WHAT YOU NEED
' The other fellow may have; what you
have the other fellow may want. Come
together by advertising in the Press.
Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer
i '
BARGAIN DAY
Is every day with the Merchant who
advertises in the Press-he has some
thing to sell and says so. '
YOLTJME XXVIII.
WORLD'S DOINGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916.
NUMBER 49.
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHUI
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Werner Breyman, an Oregon pioneer
. of 1850, dies at his home in Salem.
v It is predicted in Chicago that but
ter will rise te 50 .cents per pound be
fore January first. ---.
W. Lair Thompson, of Lakeview.
Ore., was beaten by one vote for state
Benator, according to the official count.
Minnesota voters declined on elec
tion day to approve the proposed pro
vision for the initiative and referen
dum, according to results just tabu
lated. - r
Charles A., Murphy, of Pendleton,
has been chosen warden of the Oregon
penitentiary to succeed J. W. Minto,
who was compelled to resign because
he hosed two convicts,
Target practice in the navy will have
to be limited for the winter to the first
line ships because of the shortage of
men. Steps already are being taken
to increase the. personnel under the
law. .
James F. Perishing, brother of Gen.
Pershing, who visited his brother re
cently at the latter's headquarters, de
clares that intervention in Mexico by
the United States is the only solution
of the Mexican situation.'
Twenty-two paintings by the late
George Inness, landscape painter, have
been sold for 1200,000 to a New York
firm of art dealers. The collection was
retained by Mr. Inness' family after
his death in 1895 and the sale was
made by his son, George Inness, Jr.
Speeders and reckless motorists of
- all classes, when arrested, will bear
their police records on the operators
license, if a bill now being framed by
' the California State Automobile asso
ciation becomes law at the next legis
lature. "
The liners Victoria and Umatilla,
the last vessels to leave Nome, arrived
In Seattle Wednesday with 600 passen
gers,- $1,000,000' in gold bullion and
shipments of tin ore and furs. Fifteen
hundred persons are wintering at
Nome, which is now closed in by the
ice. t -
The Cotton Manufacturers' associa
tion of New Bedford, Mass., voted to
grant a 10 per cent increase in pay to
their 83,000 operatives, to be effective
for a period of six months beginning
December 4. The increase is the third
within this calendar year and brings
the total advance within that time to
27) per cent.
Chicago City Health Commissioner
John Diil Robertson's "diet squad"
weighed in Wednesday preparatory to
the test they are to begin,-whether
one can live, and live well, on 40 cents
a day. Seven men and four women
will make the experiment, the weight
of the women ranging from 111.6 to
127 pounds, that of the men from 147
to 219 pounds.
The orgnized labor forces of the
country Wednesday avowed extreme
hostility to the writ of injunction as a
means of -stopping a strike. First a
resolution was adopted, unanimously,
at the morning session of the conven
tion of the American Federation of
Labor, urging orgainzed labor every
where to make the injunction question
"the paramount issue in all of their
future political activities."
Henry Tuerke, 20 months old, who
was pronounced cured in New York
after receiving the serum treatment
for infantile paralysis last summer, is
dying from a second attack.
Two Chinamen entered the store of
Wong Ling, a prominent Chinese mer
chant at Salem, Or., aroused him from
bed and forced him at the point of a
revolver to deliver $500 in the safe.
Santa Claus will , pay no more for
toys this Christmas than in years gone
by, according to toy dealers of San
Francisco. Prices for all sorts of toys
will remain about the same because
of increased production by America.
Iron' ballast . weighing 120 tons
brought over in the German submarine
merchantman Deutschland is to be con
verted into "Deutschland iron men,"
to be sold ss souvenirs for the benefit
of German widows and orphans of the
war, it is reported.
The warm weather in - Alaska con
tinues. Rain has fallen continuously
since November 10. Ice which had
formed in Twenty-Mile river, on the
U. S. railroad, 65 miles north of Sew
ard, went out because of high water,
taking 16Q feet of the railroad bridge.
A special committee pf the Chicago
school board authorized John D. Snoop,
superintendent of schools, to negotiate
with the War department for the serv
ice of military instructors and to ar
range for the inauguration of a system
of military training for pupils in the
public schools.
THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION
' BADE BY PRESIDENT WILSON
Washington, D. C President Wil
son Saturday formally, by proclama
tion, designated Thursday, November
30, as Thanksgiving Day. ' Here fol
lows the President's proclamation :
."It has long been the cuBtora of our
people to turn in the fruitful autumn
of the year in praise and thanksgiving
to Almighty bod for bis many bless
ings and mercies to us and to the Na
tion.
"The year that has elapsed since we
last observed our day of thanksgiving
has been rich in blessings to us as a
people, but the whole -face of the
world has been darkened by war. In
the midst of our peace and happiness.
our thoughts dwell with painful dis
quiet upon the struggles and sufferings
of the nations at war and of the peo
ples upon whom war has brought dis
aster without choice or possibility of
escape on their part. We cannot think
of our happiness without thinking of
their pitiful distress.
New Austrian Envoy.
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t .COUNT- TARNOWSKt
Count de Tarnow-Tamoweki, who
was secretary of the Austrian embassy
at Washington from 1899 to 1901, has
been appointed ambassador in place of
Dr. Dumba, recalled at the instance of
this government. He has been accept
ed by the American government. The
Count is a Pole, his home being in
Galicia.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil
son, President of the United States of
America, do appoint Thursday, the
30th day of November, as a day of Na
tional thanksgiving and prayer and
urge and advise the people to resort to
their several places of worship on
that day to render thanks to Almighty
God far the blessings of peace and un
broken prosperity which he has be
stowed upon our beloved country in
such unstinted measure. -
"And I also urge and suggest our
duty, in this, our day of peace and
abundance, to think in deep sympathy
of the stricken peoples of the world,
upon whom the curse and terror of war
has so pitilessly fallen and to contrib
ute out of our abundant means to the
relief of their sufferings. ;
"Our people could in no better way
show their real attitude towards the
present struggle of the nations than by
contributing out of their abundance to
the relief of the suffering which war
has brought in its train. -
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the City . of Washington
this 17th day of November, in the year
of Our Lord, 1916, and of the Indepen
dence of the United States the 141st
"WOODROW WILSON.
"By the President,"
ROBERT LANSING,
"Secretary of State."
Doctor Killed for Being American;
Geo. Rrevino Leaves Cbihaahua City
St Louis The State department, in
a telegram sent to Representative
Dyer Saturday, confirmed the killing
of Dr. H. C. Fisher, a former St
Louisan, at Santa Rosalia, Mexico,
November 2, by Villa bandits.
Information received in private ad
vices by William Fisher, a brother, is
that the bandits demanded and re
ceived $2000 on a promise to spare Dr.
Fisher s life, and afterward killed him
because he was an American."
El Paso, Tex. An official statement
from Chihuahua City reached the bor
der Saturday conveying General Trev-
ino s announcement he was himself
taking the field against Villa, and the
vanguard of his troops had gone to
Santa Rosalia, which is to be the base
of operations. General Gonzales Cuel
lar will take charge in the Chihuahua
capital, it was announced.
General Trevenio s announcement
caused much surpise and considerable
alarm here among Americans and
Mexicans who have interests in Chi
huahua City. . .
.Tong War Feared at Salem.
Salem,' Or. Fear that the hold-up
and robbery early Saturday of Wong
Ling, a local Chinese merchant, by two
masked Chinese, may precipitate a
tong war here, led the police to take
precaution against trouble in the Ori
ental quarter. Wong Ling was forced
to open his safe by the masked Chinese
who were armed with revolvers. They
took $500 and after tying their victim
to his bed and gagging him,, disap
peared. An hour later he loosened the
gag and summoned help. The police
arrested Wong Sing and Ching Bing.
The Editor' s-Tfomksgtbing
What's, that? You bet I'm thankful: don'
you see this two-bit smile? .
Why, things for ma look brighter than they
uavo lor quin a wnno. '
Of course, It peeved me when my print got
Slewed ana broke the press
And pled the forms, but I can get things
straigntenea up, guess.
That libel suit nigh got my goat; but why
anouia 1 reptner
I haven't got a cent, and so they can't col
lect the line;
And then my wife a-leaving me that gave
mo quite a jar, .
But I am glad that things ain't any worse
than what they are.
My mortgage will fall due next month, but
1 don t grieve nor fret ;
They say they'll sell me out, but then they
haven t done it yet; .
And fho licked seven times today, you'll
never near me squeak;
l.m still alive and put the little dope sheet
; out eacnweeK. m
These ginks who always kick and squeal.
. they ought to have a nurse,
I've hit some rocky roads myself, but then
thoy could be worse;
And so I still retain my poise and wear my
two-bit smile, ,
And things to me look brighter than they
have for quite a while.
rf H. Emmons In the Publishing Field.
FOR OLD AND YOUNG
But More Especially for the Old
Is the Season of
Thanksgiving. '
T N NEW England the saying Is
I "Christmas to the young, Thanks-
I giving to the old."
The saying, . like most bits of
folk lore, says the Delineator, has Its
roots in a common fact of living. Youth
does not tend toward gratitude. It does
not tend toward Introspection, It does
not tend toward a sense of proportion.
And it Is these tendencies that must
unite to make the thankful heart .
Not that young people do not love
Thanksgiving. They do. And country
children love it more than city chil
dren, and children of eervantless fam
ilies love it more than those of the
well-to-do. . The reason is obvious.
Thanksgiving day to a child Is a feast
day, and half the Joy of a feast is In
its preparation. --
What simply reared, country bred
grown-up would give up the memory
of Thanksgiving day at home, for all
the present comfort of a French cook
and an elaborate menage?
First there was the business of the
turkey. A turkey was no ordinary,
every Sunday in the winter bird In
those days. Turkey twice a year was
the rule, on Thanksgiving day and
Christmas; on New Tear's day, goose
or duck. -. : -
The turkey was chosen anxiously,
while mother poked its breastbone, fa
their commented on the length and
color of the plufeathers. The after
noon before Thanksgiving school al
ways "let out" early, in time for broth
er to fly Into the kitchen and singe
the turkey and for sister to break up
the bread crusts carefully saved for
weeks. Mother stuffed the turkey. Sis
ter threaded the darning needle that
sewed In the stuffing, brother carried
the bird to the cellar to await tomor
row's oven.
Then there were the first cranber
ries of the season, the first nuts, the
first pumpkin pies.
Thanksgiving day was always cold
and cloudy, and about mid-afternoon,
when one had reached the state of
coma from overeating, it began to
snow.
Mother always asked a schoolteacher
to dinner, and always some bachelor
of the neighborhood. And always some
dear neighbor or friend, or once, grand
mother, and once, little sister, had died
during the year, and one noticed it
more than ever at the Thanksgiving
dinner. ' :
After dinner all the women folks and
the girls gathered In the kitchen to
wash dishes, and the men' folks and
the boys went out to look at the
stock.
It is for memories like these that
older people are thankful, for these
and other blessings. ..For the simple,
homely facts of living; for the oppor
tunity to serve with hand and mind
those that we love; for happy yester
days spent with those who loved us
and are gone; for strength to see and
hear and think and work, and for an
occasional bit of leisure In which to
dream ; these make our older Thanks
giving day.
THANKSGIVING LUCK
"The folks at the house yonder
couldn't eat this Thanksgiving turk, so
they gave It to me. Luck, ain't It?"
"Yes j pretty tough luck, pard!"
December is the wheat harvest
month la New South Wales,
THE GLORIOUS PUMPKIN
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Queen of the holiday pastries, the
pumpkin pie proudly occupies the place
of honor. At this season of the year
at least French pastry withdraws mod
estly in favor of the purely American
viand; nor Is the bulwark of British
Chrlstmasee the mince pie consid
ered especially In keeping for Thanks
giving.
BLESSED ABOVE ALL
Special Reasons Why Americans
Should Be Grateful to God
: This Year.
IF CUSTOM had not dictated nor
time hallowed the setting aside of
a day for a national recognition
of Divine blessings, the situation
In the world today would of Itself have
Instinctively brought about the senti
ments In the hearts of Americans suit
ed to the spirit of thankfulness.
. Yet the.e is no occasion to resort to
the elements pf contrast afforded by
the pictures presented here and in
other countries at this time. Our peo
ple are determined to assert the na
tion's rights as operative at all times.
and desirous of defending them as a
part of the heritage received from an
cestors who feared God, but had scant
respect for persons or nations when
these Ignored the principles of liberty
for which they were unyieldingly set
In defense.
It is beyond and outside of the field
of contrast that the country bows to
day in acknowledgment of a Provi
dence that has preserved It from the
ravages of war and given it to partake
richly of every form of prosperity for
which a people might justly yearn.
The crops are excellent. Labor In
practically every field of endeavor Is
giving .employment to the many. The
distribution of material wealth Is thus
being effected in such manner that
plenty abounds, and no table so poor
that it cannot present evidences of
good cheer on this festive occasion.
Mingled, nevertheless, with the con
sciousness of our own happy state
must be the sobering sentiments that
take cognizance of far other conditions
elsewhere. For the war-worn nations
It is wished that they may soon find
an honorable way back to permanent
peace. - As these sentiments take form
and logical order In our own minds,
they cannot but suggest our own responsibilities,-
present and future. And
umong these the necessity of being pre
pared to assert and defend the princi
ples for which we stand and to the
preservation of which thus far in our
political history we are, under the
goodness of God, Indebted for our
present peace and prosperity, must
liuve Its recognized place. .
A Prayer.
For the sense, of internationalism
possessing so many thoughtful minds,
for the realization that no nation Hv-
eth for or by itself, for the vision of
a federated world in till parts of which
there shall be substituted for the
mulled fist the hand of a brother, let
us give thanks.
For God "our help in ages past, our
hope for years to come," for Jesus
Christ the pivot of human history, the
sure and sufficient revelation of the
Father, forever the Master and the
Savior of mankind, let us give thanks.
Come all ye faithful people, enter
Into his gates with thanksgiving and
Into his courts with praise. Be thank
ful unto him and bless bis name, for
Jehovah Is a great God and his loving
kindness enduretb forever. Exchange.
True Spirit of the Festival.
In recent years there has been a
broadening conception of the spirit of
Thanksgiving day. Besides acknowl
edging God's manifold blessings ac
cording to religious formulas, the true
spirit of the festival will manifest it
self in deeds of benevolence. The poor
will be remembered and the needs of
humane institutions will be supplied.
Fair Harvest
The seed that once In sorrow
We cast Into th around,
On this fair harvest morrow
In Joy and strength Is found. '
That which nun deemed had perlahs4
The unkindly soli beneath
Hath sprung. In secret cherished,
With Untold Ufa, from death.
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Cholly was to spend Thanksgiving with
the old folks, and thought it would be
Nice to take along a ntce big turkey for
them. But by Kolllos! Turkeys Is exnen.
sive this season as
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Too probably know, If you have a fam.
bly so our hero thought of a bright idea:
he would shoot a wild turk
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And take it proudly to his pa and ma.
I'nouy man't Know beans
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About birds.' To make a short story
long, Cholly should have hocked bis over
coat and all of his
Jewelry and gone Ilk a man and bought
a turkey Just Ilk you did, gsntl
iiorawruikeys la sign.
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