4 Thursday, January 20, 1944 Vernonia Eagle
Events in
Oregon
CANBY TELEPHONE
RATES RAISED
CANBY — Because of wage
increases it has granted to its em
ployees, the Canhy Telephone as
sociation has received the per
mission of Public Utilities Com
missioner George H. Flagg to up
its rates 25 cents a month on
service to individual lines, two
party lines, and on multi-party
lines. The Canby association was
found to be required to maintain
a 24-hour service, due to exten
sive logging operation« in the
nearby region, and skilled opera
tors also are hard to find as the
war goes on.
The new rates affect 650 sub
scribers to the Canby system
and will allow operations to con
tinue without financial loss.
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NEW CHARTER PLAN
GIVEN STUDY HERE
HILLSBORO — Hillsboro’s
proposed new streamlined city
charter was studied by a group
of representative citizens meet
ing recenthly with the council.
A further analysis of the chart
er by the council charter commit
tee will be held before the chart
er is finally submitted to the vot
ers.
A councilman, in explaining
the reasons for a new charter,
said that changing conditions ne
cessitated so many many amend-
mnts that it was deemed better
to have an entirely new charter.
The charter under which the city
is now clperating was enacted in
December, 1923.
RED CROSS SETS
WAR FUND GOAL
PRINEVILLE — Crook coun
ty’s goal in the American Red
Cross 1944 War Fund campaign
will be $5,800 compared with $4,-
400 last year, according to word
received here. Of this quota, $4,-
700 will be used by the National
Red Cross and $1,100 will re
main in Crook county to carry on
the activities of the county chap
ter.
The increase of quota is neces
sary due to the extremely heavy
demand anticipated by the Red
Cross in this most fateful' year of
the war.
THREE BANKS SHOW
GAINS OF $1,750,000
FOREST GROVE — Three
banks serving western Washing
ton county report deposit gains
of over $1,750,000 over the same
period a year ago. The Forest
Grove National bank deposits
gained $854,208.56 during the
year to reach a total of $3,347,-
346.84, with total assets now of
$3,501,048.66. The First Nation
al bank gained $741,062.56 in de
posits to reach a total of $2,191,-
640.86 in deposits and $2,313,-
969.14 in total resources. The
Washington County bank of
Banks reported deposit gain of
$154,833.59 to reach a total of
$547,116.81. Total assets of this
bank now total $572,245.36.
The Forum
er thq preceding year. This was
according to figures released by
the office of the city manager.
The rise was characteristic of
the continual upsweep consump
tion the system has enjoyed dur
ing the past ten years. During
that period there has been an
increase of approximately 409
per cent.
It is believed that the continu
al rise in consumption is mainly
due to increased use of electrical
appliances. During the last few
years there has also been in
crease in population. These two
facts plus expansion in indus
trial use have been mainly re
sponsible for the gain.
THE
,
TILLAMOOK — Thjs county
has contributed $10,468.63 to the
Oregon war chest fund with a
few solicitors yet to turn in their
funds. It is desired that the drive
for this year terminate by Feb
ruary 29, when the annual board
meeting will be held in Portland.
4TH WAR BOND DRIVE
QUOTA ANNOUNCED
TILLAMOOK — I. E. Keldson,
chairman of the Tillamook coun
ty war finance committe has re
ceived word that Tillamook coun
ty’s quota in the fourth war loan
drive will be $769,600.00. Two
hundred solicitors have been se
lected for th enew drive and in
struction meetings are to be held.
HILLSBORO—Need for funds
to combat infantile paralysis—
“the great crippier”—is greater
this year than ever before due
to the great increase in polio re
cently. This was the declaration
of Mervin Brink, chairman of
the Lions club committee which
will conduct the annual Hillsboro
campaign'for the National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis, in
announcing the local drive from
January 14 through Jan. 30.
ENROLLMENT AT SCHOOL
AT RECORD LEVELS
SEASIDE — .School enroll
ment rose to neiw high peaks
here following the opening of
school after the Christmas holi
days, according to reports. Re
markable gains have been made
in enrollment since the same per
iod of last year and totals are
now at record levels for the
schools.
Enrollment at the
Central
school last week stood at 510
pupils, an all-time high. This com
pares with 415 pupils last year.
Gains in enrollment at the high
school are similar. The total fol
lowing the holidays was 240. At
the same time last year the en
rollment was 197.
Washington
Snapshots
In its first session, the 78th
congress established a unique
reconi. During its almost con
tinuous session of 11 months it
met every administration request
for the successful prosecution of
■OUTSIDERS’ SHOULD COME
the war—but it declined to fol
INSIDE IS OPINION
SALEM—Without bothering to low it on many basic issues.
To meet the costs of all-out
make a “survey” or estimate,
it is felt that ninety per cent of global war, both democrats and
the people of Salem agree with republicans joined to boost the
Mayor Doughton that the several national debt limit to $200 bil
thousand people who live just lion, in extending lend-lease, con
outside the corporation lines on tinuing the president’s authori
the outskirts of the city, should ty to negotiate reciprocal trade
either vote themselves in or cease agreements and meeting the
to receive the benefits of city aconomic problems of service
services paid for by those on the men’s dependents by boosting al
city tax rolls—water, fire and lotments and allowances.
But—for the first tjme in a
police protection, paving, sewers,
decade — congress served notice
etc.
by its actions on a score of is
CITY POWER CONSUMPTION
sues that it was «determined to
SHOWS CLIMB
restore to the legislative branch
Forest Grove — Despite war its duties and responsibilities
time restrictions on electrical ap under the constitution.
pliances, consumption of electric
It brought to an end the pol
ity at Forest Grove during 1943 icy of extending to the executive
took a 26.5 per cent increase ov- branch “blank checks” of author
ity and power.
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The Vernonia Eagle
On every occasion it moved to
bring to an end the practice
Marvin Kamholz
which had developed through
Editor and Publisher
government administration by
Entered as second class mail directives rather than by statu
matter, August 4. 1922, at the tory laws.
post office in Vernonia, Ore
The most outstanding exampl
gon, under the act of March 3. es of congressional defiance of
1879.
administration
leadership were
its over-riding of the presiden
Official Newspaper of
tial veto of the Smith-Connally
Vernonia. Oregon
anti-strike bill, and the repeal of
the $25,000 salary limitation di
rective of the president.
While congress made in 1943
P uiiism ( ei . j
* TI 0 > an imposing effort to stem the
tide of bureaucratic government,
many issues involving domestic
NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL—
issues remain for the second ses
Q44 W* ASSOCIATION sion which promise further con
flicts between the executive and
legislative branches.
Part XXI
ARITHMETIC IN PLANTS
AND PLANETS
CHEST FUNDS
GETS $10,000
ANNUAL POLIO DRIVE
OPENS JANUARY 14
INSPIRATION OF THE
BIBLE
Oui of the W oods
BY
quency” is that they are all designed
Trees and Boys ...
Yesterday it was just another to reform and make over natural-
speck on the map of forest land born bums and hellcats, while the
owned by the state of Washington. majority of kids—who behave them
Today the boys of Snoqualmie, Fall selves—are neglected. It’s exactly
City and North Bend are surveying the' same proposition as that of
it as their own, 80 acres, under the blaming all war industry labor for
direction of District Fire Warden the sins of its small minority of
Earl Forbes. The hills, the water tramps, or of accusing all industry
courses, the growing trees and a management of war profiteering be
hundred other forms of plant life, cause here and there a few have
a erooked course.
the birds and animals, the stumps taken
and windfalls, are all for the Junior The public keeps its head on
charges
against labor and manage
Forest Wardens to use for work, ment in war
industfy. But we seem
study and recreation. The State just
have gone haywire on “juvenile
keeps title to the land, the soil, itself. to
It is a community project. Forest delinquency." Let’s slow down and
Industry, the local labor union, the give our real kids a real break.
American Legion, the Boy Scouts, Junior Forestry Is War Service ...
the Y.M.C.A., the State Division of The everyday boys between 9 and
Forestry, and the U. S. Forest Serv 16 are as eager to take a real part in
ice are all behind the Junior Forest the war effort as older boys and
Wardens and their work on 80 acres men are. They don’t want to be
coddled, pampered and lectured—
of tree growing land.
At Shelton the Simpson Logging they do not feel that they need to be
Company has made a similar lean of “saved." What they want is some
40 acres near the town for junior thing substantial to do beside going
forestry projects and outings. At to school and buying war stamps.
Aberdeen and Longview boys’ for We have a simple answer in our
ests are in prospect. Trees and boys forest region, in every town and
neighborhood of Western Oregon
are
• natural good companions.
and Washington. Even in Portland,
What’s Juvenile Delinquency? ...
Tacoma and Seattle there are areas
It’s the bunk. The term, “juvenile of forest land within hiking distance
delinquency,” makes me mad every of most neighborhoods. Any sort of
time I read or hear it. The basic boys’ organization can adapt the
fact on it is that there has always Junior Forest Wardens program of
been a minority of toughies and Keep Washington Green or the
hellcats among the population of Guards program of the Keep Oregon
boys and girls. Of such was the Green Association to its own uses.
gang of kids you read about in the The forestry agencies will provide
Old Testament, who tormented guidance and materials. So boys,
Elisha, hollering at him, “Go up! Go and girls too, can be formed into
up, thou baldhead!” Probably they real forces for forest fire prevention
did worse, as Jehovah sicked a pack and for tree growing. Both are real
of bears on the tough kids, to "tare” war work.
them.
The kids need those little tracts
In normal times the mean minor of forest land, to be theirs for use if
ity of kids is commonly kept under not as property. Now in wartime
control without resort to bears or our super-colossal national parks
other drastic measures. But in the are as useless cs Babe the Blue Ox.
stress and fevers of wartime the But we can get down to earth and
tough babies run wild and loose, deal with the simple plain facts of
raise big stinks and make sensation what recreational and educational
al news. And the regular, everyday use of forest land really means. That
boys and girls, at least 90 per cent of 80 acres at Snoqualmie and the Shel
our kids everywhere, have suspicion lton 40 will be of more actual ser
and blame cast on them for the hell vice to the boys of Washington than
all the hundreds of acres of national
raising of the few.
The trouble with most current ef parks will be in 1944. What about
forts to deal with "juvenile delin- your town and your boys?
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.
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.
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 — Morhing
worship service.
6:30 — Junior and
Y. P. Christian
Endeavor.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 p.m. Thursday — Bible
study and prayer meeting.
St. Mary’«
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.
First Christian Church
—The Livingstonew Ministers
9:45—Bible school. M. L. Her
rin, superintendent.
11:00—Junior church.
11:00—Morning communion and
preaching. Subject of sermon:
“As the Twig Is Bent.”
7:30—Evening song, communion
and preaching. Sermon subject:
“How Important Am I?”
7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meet
ing.
Let us consider another law
of vegetation, which is termed—
phyllotaxis, that is, the law of
leaf arrangement. If the leaves
upon a stem were arranged by
chance they might sometimes be
alt upon «one side of the stem
and sometimes upon the other
side; or they might be arranged
in one or two rows from top to
bottom, each leaf standing ex
actly above the first leaf in the
row.
There would, however, be a
difficulty in the way of this ar
rangement—leaves cannot grow
properly without light and air;
and by this arrangement the up
per tier of leaves would get all
the light, while the lower ones
would be in perpetual shade;
hence, though this plan might
commend itself to some of those
geniuses who think they could
improve upon the making of thjs
world, yet, practically it would
not work well.
Of course, the seeds of a
plant would need a liberal
amount of sunshine to
ripen
them and in accordance with
this requirement we find that
they are usually put at the top
of the plant, where nothing can
shade them. But while it wouli
also seem necessary that the
leaves of a plant «should shoot
out in various directions, so that
the tree would not become one
sided and tip over, yet to ar
range them so as to give each
leaf a fair chance at the light
which comes from above, would
require somewhat careful plan
ning. And as this is something
about which chance would know
nothing, care nothing, and do
nothing, if anything is done to
meet this
obviously important
condition of things, it must be
done by design. What has been
done? The answer to this ques
tion might fill a chapter. '
The early geometers, thous
ands of years ago, undertook to
mark out a pentagon, or five
sided figure, within a circle. In
endeavoring to do this, they were
obliged first to divide the circle
into two parts, one of which is
a fraction less than 382 thous
andths of the circle, the other is
a fraction more than 618 thous
andths, the fractional difference
between these two parts being of
such a nature that it is impos
sible to represent it by figures.
They accomplished their pur
pose by so dividing the whole
that the smaller part should bear
to the larger the same proportion
that the larger bears to the
whole; and reckoning from this
basis, they were able to effect
the desired division. This method
of division ig described as “ex
treme and mean ration,” and
leads to a result more accurate
than can be reached by any
arithmetical calculation.
This division is “extreme and
mean ration” has been known
and used in geometry from be
fore the Christian era to the
present day; but it was not un
til 1849 that any one suspected
that this principle existed in na
ture. But if we go into the or
chard and examine a young apple
or cherry tree or sprout, we shall
find that it’s leaves are arranged
around the stem spirally in ser
ies of fives, the fifth leaf, or
bud, standing directly above the
first. But this placing of five
leaves at equal distances around
the central stem of a plant, in
volves the ancient problem of
the pentagon and embodies the
principle of division in “extreme
and mean ration,” which is in
expressible in figures; and this
principle is continually employ
ed in nature, in so dividing the
circumferences of plants, or
stems, that the leaves and
branches may be evenly distrib
uted around the stalk, thus giv
ing each its fair and proper
chance to catch the light and
air from above and also main
taining the balance and symetry
of the tree.
Starting from any leaf of any
plant, as a zero, and counting
around and upward till we find
another leaf which stands exact
ly above the first—which in gras
ses will be the second, in sedges
the third, in the quince and the
raspberry the fourth, in the ap
ple and cherry tree the fifth, in
the peach and pear the sixth, in
the holly and aconite the eighth,
in the rosettes of the houseleek
and cones of the white pine the
thirtenth, and in ertain pine
cones the fifty-fifth—we shall
find the principles of mathemati
cal law constantly exhibited in
the distribution of these leaves.
And we shall find that the num
ber of leaves in a series and the
number of z turns of the spiral
before a leaf stands directly ov
er the first, as a rule, are in all
individual plants or trees of each
species exactly the same.
We can thus trace arithmetical
arrangement in every tree and
bough and plant around us. And
we shall find each plant made
upon its own plan, and its leaves
in
every
instance
regularly
counted off by this same math
ematical mind.
We are not, of course, to ex
pect mathematical accuracy of
division in every instance, any
more than we should expect a
parlor mirror to be polished like
a telescope reflector or a jack
knife to be finished like a sur
gical instrument; but we find
the same mathematical principles
governing the whole vegetable
creation, and showing that long
before geometries had invented
division in “extreme and mean
ration” He who Causeth the
earth to bring forth plants and
trees, understood and acted not
only upon the simplest methods
of numeration, but also th» most
obscure mathematical and geo
metrical principles.
SEEN ALSO IN THE
PLANETARY SYSTEM
But this same peculiar series
of fractions is found to be em
bodied in the orbits of the plan
etary world. Thus—“In the solar
system for example, with the ex
ception of Neptune, the inter
vals between the orbit of Mer
cury and the orbits of other
planets go on doubling or nearly
so, as we recede from the sun.
Thus the Interval between the
earth and Mercury is narly twice
as great as the interval between
Venus and Mercury; and the in
terval between Marg and Mer
cury is nearly twice as great as
that between the Earth and Mer
cury, and so on.
Here, then, we find in the
plants beneath our feet and in
the stars above our heads, evi
dence not only of unity, of de
sign and contrivance as indicat
ing a common designer, but also
of a knowledge of obstruse math
ematical principles which it took
geometries thousands of years to
discover, and thousands of years
more, after they were discovered,
to find out that they were al
ready embodied in all the plants
and trees about them, as well as
the stars that shine above us
and proclaim the majesty and
wisdom of that God who made
the earth and built the skies.
We have thus been led by
the recognition of a uniform
mathematical law, from the
planets, from
the vegetation
which clothes the earth, to the
stars that shine in heaven. And
the connection is obvious; for all
vegetation and fruitfulness de
pend upon “summer and winter,
seedtime and
harvest;” and
these are regulated by planetary
motions dccomplished in strict
accordance with mathematical
law.
Submitted by G. F. Brown
PRINCE AND PAUPER
Christ was the Prince; I the
Pauper. He stepped down from
His throne on High and in
four short years started time
anew. By word and deed. He
also set a standard by which ev
ery life must stand oi< fall. So
came Christ to dwell among
men.
I was the pauper, for I had
sold out to the world, the
flesh and the devil and they had
me stripped. At the end, Christ
died under my sins, to square me
with God. Ho ascended* back to
glory and is the Vine. I, the
branch, draws my life from Him.
—“I read my Bible every day
and recommend that you do the
same—Gen. Bernard L. Mont
gomery of the British Eighth
army to his staff officers.
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Oregon business man.
KIIP ON.............
• WITH WAR BONDS