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6______ Thursday, August 5, 1943_____ Vemônia Eagle County News St. Helens REVALUATION MAN NOT OPTIMISTIC ON TREE FUTURE Roland Masten, county revalua tion man working out of the office of the assessor, is not optimistic as to any considerable stand of se cond growth timber in Columbia county for a number of years to come. One of the reasons is that during past years there has been no selective logging and few seed trees were left standing by the loggers. The cosequence is thaj much of the second growth is scat tered and scrubby, the tree put ting out branches before it attains much heighth and development. Where seed trees were left some se:o:id growth has come along to where it will make ties and di mension lumber of small size but with the big demand for lumber and ties small portable sawmills are rapidly denuding the land be fore the trees reach a good growth. The last remaining stand of considerable size is on Pebble creek in the Nehalem and Clark- Wilson and gyppo loggers are taking this out at a rapid rate and probably three years will see the see the last of it. Of course, there are some scattered bodies of fairly good timber and gyppo loggers will take care of that in comparatively short time. The one hope that second growth will amount to more than Masten now expects is to keep fires out of it and he sai<T that loggers and mill operators can as sist greatly by being careful with slashings and refuse from opera tion of the small mills. Masten pointed out also that if the state county or owners of logged timber land would begin restoration in Columbia county such as has been done in many Washington coun ties, in the course of 40 or 50 years Columbia might have some stands of merchantable timber. ’4c a pound bonus to those who remain during the season. Picking is expected to start soon NEW PLANE RECOGNITION CLASSES STARTED Rainier The Vernonia Eagle Official newspaper, Vernonia, Ore. 01 i g I o O pi $ Qp E « NATIONAL € DITORI Al_ inOK^SSOCIATIQN Rescue of fliers forced pom Ar sea .- there » a hew MIALHUT-SUEP 5EARCHLKSHT, WHICH WILL BURN FOR IO FULL HIGHTS WITH A I, SOO CANDLE POWiR BEAM YI5I&LE FOR 70 MILES.1 F or - the , VJORLPS SMALLEST FOOD FISH MEASURES BUT %« OF AN INCH IN LEN61H- -A LARGE'. Clatskanie War Takes 96/ Of Each Dollar Out of every $18.75 that is in vested in a War Bond. $18 goes into guns, planes, tanks, ships and other military equipment. The 75 cents goes for ordinary governmental expenditures. Out of every dollar 96 cents goes toward the war effort and 4 cents goes for Government “business as usual." The same ratio applies to all other securities the Government has offered investors in the Second War Loan campaign tor 13 billion dollars. The Forum THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE Part IV TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT MEN A third series of plane recog nition classes was started by Lois Kent at the grade school Wed nesday evening. The class will meet Monday and Wednesday ev enings. About 60 persons have been en rolled in earlier classes, but not all that number continued the in struction. After nineteen months of war, directors of the war production program are taking stock of the nation’s potential resources. Some preliminary conclusions have been reached and while these do not in dicate some expected sensational shifts they promise a steadying a^id gradual ebb and flow of em phasis to meet essential needs— military or civilian. The presence of overwhelming supplies at world battlefronts, these officials point out, proves that there is no longer any argu ment about the fact that industry has successfully met and surpas sed the war challenge. While the lid is being 'raised gradually to take care of the more pronounced demand for civilian goods, there will be no general breakdown of restrictions. Modest amounts of materials and labor are going to be released for the home front but the increase will be small and hardly obvious from day to day. Farmers and food processors ap pear to be getting the edge in this reallocation. New orders and revisions that permit the making of more of such things as knives, tools, batteries, and shears—that were thrust aside early in the war effort—are in evidence. Opposing any resumption of ci vilian production the armed ser vices contend that every scrap of material and every available man and woman are needed for combat or war production. War produc tion officials however, who have found the military and naval ap DR. FERGUSON RETURNS petites insatiable have been wring FROM OVERSEAS DUTY Dr. David J. Ferguson, who was ing from them a considerable formerly pastor of the First Pres amount of water and a modest byterian church in Astoria, and a “kitty” of materials and labor frequent visitor and speaker at is thus being provided for essen local Kiwanis affairs, has lately tial civilian output. Congress, a close observer of been given a medical discharge from service as army chaplain ov this military-civilian competition has set up four committees which erseas. Mr. Ferguson is now employed have been described as “watch in the OPA Portland office and dogs of the civilian economy.” was in Clatskanie on his district These are the senate war Investi official duties recntly. * gating committee, the senate mil itary affairs subcommittee, and CLATSKANIE PICNIC TO the senate and house small busi BE HELD AUGUST 8 ness committees. The annual Clatskanie picnic will be held in Peninsula Park in ShperchaCged political atmos Portland on August 8. The picnic phere was cleared somewhat by will begin at 1 p.m. Former resi the personality developments in dents and local people look for the OPA and in the field of inter ward to this meeting of friends national economic warfare. The and relatives. resignation of OPA Deputy Ad ministrator Lou R. Maxon was said to be the result of “young lawyers” so binding up OPA in legalistic red tapes “that Houdini 17S BEAN PICKERS himself couldn’t untangle it.” He NEEDED FOR HARVEST prescribed a “drastic reorganiza Twenty-nine acres of beans in tion, a strong, clear direction, and the Rainier district, principally in a liberal transfusion of common the West Rainier flats will re horse sense” for the office of quire about 175 pickers, according price administration. to Robert E. Cody, field labor Amused at Mr. Maxon’s out agent, who surveyed the local sit spoken indictment, many congress uation last week. These workers men commented that what he said will have to be supplied largely was what many of them have from the women and young people been saying for some time, nam of the community, since most male ely that there are elements in adult labor is engaged in war in the administration working day, dustry. and night to combine social revo Mr. Cody says that the "going” lution with fighting the war, and pay scale is 2c per pound with that when a choice between the two activities was necessary, the social revolution received first call. 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. 1HE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE ; MATERIAL \ MANUFACTURER \ HAS ISSUED A \ 6PECIAL BOOKLET ON THE CARE AND USAGE OFARMV-T/PE L TOOLS TO AID-THE f ARMVSTRAININ6 OF THOUSANDS OF to.. MECHANICS ) - Crue PAUDAS /yMAPAJ I /f / , J w frdv i > vTC 10. J. THE potato . ® _T NOT SOLD. . MAS THE MOST JS I VALUABLE THING i THE SPANISH 1« 1 CONQUISTADORES!’ O0TAINE2 FROM • ' THE CONQUERED r- INCAE Paul Bunyan, Tree Farmer . . . “History is in the makin’ again— Paul Bunyan history, I mean," re marked Larrity, the ancient bull cook. “I’ve been hearin’ of it from my old friend, William Durham Haggerty. We was a timber-failin’ team in the old days—time of the War with Spain or the Civil War—I disrempmber which. A logger given to powerful meditation, so we called him "Thoughtful Bill.” Now he’s a tree farmer, of all things.” It was a hot day, and a dry one, in the woods. Mid-afternoon, and the loggers were already in from work, ending a hoot-owl shift. I’d found Larrity on the shady and breezy side of camp, looking out re flectively over the land. The nigh slope was fresh cutover. Out and away in the heat haze were thou sands of acres of second growth. "A purty and heartenin’ sight." said Larrity. "Commonly I don’t think much about it, and who does? Well, accordin’ to Thoughtful Bill, the bulls of the woods have come to thinkin' of the like because of the new facts which have been dug up on the great grand dad of all log gers, Paul Bunyan. It s all on how he took to growin’ new trees every’- where he’d logged the old ones off. “Paul Bunyan, of course, is the model and pattern of all lumbermen. The new facts on him as a tree farmer are havin’ a powerful influ ence all through the Douglas fir, ac cordin’ to Thoughtful Bill. He says tree farmin' is due to become a big part of the timber business.” The First Tree Farm . . . “It took somethin’ wonderful and amazin’ to change the course of Paul Bunyan history, you may be sure,” Larrity went on ruminatively, his old eyes gazing afar on the young forest. "Paul met it, says Thought ful Bill Haggerty, when he'd logged farthest West, into what is now the fir country. He never knowed he’d hit the greatest tree growin’ coun try on earth until he logged through a winter of it, and into the growin’ aeason. Then he moved camp, leav in’ one crew of men and bulls to elean up. “The spring turned bright and hot of a sudden, and in a couple days A+ The Churches . . 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. INDUSTRIAL ' LABORATORY DEVICE 15 A TIRE-TESTER WHICH SPOTS DEFECTIVE U SEP TIRES By Hl 6H- FREQUENcy SOUNDWAVES. A GREEN LISHT IS THE GO-AHEAD SIGNAL FOR RETREADIN6,- RED,FOR > -THE SCRAP PILE. little seedlin’s begun to pop up among the stumps. On the third day they come with a rush. That night five men of the crew found them selves caught out in a swale where the growth was partickerly lush. First,- they was trapped in it. And the next thing they knew, they was off the ground and up in the bush. They scrambled, pawed, kicked, chopped and cursed, but to •no avail. The second growth was too dense and too fast. The boughs bore them up and aloft. “It was not till next noon that the word got to Paul Bunyan, and it was sunset afore he could swamp through with his great timber scythe and bring the men down. They were up in the air sixty feet by that time, and all seasick from bein’ bounced by the growin’ trees—which growed by leaps and bounds. Their stum- micks was so unsettled that for a week they couldn’t even eat beans, accordin’ to Thoughtful Bill. "Then and there Paul Bunyan started the first tree farm. He ■couldn’t have helped it. Even Paul couldn’t stop the Douglas firs of that time and place from growin’ a great timber crop on the cutovers.” It’s Still Good Business . . . “Thoughtful Bill swears there are still spots in the Douglas fir country where the new timber grows so fast and thick that if a logger should get caught in the tops of it they’d have to call on a blimp or one of thim heelycopters to sail over and drop him dynamite so he could blast his way back to earth,” Larrity led on. “I do not vouch for the truth of that statement. Neither do I persoom to doubt it. Out there afore our eyes are Douglas firs fifty years old and a hundred and twenty feet tall, with some nigh on three feet through. And you’H find stands so thick a sparrow couldn’t fall through the limbs. “So tree farmin’ shapes up as just ■ plain good business for timber land owners,” Larrity concluded. “That's no great argyment, of course, with thrue bulls of the woods. What counts with them, says Thoughtful Bill, is the news that it was Paul Bunyan himself who first turned tree farmer in the Douglas fir.” 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, 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 P. M. Wednesday—Prayer meeting and Bible study. 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. Seventh Day Adventist Church Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. 8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devotional service. Sermon by district leader—third Saturday of each month. A cordial invitation is extended to visitors. U. t. Tn—urr P»e*rt»«e« “But,” says one, “I think that the Bible may be a true history but that is no proof of ita inspira tion. It does not require divine inspiration to write a true his tory.” So you think it an easy matter to tell the truth, do you? I wish you oould Aialje other people think so. Suppose you go and read a file of the newspapers published just before the last election and see if you do not think it requires divine inspiration to tell the truth or even to find it out after it is told. There are certain things in the Bible which, to my mind, bear the impress of divinity. A skeptic will tell you what a race of old sinners we read about in the Bible! Noah got drunk; David was guilty of adultery and murder; Solomon was an idolater and wrought folly; Peter denied his Lord; and Judas sold Him for thirty pieces of silver—all these people that the Bible talks to us so much about are a pretty set of men! Very well! What kind of men do you expect to read about in the Bible? Noah feot drunk. Is that strange? Did no one else ev er get drunk? Peter cursed and swore. Are there not other men who curse and swear? Judas, an apostle, sold his Lord, who said He had chosen twelve and one of them was a devil. Do you not sometifhes find a Judas in the church even nowadays? One in twelve was a thief and a traitor then; and we need not be surpris ed if we find about the same av erage now. But you seem to think that when you read about a man in the Bible he is sure to be free from all kinds of errors, frail ties, faults and sins. You have formed this idea, of men from reading in Sunday school books about good children who usually die young; or perusing excellent biographies which you have read, causing you to exclaim, “I wish I could be as good as that person was; but I never shall.” No, I presume you never will and if you knew the whole story about the person, you might not feel so deeply on the subject. Do you suppose that if the Bible had been written by some learned doctor, revised by a com mittee of eminent divines and published by some great religious society, we would ever have heard of Noah’s drunkeness, of Abra ham’s deception, of Lot’s dis grace, of Jacob’s cheating, of Paul and Barnabas’ quarelling, or of Peter’s lying, cursing, or dis sembling? Not at all. The good men, when they come to such an incident, would have said, "There is no use in saying anything about that. It is all past and gone; it will not help anything and it will only hurt the cause.” If a committee of such divines had prepared the Bible, you would have had a biography of men whose characters were patterns of piety and propriety, instead of poor sinners as they were. Sometimes a man writes his own diary and happens to leave it for someone to print after he is dead; but he leaves out all the mean tricks he ever did and puts in all the good acts he can think of and you read the pages, filled with astonishment and think, “What a wonderfully good man he was!” But when the Almighty writes a man’s life, He tells the truth about him; and there are not many persons who would want their lives printed if the Almighty wrote them. Suppose a young man goes, say, from the country down to the city. Perhaps he is a rich man’s son, who has had more money than was good for him at home and who comes to the city to see the sights. He sails around in dangerous waters and slips into various ports that are not exactly safe, and the next morning finds him hauled up before his honor in the police court. You get a morn ing paper and you expect to find the full particulars of the case. You do, do you? You find a paragraph on this wise: “A certain young man from the rural districts came to town yesterday, sailed around in dif ferent parts of the city and fell into rather bad company. This morning he was brought up before his honor, who admonished him to be more careful in the future and he departed a sadder and a wiser young man.” This is the kind of a paragraph you will find in the papers when a rich man’s son tom-.s to ihl city, goes on a spree, and has his head smashed and his eye blacked in a fight; you don’t get many particulars. But if he is a poor vagabond without a second shirt to his back, you can get his name and perhaps his geneology for generations and all the particulars of his case. This is the way men write his tory but when the Lord undertakes to tell His story of a sinful man, He does not select a poor miser able beggar and show him up; He does not give even the name of the thief on the cross, nor of the guilty woman to whom He said “Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more;” but He takes King David from the throne and sets him down in sack cloth and ashes and wrings from his heart the cry, “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy loving kindness, according unto the multi tude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.” And then when he is pardoned, forgiven, cleansed and made whiter than snow, the pen of inspiration writes down the whole dark, damnin { record of his crimes, and the king on his throne has not power nor wealth, nor influence enough to blot the page; and it goes down into history for infidels to scoff at for three thousand years. Who wrote that? A You find a man who will tell the truth about kings, warriors, princes and rulers today and you may be quite sure that he has within him the power of the Holy Ghost. And a book which tells the faults of those who wrote it, and which tells you that “there is none righteous, no, not one,” bears in it the mark of a true book; for we all know that men have faults, and failings and sins; and among all the men whose lives are recorded in that book, each man has some defect, some blot, except one, and that is “the man Christ Jesus.” Submitted by G. F. Brown The following bit of poetry was making the rounds in New Guinea, so Sgt. George Turner sent a copy to his mother, Mrs. Tom Turner, who submitted it to the Eagle for publication. WHAT WE THINK— ....... We who are in New Guinea, March daily through swamps and the like, But now and then we chance upon a paper, Where we read of our nation-wide strikes. We are sorry for you on the home front, As a boost in your wages you seek, For the eight hours you put in daily, And your forty-eight hours a week. For you may be a good man to the union, They tell you you’re really true blue, But what of the men in battle, Who are fighting and dying for you? Would you like to trade Go thru swamps waist your way, To fight against Japs squitoes, For a dollar six bits a us places, deep on and mo day? I’m sure the Axis leaders, Are proud of the efforts you lend, The aid you so generously give them, By killing your own fighting men. What would you say if the sol dier In the line were to throw down his gun, Say, “We are underpaid In our effort, We’ll go on a strike everyone.” Do you think of the time you are wasting, Do you think of .the terrible cost? How you’ve slowed down the rate of production. And the lives of the men that are lost? The only thing you are doing. When you strike for a few paltry cents, la to tear down the morale of the soldier, And upset your first line of de fense. The men in the front line of bat tle. Are fighting to end all wars. They are giving their lives in the struggle, BY THEIR SACRIFICE— MEA SURE YOURS! I
