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4 THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1948 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Our General in Germany Back in the year of old, 1925, Walter Lipmann bossed the edi torial page of the New York World. One of his writers was a combat veteran of World War I. James M. Cain. He took to a book by an Oregon lumber-hooker blew a horn for it three different times in the World’s editorial page—and Lipmann let him. The book was “Paql Bunyan” by J. Who. Now it is 23 years after. Cain is a famous author of realistic novels, he is the American Zola. Walter Lipmann is, to my eye, the most enlightened news analyst and philosopher on world affairs now in practice. He is a deep student, a powerful writer, and he takes his responsibilities very seriously. These remarks are meant to lead up to Walter Lipmann’s judgment on General Lucis D. Clay, the American commander in Germany, who has had and is having one of history’s most dif ficult jobs to do. Lippmann says, “It is comforting to know that a man of Clay’s exceptional virtue, of his strength and moral refine ment, is to remain where he is.” Clay is “calm”, “firm”, “rational”, “resolute,” according to Walter Lippmann, and as he says it I believe it. This is truly good news. Clay on Lumber On the same evening that I read that heartening estimate on General Clay I did some casting back through wartime news clip pings. This heading caught my eye, “The Lumber Industry Does Its Part in War.” Date was May 13, 1943. The body of the story was a statement by the major general who was Assistant Chief of Staff for Materials, Army Service Forces, Lucius D. Clay. LOOK YEAR’S YOUNGER Banish the frown—the furrowed brow —relieve your eyes of strain with new, handsome glasses. DR. C. A. PLUMSTEAD — Optometrist Phone 445 Hillsboro 233 E. 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I am the beneficiary of my husbands $10,000 National Service Life Insurance policy. Are the payments I am receiving as a result of his recent death in an accident subject to taxation? A. No. Payments of National Service Life Insurance are wholly exempt from federal taxation. • Navy underwater demolition teams lost 40 per cent of their personnel in the first half hour of the assault on Omaha Beach, Normandy. , BUICK The Christion Sclenco Publishing Society PB-5 One, Norway Street, Boston 15. Moss., U S A. Enclosed is $1, for which please send me The Christian Science Monitor for one month. L-sten to “The Christian Science Monitor Views tht- News'* every Tuesday n.ghl over the American Broadcasting Company i He said in part: “Our victory over the once proud Afrika Korps was made sure by the over whelming wea pons of war that flowed to our forces in perfect condition and ready for use. The materials came in boxes and crates, many of them made of stout Pacific Northwest lumber. As our troops pressed forward with the val uable supplies brought to them in wood, other troops in the rear areas were salvaging the very wood itself. Lumber was so scarce in the theater of operations that it was treated with nearly the same care as the supplies it had har bored. Not a scrap of that wood went to waste. It was converted into shelters, tables, anti-aircraft gun platforms; in. short, into many of the things that an army needs in the field but cannot bring with it. “Loggers and millworkers help ed launch our offensive just as surely as did the soldiers who used their wood and their weapons so rightly and securely packed in that wood. The Army is looking to the Pacific Northwest for more and more lumber—the raw ma terial of victory.” Black Falls the Shadow A black menace is big on the horizon again. War can hit us as quickly and as easily as a light ning stroke. So now, the soldier who paid such a fine tribute to the men of the woods and mills five years ago, bears a fearful responsibility. He cannot defy the lightning and stop its strokes, but he can do a great deal to evade and stave off the endless minor threats and to prepare for the worst. Thinking of General Clay and what his character and actions mean to all of us, that phrase of Lippmann’s about him, “moral refinement” recurs. Surely it is a true one. The general has a fighting face, but it also reflects idealism, refined moral strength of highest qualify. Friends, there is one man I trust—Lucius D. Clay. Note: The following statement was issued by Manley J. Wilson, Warren, editor of the Interna tional Woodworker and state re- presentative, 33rd district, Clat sop and Columbia counties, for four terms, 1941, 1943, 1945 and 1947. “The actions of the present congress present a challenge to the people of the nation that must be met and met head on. 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