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00:30We cannot measure morals by the rod, or the consequence of disobedience to God.
00:43From dust our heart to dust our will return may also be said of the lowly worm.
00:50But when God breathed into man the breath of life, a soul was born with hope for paradise.
00:57It matters not from whence our body came, grant unto earth that to which it has acclaimed,
01:07and unto God the soul he freely gave, friends of the desks of the earthly grave.
01:13That's one of my poems.
01:17Yeah, three of them all here at once.
01:34Well, I don't know which one we have.
01:44Oh, I think that one.
01:47I think we can get it out in there.
01:59I'm a wood butcher.
02:18Well, that means that you're a rough carpenter, that you can work on logs and rocks and so forth,
02:26and you can't work on bricks and lumber, and do a good job.
02:29I was building these cabins when I was 15 years old, back in Minnesota.
02:38That's the only kind of cabins they had.
02:41When the homesteaders would come in to take up a homestead,
02:45why, the neighbors would all go over there and build them a cabin.
02:49Within a week, they'd have some place to live in.
02:51I did have one brother up in Seattle and decided to come back out of here,
02:59and there was a lumber company grabbing all this timberland up here,
03:04and, of course, that interested me because I was interested in timber
03:07by working with it back there in Minnesota.
03:11So I came down here from Seattle and took a homestead in 1907.
03:16It cost a dollar and a quarter an acre, which was $200 for around 168.
03:25Then I got the contract building these here houses
03:29when I didn't have anything else to do.
03:33They were cheaper.
03:35When you get a hog gum for a couple hundred dollars, you know,
03:38it was cheaper than sod stuff, even that engine.
03:42I got $300 to build in this cabin.
03:46But you got a lot of stuff.
03:47Where are you?
03:49Well, they wanted, of course, they wanted a job, I suppose, the main thing.
04:19And then they did want to learn to build a log cabin.
04:24And both of them were interested in building a log cabin.
04:28And I said, the best way to learn is to come over and go to work at it.
04:31I said, that's the best way.
04:39In my 35 or 40 cabins that I built, I've had probably a new man every time I tried.
04:48Every time I built a cabin, somebody knew, you know.
04:55It's just a matter of being able to handle an axe.
05:00It took them some time to get used to using an axe.
05:04They never used an axe, you see, before in their lives.
05:07And it takes time for them to break in.
05:10And about the time we got through, why, they were broke in pretty well, you see.
05:20Taylor, you know, he was handy, you know.
05:22And he was intelligent.
05:24And the little gal was, too.
05:26And the movie was, too, you know.
05:49Well, I suppose I got to do it, the advisory committee they call it.
06:06I have no business to be on it, really.
06:10One man from the Spanish-American War, I guess it's just a populistic proposition.
06:19I enlisted in Chicago, and we went out to the Orient, China, Japan, the Philippines, and
06:26we was a flagship on the Pacific Fleet at that time.
06:37A few organs out there, and I came home on the Oregon, the battleship Oregon.
06:43Well, how do you do it?
06:44How are you getting them all straightened out here?
06:46He represents the Purple Heart, and he represents the World War I veterans, and he represents
06:50the VFW, and you represent the DAV, and you represent the Spanish-American War veterans.
06:54Okay?
06:55There's only four of us left in the state now.
06:58That's all you do.
06:59That's all you do.
07:00That's all you do.
07:01That's all you do.
07:04I suffer to take care of this certain amount to long to veterans, young people.
07:08Oh, it don't have to be young people.
07:11They're a very good committee.
07:13How old are you?
07:15Ninety-three!
07:17There's a lot of serious things in life that aggravates you and gets you off.
07:27But if you have a little sense of humor, you can take it.
07:32And otherwise, without a sense of humor, you're in tough populations in here, as I can see.
07:38And I think that's one of the main things.
07:41You can't take everything too serious.
07:44The TV boys, they came from Baker.
07:49And they came over here about 10 o'clock or 11 one day.
07:56They wanted me to take some pictures.
07:59And I said, go ahead, take your pictures.
08:01I didn't know where they were at the time.
08:04And they wanted to go out in the woods and do a little work out there in one day.
08:10And so we went out in the woods and split some.
08:14Some posts out for them and cut them up.
08:26But I think the whole thing was the fact that you're 90-something years old and you're building a lot of heaven.
08:32Well, I don't see anything unusual about that, you know.
08:36Excepting everybody don't live that long.
08:39But then, gosh, I had three brothers that was older than me.
08:43Quite often we make heroes out of people that have no particular reason to be.
08:51Now, my health and one thing or another, I attribute to my parents.
08:59I don't expect any reward for what I did.
09:02I didn't do anything about my health.
09:04In fact, the matter is, I think I was a little bit just the opposite because I am rather obstinate then, I guess.
09:12Well, I had to be forced into anything, you know.
09:16You don't have to have much intelligence to build a cabin.
09:40After you see how it's done, you know, and do a few loads, then it's just work.
09:47Strong in the back, weak in the head, proposition in the end.
09:50And, of course, I'm not like I used to be about 40 years ago or 50, which was, I was quite active at that particular period.
10:09But now, you know, you can't lift so much or anything.
10:12I've been taking pills in one thing or another for some time.
10:19You're supposed to have too dang many white corpuscles and so forth in your blood.
10:26And I was supposed to be ready to die here some years ago.
10:30And if I got all excited about it, I probably would have.
10:33Well, I sensed that they were reliable people.
10:41They were honest, and they were people that you could rely on in regard to what they were capable of doing.
10:49You can't judge people the first day or two that you're with them.
10:53You have to take time before you really find out what they are and what their beliefs is
10:59and how they arrive at these beliefs and all that kind of thing.
11:03I thought they were married for several months.
11:06I didn't know.
11:08Of course, you've got to accept what it is.
11:12It isn't a question of what you think.
11:15You have to accept a lot of things, whether you like it or not.
11:23When Gussie said that they were going to get married, I said,
11:27Now you're talking my language.
11:29I said, Now I can deal with you.
11:33It's become a thanksgiving moment, our Father.
11:39One of blessedness and one of richness.
11:43But the feeling of privilege upon us as friends and loved ones
11:46as we stand with these two
11:47as they come in the moment of their commitment.
11:52Make a blessing here by this presence.
11:55May thy grace attain
11:56and the comfort of thy beast be upon them.
12:00You promise to love and honor and cherish them,
12:02leaving all others cleave only unto you.
12:06And do you have rings by which you wish to have these vows to you?
12:10You promise to pledge yourselves one's and other.
12:14I now therefore pronounce you husband and wife.
12:17You've got to watch.
12:18You've got to watch.
12:18You've got to watch.
12:18You've got to watch.
12:19You've got to watch.
12:19You've got to watch.
12:20You've got to watch.
12:27I think you helped it along.
12:30Well, I hope I did.
12:32This is the third one.
12:34Yep.
12:35Isn't that how we got married?
12:37Youth looks for things they can't explore, they seek the truth through nature's lore.
12:59Created things are plain to see, but the how and why is a mystery.
13:07Knowledge is a search for facts, a worthy cause but often lacks.
13:13A broader base from which your start may be found within our hearts.
13:26This Fourth of July experience we have every year always seems to give us the chance to tell a few stories we've never gotten around to the rest of the year.
13:34Like the Spanish-American war veteran who is leaving a legacy of log cabins in Central Oregon.
13:40Ray Summers reports from Hampshire.
13:42If you're going to do something right these days, you've got to do it yourself.
13:47After seeing Luther Metke work, we decided he's probably right.
13:53Luther Metke is a builder of log cabins.
13:57The lowest log cabin, numbers somewhere in the 40s or 50s, is different.
14:01For one thing, it's got eight sides.
14:04It was principally, as I say, for to get light in that center part.
14:09You see, I'll put tresses across from that post over there, that far one over to that one, and the same way on the other end.
14:17These things, if you keep working, you don't have time to worry about it, you see.
14:24If you lay around, why, I suppose, a physical proposition is just the same as the mental.
14:32If you exercise a little bit, you, well, it's easier for to, you don't get sore and stove up.
14:44We doubt Luther Metke will ever be stove up or stove under or any other way.
14:48He'll just keep on building these log cabins of his and trying to ignore those pre-cut log cabins of modern industry.
14:55Well, it looks like a manufactured thing, and I like the log cabin made on the logs.
15:04Natural.
15:06Natural.
15:07The one thing you can say about log cabin building Luther Metke, he's natural.
15:12As natural as the material he uses.
15:15Ray Summers at large at Camp Sherman Oregon.
15:25I won't be able to go over there.
15:27That guy won't let you over there now.
15:34Then I went out to China, and going up the Yangtze River.
15:39And the old Chinaman told me that these barn hills at one time was full of timber.
15:46They had cut all the timber off.
15:50And you couldn't even see a sign of a stump then.
15:53It was just virgin soil.
15:55There wasn't even grass growing on it.
15:57Of course, that reminded me of the fact that there was a possibility that we may run out of timber.
16:03We thought we had enough to last us forever, you know.
16:07And we did have, if we take care of it.
16:10But we haven't taken care of it.
16:13They haven't done enough for the amount of men that's here, you see.
16:18But I have in mind, when they had a dozen men, they did just as much as they do now with the 500.
16:26It becomes, I think after a period of time, it becomes a kind of a bureaucracy.
16:33And their principal object is taking care of their job.
16:43I had the radical ideas that by organizing the working man, that he would be able to do something about these things.
16:54Well, when the working man gets in power, he does the same thing.
16:58He's looking after himself, and that's all.
17:01He's just like the employer.
17:03So it isn't a question of who's in power.
17:05It's what they do when they get there.
17:08And therefore, I don't care who owns the timber or anything of that kind, as long as they'll take care of it.
17:16Nothing comes from nothing.
17:22Everything from thought.
17:25Not always what is what, or what we really sought.
17:29With man, it's trial and error.
17:33Although many to consult with God, who has the answers, already knows the result.
17:40So it's just an idea that thought is the thing that creates everything.
17:50And I actually believe that there's a superior intellect that created everything.
18:05I'm living here alone because I'm independent when I'm alone.
18:09I'm independent as far as any of my kids is concerned.
18:13They all invite me to stay in one thing or the other.
18:16And I probably will when I get helpless.
18:19But as long as I'm able to be around and do a little something and keep fairly healthy, I don't see any object.
18:27I've got to the point where I can live with myself, in other words.
18:32There was a time when it's pretty hard when you hated yourself, you know, and you couldn't live with yourself.
18:38But then, of course, it's tough on you.
18:40But if you get to the point where you live with yourself, it's not too hard.
18:47There she's coming now.
18:54Oh, yeah.
18:56Well, I like to go out here.
18:58Now, put on your frigid smile.
19:13You're kidding me.
19:16Well.
19:17How are things going?
19:19Hi.
19:20Finally made it.
19:22Okay.
19:23How are things going?
19:28That was a long old ride.
19:30This is my daughter, John, Mrs. Dodd.
19:40And this is my granddaughter, Mrs. Montgomery.
19:44And this is her boy, Travis.
19:47Usually he don't count, but then.
19:49That's Trump, John.
19:50That's Vicki and I made it.
19:52Yeah, we're trying to build a house for it.
19:55I don't know whether they'll ever get it done or not.
19:58I was going to say, if you ever get it done.
20:00Yeah.
20:01Oh, really?
20:02Yeah.
20:03They're going to retire.
20:04Oh, yeah, it will.
20:05You'll be 94 next month.
20:07Next month.
20:0820th of next month.
20:0994 years old.
20:10Old George Washington and I.
20:11We were old.
20:12All of us.
20:13All of us.
20:14He's almost as old as George Washington.
20:16Well, I used to be older.
20:18I used to be two days ahead of him, but now he's caught up with me and he got ahead.
20:24Yeah.
20:25We picked up your mail.
20:26You got a lot of money?
20:27Yeah, I got lots of money.
20:28That's what we need.
20:29We better get another corp anyway.
20:30I'll get you two corp?
20:31Well, unless you're ready to use it.
20:32I won't.
20:33One of them should be lost.
20:34Oh, I can just grab things.
20:35You know those pictures?
20:36That old picture?
20:37Look at them.
20:38This is Pat and this is me.
20:39Yeah.
20:40He was a baby.
20:41He was a baby.
20:42He was a baby.
20:43He was a baby.
20:44He was a baby.
20:45He was a baby.
20:46He was a baby.
20:47He was a baby.
20:48He was a baby.
20:49He was a baby.
20:50He was a baby.
20:51He was a baby.
20:52He was a baby.
20:53He was a baby.
20:54He was a baby.
20:55He was a baby.
20:56He was a baby.
20:57I had this enlarged from a little picture he had.
20:59Okay.
21:00Nothing good.
21:01That's my handsome father.
21:05Nice.
21:06exhausted.
21:07Yeah.
21:08Chew it.
21:11How did that move?
21:20See you later.
21:22Check this out.
21:24So, see you later.
21:27Alright.
21:29My brother-in-law and I, we used to work together building bridges.
21:44We built practically every bridge between Bend and way up near Crescent.
21:50I built that upper bridge there at Bend and the footbridge, and then of course for the
21:55course there have been lots of bridges for them.
21:59We used to work together a lot, we used to do a lot of bridge work and stuff, and I located
22:04them on a claim up there, and she'd been there two or three days, I guess, you know, and
22:11he was always kidding, you know, and so when I come in there, he says, Lou, he says, I'll
22:18tell you, what do you take for to marry this girl here, you know?
22:23That was the first introduction I got, you see, and of course it embarrassed her.
22:29Well, I said, I'll take it over and give you a price and so forth.
22:34Well, he said, I ain't got anything but an old white horse out here now, but he said,
22:38you can have that.
22:40Of course he dashes off in on that.
22:45So that was the way we was introduced.
22:52Well, I said, I'm a tramp.
22:54I said, if you want to take up with an old tramp, well, it's perfectly all right.
22:59But I said, don't look for any diamonds or anything, you probably have more rocks in your head.
23:06Well, she took a chance.
23:13She always took care of mom.
23:15My mother was in a wheelchair for the last eight years of her life, and he cared for her completely.
23:21He clothed her, they went to church every Sunday.
23:24They never stayed home.
23:31When she passed away, I couldn't do any good, just brooding.
23:35And therefore, I was feeling bad laying around all this time.
23:40He was ready to retire, and we all thought that was right.
23:44After all, he'd worked hard all of his life, and he should have a chance, like everyone else,
23:49to enjoy life for a change.
23:55Well, when I was 75 years old, I quit work temporarily.
24:00But I didn't find it very pleasant.
24:02I found laying around, you don't feel so good, you know.
24:07It wasn't long because I was beginning to hate myself.
24:10So naturally, I went back to work.
24:14I got to work, and I felt better, felt lots better.
24:18And then May said, she wanted a house over there, and I said,
24:22all right, I suppose I better build you one.
24:35I don't try to plan ahead for several years.
24:38I got ideas of what I can do, what I should do next year and ten years from now.
24:45It's all right to plan a house or something that'll take you six months or a year to build.
24:50But I mean planning a way ahead and trying to look too far ahead.
24:55Because there's so many changes in the meantime that's going to change your plan.
25:00As long as we do the best of what we recognize is the best.
25:08That's the only thing I can say.
25:10Happy Birthday to you.
25:19Happy Birthday dear Tornock.
25:24Happy Birthday to you.
25:32Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Lord God, happy birthday to you.
26:02I don't worry about death. I don't worry about it because it's a condition that we've got to go through. And what's the use of worrying about it? There's no object in worrying about something that you can't do anything about.
26:19Out of the past, we build our future. Out of the darkness comes the dawn. Out of God's grace, we hope to seek your courage and faith to carry on.
26:34Out of God
27:04Out of God
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