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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1926)
Thursday November 11, 1926 31 jp Urritmtia Eagle Issued every Thursday $2 per year in Advance Entered as Second Glass Matter, August 4, 1922 at the Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon,.under the Act of March 3, 1879 MARK E. MOE, Editor DEVELOP ’ SKILL Too many young people nowadays are convinced that brain work alone is neces- sary to success in life. They disregard the skill of the various crafts as being menial and poorly compensated. It is wrong for them to get this impression. Parents and teachers should encourage the development of skill in any worthy craft toward which the child shows a tendency. As the hand is trained, so the mind de- velopes in proportion, can be taken almost literally. To trace the record of many suc cessful merchants, bankers, lawyers, sales men, and others would show a hobby 01 some kind that has developed skill for the pure love of artistic effort. Can your boy make kites, boats, sleds, skis, tops, whistles, and does he know how to use a plane, square and hammer? Have you taken the trouble to show him and en courage him in many ways to develop skill? Can your girl perform the simple household tasks, and sew a little? But even this is not enough. Encourage them to take part ir games at school. If these games were not beneficial, you may be sure the schools would not tolerate them. By striving for perfection in work that requires the efforts of* one’s hands, as well as the mind, a sincerity of purpose and poise of mentality is given to a youth that may never be acquired otherwise. VERNONIA NEEDS A CREAMERY Rumors have traveled around at various times that various ones were thinking of starting in the creamery business in Ver nonia. No doubt they decided that the field was not large enough to be profitable. Very few farmers have cream to sell. Nearly all the milk that is produced is sold as bottled milk, it is said. But a creamery would pay here. No matt er if it is a one-man concern for a time, it would surely build up. And it is a fine thing for th ' district. When one farmer learns that his neighbor is making $30 or $40 a montl on tiie side, with very little effort, bringing cream to Vernonia, others will try it, and so the business will grow. It has been done in countless other lo calities, and can be done here. There is so much cheap pasture here that it should pay better than in many districts further east, where it has proven profitable. Our weath er lends itself very readily to the dairy in- dustiy. All the butter, cheese and ice cream us ed in Vernonia is shipped in. The price would be little if any less if it were made here, but the money would stay at home. Those working in the creamery would be permanent, and the town would be bene fited thereby for the increased trade. Diversification of fanning is now regard ed to be the most economic method. Those who specialize in one or two crops are tak ing gambler’s chances on the scarcity of the crops to bring prices up. A number of side lines on the farm are good insurance against hard times. PREDICTING TURKEY PRICES VERNONIA EAGLE the memory of living men. But hear the whole story. The commission men are quot ed as saying the fanners, determined to have a satisfactory price this year, cut the hatch. Thus a shortage is in prospect. It is a familiar form of market manipulation, and you can’t blame the farmer for pract icing it. But we may have doubts as to the result. Turkey raisers are human, even as prod ucers of other good things that come from the farm. The fanner is no freer of that inadmirable strain we call cupidity than men in other lines of gainful activity. When it becomes clear to fanners that their sal vation depends on reducing production, can you blame every one of them for conclud ing he might as well get a bit of extra gravy by producing as usual while his neighbors restrict output? We don’t know that the turkey raisers have done this. But it would not be surprising if in toad of shortage •there would be plenty of the Thanksgiving I fowl this yeor. A NATION HONORS ITS BRAVE On the continent u Europe, this long was a special day fur celebration, before the Armistice was signed. For by coincid ence it is the church feast of St. Martin, ithe soldier saint, patron of infantry. It is, to French and Italians especially, a most symbolic happening that the two, Armistice Day and St. Martin’s Day, should fall up on the same date, and it has occasioned a great deal of speculation among the mys tics. Certainly the linking of the two gives a suggestion of the days of the Crusaders. And there never was crusade with more holy and self-forgetting object than that in which our own boys of all faith joined when they journeyed into foreign lands to stamp out the war beast. They fought for mankind against the menance, for civilization against chaos. This anniversary brings back to some the pang of loss. They are upborne by the re alization that their boys who laid down their lives where now spring poppy fields did so with an exalted smile upon their lips. And yet—how could they not re member those some lads, in childhood, in youth, marching with braveness to the rail road station and the dock? And then there came a day when the terse message from the war department seemed to shut the sunlight out. A hero was dead for his coun try. This Armistice Day, parents and relat ives of the country’s dead soldiers, the nat ion honars you with them, Your bravery in sustaining your tremendous loss has been next to that of those who are gone. CONVERSATION A LA CARTE That worry or anger interferes with dig estion is not a new theory, although most people who are worried or “mad” during meals are to be preoccupied to remember it. The medical correspondent of the Lon don Times carries it further, insisting that conversation at the table should be gentle and digestive. Families who never sit down together without getting into a snarl, people who go out to lunch together to talk over business, even the now popular luncheon clubs where speakers of more or less note start discuss ions, are warned by this authority against “mental concentration at meal time” as in jurious to the process of digestion. Nor, he warns, will eating alone avoid the danger, because it is precisely then that the solitary diner thinks of worries he should forget while he eats. The blood which should be engaged in the work of "digestive conversation” is ad ded to the list of modem panaceas. Judg ing by the chatter heard on the street cars a great many are already expert in it. With Thanksgiving Day but a few weeks off the American mind turns to thought of turkey. Will the popular fowl be plentiful and the price low? This question is most important to consumers. Will supply and de mand be so nearly balanced that high pric es can be secured This is the concern of Sidewalks are hard on the head. sellers. The great public depends on naive faith. In the trade point of view turkeys may be ruinously cheap, but they always Love makes the world go round foolish. are dear as the housewife recons costs. Staging a comeback is seldom a pleas ■ If a news report from Chicago is correct, the housewife is going to grumble a lot ant tnp. this Thanksgiving as she bastes the brown ing turkey. Chicago is one of the great dis Hunt the brighter side. The present tributing points for turkeys. Commission never lasts. men there are represented as giving warn Only thing wbise than being bothered ing that the birds will be rather scarce and dear. Not that they meditate putting prices is being ignored. above a reasonable figure. Oh. dear, no. Generally speaking, too many people Really, it is not their doing at all, but they will be bound by the dictum of economic are generally speaking. law. It’s this way, or, it were more accurate, perhaps, to say this is their story: The world war was not the longest on Turkey raisers were much miffed last, record, but the hangover seems to be. year because prices were low. This is the' cue for consumers to roar derisively. They I Another useless article is the sweat-band know turkeys have not been cheap within in a cake-eaters’ hat. ©------------ --------- a Home Pointer« a-------------------- © (From School of Home Economi»! O. A. C.) A potato peeler saves both time and material in paring carriots and parssips, as well as potatoes. Stale cake makes an excellent des sert when steamed and served with sauce. A Pumpkin makes a nice fruit or flower basket for fall table decorat ion. Clothes left on the lin^ until the dew falls are .much nicer to iron than when dampened by hand. Rubbing the hot cake griddle with a freshly cut potato eliminates the necessity for greasing the pan. When preparing pumpkin pies, the flavor is improved by adding spices and sugar to the pumpkin to wards the end of the cooking pro- cess. A toothpick is more sanitary to use in testing cakes than a broom straw. The holder may be kept with other cooking materials. In making a jelly-roll, cracking is prevented by cutting the hard edge off of the dough before roll- ing. Soaking game in salt water over night takes out the strong flavor A dish of cold water works well in cooling the oven off when it is too hot. A good way to eliminate starch making is to serve boiled rice on Saturday and use the water in which it was cooked on Monday for starch ing. Rice water really works better than starch. Guest towels are often made from old linen dresses. A silver knife is always best for testing baked custard. When the knife comes out clean the custard is done. Butter cakes are more satisfact ory if only the bottom of the pans are oiled and floured. COLLECTIONS NO COLLECTION—NO CHARGE KNIGHT ADJUSTMENT CO. We Get Result». Offices at McMinnville, Hillsboro and 502 Board of Trade build- in?, Portland. The Workingmans Store FALL GOODS My New Line of— Are now on the floor for any one to inspect in both quality and in price. I carry the Olson, Marshfield, Kem and Boston Loggers. High top Shoes for ladies, men and chil dren. Florsheim, Connolly and Craddock Dress Shoes for the Men that care. Also a good line of ladies and kiddy SHOES. Tailor-made Suits. Shull Days Tailored Pants. A full line of Neustadter Pants, Shirts, Under wear, Blazers, and in fact all they make. It is good goods or they would not put it out. They have the name and put out the goods for anyone to inspect. I also got the New Baloon Rain Coats for Ladies and Gents. GREAT FOR WET WEATHER. Call and inspect my goods and be your own judge. E. W. HOLTHAM, Vernonia, Ore. “Inside Information Try pop-corn for a breakfast cere al, served with milk or cream. To remove saltness from a slice of ham, let it stand in sour milk or buttermilk for an hour or two. This will help to make it tender. Oiled floors should be swept with a soft brush and dusted with an oiled cloth or mop. Occasionally clean them with a cloth wrung out of warm soapy water, followed by pol ishing with a cloth moistened with kerosene or good floor oil. Use water and soap sparingly. The only positively label require ment in the Federal food and drugs act is that all canned food labels shall bear a correct statement of the net weight of the contents of the can. It other statements are made on the label, they must be true and must not be false or misleading in any particular. Rancidity in lard is caused by chemical action of the air. The Fed eral meat inspection service advises that lard should be well rendered, free from moisture and particles of scrap. Lard should be placed in com pletely filled, tightly closed contain ers, preferably of glass or earthen ware and kept in a cool dark place for preservation. Hale Greenman was tne of the bodyguards for Queen Marie of Ru mania in Portland recently. HOLIDAY SALB Three Days Only * Beginning Friday, November 12 Until Monday, November 15 On account of sickness we are foiced to sacrifice our stock at such a low price that it will enable you to buy your needs for very little money; as the old raying goes: “A dollar saved is as good as five dollars earned.” Our stocks are small, but you can always find something you want—as we need the money and you need the goods. Let us get together and open our hearts, as well as our pocketbooks, for the Holidays. Our stock consists of * Ladies’ Gents’ and Children’* Wearing Apparel, Dry Goods, Shoes, etc. We did not list any prices in this space, but you will find every article in the store marked down in plain figures. Remember the date—November 12 to 15. COREY ECONOMY STORE Right across from the Eagle. T