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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1943)
r 4 Thursday, August 12, 1943 County News St. Helens MEXICAN HARVEST HANDS PRAISED BY FARM OWNER Mexican laborers, who now total 435, apparently are making good on their assignment as harvest hands, for E. E. Wist, proprietor of Delta Farms where the Mexi cans are working, said last week that they were "each worth 10 or 15 white pickers.” The Mexicanl are housed at a tent city erected on Delta Farms. According to Bob Cody, farm labor assistant, the Mexicans are making pretty nearly the equiva lent of topflight shipyard wages, for they are earning $10 to $12 per day. Out of this comes approx imately $2 for board and room at the farm security camp where they live. Vernonia Eagìé Mrs. Alfred S. May of Rainier, since the man honored by the naming of the ship is a great grandfather of Mrs. May. 'The Clinton Kelly was christen ed by Mrs. Dale Kelly of Portland, a sister-in-law of Mrs. May. Dale Kelly, the brother, is president of the “Kelly Clan" organization and is serving in the armed forces and his wife was given the honor of christening the new freighter. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE FARMERS UNION PICNIC AT CHAMPOEG AUG. 15TH The farmers union annual state picnic will be held at Champoeg park Sunday, August 15. There V'ill be a sports program, basket lunch, and a program in the after noon which will include talks by Ervin L. Peterson, director of the state department of agriculture; Hon. Walter M. Pierce, former governor and former representa tive in congress; presidents of county unite, group singing, solos by Louis Koenig, J. P. Smart and others, and selection by the* jun iors. All members and friends of the Oregon farmers union are urg ed to attend. LOCAL TALENT RELIED ON FOR MANY COUNTY SCHOOLS With some schools scheduled to open in about a month, Columbia county is short 26 teachers and probably will have to depend largely upon “local talent” to fill the vacancies, Otto H. II Peterson, county school head, said last week. The superintendent’s office here is receiving very few applications from outside-the-county teachers who want Columbia jobs, so it is believed that many of the schools are going to have to be staffed with instructors called back to the profession they once followed. Peterson pointed out that emer gency teaching certificates can be granted in many cases where teachers otherwise could not be certified and said that persons in terested in school employment should contact his office and see if they can comply with the liber alized terms pertaining to emer gency certificates. Clatskanie SCHOOL OPENING IS SET FOR SEPT. 13 The opening of Clatskanie schools has been set for Septem ber, 13th. The elementary school classes will begin on the 13th, while the high school will have registration during the first week. Classes wilt begin on September 20, according to an announcement made last week by Superintendent Walter V. Dennis. At the present time, with the exception of a teacher for the eighth grade, all teaching posi tions are filled. It is expected that the contract for the eighth grade will be made in the very near future. SPEAKERS FROM 4TH FIGHT COMMAND VISIT CLATSKANIE Friday saw the local observance of Aircraft Warning Service week, in Clatskanie. A public meeting was held at 8 p.m. in the I.O.O.F. building. Captain H. Young and Sgt. W. Sousa of the 4th Fighter Com mand were in Clatskanie to tell the public and the observers at th«j local post and the Cedar Grove post of the importance of the work being done at the observation posts throughout the country. Two films were shown. Arm bands and emblems were presented to air craft observers with 100 hours or more service to their credit. Rainier LIBERTY SHIP GETS NAME OF ANCESTOR OF MRS. MAY The launching of the liberty ship Clinton Kelly in Portland July 31 was of special interest to 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. Official newspaper, Vernonia, Ore. OttdoQlujiQfit P • 111 s ly y 44$ «T ! ■ NATIONAL € DITORI AL_ by J ame S P reston The ultimatum delivered at the White House by AFL and CIO Presidents William Green and Philip Murray that either commod ity prices for Consumers be rolled back to September 15, 1942 lev els or the “Little Steel” formula would be scrapped, has precipitat ed a new crisis for the adminis tration’s home front policies. Ob servers here now feel that a thor ough reexamination of these do mestic issues is inevitable when congress reconvenes in September. One theory is that although this development appeared on the sur face to draw a sharp line between the president and the labor lead ers who had heretofore given him undivided support, their state ment may have had the president’s approval. Events in the immedi ate future will' be watched closely therefore, to see whether the labor • leaders will follow up their threat to fight out the stabilization pro gram or whether the administra tion will seek again to carry out a full-fledged price roll-back pro gram which congress is almost certain to oppose. Some congressmen believe that the administration may be seek ing to acquire ammunition that would enable them to request full cooperation from the legislators on the grounds that unless this is done it will be impossible for them to hold the wage line. The critical situation in the "hold-the-line” program was ac centuated not only by the Green- Murray demapd but by the propos ed new wage contract between John L. Lewis and the Illinois coal mine operators. This con tract would grant in effect a $3- a-day increase to the miners, in cluding $1.25 portal-to-portal pay, $1.50 overtime, and minor adjust ments amounting to about 25 cents previously approved by WLB The board probably won’t quarrel with the overtime provisions but it is doubtful if they will approve the" portal-to-portal issue. Some Simple Science . . . A tree, like every other living thing, is built of cells. With his mi croscope the scientist has seen that the cells of wood are long, thin, pliable tubes. Since these cells are in the form of tubes, water—in which plant food from the'air and soil has been dissolved—p asses through the tubes and feeds the tree. The tubes, which are as fine as or finer than a human hair, also give strength to the tree. If you will take a sheet of paper and roll it into a tube you will see, when you try to bend it. how strong the paper tube is, in spite of the fact that it contains no more material than the sheet of paper. The substance of which the tubes are made is called collulose. About two-thirds of all wood is cellulose. The other third is a substance call ed lignin. Lignin is a binder, a ma terial which holds the cellulose cells together. Cellulose is found in its purest form in cotton. The cotton boll is almost all cellulose. If you have ever seen a cotton boll you know that it is made up of many thin fibers. These are somewhat like the cellulose fibers in a tree, except that in the cotton the fibers are not bound together by lignin. Al though the cotton boll is nearly all callulose, in certain regions, one acre of land planted in trees will produce five times as much cellu lose each year as an acre planted in cotton. Wood Cellulose . . . When treated with different chemicals wood cellulose is changed into many products, such as gun powder, paper, photographic film, alcohol, rayon, cellophane, imitation leather, lacquers, glycerine, plas tics, felt, sugar, molasses, yeast, and food proteins. Wood cellulose in pulp form has many other uses. Put into solution and pressed through tiny holes un der high pressure, it is spun into fine rayon threads which find many uses in the manufacturing and clothing industries. An important use of wood cellulose in war days is In explosives which fire big guns; In core 'or heavy-duty truck and airplar es; in linings for self sealin -e tanks; in lines for parac ’ in light- weight rayon - paratroopers. * An important subject now re ceiving attention here is contract termination. Months of study by industry, the armed services, and congress has now reached the point where definite proposals are being advanced and programs are being drawn up. As many congressmen point out, Assembly of God Church the type of contract termination Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister policy we have will govern the nature of the transition from a 9:45—Sunday school with classes for all ages. war manufacturing economy to one of peacetime. It will deter 11:00—Morning worship. mine whether the change will be 7:30—Evangelistic service. accomplished within the frame 7.30—Wednesday evening, mid work of free private enterprise week service. or be dependent upon government 7:30—Friday evening, Young loans, doles, or other prolonged Peoples’ Christ Ambassadors controls. service. Two general approaches to the complex problem are: An overall congressional enactment investing St. Mary’s Catholic Church Rev. Anthony V. Gerace in the procurement services the Rev. Frederick Thiele broad authority to administer con tract settlements; or a congres Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun sional act specifying in detail con day in month—Mass at 8:30 A.M. ditions and methods of settling Confessions from 7:45 A M. on. war contracts. Proposals along both lines are well advanced, the Church of Jesus Christ war department having introduced a measure through Chairman An Of Latter Day Saints Sunday school convenes at 10 drew May giving authority to the war department, and Chairman a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall under James S. Murray drafting legis the direction of Charles Rntkie, lation setting forth detailed spec branch president and Van Bailey, ifications. superintendent. At The Churches . . It is natural to wonder how man ever came to think of making paper from wood. The answer is that the wasp showed him how to do it. The wasp, nature’s paper manufacturer, uses this product for his nest. The wasp makes paper from wood by chewing it to a fine pulp which is then spread out in thin, closely matted sheets and allowed to dry. Lignin and Plastics . . . Although scientists have learned much about cellulose from their work with paper and other cellu lose products, lignin is still some thing of a mystery. But scientists do know that lignin is a tough, dur able substance which holds the tree together. Not needed for paper-making, there have been few uses for lignin. All that the paper manufacturer wanted from wood was the cellu lose. Now lignin is being saved for use in tanning leather, as a binder in mixing concrete, as a water soft ener, and for an increasing variety of new uses. Vanillin, which is used in the flavoring of ice cream, can be made from lignin. Lignin is also used as a base for fertilizer. Soon after the second World War began, lignin became useful in the manufacture of plastics which are being used for bomb fuses and shell cases, and in instrument panels for airplanes, ships, and tanks. It is also used in the cases of storage bat teries. When most of the important met als were taken from civilian use and put to work to win the war, plastics came into wide use. Your fountain pen is probably made of plastic. So is the instrument panel in your car. We now have plastic jewelry and plastic dishes. Your telephone, your radio cabinet, most of your electri cal equipment, and many of the handles on your mother’s kitchen utensils are probably made of plas tic. Wood may be an important part of your family automobile. The body, including the windows, may be all plastic. The tires may be made of Buna rubber, which can be made from alcohol distilled from wood. Even the fuel burned in your car may be woodgas rather than gasoline, or alcohol m a de from wood. Verily, the promise of our forests is limitless. 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. Evangelical Church —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45—Sunday school. 7:00—Junior and Y. P. Christian Endeavor. 8:00 P. M. Wednesday—Prayer meeting and Bible study. princes, by poets, by sages, by philosophers, ’by fishermen, by statesmen; by men learned in the THE INSPIRATION OF THE wisdom of Egypt, educated in the BIBLE schools of Babylon, trained up at Part V THE BIBLE FORETELLS the feet of rabbis in Jerusalem. It THINGS was written by men in exile, in The Book, to my mind, bears the desert, in shepherd’s tents, in the marks of inspiration in the “green pastures” and beside “still foresight which it exhibits. This waters.” Among its authors we book foretells things. You cannot find the taxgatherer, the herds do that. You cannot tell what man, the gatherer of sycamore will be next year or next week. fruit; we find poor men, rich "The spirits” cannot tell who will men, statesmen, preachers, exiles, be the next president, or gover captains, legislators, judges; men nor, or emperor. They may tell of every grade and class are rep a great many things that are past. resented in this wonderful volume, They may tell you who your which is in reality a library fill grandmother was, and may copy ed with history, geneology, eth the inscription on your grandfath nology, law, ethics, prophecy, poe er’s gravestone and may tell things try, eloquence, medicine, sanitary which are written in the family science, political economy, and record. They may reveal many perfect rules for the conduct of things in the past—for the devil personal and social life. knows about the past—but they It contains all kinds of writing; cannot foretell the future. I did but what a jumble it would be if hear of one spiritual medium who sixty-six books were written in foretold her own death and she this way by ordinary men. Sup died within a few hours; but when pose, for instance, that we get they got the stomach pump, they sixty-six medical books written by pumped out of her stomach poison thirty or forty different doctors, enough to kill' two or three. That of various schools, 'believers in kind of prophecy requires no om allopathy, homeopathy, hydropathy niscient foresight. and all the other “pathies,” bind Years ago I talked with an in them all together and then under fidel in Plymouth, Mass., and he take to doctor a man according wanted me to give him some evi to that book! What man would be dence that the Bible was true. fool enough to risk the results of After some conversation, I loaned practising such a system of med him a little volume, an abridge icine? Or suppose we get thirty- ment of “Keith on Prophesy.” five ministers writing books on Some ten years after, as I took theology and see if you can find my seat in a railway train, he any'leather strong enough to hold came and sat down beside me and the books together when they are began to talk, and he said: “If done. you want that book, you can But again, it required fifteen have it; but no one else can have hundred years to write this book, it at any price.” It had knocked and the man who wrote the closing his infidelity into "atoms a.id he pages of it had no communication was a believer in Christ and a with the man who commenced it. member of the church. How did these men writing inde The revelations of prophecy are pendently, produce such a book? facts which exhibit the divine Other books get out of date when omniscience. So long as Babylon is they are ten or twenty years old; in heaps; so long as Ninevas lies but this book lives on through empty, void and waste; so long as the ages and keeps abreast of the Egypt is the basest of kingdoms; mightiest thought and intellect of so long as Tyre is a place for the every age. spreading of nets in the midst of ONE MIND, ONE PLAN the sea; so long as Israel is scat Suppose that thirty or forty tered among all nations; so long as men should walk in through that Jerusalem ig trodden under foot door. One man comes from Maine, of the Gentiles; so long as the another from New Hampshire, an great empires of the world march other from Massachusetts and so on in their predicted courses—so on from each state, each bearing long we have proof that an omnis a block of marble of peculiar cient mind dictated the predictions shape. Suppose I pile up these of that book, and that “prophecy blocks in order, until I have the came not in old time by the will figure of a man, perfectly sym of man.” metrical and beautifully chiseled We call this Bible a book; but and I say, “How did these men, there are sixty-six different books who have never seen each other, written by thirty or forty dif chisel out that beautiful statue? ferent men. A man may say, “I You say, “that is easily ex do not believe in the book of plained.” One man planned that Esther. Well what of that? We whole statue, made the patterns, have sixty-five others left. What gave the directions, and distrib will you do with them? A man uted them around; and so, each says, “I do find fault with this man working by the pattern, the chapter or with that.” Suppose work fits accurately when com you do? If you were on trial for pleted. murder and had sixty-six witnes Very well. Here is a book com ses against you, suppose you im peach one of them, there are sixty- ing from all quarters, written by five left; impeach another and men of all classes, scattered you still have sixty-four; impeach through a period of fifteen hun another and you have sixty- dred years; and yet this book is three—surely enough to hang you fitted together as a wondrous and if you are guilty. Do you not see harmonious whole. How was it that you cannot impeach this book done? “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy unless you do it in detail? Ghost.” One mind inspires the Each book bears its own wit whole book, one voice speaks in it ness and stands by itself on its all, and it is the voice of God own merits; and yet each book speaking with resurrection power. is linked with all the rest. Blot Submitted by G. F. Brown out one if you can. I am inclined to think it would be difficult to SALVAGE TO SAVE METALS do this. This book seems built to If only 20,000 tons of tin cans stay together; it is inspired by are salvages monthly this year, we one Spirit. will lose 4,000 tons of pure tin; ITS WONDERFUL AUTHORSHIP 396,000 tons of steel scrap; and The authorship of this book is 100,000 tons of cans for copper wonderful. Here are words writ precipitation—a loss of approxi ten by kings, by emperors, by mately 5 billion cans. The Forum - BONDS OVER AMERICA In San Antonio, Texas, stands a mis- sion fort of which is written: “Thermopylae had her messenger of de feat, the Alamo had none.” 182 men gave their lives here in 1856. * ♦ * Alamo Chapel Jl I First Christian Church —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Church Bible school. 11:00—Morning communion and preaching service. Sermon sub ject: “One Faith for One World.” 7:30—Song service, evening com munion and sermon. Subject: “Woe-begone Christians.” 7:30 Wednesday evening—Prayer meeting. 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