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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1907)
VN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER io-a Wr.Eg - TtF.sDA y amd Friday r . . . OTD, I BL.8HEK. 'ilered i as second-class matter, March 1, "01, at the pimuilfloe at, Athena, Oregon uderaij Actol t onxress of March 8, 1879 iuoserlptlon H.t.t I n r yu . o ndvanot 12.00 Hiogle copies In wrappers, Be, ATHENA, ORE.. FEB. 22, .1907 The Press has always regarded J. M. Hays as a joke, and there Is noth ing in his letter relating to Mayor Plamondon printed in another column, that changes its opinion of him, in the least The only reason the letter is given ' space is because it reflects on toe integrity of Athena's Mayor, is properly signed, and had not the Press printed it, the artiole would have probably . appeared in some other oonnty paper circulating in a locality where the author is not so well known as he is here. This fellow Hays is a peiiodioal buttinski and the period cornea along about election time, whether it be national, state or mu nicipal. Voting "niggers" is Kansas spoiled him and he has never gotten over it He closes his letter with "Yours for a better town." What has Hays ever contiibuted to make Athena a better town? How muoh has he invested in Athena? How many briok blocks does he own? In what measure does he bring trade to Athena that business men may afford to repair sidewalks and property owners ma cadamized streets? Does be create any thing but hot air and discord? Fin ally, what has he at stake? The Press reiterates that Dr. Plamondon has per formed the duties of mayor welL If Hays has better material let him ttot it out Athena is not a prohibition town. It is in a looal option district, and the Press oonsiders that municipal affairs are conducted here as clean as can be found in any town of like condi tion. If the saloons are selling liquor to minors and Hays has convicting evidence of the fact and does not see fit to swear out a warrant for the ar rest of the man who sells the liquor, be has "cold feet," and is reoreant in the performance of his duties as the mouthpiece of bis Law and Order En foroemeot League. The sidewalk qaeation is pertinent in faot it has been so for years. for an association of merchants and business men right here in Athena, without hunting up other parts of the country to work for, if all would get together and do the work. And now ocmes one of those statlstio fiends with figures to prove that sui cidea resort to the rope oftener than the gun. The reason probably lies in the faot that the brain of this class of people is growing so small as not to be a fair mark at even 'short range. The rope, it staunch is more oertain, The Wallowa Sun, a new paper pub lished at Wallowa by Prof. Jonas, reaohed our exchange table this week. The new publication is well edited and newsy and gives promise of becoming an important factor in the upbuilding of Wallowa county. . If gifts of money express publio con fidenoe, the Young Men's Christian Association of the United States en joys it More than $11,000,000 was donated to the association last year for buildings and maintenance. An exoliauge says that "In the be ginning God created the heavens and the earth and all things therein. He then created man and woman and left the loafers on the corners, and in due time they multiplied and then spread into post-ofBoes and depots and the stores. In these places they sit and explain state and natioual problems that have vexed great minds. While the loafer is thus engaged his wife is out washing for her neighbors, and the poor helpless children are left at home taking care of themselves as best they can. There is nothing more no ticable than the loafer." Of course Athena can get along without a commercial association the kind that has been in existenoe here for the past year and a half. Com mercial Associations are what their members make 'hem. There is work MR. HAYS IN PRINT. Athena Feb. 14. (To the Editor.) I wish to take exceptions to your words of praise of our honorable Mayor, in the issue of February 8. Permit me to point out that he bas not fulfilled well the duties of his offloe. Mr. Plamondon approached a prom inent churoh member before his elec tion and volunteered the information that it would not be an open town under his administration. Witness how he fulfilled his promise. The town run wide open until olosed by the efforts of the Law Enforcement League. When complaints have been made that minors were allowed to frequent saloons, they were turned down by the reply: "Swear out your warrant and we will prosecute." But oui Mayor has caused the side walks to' be repaired partially. A lady from the country with her baby in her arms, falling through a hole in the walk and threatening to sue the city for injuries sustained, brought this result about. And there are walks yet in our town that are dangerous to life and limb. The walk in Adams street, leading to I he Christian churoh, over which hundreds of people pass every night, is full of holes and so narrow that people must pass in single file, or be orowded off into the mud. Yours for a better city. J. M. Hays. WHAT IS A LAWYER'S DUTY? Governor Hughes bas been talking to the New York State Bar Associa tion saying among other things: I want to say it will be a sorry day for this country when the leaders of the Amerioan bar are to be deemed unqualified for public service. Such men ought never to take a retainer which arrays them against the publio interest A man that engages in prac tice that involves suoh antagonism is a traitor to the interests of the people and oommits treason. This is a noble conception of a law yer's duty; but it would deprive the law-breaking corporations and many other important malefaotors of the benefit of a defense. Of oourse Gov ernor Hughes did not mean that the railroads which have been giving re bates and the monopolies which have crushed all competition by criminal methods should not be permitted to employ lawyers a right not denied.to the meanest criminal or the greatest murderer, such as Czologosz. What he did mean, probably, was that law yers who use their talents and skill to devise ways and means for any corpo ration or any person to evade the plain meaning and intent of a statute are themselves aooessories to the law's violations, and they should be held up And now for a Big SPRING BUSINESS We want you to be sure and make a trip to Walla Walla this spring and see through our immense store, for we know yon will profit by your trip. Our stock is larger than it has ever been and new spring stocks are arriving every day. All we ask is a comparison of qualities and prices and we will take pleasure in showing yon through our lines. If you are unable to come to the city, write us for disoriptions and prices. REMEMBER WE PAY THE FREIGHT WHEN BILL AMOUNTS TO $10.00. Use Our Rest Rooms THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12-14-16-1830-22 Alder 8tret, WALLA WALLA, :- WASH Make Your appointments! Here to reprobation for betrayal of the pub lio interest The lawyer who makes an aotive and efficient defense of a client whom he personally believes to be guilty of crime ia not a proper subject for any man's ' reproaohea ; nor need his con science, if he has any, worry him. But the lawyer wbo makes a protraot ed teobnioal battle for a criminal whose guilt has been fully and clearly established after a fair trial is an en emy of society and a disgrace to the honorable profession of the law. There are everywhere too many suoh lawyers who involve the course of justice in a maze of pleas, motions, demurrers, and the like, all without merit and all designed to obstruot, delay and defeat the. proper judioial determination of their client's cause. Some day, we hope, the bar itself will address itself to the task of reforming our legal procedure and renovating the profession by getting rid of the criminal lawyer, or, tather the lawyer criminal. Oregonian. NATIONAL CHILD LABOR LAW. The ohild labor evil cannot be left to the states to remedy is one of the important points brought out in Sena tor Beveridge's defense of his bill to create a national ohild labor law as outlined by the senator in a compre hensive artiole appearing in the Feb ruary number of the Woman's Home Companion. Senator Beveridge adds: "The first thing we see on studying the child labor question is that this evil cannot be left to the States to re medy. Of oourse there is not the slightest reason in the world why it should be left to the States to remedy; but we started out one hundred and twenty-five years ago with the notion that eaoh State was a little nation and that this artificial thing called a 'state had oertain 'rights.' At that time the idea of this being a Nation, a people living in one land, and flying one flag bad not thoroughly developed. There were many great men in our constitutional convention who saw this dearly; but there were a lot of little men who wanted to be big men, and could be big men only in the narrow borders of their colonies not being great enough for the country as a whole. Thev insisted on the theory of the sove reignty of the State. These little men had the votes, and that is how it has faauiDened that we started out the way we did. I am talking bluntly in order to tell the faot and this is the plain faot. crude though it be. "This ohild labor is not a State affair. It is not a national affair, The nraotioal reasons why the States oannot deal with it is, first of all, be cause they will not deal with it; and second, because they would not deal with it adequately. In the sections of the oountry where this civic pesti Jence rages in greatest fury, the States will not aot. Tuey will not act te- cause the creat manufacturing or mining interests are so powerful in those States that they control or at least decisively influenoe the legisla tures of those States. So that in these States no effective law can be passed. If a model bill is proposed in any of those States, it is killed; or. what is a &ood deal worse than killed, it is mut ilated. That is to say, a child labor law is passed wbiob the people are led to believe will end the evil, but whioh has been so cunningly ohanged that it permits the evil to go on. Thus the people are fooled and the praotice is not stopped." THE BRITISH AND SUNDAY. Rising From the Grave. A prominent manufacturer. W. A. Fertwell, of Luoama, N. C, relates a most remarkable experience. He says: "After taking less than three bottles of Eleotrio Bitters, I feel like one rising from the grave. My trouble is Bright's disease, in the Diabetes stage. I fully believe Electrio Bitters will cure me permanently, for it has already stopped the liver and bladder complications whioh have troubled me for years." Guaranteed at Wm. Mo Bride's druggist, Price only 50c For Sale. A 14-foot cut Daniel Best combined harvester, good as new, cheap on lib eral terms. For further particulars Bee J. A. Keller or Geo. M. Thompson, Athena, Oreg. 4t "Pineules" (non-alcobolio) made from resin from our pine forests, used for hundreds of years for bladder and kidney diseases. Medicine for SO days, f 1. Guaranteed. Pioneer drug store. THE WRIGHT LIVERY AND FEED STABLE afjmm vlMfe I WSm TC II T Q P U ' Q DEPARTMENT L U I U U il O STORE PENDLETON, OREQON Is now brim full of new things for Ladies' wear. Every thing new and modern i9 found here. New Coats, Skirts, Jackets, Suits, Waists, Hats, Shoes, Petticoats, Wash Goods and Wool Dress Goods, Gloves, in the nobbiest, latest styles We have never had such Spring offerings before. Ladies, when in Pendleton, call and see them. i TEUTSCH'S DEPARTMENT STORE PENDLETON OREGON iUa. A. RAD nriiir HTM CO0D- HORSES AND RIGS. REASONABLE PRICES uRIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED- Horses boardedlby the day, week: or month Stable on 2nd street, South of Main street J. V. 'Wright, . - Proprietor J. D. PLAMONDON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office in Barrett Building, - - Athena, Oregon Try The TROY LAUNDRY For GOOD WORK HENRY KEENE, Agent, ATHENA, OREGON BLACKSMITH AND REPAIRING SHOP A. II. LUNA, Proprietor. Shop West ot Kiog'a Barn, Atbena PENDLETON WILL SAVE YOU MONEY .1 J M 20,000 square feet of floor space filled with the latest and best things the Market Affords in FURNITURE and CARPETS Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back Yours to please M. A. RADER, - PENDLETON, OREGON. Undertaking Parlors in Connection J Just as the French are getting into 'praotioal trouble over the notion of enforoing a weekly rest, sometimes called "Dominioal," the British seem to be getting into trouble over the sec ularization of their traditional Sab bath. A remarkable appeal for the etrioter observance of Sunday appears in the London papers. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that it is signed by the Anglican Arch bishop of Canterbury, by the Boman Catholio Archbishop of Westminster, the primates of their respective com munions, and by the "President of the Evangelical Council of the Evangeli cal Free Churches," wbo may be as sumed to be the most acourate single representative of the various dissen ting bodies. Another remarkable feature of the appeal is what one may call its Sabba tarianism. While the signers empha. size tbe importance of the weekly rest they are oaref ol to add : "There is more than 'this. Under the saored sanction which attaches to the Lord's Day it is intended that all should ', have opportunity, in the wor ship of Almighty God, to escape from the grip of ordinary cares and occupa tions into regions of higher thought and noblor aspiration." While it is not for a secular journal to take allies upon such a question as is thus rait led, it is open to such a Jour nal to twin t out that tbe religious ob eervance of Sunday is already stricter in the British Islands than in any other part at the world, ezoepting possibly some of th e British possessions. A gen eral Telaxa tion in its British observ ance . suoh as these distinguished Brit ons appear to deplore, would denote the disappears neo of what may be called thf j old-fas hiooed view of the Kngiisn speaking pt nples. ' A I Valuable Lesson. "Six yea rs ago I learned a valuable lesson." wr: ites John Pleasant, of Mag nolia, Ind. "I then began taking Dr. ling's tfew Life Pills, and tbe longer I take them tbe better I find tbem. Ther please eveiybody. Guaranteed PETERSON & PETERSON, Attorneys-at-Law ATHENA. - - - OREGON THE Eagle Bar ji BERT CAKTANO, Prop. GOOD LIQUORS A SPECIALTY ffWP BARBER SHOP mJ UymiMfc .1. i; I liTliJ'L'U'I'v, - ,, Everything Flmt Clan - Mo (lern and Up-to -date SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET ATHEHA Hourhound Bock and Bye Holly iTom Gin Three Star Cognao Blue Stem Whisky Famous Pilsner Beer BestJBxands of Cigars. JOB PRINTING Neat Workmen Past, Modern rree High Grade Stoclc Hi AT THE ELECTRIC SIGN IIENRY KEEN'S .Barber Shop. Shaving, Haircutting, Shampooing, Massage for Face and Scalp. HOT BATHS. llltlltlfllal Shop North Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. An ounce of Pre vention is worlh a pound of Cure. c is worth more to onos health than any othpr medicine known. Do not fill your stomach with arsenic, calomel, quinine and debilitate the Byntem, leaving symptoms that it takes years to obliterate. Herblno Is purely vegetable containing nothing injurious, and is a gentle harmless purgative. riTnpc CONSTIPATION, CHILLS AND WUlYCfO FEVER, DYSPEPSIA, MALA RIA AND ALL LIVER COMPLAINTS. Does More Than We Claim. Don C. Morrison, Kisnlmmee, Fla. writeH: "I havo used Beveral bottles of llerbine myself and have advised several of my friends to use same. I have found it to bo the best medicine for the liver 1 ever used. It acts gent ly at the same time thoroughly." PLEASING PRICE 5oc. HARMLESS Ballard Snow Liniment Co. JJ 600-502 North Second Street. ST. LOUIS, MO. Sold and Recommended W. McBRIDE, PALACE DRUG STO by Wm. M( jBude's draggist 25c.