Go to Convention At the Churches To Hold Special Service Next Sunday, May 22, is birth day Sunday at the Evangelical U. B. Sunday school and all those whose birthdays come in May will be honored with a special candle light service. Also this is Con ference Mission Sunday and a special offering will be taken to help establish a church in the new industrial area at the north ern ed;,e of Roseburg. Commission Attended Ralph Sawyer, Jaunita Falcon- berry, Norma Elliot and Faye Millis represented the Christian church of Vernonia at a planning commission at Twin Rocks last week end. Although the weather was oppressive, a good time and a constructive time was had by all. School to Start May 31 The Christian church will hold a vacation church school begin ning Tuesday, May 31. Classes are being arranged for children through 12 years of age. Lengthen the life of Your Woolens Addie Herrin, Bernice Knoedler, Ruby Fowler, Lettie Brown, Olena Stubbs, and Annie Wall plus Rev. and Mrs. G. Wm. Anderson at tended the district convention last Thursday in Forest Grove. Times Changed The First Baptist church has announced a change in the time of their Sunday evening service. Training Union will begin at 6:45 p.m. and evening service at 7:45. ASSEMBLY OF GOD “THE FRIENDLY CHURCH”. Where You’re a Stranger Only Once. 9:45 a.m. — Sunday school. 11:00 a.m. — Worship. 7:30 p.m. — Evangelistic service. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Bible study and praise service. 7:30 p.m. Friday—Prayer service. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. 11:00 a.m.—Preaching, missionary programs or Bible study. FIRST BAPTIST 969 Bridge St. The Church with a Bible Message —Thomas J. Kilcoyne, Pastor 10:00 a.m.—Sunday School. 11 00 a.m.—-Morning worship. 6:45 p.m. — B.T.U. 7:45 p.m. — Evening worship. 7:30 p.m. Wed.—Prayer service LATTER DAY SAINTS Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at 925 Rose Ave. under the direction of Charles Long, Branch President. Polly H. Hudson, Superintendent. A cordial invitation is extended to visitors. 7:30 p.m.—Evening services. '. . . by having us clean them carefully and apply our moth proofing service. You’ll like our service. Vernonia Cleaners SUITS MADE-TO-MEASURE ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC —Rev. Anthony V. Gerace —Rev. J. H. Goodrich There’ll be only one Mass at 8:30 at St. Mary’s Catholic church until further notice. HANK’S PARTS HOUSE Open week days until 6 p.m. RICHMOND DOUBLE GUARANTEED TIRES If you’ve Got the Pieces, I’ve Got the Parts Phone 773 Riverview SHOP NEHALEM — SHOP NEHALEM — SHOP NEHALEM 5? 9 -j z a. © X From Our Shelves to Your Home Just pick up your telephone and let us know your various wants. We will pick them out with care and deliver them to vour home. co Sa i I QD 5 "S Z M X REMEMBER — for the best in canned goods, > meats, fresh produce, phone the NEHALEM. 3 NEHALEM MARKET AND GROCERY For Delivery Every Day Phone 721 HMTVHaN <IOHS — H3TVH3N dOHS — K3TVH3N dOHS SHELL PRODUCTS These two words symbolize the best money can buy. Don’t purchase products that may be in ferior, but order Shell for every use. Specify the best for home, business and auto* motive needs and remember— SHELL IS BEST E. V. Robertson SHELL DISTRIBUTOR Plant Phone 542 Residence Phone 1197 I as X © ■B a; ts X ► r X as EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN The Forum —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45 — Sunday school 11:00—Morning Worship 7:30—Bible Study hour. 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting. FIRST CHRISTIAN —G. Wm. Anderson, Pastor “Where Action Is Predominant” 9:45 a.m. — Church school, M. L. Herrin, Sup’t. Attendance last Sunday 140. 11:00 a.m. — Rural life Sunday Service, “God’s Land.” 7:30 p.m. — Baccalaureate service. "The House That Wisdom Built” 7:30 p.m. Wed. — Prayer, study. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST (Colored) —Elder J. C. Foster, Minister. Services every Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30. NAZARENE CHAPEL The church that cares. —H. L. Russell, Pastor . Residence — 1208 — Bridge 9:45 a.m.—Sunday school. 11:00 a.m.—Morning worship. 6:30 p.m.—Young People’s service. 7:30 p.m.—Evening service with young people in charge. Wednesday 7:30 p.m. — Prayer meeting. Guard our Women As you look on the nudes set out on the magazine pages these days, you don’t have prayer meet ing thoughts, as Billy Sunday used to say. And, said our Lord— Whoever looks on a woman to lust after her, has committed adultry with her already in his heart. Mt. 5:28. To clear you, God put all your adultry on Christ, his only-born Son. Christ became the adulterer in your place and went into the judgement for you, was guilty and suffered the pains of hell to clear you. Then God lifted Him up out of death and the grave. POSSESS Christ down in your own heart and your own Lord and Saviour who died for all your sins and God freely gives you eternal life. The visitor from Africa said that the natives in the junglfe were filled with wonder that God had a Son who could live here and do no sin. But it is true. Christ was tempted at every point like as we. Tempted as we, to lie, steal and commit adultry, yet He sinned not. SUM IT UP — To you who POSSESS Christ as dying for your every last sin, God gives eternal life. You who believe not, shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on you. — See John 3:36., BIBLE. God loves you but his wrath is against sin. “Co. - S. W. McChesney Rd., Portland- This space paid for by a Port land business family. Bond Vote at Rainier To Ask for $227,000 An election to vote a bonded indebtedness of $227,000 at Rai nier was held Monday, May 16 for building and furnishing a school building. At a public meeting at Rainier recently authorities who had ex amined the quake shaken grade school building were of the opinion the structure was dangerous al though they disagreed as to whether the quake had caused a more dangerous condition in the plant. Ivy poisoning may be contracted fiom clothing worn a year after contact with the poison ivy vine. For Pasteurized MILK CREAM and BUTTERMILK right from the farm to your door, write or call Telephone No. 8812 CUR PRODUCTS ALWAYS SATISFY 11-25-48 PEBBLE CREEK DAIRY Timber Rt., Box 56 Vernonia, Oregon TO THE OLD MAN ON THE HILL Dear Sir: Your reply to my last letter was nothing more than the incoherent bleatings of a mortally wounded die-hard! As for the way I write; I wrote my replies as tempered objections of one gentlemen to the philosophy of another. I regret that you have made it necessary for me to somewhat change my position. One more item of personal cor rection. Your sly hope that I might be a fuzz faced youth with high ideals and no recognition of the facts of reality needs clarifica tion. Age is not the constant traveling companion of wisdom; nor is experience. They are so only when possessed by indivi duals with minds broad enough to accept viewpoints different from their own when their own has been proven empty! When toler ance does not accompany these, then wisdom is a false cloak vain ly worn for appearance sake alone. Though I am not wise, I have the intelligence to realize that not all is honesty in politics and govern ment. But because I do does not mean that I will sit upon a hill of prejudice and sagely conclude that it’s inevitable, without hope and beyond any mortal atttempts to change it. For if I did this I would be, admittedly, a man carrying a mind that was dead! You constantly refuse to acknow ledge that corruption and waste, if there is any in government, is the fault of we, the people. The Constitution and Bill of Rights guarantee us certain rights, and one of those most cherished is freedom. If cqrruption is in gov ernment, then we are not free. But is it entirely the fault of our elected officials? No! It’s our responsibility to be so vigilant that graft is made an unprofitable business. Therefore we must solidify our opinions and watch fulness into a strong agency to combat the evils of weakness which we all possess. Officials are only human. If they’re poorly naid, then it’s mostly our fault if they go wrong. Realize too, that in no other profession is an individual more open to vilifica- than in politics; and in no pro fession does one receive less praise for work well done. Absolutely economy is needed in legislative, .executive and judicial functions. But drives for economy by the congress must be actively supported and encouraged by the combined urgings of we the people. One of the finest chances for government reorganization along more efficient lines is contained in the report of the Hoover commis sion. So let’s support that whole heartedly. You may ask, quite rightly, how to gain group strength? First revitalize the town meeting. Make THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949 7 it a sounding board in this coun ty for every argument pro and con that can be conceived on every vital issue that appears before our local, state and federal legis lators. Then in special elections take a vote of the county and tabulate the results. Send these findings to our repres«ntatives. Thus, in a set of statistics, our officials will have an accurate guide as to how his constituents feel on the projects for which he has to cast a vote of yes or no, or . . . absent. Then, we the people, will really be the vital factor in deciding what laws snail govern our lives. There will be expense in hold ing special- elections, true. But will the cost of those be as tower ing as the waste that now steadily drains the finances of the state and federal coffers? It will take some time on the part of all of us to cogitate and cast an intelligent vote, again true. But if we really wish to have a hand in guiding our government, then this is a small price to pay. Do you, sir, really wish to stop inefficiency? Or have ">u merely used that as a barricade behind which to hide when my arguments became too difficult to refute? If it is this, then prattle no more about economy, for you are noth ing. Our representative received a steady inflow of mail which is considerably composed of the be liefs of the average American, like you and me. But wouldn’t it save him much time and expense if these views were massed together into a voting record of minority and majority feelings on certa’n issues ? These are questions that must be answered by us all before any political improvement can start. And let us always realize that complacenacy an.l disinterest are the root? of any waste and cor ruption by officials. And we, the individual, are the fundamental root of all good and evil. Realize this, Old Man on the Hill; nothing you or I or anyone says will have any appreciable power alone. Power is in num bers, and editorial grumblings of one man or a hundred thousand citizens against taxes, waste and corruption will mean nothing if it isn't a concerted roar of disap proval. But blind protest by, we the voters, is as bad as none at all; which brings us to the sales tax and your secondary rebuttal to* the arguments I had previously advanced. It comes to my atten tion in reading your re”ly that, either you do not scan an ex ponents arguments carefully, er else you choose to disregard those you cannot dispute. Four time* you mentioned that I wanted more taxes. I defy you, sir, to find any where in my letters a statement such as that! Your reply, of course, will be that I want a sales tax. But I don't want it in the way that you infer. I want it pa a partial remedy to the current weight of tax assessment upon our hal'd earned dollars. And rightly constructed, it will do that!! For the sales tax will distribute this load of ours over a greater number of people, thereby easing the burden for some of us while not seriously depleting the income of any other group. In Michigan it was a primary help in bringing that state from financial chaos to* monetary harmony. You admit- yourself that taxes are necessary- And in the papers one can see county after county which has been forced to hold special elec tions for additional funds withu which to complete their tasksc. That situation will eventually be, or has been, reached in this, Co lumbia county. Therefore, new taxes or increases of the old the only answer. Taxes will con tinue to rise unless the govern ment curtails services. So the answer to this problem lies in the direction of redistribution of the tax load upon us so that in come for the state is gained, fairly painlessly, from previously untap ped sources. The tourists to our state are a logical fountain from which to get this supplementary economic sustenance. And the sales tax is the logical pump to, use. I recommend that you present a worthwhile reply to these views of mine or otherwise drop the tone of paternalistic chiding and guise of wisdom which, up to now, po litically speaking, you have had no right to flaunt. Sincerely, H. 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