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Newspaper Page TextThursday, May 13, 1943 4 Vernonia Eagle County News St. Hele ns REAL ESTATE SALE BRISK FOR COUNCIL Judging by business thus far in 1943, best resource of the City of St. Helens is not the water de partment but instead is its real estate, for up to May 1 the city had disposed of $5,935 worth of city lots and other property which came into its hands via the tax- forclosure route. April was a boom month as far as real estate business was concerned, for value of property sold amounted to $2,- 800. Recorder Eli Beeler disclosed at the council meeting Monday night, May 3. May started off in a brisk fa shion from the real estate trans fer angle for the council passed, with the emergency clause, an ordinance providing for the sale of two lots for $900. BUMPER HAY CROP PREDICTED FOR COUNTY Indication at present is that Co lumbia county will have a large hay crop, Roland Masten stated last week. In addition to his vis its to many sections of the county as revaluation man, Masten has a farm in the Bachelor Flat section and he can rely on prospects there instead of hearsay. “The more it rains the better the hay crop will' be,” he said and added that last year the prospect for a bumper crop looked good but the rain wouldn’t stop except for a period when the sun came out for a day or so and then the rain came again with the result that hundreds of tons of hay were ruined. Masten himself lost five tons He knew of other persons who had lost much more. He recalled that in April, May and June of last year the rain was almost continu al. Clatskanie SCHOOL CHILDREN STAGE CAN DRIVE All children of the elementary school were engaged in a three- day “tin can contest” on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Grand prizes for the all-school competition will be provided by the local salvage committee. The title of Clatskanie Tin Can King and Tin Can Queen will be con ferred on the boy and girl in the school collecting the most cans. Each will receive the first prize award of $2.50. Two prizes of $1.00 will be given to the boy and girl getting the second high est number of cans. The highest boy and girl in each grade will receive a free ticket to the show. MUSIC FESTIVAL HELD AT AUDITORIUM LAST WEEK National Music week proclaimed for May 2 to ,9 was observed in the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. Schools participating were Marshland, Firwood and Clatskan ie. This community program, like many others being given over the nation this week replaces a county music festival which was cancel led because of transportation re strictions and other problems con nected with the war effort. All schools in the lower Columbia dis trict were invited to attend. Rainier CITY BUDGET RISE Rainier’s annual city budget committee appointed by the may or met last week with the city council to review with the council the city’s financial needs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944. and to recommend a budget for that period. The proposed budget now is be ing published and the voters will be invited to a hearing set by the council for Monday. June 7, The Vernonia Eagle MXRVIN~ KA M HOLZ 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, Vernonia, Ore Muniti OlEcloOlLWSPÌPiI Ms *T101 pi bu $ 4 e NATIONAL EDITORIAL- Id THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE at the council room in the city hall. While the operating budget of the city was cut under that of the preceding year, added bond pay ments make the total budget for 1943-44 $19,496.50 as compared with $17,194 in the preceding year. THE WATERS OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL ARE SALTIER IN WINTER than in summer faxnoviMfs THAT QCCUK FAR OUT H THS ATiAAT‘C) VAN VLEET MILL IN DANGER FROM FIRE The VanVleet mill in West Rainier was endangered by a fire which broke out at 7:30 Saturday evening, May 1, from an unknown cause. Probably all that saved the plant was the lucky coincidence that Reuben VanVleet, who had been down town for dinner hap pened to return that moment and saw the smoke from the dis tance—and as well that John Stennick happened -to be working on his land nearby and was able to respond to Mr. VanVleet’s call for assistance. Together they were able to control the flames which were found under the edger and trimmer. Mr. VanVleet alone probably could not have succes sfully fought the rapidly gaining flames. MXE'POBIMO, POPULAR W5H IN MEXICO 1« MADE UP OF A COMBINATION OF CMCHEH AHP CMOCOLUTE “T hrough a recording device , -TEST-FLIGHT PATA CAN NOW BE RECORDED ON THE GROUND Town and Farm in Wartime 11« ACTIONS TAKEN ON POULTRY VIOLATIONS In an intensive drive to stamp out black markets in poultry, 116 court actions have been started by OPA against violators of poul try violators of price ceilings in 21 days. Moreover, 31 other deal ers have been warned to stop over-the-ceiling sales or face sus pension of their licenses. Sweep ing changes in poultry price ceil ings were recently announced as part of the campaign to stop il legal sales with prices reduced from 1 cent to 10 cents per pound on expensive birds and raised 1 or 2 cents per pound for cheaper poultry. Revised prices are ex pected to effect substantial sav ings to consumers. COUNTRY GIRLS GOOD NURSES ’ M/ egt coast aircraft '«J; WORKERS GOT A TASTE OF "HIGHBROW ENTERTAINMENT 'Q when a ballet company and A -SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CAME -TO THE NI6H7 SHIFT / • '¿■Kt- A BASIC UNIT ■F OF IOO ARMY F J VEHICLES SHIPPED ", V, OVERSEAS REQUIRES 3SS-—A SPARE-PARTS il ». SHIPMENT OF 357000 PIECES Irri WEIGHING SfgSì 20 TONS. Directors of schools of nursing rank country girls higher than their city cousins. Some of the qualities the directors praised about their non-urban students are: They adapt themselves quick ly to life in the school: they have learned to use their hands; they have a good supply of common sense; they are friendly and co operative; they are conscientious; and. one director said: “They get up in the morning.” The Forum Developments of the past two weeks have again demonstrated the crying need for a national labor policy. Complaints pouring into the house and senate say that the present vacillation ’on this vital issue makes it impossi ble to plan intelligently for the efficient utilization of manpower. Points at. present issue in a spreading labor revolt are, first, the war manpowers commission’s “job freeze” order issued at the president’s direction and, second, the war labor board’s flexible ap plication of the “Little Steel” yardstick in wage cases as request ed by Mr. Roosevelt. Already the administration has shown some tendency to modify the “job freeze.” WMC 'Chairman Paul McNutt has announced that the order will be relaxed to permit essential workers to take higher paying jobs with new employers anywhere in the country provided the commission finds the trans fer will aid in the war program. Adding to the complications of the manpower picture is the un employment in many sections of the country being caused by cut backs on war orders and changes in designs and specifications. Re ports of factories closing down because of changes in production planning are coming in from all parts of the country. These con ditions are causing a constant shifting of manpower supply. Another sidelight concerns the decision of a federal district judge in California upholding the right of labor unions to restrict the use of labor-saving devices. The case involves dismissal of antitrust indictments against 78 contractors and labor unions who had refused to use spray-guns to paint government housing pro jects. This decision has prompted congressional advocates of anti featherbedding legislation to urge speedy action on pending meas ures to deal with this type of labor abuse. These legislators say it is strange that the nation has to be subjected to drastic man power regulations when union bosses refuse to let their mem bers use methods and devices that would go far toward easing labor shortages. The house military affairs com mittee has tentatively ended its hearings on a number of man power bills, including the Smith bill (H R. 2239) to prohibit the unionization of foremen. The com mittee will meet in executive session to determine the course to follow in respect to the vari ous measures. Since the first of the year OPA has eliminated 70 of its 460 price reports and questionnaires. “Since the beginning of the war program, American businessmen have been burdened with hundreds of gov ernment forms and question naires,” Price Administrator Pren tiss Brown said. "Filling out these reports and returning them to government agencies has required time, patience and expense. Many of them were unnecessary but in the future, wherever possible, we are going to try to give the ques tion marks in the government printing office a well-earned rest." 50,GM Books a Day . . . That’s how many copies of Wen dell Willkie’s new book, One World, are selling every 24 hours. It means, conservatively, that each day the book has 150,000 more readers. Within a year the majority ot the literate population of the country may have read One World. It will have tremendous influence, for its ni. ,age is powerfully convincing. e reason for bringing the sub- Je ¡p here is two-fold, iMr. Willkie a, .unced the other day that he pin >ed an early visit to the Pacific b Twest, to explore the industries e ilk to the plain people of the ri a. That, means of course that b -et into the woods. The second ti is one small item in the eh&p- tc the Soviet Republic of Ya- k n One World. It relates to p ir timber trade. Americans, it’s a good bet, fl even know there was a Re pin >t Yakutsk until Mr. Willkie wr it up ;c gr->nhically. Likewise, rl iow nost Americans do not > ni (here is a Douglas fir re- k the United States. 1 rather <’ f Mr. iVillkie himself, won fl j uormeo though he is, has i. ilic xuowledge of the im- l • jf the 26 million acres of I ir forest in the American t r. the part it will be called u j >l-y in post-war housing e er construction, and in post- v eign trade. Vi ’roblems in Timber Trade ... wincial American like my- • h most of fifty years of life t by the Douglas fir forest, 1 o cogitate by the quotation J Vorld from the remarks of ) tov, President of the Coun- r ople’x Commissars of the T Autonomous Soviet Social- I >lic, on prospects for forest t . ed to Mr. Willkie a cut in 1*. four million cubic meters, a annual growth of 88 million ci ieters. He spoke of America's l> ar need for wood and wood pu and the need of Yakutsk for Ar ' ican machines, and said “we’ll be glad to swap.” At The Churches . . First Christian Church —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Bible school, M. L. Herrin, superintendent. 11:00—Junior church. Mesdames Knoedler and Bass, superin tendents. Basement room. 11:00—Communion service and preaching. Subject of sermon: “Christians — Good, Better, Best.” 6:30—Young People's meeting. 7:30—Evening communion and preaching. Subject: “Follow Christ in a Warring World.” 7:30 Wednesday evening—Prayer meeting. Subject: Hebrews, 7th chapter. St. Mary’s Catholic Church Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. Frederick Thiele Mass: 9:30 A M. except first Sun day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M. Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. Church of the Nazarene Located in old post office building —Rev. George Hartzell, pastor 9:45—Sunday school. Brother L. D. Jackson, superintendent. 11:00—Momiflg worship. 7:30—Evening services. -------------------------------------------- ,— In answer to “Open Forum” en tered by Mrs. Jennings. Mrs. Jennings, it seems time someone should put a silencer on loose talk (editorial) coming That prospect threatens to collide from your way or at least repeat with the fact that four-fifths ot the ed by you. populous coastal region ot the Pa cific Northwest is the best timber- I am not an editorial writer but land on earth and fit for little be my blood does come to a boiling side timber growing; and the fact point in such cases and I think an that the region's future must depend heavily upon export timbet trade. answer in order. However, for the So the question ot how the world limited time I have from produc timber market will be settled be tion, don’t expect me to have to tween Yakutsk and the Douglas fir region shapes up as a worrisome answer too many of such editor thing. ials. Forest Crops Must Be Sold . . . If your information was so au- The twenty fold excess of annual thenic, who was the shipper and growth over annual cut in the for consignee of these goods? (Not ests of Yakutsk brings up a basic point of forestry. Mr. Commissar that I care.) Is there a dock at ■Muratov was certainly aware that this point? Could these goods have the xcess meant enormous waste— been unloaded there for transfer the rotting of the greater part of his Republic's annual forest crop. We to another craft or crafts which have the same problem, in many did not come through? Maybe areas of our 11 million acres of old- this vessel was at the mercy of growth Douglas fir. Recently four logs, over 10 feet in an enemy and would not a few diameter and totaling 84 feet in tons of commodities rotting oiy length, were taken from one fir tree. one of our beaches, be better than The rest of the tree, 116 lineal feet, having them in our enemies’ was left in the woods—rotten from old age. There were many dead- stomachs. topped trees in thé same area. In short, that I may be at work, Good business demands the cut ting of such timber stands in the Mrs. Jennings, I ask a favor of commercial forest before more of you. the wood crop goes to waste. For estry also demands It, so that the Go over town looking for a post soil can be put to growing trees er which read«: “Do not spread or again. repeat rumors, that some soldier There must be stable markets for may not die.” I am quite sure forest products to pay for the re moval of over-ripe trees from tim you will find it. If after you have ber land and for the growing and worked in your victory garden, protection of new timber crops. Mr. you wish to relax in reading, I Muratov faces that fact just as much under the Soviet system as we do suggest you get the Readers Di under the American system. gest for April. Read the editorial How can the people of the forest on page 11, “Queens Die Proud corner of this country and the peo ple of Yakutsk deal with that fact ly.” Also on page 27 you will in harmony, so as to build up forest find a ' man’s contribution to the production, forest employment and war effort at 78 years. forestry in two great forest regions There are many such men and of the “one world” of tomorrow? women at the shipyards, Mrs. Jen Mr. Willkie, will you examine this nings, 60 and, yes, 73 years old, question while you are our welcome guest in this neck of the woods? if you please, and yet the loose talk of the shipyard worker. The Cottage prayer meeting every ships are being launched! Too much time on their hands Tuesday evening. causes loose talk. We welcome everyone to our ser Yours truly, Elmer Bergerson vices. Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints Sunday school convenes a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall the direction of Charles branch president and Van superintendent. at 10 under Ratkie, Bailey, Assembly of God Church Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister 9:45—Sunday school with classes for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship. 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7.30—Wednesday evening, mid week service. 7:30—Friday evening. Young Peoples’ Christ Ambassadors service. Evangelical Church —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister Sunday, May 16, 1943 9:45—Sunday school. 11:00—Morning worship. 7:00—Junior and Y. P. Christian Endeavor. 8:00—Evangelstic service. 8:00 P. M. Wednesday—Prayer meeting and Bible study. (The following article is a con tinuation of the one appearing last week. These articles are tak en from the Congressional Re cord) If the nation is to specialize in public health, and we really mean it, the first step is clearly indicat ed. If our soldiers are to be phy sically fit that step becomes not only advisable but imperative, for all through historical time alcohol and venereal disease have been the twin detriments to fitness in the armies of the world. You can repeal the eighteenth amendment but you cannot repeal the effect that alcohol and venereal disease have upon the human body. Furth er, nature impolitely disregards the authority of congress when the latter declares that 3.2 beer is not intoxicating. Money: Macauley said at one time: “Dven the law of gravita tion would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest in volved.” Nothing shows the truth of this statement more clearly than the liquor traffic. This traf fic is concerned with money on one side and on the other with the health and lives of men. their morals and their social standing, the food and clothing of their The need for nurses is urgent. War Manpower Commissioner Mc Nutt has said: “One of the out standing shortages of womenpow- er in the war is in the field of professional nursing.” Write for information to the National Nurs ing Council for War Service, 1790 Broadway, New York City. LOANS FOR CONSERVING FUEL AVAILABLE Home owners who want to con vert their oil heating equipment to use other fuels or to install insulation, weather - stripping, storm doors or storm windows may get FHA loans on a delayed payment plan. Initial payments on loans made between April 20 and September 1 may be deferred un til November 1, 1943, if the entire loan is used for such work. CUSTOMER MAY EXCHANGE POOR meat A consumer may ask his but cher to exchange a cut of meat that was bruised or otherwise un fit for use when it was bought, the OPA has announced. The cus tomer then may receive other meat for the same point value. Ration stamps cannot be refund ed, although any difference in price may be adjusted if neces sary. children, the happiness of their family life, their intellectual in tegrity, and their contribution to their country in time of peril'. When stated thus baldly it hardly seems possible that one man could be found who would gamble with the human lives and interests of his fellows to that extent, but there are such and not all among the lowest classes either. The story of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment in this country is about as sordid a tale as besmirches the pages of the history of any country at any time. By it, faith in one’s fellow men is rudely shattered and our reliance on men of big business has received a severe shock. For tunately only a portion of them were involved. It seems that about 250 of this ' country’s prominent capitalists opposed the enforce ment of Federal laws and openly rejoiced in the success of crime and lawlessness, coerced if they did not bribe legislators, distribu ted an unlimited amount of pro paganda which proved to be false, made promises which they knew they were unable to fulfill, in ord er to bring back a liquor business the taxes on which they thought would relieve them of their in come taxes. One of them testified in a congressional hearing that a “tax on beer would save one of my companies $10,000.000 a year.” By comparison w th this, Judas Iscariot, who sold his Lord for 30 pieces of silver, was a mere unsophisticated novice and Bene dict Arnold was a loyal patriot. Of course this dream was nev er realized. The promises they made to each other were as wild and as undependable as the prom ises they made to the public. Liquor profits, except to the man ufacturers and dealers, are always wraithlike phantoms. The tax in come promised for beer alone was $1,000,000,000. It was never reached for all a'coholic beverag es, but let us take that figure for a round number—this the total on the income side. What about the debit side which is not so loudly advertised? The American people pay to the liquor dealers over $4,000,- 000,000 a year for legal alcoholic beverages. Some authorities esti mate that nearly as much is paid for illegal liquor. Let us be con servative and place the total at $5,000,000,000. The liquor deal ers collect revenues from their customers and leave society to care for the results. Dr. H. M. Pollock, mental-hygiene statistic ian for New York State Depart ment of Health, estimates that the economic loss to the nation of those who have indulged in alcohol sufficiently to be arrested for in toxication is over $5,000,000,000 annually. In addition to this one group and this one item, are the economic loss of the larger group who drink and are not arrested, the extra cost for the police, the jails, the prisons, the courts, the insane asylums, the hospitals, the accidents, the alcohol-induced di sease, the alcohol-induced crimes, further reckoned at an additional $5,000,000,000 annually. These three items all conservatively es timated. total $15,000.000,000 a year of the nation’s wealth. This estimate is nearly half the cost of the last war to us, and is about a quarter as much as we are spend ing yearly for this war.