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VERNONIA EAGLE Member of Oregon State Editorial Asaociation. 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 1«: per word, minimum 25c first insertion, 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c per line. RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher Price Fixing By Code Theoretically price fixing under NRA codes is sound, yet in practice it has giv en more trouble, probably, than any other part of the entire program. The aim has been to reverse the pro cess by which the country sank deeper and deeper in the bog of depression. Af ter the stock market crash late in 1929. prices fell, men were thrown out of work, and the wages of those who held their jobs were cut. A low selling price meant a low wage—hence the attempt under the NRA to make possible the boosting of wages through the fixing of prices at a level that would support the wages. What took place in the lumber in dustry serves as an example. Huge stocks of lumber were on hand when the de pression broke, and the only way of mov ing them was by rapid decline in price. To continue production and sell at cut prices it was necessary for the lumber companies to slash wages. In consequence employes were getting barely enough for food, and cheap food at that, a little boot leg, perhaps, and gas for their cars if they had to drive to and from work. For the rest of what they had to have they went in debt, and what they could do without remained unbought. The NRA sought to remedy this by DRIVING COURTESY HELD SAFETY NEED FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1934. VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE FOUR fixing the price of lumber at an amount sufficient for payment of a living wage. It sought, too, to end the glut in the market by establishing production quotas, because the maintaining of a fairly high price level would obviously be difficult if not impossible in the face of overproduc tion. The logic back of price fixing was sound. z Yet the price fixing requirement in the lumber code has stirred violent dis sension, and despite its approval by a majority of the directors of the West Coast Lumberman’s association, its elimi nation is not unlikely. The practical difficulty has been that consumers either are unable to buy lum ber at the established prices, or are not interested in buying it. High prices of commodities that remain unsold do no one any good, manufacturer, dealer or wage earner. The perplexing part of the problem is whether wages will have to be cut if lumber mills are permitted to set their own prices. Will they set them too low? There should at least be some safeguard against the return of the old vicious circle —dull business, slashed prices, reduced wages, diminished buying power, duller business. Price fixing or no price fixing the depression will be with us as long as business lags and men fail to receive an adequate wage. ----------- 8—8—8----------- “Public ownerhip at its most careless is better than private ownership at its best,” declared Pete Zimmerman in Ver nonia last Monday. Rather a bold defense, it seems to us, for incompetency, inat tention and sometimes graft for which the public must pay just as certainly as would a private owner who allowed his business to be conducted “at its most careless.” Public ownership can be a suc cess only when it is administered as pru dently as private ownership at its best. ----------- 8—5—8----------- The community chest needs your help. Give every dollar that you can, and if you haven’t any dollars, give what you can. with his fellowmen loses all re spect for the rights of others when he gets behind a steering wheel is one of the dangerous oddities of human nature, ad versely affecting safe driving re cords,” points out the accident bureau of the secretary of state’s office, as it urges courtesy on the streets and highways and cautions against thoughtless or careless car operation. dustries; Oregon had 52,171. Prior to 1930 the lumber indus try brought approximately $250,- 000,000 per year into these two tsates. The simple element of courtesy on the part of automobile drivers would have averted 866 accidents Work is progressing on short in Oregon in August and cut the plays which are to be presented total for the month in half, re publicly by the Rainbow Girls veal records of the office of soon. Miss Nan Crary is coaching. Secretary of State P. J. Stadel- man. Such infractions of good driv OLD-TIME ing practice and rules of the road FOREST FACTS as driving on the wrong side of the road, failing to yield the right OREGON RANGE Lumber and wood products pay of way, cutting in, passing stand 63 H per cent of all wages and RIDERS MUSIC ing street car, passing on curve, salaries of Oregon’s manufactur passing on the wrong side, fail- j ing industries. A “sustained yield” ing to signal, failing to stop for. forest program might be a “life OCTOBER 6 through highway, and cutting the saver” for Oregon—if, and when. left corner were responsible for | Odd Fellows Hall the 866 accidents. All of these, VERNONIA According to the last federal could have been eliminated had I GENTS 25c LADIES 25c census, Washington had 86,897 common courtesy guided the ac-1 workers employed in forest in tion of the offending driver.! stresses the state department, in checking over the 1,727 accidents i during August. Of this total, failure of 352 drivers to yield the right of way was responsible for the largest number of acci dents. Additional causes for difficul ties, in some of which courtesy We are equipped to test your battery and on the part of the driver might tell the condition of the ceils. Have it also ha'" produced different re-, done now and be ready for the cold suits, were exceeding the speed limit, improper turning, disre-, weather. garding an officer or signal, driv-1 ing off the roadway, double or prohibited parking, skidding, back. ing. and failing to set brakes suf-I ficiently. “Why an individual who never' TWO EDS fails to observe ordinary courte-1 sies in every other relationship > DANCE Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Harry Culbert anied Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Sim son and family spent Sunday at mons to Portland Monday. Manning with Mrs. Culbertson’s Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Powell parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. and son Melvin visited in Jewell Crawford. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Fox and Oscar Sorlee, who is in the CCC camp at Oak Ridge, near son Cleve of Blackburn, Okla., Eugene, is home on a vacation uncle and aunt of Bert Tisdale, to last until Oct. 29. He earned are visiting at his home here. Ted Tisdale of Seattle is visit extra vacation time by overtime ing at the home of his parents, work. A daughter, Mary Catherine, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Tisdale. An was born to Mr. and Mrs. William other relative, Tom Tisdale of Se attle is accompanying him. Nissen Sunday. Dr. R. A. Olson, who has been Marshall and Kathryn Malm- ; in the Seaside S. P .and S. de sten were here Sunday to visit pot during the summer, has been their parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. given second trick at the Bonne Malmsten. ville station. Dr. Irving E. Vining, noted J. C. Haskins was hurt Tues orator will speak at the Rod and day at Sunset when he was Gun club banquet, I. O. O. F. struck by a line, hurting his hall, Monday, Oct. 8. Program chest and breaking his ribs. begins at 7:30, open to the pub lic. Admission 10 cents. Adv. John Miller, who is now a mechanics helper on the Bonne ville dam project, was in town Wednesday. He is planning to build a cabin there and move his family from here. Vernonia Eagle, Oct. 3, 1924. F. F. Malmsten came in from Westimber camp Monday, return Mr. Van Alstine has been ing Wednesday. working with the electricians at Miss Nettie Alley, county the O.-A. for some time. health nurse, inspected children • * « in the Washington grade school Bonnie Buffmire celebrated yesterday. her fifth birthday Friday with Mrs. E. C. Wright came from a party for several of her little San Francisco Friday to visit her friends. sisters, Mrs. Emma Graham and * * • Mrs. D. M. Deakin. She likes Milk pails brim with prosperi Vernonia and will stay for some, ty (Bank of Vernonia ad.) time, she says. » » • “Knobb Hill’ or “Vernonia Allen Ray and Morris Graves of Burns got a mule deer in j Heights,” as part of the town eastern Oregon last week end. | west of Rose avenue is called, Mr. Ray returned to Vernonia is coming into its own with new ; graveled roads and sidewalks. Tuesday. * JOY THEATRE * * Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith and Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter in PADDY THE NEXT i Mrs. J. W. Brown drove to the BEST THING Saturday and Sun state fair last week. » » » day, October 6 and 7. Admission C. R. Watts has taken over the 10 and 25 cents. Adv. V. M. Whitsell was in from interests of his partner, H. J. Buffmire, in the City Transfer CCC camp Wednesday. company. D. MacDonald had a setback * * * of 10 days but is able to be Mr. and Mrs. IE. H. Washburn out again. went to Portland Wednesday to Mickey New, from the CCC meet Mrs. Dora Washburn and camp at Reedsport, is home on children Mabel and Billy, from vacation. Pittsburg, Pa., who will make Mrs. Austin McGilvray accomp their home here. FOREST GROVE-VERNONIA STAGE CO. TIME SCHEDULE NO. 8 EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 5, 1934 Cancelling Time Schedule No. 7—Subject to change without notice. Independently Owned and Operated by K. H. (Doc) CLIFF h 5° >¡t: “ . 0 «ss O S • ► <► O-l □ 0 a P.M. 6:15 7:15 7:27 7:45 8:00 8:10 8:30 P.M. 3:00 4:00 4:12 4:30 4:45 5.00 5:15 P.M. 4:00 5:00 5:12 5:30 5:45 6:00 6:15 STATIONS Lv. Lv. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Portland Forest Grove Gales City Glenwood Timber Sunset Vernonia Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Lv. H < w u 0 i O w • □ X a • A.M. 9:43 8:55 8:40 8:25 8:10 7:55 7:40 P.M. 4:53 3:55 3:45 3:30 3:15 3:00 2:45 ii KO P.M. 8:23 6:55 6:45 6:30 6:15 6:00 5:45 Passenger» delivered to Cochran when picked up at Forest Grove. Depots: Vernonia—Armitage Drug Store, Skinny*» Card Forest Grove--- Hotel Oregon. Portland-Forest Grove Via Pacific Greyhound Room. Have Your Battery Tested VERNONIA RRAZING & MACHINE WORKS VERNONIA-PORTLAND STAGES Sundays ONLY P. M. 6:30 6:40 6:50 7:05 7:15 7:20 7:30 7:40 7:45 9:00 Passengers Will 1 STATIONS Lv. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. ............ Vernonia ......... . .......... Pittsburg ......... ............ Camp 10 .......... Wilark ............ . ........ Trenholm ......... Happy Hollow .... .......... Yankton .......... ......... Houlton .......... ......... St. Helens ........ Portland ......... Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Lv. Lv. Lv. Sundays ONLY P. M. 9:10 9:00 8:45 8:30 8:20 8:10 8:05 7:55 7:50 6:15 Delivered to Camp 8 When Picked up at St. Helens or Houlton Depots: St. Helens—Terminal Confectionery. Houlton—S. P. A S. Ry. Depot. Connect Houlton to Portland via S. P. A S. Be