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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1903)
ATHENA PRESS r. D. Boyd, Poblismr. Botreds,t Athena postofflcesssecond-clJjM nail matter. Subscription Kates: I'er year, la advsnct ILSO Blngleeoplei In wrapper, 6c. Advertising ftatcsl Loowl reading notices, flrstlnsertlon.lOcper une. Each subsequent Insertion, L, All communications should be addressed to i PRESS Athena, Oregon ATHENA. APRIL 3, 190H SOME PLAIN TALK. The Weston Leader sums it up tbia way: "Prosperous merchants mean a prosperous towo, and a prosperous town adds to the value of every farm in its vicinity. It is the direct advantage of the farmer to build up the town near est his land, and, he cannot do no by patronizing traveling fakirs, who are here today, another place tomorrow, pay no taxes, buy nothing from the farmer, do nothing toward local devel opment. Just now an itinerant grocery outfit is 'working the Athena neighbor hood in the interests of some eastern concern. Its expenses are high and it must make a profit. For a 'bait' it may undersell the local grocer on certain articles, but only with a view to corres ponding profits on something else. As a whole the farmer can do just as well, or better, by patronizing the home tradesman, who is always present to back the goods he soils in price and quality, and is not in another country or state should a swindle be detected. Athena, Weston, Adams and Helix grocers have organized to beat the in vaders, and have sent an agent to 'trail' the wagon and offer duplicate prices on all the goods the persuasive eastern dealer attempts to sell. There is no ex cuse for the farmer who thinks he can 'get things cheaper' by trading with an eastern house that will never benefit him a particle in exchange. If he does listen to the siren song of the traveling . . Ml 1 - t 1 . . tout, it wiu oe Decause ue is too low browed and too narrow between the eyes to appreciate his own interests. 'Help those who help you' is a motto that reads well in this instance." The story that Mr. Morgan is going to buy up all the Cuban railroad systems is not at 'all improbable. He has the necessary money and the buying habit. The organization of the Athena gun club will have a tendency to stimulate field sports, and the enforcement of the gumo laws in this vicinity. With the Hague tribunal so handy it would seem as though the Dutch labor unions might arbitrate their grievances. Shamrock III is pronounced tho most promising one yet. Another breach of promise in prospect, probably. A UKBAT MISTAKE. Why will fool parents place their sons in the commercial department of a col lege, where they learn bookkeeping, when there are already ten competent bookkeepers idle where one is occupying a good position, or in the penmanship department, where they learn to make impossible birds on impossible nes's and fancy flourishes which no merchant will have on his books, and when the best of such "artists" are either starving or writing cards on the street for pittance and this ia the very face of the fact Unit if their boys were placed in the shorthand department a good paying position is waiting for and is seeking every one of them just as soon as he graduates? Let them learn all three, if you can possibly spare the time and money, but if only one, then by all means let that one be shorthand and typewriting. Merchants, doctors, lawyers, authors, railroad officials, public speakers, manu facturers, managers in large firms and corporations, the whole civilized world over, now employ stenographers, and the supply of young men for those positions is today thirty per cent less .than the demand! ' More than that the stenographer is always the confidential clerk he is closest to the employer; he it is who cannot fail to soon learn all about the business, and he it is who stands the very best chance of himself becoming manager and in time, himself the em ployer. The girl stenographer is all right, and if competent, will have no trouble in securing a good position, but the de mand which so greatly exceeds the sup ply is today for young men stenograph ers. Many of the railroads and other large corporations . have decided to employ only male stenographers in the future, because, as they plainly state: "Our stenographers are our confideotal clerks; they soonest learn the business and it is from their ranks that we wish to draw for our future managers and officeis." a Let your son learn bookkeeping, if you can, for he should have a know ledge of it when he is made chief clerk or manager in an office where he will be over many bookkeepers; let him learn a good practical (not fancy) penmanship, for, although the typewriter is fast fak ing the place of the pen, he will always have more or less writing to do, but if you have his interest at heart, and if you wish to place in his hands the one weapon that will most surely and most quickly bring him remunerative em ployment and success, see that he is taught shorthand and typewriting. Phonographic World. THE JCBDAN METHOD Dr. David Starr Jordan, in his ad dress at the University of California on Monday, no doubt reflected a growing public sentiment when he spoke against the college system which requires men to study what they do not intend to use. The liberalizing of college curriculums and the increase of optional studies and courses have been in line with this thought. Perhaps the advance ha& not been a rapid as Dr. Jordan would like to see, but it is certain that in the larger and more progressive institutions the tendency is to allow the student to fol low his bent and not to force him to delve in studies for which he has no lik ing and which he knows he can put to little practical use when he starts out in the world to earp a living. There are comparatively few institu tions which now adhere to the old idea that a college man cannot consider him self educated unless he has had Greek and Latin rammed into him throughout the course end has given term after term to higher mathematics. The clas sics are not now regarded so essential to a liberal education, and . the abstruse sciences have had to give way to those which are practical and may be used in everyday life. An education wiiich a man cannot use is no longer forced upon him; he is given greater latitude in choosing those subjects which appeal to him, and every year colleges are makiog it easier for him to apply the Jordan method and study those things which he intends to use. Spokesman Review. INDIGESTION is the cause of more discomfort than any other ailment. If you cat the things that you want, and that are good for for you, you are distressed. 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