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A Week Worth Observing
Weeks to observe this,
and weeks to observe that,
have been set aside for a
good many different things.
Not all of them are worth
observing or giving a se
cond thought, but this
week, American Education
Week, from November 7
to 13 is worth a good deal
more than
___ . passing notice.
“Education for Victory”
is the general theme for
this 23rd annual observ
ance — victory on all bat
tlefronts. In this effort the
schools have converted pro
grams to the needs of the
armed forces, of industry,
and of government. Five
million workers have been
trained for war jobs. Pre
induction and physical fit
ness programs have been
developed. Scrap and bond
drives and scores of other
activities have been spon-
sored. Teachers have given
millions of hours to regis-
tration and rationing ser-
vices.
important,
the
Most
Turn in News Items
The fall and winter sea
son here marks the renewal
erf social activities of clubs
and lodges and also is the
time of the giving of a
greater number of parties,
than is the case during
summer months.
In order to publicize
these meetings it is neces
it
sary that articles giving
details of the meetings or
parties be written by some
member of the group who
is familiar with the details
that will be interesting to
f those who may read them.
In order to obtain these it
ems, many organizations
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Events in
Oregon
KINNIKINIC FLOUR USED
TO MAKE CAKES
SEASIDE—Indian lore, which
has been a hobby with Mrs.
F. C. Moore, provided her with
an interesting and successful
experiment last week when she
baked a number of very tasty
cup cakes from flour made by
.1 an Indian process, from kinni-
kinic berries. The results were
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having a chocolate
It delicious,
taste and color. They provided
a treat for several of Mrs.
Moore’s friends.
WHITE SWAN DUNKS
DOG WITHOUT MERCY
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ROCKAWAY -
Wednesday
of lost week was a bad day for
a fox terrier owned by Jim
Shearer. The dog saw a large
white swan feeding in quiet
water and splashed in after it.
The swan, however, was the
aggressors, beating the little
dog and dunking him without
mercy. If Mr. Shearer had not
come to his rescue, he would
have been drowned.
HOUSING AGENCY IS PLAN
HERE FOR ARMY FOLK
MEDFORD — Establishment
of a single, centralized rental
bureau to assist incoming army
families in finding homes is
being considered by the City
of Medford, the Jaekson coun
ty court and the local U.S.O.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second class mail
matter, August 4, 1922, at the
post office in Vernonia, Ore
gon, under the set of March 3,
1879,
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
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RS M s OÜIHION
NATIONAL EDITORIAL-
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schools have carried on
with their regular program
of developing 27,000,000
boys and girls into strong,
loyal intelligent freedom-
loving men and women.
In order to emphasize the
many phases of the general
theme of the week, a spec-
ial topic for eash day has
topics
been named. Those
“
deserve mention here to
demonstrate the diversity
of present day education
in preparing the children
of today to live successfully
when they must provide
for themselves. The topics
are:
“Education for World
Understanding”
“Education for Work”
“Education for the Air
Age”
“Education to Win and
Secure the Peace”
“Education for Wartime
Citizenship”
“Meeting the Emergency
in Education”
“Education for Sound
Health”
appoint press correspon-
dents who in turn jot down
those details that are ne
cessary for a news article.
Some organizations, how
ever, do not have corres
pondents and consequently
the news about those organ
izations is not published.
In order to receive for
publication as many articles
as possible, The Eagle urg
es every organization to
appoint a press correspond
ent who is charged with the
duty of reporting the
events of interest about
that organization.
Many families of soldiers
are moving into Medford and
vicinity now, and are unable
to find suitable living quarters,
partly due, to the fact that
there is no central agency to
clear such requests.
Schade
said the problem was one for
the county as much as it was
for the city.
TORSO FOUND ON BEACH
IS UNIDENTIFIED
TILLAMOOK—The torso and
parts of the legs of what is
undoubtedly a man were found
Monday by Coast Guard patrol-
men on the beach about a half
mile south of Manzanita, where
it had apparently been washed
up by the tide. Identification
of the torso was made impos-
sible by the condition of the
body.
WAR GAMES
COME TO CLOSE
PRINEVILLE—United States
army maneuvers in a 10,000-
square mile area of central
Oregon i came to a close last
week end and by midweek
Prineville seemed strangely de-
serted as the hundreds of sol-
dierh who had visited the city
in recent weeks, disappeared.
HILLSBORO GETS SLEEPING
BAG PLANT
HILLSBORO—Hillsboro gain
ed another manufacturing con
cern when Mr, and Mrs. E. G.
Paine a week ago Monday op
ened a plant for the produc
tion of sleeping bags. The
Paines hold a sub-contract with
a Portland concern and most
of the sleeping bags will go to
the service post exchanges for
sale to soldiers.
At present the concern has
five power sewing machines
and a power cutter, but four
more machines will be installed
shortly. Five women are now
employed but the Paines ex
pect to increase the payroll to
between 10 and 12 persons in
the near future. Normal produc
tion capacity is about 50 sleep
ing bags a day.
SHERMAN COUNTY
BUYS MOST BONDS
MORO—Sherman county cit-
izens bought more war bonds
per capita than the citizens of
any other Oregon county in the
recently closed Third War Loan
drive, according to a compila-
tion of county and state figures
published recently. The official
report gives further evidence
of the extent of the county’s
bond buying spree of Septem
ber when Sherman countians
averaged purchases of $96.81
to $31 for the state as a whole.
THE POCKETBOOK
p/KNOWLEDGE
MEXICAN FARM LABOR
AVAILABLE FOR WINTER
HILLSBORO—Some Mexican '
nationals will be available for
winter jobs on farms, provid
ing they are released in the
spring, according to a recent
announcement received at the
county agent’s office. Immed
iate action is necessary. Palmer
S. Torvend, county agent, said.
Otherwise, the men will be
shipped south.
Farmers who are interested
in making application for this
type of labor should apply at
the agent’s office.
Wet weather has hampered
the walnut picking. However,
as soon as the Mexicans finish
the jobs for which they are
already contracted, they will be
available to assist other grow
ers. These men, in addition to
the school children which are
being made available by the lo
cal schools and local people,
should be able to take care of
most of the crop providing the
weather is favorable.
A NEwiy
PEVELOPEP CCWtPOUNP
HELPS RETAIM "THE
ORIGINAL COLOR OF
PROCESSE? FRUIT WITHOUT
CAAH61MÖ ITS FLAVOR
Washington
Snapshots
One of the big questions of
the week here is which govern
ment agency will have final
authority to settle terminated
war contracts. Two congres
sional committees have opened
hearings on the subject which
has become a point of conflict
between the general accounting
office and the procuring agen
cies (war and navy depart
ments, etc.) for final word on
terminations.
Industry, caught between the
two, contends that speed in
settlement of a terminated con
tract is highly necessary. Busi
ness can be wrecked by pro
longed audits and controver
sies, especially when so many
firms have extended themselves
to produce unplanned quanti
ties of war goods. The procur
ing services concur in this con
tention. As for the general ac
counting office, industry fears
that the flood of terminated
contracts would swamp
that
agency and make for destruc
tive delays.
Another campaign under way
in congress is the renewal of
the plan to overhaul the patent
system with the opening shot
sounded by Vice President Hen
ry A. Wallace who urged pas
sage of the Kilgore bill to cre
ate an office of scientific and
technical mobilization. Although
it is felt that congress will op
pose any attempt to make dras
tic changes in the patent laws,
the administration is expected
to exert pressure and, conse
quently, extended hearings on
the measure are a certainty.
The reemployment bulletin
No. 1 just issued by selective
service divulges the details of
the nationwide organization be
ing set up by the system to re
turn discharged veterans to
their old jobs or help them
find new ones. Reemployment
committeemen are now being
named for each of the 6,500 lo
cal draft boards in the country
to act as the veteran's “per
sonal representative, agent, or
advisor.” A national clearing
house committee consisting of
representatives of fifteen or
ganizations has been created
which will be followed by state
and local committees organized
on the same basis. The commit
tees will try to handle commun
ity problems of reemployment
eases that could not be handled
by the local reemployment com
mitteeman.
Members of congress are
planning to demand an investi
gation of the recent action of
the U. S. department of labor
in suspending publication of its
monthly statistics on strikes,
which for many years have pro
vided the only official index to
strike activity. The only rea
son given for the suspension,
that the OWI has discontinued
its press clipping service to the
bureau of labor statistics, is
viewed with suspicions by con
gressmen who point out that the
gathering and publishing of
strike statistics was begun in
1927—years before the OWI
was established.
Flag Over Your Roof
We vision it flying to the
breeze above your home—a pure
white flag with a cross in the
center.
In the navy, this blue on
white calls the ship’s crew to
worship and here on land, if
such were the custom, many
.would raise such a banner. Old
and young, many a family gath
ers, as the Bible is read and
all bow the head in prayer.
Well may we heed the teach
ings of the Holy Book, for—
“Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth
of God.”—BIBLE. And as the
lines are followed, what heart
is not made strong at the old,
old story of the love that
brought Christ out of heaven
to die under our sins?
After the Bible readings,
comes a prayer. Praise is lift
ed that the mighty God has
made himself personal to us in
the gift of his Son. Here
thanks are given for the bless
ings of the <Jay and a plea that
we be set free from our evil
thoughts and ways. And we be
set free from the worries and
fears that so easily beset.
When God’s eyes rest
n
your home, let the blessings
be poured out—“The eyes of
the Lord run to and fro
througout the whole earth, to
show himself strong in the be
half of them whose heart is
perfect toward Him.”—BIBLE
Army Men Read Bible
forth and follow the paths through
Fur-Bearing Jap . . .
Monkeys have been insulted by ferns and other tough ground cover,
cartoons of Japs in their image which the tree planters had oblig
countless times since Pearl Harbor. ingly made for him. Every few feet
West Coast foresters have main he would encounter a tree seedling.
tained all along that they had a With his buck teeth nippers he'd
better animal twin for the Jap than strip it into a naked stem—skin it
the monkey, but so far no artist has alive. To a boomer the most suc
taken their tip. It’s a critter not culent morsel is fiber from inside
very well known outside the woods. the bark of a baby tree. He will
The foresters know him as Aplo- uncover the roots of a Douglas fir
dontia, or as the mountain beaver. six inches in diameter, and strip
the roots, killing the tree.
Loggers call him the boomer.
Such forays of the boomer
Under any name, this nocturnal usually
beyond satisfaction of his
animal needs only thick-lensed hunger. go Once
started on a row of
spectacles to pass inspection as a planted seedlings,
he is either too
miniature double of one of the sons stupid to know when
to stop, or he
of-uh-heaven. He is a rodent. As is a natural-born devastator.
is
a beaver he is an imitation and a apt to destroy all seedlings in He the
runt, seldom packing more than'
three pounds. He sports four large row before he backtracks for a day
rest.
buck teeth. Cornered, he bares of The
boomer is strictly nocturnal.
them in an expression that is Two
hours or so of exposure to hot
startling in its resemblance to a sunlight
will kill him. He is a
Jap grin. He is narrow between sucker for
deception. One forester
the eyes, which slant. The eyes, had his planter
crew in a boomer-
boring at you like two nail points, infested area cover
each seedling
belie the buck-toothed grin.
The boomer’s habitat is mainly with fem leaves. The planting was
practically
unmolested.
the Douglas fir region. He is a dev
ilish destroyer of forest seedlings. Boomer Control . . .
For years he kept himself pretty
The boomer’s fur and skin are
well hidden, and his ravaging of worthless, so no commercial trap
second-growth was so occasional ping of the animal can be expected.
that it was not taken very serious No one will advocate restocking of
ly. Big, tough timber beasts, such the forests with wildcats, unless
as the mink and the wildcat, kept the destructiveness of the boomer
the boomer under cover. Predatory becomes more generally serious. All
animal hunters reduced his nat poisoning experiments have failed.
ural enemies. The boomer multi
In areas where the boomer has
plied. His tribe spread as it in actually threatened the ruin of tree
creased. It filtered into all necks farming, intensive trapping has
of the woods.
solved the problem. Leonard Wal-
The boomer could live on skunk lulis, of the Oregon State Forestry
cabbage and bracken fern sprouts. Department, has experimented with
Well, why doesn’t he? Because, ordinary steel traps, taking 700
probably, he enjoys killing baby boomers on one area and saving 90
trees. The mountain beaver, re per cent of its seedlings, while only
member, is the Jap of the animal 40 per cent of the seedlings sur
kingdom.
vived on a neighboring area where
no trapping was done.
Tree Farm Raider . . .
At present Aplodontia, alias the
The boomer has become a real mountain
beaver, alias the boomer,
problem on the tree farms that for
est land owners have developed remains a minor forestry problem
during recent years. Particularly in the Douglas fir. That was the
where seedlings have been plant status of the Jap problem in the
ed by hand on burned areas has affairs of the United States for
the boomer demonstrated his de many years. We'd do well to take
notice and make sure we do not
structive genius.
At night in the winter months let history repeat itself in the for
the slant-eyed rodent would sally ests of Washington and Oregon.
At the
Churches
Assembly of God Church
Rev. Clayton E. Beish—Minister
9:45—Sunday school with clas
ses for all ages.
11:00—Morning worship.
6:30—Young people’s Christ
Ambassadors service.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 Wednesday evening—Mid
week service.
4:00 p.m. Friday — Children’s
church.
7:30 Friday evening—People's
meeting.
St. Mary’s
Catholic Church
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
Rev. J. H. Goodrich
Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first
Sunday in month—Mass at
8:30 a.m.
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on.
Church of Jesus Christ
Of Latter Day Saints
Sunday school convenes at 10
a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall und
er the direction of G. W.
Bell, branch president and
Van Bailey, superintendent.
Evangelical Church
—Rev. Allen H. Backer,
Minister
9:45—Sunday school.
11:00—Morning worship service
6:30—Junior and Y. P. Chris
tian Endeavor.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 p.m. Thursday — Bible
study and prayer meeting.
Seventh Day
Adventist Church
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devo
tional service.
Sermon by district leader—
third Saturday of each month
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
FIRST
CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
—The Livingstones, Ministers
9:45—Bible school, M. L. Her
rin, superintendent.
11:00—Junior church.
11:00 — Morning communion
and preaching service.
7:30—Evening communion and
preaching.
7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meet
ing.
11:00 Sunday, Nov. 21, Har
vest Home service.
—“I read my Bible every
day and I recommend that you
do the same.” Genera! Mont
gomery of the British Eighth
Army to his staff officers.
—“Christ has saved and satis
fied me for forty-seven years.”
General Dobbie, who for so
many months commanded Malta
, the most bombed island—“I
give thanks to God who has
brought us this success in our
great crusade.” General Doug
las MacArthur—
A Pacific Northwest man of
large interests and a true man
of God told how he came in
to the Christian life. It was
back in the old home, kneel
ing beside the kitchen stove
as his father led in family
worship. And now comes his
son, even more active in the
Lord’s work than the father
or grandfather.
When your
brood leaves the family nest,
may they go out with the con
viction that Christ SAVES-
KEEPS and SATISFIES.
This space paid for by an
Oregon business man.
The Forum
THE INSPIRATION OF THE
BIBLE
Part XV
WHAT ARE THE PRIMITIVE
FORMS
It is intimated that as the
rich varieties of apples are de
veloped from the worthless
crab, and as grains are devel
oped from grasses, therefore
men are developed from mon
keys or from some inferior
species. But these claims take
for granted the idea that the
wild crabs or the wild grasses
are primitive forms; but this
is pure assumption. It may be
true that the culture of the
wild crab will result in a lus
cious apple; but have we any
better culture for it that it had
when God “planted a garden
eastward in Eden,” and in it
placed all manner of trees and
set man to care for and dress
the garden? Thousands of years
of neglect and hard usage in a
world that is cursed with sin
and filled with thorns and
briers, may Well have stunted
and dwarfed and degraded
these products of the
soil,
which yet show something of
their native excellence when,
under culture, they come back
to a semblence of their original
perfection.
The law of degradation is
quite as effectual as the law
of evolution or elevation. An
infant stolen and suckled by
wolves, becomes wolfish in its
nature and nevei- rises to the
proper dignity of a human be
ing; and there is quite as much
reason to believe that a mon
key is a degenerate man, as
that man is a superfine mon
key with a few modern im
provements.
Indeed, in cultured Boston,
a man
slightly overcharged
with certain well known bev
erages, has already been known
to walk upon all fours in the
gutter; and if some of our
skeptical friends should under
take to prove that they were
developing downward, with the
prospect of becoming monkeys,
by and by their reasoning might
be quite as conclusive and as
well
sustained
by existing
facts, as that by which they
seek to prove their brutal or
igin.
Doubtless there are brutal el
ements and tendencies in man
kind. And the Apostle Peter
sharply contrasts two classes
of men, one composed of those
who “have obtained like pre
cious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our
Saviour, Jesus
Christ;” to
whom are given “exceeding
great and precious promises
that by these ye might be par
takers of the devine nature,
having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through
lust; and another class describ
ed “as natural brute beasts,
made to be taken and destroy
ed,” who speak evil of the
things that they
understand
not; and shall utterly perish in
their own corruption.” 2 Peter
1:1,4; 2:12.
But the difference between
these two classes is wrought
not by the slow methods of pro
gression and evolution, but by
the speedier processes of regen
eration and salvation. Centuries
of “progression” have produced
the cruel savage, the blood-
smeared
cannibal; but the
Gospel of Christ in a single
lifetime, yea, in a single year,
makes that same savage canni
bal as gentle as a lamb, he
“being born again, not of cor
ruptible seed, but of incorrupt-
able, by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth for
ever.
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GROWING SCHOOL
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They’ll like Nehalem
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