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WHAT YOU NEED- The other fellow may have; what you have the other fellow may want. Come together by advertising in the Presa. BARGAIN DAY la every day with the Merchant who advertises in the Press he has some thing to sell and says so. ' Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OEEGON, FEIDAY, FEBKUARY 25, 1916. NUMBER 10. WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL Live News Items of All Nations and c Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Hi Gill is again nominated for mayor of Seattle. The house of commons votes a new credit of 2.082,000,000 pounds sterling. Four hundred lumbermen of the Northwest are holding a meeting in Portland. A'Wenatchee, Wash., couple kept their wedding a secret since October 3 last year. The French succeed in bringing to earth a Zeppelin making a raid over that country. Another Portland Chinaman was shot in the tong war Monday, and a Hop Sing suspect is in jail. Great ava.anches of snow and dirt in several districts in Germany have killed 55 persons recently. , President Wilson has filed a petition to place his name before the Iowa voters in the April 10 primaries. - Ex-President Taft declares that "boss-ridden conventions" produce bet ter results than primary elections. Several Portland druggists are under investigation for the alleged selling of grain alcohol, which is used as a bev erage. . .. Mildred Marek, 6 J years old, who lived near Boise, Ida., was struck over the heart with a batted baseball and died from the effects. The Chicago police are momentarily expecting to capture Jean Crones, the anarchist accused of poisoning several hundred banqueters in that city. William Orpet, University of Wis consin junior, is held to the grand jury in connection with the death of his former sweetheart, Marion Frances Lambert. , -.- An entente allies's submarine suc ' ceeded in passing through the Dar danelles and sinking four ships carry ing munitions. -. The visitation caused a panic in Constantinople. : . ' All the income tax cases before the Supreme court are disposed of in favor of the government on the authority of the original decision, upholding the constitutionality of the law. ' Colonist passenger fares from points in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and nearby states to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and other points on the Pa cific Coast and in Western Canada were authorized by the Interstate Commerce commission, Alaska's trade with the outside world increased $12,000,000 last year, according to figures made public by the department of Commerce. The balance of trade in the territory's favor was $27,000,000. Exports were valued at $55,000,000 and imports at $28,000,000. Reports of acute suffering and ap peals for Immediate relief have reach ed Natchez, Miss-., from Concordia and Tensas parishes, in Northern Louis iana, where a half dozen towns, not heard from for several days, were said, to be inundated, with their inhabitants marooned and in imminent danger. ' The steamer Pavlof in Alaskan waters, sends S. O. Sa ; ' Fashion has decreed that the barrel skirt is correct apparel for this spring. Fire caused $150,000 damages to the Inman-Poulsen lumber yards and mill in Portland. ' ' Sweden asks Uncle Sam to aid in their protest to England against the Britons' intercepting mail to that county- - "; President Wilson has presented a list of Americans killed in Mexico in the last three years, to the senate. The total is 112. - ' A bachelor school teacher at Ever ett, Wash., has educated at his own expense, seventeen boys and one girl. He is an author of some note and from this fund pays for the schooling, living on his salary as teacher. Paper mills in the United States are operating to capacity and many of them are turning away orders, but the increase in the price of raw materials and the high price of labor have re duced the profits of the busnieaa. . Federal detectives are making a nation-wide search for the gang of an archists who, it is alleged, is instiga tors of the poison plot. The Umatilla Indiana object to the building of a bridge across the Uma tilla river at their expense, declaring the bridge is for the benefit of the white man, and not them. Sawmill and logging companies de clare that by the middle of March there will be a shortage of unskilled labor in these lines. Day labor has advanced from $2 to $2.25 and will go to $2.50 per day. r. AMERICAN NAVY THIRD ON LIST; . EQUAL TO ANY BY YEAR 1925 Washington, D. C The object of the building policy formulated in 1913 by the Navy General Board, it was dis closed Wednesday before the house na val committee, was to keep the United States ahead of Germany in the race for naval supremacy. The statement was made by Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, a member . of the general board, who explained that the policy had contemplated a fleet of 48 first-line battleships by 1919 to accomplish its purpose. The statement did not go into the record of the hearing and Admiral Badger did not amplify it to show why the board had thought such a course necessary. - The admiral was replying to a sug gestion that the object of the old pol icy, abandoned this year by the board for the first time, was to keep the American navy in second place. While GENERAL IVAN0FF General Ivanoff la In command of the southern group of Russian armies and, together with General Bruslloft, la given the credit for the aevore de feats Inflicted on the Austrlans sines the Teutonic Invasion of Russia was ghecked. . . that was the effect it had, he said, the real object was to keep ahead of Ger many. . - - This year the board fixed as its pol icy the creation by 1925 of a fleet equal to the most powerful afloat at that time, he said. The committee did not go into the board's reasons for changing its ideas beyond drawing out the explanation that the board believed a fleet 10 per cent superior to any fighting force that might be brought against it would be necessary to in sure against the invasion of American soil by an enemy , . Under questioning by Representative Kelly, Admiral Badger said the con struction of three additional dread naughts and eight battle cruisers would place the navy on a par with the capital ships of the German fleet to day. Germany now has 22 dread naughts and eight battle cruisers, he said, according to the best available information, while the United States has all told 19 ships of the dreadnaught class, built or building. To equal Great Britain s fleet within two years, Admiral Badger said, the United States would be obliged to have a total force of 40 dreadnaughts, 15 battle cruisers, 25 swift scouting craft, 200 submarines and 250 destroyers. He was not favoring such a program, but merely answering questions by Representative Butler. Such a fleet could not be built in two years, he added, though it might be constructed in four. Roslyn Has $100,000 Fire. Tacoma, Wash. Approximately $100,000 loss was caused by afire starting in some refuse, swept in front of the ash pan of a boiler in the big department store of the Northwestern Improvement company at Roslyn, a coal mining town, according to advice 8 received here. In the building were the real and personal tax rolls of Kittitas county. These records and those of the com pany were rescued. Many fusee caps and much oil was stored in the build ing, but an explosion was averted. ' Blockade Minister Created. London The government through the Marquis of Lansdowne, announced in the house of lords that it had decioV ed to turn over all matters connected with the blockade of Germany to one man who would rank as a fullfiedged cabinet minister. It is understood that the new post will go to Lord Rob ert Cecil, who, since the formation of the coalition government, has been un der secretary for foreign affairs. He will retain this post, joining the cabi net as blockade minister. Man and Wife Fight Duel. Louisville, Ky. Fourteen-year-old Geneve Hall was shot to death during a pistol duel between her mother and father in their home here Wednesday night. The father, Joseph T. Hall, 42, also was killed and the mother, Mrs. Delia Hall, 37, is in hospital in a dying condition. She received four bullet wounds. ? The girl was struck by a stray bul let as she crouched under a kitchen sink. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Oregon State Commission Asks - Opening of Northern Gateway . Salem Relief of Oregon lumber mills and other shippers who are suf fering from lack of cars to ship their products is sought through opening of the Northern gateways. To this end the Public Service commission tele graphed the Interstate Commerce com mission at Washington, D. C. It is the belief of the Oregon commission that the railroads may heed a request for a temporary opening of the North ern routes if made by the Federal tri bunal. ; In its communication to the Inter state Commerce commission, the Ore gon commission said: "The car shortage is increasing. The accumulated shortage on the Southern Pacific is now 700 cars, and on the Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation company's lines is, 800. There is no shortage in Oregon or Washington. We feel that we are be ing discriminated against. If it is possible to open the Northern gate ways temporarily we might procure cars from other lines." Replies to inquiries sent by the Ore gon commission to the commissions of California and Washington are that ho car shortage exists in those states. Coos Bay Cities Plan Big Railroad Jollification Marshfield The' Marshfield and North Bend Chamber of commerce have committees organized for the pur pose of planning for the celebration of completion of- the Willamette-Pacific railway from Eugene to Coos Bay, but they have been unable and will not likely Bet the date for some time, as the Southern Pacific officials are still hesitant about naming a time for the road to be finished. According to the disposition in both cities, the event and entertainment will exceed anything ever attempted before on Coos Bay. - There are already promises received from the main boosting bodies in the Willamette valley that big delegations will be sent officially, but the commit tees here wish to have it generally un derstood that everybody and his rela tives will be 'welcomed. The Cher rians, of Salem, were the first to give assurance they were preparing to come and see Coos Bay, and although the in formation came in a roundabout, man ner, they are expected to participate. Eugene and Albany are also among the cities that will send excursions, while the way stations on the Willamette Pacific will have a general outpouring of joyseekers. Plans for Four Spans Made. Salem The state highway depart ment announced this week that it had completed plans and specifications for four bridges, two in Yamhill county and two in Columbia. Proposals for the construction of the bridges will be accepted by the counties within a short time. The bridge in Yamhill county at Mc Minnville will be a reinforced concrete viaduct to cost $14,000. '" The other structure is a $13,000 160-foot steel span between Athey's Island and the mainland over Willamette Slough be low Wheatland. At Veronia, in Columbia county, a 100-foot steel span will be built over Rock Creek, and a 50-foot girder will be placed across Tide creek, near Deer Island. No Logs; Dallas Mill Idle. Dallas For the first time in several months, the large sawmill plant of the Willamette Valley Lumber company, in this city, is clsoed. -This is due to the shortage of logs. Owing to the heavy snow storms of the past month, work has been impossible in the camps near Black Rock. The supply of logs on hand when the snow stopped opera tions is exhausted. All camps are now in full operation, and by the midde of next week the mill will resume again. Only a few of the men were laid off, most of them being employed in repairing the plant, which has a capacity of 100,000 feet a day. Stock Go to Bunch Grass. Baker Hope for relief from the threatened further loss of livestock be cause of lack of feed is reported from parts of this vicinity. Horses and cattle are leaving their straw and hay for the bunchgrass. In the vicinity of North Powder, where the snow was unusually heavy, it is reported that it is melting and that it will not be long before the grass starts growing if present conditions continue. John Day stockmen expect that con ditions that have been very threaten ing will improve so that livestock there will be able to begin feeding early next month. Fairground Sale Likely. Eugene Within the next few days petitions will be circulated in Lane county to authorize the purchase of the Lane County Fair grounds by the county for the sum of $20,000. The property is owned by the Lane County Agricultural society, an organization of Eugene business men. and has been leased from year to year for fair pur poses, ine arrangement has proven unsatisfactory and it is proposed to purchase the property outright. . The question will be placed on the ballot at the primary election in May. Colleges of Northwest Articles Beneficial to Agriculturists, Stockmen, Dairying Interests, j Mining, Capitalists, Etc. Written for this Paper I High School Lunches Prove To Be of Greatest Value Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis Can a high school student get ting a lunch in the school get more than twice the value of lunch secured elsewhere at the same price? That this is actually the case is shown con clusively in a comparison of foods and prices made by the department of do mestic science at the Oregon Agricul tural college. According to this list the following food and prices at ob tained at the high schools, having a food value of 700 calories. In a typical school lunch the follow ing items at the prices given are pro cured: Cocoa and whipped cream, 8c; egg sandwich, 4c; banana, lc; four dates, lc; 8 cookies, lc; total, 10c. : Of the usual lunches purchased else where the following is said to be typi cal of those bought by high school stu dents: 8 crullers, 6c; cup of coffee with cream and sugar, 5c; total, 10c. The food value of this latter lunch is 250 calories, in comparison with that of 700 calories of the typical school lunch. Reports from some of the schools of Oregon where lunches are served, show that there are other advantages con nected with the practice of furnishing the school lunch. It affords a means of furnishing instruction and training in preparing and serving meals eco nomically and wholesomely. It also lends additional attraction to the work of schools and tends to keep attend ance and interest at the best. Teach ers are frequently regular customers of the school , lunch, which they find helpful and pleasant in comparison with the cold lunches which they might otherwise have to eat. The following is a typical menu of the Kenton school of Portland : One apple; 2 slices of bread and butter; 2 crackers and a bowl of thick soup. Changing Conditions Compel y . Cheaper, Pork Production , Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallia The number of recent farm sur veys conducted by, the U. S. depart ment of Agriculture and the Oregon Agricultural College Extension service have clearly shown the need of more livestock on the average Oregon farm in order to make farming more profit able. Notwithstanding this fact farm ers are forced to confront the further fact that recent pork prices have been such that increasing the number of pigs kept on the farm involves a seri ous risk of loss and makes improved methods of production imperative. The farmers also find that on some of the most profitable farms the number of pigs kept is related somewhat to the number of other livestock, especially dairy cattle. Just how to reconcile these somewhat conflicting require ments is a problem that progressive farmers are beginning to give earnest consideration to, and the following points brought out at the recent Farm ers' Week exercises at the college may prove of value to them: Conditions and methods of produc tion are already beginning to undergo changes demanded by changing condi tions; the quality of animals is being increased and the number is being reg ulated by conditions that now exist and which will prevail for the next year or so. It is pointed out by G. R. Samson, swine specialist of the col lege, that both pure bred breeding stock and pork hogs must be produced more cheaply than they were five years ago. It also was shown that the further fact should be taken into consideration that some farmers can well produce pork at ten cents a pound but cannot profitably produce it at six cents. Evidently, then, each grower should take into consideration the cost of producing feed and the cost of labor in caring for the stock. If these condi tions are such that he cannot make a profit at the present prices he should discontinue pork production until prices improve, or if the economic con ditions on his farm are such that he can produce a fewer number with profit, then he should confine his efforts to the number that may be thus grown at a profit. While it is not likely that the present prices will re main as they are for any considerable length of time, and while it is true that there are already evidences of better prices, it is well to accept con ditions as they are and, as Professor Samson says, "cut the garment ac cording to the cloth." Another element in cheaper produc tion is a more complete combination of fattening and growing pork which means that no retarding must be al lowed to occur in the growth or devel opment from birth to marketing. Pos sibly a slightly slower development than has been secured with the best Alaska Sends Students. University of Oregon, Eugene Four students each more than 85 years of age, are among the 75 who regis tered at the State University at the mid-winter term. Two graduates of other universities also registered. Nearly one-fourth of the newcomers are majoring in the school of com merce. One man came from Alaska to study journalism for two years, after which he will return to Alaska to do newspaper work. One woman came with her husband, each intending to take full four years' work. pigs is sometimes necessary, but'eer-1 tainly a more rapid development than that of the average must be accom-1 plished. During the sucking stage the i mother's milk must be more liberally supplemented with feed which the pigs i can eat, and in addition the mother's i ration must be calculated to produce a heavy flow of milk. If feeds of these sorts are not produced on the farm and can be produced there, they should be. And if they cannot be secured on the farm they must be gotten else where. Be assured that if a pig loses a jot in his growth he will not make a two-hundred pig as quickly and as economically as if he had not," says Professor Samson. . . "At the end of the first month a suckling should weigh about fifteen pounds, and during the second month he should gain about one-half pound daily. During the third month he should gain about seven-tenths of a pound daily, and during the fourth nine-tenths of a pound daily. . At five months he Bhould be kept practically on full feed and start gaining from one to two pounds dsily for sixty days. Pigs fed in this way will finish even and there will be very few when brought to market that are not of the right weight and in the right condi tion." , May Mean Establishment of Tanneries in Northwest University of Washington, Seattle A ton of wood Bhipped by parcel post, in fifty-pound mail bags from the National Forest reserve near Sumpter, Oregon, was received at the chemistry department of the university last week. According to the parcel post deliveryman this is the largest single consignment that has been received by the Seattle PostofHce. The work will be carried on by Frank M. Jones, a graduate student in the chemistry department, under the supervision of Dr. H, K. Benson, who was recognized at the meeting of the American Chemical Society last sum mer as a leader of the industrial re search work being carried on in the United States. The Alaska furs and hides the from Montana provide enough skins for the establishment of tanning plants in. the Northwest, according to Mr. Jones, but it remains for the capitalists to be shown that the tannin extract can be obtained from the woods of the Northwest. When capitalists have been shown that they can obtain the raw material at a low cost, Mr. Jones believes that tanneries will be estab lished in the Northwest. To Celebrate Baby Week In Many American Cities Washington, D. C There are 1727 communities considering some prepar ation for Baby Week, according to the inquiries received by the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. This number does not include those of whose interest in the cam paign word has come to the bureau in directly. The letters about Baby Week are still coming in from evey state in the Union and from every type of com munity, such as a Colorado settlement forty miles from a railroad, a club of women on one of the government re clamation projects, a Montana coal mining town with a large foreign population, a southern mill village, and a club of farm women in a Middle Western state. Texas has its own Baby Week slo ganBaby Health Is Texas Wealth and Mississippi has started a competi tion to secure a slogan for that state. North Dakota reports plans for a state-wide essay contest in the public schools. In a few state campaigns the State Federation of Women's Clubs, the State University Extension De partment, the State Health officials and those who are especially interested In education are all co-operating in the Baby Week campaign. Many large cities are going to have a Baby Week. Definite plans are under way in Albany, Baltimore, Bos ton, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneap olis, Philadelphia, Richmond, San Francisco, Washington and other cities. New York had a successful Baby Week in 1914 and will probably hold another this year in the late spring. In its suggestions for Baby Week observance the Children's Bureau lays special emphasis on the opportunity it affords for extending permanent work for infant welfare, such as infant wel fare stations, visiting nursing, special nursing and instruction for prospective mothers, city inspection of milk, spe cial work for the prevention of blind ness, and little mothers' classes and home nursing instruction for school girls in the upper grades Experimenting In Ores. The College of Mines at the Uni versity of Washington, is making tests upon small quantities of ore to determine what ore can be treated and under what conditions the best results can be obtained. 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