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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1935)
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON ¿My c^eighbor TOPNOTCHERS Says: * Guaranteed! The government is behind every deposit you have— up to $5,000. That is the finest guarantee in the world— as certain as the very existence of our govern ment! Make your deposits with confidence— they are guaranteed, by Federal Deposit Insurance. "THE ROLL OF HONOR BANK" The surface of the soil In which dahlias are planted should be stirred up twice a week during the growing season. This permits air to get into the soil and helps to conserve moisture. The Forest Grove NATIONAL BANK Always use boiling water when making tea. If water Is not actual ly boiling, It will not bring out the full strength of tea. J. A. Thornburgh, Á President. • • 22 year old Ditcher Paul pitched 30 came? last SKastin-* Won, !9 dtid Post// Pitched anchil • Wash lettuce, dry with towel and place In cheesecloth In the refrig erator some time before using in salads. If lettuce Is washed when salad Is made. It will not be crisp enough to allow dressing to stick to It • • • Mazda Lamps Electrical Appliances Mamst Brooklyn, last y Mr I Pitched and won, two tnat Daffy | qarie? in,, will Mok- EWorld? To prevent juice from blueberry pies running over Into oven, after having thoroughly washed and dried berries In a towel, sprinkle with flour before placing on crust. © Associated Newspaper». WNU Service. T T OFFICE HOURS 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. by K et Di&y iD'WU C* Uncommon bense JOHN BLA year POTPOURRI Origin of Mermaid SATURDAY 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Oregon Gas and Electric Company «22 BRIDGE ST. TELEPHONE 691 Professional & Business Directory THE GOLDEN RULE BARBER SHOP N. S. SODEN, PROP. BAFFORD BROS. General Plumbing Roland D. Eby, M. D. Physican and Surgeon 891 Office H. M. BIGELOW DENTIST Joy Theatre Vernonia - • VERNONIA SERVICE STATION Roland L. Trehame Expert Automobile Repairing WELDING ROLAND’S SERVICE STATION Vernonia Town Willard Batteries GENERAL MOBILGAS Oil» • • Expert Greasing Nehalem Valley Motor Freight W. A. Davis, Frank Hartwick Propietors Portland- Timber- Vernonia Mist« Birkenfeld- Jewell- Astoria Vernonia Telephone 1042 Building • Oregon NEHALEM TAVERN 3 MILES NORTH EAST OF VERNONIA CASON’S TRANSFER LOCAL AND LONG DIS TANCE HAULING SEE US For your old-growth 16-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES What blessings men may have a Never was there any very good The legend which gives us hundred years from now we do not reason for Ignorance. the mermaid fantasy Is perhaps Today there Is know, and it will not make much traceable to the dugong, a ma Around less than ever. difference to ns. rine animal resembling the • •••••• the World You can 8° whale. It has a long crescent "Let dogs delight to bark and down the street, shaped tall and side fins much or If you are rich enough, sit In bite,” says the old poem. resembling short arms. The fe your living room and look at a re Some of those male carries her young under Growls old poems contain ligious procession In Russia, a bull this fin and this habit Is thought fight In Spain, or a tiger hunt in and Snarls considerable hard to have given rise to the mer sense. India. maid story. The growling and biting will go You can hear the voices and the © Western Newspaper Union. words of great men and women In on In the kennels, but one would Imagine by this time that It ought almost every nation In the world. to be eliminated from the living likely to make It more successful. ¡Then Shakespeare wrote: “Home room and the business office. If, as you are advancing in years, keeping youth have ever homely wits," he could not foresee a time when Tempers are not easy to keep. But you get grouchy, be careful. home-keeping youth, and adults for when you realise that the minute you So cheer up. It can’t hurt you. that matter, could sharpen their wits lose your mental balance you stop And it will probably do you no end by looking at the world by means of thinking clearly, perhaps you will pul of good. tiny sparks that may be carried from one end of it to another. But although these opportunities are here, they will prove of scant value If people do not make use of them. And comparatively few people do. I think that the speakies are ex cellent, many of them. Even If their stories are too often florid, their settings enable one to get and keep a wider understanding of people all around the world than they could ever gain by mere read ing and using their imaginations. The imagination has to have something to Imagine, or It Is not very useful. There Is little doubt that within a comparatively few years we shall have sight with our sound. That means that we can look across the sea and witness events In foreign countries while they are actually happening. We shall be able to look out on the ocean, and see friends and ac quaintances walking decks that are a thousand miles away from us. And they will be able to look at us. If they like us enough to do It, and to hear what we are saying to them. • •••••• I am not convinced that another war will come immediately. I am not persuaded that it will come at all. a stronger curb on your utterances. I have worked In many offices, un der many men. Never have I known a growler or a snarler who wouldn't have got more and better work out of those under him If he had been a little more tolerant of mistakes, and a little more sparing of hard words. In the prize ring the man who loses bls temper loses the fight • •••••• The man who beats bis boy be cause he has been Impertinent the woman who slaps her baby because It gets Into some mischief It knew no better than to get into, are stor ing up trouble. It Is just as sensible to "get mad" at a root which trips you up while you are walking through the woods, or a door which slammed In the wind and hurt one of your toes. John Fiske said that George Washington, on one occasion when one of the men under him had done something foolish, threw his hat on the floor and stamped on It, or did something of the same Irritated kind. But Washington did not loose any profanity when battles were going on, and neither did Grant or Lee or any other great generals. • •••••• 1 have heard that anger really breeds poisons In the system. Certainly It breeds poisons In the soul, poisons that are likely to prove very harmful. Learn, If you can, to accept mis fortunes, even failures, with phllos ophy. Mediterranean Sea of Age» There is only one sea that has been contemporary with all his tory—the Mediterranean. The Pa cific and the Atlantic have been known to us for less than a thou sand years, but the “Mare Med Iterranean” has been "the Great Sea” from the unremembered past The ancient nations which ruled the waves — Phoenicians, Cartha glnlans, Greeks, Romans, Venetians —were all Mediterranean peoples It is the sea of the ages. On Its waters Odysseus journeyed home from Troy, and Aeneas made his eventful voyages. It bore Caesar’s prows as he set forth to conquer and carried the argosies of Byzan tium as they brought borne th" wealth of earliest commerce. NOT WET YET But to prevent it, and at the same time to avail ourselves of all the possibilities for happiness which have been created by thinking and Learn to forget hard words that studying men, we have got to get ' rid of international disputes and are said to you or the mistakes that ’ hatreds, and with the endless en people who are working with or for "You ask me to kiss you? Why, I hardly know you.” deavor to gain new territory which you or over you may make. Happiness is one of our heritages. nations would not know how to use “That's Just it. What quicker way It make* life pleasant, and it is to get acquainted?” U they captured IL
