Advertising The cAthsna Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend mm 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 Mull Matter VOLUME XXX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 23, 1918. NUMBER 3 mmiMiinmiM' I Quality Always Service First Fresh 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 MMOMOUIlMBlMIMH - - 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 hiiiiimhiiiimimimmmmiiiihmmhiuhiiim WSS Show Your Patriotism! Buy a War Savings Stamp and Help Win the War Hi For Sale at The First National Bank of o4thena miiinniiiiiMHHM Farmers Help Finance the War by the ex pansion of your credit in a safe way Trade Acceptance Paper The Trade Acceptance works to our mutual advantage. It gives you additional time when needed to get retwna from your crop and puts your accounts in negotiable form which enables us to realize on accounts at a 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 Asaaociation of Credit Hen and others. The Trade Acceptance will be'used hereafter on all open accounts of over SO days standing. Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co. nimitm mimMmmiiMimmninm LADS "OVER THERE" Been in It From Start. "Somewhere in France, July 2R, IS. "Dear Mother: I received a letter from you today the first one for about a month. We have been moving so much lately that our mail has hardly had time to catch up with us. We sure have been going some since this drive started We hive been in it from the start, and it is a long way from being finished yet. Our battery has sure been lucky. We have not lost a man, so far. There has only been three men killed in the regiment and five gas cases, so you can see that we have had the upper hand of the boche all the way through. The coun try was sure strewn with dead Ger mans. "This will be all the 'war gas' I will give you. as you have had more of it than 1 could give you. Your mail is not censored coming this way. I can not send a request for anything. We have to get the permit from the Col onel, and then it has to be very neces sary. I will write you a longer letter in a day or two. Tell all the boys hello for me. We are all feeling fine, even Sam. I never felt better, so don't worry. "We are about through the worst part of the drive, as ive have the boche on the run now, and he won't stop until he gets to his old line, if he will stop then. Corp. Ed Sebaskv. 118 F. A. Battery D." John In a Tic lit Place. "On Active Service. July 80, '18 "Dear Mother: I haven't received a letter from you for some time, but guess the mail is held up some place on account of the drive. They have given us permission to write home about the battle, 30 I will try to tell you about the part I took: "For a week before the drive start ed, I was stationed about five hundred yards from the Marne river. We were billeted ill a small town, acting as a guard or outpost. When the drive started, the Boche put over a barrage that CDvered every foot, of giound for twelve or fifteen miles back. They claim it was as bad as the one at Ver dun, and it lasted for about ten hours. When it started we all went in a cellar and stayed until it slowed up a little. The house was blown down over us and every building in town blown to piec es. As soon as the barrage lifted the Boche started coming across the river, and as the Machine Gun companies were wiped out by the shells, there was nothing to stop them and before we knew what had happened, we were completely surrounded. "I sure thought my time had come. And there were only sixteen of us, but we started fighting with our rifles and finally an officer and about 50 men got with us. And ther; is sure a lot of Boches that will never see the Fa therland any more. Most of the Boch es were just kids and they would begin hollowing 'Kamerad,' as soon as they got close enough; but after a fellow has seen a few of his own men blown to pieces, he doesn't pay much attention to what they say, and when the machine guns and rifles opened up. they fell like grain before a mower. About the only prisoners that we took were just the ones that were lucky enough to get through our lines, and these amounted to about 1000 for the day. "We fought all day the 15th and all night, until the next day about noon, without anything to eat rnd very little drinking water. And then reinforce ments came and the handful of men that was holding the line were re lieved. Believe me, I was all in and was surprised to get back of the line once more, for during the battle 1 didn't think I would ever get out alive. I guess I was pretty lucky, for once a fellow that was lying right against me, got his, with machine gun, and another time a shell blew them up all around me and I came out without a scratch. 'The reinforcements drove them back across the river and have got them on the run yet. I went back to the front for a few days and helped clean up thebattle field, but didn't have to fight any more. At present I am sitl in;; in a big room in a swell chateau, writing this letter on a ma hogany table. It has sure been a Swell place. The people had to leave because of shell fire. Pvt. John L. Wall, H. Q. Co., 38th Inf. Clarence Gar Wounded. W. E. Dobson has received the fol lowing from Clarence Gay, a former Athena boy who enlisted from Toppen ish, Wash.: "July 81, 1018 "Base HospitalNo. 27. This is the 15th day since 1 went down this is also the 1st day I have been up. Of course it was not that bad, but when you haven't anything to wear, why get up? "Did not have a very bad wound, only a little bullet wound. Went in on my left aide and came out on my right but it was one of those lucky shots. Just wrote a letter to the folks was not much to tell them. Am get ting along fine a long, long way from the grave. Would lots rather be going over the top than back here in a hospital, although am not alone, have plenty of company. Give my best to all. Clarence Gay, Co. F., Pth U. S. Inf. Jack Murphy has returned from Thorn Hollow where he worked on the Pendleton water works ditcb dur iVg'.the jiHye'r. MURDER OF NATION BY RUTHLESS HUNS How the Poles Were Slain and Starved and Frozen During the German Drive. F. C. Walcott Tells of the Scenes of Horror He Witnessed Along the Road From Warsaw to Plnsk Million Persons Homeless. This I hive seen. I could not believe It unless I had seen It through and through. For sev eral weeks I lived with It; I went all about It and back of It; inside and out of It waa shown to ma until finally I came to reallxe that the Incredible was true. It Is monstrous, it Is un thinkable, but it exists. It Is the Prussian system. F. C. Walcott I frW'Hwwmwmw The following Is a statement by F. C. Walcott, who served as an assist ant to Mr. Hoover during the time America was doing all that wns pos sible to feed the starving million's of Belgium and Poland and northern France. In this work he wns brought In direct contact with German military officials, and saw the conditions which the German Invasion had created among the civilian population : I went to Poland to learn the facts concerning the remnant of n people thnt had been decimated by war. The country had been twice devastated. First the Russian army swept through It and then the Germans. Along the roadside from Warsaw to Plnsk, the present firing line, 230 miles, nearly half a million people had died of hun ger and cold. The way was strewn with their bones picked clean by the crows. With their usual thrift, the Germans were collecting the larger bones to be milled Into fertilizer, but finger and toe bones lay on the ground with the mud-covered and rnln-soaked clothing. Wicker baskets were scattered along the way the basket In which the bnby swlngs from the rafter In every peas ant home. Every mile there were scores of them, each one telling a death. I started to connt, but after n little I had to give M tap, there were so many. That Is the desolation one saw nlong the great road from Warsaw to Plnsk, mile after mile, more than two hun dred miles. They told me a million people were made homeless In six weeks of the German drive In August and September, 1016. They told me four hundred thousand died on the way. The rest, scarcely half nllve, got through with the Russian army. Many of these have been Bent to Si beria ; It Is these people whom the Paderewskl committee Is trying to re lieve. In the refugee camps, 300,000 sur vivors of the flight were gathered by the Germans, members of broken fam ines. They were lodged In jerry-built barracks, scarcely water-proof, nn llghted, unwarned In the dead of win ter. Their clothes, where the buttons were lost, were sewed on. There were no conveniences, they had not even been able to wash for weeks. Filth and Infection from vermin were spreading. They were famished, their daily ration a cup of soup and a piece of bread as big as my fist. In Warsaw, which had not been de stroyed, a city of one million Inhab itants, one of the most prosperous cit ies of Europe before the war, the streets were lined with people In the pangs of starvation. Famished and rnln-sonked, they squatted there, with their elbows on their knees or lean ing against the buildings, too feeble to lift a hand for a bit of money or a morsel of brend If one offered It, per ishing of hunger and cold. Charity did what It could. The rich gave all that they had, the poor shared their last crust. Hundreds of thousands were perishing. Day and night the pictures Is before my eyes a people starving, a nation dying. The above statement by Mr. Wnl cott Is a terrible arraignment of the Hun, but no more terrible than he deserves. What has happened In Poland, In Belgium, In northern France and every other country that has been blighted by the Hun's pres ence would happen In America should the allies, by any chance, fall to win this war. It would mean the enslave ment of American men, the starving and death of American women and chil dren. Either the Huu or humanity must perish. YANKEES RESTING BETWEEN FIGHTS KILLED BY GERMAN HELMET American Soldier Hunting Sou venir Picked Up Charged Headpiece. 8hamokIn, Pa. Writing from a dug out In No Man's Land, France, Leo Comer, a corporal In the Twenty-third TJnlted States Infantry, forwarded to his sister here, Miss Cecelia Comer, a bunch of strange flowers he had gath ered while on patrol duty. Coiner had promised a younger brother a German iteel helmet as a war relic, but In writing Informed the brother that be was doomed to dis appointment nntll the Americans reach Berlin. He had seen a fellow soldier pick tip a steel helmet and then fall dead. The helmet bad been electrically charged by the Germans. Here is a detachment of the Amerlcnn troops that did such brilliant fighting on the west front, converting the Hun offensive into n Hun disaster and retreat. They are resting by the roadside, smoking, joking ami light hearted, and ready to jump Into the fight again. HAS WON RESPECT OF ALL '. LAND OF QUAINT BELIEFS British Working Man, "Making Good" as Soldier, Will Never Again Be Butt of Jesters. What the poor citizen wants Is not charity, or even sympathy, still less regulation; It Is respect, which is the social soil of self-respect. That is why he Is sometimes happier as a soldier, In spite of ull the sickening horrors of soldiering; because Immunity always bus respected, and always will respect, n soldier. Thus, Gilbert K. Chesterton, writ ing in the Illustrated Loudou News, j sums up an argument which, among j its premises, contains the following: "After all, It will be well to remem- j ber that nearly every battalion Is n labor battalion. The commonest typo In the trenches, the object of such wide and well-deserved praise In the press and the public speeches, Is, after uii. Identical with another type a common object of the streets and the comic papers. The British soldier Is generally our old friend the British working man. "He has lived by trades that are too often treated as merely grimy or grotesque ; and in the case of new and almost crude conscript armies, like those we have lately raised, he has gen erally quite recently dropped those tools and left those trades. It Is the plumber, who is charged with potter ing about for days before he stops a small leak in a pipe, who bus often In a few minutes stopped with bis body the breach in the Inst dyke of civiliza tion, lest It should let In n sen of sav agery; and there may even be fewer jokes about his soldering, now they can be answered by a pun about his soldiering. It Is the cabman, who was supposed to grumble unduly at a very different sort of fare, and especially at at the sort we cull warfare." Would Take the Job. Into the office of flic Wall Street Journal there ventured n small boy, awed by the great adventure of getting his first job. Timidly he approached an editor and explained what ho wanted. "Hm," quoth the vetcrnn to tho would-be recruit, "It's too bad, but there are no vacancies now, unless you would like to be managing editor. How about thnt?" The youngster began to back away. "Oh," be gasped, "I wouldn't like that at all." Yesterday he came hack, with des peration In his eye, and marched up to the veteran. "I've changed my mind," ho an--:.'.nced. "When do I start In?" Superstitions Rife In England's Black Country Are Among the Strangest Put on Record. Taking into consideration the fact thnt it Is a typical Industrial area, It Is strange that the Black country sin mid be such a hotbed of supersti tion. A dog howling In front of a house In the night Is a sure sign of the ap proaching dentil of one of the house hold. The dog, however, must howl In tho front and not at the bnck of the house. A marble rolling down the stairs means thnt one of the Children Is bound to die. When linking was Invariably done at home there was the superstition thnt If the top of the loaf canio off In the oven death would soon overtake some member of the family. A lilnck country miner Is full of su perstitions. If he dreams of lire or meets on going to work n cross-eyed woman or a wooden-legged man he will not descend the mine. Something is sure to happen If lie does nt least, he thinks so. The strangest of nil superstitions, however, Is associated with common or gnrdou parsley. There is nothing wrong about sowing the seed and rais ing the herb, but It must not be trans planted. Most terrible things nre bound to happen If this Is done! Lou don Mall. RAIN HOLDS GRAIN HARVESTING ftain has seriously interfered with harvest opcrat'ons and unless fair wea ther results shortly, the damage to wheat is going to be severely felt by the grower. In tho immediate vicinity of Athena there is but little grain standing, but north and west of here and in the foot hills, there is yet a large acreage to harvest. It is said there is already some loss sustained by tho wet weath er in the matter of lowering the grade on the grain standing in the fields. McEwen Bros, have contracts for cutting and threshing about 1300 acres yet, in the vicinity of Helix. John Walter has over 1100 acres to thresh. Lumsden & Wcod, operating a self piopellor, are waiting to cut 500 acres, and the Joe Cannon outfit has about three weeks yet to run, including somo threshing on mountain ranches east of town. There are many others who are not yet through harvesting, and the rain is beignning to cause much worry. REMEMBER. IF YOU ARE 21, REGISTER TOMORROW Al male persons must register (citizens or aliens) born between Juno B, 1897 and August 21, 1807, both in clusive except officers and enlisted men of the regular army, navy and marine corps and the national gua'd while in federal service and officers in officers' reserve corps, and enlisted men in enlisted reserve corps while In active service. When On Saturday, August 21, 191B, between 7 a. m. and 0 a. m. Where At office of local hoard having jurisdiction where person to be registered permanently resides or oth er place designated by that local board. If you are in doubt as to what to do or where to register consult your local board. Failure to register is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for ono year. It may result in loss of valuable rights and privileges and immediate induction into military service. Do not confuse this call for regis tration, which is only for men who have reached their 21st birthday since June, 5 with the coming registration of men from IS to "0 and from Ha to 15 inclusive, which will be held some time early in September, Diet for Weight Reduction. Fuel is the main food requirement of the body. A certain amount of fuel keeps the engines of the body working normally and produces energy. The .surplus of fuel derived from the food forms layers of fat. So It is evident thnt the mutter of keeping the body weight where you wish to have It Is merely n matter of arithmetic, says Popular Science Monthly. Certain foods have an enormous fuel value In comparison with others. Kor Instance, It would require $0 worth of lettuce and tomato salad to furnish the amount of energy that .'SO cents' worth of butter or 10 cents' worth of sugar would supply. No one would think of feeding exclusively on any of these foods, but It Is easy to see that the Itinllnlioii of butter and sugar and flu! Introduction of such foods ns let tuce, tomatoes, celery, carrots, spin ach and fruits, ull of which have low fuel value, Instead of fats, milk, crcitm and oil, pastry and sweets, would enor mously reduce the fat-forming ele ineufs in the diet and yet Ull the stom ach and satisfy hunger,, Home Demonstration Here. Miss l.orene Parker, Homo Demon stration Agent, was in the city yes terday and made arrangements to meet witli Afhena women next Wednesday afternoon . t the iccit! Red Cross bead- quarters, where she will give demon stratlons using coin sirup in canning; and preserving fruits. Canning, dry ing ami brining will he discussed anil the making of preserves and jams, us ing corn sirup. The afternoon is reg ular Red Cross day, and demonstrations will begin atJIiliO. Tries for Appointment. Halph llnssell has received notice to report at Whitman College Augast 27th for examination in military sci ence and tactics to determine hlfl til -ncss and eligibility for entrance in .' central training school for Infantry officer candidates. It is understood that since the age limit is to be raised in the service, there will he an excel lent opportunity for men of qualifica tions in the infantry officers training schools. The staging on the new grain ele vator is being dismantled, the con crete work having been completed. Fall Coats Our stocks are now complete with Ladies' new Fall Coats. Many beautiful plush and cloth Coats will be found in Athena this season. More new things will be arriving daily, and if you 11 step in we will be only too glad to show you these wonderful values. Our buyers ship the very latest creations to us the very moment they are produced in New York. 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