FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA. OREGON
Keeping Watch on Rhine
What Other
Editors • . .
Think • • • •
KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE
Enthusiasm is running high
throughout Columbia County be
cause of new industry and in
creased payrolls. There are pros
pects of better times locally than
citizens and merchants have seen
for many years. A note of op
timism is in the air and every
one is imbued with the hope of
making money, of recouping the
losses of leaner years just pas
sed.
Yet in such matters, while ad
justing to the changing order of
things, it is best to move delib
erately.
Rentals in Rainier and else
where in Columbia county have
been going steadily upward. Of
course some increase was indi
cated, being due because of gen
eral wage boosts and a rent
scale previously set so low it
scarcely paid taxes and ignored
completely the matter of prop
erty maintenance. Yet in a great
many instances rentals have been
stepped up so severely thaa it
would appear the landlords ex
pect to recaver several year’s
losses in a few months.
The Review doubts if many of
these increases are justified at
this time, being cognizant of the
fact that few wage earners have
as yet seen a corresponding in
crease in pay checks. Some bus
inesses, too, may be returning
good dividends, but the majority
are not yet “out of the woods’’
—nor will they be for some time.
Already there is talk among
several of our citizens indicat
ing their intention of moving
back across the river. Those who
work on the Washington shore
certainly have something to sup?
port their complaint, if it is true,
that they can rent better houses
more cheaply in Longview than
here.
Most newspapers enjoy a de
gree of friendly confidence de
nied other businesses and for this
reason have an insight into public
thought. We have heard enough
during the past month or so to
convince us that the golden goose
is objecting most vigorously to
the kind of treatment being ac-
corled it here.
Rainier Review
A few years after the Fraitee-
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German war, which gave Alsace-
Lorraine to Germany as an impe
rial territory, a large national mon
ument was set up on the hills op
posite Bingen, representing the
figure of Germania, keeping watch
on the Rhine. It is thirty-four feet
high and bears aloft the imperial
crown and the laurel - wreathed
sword. On the base are portraits
of Emperor Wilhelm I and other
German princes and generals and
representations of troops from
various states of the empire, to
gether with the words of the na
tional song "Die Wacht am Rhein.”
Poisonous Snakes
Rattlesnake is not necessarily a
“gentleman snake” which rattles
its tail before every strike. A cot
ton-mouth water moccasin can and
does bite under water. The cop
perhead is the most common poi
sonous snake in some sections,
says a writer in the St. Louis Post
Dispatch, and in the dead grass
and dried up leaves which it in
fests is one of the hardest to de
tect
Born of Whig Reforms
London University traces back
to the Whig reforms of the early
eighteen hundreds. It began with
a proposal made in 1825 for the
establishment of a university to
educate the sons of the "middling
rich" who could pay up to $500
a year, including the cost of keep
ing their sons at home, but could
not afford the $1,250 a year which
it cost to send them away to Ox
ford or Cambridge.
ACT TWO
Dunn’s house burned out,
’Twas fun, no doubt;
Now Dizzy Dunn
Looks awfully glum.
ACT THREE
Be sure your insurance
protection is complete.
ACT FOUR
See us—today!
ROBERTS
and
HIERER
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Benson Closes 32 Year
Old Logging Camp
(Clatskanie Chief)
The last train of logs was tak-
en out of Benson Camp in the
Firwood locality on Tuesday of
this week. The track is already
being taken up in the woods and
it is probable that in the next
9o days the main line will be
taken up either by contract or
by employees of the company.
The camp opened here in 1904,
the first load of logs was brought
out in February of that year. Op
erations were carried on in that
camp for 32 years and five
months.
One hundred and five rafts
have been sent south and the
106th raft will leave here Sat-
urday morning for San Diego.
Raft 107 is about half completed.
Of the men who started to
work at the camp at the time of
its opening Arvid Johnson is the
only one still in its employment.
Henry West, who passed away
several years ago also came with
tha company as did Mr. Johnson
from Washington where they had
previously operated.
Monday. These logs are being
One Real Battle
picked up along the tracks where
There is only one real battle go
they have been lost.
ing on everywhere.' It has been
in progress through all the ages—
New Camp Opened
the continuous battle between right
The new camp one and a half and wrong. In every cause for
miles from Mist is in operation which men fight, in the struggles
and the first logs were brought of every human soul, still the same
down and dumped in the- Clat two forces are arrayed against
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skanie river at the site of the old each other.
cannery Tuesday.
Camphor Found In Tree
The logs are taken out of the
Sometimes camphor is found
woods by truck. Four trucks are
tributed through the grain of the
being used and at the present tree in small white sugar - like
time about 60,000 feet of timber crystals, when the method of col-1
is being put in the river daily. lection is to fell the tree, split the
At the present time it is unde wood up into splinters and scrape!
cided by the company’s officials off the crystals; at other times the'
whether logs will be sold in camphor occurs occupying a single'
cell like a kidney, about the size
flat rafts or if they will contin of a man’s forearm.
ue to make the cigar rafts.
Wm. Kidney is in charge at
Seventeenth Century Bird
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the new camp site ,. and about 60
Dutch settlers In the Seventeenth!
men are now w°rklnS'
century used to call the dodo the!
“walgvoegel”
(the nauseating
EQUIPPED
bird) because no amount of cook
ing could make it palatable. But
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not even Its utter uselessness could
i save it from extinction. From
bones found in different parts of
Mauritius a complete skeleton,
stands in the museum at Port.
Louis.
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Bees Aid Clover
When the Australians first
Henry Larsen has a picture of
planted clover it grew well in Au
“Maude is received everywhere j
stralia's fertile soil from seed the first load of logs and is mak as a belle.”
ing
plans
to
get
a
picture
of
the
brought from England but pro
“I can believe she is—she has a I
duced no seed in the new country. last load which will come out tongue, I know.”
They couldn't understand it until
they imported bumblebees, pollen
carriers from plant to plant. Na
ture’s cycle was perfected and
seed came.
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□ Passengers in the smoking
L compartment on my train
Wy were arguing about why
r|7 railroad business is pick
le ing up. *
• A factory owner said it
was because of Free pick-up-
and-delivery of less than car
load freight. The railroad calls
for the LCL freight at ship
per’s door and delivers it to
consignee’s door.
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A traveling salesman said it
was because so many passen
ger and freight trains now run
on faster schedules.
The Blindfish
The blindfish (Amblyopsis spe-
laeus) is related tc the mud min
now and killifish and is found in
underground streams in Mammoth
Cave and other caves in Kentucky
and Indiana. It is from two to
five inches long, entirely white, and
has no trace of external eyes.
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There was a school prin
cipal in the group and he
said it was because train
travel is so much cheaper
for passengers. He said
passenger fares are at the
lowest point in history,
with substantial reductions
if you buy a round-trip
ticket —and no more sur
charge for riding in sleep
ing cars.
ACT ONE
“Fires are fun,”
Says Dizzy Dunn.
“Insurance,” he asserts,
“Is all the nerts.”
Birds Fly at Birth
Mound builder birds which are
of a family of birds inhabiting
Australia and some of the South
Sea islands are hatched fully
leathered and are able to fly and
live an independent life from the
ament they emerge from the
PAGE SEVEN
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ENSEMBLE
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ring and wedding ring in a
design of rare beauty, and
exclusively shown at this
store.
The Pair for $75.00
—or eithei ring can be
pure hared icparately
Other Granat ensembles at
other prices You are invited
to see the full selection.
A. L. Kullander
One man. a farmer, said he
liked something he could de
pend on, that’s why he was
traveling by train.
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Another man, a newspaper re
porter, said people were in
favor of railroad travel be
cause it is by far the safest. He
quoted a lot of statistics from a
book called,“ Live and Let Live.”
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EPORTER-PHOTOGRAPHERS, hundreds of them,
constantly scour the
for "shots" that
will
more real . . . more
interesting ... more understandable. The single,
business-like click of a camera and a thousand
word story is captured, all in an instant, to be
presented in a manner more graphic than the
words themselves could ever attain.
The scenes these men photograph number into
the thousands daily. From this great number a
careful selection is made. The chosen pictures,
designed to aid you in the visualization of im
portant news events or "human-interest"
occurrences and individuals, are regularly
offered by this newspaper.
This is our answer to a modem public1« demand
upon a modern newspaper for pictures of places,
persons and incidents of world-wide interest.
R • make a news highlight world
REVIEW OF WORLD EVENTS—IN PICTURES
APPEARING REGULARLY IN THIS PAPER
A banker we all know by
name said railroad tax pay-
mentsmeana lotin thisstate.
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Weareproudofrailroadachieve-
ments, appreciate the public’s
good will and increased patron
age, and pledge continued prog
ress.
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