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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
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matter. August 4. 1922. at the post
office in Vernonia, Oregon, under
the act of March 3, 1979.
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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
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without organs;" and the descrip
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