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PAGE TWO VERNONIA EAGLE Member of Oregon State Editorial Association. Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Isuued Every Friday $2.00 Per Year in Advance Temporary rate ....................................... $1.50 a year Six months ........... 75c Two years ........... $2.50 Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; legal notices, 10c per line first in sertion, 5c per line succeeding insertions; classi fied lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c per line. RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher A Triumph of Good Sense The heavy vote cast by the longshore men in favor of arbitration is a credit to the good sense of most of the members of the l.L.A. Communists and other radi cals, ever eager to take advantage of a strike to vent their poisonous hatred did not miss this chance—but in the secret ballot they carried little weight. A com munist accepts no plan of arbitration, and listens to no reasonable proposals because what he is looking for is not a square deal between employer and employe but bitter class warfare to last on one battle front or another until such time as the capitalists surrender and turn industry bodily over to labor. Capitalists handcuf fed and hustled off to jail while working men’s councils set at the mahogany tables of boards of directors is their ideal, and nothing short of it satisfies. Truces may come and go, but the motive to capture industry persists. Four to one or better (in Portland twenty to one) the Pacific coast longshore men, despite their excesses in nurling rocks at policemen and clouting strike breakers over the head, are not commu nists. ----------- §—§—§----------- EXPERIENCE SHOULD TEACH A LESSON . . . War started in Europe twenty years ago. For three years the United States maintained a neutrality, finally yielding to the powerful impulse to make of it a war to end war—a war that should put an end to secret diplomacy, territorial ag grandizements, and all the other evils tha» had plagued a worried and harassed Eur ope for generations. Noble indeed w.as the purpose, and lofty were the ideals expressed by a president endowed with literary as well as executive talents. Many a life was sacrificed, many a career was hopelessly blighted and many a sturdy constitution was permanently weakened in this effort to right the world’s wrongs. Nearly 16 years after the war had end ed in the triumph of those who sought to do forever after without war, Europe is again dangerously near another huge conflict. Austria in civil turmoil, Germany suppressing internal opposition by means of the firing squad, Italy massing troops on explosive frontiers, France suspicious. Great Britain apprehensive, Russia sul len—whether war comes or not, the ele ments of war are all at hand. The noble purposes of the last great war dissolved in the acid of persistent grudges and in eradicable suspicions. War instead of end ing war breeds more war. If war should break out again, the Unit ed States should profit by past experience. American lives should never again be sac rificed in the vain effort to put an end to European animosities. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934. [r ; NEBRASKA PICNIC IS SCHEDULED FOR AUG. 5 Which is the more popular hero—a deceased movie actor or a slain gunman? You answer it. I Among Our Neighbors • W hat Other Editors Say DILLINGER DEAD Bad Man Dillinger is dead. He was an outlaw with a quick gun hand and a certain amount of genius for organization plus an extra quality of dar ing. His crimes were numerous, the amount of his loot considerable and the death toll and list of injured high, al though padded a bit by a more than a usual number of “innocent spectators,” killed or wounded by over-anxious or poor shooting officers. Dillinger died as he lived, to the tune of barking automatics. He was “put on the spot” by federal officers in the famil iar gangdom method and shot down with all the suddenness and certainty of a gang execution. The federal officers even had the “girl in the red dress” as the “finger” to give the death signal. Dillinger was popularly given the title of Public Enemy No. 1 although he hardly deserved such distinction. He was merely a hard-shooting yegg with a little more brains and luck than some. As far as the public welfare goes, there have been many so-called financiers, politicians, and radi cals who have done more to harm the Am erican public as a whole than a dozen Dil lingers could do in a half century. At any rate his elimination will serve as a little additional evidence that the shooting bandit cannot long or finally es cape the vengeance of the law. In time comes the inevitable mistake or else, as in the Dillinger case, the bandit is the vic tim of a “tip-off” by some supposed friend.—Astorian-Budget. ---------------- §_§_§----------------- THE FORGOTTEN MAN “The forgotten man is delving away in patient industry, supporting family, pay ing taxes, casting his vote, supporting church and school, cheering for the poli tician of his admiration, but he is the one for whom there is no provision in tne great scramble and the big divide ... He is flattered before election. He is strongly patriotic. He gives no trouble. Therefore, he is forgotten.” This is the definition of the original forgotten man as given in the essay writ ten by William Graham Sumner in 1883 and published in 1918. We just quote this original definition to suggest that perhaps the true forgotten man will only be remembered when the bills come due to defray the cost of ex perimenting for the benefit of vociferous minorities which never had the right to be ranked among the forgotten men.—For est Grove News-Times. ----------- §—§—§----------- EDITORIAL COMMENTS BY CLARK WOOD Discussing the war debts will no doubt continue to be as futile as merely cussing them. We wonder how those brain trusters would get along at a practical jdb, such as farming. One isn’t sure at this distance whether it’s Mussolini’s head or his sabre that’s rattling. Of more than four million Russian peasants who perished last year because of Stalin’s “ruthless school,” it isn’t re corded that there were any bolsheviks. The St. Helens water depart ment operated at a loss of $7,- j 909.30 in 1933, as shown in a j recent audit by Max Crandall. * ♦ ♦ R. G. Howard, state policeman ' stationed in St. Helens, has been The 11th annual Nebraska pic nic will be held at Corvallis on Sunday, Aug. 5, at the city park. This picnic has always been well attended and has attracted as many as 1500 former Nebraskans. Last year two-thirds of the 90 counties in the state were repre sented. W. M. Dall of Corvallis, for- nerly of Beaver City, is president >f the Nebraska Picnic association and has planned an unusually in teresting program this year. Joe E. Dunne, formerly of Beatrice and Omaha, will deliver a non political address. The Tabb family trio, formerly of Auburn, will en tertain with instrumental music, songs and tap dancing. The Ore gon Loggers, well known radio entertainers (three of whom are former Nebraskans), are to be on the program. There will be a big picnic din ner at noon and plenty of oppor tunity for visiting with ‘‘old home folks.” Free coffee will be served. i on duty in Portland during the i strike. « * * i Miss Yvonne Fisher won the i American Legion beauty contest conducted during the past several ' weeks in Rainier. * * « J. O. Convill, Westport dairy man, has been appointed city manager of Astoria. He will take office September 1. * * * Marjorie Castle of Jewell was killed in an automobile accident on the Mist-Clatskanie road July 18. * * * The Washington county relief committee has refused to deal i with the Civic Emergency Federa- ' tion with regard to demands for relief, declaring that it would con- Vernonia Eagle, July 25, 1924 j 6ider individual cases only. A . group of 25 members of the or Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wilkerson ganization walked out of a meet ing of the relief committee in and sons Buford and Benjamin j Hillsboro July 18 upon being in returned to St. Helens Monday, after an absence of more than formed of the decision. a year. Last year Mr. Wilkerson jCOUNTY AGENT WORK was principal of the Spring, Tex TO BE CONTINUED as, high school, and this year is taking up his duties as principal of the Union high school m Ver (Columbia Informant) The work of George A. Nelson, nonia. * * * I county agent, will be continued A new fire-proof building is i for some time at least, additional funds having been provided for going up next to the new bank j maintenance of the office. A com- building and they say it will be | mittee turned over to County occupied by the Skaggs grocery , Treasurer Peterson on July 5 the people. * * • sum of $237.68. Two hundred A number of ex-service men > dollars of the amount was cvn- , tributed by the government and met Monday night and obtained a ; the $37.08 by donations. The charter to form a post in Ver I county court made certification at nonia. The membership is about ' its July session stating that an 45. Officers were elected as fol appropriation of the sum men- lows: E, J. Kingsley, commander; ! tioned had been made. The certifi- M. E. Carkin, vice-commander; ■ cation will be or has been sent W. H. Gerstel, adjutant; H. E. j to the secretary of state and the McGraw, finance officer. Meet 1 amount will be matched by state ings are held twice a month in ! funds, presumably to come Carkin’s tailor shop. * * a ; through the Oregon State college. Neil Bush is visiting east of Previously $500 was raisea by | subscription from farmers and the mountains and Joy is visit> i business men and this amount ing in Portland. a a a | was matched by the state thus en Guy and Bert Mills and Cass abling the office to be continued Bergerson vacationed this week, until June 30. It will be recalled that former and watched the tall trees grow Judge J. H. Wellington refused to along the rippling waters of Rock sign the certification as to appro creek. priation and it was beileved that j was one of the reasons for his i recall. Judge Rutherford and I Commissioners Miller and Pringle We repair all makes of I signed the certification in the Waahars , last instance but this time the VKRNONIA RADIO SHOP : district attorney was not consult-! G.a. Shipman I ed as to its legality. Maytag Washers DETROIT GOES FORD V-8 3 to one • Detroiter* should know automo bile«! They know what goes into them . • • and what their owner* can expect out of them. 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