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OREGON
J EDITORIAL
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1930.
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
PAGE FOUR
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County Official Paper
Member of National Editorial
Association and Oregon State
Editorial Association.
publicity harmless to the wrongdoer, unless he be a crimi-|ern line which at least might year over the third quarter of second quarter and 11 per cent
nal associating only with those of his class. It is, indeed, be investigated.............................. the year, six per cent over the over the first part of the year.
—Hillsboro Independent.
one of the severest of punishments. Let anything be
said reflecting on the character of a man or woman who JUDGE CLARK “ALL WET”
I is respectable, tries to be respectable, or pretends to be |
Judge Clark of New Jersey
respectable, and the wound is deep.
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.1 court has rendered a decision de-
A man suspected of a crime has many chances of | daring the eighteenth amend-
With All Good
' escaping penalty, as far as the law is concerned. Clevei I ment to the constitution illegally
lawyers, sympathetic jurors, legal technicalities may free adopted. The judge draws a fine
distinction; the distinction the
Wishes for a
him even when guilty. But merciless publicity.............. judge desires, however, is fame
for himself.
The judge’s decision is “all
wet”. If the judge is right, then
$2.00.
Per
Year
in
Advance
Issued Every Friday
the eighteenth amendment is of
no force and the country is as
Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post
wet as the judge. The thirteenth
office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879.
amendment is also invalid and
Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch;
crime again. In Ontario, Canada, all the colored people might as
legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding
they work their convicts. And well return to slavery, for it has
insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion,
they pay them. When a man is not legally been abolished; the
15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line.
.discharged in Ontario, he has: ! fellows who have been paying
from $500, to $1500 in his pock- I 1 huge income taxes have done so
ets, the enforced saving from his j illegally and they can retain
RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher
labor. He can get a fresh start I Judge Clark to recover the am
with that. He has a chance to re-1 I ounts they have paid; the United
esstablish his life on an honest I States senators have all been i
RELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
elected to office under an amend-1
basis.
THE AMAZING AGE
Is it expensive? Not at all. In ment illegally adopted and each
Relief work through the agency of government is
Ontario the penitentiaries are en- and all of them might as well
If “Law” did what it is sup ’ tirely self-supporting because of pack their grips and go home;
no cure-all for the present unemployment situation, but posed
to do, the United States
finally, the women who have been
it helps just that much in providing work at living wage would be the most moral and J that convict labor. Ours could voting under the nineteenth
be. If they were it would be bet
for men who would otherwise be out of a job.
“crimeless” country in the world.
ter for the criminal and the tax amendment should all be prose
No
other
nation
has
ever
had
cuted for election frauds.
The state has set an example. Since opportunities
payer alike.
such a volume of legislation.
Oh, yaw, the distinguised New
It
is
well
known
that
the
Ore
for the road work outlined are comparatively limited— Yet the newspapers sag with
Jersey
jurist is “all wet.”
60 have already registered in this county for jobs allotted accounts of the doings of cele gon penitentiary is one which
—Rainier Review.
meets the description given by
at 25—not many Vernonia men are likely to be employed. brated gangsters and “racke the judge, for a succession of
The city itself should do something towards providing as teers.” Law enforcement offi wardens have made it plain that Caution during the winter
cers search frantically for ways all possible work is insufficient months is needed by motorists. |
much work as the available funds allow.
to press charges against them,
keep all inmates employed and as figures show an increase of
Our side streets need attention. Ditches, similar to but to no avail. An arrest is the to
the result is idleness which breeds three per cent in auto fatalities
those already in at Weed avenue and Maple street, should signal for swift activity on the crime and prevents reformation in the last three months of the
EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
be dug to drain off surplus water. Such grading as weath part of lawyers to show that the of first-termers. There was a
er permits should be accomplished. Crosswalks can be supposed law-breaking is “within” time when convicts were given -
I. O. O. F. HALL
the law.
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laid at muddy intersections. Property that the city has The irony of such a situation regular employment and an op
portunity to accumulate a fund
taken over can be cleared of debris and weeds.
Music by
is inescapable. We have thous which was given to them when
Not all should be left to the city, however, Indivi- ands upon thousands of crimi sentences expired. There were ■
Spike Cameron’s Orchestra
Optometrist and Optician
duals who are financially able should build, repair, im- nal laws and there is talk of occasional grave faults in the
asking the federal government system and convict labor was
prove, just as some have already done.
to take a hand in subduing the exploited at the expense of free
Of Portland
Establishment of a free employment bureau by the criminal element in one of our labor. There was also the crusade
WILL BE IN
chamber of commerce is a distinct benefit, for the re- gang-ridden cities! As a “crime against prison-made goods, and
remedy
”
it
is
often
proposed
to
together
they
have
resulted
in
creation hall designated as headquarters is a convenient make it a crime for a perfectly
the problem of keeping inmates
Delivered To and Called for at Your Door
clearing house for those who want work done, and those honest citizen to own a revolver employed with results that Judge
EVERY 2nd AND 4th
or pistol—while it is a rare week Campbell points out. Solution
who desire to perform it.
TRUCKS LEAVE VERNONIA 'J A. M. DAILY
in which gangsters fail to “bump”
MONDAY OF EACH
Charity is only an emergency device, necessary some- someone off with machine guns. of the problem is difficult, but
Long Distance Furniture Hauling
we might as well foce the fact
MONTH
times in an emergency, but wholly incapable of remedy And still we talk of passing that penitentiaries as now con
Between Vernonia and Portland
All day and Evening at the
ing the economic situation. Helping men and women to more laws. Why not reverse the ducted do not bring about re
Portland-Vernonia Truck Line
help themselves is much more effective. While it cannot process and enforce some existing form, but rather increase it and
of itself restore prosperity, it can tide families over until laws? We do live in an amazing that in protecting free labor
W. A. Davis, Local Manager.
See Him About Your Eye».
from what under former cosdi-
such time as reviving industry creates demand for em age.—St. Helens Sentinel.
Office
Phone 443
Res. 1052
tions was someties unfair compe-
ployment. Not only does it relieve want, but it keeps
THE PENITENTIARY
tition we are doing so at a cost
trade from stagnating.
in money far greater than was
People who believe that crime saved. It would seem that even
Vernonia should do its share.
can be suppressed by arresting without deep study of the situ-
the criminal and imprisoning him ation a way might be found to
may find food for reflection in meet both horns of the dilemma.
SHOULD A NEWSPAPER DESCRIBE CRIME?
the address delivered in Portland According to Judge Campbell we
For your convenience the following business and professional people are listed on
this page alphabetically. These men and women are known in Vernonia as reliable business
last week by Supreme Justice have an example across the north-
and professional people.
A Vernonia pastor in his sermon last Sunday took elect Campbell, former Washing
exception to the crime news exploited in daily papers, ton county circuit judge. Said
Judge Campbell:
BEAUTY SHOPS
filling the minds of readers with that which is foul.
America is not providing the
Hotel HyVan
Much, indeed, may be sait! against the practice of the right conditions for incarceration
STEAM
HEAT
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dailies in probing into every nook and cranny of so-call of criminals. Our first offenders
The
best
for
those
t Personal Service!
ed love nests, and holding out for inspection dust-pansful are merely law violators, they
who
appreciate
the
are
sent
to
our
penitentiaries,
L Reasonable RafesJ I
of cobwebs and litter. The reason for their so doing is where they meet with idleness,
BROWN MORTUARY
best.
U.
S.
Royal
Cord
Tires
Phone 593
ANNETTE BEAUTY SHOPPE
obvious: readers demand the sordid details, particularly and they get a real education in
Phone 431
if the families involved are wealthy and socially promi crime. They emerge as criminals.
Shell Products
BARBER
nent. The editors may personally prefer to fill the col We give them $5 in money, a $12
Dependable Mechanics
J L-1 y
shop
Electrotherapy, Physiotherapy
umns with worth-while, significant news, but they feel suit of clothes, and set them out
again upon the world. They
Haircutting
for
Men
compelled to give the public what it wants, If they do can't
DR.
R.
A.
OLSON
Shop Work Guaranteed
Local & long distance
get far on that. They
Women and Children
Chiropractor
not, some other newspaper captures the circulation and are, too frequently,
HAULING
Tel. 671
1117 Stat, -
Expert Work Guaranteed
the advertising based on it.
Vernonia, Ore
Phone 923
Regardless of how Mrs. Leona Bowles met her death,
had her husband and his paramour foreseen the outcome
of their love affair, it is certain there would have been
no such mess. Names and deeds blazoned on the front
page carry a warning to all who are not hopelessly blind.
Merry
Christmas
What Other
Editors
Think
emonia
Trading Co
Dance
Dr. Brower
Freight
Vernonia
Hotel Hy-Van
Professional and Business Directory
SQUARE DEAL
SERVIGE STATION
COMPLETE«
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Cason Transfer
Inexcusable, perhaps, except for mere business reas-
ons, is the exhibition of so much filth. Granting that
much, however, ought papers to publish crime news?
Should they ignore murder, triangles, debauchery?
By no means. Good policy in a small town may im
pel an editor to refrain from printing items that lower a
man in the eyes of his neighbors—that pillory him, as
it were, for the whole community to jeer at.
The newspaper in the big city, however, has a wider
sphere of action, with the element of personality left out.
So great is the crowd that the individual, however impor
tant in his own eyes and in those of his friends, is rela-l
tively obscure. Despite unfavorable publicity, he can still
walk the streets without turning his eyes from every man
he meets.
Not so complete is the escape, however, as to render'
CONTRACTORS
Office in
Workingmen’s Store
Eafford Brothers
JOHN A. MILLER
Money to Loan
Vernonia
Mason Work, Building
On improved real estate;
long time and reasonable
terms. See Attorney John
L. Storla, St. Helens, Ore.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BItUCF
Brown r urn it ure Co
3E
General Plumbing
General Contractor
PASTIME
Wholesale and Retail
LUMBER
Vernonia,
Oregon
CARDS AND
LIGHT LUNCHES
DENTISTS
Lloyd Baker, Prop.
M. D. COLE
Dentist
Vernonia, Oregon
Da<Ts
SANDWICH SHOP
Delicious Chile and Sand
wiches—Also Roasts and
Short Orders
DR. W. H. HURLEY
Dentistry and X-Ray
Hoffman Hdwe. Building
Vernonia, Oregon
ANNOUNCEMENT
I have leased and am now
operating the Sessman
Blacksmith Shop.
Repairing of All Kinds
W. M. Faulkner
CURLY’S TRANSFER
Phone Business 221
Residence 653
Local and Long Dis
tance Hauling
PHYSICIANS
Marvin R. Eby, M. D.
Terminal Cafe
Physician and Surgeon
The Right Place to Eat
Excellent Cooking
Phone Hospital 931
Town Office 891
Mary Kato
Phy.iciaa and Surfeoa
HOTEL
HOTEL GORDON
Newly Furnished Rooms
Hot and Cold Water
Next to Post Office
Very Reasonable Rates
rlATIMi HIM7
U U&EAIINO ‘
AT HOME 4
hotel
M c D onald
Dr. J. A. Hughes
Chop Suey
Restaurant
You'll enjoy a bowl
of delicious Chop
Suey after the show.
Office Phone 663 Vernonia,
Res. Phone 664 •
Oregon
OPTOMETRIST
Eyea Teatad
Glaates Fit tad
Dr. C. O. Anderson
Eye
Specialist—Optometriit
let Monday ia Each Mouth.
At Kullander'a Jewelry Store