VERNONIA EAGLE
ing stream of them, selling everything under the sun, and
taking orders for about everything imaginable, from
bunion plasters to farm tractors. And the worst part of
it is that they are not all on the square. More than one
citizen of this community has learned to his or her sorrow
We cannot stop this rapidly-growing nuisance because
these people have a perfect right on the highways and on
our streets. But the public can discourage it to such an ex
tent that it will no longer be profitable for the canvassers
by explaining in firm tones that they are doing their buy
ing from their home merchants—or through them. None
of these people offer anything that cannot be purchased
here at home, or ordered for you by the local merchant—
and very often at an even better price than the canvasser
offers you. This thing of stamping out the peddling nui-j
sance seems to us to rest pretty much in the hands of our
own people.
Advertising Rates 25cIs per inch,
single column measure, each week.
We collect tor advertising the tirsi
of every month.
PAUL S. R B1NS0N.
E ditor and O wner .
Issued Every Friday.
$2.00 Per Year.
Municipal Water Syd—
VERNONIA EAGLE
On Inland Highway
Thn Original Hom* Papar, Standing
for Progre«», Fair Play, Homa Pat*
röntgt,
Law
Enforcement,
Good
Entered aa aecond-class matter Anguat School* and The Hora. Beautiful.
4, 1922, at the post office at Ver*
noma, Oregon, under the Act
Ail Accounts Mutt Be Settled in Full
of March 3. 1S79
Every 30 Days
UP TREND IN FARM LAND
ABOUT BEING CARELESS
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more rubber in the making. Some of these days the rubber
problem may be solved. Experiments in rubber-growing
in southern Florida may work out successfully. But unt™
that time comes it looks like we are going to have to mark
tires up alongside the many other things that went up in
price and forgot to come down.
DIVINING RODS
JERE is the Vernonia man who can’t remember of
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having pointed out to him wells that were alleged to
have been dug or driven after someone had located the
water with a “divining rod” or “ water witch?” Usually
this instrument consisted of a forked stick,held in the hand
and which was supposed to turn in the hands of the
holder when he walked directly over an underground
stream. It is a romance we’ve treasured for years, but like
everything else it is being thrown into the discard. The
government Bureau of Mines in a recent report savs the
“divining rod” for locating ore and the “water witch” for
finding water are “rank fakes,” and are given standing
only by the superstitious. This report is made, it is said
after the government has spent hundreds of thousands of
dollars testing every known instrument or device sup
posed to find buried treasure or sparkling streams of
water. It certainly looks as though, one by one, they’re
smashing all our idols and taking all the romance out of
life.
F YOU have been farming for the past four or five*
HERE is something sacred about a letter. The writer
years without any real success; if you are becoming!
reveals more about himself on the written page
discouraged over the chance of realizing any profit by till than often
he
would
in direct conversation. And yet there is a
ing the soil, and if you are making plans to sell out and carelessness about
letter mailing that is hard to under
get into something else, just pauseand think this mattei stand.
over carefully. Then make up your mind to hang on for
For instance, 21,000,000 letters went to the dead-letter
another year at least.
office
in 1924, and 803,000 parcels found their way to
For farm lands are rapidly recovering in value the same
in the same length of time. You get a
throughout the country. A special inquiry by the Eagle better idea place
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of
what
this carelessness costs when Uncle
brought to light the following facts:
MONKEY OR MAN
Sam tells you that he took 855,000 in cash out of dead-
Farm lands reached the lowest point in ten years at the: letlers last year, besides $12,000 in postage stamps. And
beginning of 1925, with an average price per acre for the since there was no street address inside the letters, and no
HE latest of our small towns to spring into prom
entire , United States of
., $63.
, The . i past few months, how-
,
return card on the envelopes in which they were mailed,
inence is the town of Dayton, Tenn. There a doct
ever, have seen a rapid iebound tiom thi» low price be-
government had to keep the money. Government re or had a teacher arrested because the latter was uphold
cause values have
hav e never
nev ei been lower
low er in recent years in pOrtg aiso show that it costs about $1,740,000 a year to em- ing the theory of evolution—teaching the children that
proportion to income, and values are based upon possible pjOy men anj Women just to look up faulty addresses on Darwin was right when he said man sprung from a mon
or average income per acre in any given territory.
mail matter
key family. Now Wm. Jennings Bryan, a foe of evolut
All this vast amount, all this misfortune and worry and ion theories, has volunteered to prosecute the teacher,
The Brookmeyer Economic Sendee basing its prog-j
prog-
nostications
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advises
could be
saved CllilA
and piUVUULUtl
prevented Clllkl
and L11V
the UUdU"lVllUl
dead-letter and Clarence Darrow, the world’s greatest criminal law
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’-- — people to consider loss VVJUALi
UU fldVUU
fann land at present prices an excellent investment. And office abolished if only each person using the mails would yer, and the man who kept Loeb and Leopold from be
this advice will tend t create a far more active market for make certain their letters and packages were properly ing hung, is donating his services to the defence. The
farms during the next few months than we have seen in addressed and mailed in envelopes bearing their return result is the whole world is starting to focus its eyes on
this country before for some time.
card. We cannot, of course, insure the loss of all letters. Dayton, Tennessee.
Before it is over whole families
Backing up these statements issued by the Brookmeyer But we can insure the citizens of Vernonia and surround who air opinions freely will quit speaking to each oth
Sendee are opinions of Federal land bank and farm loan ing territory that not one of their letters will ever go to er, and the best of friends will become enemies. And
officers, farm organization leaders and farm land real tb° d ad-levter office. Come in and let us explain how all because a few men cannot accept the teachings of
estate men.
good envelopes carrying your printed return card cost the Book that mankind has had and been guided by for
Throughout the country confidence in future possibili but a few pennies more than the blank ones, and you’ll almost 2000 years.
ties of farming is on the upward incline. So whether you join the ranks of the millions wh« never have to worry
plan to continue on the soil for the rest of your life or not, abort their letters going astray.
Observance of law is becoming a fad—and one that
you had better hang onto your place for a little while
should be encouraged. The American Legisn of Eugene
KEEP CLIMBING
longer.
. .
has followed the Progressive Business Men’s club of
“Good farm land will increase from twenty-five to fifty VV1 ATCII an aeroplane some daj as it soars and climbs Portland in adopting a resolution pledging its members
dollars per acre during the next twelve months,” is the W towa d the zenith accompanied by the roar of its to strict observance of the laws of the land. American
statement of a prominent Chicago banker dealing in farm powerful motor. Smaller and smaller it grows. Fainter and Legion members might well be expected to take the lead
fainter becomes the hum of the motor. Higher and higher in a movement of this kind—and where the American
land mortgages.
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Legion
leads the rest of us should be willing to follow.
Now you know how much land you have. So sit right the pilot climbs. Then silence. The motor is stopped. ;_
Sailing
gracefully
as
a
hawk
the
machine
seems
to
re-,
Cottage
Grove Sentinel,
down and figure what profit you can make by farming
main in the heights for a time Tic»/ beautifully she banks
—
through one more year at least.
the curves. How cleverly the pilot holds his elevation.
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advertising,
the kind that carries information
I
But
like
everything
in
this
w
r
orld
she
must
either
climb
and
inspiration,
by
reputable
firms or individuals, has
DAYS OF CHANGE
higher or drop lower. Gradually she begins to grow larger almost as much reader interest as the news of the com
HIS is a day of marvelous invention, great change, and larger until she points her nose toward the earth and munity. Why not? Such advertising deals with the biggest
business in the world—housekeeping and the rearing of
startling progress. If our forefathers could take a gracefully alights again on terra firma.
The life of a man and the life of a community may be families—and is an important feature in any newspaper.
peak at a modern American city, they would imagine they
were looking into a strange land described in the Arabian likened to the flight of this machine. When you stop the —N. F. Purcell, the Pioneer Press, Mechicsville, la.
Nights. Just the other day a man in an aeroplane talked motor of individual effort or community initiatice, you
BE PLEASANT
by radio, with thirty thousand people seated many thous immediately begin a decent to a dead level of mediocrity.
If you desire to improve your opportunities year after
and feet below him in a stadium.
Pictures leap over
EVER grant a favor ungraciously. It is better to turn
thousands of miles by wireless, and the size and metallic year, you must devote your leisure time to those intellec
another down than make him sorry he asked for
make-up of stars hundreds of billions of miles away are tual or mental pursuits which will make you more efficient !
If
you
want
Vernonia
to
stand
forth
as
a
better
communi-
help,
being determined.
Other revolutionary changes.are going on too in this ty than the average, you must do your part to create more
BOTH WRONG .
age though they do not appear quite so uncanny. The in community spirit. For individual effort and community
dustrial map of this country is becoming vastly different. enthusiasm are the motors which keep the man or his city,
a ft argument accomplishes one thing. It convinces both
Many factories are moving out of the East to get nearer; constantly climbing to higher and better things.
14> parties of the foolishness of the other fellow.
their raw materials while others are going into the East to!
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GRAIN GAMBLING
be closer to certain markets.
THE SEASON’S ON
Consolidations too are affecting the industrial lives of
ECRETARY of Agriculture Jardine has just warned,
many communities. Experience has shown that the little
the Chicago
fellow cannot exist and profit in the face of the efficiency
_ Board of Trade, and other _ grain ex- < T IS rumred that a Vernonia fisherman dislocated one
of a vast organization. So we are having railroad mergers changes that unless they adopt rules to prevent mani ipula- 1 of his shoulders telling about the big one that got away
automobile plant mergers, and utility consolidations, tion and over-speculation, such a3 occured recently, he
Large newspapers are buying up their unprofitable com- will ask congress to clean house for them. He claims to
petitors, and steadily and surely business is being trans- speak for the administration, and the Vernonia man who
acted on a larger scale than ever before.
has heard such threats,but never saw any of them executed
This tendency makes it increasingly difficult for the can now be assured that Mr. Jardine, with the backing of|
average city like Vernonia to atti act new industries. And other officials in Washington, means business. He has in
moreover new manufacturing plants cannot be induced to II vestigated the sudden rise and fall of wheat within the
locate here as they were attracted to cities like ours in I past few months, and he doesn’t hesitate to say it was
THE WORLD FAMOUS CARNIVAL OF THE
crooked work. He also says that professional profiteers
recent years.
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The bonus, the free site, and even the large local stock and not the farmers “cleaned up” on the market. One'
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
subscriptions are not half so important to the manager of group of speculators is said to have made $20,000,000
an industry as favorable freight rates, availability of raw! profit. The president of the Chicago board promised to
Portland, June 15 to 20
material and markets, labor supply and other factors that start at once to carry out Sec. Jardine’s suggestion, and|
it will be a brighter day for the'farmers and consumers
deteimine the success or failure of the new venture.
Portland and return
It is, therefore, time for men who want to build up their, of this country when he does what he has been told to do.
Tickets on sale, June 13 to 20; re
cities to get down to brass tacks and boost in unintelligent
TIRE PRICES JUMP
turn limit Monday, June22.
and effective manner.
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WHEN WILL IT STOP?
O many good things have come from the auto that we
hesitate to bring against it a charge of promoting a
nuisance. But that is what we will feel like doing if the
increasing army of solicitors and agents and peddlers
and promoters of every description continues to swoop
down upon Vernonia. We used to have tramps, before the
day of the auto. Now they come in automobiles. We had
but few agents and canvassers, because they could not
afford to pay transportation, so they stuck to the larger
cities. Now they have autos furnished them by the con
cerns whose wares they peddle, and there is a never-end-
S
HE Vernonia auto owner who bought his tires two or
three months ago is fortunate, if saving a few dollars
means anything to him, for the price of crude rubber has
gone soaring and there are no indications that it will drop
anyways soon. Crude rubber is now selling at 70 cents a
pound, twice what it was earlier in the year and four
times what it was a year ago. Tires can’t be made without
rubber, though substitutes have been tried time and again
The increased demand for tires because of the larger num
ber of autos in use—they are not scrapped nearly as fast
as they are produced and sold—has had something to do
with the raise in the price of rubber, and so has the I
balloon tire, now becoming popular, but which requires
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United Railways train leave 3:15 p. m. daily
Tickets, details, etc., of
J. T. Hardy, Gen. Agt.
R. M. Aldrich, Agent
M. A. Fuegy, T. F. & P Agt
United Railways
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