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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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