VERNONIA EAGLE
Friday, September 3, 1926
¡She llrriuuiia Eagle
Issued Every Friday
$2 per year in Advance
Entered as Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the
Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
Act of March 3, 1879
and to study indoors when all of the out
doors is “crying out loud” for you, but ^f
you doubt that it is worth it ask somebody
who didn’t have a chance to go to school.
TOWN PRIDE.
Young At 60,
Or Old At 40?
Diet Decides
Women are as old or as young as
There is in many towns a conflict be their
state of health. A woman may
tween people whose first thought is to make be young at sixty years or old at for
ADVERTISING RATES—Foreign advertisements 30c money, and those whose first thought is to ty. It all depends on her physical
per inch; local advertisements intermittent 25c per make an attractive home town. The first well-being.
Youth and beauty have a founda
inch; local advertisements regular 23c per inch; legal
And food is
advertisements 10c per line first issue, 5c per line named people are constantly seeing chances tion in sound heulth.
succeeding runs; cards of thanks 50c; classified adver to make money through some kind of de easily the most Important item In
In giving consideration to the
tisements lc per word, minimum 25c, first issue, 15c velopment enterprise.
If such promoters health.
subjects of diet and beauty, women
succeeding issues.
lack good taste, they are apt to cut up real should not forget the food essentials
make for the preservation of
estate in an undesirable way, or erect flimsy that
THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
hair, figure and complexion.
looking dwellings, put up unsuitable busi teeth,
Blame for round shoulders, flat
and poor teeth among women
In spite of the fact that the metropoli ness buildings or erect them in places where chest
Is due In large measure to faulty diet,
they
injure
the
looks
of
the
town.
They
tan press row reaches into nearly every
or, specifically, to a lack of lime and
town and village in the country, the local may sincerely believe their projects help phosphorus. Milk, or evaporated
the
town
grow
and
are
commendable.
milk, which Is simply cow’s milk with
newspaper in the United States is each
per cent of the water taken away,
These people are apt to show enter GO
year getting on a firmer foundation and
Is especially rich in lime.
becoming more and more useful to its prise, and if they only had more sense of Because of the concentration of
fitness and taste, they would do a lot of evaporated milk, which Is regulated
home community.
by government standards. It Is of
It may be said that the day of the good. In a town where there is not much
metropolitan newspaper is at hand. This pride or community spirit, people of that
is true, but it is equally as true that the day type have things about their own way. They
go ahead with their commercialized pro
of the local newspaper is here too.
The metropolitan daily with its world jects, and the town grows helter skelter and
wide news, its comic sheets and its maga may never develop into a real homey kind
zine supplements, while of course essential of place.
But in a city with live community
in our modern civilization, cannot take the
the richness of ordinary mar
place of the home newspaper. The very spirit, these money maker’s find that it double
ket milk, as Is shown In the following
fact that the big city daily must cover a pays to conform to a higher standard. They table:
Ordinary Milk.
broad field forbids its becoming local in learn that the average run of people take Fat ..........................
,<.3.5 to 4
per cent
pride
in
their
community,
and
want
it
made
Sugar
(lactose)
.... 4.5 to 4.75 per cent
any sense, and it is in the local field where
Proteins ........................3.5 to 4
per cent
the home newspaper dominates and where attractive and beautiful. They realize that Minerals .......................... 7 to .75 per cent
unless their developments are in keeping
Evaporated Milk.
it finds its true usefulness.
Fat ...................... ;....7.8 to 8.2 per cent
For, after all, it is the home news with the standards desired, their enterprise Sugar
(lactose)... .9.5 to 10
per cent
Proteins .....................7.5 to 8.2 per cent
which is most important to most of us. We will get in bad.
They find thjit if they put up ugly Minerals .....................1.4 to 1.6 per cent
have the greatest interest in the community
A quart of milk a day for adults 1*
in which we live, and in the people who are houses, people are slow to buy or rent them recommended by doctors not only be
and
if
they
erect
unattractive
stores
in
un
cause of its high mineral content, but
our neighbors and friends. And it is the
for the reasons that it helps keep the
local newspaper which records the happen suitable places, people may not patronize digestive
tract In proper condition,
them.
It
is
a
pleasure
to
be
able
to
say
that
ings of the folks at home, and in addition
strengthens the body to resist disease,
fosters the civic pride and progressive on the whole excellent standards of taste and gives proper balance to the diet.
have prevailed in the development of Ver Salads also play an Important part
spirit of the community.
In the dietary. Some sort of a salad,
It is the home newspaper which boosts nonia. As a whole we have a city to be lettuce, tomato, fresh fruit, cabbage
proud of, j>t there is always room for im or vegetable, should be eaten at least
the town, year in and year out, which re provement,
once a day. Neither is the dally
and still higher standards.
fuses to advertise the city merchants in
menu complete without a generous
quality of coarse, leafy vegetables,
competition with the local business men
PROPERTY THEN AND NOW.
valuable for their high vitamin con
and which takes the lead in every enter
tent. Fruit Juices also have very
prise which has for its purpose the upbuild
properties.
Property is a relative condition. That beneficial
If a woman follows out the rules of
ing and prosperity of the community.
is, the poor of today are more richly en diet, birthdays to her will be nothing
We frequently hear it said that the dowed with wordly goods than the poor of more than an excuse for a celebration.
old time independent spirit of the news twenty years ago, although the one felt
1322 in Summer School.
paper is gone, that its editorial policy is no poorer nor richer than the other. Many University of Oregon, Eugene,
now subservient to the business office. Yet of this age who feel poor would be con Ore., August 21—With the close of
this is not true. There is more unselfish sidered of better than moderate means by the post-session August 28, mote
idealism in the average local newspaper their corresponding class of two decades than 1322 students have been en
rolled for summer study at the
than in any other business enterprise. It past.
University of Oregon.
This is the
frequently speaks out in the way which it
Picture a boy of poor family in 1905: first year that the post-ession work
believes will be for the good of the nation Home-cut hair, trousers made over from has
been offered, and 74 students
and of the community, regardless of what father’s and then patched, patch-quiit attended.
the consequences may be from a business shirt, sans shoes, stockings and underwear, While many professions and oc
standpoint. This is more than the average happy with a penny or a marble, lucky to cupations were represented among
the summer session students, educa
business man will do or can do.
have darned stockings, baggy underwear tion led all the others. Preparations
Of course the local newspaper is now and a frayed coat and cap for winter and are now being made for the opening
on a firm business basis. This is why it is compelled to work his way into the circus of regular session, September 27,
improving from year to year, and why it is or for his infrequent ice cream sodas. And although entering freshmen must be
increasing its influence for good in the the poor of twenty years ago were content in Eugene September 20.
community. But the local newspaper is with such homely fare as beef stew, pota Read the Eagle classified adver
still the principal booster for the communi toes and rice. Parents then boasted of wear tisements for bargains.__
ty, and it does its boosting often without ing the same suit or dress for ten years—
Federal Commissioner
any hope of material reward.
it was fortunate for them their clothes were
Unfortunate indeed is the community durable for they could not have purchased
which neither appreciates nor supports its new ones.
local newspaper.
And then there are the poor of the
year 1925 who occupy the same social
BACK TO SCHOOL.
position as that family of 1905 just de
scribed.
The new poor have shoes all
The open season for readin’, writin’ around, on occasion they have the raiment
and ’rithmetic will be ushered in Vernoni: to dress decently and comfortably, they
with every boy and girl after the biggest have carpets on the floor at home and
game in life. Of course the boys had to good furniture, the probability is a flivver
say farewell to their baseballs and the olc or second hand car of larger make is
swimmin’ 'ole, and the girls had to close parked in the yard and cakes and pies are
up their summer doll houses, but then they not strangers to their table.
would soon have become unseasonable anc
Once the poor resented they could not
school days will bring other diversions jus ; quit work and still eat; now they complain
as intriguing. In school there are recess because they must work to keep up the pay
games and football as well as books anc ments on the automobile, radio and
watchful teachers.
mother’s fur coat and save enough for next
Than the fii’st day of school there is sumnvr’s tour.
no more fitting time to impress upon the
minds of the young and of the taxpayers
The significant feature of an American
that_the public school is a co-operative or banquet is the dry toast.
reciprocal proposition.
The taxpayers
maintain the schools that they may develop
Some practice reading at regular
men and women who will maintain the night school, and some go to the movies.
t> aditions and ideals of America.The school
children should not forget that they are in
Not so much the first cost as the ac
debted to the taxpayers for this opportuni cessories dent the pocketbook.
ty to acquire an education. When the tax
Rear Admiral H. O. Stickney, re
tired. who has been appointed by Sec
payer sees the many eager faces school
There is one difficulty about putting retaries
Hoover and Kellogg as Fed
hound Monday he will not regret the dol- to death weak-minded persons. It might eral Commissioner
to the Sesqul-C«»
tennlal International Exposition com
lavs he gives to education, and when school include too many.
memorating the 150th anniversary of
days are over the boys and girls in school
American Independence and which
today will go forth just as eagerly into the
A writer suggests 13 ways for a wife will be held In Philadelphia from June
world, grateful to those who made an edu to lose her husband, but she might succeed, 1 to December 1. Admiral Stickney
bo in full charge of the United
cation possible for them.
we suspect, without having to avail herself will
States Government exhibit, which will
Sometimes it seems hard to pay taxes of all of them.
be the Iargeat_of Its type ever made.
Ninety per cent of all the cars Dodge
Brothers built in the last 11 years
are still in service. That is because
they are built to last! And that is
why there is no more sensible in
vestment in the world than a Dodge
Brothers Used Car.
MARK E. MOE, Editor
CADY MOTOR CO.
HILLSBORO, OREGON
,
r
RESIDENT SALESMEN
VERNONIA BRAZING & MACHINE WORKS.
Ro»e Avenue—Vernonia, Oregon
A AS
USED
IS ONLY WHO
AS DEPENDABLE-
THE- CAR
DEALER.
SELLS IT
MILLINERY
That Will be Worn
Easily, we may safely say, the
most attractive Hat modes we
have shown in many a sea- .
son.
Both large and small
shapes in ample assortments.
New shipment of Hats have
just arrived. Our line of Blair
Hats this year will interest
you.
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