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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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EAGLE, VERNONIA,
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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. Todd Blake
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