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The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
MILL CITY, OREGON
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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!
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\\ e Aim to Please
See MARTIN J. HANSEN
May there be Happiness
tied up with every
Gift on Your tree!
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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
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cooperation with the tree farmer and
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the land owner will mean trees for
trees haphazardly (hooking ’em on
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coffeehouse session he was missing,
a plot began to hatch in his head.
Next evening he was home early
with a bag of wool and knitting
needles. “Frieda,” he said, “how <
you make a cable stitch?”
Half an hour later he was in the
kitchen tasting the soup. “It needs
a pinch paprika,” he said.
“You’re giving me point-outs
how to make soup?”
“Who's teaching? A woman cooks
and shops, a husband should simi
lar cook and shop. How much you
pay for cabbage?” ’
“Five cents a head.”
“At Fuzarri'a on Avenue A, Is
four cents.”
• e •
FRIEDA DROPPED a handful of
cutlery in the sink.“ Fuzarri's is si)j
blocks away.”
“So what? The exercise will do
you good.”
I
Thai Saturday night, Charlie
persuaded a couple of hit croniet
to come over for a pinochle set
lion and put up with hit wife’s
playing. At 12 o’clock Frieda
said, ”1 can’t keep my eyes apart.
Maybe you could play three-
handed."
"What kind pinochle player
stops so early?" said Charlie.
"Deal!” And at 3 am. Frieda
was dealing them as if they were
bricks.
Sunday, Charlie put on his best
tie. “Today I go with you to see
Theda Bara,” he said.
“Is not necessary to go with,”
said Frieda. “I got a date with the
ladies.”
“Where you go, I go,” said
Charlie.
Frieda, afraid Charlie would
laugh at Theda's amatory exer-
cises and humiliate her in front of
her friends, pulled down the flag.
“Marriage is not simple a ball I
and chain," she said. “You go
your way and I'll go to Loew's.” I
Charlie moved in for the kill.
“No more schmoose about the >
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.
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