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Friday, Aug. 29, 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
Comments thfe Week
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Tuesdays