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6 THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1847 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. 'Peace-Loving' Oh, Yeah! RONA MORRIS WORKMAN Boulder Camp I had a rather amusing inter ruption this morning. A small girl beat upon my screen door and, at n MILK For Pasteurized CREAM and BUTTERMILK right from the farm 1 to your door, write or call Telephone No. 7F51 CUR PRODUCTS ALWAYS SATISFY 11-22-47 PEBBLE CREEK DAIRY Timber Rt., Box 56 Vernonia, Oregon 4 my invitation, rushed breathlessly into the room. “Oh, Mrs. Work man,” she gasped, “Bill and Jim mie and some other boys keep go ing past our house and yelling things and my mother wants you to come right down and make them stop. Their mother won’t do a thing.” She ran her words all together in her excitement and for a moment I had difficulty in di gesting her meaning, and then I thought I must be mistaken. “Try it again honey,” I sugges ted, “and go a bit slower this time.” She took a deep breath and handed it all out again. Yes, I had it right the first time. I was being asked to do something that would get me into more danger than battling a couple of she-panthers in a cage. If there is one thing I have learned in a varied life it is to stay out of the arena when two mothers are engaged in warfare over their chil dren. I looked down at the small bit of indignant femininity and spoke slowly. “My dear, tell your mother that I have nothing whatsoever to do with running the family affairs of this camp. I cannot do any- thing about this trouble.” She looked even more stormy than ever and exploded, “Well, my mama said that if you wouldn’t come and stop them boys, then NEW AND USED PARTS Expert Auto Repairing Gas and Oil Open at 7:30 A. M.; Closed at 6:00 P. M. We Close Sat. afternoon and all day Sunday. LYNCH AUTO PARTS RIVERVIEW Phone 773 CARDS TICKETS HANDBILLS STATIONERY STATEMENTS LETTERHEADS ANNOUNCEMENTS Distinctive Typographical Werk Designed to SERVE and SATISFY The Vernonia Eagle just as soon as Mr. Workman gets in from the woods he has to come up and make them quit.” This time my amusement rose dangerously near to the surface, but I managed to answer gravely, “I’m afraid Mr. Workman can’t do that. It is a bit out of his line, too.” She didn’t look one bit con- vinced, but I started her on her homeward way, and came back to let my laughter loose. Her last re quest was even more amusing than her first, for I know that there is really only one thing in the log- ging woods or the camp that can put the Big Boss on the run, and that is an angry woman, and two of them would probably send him into the fartherest reaches of the uncut timber. Then, even as I began to laugh, it came to me that it wasn’t really funny. I know too much of logging camps, of the closeness of living, the constant contact, and I know just how such a spark will blaze and burn until it has the entire camp in a turmoil, and only the most drastic measures will put out the raging fires. We are queer creatures, we hu- man beings. We blame nations for going to waix We say we hate fighting and trouble and want peace, but do we try to change ourselves into peaceful citizens? Not on your life we don’t. We al ways try to change the other fellow into a peaceful citizen, even if we have to use a club to do it— or an atom bomb. When Mrs. Flannigan’s kids get into a fight with our kids, we attack Mrs. Flannigan and blame her for not making her rough-necks quit pick ing on our innocent little angels, yet in our hearts we know that it was a fifty-fifty proposition that our sweet darlings had started the fight—or if they hadn’t star- ted this one, they would undoubt- edly be the ones to start it tomor row. Then Mrs. Flannagan tells her neighbor just exactly what she thinks of us and our off-spring, and this neighbor leaves her dish es in the sink and rushes over to tell us what Mrs. F sail, plus cer tain contributions of her own to improve the general effect. We blow sky-high over such “dirty lies” from Mrs. F, and pour vitriol into our remarks about her, which are trotted back to her with the greatest possible speed, and the battle is on. And yet, Mrs. Flannigan is the kind of neighbor who, as the say ing goes, will “give the shirt off her back” to help a neighbor in trouble, and many times we have gone to her house when there has been illness and put out a wash or fed the youngsters. Do we think of these things now when the fighting urge hits us? We do not, nor does anybody else, and yet we expect nations, who after all are but aggregates of human-beings, to keep out of war. Nations are com posed of .the very same people who get into neighborhood fights over their children, over boundary lines, over some gossip repeated by some scandal - mongering troublemaker, or over a dog or a bunch of chick ens in the garden. Lord help us, how can we expect to keep out of war when we can’t even keep peace with the fellow who lives next door to us? Right this moment I have the strongest desire to be an isolation ist. I know too well what will hap pen if I try to settle this very small affair; I will come out of it looking like Poland, and with about as much success as the U.S. had with China. Nothing doing, they will just have to battle this out on their own. I am too busy trying to remember who the be nighted idiot was who once said we were a “peace-loving people”. His name must have been Ananias. 52 GIFTS IN ONE— THE VERNONIA EAGLE rPUICHASINfi POWER JAN '47 LAST YEA* TODAY 1.30 Ì I 24 L22 1.20 I LÍO 0/» “/o’ / ' «* I - o LJM i I ' iNniroti MINNEAPOLIS — Real income of the American family is declin ing, but still is higher than a year ago, it is revealed by the latest consumers’ study of Investors Syndicate. "Real income” is the relationship of revenue to living costs. In its cqrrent survey, Investors Syndicate finds that the consumer has $1.02 for every dollar he had over living costs a year ago, but that this was down from the $1.06 rate of two months earlier. The average family in March, 1947 received $1.24 as compared with each dollar received a year ago, but its expenses were $1.22 for every dollar spent last year. Two months earlier the income had been $1.26 and outgo had been $1.20. All family expenses were up over last year, with food costing $1.35 as compared with each dollar in March, 1946. Shelter was up to $1 03, clothing to $1.20, and mis cellaneous expenses to $1.28. Despite the increases in ex penses, Investors Syndicate said, the continued increase in buying power indicates there is little rea son to expect decreasing market demands. Th e Forum Astoria, Ore. May 26, 1947 Editor, Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon Dear Editor: At a recent meeting of the Del- egates of the various organizations throughout Northwest Oregon a resolution was adopted recommend ing concerted opposition to the Sales Tax Bill which is to be voted on by referendum soon. Opposition to the tax is based upon the facts that but a very small percentage of the receipts from such a tax will reach the objective for which it is intended. It will become a burden upon those less able to pay and to the man with a large family it simply means the burden of taxation will be shifted from those more able to pay to those less able to stand the strain. Í There are many reasons why a sales tax should be defeated and a careful study of the facts in the matter will reveal these reasons. A clever piece of baiting has been done in influencing the cigarette smoker to vote for the tax. If the vote sustains the levying of the tax then the tax on cigaret smok ers will not be imposed, other wise a tax on cigarettes will be levied. The question is: Would you rather pay a tax on one small item, or an accumulation of taxes on the many items coming under the levy as it will be imposed? This is the bait to influence the smoker to remove the threat on his smokes. Also no part of the levy, as pro posed in the bill, will be devoted to old age assistance. Study these matters carefully and use your space and influence to defeat the bill, and help to stop for all time this nuisance tax. ADDING machine rolls, sale* books, scratch pads and signs. Get them at The Vernonia Eagle. 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