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~E MOUN~r VERNON, IOWA, HAAVICEX'~-RECOnD AND THE LgS~0N ~E~.ALD
hursday,
THE HAWKEYE-RECORD
and THE LISBON HERALD
104 2nd Ave North, Mount Vernon. 10wa
OricJal Newspaper Mount Vernon
Linn County
Lloyd MeCuteboon Eetate, Proprlet#r
James W. McCutchean, Editor
Published at Mount Vernon an Lisbon,
in Linn County, Iowa, every.Thursday.
THE MOUNT VERNON HAWKEYE
Founded in I~/69 by S. H. Baumsn
THE MOUNT VERNON REMARKER
Founded la 1aS| by Minard Loaier
Founded in 1894 by W. F. 8tahl
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counties, per year $1.50
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counties, but within the state,
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One year. outside the state $2.00
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the post office of Mount Vernon, Iowa, ano
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erings to which a charge is made, I I
cents per line, minimum ehargo 25 cents.
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10 cents a line, minimum charge $I.00
Display advertising rates furnished on aP-
plication to responsible advertisers.
Tbe Land Of Sunshine
HOLLYWOOD
What kind of a place is Holly-
wood we have been asked. It has
over 5,000 population which swells
to 15,000 to 16,000 in the winter.
Located 17 miles north of metros
polltan Miami on the ocean and
with an excellent beach, Hollywood
has had a steady growth since it
was founded in 1921 in what was a
tropical jungle. Although laid out
during the boom days with excep-
tionally wide streets and with the
city hall literally out in the coun-
try, nearly a mile from the business
district, the city has had a steady
growth as I could easily observe
from previous trips. Hollywood
takes pride in the fact that its bank
stood thru the 1925 boom when
values soared to ridiculous heights.
Joseph W. Young, the founder
started the city as an engineer
would plan a building. It was laid
out with great, wide boulevards
open parks, playgrounds, school
sites, places for churches, hotels,
golf courses, lakes, and canals.
The Hollywood Beach Hotel is
the largest resort hotel in Florida.
Extending on each side of it is the
:beach, six miles of which is owned
by the city and dedicated to the
pleasure of the local .people and
guests. The entire beach is ideal
for .bathing with smooth white
sandy shore and 'bottom and no
treacherous undertow, says the
Chamber of Commerce.
The wide Hollywood ,boulevard
which runs from the circle adjacent
to the business district to the Holly-
wood Beach hotel and is lined with
palm trees, is a 'beautiful street.
Although the 10,000 people who
spend all or part of their winters
in Hollywood are the largest busi-
ness, around the city are lnumer-
able truck gardens, groves and farm
lands from which are shipped sum-
mer ripening oranges and winter
vegeta, bles.
Millions of acres of fertile muck
lands lie at Hollywood's back door
and may offer a key to future pros-
perity.
There is about everything any-
one can think of to do from sun:
bathing and bathing at the :beach, [
deep sea fishing, golf, shuffle board,
`bowling, horse shoe pitching, ten-
nis, to the unlimited sports and
night life of Miami and horse rac-
ing, dog racing, :baseball and var-'
ious sports with world famous par-
ticlpants.
Riverside Military Academy of
Gainesvllle, Georgia, has its winter
plant at Hollywood, where the 700
cadets spent from Jan. 3 to April 10.
This school is said to ~e the larg-
est prep school in America.
Sun bathing seems to 'be one of
the most popular pastimes. Winter
visitors become more 'brown than
Indians. For one person going in
the ocean at the beach probably 25
confine themselves to walking or
just lying in the sun. And you want
to have a great respect for that sun
as it can burn you painfully in a
short exposure until you get used
to it.
MIAM/ BEA~H AND MIAMI
On Sunday afternoon we drove
down to Miami Beach along No.
140 the Ocean drive which passes:
thru Golden Shores a surburban
development, where :Mrs. Roosevelti
is expected to spend some time tnI
April. 1
Miami Beach is made land, sandI
having 'been pumped out of-theI
ocean to form most of it. ColllnsI
Avenue, close to the ocean, is lined
with apartment hotels and here is
where many rich easterners go.
Indian Creek, winds thru the city
with beautiful homes built along
it. Small boats and yachts use this
,beautiful water way.
We turned down Lincoln Road
at right angles to the ocean, Life
having devoted several pages to its
exclusive shopping area in the cur-
rent issue.
The Causeway was crossed to
Miami proper which is on Biscayne
Bay. Traffic was very heavy and
the going slow on this ~unday after-
noon. At Miami a new U.S. De-
stroyer, the Eberle, on a shake
down cruise, was tied up in port
over the weekend, and opportunity
was taken to get a close view of it.
Visitors were not allowed on board
and no pictures could be taken of
it. No information in regard to its
equipment, speed or anything was
given out but the papers guessed
that she could do around 40 knots
with the 45,000 horse power her
engines developed. She had eight
officers and 200 men. Fifty caliber
machine guns, anti-air craft can-
non, torpedo tubes and five inch
guns could be seen.
The ride continued on thru Miami
and to Cocoanut Grove southwest
of ,Miami. The home of William
Jennings Bryan and the Deering
Estate, show places of a former era,
were passed. This is the older part
of the city.
VISIT PAN AMERICAN AIRPORT
At the International Airport sev-
eral Pan American Caribbean clip-
per planes came tn within a few
minutes. When spotted in the dis-
tance they are a mere speck. With-
in a very few minutes they would
glide down, settle gracefully on the
water of the bay and taxi up to-
wards the airport on their own
power. Attendants row out in a
,boat and fasten a rope line on the
plane towing it up to the unloading
dock much like a vessel. When the
28 .passengers have alighted and
gone into the airport building to go
thru customs, attendants in ,bath-
ing suits, fasten large wheels under-
neath the hydroplane and a cater-
pillar tractor pulls it out of the
water. Another tractor hooks on
and soon has the plane out of the
way or In a hangar. There was a
large crowd of people at the air
port to watch the planes come in.
On another afternoon a drive was
made to Fort Lauderdale about ten
miles ~bove Hollywood. On the
way a stop was made at Port Ever-
glades, the only deep water port on
the south Florida coast where the
Nazi ship, which took refuge there
more than a year ago, was still tied
up. There was a no admittance
sign in both English and German.
Sailors were on the ship and the
Nazi swastika flew at the stern.
President Roosevelt sailed from
this port on his present cruise.
James W. McCutcheon
CHALK MARK
Editor Martha Jane Rogers
Assistant Editor Don Mlnntck
Senior Reviews Marianne Vodicka
Business Manager
Betty June Hedgss
Reporters: Don Horton, Cynthia
Winsor, Henry Carleton. Esther
Dvorak. Leers Foster, Joan Prin-
gle, Naomi Crumbaugh, Lepta Bar-
rett, Jane Koza, Bette Cole, Doug-
less Hudelson, Blilte Litts, and
Jean Smith.
EDITORIAL
Have you ever taken a dare? I
don't mean one of those silly ones
that all kids at one time or another
go through--I mean a real dare! A
dare to take what life has given you
and share it with everyone else in
the world. William H. Danford be-
lieves in dares--this is what he
says:
"I Dare you, young man, you who
come from a home of poverty--I
dare you to have the qualities of
IAncoln.
"I Dare you, young women, to
build with kindness and care an-
other "Hull House."
"I Dare you to do uplifting, cour-
ageous things.
"I Dare you Freshman to make
the varsity team.
"I Dare you who think life is a
humdrum, to start a fight. I dare
you who are weak to be strong; you
who are dull to be sparkling; you
who are slaves to ,be kings.
"I Dare you, whoever you are,
to share with others the fruits of
,our daring. Catch a passion for
helping others and a richer life will
come back to you."
Don't you think that he has a
message for all of us? W~y not
"Take a Dare?"
SENIOR REVIEW
Jean Housta~mn
Jean came to us from Olin two
years ago and since then has been
one of the most active members of
the class of '41. In the line of out-
side activities Jean is probably one
of the busiest girls, since she is a
member of the 'band, orchestra,
chorus and glee club. Therefore al-
most all of her free .periods are tak-
en up by these musical groups. She
also belongs to most of the organi-
zations, being a member of the Na-
tional Honor Society, M. Club, Vel-
vet Curtain, G.A.A. and she served
on the Chalk Mark staff for two
years. Jean has taken part in many
of the productions that have been
given here. Last year she had one
of the leads in the Junior clas~
play "A Murder Has Been Arrang-
ed," took part in the chorus of two
operettas, and served on crews
and backstage of the Velvet Cur-
tain play, "June Mad." In her spare
time she likes to read all of the
latest novels, magazines and books.
Jean is also very athletic and spends
a great deal of time playing guard
on our girls basketball team, that is
made up of the high school girls,
although they do not play outside
competition, they have fun playing
the Cornell team. Her favorite
subjects are physics and speech.
Jean served as one of the very suc-
cessful cheer-leaders this year, and
also had the honor of 'being chosen
to speak on a Forum, for the youth
of Mount Vernon last fall. After
graduation Jean plans to attend
Iowa State College at Ames and
major in institutional management.
We all wish Jean the best of luck
and happiness, and she'll be missed
by all of us after her graduation.
L/IHan Kirkpatrick
Lillian has attended Mt. Vernon
High for all of her school years.
All through her school years she
has been very fond of home eco-
nomics, and in all of her s.pare time
she cooks, sews, knits, etc. She is
also very fond of typing, which she
is taking this year. Liilian has tak-
en two courses in home economics
and also was a member of the
home economies club last year, that
met at 3 o'clock two days a week.
Her main activity is physical edu-
cation, which she has taken for
four years, and in the line of ath-
letics she is also a mere`her of the
girls athletic association. When
Lillian was a freshman, she sang
in the chorus of gypsies in the
operetta, "Carmen." For all of her
school years she has a record to
be very proud of. Lillian has lived
on the outskirts of town, having a
very long way to walk, yet for the
last two years she has neither been
absent nor tardy. After graduation
she has no definite plans but with
her great aptitude and ability in
home economics we are sure she'll
be successful.
THE DES ~MOINES TRIP
Donnie Dolezal still can't see how
they get four roses in a ~Uart bot-
tle!
Ruthanne Biderman Is still dizzy
from the trip up to the dome!
From now on Louise M. and Flor-
ence Downey are going to take
butcher knives when they go to
Des Moines!
Claude still can't get over the
slot machines in Des Moines!
Charlie Mac made a good gov-
ernor only the chair didn't fit too
well !
Bill Hoffman had a good time ad-
miring the senator's secretaries!
Don Minnick and Don Horton
got up enough nerve to return to
the governor's office and got his
autograph !
Fergie, it seems, got lost on his
way to the dome, and looking down
found himself to be at least a
thousand feet above space!
Ruth Minish and Louise E. found
that some of the Des Moines ,boys
aren't "bad at all."
APRIL I~-)OL'S DAY
All M.V.H.S. students will 'be in
their glory Tuesday ,by making a
fool out of their friends. April
Fool's day is a very old custom go-
ling 'back for centuries. It is said
that April Fool's day originated be-[
ing the la~ day of the old New
Year's celebration (March 25-April
1) and others say it was a spring
festival that started it. But anyway
it is here, so let's have a lot of fun.
A NEW ORDER IN M.V.H.S.
According to the latest reports
out by the teachers, a new order is
going to be set up in Mount Vernon
High School. The faculty has de-
cided that the discipline isn't strict
enough, so beginning next Monday
they're going to start cracking down
on us in general.
First of all, we're all going to
have to line up outside the school
in the morning and march in, in
double file. Anyone failing to get
into line will be promptly slugged
and ordered to do so, Anyone who
is absent or tardy, whether he has
an excuse or not, will have to do six
hours of hard work, and I do mean
hard.
Inside school, the teachers will
have to be treated with all the
respect due any other dictator, for
example: talking back is strictly
prohibited, the teachers know
everything and no one can deny it!
chewing gum is another heinous
felony that will not 'be tolerated
~nder any circumstances; anyone
suspected of opening his mouth
without the signed permission of
the faculty, the student council, the
school :board, his parents, the town
council, the chamber of commerce,
and his Sunday :School teacher, will
also be promptly punished. The
punishment for anyone of these
crimes will 'be: a good hard spank-
ing. The worst punishment of all,
however, will be to :bend down and
kiss the teachers' feet
i In other words, they've decided
that the 'brats in this high school
are too spoiled, and what we need
is to set up a dictatorship.
Oh, yes, and just in case you
haven*t noticed, APRIL FOOL!
COMIC C"HARACrI~R S
Superman--Skip.
Blondie--Pegg~ Jane
Baby Dumpling--Dave Harris
Annie Rooney--Mary Carol
Abbie--Leota Barrett
Becky----Gloria
Li'l Abner--Henry
Mammy--Jean Anne
Pappy--Jim Peterson
Calamity Jane--Marymac
Katzenjammer Kids--Tom Wolfe
and Philip Farr.
Junior Nebbs--Morris Farr.
Judge Puffle--John Becket.
Freddie--Don Merritt.
Scrappy--Bo.bby Thompson.
Dagwood--Vernon.
Jane Arden--Martha Jane.
Red Knight--Scoop.
Slats--Myron Coppock.
Red Rider--Jlmmle Gillette.
Daisy Mac---Bernice.
Old Man Moss---Don Hunter.
Deadwood Dick--Hutehie.
Major Hoople--Franklin ~Minicke
Martha---Moniea Blood.
Blimp---Jack Deal
Myrtle---Rosemary Neff
Lena Pry---Carolyn.
Ned Brant--Don Current.
BargT--Diana.
Jlggs--Doug Hudelson.
Archie--Richard Smith.
Ba`be--Harriet.
Elmer Tuggie--Doug Van Metre
Maggie--Iren e.
Rosie-~Helen Dvorak.
Boots---Betty June.
Horace--Phooie.
Well, we'll see you in the funnie
paper.
GOSSIP
Lisbon still rates high in Mary
Anna's opinion.
Talking about LiSbon--that's all
Mildred can do lately.
Another Lisbon admirer is Lepta
--Lisbon's going high!
Have you seen the swell pearl
necklace Ruthie got for her birth-
day ?
It must be awfully hard for t~e
junior girls to get a date to the
junior banquet. Anyway they have
established a date bureau.
Why does Mary Rodman accuse
Nancy of being fickle?
We wonder why Jane Koza hated
to have her seat changed in his-
tory?
P. T. NEWS
The girls P.T. class are doing a
lot of bowling lately at the local
alleys under the supervision of Miss
:Reynolds. Last Tuesday the girls
played the Cornell girls in a bas-
ket ball game and Mt. Vernon won
16-8. Peg Herring was high scor-
er with 10 points. This next week
the class tournaments for the girls
will start.
What would we do without:
Jean Smith gathering gosstp?
Henry, the school genius?
The office secretaries?
The Chalk Mark and the gossip
meetings?
The senior Den's?
Martha Jane (she claims she's
only a bird in a gilded cage?)
Someone to borrow combs, pen-
cils, paper, gum, powder, etc. from ?
Margaret in American history?
Don Leighr for practicality ?
(After the second curtain call at
the operetta, he said, "that's what
I call hard on curtains!"--and then
there was another one.
Miss Hughes to curb the chewing
gum?
Roberts to show us up in Latin ?
Carolyn to tell us jokes?
Mr. Hawker? (He says he would
rather figure and pay income tax
than get married.)
Monroe Winsor to trip over
waste-baskets ?
Bill Pringie to put in waste-bas-
kets to keep out of mischief?
CLASS NEWS
Guess what? The sociology class
is now . studying about mental
health; you know, morons, idiots,
imbeciles, etc. They are all look-
ing forward to a trip to Independ-
ence. It is a timely topic for April
Fool's day. Get it?
The typing and shorthand classes
are preparing for the commercial
contests at Springvllle Saturday.
Every day a test is given in each
class: ten minute speed tests in
typing and 50 and 70 word tests in
shorthand.
Some of the kids still haven't re-
covered from the English Litera-
ture test of last Thursday. Watch
Irene!
The Lease-Lend bill underwent
a debate in the American history
class, and some pretty heated argu-
ments grew out of it.
CLASS TOURNAMENTS
With the playing of the class
tournaments last week, Mt. Ver-
non's basketball season is now over
for another year. The Seniors, with
victories over the Juniors and the
~Freshmen, came out on top as
usual.
In the ~lrst game, played on
Tuesday, the Junior High gave the
Freshmen considerable scare when
they got oft to a fat start and
were leading the 9th graders 10-6,
at the end of the first quarter. The
Freshmen came back in the second
quarter, though, and by halftime
they were ahead, 19-13. They went
ahead in the second half to win
easily, 40-24. Don (Leuttjohann
was high for the Freshmen with 18
points and Bill Pringie led the
Junior High with 7 points.
In th second game, the Seniors
beat the Juniors, 14-11, in a close
and ragged battle. Due to a short-
age of time, it was necessary to play
the first half on Tuesday and the
second game on Wednesday. The
Seniors gained their lead early in
the game, and from then on they
never lost it. The score at the half
was, Seniors 7, Juniors 6. Don Cur-
rent was high for the Seniors, and
Lud Hedge for the Juniors, both
with 7 points.
On Wednesday the Freshmen
beat the Sophomores, 17-15, in a
close and hard fought game, in
which the lead changed hands sev-
eral times. The score at the half
was, Freshmen 8, Sophomores 7.
Gaillar(1 Beranek was the leading
scorer for the sophomores with 9
point~, while Don Leuttjohann was
high for the freshmen with 8 points.
In the finals played on Thursday,
the Seniors capped the Tournament
by beating the Freshmen, 48-16. In
the first minutes of the game the
Freshmen got the lead by virtue of
i two quick baskets, but the Seniors
soon passed them up and went
ahead to win with east. The score
at halftime was, Seniors 19, Fresh-
men 10. Mark Hutchinson led the
Vernon, namely, Alice Cork, Oli-
vene Hahn and Maurice Hartung.
The names of Miss Dorothy Smed-
Icy and Miss Elizabeth Ash are in
the "honorable mention" group.
George Zinkula is putting in a
Swanlite electric plant on his farm.
He is erecting at the same time a
chicken house and a shed which
will accommodate the new plant.
THIRTY -~ARS AGO
March 28, 1911
Mount Vernon, in common with
most of the small places in Iowa,
lost by 97 in the last census. This
covered a period of ten years. The
population in Mount Vernon in
1890 was 1,259; in 1900, 1,629 and:
in 1910, 1,532. !
P. E. Frink of Bertram found~
a gruesome object in the coal bin
in his cellar Monday morning. It
was a man's head. It was sent tol
Coroner King at Cedar Rapids. [
Christian Fisher of Cedar Rap-
ids, who was visiting at the home
of his son O. A. Fisher, north of
town, died very suddenly at the
place last Wednesday evening. I
The new residence of Miss Mae
McLeod on Summitt avenue w~ll
soon be in process of construction.!
Evans Colton has the building con-
tract. . . I
Saturday evening a Packaru auto
with a single occupant attracted
considerable attention on the street.
The driver had left Chicago, Ill
at 8:00 a.m. Saturday and reached
Mount Vernon in just twelve hours.
This was considered a pretty good
average.
Seniors with 17 points, and Skip l Herbert Hogle, who has been to
Herring and Don Current were iFaulk county in South Dakota, has
next with 10 apiece. Dec Wolfe purchased 160 acres in that vicinity.
was high for the Freshmen with 61 The following were initiatied
points, i members in the Royal Neighbors
~m[,v i Tuesday evening" Mesdames Grace
~'~'~'~'L'-L-:='- - Johnston Murray Sullivan, Meak-
~ew l-lersney, a veteran clown, . ' '
ar inmortars, Ivle~ay ann MISS Wlrt
appe ed in a very interesting as-/ ' ' "
sembly Wednesday. Being in theI a~lMt~T~
circus for 37 years the fourth of this I /t%%bMRl %HIIW%
month, Low gave many tricks used [~l~lll~ll~ I I~gsv ||
by clowns, demonstrated the aP-IIBl~lr~l$ I"MINI~IY~I'~Y~IY
plying of clown make-up and wear-I~11 I/H lll l ll IbNI "If
ing apparel, and gave a few facts l ~J~Jll I i~lJii~/19 ~L
about circus life and circus animals. FllTl'lilKll'l OrOOl/~lT
Assisting him were Lud Hodge i]UKINh 5g 31Vl
as band master and .Skip Herring as
another clown. -- --
The program was very interesting Lead r. D e s e r v e
and unusual. ---- "
CURTAIN'S UP Credit F o r Rapid
Last Tuesday night saw the cur- R ults
tain of the University of Iowa Then- es
tre go up on Mount Vernon High
School's presentation of "Upon The Availing itself of numerous short
Floods." It is a play in one act cuts known to the science of law-
with Bob Gill, Mark Hutchinson, making, the forty-ninth Iowa Gen-
Margaret Harris, Cynthia Winsor, oral Assembly now is in the stage
Dorothy Ann Rogers and Phil Win- of peak production that forecasts
new records for the number of
sOr.as promptressMartha JanewhileROgerSLudiS HodgeaCting measures passed and In perfection I
takes care of off-stage noises. Bet- of the functions of state govern- I
ty June (Botts) Hedges does the merit, i
sound effects. Where other legislatures haveI
"Upon The Floods" was entered enacted an average of 250 bills outi
in the High School Play contect [of a possible one thousand, thisi
taking place at the University of legislature will have exceeded the[
Iowa this week. Tomorrow (Fri- average quota ,by one hundred and l
day) the winnens and ratings will fifty if the pace set in the past ten,
be announced. Last years entry,
"The Scissors" received an excellent
rating while the entry this year
hopes to run away with the whole
'show. And they know that they
i have the whole student body with
them.
========================
'WAY BACK WHEN
Items of Interest in Mount Vernon
And Lisbon 10, 20, 30 Years Ago
========================
TEN YEARS AGO
March 26, 1931
Prof. T. R. McConne11, head of
the department of education at Cor-!
nell, who is on a year s leave of
absence at the University of Iowa
where he is working on his Ph.D.
degree, will return to Cornell next
fall as Dean of the college.
The Albert's Dry Cleaners sold
their branch office in Mount Ver-
non the first of the week to E.
Grant of Savanna, Ill.
The Hedges Lumber & Coal com-
pany elevator was totally destroy-
by fire Tuesday evening. Mr.
Hedges estimates it would take
$20,000 to replace the building and
equipment. In addition there was
between 4000 and 5000 bushels of
grain in the building, and 200 tons
of coal in the coal yards. The
grinder, huller and motors alone
represent an investment of $7,200.
The fire was discovered by Lester
Cook. When he reached the build-
ing the fire was burning in a chute
in the main part of the elevator
to the grinding room. The hose was
taken up there but it would not
throw a stream much over five feet.
It has long been known the water
pressure was inadequate. The fire
was fanned by a high wind, which
carried sparks as far as the Harry
Siggins, Sam Pisel, and George
Graver places this side of Lisbon.
The firemen did a mighty effective
piece of work in saving the lumber
yards. The coal in the yards burn-
ed for several days.
Work of constructing a bridge
and grading a new route for a street
thru the property known as the
Thomas Davis place, started last
week.
All the teachers of the Lisbon
school system, with the exception
of Miss Rumble, who was not a
candidate for re-election, were re-
]elected by the Board of Education
at a meeting on Tuesday evening,
with an average salary reduction
of five per cent.
A fire discovered in the roof of
the Edison Achenbach home, occu-
pied by the Henry Lang family, in
the south end of Lisbon, was ex-
tinguished by the Lisbon fire de-
partment before extensive damage!
was done.
A dinner, on Sunday, celebrated
the 53rd wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Goudy.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
March 30, 1921 .
Councilman Everett E.~x~ Kyle
dropped dead in the meat market,
Monday morning while buying beef
steak for the family dinner.
The comfortable modern home of
Mr. and Mrs. George Smyth, west
of Mount Vernon, was burned to
the ground on Saturday evening,
while the family were in Mount
Vernon.
Burton Hogle, Glenn Browning.
Cephus Miller, Ray Farragher,
James Oleson and Harlan Betts
started Friday afternoon on a canoe
trip down the Cedar river to Co-
lumbus Junction.
Miss Gretta Johnson and Miss
Edna Kepler, teachers in the Mount
Vernon schools, were on the pro-
gram at the Northeastern Iowa
Teachers association meeting in
Waterloo, Thursday. Miss John-
son's topic was, "Women in His-
tory" and Miss Kepler's was, "Writ-
ing in the Grades."
Of the eight high honor students
at Cornell, one Glenn Browning,
is a Mount Vernon boy; of the 23
honor students, three are ~rom Mr.
days is maintained to the close of
the session about two weeks hence.
THE KEY MEN
The fast action of the Assem,bly
may be credited at least tn part to
the efficient handling of Lieut. Gov.
Hickenlooper and Speaker Bob
Blue in guiding their respective
houses, also to the appropriations
chairmen, Representative George
Scott of Fayette and Senator John
P. Berg of Black Hawk, who have
secured passage of the appropria-
tions bills at the earliest date in
legislative history.
M]~:ASURES
Virtually all of the major appro-
priations bills now have been en-
acted or will have become effective
with the signature of GOvernor Wil-
son. Nearly all of the recommen-
dations of the chief executive have
been incorporated into the law of
the Commonwealth of Iowa, and the
State at the 'beginning of the new
biennial period July 1 will be al-
most completely under the 'budget-
ing system.
Business methods injected into
the state government 'by the forty-
ninth Iowa General Assembly in-
clude a system of periodic inventor-
ies and auditing of all state proper-
ty and suppTies. The only measure
of efficiency in the handling of
state ,business to meet defeat was
the bill to establish a central pur-
chasing agent.
SI~X?~ URITY
The Iowa Unemployment Com-
pensation Act has been perfected
for greater efficiency and it has
become more workable by the re-
moval of many restrictions and the
correlation of its various activities
with those in the same line of en-
deavor in the federal government.
Even the name of the Act has been
changed; it now is known as the
Iowa Unemployment Security Law.
The legislation embraces the prin-
ciples of the merit system.
Credit for the new improvements
in the Iowa Unemployment Security
Law is due the social security com-
mittees of the Senate and House
and to the respective chairmen
Senator E. K. Bekman of Ottumwa
and representative Arch McFar-
lane of Waterloo.
An experiment in state efficiency
of unusual design is that proposed
in a pending measure, already pass-
ed in the House, to loan $25,000 as
a revolving fund to the office of
state car dispatcher. Two years ago
the legislature created the office of
state car dispatcher but it failed
to supply the dispatcher with funds
to operate his division of state gov-
ernment. This officer directs the
operation of all state-owned cars,
an4 in the year and a half of the
existence of the office he has been
responsible fo rtaktng more than 50
automobiles out of state-ownership
and at the same time accomodating
all other department demands for
use of state-owned cars. Cost of
operation of the department has
been .borne by the state executive
council which apportioned its out-
lay among the various state depart-
ments on a prorata sharing basis.
The state through the appropriation
of a revolving fund proposes to
finance the state ear dispatcher and
he is expected to return the money
into the state treasury from his as-
sessments on the state departments.
The Iowa Senate, usually the more
deliberative of the two branches of
the legislature, today is the more
speedy of the two. At the begin-
ning of the week, the ratio of out-
)ut between Senate and House was
125 to 25 in favor of the senate--
that is, the Senate has sent to tl~e
House 125 measures .passed to 215
that had passed the House and was
awaiting action in the Senate. It
has ;been a rare occasion in thisi!'but there is not one investigation in'i court house in the
session of the legislature when the isight. I Buren county cot
Senate has devoted more than half- A diversion has been created in ed in 1842, before
an-hour to the discussion of a bill, the Senate where the five Dome- state. Wood used in
~ut in the House some bills have cratic Senators have introduced agavel is a part of
been known to have consumed the I bill to re-establish the state plan- I cut from trees hewn
ning .board abolished in the last ses- i~ land to the co rtbO
time of several days 'before enact- sion of the legislature through the ago in Van Buren
merit.
TIME CONSUMERS I effort of a Republican majority,gavel is housed in a
Measures that have taken the PRESENTATION i Iowa walnut wood
{ ' Van Buren countY.
most time in both branches of the/ Any day now Lieutenant Gov- I of the gavel is to 'be
tureaSSemblYor theareruralbillSareasaffectingof theagricul-state~, ernor Bourke B. Hickcnlooper will ~ ployees of the .Senate
be presented with a gavel of native I Anderson, file clerk
and the so-called medical bills es-
tablishing physical or chemical tests Iowa oak coming from timber in Keosauqua, Van B~
for marriage license applicants and the oldest existing now-in-use i making the presentatl0a
suspected drunken drivers. $ ~~ ~~
Considerable time has been de-
voted by this legislature to the es-( R A E M E R:IOn 1st and 2nd Avenues---Cedar
ta'blishment of settlement rights of
persons seeking poor relief and in
protecting the man in military ser-
vice in his homestead rights look-
ing to the claiming of his home- Rap|
stead tax credit while he is away
from home for military training.
These objectivesaretwothathaveHAL}: ;[ZE (:OATS I"
been made feasible because of the I
uncertainties of the war outlook.
=o.o o o,=o =.oo ,ovo,o0,o ORl OU$ SPRIN {
measures in prospect of Iowa's part
to be played in the national defense
program.
The legislature has taken steps
to place its stamp of approval on
the national defense program by the With All o[ [~ I[
presentation of suitable gifts for
the new naval craft the battleship D~t, ils ~nd S[ylin [
Iowa and the destroyer Des Moines.
School districts severed by the
establishment of ordinance plants SiZt~S 29 ~O 45
of the federal government have
been taken care of through bills to
merge their interests in new school ~ --~*erl;n~
Little
Lady
Coats
districts.
nized, leaders in the half size
KILLING A BILL
In the legislature there has 'been, They re styled and designed
in this session, fewer than six out- per'feectly without ex ens ve
right defeat of bills following dis-
cussion. Only one measure has been --and they cost no more tha
tabled. But scores of bills---a cry spring coat! Sterling Li
greater num.ber than in any pre-
vious session--have been given a Coats are sold exclusively a
death through a less painful moth- in Cedar Rapids--we've feat
od--the automatic indefinite post-
ponement under a legislative rule I[ for y ars--sold hundreds of tt
which states that a measure that seas n, We recommend thetn
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successive days with a committee the finest money can buy!
recommendation of postponement,
shall be postponed indefinitely byi you've just Sfo---if you're 5-foot-5 or under, if you're
'mere announcement of the fact by about given up finding a
the chief clerk in the house. Hence, come in and see what a difference S
the chief clerk acts as the chief will do for you.
executioner by reason of Rule No.
28.
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The Senate is more formal with cloths, fleeces and the new oatmeal t
the process of killing a bill. Here,
it takes a definite action by the en- 29 to 45.
tire senate to kill a "bill and the
committee recommendation for in S16.95
definite postponement always is put
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Among
measures indefinitely il) -~. li~, I~ i~i
postponed in the House are bills
to pay county officers on a semi- Sterling half size of corded worsted in a
monthly 'basis, county civil service pretation of this season's straight and
plan, additional pay for court
clerks, raising old age pensions to
maximum of $40, salary raises for
mayors and .councilmen, retailers
sales tax credit of 5 per cent, limi-
tation on bank nights at theatres,
regulation of telephone rates by
towns, rural telephone line tax ex-
emptions and automatic expiration
of farm leases.
HOT POTATOES
Highly controversial measures--
and they are few and far between
this session--are largely buried
deep in sifting committees there to
stay until the remainder of the ses-
sion. For most of the lobbyists in
the legislature the job has been a
sinecure--good pay with little or
nothing to do.
With less than three weeks to
go, the legislature is encumbered
with one or two interim commit-
tee surveys, including tax revision,
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