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Entered as second-class matter August Schools and The Homo Beautiful.
4, 1922. at the post office at Ver
nonia, Oregon, under the Act
of March 3. 1S79.
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So-called
that
publish daring pictures and filthy stories are on sale on
thousands of newsstands, and can easily be secured by
mail. Some that have been forbidden the mails manage
to find their way into the hands of the youth of this
country through other means of transportation.
The
government is doing what it can to prohibit the circul
ation of this trash, but seemingly has not been able to
cope with the evil.
We have on a few occasions seen such literature
in Vernonia though no general complaint that it is be
ing circulated in our own schools has yet been officially
filed. We feel quite sure that our boys and girls have
not reached the point where they consider the reading
of these notoriously dirty publications a necessary part
of their education. But there is no means of knowing
how soon the habit will strike the youth of this commun
ity, or to what extent it will be encouraged by them.
There is but one safeguard, and the teachers themsel
ves form that. If they will keep a watchful eye for ques
tionable magazines, perodicals and postcards and sup
press their circulation the minute they find them to be
vile, much harm can be prevented. And it might also be
well for parents to investigate what type of reading mat
ter their children are given to reading in their leisure
hours.
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A safe (?) man is a man in the State’s Prison.
The next safest man is one who has been tried and who
has always made good.
This bank is manned by men who have not only been
tried and who have made good, but who have, in their
efforts, exceeded the expectations of the banka
stockholders.
Considering our large earning capacity, our prosperous
condition and well established reputation of an up-
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to-date bank, we unhesitatingly invite the business ef
the people of Vernonia and the country tributary, fully
knowing our ability to serve carefully, as well as
expeditiously.
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1 i was in 1894 that Elwood Haynes built and drove
* through the streets of an India town what is said to
have been the first gosoline auto produced in America
“Get the danged thing off the road” they yelled at him
as they struggled to hold their frightened horses. Hay
nes probably laughed at the competition, for he could
doubtless see ahead to the years when such remarks
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would never again be heard. And all that he foresaw
came true before his death just a few weeks ago. He
lived to see the day when there is an auto for every two
families in the country and when at least one of every
15 workers finds employment in connection with the
manufacture, sale, repair or operation of autos. Henry
Vernonia, Oregon
Ford popularized the automobile, but it was Elwood
Haynes who first gave it to the world, a fact school
“POPPY DAY”
teachers around Vernonia should not lose sight of when
they are teaching our boys and girls the good things rr HE VETERANS of Foreign Wars and the American
that men have done for the world.
■ Legion will observe Friday, May 29, as Poppy Day
—a day set aside for the preservation of the sacred
THIS SOUNDS GOOD
memories of those who made the supreme sacrifice in
the World War, the Spanish War and other foreign wars
E LIVE in a land that produces more and wastes The custom of wearing a budding poppy on Memorial
QUALITY WORK GUARANTEED
more than any other nation in the world, and yet Day, and by this means provide employment to disabled
veterans,
is
most
commendable
and
no
doubt
every
citi
the federal reserve bank of the U. S., has just issued a re
port showing that we also save more. On April 1, last 893 zen will gladly respond to the appeal.
While many of the flowers are made by the women’s
savings banks in various parts of the country reported
an increase in savings of $500,390.000 over a year ago auxiliaries, a factory is maintained in Kansas City for
A Vernonia Institution, Modem in Every Respect
Depositors in these banks saved $47,000,000 in the April the manufacture of the flowers, and in this place are
employed
veterans
who
are
incapacitated
for
other
work.
just passed than they saved in April, 1924. These banks
are not all in large cities. Some are in towns no larger The flowers are exact replicas of the blossoms so familiar
than Vernonia and the same thing that prevails with to the ex-dough boys during their campaign in the fields
them will hold good with other banking and savings in of Flanders.
stitutions of the nation. This looks like the hardest rap
WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER
TOO MUCH FAMILIARITY.
of all at the man who argues that times are not getting
better and our people more prosperous. It also offers a
ECORDS show that during the last three years more i
lesson to those of our citizens who are still complaining
Quick Service—Watch for Our Car
persons have been killed in avoidable automombile |
and that is that if they haven’t got a little nest-egg sav
ed up in the bank it is because they have neglected to accidents than there were American soldiers killed on IL
the battle fields in France during the World War. The 1^
take a dollar or two around to the bank and start one.
modem traffic problem is one of the most difficult ques
tions that confronts this nation. Cities were not laid out
THE STRANGER KNOWS
or designed for the traffic that now demands control.
ERNONIA citizens may not have noticed it, but a With 17,000,000 registered automobiles, practically one
loc^l paper is one ofthe first things a stranger calls for every 6 persons, it is not to be wondered that 20,000
for when he visits a town within a view to locate in it men, women and children are killed every year, while
SPRINGTIME IS HERE AND WITH IT COMES HOUSE
permanently. If the paper is filled with live ads, then he twice that many are injured, many of them permanently.
This alarming fatality is largly due to carelessness be
CLEANING. LET US HELP YOU WITH YOUR CURTAINS,
knows there is business in that town. If it is not, he
cause
of
familiarity.
It
is
safe
to
assert
that
99
of
every
knows that it must be either that the home merchants
BLANKETS, FEATHER PILLOWS, WASHABLE RUGS AND
have little to sell or that they doubt their own ability to 100 persons who stand within 24 inches of an auto travel-’
ALL KINDS OF LAUNDRY WORK PROPERLY DONE
sell it. Then he concludes that the community is either ing at 20 miles an hour, or dodging between them at street
intersections
driven
by
amateurs
would
hesitate
to
get
dead or hard up—and he decides to locate elswhere.
This is not theory—it is a statement based on many within ten feet of a locomotive moving at 15 miles an
years contact with people who have expressed themsel hour on a defined and grooved path.
ves along the above lines. The local newspaper is an ac Then, of course, are the one-handed drivers, and the
curate business barometer, and no amount of billboard moon-eyed drivers, and the blear-eyed drivers, who
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VERNONIA, ORB.
advertising or loud talk will offset that fact.Its columns contribute to most of the accidents.
are faithful record of actual conditions in the town and
rHE BROADWAY LINEN SUPPLY WILL SERVE YOU WITH
community. You can “sell” your goods to your neigh Every store or business in Vernonia is NOT getting
THE BEST LINEN IN THE CITY
bors and “sell” your town to a stranger at on$ and the rich. None of them are broke and many of them are mak
ing
good
money.
In
all,
it
is
the
best
town
for
it
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s
size
in
same time, But you can’t do it by ignoring the home-
—Sam. Phones—
the state today.
town paper.
BANK
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VERNONIA STEAM LAUNDRY
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HOUSEWIVES ATTENTION!
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The Editorial page of the Portland Journal is safe for
any home center table and a page every member of the
O ignore a man who is struggling along the road as family should read.
you whirl by in your auto looks on its face to be a
It is a fact that every one in Oregon looks upon it as
pretty mean custom, and yet in these days of gun-carry
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Rose Show.”
ing and loose ideas about other people’s property righ
ts it is best to remember that “self-preservation is nat
ure’s first lay.”
Within two weeks in the state of Ohio recently one
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man who offered a stranger a ride was shot and killed
and another shot, robbed and left along the road in a
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dying condition. Both were the victims of their own
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generousity—hikers along the road had asked them for
rides and then proved to be high-way-robbers. Not only
ROUND TRIP FARES
are such crimes being perpetrated in Ohio but in every
state in the union. Always the driver is at a disadvan
tage when he takes a stranger into his car for a ride
st. Paul $74.25
St. Louis $83.75
because he has both hands occupied.
Chicago $88.25
Now Yoik $149.65.
There are too many questionable characters walk
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in
Progortio^'^
ing the roads now to take chances, and the roads around
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Vernonia are no different from roads in other sections
YOUR
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in this respect. The motorist who would be safe should
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keep this in mind, and especially when driving at night.
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He should hold fast to one rule, and that is that when a
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foot traveler unknown to him hails him for a ride, to
Tickets, Farther Details, Etc., of
drive on. It is better to be sorry for the pedestrain left
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behind than for yourself later, for the chances are very
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good, at the present rate that crime is increasing, that
you will be the one left behind if the ride is given. It
has reached the point where driving on is the only sure
means of escaping robbery, and possible death.
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VERNONIA MEAT MARKET
Choice selections of fresh killed
Steer Beef. Fancy Veal and
Grain Fed Hogs
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IOr-12 12c lb.
Choir» Steaks
...... 25c lb.
Pot Roasts .................. ... 15c lb.
Fresh Hamburger »... .....lie lb.
Pure Pork Sausage
25« lb.
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Weiners and Bologne .. lie )b.
Fresh Whipping Cream 35c pt.
Kippered Salmon
...... 30c lb.
We rarry ■ larga variety of I.unekeoa Mante
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