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along lines of what schools really are for. Everybody, I
more or less, believe like Prof. Campbell,, but no one be
fore has possessed sufficient amount of nerve to declare,
facts.The interview with President Campbell,as reported
by the Associated Press is . o good we republish it from
last Sunday’s Oregonian:
“President Campbell today pledged himself to do all
that he could to ‘prevent the University of California from
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$2 per year in Advance becoming a prep school for professional football.’
“President Campbell's statement said thf acts of Ernie
Entered as Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the Nevers and Red Grange in turning professional would
Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
have an indirect consequence on college football ‘that will
Act of March 8, 1879
be extremely serious.’
VERNONIA BOOK 8 ART STORE
“The University head cri icised ‘American newspapers
J. Merle and A. Kemper
Paul Robinson,
Editor and Ownei which have had four weeks to discuss professional foot-
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balP’since the Grange conti act was signed.
Everything in Magazines, Stationery,Pictures and
“My reading on this subject has been limited,’ said
Books—School and Office Supplies
President Campbell, ‘but essentially all the writeups have
Art and Novelty Goods
been in justification of Mr. Grange and Mr. Nevers,
though I have seen no reasc n given except that the jump
We do Picture Framing of All Kinds
ing at the chance to make their fortunes in a hurry. The
same get-rich-quick philosophy could be offered in sup
port of many get-rich-quick activities’
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“Pointing out that hereaiter, ‘from the first days of
high school and possibly earlier a g’eat number of boys
will be planning to go to college with the idea of becom
ing football stars of sufficient magnitude to command
salaries in accordance with their dreams of sudden wealth
President Campbell added: ‘Football was made for un
iversities; universities* were not made for football.
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Good morning. Was your stocking full this morning.
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Christmas Cheer in liquid form is much in evidence.
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May we all be better citizens during-1926.
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Pretty nice Christmas weather, when one thinks of tf*e
“Cold Spells” back east.
Portland
McMinnville
502 Bourd of Trude Bldg.
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Blacksmithing and Horsei
shoeing
You Know My Wo
I am located across the
street South of the Craw
ford Garage My entraucp
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is on Maple street.
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The old-fashioned girl w io used to bring in the milk work
g
guaranteed.
Inviting
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bottles w’hen she woke up now brings them in w’hen she i
is going to retire.—Providence Tribune.
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1 all my old, as w7ell as new,
customers.
I being a- custom
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There are so many societies,' organizations and what
W. T. HATTON
not, that some day people \ ho don’t belong to anything Hatton’s Blacksmith and at this time of the
at all may organize on that account.—Detroit Free Press
Horseshoeing Shop
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If the american people allows the insanity defense to
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continue to free people, it L insane itself.—Chicago Tri ~~
to wish everyone else
bune
a Merry Christmas, we
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McNary and Stanfield, both U. S. Senators from Orc-.*
consider it a privilege
gon, don’t seem to be quite as devoted to each other a» ♦ Folks do not as a
to wish our friends and
the Gold Dust Twins, the Watson sisters, Damon and Py- If rule go where
thias or two peas in a pod.
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I? they’re not
customers a Merry
invited.
A Portland paper insinuates that there is a possibility f
Christmas.
We hope
NEWSPAPER
of Mayor Baker having his eye on the governorship job. ♦ advertising is the
J* that w7e may see you
Well, it is doubtful; but suppose he had. Many men would I recognized form
Xf in person to extend our
be less proficient.
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of inviting folks to
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ti best wishes to you, but
your place of
We must inculcate into our people the homely virtues
business.
if not, please consider
on which civilization rests. We must teach and learn that
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a virtuous people pos.*essed of aggressive honesty and pa
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+ from our hearts.
tient endeavor need few laws—and that law forced frc m
without can never take the place of character
Teaching the saxophone by ..ia/
Strong as this government is, it is not strong enough toi -should either im. rov< the execution1
or hasten it.
last unless the American citizen is taught—if needs be, of players ---------
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made—to respect authority and revere the law.—Senator The id-year-old child is 11 when
Goff
buying a railrual ticket and 1C ivher.
Candies
Vernonia will, some day, have another railroad to As
toria. It might be a transcontinental line, it might be the
Milwaukee.
They could build down from Riderwoodi
through Longview, across the river to Rainier and I
through Vernonia to the sea at Astoria, thence down the!
coast to San Francisco. Had any of this ever occured to I
you? Had you ever asked what railroad it was now 'at
Longview? Have you asked yourself what roadbed iti
is at Pittsberg now I
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BOX CANDY—ALL HOME MADE, PURE,
HOLESOME, GOOD
G/ ndieS
STATE LAUNDRY CO
For Good Laundry Work
We call and deliver TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS.
Leave orders at the Columbia Barber Shop.
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The small advs. get results.
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Last year we had the largest display Vernonia
ever saw and this year we have a larger assort
ment.
Í Vern jn ta Eagle
driving a car.
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LINCOLN—FORD—FORDSON
You can now buy your Ford on the 18 months
The new winter “Red
Crow n” is w ild to go—
crowded w ith milcage!
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WHAT IS A “CHEAP ROAD
LAIN dirt roads cost the least money. But they fail in
On sale at all “Red
Crown” pumps.
stormy weather. A graded dirt road, rocked
P and wet then or coated
with some form or asphaltic wearing sur
face, is lasting and easily repairable when necessary
This type of construction provides for expansion and con
traction under every possible weather condition. It cush
ions the impact of traffic, thus saving the road base.
From the standpoint of economy and service such i ', k s
are winning widespread approval of taxpayers.
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Business!
So live that it won’t make any difference whether the
whale swallowed Jonah or Jonah swallowed the whale.
—Toledo Blade.
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STANDARD Oil. COMPANT
(California)
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Payments as low as $21.88 a month
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Ambulance for Towing
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RADIO, VAST SOCIAL INFLUENCE
HE radio is now7 recognized as one of the potent in
fluences in strengthening the tie that binds the Am
erican people closer to the home
Now there is developing the social lure </ home radio
parties, presenting opportunity for concert and dancing
in the home, on winter nights.
In no industry based on a modern invention has there
been as great improvement and progress in a similar
length of time as in radio. Its record is marvelous.
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President Campbell, of the University of California
has some mighty good ideas.
Sound, reliable thoughts
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