Vernonia eagle., April 10, 1925, Image 7

Largest Mill in the West
VERNONIA EAGLE
—and dry permanently.
COLUMN ’
William Jennings Bryan
on
*
in
an
"Today’* Temperance
Task” »ay*: “We mu*t enforce the
law. Law* ar* not self-enforceable.
A* long as it i* profitable for a
human being to violate the law, the
law will be violated. A law that is
never violated may almost be called
an unnecessary law. The more a
law is violated the more upparent
it* necessity. We have a law against
murder; it is violated and therefore,
we must must have officials who,
having no .«ymputhy with murder,
will be ready to prosecute those who
violate it. We have a law against
stealing; it is violated and, there­
fore, we must have officers who have
no sympathy with thieves in order1
to secure the enforcement of this J
luw. And so there are laws on other
subjects. The luw is a voice of a
community, and the officer is the
mm of the community, acting in
■ ympathy with the voice. The be­
liever* in prohibition must be on the
nlert to see to it that the enforce­
ment of the law is not instrusted to
to >se who are in sympathy with its
\ iolation.’
article
Habit-forming drugs enjoy a brisk
and unlawful trade. The law-defy-
Wc didn’t start lawbreaking the ing sale of high-powered fireworks
day Mr. Volstead’* name was en-'cost quite a few live* last year. Un-
tered in “Who’s Who.” The
~ only, fit civil service candidates are boot­
reason why we have more lawhreak- legged into public service. And, of
ers—‘If we do—under prohibition is courue, by u peculiar sort of logic,
that this law has crossed the desire they prove that prohibition doesn’t
and purposes of a trade that has prohibit!
always been the chief lawbreaker of
the nation.
There are four avenues open for
the Eighteenth Amendment.
The
The prohibition fight is repeating
first is to prevent the supply of de­
history. What happened, in prohi-
natured alcohol from being diverted.
btion states following the first dry
The second, to take the machinery of
<iays is now happening in the nation.
enforcement out of party politics—
Constitutional amendments cannot
many a political gray wolf has had
hoped to get established in day.
official dry approval because he has
Think of the Ten Commandments.
promised to be a sheep if only he be
It may be that there are heads with-
admitted to the fold. Third, give the,
out a gray hair today, whoae hair I
criminal rum-runner no quarter.
will be white as snow before the
They’re a murderous lot. Fearless
liquor problem is solved, And every j
Father Bennett’s revelations at Wee-
advance shows us not only how far
hawken. New Jersey, proved that.
we have to go. One thing is sure—! Fourth, put the power of our Fed­
we will never go back. It isn’t on I
eral government back of an insist­
record that the South made any ence to foreign powers that they
headway after the Civil War in get-' shall not give approval to their na­
ting the slaves back to bondage. It tionals in their violation of our
used to be an English joke that smuggling laws. The United States
Charles I, said after his decapita­ hus the strength, money, men and
tion, “It’s all off!”—and made no might, to insist that its rights be
attempt to replace his head. “Votes respected.
Ask the Kaiser, He
for women” also got into a Constitu­ knows.
tional Amendment. Could you now
I
take it away from the gentler sex?
Try it and see.
And who is the bootlegger? Con­
trary to your opinion, perhaps, the|
trafficker in death-laden hootch is
not a ‘conscientious objector’ to the'
The Law of the Land
prohibition law. He is in the game
“The i Eighteenth Amendment has
for what there is in it. He is a made a i nation of lawbreakers.”
profiteer n poison. He is not inter-'
—Hokum,
ested in American ideals, laws, lives'
It is fun to see liquor folk get
or anything else except United hysterical over the lawlessness of the
States currency. The simple logic booze buyer. Now think straight!1
of bootlegging is profit. Eight out We didn't become a nation of boot-'
of ten times he is not an American leggers and lawbreakers overnight.!
citizen, Note the name and rucial There's bootlegging in many Indus-’
root of the bootlegging fraterniy tries. Immigrants are “bootlegged”
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tand you will see just what I mean, over the Canadian and Mexican
The fact ia that real America is dry borders, and many favorable coasts.
UNDER NATURAL LAWS
Great changes are occurring In the
agricultural situation
Gloom and
grouch are giving way to renewed
hope We all rejoice that this Is hap
penlng. It is being brought about
through the Immutable and Inexorable
natural laws It Is as difficult to leg
fslr.te prosp“T1ty a« to sttemnt by law
___ ______
_______ __ In
to make _ folks
honest. Agriculture
the last analysis operates under about
the same basic laws aa anv other busl
ne**.—P 11. Doty. Agricultural Com
mission, American Baul ers Associa
Mon.
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The Power Bei ¡nd
The Saving« Dollar
A recent compilation made by th*
earings Bank Division of th* Ameri­
can Banker* Association showed that
In the six year*
since the war ear
total earing* de­
posit* have risen
from flLMMW.-
00« to nearly »21.-
00«,•«•,««•, aa in
crease of *ome »9,-
soe.uoe.oee. The to­
tal number of sav-
Ing* depositor* U
William E. Knox reported at about
»j.eoe.ooe.
The full algnlficance of thia la real
Ised only when we visualise saving*
deposits as meaning much more than
merely dollars in th* bank*. They
frittered away in the purchase ot
goods that are immediately confined
which involves a destruction of capi
tai, are gathered together and applied
in the better utilization of capita)
through the upbuilding of Industrial
equipment Thia mean* th* preserve
lion and perpetuation of th* country’s
physical wealth and it* application tn
the production o', further wealth more
easily and In larger volume, resulting
In a higher standard of living tor all
classes In the country
These tremendous savings figures
indicate sound habits of thought and
practice on the part of millions of
people tn their personal economic af­
faire. Thia I* an asset of no small
value In appraising our present bust
ness outlook It Is. In fact, on* of th*
an important
announcement/
VX/E are proud to have the agency
W in this community for C - T - C
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fine tires in America!
This is the tire that successful engi­
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in Eastern tire factories came West to
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of finest
and cured on air!
materials
C-T-C is popular in the West the largest-
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« xanhahd en. company
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by the bankers in the purchase of **■
curilles by which plant, railroad and
other Industrial development 1* made
possible. These figures mean, there
fore, that the small saving* of many
millions of people, instead of being
of this vicinity,
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experienced
judge
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of gasoline values gets
his moneyk-worth oj&tyx
because he buys gasoline
for its performance on die
road. Hence the wide-
spread preference for
“Red Crown"-“i/îe bt&hy
really mean an increase in th* accu­
mulated productive capital of the
country, since money deposited tn th*
bunks as savings is promptly applied
To our fliers,
THE MOTORISTS
ST. HELENS
J
By WILLIAM E. KNOX
President Amer I oaf» Banker* Asee-
elation
—
CLATSKANIE
Beat Ball Park in Oregon
moat promising elements 1» tue situ­
ation today
It means that we not
only have the resources tor prosper
tty, but also enough common sense to
■»be good us* of them.
PORCINO LOWER TAXES
Gerard B. Winston. Undersecretary
of the Treasury in th* American
Banker* Association Journal »ay a
“The burden of taxes must be light­
ened
Per capita Federal taxes rose
from »12 in 191» to »54 tn 1920; then
commenced to drop, and have been
successively »45, »32. »28, »29 In the
last four fiscal yearn. It 1* estimated
that for the next fiscal year the fig
are will be about »27.
With the
state* and municipalities th* opposite
tendency is disclosed. In 191» their
per capita tax van something over
»20. In the next four years it rose
to »27. »90, »3». »38. and later figure--
will undoubtedly show further tn
He says of excessive death taxes
that “examples have been cited o(
how the states and Federal govern
ment, under existing laws, can take
mor* thaa 100 per oeat of an estate
if Federal and state governments
take more thaa th* particular source
of taxation oaa stand, it will ulti
mately destroy all revenue from that
source. After a man ba* provided
for the reasonable requirements ot
living, the Impetus to further produc­
tion is largely th* desire to leave
one's family well provided for. So
long as the individual feels that be
can pay the tax aad still leave an ee
tats to hl* family, he will Increase
Lis eCort*; bat a man will not seek
to build up a large fortune just to
have it taken away from hi* family
at hi* death.”
•TORE
CREDIT COSTS
CENT.
2S
PER
In a survey of »00 farms made by
the North Carolina Experiment Sta
tlon. It wa* found that over 40 per
cent of th* total credit need* for the
farmer to for short term loans, either
through th* bank or through merchant
advances
Only oao-etxth of this
amount come* from banks and the
rest fro* store* or landlords
For
store credit farmers are paying over
M per cent Interest, and only a little
better than half of the fanner* real
tied this tact. Th* bank rat* of tn
terest at tbe same time was only a
trifle above • per cent Practically
all merchant* would be delighted to
go over to ■ cash bast*
The remedy lie* in th* production
of more food aad feed aad to the die
continuance ot shipping la hay aad
grain with their attaadaat high freight
rate* aad dealers' profit» This mesne
the setablishmeM of better worttag
relations between beaker* aad farm­
er*. for there to great opportunity for
educating the farmer along the lias ef
It begins to look aa though some
of our American girls have come to
the conclusion that they’ve either
got to go without clothe* or without
men.
Lilies, calm and Ivory.
Innocence and chastity.
Graceful, slender, tall and bright.
Dawn that follow* darkest night;
Lovely lilies, bridal days.
Angela on unsullied ways.
Resurrected dreams of youth.
Resurrected souls of truth.
Life Immortal Was
the Savior’» Promise
The Resurrection Is a fact of his­
tory. That Christ was crucified, died
and was burled in the tomb, there can
be no question.
And that, on the third day there­
after, He rose again and appeared
many time* to His disciple* and the
people, la as much a confirmed and
authenticated fact a* that Georg*
Washington wa* our first President.
If It be that we ar* merely dream­
ing that Christ rose from th* dead,
then we are surely dreaming about
any other fact in our possession.
It doesn’t enter into question at all
what form of religion any man prac­
tice*, or whether he practice* no form
of religion whatever; It doesn’t matter
whether he be Jew or Gentile, Confu­
cian. Mohammedan, Hindu, heathen or
pagan, a* bar a* the fact to con-erned
that Christ suffered death and that
He roee from death and lived again.
Now, Christ promised that He would
rise from the dead aad he also prom­
toed that w* shall rise from the dead.
And He never mad* a promise that
He did not keep It to on Easter morn­
ing that th* world recalls this promise
and rejoices in it