I The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY, OREGON DON PETERSON. Publisher Entered as second-class matter November 10. 1044 at the post office at Mill City, Oreaon. under the Act of March 1, 1879. CLABMIFIED xi»v EHTISINCi One Insertion tor 50c or three for 51.00 Ade received by Wetlneeday noon will run In rexular classified section and those received later will run In the "Too Late to Classify” section. The Enterprise will not be responsible for more.than one.Incorrect in­ sertion. Errors In advertising should be reported Immediately. Display advertiidng 40c column Inch. 0 R I c](XN) P U B 11 S Hjt anna No Spirit Left Many, many years ago a child was born In the town of Bethlehem who was to one day minister unto the needs of his fellow man. This Christ Child carried with him throughout his life the motto^ “Do Vnto Others What You Would Have Them Do Unto You.” This spirit Is sei-mingly running throughout our community during this festive season of Christmas, commemorating the birth of that child. There Is. however, a set of individuals or one individual in our tranquill city who has forgotten the basis of Christmas. These persons, or person, have forgotten the spirit of "Do Good To Ail” and in a foul misnuuiagement of their mind, slinked through the night, stealthily fekhed two sets of outdoor Christmas lights from one of the local displays, anil crawled through the darkness into oblivion. The display was set up to add to the beauty of our town and as a memorial to one who devoted His life to what our country was founded on, freedom for all It was an attractive display with lights adorning two beautiful pine trees, planted for the purpose of decorating our town........ Would It be too unreasonable for those persons, or that person, to steal through the night once again and replace those ornaments through the goodness of their hearts, with no questions asked? Your editor wishes especially these thoughtless individuals a very Merry Christmas. Cheer In Safety A professor of history at the state college of Washington recently made it quite plain to his students to be more than careful and obey all traffic signa while driving during the Christmas vacation period. He wrote in large letters on the blackboard, “Please drive carefully— I will need a job after Christinas.” Statistics of the national death rate issued after each holiday week­ end leads one to believe there Is no place like home, .All of us wish we could beat the Jones on living standards, but do we have to follow them on the highway? A little more caution and less speed will get you there safer and in one piece. Give the kids and relatives a break this year and give them the best Christmas present yet. by driving safely and avoiding liquor and gasoline mixture. Save the speeding for the daredevils. Don’t forget, more people were killed on the highways last year than died on the fields of battle during the two World Wars. Use discretion, follow the law, and make this the best Christmas you ever had. We, the entire staff of The Enterprise, wish all of you a very Merry Christmas! Water Well Drilling WELL DEEPENING AND CLEAN OUTS L. M. HOLLING WORTH PHONE 505 MILL CITY FX»R FREE ESTIMATE FREE ESTIMATES \\ e Aim to Please See MARTIN J. HANSEN May there be Happiness tied up with every Gift on Your tree! i 3—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Ibsen, Shmibsen, She Said; Confide With Me Everything --------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE---------------------------------- I recently read a magazine piece entitled, “What’s Wrong with Modern Marriage,” in which the author opined that the divorce rate would drop like an over-ripe apple if the average wife showed more interest in her husband's business and hobbies. Well, mebbe so, but you can’t prove it by my Uncle Charlie and my Aunt Frieda. . . . Charlie and Frieda are a couple of oldsters who have been living in a four-room flat on the East Side almost as long as magazines have been printing articles entitled, “What's Wrong with Modern Marriage." Ever since their nuptials, they've had at least one argument a day, and when they stop scrapping that's when I'll start worrying about them. I remember an evening back in the days when I was knee-high to the Allen Street curbstone when Aunt Frieda came home from the movies with an air of unwavering nobility. “Charlie," she said tensely, “how is business at the shop. good, bad or fair to the mid­ dle?” “Eh - peh,” an­ swered my uncle. (“Eh - peh,” I hasten to translate, means that things being what they are, if a man breaks even he can consider himself a runaway success.) Billy Rose “ ‘Eh-peh’ is no answer,” said Frieda. “I am sick of living in a doll’s house.” “I see,” said Charlie, “Tonight in the nickelodeon was showing Nazimova in ‘A Doll's House' by Hymie Ibsen.” “Ibsen, Shmibsen,” said Frieda, “You can't push me out of your life. Confide in me everything, come thick or thin.” "This I'll confide," said Charlie. "When I come home from the shop I'm tired out like a dog. Bad enough I live through the day without it should repeat on me like radishes." However, with my Aunt Frieda, like Columbus, there was no turn­ ing back. She kept picking away until Charlie itemized the day's doings—everything from punch-in to punch-out. • • BUT THAT WAS only the begin- ning. The payoff came a few weeks later when Charlie was fixing to at­ tend his weekly pinochle session. “I want you should teach me how to play,” said Frieda. “Pinochle!” said Charlie. "Al­ ways you are saying pinochle is for loafers and no-goods.” “I ain’t saying different,” said Frieda, but pinochle is your passion and I don't want it should take my place in your life.” Now, my uncle was a broad- minded man. When women began to bob their hair, his comment was, "They want to ventilate their necks, so let them.” But pinochle —well, that was another matter. Nevertheless, he knew better than to balk his wife outright and. as he explained the game to Frieda, all the while thinking bitterly of the One of the largest 4-H groups in the county met at the Fox Valley school house with some 80 children enrolled Mrs. Leora Stevens, prin­ cipal of the local grade school was General Assembly leader; Mrs. Bea Hiatt, general chairman, Laura Karr, president; Cecil Bassett, secretary; Donna Peabody, song leader; and Carroll Kuikin. news reporter. Eight divisions were organized with following leaders and officers elect­ ed: Cooking 1; Mrs. Elsie Lanle, leader: Joyce Jones, president; Nor­ ma Bentley, vice president; Sandra Knox .secretary; Lavern Wright, song leader; and Carolyn Helemn, news reporter. Cooking 2: Mrs Elea­ nor Smith, leader: Donna Peabody. I president; Shirley Mohler, vice presi­ dent: Joan Tumidge, secretary; Paul , ine Bridges, song leader; Shirley Wagner, news reporter Woodwork­ ing: Paul Johnston, leader; Deo Bridges, president; Dracy Dark, vice president; Martin Stewart, secretary; James Courtney, song leader; Jack Jones, news reporter. Forrestry: Cora Pritchard, leader Dean Mans- B 0SQ B SB Jim O'lx'ary and veld, president; Richard Baltzer, vice president; Cecil Bassett, secretary; Durwood Dark, song leader; Dennie Wagner, news reporter. In the Sewing 1 division with Moore, president; Patricia Riley, vice president; Doris Courtney, secre­ tary; Joan Trahan, song leader; Sharon Hickman, news reporter. Sewing 2: Mrs. Alice Huber, leader; Darlene Billington, president; Mar­ jorie Pritchard, vice president: Gloria Carr, song leader; Deloris Boatman, news reporter. Sewing 3 and 4: Mrs. Betty Johnston, leader; Carroll Kui- ken, president; Lois Roberts, vice president; Pauline Scieweck, secre­ tary; Lucille Williams, song leader and Shirley Johnston, news reporter the sly, that is) on tree farms can do irreparable damage to your children's future. Every Christmas tree cut By JIM STEVENS without plan from a tree farm must (This article is taken from a pub­ be replaced, for tree farming means licity release from the Washington keeping private forest lands in full state forest service.» I growth. Be sure you have the land owner’s permission before you cut As one of a Washington-Oregon di­ a Christmas tree.” Pretty please vision (the 41st) that was on duty Time To Go French in various parts of forested France Apologetic pleading for forest fire for 14 months I did a heap of w’on- dering on the laws that regulated prevention is also the only means we the French forest land owner’s use I have to use with the public on the of his trees. The wonder grew acute problem of widespread violations of around December 1, 1918, when the the laws on disposal of "lighted mat­ erials" in the woods. Christmas tree question came up. By that time we all knew better The Flench-—and the Swedes, the than to make forays to the woods Finns and other Europeans-grew out to pick, cut and fetch any Christ­ of that primitive disregard of the mas trees of our own without troub­ laws long ago. To a citizen of any ling the owner for permission. Our of those countries the man who care­ officers had drilled into us the grim lessly tosses a lighted cigarette out fact that the like of that was a crime of a car window into a tinder-dry in France, and therefore a court-mar­ forest is no better than the man who tial offense for an soldier in Uncle walks down a street and throws a Sam’s A. E. F. lighted cigarette into the open win- No great issue was raised about the dow of a home. Christmas tree question in the 162nd And there’s the person who goes Infantry area. I dont recall much out and whacks down his own Christ­ about it, except that there were mas tree on another's land is looked Christmas trees in billets here and on as one no different from the mis- there. They were bootlegged behind I creant who steals from his neighbor’s the backs of the gendarmes and the ■ home a potted lily at Easter time. military authorities, or purloined off In the way of forest law observance the land by honest Christian Amer­ I we might well begin to follow the ican soldiers. All hands considered ! French. it a right and proper thing. At home we’d been used to going RAIN AID POWER OUTPUT out after our own trees at Christmas Heavy rains over northwest Ore- time, taking them at will, asking no ' gon, western Washington and west­ questions, paying no price. It was ern British Columbia filled power re­ an ancient American custom. We servoirs on many major hydro had a special set of morals for the streams in the Pacific Northwest, re­ woods. We were amazed that these ports Bonneville Power Administra- morals horrified the French. i tlon i n summarizing power condi­ Most Americans still stand on the tions for the week ending December right to drive out and cut and take 12. Greatest precipitation east of the young trees off anybody’s land with­ Cascades was reported in the Upper out seeking the owners permission— Columbia and Kootenai drainages just so long as It is for one’s own I with snow above 5000 feet elevation, Christmas tree use and not to sell Flow of the Columbia at Bonne- trees for profit. ! ville dam reached a new high for The right is recognized by law | the present winter season with 117,- officers and the courts. Forestry 000 cubic feet per second compared officials—federal, state and private— to 89,300 second feet last week and bow to it. Thus the state forester an average flow of 76,000 for this of Washington is quoted by the press: time of the year. Grand Coulee dam “We’re not so worried about the in­ dividual who goes out and cuts down i reported only a small increase in ri­ ver flow to 43,000 second feet com­ a tree in state-owned land and then puts it up in his home. We’re trying pared to an average flow of 44,200 to catch the fellow who goes out and cuts down hundreds of Christmas trees to sell at profitable prices.” In Oregon two logging companies are pleading with the public through display advertising to observe good I forest practices, at least, in—uh—de- i taching Christmas trees from private SHIRLEY LAIRD lands. • “This year, if you cut your own Phone 2603 Christmas trees,” says one ad, "your cooperation with the tree farmer and MILL CITY the land owner will mean trees for trees haphazardly (hooking ’em on .j*. -M. .: shop?” “If no more cable stitches.” “No more pinochle?” “If no more tasting the soup.” “You got an agreement,” said my uncle. And they’ve been fighting happl-; ly ever since. December XB, 194# Salem, Oregon Complete supph of all your building Screen Doors Knotty pine paneling Sheet Rock ALL GRADES OF LIMBER. LET VS ESTIMATE YOUR MATERIAL COSTS. 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