THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946
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Gloria
RONA MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKING W RANCH
The other day I met; a young
captain recently discharged from
over-seas service. ‘Did those two
young fellows, who were trying
to locate you, find the ranch?”
he asked. “Nice looking boys.
One of them said he was a
fraternity brother of your sons.”
I assured him that they had
found us, and he went on. “They
said they were cruising some
timber near here and had been
trying to get a check cashed, but
nothing doing, and one of them
was still in uniform, too.” He
looked puzzled for a moment and
then repeated, “I can’t understand
it. He wasi in uniform, but no
one would help him out until he
got to me.”
I thanked him for his courtesy
to the' boys we knew and I
watched him go, still apparently
surprised over the fact that a
uniform, meant nothing any more
to the average person, I thought:
“Son, you are too young to re­
member what happened to soldiers
after the last war and too re­
cently returned to fully grasp
what is happening now. I am
afraid you are going to be more
puzzled when you really get a
chance to look around you.”
Strange, isn’t it, how quickly
folks forget When their money,
their homes, their lives were in
danger, the sight of a man in
uniform meant safety for them.
Those uniformed men were a
bulwork of protection, behind
which they hid, and while the
war-drums were beating, they
made fine promises of all the
good things that would be done
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when the “boys came home."
Well, the boys are home now.
The battles are over. And what
have those boys come home to?
I have been told by one who
should know that, at a certain
place where soldiers are dis­
charged, they are given fifty
dollars and the balance of their
battle-pay in checks with the ad­
vice not to cash the checks until
they are away from this particu­
lar city, because of the greedy
civilians there who lie in wait
to acquire that money by every
wile that ingenuity can contrive.
Of course you may say that any
soldier who would fall for such
things is a “sucker,” but many
of these soldiers are young, most
of them have been where money
had ceased to mean a great deal
to them, and all of them are glad
to be home and free again. Call
them names if you will, but
what names will you call the
greedy vultures who wait to fat­
ten on them ?
And those men are coming back
to find no homes in which to live.
They find strikes for higher
wages by the men who made big
money while they were fighting,
so that it is well-nigh impossible
to buy even the simplest neces­
sities for starting a home. They
hear a congress blatting and
wrangling over things that have
no connection with the real dif­
ficulties of the time, and they also
find that most of the people they
fought to save have no thought
for anything but lining their own
pockets. I heard the other day
of a veteran who, finding no
house to live in, managed to pur­
chase a lot. Then he found,
as so many others have found,
that building materials were im­
possible to get, so he erected a
tent-home for his little family.
And the city fathers of this town
dug up a law proclaiming that
portion as a “restricted area”
and made him move. I wonder
if he sometimes indulges in pleas­
ant dreams of what that town
might have looked like if the Ger­
mans or Japs had not been
stopped by him and others like
him. And I also heard that the
army is selling latrines for re­
turning soldiers to live in. What’s
in a name? Catrine may not be
an ugly word but it means a privy
just the same.
And I know of another dis­
charged man who had to pay two
thousand dollars more for the
place he wanted than the owner
had asked a year before, and then,
when he thought all was settled,
the owner, knowing the boy need­
ed the place, threatened to break
the deal if he didn’t pay for all
the necessary papers involved, pa­
pers by law the one selling a
property has to provide.
The
veteran paid, yes, because he
had to have the place. This vet-
Lew’s Place
Week's Events at Black Berries
Keasey Are Told Termed Larger
RIVERVIEW — The favorite
pastime of our nousewives this
week is the jelling, jamming and
canning of wild black berries
which are unusually large this
year. More than a dozen families
reported their luck at gathering
the delicious fruit over the week
end.
J. w. Nichols transacted busi-
ness in Portland Thursday. The
Nichols’ home is receiving a spie
and span coat of white paint dec­
orated with green trim.
House guests at the Claud Gib­
son home the past week were Mr.
and Mrs. B. E. Gibson and
daughter, Carol Jean, of Phoenix,
Arizona, and their daughter, Mrs.
Charles Guffy with her husband
and infant son, Charles, Jr., of
Portland. On July 11, the Gib­
sons took their guests to Seaside
on a clam hunt and to celebrate
with a picnic the eighth birthday
anniversary of Carol Jean. The
B. E. Gibsons left Wednesday for
erans was one of those who in the their Arizona home taking the
first days of the war was con­ Guffys with them.
A recent visitor at the T. C.
sidered “expendable."
He and
Biggs home here was Mrs. Biggs’
others bore the brunt of that first
nephew, Austin Cole, who was
fighting, lived on wormy rice and touring the U.S. coast on his way
rotten fish-heads left by the dead to Canada. He planned to return
Japs; watched the ground swell to his home at Witchita, Kansas,
in the torrid heat over the bodies via Denver. Mrs. Biggs states
of the ones he had helped kill that he is the first relative she
has seen since coming to the
the night before; fought with an­ coast forty-six years ago.
cient and almost useless guns and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fowler
faulty ammunition, and almost entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ira
forgot in those days what rest Mitchell of Rainier over the week
and peace and decent food were end.
Mrs. E. L. Lloyd and Mrs. Bud
like. Where would this owner
Rose were Portland visitors Sat­
be now and how much would his urday.
property be worth if this veteran
Mrs. E. L. Lloyd reports the
and others had not done the death of her father, G. M. Jen­
things they did while he stayed kins, at Brownsville, Texas, July
1st. Mr. Jenkins had visited here
safely at home?
These incidents may seem lit­ and will be remembered by some
tle ones, but they are indicative of our people.
of the forgetfulness that afflicts
Lorraine Mahar left Saturday
the citizens of a country when for California where she will
the war is over. I could tell you visit her brother, Donald, at La­
of many more, but there is a fayette and her sister, Mrs. Ger­
paper shortage and my editor ald Ball, and family at Pacific
cannot allow me the whole paper Grove. She will be away a week.
to spill my “mad” upon. Read
Mrs. Blanch Millis and her
and hear for yourself, if you be family left by car Wednesday for
not blind and deaf with your own points in Idaho. They plan to
selfishness and greed.
be away two weeks.
But I will say to these return­
Oh Monday of last week, Jack
ing soldiers that they walk with B. Smith of Alameda, California,
good company.
Never, in the who was here for the family re­
history of the world, has the union at the home of his sister,
greedy bulk of humanity failed Mrs. R. Mahar, had the misfor­
to crucify the ones who do some­ tune to fall from a cherry tree
thing for them, or who try to and injure his back. The ac­
save them from their own folly. cident occurred near Hillsboro
And I say also, and in your bit­
terness remember this, not all of
us have forgotten what you did,
nor the debt we owe you. Gen­
tlemen, I, and those others who
remember, salute you.
KEASEY—Mrs. D. J. DeVaney
spent the week end with her sis­
ter at Timber.
The J. O. and R. K. DeVaneys
have returned from their vaca­
tion in eastern Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Chet Fugate were
week end visitors at the James
Ilonnicy home.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lindsley
and children were visitors Sat­
urday and Sunday at the 0. B.
Bittner home.
Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Miller were
callers Tuesday at the Herb
Counts home.
Johnng McGaghey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George. McGaghey, was
taken to the hospital Friday.
Mrs. O. B. Bittner returned
Friday from Salem, where she
visited relatives.
A. B. Counts left for Myrtle
Creek, Oregon, a few days ago.
He formerly lived at that place.
and he was taken to a Portland
hospital for examination but re­
turned here Wednesday.. He has
suffered much the past week but
is improving.
Mrs. Donald Harris of Portland
spent the week end with her sis­
ter, Mrs. T. M. Crawford and
family.
There was a family reunion of
twenty-three relatives held at
the R. F. Mitcham home at Bat­
telground, Washington, Saturday.
Those who attended from here
were Mr. and Mrs. Claud Gibson
and children, Claudine and Claud,
Jr., and their guests, Mr. and
Mrs. B. E. Gibson, and daughter
of Phoenix, Arizona, and Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Gibson of Vernonia.
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