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I From the Press 01 Apr. 4 1B96
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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
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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."
Good taste, smaller chew,
longer life is what mikes Gen
uine Gravely cost less to chew
than ordinary plug.
Write to:-
Gbnuine Gravely
DANVILLE, VA.
for booklet on chewiuzplut
Peyton Brand
REAL CHEWING PLUG
Plug packed in pouch-
THE
BARKER BARBER SHOP
A. J. Parker, Proprietor
Shaving, Haircutting, Massaging, Shampooing.
Bath Rooms In Connection,
St. Nichols Hotel Block - - - Athena, Oreg.
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ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Shaffer Milling Co.
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
thena, Oregon.
Waitsburg, Wash.
We carry the best
MEATS
That Money Buys
Our Market is
Clean and Cool
Insuring Wholesome Meats.
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