Advertising The cAthena Press circulate! in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Oreat Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend 6c Notice! If this notice is marked RED, it sig nifies that your Subscription expires with this issue. We will greatly ap preciate your renewal $2.00 per year Entered at the Poet Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Claea Mail Matter VOLUME XXX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1918. NUMBER 48 ROLL GALL Of RED GROSS NEAR The annual renewal of membership to the Red Gross and the securing of new members is at hand. The follow ing appeal is made by the Chairman of the Christmas Roll Call Committee. "To the Citizens of Umatilla County: "The Christmas Roll Call of the Red Cross opens on the 18th of December. This signifies renewal of membership on the part of those already enrolled, and the joining of the organization by those not now enjoying the privilege. This county has an approximate pop ulation of 36,000. Half that number ought to be within the membership of this mightiest of all world instrumen talities of mercy. The cost is one dollar. There are few indeed who can not afford that sum to aid in the stu pendous labor to which a prostrate Eu rope beckons America. "As Chairman of the Roll Call Com mittee, I appeal now for open pocket books, for alert public sentiment, for unselfish devotion, for the immediate setting aside of a dollar, and for its dedication in the name of charity to humanity's need. Europe, Asia, Af rica, all are calling. The American Red Cross must be the vehicle of re sponse. We shall heed the cry of suffering not only among the nations hitherto our allies, but among the nations hitherto our foes. Peace is im minent now, and there must be no line of demarkation. "In the shadow of suffering every where, everywhere throughout the globe, in the name of compassion, in the name of Christian Charity, I ap peal to each to lend a hand now, for the need of the nations is greater than ever before. Membership in the Red Cross is a badge alike of service and of honor. Respectfully, "Stephen A. Lowell, Chairman Christmas Roll Call Committee." SOUGHT ONLY BY FISHERMEN Rock Point, Md., Differs in Many ' Ways From the Conventionalized "Summer Resort." Little white wooden bouses In a broken row, like an old man's teeth-; behind them a fat green Maryland farm country of broad-leaved tobacco fields and yellow wheat and deeply shadowed woods; before them, a river seven miles wide of almost tropical I green and blue, with a wooded Island in the foreground shading the water with great sycamore and crowned by a pine grove, where nest the ospreys that hover all day long over the water, plunging like living javelins, now and then, to snatch fish of dazzling silver from a river of polished jade. Such, lmpresslonlstlcally, Is Rock Point, Md., where all summer long many Washlngtonlans go to catch fish. The place Is not at all fashionable; there Is no hotel worthy of the name, and the prices of everything are alto gether too low to attract the "best peo ple." Even the fact that at least one cabi net officer, a senator or two and sev eral congressmen go regularly to Rock Point does not seem to add to Its dig nity or to endow It with the rank of a real summer resort. Somehow even a senator loses his value as a social or nament when he puts on a pair of overalls and yells and gets excited over a four-pound sea trout The great majority of those who go to Rock Point are simply anglers whatever else they may be at home, here they are but members of the great fraternity of fishermen. Bankers and plumbers often "chip in" on the same motorboat and borrow tobacco from each other. Women are fewer than men, but never lacking, and they are always hearty, sunburned women of the kind that get their hair wet when they go in swimming and don't pretend to be afraid of a fish. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. IS CELEBRATES THANKSGIVING Communicated. The pupils of School District No. 19 gave a Thanksgiving entertainment at the school house three miles west of Athena on Friday evening. Nov. i2. at 8 o'clock. The room was prettily decorated in seasonable colors and brightly lighted for the occasion, and the patroi a and friends of the school were delighted with the performance of the children, under the direction of their capable teacher. Miss Lois Por tre. After the program, refreshments consisting of pumpkin pie. chocolate and coffee, were served, a toastmaster appointed and nearly every visitor present responded with a short talk, or music; the features of this part being the speech by Mr. D. H. Sanders and singing of popular songs by Miss Por ter and Mr. Ait. Chapman, with uke lele accompaniment. Next, the entire partv adjourned to tber Joe Scott ranch where, around a big bonfire, red apples, more music and games furnished fun until a late hour. ! In the game of "Plying Dutch man," speed honors were c'osely con tested between Miss Porter and Mr. Sanders in one team, and Mrs. Sanders and Mr. Art Chapman, in another. The program, which was neatly writ tenout and decorated in souvenir form, every number of which was encored, was as follows: Song, America - - Chorus Flag Salute. - - - Bchool Reading, Our Flag. Charlotte Gross Recitation, Bed in Summer, - - Elizabeth Walter Dialogue, Ten Little Pumpkins. School Recitation, My Shadow, Clark Walter Dialogue, .Being Thankful, - Margaret and Pauline Scott Instrument) solo. Spanish Serenaders, ISA - - Charlotte Gross Recitation,: 3e Duel, Jessie Dudley Song, in cosftrme, "In Old Japan." Maribelle Walters, Pauline and Mar garet Scott Rec. Little Boy Blue, George Gross Dialogue, Grandmother's Story, School Sor.g, Thanksgiving song, School OR. TREADWELL UNO FAMILY LOCATE HERE Dr. C. L. Treadwell accompanied by his wife and little daughter, has ar rived in Athena from Cripple Creek, Colorado, and will make their home here. Through correspondence with Dr. Smith, who formerly practiced in Weston. Dr. Treadwell decided a year ago to come to Athena to practice medicine. He started for this place some months ago and while visiting relatives in South Dakota, the Spanish influenza became malignantly prev alent there "nd Dr. Treadwell remained to 'combat the disease. Later, coming oi to Colorado, the same, condition developed there and he remained ui il last week. He estimates that he treated o le thousand cases of flu in South Dakoia and Colorado, losing five patients, four of whom were Indians. Dr. Treadwell is a graduate of the College of Physi lians and Surgeons, of Chicago and rai been a practicing physician since lb7. Mrs. Treadwell is a trained nurse, having been in service under Dr Murphy, and other famous surgeons and physician of Chicago. She will assist Dr. Treadwell in his surgical work here, but will not serve in the regular capacity of nurse. Dr. and Mrs. Treadwell will be at home in the Ware residence, recently purchased by Fred Gross, upon the re moval of Mr. and Mrs. Ware from the city, which will be about December 10th. WORKERS' DORMITORIES ON WASHINGTON'S PLAZA MAXIM LITVINOFF LADS OVER THERE" Mr. and Mrs. Winship have received a letter from their son Dick, from whom they hsd not heard for several months, and the contents explain that he has been in the thick of it. The letter follows: "Oct H, 18. "Dear Father and all: I received your letters some time ago. Have been at the front all of the time since and had no chance to send a letter, don't know if you will get this or not. This leaves me feeling well but tired and slee y. Have been in the line for the last three weeks and we are about worn out, hope to get relieved soon. I never got the tobacco or the candy Mother Bent me, would give a month's pay to have it now. Guess it iB no use to send anything. I have been transferred to another Division since I wrote last. Am writing this by the side of the road. "Pvt. W. R. Winship, Co. G, 308 Inf." Wartime necessities in Washington hove halted the pln:'.u development by which the space between the Union sta tion and the cnpltol was to have been converted into n beautiful park. Dormitories for government workers are being built on the entire space. It Is one of many housing projects under way to relieve nn almost unbelievable congestion. HAWK DESTRUCTIVE TO TREE Birds' Unvarying Diet of Fish Sooner or Later Causes Death Through Accumulations of Grease. Random bits of curious knowledge often come the way of persons- who live in the summer time close by the ocean's edge. One gets to know, for Instance, such things ns why hawk nests so often are seen In dead trees. It is not that the hawk, In seeking a home site, by choice picks a dead tree in which to build its jest of twigs and things; on the contrary, It Inva riably selects a live one. 1 The dead tree Is the effect, not the cause of the hawk's preference. Hawks of the kind considered here live exclusively on fish. Fish are oily, and so It follows that after few thousand have been dissected and eaten in a nest the tree Inhabited by a hawk family becomes discouraged and abandons the struggle. After hawks have used a lofty bough as a dining room for two or three years a tree becomes so greasy that leaves find It Impossible to hold on. The oil slowly makes Its way to the roots, covering them and making the absorbing of water from the earth out of the question. Deprived of oxy gen, having no leaves through which to breathe It In, and of water, because Its roots are greased like a Labor day pig, the tree gets discouraged and gives up the fight. fragments have been "uncovered from time to time, and the last piece was picked up In 1014. The vase is said to have a value of $85,000 to $100,000. Ship's Coins. A superstition among seafaring men Is that n coin should be placed be neath the mainmast of n newly built ship. The coin should be of gold, though In a pinch silver will do. The coin should bear the date of the year the ship is built and before being placed beneath the mast It is carefully wrap per In cotton. Its resting place is the stepping of the mainmast. Dealers In coins are aware of this long-continued practice, nnd the re sult Is that when an old ship Is bro ken up, especially abroad, there Is al ways on hand a company of coin deal ers desirous of obtaining the coin. It Is said that in this way one collector obtained a specimen of the rare Ameri can dollar of the mintage of 1804, which has commanded a high premium for many years. WHERE TAXES ARE UNKNOWN TOWN THRIVES ON TOURISTl HOLD SWORD SACRED THING FAILED TO PLEASE NAPOLEON Narrow-Minded Officials Who Ob scured Royal Emblem Had Mis judged lilnd of Great Emperor. A pretty story Is told by some his torians of Napoleon's entrance Into a French cathedral city In the days when his eagles were taking their most glori ous flights and Europe was at bis feet It happened that the cathedral win dows were, some of them, decorated with the design of the fleur-de-lis. Eager partisans had covered up these windows so that the lilies would not be seen. The emperor, sharp of eye as ever, inquired the reason for the obscura tion of the windows, "They bear the fleur-de-lis design and there is no time to change It," ex plained some one. "So we covered It np, fearing It might offend your maj esty." "The lilies of France," said Napo leon, "hare led her sons to victory through many wars. Surely every son m rum siwoia t oretia of una." Walter Stone Dead. Walter C. Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Stone, former well known residents of this vicinity but now liv- i ing at Thornton Wash., died last week at The Dalles, where he was under the ; medical care of his brother. Dr. A. B. . Stone. He died of a chronic disease ' of long standing The funeral was held at Walla Walla, from the Mc- j Martin and Hill Undertaking parlors, Monday. November 25, at 3 o'clock, Rev Floyd A. Ross, pastor of the Mill on Christian church, officiating. Walter was born Nov. 15. He united with the ChriBtian church in 11)04, and on July 23. 1917, was mar ried to Miss Ethel Young at Portland. He leaves his wife, father and mother, two brothers and two sisters, besides many other relatives and friends to mourn his loss. Sends Christmas Presents. Athena boys who are "Over There" will receive Christmas presents from Mrs. A. A. Foss which will bring them some closer to the old home town. She has mailed to each one of the boys pic tures of the celebrations held on the streets when the armistice was signed and also of the "dress rehearsal on the 1th. Thus the lads will glean some idea of the enthusiasm uncorked here during the jubilee, and recognize fa miliar faces in the groups snapped by the camera. German Officer Said to Lose Commis sion if He Should Be Parted From Weapon by Force. Officers in Germany are supposed to have a feeling almost of sacredness about their swords, and I think, in point of fact, officers In most countries have. I have been told that If any officer loses his sword by force he loses his commission as an officer. I do not vouch for this statement. I was told about the penalty for losing a sword many years before the war, in Dresden, to excuse an officer whom I saw behave in the most bru tal manner. He was on the back plat form of an old-fashioned street car which was going very fast. Some man in the street ran and tried to Jump on the car, and In taking hold of the rail got hold of the handle of the officer's sword. Without the slightest feeling as to whether the man would be seri ously hurt or not, the officer beat and pounded this man's hands until he was forced to let go and drop Into the street. But what a German officer does Is always considered right, anyway, and no one dares to complain. Neville Taylor Gherardl (wife of former Unit ed States naval attache at Berlin) in Saturday Evening Post. New Yorker Has Famous Relic Enon-Sherounn the Just, sultan of Persia In the days when Omar Khay yam was making vain attempts to sell his verses to the magazines, one day bought an indestructible vase, wonder fully fashioned by a potter of magic powers, for his royal palace at Rhagas. Along came the Tartars, acting like Prusslnns, and destroyed Rhagas, mak ing the royal palace look like the Cloth Hall at Ypres. That was In 1221. The jar of Enon-Sherouan the Just has just been added to the collection of Macdermld Parish-Watson, New York nrt collector, after existing only in legend and tradition for nearly seven centuries. Two pieces of It were found on the site of the royal pulace of Rhazas. In 1010. and since then other Oban, Scottish Summer Resort, Prac tically Supported by Enthusiastic Visitors Who Buy Souvenirs. Oban Is a Scottish town that exist dmost entirely for the benefit of I lotirisr. Every other house In Ob. is a boarding house or n bote, in buildings that have escaped this fai are used as shops where the traveler i enticed Into buying u beautiful plalc tartan for which he lias no use, c Scotch pebbles which are guarantee to be highly ornamental In the pai'loi cabinet. If you have a Scotch ancestor Olmi Is the place to resurrect him. All tin plaids of Scotland and u few besides are in the Oiinn shops. If your nnces tors cannot be located In the ScOfci "Who's Who" of the past, any obll;.' shopkeeper will unhlinkingly prbi a plaid which fits the name of 5 kinsman anil whicli mutches your I brary carpet. If you stroll through the quiet Btror" to the top of u hill you can see ( i at Its best The water of the bay h shlningly blue that you at once I solve to take a trip to one of the till Islands dotting the smooth expirflS' The roads that climb the Scotch hill' so easily are edged with elose-triminei hedges, and the cottages are cloaked I) glossy and picturesque Ivy. Off to one side Is a great clrculai edifice not unlike a Roman circus. Tills, your hostess Informs you on your re turn, Is "McCuig's Folly." If you are still curious you will be told the story of old eccentric McCalg, who bad tills useless, antique-looking structure built at great expense to himself and to the vast amusement of his fellow citizens. Winter Is the quiet time In Oban. Then there are no enthusiastic strangers to buy expensive souvenirs or to hire boats for trips around tin bay. The town is gloomy and desert ed. The women are Indoors weaving plaids for the coming summer, and the men are out on the buy hard at work with the fishing fleet. Chicago Dully News. Some Few Places on Earth's Surface That Would Seem Ideal Spots in Which to Locate. In these days of expensive living what a boon to live In a city without taxes ! But there are such places. There is Orson in Sweden. This municipality has its ordinary city ex penses, but it Imposes no taxes. More over, the local railway Is free to every citizen nnd there Is no charge for tele phone service, schools, libraries and the like. All this Is due to the wisdom of a former generation, who plnnted trees on nil the available ground, with the result that during the past thirty years the town authorities have sold $5,000,000 worth of young trees and timber, while judicious replantlngs have provided for a similar Income in the future. Then there Is Mourmalon, in the Midi, France. Here not only are there no taxes, but the timbers on the com munal lands are sufficient to grant each person a small annuity. Nearer home we have the Island of Innishmurrny, off the west coast of Ireland. Here there are no taxes, sim ply because the fourteen families who live on the island resolutely refuse to pay. In n report to the locnl govern ment board a rate collector stated that he could not get a boat on the main land to take him to the island on such nn errand as collecting rates. London Mall. "Put Up Soma Argument." "Oct 23. 1918. 'Dear Mother: I received your let ter the other day also a bunch of pa pers. Everything was o. k. I wouid have written to you before, only we have been sumo busy lately. I am sending you a permit we got today for a Xmaa package. Not much of a pack age but I guess it will have to do under the circumstances. I don t know what to have you send in such a large pack- some home-made oandy would go good or something like that. We have plenty of clothes of every kind. I signed for a $100 liberty bond yes terday; we pay flO a month on it. I also bought a if 100 bond and paid cash for it. Well, it will buy a few bullets to put the Hun out of France; they Bay every little bit helps, so I am try ing to do my bit and guess it won't be long until we will have the Hun whipped to a standstill. We have been on this front for about a month. The Boche has sure put up some argu menta little harder than on some of the fronts we have been, but never theless we have him headed for the Rhine. It is reported that he bus had twenty divisions against us, and they have had orders to hold the Yanks back (at all coats; but they are meeting with lot a of hard luck. We have a rumor out that we are going back for a rest. Hope it is so; will have more time to write. Give ail my regards. "Corp. E. F. Sebasny, Bat. D, 148 F. A." Late photograph of Maxim Lltvlnoff, whom Foreign Minister Trotzky has appointed as the "Russian people's ambassador" to Great Britain. The appointment was made by wireless, foi Lltvlnoff has been In London for soma time. - , HAVOC CAUSED BY HAILSTORM r SPOT ON NAPOLEON'S RECORD Ultimate Failure Dimmed the Glory of Great Soldier's Early Wonderful Successes in the Field. The military genius of Bonnporte Is still a fruitful theme for discussion. In the early part of his career he achieved such successes as made his name a terror to Europe, and gained for him a prestige which a series of continu ous nnd overwhelming defeats In the latter pnrt of his history was unable to destroy. But in the game of war, results alone can form the criterion, nnd the victories of Mnrengn, Auster lltz and Wngram can scarcely be ad mitted in compensation for the blun ders of the Rtisslnn campaign and the overthrow at Waterloo. One qualification of a great general was conspicuous In his character, the capacity of recognizing and rewarding merit In whatever position it might be found. Favoritism was almost un known In his army. He was of a cold blooded temperament, engrossed ex clusively by the master-passion, ambi tion, nnd the very cause which kept his moral purity Inviolate made him almost Insensible to the promptings of love and affection. rieportea cy a vacationist. "Josiar, do you mean to say you come home without hnvln' that tooth out?" "I do. The dentist wnrn't there." "Why In the world didn't you wait for him'?" "Gosh darn It, I did for two hours. I don't mind waltln' a reasonable length o' time fer a man, but 1 don't perposp to Intern for nobuddy." Bos Wi Transcript . Tecumseh's Bones Unearthed. A discovery recalling early Canad ian history tins been made at a farm in the village of Thamesvillc, Ont., where bones were dug up which may be those of the Indian Chief Tecum seh, who fell fighting for the British In 1813. With the skeleton were metnl military buttons nnd a pistol of the type then used. There are most trust worthy reports that the chief had been burled close to this place, Tecumseli, u Shawnee chief, fought with the Briilsh during the Invasion of f.'unnda by the Americans In 1812 nnd 1813. A man of great energy nnd de cision, he was entrusted with many minor enterprises, and was finally killed In battle, when his body was treated with great Indignity. Human "Fish" No Match for Angler. Fishing a man was the novel feat performed by a man at Avnlon, Cali fornia, a few duys ago. Captain Adar go, a powerful swimmer, played the part of the fish, while Captain West brook took the part of the angler. The "fish" was given one hundred and fifty feet of line at the start and quickly gained thirty feet. Then the angler felt that he was ready to begin tactics to "subdue" the "fish," and telling about It afterward, Captain Adnrgo said: "Then I wns pulled bnckward nnd couldn't make any headway against the outfit, I hnve gone Into nv.me heavy swells ns a professional swimmer and coin diver, but the fish ing stuff has got them all beat for tak ing the energy out of a man. Every time Westbrook came bock on the rod It almost lifted me out of the water." In fifteen minutes Captain Westbrook regained the one hundred and eighty feet of line. He "fished" with his usu al tackle. A broken line would hnve won the contest for the fish. Account of Destruction In England II 1687 Seems Almost Incredible Horses Felled at the Plow. , ' yj The greatest hailstorm that ever oc curred In England was that of April 29, 1697, recorded by Edmund Halley, the astronomer. The story seems al most Incredible, yet It is told by s philosopher, the contemporary and friend of Isaac Newton, nnd an ac curate observer of natural phenom ena. The main body of the storm, he states, fell upon Lancashire, In s right line from Ormsklrk.to Blackburn. "The breadth of the cloud was about two miles, within which com pass It did Incredible damage, killing all sorts of fowl and small creatures, and source leaving any whole panes lp hny of the windows where it passed, but, which Is worse, it cut off the blade of the green corn so ns utterly to destroy it, the hailstones burying themselves In the ground; and the bowling-greens, where the earth was anything soft, were quite defaced, so as to be rendered unserviceable for d time. This I had from an eye witness. "The hailstones, some of which weighed five ounces, were of different forms. Two hailstones were weighed at Ormsklrk which came to three quarters of n pound ench. As a young woman nt Bootle was running for shelter her hat fell off, and a hailstone that lilt her behind the ear made her tumble. The stones rebounded, ninny of them two yards high. At Ince two horses were knocked down at the plow, and a man fell at the same time." MADE SACRIFICE OF RULERS Dynamic of Friendship. It Ir not n mnrk of weakness, but n natural and normal instinct to crave the love of one's fellows. We must all of us have our friendships, for we are socially constituted. "One man Is no man." Every man needs to be constantly refreshed and in spired by contact with the associates of the Intellectual life, the comrades of the spirit, nnd should always keep on hand some real friends, as dis tinguished from mere chance ac quaintances. There must be at least one In a hundred of the people we meet who Is fitted to be our brother. When found, such n helpmate In In tellectual things becomes a dynamic force for blessing In our lives. It Is easier to be good when such a friend Is with us nor Is such a helper ever really absent. We should locate our friends, Identify our affinities, and then love them as wo do ourselves, so realizing the full blessedness of human brotherhood. Somewhat Remarkable Form of Lim ited Monarchy Was That Practiced by Tribe of the Caucasus. "At n oertuin stage of social evolu tion," says Sir James Frazer la his article entitled "The Killing of the Khnzar Kings," "not a few races ap peur to have been In the habit of put ting their kings to death, either at the end of a fixed term, or on the failure of tho king's health and strength, or simply whenever n great public calamity, such as drought or famine had befallen the country." Among tribes which have practiced this remarkable form of limited mon i archy niiiHt be included the Khazars or Khozars. For somo nine hundred years this now almost forgotten tribe, from their home In the spurs of the Caucasus and along the western shore of the Caspian called after them the Sen of the Khazars played a great part In history on the European-Asian borderland. It Is certainly remark able that a people which had reached such a high level of civilization nnd culture should have practiced legalized reirlclde. But the evidence collected, by Sir James Frazer from a very wide survey of medieval literature leaves no doubt on the matter. "Are tliere any historic ruins about here!" asked tho visitor. "Well," replied the proprietor of Jlggsvllle's leading hotel, "it's true w haven't got any historic ruins in the wny of tumbled down buildings, monu ments an' things like that, but I might point out to you old Judge Hicksbee, who's been defeated four times Jot the Cnttol States, seaute."- It is against (he laws of Massachu setts to disturb birds' nests and red tape was necessary before the owner of an auto truck was able to use his machine on that account. A phoebe bird built a nest In the running gear of uii auto truck In a garage in Ware and, laid three, eggs in it. When the owner of the truck wanted to use his car he discovered the nest mid had to call dn the game warden to render nu opinion bofure ho could disturb tho nest. The warden decided Unit under the circumstances It would be permis sible to remove the nest without incur, ring, tho penalty of a. $100 fine. ,