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Advertising The oArhena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend me mem Subscription Rates One Copy, one year, $2.00; for six months, $1; for three months, 75c; 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. SEPTEMBER 27, 1918. NUMBER 39 AMERICANS ASKED TO LIMIT USE OF SUGAR Must Use No More Than Two Pounds Per Person a Month if the Present Meagre Allied Sugar Ration Is Maintained. Stocks Will Be Short Until Beginning of New Year Ration May Be Enlarged Then. Two pounds of sugar a month half pound a week that Is the sugar ra tion the U. S. Food Administration has asked every American to observe until January 1, 1919, In order to make sure there shall be enough for our Army and Navy, for the Allied armies and for the civilians of those nations. By New Year's the world, sugar sit uation will be relieved somewhat by the new crop. Cuban sugar of this year's crop will be arriving In this country. Every available sugar source will be drawn on by the Food Administration during the next winter months to main tain sufficient stocks here to keep up our national sugar supply. During Oc tober the first American beet sugar will arrive In the markets. By the middle of November some of our Lou isiana cane crop will be available. All of this sugar and more may be needed to keep this nation supplied on a re duced ration and to safeguard the Al lied sugar ration from still further reduction. In Europe the present ra tion Is. already reduced to a minimum. Our Situation. The situation which the United States faces In Its efforts to maintain a fair distribution of sugar to the Al lied world Is as follows : Sugar supplies throughout the coun try, in homes, stores, factories and bakeries are at a low ebb. We must make Increased sugar shipments to' the Allies. Production of American beet and Louisiana cane crops have been disap pointing. Porto Rico crops have been cur tailed. Immense sugar stocks in Java can not be reached on account of the ship ping shortage; ships are needed for troop movements and munitions. Army and Navy sugar requirements have increased as well as those from the Allies. Most industries using sugar have had their allotment reduced by one-half; some will receive no sugar. Households should make every ef fort to preserve the fruit crop without sugar, or with small amounts of sugar. Later, when the sugar supply Is larg er, the canned fruit may be sweetened as It is used. TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS AT NIGHT Handicaps of Fog and Darkness Have Been Overcome by Development of New Process. Neither fog nor darkness handicaps the supereyes of the war department signal corps' cameras, according to Edward Hungerford, who describes the remarkable progress of wartime aerial photography In Everybody's. He gives some Interesting examples : "I have seen n photograph of a wan ing moon over Borne taken by the new process. It Is the first real pic ture of the moon that I have ever seen, although I formerly attempted the thing myself. Most of the moonlight pictures that one sees are 'fakes,' made by photographing the sun in various unusual and artistic phases. But this was real. One could see the tiny pools of water standing In the uneven places of the flagging, the flickering street lamps at the corner. A picture whose reality almost makes It uncanny. And the photographer who took the picture In the rain was ar rested by n gendarme as being mental ly unsound. He was only released when he took a picture of the lieuten ant at the police station and proved beyond a question that he could make good portraits by artificial light. "I have seen photographs made by this new process from the front row of a theater balcony during the progress of the play; others made in church during vespers and Illumined entirely by the candles upon the high altar. The process is very new and It Is very wonderful. Moreover, It Is susceptible of adaptation to night observation, both from airplanes and upon the land." A thin fellow got the socks because the old soldier thought he would need them most. The train pulled out and the little old soldier went back home to knit nnother pair of socks for an other young soldier. Then the Fight Started. Three men emerged from a Sixth avenue wet goods establishment last night. They were apparently the best of friends. One snld: "Well, Doyle, I'm glad we are all Irish. But let me tell ycr, the best men come from Lim erick." Doyle said he didn't know about that. "I'm from Kerry" And imme diately a fight started. The third man declnred. he was from Kilkenny. "And no Kilkenny man stood by wlien there was any fighting to be done, begorra." And when the three were pulled apart by three cops they were a sight to behold. It was hard to tell from the appearance of the three which county In Ireland produced the best men. New York Times. SPIRIT OF AMERICA TODAY Veteran's Pathetic Gift Showed That His Heart Still Beat High With Patriotic Fervor. An old man, thin and bent with the years of hardships plainly marking his wrinkled face, stood on a station plat form at an Indiana town recently as a train bearing a party of young men registrants to Camp Taylor stopped. The old man wore a faded blue uni form, the badge of the Civil war. He had a message for the young men who were to be enrolled in Uncle Sam's great army, and soon he was surround ed by a group of young fellows. "I wasn't counting on getting to talk to so many of you boys," he told them tremulously. "I Just came down 'to give something to one of Uncle Sam's new soldiers." He drew a parcel torn tinder his coat and opening 4t displayed a pair of almost perfectly knitted socks. "They ain't much for my country," he apolo gised, "but they will help some young fellow to fight better. These don't look like much for a soldier to give, but I knitted them myself and I bought the irn of my YrWF"1 uioneJ." Margery Disapproved. Margery's mother took her to a cot tage prayer meeting. The meeting wns led by a returned missionary who be lieved strongly In the efficacy of pray er. And she believed in prayer not only from the heart but from the knees, as well. "When Margery's father returned that night he began to question her regarding he experience. "I under stand you went to your first prayer meeting today, daughter," he said. "How did you enjoy it?" The youngster's answer came in a flash. "I didn't like it at all, daddy, not at all," she said. "They didn't do a thing but Just sing and turn over I" 1 - Shipbuilding In a Dry Dock. It has been proposed that concrete ships be built in a floating dry dock, the principal advantage being that the forms could be retained In the dock go they could be used Immediately after launching, for another snip. The launching would be effected by with drawing the outer forms slightly and sinking the dry dock until the ship floated on Its own bottom. This would avoid severe launching strains, and would permit of launching the boat while the concrete was still "green." Hence there would be a reduction In the period of construction. Scientific American. A BOX FROM HOME OFEICIAL TALKS Drawn by Oaar Williams, Division of Pictorial Publicity. Food savings of millions of Americans during our first year of war enabled this govern ment to send enormous food shipments abroad for our fighting forces and the Allied nations. Our savings in cereals out of a short crop amounted to 154,900,000 bushels; all of which was shipped to Europe. We increased our meat and fat shipments 844,600,000 pounds. This was America's "box from home" to our army abroad and the civilians and military forces of the Allied nations. Surely Has "Done His Bit" "I think this man Is doing his bit." writes an army correspondent who sends the following dispatch to the Army and Navy Journal : "George Borden, a negro, of Golds boio, N. C, has furnished sons to the war In the sum of nearly two squads. He Is the father of 35 children, 27 of them living and 14 of them In the Unit ed States army either In this country or In France. "He has been married three times and on four occasions has been the father of quadruplets.'' "August 12, 1018. "Dear Mother and all: This is Sun dday evening and sure a fin" one; it is now 7 p. m. As 1 sit hero in the end of my truck and look across the wooded hills, (we are camped in a val lev beside a small stream) I think how peaceful everything seems. But I cannot think of what dark will bring which will be Boche bombing planes, as we have been bombed every night since we hit thiscaurp. We have been out of the lines for the past few days, giving the men a rest, and repairing the guns and material, as we were shot up some. Expect to be at them again soon and we sure will make them pay for the men they took from us. "I have been in Paris for the past three days, getting ret airs for the guns and trtctors. I had to work during the day but sure did take in the city at nights. It is some place. All the women smoke. Seemed queer at first to see them going down the street smoking, but 1 soon got used to it and thought nothing about it to have a I pretty mademoiselle walk up and ask me for a cigarette. Went to a sho'V that lasted from 7:80 until 2:30 a. m. It was vaudeville and sure good. Could not understand all they said but am getting so I can tell what they are talking about. The prks are beau tiful and they have many of tnem, also a large number of statues. There was an air raid the second night 1 was there and when the alarm was given, which was atout 11:30 p. m., you should have seen the people run for the caves. I had the street to myself until I ran into some American boI diers; then we went into one of the caves to see what I was like. The people were all huddlcl up, scared to move some with only night slothes on. We we it back on the street and none of the people showed up until 2:10. then the 'clear' alarm was given. I see no use in trying to bide in case of a raid, for you don't know where the bomb is going to hit; and if we hide at the front, we could be hidden most of the time. "Must get to work. Have received no mail for some time now. Regan s to ..II. Sgt lieorge Winship, 148 r A. Dick Arrives in France. Dick Winship also writes, under date of August 29th.. that he has arrived ' safely in France with his regiment. being identified with Company M. 1 58th Infantry. He says: "We have i been on the move most of the time since we arrived here. This sure is a nice country and wear; bavin'; fine; weather. I haven't received any mail since I left the U. S. I guess the Y. M. C. A. men haven't located us yet." With the F iuhti g Tanks. "In France. August 81. 1918 "To the Athena Press: I am well and feeling fine and rearing to go as ever. How goes the war over there' I hove been with the fighting tanks for some time now and I like thern fine, as they are bear cats to kill Germans with. We shoot until- we are out of ammunition, then we run over the devils. I have not yet given up hopes of getting to fly over here, and I yet think that I will get my chance. The French are finishing up their harvest and here and there a threshing machine plays a chorus to the song of airplanes overhead. Old soldiers in faded blue, old women, buxcm voting wives, little children all have been tugging away at thegrcat stacks of wheat ami if you cross a newly birvosted field at sunset j you are sure tu see the women rolling out from under the hedges, shaking the dew from their hair and goi lg to i work at the gleaning. "Planted by the French, cultivated hy the Germans and eaten by the Yankees that is the history of many a bean, manv a tomato, many a carrot gathered this month on the fronl. The Germans, sweeping over thene gar- i dens in May, found them planted, and the devils were detailed to tend the row3 of vegetables which they fondly expected to eat at harvest time. But, lo and behold, a greafchange has tak en place, as they have now left behind them this juicy crop of ga den truck, and the Yankee are having green peas and celery every day. "The Salvation Army people arc do ing a wonderful work over here. The Red Cross and the Salvation Army will never be forgotten byttho boys of the I A.E, F. especially, as they are doing tbelt bit. and a thousand times over I The French people are veiy good to us as they do our washing very reason- ably and treat us as though we were one of the family. I'm getting so that I can speak French quite fluently now, I keep my hands in my pockets and my feet still when I am carrying on a conversation with a Madame, and that is some consolation. "Old fritz is sure getting his. these days, but I presume that you all are hearing about it; hut 1 do not wanl to see this catastrophe end until we kill every German in Germany, and believe me, leave it to the Yanks to do their ; bit. Cp'l. Roy L. Zerba, HI 1th Tank Center, Distil Bar., A. P. 1 O. No. 7 1 4, Co. A. News From Will Shick Will Shick, on board the U. S. S. Shawruut. under date of August dth. v. rites interestingly of bis voyages, and festivities and feasts en route. He says: "On one of our trips soon after we got our mineB r.ff. on the way back we had moves right in the war zone. This is sure going some, and there was no land in sight. The boys enjoved it just as though they were on land so that shows how much th Germans worry us. It is sure a happy crew. Well, a person had better look at the bright side as well as the dark. "Mother, I'm sorry but I can't tell you where I am but I'm in neither place that you spoke of in your last letter; 1 am farther north. "We had a 'smoker' Isst night and 1 helped make 25 gallons of ice cream. It was some cream. Had a ball game' the other day, and are getting up a football team." ATHENA'S QUOTA IS NOW $188,000 After Athena's quota for Fourth Liberty Loan bonds had been placed at 150,000 on the assumption that it would be double the amount of the Third Loan, and rating cards had been mailed here to poter.t'al subscribers on that basis by the local executive committee, yesterday Chairman Le Grow received a telegram from State headquaiters at Portland announcing th:t Athena is expected to raise 1188, 000 instead of 1 50,000. Necessarily the quota increase will complicate the drive which is now on in Athena. It places the committee in a position where it is compelled to raise the ratings and do double the work that otherwise would have been exacted of it. Athena stands ready to do her part and more, and purchasers of bonds will understand the rating cards mailed them were rated on the ! -10,000 basis and govern themselves according to $:I8.000 additional increase in Athena's quota. Following is the official quota for Umatilla countv: Athena ... $ 188,000 Freewater - - - 411,000 Echo .... 70,000 Helix .... 1I7.H00 Hermiston - - - 41,000 Pilot Rock - - - nil.OOO Pendleton - - 1.21(4, 19r. Milton - - - 172.000 Cottonwood 18 000 Stanfield - - - :il.,000 Umapine .... 118,000 Umatilla - - - 1H.O00 Weston - - - IIS. 000 Total $2,081.1 95 REAL JOB, THAT OF THE"UMP" Man Who Holds Indicator In Profes sional Ball Game Surely Has No "Soft Snap." There are those who will scoff at the Idea thnt umpiring a ball game Is work, but let these, Just once, stand out In the broiling sun of July or Au gust and Judge n two-hour game, while watched Intently every moment by two keen eyed managers, thirty or forty players, as familiar with the ruleH us the Indicator holders, and several thousand excited, restless tind plioutlng spectators, every one of whom Is anxious to detect some slip In Judgment upon the pari of the man In blue. Let them lubor for that length of time without encouragement, but with shouts of disapproval ringing In their ears at frequent Intervals, or have several players step on their toes with their spiked shoes, while making threats and referring In Mlghtlng terms to every one connected with them from their remotest ances try down to the present period, and they will he ready not only to admit but to mnke nmdnvlt thnt the umpire actually works. Leslie's Magazine. A representative of J. P. O'Brien, Federal Manager, was here Tuesday to talk to the station employes of the O.-W. R. At N. lines on "Courtesy and Attentive Service to the General Public." Director General McAdoo and Regional Director Aishton sent out circulars stating that complaint had been made that the public was not receiving as courteous treatment now that the roads were operated under private ownership. Mr. O'Brien immediately on receipt of the circulars named speakers to ad dress every employe of the lines under his jurisdiction, telling them of the complaints that were being made and urging them to renewed effort. John Scott Mills, who spoke here, said to a representative of tins paper: "Employes of the O.-W. R & N. lines have established an enviable rep utation for -lourtesy. J am asking for their continued cooperation. They are called to the colors. Railroading is an essential occupation. Transportation is a very important factor in the great war that is now being waged. Every piece of equipment on the railroads of the United States, and every one of the 2,000.000 men and women in rail road employ are dedicated to the ser vice of the government. This army of two millions in the trenches of transportation has a duty to perform. The people who compose it have a task just as important as that of the men on the firing line in France and Flan ders. "In order to meet the requests of the government and the demands of the public each empluye must do his best. The country is calling for re newed effort and increased interest. I sm convinced that our employes will respond cheerfully. 'Wherever I have had the privilege of speaking to our employes they have delegated me to say to Mr. O'Brien that they will do all in their power to aid him in the great work entrusted to his care. This means the fullest co operation. It is pleasing to be able to tell of the loyalty and patriotism of my fellow workers." Trainmaster W. S. Divison intro duced Mr. Mills to the employes on the line between Walla Walla and Pendleton. GALL FOR LINEN DONATIONS AND TINFOIL, RED CROSS A special call comes officially through the Bulletin of the American Red Cross, of September 21, for a dona tion of linen from the Northwest Di vision consisting of 50,000 bath tow els, 100,000 hand towels, 70,000 hand kerchiefs, 5.000 napkins and Dti.OOO sheets. The plan is to be carried out in the form of a "Linen Shower," each fam ily to contribute one or a set of articles of household linen from their reserve stock. The articles should be' substan tially new, and of strong texture. Every article) contributed will be put to real use in hospitals, whose equipment and facilities are being sorely tried. The week for the dona tons begins September HO, and it Is hoped that every housekeeper in the jurisdiction of the Athena auxiliary of t e Red Cross will respond generously to the call. Another vital need of the Govern ment is for platinum and tin. In both of these materials which are essen tial to the industries of the country, there is a shortage. It is important therefore that a enmpaign be started at once for their collection. Tin foil on tobacco, gum, chocolate, tooth paste, any collapsible tubes, pewter articles etc. are acceptable. Tin cans need nut be collected as they contain very little tin. Get the children at work at once at these colleetii n ), and hand them in to the Red Cross, for they are needed to win the war. Another need is for the material in fruit pits and nut shells. Save every onu of these (excepting peanut shells) and bring to the Red Cross rooms on Main street. .SUBSCRIBER LIBERTY LOAN KAISER PLANNED TO RULE WORLD AFTER 6 MONTHS WARFARE Thought Theft of Iron and Coal From France, Land From Russia, Would Pay Bill Planning world trade domination, If not actual world rule, as the outcoms of a short six-months', campaign la Europe, Germany now finds herself outcast from among civilized nations, her people impoverished, her honor Irrevocably stained by the blood of Belgium, and facing a future of fathomless ignominy and disgrace. "I will make room for my growing people by taking some more of Franco and a few thousand square miles of Russia," said the Kaiser. "We will get the Iron and coal In Northern France for manufacturea which we will sell the conquered population of Russia, and this, besides Indemnities, will more than pay tor the war. Eng land will not dare come in, and our merchant fleets will soon orowd her from the world trade routes. "If the United States does not acquiesce, her manufacturers will get no more of our dyes and chemicals, her farmers no more of our ferti lizers. And we will also take away from her all South American com merce." GERMAN GRAVES GRIM ANSWER Now, across the graves of a mil lion of his young men, the Kaiser la beginning to see the sun set on the smallest of his ambitions. "Foch will never cross the Rhine," is now tho German watchword. German cities, shrieking beneath the visitation of allied and American airplane bombers cry out: "No more of this barbarity." Such cries are echoed In the ghostly laughs of thousands ot Qotha and Zeppelin victims In London and Paris. The Rhine will be crossed, and Cologne and Berlin will wince be neath the shells of Allied funs. "Five million men in France," cries America. "Remamber Belgium and end the war In MX" To America and har five million fighting men In Franca will come the grtfctnr glory of the world war. But that end win not bo achieved with out tho sacrlfloa of thousands of those man, nor without the most earnest and united support of those of us at home. Whsre we have given valiant efforts to war work here tofore, we. must thrust our sholdeis desperately against the wheel of war preparations from now on. To no ono person or class is It given to do a greater sharo in this war than any other person or class. Each must do his utmost WEIGHT RESTS ON AMERICAN FARMER Upon no one class rests a greater responsibility than upon the Amerl oan farmer, who with his wives and sons and daughters constitutes one third of our population. He has the first and great responsibility of pro viding food for the nation at borne, food for tho fighting men abroad, and food for our allies In the battle Una and their civilian population. England, with millions of acres of parks and hunting grounds converted Into farms can only raise crops to food hor people half the year. France, with every man In uniform, and nearly half her fields overrun by armlos, does even loss. With hor grain fields extended by millions of acres of new land. Ameri ca Is responding to the call and allied hunger will never be an ally to Ger many. Billions of dollars of Ameri ca's huge war loans are coming back to the farmer In payment for his grain and stock. The farmer, for his future honor and standing In the nation, must see that every penny of this sum he can spare Is reinvested in war loans. The Fourth Liberty Loan, now upon us, calls for but a portion of what America must spend In war efforts In the next few months. It must be sub scribed promptly and overwhelmingly. That "tho man who Is not for us la against us" Is as true now as when It was written centuries ago. I If YOU buy a fifty dollar bond when you COULD BUY a five hun dred dollar bond, you are not doing your full duty as an American. Tvllllum Gillette, the actor, was showing George II. ISroadhurst, the playwright, over his country estate. They arrived ut the sheepfold, nud at sight of their muster the woolly In mates cuiuo bleutlug to the burs. "See how tho little things love me, George I" said the owner, proudly. "hove thunder I" sold. Broudhurst. "They c.ome to you bemuse they are hungry and they think you arc going to feed them." "George." said Gillette, "when JTOtt have reached a certain age that posset for love," fusts.. .j,