4 _ Thursday, September 7, 1944
Vernonia Eagle
Autumn
More Harm Than Good Comes
From an Old Opinion
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Anyone who has been observant of the homes in
Vernonia will have noticed that during the past two
or three years much has been done to improve the ap­
pearance of residences. That fact, that many homes
have been improved by painting and by improved
construction makes apparent that some residents here
have faith in this area and intend to make it their
permanent home.
For a good many years past, the one topic of con­
versation that has probably done more harm than
any other is that no future exists for Vernonia. That
idea has been voiced for many years past with the
result that a feeling of unrest has been kept alive in
the minds of many. With that feeling of unrest there
is little desire for improvement of the community and
thereby the community suffers.
Many new people have purchased property here
in the last year or so. These people surely would not
be investing their money if they did not hold some
thought of a favorable future with the opinion that
they could provide for themselves a comfortable liv­
ing. The opinion that this region has something to
offer in the above respect will do much to further ad­
vancement here.
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Go Back to School
The approaching school term at a time when wages
are high and employment is to be found easily has
brought forth the fear by officials that many older
students will not return to classes this fall. That
thought no doubt has a good deal of basis for many
of those students will wish to retain their employment
while it is possible to earn more money than would
be true under ordinary circumstances.
However, there is something to lose on the other
side of the ledger for the knowledge to be gained, if
the student is willing, will eventually far outweigh
the immediate monetary gain to be made now. The
money can be spent easily but the knowledge will
never be lost and in turn it can be devoted to greater
gain at a future time.
Events in
Oregon
NUT DRYER
TO OPEN SOON
HILLSBORO — Hillsboro unit
of the Dundee Nut Growers will
be ready for the fall filbert crop
September 15 and for walnuts a-
bout October 14, according to M.
P. Cady, chairman of the building
committee. An investment of ap­
proximately $25,000 by the Dun­
dee Nut Growers, the new dryer
will be a great convenience to
members of the association in
Washington county and vicinity.
The newest methods of hand­
ling both walnuts and filberts
have been incorporated in the
new dryer.
weather. On Tuesday the tem­
perature went to 95 degrees,
which was on-e degree above the
official temperature for the same
day in Portland and (three de­
grees above the maximum for
Astoria. It was the hotest day in
a year.
Washington
Snapshots
We’re going to need compe­
tent, experienced businessmen to
guide disposal policies on war
surplusses, the national associa­
tion of manufacturers has told
(the senate military affairs com­
mittee, now mulling over the
problem. What the NAM suggests
i a seven-man commission nomin­
WARRENS SHIP TWO
ated by the president and ap­
CARLOADS OF BULBS
the senate, each
FOREST GROVE — Two car­ proved by
loads of daffodils were shipped member to have had at least five
last week by Robert Warrens to year's industrial or merchandise
Chicago and New York and a executive experience, this com­
crew of 20 is planting next mission to be responsible to and
report directly to congress. It's
year’« crop.
This is one of the largest an important job, say they, and
shipments Mr. Warrens has made “will trongly influence the speed
as the two refrigerator cars as­ with which we can reconvert to
signed are the largest he has a high level of peacetime pro­
used. About 40,000 bulbs were duction and employment.”
The NAM wants to guard a-
placed in each car, in 300 cases.
A crew of 12 to 15 has worked gainst indiscriminate “dumpings
this year in the daffodil fields of surplus” war plants after the
which cover 13 acres. Daffodils war, because they would lead to
are planted in new ground each disruptions in the economy which
year and only bulbs are sold. would not help either production
The Warrens are members of an or employment. Here’s what they
asssociation whose members sell recompiend:
(1) Opportunity for small as
bulbs only.
well a- large business to purchase
TEMPERATURE HITS
surplus property.
95 FOR RECORD
(2) Disposal of the property
SEASIDE — A one-day hot through regular trade channels.
spell Tuesday of last week was
(3) Disposal abroad of war
brought ito an end Wednesday surpluses held outside the U.S.,
by
lower
temperatures and with strict provision against sub­
Thursday several claps of thun­ sequent entry of such goods into
der, with a slight shower, indi­ the U.S.
cated a marked change in the
(4) Elimination of government
interest from private plants as
rapidly as possible.
The Vernonia Eagle
(5) Plants not disposed of by
Marvin Kamholz
government should not be operat­
Editor and Publisher
ed in competition with private
Entered as second class mail industry.
(6) Private manufacture to be
matter, August 4, 1922, at the
post office in Vernonia, Oregon, utilized for all military produc­
under the act of March 3, 1879. tion but arsenals and navy yards.
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
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INSECT DAMAGE STOPPED
Selective logging. which re­
moves infested and diseased
trees, is perhaps the most prac­
tical way of controlling insect
damage to forests.
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•For Filllire Needs-
Tree Farmer with Bark on
A friendly grin and wave of
the hand, and he went right on
sawing wood as we got out of
the car. That was all right with
the three of us—two foresters
and an inkslinger for the wood
sawing of Jasper Storm, Esquire,
Tree Farmer, was something to
see.
An old Chewy had been
stripped down to motor, hood,
chassis, and rear wheels —tires
included.
The jacked-up rear
end was rigged with pulleys and-
shaft to run the cutoff saw, with
the tires rolling the pulleys, then
the conveyer.
It was a rising trough, with a
flat chain running up the bottom
and hung on sprockets—a regular
sawmill-to-burner conveyor in
miniature.
Oh, sure— Jasper is an old log­
ger. A timber faller for 25 years,
he retired to tree farming.
From Cucara to Flat Peas . , .
When the last stick had pinged
from the buzzsaw, Mr. Storm
took the three of us on a walking
tour of his 320-acre farm that
I’ll never forget. It was a won­
derful demonstration of a pleas­
ant, inspiring and modestly prof­
itable way of life.
Jasper Storm was operating on
a program of sound forest prac­
tice to provide for continuous
production of wood crops on his
land in the future. His second
growth fir and
hemlock and
cedar poles, although in good
part now marketable, were being
left to put on more annual
growth. His present one-man op­
eration was actually a salvage
job. Not a tree was being felled
for his wood cutting. The ground
Say It With Love
Of all who ever went into the
grave, Christ alone has come
forth to quicken His people.
And what did Christ in His
day? What is it that He now
passes on to us? He passes on
to us His undying love for sinful
man.- “While we were yet sin­
ners, Christ died for us."-BIBLE.
And now He implants in His peo­
ple this same undying love for
others.
Look into China and see that
love at work in ithe heart of the
Generalissimo as he prays for
the Japanese. Ye»- The Spirit
of the Risen Christ quickens
Chiang Kai Shek to pray for
the enemy, even while they bomb
his cities.
Here it comes home- Do you
profess Christ and yet not at all
POSSESS Him? Do you love the
Lord of God with all your heart,
soul, strength, and mind and your
neighbor as yourself? This is the
Spirit of Christ. And-“If any
man have not the Spirit of Christ
he is none of His.” Romans 8:9.
Are you one of those who
merely profess Christ and yet
will sleep in Christless graves?
Do you POSSESS Him? Did He
die for you? Have you made Him
the Lord of your life?
This space paid for by an Ore­
gon business man.
was being cleared of windfalls.
The foresters agreed it was al­
ready in remarkable condition.
Twenty-five years a timber
faller, now primed with young
ideas aand enthusiasm for what
could be made out of the in­
creasing values of ithe junior
forest (second growth), Jasper
Storm stood with us as one with
a kind of wealth that made mon­
ey look cheap.
Happiness Haven . . .
Yes, it was here in this grow­
ing, thriving forest—this tree
farm. Jasper Storm and the for­
esters had a really wonderful
time searching out Cascara seed­
lings and talking them over. The
discussion went from practical
botany to the strange social be­
havior represented by Cascara
bark thieves who, like Christ­
mas tree thieves, frequently in­
sist on their rights to steal trees
on any property at any itime.
Growing Cascara trees for the
medicine market and Douglas fir
for the Christmas tree market—
both can be safely planned for
now, because there will be e-
nough tree farmers to enforce
the trespass laws before long.
Jasper Storm had a fern pro­
blem, also. It was on a good-sized
patch of roadside land where
nothing but bracken fern had
grown for many years, burning
over several ¡times. Now the Soil
Conservation Service was trying
out a type of wild pea on the
land. The plants had grown all
over the high ferns and were
loaded with little pods. Can cat­
tle fatten, or even live, on this
forage crop? The answer will
mean a lot to Jasper Storm and
other farmer-tree-farmers.
The Forum
Editor, Vernonia Eagle:
Twenty-five years ago, Oregon
started this nation upon one of
the greatest constructive tax pro­
grams
in history by merely
placing a small tax upon each
gallon of gasoline used for trans­
portation purposes, and immed­
iately using the revenue for one
specific purpose: to build and
maintain better highways. This
program has now revolutionized
our entire national highway sys­
tem.
This fall, the clear thinking
voters of Oregon are going to
start another tax program that
will eventually revolutionize our
entire economic system, just as
completely and successfully, as
the gasoline tax has done for
our highway system.
Now, money is the gasoline
that we use to keep our econo­
mic engine running.
Oregon’s
Employment and Retirement Mu­
tual Insurance Plan will merely
place a small tax upon ithe dol­
lars used—with certain exemp­
tions—in our economic engine.
The revenue therefrom will again
be immediately used each month
for another specific program: to
build and maintain a permanent
highway of buying poweT among
cur physically unemployable cit­
izens over 18 and those who
wish to retire at 60.
3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port­
By adopting this scientific in­
land 1, Oregon.
surance program on Nov. 7, Orc.
Rona Morris Workman
Vernonia, Ore.
“The tumult and the shouting
dies; the captains and the kings
depart.” The ranch house is emp­
ty, clean and so lonely and quiet.
The big table in the ranch kitch­
en no longer is circled by nine
laughing faces. It has been fun
these last two weeks for a Mar­
ine son, a soldier son, a daugh­
ter, a married son, my daughter­
in-love and their roly-poly young­
sters have eaten Mom’s cooking
again, laughed over old escapades
and hoary family jokes and for­
got for a llittle time that war
and work would separate them
again.
When I was very young I
thought that autumn was a sad
part of the year, and that the
middle-age of life was something
to be dreaded. To be quite truth­
ful, at twenty I was convinced
that anyone who had lived to be
thirty-five should
be gently
passed on to another world, since
surely they had nothing more to
expect of life here. But thirty
years added to that twenty have
given me a broader outlook. Au­
tumn to me now is no longer
sad but a season of completion.
The hurry of bearing new life
and bringing it to growth is over.
The seeds and fruits of effort
are ripened and ready to carry
forward ‘he cycle of their own
reproduction. I can fully under­
stand a motherly old apple tree,
he branches heavy with ripened
fruit, or a grain field of yellow
wheat waiting the harvest. The
work is finished. There is a deep
warm feeling of good things
accomplished, a sense of com-
p'eteness, a moment’s rest upon
the upward-reaching wave of life.
A moment’s rest, then, even as
tree and field gathers again its
energy for new growth, so, I
think, should we of middle age
prepare for greater growth in
the new spring which surely
comes. For even as tree and field
carries on, so do we, and the
autumn and winter of our lives
should be a time of preparation
for future growth.
We have time now for study,
for thought, for action along new
lines of endeavor. Minds have
matured under the stress of life.
Shall we allow them to lie fallow,
over-grown with weeds that must
be torn out when a new spring
comes? Our task of reproduction
is done. Our work as the custodi­
an of life is completed, and we
can look upon our handiwork
and see that it is good, but other
lives lie ahead, and for them we
must prepare. And so from all
that is about us, from books and
creative work, from human na­
ture and human life and joy,
and even sorrow, we may draw
to us that which we need, ab­
sorbing it, transmuting it into a
fuller richer soil through autumn
and winter, so that when a new
spring comes, we shall be ready
to give more abundantly, to serve
more fully, for this is evolution,
the ever-climbing way that will
some day reach perfection.
Yes, autumn is a fine season
and so is winter, but spring and
summer are heaps o’ fun. Per­
haps the last two weeks have
been what might be called Indian
Summer. Again I have been the
center of things, my kitchen
filled with noise and laughter,
my loaves of fresh bread robbed
of their “heels” by men who
are boys again for the moment,
the feel of little hands pulling at
my skirts once more, the unex­
pected guests dropping in at meal
time, the crowding in of extra
plates at the big table, adding
dumplings to the chicken and
gravy to “stretch” them a bit,
the familiar F.B.H. to the fam­
ily—which, decoded, means “fam­
ily hold back”—and the enjoy­
ment of a meal with all your
family and guests about you.
You know, life is really worth­
while-spring or summer, autumn
or winter, it is filled to the brim
with the wine of delight. I
wouldn’t have missed it for any­
thing.
will again
lead America—this
time out of the economic “mud”
of the past-into stabilized eco­
nomic security of the future.
Maude P. Lewis
3306 Lake Road
Portland 2, Mil. branch
Oregon.
INSULATES
Wood is a natural insulator
for refrigerators.
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At the
Churches
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
8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on.
First Christian Church
—The Livingstones, Ministers
9:45—Bible school. M. L. Herrin,
superintendent. Classes for all;
11:00—Morning communion ser­
vice and preaching.
Sermon subject: “Man’s Su­
preme Want.”
7:30—Evening communion and
preaching.
Sermon subject, “Conquer­
ing Fear.”
6:45—Wednesday, church night
with luncheon. Sunday, Octo­
ber 1st, Evangelist lEarl Han­
son Fife begins meetings.
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 Charles
Long, Branch President.
Earl
Genzer, First Coun.
Evangelical Church
—Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister
9:45 —
Sunday
school.
11:00 — Morning
worship service.
7:00—Junior En­
deavor and Evan­
gelical Youth Fellowship meet­
ing.
8:00 P. M. — Evangelistic ser­
vice.
8:00 P. M. Thursday — Bible
study and prayer meeting.
Assembly of God Church
William and D. Reed, Ministers
9:45—Sunday school with clas­
ses for all ages.
11:00—Morning worship.
11:00—Children’s church.
6:30—Young people’s Christ
Ambassadors service.
7:30—Evangelistic service.
7:30 Wednesday evening—Mid­
week service.
7:30 Friday evening—People’s
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—
First Saturday of each month.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
American Income Rises
3 Cents; Living Costs
Off One Cent from 1943
PURCHASING POWER
JUNE 1943vsJUNEI044
HE above chart, showing how
the average American fared in
national Income changes in tha
last twelve months, Is based on tha
monthly consumers' study of In­
vestors Syndicate of Minneapolis. ’
The American public in June had
a "real income” of $1.03, or an in­
crease of three cents on the dollar
over the same 1943 month. This
"real income” is not a subtraction
of cash income and expenditures
but an average relative of thesa
figures designed to show how living
costs affect adjusted income dollars.
Cash income of the American
public in June was $1.02 for every
$1 a year earlier This gain of two
cents on the dollar resulted from
the following changes per dollar:
wages and salaries at $1.00 each
were unchanged; other income up
eight cents on the dollar. Invest­
ment income st $1.03 was up three
cents.
Rents In June were unchanged
compared with a year ago Clothing
was up tour cents. Food was down
four cents. Miscellaneous Items
were up two cents.
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