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4 Thursday, April 30, 1942, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon Week Comments WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE, IF ANY? A number of remarks have been heard here regarding the State Guard for which applicants are desired and for which quite a number of persons have already signed. Those remarks arise, perhaps, from a misunderstanding. We are unable to answer questions asked regarding the'State Guard or the Home Guard. The questions asked, usually bring out the query “what is the difference between the two—the State Guard and the Home Guard,” and, if there is a difference, no informatio.. of that difference has been released or if released, has not been THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE seen here. , , For those who wish ty know, that information is being sought this week and should be available for publication next week. FORUM ARTICLES This has been mentioned before but it is well to again re mind those who submit articles to be printed in The Eagle’s Forum column that those articles must be signed by the person submitting the article. During the past three weeks, several articles have been mailed in without the signatures, it being desired that those articles be printed in that column. Any person who desires to state his viewpoint on any sub ject about which he or she may have an opinion is welcome to submit a statement for that column—but the statement must be signed before it can be accepted for printing. SlNCB THE WAR 0EGAH NEARlY too NEW CHEMICAL ANP POWPER PLANTS HAVE BEEN BUILT IN AMERICA _ TO SPEET’ SUPPLIED OF THESE PROPUCW TO THE UNlTEP NATIONS’ County News Bible School. In our town most of the grade scholars are enrolled. This small boy had his new Bible REGISTRATION FOR for the work. Let it be added that PRIMARIES UP— in Oregon scholars may be dis- Registration of voters in Colum missed an hour a week, during bia county for the May primary school time, on written consent of elections totals 10,454, an increase parents. They meet outside the of 267 over registration of the pri school building; in our case in a mary elections in May, 1940, but nearfby church. Over a thousand a decrease of 664 from the 11,018 communities in the nation now who signed up to ballot in Novem carry on, with the movement urg ber, 1940, according to figures re ed by school people and civic leased last week by County Clerk leaders as well as church lolks. James Hunt. In view of the fact It is hoped to stem the trend to that the 11,018 figure in November, ward crime and break-up. 1940 included considerable dead You recall our record. One—A wood in the shape of voters who murder every forty-five minutes. had transferred elsewhere, where Two—A major crime and more ev as the present 10,454 total repre ery sixty seconds. Three — One sents a list that has been thorough home in every six broken by divorce. ly housecleaned, the drop in voter Four—The fifteen billion diollar registration is not regarded as par crime bill; Five—17 millions of ticularly important. youth unreached by the church. The democrats continue to hold Six—In Oregon, our 30 million a numerical advantage in the coun dollar liquor bill' against .20 minions ty, the statistics show, for there spent for education. are 5,589 Bourbons registered as We recall the late Dr. Robinson compared with 4,754 republicans. of Tillamook; his Christian convic The democrats have gained a iota, tions and kindly way. In him you of 304 adherents since the May, saw the fruit of early religious 1940 primary registration, while the training. He used to speak of the G. O. P., party has lost 19 regis- boyhood home in the north of Ire triints in the same period. land and of how the pastor and elder would visit about to hear the SUPPLY OF BLOOD youngsters repeat their Bible work. PLASMA INCREASED— “They would ask me what Psalm St. Helens’ supply of a vital need in the event of an air attack— I would choose to repeat. I in blood plasma—-was increased con turn would ask them which one siderably this week when Glenn they wanted to hear." And the Leemon, local pharmacist, ordered good man’s eyes twinkled as he re 10 jugs of the expensive substance. lated how he knew them all. No This added supply, together with matter which they named, he was what is already on hand in town, ready. “I committee the 119th brings to 12 jugs the amount of Psalm with its 176 verses in three plasma available here. This amount evenings,” he once remarked. How about the training in your was specified by local physicians as the minimum supply which would home? Have you a Dr. Robinson in probably be needed in thw event of the making? May the children of yo-ur fireside rise up and call you a bombing attack here. blessed for the prayers and Scrip 100 TONS OF SCRAP ture. By the Courage, Cheer, Wis METAL SAID READY— dom, Hope, Goodness that Christ Approximately 100 tons of scrap the Savious imparts, may your metal nnd about 10 tons of waste youngsters show the inner stuff paper has been accumulated in re that stands the storm and stress. cent drives by organiations in Col Take time to be holy. Do you? umbia county, Price Schroeder, This space paid by by an Ore county salvage chairman, said yes gon businessman. terday. Considerably more paper has been gathered, but shipments have been made from time to time nnd the 10 tons represents all that is on hand at present. St. Helens MORE GOLD INSIDE “Se my name on the outside?” The small boy was proud owner of a new Bible; his name in gold on the cover ami the edges in gold also. The wise woman looked it «.ver and was glad he had it. Then. “Inside it has more gold than outside. Find out whit I mean and tell me next Sunday.” Rack of it was the Week Day 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 MmLex OHidoO LWSf»>EII P U B LI S HE IS 4s{s Çt.l AT I 0 N Book Talk . . . By EDNA ENGEN Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. This is Mrs. Rawling’s stor.» of her heme in the “backwoods” of Florida. It is the story of her friends and neighbors and a way of life. Incidentally, it is the story of an attractive personality—Mrs. Rawlings herself. It is written in the author’s us ual excellent style. She pokes gentle 'fun at her friends and neighbors, the darkies who work for her but does not forget a sly dig now and then at her own expense. She is equally quick to praise these people and he’- passages of description of the surrounding country reveal her deep love for her adopted home. It is heartening in these uncer tain times to read of a way of life so full of satisfaction and content ment. • • • Other books by Mrs. Rawlings on the library shelves: The Year ling and When the Whippoorwill. SUBSTITUTE PAINT N ational A dvertiiinc R epresentativs NEW YORK . CHICAGO . DETROIT -TO HELP kEBP POAPi CO LIEG’AtJP ItJ IME igT* CEM-njwy, -îrifc- ewölisu PARLIAMENT SPECIFIED THAT WEHlCLES' 0S EQuiPPEP V7I1H VJWEEL piM5 AT L eAST 9 INCHES VHPB. CS'OMERMS VERE AG MUCH AS )3 INCHES VJlPE/ ) shape Out of the Woods ________________________________________________ Stevens Acres of Diamonds . , , Away back yonder in the days when the world didn’t half-way know how well off it was, a Phila delphia preacher made a great name and a mint of money for him self out of the idea of what might be called backyard luck. He—I disreir.ember his name— rigged up a lecture on the pa.lem of a parable, which told of a nan who roved the world prospecting for diamonds—and finally found acres of them in his own backyard. These diamonds of course were not precious stones. They wore the fa miliar common things of life which we seldom value at their true worth until we find out, after a lot of running around in circles, that the pot of gold—or diamonds—at the end of the rainbow just ain’t. You’ve seen it work out this way in the woods, haven’t you? have more sound sense than I and others of the short-stake tribe had in the old days. That is, men who know the values in their own back yards and who stick to the work of getting out wood for victory just as c.ur sailors stay with their ships and our soldiers with their outfits. Men who wouldn’t work anywhere but in the woods and sawmills—not for a million—and who bear the names of “logger” or “lumberman” with mighty pride. Work, with a clean wind blowing through tall trees. Work, with the clean smell of green lumber and the good, live feeling of it in a man’s hands. Hard work. Work with danger in it. But work that pays off more in health than any other kind one may name. Wo.k that is traditionally tied up vith the best of American manhood. There are diamonds in the woods. Not for a Million . . . During my time as a wage-earner I held sixty-seven jobs, a record which pretty well scales me as a short-staker. Not until I was nigh cn thirty did I work over a year on any one job—excepting a year and a half with an infantry outfit in France. Short-staking took me through ail the Western states, and into construction work, harvesting, railroad shops, steel mills, city truck-driving, mining—both silver lead gnd coal—as well as into the woods and the sawmills of several forest regions. As a writing nun, I lived in Detroit for a year and a half and in Gary for a year. It was inside experience on the way tit life in automobile ar.d steel making, if not actual work for wages at it. This isn't set down just to make talk about Jim Stevens. It is to make testimony out of personal ex perience on this proposition >f backyard luck. Having it all to live over again, I wouldn’t go out of sight of the woods or beyond the sound of saws making logs and lumber to find a way of life—not for a million, I wouldn’t. Nightmare Mass Production . . . In Detroit the happiest man I met was one who’d worked eleven straight years at a machine that turned out steering-wheel nuts. The job had worn down his nerves with its eternal grim monotony until he was haunted by nightmares in which mountains of steering-wheel nuts would rise up cloud-high, and then start sliding down on him. In his dreams he’d run for his life, with avalanches of steering-wheel nuts roaring at his heels. He had escaped by hav'ng enough savings to buy a half-interest in a small service station. He put in twelve hours a day at it and made only a skimpy living but he was happy. “No more nightmares,” he said. “From steering-wheel nuts I’m free. Do I feel good? Boy!” But I knew many others in De troit who were quite contented at monotonous mechanical jobs. And old-timers in Gary who would have been miserable anywhere but in the roaring hell of a rolling mill. Queer people. With a war on. though, it’? a good thing we have them. To conserve dyes white paint will Timber Fighters ... soon be substituted for colored And—with a war on—it’s a good paint on traffic markers in many thing there are thousands of rugged cities. and loyal men of the woods who OREGON NEWS ANO r COMMENTS Portland, Oregon, April 29- -The war horses of the Democratic party are after the scalp of their state chairman. When the secretary of state released the list of candidates who had filed for the legislature it was found that 21 seats, over one- third of those to be elected, had gone by default because no Demo cratic candidate had taken the trouble to seek the nomination. It is supposed to be the job of the state chairman to see that every local elective office has a candid ate. The Democrats thought they had an excellent opportunity to capture the lower house this year, but they can’t do it with a handi cap of 21 seats to start with. The Republicans only failed to file for nine seats. So a drive is now to stage a write-in campaign which the “powers that be” hope will re sult in a candidate for each legisla tive seat on both tickets next fall. ♦ ♦ ♦ A bill introduced by Senator Mc Nary authorizing RFC to finance construction and operation of dis tilleries, specifically in the north west, is a sort of scattergun. Essen tially. the measure proposes these distilleries to produce industrial alcohol, but it goes beyond .hat. It would permit the production of starch, allow the adulteration of gasoline, assist in the manufacture of synthetic rubber. In the main, however, it would salvage tons of waste material. Every pulp and paper mill in the northwest is pouring into the rivers and bays a stream of chemicals that the management knows can readily be converted into industrial alcohol. Several executives of these pulp plants have communicated with the ican citizen must belong to a union senator, recommending that some in order to be a soldier of pro thing be done to turn this waste duction—that in a war industry material into something wanted for union membership should be made a condition of employment. war purposes. There are thousands In a minority opinion dissenting off tons of fruit either littering the members of the Board opposed the ground or not of marketable size decision “because it conditions the but excellent material for the mak individual’s right to work for an ing of alcohol. Government owns employer upon his continued mem- wheat that can be converted and beiPhip in a labor organization , . . farmers of Oregon can use their “To arbitrarily impose these obli surplus for alcohol. With a ration gations without the consent of those ing of gasoline in Oregon (it will a. fected, in our opinion, will tend become nation-wide later) the sen to destroy the cooper, tion so essen ator says a percentage of alcohol tial to maximum production. mixed with gasoline will stretch the “In these war days management motor fuel. This has been done, but has its share of responsibilities to never on an extensive scale and p 'oduce the maximum. To the ex only in an emergency. Provided the tent that management is circum bill becomes law and RFO will ad scribed by the orders of an i.dmin- vance the finances, the next task istrative board transferring to labor would be to obtain the necessary organizations even partial control equipment. The measure is intended of terms of employment and the to conserve sugar, now being trans hiring of workers, production will formed into industrial alcohol, by be hampered.” substituting grain, fruit and pulp waste. Washington officials pred'et th”t The additional aluminum capacity within a short time priorities will' planned for the northwest will be have to be established for rail produced in eastern Washington and traffic-’.’re'ght and passenger alike. not on the west side of the Cas There is a growing shortage of cades as had been considered. It is locomotives and other equipment, explained that for various reasons which may force action along this the most suitable place will be on line. At present no one can fore the Columbia river at Grand Coulee see exactly when this shortage will dam where there will be ample pow become acute, but indications are er to reduce clay to aluminum in that summer and fall will be the gots and these pigs can be sent danger seasons. readily to the fabricating plant now Already plans are being formu in course of construction near Spok lated to minimize the inconven ane. iences and delays that such short One of the determining influences ages will cause. One method being in deciding on Grand Coulee for considered now involves spreading new aluminum activities is the scar out summer vacations to cut the city of steel for towers and copper June-July-August t avel peak. With for transmission lines. Despite the fewer people using their cars as need of aluminum for airplanes, the time goes on, demand for rail trav priorities must be observed, and to el is expected to increase, adding conserve these metals as much as to the transportation problem. possible the proposal is to place the plant where the requirements An indication of what the future will be reduced to the minimum. In holds for civilians is seen in the other words, the aluminum plant predictions of top Administration (or plants) will be located rignt at officials that with'n a year the the dam, practically at the switch draft will apply to ail non-military board, instead of 50, 100 or 200 work. miles away where the communities Typical are the views of Chair would like to have them. man Arthur J. Altmeyer of the ♦ ♦ ♦ Social Security Board, who says Capacity of the Grand Coulee that a single manpower authority, aluminum enterprise is not announc like that of British Lrbor Minister ed, but the war program calls for Ernest Bevin, must be established such a tremendous number of air to exercise general control over planes that it is expected to equal the selection of men for indust or exceed the production ol the agriculture and other essential civ Aluminum Company of America at ilian activities, as well as for the Vancouver, Washington, which will armed forces. be turning out 160,000,000 pounds According to M-. Altmeyer, th, a year. This is the largest plant in 'purpose of the manpower authority the Pacific northwest. The propos would be to achieve maximum effi ed plant a't Grand Coulee dam is ciency in the distribution of the to be in addition to the aluminum available labor force; to avert la industry, soon to be in operation bor shortages in critical war in at Spokane and which will use dustries; and to avoid a “tug-of- 185,000 kilowatts, the same amount war” for men between war indus ithe Bonneville administration is tries and the armed forces. serving Alcoa at Vancouver. De Word that more than 3,300 var- fense plant corporation will finance planes a month are rolling ol . of the Grand Coulee project, as it has American factories is being refer arranged to do for the aluminum red to here as an indication of the plant near Troutdale, which will fact that industry is indeed on the tse 97,500 kilowatts. way to beating its production prom Whatever may become of the al ise. uminum ingot plants, from Tacoma Such a figure is good news, an.’ to Trcutdrl'e. after the war, the officials say that the news is bout.,; p-oject nestling at the base of to get better as time goes on. Grand Coulee dam will be shut down and abandoned when victory comes to the banners of the United Na tions. And this is another reason for locating the plant at the dam site. • • « Renewed appeals are 'being sent from the northwest to the maritime commission for wooden barges with wh:ch to relieve the gasoline and fuel oil shortage. A northwest nav al architect of many years’ exper ience promises to submit drawings for a leakless wooden barge. Tugs also would be of wood and Scotch marine boilers can be built in Ore gon without any difficulty. by J amf S P reston Labor legislati n is still very much in the limelight here. The recent decision of the War Labor Board directing that workers who dropped out of a CIO union since last Nov ember 27 must rejoin the union has caused considerable comment, a great deal' of it unfavorable. In requiring that they rejoin, the ruling went beyond the usual “maintenance of union memiber ship” principle. Many observers are convinced that the Board plans tc make itself the “Supreme Court of Labor Relations” and, thiough its decisions, hopes to establish a national labor policy of its own. Many of those who have been following the labor situation are wondering now whether this part icular decision will force Congress ional action on labor legislation in the immediate future. Behind-the- scenes comment this week indicates that some Congressmen interpret the ruling to mean that an Amer Fifty-nine pedestrians were in volved in traffic accidents as a re sult of walking into the sides of passing automLbiles in Oregon in 1941 figures compiled by the state traffic safety division disclosed. These persons were involved in accidents as a result of careless, thoughtless actions and the incid ents could have been avoided through the exercise of normal cau tion and attention to the business of walking, the safety division de clared. Pedestrians must keep alert when in traftic, such practices as reading a newspaper or magazine, carrying bundles or umbrellas in such a man ner as to obstruct vision brings in vitations to disaster, the division warned. CHANGE OF PRODUCTION Manufacturers that ordinarily make women’s dresses are now turn ing out flags and panels that are used for signaling in the armed for ces.