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4 Thursday, Dec. 18, 1941, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE Comments thfe Week THE BILL OF RIGHTS It ¡8 appropriate this week that mention be made of this country’s Bill of Rights, that document which enjoyed its 150th anniversary of adoption Monday, December 15th. Probably everyone has, at one time or another, heard of the Bill of Rights but it is likely that few know some of the interesting facts relative to that bill as those facts were told in informa tion which was released this week. The Bill of Rights came about as amendments to the Con stitution and in order to be made official were submitted to the 13 states for adoption. New Jersey was the first state to ratify on November 20, 1789. Before a sufficient number of states ratified, another state, Vermont, was added to the un ion making it necessary that 11 states agree to the Bill. The eleventh state, Virginia, finally agreed on December 15, 1791. In drafting the Bill before it was submitted to Congress it contained 17 propositions which the Senate cut to 12. Those 12 were the ones submitted to the states. Of these the first dealt with the size of the House of Representatives, and the second prohibited Congress from altering its own pay. The other ten were the Bill of Rights as we know them today. They are: Amendment I: Freedom of religion, speech and pi ess, right of assembly and petition. to bear arms. Amendment II: Right ................. Amendment Ill: Security of the home against the military. Amendment IV: Security of the home against search and seizure. Amendment V: Liberty, property, and due process of law. Amendment VI: The rights of accused persons. Amendment VII: Jury trial in common law suits. Amendment VIII: Bail and punishments. Amendment IX: Fundamental rights of the individual. Amendment X: Reserved rights of the states. It is noteworthy that a similar measure was adopted in France at about the same time as our Bill but the people of that country do not now enjoy its privileges. In fact, this country is one of the few in the world today which offers such measures of freedom. WINDOWS SHOULD BE DECORATED NOW Actual blackouts and the possibility of future blackouts seems to have delayed the decorating of windows in the Christ mas spirit here. When this issue of The Eagle goes into the mail there remains only five and one-half days of shopping before December 25th. That does not leave a great amount of time for the planning of windows or the decorating of stores. Some, it is true, have already completed the detail but there remains a number who have not. It seems that if decor- ations are not in evidence, there is a decided lack of the Christ- mas spirit. COUNTY NEWS r ' ' ” M> P ■f INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS MAKE FARM LABOR BASIER. s «ix T imes as many tractors ARE IN USE TOPAy ON AMERICAN FARM5 AS IN 1920 Ike AVtRAöl A NEW AIRPLANE SAFEty SAffty INSTRUMENT TELLS THE PILOT HOW MUCH ELECTRlCTiy IS IN NEARBY CLOUDS ENABLING HIM TO SET MIS COURSE TO STEER CLEAR OF EXCESSIVE CHARGES polar bill ■WEARS'OHLy 9 MONTHS... AFTER WHICH TIMS IT HAS -TO BE Clatskanie Rainier 1 replace p NMWES OP 7MA/ZAVP fS/AM) CALL THEIR COUN1RY _ -x | 7 •'PRADES THAI • MEANING '«¡z. ¡¿L X / / Jpw J. S "5^ ¿¿¿JJ l \\ I > AT tTHE I c L 71/ If»*1 HI IL Washington, D. C., December 17 —Over night the national capital has changed its habits. War is the the key spun. All traffic across the answer. The streets are speckled important bridge is inspected and with men ir. uniform and American the soldiers are reported to have flags are fluttering in the breeze, NEW DRIVE BY mounted machine guns and anti Until last week the thousands of RED CROSS ON— aircraft weapons to protect this army and navy officers summoned here to work on national defense, Columbia county Red Cross work link between the states. Lack of adequate camping facil wore civilian clothes for it was not ers, who have barely finished the considered good taste to display annual roll call here, will swing in ities at Rainier is understood to uniforms when a nation was at be the reason for the i desired to action within the next few days change, which army officers . them- peace. Now every reserve officer U collect an additional quota of selves suggested. (dozens from Oregon and Wash $3,500 which has been assigned the ington) are in uniform of the var county as its part of the $50,000,- ious services. Armed soldiers guard 000 war fund to be raised in the the streets on either side of the nation. News of the projected new White House, the treasury, the campaign came last Wednesday FIRST AID CLASSES bureau of printing and engraving evening in a telegram sent to J. W. WILL START SOON— (it makes the paper money and First aid classes will be started postage stamps), and other build Thompson, chairman of the Colum bia county chapter of the Red in Clatskanie as soon as sufficient ings are closed to the public. On Cross, by Norman H. Davis, na sign up that they desire to take the top of the commerce department work. tional head of the organization. building where Jesse H. Jones is Those desiring to enter the secretary, two anti-aircraft guns— CHRISTMAS SEAL classes arc asked to register with the only ones in the capital—have SALES PROGRESS— John Martinson at the First Nation been mounted and are pointing over Returns in the Christmas Seal al Bank immediately. the White House a block away. sale here have been very encourag Ed Dear, authorized Red Cross ing, Mrs. L. G. Ross, local chair first aid instructor, is now conduct Shivering soldiers stand watch over man for the County Health asso ing a class at Westport with approx the weapons. Senate office building and the ciation, said last week. So lar, imately 50 members. two house office buildings are giv- about $800 in seals has been sent Bud Jubinville, also authorized out in St. Helens and over $200 instructor, has started a class at en a blackout every night at 8 o’clock and only one entrance is has been received. A considerably Ma.vger with about 20 entered. available to congressmen and sen larger amount is expected before Miss Nettie Alley, county Red the sales campaign concludes at Cross nurse, is conducting a class ators. The capitol building is guard ed by armed patrols in capitol Christmas. at Marshland. plaza, The floodlights have been TROOPERS MAY MOVE turned off the capitol dome. There MARSHLAND WILL FORM TO DEER ISLAND— is no light in Lincoln memorial, HOSPITAL UNIT— Sight of the country’s armed The first complete emergency but the guards are there. All street forces may be a daily event in St. hospital unit to be organized in the lights have been turned half down, Helens for some time if projected county is being equipped at Marsh but the theatres and stores, decor plans to move troops guarding this land, sponsored by the women who ated with Christmas lights, con- approach to Longview bridge from have just completed the home tinue to blaze. Rainier to the fairgrounds near nursing course under the direction No one can enter the White Deer Island are carried out. Judge of Miss Nettie Alley, county Red House, the treasury, the war de Ray Tarbell, county defense co Cross and health nurse. partment or any other government ordinator, conferred with *imy The hospital will be a 10 cot building without a pass. Ail em authorities at Rainier last Thursday unit with all necessary equipment ployes are provided with identifi and said upon his return that, if and first aid supplies and will be cation cards bearing their picture, the troops are retained in the placed at the Marshland school. It but more than these tags are re county more than 10 days to guard will be financed by residents of the quired to break through the Cor the bridge, the unit will probably Marshland community. don of watchers. To enter the sen ate gallery, visitors must assemble make the fairgrounds its head- on the second floor, where they quarters. Estimates on the number are interrogated and display a diera located on the Oregon side of special card issued by the con- gressman, then, after leaving brief the river at Rainier vary, but re WAR DECLARATION PUTS cases, cameras and packages out ports indicate that there are at TROOPS AT RAINIER— The war came quickly to Rainier side, they are led in groups to the least 500 of the troopers, members of the 41st Division, former nation with the arrival last Monday of gallery. In the corridors of the al guard unit, keeping an eye on troops under the command of Lieut.- capitol lurk G-men giving everyone Col. Walter A. Bean, who ret up the once over. headquarters in the city hall and At the president's press confer The Vernonia Eagle disposed men about the territory ence and at those of Secretary of for protection of the Longview State Cordell Hull no reporter who MARVIN KAMHOI.Z bridge, and also that they might represents a Japanese. German, Editor and Publisher be located so as to be ready for French or Italian newspaper is per Entered as second class mail instant dispatch to any quarter mitted. The Japanese and the matter. August 4. 1922, at the post where help might be needed im- ethers have either been arrested office in Vernonia, Oregon, under mediately. 01 their identification cards taken the act of March 3, 1879. Later the officers’ headquarters up. All others must give assur Official newspaper of Vernonia, Ore were moved from the city hall o ance that they are not serving the K. P. hall, and men have been newspapers of the Axis. The presi quartered at the high school and dent does not chaff and banter grade school gymnasiums, in the with the press since the Pearl Har ORf Odd Fellows hall, at union halls bor tragedy; he is very serious, peiI•» and in other vacant buildings. speaks slowly and softly, as secret St. Helens 1 J X PÜRIN6 THE LAST •» CENTURy ONE MANUFACTURER SENT OUT A STORE ON WHEELS TO SELL HIS SOAP— HE PUT A BA NO ON TOP TO ATTRACT ATTENTION----- IMUS • INVBNTIN6 THE MNP VMSON I service men stand in the crowd •f correspondents and view with sus- picion any reporter whose pipe bulges in his pocket. The president admonished: Do rot listen to nor spread rumors. The chief occupation in Washing ton is doing just that arid, right er wrong, the people have a firm belief that they know all the de tails of the Pearl Harbor affair. A visitor can drop off a plane at 4 o’clock and • by 5 o’clock he has heard tha rumors and is willing to tell them; always the rumors are the same—so many battleships, so many cruisers, so many airplanes destroyed, and this has the effect of making people pull in their belts and be more determined than ever to knock the little brown sons of heaven off the map. Arrangements for blackouts have fizzled. Only $10,000 was available for civilian defense until a cvuple ol days ago, when one million was appropriated. There was no air :aid alarm until a 12-year old siren was borrowed from a nearby f re department (volunteer). This refused to work, its mild squeak being drowned by auto horn when a test was made. There are only three air raid shelters in the dis- trict; two are underground gar- ages in government buildings; the third an underground hole where gas tests were made in 1917, and there is a population of one mil- lion. Office of civilian defen-e, where Fiorella I LaGuardia is director and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is first as sistant, has been a part time job, with volunteers. Neither LaGuardia nor Mrs. Roosevelt remains at head quarters; they have other engage ments—LaGuardia has to run the affairs of the city of New York. Their numerous lydes, also part times, are society women and debut antes whose principal problem has been trying to decide what kind of v uniform they should wear. There are many social workers in tac ranks. The Parent-Teachers nssocia- tion decided that school children should have identification tags in case they were bombed. Despite the warning of army officers that the safest place in an air raid is in doors, the schools have been prac ticing fire drills to send the chil dren into the streets when and if an air raid warning is given. Among government workers are thousands who are hysterical and in a con stant state of jitters. On "the hili’’ war is the only talk indulged in by legislators and members from the Pacific coast are receiving mailbags full of letters asking unanswerable questions. Government workers no longer have a snap; they must work long hours and bureau chief., ore making their help work over- time and on Sundays, too. (ibadùnqton visualized. Present appropriations for defense amount to almost $68 billion. When, in Jun«, W. L. Batt, Dep- uty Director of the OPM, had stat ed that the cost of our defense pro gram would have to be $100 billion, everyone thought that he was way off. Developments since then have indidated that he was way off, but not as expected. About two months ago government men were saying that we would have a spend at least $120 billion on defense. That figure is now regarded as conserva tive. Unofficial sources say that the over-all cost of the defense effort will probably amount to $160 bil lion. Donald Nelson, Executive Direc tor of SPAB, foresees the possib ility of 40% of the national income being spent in defense work. Sec retly, government men feel that 50% is not too high an estimate. The United Kingdom is devoting over 50% of its national ’ncome to the war effort; Germany from 60-65%. In the light of this picture, it ■» net hard to understand the per sistant cries for government reduc tion of non-defense spending. Even Administration men have offered plans for such a reduction. Henry Mcrgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, outlined a program to save 1 billion in non-defense ex penditures by the government. Sug gestions for cutting over a billion and a half in non-essential expen ditures were submitted to Congress by interested Civilian groups, and, in the opinion of many observe«s here, that figure can be Increased to two billion. One Senator pointed out the &ad, but inescapable, truth that addit- ional appropriations for defense mean an even greater dislocation of private 'industrial activity, with when the private firms are asked to pick up the manufacturing load after the war ends. The Senate Defense Investigating Committee has turned up some in teresting facts. The cost of the Wolf Creek shell-loading plant in Tennessee was originally estimated at $20 million. To date $51 million has been spent and the plant is no where near complete. The results of the lack of government planning and supervision is illustrater by case histories like the following: One of the higher-ups at the pro ject is alleged to have put a brother, a sister-in-law and an uncle cn the payroll. Nice gravy, but not when it is being dished out at the expense of Mr. John Q. Public’s dinner. There are many fascinating stories of political intrigue and *x- travagant expenditures of public funds which could be told. They The government’s failure to meet its responsibility in cutting non-de- would make good fiction. Unfor fense items from its budget is all tunately, the situation is too real •to make them enjoyable. the more distressing in light of the fact that rising prices and rising INCREASE RECEIVED wages have already added $5 bil Within 4 months after enlist lion to the cost of the defense pro ment, U. S. Navy recruits automat gram without yielding a single ad- ically receive a 70 per cent increase consequently greater repercussions in pay and a promotion to a higher rating. ditional plane or bullet. Everyone in touch with the Wash ington scene has known for a long t'me that the Administration is con- Lodges Business-Professional Directory For Your Beauty Needs ELIZABETH’S BEAUTY SALON J ames P reston Billions are flung around so free- ljr these days that an additional ap- propriation of several millions seems like chicken feed. As late as August, results of a survey conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers indi cated that it would take $50 billion to meet the defense job, as then Vernonia Lodge No. 246 0.0.F, Meets Every Tuesday 8 P. M. Alton Roberson, N. G. Paul Gordon, Secretary 4-41 - Vernonia F. O. E. Phone 431 (Fraternal Order of Eagle.) Elizabeth Horn I.O.O.F. Hall Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist Vernonia Marshall A. Rockwell M. D. 2nd and 4th Friday Night. Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 72; Residence 73 Dr. U. J. Bittner Joy Theatre Bldg. 8 o’clock Arthur Kirk, W. P. Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y. Expert Tonsorial Work Vernonia, Oregon Pythian Sisters Vernonia Temple No. 61 Vernonie, Oregon Meeting»: — I. O. O. F. Hall Second Nehalem Valley Motor Freight Lodge No. 116 Vernonia, Oregon Meetings:—I. O. O. F. Hall, Second and Fourth Mondays Each Month. Phone 662 BEN’S BARBER SHOP 7-41 Knights of Pythias Harding Dentist and Fourth Wednesdays Each Month 2-41 Order of Eastern Star CASON’S TRANSFER 153, O. E. S. Regular Communi cation first and third Wednesdays of each month, at Masonic Temple. All visiting sisters and brothers wel come. Allie Dickson, Worthy Matron Mona Gordon, Secretary 1-42 LOCAL and LONG-DISTANCE HAULING A. F. & A. M. Frank Hartwick, Proprietor Portland - Timber • Vernonia Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach Gearhart - Seaside Vernonia Telephone 1042 SEE US For Your Old-Growth 16-INCH FIR WOOD AND CEDAR SHINGLES Roland D. Eby, M. D by fused about how much it is Bpend ing for what. Economies, even in defense spending, are necessary in order to assure the taxpayer the most for his dollar. For example, way back in April oi May observers were whispering that contracts have been awarded cn the basis of friendships with government officials. A certain amount of this is to be expected, but not when it results in outright waste at a time when every dollar end every man-hour on the pro duction line counts. It’s now estab lished that the cost-plus-fixed-fee basis of awarding Army and Navy contracts has raised the ultimate costs. Representative Engel of Michigan estimated, on the basis of an investigation of seven army camps, that at least $250,00u,000 of the $800,000,000 appropriated for cantonments had been “wasted" as a result of the fixed-fee basil for awarding the contracts. Con gressional critics of wasteful spend ing have attributed the waste to seven factors: bad planning, inex perience, speed, cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, high labor costs, high cost of materials and equipment rentals, and improper location of sites. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Town Office 891 NEAL W. BUSH Attorney at Law Joy Theatre Bldg., Phone 663 In Vernonia Mondays and Tuesdays Nehalem Chapter Vernonia Lodge No. 184 A. F. & A.* M. meets at Masonic Temple, Stat ed Communication First Thursday of each month. Special called meetings on all other Thursday nights, 7:30 p. m. Visitors most cordially wel- come. Special meeting. Friday night.. C. L. Brock” W. ÄL Glenn F. Hawkins. Sec. VERNON1A POST 119 AMERICAN LEGION Meets First Wed. and Third Mon of Each Month. AUXILIARY First and Third Mondays
