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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1934)
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 AN AROUSED PUBLIC OPINION NECESSARY The war on crime urged by President Roosevelt in his speech Monday at the attorney general’s crime conference needs to be waged in dead earnest. Despite the aphorism that crime does not pay more and more youths appear to be convinced that crime is the best source for pay, and are trying it out—many of them all too successfully for the public welfare. Some thing should be done about it, something besides resolving against crime and rap ping criminals, if detected, gently on the knuckles and admonishing them to be good. There are a number of factors which combine to make our beloved country a happy hunting ground for kidnapers, mur- durers, thugs, drunken drivers sneak thieves and the rest, professional and ama- 4 < > teur. Officers of the law are frequently lax, sometimes because they are incompe tent and more often, perhaps, because they feel that they will get no support if they do perform their duties conscien tiously. Criminals, if they happen to be caught, have too good a chance of wriggl ing out of the clutches of the law, for clever attorneys know how to use the law to make all law impotent. Jurors, thrust into a resonsibility for which they are in no way prepared, are likely to exert their sympathies rather than their judgment. As a result a multitude of crimes go un detected and hordes of criminals go un punished. This condition is certain to remain as long as public opinion with regard to crime remains indifferent. Except for a few sturdy individuals here and there of ficers of the law will stay lax as long as people fail to back them for doing right. Attorneys will resort to delays, techni calities, jury fixing and other devices as long as their reputation is enhanced in stead of blasted by the number of guilty people they can clear to go forth, commit more crimes and hire more lawyers. Jur ors will continue to be sympathetic with the ciminals instead of with the criminals’ victims as long as public opinion cares not whether guilty men get punished or go free. Aroused public opinion is essential if the war on crime is to be successful. ----------- 5—§—§----------- According to Gen. Johnson the NRA is as dead as a dodo. He regarded it as a pretty live old bird when he was its keep er a while back—but perhaps there hasn’t been enough “crackdowns” since. PASSAGE OF FISH BILL cial Fishermen’s Union were pres WILL AID UNEMPLOYED ent at a meeting of the Multno mah Anglers and Hunters Club, (Pacific Hunter & Angler) outlining their plan and what it A bill to remove from all Ore will accomplish, the members of gon waters all set nets and traps the committee were Mr. Mattison, was drawn up by the Columbia Mr. Knapp and Mr. Sajou all of Commerciel Fishermen’s Union, Astoria. The Multnomah Anglers and is receiving added support and Hunters club appointed a from the sportsmen’s clubs. With committee to contact others the adoption of this bill and the sportsmen’s clubs and civis organ removal of all fixed fishing gear, izations throughout the state in next spring will see several behalf of this bill and other is thousand new men at work in the sues. Three members from that fishing industry on the Columbia club attended a meeting of the river. It will take several hundred Nehalem Rod and Gun Club last gill netters to produce the same Monday night to acquaint tham amount of tonnage of fish that with the proposed bill and the benefits to be accomplished. is now taken from one trap. Think of the purchasing power Mr. Frank Wire of the State that will be distributed among Game Commission was present several thousand families now and gave a splendid talk on the unemployed, taxes will be paid conservation of wild life in the and the public in general will be state of Oregon, his speech was benefited by the distribution of both educational and instructive a vast sum of money through to the younger generation, after these several thousand families, wards showing several reels of not alone will be the public be wild life in the state, these pic benefited, but tons of small sal tures have always met with great mon and trout that are now be favor wherever they are shown. ing destroyed by the traps will be Mr. Wire is always willing and permitted to live and progagate, ready to instruct interested par if for no other reason than this, ties on conservation of the wild every sportsmans organization life of the state. should give this bill their sup It is a well known fact that if port 100 per cent. Further more the salmon in Oregon waters are every social, fraternal and busi to be preserved for the coming ness organization should see the generation steps must be taken •necessity of this bill, and realize that will insure their protection that its passage will place several from wasteful slaughter. I thousand families now unemploy ed in a position to care for them selves. A committee from the Commer- WE WANT TO SELECT Ask Your Grocer for . • . Vernonia Bakery BREAD . . . for 2 good Reasons— IT’S MADE AT HOME IT’S BETTER a reliable young man, now employed, with F O R E- SIGHT, fair education and mechanical inclinations, who is willing to train spare time or evenings in Vernonia to qualify as INSTALLATION and SERVICE expert in Electric Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. New, pro fitable field. For interview write giving age and present occupation. J VERNONIA BAKERY PAGE THREE VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934. UTILITIES ENGINEER ING INSTITUTE 404 N. Wells St., Chicago, Ill. I----------------------------- —I The Open Forum - - Editor, .Vernonia Eagle: I am in receipt of a copy of your paper wherein you rendered the wild life clubs, and for which they stand an invaluable service, and through the columns .of your paper a great good can be ac complished to the furtherance of conservation in our state, and the stand taken on the trap and set net bill by the Nehalem Rod and Gun club and your paper, the passage of this bill will mean the reemployment of'many thous ands of idle men and increased buying power in Columbia and Clatsop counties. On behalf of the Multnomah Anglers and Hunters cluo and my committee, we wj$h to thank your good selves and the Ne halem Rod and Gun club for the welcome extended my committee and me, and I asi very happy to know that your district has a live wire conservation club and will accomplish a great good in that area. Very truly yours, S. J. Matcovich. Grade School FIFTH GRADE ELECTS OFFICERS On Monday, Dec. 3, the Fifth B class had a class meeting. The following officers were elected: President, Jack Cooly; vice-presi dent, Joanne Lindbergh; secre tary, Dorothy Lee Hanna; ser geant at arms, Arion Baker. ACHIEVEMENT TESTS GIVEN County achievement tests were given to the eighth grade Tues day. The tests included litera ture, history, civics, hygiene, health, geography, arithmetic, and language. Vernonia Eagle, Dec. 12, 1924. Vernonia’s new $22,000 grade BOYS MAKE TOOL CHEST school building containing four FOR NEW TOOLS George Stankey and Charles school rooms will be completed Dübendorf are making a tool about the first of the year. « • • There hasn’t been a ¿lay in Vernonia for two years without the sound of hammer and saw. » * ♦ D. W. Keasey and R. A. Sesse- man have just returned from Roseburg. While there Mr. Keasey purchased a 160 acre farm and says, “It’s turkeys and »keep for me.” NEW 1934 THOR WASHERS $59.50 Watch the classified ads in the Eagle for bargains. Guaranteed! The government is behind every deposit you have— up to $5000. That is the finest guarantee in the world—as certain as the very existence of our gov ernment! Make your JUST THE GIFT FOR HER We have gifts for every member if the family— Come in and look them ov er ... A $1.00 deposit will hold anything you select un til Christmas. chest for the use of all the boys in the industrial arts class. The class has some new tools. There are some plans, T-squares and a vise. A turning lathe is to be the next problem for the class. JAPANESE PROGRAM GIVEN BY 4A AND 5A GROUPS On Wednesday the 4A and 5A classes gave a Japanese play in assembly. They worked out the program during music, art and auditorium periods. E. E. EMIGH LEAVES ON VACATION TRIP EAST E. E. Emigh, who makes his home with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eversaul, when he is not working as superintendent of the cooking department of the Fir-Tex mill in St. Helens, left last Friday on a trip to the east. Mr. Emigh plans to return about the first of February when the Fir-Tex company expects to resume operations. He is travel ing by stage over a northern route by way of Wyoming, and will vis it relatives in Michigan. He will also visit in Canada and New York state, and will return through the south. Mrs. Oscar George and chil dren and Mrs. R. A. Simmons were in Portland Monday. MILK... THE BASIC HUMAN FOOD.. Since the beginning of history, milk has been the basic human food—the food of greatest value to man. Through thousands of years this has not changed. But the method of dis tributing milk have chang ed. A new type of civiliza tion with towns and cities, careful of its health, edu cated in hygiene—has re quired a system of distri bution that would bring pure, wholesome milk from farm to home. Pasteurized milk, deliv- ered to you in sterilized bottles, scientifically pre pared with our modern ma chinery guarantees for you a product positively safe, pure and wholesome. de posits with confidence — they are guaranteed, by I Federal Deposit Insurance. "THE ROLL OF HONOR BANK” The Forest Grove NATIONAL BANK I__ -2___ J. A. Thornburgh, President PHILCO RADIOS— $22.90 and up PATERSON Furniture Store Phone 801 929 Bridge St. Vernonia Nehalem Valley Ice & Creamery Company PHONE 471
