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4 Thursday, October 21, 1943 Events in Oregon STUDENTS BUSY IN HARVEST NOW PRIN VILLE—With the potato harvest getting into operation in this part of central Oregon, Crook county high school students are j,oing into the harvest fields in in creasing numbers. The first squad of potato pickers went out from the school October 6. A week lat er seven squads of ten to 16 boys and girls checked out for work in the potato fields. Classes are continuing at the high school during the harvest per iod, but the program is being adapted to meet the unusual sit uation. Students remaining in school are doing make-up work, re views and special assignments in student activities. RENOVATION AT HOTEL SEASIDE UNDERWAY SEASIDE—The work of reno vating the Hotel Seaside has start ed and a lot of work on the build ing and grounds will be done this winter. If it is possible to do so some remodeling will also be done and equipment for a night club will be installed in the dining room. A. M. Ilaradon is in charge of the work. Among other things the rear entrance of the building will be improved. A concrete sidewalk will be built from Broadway to the entrance and that part of the grounds not occupied by the side walk and driveway will be land scaped. Painting has been started and will continue either inside or outside, most of the winter. Some reconstruction and repairs will also be done if it is possible. The building has been cleaned from top to bottom and 100 rooms are being maintained for occupan cy during the winter. GROUPS TO STUDY HARVEST PROBLEM FOR FALL SEASON HILSBORO—program to make students available to help in har vesting the wal-nut crop this fall was considered last Thursday dur ing a joint meeting of the county labor committee and school offic ials at the county agent’s office here. Labor shortage during the harvest is expected to be acute, according to Palmer S. Torvend, county agent. Fifty of the Mexican farm work ers who have been in the county for the past month left Tuesday to work in the apple harvest at Yakima, Washington. This leaves only 120 workers in the Hillsboro camp and the committee has re quests for several times this many workers for the walnut harvest. NEAHKAHNIE SURPASSES EAST TILLAMOOK—Sam Boardman, state superintendent of the high way commission, accompanied by state park engineer Moses of New York and Mrs. Moses, R. H. Bal- dock, also of Portland and several others were visitors in our vicinity last Sunday and came over the Neahkahnie road. The visitors from the east were thrilled Over the Neahkahnie road. Mr. Moses said they had spent $.100,000,000 in New York and no thing equalled the beauty of Neah kahnie. Mr. Boardman’s remark "If I could get a million, what I could do!" was appreciated by Oregonians in the party who were well aware of the natural beauty of Oregon’s coast and were also proud to have Neahkahnie scen ery praised. The Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholz 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, 1979. Official newspaper, Vernonia, Ore Mini»» 0 * £ cW> ut s P 0 111 S «y £ « oì)l » T I 0 N NATIONAL € DITO RIAL— Î1ÆÎ ASSOCIATION Vernonia Eagle the pocketbook of KNOWLEDGE by J ame S P reston Manpower is still the chief mud dle here with the to-draft-or-not- to-draft dilemma 'having pretty well decided in favor of drafting. This does not end the story, how ever, since the problem still re mains of properly dividing men be tween the battlefronts and the pro duction lines. One thing that seems probable although debate is only a few days old, is that a compromise bill will be accepted that would virtually end occupational deferments for younger men regardless of depen- ency. Caught in the middle of all this is industry which simultaneously was accused by Selective Service Director Hershey of hoarding la bor and hit by the army’s de mands for greatly increased pro duction schedules in the next six months. All this coupled with war manpower commission warnings that war industries must hold their present workers or lose their con tracts to employers who can! The administration’s position is still not clear. Spokesmen intimate that they are weighing the temp er of congress and closely watch ing the outcome of the experimen tal west coast labor priorities plan, hoping that if successful it might prove a workable pattern for the entire country. And proponents of compulsory manpower legislation have adopted a watchful-waiting attitude, ready air full of folks flyin’ over the to take advantage of any worsen Peace on the Land “Last night I had a terrible woods is terrible to contemplate, ing of the situation. dream of peace” said Thoughtful most of all if they are folks who The war labor board has out Bill Haggerty, the veteran fire on workdays are shut up in shops lined its general policy for incen warden. "I dreamp the war was all of a size to stable the Blue Ox; tive wage payments in its recent over and the things of peace had places howlin’ with machines. And opinion in the Grumman Aircraft come true. One was the heely- I feel the same about giant planes case. Incentive wage payments will copter. I dreamp it was over the flyin’ all over the earth and on not be approved which represent summer woods in swarms; hun the land forty-lane highways to hidden wage rate increases or wagg dreds of heelycopters lazin’ low carry all the cars. “What I want is to see more rate decreases “contrary to the and slow above the trees; each stabilization program.” Moreover with a family of tourists—and trees giowin’ in my district and the board will consider only joint live cigarette butts failin’ from fewer fires to burn ’em up. And the life and work of the woods submissions by a company and a one and all.” Thoughtful Bill shuddered. “It buildin’ up, apart and free from union, that is, where the employ ees of a plant are represented by was terrible,” he said. “Heelycop- the corruption of cities and ill ter cigarette fires blazin’ up all use by machine-made men. And a union. through the Douglas fir. I w'oke that, I know, is what the boys The house small business Com up sweatin’ and swearin’ and at from this district are feelin’ and mittee now considering the dispos first felt wonderful to realize thinkin’ on the peace to come, as al of surplus government property it was really fall weather and no they fight in far lands. They’ve after the war was told by Federal forest fires to worry about out still got their feet in the good Loan Administrator and Secretary side maybe some trash burns. earth. They are growth of the of Commerce Jesse Jones that gov Then I thought the dream was forest soil’ like the trees are.” ernment-owned plants, which rep prophecy—it could come true and The Tie That Binds “The Jap on his bit of rice resent an investment of more than probably would. I felt terrible land, the German in his cabbage seven billion dollars, should not again. I still do.” We were hugging the stove in garden or spud patch, the Italian be permitted to compete with pri the Polewater Fire hall. Outside in his vineyard—when each was vate enterprise after the war. a cold drizzle was falling. The there and occupied with his work Harold G. Moulton, president of year’s fire danger was past. Peace on the land he was trouble to no the Brookings Institute, has reco was on the land of the forest, but body and there was no need for mended to the Special senate com the war was with us—black in the anyone to trouble him,” said mittee on postwar economic policy headlines of the newspapers on Thoughtful Bill, “The trouble and planning, the early adoption the table, loud and grim in the came in each country from the big town, howlin’ and stinkin’ with of constructive policies for long- talk from the radio. “No one could praise peace machines. The brains at the top run postwar planning. He outlined for consideration a list of ten ma more than I do in my soul,” got fevered with dreams of how jor problems pertaining to each Thoughtful Bill mused on. “But I the machines and machine men of the two postwar stages which turn cold at the shape of it in the could use to conquer the world. he described as (1) the transition way it’s bein’ put up to us. A In each country the first moffe period in converting from a war peace of machines, factories, the was to go out on the good land to peace economy, and (2) the air swarmin’ with planes, the road and take the men of the land and adoption on a long-run basis of a packed with jeeps, and the land make them slaves to machines. "So we have the worst war in policy designed to promote econ forgotten. I hear talk of Seattle bein’ made the ‘Pittsburg of the all history. And we’ll have the omic expansion. West' in the peace, of Portland worst peace of all history if the beccmin’ such another fearsome wonder-brains of the peace go- 01! place as Detroit, It sickens me.” to plan and build it on machines —cornin’ close to home, to plan Our Good Earth “Take the everyday man the and build Seattle into another world over in this war and his monster city like Pittsburgh and own fight and his own private Portland into another nightmare hopes and plans are tied up in one of humanity like Detroit. Assembly of God Church way or another with the use of a “If the wonder-brains were to Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister piece of land,” Bill Haggerty af ask me, which they won’t,” the 9:45—Sunday school with classes firmed. “There's a great gap be old warden concluded, “I’d say, for all ages. tween that want of the everyday ‘Sirs, just simply plan a peace 11:00—Morning worship. man and the superman plans of which would put all the people 6:30—Young people’s Christ Am the big fellows at the top. And possible out on the land, to live bassadors service. this gap is the hole all humaninty from the soil and improve it.’ But 7:30—Evangelistic service. is going to fall into if it isn't I doubt if anything like that will 7.30—Wednesday evening, mid closed up. come to pass. I’m resigned,” week service. “That dreaip I had is what I sighed Thoughful Bill, “to heely- 4 :00—Friday childrens church. mean. To me the idea is of the copter forest fires.” 7:30 Friday evening—Peoples’ meeting. Evangelical Church —Rev. Allen H. Backer. Minister 9:45—Sunday school. Church of Jesus Christ 11:00—Morning worship service. THE INSPIRATION OF THE Of Latter Day Saints 6:30 —Junior and Y. P. Christian BIBLE Sunday school convenes at 10 Endeavor. Part XIII a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall under the direction of Charles Ratkie, 7:30—Evangelistic Service. There is a statement that when branch president and Van Bailey, 7:30 p.m. Thursday—Bible study the current American silver dol and prayer meeting. superintendent. lar was minted a few years ago. the American Eagle on it had St. Mary’» Catholic Church eight Seventh Day Adventist feathers in its tail. The de Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Church signer was probably a liberal- Rev. J. H. Goodrich Services on Saturday: Mass: 9:30 A.M. except first Sun minded man and so gave the 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. day in month—Ma»s at 9:30 A.M. “Bird of Freedom” a good supply. 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. But investigation showed that the Confessions from 7:45 A.M. on. 9:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devotional American eagle was not built service. that way and so one of the feath Any excuse you can give for Sermon by district leader—third ers had to come out and the bird not upping your payroll sav Saturday of each month. on the present coin has seven ings will please Hitler. H ro- A cordial invitation is extended tail feathers instead of eight. bdto a: d p ,-p it3 x.. to visitors. An artist once painted a pic At The Ch urches The Forum ture of a partridge which he show ed to John J. Anderson, who doubtless knew more about birds than any other living man. The great ornithologist looked at the painting and said, “It is not right; you haven’t got the right number of scales on the legs.” The young artist had no thought that the scales on a partridge’s legs were numbered, yet they were And, my friend, when you have looked through this world and found that every blade of grass is counted that every forest leaf has been reckoned up, that every petal on every flower has been arranged in strict conformity to mathematical law, you may be ready to believe that even “the very hairs of your head are all numbered and that a “wonderful numberer” presides over them all. The man whose mind is so con structed that he can believe that all these moving forms, with the endless adaptations and contriven- ces they embody, and the myster ious life inspiring them all are the product of blind chance unreas oning force, and unconscious law, might well claim relationship to that disconsolate bachelor who, failing to find among all the daughters of Eve a companion to be his solace in lonely hours at length obtained a huge box of earth and mounting it upon an axis, proceeded to turn it round and round and round in the hope that sometime there would emerge from that box one fitted to be the companion of his life and the partner of his joys and sorrows. The cultured skeptic may claim that this man’s methods were too crude and his machinery too prim itive but practically, what -is the difference between a rotating box and a rotating planet; between a creation evolved by an impossible theory and a. woman developed by a box and a crank? without sense. It is as if a teach er should tell a pupil, “go to the blackboard and on an uneven plane surface, draw a curved right line, describing a semicircu lar triangle in the form of a globular cube.” These are all good dictionary words. We can read them and speak them, but we cannot think them or do them There ig no sufh thing as a “curv ed right line," “an uneven plane surface,” "a semicircular triangle,” or a globular cube.” And there is no such thing as a “structure less structure,” or an “organism without organs.” But it is aston ishing how wise a foolish thing sounds when it is described in “great swelling words of vanity.” According to this scientific gentleman, all life started from a germ, “a lump of transparent jelly,” perhaps so small that it might take a microscope to see it. Moses says, “In the beginning God;” the skeptic says, “In the beginning a speck of protoplasm,” an atom of “transparent jelly,” “a monad,” barely visible under a microscope. From this were de veloped oysters, fishes, frogs, mon keys, men, infidels, nations, gov ernments, peoples and tongues. I must have been a wonderful "mass of transparent jelly” to accomplish all that. “From nothing, comes nothing” . and this “monad” seems as near “the little end of nothing whittled ■out” as anything which we can imagine. Nevertheless this “organ ism without organs,” this “struc tureless structure,” as the infi del’s little first cause; it is his great-great-great-grandfather; it is his god! So the infidel has a first cause, one which he calls a “mo nad” which “can eat without a mouth, digest without a stomach and walk without feet;” and if this creature be the originator of all living things, he is certainly capable of doing an immense bus MAN MADE IN GOD’S IMAGE iness on a very small capital. And Moses declares that God made this the infidel’s science! O skep man in His own image but we tic, great is thy faith- are told that Moses was mistaken But with all his faith and inge and some of the1 skeptical scien nuity and his wandering back into tists of today, who are confident the mists of millions of ages' past, inproportion as they are uninform the skeptic has not helped matters ed, and who know for certain at all; he is not yet rid of God. things which scientific men only Who made that monad? Who had guess at, claim that they are des the wisdom, the skill and the pow cended from monkeys or from er to invest that speck of proto some lost species of that noble plasm, that “structureless struc fraternity. ture,” with such amazing capabil Here we are treading on deli ities? All life must come from life cate ground. I do not wish to med Nothing can come out of the dle with any man’s family mat monad which was not in this ters or quarrel with any one about “structureless structure.” The in his relatives. If a man prefers fidel says that all life comes from to look for his kindred in the zo the living monad, the pinhead of ological gardens it is no concern transparent jelly; Moses says all of mine; if he wants to believe life comes from the living God, that the founder of his family was the Maker of heaven and earth. an ape, a gorilla, a mud turtle, Was Moses mistaken? or a monad, he may do so; but Submitted by G. F. Brown when he insists that I shall trace my lieage in that direction I say no, sir! The matter is not quite WIDOW’S GIFT BIG Do you follow Christ into the settled yet and I propose to give myself the benef.t of the doubt; temple of Jerusalem that day when and while he is looking for “the He pointed out the poor widow? missing link” that shall connect The rich were pouring large gifts him with a race of obscene and into the treasury of the Lord—but dirty little brutes, I prefer to be they had plenty left. Then came looking for the link that shall this poor widow and cast in her bind me to the throne of God my pittance but it was her all. To Maker. I prefer that my geneolog- this day, the Widow’s Mite is the ical table shall end as it now does, measure of your and my giving, with “Cainan which was the son for, said Jesus, she gave her all of Enos which was the son of even to the price of her next meal. Seth, which was the son of Adam, Yes—-Christ knew the heart which was the son of God,” rath- beat of us common folk, for He er than invent one which reads, named Himself as being poorer “which was the son of skeptic, than the birds and wild things. which was the son of monkey, Foxes have dens and the birds of which was the son of oyster, the air have nests but the Son of which was the son of monad. which was the son of mud!"—a Man hath not where to' lay His head. So He told it. geneological table which begins in the mud and ends in the gravel The months passed and the day which has a monad at the head, came when He yielded up His life a monkey in the middle, and an to become the Saviour of all who infidel at the tail. will trust their lives over to Him. ONE—At the cross—God com THAT WONDERFUL MONAD mends his love toward us, in The most eloquent infidel in that while we were sinners, Christ America has said, “The monad is died for us. We set aside God’s said to be the simplest form of holy will—we turned against His animal life, that has yet been law—we learned the curse and found. It has been described as Christ suffered the penalty in our ‘an organism without organs.’ It place. TWO—The Book of God’s Re is a kind of structureless struc ture. a little mas of transparent membrance — from the moment jelly that can flatten itself out you elect Christ to save you, your and can expand and contract name is there written. Being now around its food. It can feed with justified through His blood we out a mouth, digest without a shall be saved from wrath through stomach, walk without feet and Him. Justified just as if we had reproduce itself by simple divi never sinned. So we are in God’s sion. By taking this monad as the eyes, THREE—In your heart. God commencement of animal life, or rather as the first animal, it is through Christ enters and gives easy to follow the development you the power of a new life. of the organic structure through FOUR—Resurrection Morning. all forms of life to man himself.” Christ is to lift you out of the ■This ig a most luminous state grave and give you a body of glory ment of the scientific skeptics What is your hope for this life and geneology. Here is the beginning the next, in view of all this? of his ancestral line. The first living creature was a “structure less structure.” “an organism Clatskanie, Oregon without organs;" and the descrip This space paid for by an Ore tion given is composed of words gon business.
