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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1943)
1______ Thursday, July 15, 1943 Vernonia Eaele County News Overriding the president’s veto by a two-to-one vote, the senate and house laid down a new na tional labor .policy under the pro TENT CITY TO HOUSE visions of the Connally Labor bill HARVEST HANDS (S. 796). Construction of a migratory la In this measure, which amends bor camp on Delta Farms in the the National Selective Service and Scappoose dike district is com Training Act of 1940, the follow pleted and the camp is ready for ing specific procedure is outlined occupancy by the approximately Sections 1 and 2 set forth the 400 Mexicans who are expected definition under the Act. Section 3 outlines the authority here to work in the harvest. The rapidly growing tent city already of the president to take posses is home to 41 Mexican laborers sion of plants or mines whenev who came here last week from er he finds there is an interrup The Dalles and are now occupied tion of their operation as a result on farms in the Scappoose vicin of strikes or other labor distur bances that threaten to impede ity. or delay production. When the camp is completed it Section 4 prescribes that the will be strictly an all-male city, facilities of siezed properties are for there will be no women among to be operated under the same the harvest hands. The camp will terms and conditions of employ consist of 100 tents, plus a couple ment in effect at the time of of 60x24 foot community tents possession. which will house the kitchens and Section 5 authorizes govern mess facilities. In addition, there ment agencies operating a siezed will be a laundry for clothes plant or representative of a ma washing and shower facilities. jority of its employees to apply to the WLB for approval of wage in SERVICE AGE MEN URGED creases or any other change in TO TAKE SWIM COURSE conditions of employment. Starting Monday, July 12, and Section 6 specifies that after lasting about 10 days between 5 the government has taken over and 6 o’clock, the St. Helens a plant, mine, or facility it is un swimming pool is presenting a lawful for any person to “coerce, swimming course under the direc instigate, or induce” any other tion of Herbert Eisenschmidt, persons to engage in any strike American Red Cross aquatic in or work interruption or to aid in structor. This course is called such activity by directing them or functional swimming and water providing funds for such direction. safety training and is designed Section 7 defines the functions for the instruction and training and duties of the WLB. After the of persons of military age in the U. S. Conciliation Service has cer type of aquatic skills most use tified any labor dispute to the ful in1 warfare. Only men and WLB, the board may summon both women of military age and es parties to the dispute and conduct pecially those about to be in a public hearing on the merits ducted are urged to take this of the case. course. Section 8 prohibits the calling of any strike before the expira tion of a 30-day waiting period and before the conduct of a secret ballot 'by the secretary of labor. DEPOSITS AT Section 9 amends the Federal ALL-TIME HIGH Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 to Clatskanie bank resources extend to labor unions the prohi reached an all-time high at the bition against political contribu June 30, 1942 call, when the total tions. reached the figure of $1,893,- 241.91. In connection with hearings be This represents an increase of fore the house ways and means approximately $300,000 in the committee on war contract re past six months, since Decem negotiation legislation, Kenneth ber 31, 1942 when the total was C. Rockney, chairman, navy price adjustment board, testified that $1,594,435.57. the renegotiation law should be And the story reached a higher amended to permit companies to peak as to the wealth of this establish postwar reconversion re community when it is learned that serves. “I think,” Mr. Rockney the First National Bank in Clats said, “that the vast majority of kanie alone has sold over $500,- companies will be in a very ser 000 in War bonds. No figures ious and vulnerable position after are available as to the amount the war. The government has done of bonds »old by the Clatskanie everything possible to get business post office or the amount of into war production but little has postal savings deposited through been done in connection with the post office. meeting the problem the great The 1940 census gave the pop majority of companies will face ulation of Clatskanie as 708. Tak afer the end of hositilies. I think ing that figure there is $2532.82 this is a serious problem for A- in the local bank for every man, merican industry.” woman and child in the city lim its. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE St. Helens Clatskanie Rainier BAKERY CLOSED LAST WEEK Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Braune closed the bakery last week while they took a vacation at their farm near Salem. They took their va cation while they were out of sugar for baking. They were open for business Monday, July 12. I Back the attack by upping your payroll savings your very next payday. Measure your savings by your new higher income. The Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Winifred Romtvedt, Reporter Entered as second class mail matter. August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. At The Ch urches . . Evangelical Church —Rev, Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45—Sunday school. 11:00—Morning worship service. 7:00—Junior and Y. P. Christian Endeavor. 8:00—-Evangelistic service. 8:00 P. M. Wednesday—Prayer meeting and Bible study. 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. NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL- Ifl/ll^^SSOCIATION Council is sponsoring a program that Home from the Wars . .. carries this promise. The pattern The homecoming from the last is being formed by actual experi war wasn’t so good for most of us. ment in the state capital; Olympia. Some had their old jobs open, but Simply, it is the Town Hall and in most cases found that stay-at- Town Meeting principle applied to homes had taken the promotions a vital war problem that is common during the war months. ‘The ma to every community. It is a well- jority had to scramble for a living. tried principle. Our American The shipyards were closed in the democracy grew out of it. Any town spring of 1919. So were all other can put it to work in no time. strictly war industries. In Oregon It happened in Olympia because and Washington the sawmills kept the State Planning Council had th? booming along. Lumbering was one luck to get a hard-headed Vermoni- industry where men who’d been in er, Rod Olzendam, on the job. Like uniform were actually given prefer another Cal Coolidge, he put his so ence in employment. In my own lution in two words, "Town meet experience I found a hearty wel in’,” said he, and proceeded to call come only from the bulls of th a and hold one. woods. That’s why I went back ta The Town Hall Committee . .. the woods and stayed with timber The Olympia planning committee until I learned to work with words. For all the men of the 41st Divis is a cross section of the community’s life, with representation of farmers, ion, our heroes in New Guinea, may know, they are also due to become wage-earners, merchants, educators, forgotten men when they come home churches, the professions, house from the wars. Oregon’s own and wives, employers, students, city gov Washington’s own on other fronts— ernment, and of the men in the what assurances on their post-war armed services. The first job is to get up and future have we given them? imaintain a complete catalogue of The Town Hall Plan ... the Olympia men who are at war, The fact is, on the home front where they are, what they did in we’ve turned our backs on the pros peacetime, who their families are. pect of the homecoming problem of and so on. Obviously this is a No. 1 the fighting men from our own com job in any practicable program of munities and neighborhoods. If this post-war planning in any town. You neglect goes on, the veteran of this can see the reason for it by asking war, like the veteran of World War yourself two questions: “Who are the men from my town I, will get what can only be called in the armed services? How much a dirty deal. do I knovz about them?” The an And again the one prospect of good promise for the average fight swers will mean a lot after victory. ing man from Washington and Ore The gathering of detailed infor gon is work in the woods. All au mation on local "conditions in rela thorities agree that there will be a tion to post-war business and em nation-wide home building boom ployment is next in order. Meeting after this war, as there was in thé -once a week, the committee will 1920’s. If so. the camps and mills have plenty to discuss and do. Once will keep going full blast. The West a month the citizens will be called Coast lumber industry has already Ito a town meeting to hear facts and started a nation-wide campaign with present ideas. An important objec retail lumber dealers on post-war tive is the building of a real Town home building, its first phase the Hall, to serve the soldiers and sail planning of “the Homecoming ors as they return after the war. Home” for the soldier and the sailor Sounds simple, doesn’t it, after all the grandiose stuff on post-war plan when their fighting work is done. But this is a responsibility that ning you’ve heard? To me it sounds should not be left to one industry, good. I sure would have appreci even to such a large and rugged one ated a Town Hall to have gone to as lumber. And at last there is real I for information and aid on what to do about a job in 1919. Praise the hope that it will not be. The Washington State Planning Lord for Vermont! First Christian Church —The Livingstories, Ministers 9:45—Bible school, a school for all. M. L. Herrin, sup’t. 11:00—Communion service and sermon. 7:30—.Evening song, communion and preaching. 6:45 Wednesday—Church night. The Forum CORRECTION In the forum article contribut ed last week by Albert Wood and entitled “Yes, Salute Two En signs,” an error was made in the third line. The Bible refer ence intended is Isaiah 11:00. 62:10-11-12, not Isaiah 11: to 62:10-11-12, as the article stated. THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE Part II Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints at 10 under Ratkie, Bailey, More than 50 hard-to-get items needed on farms will be provided by a WPB order to manufacturers and wholesalers to set aside spec ific quantities. This action puts into effect an emergency program worked out under WPB’s office of civilian requirements to make available at retail outlets serving farmers, supplies needed to in crease food production. The list includes such items as auger bits, batteries, chains, chisels, drills, giain scoops, grease guns, harness, hoes, fractional horsepower mo tors, pails and tubs, pipe fittings, pliers, screw drivers, shovels, tire pumps, valves and wrenches. A plan for making 100,000 do mestic food dehydrators before September 1 has been approved by WPB. These dehydrators are urgently needed, says the war food administration in time to preserve farm and victory garden fruits and vegetables. A home food dehydrator removes moisture from raw food, thereby preserv ing its flavor and food value for later use. In July, 1940, the average A- merican had an income of about $47.92. Military expenditures in that month amounted to approxi mately $1.50 per person. In April of this year, income per capita was 1.8 times what it was in the middle of 1940—$85.03, but if the average American had been asked to pay April’s war expens es on the spot, they would have taken $53.52 of his new $85.03 income. St. Mary’s Catholic Church Sunday school convenes a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall the direction of Charles branch president and Van superintendent. DOMESTIC DEHYDRATORS ARE PLANNED AVERAGE INCOME UP, BUT— Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. Frederick Thiele Official newspaper, Vernonia, Ore Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun day in month-r-Mass at 8:30 A.M. Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. 0n1 c|o0N LW S P £R Pinisiy«,» qj)i a t I • m FARMERS TO GET TOOLS BY WPB ORDER CHANGE U S. Tr usury Now do not be fooled by this soft talk about the Bible being a "good book,” and yet just like many other good books. There is not another like it in the world. Let us look at some of its pe culiarities. Here is one: LIKE A CUBE OF GRANITE The Bible is a book which has Tieen refuted, demolished, over thrown and exploded more times than any other book you ever heard of. Every little while some body starts up and upsets this book; and it is like upsetting a solid cube of g-anite. It is just as big one way as the other; and when you have upset it. it is right side up. and when you overturn JAP PRISONERS DIE DUE TO UNHEALTHFUL CONDITIONS More than 300 U. S. war cas ualties are the result of unheal- thful conditions in Japanese pris on camps, according to messages .received through the international Red Cross from Japan. Disease is stated in each case as the cause of death. Malaria, diptheria, dys entery, and pneumonia are the major causes and some cases of beri-beri are reported. WAR PLANTS VALUED AT HIGH FIGURE War industrial plants financed with public and private funds had a total value of $19,339,000,000 by the end of March, says the war production board. This includes all projects for which contracts have been let since June, 1940. ONE DOLLAR APIECE FOR POOR TIRES One dollar apiece is the maxi mum price that OPA has set for low-quality used passenger car tires which now are permitted for the first time. Maximum addi tions to this price are provided when tires are given emergency repairs before being sold. it again, it is right side up still. Every little while somebody blows up the Bible; but when it comes down, it always lights on its feet, and runs faster than ever through the world. BABY CARRIAGE QUOTA DECREASED Baby carriages to be made in the current quarter have been de creased to 289,369, compared to the original schedule of 317,777. However, strollers, walkers, and sulkies have been increased from 163,500 to 233,500. The demand for baby carriages" in 1943 is ex pected to be 900,000. GAS RATION VIOLATORS PROSECUTED BY OPA Criminal prosecutions for viola tion of gasoline rationing regula tions instituted by OPA through April 30, 1943 totaled 509. Nine ty-three cases involved operators of gasoline stations. The remain ing 416 were actions against in dividuals ranging from private au tomobile owners and filling station attendants to criminal “rings” en gaged in systematic theft and sale of stolen gasoline ration books and coupons. SOLDIER’S DEPENDENTS GET CHECKS Family allowances and volun tary allotments-of-pay are now in force for about four and a half million soldiers who have more than seven and one-half million dependents, the war department has announced. More than 20 mil lion family allowance and allot- ment-of-pay checks have been mailed to the wives, children and other dependents of army men in one year. LIVING COSTS RISE 1.7 PERCENT A rise of 1.7 percent in food prices increased the total cost of living for non-rural workers by 0.8 percent in th® month ended May 15. Nevertheless, the cost of items making up nearly 60 per cent of the family budget remain ed practically unchanged. This in crease of 0.8 percent compares with a rise of 1.5 percent in the month ending March 15 and 1.1 percent in the month ending April 15. lated by private publishers throughout the world. For a book that has been exploded so many times, this book still shows signs of considerable life. And now under date of June 17, 1943, we quote from a letter just received from the American Bible Society: “Last year the society distributed 8,800,000 volumes in America and throughout the world. The scriptures have now been translated into more than 1100 languages and dialects. Last year, despite the war, translation and revision was carried on in 16 dif ferent languages and dialects. They overthrew the Bible a century ago, in Voltaire’s time— entirely demolished the whole thing. In less than a hundred years, said Voltaire, Christianity will have been swept from exist- ence, and will have passed into history. Infidelity ran riot through France, red-handed and impious. The century has passed away. Voltaire has “passed into history,” and not very respectable history either; few infidels would care to read publicly Voltaire’s biography as written by a fellow infidel; but the word of God “liveth and abid- eth forever.” There never was a time when the Bible was more in demand than at the present hour. The hunger for the Book on the part of humanity is insatiable.” Thomas Paine demolished the Bible and finished it off finally; but after he had crawled despair ingly into a dishonored grave in 1809, the Book took such a leap that since that time more than twenty times as many Bibles have been made and scattered through the world as ever were made be fore since the creation of man. Up to the year 1800, from four to six million copies of the scriptures in some thirty different languages comprised all that had ever been produced since the world began. Eighty years later, in 1880, the statistics of eighty different Bible societies which are now in ex istence, with their unnumbered agencies and auxiliaries, report more than 165.000,000 Bibles, Testaments and portions of scrip ture, with two hundred and six new translations, distributed by Bible societies alone since 1804; to say nothing of the unknown mil lions of Bibles and Testaments which have been issued and circu ABUSING MOSES AT $200 A NIGHT I heard of a man traveling around the country exploding this book, and showing up “the mis takes of Moses,” at about $200 a night. It is easy work to abuse Moses at two hundred dollars a night, especially as Moses is gone and cannot talk back. It would be worth something after hearing the infidel on “The mistakes of Moses,” to hear Moses on “The mistakes of the infidel.” When Moses could talk back, he was rather a difficult man to deal with. Pharaoh tried it and met with poor success. James and Jambres withstood Moses, and it is said found a grave in the Red bea. Korah, Dathan and Abiram tried it, and went down so deep that they have not yet got back. But now it is easy to abuse Moses. But, after all, this book seems to stand abuse and thrive upon re futation. Submitted by G. F. Brown
