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.
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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
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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.
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