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Newspaper Page Text4 Thursday, January 21, 1943 Vernonia Eaele County News St. Helens with the sirens on their cars blow ing. Rainier Assignment to committees of members of the house of represen tatives disclosed that the two leg islators from Columbia county far ed fairly well in this important matter. J. D. Perry, Columbia county’s veteran legislator, drew the chair- manship of the committee on min- ing from William M. McAllister, speaker of the house. Perry is a member of the fisheries, labor and .ndustries, military affairs, high ways and highway revenue com- mittees in addition. Manley Wilson, elected again last year as joint representative from Clatsop and Columbia counties, was named chairman of the committee on commerce and navigation. Other assignments for Wilson included memberships on the education, for estry, land use, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry committees. WEST RAINIER STARTING WAR PRODUCTION CLASS A house-to-house canvass in St. Helens with the hope of obtaining old hosiery for contribution to the government started Monday morn ing with women from the V.F.W. Auxiliary doing the canvassing, Charles Rogers, local chairman for the hosiery salvage campaign, said. Announced some weeks ago, the program to obtain old and worn- ou. h i -ry for use in making powd er b g a id other articles to aid the war ■ fart has been extended to he e.tint that all stores which «('•e'; h isiery have placed contain- e .■ >. re old stockings may be de- The house-to-house check- P 1'1 i . intended to make sure that r. i .e old hosiery is contributed. r /< A, Another class under the gov- ernment’s rural war production training program was started in West Rainier Tuesday, January 19, in the Farmer’s union hail. This cla-s deals with nutrition and phases of food production, con serving and processing. fv i ,4 A h FMERGEHcy LANPIN6 , VI FIELD CAN NOW BE MAPE \ ' I J’ IN 6 HOURS ByatEANSOFX INTERLOCKING STEEL MATS \ LAIP OH THE 6ROUNP. <Wf Mn»L \ mi ay a WHO fOKMirl V ^UHHIO OUTWXl LXIHij • hi 7^4- L ATEST COMPRESSEO F000 |S THE potato •BRICK’ DEVELOPED FOR THE / ARMY. THE SIZE OF A SHOE BOX / IT WILL SUPPLY MASHED / < POTATOES FOR / IOO MEN / WoMEN r ft VJ EL PE RS MOW HAVE FLAME PROOF CLOTHING OF A -TREATED FABRIC SIMILAR. F THE LA LWMAKERS 1 AT sj M j IS?’ TO TERRy CLOTH n L -, (fyu&ldnqton The Forum gQnü/jsfwts HERE ARE THE FACTS— THE "OLD JUDGE" REGARDLESS by J. D. PERRY, WILSON DRAW MEMBERSHIPS ON COMMITTEES CANVASS FOR OLD HOSIERY PLANNED HERE THE POCKETBOOK KNOWLEDGE & / A MEVJ ( < PRECISION ( WEIGHING k MACHINE'USED 70 DETECT RUSTON METAL, MEA5URE5 LOADS IN UNITS OF tO/l.OOO.OOO.OOO^^^. OF AN OUNCE AND 4^. WEIGHS RUST 70 THE Ztgc DEGREE OF A 6IN6LE LAYER OF ATOMS. THE MACHINE IS SEALED iN A GLASS TUBE.________ WOOP I« 5TILL IMPORTANT IM THE BUILPING OF MODERN BATTLESHIPS. •521,000 BOARD FEET OF LUMBER IS USED INBUILP1N0 ONE OF OUR SUPER-BATTLE- WAGONS The Federal Alcohol Administra tor says that .he cost of the drink bill for legal liquor in 1941 was over $4,000,000,000 and a conserv- alive estimate of $2,000,000,000 should be added to the above fur bootleg or illicit liquor. Dr. Roy Smith of Los Angeles, California, presents the following figures of what this was.e of legil liquor so d w< uld accomplish if invested as fal lows: $4,000,000,000, the present annual drink bill of the nation would provide a $6,000,000 commun ity chest fund for each of the 50 la’gest cities in America, a $3,000,- One of the most sweeping propos 000 chest for the next 50, $1,000,- als will be the disposition of man 000 Ches, for the next 100, and a power. Senator Austin of Vermont «200,000 chest for the next l,00z. has already served notice that he cities, In addition, the drink bill will in roduce a bill for compulsory would provide 5,000 hospitals with . nation i service. Although in favor a sum of $100,000 for free work of such service, Manpower Chief among the poor, and would erect a McNutt says the time has not yet public hospital at a cost of $250,000 arrived for invoking compulsion and provide .or $250,000 endow through legislation. He believes the ment in each of 1,000 American solution of the problem is still pos- towns. In addi.ion, it would pro sible through indirect penalties vide a $100,000 p'aygruund and en dow it with $200,000 for perpetual against industry. care, in each of 1,000 American In the labor field, proposals to communities. In addition, it would outlaw the “closed shop” and strikes pay the salary of the President of and to suspend the 40-hour week the United States, all members of will' be presented. Legislation will his cabinet, all members of .he Su be asked to require compulsory ac preme Court, all members of the counting of union finances, prohibit Senate and House of Rep-esenta- Union con.ributions to political part tives, all federal judges and U. S. ies, make unions subject to anti district attorneys, and the entire trust prosecution, and create a bill o: the army and navy (before statutory agency to assume WLB entering war). In addition it would erect and endow 4,000 public librar duties. ies at a cost of $250,000. We would --------- < t Included in tax proposals will it’ll have $150,000,000 to app’y on be one to produce an additional 6 other governmental expenses.” billion do’lars in new revenue It, is conservatively estimated that through higher individual and cor it requires five times more taxes porate income taxes with a sales than the government derives in tax to aid in making up the total, revenue from the liquor business Strong sentiment has developed for to pay for the evil effects of liquor, a sales tax and a sharp fight is de-- in providing for paupers, criminals, veloping over the Rumi plan. In orphans, irtsane, and accidents due controversary is .he $25,000 limit to efrink. on income. The new revenue act is not likely to jell before April 1. EMINENT STATESMAN AGAINST DRINK Congress, disposed to delay Rev- William Gladstone, the Premier enue Act considerations until after of England, told a committee of April 1st, may preclude Social Se- brewers: “Gentlemen, you need not curity legislation of any importance give yourself any trouble about the this year, but proposals io increase revenue. The question of revenue unemployment compensation taxes, must never stand in the way of old age and survivors taxes, health needed reforms. Besides, with a sob and disability taxes, hospitalization er population, not wasting their taxes, and federalization of state earnings, I shall know where to unemployment compensatian systems obtain lhe revenue.” are expected. Lord Chesterfield to’d the English Likely to be a high point of House of Lords: “Luxury, my lords, Congressional debate is an Admin is to be taxed, but vice prohibited. istrative Reform bill whose objective Let not the difficulty in the law be is to compel bureaucrats to follow what it will. Would you lay a tax laws drafted by Congresf rather on the breach of the Ten Command- than hand down interpret« ions go ments? Government should not for ing beyond the Intent of the legis revenue mortgage the morals and lature. This legislation, formerly health of the people.” . The 78th Congressional docket in cludes many issues of vi.al import ance to every citizen.. Routine will be the appropriation of more than one hundred billion dollars, the largest ever requested in any ' one year, which will mean more taxes I for everyone—individuals as well as corporations. Many of the score i or more of legislative bills af.ect- ing manufacturers may not be en acted by this congress; others will be materially modified. STATE HOUSE, Salem, Jan. 20 —As ihe legislature gets well into its second week of work the contro versial bills are beginning to show up in both houses, Several tax bills •JF* p* are in which would modify the state income tax. Truck bills are with us Dream Towns of the Woods . . . which had been applied to th' ir again which would increase weight in pioneer times. Often t ■>« Have you ever seen a lumber in locations was and length. Several local option only that of a cre s- dustry "ghost town?” Can you name location roads. Nothing remotely resemb’irig measures have also been introduced one? Well, neither can I, and I’ve Virginia City, Nevada, or Tomb and more to come. Two have the been all over the Lake States, where stone, Arizona, was discovered. ■ F -st town is rumored to stand “The 74 lumber ghost towns of th« strong backing of the Anti-Saloon y township of the old pine- Pacific Northwest”—phooey! in League and the W.C.T.U. And of ch spots as Seeley, Michigan, ric- course it wouldn’t be the legisla- must ue counted out, for Seeley was A Ghost to Talk About . . . never more than a temporary log All this ’-•■oney ghost town talk ture if we didn’t have a few fish ging headquarters bordered by sa is common used to dramatize the and milk bills on the lawmaker’s loon and dancehall stockades. The danger of ». »estrained use of our menu. All the above measures are real lumber towns of that region, natural resources. No one can quar hot subjects and are sure to bring such as Bay City and Muskegon, are rel with the purpose, but only with bigger and better than they ever the mishandling of truth in advanc l”-'IAN YOUTH, COMPANION forth much oraiory if they ever had hoped to be in the days of the ing it. There is one true story, not ,-pPIAR BEFORE JUDGE reach the floor. But first they must of a ghost town, but of a ghost pinetops and shanty boys. V/iLiam Tanner, 19-year-old In- run the gantlet in committee, which The term “ghost town” was first region, that points a powerful over di.nn youth charged with breaking report the bills out “Do pass” or applied to abandoned mining cen all moral of this kind. ters. Around five years ago some It is the ghost story of the Colum a d entering in connection with Do not pass,” and il’s a cinch many slicker with words had the bright bia Basin. From the early 1880's the prowling of three St. Helens of these measures will get a real thought of applying the term “ghost until 1905 that was a good grass and bu iness establishments recently ap working over from the lawmakers towns” to old logging camps. The. cattle country. Homesteaders strag thought caught on. All steamed up, gled in after the building of the peared before Circuit Judge Howard who are on said committees. the slicker rigged up a list of “74 Great Northern in 1890. But it i as K. Zimmerman, having waived pre- One of the hottest of the hot lumber ghost towns in the Pacifia not until fifteen years later that the Iiminary hearings. In view of the bills introduqed so far is the meas Northwest.” Since then I’ve heard Basin was generally plowed. R’ ng or read this quotation hundreds of wheat prices caused the natural re fact that Tanner, who is in 1-A un- ure to modify the tax paid by em source of grass to be turned under. times. der selective service, has asked for ployers to the workmen’s unemploy They’re all a dream—dream towns A cycle of rain that did not run immediate induction into the armed ment compensation fund. This meas out until World War I kept the of the woods. id 1 prosperous. But Basin green and . forces, he was placed on probation ure will be bitterly fought by organ Ghosts and Facts . . . Jim Hill mustard spread in yellow on condition he enter the service. ized labor. Labor has a hugh bank h?.. A friend of mine took It upon waves through thl green. Straw and roll available to maintain a potent each fall. ti The . himself to get the names of the rtubble ----- were k bui .. u limed L._ a ----- u »-n dust bowl. When a Basin became a lobby to ward off any such effort "ghost lumber towns” that were the years socc claimed to be haunting the Douglas cycle of drouth succeeded on the part of employers and this of the region W»l fir region — Western Oregon and of rain, the big wipds lobby is already on the scene of ac Washington. He was given a list of blew devastation er the land. VICTORY CORPS DANCE tion. rses dried up. 39 names, with the counties in which Lakes and water ... valued at PLANNED FOR JANUARY 30 the ghost towns were supposed to Irrigated orchards, $1.500 per acre, diedV>ut._The rains be situated. Invitations were mailed last week One particular bill introduced last lúa Basin did not return. The C ' ' ~ Questionnaires were sent to coun known as the Walter-Logan bill, for the (Victory Dance to be given week didn’t cause much comment at ty clerks and other official custo beoame a ghost regi.^ ll F ghost would provide for judicial review. towns and ghost farms. by the newly organized Victory the time, but there was plenty of dians of old records. All were an r good, The grass was gone Corps at the high school politics wrapped up in it. The meas swered, most of them thoroughly. Cattle rest«"- growing could not Commenting on the 412 feet of Out of all the 39 “ghost towns” there ed. A lifeless urday, January 20th. ure would consolidate the office of laqd, saving ly the reports a manufac.urer is required are 22 which are unrecorded either tumbling tumbleweeds. Tickets went on sale at $1.10. corporation commissioner with the as towns or voting precincts; there The record of the Columbia^asin . ’ to fill out each year on one of Gust Anderson's orchestra will play. state banking department. Just a are 14 which the census shows to Is a powerful parabio for ccr.^jjv?,- scores cf government forms, the week before Mr. Sprague became have greater population than in tion of any natural resourced It Byrd Economy Investigating Com pn ex-govemor he reappointed Mr. CIVILIAN DEFENSE GROUPS 1890. and only 3 have less. The makes the dreamed up fables atnLit mittee said, “horizontally this is greater number had been simply “lumber ghost towns” look trilling Lloyd Smith, corporation commis PRAISED ON EFFECTIVENESS not quite twice the leng.h of a X. camps, and carried place names and silly. The civilian defense groups of sioner, to ano.her four-year term, 5- football field, but vertically it is Clatskanie area were complimented which deprived Governor Snell of a T^conrideiable higher than the great highly by State Policeman Wheeler juicy plum for someone of the boys. Bonneville project, which is exempt and doing the usual good job J ’' pyramid of Egypt.” on the demonstration put on at a However, the state banking job is from all the numerous federal and French is serving his fifth straight recent “incident,” Wheeler said it up for appointment in a short time. state taxes and has Oregon utilities hitch as a legislature. . .Stan Pier For 35 minutes WLB members was the best executed drill he had Hence if the two departments are for its largest customer. This sug and disputants in a pending case of Portland is his able colleague, consolidated as outlined in the bill, gestion by the governor also in the witnessed. went without lunch last week be A group of five different sup Mr. Smith will be out of a job. Get face of approximately a million dol also an oldtimer at the business. . . lar ra;e reduction just ordered by The Grange boys, headed by Mort cause WLB had been dilatory in posed occurences was worked out the point? • • • the state utilities commissioner. As Tompkins, look things over. . .And granting employees of the Labor beforehand and was started off at In the first two weeks more bills everyone knows, the utilities are the so does Allen Smith, the big time Department cafeteria a salary in 7:30 sharp by a blast from dyna crease under a new union contract. have been introduced this session states largest taxpayers. Millions mite exploded to simulate a bomb. lawyer. . .Roy Meyers is on the job W'LB members and guests appeared All incidents worked out as schedul than last. The lawmakers are really come from this source each year in the cafeteria as the strike was ed and at the close of the practice trying their best to wind up the ses to tax collectors for cities, counties, as usual; he has been around the called. they were just one minute behind sion come the fiftieth day. For the school districts, etc. So those who lobby longer than enyone else. . . first time in many years both houses take an interest in tax matters just Phil Metschan drops in to say hello time. Préposais to establish a policy The next practice will be held were in session every day during the can’t make such a suggestion add . . .Ex-Governor Sprague feels at on the operation of government- at an unannounced time. The sig first week. Harvey of Portland and up to good common sense. There is home when he visits the press room Frisbie of Baker hold the lead for such a thing as killing the goose . . .The weather stays beautiful, and owned or government-financed war nal calling the civilian so do prices for everything is this plants, after the war, will also be introduction of new bills in the that lays the golden egg. groups into action has been brought before the 78th congress. man’s town. house, while Wallace of Portland ed and will be made known holds first honors in the senate. This is the season of the session police cars patrolling the A ruling by Speaker McAllister that when the politically wise make Evangelical Church the old moth-eaten custom of "Mr. their guesses as to how long the —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister The Vernonia Eagle Speaker, 1 ask that the courtesy legislature will remain in session. cf the house be ex.ended to Mr. Many think the lawmakers will wind 9:45—Sunday school, Mrs. Madge MARVIN KAM-HOLZ Blah” is out this session, caused up their chores and be homeward Rogers, superintendent. Editor and Publisher McAllister’s stock to rise still high bound by the fif.ieth day rolls a- 11:00—Dr. C. J. Pike, president of er as a presiding officer. The horse round. However, the old-timers who Cascade college, Portland, guest Entered as sec-'nd class mail play to pleise vanity only caused have been watching them come and Assembly of God Church speaker. A pot-luck dinner will vatter. August 4. 1922. at the post the house to lose many hours of Rev. Clayton E. Beish — Minister go for many years shake their heads be held in the church social hall iffice in Vernonia. Oregon, under valuable time in sessions gone by, and say 60 days at least and maybe 9:45—Sunday school with classes lhe act of March 3. 1879. at noon. fcr all ages. and everyone here is glad it’s out; more. It's been close to 30 years 2.00—Dr. Pike speaks again. Ifficial newspaper of Vernonia, Ore and here’s hoping it stays out indef since the lawmakers finished their 11:00—Morning worship 7:30—Young people have charge ~f . —------------ ,-------- . initely. jobs in the alloted time and ad- 7:30—Evangelistic service. evening service. mid- 7:30 — Wednesday evening, • • • journed sine die. But things have 7:30 Wednesday evening—Prayer week service OiídoOuisííH * Governor Snell’s inaugural ad changed in 30 years and so have and Bible study. H. E. John, lead 7:30—Fi iday evening, Young Peo- PUBLISHERS* 4 dress contained some very meritor we. er. i-sK W.I I Ä « T T I I 0 0 N W pies’ Christ Ambassadors service. ious recommendations to the legis lature, but on the other hand he Observations from the press box: St. Mar”’» Catholic Church ■ m a ics N V s r s s s i o c i at i o g suggested one or two moves that the The railroad and truck lobbies are CK«—ch of Je»UR Christ Rev. Anthony V. Gerace tax-conscious can hardly get (and here, ready for the usual brawl . . . Of Latter Day Saints Rev. Frederick Thiele N ational A dv t it iiinc who isn't tax conscious these days) ? Jimmy Donpgan looks things over Sunday school convenes st 10 The governor mentioned that an ad for the lumber people. , .Giles a. m. at the I. O. O. F. hall under Mass: 9:30 A M. except first Sun R E PR tJt ntativ k ditional 8 per cent excise tax on all French, the lawmaker from Moro, is the direction of Charles Ratkie. day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M. NKW YORK . CHICAGO . DETROIT utilities, but didn't mention the floor leader for Speaker McAllister, superintendent. Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. I I III Clatskanie At The Churches THE WASTE OF LIQUOR J ame S P reston "All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race or alienate so much prosperity as drunkenness.”—Lord Bacon. “Drink is the source of all evil— and the ruin cf half the workmen in this country. . . . But thé expense is not the worst consequence that attends it, for it naturally leads a man into the company of these who encourage dissipation and idleness, by which he is led by degrees to the perpetration of acts which may ter minate in his ruin.’—Writings of George Washington, Vol. 11, p. 377, “Liquor migh; have defenders, but no defense.”—Abraham Lincoln. “Our soldiers were drunk and could not fight (in World War No. 2). Since the victory of the World War (No. 1) the spirit of pleasure of riotous living, and drinking, has prevailed over the spirit of sacri fice.”—General Petain of France. “Beverage alcohol undermines the moral, mental and physical strength of mul.iplying millions and thus cripples the foundations of democ racy, self-government, and pro gress.”—U.S. Senator Morris Shep- perd. —Submitted by G. F. Brown ** First Christian Church —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Bible school, M. L. Herrin, superintendent. 11:00—Morning Communion ser vice. 11:00—Junior church. 11:30—Morning sermon. Subject: “The Door Which No Man Can Shut.” 6:30—Young people’s panel dis- cussion. 7:30 — Evening communion and preaching. Sermon subject: “Re- making a Man.” The Brotherhood dinner, sched uled for last Wednesday has been postponed to next Wednesday, Jan. 27. because of the severity of the weather. Pot-luck luncheon at 6:45, interesting program following.