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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1945)
LET’S BE SOCIABLE Mrs. Tousley Is Hostess to Club The Vernonia Study Club met Thursday evening, March 1st, at the home of Mrs. Ethel Tousley. During the business session re ports were made by members taking part in the Red Cross drive. The responee of the com munity was found to be very good on the first day of the drive. For the program of the even ing, Mrs. Harry Culbertson re ported on the book, “Rio Grande to Cape Horn” by Carleton Beals. This book gives us a vivid picture of the geography, customs, habits and social life of the countries from Mexico to Cape Horn. It is the civiliza- tion South of the border. The next meeting of the club will be held at the home of Mrs. Holly Holcomb, Jr. at which time Mrs. A. J. Hughes will re port on “Esme of Paris” by Esme Davis. Initiatory Degree Work Planned Two prospective members of the Odd Fellows lodge will re ceive the initiatory degree next Tuesday evening at the order’s regular meeting when Bob Thompson and George Peters will receive the work. The de gree will be carried out by the lodge’s degree team under the captaincy of Bill Shafer. 92-Year-Old Mother Returns to Home at Tacoma; Brother Dies can be yours—with ev ery hair in its place! It is so easy to achieve an aristocratic coiffure when you know where to go. Riverview Beauty Shop Phone 7712 We Use Soft Well Water Marinello Grad. 8 year* exp. HAMBURGERS WHAT AM! They is what they is, and that’s all that they is—the best, juicy, tasty ’burgers you ever did smack a lip over. PAL SHOP ORDER GALLON OR MORE LOTS OF ICE CREAM A DAY IN ADVANCE RIVERVIEW — Having sold their home in iVernonia Sun. and not caring to leave the district before the close of school, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Dosch and children were busy Mon. mov ing into the home recently va cated by Mr. and Mrs. John Tate. Mr. Dosch is employed at the O-A. We welcome this fam ily to Riverview. J. M. Peachey took his 92- year-old mother, Mrs. Alice Bolt inghouse, to Tacoma Sun. to be with her daughter Mrs. John Casey. Mrs. Peachey accompan ied them as far as Centralia where she helped her father. R. M. Stout, celebrate his 91st birthday. Mrs. Anna Parker and son, Tom, left Fri. for Roseburg to attend the funeral of Anna’s brother, George Solomon. Mr. Solomon had been suffering with heart trouble. Sympathy is ex tended to the Parkers in their bereavement. Mrs. Roy Sutton and Mrs. Walter Bennett and son, Larry Leroy, of Portland spent three days at the Kenneth Walker home this week. During their stay they helped Kenneth Ger ald celebrate his 8th birthday. A number of Kenneth’s young friends also helped him have a happy birthday. Mrs. Virgil Powell and son, Melvin, spent Thursday and Fri. in Portland visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Tock left Mon. for Chicago, their, former home. Mrs. Tock is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olof Jacobson. Mr. Tock has been employed at the O-A mill but expects to fiftd more suitable work there. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Buckner and Mrs. C. N. Rundell spent Sat. in Hillsboro. The flu bug has just arrived at the F. J. Shaver home where ROUND Kitchen Stoves (not rationed) Vernoise and Marvel Ranges for wood and coal. White enamel. Oven thermometers. $7995 ">> Make Cooking A Pleasure! Wood Heaters Circulators, hot air heaters. Parlor glow. • $19.95 " p Kttchen Ware Brownie Ware for even cooking. VACULATOR COFFEE MAKERS TEAPOTS — PYREX WARE Gift Glassware Fruit Bowls — Candy Dishes — Jelly Dishes (with glass ladles) — Pickle Dishes — Sugar and Cream sets Sandwich Plates — Marmalade Dishes Candle Holders — Mirror Corner sets Vanity sets pnone 802, Vernonia Free Delivery Daily Everything for the Home on EZ Terms Mrs. Shaver and Donald are the victims. However, most of our sick are improving. Arthur Arm strong is back at work after a month’s absence due to the flu. Mrs. L. L. Wells and Mrs. Louis Huntley are up part of each day after having a great deal of ear trouble and Mary Millis is slowly getting back to normal. My Two~bits Worth Rona Morris Workman Rocking W Ranch Vernonia, Oregon Recently I have been reading so much about how to treat the returning soldier that I can’t resist the temptation of adding my two-bits worth. No matter what I may say, it cannot pos sibly be any more foolish than some of the stuff I have read. In the first place, I am like the soldiers themselves in my resentment of the apparent as sumption that a returned sol dier is practically a psychopathic case and has to be “handled” as such. Some of them are of course, but they don’t come home. They go to a hospital where they won’t be subjected to amateur treatment. But the average man, when he comes home, wAntis—and expects—to be treated as a normal human being who has returned to his own people, not to a clinic for the mentally unbalanced. When I read some of the ar ticles which have appeared, I am reminded of the time when the study of child psychology first began. Articles were pub lished which were devoured by anxious mothers in such quan tities that they suffered from a mental gorge of half-digested, half-baked theories, and the re sults of the indigestion on their off-spring was something at which one stood appalled. It was the same with the various meth ods of feeding childf-en. I had a -severe attack of that. I kept my husky young first-born to the book formula in spite of his howls of hunger until the old family doctor who had helped bring him into the world glared at me over his glasses and growled, “What book are you raising him by?” I mentioned the author. He grunted. “That damned book causes me more trouble. It’s all right, as far as it goes, and dees for the average baby, but why can’t you fool mothers ever learn to use your own judgment. You’re starving that boy. Throw that book away and give him food.” I did, and he quit yelling and began to grow. If our returning soldiers are going to be treated accord ing to formula, I can see where some more yelling will be done. One fool article says not to let them talk about the work they have done . and not to ack questions. I have had one son come home from oversees. He was keyed to the breaking point. What if we, who have always talked over trips and adventures work and play, had refused to let him talk and refrained from asking questions? He would have thought we didn’t care what he had seen and done; that we had no interest in those years of bitter fighting and work, and he would have turned in upon himself and the memories might have become festering sores. As it was, he poured it forth to those who loved him and who cared what those things had meant to him, and when his time at home was done, the tension was relieved and it was, as he said, like a half-forgotten dream. In his case, talking to his own people was the natural thing to do—something he had always done when he came home. There are men, of course, who do not wish to speak, even to those they love, of what they have been through, and in their case, let them speak or not as they please. It seems to me that the or dinary rules of good breeding should be the only rules to fol low. One doesn’t pry into the affairs or thoughts of another >n the ordinary course of life, but if he wishes to speak of per sonal things, one listens with interest, and this seems to mo the natural course to follow with the soldiers who return. They do resent questions by curious strangers. Don’t we all? We had some week end guests recently who were laughing about the woman on the bus who wanted to know where they were going, how long they were go ing to stay and where they had come from. There are always people like that, of course, and one has to endure them, but to a returning soldier, brittle with nerve strain, such ill bred curiosity is liable to call forth a sock on the nose. When my Marine son was coming home by train, he sat at a table in the diner with a woman whose little girl stared at him with wide eyes. Finally the lady spoke of his overseas ribbons and her small daughter piped up breathlessly, “Did you kill any Japs?” There was only one answer a Marine could give and tell the truth, so the child was satisfied. But children can ask such questions and give no Vernonia Eagle Thursday, March 8, 1945____ 3 offense, where sdults should remember the laws of good breeding about prying questions to a stranger. CAUTION! So my two-bit offering to the “great (problem” of “handling” our boys when they come home, can be summed up briefly: If they are strangers to you treat them exactly as you should treat any. other stranger, i.e., keep your mouth shut and tend to your own business. If they are your own loved ones, treat them as you always did. They are only men who have come home again. HANDLE with CARE! We certainly don’t want you to cut your self on the crease we put in your trousers.! 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