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—George Putnam.
Nightmare Hill
Why is it that Mill City must be known because of a nightmarish
incline on highway 222? This incline and this highway have caused more
nervous excitement and upset tempers than any one single thing in or about
Mill City. We are embarrassed by the situation. With a guilty conscience
we lend a hand to travelers who get snarled up on this steep and trouble­
some incline behind Epps furniture store. We have tried this and that in
the hope someone in authority will do something. All has been treated
like water thrown on a duck's back.
We have pleaded with the city council, highway commission and a string
of other dignitaries. Nothing has been done. We insist this booby trap
to tourists and the "unexperienced" should not longer be allowed.
There is nothing funny about this thing. Allowing it around just isn’t
very smart. If politics has its ugly head in this matter, it is time it departed.
Drastic measures should be taken if the highway commission does not
remove this obstruction in a perfectly good highway.
How silly can the highway commission get—"Shift Gears” says their
roadside sign a short distance from the booby trap! If anyone should
shift gears it is the highway department! All manner of dodges are being
used by the highway department so the motorist will do the least damage
to himself on this booby trap. Why have the thing at all! Truckers who
find their “rigs” doing the “sitting-donkey act” on Mill City’s booby trap
swear they will never try that trip again. Who suffers most—the trucker
or Mill City? Mill City, of course! It will take a major advertising cam­
paign to wipe out* the bad taste this booby trap has built up in the driving
public'll mind.
Helm To Tories
Editorial Comments
AHEAD OF THE VANDALS
It is strange how often souvenir
hunting amounts in effect to vandal­
ism. A famous flier’s plane, unless
closely guarded, may be all but dis-
mantled. Buttons are torn off the
coat of a visiting dignitary or screen
star. Pieces of wood or metal are
broken off the furniture in historic
shrines or from public monuments.
When the United Nations General
Assembly met in Paris three years
ago numbers of translation head­
phones were torn loose and carried
off by visitors. With those anchored
down, attention at the present session
is said to be turning to ash trays bear­
ing the UN emblem which were fur­
nished by a Paris department store.
But the store is interested enough in
the UN to supply several thousand for
the purpose.
This may be good strategy, like the
foresight of American communities
which engage the energies of young­
sters at Halloween with parties and
window-painting contests. But there
is a good deal of room for education
in the principle that public property
is not private prey. There should be
and is more satisfaction in a suitable
souvenir honestly purchased than in
one filched.—From The Christian
Science Monitor
FREEDOM INVINCIBLE
Wiping out of the 145-year-old
Bible Society of Czecloslovakia comes
as the latest illustration of Commu­
nist hostility to religion. By every
unscrupulous device the Soviet State
has sought for years to erase God
from man’s thought. The basic sig­
nificance of the menace of commu­
nism is the design of immoral, heart­
less materialism to destroy “the
things of the Spirit.”
While this has long been unmis­
takably known, there is perhaps one
aspect of the conflict not so widely
recognized. Good often brings evil to
the surface in order to eliminate it.
Apparently this now is happening on
a global scale. The advance of spirit­
ual truth in the western world has
been followed by a surge of atheism in
the Eurasian East. The greater free­
dom of man in the West, primarily
resulting from a better understanding
of God, has its opposite in the whole­
sale enslavement of man in regions
where officially the existence of God
is denied.
Truth and justice will certainly
prevail, as in countless times in the
past. Even in the realm of the Com­
munists, as Lieut. Gen. Walter Bedell
Smith, former Ambassador to Russia,
found, “The persistence of an inde­
pendent spiritual life is at once one
of the important and one of the mys­
terious things that have transpired
the Soviet State.”
The forces arming in defense
gainst the spread or continuance
materialistic communism are mighty.
Powerful nations which were essen­
tially founded upon faith in God will
not be overcome. The greater free-
dom of thought born of a truer
knowledge of God and man has for
centuries been building up resources
which will prove invincible, When
the struggle is over and mental dark­
ness dispelled, the world will find
itself in the midst of an era of excep­
tional progress, — The Christian
Science Monitor
PEACE BY DECLARATION
India speaks for the world when it
pleads for world peace. But it lags
behind history when it urges a “no­
war” declaration by the major powers.
The tatters of the Kellogg-Briand
Pact are a mournful reminder that
peace is not made or kept by mere
words. Written agreements must have
behind them (1) good faith and, or
(2) some form or degree of police
power if they are to do more than de­
lude the innocent.
The fact is that both the western
powers and Soviet Russia already
have signed a no-war declaration in
subscribing to the Charter of the
United Nations. Their desires for
peace can best be gauged by their
support of that organization, embody­
ing as it does a rudimentary sense of
world community and at least the
potentiality of enforceable world law.
Until already existing agreements
aimed at peace are supported by deeds
we can see little hope for peace by
declaration.—The Christian Science
Monitor.
The Tory party has been returned to power in England. England has
a slightly different set-up in government than we have. The leader of the
majority party in the House of Commons is chosen by the King to form a
new government. Mr. Churchill was not chosen by the English people as
Prime Minister, but rather by the Tory members of the House of Commons.
Under the English system, also, the head of the government has the
support of the majority of the members of the House of Commons. When
this support is lost, then an election must be held. The Labor government
barely lost control of the English government during the last election.
I.aborites now have shifted positions with the Tories.
Some have the idea that the English election outcome is a taste of
what will happen come next November in the United States. An argu­
ment in favor of this thought is the fact that great pressure was brought
Io bear on the English elections by powerful interests in this country.
There arc many comments to the effect that Churchill will find many a
sympathetic ear when he seeks a loan. It is a hit ironic that Churchill
kicked Attlee all over the English landscape for taking such assists from
By DON PETERSON
the U.S.A.!
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Churchill is finding it isn’t a “breeze" managing a great nation in times
like these. Confidence could wane fast for the ways of Mr. Churchill.
There apparently is no doubt but
HELP, POLICE!
Churchill doesn't show any great ambition for doing away with the ad­
that Detroit-Idanha and Mill City will
Do you know when—and when not accept consolidation and thus form a
vancements of l.aborite "socialism”. Churchill will soon find out, if he
—to call the cops? Here are some ’ first class school district, but doubt
hasn't already, that peace is no longer just a word—it's a way of life.
tips: All police departments exist for I has been expressed that Gates is will­
three basic functions: the prevention ing to vote to consolidate.
of crime, the detection of crime and
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the apprehension of violators.
Na­
Following up last week's discussion
turally, whenever you are a witness
on curriculum I wish to draw com­
to a crime, you should report imme­
parison between the present courses
diately to the police.
taught in each of these schools, as fol­
But
besides
murder,
arson,
assault
It
lows: Mill City gives four years of
and other such obvious causes, there
English, Gates two; each have three
are numerous smaller incidents that
years of science subjects, both alter­
may warrant calling an officer. Even
nate between chemistry and physics
noisy neighbors or blaring radios late
giving one year and the other the
“but certainly not with rain!”
We’ve just had a political cam­
at night can become a police matter—
following year; Mill City gives four
paign with everything from a torch­
From where 1 sit. you’ve got to
if such disturbance interferes with
years of mathematics. Gates two;
light parade to a neck and-neck
give Slim credit for acting on his
sleep or endangers health. Suppose
both give two years of typing in com-
ballot bov race.
belief that everyone has a right to
a door-to-door salesman (which is a
merce courses, one has business Eng-
be heard—just as everyone has a
violation of Mill City ordinance 24)
Rusty Robinson, with no cam­
lish. the other bookkeeping.
or a drunk, becomes objectionable—
right to his own opinions and
paign funds, planned his Election
Mill City gives three years of social
call police. If someone is suddenly
tastes. Maybe you like hot coffee,
Eve speech for the Square. Slim
studies, and Gates two; in physical
taken
ill
and
you
don
’
t
know
how
to
for instance, when you “take a
McCormick, who owns the Palace
education Mill City gives four years
reach a doctor—again, call police.
break.” Well, my vote goes for a
movie house, was finishing up his
and Gates two; home economics is
If your child does not come home
refreshing glass of beer. After all.
campaign in Pioneer Hall.
taught two years in Mill City, while
from
school
or
an
errand
when
ex
­
we're lucky to be living in a free
Gates only one year.
Then it began to rain. Rusty's
pected. and can't be located within a
country where we ran have our
Here is a greater difference: Mill
political career was fizzling out in
reasonable time, call an officer. If
own preferences!
City gives three years of industrial
the damp when Slim showed up
you know you are to be away for a
arts, including shop work. Gates none;
to say that Robinson people could
short time, the police will appreciate
Mill City gives one year each of Latin
meet in his theatre for nothing.
it if you will advise them that the
and band, but Gates does not have
“I want to beat Rusty," Slim said,
house will he dark for a few days so
either.
they can check it more often.
Without doubt there are some stu­
But
the
answer
to
all
home
emer
­
Copyright, 1^51, United States Brewers Foundation
dents in Gates who would like to study
gencies is not invariably “Call a Cop.”
one or more of these subjects, but
Don't bother the police with family
because not enough request these,
rows or drunken spouses (unless
others of necessity are chosen. Would
threatening violence). Above all. don't
not a larger school give more oppor-
call a policeman to threaten children.
tunities to all students- I believe it
That will make any blue-coat see red
would.
and usually results in the parent be­
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ing subjected to a really tough lecture
There has never been any thought
instead of the youngster. Broadly,
in the plans for consolidation to at­
unless the emergency comes under
tempt to consolidate the grade school
the heading of. “Protection of life
classes, there could be no advantage
and property,” call a friend or neigh­
in that, since all schools are already
bor instead.
crowded to where they need additional
If the situation warrants calling the
space. Grade schools are being kept
police, do it fast! Keep the telephone
in the local rather than consolidated
number of your police department
state, and requires less transporta­
within easy reach
If you don't know
tion as they are now operated.
it, just ring the operator and ask for
the police. Safest rule to go if there
When washing windows with Dreft
is any question as to whether or not
or Joy, dry without rinsing by placing
to call the police call them!
paper towels over windows as it is
K. W. HUNT,
Chief of Police, Mill City. washed. Makes windows really shine.
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