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Advertising The cAthena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend mttm item Subscription Rates One Copy, one year, $1,50; for six months, 75c; for three months, 50c; payable in advance, and subscrip tions are solicited on no other basis Entered at the Post Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME XXX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 16, 1918. NUMBER 33 IIIMMI Quality Always Service First Iresh Emits and Vegetables Everybody is trying to conserve, save and help the government iu every way possible. Fresh fruits and vegetables are doing their part to win the war and we make it our special business to carry in stock the best that farm and garden afford along this line and shall be pleased to serve you. Please remember that our stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries are not excelled in tne city for quality and purity, cleanliness and freshness. Lots of Fruit Jars at the right price. THE . ECONOMY GASH GROCERY Phone 532 Quality Always Service First LETTERS FROM OUR CRUELTY AND LUST LADS "BIER THERE" WEAPOHSuF HUNS Conquered Peoples Shamefully Treated for Advantage of the German State. Reed's Plain and Anti Rust Tinware Reed's Tinware is so well known in every locality that it is needless for us to dwell upon its merits. In this line we are now showing Wash Boilers, Striners Dairv Pails and Laundry Dippers Watts & Rogers Just Over the Hill IIIIIIIIIIIHimillMMMIIUiniMltlMHItMHI wss Show Your Patriotism! Buy a War Savings Stamp and Help Win the War fliiiiniiiii For Sale at The First National Bank of cAthena IIIIIIIIMIMIHHIII mnmniiiniuH Farmers Help Finance the War by the ex pansion of your credit in a safe way Trade Acceptance Paper Tha Trade Acceptance works to our mutual advantage. It gives you additional time when needed to get returns from your crops and puts your accounts in negotiable form which enables us to realize on accounts at time when we are badly in need of money. This incurs no additional obliagtion on your part. The Trade Acceptance is being adopted by business houses in all lines of industry throughout the country and has the endorsement of the Fedreal Reserve Board, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the Na tional Asssociation of Credit Hen and others. The Trade Acceptance will beused hereafter on all open accounts of over SO days standing. Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co. IIMIHMIII imimmiiiiiihii mini minim "July 14, 1918. "My Dear Mother: Am feeling fine and hope this will find all well. We are at the front at last, have been here seven days. We celebrated the Fourth of July in good American style by starting for the front. That sure was a fine town that we were billeted in before we left for the front. The French people used us as if w ? were their own kids. The day before ve left for the front they made us a pres ent of a 52 gallon barrel of vin blanc. We had a band concert that night so we had a real good time. All the peo ple there want us to come back when we get on leave; even the Mayor in vited us back. You can see that we are upholding our rep. the same as if we were in the States. Where we have been once we are slways wel corned hack. "We have been having fun with Fritz Bince we have been here. We have managed to keep him awake about every night. But here's the joke: A few nights ago we didn't do a thing. It was about 2 a. m. We got an order to slip the Hun about a hundred rounds of pork-and-beans. Well, we just got our gun loaded when wejjot an order not to fire. We never let a gun stand with a charge in it, and the easiest way to take the charge out is to unload it on the Boche. Well, we sure must have knocked a tub of beer over for him, for he sure got peeved. He turned loose on us and never quit until about 4:30 and never came within a mile of us. As we didn't do any more firing that night, I bet he is still patting himself on the back thinking he decorated us with the wooden cross. "We have the advantage of Aero planes, and as the airplanes and obser vation balloons are the eyes of the ar tillery, it is more guess-work for the Hun than it is for us. We have done some fine shooting since we have been here. If the States only hurry up and get a bunch of planes over here, we'll feel as safe with our guns as if we were at home. "Tell Fay Le Grow that I got his letter, and tell Father O'Hagan that I saw a Chinaman working on the road here, whistling 'Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came From There.' Oh yes, there were no Irish men around, so he is still alive. Tell all the bunch hello, and to drop me a line. Have not got my mail for about a month. Well, I have to ring off as I have to go after ammunition tonight. Corp. Ed Sebasky, 148 F. A., Bat. D." r... ! . t ? i Percy to Be a Sergeant. "Angers, France, July IB "My Dear Mother: Just a I reply to your most welcome which I received yesterday and 1918. ine in letter wo-ds sar rd. is hen her ant and to lys ng ;ar of to ore rs. inn win men mat iic ib nuvv 111 the very thick of the combat: "July 19, 1918 "I have just come out of about 48 hours of the worst hell a man ever went through. You will see in the papers about the Boche making a drive on the Maine, and I was in the thick est of it for a day and night, but came out without a scratch. They say it was the worst bomi ardment the Ger mans ever put over, and it was a fail ure; ,80 1 guess the Boches begin to think they are whipped. One Amer ican is good for about five Boches, and I tried to account for three. Will be glad when I can tell you all about it. I lost my coat and everything in the drive, all I got away with was my rifle and the clothes I had on, so you can send me anothe- one of your pictures. I haven't seen a soul that I knew in the States, but hope to run across them later. I sure am homesick, and I think every fellow over here is. I dread the winter. Will let you know if you can send the sweater and sox. "Athena must be a lonesome place with all the young felolws gone. Have any of the Athena girls joined the Red Cross nurses yet? John L. Wall, H. Q. Co., Hath Inf. Harvest Slow at Nolin. The harvest in Umatilla county has been slower in the vicinity of Nolin than in other parts of the county, re ports the East Oregonian. The harvest there is not more than one-fourth completed and it will yet be fully 20 days before it will be over. A few even say it will take longer than that to finish. There has been considerable rain in that part of the county since harvest opened, and that coupled with heavy winds had tended to slow up the work. HEAVY WORK ON THE FIGHTING LINE Rain this morning again stopped threshing. Prussian Officers Callously Tell How Starvation and Abuse Are Made to Serve Their Purpose Cap tive Women Made Slaves. This I have seen. I could not believe It unless I had seen It through and through. For r.cv cral weeks I lived with It; I went all about It and back of It; Inside and out of It was shown to me until finally I came to realize that the Incredi ble was true. It Is monstrous, it is unthinkable, but It exists. It Is the Prussian system. F. C. Walcott. No more graphic description of the ravages of the German soldiery upon the civilian population of Invaded countries has been given than Is con tained In the brief and simple state ments of F. C. Walcott, now connected with the United States food adminis tration, who was assistant to Mr. Hoover while America was feeding Belgium, Poland and northern France. In one of these statements Mr. Wal cott says : Even now I find It hard to describe In comprehensible terms the mind of official Germany, which dominates and shapes all German thought and action. Yet It Is as hard, as clear-cut, as real as any material thing. I saw It In Poland, I saw the same thing In Bel gium, I heard of It In Serbia and Rou manla. For weeks It was always be fore me, always the same. Officers talked freely, frankly, directly. All the staff officers have the same view. Let me try to tell It, as General von Kries told me, In Poland, In the midst of a dying nation. Germany Is des tined to rule the world, or at least a great part of It. The German people are so much human material for build ing the German state, other people do not count. All Is for the glory and might of the German state. The lives of human beings are to be conserved only If It makes for the state's ad vancement, their lives are to be sacri ficed If it Is to the state's advantage. The state Is all, the people are noth ing. Conquered people signify little In the German account. Life, liberty, happiness, human sentiment, family ties, grace and generous Impulse, these have no place beside the one concern, the greatness of the German state. Starvation must excite no pity ; sym pathy must not be allowed, If It ham pers the main design of promoting Germany's ends. "Starvation Is here," said General Yon Krles. "Candidly, we would llko to see It relieved ; we fear our soldiers may be unfavorably affected by the things that they see. But since It Is here, starvation must serve eur pur pose. So we set It to work for Ger many. By starvation we can accom plish In two or three years In East Poland more than we have In West Poland, which Is East Prussia, In the last hundred years. With that In view, we propose to turn this force to our advantage. "This country Is meant for Ger many," continued the keeper of starv ing Poland. "It Is a rich alluvial country which Germany has needed for some generations. We propose to remove the able-bodied working Poles from this country. It leaves It open for the Inflow of German working peo ple as fast as we can spare them. They will occupy It and work It." Then with a cunning smile, "Can't you see how It works out? By and by we shall give back freedom to Poland. When that happens Polafcd will appear automatically as a German province." In Belgium, General von Hissing told me exactly the same thing. "If the relief of Belgium breaks down we can force the Industrial population In to Germany through starvation and colonize other Belgians In Mesopo tamia where we have planned large Irrigation works; Germans will then overrun Belgium. Then when the war Is over and freedom Is given back to Belgium, It will be a German Belgium that Is restored. Belgium will bo a German province and we havo Ant werpwhich Is what we ore after." That Is not alL Removing the men, that the land may be vacant for Ger man occupation, that German stock may replace Belgians, Poles, Serbians, Armenians, and now Roumanians, Ger many does more. Women left captive are enslaved. Germany makes all manner of lust its Instrumentality. The other day a friend of mine told mc of a man just returned from north ern France. "I cannot tell you the de tails," he said, "man to man, I don't want to repeat what I heard." Some of the things he did tell shocking mutilation and moral murder. He told of women, by the score, In occupied territory of northern France, prisoned In underground dungeons, tethered for the use of their bodies by officers and If this Is not a piece of the Prussian aystem, it Is the logical product of dis regard of the rights of others. Germany has limited the amount that prisoners may spend to $15 a wees tor officers and $12.50 for privates. & v.r. wlS'f'. - . ,,,i, m nw, r i These powerful American artillerymen, with huge crowbars, are working fast to get their heavy gun Into position to hurt Its shells at the retreating Huns. It Is a difficult job, for the earth Is pitted with shell craters. AUGUST 24 SET FOR JUKI HUM COMPANY ADOPTS REGISTRATION OF BOYS TRADE ACCEPTANCE FEATURE The following order was received Wednesday afternoon f-om Adjutant General Crowder, by the draft board at Pendleton, and sent out for publi cation over the county: Men who have reached the age of 21 I since June 5, 1918, on or before Au gust 24, 1918, must register for mil itary service on August 21 1918. ' i This registration is not to be con fused with the registration which is now pending bafore congress. This registration is ordered by proclamation of President Wilson. Instead of having registration dis tricts in the county asv: previous reg istrations, all men will bo required to register at the court hcuse in Pendle ton on August 24, 1918. The draft board is also in receipt of instructions from the adjutant general that the board will bo called upon to fill vacancies caused in drafts from t e counly by rejection of men sent for the various drafts. About 20 men will be required for this purpose. FIRST OF TROOP 0 GIVES LIFE ON WEST FRONT The East Oregonian reports that Benjamin Ray Carlson is the first member of Troop D that left Umatilla county last year to be reported in the casualty lists. A letter received by the First National Bank of Pendleton from the Grundy Center National bank (Jrundy Center. Iowa, tells the news of his being killed in action in France July 111. His mother who lives at that place desires io learn something of his effects that may have been left in Pen dleton, also any friends lie may have had there. It has been learned that Carlson left a trunk and suit case with Penland brothers and beyond this very little can be learned about him. He is said to have been quite friendly with H. F. Stoner, one of Troop D, anu it is thought he is a young man who worked as a barber at the Eagle Baths on Main street in Pendhton. Plenty of Yarn. According to Secretary Roosvelt of the Umatilla County Red Cross, the announcement by the War Industries board that hand knitting is to bo checked in order to save wool for army clothing, will not affect his or ganization for some time. The Chap ter has about $2000, worth of wool in hand, which will last for some time. The manager of the Turn A-Lum Lumber Company, in discussing the Trade Acceptance feature now being generally adopted by lumber com panies, said: "The Trade Acceptance, although used for many years in he leading Euronean countries, has only reeently been introduced in tnis country. Its use, however, is being rapidly em ployed by business houses engaged in various lines of industry throughout the country, who have no hesitancy in adopting it because it has the approv al of the Federal Reserve Board, the the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Credit Men. the American Bankers' Association and others. "We consider the placing of bus iness on the Trade Acceptance basis a patriotic duty. In this present crit ical time of our country's existence, the call comes to each of us to do 'his hit.' Placing our accounts on a solid I banking basis is a step in the right I direction. The Tiade Acceptance, I while developing advantages to both buyer and seller, offers a means to that end." Summoned for August. Calls for 180,207 draft registrants qualified for general military service to join the colors oefore the end of August were issued this week by the Provost Marshal-General. One hun dred thousand white registrants from 48 states are ordered entrained be tween August 22 and August 80. Twenty-one States and the District of Columbia are directed to furnish 80, 207 negro registrants, to entrain Au gust 22-21. These orders bring the number of men called out in August to about 800,001), the number contem plated in the present military pro gamine. Oregon must have 1000 men In this draft. Fifty men have been called from Umatilla county, to report at Pendleton August 2a and will en train for Camp Lewis August 27th. Those who will report from Athena are: Jesse Myiick and Charles Payne. Tractor Demonstration. A great tractor and implement dem- ' onstration will take place at Portland September D, 0 and 7, at which time J will be seen in actual operation prnc J tieully every tractor manufactured or sold on the Pacific Coast. The demon ' stration will be held under the super ' vision of the Portland Implement and Tractor Association, and is sanctioned by the Oregon Agricultural College. The State Game and Fish Commis sion has designated September 1st to 7th inclusive as open season for shoot ing male Ch:na pheasants in Umatilla countv. Permits will be given those, holding hunting licenses to kill five birds during the period of the seven day season, five male birds being the limit for any one person. The open season was delcared by the commission upon complaints that the birds were doing dimage to crops and truck gardens in localities such as Mil-ton-Freewater, Hermiston and other places. In view of the fact that in the grain districts, where the birds do not damage crops, and where there is a difference of opinion whether the birds should be hunted. Game Warden Tonkin, who was in the city Wednes day, advises that it will be well for hunters to first secure permission of the landowrer before entering upon premises to hunt pheasants. By doing this, the hunter would be conforming to the provisions of the law, and the owner, if he did not want the pheasants on his land disturbed, could have the opportunity to refuse permission to allow hunting on his premises. The warden cautions hunters to be especially careful in obeying the pro visions of the law which prohibits shooting from railway rights of-way and the public highways. So, if you want to kill your five male pheasants during the first seven days of Septem ber, be sure you have your hunting license, secure a permit from Foss' Hardware, get permission of a farm er friend to hunt on his land, and be safe from trouble by not shooting from public highway or right of way. Nurses Reserve Filled. The full quota for the student nurses reserve, allotted to Umatilla county, has been filled, Athena furnishing two of the applicants, Miss Georgia Hew- - ett and Miss Josephyne Clarke. Wes ton also gives' two, being Mrs. Gladys McFadden, wife of Lieutenant C. L. McFadden, now in France, and Miss Gladys Smith, formerly an Athena girl. The names of those who signed up are given as follows: Miss Edna Clark of Pendleton. Miss Laura Franz of Hermiston, Miss Nina Fender of Pendleton, Miss Georgia Hewett of Athena, Leon Budswell of Milton, Miss Josephyne Clarke of Athena, Miss Florence Guderain of Pilot Rock, all in the preferred class; Mrs. Rena Ad dams of Pendleton, Miss Adelaide Johnson of Hermiston, Mrs. tiladys McFadden of Weston, Miss Gladys Smith of Weston, Miss Louise Cahill of Pendleton, in the deferred class. Stockman Found Dead. Walter S. Bruckman, a well known stockman of Wallowa county, was found dead last Monday at the bottom of a canyon alongside a trail, by thu children of Gus StlimbaUgh, who were returning frnm school. They first no ticed a dead pack mule lying In the canyon, and going down to it, found the corpse of L'rockman. Just how the man and pack animal fell oil' the trail into the canyon below has not been decided. Vernon at Round-Up, Buffalo Vernon liai notified the Hound-Up officials that lie will be on band next month to take pait in the big wild. west exhibition. He is now at Ronan, Mont., und--U'ill -ship-,a new ly purchased roping horse which he touts as being the best ho ever be strode. Vernon lias long been popular with Round-Up crowds and was the first man to bulldog a steer in tho Pen leton arena. Fa Domestics Now is the time to lay in your Fall Domestics while our stock is complete, and prices much lower than one would think, considering the many advances. Buying from six months to one year ahead, is why we are able to quote you these prices at this time. Hope Muslin ... 28c Lonsdale Muslin - - 28c Fruit of Loom Muslin - 28c Berkley Cambric 00 - 27 l-2c Berkley Cambric 100 - 82l-2c Texas house lining - - dc Polo unbleached Muslin 12 1 2c Our Brand unbleached Muslin 15c Pepperel 9-4 blcachedSheeting 52c Foxeroft 9-4 unbleached " 49c Eagle Ticking - - He Berlin Art Ticking - -Mc PeqUot 12-inch Tubing - 45c Pequot ISInch Tubing - 48c Indian Head 40-inch Tubing - 8Gc Imperial 15-inch Tubing - 28c White and dark outing flannel 25c 28 inch canton flannel - . 2 Be-80c Pequot pillow cases pr. We I trjox pillow cases pr. - 01c Acorn pillow cases pr. - 48c Saranac pillow cases pr. - U8c Turkish Towels, 2-19, 2 t$, $-80, il-49, 2 09