The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
Editorial Comments
DON PKTBRSON. Publisher
2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
No»ember 6. 1952
. DOWN SOUTH TENANT FARMER
CONGRATULATIONS TO IKE!
one or two theories of our own. First,
MUSING TO HIS MULE
Entered aa second-claa« matter November 10. 1M4 at the post office at
One great American has beaten un- to eliminate a few suspects, we do
Mill City, oreKon, under the Act of March 3. 1B79.
other great American.
) not believe the offending performer
Over the Hill trailed a man behind a mule drawing
Ike’s great personal prestige, the was a crooner or a ballet performer,
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a
plow:
“Bill, you are a mule, the son of a jackass, and
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underlying determination of a major Television fans are too well schooled
sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display
I
am
a
man
made in the image of God. Y et here we
ity of the voters of both parties for in the western dance-hall motto,
Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch.
a change, the angry anti-Truman sen “Don’t shoot the pianist; he’s doing work, hitched up together, year in and year out. I often
timent were too much for Governor ths best he can.” And we don’t be wonder if you work for me or I work for you. V erily,
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
NEWSPAPER
Stevenson.
lieve Americans take their politics I think it a partnership between a mule and a fool, for
\
Stevenson might have given Eisen- that seriously or are quite envious
PUBLISHERS
hower alone a real race—he came up enough of “give-away” contest win surely I work as hard as you, if not harder. Plowing
ASSOCIATION
or cultivating, we cover the same distance, but you do it
from nowhere to win the approval of ners to commit mayhem.
some 26 million voters, a remarkable
But there are possible limits to the on four legs and I on two. Therefore, I do twice as much
•THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.”
feat in itself. But he couldn’t beat TV viewer’s self-control. A band of work per leg as you do.
Georye
Putram. No one skulking redskins (or Arctic wolves)
Eisephower —
and
Truman.
“Soon we’ll be preparing for a corn crop. When the
may have been peering in the win
could.
As one of the few metropolitan dows of the abandoned log cabin. Or crop is harvested, I give one-third to the landlord for
newspapers supporting Stevenson, the there may have been a rustle in that being so kind as to let me use this small speck of God’s
Journal congratulates General Eisen | velvet curtain behind which the man
One-third goes to you and the balance is mine.
Putting it bluntly, the Redskins got chased off the hower. He won a magnificent tribute with a dagger had just secreted him universe.
You
consume
all your portion with the exception of the
grateful fellow Americans.
self. Or the spies in search of the
reservation November 4.
The self-styled experts are from
The Journal also congratulates Ste atomic secrets may have bound and cobs, while I divide mine among seven children, six hens,
busy dreaming up reasons why the Redskins were bull venson for the manner in which he gagged our hero. Or the gang that two ducks and a banker. If we both need shoes, you get
dozed into the wilderness. Historians now have a new conducted his uphill battle for the was after Boston Blackie may have ’em. Bill, you are getting the best of me, and I ask, is
presidency. He kept it clean and sane been bearing down with guns blazing
first which must be set down. It was once true that an and is the bigger man for having done on the taxicab containing the camera* it fair for a mule, a son of a jackass, to swindle a man
lord of creation—out of his sustenance.
administration which governed during good times and so. We shall hear more from him man.
of
self-1
later.
That
is
inevitable.
Yes,
Watson,
a
clear
case
“Why, you only help to plow and cultivate the ground,
came up for a vote w'as never defeated.
That is no On the plus side of the 1952 election defense. — From Christian Science
but
I
alone must cut, shock and husk the corn, while you
longer true.
is the fact that it roused more Amer Monitor.
he-haw
at me from over the pasture fence.
icans to do their duty at the polls
The same is true with the Indians.
Before the than
any other election in U. S. his
SPEECH
“All Fall, and most of the Winter, the whole family,
coming of the Palefaces, they roamed these United States tory. We also think it a healthy The AMERICAN
British are well known for from’Granny, to the baby, picks cotton to help raise the
as its lords and masters. The Indians got licked and thing—even though it contributed to their habit of understatement. Amer- | money to pay taxes, buy new harness and pay the interest
defeat of “our candidate”—that icans have the trick of overstatement. I
were put on reservations. As these reservations turned the
Eisenhower broke the “Solid South.”
There is the “tall story” with its ! on the mortgage on you. And what do you care about
into gold mines, the Indians were moved on their way to The two-party system, too long a deadpan
extravagance, product of a the mortgage? Not a Dam! You ornery cuss, I even
meaningless phrase in the South, may frontier rich in humor. There is the . have to do the worrying about the mortgage on your
less greener pastures.
thus become a reality. That would I flamboyant 19th-century Fourth-of-
tough ungrateful hide.
We can take a lesson from North America’s first be good.
j July oratory parodied by Dickens iu I
Also
on
the
favorable
side
is
the
“About the only time I am your better is on election
citizens. What they could not cure, they endured. They defaet of such extremist-isolationist« “Martin Chuzzlewit” but expressing ■
the
natural
exuberance
of
a
vigorous
day,
for I can vote and you can’t. But, after election,
now number more members in their tribes than at the as Cain, Kem and Ecton. For that
new people. There is the stentoriau i I realize I was fully as great a jackass as your pappy.
time the Palefaces started shoving them around. Some we congratulate the voters of Wash appeal to the “bigger and better" ! Verily, I am prone to wonder if politics were made for
Missouri and Montana.
that runs from P. T. Barnum to the
thing else again about these people who got pushed in ington,
On the minus side is the re-election latest super-colossal Hollywood opus. I men or jackasses, or to make jackasses of men.
front of the Palefaces—today they cannot vote or sit on of such men as Senators McCarthy, There is Whitman and Sandburg.
“Tell me, Bill, considering these things, how can
Malone and Bricker, who op Thus a foreigner, hearing the ex-
a jury unless they first give up all their rights as Indians. Jenner,
pose almost everything Eisenhower tremes of violent speech to which even I you keep a straight face and look so dumb and solemn?”
We hope the Redskins that were zoomed off the reser stands for and who thus become one
—Oscar Ameringer in Spotlight.
normally rational Americans are
vation Tuesday will in the future be allowed the vote of the embarrassing problems of the sometimes carried in a presidential
president.
Also on the campaign, might assume that the' 5
and equality in the making of law without first forfeit incoming
minus side is the loss of such able country was on the verge of a civil ;
ing their Redskin rights.
senators as Lodge of Massachusetts
war. if he did not allow for the Amer- ' I
and O’Mahoney of Wyoming, Republi
ican love of luxuriant over-statement
can and Democrat, respectively, and
There are strong convictions involved, j
Democrats Underwood and Moody of
I to be sure. But behind the bombast
REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST
Kentucky and Michigan, respectively.
Now that the election is history, i there is much common sense, muck
I quiet searching, much hopeful agree-
HAS MOVED his Mill City office to Stayton in the Post Office Bldg..
let’s forget the hates and fears and
2nd Floor, in the Dr. Victor J. Myers offices.
| ment, and a touch of tongue-in-cheek.
suspicions generated by the campaign
Office Hours: Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m.
—From Christian Science Monitor.
Most of them are groundless and un
worthy of Americans.
Ours is «
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great country and ours is great pres
ident-to-be. Let’s get on with the For What It's Worth
By CLIFFORD P. ROWE
job.
J'feerf/«ewriwii
President-elect Eisenhower has as
Forest Grove, Ore.
sumed a terrifying responsibility, ile
DEALERSHIP FOR ’
As I write this, election day is but
will become our president and com a week away; and by the time this
MONTAG ELECTRIC RANGES
mander in chief in one of the most is printed, we will have elected a new
critical periods of American history. president. At the moment, I would |
P. W. RODICH, Prop.
LYONS, ORE.
He deserves our loyalty and respect
Left Ham Sandwich
hesitate to pre-1
and co-operation. Never did a presi
diet the winner,
dent need them more.—From Oregon
but I am not a
-400
Journal.
bit hesitant in :
proclaiming that ,
Ambled over to Bob’s Restau a regular, old fashioned, plain ham
•DON’T SHOOT!’
I will be mighty
rant Tuesday for lunch and noticed sandwich all the more!”
We are waiting for the television
a new sign "Left Ham Sandwich,
glad when it’s all
From where I sit. stories like
I columnists to propound their theories
40e ... Right Ham Sandw ich, 30f.” “right" hams being tougher than
over.
as to what program the Long Island
To tell the
“Why the sign. Bob?” I asked. “left” ones are with us because
man was viewing the other night
truth, I have been
“Don’t tell me you believe hogs some people get ideas into their
when he suddenly drew a revolver
highly disap-|
scratch more with their right leg head and hang onto them for dear
and put a bullet through the picture
pointed with the ’
than with their left — go's the left life. It’s like those who think an
tube. News accounts were carefully
ham is more tender?”
campaign.
A t .
adult like myself hasn't the right
| silent on the point.
the beginning I
“No,” he says. “I don't take any to a glass of beer with my supper.
But while we wait we’ll try out listened to* the nominating conven
stock in it. But, some people have I say let’s keep our opinions free
tions of both parties; and when the ,
ordered
those ‘left’ sandwiches. from being “sandw iched-in” by
i
mayhem was over, 1 was convinced
When I explain to them that misinformation.
that regardless of which party was ■
there's nothing to that fable, that
victorious in November, we would
the sign is just a business-getter,
Casablanca, French Morocco have an excellent man in office.
and I've only one price, they enjoy
October 31, 1952
But that was in July.
Today I I
Dear Sir:
find myself wondering just what went j
Copyright,l952,Vnitcd States Breun < Foundation
Was glad to receive your papers: on at the national conventions; for if i
Have received three to date:
I am to believe ail that I have read j
The first one arrived, published and heard, I must conclude that both
Sept. 18 delivered in Morroco Oct 12; candidates are incompetent nincom-
one published Oct. 2 delivered in Mo pooys and have only stayed out of i
rocco Oct. 20th; and one published Alcatraz or the booby-hatch by the |
Sept. 25 delivered in Morocco Oct. 31. aid of the devil himself. It would I
You see it takes about five days appear that the conventions fell down j
from Oregon to N.Y. and nine days on the job.
We have added another pharmacy to
from N.Y to Casablanca direct; but
I blame neither the candidates nor
“The Quisenberry Pharmacies, that operate as one"
when mail gets a boat’that stops at their party managers. The fault, I
European ports why it takes some- believe lies in a procedure which calls
‘time to get here, but I have been re for too long a campaign, If the con-
ceiving the dance magazine put out by vent ions had been held around the
The new pharmacy will be open until 11:00 o’clock
Art Gibbs, folk dance group in Port first of October and the election one
at
night
on week days and from 12:00 noon until 2:00
land every month; received the last month later, there would have been a
one in 20 days; it left Portland on the great deal less money spent foolish
P.M. and 6:00 until 9:00 in the evenings on all Sundays
9th and arrived here on the 29th. At ly and a lot less nasty accusation«
and all holidays.
present there are a lot of ships going thrown recklessly.
better than ever before
between N.Y. and Casablanca; as we
There we will specialize in prescriptions and stock
A century or more ago when can
have several bases and a lot of serv didates had to cover the country by
will be limited to medicines and sick room supplies.
ice men in Africa, and Casablanca u pony express or even by train, it may
the port of entry for all of North have been necessary to provid« for
Y our prescriptions will be on file there as well as
«......
’Africa as far as the U. S. citizens a four month’s campaign.
Today,
at the other locations and will be available, for your
are concerned.
however, with the daily press, the
convenience, these longer hours.
This company could use a good radio, and air travel at our command,
typewriter repair man: as this on« any candidate, no matter how much
1 he new location is 130 South Liberty Street, and
ami
most of the others need adjusting, he knows or believes, can tel] it all
Of
ÄUutf<i Uon
the
phone number is 4-3:136. However, if you dial the
•tc.
to the entire nation in a couple of
( ourt Street number, 3-9123, and that store is closed,
Am having as good time of work weeks or in four at the most.
the call will be relayed.
ing and living and recreational time«
That was the trouble with thia
as one could ask for: It is much nicer campaign. Both parties ran out of
U e are pleased to be able to offer this kind of pre
than Guam but net as nice as San good idea* in the first few weeks and
scription
service and to have it available these longer
Francisco was.
then in order to < ■ontinue making the
hours.
Thanks for the prompt service of headlines, they had to start scraping
the paper as it sure is a pleasure for the bottom of the barrel. As a result
me to read and there are others from they came up with muck and we, th«
Feed«
Grinding and Mixing
Machinery
Oregon that have been in Mill City voters, became the targets. I’m
Seed«
Custom Cleaning
Hardware
either fishing or hunting and there mighty glad it's all over.
Fertiliser
Seed Marketing
rrtroleum Prodncta
are several who worked on the Detroit
"THAT OPERATE AS ONE"
Household Appliance«
dam for a short period and so I have
WEDDING
LNNlH
X<
EMENTS
Telephone 5024
STAYTON. ORE.
a gathering in my hut of Oregonians
\M> IX' IT \TIONS
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reading the Enterprise Sincerely,
at
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