ideas advanced in debating societies, public debates and
public discussions peculiar to the era prior to the radio,
telephone, daily newspapers and television. Toastmistress
and Toastmaster clubs carry on the good things of a
debating group, and have the goal of improving the speech
'delivery and personality of the club member. Mill City
needs a Toastmaster ciub, too.
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THE BONNEVILLE
ADMINISTRATOR
There has beer, much speculation
hereabouts as to whether Dr. Paul J.
Raver would be replaced as Bonne­
ville
power
administrator
after
Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated
and Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon
becomes secretary of the interior. Dr.
Raver has served in that position for
thirteen years.
He has been the
center of a good many violent contro­
versies revolving generally around
issues of private power vs. public
power, dams vs. fish and government
vs. local initiative.
The political storm was at its
height when Dr. Raver came from
Illinois, where he was chairman of
the state’s commerce commission and
professor of public utilities at North­
western university, to succeed James
D. Ross, deceased, in September, 1939.
He has survived the winds and tor­
rents, making many friends as well
as some to-the-death opponents, work­
ing competently and with singular
devotion toward the construction of a
federal transmission system costing
$255,557,000 and delivering 61 per
cent of the northwest's electric
energy.
In recent years the relations be­
tween the Bonneville Power adminis­
tration and its customers, including
the privately owned utilities ar.d big
industrial users, have been greatly
improved. We think both sides have
a broader understanding of the essen­
tial partnership. They may not agree
on sites for particular dams at all
times, but they have joined on notable
occasions to advance the federal darn
building program on which a major
share of private enterprise in Oregon
and Washington is based.
Dr. Raver is an engineer, an ad­
ministrator of considerable skill, and
a public official dedicated to north­
west development. He has probably
never given serious thought to aban­
doning his comparatively low-paid
work to earn large fees as a consult­
ant, though the opportunities have
been there for a long time. It is our
observation that he has administered
the Bonneville act to the best of his
ability, under the interpretations laid
down by the department of interior
and legal counsel.
The objections
which private utilities have appear to
stem chiefly from their belief that
the law should be changed to give
them and their customers a better
break. It is our belief that Dr. Raver
would administer an amended law
with the same sincerity that he has
administered the present law.
Governor McKay has worked closely
ASSOCIATION
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Christian Faith Renewed
Mill City will observe Christmas in much the same
•manner as hundft*ds of like communities. Christmas is
the time of year that we recall the deep meaning of the
birth of Christ. The United States of America is a
Christian nation. Mill City is a Christian community.
It is very clear that there are no pagan gods holding the
religious minds of our people. Christ is our recognized
religious leader. Christmas each year recalls and re-tells
His birth. Just as the rain falls on the just and the
unjust, so also will the great promises given by Christ
unfold here in Mill City.
The choking clouds of fear, hunger and strife will
hang over the minds of those who bow their heads in
prayer during Christmas. Those ugly things will bear
down upon the millions as they live through another
Christmas. Many die still unwarmed by any religious
teaching. Since Mankind is on the march, it is very
important that only the greatest of ideas shall be used.
Christianity is one such avenue. The eternal search for
understanding can in some measure be ended in the
universal nature of Christianity. Man needs a feeling of
kinship with the universe, and Christianity is such. Mill
City’s petition for Peace and Good Will on Earth is hereby
submitted. We pray that it be granted.
Community Civic Servants
Mill City received a worthy asset when Mill City In­
ternational Toastmistress club was chartered more than
a year ago. This group is a newcomer to this commu­
nity. Those who have an active role in the business of
this vigorous and forward looking club are finding it
adds much good to their daily lives. Since the Toast­
mistress club is an organization which permits active
citizens another outlet for expression of their ideas, every
encouragement should be given it.
Mill City Toastmistress club, itself, is aware that it
occupies a responsible place in Mill City civic affairs.
The club invited a representative group of citizens to a
“Public Relations Dinner” last Thursday evening. In­
vitees saw and heard a Toastmistress club session. The
strict discipline and obvious sense of the whole thing was
clear cut. The activity in this club is conduct that can
and will produce good results. Here is a forum for the
free and unfettered voicing of ideas.
Our nation today is in large measure the product of
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local police regulations and citizen
protest may be effective within the
framework of existing laws. But the
Constitution of the United States in­
sures that the main fight against
unhealthy publications must be car­
ried on by means other than censor­
ship.—From Christian Science Mon­
itor.
In our own city, and more especially
on the fringe areas where drainage
and street conditions are not always
adequate, there are danger spots for
children. Let’s not wait for an acci­
dent to imprint the danger in out-
mind. How much better it is to drair.
the ditch or fill the pit before the
child falls in. From Oregon States-
man.
DANI.ER SPOTS FOR CHILDREN
The people of Levittown, N. Y.,
with bulldozers and hand shovel, filled
a hole Sunday.
The rain-filled pit
had claimed the lives of two boys.
It made a gripping news story, but if
This Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m.
only it could have been written “The
there will be a gathering at the Pres­
people of Levittown, N.Y., filled a
byterian church of all who would be
hole last week, thereby saving the
interested in singing Christmas carols.
lives of two boys who would have
Every young person and the “young
fallen into it during the next seven
in heart” are invited to come and
days.”
No such news story is possible, of join in the fun as the group goes out
course.
But it is possible to predict through the community singing the
OBSCENITY \ND LAW
where tragedy is likely to occur. An beloved carols of Christmas time.
Under federal law obviously ob­ old well shaft, left uncovered, has
After the caroling refreshments
scene publications are banned from
resulted in tragedy that thoughtful­ will be served at the Presbyterian
use of the United States mails. But
ness and action could have prevented. manse.
in thousands of drugstores across the
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land hundreds of cheap, paper-covered
books and “girlie” magazines exploit­
ing sex, vice, and depravity are avail­
DR. MARK
able tp any juvenile who wants to
spend his pocket money on them.
A house committee, under Rep. E.
C. Gathings, has been investigating
this condition. The testimony of the
HAS MOVED his Mill City office to Stayton in the Post Office Bldg.,
men who publish this filth has not
2nd I loor, in the Dr. Victor J. Myers offices.
been reassuring and holds out little
Office Hours: Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m.
hope for effective self-regulation by
the industry in the near future.
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HOME OFFICE: 313 W. FIRST. ALBANY
Much of the material they publish
stops short of being so obscene as to
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the mails, yet it is obviously a crude,
commercial exploitation of sex.
The answer to this problem is not
easy to find. Governor Dewey has
twice vetoed as too vaguely worded
New York state bills aimed at inde­
cent and sensational publications,
after the United States Supreme
Court had already ruled that an earlier
New York law- was vague and violated
the constitutional ■guarantee of a
free press. All attempts at censor­
ship run up against the fact that,
beyond a certain point, the judgment
of what is obscene is a subjective mat­
ter, and that censors, being human,
are fallible,
Some of the publishers called before
the house committee argued that there
are “obscene” passages in Homer and
the Bible, in Chaucer and Shake­
speare. This shameless attempt to
equate the frankness and many-sided­
ness of great writers with the cordid
ELECTRIC HEATING
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INDUSTRIAL
AND COMMERCIAL WIRING
illustrates the pitfalls that beset
COMMERCIAL LIGHTING
mechanical standards of censorship.
Against the most flagrant of the
paper-covered books and magazines
with Dr. Raver on the Columbia Basin
Inter-Agency committee and doubtless
has made his own appraisal. In our
opinion, however, the interests of the
northwe-t w-ould be served by the
retention of the present Bonneville
administrator--at least for a period in
which an effort should be made to set
up a unifying agency of fedeial and
state agencies to administer the en­
tire river-use program. — From the
Oregonian.
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