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FRIDAY, JANUARY VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA. OREGON 13, 1933. 49-Jt., 55, 14, 18, 22, 27, 50, 52, Wesley: “Oh, just riding around 42-Jt. with some of the boys.” Zone 2. J. B. Kent, leader, Dad: “Well, tell them not to Clatskanie, Oregon. Districts 5, leave their hairpins in the car." 10, 15, 23, 25, 26, 29, 40, 44, 57. Zone 3. Thos. L. McBride, lead Lady in a street car: “Why er, Rainier, Oregon. Districts 13, don’t you get up and give your Joe Nauman, president, and 4, 9, 12, 16, 19, 20, 32, 33, 36, Ruth Skaling spent last week seat to your father? Doesn’t it other new officers of the St. 37, 38, 48. pain you to see him reaching for end with Cecilia Nordstrom. Zone 4. D. E. Oleman, leader, Helens Kiwanis club, were instal Lucille Camberg and Maxine the strap?” led Thursday of last week by W. Houlton, Oregon. Districts 2, 3, Bollinger were dinner guests of Howard: “Not in a car, but it Arthur Steele, Clatskanie publish 11, 30, 34, 35, 39, 43, 45, 54. Helen Beach Sunday. does at home.” Zone 5. A. J. Phillips, leader, er. Maxine Bollinger was in Clats «»•♦»»» Warren, Oregon. Districts 6, 7, kanie Saturday. The Columbia county grange 21, 58, 1-Jt., and 28-Jt. Wesley Mills visited in Mist The spelling contest is under council held its quarterly meet the direction of the Columbia Saturday night. FALLING FOR FAKE SCHEMES ing at Beaver Valley Sunday. Albert Rosenberg spent Friday **••*•• county division of the Oregon Never within the recollection night with Emmanuel Johnston. State Teachers association and the The St. Helens city council has of the present generation have as| Kenneth Bollinger, Emmanuel county superintendent of schools many fake schemes come to. decided to do away with the job in Columbia county. The program Johnston, and Albert Rosenberg Salem, January 9. of deputy marshal and also that light as within the last two years. To the Editor: will be furnished by the McBride visited Wesley Mills Sunday. of fire chief, the assistant chief Almost every day papers in some Cecilia Nordstrom and Ruth Believing that the people of school. Otto H. H. Peterson of part of the country are called serving in his place for the pres Skaling visited Helen Beach Sun Columbia county are entitled to Scappoose is the director of the upon to expose a new scheme. ent. know how I voted on important spelling contest. Wm. B. Schnebly day afternoon. But, as a rule, the expose comes Those who attended the dance bills I will send a weekly report of St. Helens, president of the The Washington county budget after the faker has gathered in Columbia county division of the at Jewell from Winema high to each county paper. the money an hied himself to meeting voted to eliminate $50,- Oregon State Teachers associa school were Lucille Camberg, Hel 1. I voted for a cut in the other territory, where his game 205 from the budget as drawn tion, and E. H. Condit, county en Beach, Ruth Skaling, Edith expense of conducting the legis up. The county court, however, is still unknown. He manages to Carl, Cecilia Nordstrom, Fred lature. school superintendent. keep one jump ahead of the adopted the budget, slicing $2,- Johnston, and Buck Redmond. Each grade will be entitled to 2. I voted against the sales tax. 000 from the general fund and denouncers. Mr. Bryant and a number of one contestant for the following $5,650 from the road fund. 3. I voted for the repeal of the This section has come in for • ***••• grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. for the high school students attended 3 mill state levy on real and per its share of schemes and fakers, Grange last Thursday. Foreclosure in the tax delin written contest and two contes and its citizens have contributed The girls practiced basketball sonal property for state purposes. tants, irrespective of grades for their share of coin to the schem quency certificates in Washington Even though I was in the min Wednesday night. the oral contest. ority on the sales tax vote in the ers. It has never been plain why county for the year 1920 to 1924 Wesley Mills went to a show The final contest will be held local citizens will bite at some inclusive have been ordered by House the Senate sustained my at 7:30 p. m. Febraury 10 in the in Vernonia Sunday night. thing a home-town citizen couldn’t Judge Geo. R. Bagley of the cir John Gumm school in St. Helens. Those present at Christian En vote on the sales tax. The sales cuit count. Proceedings were be-| Sell them in a hundred years. deavor from the high school werej tax was railroaded through the Along :omes a perfect stran gun in March, 1932, when the Elmer Camberg, Kenneth Bolling House by a small bloc, and gag ger selling advertising space on district attorney filed an appli er, Howard Jones, Emmanuel rule, but I do not think they will for foreclosure of unpaid' cation a time-card, calendar, cook book Johnston, Helen Beach and El try to railroad any more bills or some other fake scheme. He taxes against 400 landowners and! eanor Bryant. Mr. Bryant led the because we defeated the same sells his space readily, in a form totaling approximately $25,000. I bloc on the vote of the repeal meeting. • **«**• of advertising that usually isn’t Friday night, Jan. 6, the Wine of the state levy on real and Mrs. John Kessler of Banks worth the paper it is printed ma boys played basketball with personal property. on, pockets the money and is on had her left leg amputated just Vernonia Eagle, Jan. 12, 1923 Vernonia high school at Vernonia. I am opposed to the sales tax his way. And then, when the ad below the knee January 4, fol The score was 32 to 23 in Verno for the following reasons: It will vertiser fails to get results—as lowing an accident on the Tual increase the cost of living to the The council met monday night nia’s favor. he does ninety-nine times out of atin highway near Cornelius. Winema played better in the consumer; it makes the retailer in the basement of the high a hundred—he goes around de school and decided to postpone last half than they did in the a tax collector for the state; it claring that “advertising doesn’t first. Vernonia played well all places home manufacturers at an opening bids for water bonds. pay.” The fact of the matter is Columbia County unfair disadvantage with manu the time. t t t such schemes are not legitimate Legislators on facturers of other states; it keeps A. D. Hall of Vernonia and advertising, and that is the only industries out of the state; it is Clyde Johnson of Mist were ap WE WONDER— Committee Lists kind that ever did or ever will pointed road supervisors by the Why a couple of sophomores a tax on consumption; it is not pay. county count last week. J. N. blushed when a senior walked in based upon ability to pay; it en (St. Helens Mist) There is something funny about courages extravagance in state Columbia county representa Miller succeeded Judson Weed as the study room . . . Why Edith human nature when it comes to spending; it is a tax on the poor county commissioner. couldn't wear spike heels down these fake schemes. Nobody can tives in the legislature have been who are now crying for bread town . . . How long it takes to t t t understand why merchants and assigned to several important P. O. Mellinger was installed buy a leather coat . . . How many and employment. committees. O. Henry Oleen is professional men “fall for them” The Mississippi sales tax has as noble grand of the Odd Fel pounds the piano bench can hold when they wouldn’t buy a nickel’s vice-chairman of the motor ve- lows lodge Tuesday night. been referred to as being ideal . . . Why Allen Dale is going to worth of space if a home-town ! hide and aeronautics committee give his dog some of Edith’s dress for the state of Oregon. Before t t t man was doing the soliciting. But I and is a member of the forestry, Rev. F. B. Culver of Lents will . . . Why Lucille wanted the win me is a report from the Mer I food and dairy products, labor a perfect stranger comes along have charge of special serviced dows left open Monday morn chants’ association of that state and they bite—hook, line and and industries, and utilities com every night at the Evangelical ing ... If the girls will go to in which it is stated that the state sinker. It’s a problem no one mittees. Fred W. Herman, joint church beginning Jan 14. Jewell Friday night . . .If Helen of Mississippi reduced its budget has so far Ween able to figure representative for Columbia and t t t and Kenneth don’t know that $10,000,000 before attempting to Clatsop counties, is vice-chairman out. —Slaton, Texas, Slatonite. justify a sales tax. Certainly the Mrs. Ray, the primary teacher, leap year is over. of the foods and dairy products state of Oregon is in no such has recovered from her recent committee and has been assigned precarious condition. First I am ST. HELENS LEGION illness. o — - JOKES — o as a member of the administra HALL IS OPENED FOR t t t Mrs. Camberg: “What! Have for a cut in the budget in all tion and reorganization, education, FIRST MEETING JAN. 14 The Oregon-American Lumber you been fighting again, Elmer? state departments before any new and revision of laws committees. tax is voted. company is clearing their railroad Good little boys don't fight.” Joe. Dunne, who represents Co track at the camp of brush and By the defeat of the sales tax (St. Helens Sentinel) Elmer: “Yes, I know that. I The new hall of the American lumbia county as well as Clack trees and will be ready for bus thought he was a good little I believe that the legislature is Legion, Post No. 42, was opened amas and Multnomah counties in iness as soon as the work is done. boy, but after I hit him once, better fortified againBt the greed of the different state depart for a meeting for the first time the senate drew the chairmanship t t t I found he wasn’t.” ments and the saving of more Wednesday evening for the regu of the important roads and high Ross Duncan and wife of Al lar session of the organization. ways committee. He is also chair aska are here visiting at the Lucille: “Did your watch stop than $1,000,000 will be made Although not yet finished, the man af the rules committee and home of their brother Harve. when it dropped on the floor?" possible. Respectfully, hall will be a credit to St. Helens vice-chairman of the committee Edith: “Sure, did you think it t t t O. HtENRY OLEEN. and will afford a fine club room on commerce and navigation. He Rumors aie afloat of a new would go through?” for its members, according to is a member of the elections and shingle mill for Vernonia. Dad (sternly) : “Where were those who looked over the rooms privileges, industries, insurance, To buy, sell or trade, use and livestock committees also. Eagle classified ads. last night. Parchment butter wrappers 10 you last night?” The building has been divided cents for 25 (pound size) or into one large hall with two com Schools Preparing 30 cents for 100; printed, 100 mittee rooms at the front of the For Spelling Contests for $1.75, 200 for $2.25. Ver hall and a kitchen and rest rooms nonia Eagle. (Adv.) at the lower end of the building. (St. Helens Sentinel) It is to be lined with Fir-Tex, The spelling contests for the will have radios with two loud grade schools will begin February MARY KATO speakers and will be comfortably 3 with the schools of the county CHOP SUEY RESTAURANT furnished. divided into five sections and each Open Friday, Saturday presided over by a leader as And Sunday People who use Eagle classi follows: fied ads are obtaining excellent 729 THIRD STREET Zone 1. G. E. Finnerty, leader, results. Give them a trial. Vernonia, Oregon. Districts 47, The gas and electric industries of the United States give direct employment to about 500,000 men and women. Their payrolls exceed $600,000,000 a year, all of which flows into the channels of trade where it creates more payrolls, more jobs, more industrial activity. For your convenience the following business and professional people are listed on In 1931 the gas companies of the country paid this page alphabetically. These men and women are known in Vernonia aa reliable business over $76,000,000 in taxes, and the electric companies and professional people. paid $210,000,000. This means that they paid 10.5 cents out of every dollar grossed by selling electricity, 9.6 cents of every dollar coming from manufactured gas, and 7.2 cents in the case of natural gas. BARBER Marvin R. Eby, M. D. JDy SHOP For every consumer receiving electric service, the M. D. COLE industry pays, in taxes, $8.60 a year. For every manu PHYSICIAN a SURGEON Haircutting for Men Dentist factured gas consumer it pays the government $4.23, Women and Children 902 Medical Dental Bldg. and for every natural gas consumer, $4.66. Vernonia, Oregon Expert Work Guaranteed SAN DIEGO, CAL. Rates have dropped steadily since the earliest days of these industries. Electric rates, in particular, are far below the 1913 level, even though costs of all kinds, including labor and taxes, are far higher. Even during HOME LAUNDRY the recent boom, when prices skyrocketed, electric and HILLSBORO gas rates continued their downward curve. Pick-ups Tuesdays, Fridays The figures show, better than argument, how much Leave orders at these industries mean to American industry, to the JOY BARBER SHOP American home, and to the development of our civili zation. represented competent service. His retirement from political life was voluntary, for there is little if any doubt that he could have served a second elective term had MEMBER he so desired. The rapid political advance ment of this rather austere law yer, whose only political asset Member of National Editorial <was his ability to be an able Association and Oregon State , and efficient public servant, is Editorial Association. indication of the recognition of inherent greatness in his char Issued Every Friday $2.00, Per Year in Advance acter. —Astorian Budget Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Brnunita £aglr 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 “MUDDLING THROUGH” During the war we used to hear a great deal about “muddling through.” Then, for the first time in history, a world-wide war was in progress. There were new and deadlier weapons, larger and more formidable armies, cam ouflage, trenches, submarines, Zeppelins, airplanes—meth ods of warfare to which the participating nations were unac customed, and it was inevitable that many blunders should be made. Now, despite many essential differences between a nation struggling against an outside enemy and a nation caught in the whirlpool of depression, there is much of simi larity. Now, too, is a situation without precedent, a world wide disaster involving complex elements that baffle the wisest and shrewdest of statesmen as well as the ordi nary run of politicians. It is easy to point out the failure of the administration and of congress to do anything that gets us anywhere, to balance any budgets despite frantic efforts to devise new ways of raising money. Legislatures in any state, county courts in any county, city councils in any municipality, are much in the same fix, varying only in degree. None of them can stop the depression and start prosperity on its care-free way again, and none of them stand a good chance of plenty of money for governmental functions out of impoverished taxpayers. The lame-duck congress, with nothing, apparent ly, in view except revenue from supposedly non-intoxicating beer, and the Oregon legislature, called in special session to devise a new tax to take the place of the state property tax and accomplishing nothing except to abolish the pro perty tax, are readily subject to vigorous criticism. A vil lage philosopher squirting tobacco juice into the fire box oi a country store can do a fine job of “panning”—but who is any wiser as to what can be done? It’s a case again, it seems, of “muddling through,” till we find the right corner. THE CITY SITUATION IMPROVES The situation that confronted the city council a week ago Tuesday had in it the elements of dissension that might have proved serious. By Thursday, however, at the time of the adjourned meeting, the outlook had cleared up considerably, and there is now the best of chance for all to work together for the common good instead of one fac tion fighting another. Mr. Sandon and Mr. Veal, the two candidates whose names were written in on the ballots, received so nearly the same vote that to discriminate be tween one or the other would have been unsatisfactory. With both on the council, chances for good feeling are greatly improved. Reappointment of C. F. Hieber as recorder and Earl Smith as marshal will meet with wide approval, it is be lieved. Mr. Hieber has conducted the office work of the city hall efficiently, and Mr. Smith has kept faithfully on the job every night and has seen to it that good order on the streets has been constantly maintained. | His utterances were not many, but such as they were, came ¡from mature deliberation, and ' were made with the finality of ' assured conviction. They were (phrased briefly, but plainly, and I left no doubt in the minds of people as to his opinions. So well did Calvin Coolidge fit into the background of the CALVIN COOLIDGE period that it is doubtful that Calvin Coolidge, ex-president ' his career as president will gain of the United States, died as he j premier historical recognition. The lived, quietly and without words. | spectacular events that have made A descendant of pioneer Am l other presidents striking figures erican stock, he rose to the pres were lacking. It cannot be doubt- idency at a time when his pecul I ed, however, that the elements iar qualifications were best adap i of greatness were there. Through ted to the welfare of his country. out the history of the life of Cal- The excitement of war times vin Coolidge as a public servant, was dying away and a nation was ' from his first position as town settling down to the business of ' clerk in his small New England expanding its industrial life. A homo community, up through firm, but restrained hand was‘many minor positions to the gov- needed at the helm, and the J ernorship of Massachusetts, the calm and steady Calvin Coolidge; vice presidency and finally the was the man to stand at the, presidency itself, he displayed wheel. ‘the ability to give the people he What Other Editors Think Cleaning and Pressing At Portland Prices Special Order- JvV DRY CLEANING DEPARTMENT Among Our Neighbors • • Winema High School Notes The Open Forum - - Ten Years Ago * « * « What the Gas and Electric Utilities Mean to American Industry Professional and Business Directory JOHN A. MILLER General Contractor 1 Mason Work, Building Oregon Gas and Electric Company Also $1.00 Service, As Desired Vernonia Laundry PAGE THREE BAFFORD BROS. General Plumbing Vernonia 622 Bridge Street Telephone 691