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4 Thursday, October 25, 1945 VERNONIA EAGLE Sawdust... Further progress toward mak ing a youth center here become a reality was made Monday even ing with the naming of a commit tee of five to undertake the set ting up of such an activity. This committee has a big and impor tant job of working out details that will make the center a suc cess and it deserves the cooper ation of those upon whom its members may call for assistance. Again is heard that old expres sion about the future of Ver nonia wherein the idea is ex pounded that the town will not be permanent. The occasional re vival of that idea is the best method of furthering a non-pro- gressive feeling among people who live here and of making the community’s future less bright. An examination of only one un dertaking in this part of the valley should awaken thoughts along lines other than a dark future. The work done by Crown-Zel- lerbach just this past summer and the plans of that firm for coming years should indicate something very different than this old bromide: "the town is good for about 10 years.” Those who hold that idea and refuse to observe even a small part of what is happening around them are indeed blind. A mark was set Sunday for cement pouring that is said to beat all previous attempts here at completing the work quickly. The place was the walk for the Charles Hieber house on C St. Working at the- job were Jim Mc Crory, Tom Wolff and John Eric son. The cement pouring was for 50 feet of walk. The work was completed in less than two hours. Walt Kent asks: “Has that mark been attained by anyone else?” Events in Oregon TO OPEN BIDS ON ROAD JOB SEASIDE — The first contract for the relocation of the Cannon Beach highway will be let by the state highway commission in Port land October 29 and 30 when Proposals will be accepted for the clearing of seven and a, half miles of the right-of-way on the Circlebridge—Hug Point section of the Oregon Coast highway. This is part of the section to be relocated in a move to straighten and widen this section of the highway, without a doubt, the worst piece of road on its entire length. PEAK OF WALNUT HARVEST SEEN HILLSBORO — Peak of the walnut harvest in Washington county is expected the middle or la tier part of this week. Some additional help will be needed during the season as there are not enough Mexican nationals in the labor camp here to meet the expected demand. Persons in terested in harvesting the nuts have been registering in the base ment of the court house in Hills boro. Contracts have been signed for approximately 400 Mexicans per day during the walnut harvest. At present about 175 Mexicans are available and the slack has to be taken up by local help. SCHOOL REGISTRATION GRESHAM — A 14- year-old boy signed his name to registra tion papers at the Gresham high school last week to become the 1,000th youngster to enroll in the h;gh school this year and estab lish a new mark in the growth ■of the institution. Since Monday seven more pu pils have enrolled, swelling the total to 1,008, and every indica tion war. that the registration fig ure w old continue to climb for the remainder of the year. Last October there were 889 s. ijdents enrolled and this fig- w soared to 970 before the end of the school year. WILLAMINA LUMBER CO. PLANT BURNS DOWN WILLAMINA — Fire, which broke out shortly after daylight at the Willamina Lumber Co. plant, early last week, completely destroyed the mill, machinery ami k:miser cn hand entailing a loss •f approximately $100,000. Origin of the fire is unknown and is surrounded with mystery The kiss was about 75 per cent covered by insurance. SERVICE BUREAU [EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Rureau »/ Western Newspa per Union al 16/6 Eye Street, N. W„ Washinnton, D. C., is able to bring read ers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above Rureau and they will be an swered in a subsequent column. No re plies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper regularly.} Getting Your Old Job Bach T F YOU, now a discharged veteran, * worked for a private employer or for the federal government on an other than temporary basis imme diately prior to your entry Into tho armed forces, you are entitled to get your job back or one substantial ly equivalent in every respect, if: (a) you completed your mili tary service satisfactorily; <t»> you are qualified to per form the duties of the position; (c) you apply for re-employ ment within 90 days of your dis charge; (d) and if the employer’s cir cumstances have not changed so as to make it impossible or un reasonable. Having met the above conditions, you cannot be dismissed without cause for the period of a year. Re port any difficulty to your local se lective service board. It you want a new job, go to the U. S. Employment Service office nearest you as soon after your dis charge as possible. It you were a federal Civil Serv ice employee when you entered the armed forces apply to the agency where last employed within 90 days of your discharge. Question» and Answers Q.—I am on a 30-day furlough from an army hospital, awaiting an artificial arm. Can I get a job with this handicap? A.—If you have a service-connect ed disability which results in an oc cupational handicap such as you de scribe, you can be taught a new type of work, after your final dis charge from the hosjlital, and you will probably find the handicap will be no disadvantage. You may be trained in college, business, or trade school, or on the job with a business firm. Tuition, books, supplies and equipment will be supplied at gov ernment expense. During training, if your pension is less than $92 per month, it will be increased to that amount if you are single. If you are married, your pension during your training period will be $103.50 a month with an extra $5.75 for each child and $11.50 for each dependent parent. Apply to your nearest Vet erans Administration office, U. S. Employment Service office or the local superintendentof schools. If your disability is not service- connected. or occurs after you have left service, and constitutes a voca tional handicap, you may apply to your State Board of Vocational Edu cation for guidance, special training and placement. If you are in finan cial need, other services available include medical treatment, hospit alization, maintenance and transpor tation during training, education sup plies, occupational tools and equip ment. Disabled dependents may also be entitled to vocational reha bilitation under this program. Q.—How long can I wear my uni form after I am discharged from the army? A —The regulations provide that you may change Into civilian clothes immediately or wear your uniform until you reach home, provided this does not take more than 90 days. Q.—Am I required to report to my registration board after I am dis charged from the army? A.—Yes. Once the veteran reaches home he is required to report th« facts on his separation to his se lective service board within 10 days. The veteran then receives a new registration card and a new classi fication card. Honorably discharged veterans are classified 1-C and ar« not liable for induction. Q.—Does the government pay In terest on guaranteed loans under th# G.l. bill of rights? A.—The Administrator of Veter ans Affairs will pay interest on the guaranteed amount of the loan (not to exceed $2,000) for the first year. Q.—How long after discharge do I have to pay my private life in surance premiums which were guar anteed by the governnu nt when I went into service? A.—If you arranged with the gov ernment to guarantee your private life insurance premiums, payments together with interest must be brought up to date within two years after your discharge. Better check with your nearest Veterans Admin istration office or with your own in surance company. Q.—How much mustcring-out pay should I receive? A.—If you have served in the armed forces less than 60 days, you receive $100; 60 days or more, but no foreign service, $200 ; 60 days or more and foreign service, $300. Pay ments are $100 upon discharge, the rest in $100 monthly installments. Certain groups are excluded, such as those receiving base pay (not count ing fogies) of more than $200 ■ month at the time of their discharge. Apply to your own branch of the service if you have had any diffi culty. First Time in Portland • . • It was a March night in 1910. The harbor lights glowed through a fine drizzle as the J. N. TEAL, the last of the old sternwheeler fleet to carry cargo and passeng ers between Portland and The Dalles, churned into her West Side dock. With my blanket roll at my feet I stood by the rail and stared, trying to see what life was beyond the lights along the river. There were only shadows, black bulks of buildings, streaked faintly with yellow gleams. That was enough to give me a cold, sinking sensation in the pit of my stomach and make my heart thump as the J. N. TEAL was moored. At last I was in Portland! Here I was, at 17, alone in a big city. Here I would realize my dreams of a new life of labor. Of that I was really certain. No more railroad grading camps! I was through with the drudgery of dirt moving. So long, mules and scrapers. From here on I was bound to go to the tall timber and live thel life of a logger with bark on! "Where do the loggers hang out here in Portland?” I asked a dock hand. “The skidroad,” he said short ly- , “Where’s that? I asked, with a blush for my ignorance. “It’s’—but I ain’t time to give direction. Just go on and ask anybody which way it is to Eric- sen’s Saloon.” ___ The Loggers . . . A loafer ashore pointed the way to 3rd and Burnside Streets. I plodded along the waterfront in the rain of the March night. The low clouds were black above the dim street lamps. The frames of the drawbridges over the Wil- lamete looked naked and cold in the river lights and shadows. I knew I was on the skidroad when I came upon gangs of men before the blackboards of employment offices—“slave markets,” I soon learned to call them—on Second Street. Most of the men wore mackin aws or short mackinaw shirts, “tin pants” stagged just below the knee, and calked boots, a new uniform to the eyes of ai Idaho .ranch boy. Woods jobs were scarce. Many of the loggers were on the bum. An old-timer struck me for the price of a bed. I had only a few dollars but I offered to buy him a beer in Religious Discussion MAN, HERE AND HEREAFTER Part 28 WILL SINNERS LIVE FOREVER? We shall now answer some oth er objections that are frequent ly made to the doctrine that men have life only in Christ, that the righteous are saved with an ev erlasting salvation and will ever be with the Lord, while the wick ed will be destroyed after having received their punishment, and that at last they will be no more. One text quoted much by the champions of eternal torment is found in Matt. 25:46: “These shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous in to life eternal.” It might be noticed here that the words “everlasting” and eter nal mean the same. As the one is eternal, so is the other. There is no difference. We not only admit this, we stress it. The righteous go into eternal life, the wicked into everlasting pun ishment. We have before noted the re ward of the righteous. They shall live forever. They shall ever be with the Lord. As long as eter nity, as long as God exists, they shall live. The gift of God is ev erlasting life. God’s children shall never cease to be. Their existence is unending. In like manner the punish ment of the wicked is everlasting. It will never cease. It is eternal in its nature. It will last as long as the -righteous are in heaven. As everlasting life is predicted of the righteous, so everlasting punishment is predicted of the wicked. The life of the right eous and the punishment of the wicked are equally long. The text states this clearly. The question that now concerns us is the nature of the punish ment of the wicked. We need only remind our readers of what has been said before on this subject. The Bible definitely de clares that “the wages of sin is death.” Rom. 6:23. “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Eze. 18:4. God placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden, “to keep the way of the tree of life,” lest man “put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.” Gen. 3:34, 22,. We know that no exchange for information on how a young man of 17 could best start from Portland to become a logger in the tall timber of Oregon. The old-timer led the way to Ericsen’s Saloon, I [gFJ? Hobo’s Heaven . . . At that time Ericsen’s Saloon had a world-wide fame. To me the grand and glittering barroom was a fairy tale come to life. My imagination exaggerated ev ery detail of the scene. The brown and shining bar curved away from the door and ran down a room that seemed as big as a circus tent. Row after row of card tables, each one crowded with gambling men, reached into corners that appeared mysterious and far in the smoke drift. A score of slot machines lined one wall. From somewhere came a sound of a piano and fiddle mu sic. A mellow glow swam about me. I was enchanted as I moved toward the bar. The bar had nearly the length of a city block, with all its curves and turns. Back of it lights were shining on mirrors, pyramids of glasses and rows of queer-shaped bottles labeled with vivid colors, and these stood on a back bar draped with the snowiest cloths. The diamond-like dazzle of white half-blinded me. Bright light was also reflected from the varnished columns and beams about the mirrors, from the brass of the bar rails and the nickel of the spigothandles. The bartenders, at least 15 <in number, were all in white jackets. They were shaved in such a clean style, their hair was slicked down into such fancy curls over their eyes, and their mustaches were spiked so ele gantly that I was certain dukes couldn’t look handsomer. Shiny brass spittoons that looked pretty enough for flower vases stood all along the monsterous footrail. Towels were hanging in front of the bar. Glasses clinked; gold and silver jingled; the click of poker chips was music from the card tables; beer purred as it gushed from the spigot to the glass; mirth and happy talk sounded all along the bar. It was heaven for me, a hobo kid. I sipned beer and dreamed. Through the golden mists I was aware of the old-timers rasping voice: “Now about loggin’. Your best chance would be to Paul Bun yan’s camp ...” And so, in the old Ericsen’s Saloon, my logging and literary career got its start. murderer, no sinner, “hath eter nal life abiding in him.” 1 John 3:15. It is only he that has the Son that has life; “he that Let these scriptures have their God intended weight. If a soul sins, it shall die, “The wages of sin is death.” God evidently means what He says. If life means life, by the same token death means death. Death is the opposite of life, and, life is the opposite of death. If the righteous live, the wicked die. They do not both live; they do not both die. One lives and the other dies. The one gets a reward, and the other gets punishment. The reward is life; the punishment is death. The one is as everlasting as is the other. The death of the wicked lasts as long as the life of the righteous. Neither has an end. If any should say that death here does not mean death, that the wicked are not dead but alive and in concious torture, we would answer that by the same reason ing the righteous are not alive but dead in unconcious happi ness. If death does not mean death, why should life mean life? If anyone, therefore, should say that when the Bible states that the wicked shall die it does not mean that they really die, we would maintain that when it says the righteous shall have life it does not really mean life. But would not such be a gross per version of the scriptures? We maintain that when the Scrip tures promise life to those that are in Christ, the life promised is not death. Likewise we be lieve that when the sinner is promised death death is not life. To confuse life and death, to make the one seem the other, is to confuse God’s word and make it of none effect. (To be Cont.) G. F. Brown You A Murderer That day you had a flash of hate against your brother, God counted it murder. For he that hateth his brother is a murderer —Bible. The human heart spews out every kind of sin and the wages of sin is death—BIBLE. You see dead men everywhere, for all have sinned and the wages of sin is death. To God, the dead fill our stores, streets, schools, fields and home*. To God all men lie in sin and death. To him we are lost—Lost—LOST. But God found a way to breathe life into such as will have it so. TWO-PART Plan. His part, and our part. HIS PART—-God so loved you and me the man lowest down, that he gave his only, begotten son. that if we should believe on Him, we should ÛcELANP PERMIT* A ( PERSON TO PRACTICE ! 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Representatives Knutson and Carlson appear pretty thoroughly versed in matters involving din ner pails and economics. To the Minnesotan, taxation is never a dull subject. He loves a stiff de bate and is respected for his abil ity to give and take on the House floor. And he becomes lyrical when tariff-cutting legislation is brought up. Tall and gentle-voiced cattle man Carlson has learned about taxation the hard way, making extensive studies, delving into many sources, and interviewing taxpayers in all walks of life. In recent years he has been keenly aware of the burdens placed on individual and businessmen alike. As members of the House ways and means committee, both men have had a role in shaping im portant tax legislation. Knutson’s proposal of an “across-the-board” cut of 20 per cent in individual income taxes was popular with republican members of the house. As a quarterback of Bowdoin College eleven, Brunswick, Me., in the early nineteen hundreds, ex-Senator Harold H. Burton of Ohio, recently appointed Supreme Court Justice, learned how team work brings victory. Now 57, Mr. Burton takes his new post imbued with the phil osophy that men work best as a team. “I hold to the belief that if folks get around a table and talk things over, they usually can come to the right and fair ans wer,” he says. A compact figlre with thinning gray hair and direct gaze, Justice Burton has been an Army of ficer, mayor of Cleveland and a U. S. Senator. New England-born graduate of Harvard Law school, he knows the Middle West thru long residence in Cleveland, and the West as a result of legal business in Utah and Idaho. As mayor of Cleveland du-ing the depression, he told jobless workers how to get state and federal relief. Recently he has been criticised by organized labor for supporting revision of the Wagner Act. Concern over the huge national debt and natural inclination will, friends of the new Justice say, lead him to take a stand between the “advanced” and the “conser vative” groups in Supreme Court, voting sometimes with one group and sometimes with the other. “My basic confidence is still in private enterprise,” he said, just before retiring from the Sen- ate.___________________________ not perish but have eternal life. Now OUR PART. We are to be lieve down in our hearts that the blood of Christ has cleansed away our sins. The Bible says it. We are to believe it. So believe- ing we stand cleared before God. CHRIST’S PART—He is at the door. Receive Him and He comes in with life eternal. He becomes to you the Bread of Life—the Fulness of Life to all who yield themselves over to Him as Lord and Savior. Which for you? To go on with out Christ, having no hope and without God in the world? Or will yoj this instant receive Rim and life eternal. Your heart tells. This space paid for by a high school boy. ■'.( fu« /) Line« IHtgt uV’ x* n WAÍ1B9AÍKET MARKER “P iace UTTER HERE “ A &RMIH6HAM ___ CITIZEN FOUHP A _____ P06 ANP HER LITTER OF FOUR. At the Churches FIRST CHRISTIAN —The Livingstones. Ministers 11:00— Junior church, Bernice Tunnell, Sup’t. 11:00—Morning communion ser vice and preaching. “The Home and the Family” 7:30 — Evening service. 7:30 Wed.—Prayer meeting. 7:30 Fri. Nov. 2 — Missionary meeting at the home of Mrs. Blanche Millis. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. 8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devo tional service. Sermon by district leader— First Saturday of each month. A cordial invitation is extended to visitors. EVANGELICAL —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45 — Sunday school. 11:00 —Morning worship. 6:30 — Junior Endeavor and Evangelical Youth Fellowship 7:30 P. M.—Evangelistic service 7:30 Thurs. — Bible study and prayer. ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. J. H. Goodrich Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first Sunday in month—Mass at 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. ASSEMBLY OF GOD —Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor 9:45—Sunday school with clas ses for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship. 7:30—Evangelistic service. 8:00 — Wednesday, prayer meet ing. 8:00 — Friday, Bible study. LATTER DAY SAINTS Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und er the direction of Charles Long, Branch President. Earl Genzer, First Coun. 7:00 P. M. — Evening Sacrement meetings. WHERE OH WHERE ARE THE LITTLE DEER GONE? If you are deer hunting this year and stop to smoke and won der where the deer are, remem ber the 500 destroyed in the Tillamook fire of 1945 and be sure your cigarette and match are out before you discard them. Keep Oregon Green • 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. 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