4 Thursday, March 19, 1942, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon
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THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
CIVILIAN MORALE
A part of a recent bulletin by the Oregon State Defense
Council is devoted to the subject of “Civilian Morale.” Under
that heading are remarks which can well apply to all of us as we
go about our daily activities. Those remarks bear repeating here:
“Propaganda agents are active in every community. They
may be fifth columnists; they may be well-meaning persons in­
nocently repeating a lie. ‘Psychological warfare’ is a phase of
conflict with which this nation’s enemies have gained great
victories already. France is a case in point. Chief factor for
producing anxiety, fear and a state of tension which could re­
sult in eventual panic is the spreading of rumors.
“These rumors probably will bear chiefly on impending
disaster or ‘great losses among our troops,’ or ‘worse than the
authorities have stated,’ or sabotage—there are saboteurs all
about us,’ or complaints about ‘inadequate leadership.’ The at­
tempt is to build up in the people misrust of their government.
The antidote is ‘STOP, LOOK, and, not listen, but THINK.’ Ask
where the rumor came from; challenge it instead of accepting
it; suggest that by retelling the story he is helping the enemy.
A story spread by a perfectly honest and sincere American
may do as much harm as though it were told by a paid agent
of the Axis. Don’t help the enemy by peddling his propaganda
for him. Think of this before you repeat a story about the war.
Mistrust of government, suspicion, anxiety and finally panic
developed in France, and that nation was defeated—defeated
from inside, and not by enemy gun fire, tanks or planes. Re­
member these things when you are about to repeat a story of
the war which is without official confirmation. WHEN THEY
TALK, DON’T LISTEN! WHEN THEY LISTEN, DON’T
TALK!”
by
COUNTY NEWS-
St. Helens
Clatskanie
RIVER USERS FLOCK
TO GET CARDS
BIG MAJORITY
OKEYS BONDS
With opening of the annual sal­
mon derby set for last Saturday,
fishermen fairly flocked into the
sheriff's office this week to obtain
blanks which must be filled out
for the identification cards needed
to allow them on the river. Last
Wednesday some 298 persons made
applications for the cards, were fin­
gerprinted and had their photo­
graphs taken, Sheriff M. R. Calhoun
said.
Enforcement of the navy’s edict
that no one without an indentilfi-
cation card is to be allowed on the
river will be in the hands of the
coast guard. It is understood that
first offenders may face anything
from a stern warning to put into
shore to a $50 fine, depending on
how good their alibis may be, while
others get penalties that run as
high as five years in if“' -ral prison.
With the overwhelming vote of
700 to 25, voters of the Clatskanie
People’s Utility district last Satur­
day approved a revenue bond issue
of $237,000 for the purchase of
West Coast Power company proper­
ties and for betterments and exten­
sions of the service.
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Entire staffs of the three city
schools, with exception of two tea­
chers who were married during the
school year, were reelected this
week by the district No. 2 board,
according to announcement laist
week by Ira W. Tucker, city super­
intendent. Wage increases which
averaged 15 per cent over the base
pay as of this year were granted
the teachers.
BUY
UNITED
STATES
SAVINGS
’ bonds
AND STAMPS
ON SAIE ATMMJR P0ST0FF1CE OR RANK
A merica O n G uard !
Above ia a reproduction of the
Treasury Department's Defense
Savings Poster, showing an exact
duplication of the original “Minute
Man" statue by famed sculptor
Daniel Chester French. Defense
Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your
bank or post office, are a vital part
•f America's defense preparations.
The Vernonia Eagle
MARVIN KAMHOLZ
Editor and Publisher
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Entered as second class mail
matter, August I. 1922, st the post
office in Vernonia. Oregon, under
the act of March 3. 1879.
Official newspaper of Vernonia. Ore
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VERNON WILLIAMS
DIRECTORS PICK
CITY TEACHERS
Fifty-five per cent of Oregon’s
pedestrian victims were engaged in
some unsafe action at the time they
were struck, the state traffic safety
division’s analysis of traffic ac­
cidents discloses.
Pedestrians were urged to cross
cnly at intersections and crosswalks,
to keep alert when crossing streets,
to watch for approaching cars be­
fore starting across and once hav­
ing left the curb, to walk steadily
and directly to the other side.
The practice of stopping in the
center of a street to visit is a dan­
gerous practice and is reported fre­
quently in the smaller towns in Ore
the safety division announced.
Free Test of
Gauge Announced
Pressure cookers should be ready
to take care of additional canning
which has come about through the
National IM.’ense Program. The
pressure cooker gauge should be
tested each year in order too insure
safe canning.
Oregon State College will test
pressure cooker gauges free of
charge this year.
In order to be eligible for this
service it will be necessary for
hememakers to bring or mail their
pressure cooker gauges to the office
of Mrs. Maud Casswell, Home Dem­
onstration Agent, St. Helens. The
gauge can be unscrewed from the
top of the pressure cooker; your
name and address should be secure­
ly fastened to the gauge. The dead­
line for this free service is March
28.
MANY INSPECTIONS MADE
One type of airplane motor con­
tains 7,000 parts. Each part is in­
spected an average of ten times to
make sure that workmanship is per­
fect—which means 70,000 inspec­
tions for every engine.
Champoeg memorial, but the bills
were lost in the house. The present
measure is modest; it authorizes
cnly $25,000 and requires the state
to maintain the memorial.
The income tax just paid on last
year’s income is the heaviest that
T.as ever been imposed on the
American people. However, it is
slight compared with that which
must be paid one year hence. Sec­
retary Morgenthau is proposing
that the tax be doubled and that
part of it be deducted from wages
every month. One reaction is a de­
mand on congress that every un­
necessary expense be eliminated,
including cost of the publicity bur­
eaus. There are 3,000 press agents
in Washington with a payroll in
the millions and at present an en­
tire block in the heart of Washing­
ton is being dug up for a press
bureau building. Congress turned
down this super-bureau brt some­
where the promoters managed to
get the money.
Portland, Ore., March 18—War
activities in Oregon are causing a
housing problem which is arousing
concern in the national capital.
Pendleton, for example, needs more
housing units for non-commissioned
officers at the air field, at least
100 dwellings. While arrangements
are being made for expanding the
accommodations, it is proposed to
transfer 100 modern trailers from
Umatilla to be used by. workmen,
for there arc no accommodations
for carpenters and mechanics who
must construct the 100 dwellings.
At Medford and the Albany-Cor­
vallis area where cantonments are
under contract (designed for a to­
tal' of 60,000 soldiers) how to take
care of the workers is already a
problem, according to word re­
ceived in the capital. In the two
cantonment districts there ar«, no
vacant dwellings and workmen are
filling the auto camps. There is
and will be a drain on school ac­
commodations, as several hundred
children are being brought in W'hile
father works in the cantonments.
In other cantonments during con­
struction it has been possible for
workers to live 20 or 30 miles away
from the job, but the sites in Ore­
gon have been designated since the
curtailment of automobiles and
t’.'es. Unable to replace tires when
they become useless, the workers
hesitate to use cars for any dis­
tance. Also feeding these families
will develop another problem in the
Willamette and Rogue river valleys.
There is a possibility that by the
t’me the cantonments are finished
these workers will be available to
gather in crops.
Hood River orchardists are anx­
ious that a property custodian be
named to take over the 98 orchards
operated by 70 Japanese in that
valley. Someone familiar with the
fruit industry will be required to
supervise the Japanese holdings, as
care of the orchards is technical.
Spring work on the trees must
start in a few davs and the associa­
tion of orchardists has communicat­
ed with Washington, explaining that
when a decision is to be made the
Hood River association has a name
to submit. The alien property cus­
todian will be a part of the treas­
ury set-up and be will appoint field
men.
Metals division of war production
bna-d has heard that there is nick­
el in Oregon and has arranged to
send scientists to that region to
make an investigation. No nickel
is produced in the United States,
the current supply coming from
Canada. WPB has a tip that one
deposit is in Doublns county, not
far from Riddle, and that there is
a smaller deposit somewhere in the
Jackson-Joseph’ne area. If. explains
the metals division, these deposits
can be used at all and even though
they may cost more to produce
than woiuld be justified in peace­
time, WPB will see that federal
money is available to make the
pioperties active.
On the upper Columbia, some­
where in Umatilla county, the war
department plans the construction
of a depot for quartermaster sup­
plies. The depot will' cost several
million dollars and work is expected
to beg'n during the coming sum­
mer. The contract will be negotiated
and not competitive. A negotiated
contract usually eliminates any con­
tractor or contractor group not
known to the army officers and the
job is given to a concern that has
worked for the army before. This
is why some of the government
work in the northwest has so fre­
quently been handed to the same
few contractors and is why mari­
time commission refuses to award
ship orders to new concerns, re­
gardless of their experience.
There is before the senate a bill
authorizing the secretary of war
“to construct a permanent gate
and monument to commorate the
deeds and achievements of early
patriots whose efforts were respon­
sible for the establishment of the
title of the United States to the
Oregon country.” The site of the
monument is to be at Champoeg.
Twice, years ago, the senate passed
bills authorizing $100,000 by the
federal government to match a si­
milar sum ifrom the state for a
J ames P reston
The Administration and the farm
bloc a.e having a tug-of-war.
It came to the f'ore at the time of
the enactment of the Price Control
Bill. The question then was the ex­
tent of the power of the Price Ad­
ministrator to fix maximum prices
for agricultural commodities. Round
one ended in a victory for the farm
bloc. Rigid standards set by the
Price Control Act must be met be­
fore ceilings can be fixed for the
products of farmers.
The farm bloc is now trying to
bolster its position by supporting
an amendment introduced into the
Senate which prohibits the use of
certain funds by the Government
to buy farm products below a given
price. This amendment is designed
to plug a loophole in the Price Con­
trol' Law which the President intend­
ed using to stabilize farm prices, ac­
cording to its sponsor.
President Roosevelt and Price Ad­
ministrator Henderson are bitterly
opposed to the amendment. They
favor the present set-up, under
which the President can, for exam­
ple, instruct Federal crop agencies
to turn over thousands of bales of
cotton to the War Department.
The War Department could then
sell the cotton to a manufacturer
for use in Army supplies at a price
which, for the most part, would be
below the designated p-ice level.
This procedure, Administration ex­
perts point out, will have the effect
of decreasing the demand for cotton,
or whatever commodity may be in­
volved, on the open market and thus
serve to keep cotton prices stable.
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There is another angle to this
battle in which both sides are ada­
mant. The Senate fa. m bloc has suc­
ceeded in passing a bill forbidding
the Government to sell below parity
its huge stocks of cotton, corn and
wheat, despite a direct appeal by
the President for its de.eat.
There is much conjecture in the
corridors of farm Senators and
Representatives to jockey farmeis
into a favored cite official Dep. rt-
ment of Agriculture figures to show
that in 1941 the cash income of far­
mers totaled almost $12 billion, and
represents an increase of 29 per
cent over the agricultural income
for 1940.
They insist that such Sen-tors
and Representatives are not indi­
cative of the spirit of the nation’s
farmers. They point to 50 Indiana
farmers who resolved, at a meeting,
that they will permit no interest of
their own to interfere with their
war time duty to their country.
These farmers, they insist, are typi­
cal.
A good deal of discussion among
businessmen here is centered around
a bill introduced by Representative
Boland of Pennsylvania. The bill at­
tempts to modify the present capi­
tal-gains tax, which has long been
regarded with dis’avor in business
and financial circles.
The present tax is levied on the
transfer or sale of all assets, with
enumerated exceptions. Most ot the
revenue comes from security trans­
actions.
It is felt that the Government
should follow the lead of other
countries and abolish this type of
tax entirely, because experience has
shown that it discourages the invest­
ment of capital in business enter­
prises. The Boland Bill, by setting
a flat rate of 10 per cent on the
net capital gains of both individuals
and corporations, is hailed as a step
in the right direction.
Proponents point out that the
lower rate of taxation together with
other corrective provisions of the
bill will encourage transfers. This
means that, although the rate is low’-
er, there will be more taxable trans­
actions. The result will be, accord­
ing to experts, an estimated increase
in revenue from $80,000,000 to $30-
0,000,000 annually.
An add-'tional $220,000,000 of tax
revenues isn’t anything to be sneez­
ed at these days, say Mr. Boland’s
backers.
Lodges
Vernonia Lodge No. 246
I.O.O.F.
Meets Every Tuesday
8 P. M.
Harry George, N. G.
Dwight Strong, Secretary
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Vernonia F. O. E.
(Fraternal Order of Eagles)
I.O.O.F.
G. J. Ten Brook. M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Vernonia
2nd and 4th
Office Phone 72
Residence Phone 172
For Your Beauty Needs
ELIZABETH’S
BEAUTY SALON
Hall
Friday
Night»
8 o'clock
Arthur Kirk, W. P.
Willis Johnson, W. Sec’y.
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Knights of Pythias
Lodge No. 116
Vernonia, Oregon
Harding
Phone 431
Meetings:—I. O. O. F.
Hall, Second and
Fourth Mondays Each
Month.
Elizabeth Horn
Hair Stylist and Cosmetologist
Pythian Sisters
Dr. U. J. Bittner
Dentist
Joy Theatre Bldg.
Vernonia Temple No. 61
Vernonia, Oregon
Meeting,:— I. O. O. F. Hall
Second
Phone 662
and Fourth Wednesdays
Each Month
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Order of Eastern Star
Nehalem Chapter
Expert Tonsorial Work
BEN’S BARBER SHOP
Vernonia, Oregon
THE DISTINGUISHED
FLYING CROSS
The Distinguished Flying Cross
is awarded to any person, who,
while serving in any capacity
with the Army Air Corps of the
United States, including the Na­
tional Guard and the Organized
Reserves, subsequent to April 6.
1917. has distinguished himself
or shall distinguish himself by
heroism or extraordinary achieve­
ment. while participating in an
aerial flight.
On a bronze patee a four-bladed
propeller; in the re-entrant an­
gles, rays forming a 1-inch
square. On the reverse are en­
graved the grade, name, and or­
ganization of the recipient. The
cross is suspended by a plain
straight link from a silk moire
ribbon composed of alternate red.
white, and blue stripes, blue pre­
dominating.
Nehalem Valley
Motor Freight
Frank Hartwick,
153, O. E. S.
Regular Communi­
cation first and
third Wednesdays
of each month, at
Masonic Temple.
All visiting sisters
and brothers wel­
come.
Verla Porterfield, Worthy Matron
Mona Gordon, Secretary
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A. F. & A. M.
Proprietor
Portland - Timber • Vernonia
Sunset - Elsie - Cannon Beach
Gearhart - Seaside
Vernonia Telephone 1042
Roland D. Eby, M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Town Office 891
NEAL W. BUSH
Attorney at Law
Joy Theatre Bldg., phone 663
In Vernonia Mondays and
Tuesdays
tome.
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
A. F. & A. M. meets at
Masonic Temple.
Stat­
ed Communication First
Thursday of each month.
Special called meetings
other Thursday nights, 7:30
Visitors most cordially web
Special meeting, Fridav
night,.
Elmore Knight, W. M.
Glenn F. Hawkins. Sec.
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LEGION
Meet, First Wed.
and Third Mon.
of Each Month.
AUXILIARY
First and Third Monday,
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