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4 Thursday, y inuary 6, 1944 Vernonia Eagle Even is m Oregon WasningLon Snapshots TAX COLLECTIONS HIT RECORD HIGH There is a grave problem in the making here in the fact that, when this war is over, the gov ernment will have about $17 bil lions worth of superflous mater ials, machinery and property. This is worrying several con; gressional committees right now, and the worry becomes greater as our armed forces drive stead ily on toward victory. As if the possibility that gov ernment would force itself into competition with private business were not worry enough, those visionary economists who are ad vancing their “new philosophy of public debt” are causing in creasing alarm in congressional ^circles. Their false creed that “con tinual pump priming is an eco nomic necessity” ¡has aroused Senator Harry Byrd’s joint com mittee on reduction of nonessen tial federal expenditures to de clare that “public confidence in the financial integrity of a country — the acknowledgement of its obligations—is necessary to the e'conomic stability of that country. “No nation may safely repud iate a debt and retain the confi dence of its citizens,” the com mittee asserts. “No nation which has lost the confidence of its citizens may remain a ’democra cy.” HILLSBORO — Tax collec tions for the first quarter of the current year reached a record high in Washington county with a total of $677,605.65 received by November 15 on the 1943-44 levy. The amount collected was 79.89 per cent of the current levy. A total of 12,676 receipts were issued, a large percentage of them being for payment of taxes in full. FLIERS GRATEFUL FOR HOSPITALITY PRINEVILLE — The people of Prineville demonstrated what western hospitality really is in their Christmas entertainment of cadets enrolled in the Portland Flying service war training pro gram here, Lieut. L. 0. Sherman, commanding officer, declared. Christmas dinner invitations were received by every cadet in the group—in fact more invitations were received than could be ac cepted. CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE SHORT OF GOAL FOREST GROVE — An in complete summary of the Christ mas seal sales made a week ago Monday indicates a total of $5745 from sales to date, ac cording to Mrs. Zola Morgan, county chairman. A large num ber of seals are known to be out at the present time, which if turned in would enable the coun ty to reach its goal of $7000. PETITIONS FOR HOSPITAL ARE CIRCULATED SEASIDE — Petitions asking the city council to talce steps to ward the construction of a hos pital building and nurses’ home . were circulated here last week and they will be presented to the council at its first 1944 meet ing. The petition asks for a max imum expenditure, for both in stitutions, of $75,000. but leaves the actual contemplated figure to the judgement of the council. TILLAMOOK COUNTY BOND RECORD GOOD TILLAMOOK — Figures re leased by the state office show that Tillamook county has in vested $2,381,158.25 in Series E war bonds since May, 1942. While the exact percentage of re demption in this county could not be ascertained it is asserted that the figure is proportionately low. TEMPERATURES STILL LOW; MONTH DRIEST SEASIDE — In spite of sever- al breaks which have brought temporary relief, the cold spell which has already set a record for endurance here is still on, with no definite signs of relief. As a result this month will probably be the driest December recorded since weather statistics were started for Seaside. There has been very little rain and most of the time the weather has been clear and cold. Low temperatures for the month were 37 degrees on De cember 26 and 29 degrees on De cember 29, At the Churches 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. 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. 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. Evangelical Church —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45 — Sunday school. 11:00 — Morning worship service. 6:30 — Junior and Y. P, Christian ' 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7:30 p.m. Thursday — Bible study and prayer meeting. FQPJ/ICTORY THE POCKETBOOK Of KNOWLEDGE * TOPPS THE JOB HAP TO BE PONE. SO INDUSTRY'S INVENTIVENESS CREATE? A HONING TOOL 1/5w THE LENGTH OF A FOOTBALL FIELP/ THE WORLD'S LARGEST IT SMOOTHS SURFACES OF MAMMOTH WAR WEAPONS. A NYLON ROPE, ¡/2 INCHES H DIAMETER CAN LIFT A LOAP X>F THREE TONS Seventh Day Adventist Church UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS I J 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 act of March 3, 1879. Official Newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon O rîc 1 o O u < s M hi Pums^y * T10 N NATIONAL ¿DITORIAl— 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—Morning communion and preaching. Sermon subject: “The Dominion of Christ.” 11:00—Junior church. 7:30 — Dedication services for service flag and new song books. Speaker, Edwin P. Dewees of Portland. 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meet ing. LARGE TONNAGE BUILT By this month, January, the United States will have built in two years the equivalent of more than a third of all the blue wat er merchant marine tonnage in the world before the war began. I , By MEANS OF AN JT /,,/ IMPROVED SURFACNG ■ ■/,. TREATMENT NON-REFIECT/HS // ■//. EYEGLASSES ARE J ' NOW BElNS «WV MAPS . "THE TERM 'ROUND OF AMMUNITION " IS BELEIVED TO HAVE ORIGINATED FROM THE FACT THAT AMMUNITION IN EARLY DAYS WAS _ ROUND IN SHAPE 4 Each American Has 15 Acres . . . Whether you like it or not, you as an American have 15 acres as a unit share of the two billion acres of land within the continental bor ders of the United States. You have no personal right or legal title to such acreage, of course, but it is your share in the same sense that you say, “This is my country.” The resources of the na tion’s two billion acres are the basis of our national wealth, and their production is the basis of our na tional income. Whatever you may personally own or do for a living as an individual, you still have your main stake in the whole works. When the country as a whole goes down into a depression, or up into a boom, or is swept into war—then you are powerfully affected. I can’t imagine the U.S.A, as a whole. My mind won’t take in the picture of a land area of two billion acres. Thinking of it in terms of figurative unit shares; using 130 million as a round population fig ure, I find I have a 15-acre hunk of the country to survey and ponder on. This is comprehensible. Within this share are a little more than acres of farm crop land, and a little less than the same acre age of commercial forest land. The other 8 acres are plowable pastur age, range land, non-commercial forest, swamp, mountain barrens, a slice of a city lot, a thread of road, leg-room on a factory site, and so on. Four-Thirteenths of a Home . . . All this may seem to mean no more than just playing around with figures, making a game out of na tional statistics. Even if this were so, there are worse ways, to waste one’s time in leisure hours. But it is not so. For one thing, it is the process of thought on the national interests of the citizen which our forefathers followed in founding America. The form for it was the town meeting, in which the citizen put aside personal interests and. spoke and voted as a share holder in the community and the colony, and finally in a new nation. For an- other, it breaks away from our dan gerous modern habit of leaving na tional affairs up to the “big shots” of the federal government. Most of all, the citizen who begins to think of his unit share in his country is literally getting down to earth on the nation’s post-war pros pects. We have gone away up in the air with wonderful dreams of an era of aviation, power, and science and the machine, in which everything will be glorious for all of us. The dreams may be realized, but even so all material for them must come first from the land—the soil that is forgotten as we dream in the clouds, letting its fertility waste away in fire, floods, poor farming and bad forestry. Your share in the re^ization must come from your 15 acres of the land, and from your wages, savings and taxes. As a citizen, you will have a share of $1500 or more in the na tional debt. And you will have four- thirteenths of a home, a dwelling, to live in. Does America look so great, so big, so rich, in that picture? Your Forest Acres . . . Only a small start has been made on the conservation and improve ment of your 7 acres of farm crop and forest crop land. Nationally, the average depth of top soil on farm crop land was once 9 inches. Now it is but 6 inches. Fire has wasted, and continues to waste, even more of the fertility of our forest crop soil, apart from the timber destsoy- ed. Read Stewart Holbrook’s new book, Burning An Empire, if you want to get the full appalling pic ture of the menace of the forest fire to our national life. Our region is a farm and forest country. It is frantic folly, no less, for us to dream and plan for giant new industries and a post-war life based on power and the machine, whtye we go on wasting our crop lands and burning our forests. And if we do go on in this way, what will we have? Perhaps a heliocoptcr and a jeep on each 15-acre share of America. Joy rides for each and every one over a wasting land. The Forum pollen, which falls from the tas sel above and renders the grain fruitful. THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE Part XX BUY IOWA CAcf TO SUPPP/ F 20,000 AMERICAN-MADE POUR our ENOUGH ARITHMETIC IN A CORNFIELD Beneath the silken fringe we find the ear of corn itself, close ly wrapped in an impervious en velope of carefully folded husk3, which protect it from storm and depredations while the soft and pulpy kernels grow and harden until they are fit to be exposed to the air, after which the cov ering dries and opens itself, that the sun may have access to the grain and perfect it. If we plant a grain of maize, or Indian corn and watch it as it grows, we see numerous indi cations of design and adaptation at every stage of its develop ment. First, We observe a shar- pointed stem pushing down ward into the earth; second a Before we remove these grains sharp-pointed spire pushing up of maize from the cob and crush ward, piercing the soil above, struggling up to the daylight, them between the millstones, let and then unfolding itself in us examine them. We shall find broad, spreading, funnel-shaped that they are set in sockets leaves, which catch the falling which are arranged in straight rain and the dewdrops, and con rows from the bottom to ths vey them down to the center top of the central cob. Some times. if the grain is peculiarly of the plant. unthrifty, there are but four of The cornstalk, covered with these rows, sometimes there are a polished and impervious sur eight, sometimes there are ten, face, and filled in the interior twelve, fourteen, sixteen, and with a soft, porous, pithy sub even twenty-four rows of ker stance, is an example of stability nels arranged around the central enjoined with the lightness and shaft, or cob. But we never see economy of material. From the five rows, or seven rows, or elev center shoots up a single spire, en rows, or thirteen rows of or stalk, crowned by a tassel; kernels on a cob. However the while beneath it, and outside number may vary, it is an even the branching leaves, appear the and a permanent number. It is ears of corn, from the tops of said that a miller declared that which issue, a silken fringe, in for 27 years, white grinding just the position to catch the com, he had been looking in vain to find one car containing an uneven number of rows of kernels. Chance Cannot Count Now this numerical order in the arrangement of the rows up on countless millions of ears of corn continued in different coun tries and for successive centur ies, cannot be the result of chance, for chance does not count, or know the difference be tween an even number and an odd one; and there are just as many odd numbers as there are even, and just as many chances for an odd number of rows as an even number. If the chances do not run. evenly, it is because some unseen hand manipulates them, some unseen will controls them. And that will must be the will of an intelligent Being who counts and reckons, and who understands what no mortal can comprehend—how to rule the se cret energies of vegetative life in accordance with mathematical law. We can conceive no reason why those independent grains are any better for being set in rows which grow in pairs. So a woman might not be able to give any definite reason of utility for putting two rows of buttons up and down a child’s garment in stead of one; but no person of common sense would say that two orderly rows of buttons came upon the garment of a child by blind chance; because the fact of their being in rows indicates design, and the fact that they are in two rows, indi cates that they were put there by someone who counted and measured, and had an eye to eymmetry and beauty of appear ance. Chance might mix and shake and shuffle buttons to all etern ity without arranging two ord erly rows of them upon a boy’s jacket and so chance might toss and tumble all the vegetation in the universe for ages, with out producing one ear of corn with its kernels arranged in reg ular rows. But the kernels of the corn are here and they have been arranged by someone who has an eye for symmetry and order and who can reckon and count. Sometimes we find an ear of corn the kernels of which do not seem to be in regular rows, but which appear to be thrown to gether at haphazard, and it might be that an excessive lux uriance would sometimes crowd the kernels out of their regu lar order; but if we follow around the ear of corn, we shall find that such rows of kernels are arranged in spirals, rather than in straight lines; but still there is an even number of rows. Mathematical Principles In Nature Now this is but a single and very simple illustration of a cer tain principle which pervades the ¡universe around us, and which can be observed in thousands •cf growing plants, and thousands •of other things, and indicates that the .world was not flung together by chance, nor churned ■out of chaos by blind, unreason ing force, but that it was built upon a certain plan, by a wise and foreseeing Creator, whose designs involved purpose, utility, •order, symmetry, and beauty. But this purpose, order, sym metry and beauty is also wrought out in accordance with mathe matical law, and the simplest ■of nature’s works reveal the presence of a designing, contriv ing, numerating mind; while further study into its more com plex designs, discloses other mathematical principles, more subtle, deep, mysterious, and far-reaching than those which lie upon the surface of things, and are within the comprehension of a child. Submitted by G. F. Brown 4.200 VESSELS PLANNED The U. S. shipbuilding pro gram contemplates the building of 4,200 merchant vessels during 1943 and 1944. To man these ships, approximately 145,000 sea men in all ratings, and 35,000 officers are required. GHOST WALK It was a wild night on the sea of Galilee, the night for ghosts to walk. The hard-muscled fisher men who followed Jesus, strained at the oars as they bucked the blast, their little craft rising and falling with the heaving sea. A ghost! A ghost, one cries. The others add their voice. See ONE in white, walking on the water. Now He is hid in the trough of the sea; again He ¡3 lifted and turns toward the ship. Then came His greeting—BE OF GOOD CHEER; IT IS I; BE NOT AFRAID; He comes and enters into the boat and at His— PEACE RE STILL, the winds and the waves obey His will.. When the night is black and the waves run high turn the case over to Him. “I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad. I found in Him a resting place and He has made me glad.” This space paid for by an Oregon business man. Keeping Up With Rationing Vernonia war price and ra tioning board (No. 85.6.2) lo cated in bank bldg. Hours 9:30-12:00 and 1:00-4:30 daily. Saturday 9:30-12:30. Open Tuesday nights at city hall 6-10 p.m. RATION BOOK THREE January 29—Expiration date of brown stamps R, S, T and U. R series valid December 26, S on January 2, T on January 9, U on aJnuary 16. Each weekly ser ies good for 16 points. RATION BOOK 4 January 20, 1944—Expiration date of green stamps D, E, and F. February 20—Expiration datO of .green stamps G, H, J, which became valid January 1. SHOES Expiration date of stamp No. 18 for one pair of shoes extended indefinitely beyond October 31. “Airplane” stamp No. 1 in book 3 good for one pair of shoes on November 1, expiration indefinite. SUGAR November 1—Stamp ,29, in book four, good for 5 pounds through January 15, 1944. STOVES Purchasers must get certif icates at ration boards fbr most new stoves. WOOD, SAWDUST, COAL Fuel dealers deliver by pri orities based on needs. GASOLINE January 21, 1944—Expiration date of No. 9 stamps in A book, each good for 3 gallons. Value of gasoline coupons: A, Bl, Cl, 3 gals; B2. C2, R and T, 5 gals; D, 1.5 gals; E, 1 gal. TIRE INSPECTION Cars with B books must have tires inspected every 4 months; cars with C books every 3 months; cars with A books ev ery 6 months. Commercial motor vehicles —tire inspections every 6 months or every 5,000 miles, whichever occurs first. FUEL OIL January 3, 1944—Period 1 coupons in new fuel oil rations valid September 30, expire on this date. February 8, 1944—Expiration date of period 2 coupons. March 14—Expiration date of period 3 coupons. PRICE CONTROL Refer price inquiries and com plaints to the price clerk of your local war price and rationing board.
