h :t,; Advertising The t4th:na 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 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 t'laaH Mail Matter VOLUME XL. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY JANUARY 31, 1919. NUMBERS A FEW STRIKING FEATURES OF FLU A careful anaylsis by the State Board of Health of all data obtainable in regard to the present flu epidemic shows the following striking, features, from which most valuable. Reductions can be drawn in considering control measures: Three days-after an unusual gather ing of people there is an increase in the number of cases reported. Thus, every Tuesday is high because of Sat urday and Sunday ming lings ; the 28th of December- was hiy;h following Christmas,- the Hrd and 4th of January were high following' New Years festiv ities. Therefore, there should be no unnecessary ur unusual gatherings. Of gatherings, dances constitute the greatest number of cases. Dances therefore should be prohibited during the epidemic. The waves of the epidemic run in about three week intervals. A study of the causes of this and the matter of carriers, indicates that many cases re main carriers for a period of two or three weeks. The greatest number of severe cases during a wave are able to be up and around in about three weeks and an unconsciously spreading the disease causing the next wave. There fore, in addition to the ten days quar antine, each recovered case should wear a mask for a period of two or three weeks in the presence of unex posed persons, and all persons coming in close contact with the sick should wear masks. Masks, to be effective, should be sufficiently large to com pletely cover the nose, and mouth. They should have at least eight layers of gauze and should be sterilized after three hours use. Sterilizing is easily accomplished by dropping the mask in boiling water for ten minutes. It has been discovered th it the dis ease is being spread to a greater ex tent than has been realized by utensils used in eating and drinking. There fore all dishes, cups, glasses, knives and forks, etc., used in eating or drinking in all public places, and in all private homes or public institutions wherever thnre are cases of influenza, should be thoroughly itirilized by boiling 15 minutes. RESUME GF WORK OF OREGON LEGISLATURE Number of Consolidation Bills Agreed Upon By Joint Commiitee. SERGEANT SID. A. BARNES ARRIVES FROM OVERSEAS Sergeant Sidney A. Barnes arrived from overseas Wednesday morning, having received bis discharge from Camp Lewis. He was met in Pendle ton by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Barnes of Weston, and a family re union was held at the Barnes home Wednesday evening, at. which Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Barnes and Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Boyd of Athena were present. Sgt. Barnes was a member of the 1 1 lit h Engineers, and was in the ser vice twenty one months, thirteen of which were spent in France. Ha saw six weeks active service in the front lines on the Foul sector, where he went on detached service with seventy men, but was returned to the S. 0. S. be fore the Argonne drive, much to their regret. He brings home a number of interesting souvenirs, in the way of bombs of the different allies, gas mask, etc. He reports the boys well and all anxious to get home. NEWSBOYS ON BATTLE FRONT Belgian and French Youngsters Take Great Risks While Distributing Papers to the Soldiers. During the first days of the war British soldiers going up to Mons from Boulogne were hailed by an ancient French dame with her only British fehrase, "Da-e-ly Ma-1-1." She did her best. Since those far-off days "Da-e-ly Ma -1-1" has been called by the little Belgian and French boys and girls all along the line from Dunkirk to Bel fort. Many a risk hag been run to buy and sell the news of yesterday. One great load of Copies of the London Dally Mall arrived at a distributing center by train Just as the advancing wave of Germans threatened to pour over the line. Prompt to the occasion the parcel! were seized by the soldiers and thrown Into the gap. Surely no news paper parcels ever had a stranger fate than to be used, fresh from the press nnd unread, as sandbags for trenches and a shelter against a whining scurry of machine-gun bullets. Back In Paris an anxious publisher and thoughtful cashier wondered In what category of "unsold copies" the wagon load should be put Three times the Dally Mall has heard through advanced line distrib uting agents of paper sellers shot by snipers' bullets while making their way along the trenches. The use of college professors as prop agandists by the Hermans shows again the respect of the savajje for rtae medicine .mail. x' : Road Legislation Occupies Member (10,000,000 Road Bond Issue Pro posed Budget Is Pruned Would Investigate Dairy Industry Com bine of Stock Buyers Illegal Five Bills to Expedite Court Procedure Would Remove Tax Exemptions. Salem. While considerable legisla tion of minor Importance received at tention in each house during the sec ond week of the session, the big con structive measures, in which the peo ple of the state at large are interested, such as those relating to highways, finance and consolidation of manage ment of state institutions, were still incubating when the legislature ad journed for the week end. Several bills on these vital subjects are sched uled for introduction this week, but It will doubtless be some time before they are passed. The joint consolidation committee has agreed upon several bills designed to merge various Btate bureaus. They seek to create several departments, viz., a department of labor, a depart ment of agriculture, a department of health, a department of state Institu tions and buildings and possibly one or two other departments. Passage of these bills would result in the mer ger of a dozen or more boards and commissions. Some- members of the joint consoli dation committee seem to think that their program will not meet with very strong opposition, but others believe opposition will develop when the bills are reached on the calendar, and It would not be surprising if they are held up and swamped in the conges tion usual during the closing days of the session. Road legislation is uppermost In the minds of members in both houses, ond all concede that a comprehensive highway program should be passed at the present session, but the trouble is that petty jealousy, politics and per sonal ambition are hampering any prompt action. The senate and house committees are jealous of each other and there are members in each house who would like to go down in history ar. the father of the state's highways. Road Bills Appear A number of road bills hare been introduced, some of which have merit. Several seek to. hit the so-called pav ing trust and permit open competition in road construction. - While it is impossible to tell Just what the road construction program will be, it seems certain that a $10, 000,000 bond Issue will be provided for, to be financed by funds derived from an increase in the motor vehicle tax and a tax on gasoline. Reconstruction has received slight consideration, but thus far no definite plan has been formulated. During the first two weeks of the session 80 bills were Introduced in the senate and 191 in the house, and in addition a number of resolutions and memorials have been presented. Eight house bills were pending in the sen ate and 22 senate bills In the house. A flood of bills to increase salaries have appeared. So far 14 counties are reported to havf offered bills to increase salaries of county officers, and bills are in to increase the salary of the Justices of the supreme court, superintendent of public Instruction, Insurance commissioner and dairy commissioner. According to lobby talk more salary bills are coming. $842,311 Is Cut From Budget Figures. The Joint ways and means commit tee, during its first two weeks of wrestling with the financial problems, has tentatively allowed $2,002,863.44 of the $2,845,176 of the budget require ments to be put up to the law makers, having lopped off $842,311.56 so far. These slashes leave only a little more than $400,000 more to be cut off to meet the provisions of the 6 per cent limitation amendment and there is every indication that the committee will make good on this task. The main reduction made has been the lopping off of the $680,000 which the Industrial accident commission es timated would be its share for Btate aid during the next two years. The next heaviest reduction is that of the state fair, $30,000 being pruned from the rstimates of that institution. The Normal is shaven off I24.441.5B to TURKS CAPTURED IN PALESTINE ' MUST INCREASE F00DJXP0RT America Called on by End War to Supply Added Millions. of LETTERS FROM OUR Here are types of the Turkish prisoners taken by the thousands In Pales tine by the victorious troops of General Allenby's expedition. MRS DANIELS IN UNIFORM Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the secretary of the navy, Is here shown In the blue uniform and block trlcnne hat of the Y. W. C. A. war work coun II, which she now wears on her visits to the hostess houses In different nmns and naval stations, bring It down to the $74,288.44, or millage tax basis. The forestry board is hit by a reduction of $16,000, while the institution for the feeble minded has so far lost only $12,200 of the $345,700 appropriation sought in the budget estimate. Senate Favors Dairy Investigation. Senator Pierce's proposal for the ap pointment of a legislative commission to make an immediate and thorough Investigation of the dairy industry in Oregon,met witb the unanimous ap proval of the senate a:vl resulted in the adoption of his resolution by un animous vote. President Vinton named Senators Pierce, of Union county, and Patterson, of Polk eounty, as the two senate members of this commission. The measure provides fox-three mem bers to be appointed from the lower branch. This commission Is expected o recommend needed legislation on ehalf cf the dairy industry. House Bill Protects Cattle Shippers. The Gallagher bill, preventing a combination of bidders for livestock, received an unanimous vote in the house. This bill makes It a misde meanor to enter Into an agreement or arrangement preventing 'competl-1 tlve bidding for livestock shipped to a wholesale or central stockyards mar ket. Fines for violation of the act range from $200 to $5000. The bill Is designed to prevent collu sive agreements between the stock buyers, said to exist in the Portland markets, from bearing the price of livestock, or splitting the purchases among buyers for their benefit and against the best Interest of the Btock men who have to enter the markets for the sale of their stock. Would Simplify Court Proceedings. Five bills, intended to simplify and expedite court procedure in Oregon, have been prepared for introduct'on by Representative Hare of Washing ton county. The chief reform proposed Is to con fer upon the supreme court power to prescribe rules governlns-'tlie modes of pleading and procedure In the cir cuit courts, and not Kind the circuit courts with hard anji fast laws as to procedure which are used by the tech nical lawyers to obstruct, delay and divert Justice. M,r-. Another one of the bills amends the statute relating to change of venue, and provides that tort actions shall be tried In the county In which the de fendant resides or where the cause of action arose. Change In Tax Laws Proposed. Under a joint resolution introduced in the house by Representative Hcs ford, of Multnomah, all property in the state, except municipal, state and federal property, would be taxed. The resolution proposes submission of a constitutional amendment to the peo ple so to amend the constitution. Provision also is made in the pro posed amendment for a personal prop erty exemption of $300. This amend ment, if enacted, would remove tax exemptions on all church, lodge and other property of a similar nature now enjoying immunity. - Anti-Trust Bill Offered. A general anti-trust bill which, It Is declared, is aimed mainly at the so called paving trust, but Is applicable to trade and other combinations gen erally, was introduced In the senate by Senators Thomas and Lachntund. The bill is designed to punish those who would seek to prevent fair com petition and likewise aoplles to thoso who endeavor to fix p- ices or in any way limit the production of any com modity. t " PMducers of horticultural and agri cultural commodities do not come within thejjrovisions of the act. Tax on "-Gasoline Proposed. A bill provBLig for a tax of 1 cent a gallon on gasonBeThid distillate was introduced in the House by Ibo house committee on roads aMLhighways. The bill defines whnfSjihall consti tute the fuel upon which the tax sbail be levied and includes gasoline, dis tillate, liberty fuel and such otber volatile and Inflammable liquids pro duced or compound for the purpose of operating motor vehicles, except kero sene oil. All persons dealing In these liquid fuels are to be known as dealers, whether engaged In the wholesale or retail business. All dealers are re quired to register their names with the secretary of state whether it be a person, firm or corporation name. Legislative Brevities. Organization of the joint house and senate consolidation committee was perfected with the election of Senator Dimick, of Clackama,-, as chairman of the committee. An annual appropriation of $15,000 to be used by the On-gon Agricultural college lir the investigation of crop pests was introduce 1 in the house by the joint committee on horticulture. The house jpassei senator Thomas' joint memorial in j;!ng congress to eliminate the 10 per cent, tax which the conference committee In congress proposes to impose on loganberry and apple juices. The senate judiciary committee In troduced a substitute bill for two oth ers to withdraw state aid from the Industrial accidei t commission. The house by .nan -nous vote pass ed the Dodd ill) prohibiting any school, public o. private, within the state of Oregon, from being conducted in other lang ia but English. The bill does not prohibit the teaching of foreign languages, but forbids the en tire tofioo! jeing conducted In a for eign tongue. Two resolutions Introduced by Rep resentatives Kubli and Smith, of Mult nomah, ask congress to permit Oregon shipyards, to take contracts on foreign account, and a sweeping legislative investigation of why the government is blocking the shipbuilding program. Throne uit Hie cheapest tli.ngs on the market, ECONOMY STILL HEEDED. Over Three Times Prs-Waapkhlpments Required Situation In Wheat and Fata Proves Government's Policy Sound. With the guns In Europe silenced, we have now to consider n new world food situation. But there can be no hope thnt the volume of our exports can be lightened to the slightest de gree with the cessation of hostilities. Millions of people liberated from the Prussian yoke , are now depending upon us for the food which ..III keep them from starvation. With food the. United States ninde It possible for the forces of democ racy to hold out to victory. To Insure democracy In the world, we must con tinue to live simply In order that we may supply these liberated nations of Europe with food. ' Hunger among n people Inevitably breeds n'nareliy. American food must complete the work of making the world safe for democ racy. Last year we sent 11,820,000 tons of food to Europe. For the present year, with only the Kuropenn Allies to feed, we had originally pledged ourselves to a program that would have Increased our exports to 17,500,000 tons. Now, to feed the liberated nations, we will have to export a total of not less than 20,000,000 tons practically the limit of loading capacity nt our ports. Re viewing the world fosd situation, we llnd that some foods will be obtainable In quantities sufficient to meet all world needs tinder a regime of eco nomical consumption. On the other hand, there will be mnrked world shortages In some Important commodi ties. Return to Normal Bread Loaf. With the enlarged wheat crops which American fanners have grown, nnd the supplies of Australia, the Ar gentine nnd other mnrkets now acces sible to shipping, there are bread grains enough to enable the nations to return to their normal wheat loaf, provided we continue to mill flour at u high percentage of extraction nnd maintain economy In eating and the avoidance of wnste. In fats there will be n heavy short ageabout !i,000,000,000 pounds in pork products, dairy products and vegetable oils. While there will be a shortage of about three million tons In rich protein feeds for dairy nnl mnls, there will bo sufficient supplies of other feedstuff's to allow economical consumption. In the matter of beef, the world's supplies are limited to the capacity of tne avauahie refrigerating ships. The supplies of beef In Australia, the Ar gentine nnd the United States are suf ficient to lond these ships. There will be a shortage In the importing conn I tries, but we cannot hope to expand exports materially for the next nionlhs In view of the bottle neck In trans portation. Wo' will have a sufficient supply of sugar to allow normal consumption In this country If the other nritlons re tain their present short rations or In i crease them only slightly. For the ; countrles- of Europe, however, to la crease their present rations to a ma terial extent will necessitate our shar ing a part of our own supplies with them. , Twenty Million Tons of Food. Of the world total, North America will furnish more than 00 per cent. The United States. Including the West Indies, will be called upon to furnish 20,000,000 tons of food of all kinds ns compared with our pre-war exports of about 0,000,000 tons. While we will be able to chnnge our program In many respects, even a casual survey of the world supplies In comparison to world demands shows conclusively that Europe will know famine unless the American people bring their home consumption down to the barest minimum that will muln tain health and atrength. i There are conditions of fnmlne in Europe that will be beyond our power to remedy. There are 40,000.000 peo ple In North Russia whom there Is small (bonce of reaching with food this winter. Their transportation Is demoralized In complete anarchy, und shortly many of their ports will be frozen, even If Internal transport could be realized. To Preserve Civilization. At this moment Germany bus not alone sucked tho food and animals from all those masses of people she has dominated and left starving, but she has left behind her a total wreck age of social Institutions, und this mass of people is now confronted with absolute unarchy. i here win be no more Uuu propa ganda In this country. LADS "OVER THERE" I Captain Fred A. Lieuallen, Portland physician, writes a very interesting letter published in the Oregon Journal of recent date, which will be of special interest to his many friends in this vicinity. He is a son of J. T. Lieu allen of Adams, and his wife was a former Athena girl, Miss Myrtle Hawks. Captain Lieuallen went through the war with the medical re serve corps of the 47th infantry. 4th division of regulars. He was gassed on October 5 in the Argonne and has returned to the base hospital at Ver dun after a month spent at Nice. The following extract describes the inci dent of his being gassed: I spent the month of October in the hospital. Jerry oertalnly gave me and my detachment a good dose of mustard gas, but again, as in a good many instances, the time for us to emus the Great Divide had not arrived. While we suffered some pain, I consid er that we were more than lucky. Jerry certainly had us located and hit our aid station several timet with high explosive shells, which had blown up two of the three shacks we were using as dressing stations. We were very lucky as one shell hit a dead center. There were 14 of us in the shack and only six were wounded, none killed. "I never got a scratch, but a few minutes later a gas shell hit and when it exploded, scattered mustard liquid which soon becomes gas all over us. As we had no helmets on, we got a lot of it in a few seconds. Every one of the 14 in the shack was gassed, in cluding the wounded, though none fa tal. In an hour we were a sorry look ing gang. "Gas gets the eyes Brat. Soon we were blind, even though we UBed lots of sodium bicarbonate solution to wash our eyes. We were soon sent to the rear, placed in an ambulance and sent to the hospital. Of course we, like most everyone who has had a trip in a Fold at breakneck speed over shell holes, think it the worat trip in our experience Anyhow, I never can for get it. "Nineteen days without sight is a long time, and some of the boys were worse than I. I bad no burns on my body but my shoulder was a solid blis ter and they shaved my hair off. I was a prize beauty and it looked for awhile as though I never would have hair on my head again, but it is now out, much to my delight. We certainly re ceived the best care and treatment." THE WAR DRIVE Writea From Hohr, Germany. . "Jan. I, 1019. "My dear Mother: I received your letter of Nov. Ml and another one, also some papers. The smokes certainly came in handy, as I had been getting alorg on Bull. Well, we spent Christ mas on the Rhine in a little town by the name of Welssersthurui. We are across the Koine now in a town by the name of Hohr. It is about six kilo meters from Coblentz. Four of us boys are billeted with a family here. The old man is a crockery manufac turer, and for New Years he made us a present of a beer stein apiece; don't know if I will get a chance to use it when I get back, so guess I will break it in before I send it back. "The people here have been using us O. K. so far. but then we have got them by the neck and it stands them in hand to toe the mark. Everything is high priced in this country now. Things cost from ten to forty times as much as they did in peace times. We have not got our Christmas packages yet but I guess we will get them some time thlat year. We have been quite lucky, have not been bothered with the flu. "Speaking of the weddings It's funny that Cupid's arrows should pierce so many manly hearts, when they were needed on the firing line. "Well, it's hard telling when we. will get back, but I hope it won't be' long before we may get home and take on some feeds again. The army chuck is worse here than it was on the front, for we sure had plenty when we were on the front. "Well, I guess I will clo-o for this time as the old lady here his brought, up some potato hot cakeu, so we will tackle them 'toot sweet.' Corp. Ed Sebasky. 118 V. A , Bat. D. Dick Winship Haa Broken Leg. "France, Jan. 1, 1919. "Dear Father and All: As I have n't received any mail for a long time, will write a few lines to let you know I arn O. K. and feeling fine except tor a broken leg, which is getting along fine. Have been in the hospital for two weeks. Had a fino dinner Christ mas, of turkey, etc., nlso had a tree in the ward; wasn't much on it but cigar ettes and cotton, but it was a Christ mas tree anyhow.. The Ited Cross gave us a pair of socks full of cigarettes, candy and nuts, and the 'V gave us some candy and nuts, and the nurse made some cake and candy, so v,x had To the Public:-The Cental Loyalty Committee takes pride and pleasure in advising the citizenship of Umatilla county that all cases of delinquency in war drives reported to the committee have been satisfactorily settled and that there is now not a single slacker name upon the records. William Swash of, Fruitvale and J. E. Hoon of Milton Tuesday afternoon contributed their quotas to tne United WarFtadin.fu.il, the former giving his 120.00 to the Salvation Army and Armenian-Syrian Relief Fund and the hitter his $26.00 for Armenian-Syria relief. ; Nick Grosege,bauror oft Fruitvale contributed the balance off .bis quota ' and Herman Behnke' and Fred Meihoff pledged themselves to send their quo tas in to headquarters within the next few days. The committee believes their promise is absolutely good. In the explanation of their reasons for withholding their contributions so long, none of the five evinced any dis loyalty. In fact, they all expressed a desire to show appreciation for the services rendered by the qjtasundor arms but justified their prev3puseiu8 als by arguments 'which vre believe they felt sincerely but whltlr'We feel were not weighed carefully f enough against their obligations as -individual parts of a country at war.? All are American citizens and we 4p not be lieve that their attitude in the past few weeks haa been at all prompted bv un-American sympathies. In aome cases there was misconception, and with other personal issues arose to pre vent a right perspective. We believe they, as well as all other citizens will share in our pride that there is now ...,1,:.... ... . 1 i . Jr ........ .v ... ,. u 1 1, u.b iu.lt ISbUlU U, the county and that the pledge of our people to back up the boys we sent to war has been redeemed. 1 CENTRAL LOYALTY COMMITTEE.' U. C- P. S. League. verv ffoori time. hut. wnnn't Hire h. ing at home. Had a little snow here on tne zotn, nut didn't last long. Pvt. W. R. Winship, Co. G, aoi' Inf. WOULD SELL ROAD BONDS to unur nnmiTV rni ut IU nUlVIC bUUMI rULnD Tho ii,Hmon nt fho llm.OU. rV..,.. tv i:,.,'l la.,1.11.. ... uressed bv action taken Rfltnrdav says the East Oregoman. is that tho f 1,000,000 road bonds when voted bv tho .inllntu ha nffaMn ..!,. ...... . .. f pie in this county, through the county treasurer. It is suggested that the interest rate not exceed six per cent. The idea of bonding is heartily ap proved by the association. As predicted, the association en dorsed the 10 million bonding move by the state, gasoline tax the doubling of auto licenses and commended the, work of the highway commission. A lap i:,.,.....,.t. u;;i,,. iJani his intention of reappointing W. j. Thompson on the board. Many farmera and representative citizens from over the county were present at the meeting at Pendleton Saturday. D. H. Nelson is president of the association and J. O. Hales, secretary. Funeral Held Monday. Funeral services fot the late James F. Zerba were held Monday afternoon at the family residence, Rev. W. A. Pratt, of the M. E. church, conducting the services. James Fremont Zerba was born in the state Wisconsin, Sep tember 12. 18(18. At an early age hj went to Nebraska, thence to Califor nia, and from there he came to Una- jtilla county, where he resided per manently, with the exception of two years spent in the Btate of Washing ton. He passed away at San Diego,; California, January al. 1011). " Here From Camp Taylor. Everett Zerba is here from CamD Zachary Taylor. Ky., on furlough which expires February 8th. This ne cessitates his leaving for the Camp tomorrow. Me was called home on account of hie father's death, arriv ng here Sunday morning in company witb his sister Edna from 'California. Ev erett is in the ruotor truck repair, ser- ii" expects nisimacnariiahort- lv on vocational croOndSi'AeiiB hidlv heeded bere to assist in conducting the ..erua uros.. oarage. . . . Red Cross Flu Work, For October, November, December and January, for aid in checking in fluenza and other diseases in the coun ty, Red Cross funds went'aa follows: Freewater. 100; Milton, IMOO: Ath ena. u0; Adams, 1875 Pendleton. 715.811 for emergency hospital, and iiM.ni for Pendleton .community Klicncn. i V 'tali-