BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
MUX. CITY, OREGON
Art Is Long but Life Is Short,
Full of Lumps and Black Eyes
DON PETERSON, Publisher
TOM COURTNEY JR . Editor
Entered a» second-class matter November 10. 1944 at the post office at
Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1S79
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------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE--------------------------------
“If you can come quick,” my Aunt Frieda said over the phone,
“come quick. Your Uncle Charlie is in trouble.”
Half an hour later I was in the flat on the lower East Side
where Frieda has been keeping house and hearth for my uncle for
the past 30 years.
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"What’s up?” I asked.
“Charlie is hiding in Brooklyn with his brother,” said Frieda.
"Hiding from what?”
"From Herman Schloomp, the butcher, who Is telling how he is going
to knock out your uncle's eye.”
^ASSOCIATION
May We Help?
"Looks t<> me like folks would help a little” a high school student
said to me last week. “I guess we make our share of mistakes", he
continued, “l>ut some people just complain and never offer to help”.
The young person's suggestion seems to be a good one. It is not
that most people do not wish to help the young folk, but sometimes they
do forget. To be sure it is the easiest thing in the world to take some
“recreations" away from tomorrow's adults but It become» exceedingly
more difficult to satisfactorily replace them.
Most folk are especially conscious at this time of year, March 15th,
as to whether their investments have been on the profit or loss basis.
Foolish the person indeed who fails to examine the hooks to determine
the success of their investments.
This year the people of the Mill City school district alone, will Invest
>135,(1X2 in the young people. Such an investment in private enterprise
would tn- scrutinized for dividends. Are the lives of our young people of
less value? Can we invest with our right hand, withdraw with our left,
and hope to Itnlancc the books?
How about a skating rink?
It would present clean, wholesome
recreation for both young and old. Perhaps there would lx- some who
woukl Im willing to donate land, materials, or labor.
Surely there are many who would say, “May We Help? Perhaps we
forgot for a moment the value of our investment.”
Poor “Bill
Is Dead
Have you heard? Poor old “Bill" is dead. Died the hard way too.
Talked to death. You knew of course what he was trying to do. When “Bill"
was born he had a great future before him. Wanted to help schools and
children everywhere. Especially in communities that couldn't afford to
have nice schools, or pay teachers decent salaries. Thought he might
send some kids on to school that could never go otherwise.
About twenty five of those Washington fellows tiaik him in a closed
room and killed old “Bill" amid an angry hubbub in what they called a
house labor committee. Seems as though "Bill” was too liberal for the
most of them. He wuntcsl to help too nuiny people.
Course the committeemen said he wasn't dead, "just on the shelf”.
If he isn’t dead, he'll die on that Mme shelf. Sad to see something good
die that way, isn't it?
They say maybe "Bill’s” cousin “Bill Ding” will have a chance to build
some schoolhouses. Ho|s- so, hate to lose the whole family.
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“What did Charlie do to
Schloomp?”
"What didn't he do!" said Frieda.
"But better I should tell it to you in
sequins. .
"So happens last summer your
uncle and me, we are one after­
noon taking the
air on Delancey
Street. On the
sidewalk, like al­
ways, is all
kinds
chalk­
marks
and
scratch • ups
from
children,
which your uncle
has been seeing
all his life.
Billy Rose
" 'X s
very
touching.' says Charlie. 'Is here on
the sidewalks the soul of the East
Side trying for some kind expres­
sion. Some day should be a real
paintner to draw up the neighbor­
hood.' ”
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“WELL, LIKE YOU KNOW, with
Charlie to think is to do something
crazy The next night he is going
to the settlement house and joining
a art class. And in the room is
sitting a fat girl in a kimona on a
platform, and the scholars are hold­
ing out their thumbs and squinting
with the eyes.
“ ’Draw exactly what you see,'
says the teacher.
“Half hour later, when the teach­
er comes for a to-look-see what
your uncle has done, he begins
making noises like busting. On
Charlie’s drawing board is a picture
of a thumbnail sitting on top a big
pencil.
"This it a clan in drawing,
not manicuring,’ says the teacher,
'lake your business someplace
else,'
“When Charlie’comes home mad,
1 tell him, ‘Let sleeping dogs stay
sleeping.’ But you know your uncle
—next day he is going uptown to
the Museum from Modern Art. and
when he gets back he is all agug-
gle.
" 'Frieda,' he says, 'to be a
painluer, a man don't need per-
specliie. What he needs is gui­
tars. A picture can be a piece
fruit or a chair with one leg­
makes no difference so long as
in the corner is a guitar.’
“So, for the next week he is
painting guitars—Moon Over Stan
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» Elkhorn residents witnessed
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DEPARTMENT
a
strange fight last week between a
wild mountain bobcat and a tame
house cat. The bobcat evidently des­
perate from lack of food attacked
a house cat owned by the Carl Lang-
necker family.
The fight woukl have undoubtedly
been an unequal match had it not
been for loyal support given the
house cat by friends.
Neighboring tomcats joined in the
fray and so outnumbered the bobcat
that he fled to the woods for safety.
PENSION CONFERENCE
A meeting is called in Portland,
Oregon. Sunday. March 19th, 2 p nt.,
Norse hall. 11th and Couch for the
purpose of discussing the plight of
Oregon’s senior citizens and explor­
ing the possibilities of presenting an
old-age pension initiative measure to
the voters in November. All inter­
ested organizations and individuals
are invited and urged to participate.
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ton Street with Guitars, Baby on
Pushcart with Guitars, and even a
picture, Guitar with Guitars.
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"THEN, A FEW WEEKS later as
the crow flies, is opening in the
Metropolitan for 50 cents a show
from a Frenchman — Van Glick,
Van Goldberg, something—"
“Van Gogh?” I suggested.
“What’s the difference so long as
you're healthy,” said Aunt Frieda
“When Charlie is coming from the
museum he is saying. Today I
find out something absolutely hair­
racing. This Van Cook is all his
life selling one picture for few
measly dollars, but now when he's
dead and can’t eat, his paintings
is worth 30 million. No wonder he
is cutting off his ear and they got
to drag him to a asylum.'
“Your uncle mills and mulls for
a few days and then he is making
a decision. ‘Frieda,’ he says, 'it
doesn’t pay a man should be like
this Van Cook. Supposing I sell,
maybe, one picture for five dollars
during my lifetime entire, and then
when I'm dead and gone the pic­
tures is worth 30 million. By the
time I am dead and gone, you will
be likewise dead and gone, so who
gets the 30 million? My brother.
Why should that loafer get my 30
million? Let him go out and make
his own 30 million. From now on. I
am strictly a old-stylish realist and
making pictures with cash value
like Grandma Moses. Which I am
signing Grandma Moishe.’
"Next day Charlie is going Io
see our butcher. 'I'm going to
paint a muriel on your wall,' he
says, 'a trhole panorama all kinds
succulent meats. Will be good
for the cash register.'
“Schloomp says, 'What 1 got to
lose,' and so Charlie paints him a
muriel which he calls by name, the
Spirit of Meat. When it is finished,
Schloomp is saying when he sees
your uncle he knocks out his eye.”
“Was it that bad?” I asked.
"A man could go bankrupt from
such a picture." said my Aunt
Frieda. “In Herman's strictly Kosh­
er store, your uncle is painting on
the wall nice cuts Rinderbrust.
chuck steaks, first-class plucked
chickens. But in the middle is the
Spirit of Meat holding a 15-pound
—you should excuse the expression
—Virginia ham.”
lights would go out, we would crank
the old phone and ask the operator
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if the power was off all over. If it
To the Editor
was. the operator, whichever one was
Seeing this seems to be "Pet Peeve” on duty, would tell us. If not, she
month .will air mine. I think we would ring the power company office.
are fortunate in having a very effi­ In a city with all the latest im­
cient and reasonable garbage service provements in telephone service, the
in our city- But what does one do operator would again say “numwi
when neighbors—who have plenty pull-ease”, then in answer to our
of money—dump their garbage in question she would tell us to call the
the back yard — a breeding place power company. We would then
for germs —and a favorite spot for thumb through the directory for the
dogs, who carry the refuse all over right number or be referred to "in-
roads and yards?—ONE OF THE for-may-shun”.
Information would
NEIGHBORS
tell us the number was listed in the
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directory and we would wind up
To the Editor
i looking • for the old bifocals and
Like Mr Johnsen, whose “tele­ thumbing through the directory.
phone service inprovement” letter
Again, what we call "service” is
, you published, we too are compara­
the time we had a long distance call
tively new-comers to the Canyon.
from Hawaii. The call was late com­
In the short time we have been ing through. The operator stayed on
privileged to live in this delightful duty until the call was completed,
j area we have heard a few complaints although she was not obligated to do
about the service, also suggestions so.
| that the telephone service be im­
"Service”—during a period of ill­
proved. The suggestions for im­
ness and death in the family the
provements. however, end with just local office always put through
the bare statement that the “service ’ necessary calls at all hours of the
I should be improved”.
day or night. What more can one
I Just what improvements are de­ . ask ?
sired ? Are they any or all of the
Constructive criticism specifying
' following ?
what is wanted, plus an agreement
1. Full metallic circuits
■ not to have one's telephone discon­
2. More operators
nected because of the higher rate
3. Dial system.
necessitated by the “improved ser­
4. Twenty-four hour service
vice”, would go a long way toward
5. Private lines
bringing about a change
6. Party lines limited to two. three
As for us, we prefer the friendly
or four
7. Operators who refer you to “in- personal service rendered by the local
formation” or the “directory" if you company, where we tell the operator
who we want to talk to instead of
do not know a number?
hunting up the old bifocals and
What we call “service” is what we thumbing through a directory or
get from the staff of the local office.
being refered to "in-for may-shun”.
For instance—when we first moved
Signed,
here my brother was driving through
MARTIN V. KELLY,
Salem and wanted to come out this
BARBARA R. KELLY
way. He did not know whether or
not we had a phone installed, but he
took a chance and called Mill City,
explaining the situation. Although
| we were total strangers Gladys
Mason reached us through the oid
I phone that had not yet been discon­
nected. If this had happened in any
large city the operator would have
| said “numba pull-ease”. Then “I’ll
give you in-for-may shun”. Informa-
I tion would have said, “Sorry sir, they
have no phone and are not listed.”
Last winter when storms were
breaking down power lines and our
IDANHA
Athol Savage has sold his town
property to Mr. and Mrs. Quincey
Smith, who will take possession as 1
soon as Savage has his new home in
new Idanha completed, which will
be in a week or so.
Eva Lou New was hostess at a |
party for a group of teenagers in her ,
home Friday night. "Murder" was
the game of the evening. Hambur­
gers and coke were served to Edna
Golden, Joyce Watkins Ernestine I
Morris. Joan Bowman. Fred Davis.
Jerry Lyle. Stanley Timms. Dick
Woodward, and Elvin Blan.
At the executive meeting of Deanha •
PT.A Monday night. Mr White
urged the executives to encourage all
parents who were not already regis­
tered to vote, to do so before April
14, in order to be eligible to vote for
the school bills in the May 15 election.
It is also of vital interest to all busi­
ness places to vote for the bills.
Rilla Schaffer, registrar for Idanha
area and Mabie Parker for Detroit
area
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Adtertuem^.t
From where 1 sit... // Joe Marsh
Handy and Easy
Are Both Wrong
Handy Peterson and Easy Rob­
erts got in quite an argument the
other day over at Fred's Garage
talking about the best spot to fish
up at Green Lake.
“Opposite the old sawmill is the
best spot,” says Handy. But Easy
“pooh-pooh’s” him. “I’ve seen the
biggest fish caught off Cedar
Point,” says Easy. “Tve been
catching them there for years.”
Then Fred goes into his office
and brings out the biggest mounted
rainbow trout you ever saw. “Bet
that was caught at the sawmill,”
comments Handy. “Cedar Point,”
says Easy. “Well,” says Fred,
“you’re both wrong. I caught thia
baby right out in the middle!”
From where I sit, there are al­
ways two (or more) sides to every
story. Let’s live and let live in the
true American tradition of tolera­
tion. Your opinion is worth a lot,
but so is the other fellow’s —
whether it's on politics, the best
fishing spots, or whether he likes a
temperate glass of beer and you
like buttermilk.
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