Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-11-24

emerald Plains back of the valley and plains in front of the val
ley and there sets the valley small empire Of conntmcn and
wealth
The Old Homeland Again
Baker passed with her mining Huntington with her railroad
back into Idaho home for many years Thirty miles
this state and left the train Payce dinner the Bancroft
hotel and to bed Next morning the rising cloudless
sky took seat the table for breakfast We heard excited
conversation everywhere Inquiry revealed the Poyette National
Wild tales passing from lip lip thousand different stories
ahoatbut all showed the tragedy of money Hopes
dying rontows falling in ashes despair settling
like ognnd annhcmas were being looened like thunder harvest
time At the that the rutIand bank had failed
This was five miles distant. Then started the New
Plymouth bank, and chaos egncd II every mans
was talked by oreaess women It was discussed over the ee
Old men mped the streets and rich looked if they d
body think the end the world had was end
Iof the world to many people whose god is material things.
Little Yakima
What Yakima is to Washington Payette is dahoth the leading
fruit section of the state The fruit mostly apples and prnes Il
i'm rich valley cut into small tracts tcky inhabited and
made of high class rural cey Many departed last spring
paths growing of potatoes
ia large scale Our readers know the Head gamble
and potatoes dead loss Those who stayed by the apple and prnc
spent money spraying pruning thinning picking
packing their fruit Their all largely tied up in their fruit crop
Then the of no market in which to sell their fruit and
year had all been met and there returns from
to them The tide has ouand failed to come nl The
two of four banks in the county had failed 1t inevitable
but these losers will now learn valuable lesson Happiness must be
based something other than material things is must
eat and have ament and provide place sleep but it ism
true that in order to be happy we must accumulate fifty hundred
Thousand dollars for 'rainy day
A Sermonette Close
Most young folk start with the idea that in life is
reaching the top Of the ladder the head of the class This
idea be sustained in either philosophy religion
We bigger farm than neghbor bigger chicken bust
ness bigger automobile coster dress expensive
house We get wantsand else in and out dist
miserable Then outcasses him. and
he huly and goes ad nium This the class who base
material things The bank fails and they buy pistol to
end their mental suferngs.
Occasionally that be based ideals
Goldsmith lives an attic and writes 1.-The Vicar of Wakefield
and thousand banks could fail and hed still be happy Shakespeare
holds horses front of the Globe theatre and not for stock
Exchanges boards Blind Homer amps the
Athens alone but his Odyssey studied in Vaon schools Pastor
errnger Minister Fretz aren't whether liberty bonds
bonds downbut if sick needs comfort they
are there We had rather change places with such
eger and Fr who place values ideals the standard
with the bank presidents Payete county
cerned only with the gold in the ingots the silk in the bales
good motto would be- " of blue sky, therefore am