FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1934. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON 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 Sensible Provision Recent allocation of federal money for highway construction in the northwestern counties by the state highway commission shows good judgment. The commission was hampered by lack of funds for ac­ complishing more than a fraction of what it was importuned to accomplish. The two big projects, the Wolf Creek and Wilson River highways, were zealously—perhaps even desperately—advocated by the two interested communities, Seaside and Til­ lamook respectively. To satisfy both was impossible, but to compromise with both by starting construction work that could not be immediately finished may possibly have been tempting. Whatever the tempta­ tion, however, the commission resisted in favor of the sensible solution of an im­ portant link in one road available to through traffic in the near future. By building the section of the Wolf Creek highway between the Necanicum road and Elsie (a part, incidentally, com­ mon to both the Wolf Creek and Vernonia- Hamlet routes) and with comparatively little improvement of the Jewell-Elsie road, traffic from Portland to the Clat­ sop county beaches can come over the new Beaver Creek route to Vernonia, thence down the Nehalem highway to Jewell, and over to Elsie and the Oregon Coast highway—an inland route that can be an excellent substitute while the through highway is waiting tedious years for enough money to be on hand, and years more when contractors are finally at work on the heavy construction west of Sunset camp. To have allocated the money for con­ struction of a few miles at the eastern end would have given motorists the cnance to see where the vaunted scenery used to be before it was burned up last year, but it would have served no practical pur­ pose other than as a political gesture. The stretch at the other end will be im­ mediately useful. ----------- §—§—§----------- More Cannon Fodder The town of Altenburg, Germany, has promised a small farm to families volun­ teering to raise four children “for the state”—and yet Hitler, whose word is law in Berlin, or the tiniest hamlet of the land, claims to be an apostle of peace! ----------- §—§—§----------- Meier and Holman clash at a board of control meeting, according to a recent press dispatch from Salem. There was a time when that was considered news. What Other Editors Say The President’s Vision President Roosevelt in his Bonneville address and in subsequent ones indicated quite clearly why the federal government is expending vast sums on public works in the northwest. He is a president who has discovered the great empire drained by the Columbia who sees its vast undeveloped resources; who envisions a great westward move­ ment of home seekers from the congested areas to the east. Said he at Bonneville: ‘There are many sections of the coun­ try, as you know, where conditions are crowded. There are many sections where land has run out or been put to the wrong kind of use. And yet America is growing. There are many people who want to come to a portion of the country where they have a better chance for themselves and their children. Out here you have, not just space, but you have space that can be used by human beings—a wonderful land, a land of opportunity, a land already peo­ pled by Americans who know whither America is bound, people who are thinking about advantages to mankind, good educa­ tion, some play and, above all, the chance for security, the chance to lead our own lives without wondering what is going to happen to us tomorrow; security for old age, security against the ills and the acci­ dents that come to people, and. above all, security to earn our own living.” It was no idle prophecy the president was making. It was not fulsome flattery. The gigantic sums the government is spending at Bonneville and Grand Coulee is evidence of the faith of the president in this northwestern part of the United States. Cannot anyone doubt the trueness of his vision? The east is congested with peo­ ple who are eking out an existence and who enjoy little of the freedom and indepen­ dence which are possible in this country. In the midwest the farmers have encoun­ tered serious drought conditions for five years, climaxed with an almost unprece­ dented drought this year. Is it idle to ex­ pect that many of these people will be looking elsewhere where they may labor under less handicaps? And where else can they look other than the great northwest, the richest and most undeveloped part of the whole nation? There is room here for millions more and, as Mr. Roosevelt co­ gently remarked, it is not just space but “space that can be used by human be­ ings” who are looking for fuller lives. The northwest is on the eve of a great development. Let no one doubt it. The great projects on the Columbia river will serve to advertise to the outside world the vast resources and wide oppor­ tunities here existent as they have never been advertised before. And they will themselves be the key to unlock some of these resources and opportunities. President Roosevelt is an eastern man, born and reared on the Atlantic sea­ board, but unlike many of the great east­ ern statesmen, his vision has not been ob­ structed by the Alleghany mountains. He has seen to the uttermost boundaries of his country and he has truly sensed that this northwest is a land that offers homes to millions who are seeking economic free­ dom and security. For that the northwest has to thank him and we believe it may look forward to a realization of the pro­ phecy which he has just put into words. And that in the very near future.—As- torian-Budget. ----------- 5—S—5----------- Some of the citizens of Clatsop coun­ ty are beginning to learn what it means to sign a petition without reading it or knowing what it is all about —Clatskanie Chief. There are classes to fit all ages, and a place for every one. Come Tonight Bible study. Saturday, and find your place. Christian Endeavor meets Why Christ did not defend Him­ self before Pilate. promptly at 7:00 p. m. All young Sunday, The Eleventh Com­ people welcomed. mandment; Monday, Evil is not Eternal; Tuesday, Bible Study; GENERAL MARTIN Wednesday, Exposition of Mat­ MAKES EXTENDED thew 7; Thursday, Divine heal­ TOUR OF OREGON ing, subject, The Lord Knoweth the Thoughts; Friday Bilge study; Delayed by business, incident Saturday, Ordinance of Believ­ to the visit of Presdent Roose­ ers,, baptism; Sunday, John, the velt and members of his cabinet Baptist, was Elilah. to Portland and Bonneville, Con­ Evangelist F. Petty. gressman Chas. H. Martin, candi­ date for governor, is this week CHRISTIAN CHURCH making his first extended tour of I ______ Oregon since his return from F. Claude Stephens, Minister Washington in mid-July. I Great services for August 12. Congressman Martin’s tour is j This date marks the closing of taking him into sixteen counties I our great evangelistic campaign for the purpose of meeting the with the Ladd-Stephens-Thompson voters personally and familiariz­ team. ing himself more thoroughly with | 9:45 a. m., Bible school. local conditions. No set speeches 10:45 a. m., Divine morning are included in his program. worship, James Earl Ladd speak­ The itinerary for the trip in­ ing. cluded the following cities and 7:00 p. m. Christian Endeavor, towns : Vernonia, Scappoose, St. Hel­ special service. ens, Rainier, Clatskanie, Astoria, 8:00 p. m., a rousing service Warrenton, Seaside, Wheeler, | with the evangelists leading. Rockaway, Garibaldi, Bay City, Christian Bible School Notes Tillamook, Cloverdale, Neskowin, The attendance last Sunday Ocean Lake, DeLake, Tafe, New­ ; was 220, with 103 who had read port, Toledo, Waldport, Florence, I the Bible every day during the Reedsport, Gardner, North Bend, week. Marshfield, Coquille, Myrtle Point, The Bereans won the atten- Bandon, Langlois, Port Orford, : dance banner with 25 present. It Gold Beach, Harbor, Brookings, I certainly is a pleasure to see so Grants Pass, Gold Hill, Central many of our high school students Point, Medford, Jacksonville, Ash­ i in Bible school. land, Klamath Falls, Bend, Red­ I Next Sunday will end the first mond, Prineville, Madras, Maupin, half of the Alphabetical contest Dufur, The Dalles, and Hood in the Loyal Women’s class. The River. L to W group is in the lead. The A to L group are urged to be THIRSTY? in Bible school in force to try to The state liquor commission re­ win this contest. cently imposed restrictions on The best place in town to go signs on the outside and in the is to Bible school, so be in Bible windows of beer dispensaries. school next Sunday. You are al­ The problem of the road houses ways welcome at the Christian and “fountains” became that of church. coaxing the thirsty inside with­ out violating the regulations that EVANGELICAL CHURCH forbid large signs advertising BEER. Rev. A. N. Glanville, Pastor Here is the text of some of Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. the signs that we have observed m. Sunday. Prayer meeting Wed­ that seem to solve the problem: nesday evening. “Suds and Eats.” “Refreshments on Draught.” Evangelical Sunday School “We Sell It—But Can’t Tell The blues are now well in the It.” lead in the contest, having made “? on Tap.” a decided gain last Sunday. How­ “Thirsty? We Have It.” —Ex. ever, the red side is working hard, and the score may be re­ Fred J. Brewer, former proprie­ versed soon. tor of the Vernonia bakery, has Sara McGee sang a solo Sun- j sold out his interests in the Gol­ day as the special number fur­ den Krust bakery in St. Helens to nished by the blues. The red side his partner, Fred E. Visnaw, and will provide a special number for has moved to Portland. Sunday. School starts promptly at 9:45. Phone your want ads to Ver­ Orchestra music every Sunday.' nonia Eagle—and get results. UNDENOMINATIONAL > il g Ig À I VASTLY MFHIKNT wt Admission to the gruuud* reduced from 5Oc to Me, IMCW Deal. and thio Me Include* free general admliilon