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Thursday, March 6, 1930 Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon 'and “Loves Old Sweet Song”. nuklonalTniportauce. - ■ - Organ and Male Quartet num It Is thought the hltutnlnbus «and in Canada Is In many respects alm- bers will complete the program. llnr to the oil shale In the United States and that the development of In cooperation with bituminous gmul should be evnsid- Basque Peace Officers U. S. Public Health Service quite ns seriously as tlint of Frederick D. Stricker, M. D., Kept Reasonably Busy ered the oil shales, Yield per ton from Collaborating Epidemiologist Unique is the mlguelete. Every the latter will. In some Instances, where In Spain, from the gates of be higher than from bituminous the royal palace In Madrid out to Bund, but, frofn the point of view EYE SIGHT SAVING the remotest, humblest hamlets, of mining costs and certain other It may be said that in our the civil guardsmen have the right factors, the development of bitumi present stage of civilization, of way—except In the Basque prov nous sands will probably have ad- there are very few eyes that can ince of Gulpuzcou. The Basques vantages river oil slinles. be considered perfect. All eyes, j have their own police, called inl- however, that are slightly defect gueletes, who wear a Jaunty uni Pacific Myatery ive in their measurements do not form of baggy rod trousers, a blue tunic with a cape fixed to the Easter island Is called the MUn- necessarily require corrective shoulders and a red bolna on thfir glasses. The systematic examin heads (a contrast to the civil solved Mystery of the Pacific" be of the scattered presence of ation of public school children guards’ yellow trappings and gray cause hundreds of Immense heads curved has made it possible to detect or black uniforms and shiny cocked out of stone wldcli are to he seen, and classify the different kinds hats, triangular and of oilskin). some standing erect, while others of errors. The greater demands Although a soldier, armed and are down upon the ground. Their that are being put upon the eyes trained as such, the mlguelete, in meaning Is only conjectural und of parading about In Idleness, no one has ever offered any ex of the children together with stead has many civilian duties, lie car greater use of artificial illumin ries all the otllcial mall in the prov planation which Is generally ac Apparently Easter island ation have resulted in producing ince. conveys lunatics to the mod cepted. was chosen ns the graveyard for symtons of eyestrain and fatigue. ern asylum. Inspects the roads, the chiefs of a large Island archi The symtons resulting from eye teaches the Illiterates to rend and pelago which suddenly disappeared. strain may be local or general. write, colh'cts telephone tolls ami The thousands of slaves who were The local symtons are redness of also taxes. A Basque Is always kept at work carving out these Im ready with a bet, which Is the ages were left without food und fell the lids, itching and burning of common way of ending a dispute the lids and eye-ball, pain and about bandball, tree felling, grass upon each other until only a few remained. The story of all these tenderness of the globe, pain mowing, stone lifting, swimming, events was never recorded and can above the eyes, seeing of moats about what weight his pair of oxen be rend only by Inference. before the eyes, tendency of the will drag or the fighting powers eyes to cross, and temporary of a ram from his herd. On every Put Health First blurring of the vision after pro het a percentage Is due and is col by the mlguelete. It is the longed use of the eyes, caused by lected The views of students ns to what mlguelete also who takes charge sleepiness or fatigue, or the hold of the savings bank accounts, and makes life happy are revok'd by a ing of a book too close to the so great Is the confidence he In ballot competition conducted by spires among the peasantry that tbe National Union of Students eyes. throughout the uifiverslUca of Eng The general symptons of eye old and young hand over their land and Wales, says the London reales and pesetas to strain may be in the form of in- hard-earned Observer. The following was the this red legged cop. Wlmt pres- digestion, headaches and other tige! Indeed It has been proposed order of Importance voted for the conditions not ascribed to the that the League of Nations study various attributes conducive to a eyes. Headaches are more fre the corps with a view to making happy life: A sound constitution; a sense of quently caused by eyestrain than it a world organization. humor; a congenial occupation; any other cause. The Tieadaches an assured future; a charming that last over night are usually wife (or husband); a blameless the direct result of eyestrain and France First Country reputation; £400 n year; a bril are the least frequently recog to Organize Zouaves liant career; a thick skin; a good nized as being due to eyestrain. Zouave Is the name of a tribe of cook; a persuasive manner; a li and a poker face (equal); an Continuance of eyestrain not Berbers In Algeria. In 1R31 the brary artistic temperament; a schoolgirl corrected with properly fitted j French recruited two battalions of complexion. soldiers, who were uni glasses may be associated with Berber formed In their native costume. In symptons of disturbances of the about ten years they were convert Tat-Tutl stomach and intestines. Many ed into an Infantry branch of the Ml JadluUl k Honor, f nervous disturbances and twitch rreueii ariu/ end Lbe SM^irM re Before the World war not frtrospecflvs. ing of the muscels may also be tained. due to eyestrain, These clear up ’ there were four regiments of zou Judges dig It up from the pnst, oth nre busy extracting It from the with the wearing of proper glas- i aves still In the French army. The ers first service that these troops saw present. ses. A little while ago It was stated j outside Algeria was in Hie Crimean If the eyes of every patient war. They attracted much atten before a well known Judge that a were tested for acuity of vision tion because of their uniforms and company was to run a revue named more could be done towards the their fighting qualities, and volun "King Tut-Tut.” Ills honor rubbed Ids brow. saving of eyesight and the pre teer military organizations through "Whnt does ‘Tut-Tut’ mean?" he vention of blinded than any other out the world adopted the uniform, Inquired. a modification of It, and the preventive means. All cases of or “It Is nn expression," replied drills and tactics. There were sev defectiveness would be detected eral of those zouave companies In counsel, “used on the golf links and in the majorty of the cases t’ o Civil w.:r. and they w *o take! •vl-on a men tri''“«« Ms drive.” “ton menu when the clergy are if the patient were refered to: Into the army as organized. present," suggested the Judge, amid an oculist, the proper glasses laughter. — Birmingham (Eng.) would be secured and worn. Weekly Post Canadian Bituminous Sand, The proper illumination of In what Is known ns the McMur schools, offices and factories is Portland---- Bids advertized a most important factor in the ray country. In Canada, 300 tulles 1 orth of Edmonton, are to be found construction of Penn Street ap- conservation of vision. «'¿tensive deposits of bituminous proach to Swan Island airport. Progressive cities have estab- j. nd. . The future commercial sig- lished special classes for those i Ticance of these deposits is ns yet Medford — Two carloads of who are handicaped with ser- I >t generally realized. It adds, al- . • i x rrxi f'miirlt It Io wzic’ -’lil/x Fit«,* r't'i— pears per day are being packed iously defective eyesight. These ’ at Southern Oregon sales plant. are popularly called, “Sight Sav-,_ ing Classes”. The Sight Saving, X-.V it. — conservj I ” Class helps 11- the _ child U by ing his eyesight through elimin ating all possible eyestrain and teaching habits of eye hygiene. This benefits his general health by saving him from the nerve strain attending the competition with the normaly sighted. In ev ery city there is a need of a sight saving class. IsT.iUtl. near die- CelefiM. was set tled l-y an arbiter’s award, giving Langnan, LIETuian, Honan, Baguan, it to Holland Another error lias and the Mangsees lying north of been found In the northern line Mangsee channel. "Although the Islands are unin dividing the Philippine Islands and Taiwan (Formosa), hut this does habited and very difficult to reach, because of the barriers of coral not Involve actual territory. “England has been administering which surround them, natives go to the seven ‘lost’ Islands off Borneo, them regularly to gather coconuts giving them the little attention and turtle eggs. “The Turtle islands, ns they are Recent Convention Be they need. On Tngamik Is a light marking the entrance to locally called, and the Mangsees, tween England and the house Sandakan harbor, the most Impor lie along the southern edge of the tant port on the North Borneo Sulu sea and are as far south U. S. Fixes Boundary. coast. The provision of the old Manila ns Charleston > ---------- south of New York city i1 Washington. — Seven “lost” Is Spanish ami British treaty has lands will he reattached to the been found Inqiosslble of fulfill Burns— Public Service Com iPhilippines by a recent convention ment because ‘nine nautical miles between England and the Pulled off the const,' creates an linpossl mission issued order granting Ed States fixing the boundary between ble surveying problem, due to the ward Hines Western Pine Com North Borneo and the PhllippineN sinuous curves of the Borneo eoast. pany privilege of furnishing elec archipelago. Yield Coconut and Turtle Eqjs. tric light, heat and power to ter- “Mislaying Islands In “So an Imaginary line has been* ritory south and adjacent to this pines Is easier than drawn across the ocean and It Is city. seem," says a bulletin specified that all the Islands and Hillsboro— Remodeling opera- flonal Geographic society from its rocks north of this line, and this headquarters In Washington. I>. C„ means most of the group known as tions, costing about $17,000 will “because there are approximately the Turtle Islands, will go to t'ci be carried on .by Montezuma 7,000 islands In the archipelago, Philippines. In addition to Taga- ■ Lodge, I. O. O. F., on buildings distributed over an area equal in gak there !fo lire"' t‘ 1—, I at Third and Main streets. length to the distance from Palat ka, Fla., to Mackinaw City. Mich. “Taganak, most Important of the seven ‘lost’ Islands, Is only a tulle long. Some of the others are merely clumps of trees on small Delivered To Yfllit rocks or coral patches. None Is and Called ' “ Inhabited. "Before the Spanish American For At war, Spain had imide a boundary treaty with Great Britain defining the line between Borneo and the Philippine islands as nine miles off the Borneo coast, latter cante the treaty by which Spain ceded to the United States the Philippine Is lands. and this was found to have four errors, the last of which nre being cleared up more than thirty W. A. Davis, Local Manager. years later. An Island Without a Country. Office Phone 1041 Res. 1052 “Soon after the treaty was made it was found tint Cagayan Islands, of which the principal Island has an area of 46 square miles and a population of 250, had been left as nn Island without a country. This was corrected In 1900. Last year thp question of who. owned Palmas State Board ot Health Seeds Of Quality Fast Freight Radio Program Florence Macbeth, noted oper atic soprano, will be the guest on the "General Mills Fast Freight” program at Do'clock tonight, over stations: KII.J Los Angeles, KVI Seattle-Tacoma, KFRC San Fran cisco, KFPY Spokane, KFBK Sacramento, KOIN Portland, KD- YL Salt Lake City-(10:00, P.M. Mountain Time). She will sing a group of old favorites, including Schubert’s “Ave Maria”, “Deep in My Heart”, “Last Rose of Summer”. You will find a gener GLADIOLI ous assortment of flow- er seeds here. Plan on your garden now. è VERNONIA TRADING CO Vernonia Cass Bergerson Phone 682 telephone Our telephone I. ut rear rervieo. Call us and we shall be glad to send you whatever you wiih la bread, calm, pie. ar poetry. everything in our .hop la quality baked. We uae Occident Flour ev clu.ively—which, while It roots more rirre that distinctively dif ferent Sever to our baked goods. VERNONIA BAKERY Oregon American Lumber Page Three Freight Door Trucks Leave Vernonia 9 A. M. Daily Portland-Vernonia Truck Line For Freight Orders I Clarno—Oil drilling operations resumed on well in this place.