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PAGE FOUR THE FBI— EAGLE EDITORIALS Trees Make the Big Difference— THE SUGGESTION has been made, and aptly, that Vernonia property owners could well afford to consider more shrubbery and tree culture as a way to city beautification. There is a mite of mockery, if one would be honest, in the lack of curb and yard trees in our community. The mockery comes from the splendid views available from nearly all homes, in all directions, into the fir and cedar woodlands abounding near. Look to the hills and see the trees growing in abun dant verdure. Cast down the orbs and see too few of the green protrusions, pointing the way to shadi ness and serenity. Some communities, as a gesture of civic good will end need, arrange beautification programs, em ploying liberal setting of shrubs and trees as a nucleus. The cost, in these communities, is usually assessed to the property. Fortunately, Vernonia would not need to em barrass freeholders with added costs for there abounds within reasonable distance plenty of trees incidental to the climate and soil which may be made available at little or no cost. There are many blocks of available curb soil in Vernonia on which suitable trees and shrubbery could be planted. Proper encouragement, to renters or owners would probably bring immediate results for the present and a beautified and far more attrac tive city for the future. Compare Vernonia now, if you will, with the period 10 years from now . . . trees and shrubbery added. We can, truthfully, increase the appearance of our town 50 per cent. Compare communities through which you pass. Trees, properly cultivated and planted, make the big difference. AN ICE AGE COMING ACCORDING TO A feature article appearing in The Eagle the past week, the northern hemisphere is due for another ice age within the next 2,000 years. Now 2,000 years, geologically speaking, is a comparatively short period. Hence, we take cog nizance of the shortness of the time, and make comment on the situation, offering suggestions t> make the work of the archeologists of the year 3938 somewhat more interesting and not so embarrassing for the current generation. In the first place, the present-day archeolo gists will be considered pikers compared to the “diggers-in” of 2,000 years hence. Imagine, if you will, the fun that the boys will have in the years following the recession of the ice age when they begin the excavation leading to the lower levels of the Empire State building in New York. Better yet, and to localize the situation, some of these archelogical boys are going to start probing around where Vernonia used to be. Ten chances to one they’ll locate the post office and after so many years of careful segregation, they’ll get into the interior of the building and begin nosing about for old records, in somewhat the same fashion as they do nowadays in Egypt and in other historically rich ruins. Think what those archeologists are going to think when they finally get into Emil Messing’s post office records and find all of those money orders written to mail order houses. After so long a time, these smart fellows are going to decipher this information, and though they’ll not be able to definitely ascertain, perhaps, Emil’s writing, nor your writing, nor our writing, they'll doggone soon learn that we haven’t been as loyal to our home town merchants as we should. And will our angelic faces be red? And what a lot of fun those future archeologists will poke at us for our lack of appreciation. ’Tis better that these archeologists find our names on the “paid up” ledger of some local mer chant, rather than in the money order register at the post office, lEknil’s postmastering position to the contrary. o WE HOPE that the athletic coach from Banks who was recently arrested for a game law infraction of some import doesn’t feel that he has set an example in sportsmanship by which his protegee are to be guided. Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholz and Marion S«xton, Publishers MARION SEXTON .......................... EDITOR MARVIN KAMHOLZ ................ Business Mgr. Entered as second class mail matter. August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Ore gon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate $2 per year Local advertising rate: 26 cents per column inch Foreign advertising rate: 35 cents per column inch Classified advertising rate: Minimum 25 cents, 5 cents per line, three insertions for price of two. Legal advertising rate on request Reader advertising rate: 10 cents per line. Official newspaper of Vernonia. Oregon Member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers' Association. F riday , J uly is , VERÑOÑ1A EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGÖN Our "Scourge” Is Fine; Not Portland's— ONE WOULD believe, if he reads Portland papers carefully, that the influx of mosquitoes there constitutes one of the most ratty problems encoun tered by Mayor Carson and the boys for quite some time. We have been expecting to read of the bodily removal of some large structure by an army of the b-izzing-whining-flytng hordes, if the cartoons, stories and features are not overexaggerated. It seems, so we suspect, that all communities at some one time or another are paid visits by periodic scourges. At the time mosquitoes happen to be of Portland extraction. Not over four or five days ago we enjoyed out-of-town visitors. During the com fortably warm temperature of the afternoon sun we sauntered to the front porch to recline in a canvas chair with our friends. Glancing at the lawn we spied one of those friendly reptiles, a cross between a garter-water- lawn snake. As a matter of fact, we have a happy little family of the little crawlers about the yard. The spaniel enjoys the moments spent in play with the mamma and papa snakes. The tickle of their friendly tongues and the flip of their frisky tails is much to the delight of Blacky. As a matter of fact, again, those little insect killers ... of course we speak of the reptiles . . . keep the small daughter pacified for many a moment during otherwise dull periods. But, here, we are deviating. Our friends, on spying the lawn scene, scurried for the front door, skirts held high, and voice yet higher. A second or more passed ere we understood the commotion. Then, of a sudden, it came to us. We used to feel identi cal on sight of these reptiles. Not so now! Webster tells us that most snakes are not harmful to man, and in most casese exceptionally useful. It was on this theory that a rancher along Rock creek, so we are told, imported some years back, a special species of “combination snake”, the like of which we have in our yard. Reason for such peculiar action on the farmer's part, the story relates, revolved around the abun dance of earwigs, presumed to have been imported from Portland during another of its scourges some years back. So successful was the experiment, and so prolific the reptiles, that within a comparatively short while, the earwigs have almost completely dis appeared and the friendly little “elongations” (we hesitate to call them snakes, the word is repulsive to us) have held their own. Though general admission by scientists informs us that these cute little lawn pets have little intel ligence, they have enough in their craniums to realize that as much as we formerly despised crawl ing creatured of any sort, we feel differently now. There was a time when we shuddered at watch ing a bull snake crawl under our shanty while at work on a truck farm, though the boss had warned on many occasions not to molest any crawling crea ture, lest it be a friend to him and an enemy to insects. And, ordinarily, women would react in a similar fashion. We feel differently now. We have many friends at home, and they are not asking to be fed at the back door, nor do they expect a bed made for them each evening. All they ask, as far as we have been able to ascertain, is the right to navigate about, unmolested, in order to keep the gardens and the lawn cleared of earwigs and ants . . . both much to be detested by the amateur gardener. Now, Portland, we have no mosquitoes. Reason: Friendly little crawling creatures . . . cold and slimey? No. Helpers, they are, and entertainers. And most assuredly mosquito larvae cleaner-uppers. Though the community newspaper is not the city council, nor does it claim any authority in of fering deals, we have been authorized by Mayor Ed Bollinger to sell to Mayor Carson and the city of Portland one pair ... a mamma and a papa mosquito cleaner-upper . . . for exactly the balance of Ver nonia’s bonded indebtedness. If the good Portland executive is interested (and we can’t spare more than a pair) he may dis patch a representative, or come in person, to next Monday evening’s council session and learn the price. We’ll' guarantee it to be less than any eradication program that Portland will work out next year. But we cannot let Portland have the secret for nothing. Our “scourge” has been developed after seasons of scientific research and development and we hesitate even to allow it out of the Vernonia incorporation, save for the fact that we recently visited in Portland and our heart wells up when we think of the human misery rampant In the sister city. Yes, Mayor Carson, we’ll deal with you. IMPROVED VERNONIA STREETS— IMPROVED VERNONIA STREETS! No three words could possibly mean more to this community. For many seasons the need of the improvement has been self-evident. And for pro bably as many seasons plans have been made to see to completion the needed surfacing of the main- traveled arteries. It must be heartening to residents of long stand ing to watch the grader at work preparing the existing surface for the applications of oil and gravel which will eventually give the community many blocks of dust-free, chock-hole free, smooth road surface. The surface work is probably the greatest single improvement project for the incorporation in many years. It is appreciated. THANK GOODNESS there yet remains some essence of the true natuhe. Think of going down the Nehalem to whip the stream with a fly to catch a can of Alaska pink salmon. “IT IS A great thing to come from a state of poverty," said a great industrialist the other day. It’s okeh if you can come far enough from it. SO MIE 15 YEARS ago, so a story one can hear from older residents, a geologist, of consider able reputation and knowledge, arrived in Verno nia and for six months paid his weekly bill at the Hy-Van hotel. During the six months, the geologist made daily trips into the wooded regions hereabouts, in search of, he explained to the all-ears populace, unusual' clay formations. It was during this time that the gentleman shipped to many federal agen cies hundreds upon hundreds of samples of dirt and clay from as many sites and sources. Peculiar to the extent that some thought him “half-there”, the geologist maintained his studies and arduous trips, some days trekking into hills many miles to dig into dirt and clay banks or slides. Almost a daily visitor at the post office, the, geologist was a talkative individual and often told his listeners that “they didn’t realize what they had here.” But the geologist realized “what they had here.” He was an ardent rummy fan and he could be seen, several times each week, after his day’s col lecting of dirt was finished, seated in card rooms, either in town or in logging camps, dealing or accepting the pasteboards in hot rummy games. And, so the story is related, he occasionally gam bled with loggers. He was not a smart gambler, we learn, but he lost little, save for the ordinary expense of indulgence in the pastime. There were many rumors circulated during the six months, all based on the findings of the geolo gist. Many of the maps of current extraction, wa Eagle Items Of Other Years FIVE YEARS AGO— Mildred Tousley and Harold Aker- stedt, both from Vernonia, were married in Portland July 5. The Vernonia Laundry has three government contracts for laundry and dry cleaning of the three CCC camps at Wilark, Mist and Elsie. TEN YEARS AGO— Vernonia councilmen sitting in special session this week ordered a new fire truck from the Gilby Motor Co. A new concrete tennis court at the city park is nearly completed and will be ready for play within a week. The construction has been financed by the Vernonia Tennis clu'b. | I Members of the Knights of Pyth ias held a public installation Friday night. Installées were chancellor commander, R. M. Aldrich; vice chancellor, Ralph Clem; prelate, C..' L. Bateman; master of work, Emil Messing. I The Order of Odd Fellows in stalled Tuesday evening. Officers given official pisitions were nobls grand, John Glassner; vice grand, A. H. Webb; recording secretary, H. E. Stevenson; treasurer, W. Kilby; acting past grand, Bays. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO— are told, show clay deposits es located by our friend. He did the district a great favor, and with the promise of widespread electrical energy as a cheap cost, the clay deposits in the area may come into their own. But there came a day for the geologist to leave. He left within an hour after he walked up to an erstwhile logger in a camp not far from Ver nonia and arrested him. The logger had shot and kilted seve-al persons, among his victims being a government employee or two. The geologist’s study of the clay deposits here stopped at once. And while Mr. VanBlaricom was packing the dirt and clay samples from the “scien tist’s” room, the “scientist” had his “sample” hand cuffed en route to Tennessee, scene of the logger’s crimes. But the findings of the “G” man are stilt valued. He really worked at his job. VERNONIA NEEDS ONE— NOT, NECESSARILY, to halt any unnecessary violation that one might point to, but for general consultation and aid in any one of a thousand problems, Vernonia has been deserving for some time of the full-time service of a state police officer. There rre many services to be rendered by the state man which are out of the jurisdiction of local authorities. They, too, admit the need of state cooperation. Unless the information is erroneous, a per manent station for a state officer was located here this week. He will find his service appreciated and cooperation forthcoming, we are sure. and the secretary of state will issue nify that registration fee has been I i paid making the vehicle eligible for a new certificate. Many persons wonder why it is. use of the highways of the state. necessary to obtain a certificate of I title and a license for an automo-I bile, feeling the license alone should I be sufficient. The certificate and ! the license, however, serve entirely j different purposes. The certificate is j entirely for the protection of the I owner in that it immediately estab-1 lishes evidence of his ownership and’ lack of the certificate prevents anyone else from establishing own- ’ ership without going to court. The I license plates, however merely sig-1 BOB MORRELL i Painting and Paper Hanging Business Professional Directory LODGES A CERTIFICATE TITLE BE OBTAINED?— There is nothing complicated difficult about obtaining a certif-J icate of title for an automobile I provided one is the lawful owner. One must simply present satisfac-1 tory evidence of ownership to the ' secretary of state, such as a bill' I of sale for a new car or a certifi- j cate endorsed by the former owner, I I I I f i Vernonia F. O. E. (Fraternal GRANGE Order of HALL, Kalsomining Spray Gun Painting Call 842 First Street or 376 B Street Roland L. Treharne Expert Automobile Repairing WELDING Eagles) Vernonia ROLAND’S SERVICE STATION Friday Nights, 8 o’clock M. B. Tompkins, Gillham, Lloyd W.P. W. Sec’y. Knights of Pythias Harding BAFFORD BROS General Plumbing Vernonia Lodge No. 116 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:—I. O. O. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Pythian Sisters The new Catholic church was Vernonia Lodge No. 61 Vernonia, Oregon dedicated Sunday morning by Arch Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall bishop Christie. Second and Fourth Wednesdays Work started on an addition to Each Month the grade school building, the work to be cmpleted in two or three Order of Eastern Star weeks’ time. Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S. Regular Communi cation first and third Wednesdays FACTS of each month, at IQ* OMVfM Masonic Temple. All visiting sisters and brothers wel come. By IMX B«tU. twrtsrr «* Uer» Eurma Hartwick, W. M. WHAT IS A CERTIFICATE Leona McGraw, Sec. TITLE FOR AN AUTOMOBILE?— I A certificate of title is simply | A. F. & A. M. a document issued by the secretary Vernonia Lodge No. 184 ?f state evidencing the fact that the ' A. F. & A. M. meets at Masonic Temple, Stat holder of the certificate is the own-' ed Communication First er of the automobile in question. ' Thursday of each month. The certificates are numbered con Special called meetings secutively and bear a complete des other Thursday nights, 7:30 Visitors most cordially wel- cription of the vehicles to which they apply, together with the names come. Special meetings Friday nights. and addresses of the owners and a Ray Mills, W. M. statement of any Ieins recorded on Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. the title records. Issuance of certificates of title by state motor vehicle departments I VERNONIA POST 119 dates back only a few years, but: AMERICAN this practice has largely cleared up ' LEGION he chaos that formerly existed re-! Meets First and warding the ownership of automo-1 Third Mondays biles. Since possession of a valid ; AUXILIARY :ertificate is prima facie evidence ' First and Third Mondays of ownership, lawsuits concerned with this question are much less merous than formerly. HOW MAY ms Nehalem Valley Motor Freight Frank Hartwick, Proprietor Portland - Timber • Vernonia Mist - Birkenfeld - Jewell Vernonia Telephone 1042 CASON’S TRANSFER LOCAL and LONG DIS- TANCE HAULING SEE US For Your Old Growth 16-1NCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES Roland D. Eby, M. D PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Town Office 891 NEAL W. BUSH Attorney at Law J mt Theatre Bldg., Phone 663. In Vernonia Mondays and Tuesdays H. M. BIGELOW DENTIST Joy Theatre Building Vernonia ... Oregon LUMBER — SHINGLES — VENEER » 'holesale and lleiail see my bargains in Kiln Dried Lumber at $8.75 >er M. and up. Open Saturdays from 8 a. m. to noon. C. BHK E