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P* inbad Highwàf ¥ --------------- — 4 . I PUBLIC OPINION I A --------------------------------------- ♦ the Vernonia Eagle. Dear Sirs: < » a « .8 4 VERfeöNtA fcACLË In answer to your request as to the negro question, I want to let you know juul how I feel about It. I am frim Texas and have one little girl • years ;old going to school here, •nd I am not going to have her go to school with negroes at all, that la how we southern folks feel about that and 1 think the beet thing to do Is td make ttienl leave here. We folks from the south won’t send our chil- ren to school with negroes at all, «o any move you folks make, we are with you. Yours truly. This is the type if service that is Recent rains put more water in placing American industries in the the streams that wore getting ex- front rank today. A manufacturer or treamely low and salmon are plen a country that will stand behind its tiful in both Rock Creek and in the goods or its principles in this man Nehalem river. When the fish be ner has an unlimited future before gin to run the boys are in great de light. It is against the law to shoot it. ----------- •----------- I them or spear them, although no ob School meeting, road meetings, jection to catching them with hook commercial clubs, etc., seldom getj anj line if you have a fishing li the attention they deserve. The cense. Most of the large salmon union high school meeting lact Sat that come up the creek this far at urday, which was a very import this time of the year are unfit to eat ant meeting, only drew the atten-j and there is very little excuse for tion of three people and none ot getting them. the three had any children in the ----------- ♦----------- high school, There was a budget to Rainier Boy Loses Log. adopt and other urgent business tOj While attempting to “hook” a ride come up. Judge Harris, R. Sessman on the rear of a wagon, driven by and Wm. Pringle attended. The A. Hoskins, farmer, Douglas Parsons three men asked of the school clerk and superintendent a few direct questions that were not exactly clear to them, and after the explanation voted adopt the budget as adver tized. Everybody must agree as everybody will have no say. The gentlemen attending acted in good faith and their judgement was en tirely correct. But, it seems that more parents and citizens would be interested. Mac Says READER. Dated November 16. 1925 ---- -i,---- *---------- THE SPREAD IN EDUCATION The urge for education in this country has grown to such propor tions that educational institutions are being taxed to their utmost to house the millions clamoring for ad- mission. This year, New York City has en- rolled for the first time in its hix- tory, more than a million children in ita public school classes. Chicago I has to ita credit more than half a million. So it goes throughout the country. This is the contribution which our public schools are making to' the nation. It is the country’« in vestment in ita future. The broad diffusoin of education brings into conspicuous view the force of the dominating idea of the nation —- equality of opportunity. Education is not confined to “shite collars.” Scholastic training pene trates farm, factory and work shop. Hundreds of thousands are subjected to ita influence in night classes, ex tension classes, part-time classes, correspondence courses and at horn r by radio. It makes education—as is proper in a nation founded on dem ocracy—democratic. Thia spread of learning calls for an equalization in our social status, and education must establish it. Ex isting social classifications can hard ly survive, the present leveling influ-1 ence of literacy. In this country,, where a laborer today becomes a bank president tomorrow; where a shop mechanic lifts himself to motor magnate; where the self rise sudden ly from obscurity to eminence, there is needed a new social recognitio 1 for all honorable occupations. Edu cational tendencies must not be con trolled by, but must control that s >- rial stadning. Education is the great leveler. It is breaking down the barriers be tween those who toil by hand and those who labor by brain; it is tear ing down the wall that separates the social elect from those of humble origin. Step by step thia country is moving in evolution of n row mea ttire for auc.ul ,_luv worth rather than wealth—where, if there be any aristocracy at all,it will be an nritt- tocraey of brains. It is tending more and more to become the world’s true index of value. For in every oc- cupation men and women are mea sured by their works, and the quali ty of their work is in the main af fected by the knowledge and train-1 ing education bestows. "The Colonel’s I-ady and Judy O' Grady” may be "sisters under the skin” but education brings the equaii ty to a visible surface. —,----- 4,------------ A national guard company in a western state had been using a loud i speaker on ita phonograph at com-1 pany headquarters. Something' Our Combination treatment for common Colds stop’s em in a hurry. Start the I treatment at the first sneeze and make it Vernonia. i It's sold at “ASK HAYES” Who drops in once in a while to Vernonia with a smile. “Builder of Vernonia’s big mill, now building incomes for thoughtful people. u Christmas Cards CHRISTMAS CARDS CHRISTMAS CARDS ment and one of the boys took it in to n local radio dealer for repair. Upon investigation it was found that the instrument had been mad.i by the Magnavox Company of Oak land, California. The company was written about new parts and replied: “If Magnavox is stamped on the instrument, we will furnish new parts free of charge, or if it is «ent to us and freight charges paid, we will furnish the parts and repair it free of charge.From your description we judge the instrument has been in use about 11 yeqrs.” Christmas Cards Christmas Cards » I CHRISTMAS CARDS CHRISTMAS CARDS I I Come to the Eagle of fice to see samples, and let us print your name on them as they should be. Samples now’ in stock. I 4? Make us your gift counselors Gifts for important occa siona such as weddings, graduations, or anniver saries are not to be chosen lightly. There must be no doubt whatever either as to their quality or their fitness for the occasion. I I Our knowledge of dia monds, watches, jewelry and silverware is based on our professional experience. Thus you can trust absolutely the quality of the articles we show. Through this same experience, we can tell you not only what is most appropriate for the person you have in mind, hut also what is and what is not correct in style. Make uj yoai gift counselors —today. A small deposit will reserve any article in our stock for Xmas. r.ai, I v v^a warn WqS KULLANOERSJEWELRYSTORE I Expert Swiss and American Watch Repairing Done seeteed to go wrong with the instru- I « I I From the beginning of this ex planation of the essentially co-op erative plan of operation that has made the phenomenul growth of Skaggs stores possible it must be clearly understood that this con- sern does not and never has posed as a philanthropic institution. Per haps, because of early influences, the executive heads have been pos sessed of a more than ordinarly deep sense of justice .«nd fair play toward their associates and the public, and these, in turn, may have inspired many of the seemingly revolutionary policies that have been put into practice. But these policies have only been made op erative after it had been de termined that they would prove sound. It may seem a cynical thing to say, but it is a scientific fact that practically everything anyone does is based on his conception of self- interest or self-gratification, And this applies to our noblest as well as to our meanest actions. We do the things which we consciously or subconsciously—believe will satisfy our spiritual or material desires, This is as it should be and—upon a little thought — will be seen to harmonize perfectly with the lofti est teachings and the most altru istic ambitions. Even unselfishness is selfish. Therefore, when our men work overtime they do so because it is distinctly to their own personal ad vantage as well as from a sense of loyalty to the organization and the enjoyment they get out of their work. And the organization in turn, has made it possible for the individual to profit from extra ef fort, not only from a sense of jus tice and fairness, but also as* a means of insuring its own success ful operation. Oftentimes the things which we do as a means of satisfying our own sense of fairness will react, unexpectedly, to our own material advantages and it will be found that we have accidentally uncovered a principle which, if intelligently ap plied, will solve many of our most serious problems. Such a thing happened with the opening of the second Skaggs store. was When the second store opened it became necessary to em- ploy someone to operate it and the owner of both stores — believing earnestly in the principle that every man is entitled to share in the profits he helps to create and desiring, sincerely, to provide the new man with every opportunity and incentive—hit upon the plan of paying the manager of the new store a nominal salary plus 30 per cent of the net profits of his store, such share of the net profits to be paid every three months. It should be made clear that the plan of compensation decided upon for the first Skaggs manager re sulted, primarily, from the owner's desire to be absolutely fair with nis associate. However, It was also obvious that such an arrangement would make the manager's per sonal earnings dependent, to a large extent, upon his own effort, intelligence and efficiency and tend to insure his enthusiastic co-opera tion in the methols which the suc cess of the first Skaggs store had demonstrated to be fundamentally correct. That thia plan of sharing _ th« profits with the men who helped to earn them was the result if a mere or less idealistic impulse did not, in the least, detract from its prac tical value, both to employer and employed, and its continuation and elaboration to the present time constitutes one of the most import ant foundation stones upon which thia vast organization roots. The •t- «pint which it exemplifies tracted to us the highest type of men and women to be found in any similar business in the world, but for whooe loyalty, interest and in telligence it would be impossible for us to successfully operile enr more than 300 w| lely scattered stores. Business . policies are the chains by means of which successful tfn- 4 w ■■*11 The Origin and Operation of Skaggs Stores Christmas Cards MAC’S PHARMACY _ WHEN YOU BUMP OFF. WHO’S GOING TO BUY THE BEANS? Stoney « ? Gath saving JQEHZ3ÏKÎ2S2HS3 a rtorer the last one in ___ 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Par Rainier hospital, where the limb was son of Rainier, was eaught in a amputated Just above the knee. ----------- ♦----------- wheel and one leg twisted nearly off Monday. The lad was taken to the WORLD’S FAIR—PORTLAND l»3d ft dertakings are steered through the seas of commerce — road maps, pointing the way to the desired destination. If they are right they lead to success through service. If they are wrong—well, the coast of commerce are strewn with the wrecks of businesses that tried to operate under mistaken or delib erately deceptive policies. We who eome into daily contact with es tablished policies of large institu tions are prone to take them as matters of course, and either ap prove or disapprove of them ac cording t o our various lights. Rarely does it occur to us to con sider the manner of their making or the amount of time and thought —sometimes days and weeks of concentrated study—that has led to their formulation and promulgation. The first Skaggs store differed from other stores chiefly in the im portant particular of its almost un believably low Operating costa. De spite the fact that it was founded with the avowed determination of eliminating waste from the distri bution costs of foodstuffs, it was difficult to realize at first - how much had really been accomplished and the extent to which the meth ods employed were destined to in fluence retail practices. Neither could it reasonably be expected that the founder could forsee and lay down rules and policies to govern the thousands of contingencies and problems that arose as the business grew and spread. These had to be met and solved as they presented themselves and out of their solu tion and the soundness of the judg ment with which the solution was applied as grown this vast organi zation and the policies and person nel that ha”c made ita outstanding success pees L’e. For inst. i et, 't was discovered that the savings in operating costs —as compared to the operating _ ___ _ costa of the average retail grocery —in themselves constituted a lib eral profit. The Federal Government in ita investigations of profiteering, had determined that from 16 to 18 per cent was a fair operating cost for the average grocery—to which must be added a fair net profit. Operating costa in the Skaggs store were less than half the amount al lowed by the Government—a condi tion due entirely to the spirit in which it was founded and the oper ating economies effected and one which permitted the new store to do business and make a liberal profit on a margin less than the actual costa of the average store. Th» fact, plus the disposition to share the savings affected with the con sumer, enabled the first Skaggs store to do a constantly increasing volume of business and eventually to warrant the opening of a second store. The second Skagg? store was opened in October, 1918, and sub sequent like ventures followed in due course and order, bat it is worthy of note that in the work ing out of a plan of operation for the second store, good business practice» and the principle of the Golden Rule were observed. This plan was baaed upon a profit sharing ideal of equity to the customer, the manager and the or iginator. Ito fruition is evidenced by a practical tangible FUNCTION ING realiy and ita application has served to weave a closely knit of- : a ,i >...tion- alike in ambition, de sires and practices. I* h&3 given a present and future to clear headed young men, who in their ambition to achieve are thrice willing to serve. It has pat respon sibility in the hands of those mas* affected and has never overridden their rights nor ignored their idnon privileges and suggestions. It has attracted loyal hearted men—men not susceptible to petty bribery nor »d premises. promise«. It has given shortsighted us more than three hundred busy stores and upwards of fifteen hun dred enargetic young people with trained minds, open hegite and eager hands, thousands updn thousands of patrons, and It haa elevated the standards of food distribution throughout the entire Wart. I I I J"
