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January 26, 1939     The Mount Vernon Hawkeye-Record
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['age Two 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 One yenr, outside Linu and adjoining counties, but within the state, per year ........................ $1.75 One year, outside the state ........ $2.00 Notices for cntectaiuments or other gath- erings to which a charge is made, 10 cents per line, minimum charge 25 cents. Card of thanks and resolutions of respect 10 cents a line, minimum charge $1.00 Display advertising rates furuished on ap- 1~licatien to respousible advertisers. Member, Iowa Press Association, National Dditorial Association. Foreign Adver- tising Representative, Iowa Newspaper% Inc., 405 Shops Building, Des Moines, 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