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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1930. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON______________ FOUR Urrtumia 1930 AUGUST 1930 SUN MON TUES WED mu FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 _ 28 _ 29 30 '■’V County Official er Member of National Editorial Assn, and Oregon State Edit orial Assn. /XV JU Pacific Coast Representative« Arthur W. Stypes, Inc. San Francisco $2.00 Per Year in Advance Issued Every Friday 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. sible for secrecy in balloting are unworthy to hold a place on so important a party body. It was a confession of weakness, of cowardice unparalleled in Oregon politics. The committee is pre sumed to be made up of rep resentative material, of men whose political acumen is recog nized. The secret ballot was an admission that the members lack ed courage to have the individual candidates know how they voted. It was a violation of all of the tenets of frankness and fair nlay and of the trust delegated by the membership of the re publican party. It was sure to damn the successful candidate regardless of who it might be. Phil Metschan may deserve all of the good things said of him by those who know him best but the method by which he was nominated smells to high heaven. —McMinnville Telephone Regis ter. Oregon people complain of hard times often without real | cause, but if anything was ne- cessary to prove that conditions in the state make it a paradise BIG EDDY PARK when compared with others it is Vernonia has reason to be proud of Big Eddy park, found in the testimony of visit which, though not primarily a local enterprise, is so near ors, not only from the east, but some coast states as well, home as to lie virtually within the portals. For what do from which unite in testifying that ten miles matter on a good gravelled road? conditions here are the best. This Much is being said now with regard to preservation testimony is not only given by of our big trees because of their scenic beauty. Lumber, business men, but by farmers as well, the latter agreeing that Ore of course, we must have, and to refrain from cutting gon farmers are decidedly on available timber because of disinclination to spoil the easy street when compared with landscape would be industrially unprofitable and senti- those intheir home states.—Hills boro Independent. RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher mentally foolish. Yet there are forests that can be retained without Russian pulpwood is to be al appreciable loss to the lumber industry—spots that or- lowed to come into the United because powerful interests ganizations such as the grange, or the state itself, can States in the east willed it so. It is take over. Unless some such move is made, in not many about time the northwest was years distant there will be practically no first-growth fir, given some consideration in the spruce or pine in the state. As it is, all such trees have matter of its great industry— lumber.—Hillsboro Argus. disappeared from the vicinity of our major highways, Mr. Meier has a good chance and only now are we realizing the loss. election, as good as either The Columbia County Pomona Grange, therefore, is I of Metschan or Bailey. That is our performing a commendable public service in establishing j judgment at this time. His big- a park in a bit of primeval forest where the cutting of gest asset is his position as resi- trees or shrubbery is prohibited under severe penalty. duary legatee of the dead Joseph who was his close friend and At least one place in Western Oregon will retain its origi business associate. He was not nal scenic grandeur, barring destruction by the fire demon. cast in the same mould as Joseph, experience In opening Big Eddy park to the public without ref however, erence to affiliation with their own or any other organiza tion, the Grange is showing an admirable citizenship., Theirs is a philanthropic enterprise from which they gain nothing except the wholesome satisfaction of having per- formed an unselfish deed. Vernonia, nearest of all cities to Big Eddy park, should take pride in what the Grange is doing for the Ne- halem valley and the state of Oregon. DESTROYING OUR FORESTS The wanton destruction of timberland is one of the most tragic phases of our fire waste record. In a period of ten years, be tween 1916 and 1925, an average of 51,021 forest fires occurred each year, entailing an annual destruction of property value of $20,994,916. It requires 40, to 100 years for a tree to reach maturity. Yet, by fire, whole forests can be totally destroyed in a few hours. Great fires, wiping out all tim ber over broad areas cause the extinction of wild life, radical changes in climate and damage to agriculture. The state and national governments do every thing in their power to prevent such catastrophes. But they can not be successful without public cooperation. Tourists, by carelessness with tobacco, matches and camp fiers, are leading offenders. Some of the worst conflagrations in our history have occurred when camp ing parties moved on without completely extinguishing their fires. It should be our patriotic duty to help protect and conserve our BAKER—(UP)— Mrs. Bertha Burtis asked her police captors permission to bathe, Both Ber-1 tha and the water ran. Noise of the running water covered her escape from a window. BEND—(UP)—Although accu sers didn’t know the license number of an automobile whose driver forced them from the road, they knew he had a police dog. Police found the dog, ar rested the road hog. EUGENE—(UP) — A pelicatr with a six-foot wing spread, alighted at the airport here, spent the night in a hangar, vi- STAYTON—(UP)— Sunflow sited by day with attendants, ers 10 and one-half feet tall “took off” that evening. grow in J. R. Miller’s garden _____________________ RIVERVIEW—(UP)—A hum I here. an skull with an arrow imbedded in the bone, was found by for ester Gordon Cilkey. R eliabie P rinting ] SALEM—(UP) — Patrolman Emery W. James left his police prowler automobile standing in front of his home. A thief made off with it. I THE VERNONIA EAGLE i; For Letterheads In Popular Tints . . . Let us show you some clever new de signs. We can furnish some good grades of inexpensive paper, Or the very best that can be secured in the Pacific Nortwest. INSUREz//7/z™ OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE LINDLEY & McGRAW TO THESE TIRE SAVINGS RUSSIAN PULI’ WOOD At last it looks as if something were to be done about barring Russian pulp wood from entry into the1 United States—something besides a mere shrugging of official shoulders, and the turning of an ear to foreign shipping interests and domestic importers. Officials are human. If those who have something to gain by prolonging the depression of the American lumber industry are better organized and more outspoken than those who are seeking to put it on a stable financial basis, said officials will listen to them. The meeting in Salem yesterday, in which Senator McNary and Congressman Hawley conferred with repre sentatives of Oregon pulp wood men, indicates that the Pa cific Northwest is up and doing itself. Senator McNary’s resolution that a committee be sent to Russia to investi-i gate is deserving of being carried out. Let us have facts, not the glib assurances of smooth-' tongued diplomats and foreign agents. Wliat Ollier Editors Think some difficulty in wearing the great forests.—St. Helens Mist. Joseph coat with ease and grace. Florida editors have declared —Astoria Budget. they would give no more space Among the more encouraging to tree-sitting endurance contests- pieces of news of the past week That puts many youthful publi are the stories of resumption of city seekers up a tree. —St. He Pacific coast camps and mills, lens Mist. and the return to work of thous- The best comment that we ands of laborers in the automo- bile plants in the manufactur have heard on the election is ing centers of the midwest. There that i coming from an Astoria is an indication of a return to daily to the effect that the a more stable condition of in State Republican committee went dustry and employment through to the Imperial hotel and got out the country.—Rainier Re their “Phil.” — Forest Grove News-Times. view. The members of the republican state central committee respon- Commiation Should Act A shorter route to the sea shore from the population center of the state has been wanted and demanded for several years. Members of the state highway commission have stated that no thing would be done about a sur vey or short cut to the sea un til local communities fighting for the road forget their petty jea lousies and quarrels with local benefits in mind and agree on one route. The possibility of an agreement j between local communities is as far-fetched now as ever and in the meantime the need and de mand for a shorter road to the sea is becoming greater. The commission should be and is sup posed to be a non-political group having as its duty the direction of state highway w’ork in Ore- gon. It acts as a judicial body and has the say as to the loca- tion of highways and the placing of new ones on the system. It assuredly seems that it is the duty of the commission to investigate the short cut beach road layout, cause a survey to be made and to make a decision on the route without further ar gument. The population and traf fic demand justify immediate ac tion by the highway commis sioners.—Hillsboro Argus. This Tire keeps going in Spite of Punishment! ICE day. Country road. Motor fortnance. Built it to live up to Good humming. Then . .. BANG! You rich standards . . . and still coat lesa N knew it! That bargain-counter casing than just ordinary tires. on the right front wheel! So you'll find the (lavalier big and Another good day gone wrong ... and husky in every particular. Oversize in not helped by the fact that you'd been air cushion. Stout in carcass and side wondering how long that tire was going wall. Tough and slow-wearing in the to last. tread. And good to look at, too! You know how It is! Sodowe! That’s s If you want to take tires off your mind why we have Cavaliers on our racks. . . . see us. Our stock of Cavaliers in Goodrich built the Cavalier for people cludes your size . . . and two sizes for ¥ who want to keep their tire investment trucks. Specially priced now ... not apt at the minimum. Built it to suit them to be much longer. Gome in while th* in price . . . and surprise them in per- savings are b*¿ger than usual. ■ Oregon-American Lumber Co Goodrich* -®* Cavalier, •I i Ï I RIVERVIEW SERVICE STATION Bill Heath Phone X5T 4 X
