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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1950)
; MILL CITY ENTERPRISE BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET What to Seal in Cornerstone? Gold Piece, Balloon, G-String Entered as second-class matter November 10. 19<< at the post office at Mill City, Oreuon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. « I. ISSIFICD ll»l HKTISISGi One ln»> rtl<>n f<r :>0c or three for 11."0 The Enterprise w III not l>e responsible for more than one Incorrect In sertion Errors In advertl.ln«; should be reported immediately.. Display 1'^ ; ----------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE------------------------------------ If anyone is going to lay a cornerstone in 1950, I would suggest he seal up the following items for the benefit of the folks in 2050. dullish read 1. A COPY of The Congressional Record. It I'. will ..." make — ___ 2 NEWSPAPER N ATION ALT E DITOR IA L ing, I grant you, but it will prove that our legislators could get up on their hind legs and sound off on anything from the price of asparagus to the k PUBLISHERS plight of the Zuni Indians. And if what’s happening in Europe or Asia is -ASSOCIATION the shape of things to come, it will undoubtedly interest our descendants to knew that there once was a time when a legally elected representative could shoot off his face without being shot an hour later. 2. A 820 GOLD PIECE. At the rate we’re going, by 2050 a pound Communist could paint as he of butter may be pleased. worth more than Have you heard of the new owner of the valuable dog who felt he a pound of print 10. A COVER of TI.ME magazine —the one with the picture of Mark should have only the best? ed money, and III, the electronic computing ma The story is told that first of all an architect was called In to design there’i no telling chine developed at Harvard. Also the best dog house In all of the world. Automatic doors, steam heat, deep how much the Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c Inch. Let The Young People Speak upholstery were all in the order of the day. Long and last the project was completed and then It was discovered. After the dog house was built the master discovered the dog refused to use it. While such a story may seem humorous about a dog it would take on a decided serious not«- If the subject were young jH-ople. Perhaps it should serve as some type of reminder if we wish to design a youth program, recreation hall or what ever, to call in some expert con sultation. Namely, the young folk for which the thing Is being designed. Perhaps we should change our position from standing behind the young people and stand beside them. Their wisdom and judgment may come as a surprise to some. Point Of No Return On every I num-oceanic flight there is a mark oil the flight chart called "point of no return”. It is that point in flight when fuel limitation will not allow the ship to return to land but demands that the flight continue to its destination. When mechanical difficulties threaten or other flight hazards arise the pilots must turn buck toward their buse before they reach this |x>lnt of no return. To determine this point Is simply a mathematical calibration. .It is more difficult to make such u fixation in world affairs but of no less importance. If there has ever been a need to find a pathway to world peace it is now. When our national secretary of defense announeed this week of power- ful new weapons that will stand us in good stead with any would-be ag gressor such re-asaurance Is hardly of lasting quality. Who will be naive enough to believe that an armament race will lead to peace, or that some magic weapon will make us victorious in event of another conflict. Should we not know by now the unaccountable cost in human life and suffering. Will death leave us with such shortened memories? It Is a question of how far we may travel on our present course before it is loo late to turn back. No one will suggest isolationism, but se<-ds of aggression can never reap it harvest of peace. Peace will be obtained with | mwc efforts. Surely a reasonable observation of our world chart would indicate our nearness to that “point of no return". At any cost peace is worth the price. Some Words of Abe Lincoln (1864) To the 1950 Republicans "The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but In using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is. by the re spective parties, called by two dif- lucky finder may be able to buy with 20 bucks worth of the yel low stuff. 3. A PAYCHECK, Billy Rose complete with stub showing all tax deduction It's my hunch that it will amaze the folks of the future to realize that back in 1950 a guy did have a few bucks left after the government was through with him. 4. A COPY of the New York classified telephone directory to show how enterprising 8,000,000 peo ple used to be when their enter prise was really free and frolic some. 3. A G-string and a length of cord used in a lynching—two ex amples of what the 20th Century was capable of doing when given enough rope. 6. A PHONOGRAPH record of “Mule Train,” with Frankie Laine’s whip alongside it. The song won't make much sense, but I’ll bet a cup of uranium it’ll whistle better than the Concertos to Collectivist Agrarianism which future Shostako viches will compose. 7. A COPY of James Thurber’s “Is Sex Necessary?” to show the kinds of questions we are asking ourselves. And a copy of the Kinsey Report to show the kinds of answers we are getting. 8. A TOY BALLOON filled with hydrogen to prove that this destruc tive gas was once used in the pub lic interest. 9. A PRINT by Picasso. This cul tural left-over may amuse our 21st century friends, and if it doesn’t it will at least teach them that there once were countries where even a the accompanying article suggest ing, on the basis of Prof. Norbert Wiener’s new science of cybernet ics, that the world may eventually be ruled by this machine’s off spring, since the machine’s brains are getting larger and larger while man's brains are getting smaller and smaller. It will probably startle the cellar-dwellers of 2050 to learn that there was a time when people were only thinking of the machines taking over. 11. A SNAPSHOT of the immi- gration buildings on Ellis Island Generations hence, people may be curious to know what the island was used for, because by then it will probably be a launching platform for robot missiles, and similar knick-knacks. Next to the snapshot, an 8-by-10 glossy of the new U. N building on First avenue, wrapped in a copy of the song hit, “But Can Dream, Can’t I?” 12. An architect’s model ol a toting booth. And with it, instruc tions on bow you can pull a lever and vote a straight ticket, or flip off any candidate you don't like and flip on the one you favor for a particular office. I’d take it kindly if the man lay ing the cornerstone were to make certain that the curtain is on the model — that bit of cloth which makes it possible for one to vote without a cop peeking over his shoulder. This little curtain, I sus pect, is darn near the most import ant piece of equipment we have in 1950, and judging from what’s hap pening to it elsewhere in the world, it may be as rare as the dodo by the time another cybernetic cen tury rolls around. ferent and incompatible names -lib erty and tyranny. "The shepard drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepard as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among us human creatures, even in the North, and all professing to love liberty." Don’t Borrow—Subscribe Today! HILL TOP STORE FREE With $10.00 or More Order BIG BAG of LAR JE OR ANGES I.F.E TO SPI \K SI NDA1 FRYERS "A” GRADE. 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The pioneers were called onto the stage by an old wagon train horn and the call of ’Himber” brought on the loggers. The story was brought up to date by modern fishermen, 4-H boys and girls and the Kitchen Kadettes. About 90 children took part, dressed in appropriate costumes. —■ iii i f ;s.- -- --rr ill "■ *""5 LICENSED GARBAGE SERVICE $1 par month and up Also serving Gates and Lyons WAYNE MORSE t> PHONE 2352 LEONARD HERMAN - • The ability political courage and rugged honesty OREGON WANTS UN CONGRESS elect SENATOR MILL CITY DISPOSAL SERVICE Don’t Borrow—SutsM-ribe Today! Fd Adv’I. S«n«*«r Wayne Merx Com. H. X C om , Ch/FiMock BU<k, Fnrllnnd, Oro. .. . - - —, From where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh His Punch is His Signature Was on the train up to Central City th« other day and when the conductor came around, I asked him why their ticket punches make such odd-shaped holes in the ticket. “Every conductor in the country has a different design for his punch,” he tells me. "Some even show up a fellow’s preferences. Now take mine. The hole it makes looks like a beer goblet.” Sure enough! Then he went on to say that the punch is just like the conductor's signature. Makes it easy to trace tickets ... to check up If something happens. From where I sit, even though your ticket is punched differently from mine, it still gets you where you’re going. Just like people with their opinions. You might like cof fee, another person, tea—and I’ll settle for a temperate glass of beer. But what does it matter, so long as we respect the right of the other to have tastes and opinions? We’re all trying to go in the same direction — towards a friendlier, more pleasant world for all of us. Copyright, 1950, L'nited States Brewers Founrlatinn New Mileage for Smooth Tires [ditor’s Letter Box: Letter to the Editor: Dear Editor: I have been following your editorials rather closely, agree ing with some and disagreeing with others. I shall be honest in saying that I felt for some time that your view point on unionization was not com plete. However, if confession is good for the soul this should be of some value to me. After some investiga tion on my part I fail to see any real reason why the Gates and De troit school boards do not call for an election to determine the senti- ments of the people. If the people down at ttili City have voted for it and if we would also vote for it then nothing should stop us from having that new school. Maybe you could say something In your paper to encourage such an elec tion in Gates and Detroit. At least as one taxpayer. I should favor such a move Mr Shepherd. Friday Ö-Saturday Specials I Play Parade Pagent Draws Detroit Crowd MILL CITY, OREGON DON PETER8ON, Publisher TOM COURTNEY JR , Editor Recently the Republican party has, for the first time, begun to produce prolifically. Within a year the script writers for that party have produced one slogan after another, all on the general assumption that the Amer ican people will be swept into the GOP parade if that party can produce a catchy slogan. After the “Welfare State" shib boleth boomeranged a few months back, the copy boys came up with the current bromide "Liberty Against Socialism". Back in April 1864, the first Republican President, the only liberal Republican President in his tory, had the following to say about “liberty" in a speech at Baltimore: April 87, 1950 2—THE MILL CIT»’ ENTERPRISE Rev. E. F. Lee will be the speaker at the 11 am service at the Free Methodist church this Sunday, L. O. Gould, pastor announced. The communion of the Lord s Sup per will be observed at the close of the senice. The regular monthly business meeting of the W. M S. will be held at the parsonage Tuesday, May 2. 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