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PAGE FOUR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1940 VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON CARD OF THANKS COMMENTS OF THE WEEK THE RED CROSS GIVES UNTOLD SERVICE— THE START of the Red Cross drive here this week brought numerous inquiries as to the purpose for which funds are used. Many have asked what the Red Cross is and how it functions in using the money which is raised from membership fees. An explanation of what has been done in the past is given below to show that funds are used for many worthwhile purposes. “Your Red Cross Chapter is one of 3,716 chapters and 7,133 branches which cover the entire United States and its insular posses sions. , “All accounts of the Red Cross are audit ed by the War Department and a financial report is submitted annually to Congress. The American Red Cross does not receive financial support from the United States Government; the people of the nation support the Red Cross work through annual membership dues and voluntary contributions. “Only fifty cents of each membership fee goes to support National Red Cross ser- vice. The balance is retained by the chapter for local work. “During the past year nearly a half million volunteers contributed milliorts of working hours to make possible the service which the Red Cross is carrying to the people of the U. S. It is largely due to the unselfish devotion of these volunteers that Red Cross administrative expenses are so low. “Between July 1st, 1938 and June 30, 1939, the Red Cross : “Rescued, clothed, housed, fed and gave medical, nursing and rehabilitation aid to hundreds of thousands of persons affected by 217 floods, storms and other disasters in the U. S. and its insular possessions. “Through Chapters, the Civilian Home Service programs assisted 134,000 families affected by economic and other. forms of distress. “Aided 151,000 war veterans or their families through the cooperative efforts of Chapter Home Service sections and Field Directors of the National Organization. Vernonia Easle MARVIN KAMHOLZ, Editor and P ublisher Entered as second class mail matter, August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Ore gon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon “Continued the campaign against injury and death in the water, on the highways, in factories, on farms and in the home through the training of over 100,000 new life savers and 355,000 new first aiders. (Over 2,000,000 first aiders have been trained since 1910 and nearly 1,000,000 life savers since 1914. Be- tween 1931 and 1940, 1,100,000 swimmers have been trained.) Now in operation are 2,783 Highway Emergency First Aid Sta tions and 2,579 Mobile First Aid Units. “In cooperation with physicians made over 1,000,000 public health nursing visits to or in behalf of the sick; and in town and country examined approximately 600,000 school children for physical defects. “Trained 61,000 women and girls in home care of the sick. Through the Junior Red Cross, stimulat ed th,e interest of more than 7,500,000 Junior members in community service, health educa tion, character building and international correspondence. “Through the unselfish labor of tens of thousands of volunteers produced 343,000 garments for disaster victims and others in need, over 5,000,000 surgical dressings for local hospitals and 890,000 pages of reading matter in. Braille for the blind. “During the first six months of the conflict in Europe expended well over $1,- 000,000 for war relief purposes. In addition, Chapters spent more than $300,000 for ma terial for the production of relief supplies to be sent to the victims of the war. It is im possible to place a value on the finished pro ducts or estimate by dollars and cents, the value of the approximately 2,000,000 working hours given by the 250,000 Red Cross Chapter volunteers throughout the country in the production of surgical dressings and clothing. “During this period 1,750,000 surgical dressings and 225,000 garments were pro duced by these volunteers and distributed through the Red Cross Societies abroad for war relief. “Sent aid ii the form of Chapter pro duced surgical dressings and garments, med ical supplies and clothing and emergency relief funds to Finland and Poland where suffering among the civilian population was most severe. “As a token of the sympathy of the American people, donated $23,000 to aid vic- tims of the earthquake which devastated pop- ulous sections of Turkey and resulted in the death of tens of thousands of men, women and children and left hundreds of thousands homeless. “American Red Cross membership in creased during the last Roll Call by more than 1,378,571 bringing the total membership to an estimated 7,047,251 men and women. A still greater membership is essential if the Red Cross is to meet its increasing obliga tions and your wholehearted support as a Roll Call worker and as a member is urgently needed.” COUNTY NEWS FACTS »0* |MV|M (fàubhinûton Book Talk . . By EDNA ENGEN by J ames P reston When the election aftermath is out of the way, perhaps more of the truth about defense will be disclosed. At any rate the American people are entitled to the truth, for it is their country that is being de fended. An important part of the truth is this: The National Defense Advis ory Commission is one of the 69 new agencies which have grown up like mushrooms since 1933. Like many others, it is honeycombed with inefficiency, over-lapping dup" llcations, and jeaolusy. It is even worse off than most of the other 68 because it has no “boss”—no one individual who can tell all divisions what to do and thus stop inter-division fights. For example, one substantial na tion-wide organization prepared to ■make a survey of industrial capac ity to find plants which could pro duce national defense goods but which were not doing so. This is the «logan of Nation- al Book Week—November 10th to 16th. There will be a number of new book« from J. K. Gill Co. on display at the library for tv/o week« beginning Nov- eriber 12th. It 1« the custom of the Vernonia Library to dis- play these book« during Book- Weelt and afterward« to pur- cla-e a number of them for the Library. program and pat business executive , THANKS Business LODGES “The success of our depends upon the brains riotism of the American man, engineer, banker, and working man.” CARD OF THANKS To our many friends and neigh bors who assisted us in the recent loss of our home, we wish to ex press our sincere appreciation. Mr. and Mrs. H.E. (Winks) Parker I wish to : express my sincere thinks to all my friends for their “Tho Mad Booths of Maryland” by loyal support in this, my first Stanley Kimmel. caampaign. It Ray Tarbell The Booths with their double hciriit ge of genius and madness were the greatest family of the American stage. Genius led them to fame and fortune. Madness (plunged them to tragic depths. Mr. Kimmel has portrayed the Booth family in such a way as to mak? them unforgetable. Freon Junius, the father, a drunken ec- centiic to the melancholic Edwin who became the greatest of them Before the job was well under all; and last the tragic figure of way, half a dozen branches of the the younger Booth. Commission had to have the plan John Wilkes, handsome and spoil explained ti them in detail. Each insisted that the facts found should ed, had more th: n ordinary talent, be reported to them, because they yet he maneged by dissipation to were the on which would have ruin his voice and end his career in the iheatre forever. jurisdiction over it. To the arrogant Wilkes the loss All this naturally delayed the job. If there had been one boss, of his voice was the crowning ig .the job could have been cleared nominy. He had hoped to eclip e his father in fame and he had fail with him and long since finished. ed and bitter it was for him too, Nearly everybody at the Com- to realize that the gentle unobtrus mission realizes thrt private fact- ive Edw’.n had far surpassed him. ories must be used to get the Frustrated at every turn, barred materials America needs. Many offi from claiming the fame he felt his cials and suib-officials want, there due, the madness that was his her fore, to encourage private enter- itage drove him to stake everything prise. But not all. They want to on one last bid to fame, the assass put the government into business, ination of the President. They seem to think that the way He received, instead, an unmarke^ to encourage business is ■to com- grave and brought eternal infamy pete with it. upon himself and his family. Those who feel this way must be influential, for Commissioner Knud sen, who after all was responsible for production by one of the na- tion’s biggest and most successful businesses, felt impelled to say this: “There is a school of thought in Washington which feels that the government should go into business on a larger scale, The government is in business on a large scale right. now—on a scale as big as it can handle; on a larger scale than any other country except perhaps Rus sia, and we don’t want any part of the Russian system over here. I wish to take this means of express ng my appreciation to my m:ny friends for their support and work in my behalf in the past elec tion. In spite of defeat, I will ©on. <tinue to wcrk for the best interest of Columbia County and her people E. A. (Lode) McDonald It— Vernonia Lodge No. 246 t I.0.0.F Meets Every Tuesday 8 P. M. Sam Hearing, Jr., N. G. Paul Gordon, Secretary Vernonia F. O. E. (Fraternal Order of Eagles) Knudsen is only one member of the Commission. Although his ex perience would be helpful in build ing national defense, and although his views doubtless would be shared by a majority of the people, he can nun only one branch of the Alford Doree, W. F Commission. He can’t even run Harold Carrick, W. that if the other Commissioners Knights of overrule him. Professional Directory Marshall A. Rockwell M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 72; Residence 73 Wendell’s Barber Shop Shaves and Haircuts Conscientious Work Shoe Shining Shower Bath* DRESSMAKING ALTERATIONS Cleo Caton 1 lie Apparel Shop PAINTING PAPERHANGING CALSOM1NING BOB MORRELL 478 Rose Avenue Vernonia Dr. U. J. Bittner Dentist Joy Theatre Bldg. Phone 662 J. E. TAPP All Kind, of Wood Prompt Delivery Phone 241 Legion Hall Vernonia Friday Night« Expert Tonsorial Work Clerks of the local beard were BEN’S BARBER SHOP •y sasu. tatu. Iwwtoy d **•* 8 o’clock busy all last week marking out numbers which are too high to ap Vernonia, Oregon Distribution of a bicycle poster WORK CONTINUES ON ply to Columbia county and arrang' entitled “Do’s and Don't® for Bi- NEW P-T MILL— ing names of county registrants Roland L. Treharne cycle Safety,” will be started by the With a force of a score of me- to coincide with the number given Expert Automobile Repairing state traffic safety division of the Pythias chanids framing and placing tim- (them in the lottery. WELDING secretary of state’s office in the Harding Lodge No. 116 CARBURATORS REPAIRED bers, a pile driver crew driving near future, it was announced to- The long and short of it is that Vernonia, Oregon ROLAND’S day. The poster is in three colors, under such circumstances no man creosoted piling for the main foun Meetings:—I. O. O. F. SERVICE STATION 19 by 24 inches and stresses good can do his best job. dation and the big dipper dredge Hall, Second and bicycle riding practices by means it Perry Burcham, Kelso, taking CITY HOLDS ANNUAL Fourth Mondays Each The present mess, however, would of pictures and type. out approximately 1000 yards of ELECTION OF OFFICERS— Month. E. S. BAFFORD it is if control The poster will be distributed to be even worse than mud and muck each day for the Clatskanie cast its votes on an of everything were given to one Pythian Sisters schools, clubs and other places wher General Plumbing log slip, Bill Bergen, master me- almost empty ballot Tuesday and Vernonia Temple No. 61 whose sole qualification is that he chanic at the Pope & Talbot mill elected Art Steele mayor; Ed Lar bicycle riders gather, it was an is a theorist, an experimenter, an Vernonia, Oregon Vernonia is pleased with the progress being sen and Marion Schulz, cotuncilmen nounced. Any school or other group economist, or a planner. Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall made on the structure for the new for the two year term; and Ingram interested in obtaining these posters Second and Fourth Wednesdays is invited to write to the Traffic Each Month ’ mill being built by the company. Brown, councilman for the one As defense reaches its peak, the Safety Division, secretary of state’s Piling has been driven, the first year term. people naturally will cost to the Nehalem Valley office, Salem, Oregon, and the post ' Order of Eastern Star floor laid and the big posts and C. J. Miller was re-elected city increase. The needed billions have Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S. ers will be sent without charge. part timbers placed for the upper recorder in the only contest on the Distribution of these bicycle post, got to come from some place. So Regular Communi Motor Freight of the resaw portion of the mill ballot, defeating Dr. M. W. Mark- ers is part of the state department's rn immediate task confronting Con- cation first and and the necessary renewal of dock ham 127 to 34. C. L. Conyers was to find sources for gress will be third Wednesdays Frank Hartwick, Proprietor and yard planking has been made. re-elected treasurer with no opposi. campaign against bicycle accidents, new tax money. of each month, at it was said. Another phase of the Portland - Timber • Vernonia Masonic Temple. tion. campaign is the bicycle manual Sunset - Elsie - Seaside That is a difficult job. A recent PLANS DISCUSSED FOR All visiting sisters which is now under preparation by Vernonia Telephone 1042 compilation showed that federal and brothers wel ATHLETIC CLUB— MEMBERS ARE HONORED the safety division. come. taxes and duties already exist on At a meeting in the old city hall AT I. O. O. F. MEETING— Sara Drorbaugh, W. M. l|40 these things, among others: list night, plans were made for George B. Conyers and Frank Mrs. Helen Dewey, Secretary CASON’S TRANSFER formation of an athletic club to be White were honored guests at the Individual income, telephone calls, known a® the St. Helens Athletic open meeting held by the Clatskanie LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE telegrams, oleomargarine, cigarettes, A. F. & A. M. club. The unit will be affiliated I. O. O. F. lodge of Thursday night HAULING automobiles, tires, tubes, automobile Vernonia Lodge No. 184 with the A. A. U. of last week. accessories, liquor, silk, wool, shoes, A. F. & A. M. meets at SEE US The city council has given its These two members were pre Masonic Temple, Stat leather, smoking tobacco, lumber, For Your Old-Growth permission to use the old city hall sented with their 35 year jewels. ONE YEAR AGO— ed Communication First cheese, matches, tractors, theatre 16-INCH FIR WOOD Thursday of each month. for recreation purposes, Volleyball, Several state and past state of A stump-burning demonstration admissions, and so on and on. Special called meetings table tbnnis, basketball, boxing, ficers were present and musical at the Matthew King farm near AND CEDAR SHINGLES other Thursday nights, 7:30 That doesn’t leave the tax hunters wrestling and other gam-s will he numbers were interspersed during Riverview was well attended by Visitors most cordially wel- a very big field to explore. At pres the evening. part of the ÿub’s activities. farmers living in the Nehalem ent, most of them are thinking of Special meetings Friday nights. valley. Roland D. Eby, M. D Roland Treharne, W. M. DRAFT QUIZZES TO Cooperative Weather Station re sales taxes. Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. BE SENT ELIGIBLES— PHYSICIAN and SURGEON cords maintained by Harry Culbert Questionnaires to the first of son revealed a precipitation of 2.69 Examination«— VERNONIA Town Office 891 Columbia county’s 2778 draft elig POWER LINE EXTENSION inches for the month of October. The U. S. Civil Service Commis POST 119 ible men were in the mail the fiist IN GOBLE COMMUNITY— sion announces the following open AMERICAN A IS-mile power line extension, FIVE YEARS AGO— part of this week, members of the competitive examinations: Calkelr, NEAL W. BUSH LEGION draft board announced. The master to be completed in the near future Twenty members of the high wood; Boatbuilder; Coppersmith; list, which contains numbers of by the Northwestern Electric com school football team were guests Sailmaker; «nd Toolmaker to fill Meets First and Attorney at Law the nation^ registrants in the pany, will bring electric service to at the chamber of commerce lunch vacancies at the Puget Sound Navy Third Wednesday* Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663 order in which they were drawn five new users near Goble, accord- eon in the Masonic temple. Wallace Yard at Bremerton. Full informa In Vernonia Mondays and AUXILIARY in the national lottery October 1«, ing to K. A. Britts, local manager McCrae was team coach for that tion may be obtained at the post Tuesdays First and Third Monday« for the company. season. office. has been received. Si. Helens Clatskanie Eagle Items Of Past Years Rainier-
