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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1919)
F. B. Boyd. Publisher Subscription katiu. One copy, one year $2.(K) One copy, six months $1.00 One copy, three months .,. .75 ctio ATHENA. OREGON. JAN. 24 I0RABLE TO BONDS. 1919 Since fction wSs taken last week at a mwsthle held jn Pendleton', favor ing' bohoSnj? the county for permanent road ioipjovement, by delegates from virious prt9 of !he county, the issue has been generally discussed. From opsetvation, opinion seems to be unita that if the state comes through With its portion of the funds necessary, no difficulty will be encoun tered in rolling up a rousing majority favoring the bonds at a special elec tion, Further, this seems to be the only qutotion the question of the state hairing its half of the funds available in the way of saying right now that the bond issue will carry, for therej l&'jjio one who will gainsay that the courtly would be the winner in any good roads movement wherein the state .matches dollar for dollar in the cost ofefonstruction . ThuTOopositiun appeals to every dis trict in- the county, apparently, for the reajon that each and evrey district seem to be getting whut it wants in the bill, as proposed. Atherja's first interest, of cdurse, is centered in the hardsurface completion of the macadam, before the present roadbed has deteriorated to the extent that its value for hardsurfacing is to tally exhausted. Then, too, she has interest in a tew feeder roads which, with proper work at the right time, would greatly ben efit the farmers who use them. For the reason that our returning soldiers are so glad to get home that they do not take the time to notify the folks just when they will get to the depot, is no reason tor somebody to think that the soldier has been silght ad because a drum corps and a brass band was not there to meet him. We think it's better nil around for the lad to step in unannoucned as no doubt the most of them would prefer tn do, like the buddy who snoozed on the pa rental porch the other night at Mis soula and was found wrapped in bis blankets next morning by bin mother. And m?ybe that wasn't some meeting I This fol-de-rol of mayors' committees, reception brigades and brass bands is all right, when the whole bunch gets 'back then light up the old town, line 'em up together and Let 'er Buck I If the returning soldier gets what is coming to him, and what rightfully be longs to him, it is not his worry about the job he left when he joined the army. The worry should belong to the fellow who has been holding the job during the soldiers visit to France. Kernel Wood, that old hard-boiled o'er Weston-Wiy, misht find southing for the nerves Bhuuld he follow the practice of ex-Kaiser Bill. Thu entire cigarette product is by no means need ed in Holland. it. ax is rdportutl, UUGIf Niinilfc cornered the nhetit iiiuikei, nliiuiur pit experts fall to see why I'liefa Stun should lose tiny money. The net Hint n Ini'ire number. f Iron crosses will be dumped ml the nutrltct should help n little imvurtl re ducing the price of steel. Our American army nf occupation will not have :i sinecure, but It will have a good time and leulii u grout deal about Hie rest of the world, , Von Bethmenti-IIolhvffr says In ef "leetMlmt the kaiser lied, which he ran ,.pao4n perrect ninety, now me nays or . teWiiptjeste and Its Jails are over. iKfm order for 9,000,000 pounds of fd.v bus been put In for the army, 'Vfiloh should help to niitke the soldiers mart' popular than ever with the girls. We Americans appreciate fully the part we played In winning the war, but are not nvefse to Iteming what the BfJHl6h and French huve to say uliout 'Heiiioblllied eoldlera mint turn In th0r Uniforms tit the end of four ' flmnl Its, which should be about us long Ja thosc winter bvercoau will bo need-anyway. Petrogrod Is not the place for a poor o wliii Hoes not like Merrill;.' SEE NFEH OF CITY PLANNING SPLENDID WORK OF DIVER lite-4ng ciiMtnlty tlsif pi at purt Americano played Those $7,000,000,000 In war orders canceled uieuua $70 saved for every one of us. One of the major objections to a 6 cent fare Is the horrible wuy It muti lates a dime. I'nrls Is ItflOHiillU pliers leiw spi i lilt) a i tiiiiry re iiuriuul poise. ' in; It sounds ' like ancient history to read Hint "troops are uow uuirciilng on l'lzeniysl." Nowadays, It Is slngulurly discour aging to look nt a dollar und realize It is only a littlf. Anyhow, none of 'em have ever been able to camouflage sauer kraut und lltnourgaf cheese. Lining of all candy restrictions Is a hardship for the young inuu who must buy mure than one box. When the boys return to civilian life they are going to wish Uncle Sum were still buying their shoes. Dancing has been resumed In Mun ich. It Is assumed that the republic underwrites the fiddler's charge. That a man's face Is covered with soot and coal smoke Is no sign thur he w orks in a foundry or factory. The former crown prince plays bil liards. It is a happy selection, u game In which the loser pays all expenses. Fashionable women are rebelling against the latest long skirts. Evi dently they want to ding to their new freedom. Economic conditions may get back to snch a state, eventually, that father Will no longer find It necessary to turn his cuffs. With butter at 75 cents a pound, that reproachful look common to the cow passes to the couuteuiiuce of the human being. If Ameiico keeps a reasonable sup ply of marines recruited and In trim, It will feel prepared for almost any thing In the future. Germans should be careful to Jostle no more American soldiers. Germany once thought It safe to Jostle the whole United Slates. Germany has a war debt, exclusive of Indemnities, of 100)00,000,000, As long as her preparedness was to ruin herself, she certainly went Into tbe job with thoroughness. If tbe pence conference walls until It has all the necessary elements and factors of peace within Its Jurisdiction It Is likely to be swept nwny In the midst of Us labors by the millennium. The German food department ad vises that anybody who has the price can get almost anytblug to eat In Ber lin. The Prussian capital must be wonderfully like American cities in otic leading respect Included among the serious cases of drug addicts are those who drug them selves with the toothing Ideu thai It Is sale to go bunting for world pence at present without planning for a com print)! navy and a substantial army. The German Way. I remember one tiny having passed through it small farming vllluge very badly burned and shuttered, not by shells, hut by explosions from Inside the houses. I was Just about to usk my officer why this vlllugo had been so punished, when, us we came outside, my nttontlnn was attracted to a con spicuous little Hat-topped hill, with Its level minimit quite clear of the low woods that covered the hill's sides. The top had been Cleared ami smoothed so that It COUld be planted In grain, and It stood out a vivid and beautiful green, in contrast with the dark tree covered slopes. I spoke of the hill and Its conspicuous top to my officer. "Yes," he replied angrily, "the lust French spy to be landed from an air- ' plane was put down right here on that flat top. We could not catch him. We think he hid In this village." My Unaltered question about the village was already answered. Vernon Kellogg lu Atlantic. One Woman's Work. Great was the excitement In a cer tain small town. The local ladles de rided to hold un exhibition of woman's work with a view to providing a treat for w nun. led soldiers. While the com mil toe was busily engaged In arranging UM exhibits to the best advantage In the city hull there cutuo a timid knock nt the door. When the door was opened a strange-looklug object entrred. It was a man; his face n mass of scratches, his hair stood out around Ids head Uke tufty grass, his collar was dangling lo.isrly behind, and bis clothes were little better than rags. "tmm, i ve come," no said Htnpry, "But hut," stummered the lady sec retary, "this Is not a museum; it's a llsplay of specimens of woman's work." 'Thai's all right," he replied deject edly; "I'm a specimen of wotuuu's ffork." Hehoboth Sunday Herald. Boycott the food profiteers and they will soon come down. Japane" " -ielpal AutHrlthw Awake to Dar . Connected With Con gested Centers of Populati.on. The remarkable expansion of. Jap anese cities during the last few years has accentuated the urgent necessity of city planning. With this end In view a conference of the mayors of the lending Japanese cities has oc curred at Tokyo. Among those present were tbe mayors of Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto and Kobe, while Tokyo municipality was represented by Messrs. Kabashlma and Oglno. "In Tokyo, v'ity planning was set on foot twenty years ago, about the same time the question of city planning was receiving attention In Europe and America," said Doctor Sekl, mayor of Osaka, In an Interview with a Tokyo Yomlurl representative. "In Osaka, however, It Is only a few years since the problem began to claim serious at tention, although the necessity of city planning In Osaka is perhaps more ur gent than In other cities. The density of population In Osaka Is certainly greater than In other places and Im provement in sanitary and other mat ters Is urgently needed. It Is esti mated that the population of Osaka twenty years hence will be 2,650,000 and that of the two neighboring dis tricts 2,300.000, making a total of 5, 000.000. This estimate is based on the present rate of Increase, but It Is pos sible the rate of Increase may be larger. Herein lies the urgent nature of city planning for Osaka," FISH AFFECTED BY WARFARE Explosion of Mines Off British Coast Has Resulted In Great Diminution of Catches, Is Report. Wilfred Buzley, who Is on the way to his tea plantation In Assam. India, said on his arrival In this city that the frequent explosions of mines off the British roast had caused a great scarci ty of fish, according to New York Times. This was especially the ease along the east roast of England and Scotland, and had also affected the ronst of Holland. Herring, which for merly were plentiful nt this season of the year off the roast of Scotland, sell ing nt a rrnt apiece retail, now bring 30 rrnts, he said, and were srnrre. Flounders and rod, formerly eight to ten rents a pound, are now worth 50 rents nt retail. It was onlv at rare intervals, Mr. Buzley said, that the poor were able to purchase fish. 'The only fish In British waters that appeared to defy the mines and tor pedoes," Mr. Buzley continued, "Is the hardy halibut. Just before I sailed from England one of the steam trawl ers off the const; was about to haul In the lines when the captain noticed a giant halibut following close behind n cod that was Impaled on one of the honks. The halibut made Severn at tempts to swallow the cod and was eventually hauled up onto the deck of the trawler. JTie skipper told me that the big fish weighed 108 pounds, nnd was sold in the market for $00." Franglals a New Tongue. "Frnnglnis" Is a new language that you hear In France today. The word Ir made out of Frnnrnlse and Anglais, the French words for Frcnrh and English and the language Itself Is made out of a fearful Jumble of words that were perfectly good when they played by themselves, but don't always mix. Franglals Is what you hear where Americans and English men nnd wom en without a very good knowledge of their hosts' own speech And themselves nt work alongside nf French men and French women soldiers, nurses, relief workers, shopkeepers und ull sorts of folk. American Bed Cross workers say that when you gather up several hundred little French babies who have hardly begun to speak any language at all and several hundred little ones who are speaking the universal nnd universally Incomprehensible language of bnbyhnnd, the results are one de gree harder to understand than grown up Franglals. How to Mail Cut Flowers. You have some lovely forget-me-nots In your garden. You would like Mary to have some, hut she is so awkwardly fur nwny. Didn't It orrur to ynu thut ynu could mall them satisfactorily, If ynu only knew how? Here's how. Separate the large bunch Into smaller bunches of perhaps four or live flowers. Now w ring out a wad of absorbent cotton in suit water a tea spoonful to a pint will be sufficient. Break the damp wad litto smaller pi Ml and wrap flrmly about the ends of the stems. Finally wrap flower, stems tiiul all. loosely lu newspaper, wax paper If you have It It Is a good plan, ton, to Hue the box with Hi dampened cotton. Famine In Cherry Stones. Scarcity of fruit lu Great Britain has Interfered with th movement for collecting cherry stones nnd hard nut- I shells, in which the boy grouts nre taking part. Hundred)! of tons nre needed every year to mnke rhnreoul i for gas musks, rhnreoul from these I substances having many times more absorptivity than charcoal made from wood. Springfield Republican. Eagle Is Pershing's Mascot General Pershing's personal mnsrot Is a large golden eagle whleh the prople of his native slate sent him ami which Is now In the Bronx Boo logical park. New York. There Is a ruie against soldiers or regiments tak ing their living muscots "over there" with them. Feat of Underw?tr P-psMn? on Wrecked Steamer Is Given H , i Praise by Shipping Men. One of the most remarkable feats In the history of American labor, accord ing to Copt. Louis Turner, represent ing marine underwriters, was the sub marine repairing of a steamer sal vaged off the California ronst by a diver named Theodore Wlrks. The sureess of this man In his prrllous w ork made It possible to raise the ves sel for further important senire In tbe government's war program, where ship ping Is so urgently needed. There were fully 100 patches of tem porary nature to be put on the shatter ed sides of the vessel while It was bumping about on the rocks, making It man hills and fields look as soft as ours. Probably they are, which Is not very soft. Any field covered with grass alv, " '-. nft and you think It would make u fine landing place. When you get down, lower and nre forced to land on any old field that happens to be under you, some time when you're enpnnne you learn differ ently." j Mistaken Identity. Prof. William Howard Taft was In N'ew York recently, nnd In the course of his short stay took an automobile ride along Riverside drive. At Nine tieth street a young woman, five years old, saw the big touring car coming swiftly down the drive. After one long look at tbe big person In the rear sent lie Jerked the nurse's apron and screamed with delight by all odds the biggest job of the kind I "Alice ! Alice 1" asked the nurse, ex- ever attempted on the Pacific coast. dtedly, "what Is it?" The biggest patch was ten feet wide and 10 feet long. Three layers of Inch plank, with canvns between, were used in patching. This kept the water out while the ship was being pumped. Large numbers of shipping men vls Hed the dry dork where the ship went after Diver Wlrk's exploits, and were astonished that It had been possible to salvage the vessel nt nil. The diver's work Is viewed all along the coast as an inspiration to labor In Its great task of winning the war. New Light on Term "O. K." President Wilson has his own way of doing things, nnd he also has a very good reason for doing them his own way. Not only does that apply to matters of world-wide Itnportanee but to trivial things ns well. In signing unofficial doruments on official doruments he formally writes "Approved" the president of the Unit ed States preredes his signature with the word "Okeh." One of his secretaries, suddenly realizing the slgnlficnnre of the word, asked the president why he did not write tO. K." "Berause that's wrong," said Wil son. "Wrong?" echoed the secretury. "Isn't It derived from Andrew Jack son's "Orl Krecht?' " "No," snld Wilson. '"O. K.' is often erroneously used for 'Okeh,' which In the Choctaw language means, 'it Is so.' " "Fatty Arbuckle s growed a mus tache just like pupa's I" Argonaut. Proper Breathing Help to Swimmers. Anyone's body will float when the lungs are filled with air, but as a hu man body Is a trifle heavier than wa ter It will sink unless buoyed up by air in (he lungs, suys Dnn Beard In Boys' Life. Consequently If ycu lenrn to breathe so that you blow out your breath In time to Intake a new breath before you sink, It is evident that you will not sink nt nil. When breathing while swimming do not take too many breaths, but let your mouth serve as the Intake. It can do it quicker than your nose because your mouth is big ger than your nostrils or nose holes. Now If any of you tenderfeet drown this season It will be your own fault. Breathe tight nnd you will float. It is gratifying tn learn that ordel has been restored In Cologne, but otti trusts that the CUUIOUflnge for coveiin; up the lack of a bath which Hikes lit name from the famous city was all poured into the Ithiue ere Hie rlotlnt stopped. Wheat Not a Necessary Food. Wheat is not necessary. We nre accustomed to regard wheat us a more or less Indispensable article of diet. It Isn't. It Is an nrtlcle of luxury, and absolutely nothing else. Wheat pos sesses over oats, corn nnd rice abso lutely no nutritional quality for man or beast. It has no more protein, and no better protein. It has no more fat, and no better fat. It has no mineral salt better or In larger amounts. It has no more fuel or better fuel. It Is just one of the cereals, and there Isn't the slightest evidence that it Is the best one, berause so far as compara tive tests are concerned in animnls, it Isn't the best one; It Is very far from the best one. A. E. Taylor, M.D., U. S. Food Administrator. The Churches. '.. Methodist Episcopal Church. The local Board of Health permits us to hold the morning preaching ser vice next Sunday at 11 o'clock. No Sunday school. The Christian Church. There will be preaching and com munion service at 11 o'clock next Sun day. No Bible school or night meet i lg. This will be the first meeting in the new year. Let us make it an oc casion of special thanksgiving and re construction. B. B. Burton, Pastor. Baptist Church Notes. After so long a time, in which we could have no service, we are again permitted to resume the morning wor ship. There will be no Bible school and no evening service. We will how ever hold a short season of worship at 11 o'clock. The pastor will preach. Germany From, the Clouds. "Eddie" Itlckenbacker Is quoted as saying: Jf "Germany looks rather peaceful from above and there scorns to be little disturbing them back u ways from the lines. That is wljate an airman's point of view In defective. The Ger- Call for Water Bonds. Notice is hereby given that the City of Athena will, on February 1st, 19l. redeem at Kountze Brothers Bank, New York City, water bonds numbered 1 to 10 inclusive. 1005 issue, seriei "B", and that interest on these bonds will cease on and after that date. Dated at Athena, Oregon January VI, 11)19. r .STEPHENS. SALIENT SIX A perfected overhead-valve six cylinder engine, embjdying the most efficient system of gas handling yet devised. An abundance of power with economy of fuel consumption. See Dick and the Car, at the Athena Vulcanizing Shop Davidson's Repair Shop Garage in charge of L F. Davidson General Automobile Repair Work. Re charging of Magnetos, Special attention given Fords and Tractors. Cars stored. All Work Guaranteed First and second doors West of Postoffice. Phone 601 umiiiiii Pendleton Marble & Granite Works I T. A. WYUE. Proprietor J PENDLTON, OREGON. PATRONAGE SOLICITED J Minim (fou betchw I "The more a man knows about genu ine tobacco, the surer ho is to see the value of Real Gravely in compar ison with ordinary plug." Peyton Brand REAL CHEWING PLUG Plug packed in pouch. Good taste, smaller chew, longer life is what makes Genuine Gravely cost less to chew than ordinary plug. Write to: Gunijinr Gravely DANVILLE, VA. or botkltt on chewing plug. THE PARKER BARBER SHOP A. J. Parker, Proprietor Shaving, Haircutting, Massaging, Shampooing. Bath Rooms In Connection, St. Nichols Hotel Block Athena. Ores. mm ft lllllllllllllllimHIHIHMimHMMCHHMH ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. i American Beauty Flour Is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in one ot the very best equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells the famous American Beauty Flour Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. . Waitsburg, Wash. We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. A. W. LOGSDON Main Street, Athena, Oregon THE UNIVERSAL CAR jti i mi We can make deliveries on all styles of Ford Cars within a few days after your order is signed. Let us have your order now and avoid the Spring rush. There will be no change in the following prices: Touring Car, $525.oo Runabout, - 500.oo Chassis, - - 475,oo Sedan, - - 775.00 Ton Truck, - 550.OO AH f. o. h. Detroit We also carry- a full line of parts and accessories at all times. Let us see you. Burke SSon Garage Phone 82, Athena, Oregon