VERNONIA EAGLE
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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-
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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.
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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.
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thousand families now unemploy­
ed in a position to care for them­
selves.
A committee from the Commer-
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VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934.
UTILITIES ENGINEER­
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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.
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There hasn’t been a ¿lay in
Vernonia for two years without
the sound of hammer and saw.
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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.”
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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.
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