Thursday, May 13, 1943
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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
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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.
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MEXICO 1« MADE
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COMBINATION OF
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“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
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coast aircraft
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WORKERS GOT A TASTE OF
"HIGHBROW ENTERTAINMENT 'Q
when a ballet company and
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OF IOO ARMY
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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.
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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.