Thursday, November 18, 1943
Vernonia Eagle
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The Week
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>ve Gas and Your Car
‘nnounced last week for
ponia along with other
lities was a campaign
jng motorists to con-
'e gas due to the in-
rsed need by the armed
•es, especially as far as
west coast is concern
in the Pacific theatre
war.
Zith the start of gas ra-
ing, car sharing be-
ie a necessity in many
ances. Now the armed
:es need more gas and
need will continue to
.•ease as the war pro
ves.
Undoubtedly, there yet
remains several means of
conserving fuel that have
not been used to the ut-
most. One of those means
that is strongly urged in
the campaign is the form
ing of car-sharing clubs in
instances where such action
has not been taken.
Car-sharing clubs not on
ly conserve fuel but tires
and cars in addition.
Everyone should serious
ly consider how further
savings of gasoline can be
made in his or her own
case.
he Airport Comes Up Again
,'his column
been
ken to task”
some
fth for a comment ap-
ring several weeks ago
arding the expenditure
$8,500 in county money
“ a considerably larger
tion of federal funds for
construction of the air-
t near Scappoose,
•bjection to the stand
en was made in an edi
al answer in the St.
ens Sentinel-Mist which
.es:
Ithough the ajrport is in
southern portion of the
lty and any defense of i^
d be construed as based on
1 prejudice, we neverthe-
■ cannot agree with the
le’s conclusion on the sub
Columbia county, by an
stment of approximately
100 of its own money (and
! largely to its own resi-
;s, for land and for clear-
vork), was ab|p to get ex-
iiture of over $150,000 in
■ral funds on a project that
ild be of enduring worth,
rue, that $150,000 came
of the federal treasury,
federal money should be
jnded cautiously and with
eye to definite returns. The
le can see little return for
cash because the army has
as was rumored that it
Id, taken over the newly-
pleted field for its own
roses. Since private aviation
irtually extinct on this side
he Cascades, about the only
time customer for the
1 would be Uncle Sam.
Ians for the airport were
vn nearly two years ago,
e in process, in fact, when
rl Harbor sent this nation
'vents in
•'1NG-EYE DOG SUC-
MBS TO POISON
ILLAMOOK—In a letter,
|_ .. Anna Robbins of Salem
L_s of the poisoning of her
ng-eye dog,. This faithful
ipanion was a daughter of
c's, the well-known collie
> leads his master about the
lets of this city, as well as
ring as his guide in other
es.
tccording to the letter some
had poinsoned the dog
le she was on her own prop-
w. Mrs. Robbins will be re-
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mbered
a numbed
took people as she was at
time an instructor in the
•lie schools here.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
intered as second ciass mail
tter, August 4, 1922, at the
it office in Vernonia, Ore-
1, under the act of March 3,
b
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
TIONAL ÈDITO RIAL—
SSOÇIATJON
into war. It is probably that
the army then had definite
need for fields such as the
one at Scappoose . . . it is just
as probable that, in the changes
of war, some of the urgency
of this need has disappeared.
The army didn’t know, two
years ago, these changes would
occur and perhaps it pushed
the CAA airport construction
program along a bit ....
We find it hard to censure
the county court fo.r expend
ing $8,500 on an airport which
may only serve as an emer
gency landing field during the
war. . . .
We heartily agree that
“federal money should be
expended cautiously and
with an eye to definite re
turns” and also that the
“army didn’t know, two
years ago, these changes
would occur.” In fact, we
stated originally: “Doubt-
less to say, there was reas-
on to believe that, when
completed,
the
airport
would be used or it never
would have been started.”
Even though it was not
possible to know the chang
es that would occur, the
fact remains that the air
port is NOT as yet, being
used and that $8,500 of
county money is still tied
up therein.
In addition, we find it
difficult to see where the
county court has been cen
sured for as stated before,
“Doubtless to say, there
was reason to believe that,
when completed the airport
would be used or it never
would have been started.”
PROM LIGHTS TO BE
REPAIRED, USED
SEASIDE—Efforts are being
made to put a number of the
Pr»m lights back on duty and
already two of the lights at the
Turnaround are lighted nights.
It is hoped that before long
there will be a light on the
Prom at each intersection and
that before next summer all will
be in action.
The lights have been out so
long that the circuit was brok
en in two places and efforts
are now being made to locate
and repair the breaks. The wire
screens around the globes have
rusted badly and they are be
ing replaced by the city. When
these jobs are finished the
lights will be on for the first
time since the war started.
FOREST GROVE SHARES IN
SUPPLYING BLOOD PLASMA
FOREST GROVE—To per
mit its crew to attend the
Washington county Red Cross
blood donor center November
29, Carnation Lumber company
plans to close for two and a
half hours that morning.
The office will close at 10:30
a.ffi. to permit the entire force
to be in Hillsboro at 11 o’clock.
Workers will be back on the
job at 1 p.m. A total of 29
workers have signed up. The
company has announced that
it will pay full time for the
time lost.
VALUE OF FILBERT CROP
INDUSTRY CITED
HILLSBORO — Thirty per
cent of the filberts grown in
the United States come from
Washington county orchards de
clared William B. Chandlee in
speaking before the Hillsboro
chamber of commerce a week
ago Tuesday. Chandb recently
transferred his filbe
] proces-
sing plant, the Oregon i Nut
Shelters, to Hillsboro and the
plant is now in full operation.
Need for a nut drying plant in
Hillsboro was stressed by the
speaker.
Area west of the mountains
in Oregon and Washington
seems to be the only place
where filberts can be grown
satisfactorily in this country,
according to Chandlee, who said
that there were from 12,000
to 15,000 acres of filberts in
Oregon and 1,200 in Washing
ton. Production this year is ex
pected to run around 6,500
tons and by 1950 to 10,000.
WAC CARAVAN
ARRIVES IN SALEM
SALEM—Although festive in
appearance, there was a somber
note attached to the arrival of
the WAC Carnival Carivan for
its mission will be the ven
geance of some nineteen Marion
county men who have d.ed in
battl e.
WAC recruiters assisted the
Marion county Legion Auxiliary
recruiters in enrolling a woman
to replace each casualty.
The drive for non-combat
women soldiers does not end
until December 7th and com-
munities have until that date
to fill their quotas, however,
local women are urged to make
a sincere effort toward reaching
the goal before that time.
SCHOOL WORK
BEING RESUMED
PRINEVILLE—Regular clas-
ses were resumed at the Crook
county high school Monday aft
er nearly six weeks of interup-
tion due to the potato harvest.
The first squads of potato
pickers went out from Crook
county high school' October 6
as farmers in this county began
harvesting the largest crop of
potatoes ever planted in this
part of the state. Within a week
most of the students in the
high school were engaged in the
potato harvest and as potato
digging got into full swing,*
many grade school students
were excused from classes to
work.
MEXICANS MAY
SPEND YEAR HERE
MEDFORD — The possibility
that 100 Mexican farm labor
ers might remain in the Rogue
river valley throughout the
winter to work in local orchards
was expressed here by Robert
Fowler, county agent.
Fowler said that orchard la
bor is still scarce and that if
sufficient contracts with fruit
growers can be arranged, the
Mexicans will stay here through
out the year.
Washington
Snapshots
Industrialists and business
men have 'been added by the
president to his informal “kit
chen cabinet” which for many
months has included representa
tives of organized labor and
farm groups, just as the ad
ministration faces a definite
showdown with congress over
the responsibility for threaten
ed inflation.
As the eight business lead
ers conferred at the White
House the crisis took shape
with congress and labor on the
two opposite sides.
Congress is committed against
subsidies. Labor is determined
to break through the “Little
Steel” formula unless the gov-
ernment can roll back the price
of living and hold it.
The president is in the posi-
tion of making a choice. He
could junk the "Little Steel”
formula, repudiate
his own
WLB and his Stabilization Di-
rector Fred M. Vinson, who
have been holding down the
lid. This would mean inflation.
Or, he could stand fast on “Lit-
tie Steel” and demand that
congress provide funds to roll
back living costs. This would
require subsidies.
The next meeting, of the
business leaders’ advisory coun
cil with the president is sched
uled for November 22, by
which time observers believe
the inflation issue will have
been resolved.
The national labor relations
board has dropped proceedings
in virtually all cases involving
complaints of company domina
tion of unions.
With a growing group here
in congress of the opinion that
Greeir Guards of Christmas . . .
half as many trees—2% million—
The thousands of Oregon Green were cut in lumbering. They were
Guards and Washington Junior For of course big trees, counting 30 or so
est Wardens who served the war ef to the acre, while a junior forest of
fort in forest protection last summer1 Christmas tree sizes may have 300
are now going to work on the Ch. ,st- or more trees on each acre of land.
Using the 300 figure, the estimated
mas tree problem.
It is a problem because Christmas normal annual Christmas tree har
tree cutting is often destructive. Few) vest in Oregon and Washington rep
people who go out for their own resents cutting over 16,000 acres, or
Christmas trees think of the fact in other terms, from 8 to 16 million
that they .are taking from the land feet of annual timber growth.
something that is as much a living Most commercial Christmas tree
and growing crop as berry vines production is carried on according
and apple trees. Even natives of this to good forestry practices. For the
region are in the habit of thinking family, the best Christmas tree
of little trees as worthless except at’ source is the commercial lot It is
Christmas time. We still speak of certainly the best for the forest.
large areas of junior forest
fires'in the junior forest as “brush to Many
which townspeople have gone in
fires.”
This is why it is the rule rather the past on Christmas tree expedi
than the exception for the average tions are now included in industrial
tree farms.” These areas are pa
group on a Christmas tree cutting “ trolled,
just as state-owned forests
expedition to chop down three trees of second-growth
are protected from
for every one taken. After the first
or second selection a “better” tree tree raiders by state laws and state
is usually sighted. The trees already forest officers.
cut are left on the ground. In the What Is Christmas Without a Tree?
next summer they become a deadly The foresters of the Douglas fir re
fire hazard.
gion realize the need for Christmas
Another sad fact is that the best trees. All they want to do is to stop
trees for Christmas use are the bush the waste of reckless Christmas tree
iest ones, and these are commonly cutting and to keep it within the
found growing apart from others, in bounds of law, the rules of fair play,
space that already has too few trees and the practices of forestry. And so
for a good crop. Thinning a dense they are depending on the ’teen-age
stand of young Douglas firs will im army, the Green Guards and Junior
prove the crop, and when Christmas Forest Wardens, all pledged to the
tree cutting is done on this principle protection of young growing for
it is good forestry. But it is done, ests, to make this a good Christmas
too seldom.
for trees as well as for people.
Five Million Trees . . .
These boys have already learned
In a normal year before the war the first lesson of forestry—the pre
an estimated four million Christmas vention of fires. With the Christmas
trees were shipped annually out ofl tree problem they are coming into
Oregon and Washington — most of another grade of study—the harvest
them from the latter state. At least ing of trees for a specific use, and
a million more were cut for local the care the forest land requires to
keep trees growing and forest soil
use.
In a similar pre-war year about^ productive,
it is its duty to spell out by
statute all phases of manpow
er, public hearings are. sched
uled soon on a number of pro
posals—all of them modified
versions of the drastic Austin-
W adsworth compulsory man-
and woman-power bill.
Early attention probably will
be given to a new bill introduc
ed by
Representative
Clare
Luce, which attempts to solve
the manpower problem by cre
ating an army and navy main
tenance corps. According to the
bill, almost all deferred 1-A
men would be shifted out of
industry and agriculture into
the armed services and replac-
ed by men now in 4-F,
Corigress is also considering
introducing legislation to pro
tect private business concerns
from what they regard as an
other threat to the free enter
prise system. They claim their
investigations reveal that ser
ious inroads are being made on
the private manufacturing bus
iness from the expanding ac
tivities of government-aided co
operatives.
These organizations, in such
fields as chemical products, cos
metics, grease, farm equipment,
foodstuffs, and printing, are
• doing an annual volume of
nearly $1.000,000,000.
Congressmen investigating the
situation say their objection is
not to cooperatives but to the
competitive advantages grant
ed them by the government in
the form of taxation, regula
tions and borrowing capacity.
The Forum
THE INSPIRATION OF THE
BIBLE
Part XVI
NOT ALL "SCIENTIFIC
MEN” AGREE
The vast and varied misin
formation of a portion of the
skeptical fraternity is well' il
lustrated by their assertions
that “all men believe” this and
that; and that “all scientific
men” accept their atheistic
theories. If you call for names,
they will give you Darwin,
and Huxley, and Haeckel, and
Spencer, and Haeckel and Hux
ley, and Spencer, and Dar
win; and Spencer, and Haeckel,
and Darwin and Huxley; appar
ently supposing that wisdom is
likely to die with the guess
work of half a dozen theorists,
and that by marching them
round they can expand a cor
poral’s guard into a scientific
army.
Of course there are scientific
men who are not Christians,
who know not God and obey
not the Gospel and who ac-
cept the theories and guesswork
of a few leaders, most of whom
disagree among themselves. But
there are other men, equally
scientific and equally logical,
who see nothing but folly in
these “oppositions of science
falsely so called.”
On the first day of Aug.
Post,
1885, Prof. George E.
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M.D. of the Syrian Mission.
gentleman of superior scien
tific attainments, visited the
great British Museum, which,
with its vast collection of spec
imens, would probably be the
best place in all the world to
find the “missing links” and
note the “origin of species,”
as written in the rocky records
of the universe. There he found
Mr. Etheridge, one of the fore
most of British experts. After
Mr. Etheridge had examined
and named certain fossils which
Dr. Post had brought, and erstand that the worlds were
shown him the wonders of the framed by the word of God.”
Submitted by G. F. Brown
great collection, Dr. Post says
in a letter to a former col-
league, since printed in the THE PAINS OF HELL
New York Evangelist:
AU murders have their part
“I asked him whether, after
in the lake that burneth with
all, this was not the working
out of mind and providence. He fire and brimstone. This is the
turned to me with a clear, hon Second Death. See Revelation
est look into my eyes and re 21:8. The first death separates
plied, “In all this great mu you from this life. The Second
seum there is not a particle of
death sends you out into etern
evidence of the transmutation
al anguish. An eternal night it
of species. Nine-tenths of the
is out in the weeping and the
talk of evolutionists is sheer
wailing.
nonsense, not founded on ob
Satan and all his demons
servation and wholly unsup-
could • not hold Christ in the
ported by facts. Men adopt a
grave. Up from the grave He
theory and then strain their
arose with a mighty triumph
facts to support it. I read all
o’er His foes. Nor will Satan
their books, but they make no
be able to hold you in the grave
impression on my belief in the
at the hour when Christ is to
stability of species. Moreover,
the talk of the great antiquity call you up for judgment.
In that awful hour you will
of man is of the same value.
have no defense to make.
There is no such thing as a
THOU SHALT NOT KILL was
fossil man. Men are ready to
written on your heart from
regard you as a fool if you will
not go with them in all their birth. That is the law of God.
It spoke to you and with it
vagaries. But this museum is
conscience cried out to warn
utter
full of proofs of the
you.
But you flashed hate
falsity of their views.”
On the whole we may con- against your brother and in
elude that the fine-spun the- God’s holy eyes you became a
ories of evolution and develop- murderer. Your sole hope now
ment are not proved. Much as rests on Christ. Take forgive
the wise men of this world ness from God on the ground
suppose themselves to be in that he offered up Christ to
advance of Moses, their the- die for your sins. ‘All we like
ories are impracticable, their sheep have gone astray, we
premises are assumed and their have turned every one to his
conclusions are unwarranted. own way, and the Lord hath
There may be an evolution or laid on HIM the iniquity of us
development of ideas in crea- all.' Isaiah 53:6. God command-
tion, as a man who has built eth his love toward us in that
sinners,
a skiff may also build a while we were yet
schooner, and similar lines and Christ died for us. BIBLE.
principles of thought may run Which for you? A Christless
through them both, indicating grave or a Saviour's love.
their common origin but these QUIZ
Why is the GOSPEL called
do not indicate that one of
them was evolved out of the GOOD NEWS?
Answer—It sets forth Christ
other or that either of them
would develop into something as the Friend of the Friend
else, The development of an less.
What does- the GOSPEL
idea is one thing, the transfor-
mation of an individual or a promise?
It promises that Christ who
species is another.
And there must be a begin- died for our sins will' come in
ning and a beginner. If you and abide with us. In dwelling
have an acorn, you can get an us, He imparts His life to us.
oak; if you have an oak, you Human wrecks are made new
can get an acorn; but if you and live by POWER FROM ON
have neither, how can you get HIGH.
either? If you have a hen, you
may get an egg; if you have an
This space páid for by an
egg, you may get a hen; but
if you have neither egg nor Oregon business man.
hen, acorn nor oak, nothing
but a miracle can supply them. IN MEMORIUM
It is true that miracles might
Resolved: That members of
be wrought along the lines of Vernonia Unit No. 119, Ameri
evolution; and a man may save can Legion Auxiliary, extend-
his reputation among cultured to Lawrence Thompson and to
infidels and scientific skeptics, members of his family, our
by claiming to be a .“theistic deepest sympathy upon
the
evolutionist”; but it must be at death of our beloved member,
a large expense of faith. It Augusta Thompson.
may be hard to believe that
God made man of the dust, but So when death comes, though
hard it seems to bear.
it is a thousandfold harder to
believe that God made a lump And long the years with all
the loneliness,
of jelly and that that, working
through unnumbered ages, has The loved one has been called
away from care
produced men and women with
all their wondrous capabilities To high promotion, rest and
happiness.
and adaptations. It might be
difficult to believe that God She has been called from pain
made a house. It would be a
and hurt and strife
thousand times more difficult From all the ills which fall tb
to believe that He made a jack
flesh and clay.
knife and that the jacknife She has been called unto an
turned itself into an ax. an
ampler life,
augur, an adz, a plane, a ham Nor should we mourn too much
mer, and a whole chest of tools
who still must stay.
and that they together, after
spending ages in experimenting, Resolved: That a copy of these
Mr.
had produced a house construct resolutions be sent to
ed according to an intelligible Thompson and that a copy be
written into the minutes of this
and symmetrical plan.
No inspired mortal could de American Legion Auxiliary.
Signed:
scribe the creation for no man
Lona Weidman
witnessed it. Heathen cosmogo-
Bess W. Nichols
nies are puerile, fabulous and
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absurd. Moses gives the only
Committee
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account which scientific men
have accepted; and which even WILD ANIMALS
heathen writers have cited as PLAGUE NORWEGIANS
an example of the sublime! De
Bears, wolves,
wolverines,
tails are omitted.
and foxes have staged such a
On the whole it seems simpl come-back in Norway during
est and safest to conclude that the past three years that they
Moses was gifted with a divine have betome a plague to the
wisdom which enabled him to Norwegian farmers. Stripped of
hold his tongue while others their firearms by Nazi order,
were babbling; and that his the Norwegians are unable to
simple statement, “In the be combat the pests. Wolves form
ginning God created the heaven erly confined to northern Nor
and the earth,” stands the test way, have spread southward.
of investigation, criticism and One Gudbransdal farmer re
research. He stated the fact, cently lost 35 3heep in a single
and so, “through faith we und- night.
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