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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1919)
IT AN NDBPBNDKVT NtivVHCAPtth F. b. Boyd. Publisher 23 Years Ago. I From the Press 01 Apr. 4 1B96 s tTHENA. OREGON, APR 4 1919 PRICES WILL NOT FALL. Many new buildings are wanted all over the country, but those who would build are waiting for prices fto fall. Stocks are low in many stores, but merchants buy from hand to mouth. They wait for prices to fall. That is the reason for the stagnation in busi ness which has prevailed Bince Novem ber. Everybody thought that prices had been inflated by war, and that now they would fall. More than four months have passed since war ended, but still prices have not fallen, except in a few commod ities like steel and copper, which are exceptionally affected bv war. Lum bermen held a conference with the commerce department about a new level of prices, but they could not see their way to make a change. The truth is that prices are not go ing to fall. Professor Irving Fisher of Yale tells us in a paper which was read at the conference of governors and mayors that "we are on a perma nently high-price level." and we may as well make up our minds to it and go ahead on that levJ. Prices have risen higher in Europe than America, therefore we cannot expect ran influx of low-priced goods. By using paper credit instead of gold aB currency and by expanding the volume of credit, we have changed the conditions on which prices were based. Professor Fisher says that "to talk reverently of 1918 14 prices is to speak a dead language today, " for the new price-level "is a stubborn reality." The only thing to do is to stop waiting and go ahead on the new price-level. There are reasons peculiar to the Pacific northwest for going ahead. The foreBta of Europe are generally destroyed, lumber is in urgent demand and we can supply it. The food and wool growing animals of Europe have been killed by millions. Europe must have meat and clothes, and Oregon can supply both. Many orchards have been cut down, and Oregon can supply fruit. The new price-level is espec ially permanent for what we produce. Then we can safely build, for material prices will not fall and the price of what we have to sell will not fall, either. The man who waits is like the dog who lost the substance in grasp ing for the shadow.- Portland Ore gonian. Weston displays commendable grat-. itude toward her returning soldier sons by offering in memorial tribute a 111500 community center building. This splen did spirit on the part of Weston cit izens is in direct line with the move ment proposed for Athena by B. B. Richards some time ajp). Weston ac complished her object in a few days, through united 4flfort on the part of her. live commercial association and citlzenBr'Ur. Richards' proposal re main! open. Close the schools and let's all turn out Tuesday afternoon to see the tro phies taken from the German armies, on the battlefields of France. Thirty minutes, the time allotted to the train for stopping in Athena, is r.ot very long, but is sufficient for every one in Athena and vicinity to see the exhibit, if they are at the O.-W. station promptly at 1:10 p . in., the time scheduled for tho arrival of the .train. The opening day of the Victory Lib erty Loan drive is set fur Monday, April SI, and the Athena committee is set to go "over the top" for Athena's quota on Monday, April ill. Paint and light docs moro to put pep in the appearance of a town than any thing else. The former freshens 'up buildings and the latter lights up the frenhtnin'. The way I'resWtHjl, I'oliicure and Premier (Meincnoa4.il' afoagtvlni: din ners anil entertaining-ft 'ouM net .sur prise us to hear nt any moment that their cooks have- given notice. The fact found from enpturtd pa pers that the rrntnns plmmed a 11 bnat war on neutral nations ought to count In the Dual settlement when Germany conies pleading for milder terms. Lew Shaw has returned from Ari zona and will engage in business in Athena. Athena had a fire Sunday evening when the shed stable adjoining the Commercial stable was damaged but the blaze was soon under control, ow ing to the valiant fighting of the fire laddies under the able direction of Chief Parker and Foreman Sharp. The Athena band will furnish music for the republican county convention at Pendleton Thursday. The renortel learns that the McKay boys will soon leave Canada for Col orado. The probabilities are that they will eventually come back to Athena. Misses Iva and Ruby Callcnder en tered the Normal school at Weston the first of the week, to take up work with the eighth grade. The last meeting of the whist club for the season occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wilkinson on Tuesday evening. Still another decision was rendered by Judge Hewitt yesterday. This was in the injunction suit instituted bv District Attorney JameajlMcCain, of the second district, ajgainst State Treasurer Phil Mi-technn to restrain him from paying the $25,008 warrant drawn upon bim for the purpose of paying for the site of the branch asy lum which was located in Union coun ty during the latter part of 1894. The court makes the injunction perpetual and the defendant will, no doubt, take an appeal to the supreme court. The Normal school base ball club has sent u formal challenge to the Athena boys for a game on Saturday, and if agreeable they will cross bats at Weston. A representative of Balfour, Guthrie & Co. is furnishing squirrel poison, fence posts, horse feed and seed to farmers whose lands are mortgaged to the company. The stuff is provided on time and at cost, and shows that the mortgage companies are alive to their interests. Weston Leader. It is reported that several mining claims have been staked off at Uma tilla during the past few days, and that quite an excitement has prevailed over the operations. Gold has been washed from the Columbia sands for several years, and last year a number of men washed out auite a large amount of yellow wealth. The Churches. Bnpfist Church .ks. We announce the regular services for Sunday morning, and you are all invited to worship with us. Bible school is at 10 a. m.. and preaching at 11, There will be no evening service. The Christian Church. We expect to see everybody next Sunday in" place at the church. Of course you will be there for it is our Everybody-Go-to-Church Sunday. Everybody I There are at least fifty of my flock who have not yet reported at the church since the "flu" began to spread last fall. And there are no doubt as many more friends who have not yet fallen In line. Your place is waiting and I don't intend to put a "to let" sign on it for a long time; but don't keep me waiting too long. Come at '1 o'clock, for there will be no night service. Sunday school at 10. At night we will go to the Methodist church to hear Evangelist Shannon. B. B. Burton. Methodist Episcopal Church. Services next Sund:y: Sunday school at 10 o'clock; the Shannon revival meetings at 11 a. in. and 8 p. is. All invited. Athena School Notes Contributed State Superintendent J. A. Churchill with County Supt. Green, visited our high school last Friday. Mr. Church ill is making an annual inspection of standard high schools to check up ref erence books, apparatus ard course of study. Mr. Churchill's findings and recommendations are incorporated in a report to the local board which should be received in a few days. A tryout of grade winners for the sectional declamatory contest was held in the school auditorium Thursday af ternoon. The winners of the contest represent the Athena public schoil at a later contest. Dr. Bishop will give a humorous and dialect lecture in the Auditorium, April 18, upon the subject of "The Southern Negro as I Have Known Him." Dr. Bishop has appeared in many Western Oregon cities and is scheduled for Walla Walla and Milton on the dates preceding ours. A per centage of money raised goes to our student body fund. "Its pur ownfauli( saysULonnorm With the exception of horses, prop erty valuations are bein; assessed on the same basis as last year. The Gasoline Pro of Supply and D b em d The second of a series of three statements The war directed attention to the need of petroleum conservation. Speaking on this subject, Mark L. Requa, General Director, Oil Division, United States Fuel Administration, recently said : "The disproportion between the supply of and demand for gasoline is enormous and constitutes a critical problem. "Projected at the percentage of increase, 1904-1914, we should require in 1927 something like 700,000,000 barrels of petroleum. In 1918 our total production was only 350,000,000 barrels." To meet this.situation both the petroleum and au tomobile industi ies.liave for several years been mak ing every .effort. The problem has been approached from every angle: (a) The oil producers are constantly prospecting for new fields. They have sunk many wells and are doing everything possible to increase petroleum production. (b) The oil refiners, with the help of their chemi cal engineers, ere ever devising new and im proved processes of refining by which they squeeze every possible drop of gasoline out of each barrel of petroleum. (c) The automotive engineers have aided much in gasoline conservation by their constant improvement of automobile engines and methods of carburization. Their efforts are to secure the operation of automobiles on grades of gasoline that permit the maximum production of this motor fuel from each bar rel of crude oil and which, at the same time, will give the greatest power and mileage from each unit of gasoline consumed. All these methods are succeeding to a marked de gree, and yet gasoline consumption is increasing much faster than production. Facing these hald facts last summer, it became evident to President Wilson and the United States Fuel Administration that there was virtually as great need for gasoline conservation as for food conserva tion. .In consequence the United States Fuel Adminis tration requested Eastern states to discontinue en tirely all r.on-essential use of passenger automobiles, and for a time this request was so extended that only automobiles in Government, emergency or war service were in use on Sunday. These limitations were not extended to the Western states, because at the time there was enough gasoline being produced In California for Pacific Coast needs and its distri bution did not require the use of transcontinental transportation facilities needed for war. It was part of this same campaign to conserve gasoline that led President Wilson to appoint a Gov ernment committee to determine and adopt standard specifications for gasoline and other petroleum prod ucts. This committee consisted of the United States Fuel Administration and representatives of the War and Navy Departments, the United States Shipping Board. the Director General of Railroads, the Bureau of Mines and the Bureau of Standards. The committee was assisted and advised by tech nical experts from each of these departments and bodies. After extended discussions, exhaustive tests and experimentation, this Government committee adop ted standard specifications for gasoline, not only for aviation purposes, but also for general motor use on land and sea. These United States Government specifications were drawn up with a view to providing a grade of gasoline that would meet every practical require ment and yet allow maximum production. They deal with the problem or. the basis of the best utilization of our petroleum resources, and the maintenance of reasonable prices to the consumer. Drafted as they were by impartial Government ex perts, these United States .Government gasoline specifications are today bcin generally considered as the most practical standard for gasoline. They insure an efficient and satisfactory gasoline and at the same time have due regard for the necessity of petroleum conservation. The gasoline being furnished today is more pow erful and gives greater mileage than the gasoline of ten years ago. Its use is made possible by the im provements in automobile engines and methods of carburization. To go back to the gasoline of ten years ago would be to accept a more highly volatile but less powerful gasoline civin; 'sss rniicage. It would also result in decreasing tfc r-sduction and increasing the cost of g: All Red Crown gasoline ' I ! Mpi lied in the Pacific Coast states is refilled to 'form with the United States Government '.' -.d.;rd speci ic-tions. It has the full, uniform chr.in . f I II ig points nec essary fcr full-powered, ie; - . gasoline: Low boiling points for easy ctarti medium boiling points for quick, smooth cc .lien, and high boil ing points for power and u.iicac. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) TO "Your own horse sense ought to tell you what is the best value when a small chew of Real Grave ly tastes so good, and lasts so much longer than a big chew of ordinary plug." 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LOGSDON & MYRICK Main Street, Athena, Oregon THE UNIVERSAL CAR The Ford Model T one-ton truck is prov ing a splendid time and money-saver on the farm. It is very flexible in control, . strong and dependable in service. It has Think it real-y become one hf tne larmers xif "?r 3 ties. One Ford' Mr. Farmer is equal to half a en teams and it won't "eat its head otT when not working The very low price makes it popular with shrewd farmers who analyze conditions on the farm. Let us talk it over, Mr. Farmer. Price with out body, $550 f. o. b. Detroit. . f Can deliver, and furnish Bodies at once. Burke & Son Garage vhonei82, Athena, Oregon