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RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher
A SPLENDID DISPLAY OF “PEP”
Less than a month ago it looked as
though the Vernonia golf course was to
become a memory. It had the good will of
the community, but Sandy Macpherson
could not continue indefinitely to operate
the links on nothing but good will. One
day a band of sheep was turned out to
pasture ther.e, not to compete with Sandy’s
power mower in keeping the grounds in
good condition but to take the place of
men and women who carried golf sticks
and hit at little white golf balls. The in
tention was to forget about sports that
did not pay.
Some of the boys, with F. M. Ruhl in
the foreground as chief hard-worker, im
mediately got busy, formed an organiza
tion, raised money (no easy task these
days) enabling Sandy to resume his pains
taking care of the grounds, and supplied
the needed “pep” to keep the thing going.
Men and women with golf sticks and golf
balls immediately replaced the grazing
sheep, and the golf course is again a
scene of activity. A splendid display of
“pep,” that.
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War used to be thought an evidence
of patriotism. Some of the recent revela
tions regarding the activities of munition
makers at home and abroad make it
quite clear that desire for fatter and
fatter pocketbooks has a great deal to do
with fostering the war sentiment.
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The Oregonian has espoused the candi
dacy of Joe Dunne, and the Journal for
some time has been championing Martin.
Next will come the big fight to see which
paper can influence the more votes.
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A sophomore in New York is suing a
college for $25,000 damages from two
“wasted years.” Lots of college gradu
ates ought to be entitled to collect $50,-
000 on that basis.
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The Vernonia city council is not alone
in its difficulties in getting a quorum.
Commissioner Bennett of Portland met
the other day, called himself to order,
and adjourned.
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According to the present outlook if the
depression does not get us down the
strikes will.
£ What Other Editors Say
THE DARROW REPORT
Clarence Darrow reminds us of the doc
trine of Byron, that all great men are
more or less insane, varying only in de
gree. He roundly condemns the NRA be
cause it is not perfect; but in considering
his criticism we must remember that Dar-
raw has always found himself on the op
posite side of the fence from organized
law and order.
That laws minutely regulating trade are
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1934.
VEKNOxSlA C.AOLE,. V EKNU inia . OREGON
unworkable over a long period of time has
been proved too often to need reiteration.
The corn-laws of Britain are a fair ex
ample, but by no means the only one.
Every civilization has attempted in one
way or another to eliminate competition,
decreed by nature, and all have failed. The
present strike situation is merely the at
tempt of the bell-wethers of unionism to
enforce control of the labor market; it too,
will fail eventually, however much it may
temporarily seem to succeed.
This great country was suffering from
an attack of malignant capitalitis, unbridl
ed control of what amounted to the total
resources of the United States. NRA
seemed the most readily available medi
cine, somewhat disagreeable to take but
preferable to the disease. It was not in
tended as a permanent social system, nor
thought by its most enthusiastic support
ers to be perfect.
Darrow charges that big business under
the NRA is still oppressing the little fel
low; possibly true, but not to the extent
that he was oppressed before. In fact the
little fellow is beginning to squirm under
code inequalities.
Nature decreed competition between all
life on earth. Man is wiser than the beasts
and so controls them. Some men are creat
ed wiser than others,—born to control
their mental inferiors, always have been
and always will be. NRA nor anything else
can stop it. Yet we find that if big busi
ness dominates small business under the
present set-up it is to a far less degree
than before. In the case of labor, the NRA
has opened up new possibilities for domi
nation by organizers who are more ruth
less than big business ever was.
Darrow has for a lifetime proclaimed
himself as a champion of the “under-dog;”
but the under dog has been unleashed by
The New Deal and is headed for trouble in
the dog days of August, if not before.
New Deal arbitrators seem aghast. The
administration is creating problems faster
than it can devise solutions. — Portland
Spectator.
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THE RECALL IS OVER
Last Friday’s election settled Columbia
county’s latest recall move. It is over and
jet’s keep it over.
L. R. Rutherford of St. Helens has been
ippointed by Governor Meier as the new
county judge and all factions should now
get behind him and stay there until the
fall election when a successor or Mr. Ruth
erford will be elected by the voice of
the people.
Now let recalls, if there must be such,
start and end at election time.
Let the campaigns be hard in the fall
if they must, but may they be final. The
will of the majority will elect a candidate
in the fall, may he serve his full term
without harassing and only constructive
criticism.
Study carefully the candidates before
election, take not their own word for their
records but get them yourself from auth
entic sources and abide by the will of
the majority.—Clatskanie Chief.
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Warning: We may expect that within
a month some long-haired boy will sound
off in some liberal sheet to the effect that
Little Orphan Annie, with its Daddy War
bucks episode, is a devilish plot engineer
ed by the capitalists to impede justice in
the Insull case.—Oregon Emerald.
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Speaking about people who want more
money, we wonder if they ever thought
about working for it.—Beaverton Enter
prise.
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Liquidation of the wild claims of can
didates is now in progress.—McMinnville
News-Reporter.
A Drowning Mab Usually Loses His Head!\
Ten Years
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forced in Oregon, Washington
and Idaho is the stated aim of
the Anti-Saloon league which is
sponsoring a law enforcement
congress in Portland June 1-3.
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Mrs. J. W. Brown has purchas
ed a new Durant car.
Vernonia Eagle, May 30, 1924.
, At an election Tuesday $40,-
000 bonds were voted for con
struction of a new school house.
At a citizens’ caucus called to
vote on the question it was de
cided by a better than two to one
vote that the new building should
be west of the railroad track».
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A baby boy was born to Mr.
and' Mrs. F. R. Enos May 23.
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Monday night’s session of the
city council was attended by the
county court, who discussed the
Bridge street paving question.
According to the proposition as
put forth now the county will
pave sixteen feet down the cen
ter and the property owners will
pave the sides.
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The C. W. Shipley family are
moving to Vernonia from Banks.
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The Birkenfeld mill burned
down Wednesday with a loss of
$16,000. The Birkenfeld brothers
will rebuild.
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Lillian Washburn is on the sick
list. Miss Lola Cline is helping in
Purney’s store during her ab-,
sence.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dial have
moved to their new home in Riv
erview addition.
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P. O. Mellinger lost a fine
three year old mare last week.
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tion statutes are thoroughly en-
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