The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
MILL CITY. OREGON
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Springtime
Springtime is a bit of God. How many springtimes have there been?
No one knows exactly, but we all know that the number is quite a few.
Year after year the trees send forth their buds and birds seek sticks, dry
grass and soft bits of this and that for their neats. Flowers leap out of
the ground and bloom. Millions of tiny green blades of grass furnish a
soft mat underfoot. The splendid and beautiful processes of nature go
seemingly on and on, untiringly and endlessly.
At first glance we are inclined to the thought that nature moves un­
changingly, but this is not so. Gradually nature bends in minor ways as Man
dictates. The onetime wild fruit tree with its puny fruit is now transformed
in such a way that it bears tasty and vitamin packed apples, pears, nuts
and plums. Cross-breeding has produced superior strains of livestock.
Scientists are wiping out plant and animal diseases one after another. Man
is making his life more hearable and more in tune with nature about him.
As nature in springtime breathes life into the landscape we see about
us. so does Man imitate her by pioneering advances in the machine and
medical worlds. Much of this progress has been made in the last twenty
years. Little by little, almost unnoticed, these changes have been made—
the fact of their being is very much with us, however.
Sometimes as Man bends under the strain of life, he wonders, what is
the universal goal. Many of us strive for perfection. Is this the answer—
all perfection? When we view the silent growth of plants and the bothered
to and fro of insect life, we are all too often little impressed.
In each of God’s half-acres there is most certainly a life-and-death drama
going on hourly. Thousands die; thousands are born; leaves wither; plants
hurst forth with fragrant flowers and fascinating vari green leaves. Pick
up the remains of last springtime’s insect—soon its dumped on the ground,
but today's brilliant butterfly is a thing of wonder. Certainly spring must
be some assurance that life is eternal and that God is everywhere about us.
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Editorial Comments
March 27. 1952
2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
‘LOCAL POINT FOUR’
I “Stalin and German Communism” by
A correspondent of this newspaper Ruth Fischer, Eisler’s non-Communist (
DR. MARK
has told of a small Negro institution, sister.
The great bulk of the volumes seized
Jarvis Christian College in east Texas,
which is bringing about some fresh however, are apparently novels, ad­
and promising activity in its commu­ venture stories, westerns and other
REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST
nity. The movement began as a sur­ portrayals of western life considered
vey of how the college could better harmful to the ends of Soviet indoc­
Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building
serve its nine-county area. It has de­ trination. Ironically, thousands of
Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m.
veloped into a thorough study of how such books as well as the great Amer­
Also
Thursday evenings by Appointment
the people of the area, both black and ican classics were collected in the
white, can better serve themselves.
I United States in 1945 and 1946 for the
HOME OFFICE: 313 W. FIRST. ALBANY'
Leading Texas businessmen have express purpose of restocking Russian
taken an interest in the possibilities ! libraries destroyed by the Germans.
of tfae project. Some observers have Portland book lovers gave generously
called it a kind of “local Point Four” to this drive. It may be inferred from
program. It deals with a region that the news from East Germany that the
has lost population due to changes in ' American books sent to Russia six or
farming, soil depletion, mechanization, seven years ago have long since been
and the pull of industry in the cities. disposed of.
It aims at an inventory of resources I Book burning is a sure sign of weak-'
that will make for better living.
ness in any regime. A system of gov­
Sometimes it is suggested that ernment based strongly in the faith of
America should concentrate on solving the people need have no fear of the
such problems as this at home instead free circulation of men's ideas. “Err­
of sending money and skills abroad. or of opinion may be tolerated,”
But improvement at home is not an Thomas Jefferson observed, “where
alternative to Point Four abroad; it reason is left free to combat it.” Com­
provides the means, the knowledge, munist Russia and the hapless nations
BRUCE PORTABLE ELECTRIC
the techniques, the capital, and the under her thumb are not strong
confidence with which technical assist­ enough to subcsribe to such a doctrine.
LESSING PORTABLE ELECTRIC
ance and leadership can be given else-1 —From the Oregon Journal
WHITE TREADLE MACHINE
where in the world. As the president I
All in Excellent Condition
of Jarvis college expresses it, “Help-1
ing your neighbor helps yourself.”
,
Who knows? America may receive
as well as give useful knowledge in
All Clothing Thoroughly Cleaned or YVashed
Monroe L. Walker, bull buck for
the international program. — From
the Freres Lumber company, thinks
Christian Science Monitor.
he has helped cut the record Yew tree.
SEVERAL NEW TABLE LAMPS
SHOULD APPEAL CLACKAMAS It was over ripe, therefore most of
the body and heart fiber is decayed.
DECISION
USED FURNITURE
Judge Ralph M. Holman in the The stump was cut four feet above the
Clackamas county circuit court ruled ground on under cut side, one foot
that the county’s levy of $10 regis­ above ground on aftercut side. It
tration fee against trucks is legal, grew on a hillside. The stump
but held void for precedural defects measured 39” across E and W and
the order requiring certification of 54” N and S. The rotting trunk
trucks of over 16,000 lbs. gross weight. reached a height of 30 feet above the
Across Street from Mill City Hotel
The county court can correct its pro­ stump. At 12 feet above the stump,
cedure and impose the fee. We hope the diameter is 30”. Just under that
N.E.
ALDER
ST.
MILL CITY
the plaintiffs in the case, which in­ a 20” sucker protrudes. This sucker
has
long
branches.
The
rotted
off
clude the Grange will appeal the de­
cision. We need to know if subordi­ top of trunk is about 16” diameter.
Specializing in Stamped Embroidery Goods
nate units are free to impose taxes The trunk has several large semi dead
limbs.
The
shell
of
the
trunk
is
about
or fees on trucks operating on their I
streets or roads. In the opinion of one foot thick on the underhili side, |
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The Statesman all fees should be of the south slope; has open scar >wn
levied and collected by the state and west side, no Swonitzi present.
trucks should have free use of high­ Bernice Bridges was hostess for the
ways, subject only to restriction as afternoon card club with her party I
to weight limits on certain highways held at her home Wednesday after­
and bridges. Counties and cities share noon. A one thirty dessert luncheon
in the receipts of highway revenues preceeded the playing of 500, with|
and can bear the expense of posting 18 present. High score was held by i
which is required Likewise in Salem Bertha Allen, second high by Alma
there seems to be no logic in levying Olmstead, low by Thelma Nydegger,
a special charge against log trucks, and Mabel Downing drew the travel­
using city streets, while other trucks . ing prize. Those attending _ were
are exempt.—From The Statesman. 1 Ethel Huffman, Doris Roy, Bertha
'Allen, Alma Olmstead, Garnett Bass-
REDS OUTDO NAZIS
! ett, Doreen Helemn, Margaret Kunkle, |
at the MILL CITY FIRE HA LI
The reported seizure of an approxi- Modena Carleton, Mabel Downing,
mated 6,000,000 books in a Communist Dorothy Helemn, Thelma Nydegger,
purge of western literature in East, Mabel Bass, Ida Free, Wilma Free,
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Germany dwarfs
the infamous
Nazi i Eleanor Christensen, Lucille Donivan,
Frances Garsjo, and the hostess
book burnings of 1933.
If your child is four years of
Illustrative of the degree to which Bernice Bridges.
age or older, we can develop its
Linn County Pomona grange held
the Soviet stooges in Germany have
utilized this device of tyranny is a re­ their meeting at the Santiam Valley
rhythm, co-ordination, poise, bal­
port from Leipzig, a great book pub­ grange hall with an all day meeting
ance
and self-confidence to a
lishing center now in the Russian zone Thursday, March 20, with approx­
very apparent degree very quick­
in Germany. Travelers to West Ger­ imately 85 members present. The
many report that, of 68,000 volumes in regular routine of business was
ly with the Paul Armstrong School of Dancing tech­
the Leipzig municipal library, 59,000 carried out. Candidates for repre­
nique which will be personally directed by Miss
have been removed by officials of the sentatives of Linn county filed for the
Josephine
Singer.
Communist government. Some of the primaries, May 16, 1952 were read.
seized books are destroyed. Some are Among them was Albert Julian of
Enroll and begin lessons this Saturday at 2:30.
locked up, and only high officials are Fox Valley, member of the Santiam
valley
grange,
Dave
Epps
of
the
Epps
We
will
have your youngster in a stage revue within
permitted access to them.
Master pattern for the book purge Furniture store of Sweet Home, and i
a
very
few
months.
is apparently a list of 19,562 prohibit­ Lewis Wood of Corvallis. At the |
ed titles drawn up by Gerhart Eisler, lecturers hour a short program was |
the Soviet zone information chief who , heard, and Warden O’Malley from the .
jumped bail in the United States in Oregon Penitentiary was present and i
1949. It contains many American and gave a very interesting talk.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Allen went to
English titles, presumably among
them such books as these reported cir­ Portland Friday where they will i
culating widely in German translation spend the remainder of the week.
in 1950: Norman Mailer's "The Naked They will attend the automobile show
and the Dead,” Margaret Mitchell’s while there.
no
Mrs. Alice Huber is spending sev­
“Gone With the Wind" and Gen. Wal­
ter Bedell Smith’s “My Three Years in eral days with relatives in Portland, JMKR2flR5fflC«X«x U.x x x x x x
Moscow." Also probably not over­ She will be a guest at the home of
looked by the Red snoops are copies of her daughter and husband, Mr. and 5
Mrs. George Keeley. She will also
visit at the home of her sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Vine Matheny.
popular
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The Maples shuffleboard team beat
the Canyon club of Detroit on Sun-
The score was ISO to 173.
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