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 _
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.