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4 Friday, Aug. 29, 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon Comments thfe Week • ______ THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE PREPARATION PROVES PROFITABLE Forethought and preparation before hand proved profitable last week when a number of army trucks traveling northward for the mock war in Washington passed through Vernonia. Mem bers of the Civil Reserve police were called to duty by Marshal A. D. Lolley to prevent, as much as possible, the interference of traffic with the trucks as they traveled city streets. As a result of that preparation no difficulty was experienced and the trucks were not slowed in their trip. A letter, appearing elsewhere in this paper, from a member of that part of the army which passed through here expresses quite well the appreciation to the people who were on hand to see the caravan. In this time of preparation for our defense, it seems most appropriate to give every aid possible. Those people who refuse to cooperate with officers at such a time are the people who will undoubtedly be first to push the army forward should in vasion of this country occur. Yet in times of preparation for such an eventuality, they object to the small, if any, inconven ience. Training Program Set Up For the announced purpose of aiding South American countries to prepare an efficient personnel to operate airlines to be established by them to replace lines previously operated by German companies, a program has been set up for the training of pilots and technicians in the United States. The number from each country will be appor tioned on an equitable basis and will total 404 pilots, 120 service mechanics, 120 instructor mechan ics and 20 aeronautical engineers. The army will train 100 of the pilots and the balance will be under the direction of the Civil Aero nautics administration. Hitherto all but a few of the airlines in South America have been either German owned or operated. STAY AND SEE THE FUN Beginning Saturday afternoon Vernonia will begin another of its annual Host Days celebrations. Much entertainment is in store for those who are present for the affair and no ad mission will be charged for any part of the program. The pro gram is arranged by the Vernonia Firemen who annually spend a good deal of time in making a success of the venture. Ex perience in previous years has aided considerably in composing a program that follows through to completion with a minimum of waste time between events. Residents of the Upper Nehalem Valley are urged to remain in Vernonia for the coming week end and be guests of the firemen for Vernonia Host Days. COUNTY NEWS- from Danville, Illinois. Superintendent Brown left Mon day morning for Corvallis where he will spend the next two weeks at DEFENSE BONDS tending 0. S. C. summer school, COMMITTEE IS CHOSEN— taking courses in Oregon history The newly-organized Columbia and school law, which were recently county committee on defense sav made mandatory by the legislature ings bonds held its first session for those who teach in this state. last Monday evening at 8 o’clock in the city council chambers here. At tending this meeting were Palmer Hoyt, Oregonian publisher and state chairman of the defense savings bond set-up, Ray Conway, adminis trator for the treasury department, and Ted Gamble, state administra tor. Over 90 per cent of the pedestrian These three men have been mak ing a circuit of Oregon, making fatalities in Oregon involve persons «tops in practically every town to wearing dark-colored clothing who outline the drive to sell defense were struck at night, according to savings bonds and to aid the local figures compiled by the Traffic Safety Division of the secretary of committees in their work'. Heading ithe Columbia county state’s office. Studies by safety engineers show committee is Irving T. Rau, secre tary-treasurer at the paper mill, that persons in dark clothing reflect and committee members include only about five per cent of the Carl Vaughan, manager of the St. light wihich strikes them whereas Helens branch, U. S. National bank; persons in light-colored clothing, re D. O. Bennett, local attorney and flect nearly all the light. Since president of the Kiwanis chib; Chas. drivers can see only by the amount Rogers, Columbia county coroner: of light reflected by the object in Judd Greenman, Vernonia mill ex the beam of their headlamps, it is ecutive; Fred Herman, Rainier at clear pedestrians should wear or torney; J. D. Perry, Columbia coun display something white at night, it ty representative; Arthur Steele, is said. publisher of the Clatskanie Chief; White ,raincoats and umbrellas, Jack McAllister, representing or white summer coats, a white scarf ganized labor, and Robert Pollock, or shawl, a folded newspaper or a Sentinel-Mist editor. white handkerchief help enable the motorist to see the pedestrian at FLOATING PILE DRIVERS night. A lighted flashlight will serve BUSY ON JETTIES HERE— if nothing white is carried or worn. Driving of additional piling and placing of new timbers on the Sand Island jetty directly opposite the courthouse was underway last Wed By EDNA ENGEN nesday and Thursday with a pile “TWO BOOKS” driver and crew of the Gilpin Con (The New Book) struction Co., Portland and Astoria, doing the work. Another floating “I am new! pile driver was at work on jetties Between my covers all the problems of the world are settled, on the Washington shore. Wjth the river at a very low Easily, by my sophisticated char acters. stage, this kind of work can be better accomplished than when the My language is harsh and bitter. river is several feet higher. It is This is necessary for realism. understood that much repair work A spade must be called a spade. on jetties between the mouth of The theory being—that a spade by any other name will not smell the Willamette and a considerable bad enough! distance down the Columbia has My covers are bright and shining. been mapped by U. S. engineers. 1 am new! (I shall' be forgotten tomorrow!) St. Helens Book Talk . . . Clatskanie SCHOOL BEGINS SEPTEMBER 8— Clatskanie schools will open for the coming school year on Monday, September 8, according to an an nouncement this week by the local board. Farwell Brown, the newly elected superintendent, and his wife and small son arrived last Friday night The Vernonia Eagle MARVIN KAMHOLZ Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter. August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore S olci AT t 0« instance, Texas is given 27 airports on which $5,942,000 in federal money will be expended. Far to the northeast, in Maine, 17 «itee were cboeen for which $3,069,000 will be available, and with one less in num ber Georgia will receive $3,178,000. Just why there should be more air ports required in Georgia than in Oregon or Washington is not clear, nor why Maine should be favored above other New England states, unless it is felt that the Pine Tree state affords a better jumping off place for the defense of Greenl :nd and Iceland. Quantity Decreases However, if you are a Benchley fan, you have some amusing mom ents ahead of you when you read 'Benchley on “Dogs and Public Service,” “Naming Our Flowers” and his special treatment of “How Sheamus Coomara Met the Ban shee.” You probably have gathered by now that I am a Benchley fan but then I like spinach too. E. E. Inflation is the “little man upon the stair” in Washington these days. Some observers say that he is al ready clearly visible; others argue that he isn’t there right now, but that he soon will be. But whatever they may think about the immed iate picture, most Washingtonians agree that the sub-ject of inflation is probably the biggest one .at the present time. Demonstration of this belief is the fact that hearings on the Hen derson price control bill have been the best summer box office attrac tion in Washington. It is unusuai for members of Congress to attend any hearings but those of commit tees upon which they serve, but in this instance two rows of seats were reserved up front in the hearings room for the solons who desired to attend—and those chairs were filled regularly. In addition to Congressmen, vir tually every department or agency of the government had its own of ficial observer. The implications of inflation, or of price control efforts aimed at halting it, are so broad that they are likely to affect nearly every branch of government activ ity. Leon Henderson, sponsor of the original measure on which hearings were opened, made it clear in his testimony that he thought Congress would enact wage control (or wage ceiling) legislation within the year. But he did not advocate this as part of his own price control bill, apparently feeling that wages should be regulated by some other govern ment agency than the one which he himself heads. In other words, he contends that wage control and price control are two different problems. This approach is reminiscent of the old story about the man who kicked his companion in the leg and then asked, “Why does your mouth cry out when it’s your shin that’s been hurt?” Economists are pointing out in connection with the price hearings a fact that ought to be clear even to laymen; that wages are a factor in determining prices, and that if wages rise con siderably, prices will rise also. (The Old Book) I am old! Between my covers there is told a sticky, sentimental tale— One of love and devotion—utterly outmoded. Ail the stock-in-trade of melodrama has been used. The villain, the faithful servant, the innocent child, the death-bed scene. The language is stilted and Victor ian. My covers are shabby and worn. I am old! From this point of view, facts Yet I precipitated a war and freed a people! on wages are being studied here (My name is ‘Uncle Tom’s Cab with extreme care. Thus, for ex in’!)” ample, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported E. E. • • • that average wage increases for the “From Bed to Worse" by Robert first six months of 1941 ranged Benchley. from 4.9 per cent to 9.6 per cent, million Liking Benchley is somewhat the affecting more than 21 same as liking spinach. If you are workers in more than five thousand not born with a taste for such a manufacturing establishments. About thing, you are not likely to acquire one point there can be little dis U. agreement: these rue« will inevit- ably have a very direct effect up on prices in the industries concern ed. You can’t put a jack under an automobile, start raising the jack, and expect the car to stay at exact ly the same height. No one really concerned with the inflation danger wants to see these points passed over lightly in the testimony. There is a feeling that it would be easier politically to put a ceiling on prices than to put one on the factors that go into making up prices. The only trouble is that in doing so, an economic law would be so badly violated that no work able result would have been achiev ed. The President himself has said virtually the last word on this diffi cult subject of prices. Here’s Mr. Roosevelt’s analysis: “There cannot be price stability if labor costs rise abnormally— Labor has far more to gain from price stability than from abnormal wage increases, for these are likely to be illusory and quickly overtaken by sharp rises in living cost . . . “Labor as a whole, fares best from a labor policy which recog nizes that wages in the defense in dustries should not substantially ex ceed the prevailing wage rates in comparable non-defense industries where fair labor practices have been maintained.” Facing facts like those would be a good start towards handling the “little man upon the stair”—the danger of inflation. Emphasizing the fact that such gasoline shortage as may exist in any locality in the United States is due to lack of adequate transpor tation facilities, a department of interior report on production of natural gasoline shows that the daily average in June was 7,133,000 gal lons as compared with 6,161,000 in June of last year. However, there was an actual decrease in the quan tity on hand, 261,870,000 gallons this June as compared with 294,- 000,000 on hand June 30, 1940. While no record was made of the voice vote in the house on exten sion of the selective service period, a teller’s count showed 21 Repub licans voting with the majority and thereby keeping draftees in the army another 18 months. Had the policy of Republican Leader Joe Martin not been opposed this num ber would have been considerably Co'onel Blank of the Presidio, in full uniform, decided while in As toria recently that lie would inspect the naval air base at Tongue Point; had his orderly drive to the scene of 'the development. A marine corps leatherneck was on guard at the entrance. The work is being care fully protected as the task of mak ing it into an almost major air base (with destroyers and sub marines, too) proceeds. The visiting colonel ranks the officer in charge. At the gate the marine halted the car, asked the colonel if he had a permit. No, the colonel did not have one; he did not need one, he was a colonel, and he demanded en trance. The marine was firm. “No tickee, no shirtee.” Throwing out his chest, the colonel said he had his uniform on; that should be suf ficient credentials. “Humph,” said the marine, “anyone can get a colonel’s uniform.” And the colonel drove back to Fort Stevens indig nant. (Note: Fakers have paraded in uniforms). Secretary of Labor Perkins has rented the first two floors of her home to a British mission and is living on the top floor. The rent is presumed to be commensurate to the inconvenience. The growth of the aircraft in dustry in the United States has been tenfold in the past 30 months, compared with a sevenfold increase in the shipbuilding industry dur ing the entire World War. Vernonia Lodge No. 246 Business-Professional I.O.O.F. Meets Every Tuesday 8 P. M. Alton Roberson, N. G. Paul Gordon, Secretary 4-41 — Directory For Your Beauty Needs ELIZABETH’S BEAUTY SALON Vernonia F. O. E. Phone 431 (Fraternal Order of Eaglet) Elizabeth Horn I.O.O.F. Hall Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist Vernonia 2nd and 4th 8 o'clock Arthur Kirk, W. P. Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y. Physician and Surgeon 7-41 Dr. U. J. Bittner Lodge No. 116 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:—I. O. 0. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Pythian Sisters Dentist Joy Theatre Bldg. Phone 662 Expert Tonsorial Work BEN’S BARBER SHOP Vernonia Temple No. 61 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:— I. O. O. F. Hall Second Marshall A. Rockwell M. D. Office Phone 72; Residence 73 Knights of Pythias Harding Vernonia, Oregon and Fourth Wednesdays Each Month 2-41 Order of Eastern Star Nehalem Valley Motor Freight 153, O. E. S. Regular Communi cation first and third Wednesdays of each month, at Masonic Temple. All visiting sisters ■ nd brothers wel come. Allie Dickson, Worthy Matron Mona Gordon, Secretary 1-41 Portland - Timber • Vernonia Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach Gearhart - Seaside Vernonia Telephone 1042 A. F. & A. M. LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE HAULING Nehalem Chapter Vernonia Lodge No. 184 A. F. & A. M. meets at Masonic Temple, Stat Communication First ¿G r ed Thursday of each month. ’ Special called meetings other Thursday nights, 7:30 an all p. m. Visitors most cordially wel- come. Special meetings Friday nights. Glenn F. Hawkins, Sec. 1-42 VERNONIA POST 11* AMERICAN LEGION Meets First Wed. and Third Mon. While all projects are stated to of Each Month. te necessary to the national defense, AUXILIARY there is a somewhat mystefying First and Third Mondays Frank Hartwick, Proprietor CASON’S TRANSFER SEE US For Your Old-Growth 16-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES Roland D. Eby, M. D. C. L. Brock, W. M. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Town Office 891 NEAL W. BUSH Project* Deemed Necessary disproportion in the selections. For Admittance Refused Lodges Friday Nights By PAUL DUNHAM Washington, D. C., August 27— Allocation of funds has finally been made for improvement of airports in Oregon and Washington, five in the former state and 12 in the latter. Of the total appropriation of $80,810,110 Oregon will receive but $1,038,000 distributed as fol lows: Eugene $113,000, Klamath Falls $278,000, La Grande $105,000, The Dalles $180,000 and Tillamook $410,000. The total for the 12 air port projects in Washington is $2,- 105,00. Selection of these airports to receive federal funds was made by a board composed of the secretaries of war. navy and commerce, which certified that they were necessary to the national defense. This cert ification included 26 locations pre viously announced but on which work had not been started and 149 new locations. The WPA will do the work on 87 of the projects and part work on 15; the others will be let by bid. It is expected that all will be completed shortly after the first of the year. larger as other Republican member» had previously expressed themselves as favoring a longer period of training. But Hamilton Fish rallied such strength against the house leader in a party caucus just prior to the voting that only 21 upheld the administration measure. This clash was only one of many recent almost open quarrels between Con gressman Fish and the party leader. Attorney at Law Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663 In Vernonia Mondays and 1-41 Tuesdays
