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Thursday, July 5, 1945
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VERNONIA EAGLE
BERRY HARVEST
NEARLY ENDED
HILLSBORO—Strawberry har-
A lot of discussions have been
heard regarding improvement to vest in Washington county is al
thi town during the past few most completed and cane berry
weeks, most of the talk dealing
with things that should be done picking is expected to begin the
but let’s consider pcimething that first of this week, according to
has been and is being done right the farm labor office. Principal
now.
labor demand at the present time
Many buildings, both home.i is for hay hands.
and business, have recently, or
Some growers on high ground
are receiving coats of paint will continue strawberry picking
which dress them up a lot and but many of the platoons and
which improve the general ap workers will shift to cane berries.
pearance. Homes are being re Cherry picking has also started in
paired or remodeled as much as some sections, it was reported.
is possible now while materials
are difficult to obtain. Just this
alone is a big help towards a
better looking town.
It has been said that Vernonia MAN, HERE AND HEREAFTER
WHY NOT GO TO HEAVEN
is more “run down” than other
AT DEATH?
towns. A little observation to
Part 17
compare will show that this is
Is it not true, however, that
far from being entirely true, for
there are many towns that .are the doctrine that men go direct
worse from a general appearance ly to heaven at death is a much
standpoint, even though there are more beautiful and comforting
some that are better. To say def doctrine than the one that ' all
initely that this one is worse is sleep in peace until the resurrec
not true an<l a look at others tion morning? there would, in
deed, be some point to this ob
will prove the point.
However, regardless of the servation if we were not painful
fact that the general appearance ly aware that all da not die po-
here is better than, in many plac sessed of a sure hope of heaven.
es, there are things that will We fear that a large number die
help that appearance even more. without God and without hope.
One of these aids, which is Where do these go? Would not
planned for this summer, is the the thought of this great num
street paving program now being ber going immediately to eternal
undertaken by the city. The pav torment neutralize the joy of
ing of a lot of streets which are knowing that some go immediate
now graveled will reduce dust ly to heaven? And would not the
during the summer and some mud certainty of having a large num
during the winter. Along with ber in torment be a somewhat
this program is the suggested gloomy doctrine? At least it
building and repairing of side would ,ot seem to be so much
walks, another improvement that more beautiful and comforting
will help towards a better town. than the Biblical one that all
sleep in peace until the day of
judgement and reward.
^«'•INGTOH \
< S."APS m OTS?
The Forum
Events in
Oregon
GRANGE ACTS TO
STOP MEAT SHORTAGE
SALEM — The Oregon State
Grange has wired both Senators
Morse and Cordon, requesting
them to give their full support to
the Patman amendment to the
law extending thq life of OPA,
which would remove slaughtering
quotas from Class II slaughter
ing plants and would permit non-
federally inspected meat to move
in interstate commerce.
“If this amendment is enacted
into law, one of the biggest hur
dles in the meat production pro
garm will be cleared,” stated
Morton Thompkins, State Grange
Master, in announcing that the
Grange is supporting the amend
ment. “Bottleneck in the meat
picture for the past several years
has been the disinclination of the
large packers to slaughter to
capacity and the inability of the
small, Class II killers to operate
in that manner due to quota
limitations.”
MONTH NETS MORE THAN
$700 IN FINES—COSTS
WILLAMINA — The grist of
fines and arrests in the lustice
court of C. R. Stiles during the
month of Juno includes 56 cases
with fines and costs aggregating
more than $700. Traffic viola
tions account for the heavy toll
of cases, reported to be the
largest in the county.
5 SCHOOL DISTRICTS
VOTE TO JOIN BANKS
BANKS — Five school dis
tricts voted to consolidate with
Banks union high school at an
election held last Friday while
the Roy district voted against
combining with the Banks school.
Districts voting to consolidate in
cluded Scofield, Buxton, Mead
Green Mountain and Strassel.
The combined vote was 64 in fav
or of the consolidation and four
opposed. Banks union high school
district at the same time voted 27
to 0 to accept the districts.
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
OREClo^uisfHpil
P U B LIS qE R,S
But aside from Biblical consid
erations, there are weighty rea
sons why it is best to have all
sleep in the grave until the res
urrection morning. Some of these
reasons! we shall now consider.
Suppose a soul from earth was
suddenly transported to heaven,
as is the common belief of those
who think the soul immediately
goes to glory at death. In what
condition would such a soul find
itself?
One of two things would be
possible: The soul- or as we
would prefer to say, the person-
could be cut off from all know
ledge of the earth and the hap
penings thereon. That, however,
would not be ideal; for it is in
things here on earth that al!
heaven in interested. It is here
that Christ lived and died. It is
here that the great controversy
is being decided. It is here that
even right now the struggle be
tween good and evil is being
waged to a consummation. And
the soul that has just arrived
from earth would certainly be in
terested in knowing how the
others left behind are getting
along. To shut off from any
knowledge of the earth would
be to live in a state of dreadful
suspcnce.
And the soul, perchance, left
father or mother or some near
and dear relatives at a critical
time in their career. And now
he is in heaven, but shut off
from things on earth. The angels
bring messages continually, and
prayers are ascending daily, but
the newly arrived soul is kept in
complete ignorance of what it
is all about. Everybody else is
busily engaged in helping men
still on the earth, but he can
have no part therein.
It would seem that such a con
dition would not be very satis
factory. To be in heaven where
everyone is anxiously interested
in men on earth, and yet to be
shut off from any participation
in the work and plan of salva
tion; to be kept in ignorance of
the progress and fate of those
in whom we are vitally interest
ed- husband, wife, daughter, son;
to find ourselves surrounded by
angels who are busily engaged
in helping those for whom we
ourselves would gladly lay down
our life, and yet be unable to
get any word concerning our
loved ones or to be permitted to
join the busy workers,- this
would hardly be an ideal heaven.
In fact, many would be tempted
to think that they would be bet
ter off not to be there. The oth
er alternative next article. To
be cont. G. F. Brown.
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WAR BONOS
College Loggers . . .
A couple of years ago I wrote
a piece on Stewart Holbrook’s
two winters of lectures at Har
vard University on American
history. The point was that this
was high climbing for a man
who had gone from high school
to war and then to the woods
to become a nationally known
historical writer. He was no
university man, he was “Hols”
to thousands of rugged loggers
and sawmill hands, yet Harvard
saw fit to honor him.
Now another old logger has
been invited into the academic
grove, with books in his hands
instead of ax and saw and with
a lecture to give instead of a
bunkhouse tale to tell. Come
August, the Department of Eng
lish of the University of Wash
ington is having this pinetop lit
eratus in from the woods and
up on al rostrum for a couple of
hours to expound “the future of
the novel in the Pacific North
west” to a western states writ
ers’ conference.
Such are straws which tell the
ways that winds of change are
blowing. Yet another is in the
shape of a new book entitled
“A Texan in England,” by J.
Frank Dobie. The book tells of a
year spent by the author as Pro
fessor in American History at
England’s venerable and won
derful Cambridge University—an
institution founded somewhere
around 300 years before Colum
bus discovered America.
Cowhand at Cambridge . . .
Here is thie way Mr. Dobie
responded to the Cambrige invi
tation:
“I explained that I hadn’t read
the American Constitution since
I was a boy and didn’t under
stand it then. I pointed out that
my knowledge of history con
sisted mainly of facts relating to
the length of the horns of Long
horn steers, the music inherent in
coyote howling, the way a moth
er rattlesnake swallows her
young . . . the shade-hunting
serenity and grass-chewing lei
sureliness of cowboys as opposed
to ‘tense, grim tone’ that Zane
Grey gave and Hollywood still
does give them, the habits of
ghosts in guarding Spanish treas
ure, how Wrong Wheel Jones
got his name, and what, in gen
eral, the Southwest was like be
fore, to quote Bigfoot Wallace,
‘bob wire played hell with it’.”
Even so Mr. Dobie got the
job, and for a year his sombrero
stood out amid the garb of
town and gown in Gambridge
streets. He came through with a
degree of M. A. and all-round
praise including that of the Lon
don Times.
Mr. Dobie, it must be noted,
was a professor in the first place
and although a maverick among
the academicians he stood high
with them. He got home just in
time to lead a fight for the hon
or of scholarship and academic
freedom at the University of
Texas, now ruled by gentry
whose academic authority is root
ed in political campaign contri
butions and whose lips move
when they read. More power to
him.
Back to th« Wood, , . ,
The three examples illustrated
here are a trend. The educators
of America and England are
moving in force with a faith that
schools and colleges must be
made institutions of the people
if democracy is to be sustained
and improved.
Oregon and Washington as a
place of life and work are a re
gion of big timber, and there
will be much wider and deeper
association year by year here be
tween professors, loggers and
foresters.
Thousands of years ago a wise
man observed, “Of making of
books there is no end”—but the
end may be in sight. The profes
sors are going from books back
to the woods. Which is a way
of saying that they are bringing
the learning of the centuries and
the lifts of the people together.
The learnnig is vital. Folks need
to know both how Chaucer made
his name nad how Wrong Wheel
Jones got his name. Through
such scholars “with bark on” as
Holbrook and Dobie, the col
leges are telling the folks.
She Cried—God Heard
The small well had gone dry,
reported Miss McDonald, the
English secretary. Then go to
the big well, said Ramabai. But
that was long dry and dust on
the stones of the bottom. It was
the year of the big drought in
India and with the wells both
dry, what for the 300 hundred
widows and orphans? Yes, 300,
for Ramabai, high caste woman
and convert to the Christian
faith, had opened her doors to
these despised women and their
little ones. Have you heard—
Better be a dog than a widow in
India? With her vast wealth
spent, Ramabai, by ceaseless
prayer and crying to God, had
kept the doors open. Suplies and
mopey flowed in, from she knew
not where.
So now with the wells gone
dry, she went away to pray.
The hours passed and when she
returned, it was to tell Miss
McDonald to go look in the
wells and she would find water.
And so it was for in the small
well there was WATER. Then
on to the large well and there
also WATER. And why did God
do this miracle for Ramabai, al
most within the hour while you
and I have long prayed for some
of our own who are near and
dear and yet we have no answer?
It reminds of George Mueller,
mighty man of prayer who pled
on and on for three men and
died with not one of them saved.
Yet they all came in after his
death.
Let God have the glory—What
soever ye shall ask in My name,
that will I do, said Christ, that
the Father may be glorified in
the Son. So Christ commands.
Pray with unwearied persistence
and entreaty, means Eph. 6:18.
Do you make selfish prayers or
are they for God's glory?
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The co-author of the Byrd-
Butler bill to bring the 40-odd
big government corporations un
der the same Congressional con
trol as any other agency of gov
ernment, Sen. Harry F. Byrd of
Virginia, has the biggest dog
house in Washington.
But the Senator makes it clear
that he doesn’t intend to be put
in it. That dog house is exclusive
ly for the use of Sen. Byrd’s
mountain of dog-flesh, the Great
Dane Arno.
Since Fala has departed the
White House, Arno 1» the most
arresting animal sight in Wash
ington. The great white pet teems
an appropriate companion for the
man who has been called “the
watchdog of the U. S. Treasury.”
The Virginian’s joint committee
on reduction
of non-essential
federal expenditures had saved
more than $3 billion for taxpay
ers.
Who Walk. Who? . . .
Although Arno is the favorite
Byrd dog, the Senator also breeds
hunting dogs and spaniels at his
big apple farm near Berryville,
Va. But the Great Dane has been
a member of the Byrd menage
for four years, and despite his
size and strength Arno is a great
playfellow for the grandchildren.
“I never know who’s taking
who for a walk"’ laughs Sen.
Byrd. “But we are good exercise
for each other.”
Some of Arno’s human admir
ers even credit the dog with a
share of responsibility for the
bill bringing government corpor
ations under public audit because
the Senator is known to do some
of his heaviest thinking "when
'Arno and I are on our leash.”
Byrd insists, though, that he
doesn’t worry Arno about the $50
billon of the public’s money which
these corporations control. He ex
plains:
“I don’t tell Arno about such
things because it might spoil the
fun of being a dog.”
i American ‘Real Income’
' In March Off 1 Cent
On Si From Year Ago
PURCHASING POWER
March.
INVESTORS SYNDICATE MINNEAPOLIS
HE above chart, showing how
the average American fared in
T
national income changes in tha
las» twelve months, is based on the
monthly consumers’ study of In
vestors Syndicate of Minneapolis.
The American public in March
had a “real income” of 99 cents,
or one cent on the dollar less than
in March, 1944. This ‘real income”
is not a subtraction of cash income
and expenditures but an average
relative of these figures designed
to show how living costs affect
adjusted income dollars.
Cash income of the American
public in March was $1.00 for every
$1 a year earlier. The following
changes per dollar were: wages
off 5 cents, salaries off 4 cents on
the $1.00; other income up four
and investment income at $1.15
was up fifteen cents.
Rents in March were unchanged
compared with a year ago. Food
was up two cents, clothing was
up three cents and miscellaneous
items were up one cent.
MORE FOOD NEEDED AS
WAR TEMPO INCREASES
Food purchases for the army
this year will be 20 per cent
above that of 1944.
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