suffer from the combined
efforts of all the in
)mbmed forces and ei
tellect and power of the wicked,
<
wicKed, that in order
to complain
at all, we pour out our bitter wailings upon a petty tw /o-
mill tax or other that we feel to be unjust. Think wh hat
might be the conditions of the world today if evil were
actually stronger and clever than good. What would be
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PAYTI r~7 ! come of our asylums, hospitals, lifesaving stations,
▼ 1—* rxl^lx-Fl
1—1—^1—s J schools, churches, and libraries? What would become of
Issued Ever}7 Friday
$2 per year in Advance the respect for the aged, of reverance and homage to wo-
man, and of the almost universal value placed upon sac
Entered as Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the red human life? In short, what would become of law and
Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
order, national and international, which protects not
Act of March 3, 1879
the feeblest state in its independence? The records of
only the humblest subject or the citizen in his rights, but
Paul Robinson,
Editor and Owner| criminals establish the fact that the bad men of today
were the bad boys of ten years ago. Our biggest job is to
look after the children of today.
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HARMLESS SUPERSTITION
I
We call and deliver TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS.
A lot of fat people can be narrow-minded.
i\/jORE people are superstitious than one ordinarily
Leave orders at the Columbia Barber Shop.
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might
think.
Many
people
say
they
are
not
supstitious
What have you to place before the 6,000 eyes that read
each issue of the Eagle. Newspaper advertising makes when they are; they will not admit it, but, nevertheless,
these same people will not walk under a ladder and they
big stores out of little ones.
have a queer feeling whenever a black cat crosses their
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fi
—that is, many of them do.
Any town that fails to advertise and keep up its trade path
Then, again, there are many people who are supersti
territory falls an easy prey to the mail order houses.— tious
and do not know it; they are led this way and that
Iowa Press Bulletin.
way, unconsciously, by some little faith they can not ac
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I count
LINCOLN— FORDw-FORDSON
for in something they know nothing about.
A lot of men scratch all their life for a fortune and by
well, after all, what haim is done? What would there
You can now buy your Ford on the 18 months
the
time
they
get
it
—
their
children
are
just
itching
to
get
be
to
Hallowe
’
en
if
it
were
not
for
superstition?
What
payment plan
*
hold of it.
»
! would there be to the average wedding if it were not for
Payments
as
low as $21.88 a month
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the little superstitions that the bride and he attendants
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A Ford car at Baraboo, Wis., backed down hill and have about it all—what would *here be to c wedding, a-
Gasoline, Oil, Storage, Tires and Accessories
over a grade and lodged in the branches of a tree. Henry side entirely front the Sacredness of the ceremony, if it
o—o—o
must have equipped the flivver with glands from one of were not fur these things.
Battery Service
Ambulance for Towing
his experimental airplanes.
The world gradually is outliving the superstitions that
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vexed it and caused much unhappiness, but there are
a F f O°RD
A
FORD
When all is said and (lone, ivboom has lined the pock- some superstitions that we never want to outlive—the
YOU
CAN
ets of a few andjtas-ièîc a I t of hapless suckers holding superstitions that make for joy and call for more than the
the sac-k. Thé community’s reputation sags in the middle kind that can do no harm.—Exchange,
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and, for a long time, threatens to crack. Only by the use
of considerable hard toil and sweat is it brought back to
SOME QUESTIONS TÖ ANSWER
WHY SENATOR CARTWRIGHT
standaid. This hard labor, incidentally, is never preform
CHANGED HIS OPINION
ed by those grown rich during the boom period. They I
current history among high school «tudents, 43 per
flit off to newer fields, leaving the regular resident, the 1 N recent tests conducted by the Review of Reviews on
*‘I um «<I to believe that the govern*
substantial tax-paying soit of citizen, tb pull the fat from cent was the general average of efficiency. Babe Ruth
ment ought to own everything and do
everything, and that the people ought
the fire and restore order out of chaos.—Bend Press.
was thought to be the prodigal son of Ma Ferguson of
to own nothing, and do nothing, mid
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J Texas, Teapot Dome was thought to be a restaurant
that we would all be happy.’* de
Sometimes it seems that this country is fairly loaded! building in Washington and the photograph of President
clared former U. S. Senator George »
down with knotty problems —that it has so many thing, Coolidge was not recognized by a large proportion of
W. Cartwright in a recent addrenn.
to set straight that it is making no progress at aii.
those to whom the test was applied.
“But eighteen yean in politic«
taught me one thing. The political
But there is a ray of hope in the situation that we often
Where are wo at and where are we going? “Don’t our
brain cannot manage indwitry. The
forge about.
schools teach anything?” many are likely to ask. But let
sooner the world undentande that
And that is the extreme youth of our nation.
us apply the test to the older generation.
the better. The political brain «eeke
One hundred years ago Chicago was a trading post
The Sentinel makes the statement, without any fear of
popularity nr the other politician will
and everything west of the Mississippi was a wilderness. successful contradiction, that there are some people in
boat him to It.
The political brain
gives auavity, amilea, handshake« and
Texas and California were under Mexican rule and towns Oregon w’ho do not know who is governor of the state,
beautiful worda.
like Detroit and Pittsburg v ere little more than military that a greater number do not knov who is mayor of Port
“But it in a rare thing to find the »
outposts. San Francisco was only a little Spaish mission, land, that 75 per cent of the voters of the state can not
mnn with the «tern, unyielding firm-
and several hundred people lived in Los Angeles. As name the three congressmen and two senators, that 90
hat brings aucceaa in b'j iineas,
toria w.
i. „...ng station in the midst of a pi im- per cent can not name all the state officers, that 80 per
'io : t tl o Home time has the suavity
. nil i' <> hat dshake and the oily t«n*
eaval wilderness.
cent of the voters
Lane county can not tell how many(
xue
luat succeed in politics.
The
These things considoied, is it any wonder that there representatives and how many senators we have in the
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other businona men will run him out.
are some things wrong with our national life? So rapid state legislature, that 80 per cent of the residents of Lane
They are two different kinds of
a growth is bound to bring the rise of unw anted feature" • c
not
brain.
« irf,r
I. . t name • the
9 legislators
t m • • from
S9 this county,
v
« that
But it also implies a capacity in the national character, lu per um of the residents of Cot:age Grove do not know
*1 clung tenaciously to the ¡bought
;s ,nyOr of the city, that 50 ~ par cent can not tell ' how
to meet any and all difficulties and, sooner or L t ", '
ï«
that the government ought to own
the railroads and the telegraph« and
many councilmen the city has and give their names, and|
find a way out of them.—Budget.
a few other things. Now I am cured
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that 100 per cent of the people oi the state are unable to
Wherever the fire
of that. Under government manage
f ho proportion that Governor Pierce has reduced tax-
A DOLLAR DOWN
place or furnace isn’t
ment we had the worst aervies at
reaching, Pearl Oil in
I auon.—Collage Grove Sentinel.
the higlieat price in the history of
an oil heater does —in
ROM a banker, whose position in his community per- _
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the railroad business.”
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dispensable
as a heating
mits him to watch the rise and fall of individual fortune,
"
FATHERS AND SONS
SAD
—BUT TRUE.
auxiliary!
came the statement to a Forest Grove audience last week
Behold!
The lodge lodgeth to* »
that the installment plan of buying is the greatest menuc ? i- 7 APEERS and sons this week gather in groups to
Pearl Oil burns clean
gether and they eat. The club club-
to economic stability confronting the people of the T'rrt?d 1
grew better acquainted and to realize in a special
— the highest-grade
eth together and they eat. The busi
, States today.
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way thb value
and the strength
of the tie that binds
them
kerosene only —re
ness men take counsel and they eat.
“The dollar down, dollar a w*eek” policy is a leech that together.
tables, iatners
fathers with
pride
iogeiiier. Seated at banquet rabies,
wicn pride,
The church has a social and they eat
fined and re-refined by
saps the lifeblood of the economic structure, because it i
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’
’ * sons to other
■
* *
The young people elec offiers and
will
introduce
their
fathers,
wondering at
the Standard Oil Com
they eat. And even when the mission
keeps the nose of the earner at a grindstone of despair, the evident satisfaction of the other father in his off-;
pany’s special process.
ary society meeteth together they
paying for non-essentials. It has .proved to be a bad habit spring. The boys, too, swell with pride as they sit beside■
It won’t corrode the
cat. But this latter is in good caune
with a tight hold. And it is encouraged by a certain class Dad and hear his man talk with other men. They are all
heater! Ask for it by
because they “eat in remunijurance''
of business people who find in it mn*-e than a normal mar men together, and it is a proud and happy time.
name-" Pearl Oil.”
of the poor heathen who have not
gin of profit for themselves.
much to eat.
It is the custom of every successful business to take
STANDARD OH, COMPANY
<
I
Behold! Hath a man’s brain« go>.e •
It would be a pleasant circumstance, and profitable stock occasionally to m *k< an inventory of the goods on
to his stomach an<{ doth he no longer
to the consumer, if he could withstand temptation andt hand, reckon the losses, n ark off the’'books bad debts
regard intellectual dainties chat thou
withold his purchase until there is cash on hand to pay that clutter up the ledger, and start a new year with
can’st no longer call an assembly or
the bill before it is contracted. Of com sc, there would be definite knowledge of the facts and new courage for the i
get together a quorum or even »
I
fewer automobiles on the junk heaps, less pretentious future,
"bilker’s dozen” except thou hold up
the baker’s dainties as a bait? Be it
jewelry in the pawnshops and not so much flimsy silk jni Supnose, aside from the locial features of the week,'
true, that the day cometh, that, to
the wardrobe. There might be more fodder in the lai Jer,,____
lather and son sit down ¡uite’.y to take some such ac
get a crowd at prayer meeting th«
more honesty in the heart and more pure wool on <*hillv counting of affairs betv. ae*n them, To date, what has'
preacher must hold up a biscuit?
spines.
1 f the son cost, ....................................
and what does lie show as piolit on the in-
Yes, verily, thou hast hoard of the
The banker, who sees the rise and fall o’ . ‘ rii ne, vestment?
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child races of the world,out behold it
If time
money have gone in ways that
(KXROSINB)
n! ’h thee even at the door. For
speaks from experience. The only installment ph”? mir-i have not produced satisfactory results, whosevias the
as one calleth unto the child and
HEAT&-LIGHÏ
chase your banker will recommend is the one you makej fault? If the father has not met iis obligations, how can
sayeth,
“Come hither, sweet little
when you buy a home with a strong door to bar the way ! he make a settlement and re-establish his weakened I
one, and I will give thee a slick of
of the ‘‘dollar down, dollar a week” salesman. Forest credit with the son? If the son has accepted favors to;
'•indy,” even so must thou say to hi«
Grove News-Times.
grown-up papa and mama, “assemble
which he was not entitled and for which has made scant
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e together nnd we will serve re
rel < • , how can he set himself right?
freshments,” and Io, they eoam like
We rarely take up a newspaper without seeing accoi ‘ ’• Ti’< »-o will be failure to be reckoned on both sides. Per
»beep in a pen. Ain’t it so? Ain’t it *
of thefts, robberies and murderous outrages. But tntse haps urn best part of such an acocunting would be strik
so?
crinw • .»c sii’l - are tart the ar? looked upon as mat- ing out of those losses from the books, and with mutual
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ters of news. It is not that evil is not mighty prevalent.,' forbearance, a new confidence, and a fresh determination
There are maaeive locomotiv»1
now beine built‘thai eoet
but clamor thought must at once convince us that good is starting the partnership afresh.—Telegram,
1100,000 each ai
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vastly more mighty and vastly more prevalent.
driver of a Ford
So great is the difference that in spite of the sensation IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SELL. RENT OR
puah one of them
al crime news, so blazonly played up by scare heads in TRADE AND WANT QUICK RESULTS, PLACE AN
—Loa Angel«« Tfi
the newspapers, we have practically no fears for our
AD IN OUR CLASSIFIED COLUMNS
Colonel Mitchefl
selves or for our children o little, as a rule,do we actual
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expert at going ap in the air. Won-^
ly suffer of wrong from our fellow men, so little do we^ One more glorious vacation day has passed—Armistice
Editorial
For Good Laundry Work
CRAWFORD MOTOR CO.
warmths sake
the portable
heating
auxiliary
OIL
dor if he will ever land.