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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1909)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. BOVD, PUBLIPHEB. Application for entrance as 2nd class matter made on July;5, 1907 at me pouvomce at Aincna, uregon Under an Actot Congress of March 3, 1879 Subaerl tlon Ratct i d r year. In advanct 12.00 Single copies in wrappers, 5c, tTHENA. ORE.. OCT. 1. 1909 THEN AND NOW. It bas taken considerable time for the coat of whitewash defense cf the Taft methods of administration to How before the publio gaze, bnt it is now making its appearauoe ia the "administration organs." Ever sinoe Taft's election, and more recently einoe the faroe tariff bill W3S passed, men who read have been wondering what sort of prooeednre would be evolved in the change of front from tbe Roosevelt polioies to those Taft is known to be in honor bound to sup port. The first ohord of prooeednre was struok in the president's Winona, Minnesota speeob, when he branded the republican opposition to the Payne bill. This was the first real stand Taft had taken sinoe his eleotion. He has taken no other stand sinoe. But the "organs" have taken the cue. Tbe following from the Walla Walla Union is a good illustrative sample: "Gifford A. Pinohot, obief of the national bureau of forestry is a bold over from the Roosevelt administration where he shone luminously among tbe othor members of the "tennis cab inet." For this reason, probably Mr. Pinobot is very unhappy in bis official position now, and is an irritating faotor in the Taft family, not with standing official assertions to tbe con trary. Schooled in the strenuous methods, be appears unable to adapt himself to orderly accomplishment without the Roosevelt obligato. With out doubt a strong publio sentiment in favor of conservation of national resources was stimulated by Mr. Roosovelt, but what has actually been done by tbe federal government in proteoting public forests is not gener ally known. Perhaps it is a great doal." "At I be present time Mr. Pinchot is ongaged in grim warfare with what he terms a ''witter power trust," whioh he bas conjured up out of cer tain conditions in the industrial world, lie does not say that there is a water powor trust, but be warns tbe oountiy that one is being formed. This idea is soouted by Riobard A. Dallinger secretary of tbe interior. Thus the chief of the bnreau of forestry finds himself in controversy with one of President Taft's most trusted cabinet membors. In bis defense Mr. Pinobot says that the present administration is solemnly obligated to carry out the Roosevelt polioies. This statemeut is without special significance save as it suggests that even if Mr. Taft is so pledged, he bas the right to cany out the Roosevelt polioies iu his own way. lie is under no obligations to adopt tbe Roosevelt methods and tbe Pinohot methods and it would be something of a relief to large areas of the oonotry if Mr. Pinchot would quietly return to private life. Ue is an euthusiastio official and has rend ered onpable service. But he is uot the Taftkiud. He gives too tuuoh of his time and energy to controversy and engagements with imaginary ene mies of publio interests." It is suggestive how many great things for the world have been ac complished by individuals either acting alone or nearly so. One or two oases will illustrate this faot. One man, St. Francis of Assissi, morally regenerated Italy. It was Columbus, not a geographionl society, that dis covered America. It was one woman, Florence Nightingale, that revolution ized by her work in the Crimea sani tary and hospital service. It was one man, Gutenberg, that discovered priutiug. So with Dr. Cook. His expedition was not furnished by a government or a soieotido sooioty. As compared with expeditions so seut his was poorly equipped, yet he succeeded where they failed. This ia uo retleotion upon those expeditions for Dr. Cook un doubtedly profited by their experience and the data they furnished. But he bad the one advantage of having but himself to consider in bis quest for the pole. There was uo conflict of opinion about routes or methods of travel, and this fact with bis soienti flo knowledge indomitable porsever auoe aud courage, and favoring oil- oumstanoeo, enabled him to reaoh the pole and plant upon it the Amerioan flag. Lord Roseberry'a attack- on. the British budget was awaited with con siderable Interest because of his prom inence and tbe faot that be was ouce premier in a liberal administration. Tbe attaok has now been made and its cbaraoter was muob as people ex pected it would be. Its prinoipal effect will be to stiffen tbe opposition of tbe Loids who now will probably reject tbe budget. Perhaps that will be just as well as it will hasten the inevitable trial of strength between tbe people and the privileged classes, who hitherto have esoaped their just share of taxation, and determine for all time tbe dominanoe of tbe Com mons instead of that of an irrespon sible legislative obamber. As for Lord Roseberry himself be has from a party standpoint always been , an unoertain quantity who preferred, as he onoe said, to "plow his fnrrow alone." "Money oannot buy happiness" is the remark attributed to ono who, if happiness could be purobased by money, ought to have plenty of it as her husband is a millionaire. Bat tie circumstances attending her wedding were of snob a cbaraoter that no one wonders she now realizes there are some things money oannot buy. Money can build palaoes but it oannot make home; it can build costly yatobs but it oannot make that whioh is morally wrong morally right; it can enable one to live in luxury but it oannot buy self respect; it oan gratify one's wish for tbe most elaborate and oostly Parisian gowns but it cannot restore a shattered reputation. It can not even open tbe way for recognition in society, and that fact scores one in favor of society. Tbe moral of it all is obvious. Everyone who comes here from a foriegn land to make this country his permanent borne should become an Ametioan citizen. This he owes to this nation whioh proteots bim with its laws, throws open to him and bis children the doors of its educational and other institutions, gives him work and compensation for bis work, and many other advantages he not only never possessed but never dreamed of in his native land, Amerioa has plenty of room for Amerioans but none for those who refuse to assume the duties and responsibilities of citizen ship. Tbe coining of phrases by whioh men seek to excuse or cover their wrong doing, and delude others seoms to be a flourishing business. Tbe Thaw and other trials gave us "brain storms" and similar terms and tbe artist Earle whose affinity experiences have given him a wide notority though not fame, is quite adept in snob matters. He found a "soul-mate who has since boon discarded, and now he is roaming Europe with a "mental afiiuity." What he will next discover is hard to say, but it all means moral corruption, degraded lives and blighted homes. At the recent mooting iu Winnepeg of the British Association it was stated that in hot oooutriea aad under a clear sky the heat dorived from tbe suu was 7000 horse-power per acre, and that although engineers have not yet learned to utilize it in time they will. This is oomforting to those who fear tbe exhaustion of our coal fields and the inadequacy of water power. But what if it should ultimately mean tbe transfer of our manufacturing oeutres from Pittsburg and other east ern cities to Arizona and New Mexico, aud tbo Europoan centres to tbe Sa hara desert. Katbeiioe Clemmoni Gonld oom plaius that sinoe her husband has ac customed ber to a life of luxury ebe is unable to get along on less alimony than 120,000 a year. Her case should serve as a warning to all gentlemen who are keeping their wives in luxury now and thinking of getting divorces later. Earth bas few tragedies more patb etlo than that of a man so filled with the lust of wealth that ho gradually loses all that is beautiful and ennob ling in life and degenerates to a mere moueymaking machine. Judge Landia recently imposed a flue of 11,000 on a firm for rebating. Mr. Rockefeller will probably not con sider it necessary to offer the firm any sympathy. Enough hot air is being generated by the rival camps of Cookites aud Pearylies to affect the temperatate of the north pole. msg ciouiing Now Italy io beginning to make faces at Austria. More millions for Dreadnoughts. Washington's Plague Spots lie in tbo low, marshy bottoms of tbe Potomac, tbe breeding ground of malaiia germs. These germs cause chills, fever and ague, biliousness, jaundice, lassitude, weakness and gen eral debility and bring suffering or death to thousands yearly. But Elec tric Bitters never fail to destroy tbem and cure malaria troubles. 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