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f he Mm Wtm AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. Boyd, Publisher Subscription Rates. One copy, one year $1.50 When paid in Advance, (otherwise, $2.00 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 50 C4THENA. OREGON, FEB. 1 ....118 CHAPMAN AND UMATILLA. C. C. Chapman, editocr of the Ore gon Voter, published in Portland, has assisted in the management of Red Cross, Y, M. C. A. and Liberty Loan drives and he is up in the top notch of knowledge concerning these drives. He says in a recent issue of his pub lication: "Umatilla county has established such a record throughout the United States- as the leading county of its size in all patriotic subscriptions that there is a disposition to work Umatilla and let the rest of the state take care of itself. "We note that in the Armenian Re lief drive, Umatilla is the only county reported as having contributed any thing. About $5000 is reported to have been subscribed from this one county for this necessary purpose. "The Fosdick Commission has a headquarters in San Francisco. It has been endeavoring to deal with individ ual counties in Oregon, to get Lhem to take hold of drives for soldiers' recrea tion centers outside the camps. The object is thoroughly worthy, but why should Umatilla be singled out while other counties aro indifferent' "Would it not be wise for Umatilla and other counties to refrain from en tering upon all drives until each drive is so organized with an Oregon head quarters under such auspices that there is a certainty that every county in the state will be called upon to do its share, and called upon simultaneosly, so the publicity attendant upon same will show just what each county is doing in response to the calif "Otherwise, a few patriotic counties will be skimmed of their cream while other counties which are less enter prising will escape without contribut ing a cent, "This 'drive' work should be co ordinated so as not to wear out the patriotic counties; it is upon them the rest of the state must lean for in spiration and support, and if they are made to carry the entire load on sev eral drives they will tire out. Spread the burden equally." I at the same table, and he, too, is writ ing in characteristic attitude. About him are clustered in caricature a crowd of present day disjointers. exclaiming: "Why don't you make somebody .else Secretary of War?" "Daniels should go!" "Listen! How do you know Hoover isn't a German spy?" "I tfant investigation of everything!" Exhib ited to your grandchildren, in time to come, this cartoon would indeed have historical value. "Let's take a lesson from history," is the pertinent Bubject selected by a cartoonist on the staff of the Spokesman-Review. Then he proceeds to draw one of the greatest pen pictures of his career. At the lop in freehand I drawing a few flourishing strokes of the crayon, he brings Lincoln before you, writing in characteristic posture. In the background, the shades of the emancipator's critics are shown shout ing discordantly: "Why don't you get a new Secretary of War'f" "Stanton is a menace!" "Grant is a poor Gen eral!" "Fire Sherman I" "The war is a failure!" "Playing politics, as us ual!" etc. The lower half of this classic cartoon shows President Wilson One of Oregon's leading citizens passed on when ex-United States Sen atoi Charles W. Fulton laid aside life-'s labors. Trominent politically for many years, here was a man who sacrificed his ambition and statesman ship on the cross of Statement One and the Oregon System. Profoundly schooled in and wedded to all methods employed by the legislatures in the election of United States Senators, he unfortunately appeared for re-election to the Senate at the time when the Oregon system was up for ratification by the people. He conscientiously be lieved in the old principles, - clung to them and was defeated in the primar ies by Mr. Cake, who stood for State ment One, and who in turn was defeat ed in the election after his repudiation of the Statement, by present Senator Chamberlain. TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS. They Are Unarmoreri and Are Helpless Agains unfire. Every one is i u cuittur, of course, With the ordiimr torpedo boat, a awift vessel of from 40D to 000 tons in dis placement, carrying no defensive ar mor, but armed with tubes for dis charging the deadly torpedoes. To counteract these wasps of the sen, according to the Popular Science Monthly, a typo of vessel was design ed of about double the size of torpedo boats, a little greater speed and In ad dition to torpedo tubes, armed with I for the avowed purpose of destroying torpedo boats. Lately all the great nations have Btopped building torpedo boots as originally designated and are building torpedo boat destroyers. Recent engagements have developed the fact that torpedo boat destroyers are used almost wholly as torpedo I boats. So they are really battleship ! destroyers. To defend the capital j ships from torpedo attack the dread i naughts and battle cruisers are armed with secondary batteries of rapid Are guns from four to six Inches in diame ter. One well placed shell from a gun of that size will ordinarily put a de stroyer out of business, as the destroy ers have no defensive armor whatever. .Now that the investigation has forced Army information from Secretary Baker which the world had no right to know, it is sincerely to bo hoped that these secrets which divulge such a col lossal scale of preparedness, may have the effect of making a dent in the mor ale of the Prussian war machine. NOTICE. All parties knowing themselves in debted to me for the year 1917 will please come forward and settle the same. N. A. Miller. TTt..1a ftoir. c- s- says slMI Bulk 1918 TOeatf Granaries and Elevators must be Plan ned and Ordered now, to be ready for 1918 Crop 1, Less than ono-sixlh required number of elevatorj for completed on time, even if started'immodiately. 2. Over six months required for necessary machinery was our exper ience last year, and nil authorities agree tliut it will be harder to gefftna chinery next ycurjon time. II. At present government embar goes on gravel and lumber make ship ments seriously delayed. I, I. lading cement plants of the Northwest are facing shutdowns on ac count of government embargo of fuel required to run them. 5. Good labor id scarce and getting worse. Start Now-Get Material on the Road-Use Winter Labor Plan Right, When You Build OUR Elevator Department with skillud Architects,' Engineers, MUl Wrights and Mechanics, is daily solv ing many Bla.va.tor problem! for customers. I, Hulk wheat buildings require six to 'JO times the strength ordinarily met with in houai and barn construc tion. Many (allure! in ele ston and granaries have been noted n.v govern ment Investigators in the Northwest last year, due to inexperienced work. I. Incorporate modern scieutlie el evator features at no increased cost: -strong ample walls, self-cleaning Moors, workable dump platforms, ac curate seale.J, elevating machinery of sufficient hourly capicliy, adequate motors or engines, good cleaners, smutters, loading spout to load cars without shoveling, waterproof pit, light baeetaent, u reproof engine room, conduit wiring, steel lin nl .tpouts, met al lined dump sink, one-man operated. a. Use amply strong farm granar ies cither of portable type, bvel ground or side hill. Wo will he gljd to submit plena', pictures, details, and cost data. A3 A PATRIOTIC DUTY FaUM lUUt.DlNlJS FOR BULK WIIKAT MUST BE r'LANNK!1 AND START ED NOW. 10 N crop can be Save the 1918 Crop! Ka T ...... aaa I I u n r t J1' 't. Company I ,. - j - ma r j "" - HRaBaninefllBHHiT GRAVE LY'S CELEBRATED Real Chewing Plwfl Before the lnvnU?n Of our Patent Air Pr iai Potfftfc Many Dealers Could Net I c, the Flavor and Frashnsci in REAL GRAVELY PLUG TODACCO Now the Patent Pc ic!i Keeps It Fresh and Clean and Good. A Little Ch5w c! Gra!y Is Enough and Lasts Longorthan n bia chaw ef ordinary plug- YOU OUGHT TO TKANX THAI TRAFFIC COP FOB HOLD1N& THE CROWD bau i uvw YOU A CHANV.C iu tLi THE GOOD NEWS ON MY BILLBOARD. IT SMrKCC EDUCATION in TOHALLU US) 4aShta4lw LOOK FOR THE PROTECTION SEAL-IT IS NOT REAL GRAVELY -yyiTHgirT 'THIS SEALj CZAR AND KAISER.- Both Titles Mean tha Same ajpcfc-Are Dsrivad From Caesar. It seems strange that two words bo different in sound and spelling as czar and kaiser are the same. Both aro but changes made In the course of nearly 2,0(10 years in the word cacsar. All the Roman emperors took their title from the tlrst emperor our old. friend of schoolboy days Julius Cae sar. When Charlemagne founded the holy Roman empire and was crowned emperor, he took the name eaesar or, In tho frnnklsh form, kaiser. When the modern German empire was estab lished In 1871 the German emperor, William I grandfather of the present kalsor, took the same title kaiser. Similarly the rulers of (he eastern empire at Constantinople, successors to the old Roman empire, called them selves eaesar. Every petty chieftain or prince In the territory surrounding the eastern empire copied the custom and called himself eaesar or czar. In the course of time, however, the greatest of these, the czar of Muskovy, conquer ed the other czars until he was the sole or practically the sole ruler called czar. However, the king of Bulgaria, when a few years ago he had himself crowned as king, took the title of czar Pitts burgh Dispatch. Tha Gordian Knot. As the old legend goes, the father of the Greek King Midas, once king of Phrygla, was originally n poor peasant. Tho people of Phrygla being much, dis turbed, an oracle had informed them that a wagon would bring them a king who would put an end to nil their troubled. Not long after this saying, Gordlus (Midas' father), suddenly ar rived In the mitfst of nn assembly of the people, riding In his wagon. At once, to the great surprise of Gordlus, they made bin king. In bis gratitude Gordlus dedicates the wagon to the god Zeus, and It was placed in the acropo lis at Gordium. The pole of the wagon was tied to the yoke by a knot of bark, and n second oracle declared that who ever untied that knot should reign over all Asia. It was Alexander who untied the knot by cutting it with Ills sword, thus assuming himself to be Uie man referred lo by the oracle. ..amor round Jiverywnero. I Among those pre eminently gifted j with humor were Abraham Lincoln, I Disraeli, Goel!JSiiid Heine, the late ' Lord Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Dick. I ens, Thackcray.'ajdlijg, Shakespeare, I Queen Elizabeth, Henry VIII., Charles II., Dr. Johnson, Charles Lamb, Emer son and Byron. The only persons who lack It altogether are madmen. Crimi nals as a whole are never without It. There Is (he case of one murderer at the bar in Loudon who on being nijkcd if there were any reason why sentence of death should not bo passed upon him replied, "No; I am disgusted with the whole proceedings." Another in a similar situation on being asked wheth er be had a last request to make said, "Well, I should like to learn to play the piano." Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Plaaaurea of Irritability. Learn how to be Irritable. When any one gays anything to you always imagine he is trying to Insult you. Few appreciate the Innocent enjoy ment to be had In snapping and snarl- big at those we meet through the day. Have things get on your nerves. If things get on your nerves you will find it an easy matter to be sour nnd surly. After awhile you will find that most anything gets on your nerves, especial ly people who are happy and cheerful. The idiots! Some people are born Irri table, others acquire it, and they all should have curses cussed upon them. Brooklyn Engle. Made For Concealment. Stick Insects, which are so called because of their resemblance to dry sticks, have two forelegs, which they fold over their eyes when disturbed and evidently think thnt In so doing they are Inst to view. The eggs of these Insects take over si; mouths to hatch. They are only one tentli of nn inch In their widest part, jet an Insect which at hatching Is three -qunilors of nn inch hi length Is paokod Into them. The stick insects destroy the weak lings soon after they are hatched by eating their legs. Exchange. Restless Nature. Nothing In net tiro Is absolutely per manentp Changes are going ou slowly, but steadily, every moment, parts of the earth being elevated above the sea, parts sinking below It, the ocean wear ing away the const In one plncc and building It out In another, and so ou to Infinity. Asphalt. Asphalt, with which so many roads are paved, was found by accident Many veins ago in Switzerland natural rock asphalt was discovered, and for more than a century II was used for the purpose of extracting the rich stores of bitumen It contained. -".ji- In Constant Training. "That ballet dancer Is wonderfully expert." "Well, she never gets out of practice for n minute. She Is always kicking." Kansas City Journal. One of Those Question "Pop!" "Well, what Is It now?" "Say, pop, did the dug star ever hnve the dipper tied to Its tall?"-Phllndel-phla Record. To Ge Sura. "The planet Saturn lias two rings." "Only two! They must lie dolug preltj well with munlclpnl reform." I .mile v I lie Com ler.l on run I. Man Is Ids own star, nnd that soul tba! can he honest Is the only perfect man. KlelHior. Notire uf Final Aceouut In tho County Court for Umatilla County, Oregon. In the matter of the estate of Maggie La Biache-Fr&nr, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigne I I. as filed her final account and report in tba above entitled mat ter, and that the above entitled Court has fixed Saturday, February S, 1018, at the hour of 10 o'clock . m., of said day as the time, and the county court room as the plac, for hearing said account and report. Objections to said final account and report should be tiled on or before said date. iMwy LaBrache-BacJdeley, Executrix. Dated January i, 1918. Torpedoes From a Submarine. The torpedo from a subma i btcjeau be fired either while 1 he subma iMtVf on the surface or completely submerged. Usually a submarine comes within ten feet of the surface, with only the peri scope showing, aud discbarges its tor pedo. If there is danger of the sub marine being fired uiion by tho ship the submarine-gets tho proper position of the ship, submerges itself complete ly nnd then fires. Notice of Final Account. In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of William H. Wood, Deceased. Notice ia hereby given to all persons whom it may concern that Arnold Wood, administrator of the estate of William H. Wood, deceased, has filed his final account and report in the ad ministration of . the estate; that the Gounty Judge by order duly made and entered has appointed Wednesday, the 27th day of February 1918, at the hour of ten oclock in the forenoon as the time and the County Court House Of Umatilla County, Oregon, as the place where all objections an! exceptions to the said final account and report will be heard and settlement thereof made. Dated this 25th day of January, A. D., 1918. Arnold Wood, Will M. Peterson, Administrator. Attorney for Administrator. 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