October 9. 1952
4—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
I were: Donna Nelson, editor; Dorothy
' Downer, business manager; Beryl
Mason, sales; Sharon Galagher, Carol
By RICHARD LOVEL
Jane Blazek and Robert Keyes, adver­
Last Thursday night, previous to tising; Pat Brown, features; Lyle
the football game with Gervais the Fleetwood, history; Joan Johnson and
next night, the students of Mill City Betty Cree, typists; Dorothy Steinfelt
high school paraded through the and Rose Fleming, art; sports: Richard
streets in a demonstration of spirit. Lovel, football, Bob Stettner, basket­
They livened up the town with then ball, Dale Andreassen, track and base­
songs and yells.
Afterwards they ball.
A student body meeting was held
■went over to the big field in front of
the high school and built a big bonfire last Wednesday afternoon and Mr. A.
E. Nesbitt introduces this year’s Teen
■which could be seen all over town.
The student body has started work Canteen to the students. He proposed
<jn the annual this year by organizing that there be dances on a Saturday
the staff. The ones who volunteered night every month. The student body
accepted this and chose the officers
for it.
They are: Thomas Kanoff,
president; Brooks Crosier, vice presi­
dent; Donna Ellingson, secretary,
Geraldine Hamblin, treasurer, and
Donald Nesbitt, sargant-at-arms.
The theatres are using
At this meeting Evangelist Law­
the Council of Churches
rence Baird performed some entertain­
to have you vote three
ing magic tricks.
twenty “SEX!” A lot
The Chess club met and Mr. Chaney,
of us are too old for
the advisor was very pleased with
that so please leave us
the attendance and the enthusiasm of
the horses and grey­ the students that came.
hounds.
The Timberwolves will play their
third league game at Jefferson tomor­
Vote 327 X NO!
row, Friday.
OSWALD WEST*
Next week the students are plan­
* Ex-Governor. Temperance Advo­
ning on another pep rally and they
cate. Senior Oregon Statesman.
have been promised the band. Alsa
Pd. Pol. Adv. by Oswald West
Russ Kelly promised the use of his
y truck to carry the “noise”. This will
■
Mill City Hi-Liles
To the Public
SPORTS PAGE
Timberwolves,
Saints Meet
Friday, Oct. 17
Mill City Gervais
Game Ends in Tie
By RICHARD LOVEL
The Mill City Timberwolves’ second
league football game of the season,
on October 3, ended in a deadlock with
By RICHARD LOVEL
the Gervais Cougars.
The Timber­
The Mill City Timberwolves meet wolves are yet undefeated and have
the St. Boniface Saints from Sub- a good chance to go all the way in
limity for the second home football the league and get a chance at the
They
game on the Timberwolf schedule. coveted state championship.
have
won
two
non-league
games
and
The game will be on Friday night,
they trampe dover Chemawa for their
October 17, at Allen field.
first league win.
The game with
The Saints edged the Gervais Cou- I , Gervais as played last Friday night
gars, last year’s champions, 6 to 0 on the local field and it was a thrilling
earlier in the season and, since the one in which every fan got his money’s
Timberwolves came out with a 13 to worth.
13 tie with the Cougars here two
The first half of the game was an
weeks ago, this game looks like an j up and down the field battle in which
even match. The last time Mill City neither side scored. But in the third
beat the Saints was in 1949, 20 to 6, I quarter Lyle Fleetwood of the Timber­
and the year after that they tied 6 < wolves established himself as the hero
to 6. Since then Mill City has lost of the game by running 53 yards for
all their games with St. Boniface. a touchdown. Then, as if one such
This year the Timberwolves are out spectacular run was not enough, Fleet­
for revenge and with this spirit, which wood ran 60 yards for a second touch­
both teams have plenty of, they should down. The first conversion was not
play a thrilling ball game with plenty made but the second was scored by a
of fast action on both sides.
pass from Bill Hoffman to Evart
Brewer.
In the fourth quarter Fleetwood
be for the second big football game
hurt his leg and had to leave the game.
with St. Boniface high school.
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Though the injury was not serious it I The final score was 13 to 13.
evidently had its effect on the spirits
The outstanding defensive lineman
of the rest of the Timberwolves be- for the Timberwolves as c osen "y
cause the Cougars smashed through Coach Burton Boroughs and Jim Ha e
the line for first down after first down, for this game was Jack Melting. Lyle
The Timberwolf line could not hold Fleetwood’s defense was the most ra­
the attack and before the final gun markable of the Mill City backfield,
the Gervais boys drove over twice for | The Mill City high school student
touchdowns. They failed on the first body appreciates the splendid turnout
conversion but scored on the second. I for the game.
______________
THE REPUBLICAN MESS
1921 -1933
And How The Democratic Party
Cleaned Things Up
WHEN GOP WAS IN
Republicans are offering us a new
broom. The last time they rode a new
broom into Washington, in 1921, they
used it to sweep up every loose dollar
of the taxpayers’ money that was
available for easy stealing,
There was nothing petty about this
Republican thievery. Oil barons paid
$404,000 in bribes to Harding’s Seer»
tary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall,
and he handed them leases to the rich
naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome,
Wyo., and Elk Hills, Calif.—the oil
men expecting to pick up $100 million
profit on each tract.
A Democrat,
Tom Walsh of Montana, led the senate
investigation that sent Fall and Oik
man Harry F. Sinclair to jail.
GOP Milks Veterans Bureau
A crony of President Harding, Col.
Charles R. Forbes, was given the job
of organizing the Veterans Bureau.
Forbes fattened his purse on the gen­
erosities of hospital builders, who
blithely milked the taxpayers to the
tune of some $200 million.
Forbes
eventually ran off to Europe, and on
his return went to prison for two
years.
An Ohio influence peddler who had
engineered the “smoke-filled-room”
nomination of Senator Harding for the
presidency, Harry M. Daugherty, was
made attorney general.
He quickly
transformed the department into a
beehive of boodlers. Serving under
him as Alien Property Custodian, Col.
Thomas W. Miller collected an esti­
mated $3X6,000 (allegedly split with
Daugherty and others) in return fot
accepting a shaky claim by European
claimants for $7 million—the value of
a German firm seized and sold by the
government. Miller, brought to book,
was given an 18-month sentenca
Daugherty, declining to testify in his
own defense, twice drew a hung jury.
In bis brother’s bank was found $40,-
000 worth of the bonds used in pay­
ment of the $7 million.
‘
I Concentrated Robbery’
Daugherty lived with a mysterious
unemployed friend, Jess Smith, who
burned his papers and shot himself
when hemmed in by an accumulation
of rumors about big deals with boot
leggers (for permits to withdraw 1»
quor legally for “medicinal purposes”)
and with seekers of jobs, pardons and
assorted other items available at a
price on the Daugherty-Smith notion«
counter.
Investigations of certain monopoliet
and of over-payments on war con­
tracts were mysteriously dropped by
the Department of Justice. The Fed­
eral Bureau of Investigation, a unit
of the department, was required tt
shadow critics of Daugherty, and to
dig up smear material against three
United States Senators.
Frederick Lewis Allen, historian and
editor, has written that “the Harding
Administration was responsible in it«
short two years and five months fol
more concentrated robbery and rascal­
ity than any other in the whole history
of the Federal government.”
THE CHANGE WAS FAST
There is a stunning contrast be­
tween the advent of the Ohio Gang in
Washington in 1921, on the one hand,
and the famous Hundred Days that
followed the inauguration of Franklin
D. Roosevelt in 1933.
In those grim days of ’33, when
FDR took over a frightened govern,
ment from the baffled and frustrated
Hoover, there was nothing like the
sudden descent in 1921 of the hordes
of sleazy buyers and sellers of publie
favors. The waves of new arrivals in
Washington presented a collective face
that was far different from that of
the Harding camp followers with their
booze-and-poker parties at the Little
Green House on K Street.
Righting the Social Wrongs
Suddenly the Capital was awash
with bright young faces, and bright
older faces—the “brain trusters” peo­
ple who had divined from Roosevelt’s
campaign that here was a chance to
right some of the social wrongs that
had been allowed by the Republicans
to accumulate untended. The office
lights of the new officials burned late
as these devoted Democrats fought
against time to prepare legislation
that would put flesh on the bones of
FDR's niogram, and to compound th»
strategies that would see these bills
through Congress, and to organize and
staff the new agencies set up to cope
with current crises and long-term
problems as well.
There was a breath-taking quality
about those Hundred Days, and it was
as different from the atmosphere of
1921 as daylight from dark. To be
sure, there were false starts, there
were mistakes—but there was action.
And action was what 1933 demanded.
Republicans, sulking as the Democrat«
brought order out of what had been
close to chaos, presently found
strength to mock the “professors,”
“That Man,” and so on—but they also
began to eat better.
The Democratic Record
You can look long and hard, but
you won’t find any Teapot Domes in
the record of twenty years of Demo
cratic tenure. This is not to claim
that every last member of the gow
emment service has been clean as a
whistle. There have been investig»
tions and there have been scandals—
and the scandals have been cleaned up
when discovered. The other day Sec­
retary of Treasury Snyder revealed
that out of some 58,000 employes of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue, 103
had been fired during the year ending
last June 30 for accepting bribes or
gratuities, for embezzling, for failure
to pay proper taxes themselves, or for
falsifying records. That figures out
at less than six-tenths of one per cent
of the Bureau’s payroll. (In contrast,
the Senate was officially informed in
1924 that the same Bureau had sacked
786 agents for graft in income-tax
frauds, following a three-year scandal
That represents a full 5 percent of the
15,884 employes of that time).
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