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4 Sawdust... Thursday, March 1, 1945_____Vernonia Eagle As the eighth week of the ses sion draws to a close, things are getting hot—and how. Flocks of controversial bills which have been slumbering in committees for many weeks are now up for a vote in both houses. These measures, together with the speed the lawmakers are showing in or der to fold up and go home by March 10, no doubt will cause the boys to work nights from now on. While every effort is being made by the leaders to finish not later than the 10th, many are of the opinion the session will last several days beyond that date. As a whole, the legislators don’t like night sessions, after grind ing all day long. Quite a few are in favor of working a few days longer instead of working nights, which may run the session to March 15 or 17, even though they have ceased to draw any pay since last Monday, Feb. 26. Many bills which have passed the house by a whopping vote are doomed in the senate, so says the grapevine. Several of the sal ary increase bills, the firemen’s pension and one old-age assist ance measure are scheduled to get the ax. And, incidentally, the house may do the same thing by several senate bills of a like nature when they get over there. Flocks of bills will also die in committee, never getting to the floor for a vote. This procedure is the favorite method used by the lawmakers to kill any bill. When the politicos wish to pre vent the people from invoking a referendum on a dubious law, they apply the emergency clause. This has been undertaken by the large Republican majority in the legislature on H. B. 306, better known as the anti-Brown bill. Al Brown is the vote-getting demo crat of Multnomah county who has wedged himself into the of fice of county-clerk—the first democrat to hold that office in more than forty years. To win, he had to defeat the veteran county commissioner, Frank Shull. The county clerk handles the election machinery, from regis tration to appointment of election judges and clerks. Seeing this job in the hands of a democrat irked the repub lican county chairman, Don Van Boskirk, who had a bill introduced to create the office of registrar of elections at $4,200 a year, the registrar to be appointed by the republican county commission ers. All republican representa tives from Multnomah county sponsored the measure. However, the republicans figured a slick way to prevept the law from being held up by a referendum, and they hornswoggled the peo ple and thumbed their noses at the referendum law by adding an emergency clause. The emergency clause says that “existing conditions are such that this is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety.” Mr. Al Brown is not such a menace, even though he is a democrat, and not by the widest stretch of the immagination does the public peace, health and safe ty require the immediate appoint ment of a registrar of elections. Representative Erwin, demo- 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 0 R E c I o QN l W S[M P E R P U B LI S 4 e R.S1 4AT I 0 N NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL— crat, told the house that the emergency clause was proposed by Van Boskirk in a letter cov ered with little rampant elephants the GOP insignia. Also he said the measure was “dirty, rotten politics.” The senate tabled the bill when it arrived there and in all probability will drastically amend it when the measure comes up for vote. To liquidate Representative Al len, democrat, Representative John Steelhammer, democrat, of fered H. B. 145, relating to the filling of legislative vacancies. Mr. Allen has been absent prac tically the entire session being ill Mr. Steelhammer slapped on the emergency clause and it sailed through the house. It would have tossed Allen out the window and permitted the republican county commissioners of Multnomah county to designate a republican for Alien’s place. The emergency clause was a little too much even for the senate’s republican ma jority, which passed the bill but eliminated the emergency clause. The public peace, health and safety, the senate decided, did not require such drastic action to replace a democrat with a repub lican. Years ago the voters of Oregon evolved a method of neutralizing the emergency clause. If there is « an emergency, well and good, but when the clause is resorted to for the purpose of political she. nanigan and defying the people, the governor of the great state of Oregon was authorized to veto this clause and permit the bill to become effective 90 days after adjourment of the legis lature—time in which to invoke a referendum. This is known as the single item veto. Views from the press gallery— Frank Shull, Francis Lambert and other Multnomah county officials are here checking up on things, including their chances for a sal ary increase. . .The king makers are busy lining up votes for the next president of the senate. Events in Oregon CLOTHING TOTALS 1400 POUNDS FOREST GROVE — Fourteen hundred pounds of clothing were given to Russian relief by Forest Grove residents during the recent drive sponsored by the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary, ac cording to Mrs. H. E. McGraw, chairman. The weight was totaled when the clothing was shipped to Port land, Feb. 14. MEETING PLANNED FOR TALK ON JAPS GRESHAM — Plans have been inaugurated for a mass meeting to be held in Gresham next month for a general discussion of the question of the return of people of Japanese ancestry to Pacific coast areas. Purpose of the meeting will be to give out correct information on the American and Christian phases of this problem at the re quest of a sizable group of resi dents of this area who are desir ous of having ‘the other side’ of this question told publicly. POLIO DRIVE NETS $2188.62 LOCALLY HILLSBORO — Funds to fight infantile pralysis collected during the recent drive in the Hillsboro area by the local Lions club a- mounted to $2188.62, according to the final report of R. J. Beat- tie, committee chairman. This fig ure is $584 more than was raised here in 1944. Forest Reserve Rentals Sent Receipts for forest reserve rentals in Oregon for the year 1944, totaling $696,254.33, were distributed to 31 counties this week by Robert S. Farrell, as secretary of state. The 1944 total is considerably greater than any for the past few years, partially as a result of increased timber sales due to wartime demands for lumber, Farrell said. In 1943, the dis tributed amounted to $362,766; in 1942 it totaled $206,007.02; and in 1941 it was $183,836.27. The fund goes to the 31 coun ties in which forest reserves are located. The fund allotted to each county depends on the acreage of forest area it contains. There is a total of 14.358,088 acres in the 31 Oregon counties contain ing federal forest reserves. Most every conversation here eventually gets around to men tion of oil whether it starts on that subject or not. The bit of information below, which ap peared iast week in another county paper, can be used for conversational purposes when all else fails. This morsel ISN’T AUTHENTIC so please don’t mis understand the wording herein and pass it along as being con firmed. This report stated: “Un confirmed reports are that Ver nonia will be center of explora tion drilling operations by the Texas company, which last week was high bidder for. 92,000 acres of taxheld land of Columbia coun ty. “How extensive the set-up in Vernonia, if the reports are true Texas will go there, is not known, but usually such operations re quire large warehouse space for equipment, supplies, commissary, offices and other facilities that a large project requires. “It was announced last week from Texas company’s Portland offices that the company is ready to launch its work as soon as all legal negotiations are cleared.” All of which doesn’t mean a thing as long as it isn’t official from the Texas company. Last week under this head ing there appeared a listing of business changes that had been made here during the past year or so. The grapevine brought back the information that men tion of one business was mis construed to mean that Hugh Divine had again sold the Squeeze-Inn. Such is NOT THE CASE so it has been told! ■Everyone apparently gets a lot of enjoyment from the ar ticles written by Rona Morris Workman judging by the fre quent comments heard. An ar ticle is appearing this week which you will no doubt enjoy and with it Mrs. Workman in cluded a note, part of which de serves mention here: “Sorry I didn’t come through with an article last week. I was fooling around with other things. Lately when I miss out, I get letters or people stop me on the street and say ‘why for,’ so I gather the darn things are read and enjoyed. You must have subscribers 4n Portland and else where for letters come in from all sorts of places. And I have learned that ‘My Son Comes Home’ has been recopied in var ious places all over the states— latest was in Indiana—but how it got there I’ll never know.” TREES DO REPLANTING A baseball field abandoned 20 years ago is now densely for ested although no seeds were planted, so liberally do trees spread seeds. QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS DUE TO EXCESS ACID years has Uncle Sam himself Free BookTellsof HomeTreatment that Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing “Just as money is the root of come up to the mourners’ bench, Over two million bottles of the W ILL A R D all evil so is the soil the root of confessed his sins and got relig TREATMENT have been sold for relief of symptoms of distress arising from Stomach all good,” stated Thoughtful Bill ion on conservation of the bank and Duodenal Ulcers due to Excoss Acid — Poor Digestion, Sour or Upset Stomach, Haggerty, peering over a hefty of life—the soil. Gassiness, Heartburn, Sleeplessness, etc., book. “I’ve been brushing up on “But we have at last the Soil due to Excess Acid. Sold on 15 days* trial! Ask for “Willard’s Message” which fully some facts along this line,” he Conservation Service of the De explains this treatment.— free— at went on, looking out the window partment of Agriculture and its VERNONIA DRUG STORE of the district fire hall at the Soil Conservation Districts every far Slopes and hills. The second where. It’s kind of like the Fed growth was black and the fern eral Reserve System and mem patches were gray in the rain. bers of banks. Through the SCS “Lovely weather,” said Thought every citizen who owns land in ful Bill. “If it would only keep the country, a few acres or till the new fern is up. But it many, can really do his part in won’t. There’ll be dry days, and restoring the soil. Get in touch match-happy stump ranchers, and with the county agent and ask thousands of acres of ferns and him can a soil man call on you— millions of tree seedlings go up that’s all that’s needed for a in smoke. simple start. “And wealth of the soil will go “But the big job in these parts up in the smoke of the fern fires is to keep fire off the land,” also,” said the old fire warden concluded Thoughtful Bill. “A- grimly. “The kind of wealth that bout 80 per cent of our land is is the root of good, as money is tree growing land. After the the root of evil. And it may never slash burns on cutovers, fern be restored.” He shook a horny fires or any kind of fires murder finger at the book. “The surveys the goodness of the earth.” and studeis here show that it takes anywhere from 600 to a Dead Men Read This thousand years to lay down so OH! LOOK! The street is full much as an inch of soil. of dead men. They are in and “More, the facts of its history •out of the stores and everywhere. tell that in scale of one year to God loves them one and all and the whole time of the earth, man he yearns to give them life eter came on the scene about noon of nal and to make them his sons December 31, civilized man in the and daughters forever. last 2 or three minutes of the And why are they dead? It is year and the United States of because they sinned and the America in the last couple of wages of sin is death, eternal sep seconds. aration from God. KNOW YOUR “But in the two seconds, what BIBLE. So they are traveling ruin man has made on the land toward the pit-and some day the with plow and fire! door will close behind them and Bank of Life . . . they will be out in the awful .1 “Through all the ages and ages despair. Out in the dark forever, before man came on the scene, with the weeping and the wail nature was producing and sav ing, where the sun never rises ing, we pridefully think, for the and spring never comes. Out in benefit of mankind alone. So far the land of eternal woe. man has done practically nothing Yes, God loves them all and at all to add to nature’s great he paid high to win them.—“For job of building and saving on the God so loved the world that he earth,” declared Thoughtful Bill gave his only begotten Son, that Haggelrty. whosoever believeth in Him “When the bank of life was should not perish but have eternal started, with the earth turning life.—BIBLE. Eternal life for solid, its surface was mighty WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH. In bulges and gorges of bare rock. your heart must you believe that Then the Blue Ridge Mountains, Christ died for your every last for example stood higher than sin. From now on, as believeing, Mt. Everest------ over 30,000 feet. confess your sins and keep in step There's nothing like regular lubrication to help All were worn down by wind and make your car last for the duration. KNOW YOUR BIBLE. 1st John water. Erosion made dust and this 1:8-9. was borne down and spread about for letniwctl Trtiiftntb: Yield all your faculties and a- to form the beds of valleys and bilities to Christ and look to Him sea bottoms. At last life took hold to see you through. Live by pow and grew and in dying added new er from on high. substance to the making soil, Up- heavels lifted land from sea bot toms where sediment had been deposited for hundreds of thou 3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port sands of years, making rich new land 1, Oregon. This space paid for by Oregon- “A Safe Place To Trade” sources of life. “So the soil began and was Washington people. If you wish a Phone 342, Vernonia built on, feeding a wealth of part in this gospel by newspaper, plant and animal life when man send your sum, large or small. appeared. It was all well enough for nature until be found how YOUR MEAT COUNTER SUPPLIES YOU WITH to make fire. This was a big help YOUR MOST READILY ASSIMILATED FOOD to him but it was hell on the PRODUCTS. DON’T OVER- soil from the first as it is now. LOOK THE FACT THAT Then man became the worst para site and pest on the globe, taking MEAT IS A HIGHLY CON all from and giving notmng to the CENTRATED SOURCE OF VI earth." Story of the Soil . . . We’ll LUBRICATE YOUR CAR and LUBRICATE IT RIGHT DRIVE IN NOW. . . 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