to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth.”
His evidence that he then submitted in his own be
half was as far from the truth as the north pole is from
the south pole. His own confession when he found that
his falsehoods were of no avail proved ’.hat there was no
honor in the man.
This action raises the question regarding the laws
pertaing to perjury. Have they become obsolete ?
Have the many laws that clutter our statutes crowded
out the enforcement of the one law that should be en-
foiced to maintain the dignity of our court system?
Or has the administration of the oath become a mere
matter of foim that can be ridiculed and scoffed by every
scoundrel in his efforts to outwit justice?
Possibly the laws regarding perjury have been so
clouded with technicalities that the “intent of the law”
is no longer effective as a main-sav of the seriousness
of our court proceedure.
A man who is not as good as his “oath” is a man
without honor and the “truth is not in him” regardless
of his position in life.—Southern Ortgo Spokesman.
GOOD AS A TEXT BOOK
Mac
Says
One Kansas editor, re
marked a few weeks ago
that “another b ig wheat
crop in Kansas with price
ranging over a dollar will Boys
put diamond pants buttons will be
on Kansas farmers.” That boys, is
remark came in February,
when wheat topped aP an old
records since 1868, and saying but
equalled the war prices ob TRUE.
tained from 1916 to 1921 , Don’t let
Huge fortunes were made your boy
by speculators last month, be behind
but the average Vernonia the rest
citizen is wise enough to when it
know that the men who ac comes to
tually grew the wheat did BASEBALL.
n’t profit to any great ex Everything
tent. And on top of that, in baseball
there are a good many who supplies for
realize that this price was the youngster
for last year’s wheat—and at the
three-fourth of the farm- M. & M. Pharmacy
ers in Kansas marketed
their grain last November Corner Across from Gilby
when the price was right
Motor Co.
around a dollar, instead of
$2, as it was in February.
Just how much of the latter
profit went to Kansas farm
ers is unknown, but they
**Zkeep e/x Aone«f, eervfof men;
probably know, along with
( They tnuifht me All 1 Kncvr)t
Their nemey are WHAT and WHY
fanners of other sections of
•nd WHEN,
•nd HOW end WHERE end WHO"
the country, that when there
WHAT was the Declaration of London?
are any “diamond pants
WHY does the date for Easter vary?
buttons” worn it will be the
WHEN
the great pyramid of
Cheops built ?
speculators in the Chicago
HOW can you distinguish a malarial
mosquito ?
wheat pit that wear them.
V/HI.RE la Canberra ? Zc-bru^ge?
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FILL YOUR TANK WITH
New Shell Gas
—AT THE—
SQUARE DEAL GARAGE
AND NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE. YOU’LL
BE THE JUDGE
If you like it buy a Scrip Book and save a cent
on a gallon
SQUARE DEAL
GARAGE
OF
VERNONIA
Vernonia, Oregon
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WHO was the Millboy c* the Sir. shoe?
Are the«« “six men servin r ycu too?
Give them an opportunity by placing
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school, office, [ -
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BANK
KIPLING
TION PICTURES
Some Slick “Perfume Bootlegger’ with exquisite
Smelling samples sold the “elite” society dames, fast
Radio talks, now being
women and movie actresses common, every-day tea arranged, will reach an au
»epresenting it to be exclusive, imported perfume. They dience of millions from im
paid as high as $200 for a small bottle. Any woman so portant broadcasting sta
foolish should lose—she should go broke. That’s more tions of the country,
simple and rediculous than paying $2.00 per pint for
Oregon motion pictuies
poison “Moone.”
■ will be shown will be showi
before many civic clubs and
Clatskanie and St. Helens are each planning on a other organizations in var
large new public hall or auditorium, for lodge purposes, ious eastern and middle
public speaking, etc. The K. P. lodge in St. Helens will western cities, Northern Pa
Built there, annd rent their new hail to various lodges. cific representatives now
In Clatskanie a stock company is being talked of. In being engaged in “booking”
the films.
both cities treiy realize it a good investment
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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.
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W. F. Bond, state superintendent of schools of Mis
sissippi, recently sent a letter to every ehool teacher in
the state, and for the lienefit of our teacher friends
around Vernonia we are reprinting it. They will find
it embodies a sensible suggestion. Mr. Bond says:
The country newspapei is in reality a country educa
tional instituion that does moie to reform public senti
ment than perhaps any othei agency in the country
The children of every school should read the paper regu
larly and discuss with the teacher issue of vital import-
ance to the people of the county. Once a week, there
fore, the paper should be a sort of textbook on good citi
zenship. There should be in every school a rejpilar corres
pondent for the paper so that worth-while things accom
plished by the school may be gotten befoie the people of
the county generally.”
I RADIO TALKS AND MO
To Auto Owners
A Comparison of Conditions
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NOTICE
HOUSEWIVES ATTENTION!
SPRINGTIME IS HERE AND WITH IT COMES HOUSE
CLEANING. LET US HELP YOU WITH YOUR CURTAINS,
BLANKETS, FEATHER PILLOWS, WASHABLE RUGS AND
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