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Thursday, February 27, 1930
Vernon la Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
Page Four
Beginning tonight, the arrival
whistle of the “Gold Medal Fast
Freight,” will be heard at 9 p.m.
instead of 5 o’clock as formerly
over stations: KIIJ Los Angeles,
KFRC San Francisco, KFBK
Sacramento, KM J Fresno, KDYL
Salt Lake City, 10 p.m. instead
of 6 p.m. as formerly; KVI Se
attle-Tacoma, KFPY Spokane,
KOIN Portland.
This regular Wednesday re
lease over the Columbia Chain
features a variety program by
the Wheatlies male quartet, in
cluding yodel numbers, and pop
ular organ selections on the
specially constructed movie or
gan recently installed in the
WCCO studios. The entertainers
are members of the “Gold Medal
Fast Freight” crew.
ltlrnuniia
ÎEaglr
County Official
Paper
Member of National Edi
torial Association and Ore
gon State Editorial Associa
tion.
Issued every Thursday_____________ $2.00 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.
Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch;
legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding
insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c.
PUBLISHER
MARK E. MOE
....... EDITOR
LEE SCHWAB. .
UNCALLED-FOR PUBLICITY
Politicians often are uneasy, when reading articles or
stories appearing in newspapers insinuating that there is
a possibility of the American Legion backing some favor
ite candidate..
The American Legion, upon first organizing, stated its
position clearly, whereby the organization would not par
ticipate in politics.
Those who are foremost in spreading this propaganda
insult the intelligence of ex-service men, they above any
who would not under any circumstances receive instruc-
tions as to what candidate was entitled to consideration
for their vote, as Legionnaires.
There are some who would make others believe that
appointments to selective positions are given Legionnaires
or ex-service men for their support to a successful candi-
date.
That is all horse-radish-
Without a doubt the appointee is entitled to some con
sideration from the standpoint of having served his coun
try in time of need, but his ability to serve his city, coun
ty, state and nation should be the first thought given when
considering-his qualifications.
When any prominent Legionnaire pledges the support
of his buddies to any candidate, he is doing so with an
exaggerated opinion as to his authority, or is trying to
feather his own nest by winning the approval of some
candidate who might be gullible enough to believe him.
In time of war, commands are obeyed, but it would be
unhealthy for any Legion official to attempt to swing his
post in favor of any particular candidate for office.
As long as the American Legion keeps out of politics
with its present policy, it will thrive.
The greatest ex-service men’s organization in the world
cannot afford to be dominated by a few who selfishly
look forward to personal gain, trying to make some people
believe that they have the power to control the Legion
vote.
We doubt if such a goal could be reached, even if at-
tempted.
TV,7) TTie~'7>'ew‘ York “"CohsieTlatlon
published the following as n south
ern expression : “Yon ornery fel
low! Do you pretend to call me
to account for my language?”—
Pathfinder Magazine.
Got Something From Nothing
The resourcefulness of the arche
ological explorer enables him to do
seme wonderful things in the field
that savor almost of the magical.
Mr. Woolley, working at Ur of the
Chaldees, for Instance, had Ids at
tention called to the presence of
two small and cleanly cut holes in
the ground which were so very
much alike that he thought they
might .mean something. So the
work of excavation in that partic
ular spot was halted while a thin
mixture of’ plastor of paris was
made and (his was poured Into the
holes and allowed to set. When the
cast was finally uncovered It was
found that they had secured the
lines of a Sumerian harp which
had been shaped of wood which
had long since decayed and disap
peared. Th® cant win perfect in
all Its details and comprised a val
uable specimen.
.
Proud Boast I* Old
On the Menu
The portly gentleman who had
The germ of the Idea of the sun been engaged to sing In the musical
never setting on the dominions of program following a dinner at a
a particular ruler Is found in large restaurant was looking very
Herodotus, Book VII. Chapter 8. enraged. He was scanning the
The boast was a common one with list of musical Items, and, to his
the Spaniards In the Sixteenth and consternation, bls name had been
Seventeenth centuries and Is fre omitted!
quently alluded to In the litera
Approaching one of the organiz
ture of other countries. It does not ers lie brandished the program furl-
seem to be recorded who first used lously, ami demanded the reason
the expression the sun never sets of the omission. The young fellow
upon the British empire. John whom he approached glanced down
Wilson, who wrote under the pen at the card, then laughed nervous
name of Christopher North (1786- ly. “Aren’t yon Signor Jelly, the
1854), 1n bls Noctes Ambrosfanne, singer?" he asked.
No. 20, April. 1829. gays. “Ills
“Yes.” was the reply.
majesty’s dominions on which the
“Well— er—your name b?tng ‘Jel
sun never sets.” This appears to ly,** said the young chap, “it ap
be the first use of the expression pears to have been put on the
In English literature.
menu by mistake.”—Montreal Star.
Veneered for Strength
When you consider veneered fur
niture you usually consider It as a
cheap and economical method of |
using expensive
woods.
But (
strength, as much as economy, is
the motive, points nut the Ameri
can Architect, citing the famous
desk used by Napoleon as an ex
ample. The desk accompanied the
Corsican conqueror to the ends of
Europe, packed on muleback or
Jolted over the country on artillery
caissons. Ikit now. more than 125
years old. It Is on exhibition at
Fontainebleau In perfect condition.
French Superstitions
To a considerable extent, the
French peasants still attach cre
dence to the evil eye, to witches,
to ware-wolves and to other weird
medieval superstitions, in spite of
years of persistent effort to eradi
cate these primitive beliefs. In
I • y i ”'/»te villages of Normandy
and Brittany belief In heathen
deities al o survives. Sacred trees
are the object of midnight worship,
when young girls gather to dance
In the moonlight, as in the days of
Druidlchl
ni. in. Healers and
medicine men abound In the rural
districts and certain animals still
are treated with reverential awe.
Pi-Lin rualism in Finland
Cases Involving superstition are
Before Fir land was seized by' constantly coining to tiie attention
Bu-‘In In 1808 to become a grand-, of the French courts.
duchy under the czars. It belonged I
to Sweden. Swedish remained the |
sole nfllchil language until 1883 i
Fearsome Creature
when Finnish v as given equal I
Maud I ex Allen says: ”As
rights. Today both languages are j known in Ju pan. the conception of
on an equal footing, but Swedish the dragon Is imdouhtcdl.v derived
Is the commercial language of the ! from the products of the Imagina
maritime towns, including Hol- | tion of the early Chinese, who
slngfors. the capital, where it is were especially fond of evolving
the mother tongue of a large por i supernatural form3 by combining
tion of the population.
, parts of various animals. It Is es
sentially a serpent, with horns of
■ a deer, the head of a horse, eyes
Sweetness of a Good L:fe
like that of a red worm, scales like
As shrubs which are cut down those of a carp, cars like a cow,
with the morning dew upon them paws like a tiger and claws like an
do for a long time after retain I eagle. It has fbimollke appendages
their fnigrancy, so the good ac- i on shoulders and hips. On either
tions of a wise man perfume his foot art three, four or five claws—
mind and leave a rich scent be-| the Imperial dragon of China has
hind thei.i. So that Joy is, as it five; that of Japan three.”
were, watered with these essences
and owes its 6« »wishing to them.—
Durkee—Airway beacon being
Plutarch.
installed on Gold Hill.
Sheep and Goat
Raisers Elect
1930 Officers
trading Company on bid
Food Requirement,
According to Prof. V. II. Mott- $517,40,0 for construction
ram, an adult woman needs but Siuslay Highway.
2,500 calories a day. An adult man
engaged tn sedentary occupation re
quires 3.000 calories daily. A man
doing linril work should have 5,000.
calories. The physiological reason
given Is that the feminine organ
ism utilizes food more eeonoml'mlly
than man
A child’s food should
not be proportioned according to
his age. as he requires more than
half the food of an adult. Boys
and girls of fourteen arc to be
considered ns adults In food utiliza
tion.
Waldport — Construction of
Alsea Highway bridge across
Lint Slough will start during
May.
At a regular meeting and el
Hillsboro—Building at second
ection of the Columbia County
and Washington Street, will be
Sheep and Goat Raisers associ
remodeled.
ation held in the American Le
Silverton — Construction of
gion hall at Rainier last week,
wading pool in City Park Com
J. W. Todd of Beaver Homes
pleted.
was re-elected president, J. O.
Hood River—Apple Growers,
Barrick of Beaver Springs road
Florence— Contract awarded Association will expand opera
was elected vice president, and
Morrison & — Knudsen
Con- tions of canning plant this year.
Dr. E. L. Lane of Houlton was to
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elected secretary.
R. Anliker Jr. of Shiloh Ba-1
sin and Mr. Warfield of Verno-'
nia were placed as directors.
Delivered To
E. L. Ludwick of the Pacific.
Cooperative Wool Growers as-1
and Called
sociation, W. A. Ward, manager
For At
of the cooperative association,
Stanley G. Jewett of the gov
ernment biological survey, Geo. i
A_ Nelson, and W. A. McClin-l
took were among the principal
speakers.
The association was formed in
Rainier one year ago. County
W. A. Davis, Local Manager.
Agent Nelson was appointed
chairman of a committee to have
Office Phone 1041
Res. 1052
charge of an exhibit at the
county fair.
Your
Door
Freight
Trucks Leave Vernonia
9 A. M. Daily
Clatskanie—Lower
Columbia
Cooperative Dairymen’s Assoc
iation will construct plant here
at cost of between $50,000 and
$60.000.
Portland Vernonia Truck Line
For Freight Orders
Por Insurance
See Jos. Scott
All Kinds of Insurance, Phone 1181
_____
Celebrate With
Longview Satur
day, March 29
Columbia River
k Longview
Bridge
Opening
THE CLATSKANIE SPIRIT
The friendliest feeling exists among merchants and
other business men in Clatskanie, which must be attrib
uted to the wonderful influence of good fellowship exer-
cised by their Kiwanis club.
PROGRAM AT NATAL
If you wish to enjoy a pleasant evening, attend the
Natal Grange program and pie social at Natal Saturday,
March 1.
Lessening Aversion to
Formal Music Lesrons
Children s aversion to music les
sons, entulllng long hours of prac
tice for miiny months, cun be over- j
come hy innklng them familiar ut
an enrly age with musical toys, ac
cording to Frank II. Richardson,
M. D., In Woman’s Home <’< ui
pnnlon.
"Muny families have found the
approach to a real appreciation
and love of music Is made easier
by having the simpler musical In I
struments around where they can
bo picked up and pltiycsl casually
even before forinni lessons have
begun,” says Doctor Richardson,
“Such simple things as the fife,
flageolet and piccolo; the banjo,
mandolin or oven the humble
or bells
ukulelo; the xylophone
. .
will often tempt not only the child
but also the guest In the home.
“Improved ensembles prove de
lightful ways of teaching children
good-fellowship and freeing them
from the embarrassment so over-
powering In children whose only
contact with strilngers has been
formal.
“Many a child who would hnve
been repelled at first by the tech-
nlcal dllflcultles of the violin or
¿..iii. Ti;uT vbTZe TnippTy To~Tbe *e
more cjlfllculf musical Instruments
by way of their humbler and more
easily mastered brothers In the
musical family.”
“Ornery” Long Employed
to Express Contempt
“Ornery” and “onery" are cor
rupted forms of “ordinary." They
are dialect or colloquial terms
meaning Insignificant, low, mean,
contemptible, and they express a
higher degree of contempt nnd dis
approbation than “ordinary" does.
“Omary” as a contraction of “or
dinary" was n common provincial
ism tn England In the time of the
Stuarts, although It is now nearly
obsolete.
We find the phrase
“uppon ornnrle time." In the East-
hntnpton records ns late as 11179. Tn
Ireland and the United States this
form persists In the still more cor
rupted forms or “Amery" nnd
“onery," which were brought to
the American colonies and perpet
uated largely by Irish and Scotch-
Irish Immigrants, who settled In
the South nnd West.
This ex
plains the fact that "ornery” and
"onery" are generally regarded ns
si.o'therlstns or w-octornlsms. Tn
Al the opening of the Columbia River Longview Brid
The giant bridge, the highest of its kind in the world
over navigable waters, will soon be opened to the public.
Thousands will travel hundreds of miles to participate in the
celebration, and to our neighbor cities of the lower Columbia
area, we again extend an invitation to be with us Saturday,
March 29, at the bridge opening.
The celebration promises to be just what most all would
expect of Longview’—
SAVINGS
ACCOUNT
i Great Celebration
Longview, through its mayor and council, Chamber of
Commerce, its Rotary club, its Lions, Kiwanis, American Le
gion post and kindred organizations is preparing to receive
crowds, the largest since its christening.
Bank Of Vernonia
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