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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1946
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
The Forum
Vets’
Mail Bag
Q. If the lender demands some
security can I use the bonds I
get for my terminal leave as
security for a G. I. loan?
A. No.
Q. I received overpayment of
subsistence on my September and
October checks. Should I return
the amount to the VA immed­
iately?
A. No. The VA is not yet
ready to handle such returns.
Rather than hold up checks and
delay payments, the VA decided
to continue full payments until
earning reports are received. You
will of course, be expected to
return the money, but the time
and method will be announced
later.
You will be given a
reasonable period of time in
which to make the payments.
Q. Does the Veterans Admin­
istration make loans?
A. No. The Veterans Adminis­
tration is not permitted to make
loans. It only guarantees the re­
payment of a part of a loan made
by a lender to a veteran.
Q. Can a loan to
purchase
household furniture be guaran­
teed?
A. No.
Q. May I make larger payments
on my G. I. loan tl>an my reg­
ular installments when I am
able?
A. Yes. You have the right to
repay at any time without prem­
ium or fee the entire indebtedness
or any part of your Joan, but not
less than the amount of one ins­
tallment or $100, whichever is
leas.
Q. Why weren’t the subsistence
checks mailed out to veteran stu­
dents or trainees on Sept. 1 and
Oct. 1 adjusted in accordance with
the new ceiling limitations?
A. Because at that time the
Veterans Adminstration did not
have the necessary reports
of
earnings on which to base com­
putations. Rather than hold up
checks of those entitled to all or
part of their former allowances,
the VA decided to continue full
payments until the required earn­
ings reports are received.
Q. When a veteran computes
how much he has made during
che month, should he include pay
as a part of his wages?
A. He should include all reg­
ularly scheduled overtime. How­
ever, overtime worked occasionally
should
not
be
included.
Q. I was drafted into service,
but after only five months I re­
ceived a dependency discharge be­
fore our country was actually
at war. May I receive a course
of education and training?
A. Yes, it could be possible.
Any person who served in the
active military or naval service
on or after September 16, 1940,
and prior to the termination of
the war, who meets the other re­
quirements for eligibility, is en­
titled to a course of education.
Q. I am an honorably dis­
charged veteran but am commit­
ted to a federal prison. Am I
aligible to receive a pension?
A. Yes. The law provides, how­
ever that an honorably discharged
veteran who is being maintained
by a state or subdivision there­
of, may not receive in excess of
$30 monthly if pensioned for
service-connected disabilities or
$S if for non-service connected
disabilities.
Q. I am totally disabled veteran
and rated as in need of regular
aid and attendance. Can I use
my wife or daughter as an atten­
dant?
A. It is not necessery for a
veteran who is so rated to hire
an outside person to attend him.
He would receive the increased
amount irrespective of who at­
tends him.
The Vernonia Eagle
Marvin Kamholz
Editor and Publisher
Official Newspaper of
Vernonia, Oregon
Entered as second class mail
matter. August 4, 1922, at the
past office in Vernonia. Oregon,
under the act of March 3. 1879.
Subscription price, $2.60 yearly
Fit ut 4* M
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ASSOCIATION
aganda against its opponent. It
is time for the men in public of­
fice to become worthy of those
positions and courageously speak
their true feelings on the great
issues of today, regardless of how
long or short a time they remain
in office.
It is time for the people to de­
mand that the candidates speak
their true feelings, free of po­
litical propaganda. Every officer
no matter whether small or large
in importance should proclaim his
stand. Only then can America
have a more efficient govern­
ment.
The people must stop voting
straight tickets and realize that
each party has good men and that
they must be weeded from the
bad on both sides. What does it
matter if a man is a Democrat
or a Republican as long as he is
more capable than his opponent
and firm in his beliefs. The man
who is true to his promise is the
man to be in office.
If we want better government
we must work for it by studying
all candidates carefully and then
by going to the polls of freedom
and voting for the men we be­
lieve in. It must be the duties of
the newspapers, the radio and
magazines to give unbiased, fair
reports on all candidates.
It will require great coopera­
tion from all sources and it must
be the duty of all men elected
to work for greater efficiency and
representation of all people in our
government. Only then can Amer­
ica become a solid bulwark of
democracy in this avaricious
world. Thus by an even better
equal representation in govern­
ment can we pay living tribute to
our forefathers who fought so
hard to make this country a
land of the free and the home of
the brave.
Sincerely,
TOD BLAKE,
Timber Rt,
Vernonia, Ore.
A JUNGLE PASSWORD
The administration’s only hope
of balancing the federal budget
in the immediate future would
seem to simmer down to a simple
three-point program:
1. Maintaining high industrial
production so that the tax revenue
will remain commensurately high.
2. Refusing to advocate further
fixed federally-financed social re­
forms.
3. Curtailing the cost of exist­
ing governmental operations.
The president’s avowed deter­
mination to economize in regular
government operations, if success­
ful, will help. But the potential
saving in this field constitutes an
infinitesimal amount of overall
expenditures . . .
Despite the growth of voluntary
medical care prepayment plans, a
senate educational and labor sub­
committee on health headed by
Senator Pepper, of Florida, in­
sists that compulsory government­
al medical service, supported by
payroll taxes and general levies,
is necessary.
The issue will be a prominent
one before the next congress . . .
Washington policy-makers seem­
ingly are considering two alter­
natives to solve the nation’s hous­
ing shortage, with violent dis­
agreement between the two schools
of thought—1. Complete return
to free enterprise or 2. More
and stricter controls. Observers
feel, however, that the new con­
gress will hardly favor the sec­
ond.
The government’s fiscal policy,
long anchored largely to condi­
tions of wartime or the late de­
pression, is expected t<| be one of
the first major problems to come
before the 80th congress next
year.
Basic essentials of this policy
seem to include cheap money, gov­
ernment spending, taxation, gov­
ernment banking as sympolized
by the RFC, financial aid to small
business, and influence in the cap­
ital market.
Grew Like Topsy
The overall policy is not a
studied, well-rounded one. It, like
the federal tax structure, is a
hodge-podge of rules and regula­
tions hastily conceived and en­
acted to meet actual or potential
weaknesses. Like Topsy, they just
grew.
The fiscal policy is recognized
as an integral part of the infla­
tionary threat. And since this
threat seems likely to continue
when the legislators gather again
next January 3, action may be
looked for then.
Definite moves in two directions
are certain, Washington observers
say—the future status of the RFC
and loans to small business.
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God Made Him New
The boy had decided the big
question the night before and the
next morning, running along the
path to school, he put God to the
test—“If there is anything in this
Christian life, let God now snap
me out of my swearing and ciga­
rettes.”
Then and there God
cleansed his mouth and all these
passing years, up and down
America, he is known as God’s
man.
The Gospel of St. John, 15.5—“I
am the Vine, you are the branch­
es,” said Jesus. Now the miracle.
Pick up that dead branch and
set it against Christ, the living
vine and the Christ-life flows in.
Leaves come, then bud and fruit.
With sinful ways brought out and
confessed, Christians should grow
up and bear fruit.
A vast number have seen them­
selves lost to God by their sins.
One by one, they have believed
that Christ died to clear them and
feelings or no feelings, they stand
on it that eternal life is now
theirs. God said it, Christ did it,
they believe it and that settles it.
Having died for us, Christ our
Lord, came from the grave. He
is the Vine and we the branches
with His life flowing in to give
us victory over the old ways and
over the trials of the hour.
Says He—“I have come that
they might have life and have it
more abundantly.” •
What is your life?
S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland 1,
Ore. This apace paid for by a
Portland family.
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Ours is a "capitalism" of 20.-
000.000 home and farm owners,
and 50,000,000 who own bank ac­
counts and war bonds.
DEEP WAVE
UPSWEEP
TUP RlCVqWEFP
THE BAC k SWEEP
For Fatter Tourists ...
y
As a humble member that do­
nates time to conjuring up bright
ideas for improving the North­
west tourist industry, I have pro­
duced an idea which is. so prac­
tical that it wears overalls.
Simply, it is for construction of
of a chain of logging-camp cook­
houses throughout the region,
each one strategically located at
a center of tourist interest. Stan­
dard camp grub should be served
there in standard quantities at
standard prices, and in stand­
ard style.
Logging-camp cookhouses, of
course, generally lose money for
their operators. To take care of
this, a promotion fund should be
provided and charged off on the
basis of the fat put on by the
average tourist on hi3 way
through the Northwest.
The advertising and ’ publicity
benefits would result when the
tourists return to their home
towns.
Imagine, for example,
Elmer Purroy, M.D., reappearing
on the streets of Stonefield,
Pennsylvania, after two weeks or
more of feeding through our chain
of cookhouses.
“Good Lord, Doc.” one after
another of his fellow citizens
would greet him. “You’Ve grown
fatter’n a seal!
W’here’d you
get it?”
“Why, out in the Northwest
timber country, Skinny. All I
ate on vacation was logging-camp
meals. Lived on the fat of the
land. Came home as one of the
best-fed men on earth. Listen to
what I had..... ”
The Combination . .
The advertising and publicity
value for the Pacific Northwest
of sending hundreds of tourists
back home each year, all fattened,
is obvious. The rigging up of a
chain of logging-camp cookhouses
all through the region as our own
unique form of tourist attraction
means provision of essential col­
lateral
features. In
Florida,
Maine, California, and other areas
of the tourist industry, swim­
ming. hunting, fishing, mountain
climbing, skiing and related re­
creations are advertised as the
main things. Meals are the in­
cidental attractions; grub is an
accessory in those backward
areas; there the tourist busi­
ness is still in the horse-and-
buggy age.
In my program outdoor re­
creation and sports are to be
managed and provided eimply as
means to give the tourist the pro­
per appetites for the real pleas­
ure we have to offer here—log­
ging-camp meals in our chain of
cookhouses.
The combination is absolutely
necessery. Today no man outside
the woods feeds as well as the
Douglas fir logger. The table of
the family whose wife is a prize
cook simply cannot and does not
afford so many varieties of eat­
ables and potables at one meal
as the groaning board of the
average logging-camp cookhouse
presents.
The millionaire who
can easily afford all kinds of
fodder and swiggings seldom eats
so well as the logger, because
goixi eating depends always upon
lusty appetite and prime digest­
ion. and it takes hours of physical
work or exercise each day to
F0K ™E M0RE,
MATURE WOMAN
keep up such digestion and appe­
tite. These gifts of the gods are
possessed
by
practically all
loggers.
Really to put over our program
of advertising the Northwest
through the fattening of tourists,
we must, therefore, provide for
the promotion of appetites and
digestions as well as for powerful
grub.
Worst Meals on Earth . . .
The best
everyday
eating
known to man is to be had in
our logging camps. That is a
settled fact. It is worth noting
that, back around 1925, when the
late, great Harry Leon Wilson
glorified the whole Pacific North-
wast in a single magazine article
called “The Green Land,” he led
off with a long description of a
logging-camp meal, There’s other
good author.ty for this idea of
mine.
But what Mr. Wilson failed to
mention and what too many of
us have kept silent about ever
since, is that the average North­
west restuarant meal—most of all
the roadside variety—is a culin­
ary abomination.
The exceptions are few. Today
we offer tourists the best of
everything they are looking for
except meals. Yet we have the
resources (with food controls
out), the skills, the traditions, and
all else that is needed to make
Northwest meals our No. 1
tourists attraction instead of our
No. 1 horror for tourists. All we
have to do is to rig up (through
private enterprise, of course,)
the right combination for a
tourist chain of logging-camp
cookhouses, and start ’em to
yarding.
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Vets School Pay
Set-up Explained
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Veterans who are working full
time and attending school in their
spare time may now be entitled
to subsistence payments under the
revised G.I. bill, Thomas M. Craig
Veterans Adminstration represen-
tive in this area, explained last
week.
Under the original law, a vet­
eran attending school in his spare
time could not collect any sub­
sistence allowance if engaged in
full-time gainful employment not
a part of his course of education
or training
Now, if the student veteran is
earning less than $175 if he is
single or $200 if he has depend­
ents. he may be entitled to sub­
sistence up to $65 or $90 in or­
der to make the difference,
Craig explained.
To be eligible, however, the vet­
eran must be taking at lea3t three
semester hours. Subsistence pay­
ments will be tn the 'course load
with a minimum of 12 semester
hours considered as a full-time
course.
Any veteran who believes he is
entitled to subsistence under the
amneded law should apply at
once, Craig advised.
Craig meets with veterans each
Wednesday at the
city hall
in Vernonia
Lt. Jack Richards of the U.S.
Army Air Force, shot down in
the southwestern Pacific, rolled
over on his back and floated. For
all he knew he might be in enemy
territory; anyway he knew he
was stranded. His plane had gone
under almost as soon as it touched
the water.
As dusk began to creep over
the ocean, Jack could make out
the wooded outline of an island;
but distances were confusing, and
he wondered if he could swim that
far in his life-jacket. Thoughts of
home raced through his mind as
he swam. Ahead he could see
the island, dimly outlined by the
moon.
Jack prayed for strength and
guidance, talking to the One who
had become Lord of his life. Not
long after midnight he crawled
into a cave on the short, thanking
God for his deliverance. Exhaust­
ed, he backed as far out of sight
as possible and fell asleep. In
the morning he awoke to see the
sun through the fringe of bushes.
What would he find on the
island? Well, he’d soon know.
He emerged from his resting place
and looked around. Everything
was absolutely still. The island
was thick with trees and under­
brush.
His next thought was
about food. He was hungry.
Carefully he slipped along
through the foliage, conscious that
he was being watched, but seeing
no one. Finding a few half­
broken paths, he decided to fol­
low one. Toward noon he saw
an open space ahead, and he ap­
proached more slowly. Then at
a bend in the path he saw a small
church.
Throwing caution to the winds,
Richard broke and Tan. He lifted
the latch and the door swung
open. Inside he could see the
roughest kind of pulpit and
benches He turned back'to scan
the area around the church. It
had been cleared off in front of
the building, but had a solid
background of tall cocoanut trees
and low shrubbery—a perfect hid­
den place!
Walking to the altar, the young
flier humbly knelt, gave thanks
for deliverance, asked for guid­
ance, and rose with a light heart.
As he turned from closing the
door behind him, he was dumb­
founded to see at the edge of
the clearing a solid phyanx of
natives—men, women and chil­
dren.
The airman, connecting them
with the church, began to greet
them with words, smiles, and mo­
tions, only to be met with a stony
silence. Puzzled to know what
to do he began to sing. The old
song “Amazing Grace” rang out
in the weird stillness, but met
with no response. He tried an­
other, “What a Friend We Have
in Jesus,” but the result» was the
same. Again he spoke to them,
but was not rewarded with the
slightest relaxation of facial
muscles, they watched every move,
plainly curious.
“Some fun!” he despaired, de­
ciding to try one more song. In
a low, soft voice he began a fa­
vorite song of his childhood,
“Jesus Loves Me.” It was magic!
Instantly that immovable human
wall came to life. The stony
black faces were now rippling
with smiles.
By the time the
first verse was finished, Jack was
almost overpowered by their ef­
fusive friendliness. 'They brought
him food and drink, and the next
day helped him return to his
camp.
Literally thousands of
Australians and Allied service­
men are alive today because self­
sacrificing missionaries had gone
before them, and the gospel of
Jesus Christ had changed our
dark-skinned neighbors from can­
nibalistic warriors into loving and
lovable Christians.
—Submitted by G. F. Brown.
Letter to the Editor:
To the voters of Vernonia, Ore­
gon, and the United States, hear
my plea.
Today American government
faces the greatest threat to De­
mocracy that has ever arisen in
this country.
Do the people of today vote for
a candidate anymore? No they
vote for party, for a candidate
is nothing more than a puppet
bowing to the desires and wishes
of these powerful organiations
whose only purpose now is to per­
petuate its own glory and not
to fight for a better, cleaner
American government. Since when
has either party raised a plat­
form and thundered from its
height the convictions and opin­
ions of that group on the great
issues which face America. Rather
would they grovel in the dirt and
hurl the mire of deceit and prop­
At the •
Churches
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.*
7:30—Friday, People’s Night.
EVANGELICAL
—Rev. Allen II.
Backer, Minister
9:45 — Sunday
school
11:00—Morning worship. A Gos­
pel team from the Western Press
will be guest speakers. Speciau
music.
6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service.
No evening service.
Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and
prayer meeting. Sunday school
board meeting.
FIRST CHRISTIAN
—Ernest P. Baker, Minister
9:45—Bible school led by M. L.
Herrin.
11:00—Morning worship and Jun­
ior church.
7 :30—Sunday evening service.
7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting.
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.
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ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
Rev. Anthony V. Gerace
Rev. J. H. Goodrich
Mass: 9:30 a.n«. except first
Sunday in month—Mass at
8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on.
SEVENTH LAY ADVENTIST
Services on Saturday:
10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school.
11:00 a.m.—Gospel service.
A cordial invitation is extended
to visitors.
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