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MILL (TTY, OREGON
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--------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE----------------------------------
There was a lot of talk on Broadway in recent weeks about the
incident at the El Morocco club where Humphrey Bogart was
caught with his pandas down, and to hear the prissy boys tell it,
unless Bogey stops acting up he's a cinch to finish behind the well-
known eight-ball.
Weil, mebbe so, but I wouldn't bet on it. It's my belief that, if any
thing. his daffy didos will help his pulling-power at the box office, very
much as they helped John Barrymore. W. C. Fields, and other talented
screwballs who had the nerve to do what the rest of us only daydream
about.
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We Represent 1 he People
Its un old «-MablUlied rustoni, this thinfc of choosing men to represent
the people in public office**. It would be nice at times If everyone could
be president, or senator, or mayor, but there Is no question in our minds
that laws would never be passed or official action would never I m * taken.
It would be an impofadbility for so many to come to an agreement in time
to accomplish anything.
Nevertheleaa it must not lx- forgotten that public officials are placed
in office for .only one reason and that of course to represent the public. |
It is a negligent and “laxidasií-ai" people who refuse for one reason or
another to meet their responsibility In demanding representation from office
holders. It is when such an easygoing policy is followed by the public that
nauseating policies are followed by the “people’s choice”.
Recently when a serious discipline problem faced the schoolboard
rumers of unpleasant nature permeated the community. Now their policy
of discipline, while open for qwstlon, is not under consideration in this
editorial. Rather the fact that when the board was notified from a bi
partisan concensus that public opinion was running high and a statement
should be nutde the chairman chose to state, "If the public wants to know
they can com«' to us.”
This writer in no way suggests that personal discipline problems should
be aired through the press but does express the opinion that it is not the
duty of the |*eople to seek out the men they placed in office to find out
what is going on. It Is true that school board meetings are open to the
public. When do they meet? Th«- answer is whenever there is pressing
business. How can you know of these meetings? Again you the public
must seek out the men you placed in office to find out.
To lx- sure to hold the position of a member of the school board Is a
thankless on«' and the problems they face are not small. Certainly they
work against difficult <xlds. Such things art- not under editorial comment.
Only this, If they are to represent th«- people, then they should do so without
equivocation.
Violation of Basic Traffic Rules
Drivers who misunderstand or fail
to obey three basic rules of the
road are responsible for more than
half of Oregon's traffic accidents,
Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry
estimated today.
Despite a common belief that
traffic laws vary widely from state
to state, these three rules are virtu
ally the same across the nation, the
secretary said. He pointed out that
violators lucky enough to escape
injury may still be liable for damage
to others.
He listed the three rules as
follows;
The laterOeeUon Uuioi
If two cars arriving at an uncon
trolled lntenqpliW (no stop signs
or signals) at about the same time,
the car on the right always has the
rightof way. Two out of five Ore
gon accidents occur at intersections.
The Following Rule;
If you run into the rear of another
car, you are always at fault. It
doesn't matter that the car ahead
stopped suddenly or that the driver
failed to signal. He may have had
no opportunity, and the law requires
that you drive far enough behind to
be ready for any emergency. After
failure to have right-of-way. follow
ing too closely is the most frequent
single Oregon traffic violation.
The Speed Rule:
Speed must be adjusted to condi
tions regardless of posted or desig
nated speed limits, which are con
sidered maximum for ideal condi-
ons. If traffic Is heavy or the road
way is slippery, you may be charged
with driving oo fast for conditions
even though you did not exceed the
apparent legal limit. On rural high
ways without posted speeds, the
'reasonable and prudent” rule still
applies. Excessive speed is respon
sible for one out of four traffic
fatalities in Oregon.
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Editors Letter Box
Bogey and Pandas Were Tame
Compared to J. Brutus Booth
DON PETERSON, Publisher
TOM COURTNEY JR., Editor
NEWSPAPER
_____________________ March 9, 19?frs
vented from doing so by some legal
entanglement.
Such an entangle
ment,
it
was
believed could be
0 • •
straightened out.
Selling the com
Dear Editor: I have lived in this
pany, Mr Geddis stated would neces
community now for nearly two years. sitate contacting all of the stockhold,
During which time I have tried to ers. While stock was originally sold
take my rightful place as a citizen for as little as $10, many of the hold
and assume my share of community ers have allowed the stock to be con
responsibility.
sumed by non-payment of dues. It
I would like to raise a question, was believed that there were only 12
however, without any personal re or 15 active members left in the
flection upon individuals. Why is it Co-op and that the majority would
in a community the size of Mill City be in favor of such a sale. The com
and Gates we must suffer from such pany's only capital assets are in the
inadequate telephone service. As I switchboard equipment and lines.
tried to indicate, I am not trying to
Mrs. Mason, stated she believed the
be a crank or to find fault but I letter unjustified.
She stated that
am interested in seeing the commu delays on long distant circuits are
nity that I have adopted for my home quite often due to faults outside of
have the best facilities possible.
this company's circuit. Mrs. Mason
I have no doubt in my mind that continued that money could remedy
the phone company is trying to do the majority of complaints and if
i the best they can but be that as it residents wish better service they
may, the service is not satisfactory. can pay for it.
I have been told by proper author While there are now 366 telephones
ities that the service is listed among in service at the present time it was
the five poorest systems in the state. the concensus of the operator that
Maybe I should be more specific. at least one third of them would be
With the manual ringing system in discontinued after the Detroit dam
' operation one can never be sure was completed.
' whether it is their own ring or not.
The Enterprise would be interested
j That is, also if there are a dozen i in the viewpoints of other citizens.
I other parties on the line, and there
■ usually is, it means a constant inter- GIVE to the RED CROSS
I ruption with the telephone ringing.
II know Rome was not built in a day,
! but some times it would be very nice
, to complete a call in a relatively
short period of time.
Is there anything that can be done.
Perhaps your newspaper could in
form the readers of some action they
might take. A lot of people I know
would be glad to help. No hard feel-
| ing I hope. Sincerely, Mr. Johnson.
LICENSED
P.S.: Perhaps if other readers would
also write to you it would help.
• • •
Editor’s Note: Upon receipt of the
above letter, The Enterprise, con
$1 par month and up
tacted Al Geddis, phone company di
Also
serving Gates and Lyoaa
rector, and Mrs. Gladys Mason, local
telephone operator for a statement.
MILL CITY
Mr. Geddis also believed something
DISPOSAL
SERVICE
should be done. He stated the com
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pany, which is owned by a Co-op,
LEONARD HERMAN
had tried to sell out but were pre-
And don’t let any old-timer with
braid on his vest tell you that
the entertain
ment
business
wouldn't have
tolerated a
Humphrey Bo
gart in the dear,
dead days. Ac
cording to the
record, the an
tics of yester
day's stars
make our pres
Billy Rose
ent crop of per
as a ghost
formers look as
who has just seen a man.
For easy example, take. say. the
great tragedian, Junius Brutus
Booth—a name to conjure with and
make faces at.
• • •
JUNIUS BRUTUS was born in
England a few years before the
19th century made Its bow, and by
the time he was 13 a servant girl
had accused him of being the fath
er of her out-of-bounds baby. Dur
ing the next four years, among
other things, he took a crack at
being a sailor, a sculptor and the
husband of two ladies, without the
customary divorce in between.
None of this stunted his growth,
however, because by the time he
was 20 he had become one of the
great stars of the London stage He
appeared at Covent Garden as
Richard III, and the following sea
son at Drury Lane as Iago to
Keane's Othello. And, unless the
record is lying, his success was so
great that a group of envious ac
tors started a riot tn the theater
and tried to bum it down.
Of/iSege, Junius Brutus wot
**•<* «wore s^erSerxLw then on,
and sf laturen BocoU's busbessa
bod boon sampling Ibo flesh end
wsnopots of PiccodMy ot ibo time,
ehaneot ore bis copers wouldn I
bovo rated a morning-after
thought. Booth, io goes Ibo story,
made to many pastes and passed
on! to many times that finally, at
the insistence of bushands, bar-
r esod er s m U bobbies, bo packed
•ad skedaddled to New York.
Hero, he proceeded to revolution
ise most of our acting techniques
and. despite ti e enormous quanti
ties of wooxle-water he consumed,
be never let his audiences down. At
one matinee, he was literally car-
ried into the theater, and while the
manager was splashing water on
his face the customers began to
yell for the show tb go on.
Annoyed by their catcalls, the
tragedian stuck hit face through
the curtain and roared, "I'm
drunk now, but in ten minutes
I'll give you the greatest King
Lear you ever saw," And he did.
Another time, he went into a
pawnshop to borrow $10, pledged
himself as security, spent the ten
ner on Jersey applejack, and then,
as per promise, came back and
squatted in the pawnbroker's win
dow until his manager redeemed
him.
One night while playing "Rich
ard III,” he suddenly decided to re
vise Shakespeare’s script, and
when it came to the duel scene in
the last act he began slashing away
at the young actor playing the role
of Richmond. The episode ended
with his chasing the kid out the
stage door and several blocks down
the Bowery.
• • •
AS THE YEARS leapfrogged on.
Booth's capacity for nuttiness be
came something of a national leg
end, and any theater he was
scheduled to play generally sold out
the day the engagement was an
nounced. Stories about the caper-
ous crackpot were repeated around
every pot-bellied stove—and little
wonder. For instance, while taking
an ocean voyage, the ship passed
the spot where an actor named
Conway had committed suicide by
drowning. Junius Brutus suddenly
appeared on deck and yelled, "I
have a message for Conway,” and
dove overboard. And for the next
30 minutes, he played water-tag
with the sailors who jumped In to
fish him out
In bit finale years, Booth look
up Ibo study of Buddhism and
developed to grout a horror of
inflicting death that bo would
bun! into tears if someone hap
pened lo slop on a bug. He fi
nanced a campaign against bunt
sag end. subtle on lour one un
seam. enraged at the wanton
killsag of birds, be bought a
eometory plot end bold a femoral
for soma pigeons a sports aeon
bad ibol.
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Pluck the luscious dish you wish off
Despite all thia hl-jinks and hoop
la, however, he was quite a family
man, and the 10 children be raised
were devoted to him. Unfortunate
ly. the final curtain on the career
of the inspired looney who hated
killing was that one of his children,
John Wilkes Booth, was the man '
who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Census to Determine Representation
The primary purpose of the 17th
Decennial Census of the United
States to be conducted In April, 1950,
is to determine the population of
each of the 48 staes as a basis for
the division among them of the 435
seats in the House of Represenatives
of the Congress of the United States.
This is in accordance with Article I,
Section 2, of the Constitution of the
United States. This section provides
that representation in the House
"shall be apportioned among the sev
eral states—according to their res
pective members" to be determined
by an enumeration of the population.
This section provided that the first
census was to be taken within three
years after the first meeting of the
First Congress and within each sub
sequent 10 years. Under this provi
sion, the First Decennial Census was
conducted in 1790 and the years end
ing in "O" have thus become to be
recognise.! as the Decennial Census
years
The Consitution provides hat each
state shall have at least one seat in
the House of Represenatives. After
the 1790 Census, seats in the House
were apportioned to the states at the
! rate of one per 33.000 populations.
, In recent decades, because of the
shifting population, some states have
gained seats in the House and others
have lost No reapportionment of
seats was made after the 1920 Cen.
sub . the only decade since 1790 in
which this was not done, while after
j the 1930 and 1940 Censuses the pre
sent fixed number of 435 seats w’as
I distributed among the states under
what the Congressional Apportion
ment Statute defines as “the method
| of equal proportions”.
It is estimaed that the population
I grow'th in Oregon will have at least
J one, and possibly two, new Congress-
H
I men.
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To accomplish this, the present
Congressional Districts will be re-
- shuffled so that the five, and possibly
16. Congressional Districts will be
approximately of equal population.
The Oregon State Legislature Is
I charged with the duty of re-district
ing the state and this task will con-
from the 1951 session of the Oregon
State Legislature,
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