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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 IF ALL IN ONE ACCIDENT Twenty-four persons were killed and 416 injured in August in traffic accidents in this state, according to a report by Secretary P. J. Stadelman. What a furor this would create if the loss resulted from one big accident. Occurring, as they do, day by day in scattered places, one pays slight heed—and the accidents continue. ----------- 8—8—8----------- By authority of the state liquor com mission, roughneck “suds” dealers must become sedate licensed dispensers. ----------- 8—8—8----------- "Blue eagle soars on rebuilt wings,” says a newspaper headline. We wonder if Gen. Johnson did the carpentering. ----------- 8—8—8----------- Some—in fact too many—of the Lou isiana voters appear to have a fondness for being fooled all the time, to judge by “Kingfish” Long’s most recent victory. ----------- 8—8—8----------- Since the ambition of the Portland Beavers has to be limited to keeping out of the cellar nobody up this way appears to get excited over the finish of the coast baseball season. H hat Other Editors Say AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY A study of the Morro Castle disaster able safety of her many passengers were entirely lacking. It would appear evident there was lack of leadership; lack of train ing for meeting fire hazards; or, that the accounts cannot but create the impression that conditions guaranteeing the reason ship itself, through some feature of con struction was a veritable fire trap from which escape was virtually impossible. It is hard to believe that such loss of life could occur under the circum stances on board a modern liner so near to shore. The public is anxious to know why when the fire was first discovered, that the passengers were not immediately aroused and hastened to the boat decks where they could be loaded into the life boats and removed from the vessel? There were plenty of such boats. Some were ne ver removed from the ship and others only partially filled, chiefly by members of the crew. On any ship at sea a 24-hour watch is, or should be, maintained and that a fire on a big liner where night activities are more or less like those of a large hotel in addition to the added functions of ship operation and navigation, should start in the ship’s library and gain such headway that passengers could not es cape from their state rooms, is unbeliev able, unless there was a total failure of judgment and leadership on the part of those who first discovered the blaze. It is possible that with the fire dis covered ship’s officers failed to recognize the potential danger and did not system atically alarm the passengers and pre pare for their movement out of danger until too late. It is possible, too, that the ship was so constructed that a small but fiercly burning fire could cut off the way of egress through certain sections of the usual narrow ship’s, passageways. In any event the tragedy was of the type and could and should be avoidable and the investigation to come should bring to light matters that should be of use in avoiding its repetition on other vessels.— Astorian-Budget. ----------- 6—8—8----------- REPEAL WILL HAVE TO WATCH ITS STEP That repeal of prohibition did not re sult in the repealing of the liquor prob lem is very strikingly presented by the records of arests fo drunken driving in Oregon. William H. Hammond, director of the operator’s division for the secretary of state, in Oregon Motorist points out that during the first six months of 1934, rec ords compiled by the office of the secre tary of state shows that the number of motor car operators placed under arrest for being involved in accidents in Oregon while they were under influence of liquor was 61 per cent larger than the number arrested under the same conditions dur ing the first half of 1933 and 50 per cent greater than the corresponding number during the first half of 1932. The number of operator’s licenses sus pended or revoked for driving while in toxicated by orders of the courts of Ore gon during the first half of 1934 was 54 per cent greater than during the corres ponding period of 1933 and 95 per cent greater than during the first six months of 1932. There is not as yet a solution to the problem, which will meet the necessary requirement of popular support, other than the salutary effect of prompt and severe punishment of violators of the laws governing driving while intoxicated. How ever, there is a warning in the facts on drunken driving to those interested in the liquor business and those who desire the privilege of legal purchase of both beer and liquor. The continued increase in drunken driving will not be tolerated. If repeal with its moderate regulations can not deliver the temperance which was the hope of its advocates, some other method will be found.—Forest Grove News-Times. last week to bring home his son Clarence, who has been with the COC at Vancouver, Wash. Mr,. J. W. Neurer Mr. and Mrs. Vic Berg from below Mist were visiting the L. Bob Seal spent last week end Carmichael folks Sunday. at his home in St. Helens re-1 Entrance was gained to the turning Monday morning. Natal grange hall Saturday The Dunlap family enjoyed a night, Sept. 1, after the dance. trip to the beach before their; Nothing was taken. Windows were son Floyd leaves for college. Mrs. broken, lamp globes broken, the M. Peter.-on and Mrs. Margaret kitchen was all upset, and oecora- Dunlap accompanied Mr. and Mrs. tions in the hall were completely Noble Dunlap and their son destroyed. Some of the officials from St. Helens were here to in- j Floyd. Millie McMullen and Marian vestigate. Jake Neurer built a modern | Milton took in the dance at Bir- equipped blacksmith shop at his | kenfeld last Saturday evening. Bob Lindsay went to Portland j ranch. N at al Mrs. John Thoma» and her daughter Marie came home from Salem, where they were employ ed in the cannery. The Rev. Cregan is in Chicago at the world’s fair, according to word received here. W. W. Wolf was in the Nehal em valley for a few day» last week to buy fresh milk cows. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Neurer were Maytag Washer» We repair all mateen of VMMON1A RADIO SHOP G um »»-*■ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934. NINETY AND NINE TO election will be held in School MEET THIS WEEK IN District Union high No. 1 of Co CHRISTIAN CHURCH lumbia County, State of Oregon, Saturday, October 6, 1934 at 2 The Ninety and Nine, an unde to 7 o’clock in the afternoon, nominational organization, will at the High School Building in meet tonight in the Christian said school district for the pur church. Women as well as men pose of submitting to the legal are invited. There will be local voters of said district the ques tion of increasing the tax levy speakers. Last week’s meeting was ad for the year 1934-35 over the dressed by Rev. A. N. Glanville, amount limited by section 11, ar pastor of the Evangelical church. ticle XI, of the Constitution of Oregon. The reasons for increasing such MRS. GREENMAN RETURNS levy are: The base upon which FROM VACATION the tax has been levied in former Mrs. Judd Greenman returned years was too low. Tax delin Sunday from a three week’s va quency is another cause. The amount of special tax pro cation at Long Beach, Califor nia, making the journey by train. posed to be levied for said year is She enjoyed several trips out $19,393.16. from Long Beach. One was a Dated this 10th day of Septem visit to the Mission Inn at River ber, 1934. side, where she saw a prince and Attest: E. R. MILLS, princess from Japan who were on District Clerk. a good will tour; another was a H. M. CONDIT, trip to Pasadena. She also visited Chairman, Board of Directors. the Kellog Arabian horse ranch from which develops many of the country’s famous show horses. Mr. and Mrs. Horace W. Jones are parents of a boy born Sat urday, Sept. 8. A name for the child has not yet been selected. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Estey and Doris were in Portland over the week end. CALL FOR WARRANTS I have funds on hand to cash City of Vernonia general fund warrants up to Oct. 31, 1930, and water fund warrants up to Dec. 31, 1933. Interest ceases Sept. 14, 1934. J. W. BROWN, City Treasurer. CALL FOR WARRANTS I have funds on hand to cash School District 47 warrants up to and including No. 581, issued in April, 1933. LOEL ROBERTS, Clerk, School Dist. 47. NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION Notice of School Election Upon Question of Increasing Tax Levy Over amount Limited by Section 11, Article XI, State Constitution. Notice is hereby given that an Guaranteed! The government is behind every deposit you hav< up to $5000. That is the in finest guarantee I world—as certain as the the very existence of our gov ernment! Make your de posits with confidence — they are guaranteed, by Federal Deposit Insurance. "THE ROLL OF HONOR BANK” The Forest Grove NATIONAL BANK J. A. Thornburgh, President R. G. Thornburgh. Cashier in Portland the first of this week on business. Lee Osborn spent Tuesday with the Joe Banzer folks below Mist. The rain which came Sunday was surely welcome to farmers of this vicinity. A. F. of L. LOGGERS Local No. 18742 meets second R. Doggett spent the week end and fourth Thursdays in the with his family at St. Helens. month at Grange hall, 8 p. m. Visiting members cordially invit “SHARP STOMACH PAINS UPSET MY WHOLE SYSTEM ed to attend. Says E. Hentges: “I tried a $1 Fred Lumm, president. bottle (3 weeks treatment) of Dr. Emil’s Adla Tablets under your guarantee. Now the pains A. F. & A. M. are gone and I eat anything.” Vernonia Lodge No. 184 Armitage Drug Co._____ (Adv.-5) A. F. & A. M. meets at Masonic Temple, Stated Communication First Thursday of each month. Special called meetrngs on all other Thurs day nights 7:30 p.m. Visitor» most cordially welcome. J. B. Wilkerson, W. M. F. D. Macpherson, Secretary Clean No. 1 Gray (fall) LODGES I FALL SEED (.HAINS VETCH 100 lbs. «2.75 VERNONIA Trading Co. PHONE 681 If everyone spenda . everyone works Order of Eastern Star Nehalom Chapter 153, O. E. 3. Regular commu nication first and third Wed nesdays of each month, at Ma sonic Temple. All visiting sis ters and broth ers welcome. Mrs. M. F. Wall, W. M. Leona McGraw, Sec. Pythian Sinter* Vernonia temple 61 meets every fourth Wednesday in W. O. W. hall. Rose Fletcher, M.E.C. Clara Kerns, M of R. 4 C.