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FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Uentnnia Eaglp Pacific Coaxt Representative Arthur W. Stypes, Inc. San Francisco Member of National Editorial Association and Oregon State Editorial Association. $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 first insertion. 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line. RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher probable result would of course be futile. However it may be stated merely as fact that the tax commission is not a judicial body. It does not inter pret the law, but acts upon the interpretation furnished to it by the attorney general. It can raise or lower assess ments upon investigation, and in exercising its authority it will no doubt treat Vernonia fairly and squarely. If opinion is permissible at all, this newspaper doubts if the disputed points as to the legal questions involved will carry any weight with the commission, for such points are within the jurisdiction of the courts, which alone at tempt to pass upon them. Unless some of the objections raised by Judge Harris have to do with definite and known procedure, it is not likely that they will affect the decision. Clearly, Attorney Dillard has taken the opposite view with regard to most if not all of these, and where competent attorneys disagree the tax commission does not decide. Journal Sketches Judge’s Career What Other Editors • • . Think County Judge J. H. Wellington was the subject of a biographical! sketch in the Oregon Journal of1 December 19. Following is the. Action of the county court Tuesday in adopting the sketch, written by “F. L.” and| Oregon, having involved the county budget substantially . as drawn budget -------- up by the ---- ------- „—joppc,,,, appearing „„„„ under v..v the heading world in a deluge of publicity committee was wise, despite criticisms of certain parts of' “Oregon Folks. » ” iabout that abused and odoriferous it expressed at the hearing Saturday. The work of the! “John H. Wellington is county,whale, should find grim pleasure committee was thorough. They investigated carefully judBe of Columbia county. He'in the investment of tax money (11 ... ... ,. ., ’ was born at Salford, England,'its sometimes grandstanding pub- heard the presentation of both sides of every question! February Pphrnnru 1 1, 1R71. when he was lie officials have made in futile u i. i y M 1871. When he was upon which there was division of popular opinion, and,i0 years old he went to work in ! prosecution of the killers. —Clark County (Wash.) Sun arrived at their conclusion only after mature deliberation, i a cotton mill, being paid 3 shil- The budget deserved unanimous endorsement, and the fact lings per week. He came to St. that there were a certain number of malcontents dis Helens 40 years ago. He married The closing of a Portland bank T. Kendall at St. Helens in last week is a reminder of the gruntled because their own pet economies were adopted in Mary 1900. When Mr. Wellington was few casualties in western Ore- part but not in full is merely an indication of their own still in his early teens he found gon banks during the upset of narrow point of view. that working in a cotton mill 12 the past two years. It is also a To draw’ up a budget of the size required for the coun hours a day wasn’t exactly to his reminder of the vast difference ty is no slight task. Indeed it is no disparagement of the liking, so he shipped as a cabin between the financial crisis ordinary citizen to say that he is not qualified for so big boy on a bark bound for Boston. through which the nation is pass From there he shipped to Scot and those of former years, a job, unrelated to his every day life and for which he has land, later making a trip to Phila ing when banks toppled like houses no background. A man who could keep the account of his delphia. From there he shipped on of cards and business difficul year’s expenditures adequately in a pocket memorandum the famous old clipper ship Tillie ties were thus made worse. In naturally is bewildered when confronted with column uponIE- Starbuck, bound for Portland, sharp distinction we find banks column of figures that only a trained accountant or ex- Ore- He arrived in Portland in today functioning as usual, a sit ¡January, 1891, and liked the cli- uation which not only reflects ecutive can grasp. ' mate and the country here, so he credit on their management, but The deserved praise which Judd Greenman received ( | went to work in the rock quarry also on the sound sense of their as a member of the committee arises not only from his at St. Helens. When this country customers. As to the latter, inherent ability, but also from the fact that as general declared war against Spain he en there is a better understanding superintendent of a large company he is accustomed to listed in the navy and was as of the function of a bank than handling big financial enterprises. He gave the impres signed to the flagship Philadel there once was. It is now pret- phia. He was a member of a ty generally understood that it is sion of knowing what it was all about because he was at landing party at Samoa and was the business of a bank to loan home in operations of similar size, Most of us cannot talk wounded. After receiving his dis borrowers a part of the money in terms of tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. charge from the navy he was en entrusted to it by depositors, gaged in business at Clatskanie When the financial tide runs We lack experience. Unfortunately there are people who, in their failure and later at St. Helens. When smoothly these loans are repaid our country entered the World to grasp a problem as a whole, seize upon some few items war Judge Wellington sold his when due and if not paid collat- eral deposited to secure them can that they believe to be within their comprehension, and store at St. Helens and enlisted I be realized upon. But the tide magnify them from molehills to mountains. The relatively in the navy, being assigned to the of business has not been smooth unimportant becomes the tremendous issue, the dividing Philadelphia, on which he had and securities can not be as line between delinquency and full payment, between bank seen service during the Spanish easily realized upon as in normal war. He served as a times nor is it always possible ruptcy and solvency. Hence it was that men wasted hours American sub-chaser warrant officer on a _ ________ the customer to pay the note and oratory, gas, tires and nervous energy in a vigorous doing patrol duty on the Atlantic.' for when due. The bank is protected campaign against the county agent, the county nurse, the When he was mustered out after I partly by its reserve, but it goes home demonstration agent and the roadmaster. These of the armistice he returned to St.1 without saying that if everybody fices, which to them seemed useless, were symbols of the Helens, was elected sheriff, and' simultaneously demanded their served two terms. His friends in I money even the strongest bank burden of heavy taxes. To them it was an issue of reduc the American Legion urged him tion or no reduction. There was no hope as long as the to run for county judge. He ran might have difficulty in meeting the demand, and this in spite ot offices w’ere retained, and at least a glimmer of light over and was elected. He is an active the fact that it is perfectly sound. the hills if they w’ere abolished. The fact that unquestion member of the American Legion The difficulty of the Portland ably some and perhaps all of these offices were paying and is past commander of Colum bank appears to be that it was solvent, but C9uld not realize their own way, and the saving from abolishment would be bia post of St. Helens.” on its securities. nil, had no weight. Clothing Altered —Hillsboro Independent. The budget committee and the county court took a ST. HELENS—Clothing reno- broader, more comprehensive view. They listened not vation and pattern alteration con- WAS IT MERCY? only to the farmer who had never made use of the county stitute a continuous clothing pro- Poor Tusko, Portland’s eight gram in the home economics ex agent and saw no reason w’hy anybody should, but also units of Columbia county. ton “white” elephant, is apparent to those who knew by experience his value. They took tension Twenty-seven made-over dresses ly doomed by his quite human into consideration the fact that the man with a fancied and four children’s remodeled failing of becoming tired of the grievance is always on hand to express it, while the man garments were reported on at humdrum. routine of an orderly who is satisfied is altogether too likely too stay at home four meetings held recently, and cramped existence, and ex These clothing projects are dir- pressing his resentment by smash and assume that things will go on as before. ected by Mrs. Sarah V. Case, ing things up. The brain that The county court, like the budget committee, deserves home could release heavy iron shackles demonstration agent. hearty commendations. by patiently unsrewing the nuts For real bargains—watch the that bolt them to the elephantine classied columns of the Eagle. legs, is quite capable of a sud- A WISE ACT PETITION TO THE TAX COMMISSION The petition filed with the state tax commission ask ing it to set aside the levy voted Monday in Vernonia leaves the outcome of the budget question to be decided by the commission itself, and any forecasting as to the .w mi . / zzz7: —Pi—n~i------ i—i—tt A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION day to Wednesday of this week. nonia, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mackie and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mrs. Julia Schmier, 87, a resi Hanna. den of Rainier since 1892, died Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lizenby from dropsy Dec. 17. and family were dinner guests at • *•***« the Olson home on Sunday even Longview high school defeated ing. A recreation hall and reading Rainier 20 to 10 in a basketball Miss Evelyn Olson of St. Hel room is being fitted up in St. game Dec. 22. ens is a guest this week at the • •••••• Helens for use of the men in the the S. R. Olson home. McCormick mill who are at pre The Tillamook county budget Chet Evereart visited with his sent out of employment. The was adopted Dec. 22 with very parents at Chapman during the building has been loaned to the slight changes. Among the items holidays. men by H. L. Hudson, manager is an appropriation of $177,000 Mr. and Mrs. Ira Rollins, Mr. for a new court house. of the mill. and Mrs. Archie Lizenby of Ver nonia and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley The St. Helens high school bas Olson, Miss Evelyn Olson and ketball team opened its season Chet Evereart of Camp attend December 23 by defeating West ed a barn dance at Vernonia on port 36 to 26. last Saturday night. Little Charles Mitchell is visit The record of hearing ten jury ing with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Camp was shut down for a C. Mitchell. Charles is staying cases in a 12 day term of court had been established by Judge short vacation beginning on De with his grandmother in Wash Howard K. Zimmerman in the cember 23 but resumed opera ington this year and attending December session in St. Helens tions again on this last Mon school there. day. Nearly all the families which closed December 19. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wridge and took advantage of the short va family and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tom Matthews was installed as cation to visit friends and rela Miers and family of Vernonia worshipful master of the St. Hel tives. were visitors at the Olson home Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hanna and on Monday evening. ens Masonic lodge Dec. 22 and Edith Johnson worthy matron of daughter Dorothy Lee were Ver nonia visitors at the home of A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Mizpah chapter, O. E. S. Charlie Hanna during the shut My opponents tell me that I Glen R. Metsker of St. Helens, down. Mrs. Norman Guinn and two am a dreamer. I am. No man was called to Douglas, Kan., Dec. 18 by the death his father, Louis small children are visiting in has ever done anything without first of all dreaming about it. We Portland. A. Metsker. • «**«** Mrs. Charles Lewis is still in dream of things and then if we Fred J. Patten of Rainier, Mrs. j Portland under a doctor’s care are men of action we set about Carrie Kind of Delena, Miss Bun- but is reported to be improving. realizing our dreams in our wak Mrs. Jack Hall returned home ing moments. eva Culbertson of Scappoose, —Ramsay MacDonald. County Superintendent Elizabeth Thursday from Portland where C. Murray of St. Helens were, she has been seriously ill but is Watch the classified section together with E. H. Condit of on the road to recovery. Mrs. this city, delegates to the Oregon Hall has been gone nearly two and see for yourself the many opportunities listed there. Read State Teachers’ association con months. it every week. Recipient of the sad news on vention in Portland from Mon- Christmas morning that his fa den and errible ennui against ex ther had passed away John At istence in a cold, dark, drafty kins and family immediately left shack; occasional hangovers from for Portland where he planned a tub of bad moonshine; and the to travel by plane in order to constant thralldom of heavy fet reach San Francisco in time for ters. Mayor George Baker saved the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pringle Tusko’s life yesterday but we THAN NOW CHEAPER doubt if Tusko has anything to be spent the holidays with the form thankful for. Life is life, and the er’s parents at Salem. EVER TO ENJOY Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Olson and thrust of instinct drives us to Always a bigger dollar’s wards its preservation, but a dark daughter Betty Jean divided worth of winter warmth— their vacation between Battle little shed and chains are not the re-refined Pearl Oil —now available everywhere in the succulent fastnesses of the deep ground, Wash., and St. Helens. new refillable can—is more jungle; the pools and streams; Mrs. Olson’s parents live in Wash of an economy than ever! the mighty arched trees, nor the ington and Mr. Olson’s at St. Buy Pearl Oil for cozy Helens. warm life-giving sun of Tusko’s heat — wherever you set At the Hatfield home for Sun your kerosene heater —all natural habitat. Perhaps the rain winter long. Buy it five gal of deadening lead would have day dinner were Mr. and Mrs. lons at a time. When the Ira Rollins and family of Ver- been more merciful. can is empty—return it to —Astorian-Budget. your dealer for repeated re fillings at bulk prices. Get more for your money with clean-burning Pearl Oil — finest quality kerosene. $5.00 Remember that even in the best heaters, it’s the oil that Complete supplies the heat. “Coal oil” or “kerosene” may mean any kind of kerosene Among Our Neighbors • . Camp Eight PEARL OIL Heating FOR hay -------------------- -------- GRAIN --------- ----------------------- FEED PHONE 681 Vernonia Trading Co« Agency for McCormick-Deering ------ TRACTORS ------ RARRFR M wz BARBER Jt>y shop Haircutting for Men Women ana Children Expert Work Guaranteed PASTIME CARDS AND LIGHT LUNCHES Lloyd Baker, Prop. CONTRACTORS JOHN A. MILLER Vernonia Hotel Building Phone 1261 DENTISTS GLENN E. DEAMER Marvin R. Eby, M. D. Physican and Surgeon j Phone Hospital 931 Town Office 891 ------------------------------------------- j DR. J. A. HUGHES Vernonia, 1 Oregon ' Chop Suey Restaurant _______________________ 1 Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 663 Res. Phone 664 OPEN FRIDAY, SAT URDAY AND SUNDAY 729 THIRD STREET Willard Batteries VIOLET RAY GASOLINE Oil» . . . Expert Greasing I General Plumbing Vernonia, Oregon Parts for all radios either in stock or manufactured to order. House 18, O-A Hill Residence Phone 1061 DOCTORS Mary Kato C. BRUCE RADIO SERVICE Dentist Vernonia, Oregon BAFFORD BROS. Wholesale and Retail Complete M. D. COLE RESTAURANTS LUMBER OREGON DEALERS SAFEWAY STORES VERNONIA MARKET R. A. SIMMONS HOME GROCERY RIVERVIEW SERVICE STATION VERNONIA BRAZING 4 MACHINE WORKS NEHALEM MARKET Beauty Shoppe CARD BOOM / PORTLAND, “Pearl Oil” Milady’s SHOPS Vernonia Vernonia Bakery —SAY TO YOUR DEALER Assures your being im maculate after a few strokes of the comb for it is set deep, wide and permanent by a process of steaming from the inside out, instead of being forced in under heat pressure. 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 and professional people. Mason Work, Building Worth keeping, and easy to keep, too . . . Buy Mother’s Bread, Mother’s Cakes, Mother’s Cookies and other delicacies . . . Made in Ver nonia . . . And keep Vernonia money at home. RINGLETTE PERMANENT Professional and Business Directory General Contractor C'hcn in Portland atop at "Til« Multnomah." Mora (<>• your money «' awprising economy. Rates from $2.06 with Bath. Popular priced restaurants. New lobby, new furnishings, new service,and new many-other-things. Absolutely FIREPROOF. PAGE THREE VERNONIA SERVICE STATION TRANSFER — TRUCK CURLY’S TRANSFER Phone Business 221 Residence 653 Local and Long Dis tance Hauling CASON TRANSFER Local & long distance HAULING Phone 923 Office in Workingmen’« Store
