FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1932.
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
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Pacific Coast Rapraaaatativi
Arthur W. Stypec, lac.
San Francisco
Member of National Editorial
Association and Oregon State
Editorial Association.
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RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher
COURT REFORM NECESSARY
School boards, city councils, county commissioners, state
executives who have control over spending the peoples’
money have come under careful scrutiny of late, and the
public is demanding of them rigid economy. So far our
courts, however, have escaped. Regulated as they are by
law and custom, they are of course hard to reach, for
their procedure cannot be modified except by act of the
legislature or by constiutional amendment. Yet something
should be done, for our judicial system, whatever its gen
eral merits, has certain elements of waste and inefficiency
that sorely need correction. Private litigation is uneces-
sarily expensive to everybody concerned, and criminals who
are able to hire skilful attorneys can too often escape with
light sentences or go scot free. Delays, technicalities, be
clouding of issues in the minds of the jurors all combine
to defeat the purpose of courts to accomplish justice, and
the taxpayer pays the bill. We make our laws and attach
penalties for breaking them; we hire our sheriffs, police,
and the rest to enforce the laws, and then allow the defeat
of our own purpose by making convictions hard to secure.
We spend our money, and get nowhere, because a clever
crook, assisted by a clever attorney, can altogether too fre
quently beat the game.
The fault lies not with the judges, who as a rule in
this state at least are thoroughly qualified and impartial,
nor with the district attorneys, who do their best to secure
law enforcement, but with the system.
It is this system that needs expert investigation and
careful revision. Surely we should be able to acquit the in
nocent and convict the guilty without so much uncertainty,
red tape and expense.
THE HIGHWAY SITUATION
The personal interest shown by Chairman Leslie M.
Scott of the state highway commission in the Vernonia and
Wolf creek routes to the coast is an indication that some
definite action by the commission is to be expected as soon
as the data of the surveys have been completed and con
sidered. Not only that, but prompt construction of the route
chosen is likely, for it is improbable that Mr. Scott, to
gether with T. M. Davis of the U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads and Chief Engineer R. M. Baldock would take such
pains just now in traversing the routes by foot if the in
tention is to postpone the whole matter until some indefi
nite time in the future when economic conditions are bet
ter and highway funds more plentiful.
From information that has been released in advance of
the engineers’ report, it is evident that from an engineer
ing standpoint the two routes are about on a par. The de
cision, then, will have to be made upon other considerations,
such as agricultural possibilities of districts traversed, in
tersection by lateral roads, recreational facilities, distribu
tion of traffic in Portland—and it is these aspects that the
Vernonia route is clearly superior.
read the advertisement! before
they buy, and then buy from the
advertisers who offer them the!
best for their money. —Edison R.
Waite, Sawnee, Okla.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR JERSEY BREEDERS
Geo. A. Nelson, local county
agent, has received information
from the American Jersey Cattle
club that provisions have been
made that purebred Jerseys past
two years of age may be register
ed for a limited time at a fee of
$5.00 instead of $10.00.
This temporary reduction was
made by the national organiza
tion because of its appreciation
of the present financial condi
tions of the country and in order
that many worthy purebred Jer
seys which have not been regis
tered, may now be registered at
this saving to their owners.
According to Lewis W. Morley,
executive secretary, of the nation
al organization, many breeders
are taking advantage of this
reduction.
What Other
Editors • • •
Think • • • •
Congress contends that the
budget must be balanced so that
the government may be solvent.
That will make its position al
most unique in the field of Amer
ican affairs. It begins to look to
us as though making the tax
payers solvent would be a reas
onable start.—Portland Spectator
GETTING BACK TO
A SOUND BASIS
The state board of higher ed
ucation has evidently pinched its
fingers in tickling with the in
tricate machinery of management
and curriculum of the state uni
versity and state college, and is
now edging away like a child who
has incautiously contacted a het
stove.
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Full of vim and earnestness,
the board, led by the emphatic
Mrs. Walter Pierce, reached
out
with both
hands
and
took charge of the two big schools
as well as the smaller normal
schools. Courses were switched,
George Bohanen, 47, was found cut and eliminated; the authority
guilty of manslaughter by a jury of the presidents was curtailed tn
in circuit court at St. Helens and almost nothing, and assumed by
was sentenced Friday by Judge; the board itself, which in turn
H. K. Zimmerman to 10 years in. appointed a half dozen “deans”
as department heads. Everything
the penitentiary.
was set to go with efficiency
as the watchword.
St. Helens is organizing a base
It was not long, however, be
ball nine with Wm. Russell as
fore the board discovered that
manager. The plan is to play in
“managing" a college or univer
dependent ball this season.
sity had a technique of its own.
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They found that the mere ap
Two unidentified robbers en pointment of a few men as de
tered the home of Mrs. Kather partment directors did not re
ine Jones at Alder Grove Wed lieve the problem. Any college
nesday evening, April 20, bound course is almost inextricably en
her and her brother, Charles tangled between department and
Freeman, ransacked the house department, and a main element
and departed, taking Mrs. Jones' in the success of any college
car. The loot amounted to $5.00 president has been his ability to
in cash.
keep peace, not among the stu
• ••••••
dents, but in his faculty. With
Don Terpening, a resident of Presidents Kerr and Hall prac
Clatskanie for 14 years and pro tically out of the picture, these
minent in lodge circles, has been new department heads began run
transferred from the 8. P. and 3. ning with their troubles, petty
force at that station to the Ore and otherwise, to the board,
gon Electric station in Salem.
which, confronted with technical
questions dealing with curricula
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interference, department duplica
In one of the few pronounce tions, and extent of authority,
ments of the kind ever issued, has wisely withdrawn.
the United States Department of
Presidents Hall and Kerr are
Commerce placed its seal of ap again in the saddle for a time
proval on intelligent advertising,
with special emphasis on its value
during a depression.
“Intangible assets may be de
creased in value only when a firm
fails to advertise,” said an oral
statement by the department.
“The organization which adver
tises during depression will find
intangible assets worth more
when the depression is over than
before it started even though tan
gible assets may be reduced 50
per cent.
“Although it takes years to de
velop intangible assets, they may
be reduced to little or no value in
months. A trade-name may be
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Thet fame and fortune have
come to the great advertisers.
Their products have become a
part of the life of the world.
Continuous advertising of quali
ty has brought the good will which
has made these concerns what
they are today.
To be a success, any business
must have the good will of the
people it serves. Good will is
obtained by keeping customers
satisfied.
Continuous advertising makes
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The selling of quality merchan
dise through the printed 1_
means increased business, and
increased business means in-
creased profit.
Now is the time for the bush
ness concern that is not a regular
advertiser to get busy.
Largo quantities of merchan
dise are being bought daily from
business concerns who are regular
advertisers. There’s a reason, of
course.
People have been educated to
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at least, and the board members
are drawing a sigh of relief. We
imagine that before the board
tries its hands at college man
agement again it will have the
proposed chancellor, in the per
son of a trained university execu
tive, on hand to act as a buffer
between it and the militant fac
ulty members.
The board is also modifying
some of its other orders, having
learned that it acted hastily and
on inadequate data and informa
tion in numbers of matters. The
members of the board are after
all coping with a big and complex
problem and it is reassuring to
find that it is not ruthless in
its attitude and not albove cor
recting its mistakes as they be
come apparent.—Astorian-Budget.
Five Years
Ago • * * *
Vernonia Eagle, April 28, 1927.
T. C. Hall passes after long
illness.
The Pattie Cake Cooking club
under the leadership of Mrs.
Mabel Graves served lunch Thurs
day to the teachers of Washing
ton school.
The Wellfed cafe is the name
of a new restaurant owned by
Chas. McFarland.
Merely a
Year Ago
Vernonia Eagle, May 1, 1931.
The forest fire situation is
now critical in Columbia county.
Mayor J. E. Tapp, who is con
fined to the Veterans’ hospital,
may possibly be home in about
three weeks.
First elimination in the tennis
tournament is under way.
Meier Oveson is drowned in
O.-A. mill pond.
Geo. W. Ford is again put in
charge of local branch of the
Oregon Gas and Electric Co.
A. C. Knauss, H. E. McGraw
and J. E. Kerr are appointed by
Vice-president Carl Davidson as
a committee to make a strawber-
Treharne
Robert Hastings, who has been
absent from school on account
of illne, has returned.
The pupils of the Pleasant Hill
school who won distinction for
themselves and their school at
the local track meet at Verno-
nonia were Richard Meyer, Ches
ter Wienecke, Jack Graney, Dean
Holt, Clair Sunell, Edwin Jus
tice, Ethel Spencer and Dorothy
Welbb.
Pupils who received Palmer
ry survey for the chamber of
commerce.
The local post of the Ameri
can Legion is to sponsor junior
baseball.
method awards this week are Bet
ty and Raymond Thacker, Ethel
Spencer and Clifford Lines.
Mr. and Mrs. James Gordon
and Miss Murphy attended the
educational conference held in
the normal school at Monmouth
Saturday, April 23.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis John and
daughter of Forest Grove were
Sunday guests at the home of his
mother, Mrs. M. John.
Mrs. F. N. O’Donnell of River
view was a Monday caller at the
home of Mrs. L. Johnson.
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Dr. W. H. Hurley, who announces his intention to re
move to Portland, will be greatly missed in Vernonia, lie
has been a leader in civic affairs, the chamber of com
merce, and lodge activities, always progressive, constructive
and helpful. His many friends will wish him success in
his new enterprise.
DID YOU EVER
STOP TO THINK?
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Home folks eagerly read the home
town paper, including the ads.
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And interest like this is by no
means unusual.
Oregon-American
Lumber Co.
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But did you ever know of a fam
ily paying this much attention to a
hand-bill thrown on the porch or
crammed in the mail box?
VERNONIA EAGLE