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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.
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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.
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Alamo Chapel
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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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