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Uftwt Mm hi tU W«4 •*^r“ * A VERNONIA EAGLE Best Ball Fafk In Oregon VtMONtA IÁGLM and sociology would benefit them, even as it would bene fit any employer. They also will discover that writers of textbooks have been very considerate in mention of union labor activities. They have judged the unions by the as pirations of their law-abiding members» who are in the great majority, and not by their unscrupulous leaders. If the unions find anything to complain about in school text books it will be^ because textbooks authors could not* en tirely overlook some of the policies and practices of some of the unions.—Oregon Voter. -------- o-------- ALCOHOLIC ILLUSIONS Issued Every Friday. $2.00 Per Year. Entered as second-class matter August 4, 1922, at the poet office at Ver nonia, Oregon, undek the Act of March & U79. lift Royal Society Boil Proof Emb. thd. 4c skein D.M.C. Emb. thread, 5c A ---------------------- o D.M.C Crochet thread, all size and colors 15c Why Pay More e 9 ¿a - Brown & Brown NUMBER of illusions exist as to prohibition. One is that liquor is in general use in spite of prohibition. Our observation is that very little is in use compared with those dear old days when we could get all we wanted. Many people had it in their homes then; few have it in Joan of Arc wore a coat of mail, but the woman of to their homes today. Wine with a dinner is a rarity today; day wants to wear the male’s trousers, too. ten years ago it Was the rule. There are a few groups of Unemployment has fallen off in Italy. From recent re people who today use liquor, but they are not numerous ports we gather their chief occupation is nursing babies. compared with the great number who formerly used it but are now observing the spirit as well as the letter of the law As a role- to say that a man has the leading role in a Another illusion is that high school pupils and college community is to say that he has the leading roll. ; students get liquored up. What drinking is done by stu dents is as a rule in imitation of their elders, and there is Woman is asking too much when she demands both ali mighty little indication of young people indulging. Our mony and the custody of the pet Airdale. educational institutions for years have been teaching the harmful effects of alccfhol, and their graduates Colleges may turn out professors of philosophy, but it’s about abstain better than their parents. Most school graduates the school of life that turns out philosophers. are total abstainers regardless of whether their parents The French have evacuated the Ruhr, Judging from the obey the law. The ideals of young people on the whole are celebrations that took place among the Germans, these higher than those of their parents, and school education developes ideals which are not easily lost out in the worid. are red letter and red wine days for them. Another illusion is that use of drugs has replaced li “Don youh start no fight with me, man, says Rastus, quors. The drug evil is greatly exaggerated. Even physi Ah’s been decorated in de war.” “Maybe yuh wuz, but cians are prescribing few drugs nowadays» in the light of in mah opionion it’s time yuh was redecorated.” advanced knowledge of medical treatment. We confess that we do not believe it unpardonable to First Sight—“Do you believe in love at first sight?” take a drink. Reasonable use of pure beverages is. pieaffi “No,” answered Miss Gayenne. “After a man has seen a girl in her bathing suit he should wait and see her in her ant to the palate, stimulating to good feeling and delight fully effective in breaking down barriers to genial fellow home clothes.” < ship. To indulge is a venial offense. As we get it, the European nations would be willing to But to buy liquor from a bootlegger, to smuggle it in pay off their debt to the United States if they could bor or to get it in any manner that corrupts ontf’s self or any row more than enough money from the United States to other person into lawbreaking—that is a serious offense. pay them with. Any man who buys from a bootlegger is helping make a criminal profitable, and by his purchase he is de Lloyd George is wrong in saying the United States ra grading a career human soul. That is wrong, heinously wrong. afraid of Japan. The United States is merely afraid that True, the bootleggers are a low lot, morally speaking, Japan isn’t afraid of the United States. but that does not excuse those who pay them to break Add Statistics. If all the men who have not broken a laws instead of trying to earn their bread by honest effort single one of the tens of thousands of laws now on the stat It is only a matter of time until no good citizen will en ute books of the Country in the last two years were gath courage poor devils to break laws for a livelihood. We ered together in one telephone booth, the telephone booth believe trie schools will be the main factor in fixing a would still be empty. » sense of moral responsibility, and are optimists as to the future. A dry America may not be quite so jovial as a wet “What do you think about the story of Jonah and the .America but it will be a whole lot safer than a drunken big fish?” “I shall not permit myself to be drawn directly America riding in automobiles.—Oregon Voter. into the discussion,” said Senator Yellowback. “If an ef fort is made to hold nij responsible for an opinion I shall proceed .. „..ely to refer the correspondence to the U. S. Fish commission.” Editorial *■-------- — mm ■ ---------------------- o Royal Society Grey Package of quality and open stich »tamped goods received weekly i WATCH OUR WINDOWS ---------------------- Q.— ———o , — JL' — - ■" 9 k VERNONIA BOOK < ARI STORE ----------------------- Everything in Magazines Stationery, Pictures and Books—School and Office Supplies Art and Novelty Goods ---------------------- Q--------- / M. A. ESSELSTYN W. W. 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Dr. Thacher’s is sold and recom mended under this guarantee by M * M PHARMACY and all leading druggists. •%» The world’s population is estimated at almost two bil lion people, none of which is exactly satisfied. Perhaps it is just as well that Amundsen did not get to the north pole. Had he succeeded he would have had no thing to look forward to and life would soon become an ■ awful bore to him. •--------- Admiral-General Andrews the new dry chief, of course knows General Smedley Butler, who made Philadelphia so dry, but not so as you can notice it. Isn’t it about time for someone to get out a report on the deleterius effect on pedestrians on the bumpers and radiators In other words, henceforth, the dry law enforcement bureau is not to look like a plum orchard-. ---------------------- O - < Insist on Zerolene—even if it does cost less ; Union labor is to examine the textbooks on history and sociology used in Oregon public schoob| ft would offend its tender sensibilities to discover mention of dynamite outrages, Herrin massacres, Idaho 0 thsissinatinns and other violence perpetrated by labor’.anion emissaries Doubtless it would view With alarm any tendency to mis guide impressionable youth by undos emphasis of law and order as a basis for civilazation. Possibtjf tbs hntohrristfi are not adequately commended. Soane good will come of the investigation. The union men who read the textbooks may acquire information the existence of which I not suspect Any kind of textbook education in STANDARDOIL COMPANY t
