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TH .o ,HE H*W YE" COR" usoo- ,,Eo=o H:;/7:i/: :M:;
104 2nd Ave.. North, Mount Vernon, lowa j
Official Newspaper Mount Vernon and
Linn County
Lloyd McCutcheon Estate, Proprietor
James W. MeCutcheon, Editor
Published at Mount Vernon and Lisbon,
in Linn County, Iowa, every Thursday.
THE MOUNT VERNON HAWKEYE
Founded in 1869 by S H Bauman
THE MOUNT VERNON REMARKER
Founded in 1893 by Minurd Lozier
THE LISBON IIERALD
Founded in 1594 by W. F. Stahl
Subscription Rate
One year, in Liun and ~.djoining
counties, per year ............... $1.50
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counties, but within the state,
per year ........................ $1.75
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Iowa.
Entered as second class mail matter at
the post office of Mount Vernon. Iowa, and
Lisbon. Iowa
Little Has Been Said
About the Last Mandate
After the overwhehning l)emo-
THE MOUNT VERNON, IO~VA, RAVtKEYE-RECOI~I) AND THE LISBON HERALD
lllrl ii i i ........
DDIPIT [--- since 1932 Each-
~'ri ~ ''Y ~' ~l('G '''!~''' '' ~ ''slt Y '''!('i''''" ........................ C0~d0DffY been the case ever Bauxite
I~ette l,ongerbean,--,~uct, seat 'WAY BACK WHEN |lU~][~[vigorous upswing in business hasi Bauxite Is tim only commercial
IFditor-in-('hief - Letitia Beranek
!Business Mgr. Margaret Siggins
Senior tteviews - \Vallace IAtten
Special Features--Vivian q'onne,
Patrieia Mitchell, Ardis Stinger,
Cornelia Brooks. Helcn Culbert-
son.
Reporters--Marian Fisher, Peggy
i4erring, Marilyn Scarbrough,
Martha Jane Rogers, Jeanne Sul-
livan Leona l,:llison. Merrill Pit-
liR. Mary MacGregor.
Sports Jim l':yre, Arlo Ellison
1,; I ) 1T( ) RI A L
"llugs" Baer says. "A scientist
just said we will all be crazy in a
eentnry, l-[is W':tt('tl lnust be slow,"
Hurry!~--Hurry! --Hurry! Some-
how this word haY, captivated so
mncb of our life today. This is
an age of st)eed---autos in a mad
fate, streaIulined trains that al-
most have wings of Mercury: air-
planes that make continental hops
with seemingly no effort. Speed
seems to be outstandingly import-
ant and thc main factor in every-
thing we do. Here in high school
%'/0 rUsh from one task to another,
from classes to outside activities,
and in spitc of our continual rush,
we still have too much to do and
according to all of us, no time to
do it in. But where does all of this
speed get us at the end of the day?
I'raetically no where. \Ve find
ourselves in the same situation:
too niu('h to do.
There must be a solution to this
cratic victory in 1936 we heard problem somehow. \Ve would like
quite a little about a mandate from i to suggest that if people would only
the people when radical new deal slow down, relax a bit and try to
measures, including the court pack- ! do perhaps fewer things more tlmr-
ins bill, were proposed. Adminis- i oughly wouhtn't they get more out
tration spokesmen haven't said i of life after all ?
much about a mandate since the lSENI(IR REVIEV¢
fall elections. In fact as one sUr-
veys the scene the president is go-
ing along seemingly as if nothing
had happened appointing his hun-
dred per cent new deal friends to
cabinet posts and inviting congress
to improve ~ArpA spending as it
sees fit. The president seems to be
in a pretty strong position. It is
unlikely, as a result of the scare
by the dictator nations that the
president's defense program will be
defeated although a few years ago
opposition to such a program would
have been heard from all direc-
tions.
I~OON I)OGLING AGAIN
President Roosevelt's suggestion
to congress that the Florida ship
canal and the Passamaquoddy pro-
ject to harness the tides, be revived
and appropriations made to resume
work on them is almost unbeliev-
able.
Those two projects, more than
any others, are the horrible exam-
ples of the many impractical gov-
ernment projects undertaken in re-
cent years.
Ship companies have indicated
that they probably would not use
the ship canal if it was built, while
engineers have stated that a steam
plant to generate juice at Quoddy
would cost $15,0(i(L000 as compared
to the $40,000,000 cost of the pro-
posed ,brain storm to harness the
tides.
Just why taxpayers in Iowa
should contribute to the building
on an unnecessary canal in Florida
has not been shown. Especially so
when many Florida people believe
that the canal with its salt water,
would ruin many of the orange
groves which are a real asset to
central Florida.
SUPERVISOR SEEVELL
IJOOKS OUT ]P~)R TAXPAYERS
Verne Marshall is such a tender-
hearted chap! I,et a woman come
to his office and cry a .bit on his
shoulder and he is apt to say things
in his column that are not only un-
fair, but which he really does not
mean. The other night he took a
pot shot at the second district sup-
ervisor, Elmer Seevell, because Mrs.
Alice Ferber-Kerwin was not re-
hired as Linn county director of
poor relief.
Verne intimates the reason Mrs.
Kerwin lost her job is that she had
resisted pressure from certain
memhers of the board in the ad-
ministration of relief affairs. This
was not the case, and no one knows
it better than Mrs. Kerwin. She
knew that the board was opposed
and rightly to hiring married wo-
men for jobs where the husband
was capable of earning a good liv-
ing. She knew that if she married
she would not be rehired. She was
married at Christmas time. That
was the sole reason for the change.
All admit that Mrs. Kerwin had
made a capable officer in a re-
sponsible position. Whoever holds
this position has to be good. She
was paid a good salary for work
well done.
Certainly her judgment often
clashed with the watchful chairman
of the board of supervisors. He
was responsible to the taxpayers
for the hundreds of thousands of
dollars being put out by her. He
would have been lax in his duty if
he had not carefully watched how
this money was .being spent. She
would have been lax in her duty if
it were not distributed justly.
Clashes were inevitable, but no ill-
feelings. With everybody trying
his best still there are plenty of
mistakes being made. As & tax-
payer we ]lope the supervisors
keep an eagle eye on this depart-
ment, to prevent every possible leak
in the dyke. At its economical best
it is still a tremendous strain on
the public purse.--Marion Sentinel.
; ('ornelia Blu~)ks
] "Connie," "ttrooksie," (?ornclia;
everyone has a (]iffercnt nanle for
her. She came here as a sopho-
more from thc metropolis of Okla-
homa City and has been one of the
outstanding nlenlbers of her class
since then. She has been on the
honor roll consistently during her
high scbool career, and is president
of out" chapter of the National
Honor Society. As a junior she had
tire feminine lead in the ('lass play,
and is an active member of the
"Velvet Curtain," our high schoo'J
dramatics club. She is a n/enli)tq"
I of band and orchestra, playing the
violin and the bass drum. (She
i can nlake InOl*e noise withher
drum than all the rest of theband
put together.)
This fall at }~oulc('oming she was
an attendant to tbe queen, which
shows her t)opularity among the
! students.
On top of all this, she is a meta-
l)or of "M" Club, h:ts been active
in Chalk Mark, and is a loyal camp-
('ire girl.
'She plans to altend college next
year, probably Cornell. but doesn't
know what she will do after that.
(Cheer up, "Brooksic," many a
good woman has entered college
not knowing what she is going to
do upon graduating and has come
out rather definitely occupied).
Vioh,tta Cook
Violetta Cook is another well-
known senior girl. She is one of
the few members of the class who
have attended school here at Mount
!Vernon all of their lives.
i She has been especially outs(and-
ling in music and ha.u been in all
of the operettas that have been put
on since she has been in high
school. As a sophomore she had
the feminine lead in the operetta
"In Old Vienna and has an im-
portant part in this year's produc-
tion.
She is and has been a nlcnlher
of gleeclub and of the >fixed
chorus.She also plays in the or-
chestraand the band, playing the
bass drunl in one and the sn'tre
drum in the other.
She has an interesting hold)y of
writing letters to young folks of
her own age, in foreign countries.
She also collects stamps in her
spare time.
Upon graduating from high
school, Violetta plans to attend tile
Paris Acadanly in Cedar I{apids,
and take Ul) beauty operating.
Good luel