4 «URSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
THE POCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
By pilgrim
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ASSEMBLY OF GOD
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Never before in our history, de­
clares Senator Harry Byrd, of
Virgina, has the federal govern­
ment controlled the daily lives of
Aa a lervice to veterans in the our citizens as it does today,
community, this newspaper will
“Sheer magnitude of our pres­
publish a weekly column of ques­ ent government,’ the senator holds,
tion» most frequently asked con­ forces it into every man’s daily
tact men of the Veterans Admin­ life, whether he likes it or not.”
istration in this area. For more
Looking back to 1935—“when
detailed
information,
veterans
should contact or write to the we were just beginning the era
nearest VA contact unit at P. 0. of vast federal expenditures from
borrowed money, to experiment
Bldg;., Rm. 216, Longview.
with deficit spending as a panacea
for our difficulties, and to seek a
Q. What effect does the guar­ magic key to lead us into a new
anty of a loan for a veteran be­ era”:—
fore the act was amended have
The annual federal payroll was
on his right to guaranty on other $1,361,000,000. Today t is ap­
loans?
proaching $8,000,000,000 — nearly
A- Any amount of guaranty six times the annual payroll of
which was used is deducted from 1935, and nearly twice the entire
the amount to which the veteran cost of government in 1935.
is entitled under the act as
Today we have 1411 separate
amendi’d.
agencies, bureaus and main de­
Q. ¡How many veterans are at­ partments in Washington,” Sena­
tending school or receiving on- tor Byrd points out.
“Today, as against the $29,-
the-job training under the provi­
000,000,000 national debt of 1935,
sions of the GI bill?
A. At the end of June 932,230 we have a national debt of $275,-
veterans actualy were enrolled in 000,000,000.
In 1935 we paid out $3,000,-
educational institutions or taking
on-the-job training as provided 000,000 in subsidies and grants,
in Public Law No. 346. In the today, subsidize and grants cost
Branch 11 area (Washington, us $16,000,000,000.
“In 1935, per capita taxes were
Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alas­
ka) 29,353 were taking advant­ about $20. Today the per capita
age of the education and training tax is $308.
“In the year of 1946 it is well
provisions of the GI bill.
Q. May a veteran purchase to restore the United States gov­
real property with a non-veteran ernment to the people, and with
this simple and fundamental prin­
and obtain a loan guaranty?
ciple—in our democracy the peo­
A. Yes, but the amount of the ple must support the government.
loan on which the guaranty is The government cannot support
baaed is in proportion to the vet­ the people and remain a demsc-
eran's interest in the property.
racy.”
Q. May unemployment compen­
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sation under the servicemen’s re­
adjustment act be paid concur­
rently with the subsistence al­
lowance for a veteran in train­
ing?
A. No.
Q. If I am drawing a disabil­ PEAR HARVEST GETS
ity compensation, can I assign UNDERWAY, PAY INCREASED
all or any portion of it as pre­
MEDFORD—A large segment
mium payments on my National of the people of the Rogue river
Service Life Insurance ?
valley, including fruitgrowers,
A. Yes. File Form 887 at fruit packers and shippers, the
your nearest VA office.
people who take time off from
regular duties to work in the
fruit each fall, and the merchants,
Killed Hi« Brother
await with anxiety the day the
Cain and Abel were the first fruit graders and washers start to
children ever born into this world, hum, because that means the be­
being the sons of Adam and Eve, ginning of the Rogue river val­
our first parents.
Out of jeal­ ley’s main harvest, the pears.
ousy, Cain killed his brother, Abel, That time arrtved last week, with
and God did not step in and stop picking starting in some orchards
him. God let Cain choose for Wednesday, and packing houses
himself and kill his brother. And due to “turn on the machines”
from Adam down, men have killed, Aug. 9.
stolen and done every kind of
sin, with God warning them but SEASON’S PEAK NEARS;
MORE PICKERS NEEDED
leaving them, free to choose.
M’MINNVILLE—With the peak
NOT WOODEN MEN. Every of the bean season just around
man must choose for himself, the corner, bean growers through­
with wooden men, with men who out the county anticipate the need
have no mind of their own. Every for many more pickers this week.
man must choose for himself. The best picking, and hence the
Even after God had given ’ his best wages, usually come in the
Son, our Lord to die for their middle of the season.
sins, every man must say for
himself whether or not he will SCHOOL BELLS
l»e saved. If they choose to be­ RING SEPTEMBER 9
lieve God, that Christ the Son,
FOREST GROVE—September 9
died for their sins, then God hon­ has been set as the opening day
ors their act and gives them tor Forest Grove schools. The
eternal life.
grade school board set this date
So men are saved and the Bi­ and lit is expected that the union
ble puts it all in a word—God so high school board Will confirm the
loved you that he gave his only- date.
born Son that if you will believe COUNTY TAXES INCREASE
on Him, you shall not perish but FOR COMING YEAR
have eternal life. So you are to
HILLSBORO — W a s h i n gton
choee between sin and eternal de­ epunty tax bill for next year will
spair and Christ, with His joy, be $114,186.93 higher than last
hope and peace forever. Which year with a millage increase of
for you?
4.2, according to figures released
Events in
Oregon
S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland
1, Ore. This space paid for by
a Portland family.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
Entered as second class mail
matter. August 4, 1922, at the
post office in Vernonia, Oregon,
onder the act of March 3, 1879.
At the
Churches
last week. Total taxable value of
all property shows a gain of from
$28,023,996.04 to $28,648,435.30
for the 1946-47 tax roll.
The increase in taxes can be at­
tributed mainly to dnereases in
school levies.
APPROVAL VOTE WOULD
DOUBLE SIZE OF SANDY
SANDY — A special election
held August 12. at the city hall
and at designated polling paces
in two out of the three districts
invoved in the proposed annexa­
tion of three parcels into the city
insits. The size of the city will
be more than doubled if the an­
nexation is approved.
—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.
7:30—Friday, People’s Night.
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9:45—Bible school led by M. L
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7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting.
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BY JIM 5TEVENS
Literary Snipe Hunt . . .
The professors have been ar­
guing about Paul Bunyan ever
since my book came out in April,
1925. One of them had a piece
on him in a national magazine
over a year ago that took Paui
and Babe entirely out of character
as a legend of the forests. I wrote
a protest which carried a deadpan
reference to a "newly discovered
Henry James letter on the lore
of Paul and Babe.” It was of
course a sell. The magazine was
literary, and I assumed that any
reader of it would perceive the
hoax
at first glance.
Henry
James was an aesthete of aes­
thetes. He lived in England be­
cause of the “coarseness’ and
‘crudity’ of America. The idea of
his ever having been interested in
Paul and Babe is as fantastic as
any Bunyan tale.
But I was pretty solemn in
by missive and parodied the
Henry James phrasing—a trick
which any practiced writer can
easily do. And I used such fam­
ous James phrases as “emotion
of recognition,” “golden measure, ’
“American scene.”
I didnt dream the letter would
fetch me a tenderfoot New York
professor to hold the bag and
the lantern in the cold night,
waiting for the snipe. But dad-
gunned if that wam’t what hap­
pened !
Where is Nathan Bromtein? . . .
The letter was from a New
Yorker who made up what is
called an anthology of Paul Bun­
yan stories. A couple of mine
will be in it. As usual, the an­
thology contributors get little or
no money for their work. The
publishers and the compiler-edit­
ors take the profits from such
books.
So, when I read thiis in the ed­
itor’s letter, ”... you make ref­
erence to (the newly discovered
Henry James letters on the lore
of Paul and Babe). I wonder it
you will be good enough to inform
me where the letter appears, if it
has been published, or if it has
not been published, who has it?”
—I had only a little trouble
with my conscience before going
on with the snlipe hunt.
My reply was pretty compli­
cated. It said that away back
yonder the pioneer Seattle lum­
berman, Henry Yesler, had a no­
good step-brother, Ralph Yesler,
who was an arty fellow, Ralph
wrote Henry James about how
crude his life was, for his lum­
berman brother was making him
toil as a bullcook. So Henry
wrote in return, (said I), that art
was everywhere, even in the wil­
derness, as witness Paul Bunyan
and Babe the Blue Ox. James
was living Cn England but had
heard of Paul from English lords
who had traveled to Michigan to
fish for grayling in the Au Sa­
ble. Of such was my tall tale.
I concluded:
“Mr. Nathan Bronstein, grand­
nephew of Ralph Yesler, member
of a logging firm, and patron of
the arts in Seattle, has the letter
of Henry James to Ralph Yesler.
He is in Hollywood ... I hope I
can get what you want from him
at an early date.”
The New Yorker stuck to his
bag and lantern. He kept writ ng
on his engraved letterhead, en­
closing air-mail stamped envel­
opes, and asking, “Where is Na­
than Bronstein now?”
Murder Yet! ...
Today I write the poor cuss
again, saying, “I have not yet
heard from Nathan Bronstein in
Hollywood ... It was Farrar
Burn, husband of June) Bum, au­
thor and assistant professor in
the Department of English, Uni­
versity of Washington, who copied
the Paul Bunyan reference from
the original James letter. He and
his wife are now on a cruise
among the San Juan islands. Far­
rar is a brothtr of Bob Burns,
of Hollywood and radio fame,
and so won the confidence of Mr.
Bronstein, who is “hard to come
by,” as the loggers say, even
when he is here at home. Mean­
while, I’ve asked by old friend,
Jim Marshall, who resides in Los
Angeles as Western editor of
Collier’s, to see if he can get wind
of Bronstein around the movie
studios. He miight be able to
help us.’ And so on, with more
and more fanciful complications.
If the New Yorker comes back
for still more, I’ll just about be
up a stump. I may have to mur­
der Nathan Bronstein yet—if
Farrar Burn and Jim Marshall
don’t kill me first!
NAZARENE CHAPEL
The church that cares.
—H. L. Russell, Pastor
1208 Bridge St.
9:45 a.m.—Sunday school.
11:00 a.m.—Morning worship.
7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and
prayer.
LATTER DAY SAINTS
Sunday school convenes at 10
a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und­
er the direction of Charles
Long-, Branch President. Polly
H. Lynch, Superintendent.
7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament
Rev. Anthony V. Geraee
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.
SEVENTH uAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
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to visitors.
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