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Advertising The cAtheno Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend Notice! If this notice is marked RED, it sig nifies that your Subscription expires with this issue. We will greatly ap preciate your renewal 13.00 per year Entered at the Pot Office at Athena. Oregon, ae Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME XL ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 29, 1919. NUMBER 35 TORK FAR AHEAD OF GRIM REAPER Reobrt Shows Births in 22 States Exceed Deaths by 74.4 . : A Par Pan LT. COM. HAROLD AUTEN I,.-' Ml 24.6 PER 1,000 dea pr, infi brot fhich i from Registration Area Show lof 14,394 Pairs of Twins 155 Sets of Triplets In 1917. OH. In the blrth-reglstra- of the United States 1,353,- Were born alive In 1917, a birth rate of 24.6 nor lotion. number of deaths In the was 776,222, or 14.1 per births exceeded the deaths cent. For every state in tlon area, for practically es and for nearly all the he births exceeded the most cases by considerable The mortality rate for der one year of age aver- per 1,000 living births. ri'i.'olnc are among the facts P-lft' the census bureau's i mm ion of birth statistics. fttl'Wlstratlon area, estab- JOlTt'Bhas grown rapidly. It ' lh '1917 the six New Entf- itnte.v Indiana, Kansas, Ken- Afrtryland, Michigan Washing igbnsln and the District of Co- rtid had an estimated popula 5B;000,000, or about 53 per cent estimated total population of Ited States In that year. Comparison With 1916. bfrth rate for the entire birth- stratlon area fell below that for by two-tenths of one per 1,000 uiation; but the death rate was by clx-tenths of one per thousand n itr 1916. Thus the excess o the rite over the death rate for 1917, amounted to 10.5 per 1,000, was newhat greater than the correspond excess for 1916, 10.1 per 1,000, hough It fell slightly below that for 16, 10.9 per 1,000. il the birth and death rates prevail- in any one of these three years to remain unchanged, and If no the urea to which they relate, Its in: i iv mure mil I 1 ner cem uei or a little more than 10 per a decade. This would be about rate 21 per cent by which re population of the United Increased between 1900 and total number of births report- 288, or 24.5 per 1,000, were of tes for the two elements of i-.t .t i nor 1111 M M Wt'll1 lO.I UUII ., ) '1 urn. moriumy rum uim ia, of age per 1,000 born alive the birth-registration area was 93.8 In 1917, as against 6 and 100 In 1915. This Is to saying that In 1915 and ry ten Infants born alive "ore reaching the age of reas In 1917 the cone was a trifle more than nong the twenty states d froirj,.M,4 for Mln ltfaryrand ; and for n separately the ist rates were 60.3 d 109.5 for New callty rates vary sexes and for the jes. The rate for 1917, 103.7 per 1,000 .is nearly 35 per cent tat for female Infants, y 88.8. When the cora tde on the basis of race y of mother a minimum of mothers born In Denmark, Sweden, and a maximum infants with mothers born while for negro children the -from the registration the birth of 14,394 pairs of hets of triplets In 1917 . fnfmtts or n Ufrle mnr Sent of the total number r for Family. 1,241,722 of the 1917 contained ln- tt.tilml- rtt .ItUd In se reports 339,- chlld born to for the second third, 144,331 and 95.981 for the remaining 216,846 cant of the entire Information upon WHI. IIIC IUIOI I1UIU- IsasHasasisssssasssssI aaaaW ( IB mm 18-Months-Old Babe Is Arrested on Warrant San Francisco. Jack Theo dore Walters, 18 months old, was arrested recently on a war rant Issued by Superior Judge B. J. Flood. He was brought Into court In the arms of Sheriff Thomas F. Finn and awarded to the custody of bis mother, Mrs. Hazel Walters, so to remain un til further orders from the court A few minutes before Jock's mother bad placed on the secret file a suit for divorce from his father, Jack Otto Walters. In the affidavit Mrs. Walters declared her husband was plan ning to kidnap little Jack and take him beyond the state line, where the San Francisco courts would have no jurisdiction. jt. NEW OUTLINE MAP OF COUNTRY MADE Based on Lambert Conformal Projection as Used in the War. MRS. C. W. DUSTIN SHOWS ERRORS IN SCALE Lieut. Commander Harold Auten, V. C, O. S O., photographed on board the "mystery ship," of which he waa the commanding officer and with which he rank a number of U-boats. was six or more; in oi,!)14 cases it was ten or more ; la 1,000, fifteen or more ; in 56 cast's, twenty or more. The total number of children borne by the mothers who gave birth to these 1,241,722 Infants in 1917, in whose cases data were available as to previous Mrths, was 4,093,908. The reports for 1,194,621 of the blrfhs oc curring In 1917 contained Information as to the entire number of children borne by the mothers and still living, and give a total of 3,443,466, or an av erage of very nearly three living chil dren In each family in which a birth took place In 1917. MANY T0'";S GONE FOREVER HONOR YANK DOCTORS I Memorial to Work of Women j Physicians in France. Impossible to Rebuild Some. French Villages In Battle Area. of Paris, France. Investigations by the commission which Is examining the de vastated regions of France are confirm ing the previous evidence that many of the beautiful towns and hamlets of the battle area are so totally ruined that they never can be rebuilt. Vaux, of Immortal fame, has taken Its place in the long list, and the mayors of two other historic villages, Douaumont and Fleury, have recently notified their people, who are refugees In various parts of France, that these places can not be reclaimed. Not only Is the soil in such shape that it cannot be culti vated for many years, but the ruined hamlets are filled with hidden explo sives and other dangers. Prizes for Plgmanahlp. Every year a pig race Is held at Crone-sur-Marne, In the north of France, a prise of 2,000 francs being awarded the lucky rider of the win ning pig. This race Is held In accord ance with the terms of the will of a wealthy tradesman of the village, who died forty-two years ago. He ordered that amongst the amuse ments of the annual fete should be In cluded a race with pigs, to be ridden either by men or boys. The prize, however, was not to be handed to the winning jockey except on condition that he wore deep mourning for the deceased for two years after the race. The municipality accepted the eccen tric bequest, and these singular races have been held regularly ever since. Felicity a Necessity. The presence of a wise population implies the search for felicity as well as for food ; nor can any population reach Its maximum but through that wisdom which "rejoices" in the hnbi tuble parts of the earth. The desert has its appointed place and work; the eternal engine, whose beam Is the earth's axle, whose beat Is Its year, and whose breath Is Its ocean will still divide imperiously to their desert king doms bound with unfurrowable rock, and swept by unarrested sand, their powers of frost and fire; but the zones and lands between, habitable, will be loveliest in habitation. The desire of the heart Is also the light of the eyes. Buskin. Question of Opinion. The lute General Booth of the Sal vation army was conducting a big meeting which lusted unusually long, anil toward the close a newspaper re-po-'er left his seat and gained the a . General Booth pointed a finger at niru and said: "Whoever leaves this auditorium will be damned by God." The reporter answered: "If I dont leave this auditorium and hurry back to my office Til be damned by the dtj editor." "God la above fhe city editor," re torted General Booth. "Yes, 1 think he Is." piously respond ed the reporter, "but the city editor doesnt !" Coast and Geodetic Survey Announces Completion of Chart Solving Old Problem Special Inter I est In Map. Washington. The United Stntcs coast and geodetic survey recently an nounced the completion of a new out line map of the United States on the., Lambert conformal conic proiectldrn scale 1-5,000,000. This map is Intended i.ierely as a base to which may be added any klntl of special Information dilred. The shore line is compiled from the most recent coast and geodetic survey charts. State names and boundaries, principal rivers, capitals, and the larger cities in the differnt states are j also embodied. The map Is of special Interest from the fact that It Is based on the same j system of projection as that employed by the armies of the allied forces In the military operations In France. To meet those requirements and at the request of the army, special publica tions yere prepared by the coast geo detic survey? . iv.p. Many methods of projection have been designed to solve the difficult problem of representing a spherical surface on a plane. As different pro jections have unquestionable merit as well as equally serious defers, the announcement states, any region to be mapped should be made the subject of special study and that system of pro jection adopted which will give the best results for the area under consid eration. Value of New Map. The Mereator, projection, almost uni versally used for nautical charts, Is re sponsible for many false Impressions of the relative size of the countries dif fering in latitude, according to the. sur vey statement. The polyconlc pro jection, widely used and well adapt ed for both topographic and hydro graphic surveys, when used for the whole of the United States In one map has the serious defect of unduly exag gerating the areas on Its eastern and western limits. Along the Pacific coast and In Maine the error In scale Is as much as 6 per cent, while at New York It reaches 44 per cent. i The value of the new outline map on the Lambert projection can best hjp realized when It Is stated that It shows I that throughout the largest and most Important part of the United States, that Is, between latitudes SOU degrees and 49 degrees, the maximum scale error Is only one-half of 1 per cent. Tbjs amount of scale error of one-half of 1 per cent Is frequently less than the distortion due to the method of printing and to changes from the hu midity of the air. Only In southern most Florida and Texas does this pro jection attain its maximum error of 2 1-3 per cent. The Lambert projection Is well adapted to large areas of predominat ing east and west dimensions In the United States where the distance across from east to west Is 14.5 times that of the distance north and south. The strength of the polyconlc projec tion, on the other hand, Is along Its central meridian. The merits and de fects of the two systems of projec tion may be stated In a general way as being at right angles to each other. Special Features. Special features of the Lambert pro jection that are not found In the poly conic may be stated briefly as fol lows 1. The Lambert projection Is con formal that Is, all angles between In tersecting lines or curves are pre served, and for any given point (or. re stricted locality) the ratio of the length of a linear element on the enrtb's surface to the length of the cor responding map elements Is constant for all axlmuths of directions in which the elements may be taken. 2. The meridians are straight lines, nn.l Hi a namltola Dm enneenfrle rlr- ,,f ii .. i- (.,-.- i, i- . . . -; " 1 ..ii" ... ..., u run.. I' fKinf.i-- vruay inosi, aiercy renew ? Emma No fat, Ella Red Bye. Chase Alone. .Noah Hone. John Let ' r Hand and Julia Stands Up. Out or ft students attending the school oim four have French name and "v names of Enir"h or'irtn Children's Hospital at Blola and Dis pensary to Be Maintained Permanently. Paris. A children's hospital and dispensary at Blols, France, which was 1 established during the war by the American Women's hospitals, will be maintained as a permanent memorial of the work of American women doc tors as a result of a gift of $25,000 to the French trustees of the institution. The money comes out of the 1918 cam paign fund of the American Women's hospitals, according to an announce ment made by Dr. Mary M. Crawford, chairman of the committee which is now raising $230,000 throughout the country to carry on the women physi cians' work in France and the near east. The hospital at Blols is under the direction of Dr. Annie Veech of Louis ville, lfy according to a letter re ceived at the headquarters of tie American Women's hospitals, 637 Mad ison avenue, from Ur. M. Louise Hur rell, head physician of unit 1. Many of the patients at the Blols dispensary are refugee orphans. The authorities of the town of Blols, which is the capital of the Lolre-et-Cbalr re gion, and which saw much suffering during the four years of war, have ar ranged, according to Doctor Hnrrell, to erect a bronze tablet commemorat ing the work of the American doctors. DROPS MUSIC, PICKS UP CARS Attractive Artist of London Turns Thief and Plays Mldaa at Hotels. London. For four months Sidney Meredith, an attractive musician of 22, dressed like a prince and threw money to the winds in fashionable hotels on the $2,000 to $2,500 a week he acquired through the daring theft of automobiles In London. He finally came to grief, however, and lias been sen tenced to three years' imprisonment. Meredith has a thorough driving knowledge of cars, and this, with his appearance, was his stock in trade. He would not attract attention as he climbed Into a big car standing In front of club or hotel and drove away, and he confined himself largely to this method. He confessed, the police say, to stealing thirty machines In the four months he operate'1.. Meredith is accredited with saying that he sold each car quickly to a syn dicate of wealthy men who he believes often made from 400 to 700 per cent profit after repainting the machines and otherwise changing their appear ance. He refused to divulge their Identity. Ob Strange Indian Names. ' ' Bapld City. S. D. A recent Issue ot the Ogala Light. the monthly maga zine of the Pine Ridge Indian reserva tlon school near here, gives munc pvt cullar names among those Hated a students. Lizzie Shot to Pieces Is af the end of the list. Other names In elude Victoria Holy Brink. Julia Afrav A column of Instructions how t break In a new car must have had a deep and burning Interest for the man who Is trying to borrow $4 to pay an overdue board bill. Generally a teenlee k In h nib ptnse or he doesn't live at an 8. It has two axes of strength In stead of one, the standard parallels of the map of the United States being 1st Itudes 33 degrees and 45 degrees, and upon these parallels the scale is abso lutely free. The scale for any other part of the map, or for any parallel, can be obtained from special publica tion No. 52, page 36, United States coast and geodetic survey. By means of these tables the very small scale errors which exist in this pro jection can be entirely eliminated. The map measures 25 Inches by 31 Inches' and-wUl he sold .by tbejmf& J meat at 26 cents. .-"v.. 1 : - :---:::-i-- j Wolf rn Ntwipapr Union MILLION "DRUG FIENDS" IN U. S. Congress Gets Report of Investi gation Conducted by Committee. Mrs. Annie M. Mills Arehbold, widow of John D. Arehbold, who has become the bride of Judge Charles W. Dustln of Oayton, O. Mrs. Arch bold, a daughter of the late Maj. 8. M. Mills, Inherited more than $12,000, 000 of the $41,000,000 estate of her late husband, who at the time of his death was president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Bloody Civil War Battle. In 1862, on the 31st day of May the battle of Fair Oaks, Va., took place. It was a small engagement, but In proportion to ' the number of men engaged was one of the most sanguinary of the Civil war. An ad vance guard of the Army of the Po tomac, numbering 10,000 men, was at tacked by a force of about 15,000 Coo federates a few miles east of Rich mond. The battle lasted a day and a half and resulted in a technical vic tory for the northern soldiers. Each side lost more than 7.000 men in killed, wounded and missing. PROMPT ACTION IS URGED Strict Enforcement of Law and Stop, ping of Smuggling From Canada and Mexico la Recommended Lack of Adequate Laws, Washington. The alarming spread of the narcotic drug habit In the United States Is about to be called to tbe attention of congress In the report of an Investigation conducted by n committee-appointed by the secretary of the treasury. The chief findings of tbe committee are: The number of persons in the United States addicted to the use Of drugs "exceeds 1,000,000 at the pres ent time." Increase of the drug habit In the dry South leads many authorities to the conclusion that national prohibi tion will swell the number of victims of narcotics. . Illegitimate supplies of opium and other drugs are smuggled from Mex ico and Canada and along the Atlan tic and Pacific coasts and furnished to 1,800 organized "dope" peddlers. Summary of Recommendations. The committee's recommendations Include strict enforcement of the pres ent federal antl-narcotlc act; addi tional federal legislation; enforcement of state laws ; concerted action on the part of state and municipal govern ments to suppress the Illicit traffic; stopping smuggling of dope from Can ada and Mexico. "It Is also recommended that edu cational campaigns be Instituted In all parts of the United States for the purpose of Informing the people of this country Including the medical profession, of the seriousness of drug addiction and Its extent In the United ys the renort. The committee which made the in vestigation consisted of Congressman Henry T. Rniney of Illinois, Prof. Reed S. Hunt; Harvard university; Deputy .CommisslonerB, C. Keith, In ternal revenue bureau, and Dr. A. Q. Dumeatmiied States public health service. "The number of Individuals addict ed to the use of opium, Its prepara tions or alkaloids, and coca leaves, their preparations or alkaloids, In the United States has at various times been estimated to be from 200,000 to 4,000,000," says the committee. "These estimates must, however, be looked upon as mere guesses. "Owing .to the lack of laws and reg ulations making it compulsory for the registration of addicts, It has been im possible for the committee to obtain Information which would give the ex act number of addicts in the United States. Causes of Drug Addletjon. The causes of drug addiction in the order of frequency were given by po lice authorities as follows: Use of physicians' prescriptions, association with other addicts, prohibition, use of narcotic drugs for chronic diseases, curiosity to lenrn the effect of the drug, prostitution, use of patent or proprietary medicines, use Of certain narcotic drugs as a stimulant, Idle ness, and use by dentists. "What effect, if any, nation-wide prohibition will have on the situation could not be definitely determined by the committee," the report says. "The consensus appears to be that the num ber of addicts will Increase as soon as the prohibition laws are enforced. This opinion apparently receives some support from investigations made In some of the southern states where pro hibition has been In effect for some years." African Witch Doctors. Africa is a sick country one of the sickest in the world. Malaria, tuber culosis and pneumonia fill the swamps and forests with death. 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