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4 Thursday, September 14, 1944 Vernonia Eagle Security Victory Day Anticipation and Planning Can Be Done Now Planning for the event of Victory day is a move that can be and is being made now in anticipation of the end of hostilities in Europe and the victory which this country has been seeking. The announcement this week by grocery stores and a church here of their plans for the event is a wise move, for many of these store owners remember the armistice in 1918 when the populace, excited by the victory then, staged demonstrations, some of which caused damage to property. A moment of thought will reveal the fact, how ever, that the end of the war with Germany will mean only a partial victory over the Axis powers for vic tory over Japan still remains. The millions of home folks who have sons and daughters, other relatives or friends in service very likely will not be too demonstrative for they cannot help but remember that all is not over for their loved ones. Victory over Germany will mean only a long step toward complete victory, not the end of all fighting. It must be remembered, too, that production of war materials cannot end completely with the collapse of Germany because supplies will be needed to continue the fight for destruction of the Jap war machine. However, plans for celebration of V-Day over the Nazis can well be made now. Events in Oregon RECORDS SET BY SUMMER BUSINESS HERE SEASIDE — Perfect weather, combined with an urge for a last holiday and plenty of what it takes for it, brought a record crowd of visitors to Seaside for the Labor Day week end. It was quite possibly the largest crowd in the history of the city, and Certainly the largest in several years. Bank deposits show that in money volume the week end bus iness was heaviest in ithe history of Seaside. The week end brought to an end—not the vacation season— but the most prosperous summer season in Seaside’s history. The records of the Clatsop 'County Bank show an increase in money volume of at least 30 per cent for the summer business. If that were not sufficient proof the sales at the Seaside liquor store were more than- twice the total for the same months of 1943. BEAN HARVEST ENDS; HOP PICKING STARTS WILLAMINA — Bean pickers returned home last week» closing <the bean picking season for this year. During the week it had been announced by Baylis Fann ing of near Amity, in whose yards most Willamina pickers are em ployed, that he would start hop picking as soon as pickers were released from the bean fields. The hops are reasonably good. CITY RETIRES 1931 BONDS FOREST GROVE — City of Forest Grove is calling for pay ment of $11,000 in general re funding bonds issued October 1, 1931. The bonds will be redeem ed on October 1 upon presenta tion to the city treasurer at the city hall. x The bonds were issued in the depression period when there were no purchasers for the issue at the advertised sale. The bonds were sold at private sale to local purchasers. The calling of the bonds will mean taking up a bond issue on which the- city has been paying six per cent imterest. The Vernonia Eagle Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Entered as second class mail matter. August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official Newspaper of Vernonia. Oregon Subscription price. $2.50 yearly OKGloOuisMPE« P U B LIS RJS 44s*!-1*11®11 NATIONAL (DITORIAL— PUBL'C SCHOOLS OPEN WITH 705 ENROLLED TILLAMOOK—Tillamook pub lic schools opened Sept. 5, with a complete staff and an enroll ment of 705 students. This is a decrease of 83 pupils under the opening registration of last year but an increase of 17 pupils over the first day totals of two years ago. Senior high school registration was down approximately 20 per cent under last year’s totals with 167 students enrolled as compar ed with 235 for last year. CAMP WHITE TO BE PUT ON INACTIVE LIST MEDFORD—Camp White has been placed on a 30-day inactive status, according to an announce ment made a few days ago in Washington, D. C. by Senator Guy Cordon. The camp will be maintained in a standby condi tion, ready for immediate use if necessary. The future of Camp White de pends upon the situation in the Pacific, Senator Cordon said, but that the hospital at the camp will be available for army use if need ed. The camp will not be declared surplus, he said, until after con sideration has been given to what use could be made of it in any postwar training program. Washington Snapshots Legislation setting up an over all policy for disposal of surplus government property is nearing final passage. The House and Senaite passed different bills, and the measures were sent to conference. The final bill, affecting disposal of property estimated to be worth $100 billion, will be of vital importance to industry as well'as to all other elements in the American economy. . . The special house committee investigating executive agencies has called upon congress to re strict the “wide and often as sumed” authority of such agen cies. Representative Howard W. Smith (D., Va.) the committe chairman, declared that congress must enact such legislation if the citizens of the country are to have any protection from arbit rary action by those in charge of executive agencies of the gov- ernment. . . Official announcement of the government’s contract termina tion loan procedure, is being hailed as one of the biggest «aids yet received in the reconversion program. The new procedure will enable contractors to convert into cash approximately 90 per cent of the value of their invent ories and receivables on hand at the time of cancellation. Speculation in the capítol H that Donald M. Nelson will not return to the WPB al the end of his present mission to China. It was noted that a White House statement said there would be “no change in policy," but said nothing about there being no change in chairman. . • WLEDCE T he A up mp B itter , n b -26 mikhiu umucxr BOMBER, FLEHT too COMBAT MISSIONS IH EUROPE AHO BROUeHTEUER/' MEMBER Of ITS CREW BACH UHIHJUEEP —w _ BRAILLE TELEPHONE SET HAS BEEN PEVIÍEP TO HELP BLILJP PATIENTS AT LETTERAWN HOSPITAL W SAN FRANCISCO PAS5EA6ER SUBURBAN RAI LWAy TRAINS, 0PERATEP FROM EITHER ENP, ARC PLANNER FOR POSTWAR CW/S III Bunyan Fire Beasts . . . “The first and worst of them all was of course the phosphor at,” stated Old Larrity, the bull cook, dogmatically. He was back in camp again, after seven or so months in the Hibernia Home for Senior Citizens. “Yes, the mean est of the fire beasts,” he said, “was the phosphorat and the next worst was the dotard. But there were also the whammy trees, which was fortunate indeed for Paul Bunyan.” Larrity ruminated a bit, his gaze contented as it peered from the norch of his shack into the drizzle. Fire weather, which had threatened to pile up and make Labor Day week-end hell on wheels for the protection men, had been flattened by rising hu midity. Real rain was promised. Yet the threat of the week before was still hovering. “If there were only whammy trees nowadays,” breathed Lar rity wistfully. “Whammy trees saunterin’ up when certain stump ranchers get reckless with burn- in’ fern in the spring. Whammy trees strollin’ about the huck patches in the summer when the nickers come smokin' in. Wham my trees patrollin’ at a brisk trot in the crisp air of the fall hunt in’ season. There’d be far fewer forest fires, yes sir-reel “The Whammy trees, of course, were not of the standin’ timber forest fambly, but were a species of the now extinct trottin’ tim ber, said Larrity. “That is, a whammy tree had the faculty of bein’ able to up, come and go at will with its roots.” Natural Enemies . . . “If there’d been no whammy trees in Paul Bunyan’s time, like ly there’d have been no forests of any kind in our own day," the venerable bullcook continued. “For the phosphorat alone, leavin’ out such fiery critters as the dotard would have left nothin’ but the black snags of all trees, young and old. “He was the giant ancestor of the pack rat, the phosphorat Like Father, Like Son Rid the town of him. He has no call to set up in business opposite me. Get him out. And so it was that one of the gun men laid thè chap low. The boss ordered it— the ghn spoke—the boy dropped The county seat back in the southern mountains saw the murder, the press out in the state took hold of it and so it came to us. Like father like son. Mur der dates back to Cain, the son of Adam, our first par ent by whom sin and death came into the world, and like Cain, do you also hate your brother? Then you too are a murderer, for—Whoso hateth his brother is a murderer and ye. know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. BIBLE-John 3:15 Like father—like son. God the Father is the Great Lover. Herein is Love. Not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to become a Mercy Seat for us. COURT ROOM SCENE— Stands the prisoner about to be led away to die. Mercy WPB has announced relaxa tions on use of all colors in shoe manufacture, to apply to all foot wear except two-tone shoes. Previously all-black, white, army russet, town russet, and natural colors were permitted. was. He,had a tail long enough to reach, down any bunkhouse chimney and come up with a blazing coal or smokin’ ember, which the phosphorat would take in his jowls and make off with it to bury in the forest duff or up in a snag. Then from that smolder he would pack other em bers away to make yet more fires. Some said the phosphorat was a natural born fire eater, while others argied he packed fire around just from inborn meanness. “Nobody blamed the dotard so much. He was a dull, dumb, do- less timber beast Which just maundered about bleary eyed in the woods, always itchin’. It was the dotards misfortune to have hair that would strike fire tike matches when rubbed too hard. So when the dotard would scratch his ribs against a tree he’d scat ter fire every which ways. It was the luck of the forest 'that wham my trees appealed to the dumb dotard as the best of all for rib-scratchin’. One never got more than the first scratch. Up would swing a corked root, and down would wham a lead-cored limb--and it was a dead dotad. The Great Fire Preventer. . . “With swivel-hung club boughs and movable corked, kickeroo roots, the whammy trees knew no restraint of law, morals, or bleeding hearts, when they found a phosphorat packin’ fire or a dotard scatterin’ blazin’ bits of his splintery hair. It was ‘wham!’ to the right of them and ‘wham!’ to the left of them until every dotard in sight had his ribs caved in and every phosphorat was as cold as all political oratory is on every first Wednesday of Novem ber. The whammy trees were in deed perfect fire guards and patrols for Paul Bunyan.” “And I still maintain,” said Old Larrity grimly, “that we’ll have ito go back to it to save the forests—to the wham method of forest fire prevention, I mean.” Pleads—Spare him Judge, out of your love for him, spare him. Next speaks the law— Judge, the prisoner must die. You yourself have railed that the wages of sin is death. An gels and men would hang their heads in shame, if you failed your own law. He must die. Enters the Son—My Fath er, the law is just; it must take its course. It demands a death. I have no sin, I will take the prisoners place and die under his sin. So it is that the Judgement Seat is now a Mercy Seat. Yes, God had a Son who died for our sins. Count yourself cleared; receive Him into your heart; by His power, to live to the glory of God. 3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port land 1, Oregon. This space paid for by an Ore gon business man. SMOKERS SET FIRES One-quarter of all forest fires in this country are set by care less smokers. Rona Morris Workman . Vernonia, Ore. Every man has his own idea of what constitute# security. To one, money in the bank expresses it; to another, land Is the symbol, but to the Big Boss a smoke house filled with brown, savory hams and baccn, with a few slabs of smoked salmon aand some long tender strips of dried beef or venison, is the ultimate. Mine, I believe, is a fruit house, dark and cool, with row after row of shining jars of peaches and pears and deep purple prunes, clear jellies and thick, rich jams, the cool green of pickles and string beans, golden carrots ready to serve, tender green peas and scarlet tomatoes, and a shelf or two with 'home-canned meat, tender and brown and rich. Be neath them are bins of smooth clean pota'oes ready for baking, a few glden pumpkins waiting to be made into pies, and, in one corner, a big stone jar of sour- krout. Most of our deep-rooted ideas stem from childhood, and both the Big Boss and I can remem ber when well-filled fruit and smoke houses meant real secur ity for the long winter ahead. Beth of us can recall the long trio to the nearest city in the fall to “lay in” supplies of flour and coffee, of sugar and rice and the other things one did not raise on a farm. For we were both born on farms and, though we both grew up in a different way of life, yet those childhood years have marked us-and have drawn us again to the land. What a treat those yearly trips to town were to a little wide-eyed girl! She wakened in the grey light of dawn tft eat a hurried breakfast by lamplight, while Dad hitched old May and George to the lumbering farm wagon for the twenty-four mile drive to Eugene. Twenty-four miles-a long day’s drive then, but now quickly covered, even at 35 miles an hour. Mother, rustling around in her best black silk, checked for the hund redth time the long list, for nothing must be forgotten, while she combed and braided the long heavy hair of a small daughter who could not stand still for verv excitement. And then the long road, the sun just clearing the distant hills, the little spurts of white dust beneath the horses’ feet, the jangle of harness, the grind of steel wagon tires against an occasional rock, hour after hour, but no hour was too long for there were new houses and fields to see, strange faces, child ren who paused in their play to stare with interest, and at last rhe city—a real city with board walks and stores filled with fas cinating things one could look at but never hope to buy. Then the night in a hotel, aft- ter Dad had put the horses up at the livery stable around the cor ner, and most exciting of all, a meal in, a restaurant. Can life ever again offer such deep de light? Next day, the shopping for sturdy shoes for the two-mile walk to school, the bright prints for new school dresses, broad ribbons for the brown braids of hair, long black stockings and— wonderful to remember—a Beauti ful New Store Hat, warm red to match ihe new dress, for Sunday School. A little tired now and content to sit quietly while Mother and Dad went down the long list of foods, and frowned a little at how high prices were, and figured a bit on the back of an old envelope. But there was always enough left over to buy a small daughter a bag of striped candv and another book in 'the Alcott or “Five Little Peppers” series. (The striped candy has long since disappeared, but I stiil have the books, worn and tattered, but precious beyond telling.) Then the road again, with the late afternoon sunlight turning the little dust clouds to luminous gold, and the shopping by the old McKepzie river bridge, with nosebags of oats for old May and George and for ourselves a picnic supper with store crackers and sliced bologna as a strange and delicious trqat. and afterward ¿he soft road under the dark sky and the stars and a wearv child with her head in her mother’s lap. Time? have changed, but old ideas remain and exert a pull which will not be denied, so the ' Big Boss fattens his pigs and fills his smoke-house and I can my fruit and vegetables and make jelly, and one of these days we may drive in and load up with flour and salt and rice and coffee, and I may even buy my self a bag of striped candy in rememberance of the little won- der-eved. brown-haired girl of long ago. LUMBER USED MOST About 80 percent of the mat erial used for construction in the United States is lumber. The Forum BIBLE MILLENNIUM ■ Part 1 The word Millennium i# not found ip the Bible; but as this musical word falls upon the ear, it carries with it a vague promise of peace and happiness to many minds; millennium is made up of two Latin words, meaning a tnou- sand year, and covers the time during which Satan is to be bound. Let us now establish the fact, that there are two resurrections, first, quoting John 5:28,29. “Mar vel not at his: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resur rection of life; they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.” Also Acts 24:15. quoting the words of Paul: “And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and un just.” The Bible student would nat urally want to know when these i.wo resurrections will take place, which will be the first, and how far they will be apart; the Bible gives very definite answers to these questions. As to the first resurrection, and who will take pant in it, we quote 1 Thess. 4:16. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and the trimp of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: “also 1 Cor. 15:25. “But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christs at his coming.” It is now firmly established that the righteous come up in the first resurrection at the sec ond coming of Christ; these same righteous ones are further de scribed in Rev. 20;4.---- -quoting “And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the wit ness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not wor shiped the beast, neither his im age, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a 1000 years.” Notice carefully, that Christ does not come to earth when he comes the second 'time: read: 1 Thess.4:17.“Then we which are alive and remain shajl be CAUGHT UP together with them IN THE CLOUDS, to meet the Lord IN. THE AIR and so shall we ever be with the Lord,’’ with this the apostle John a- grees: John: 14:2,3.“In my Fath er's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, f will come again, and receive you unto my self; that where I am, there ye, may be also.” Observe that Christ went to the Father's house to prepare a place, and that place is not on this earth. Why should it be necessary to quote additional scripture to prove that the righteous spend their millennial days in heaven? however we will add still fur ther evidence: notice that some of the same company of firsit resurrection saints: Rev. 20:4. “stand on the sea of glass, hav ing the harps of God.” Rev. 15:2.;’ but where is this sea of glass? turn in your Bibles to Rev.4:2,6. “And immediately I was in the spirit; and, behold, a throne was sea in heaven, and one sait on the throne.................. and before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal. This poves con clusively that the resurrected righteous dead, who come up in the first resurrection, are taken to heaven and are before the throne of God; now let us prove simply and very conclusive ly, that this is paradise, in the third heaven where God reigns on his thone. In Rev. 22:1,2. we read:“And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life; .... nlease notice the tree of life, is by the river of life that flows out of the throne of God. Now turn in your Bibles to Rev.2:7 .................... “To him that over- cometh, will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is the midst of the Paradise of God.” The apostle Paul speaking of his own experience in 2 Cor. 12:2-4. makes these statements: “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago..................... such an one caught up to the third heaven; and I knew such a man, .... how that he was caught 4in into Paradise.” And so we find that the third heaven is Paradise, where the throne of God is. and the sea of glass, and where the blessed who have a part in the first, resurrection stand before God. We now understand that the righteous dead who are raised, and the righteous who are still living when Christ comes the second ‘‘¡me. go to heaven with him and reign a thousand years; in our next article We will con sider the wicked, both living and dead. Submitted bv G F Hr«,.-, NEW AND USED PARTS Expert Auto Repairing Ga* and Oil Open at 7:30 A.M.; Closed at 7:30 P.M. WE CLOSE ALL DAY SUNDAY LYNCH AUTO PARTS Phone 773 RIVERVIEW