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past 50 years, progress in which almost everyone around pravity, but the contemplation of vicious acts and the
here has had a hand. It will be the fiftieth anniversary of study of law violations can and does beget in weak-
the founding of national banking interests in America. minded persons oftentimes a temptation which leads to
Fifty years ago all the banks in the U. S. combined boas the pen if not to the grave.—Aurora Observer.
PAUL S. ROBINSON.
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ted deposits and resources of $3,000,000,000. Today the
Portland und Astoria.
E ditor and O wner .
banks of this nation have deposits and resources of $60,-
VKMNON1A
A Large Territory to Draw From
49 Miles From Portland, 35 M les
000,000,000. In other words, the people of this country Population, 2000.
Issued Every Friday.
From Forest Grove, 27 Miles
Th. Original Home Paper, Sisadlas are twenty times better off financially than they were 50 High School and Standard Grade
$2.00 Per Year.
for Progroaa, Fair Play, Haaao Fat- years ago. Fifty years ago Americans supported but 3-
From St. Helen».
School.
Many Opportunitie» in Vernonia.
roaage, Law Enforcement, Caed
Pay Roll City—Milla, Logging.
000
banks;
today
they
are
maintaining
a
total
of
30,000,
Farming, Dairying, Fruit, Vegetable» Best Hunting, Trapping and hiahing
Entered as second-class matter August School» aad The Home Beautiful.
in the Northwest.
and each year shows deposits gaining at an enormous rate P. A. & P. Ry. Town growing fiuit.
4, 1922, at the post office at Ver
On Inland Loop llighwuy Between An Indiwtrial Center.
The average man has come to realize how rapidly the
nonia, Oregon, under the Act
All Accounts Must Be Settled ie F«O
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of March 3. 1879.
money piles up when it is placed at interest He only
Every 30 Daya
wishes he had found it out when he was a younger man.
But, not stopping to worry about water that has already
M. A. ESSELSTYN
gone over the dam, he is doing the next best thing—he is
W. W. ESSELSTYN
trying to teach the coming generation the value of a sav
ings account. As a result of this the next fifty years will
VERNONIA BOOK *I AR1 STORE
see
a far greater growth than the fifty years just closing.
Better begin “Stepping on it’’ if Oregon is to have a
Fifty years from now the nation can write its deposits in
World’s Fair in 1930.
Everything in Magazines Stationery, Pictures and
twelve
figures, instead of in eleven as at present, a feat,
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Books—School and Office Supplies
The barbers in Portland, by raising the prices, are in beyond doubt, that no other nation will be able to boast.
Art and Novelty Goods
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creasing the sales of safety razors.
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BRODIE FOR SENATOR
We do Picture Framing of All Kinds
It is possible that you have heard like rumors- hence
we feel that we are giving away no secret when we say
ROBABLY a dozen names have been mentioned as
that the next goveronr of Oregon will be Ike Patterson.
candidates for U. S. Senate by various organizations,
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papers, parties and individuals for the 1926 election in
If more school scholars realized that they are paying Oregon. It becomes a habit or hobby and some of the
real cash for the priviledge of going to school they prob names rank among the unknown. Why not mention a true
Oregonian who puts more of his time for the state than he
ably would try to get all they could for their money.
does for his own business. E. E. Brodie of Oregon City, a
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Over in Washington county they are going to have a native son. and a man who has Oregon at heart and who
“Tunnel Election," to decide whether or not to build a has worked for Oregon all his life, has not been men
tunnel under Council Crest into Portland. The Inland tioned. Mr. Brodie has probably never given it a thought
highway from Portland to Astoria, by the way of Ver But why not Brodie? Mr. Brodie has just returned from
nonia, is more important and cheaper. Better vote that Siam where for four years he has been as minister from
the United States, and he has settled down in his edi
freak tunnel question down and down it for all time.
torial chair on his paper, the Oregon City Enterprise, ap
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The Oregon Blue Book for 1925-26 is just receivec parently content to work for the Great Northwest- am
The volumn is full of valuable statistics and informatio live among his own people in happiness, good woll and
of our state and acqurate for reference as to various content. Will Oregon let him do it? He is too good a man
Mr
state officials, history, etc. The Blue Book is compiled by for the state and the Northwest not to be used.
Brodie
certainly
knows
Oregon
’
s
points
and
Oregon
’s
A Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen is
Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state, and can be had by any
a useful gift that always makes the
citizen writing for one. A newspaper can hardly get needs; he would be probably the best man for the state
boy happy.
yet mentioned for the senate. It may be a little previous
along without one.
We’d like to meet your youngster in our
but regardless of any protests from Mr. Brodie, the
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■tore and fit hi» little hand with n Water
man’s. Yes, the clip fastener will hold the
Eagle
is going to nominate him for United States Senator
Motorists are missing the really beautiful scenery anc
pen tight; he just can't lose it.
from
Oregon.
And
if
we
get
a
second,
we
are
sure
he
the timber and farms that are the backbone of our state
May we tell you all about the spoon-feed and
Waterman's no-time-limit guarantee?
when they persist in staying on the paved highways. These could win, as it is the common people and the majority
graveled roads are as easy to drive over as the pavemen who elect in Oregon today. Oregonians would at this
M & MPHARMACY
and look what you see when you get into the country time, with the others, be for Brodie, and we see no harm
Vernonia Hotel Bldg.
through the interior. Take the graveled roads for scener in mentioning him.
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that is different. Then too, avoid the danger of heaw
Across from Gilby Motor Co.
traffic.
IN THE FARM HOME
VERNONIA EAGLE
Advertisii« Rate»-26c 1» per inch,
single column measure, each week.
We collect tor advertising the flrat
of every month.
Editorial
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The county court is going to cut off the embankment
straighten a bad bridge on the St. Helens road some day,
but not now. Some day after a machine slides off the
bridge and some are killed in the accident, then the place
will be made safer. The bridge seven miles from Ver
nonia, called the Hill Bridge by some, is the most danger
ous we have in the county. It is a sharp turn, a blind turn,
a slippery floor- narrow and weak banasters.
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The Columbia County Fair this year, was pronounced
a splendidsuccess, considering that it is the first year on
the new grounds. The location is new, the buildings new,
the race track new and the fair old and well knoWn. Each
year we will grow and the Columbia County Fair will be
one of the principal yearly events in the state. To the
management and the fair board we extend congratula
tions. It was well done.
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Vernonia didn’t entirely forget that September nine
was “Vernonia Day.” But Vernonia couldn’t celebrate on
account of the entire main business streets being paved
and traffic being detoured. Besides Vernonia is buying
and equiping a new city park which is taking time, money
and work. It was three years ago on September nine that
the new Vernonia saw her first train and that the town
was really started. The first celebration will long be re
membered and next year on the ninth the city will show
the state a real city.
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DON’T BELIEVE IT
ON'T believe the man or woman who says this is “a
Godless age” and that folks nowadays care nothing
about religion. It is true that there is more need for relig
ion today than there ever was, but we believe that this
demand ig being fully met. The average man is interested
in religion, often to a deeper extent than you know, He
doesn’t go around talking and bragging about his relig
ion, but the average man tries to lead a good and honest
life. That goes for the average woman and girl, too,
Church statistics show increased membership- and there
are other things to contradict the fellow who say swe’re
living in “a Godless age.” Do not lose faith in your fellow
man by believing it. He may not go to church as often as
he should, but that doesn’t mean that he isn’t leading a
decent life. Turn a deaf ear to those who would crippple
our moral life by painting disagreeable and untruthful
pictures.
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TIME TO CELEBRATE
LL arrangements have been completed by the bankers
of the U. S. for one of the greatest celebrations in
the history of this nation—not a big jubilee, with fire
works and brass bands—but a great gathering at which
22,000 out of 30,000 bankers are to be present.
Citizens of Vernonia should be interested in it because
it is going to show the wonderful progress made in the
OR years we’ve heard about the drurgery and dreari
ness of domstic life in rural communities. For cen
turies the good housewife was condemned to human
slavery in doing her part to make the old farm earn a
living. But today the farms of this country are yielding
an income, and the burdens of the women who live on
them have been lightened.
Not long ago the government picked out one county in
northwestern Ohio in which to conduct a survey. It devel-
ped that almost every farm house boasted a sewing
machine. Out of 100 homes canvassed, the following con
veniences were found: Automobiles, 66; sinks, 63; oil or
gas stoves- 61; washing machines, 55; piano or organ, 38;
phonograph, 33; gas or electric iron,32; telephone, 22;
carpet sweeper, 13; bath, 12; fireless cooker, 3. Resi
dents of Vernonia who study over this list for a few min
utes will see how drurgery is disappearing from the farm
home and how labor saving devices and modem conven
iences are slowly but surely coming to relieve the woman
of the rural district of back breaking toil.
That was in an average county in Ohio. In many other
states the percentage would be as great, or greater. Farm
lighting systems and power from gasoline engines or dy
namos are to be found now in every state in the union.
And these are the things that are freeing the farm wife
from the slavery that has already existed entirely too long
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At the meeting of the Oregon State Editorial associa
tion last June, Mr. Frank Jenkins, editor of the Eugene
Morning Register, said, “That he had observed that the
most successful papers were those that used crime news
profusely throughout the paper, but took a high stand
against it in the editorial columns.”
By successful he meant “Newspapers whose circula
tion is an important part of their publication.”
It is a sad commentary on human nature that the de
tails of crimes and criminals furnish such an appeal to so
many readers, but we opine that the appeal is not new to
this generation. Ever since. Robin Hood waylaid the un-
Wary traveler in the shady lanes of Old England- the
public mind has grasped with avidity all tales of daring
deeds committed beyond the pale oi law by ruthless and
unscrupuless men.
In our own day we have seen women willing and anx
ious to crown with garlands the brow of f the dead
de
Tracy
who won his way through the country some years ago by
jreying upon the helpless and holding others at bay at
h emuzzle of his gun.
It is therefore scarcely to be wondered at that at this
time the escapades of Murray and his pals have stirred up
another epidemic of what we rightly call maudlin senti
mentalism.
. It is, however, unfortunate that the papers are allowed
to cater to this taste. Better were it for the future of the
race if all details of crimes were suppressed. Thoughts
centered on heroic deeds and charitable works will never
lead to crime nor the study of noble lives to acts of de-
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