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Friday, March 27, 1931. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE FOUR VAN VLEET TO START LOGGING Iknunna üanlr The Van Vleet Logging Co., of Vernonia will begin work in about two weeks hauling logs into Clat Pacific Coast Representative skanie by means of a fleet of Arthur W. Stypes, Inc. trucks. San Francisco Last fall Van Vleet purchased the DeRock timber in sections 23 and 27 between the Nehalem and Deep creek, consisting of 12 and Member of National Editorial 15 million feet. This is the timber Association and Oregon State that will be marketed in the open market through Clatskanie. Editorial Association. Van Vleet has been logging in Vernonia vicinity and selling $2.00. Per Year in Advance the Issued Every Friday logs to the Oregon American but failing to find a market there has Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post hauled some logs here in the past. office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. He and his family and about eight other families are planning Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; on moving to Clatskanie as soon legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding as possible. J. E. Miller, local insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, realtor, is trying to find houses 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line. for them now. Mr. Van Vleet began yesterday to cut piling on the DeRock RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher holdings and in about two weeks will begin falling of timber. A road has already been constructed so that they may be brought out. VERNONIA'S NEW SCHOOL The Wiggins Bros, who hauled logs from the top or the Nehalem mountain last year have announ Several speakers at the dedication of the Washington ced that they will resume oper grade school Friday brought out the fact that no other ations again in a very short time. —Clatskanie Chief town of the size of Vernonia in the state has so fine a school building. In beauty, design, facilities and mater ial of construction it is outstanding, and the community has every reason to be proud of it. Yet a school is more than a building. An up-to- date structure makes possible an enlightened type of in struction, such as Superintendent Howard analyzed, but does not assure it. Unless the human element is in keeping, the modernity of the surroundings serves no pur pose. Unscientific instruction restricted to the three R’s might just as well be had in the cheapest of shacks, if roomy enough. That the instruction under Superintendent Condit and the present staff has been of high quality is unques tioned. So, too, the pupil activities as demonstrated in athletics under Coach McCrae, art under Mrs. Fullerton and music under Miss Bougher. The present school year has been one of achievement, in keeping with the com modious, well-appointed building. Is the future as promising? That depends upon the taxpayers, who can force the school directors into waste ful economies, penny-wise and pound foolish; or. while guarding against extravagance, they can make possible first rate instruction in Vernonia’s fine school. As an emergency measure, while many of the tax payers are getting only part-time work at reduced wages, decreasing the number of teachers and cutting drastically the salaries of those who remain is perhaps justified. Such a situation, however, like the sluggish lumber mar ket at the bottom of the difficulty, should be merely temporary. Overburdened, underpaid teachers can in the end perform only inferior work. If the time ever comes when Vernonia's good teachers leave because the scale of pay is lower than their talents command, and less competent pedagogues take their places, the $75,000 spent on the new building is just that much wasted. Vernonia’s teaching staff must remain on a par with Vernonia's distinctive building. The way of municipal ownership is not always smooth. Vernonia water rates are too high, either because some past administration let the contract at too high a price, or a slick salesman for a bonding company gold-bricked the city dads. Forest Grove’s power and light depart ment charges rates that are excessive, though for an entirely different reason: The city drained all the income above immediate cost of operation, and provided no sink ing fund for redemption of bonds or depreciation of equip ment. battles, must wage its own con tests for the things it gets and favors it receives. Although it is bounded only by France and the Mediterranean, it is not a1 part of France politically. On the shores of the beautiful Columbia river in the northern part of Oregon lies the thriving city of St. Helens. It is not sep arately governed, but comes un der the jurisdiction of the state of Oregon and is a part of Ore gon politically. But when it has a fight to make, frequently it must make it alone, without the aid of the rest of the state, par ticularly from some of the pow ers that be. In this way it is comparable to the principality of Monaco. We refer, of course, to the fight that has been waged to se- cure the location of the Pacific Northwest branch of the national soldiers’ home. Fighting practic ally alone, as far as support from the rest of the state was con cerned. St. Helens went after this home with might and main. Suit able property was optioned, com plete surveys and reports on it were gathered. Representatives of the community were sent to the seat of the national govern ment to present its merits. But encouragement from other places in the state as indicated in the press reports of metropolitan newspapers was noticeably lack ing. The reason for this we do not know. We do know that we put up a good fight and that we have apparently lost out. We must take what satisfaction we can from that, at the same time of fering our congratulations to whatever site is finally chosen. For after all, we are a part of Oregon, even though we may fee] that we are at times a neglected part, and we are happy that the site is to be in this state. —St. Helens Mist. Gilliam, Wheeler, Sherman and Morrow, with a combined popula tion of 14,185, were given two representatives. Yet Clatsop and Columbia, with nearly eigjjt times the population of the other four combined were given but three representatives between them. This very obvious favoritism is ascribed by the Oregon Voter to Representatives Hamilton, Snell and Yates. —Astorian-Budget STOP THE MURDERS BY MOTORS What Oilier Editors Think Is Garden Time Square B&eal Vernonia Trading Co Professional and Business Directory Fr eight TRUCKS LEAVE VERNONIA 9 A. M. DAILY Long Distance Furniture Hauling Between Vernonia and Portland I Portland-Vernonia Truck Line W. A. Davis, Local Manager. RES. PHONE 443 OFFICE PHONE 1041 RARRFP BARBER SHOP Joy Haircutting for Men Women and Children Expert Work Guaranteed Lloyd Baker, Prop. CONTff ACTpoC General Contractor Mason Work, Building C. BRUCE Wholesale and Retail LUMBER Lumber Co. Vernonia, Oregon BAFFORD BROS General Plumbing Vernonia SECURED BY U. S. ADJUSTED COMPENSATION CERTIFICATES If no loans have already been made upon these. DENTISTS M. D. COLE Office Phone 663 íes. Phone 664 Vernonia, Oregon DAD’S SANDWICH SHOP Delicious Chile and Sand wiches—Also Roasts and Short Orders Glasses Fitted DR. C. O. ANDERSON Eye Speliali*t—Optometrist 1st Monday in Each Month. At Kullander’s Jewelry Store HOTEL GORDON Newly Fun 'shed Room* Hot and Cold Water Mary Kato Next to Post Office Very Reasonable Rates Chop Suey Restaurant Hotel Hy-Van STEAM HEAT The best for those who appreciate the best. TINC HERE id ¿¿¿eEATIMi AT HOMI hotel M c D onald COMPLETE« "ÆUNERALS MONEY TO IOAN Physiotherapy Tel. 671 1117 State St. Vernonia. Oregon CURLY’S TRANSFER Phone Business 221 Residence 653 Local and Long Dis tance Hauling MORTUARIES ------------ nor tops ___________ Chiropractor You’ll enjoy a bowl of delicious Chop Suey after the show. TRANSFER — TRUCK BROWN MORTUARY Phone 593 DR. R. A. OLSON TERMINAL CAFE The Right Place to Eat Excellent Cooking HOT FI q Dentist Vernonia, Oregon Electrotherapy, Eank «*' Vernonia Physician and Surgeon Eye» Tested CARDS AND LIGHT LUNCHES Oregon-American DR. J. A. HUGHES CARO ROOM PASTIME Funds Available RESTAURANTS CHC1PÇ JOHN A. MILLER To Local Veterans House And :SIGN PAINTING The man who operates the stationary engine the motivates the big shovel in our excavations is required to show a certificate of soberity and ability, and as a result the engine and shovel cause few accidents. Persons who propose to drive automobiles are required to present no evidence of experience of temperance, or of nothing else except that they have the money with which to sure the machine. As a result of this, in the United States last year more than 32,500 persons were killed and 960,000 were injured in motor accidents. There is a greater total of fatalities and casualties than our soldiers suffered in the great war. If we were in conflict with another nation, and if our newspapers reported nearly 3000 of our sons slain and more than 80,0.00 woun ded in a month, our pacifists would hold monster massmeetings and demanded a cessation of the internecine war through peace at any price. But the frightful rec ord of motor murders attracts little attention, and certainly stirs us to no effort at abate OLEO REFERENDUM ment. Not even the fact that CIRCULATORS START last year more than 2000 little children were crushed to death An illuminating little item and 45,000 were maimed by au from Portland discloses that Geo. tos and that the new year opens Bylander, professional peddler of with no less appalling list of referendum petitions, has taken tragedies seems to awaken us to And Garden Time means the purchase DISCRIMINATED AGAINST a contract for the halting of the necessity of taking measures Clatsop county regrets the loss to stop this shocking and in many Oregon’s new 10-cent oleo tax. of seeds. He will attempt to get signa of a half-representative in the tures of 11,000 qualified voters to legislature through the last min hold up the oleo tax, and call ute amendment to the reappor an election to repeal it. A crew tionment bill, and may rightfully Always the best quality and the best of 80 paid circulators will be resent this action as discriminat- put on the streets of Portland. ion. And this without denjing the variety at Salem, Corvallis, Albany, and claims of Columbia county to Service Station Eugene, at an unnamed com representation equal to that of mission, possibly the usual 10 Clatsop. cents per name. As a matter of fact Columbia U. S. Royal Cord Tires He may find enough signers county’s population is so near who care little or nothing for that of Clatsop that no injustice Shell Products the dairy farmer’s plight to suc is done in conceding her equal rep Cass Bergerson Ed Tapp ceed in defeating, or at least resentation. Her gain of a half Dependable Mechanics delaying, the law which we had representative, while seemingly at Phone 681 I hoped would give dairying a liv the expense of Clatsop county, was Shop Work Guaranteed ing wage again. actually not so. She should have If he does, that’s Oregon’s gained a whole representative at loss and the South Sea islands’ the expense of some of the spar gain. sely populated counties of Eastern Grants Pass Courier and Central Oregon. Both Clat sop and Columbia counties were OUT IN THE COLD discriminated against. On the shores of the beautiful Representation outside Multno For your convenience the following business and professional people are listed on Mediterranean sea in the south mah county was made on a basis this page alphabetically. These men and women are known in Vernonia as reliable business ern part of France lies the small of one to an average of 13,361 and professional people. principality of Monaco. It is a people, yet we find that Crook separately governed independent and Jefferson counties, with a country under its own jurisdic combined population of only 5627 ANNOI INCVMFM^g tion. It must fight its own was given a representative while ANNOUNCEMENT REEHER & LUEBKE Marvin R. Eby, M. D. I have leased and am now op- New And Used Good* erating the Sessman Black- Furniture & Physican and Surgeon Bargains In smith Shop. Stoves Phone Hospital 931 Repairing of all kind, 11 First Ave. Forest Grove, Town Office 891 North Oregon W. M. Faulkner Delivered To and Called for at Your Door Perhaps the lesson will some day be learned that municipal or state ownership of utilities is a business, and if sucessful must be conducted on sound business principles, as much so as any private enterprise. FOR LOANS instances preventable waste of' To buy, sell or trade, use human life. j gag]e classified ads. But how can the murders and near murders by motors be stop ped? We are told that last year 960,000 were injured and 32,500 were killed by stupid, earless,' ignorant drivers. The law can1 not prevent carelessness at the wheel, but it can, and should, | see to it that ignorance and stu- [ pidity do not occupy the driver’s' seat. Before a barber is per-i mitted to cut your hair, he must prove his competency at the risk] of violating a consistency that I PAPER HANGING heretofore has stubbornly re-1 sisted all temptations to ask' AND TINTING for a law” to cure this or that, i The Spectator now suggests that J. C. Henderson Governor Meier appoint a Com-^ mission of Public Safety whose ■ Phone 1021 members shall have a knowledge Book» of 1930 Wall Paper of electricity and engineering Sample* Now Here and who shall searchingly ex- i On Display amine on his driving ability every person who proposes to: operate an auto in Oregon. With\ Vernonia proper care in issuing licenses to motor drivers we should this Paint Shop year be able to reduce the shock- j ing total of more than a million Vernonia citizens killed and injured in this country in 1930. —The Spectator Money to Loan On improved real estate; long time and reasonable terms. See Attorney John L. Storla. St Helens Oregon. 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