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Advertising The pAthena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Oreat Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they . have money to spend ATy Notice! If this notice is marked RED, it sig nifies that your Subscription expires with this issue. We will greatly p predate your renewal $2.00 per year Entered at the Post Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Class Mall Matter VOLUME XLHI. LEGISLATION TO AID FARi.!ERSPR0P0SED Bills Introduced in Congress to Establish Farm Loan System. t . ' - . 1 mm" Washington, D. C. Rural credits legislation, said to have the approval of administration officials and propos ing to create a farm credits depart ment as a part of the present farm loan system, was introduced simul taneously In the senate and house by Senator Lenroot, republican of Wiscon sin, and Representative" Anderson, re publican of Minnesota. , The two bills, similar in most par ticulars, would make available for farm loans a total of 160,000,000, dis tributed equally among the 12 federal farm loan banks. The present govern ment subscription to the 12 banks totals only $12,000,000. The banks would be authorized to rediscount farm paper having a maturity of from six months to three years. The "proposed legislation stipulates that farm paper could be rediscount ed for national and state banks and trust companies, incorporated live stock loan companies, farm credit com panies, co-operative credit companies and other banking Institutions, i One bill amending the farm loan act to provide additional credits was introduced by Senator Norbeck, re publican, South Dakota, and Repre sentative Strong, republican, Kansas; while another, introduced by Senator Norbeck and Representative A. P. Nel son, republican, Wisconsin, would auth orize the war finance corporation to make loans to foreign purchasers of American agricultural products. 1 Both of the bills are Introduced by the American Farm Bureau 'Federa tion and go beyond the administra tion proposals in the recently intro duced Lenroot-Anderson bill. . ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1922. NUMBER 49 Is Grain Buyer . Absorbing Gains STATE AND FEDERAL LIQUOR TRIALS LEGAL Washington, D. C Two cases con sidered by the government of major importance in the enforcement of na tional prohibition have been decided by the supreme court. In one of them, coming from the state of Wash ington, the government scored a sweeping victory, the supreme court holding that both the federal and a state government can prosecute and punish the same unlawful act in the manufacture, possession, transporta tion or sale of intoxicating liquors. - The other case, coming from Cali fornia, the government lost In its con tention that In the enforcement of national prohibition an executive of ficer can impose and collect as taxes the assessments and penalties impos ed by those, sections of the revised statutes which remain unrepealed by tho Volstead act and which became law while the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor was not prohibited i CHANGE CIVIL SERVICE Chief Justice Taft Would Extend i . ' Scope of Act. j Washington, D. C. Chief Justice Taft suggested in an address before the annual convention of the National Civil Service Reform league that the president be given power to make nnnointments to all local offices with out senate confirmation. This would he of ereat assistance to the oresl dent, Taft said, because he could, by executive order, turn the entire bur densome task over to the civil service commission. i The change, which was suggested for postmasters, collectors of inter nal revenue, United States attorneys. federal marshals and other field of ficers of the government, he declared. should be welcomed by congress be cause of "the Importunities of patron age seekers." American Consul at Malta Shot, Valetta, Malta. Mason Mitchell of New York, American consul on the island of Malta, was Shot and wound ed near Baracca. His assailant es caped. Mitchell was taken to a phy aician for treatment. " Mitchell was slightly wounded, the bullet embedding itself in his coat. He was confined to his bed, but with the expectation that Le would be about in a day or two. The shooting is generally attributed to madman. -. . . HIGH SCHOOL' PRESENTS NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Athena farmers will be interested in the following, from three sources, relative to results accruing from the Columbia basin rate decision: A Pendleton special to the Ore gon journal says: Grain growers and shippers of this section of the Inland Empire today" expressed themselves as in favor of the Columbia basin de cision, but were unaoie to see any great benefits accruing from it to them since the lower rate to Portland over Seattle and Puget Sound has been in effect. W. W. Harrah, shipper and grower, declared that last month the wheat shipments to Portland were five times as much as those to Seattle and Ta coma,' and laid this record directly to the cut in rates for this "territory. By securing Washington and Idaho wheat, more business is done in Port land, bigger payrolls created, ex pansions demanded and property in general boosted, he said. On the other hand. Mr. Harrah said that the price basis of Seattle and Portland is about the same and that the lower rate was alone responsible for the wheat going to Portland mills. Seattle has lost a great deal of business through the operation of the award, he said. r The Portland Angle When The Journal inaugurated the Columbia basin rate case it was pri marily with the belief that producers of the interior should benefit in lower rates from water grade transport ation. 7 ,. ' " The decision of the interstate com . 1 ' 1 I I n moivp rnmmission wnicn oruereu differential of 10 per cent under the Puget Sound rate in the rates to and from Portland-Vancouver and a zone south of the Snake river that nor mally produces some 15,000,000 bus hels of wheat, was accepted "as a victory for. the water grade route, for the growers and for Portland. But for some time there has Deen ' . - . J. mutterings from tne interior win Portland exporters were pocketing the differential, and letting the producers whistle for their share. Concerning tho situation. ex-Governor Oswald West, who was counsel for the In land Empire Shippers' league in the Columbia basin case, said: "The whole purpose of the fight for lower rates to Portland was to secure for the Inland Empire shippers benefits which should have been theirs by reason of their favorable Watinns in reference to a water route. If the benefits which should have been theirs as a result of favorable decision in the case are not coming to tnem dui are wbed bv the grain buyer tnen the fight is of no avail. Haying out over the railroads , n is quite apparent that the producers ,;n ' have another fight on their hands and that is to secure fair treat ment at the hands of the gram h vers. If it wasn't the policy oi the board of directors of the Port ion Chamber of Commerce to . re- - nil matters that Illalil ireuww . - . body might be asked to interest lt- alf Rv so doing it would not, omy help the shippers of the interior but take a long step toward iurinei uc lnnment of the port." "When the market is Cull use tne nrcsent and wheat buying is. slow I doubt if interior producers share to the fullest extent m the advantage from the differential ordered by the i.t.ntofn mmmerce commission in lllbCiovwvv " favor of this city," said J. W. oan on? of Kerr-Gifford company, and a recognized authority in.. the export wheat business. "When the market is sham and buying is keenly com petitive the differential enables us to bid at an advantage over otner pouus and the producers get the benefit. It should be understood, however, that much of the grain bought in Portland is for export. Seattle, on the other hand, is a milling, not an ex port wheat market. The mills there ask a certain quality and bid higher for it, just as our mills bid higher when quality is in question. . "We, like other grain exporters, re ceive our information as to grain prices from Liverpool by cable and make our offers on this basis always desiring to allow a reasonable profit for ourselves." - j . Walla Walla View . Growers in the .Walla Walla valley have not benefited by the Columbia basin freight rate decision, according to. statements, of grain agents and produce men there. These are un animous in the statement that prices Is it possible to tell the absolute truth even for twenty-four hours? Bob Bennett will accomplish this feat in the play, "Nothing But The Truth," to be presented by the high school students in the auditorium, Thursday December twenty-first,' at 8:00 P. M. "Nothing But the Truth," is a tre mendous Comedy hit in three acts. The following cast have been working on the play for sometime and they have thoroughly mastered their parts. Robert Bennett.. Brooks Anderson E. M. Ralston............. Leon Kretzer Richard Donnelly..........James Hodgen Clarence Van Dusen......Velton Read Bishop Doran...: ......Berle Hodgen Gwendolyn Ralston....Sadie Pambrun Mrs. E. M. Ralston .:. Ruth Hutt Ethel Clark......... Walthia Haynie Mable Jackson ...Blanche Wilson Sable Jackson... Leota Johnson Martha...........: Genevieve Rogers. Unique and attractive scenery, for this sprightly and amusing Comedy is being made by Mr. Lutrell with the assistance of some of the high school students. - - . "Nothing But the Truth," will hold the interest of the audience every minute. Between acts there will be special music, so that there will not be a single dull moment. The admission will be $.50 for adults $.35 and $.25 for children. The proceeds of the play will go to the annual fund. : Legislative Cuts Held Sole Means c KING OF FISHERMEN The above title has been unanimous ly bestowed upon Lucien Gagnon by Athena anglers. For be it known that Mr. Gagnon has again won the Watts and Rogers trophy for catching the largest trout of the season, rece iving the handsome $25 prize Color ado Special rod. Mr. Gagnon took the prize when he landed a beautiful steelhead trout on a certain gravel bar in the Umatilla, the fish measur ing 31 inches. He also won the prize fishing rod last year with a Rainbow trout. Hence the boys know he . is a "go-getter" and the result is the title given him. The boys prize was won this year by George Pam brun, who gets the Bristol Steel rod hooking a 13 Vi inch Rainbow trout. A Pendleton special to the Oregon Journal says the County Taxpayers' league has been informed by its com mittee appointed to investigate local conditions, that tax reduction must come mainly from the state legis lature, as opportunity for a cut in the county budget is slight. Judge James A. Fee, president of the league and mayor-elect of Pen dleton, advocated the abolition of various state commissions as a means toward lessening the tax burden. Discussion of the county budget showed an inclination on the part of the people of the county to be per mitted an opportunity to vote on the acceptance or rejection of the budget. Voters in Pendleton twice insuccessive years have rejected increases in the city budget J. T. Lieuallen, James Johns Sr. and A. C. Funk were named as a committee from the league to investigate the situation in the sher iff's office, in an effort, to determine whether a cut may be made in the salary of that official, inasmuch as in this county he retains all fees paid in to the office for service in civil cases. The sheriff's salary is $2500 a year. Three suggestions were made by the league's committee as possible avenues for relief from taxation. These were the working out of a plan for reaching ' wealth now escaping taxation or exempt so as to provide for an equalization of the tax burden; a hard and fast limitation to insure that when new sources of revenue are provided, the new revenue will be used only for the purpose for reduc ing the present tax on real property; more economical state administration through abolition of any state com mission or department not absolutely necessary to the state's welfare. Several planks in the platform on which Governor-elect Pierce was elected were referred as offering pos sible avenues of relief or additional revenue, arid attention of members of the legislature directed toward them. offered by dealers in Portland have not been adjusted to give the grower any part of the differential offered by the decision. The grain dealers say that prices in Portland are generally 1 or 2 cents under those on the Sound. "The rate to Portland," said one, "is 1 cents per bushel on wheat less than that to Seattle. For example, if the price is $1.24 in Seattle it is generally $1.22 or $1.23 in Portland. We do not con sider that the decision has any benefit to farmers here." . C. B. Auker, manager of the Walla Walla Gardeners' association, said that no benefit had accrued to the gardeners of this section, stating that wholesale prices in Portland have absorbed the differential, ' FIGURES ON WHICH LAGRANDE BASES CLAIM Considering the messed-up rules that misgovern football games in the high school conference schedule of the present season, perhaps La Grande has as much right to claim the championship as any other team playing alleged . conference games this season.. Where the shoe pinches Athena is tha't the Union county team rose up to consideration of the conference officials. LaGrande gives as the basis for her claims, the following: Claiming championship of the Eastern Oreg:n footba.l history this fall is the great indoor sport these days. T nms, in some instances that played t:.c g"r.:cs are out for the honors. "In contrast to the wholly ridiculous claims of some schools stands the record of the . LaGrande team" says a statement from Coach "Skeet" Reynolds (O. A. C-l in an nouncing the willingness of the La Grande team to' play post season game with any other team that has any justice behind its claim. Not in years have there been so many teams which were styled as champ ions. Principal E. D. Towler, of the local school has issued the following statements of fact concerning the La Grande team,' and upon which La Grande bases its claims for champion ship: . "LaGrande has played seven inter scholastic games as follows this year. "LaGrande 58, Imbler 0; LaGrande 23, Elgin 0; LaGrande 7, Pendleton 25; LaGrande 72, Baker 6; LaGrande 52, Union 6; LaGrande 72, Wallowa 0; LaGrande 45, Enterprise 0. Total, LaGrande 329, total, opponents 37. "Athena our closest competitor, has played five games and has scored 165 points while 13 points were scored against her; 106 of. these 165 points were made in the game with Umatilla when Umatilla was defeated by 106-0 score. This left 59 points made in the other four games. These, figures we think, entitle us, without questn, to the Eastern Oregon championship." Mattie Coppock Called By Death Miss Mattie Coppock, who has been ill for a "period of many months, died Wednesday at Hot Lake, where she was taken for treatment several weeks ago. '- Her father Robert Coppock and sister, Mrs. W. O. Read were at Hot Lake with her from the first. The remains were brought to Athena yesterday, and the funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 at the Methodist Episcopal church. Miss Coppock was born near Brownsville, Oregon, December 17, 1867, and died at Hot Lake, Union county, at the age of 54 years, 11 months and 26 days. She lived in Athena and vicinity for 50 years, coming here with her parents when about five years of age. She was a life long member of the Methodist church, and up to the time of her illness was an' active church worker. She " resided in Athena, with her father for several years past. The de ceased is survived by her father, Rob ert Coppock, three brothers, A. R. Coppock and Frank Coppock of Ath ena; Alfred Coppock, of Colfax, Washington, and one sister, Mrs. W. O. Read of Athena. THE ONLY SURVIVOR A Milton item has the following in relation to a former respected cit izen of this city, where she still has many friends. Mrs. Jacobs now re sides in Portland: Mr. and Mrs. Tas sey Stewart had the pleasure of en terianing Mrs. Jacobs of Portland last Saturday and Sunday , morning when they brought her over from Walla Walla where she came to attend the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Whitman massacre. Mr3. Jacobs is the only living survivor of that historical , event, and she is eighty-eight years old. ' . BLAST BREAKS LINE Workmen on the 0 W, R. & N. near Blakeley Station set off a blast Tuesday afternoon that broke the high power electric and the telephone wires, connecting Athena with Pen dleton. For a time," until repairs could be made, motors were idle and telephone communication was held up. SETTLEMENT WANTED The precarious condition of Dr. S F. Sharp, veteran Athena physician who is very ill at St Anthony s hos pital, Pendleton, makes it vitally necessary that all accounts owing him for professional services be set tled promptly and at once. As Mrs. Sharp is compelled to remain at the bedside of her husband at the hos pital, arrangements have been made for payments of these accounts to the First National Bank where receipts will be made out for the same. ASTORIA FIRE LOSS OVERJ15,000,000 Many Blocks of the Business Section Destroyed by Conflagration. FAIR COVERING LEFT Except in spots, the snow covering yet remains over growing grain. In some fields the snow has drifted con siderably, leaving spots of uncovered grain, SCHOOL DIRECTORY OUT Oregon's official school directory, a compilation of valuable information concerning the schools of the state, is now being distributed by J. A. Churchill, state superintendent ; of public instruction. ...'." "MAN TO MAN." Under ordinary conditions, Univer sal superlative , Western picture, "Man to- Man," would have been screened on a Saturday night pro gram, but the cost of the picture for a one night stand, was beyond the scale price of a small theatre. The Standard and Memorial Hall at Wes ton went in together on a contract for the picture, dividing the cost Weston uses the picture Saturday night, from whence it comes for the showing here, Sunday night. For Sat urday night, the Standard offers Will Rogers and Lila Lee in "One Glorious Day," a mirth-racking comedy drama, embellished with a fine Torchy com edy. Both shows are at regular prices; in fact the Standard has under contract but one picture at advanced prices, "Human Hearts," to be played on Christmas night. Astoria, Or. A total l03B of $15,000, 000 or more, aome covered by insur- , ance ranging from 40 to 80 per cent, was estimated by several conservative bankers after surveying the ruins of the fire which nearly destroyed this city last Friday night. . The Increase In the original esti mates resulted when the cost of re building streets in the city waa taken into account. This cost alone is esti mated at not less than $1,500,000. Many of the streets in the devastat ed area were built on viaducts and this condition alone la responsible for the wide sweep of the fire before it was brought under control. Twenty-seven blocks of the business section of the city were consumed by the conflagration. The fire started about 2 o'clock in the morning !n the basement of Thlel's pool hall, which was near the Bee Hive department store, on Twelfth and Com mercial streets. The fire spread under the streets, which in this section of the city were built on pilings. The fire broke up above the surface In three or four different parts of the city. When once above the aurface the fire spread rapidly in the face of a strong wind. The wooden "buildings caught fire quickly and flamed up like tinder, spreading the fire from block to block in a few momenta. . A TOUCH OF WINTER A touch of winter has been felt in Athena and vicinity this week. Satur day the snow drifted until the high way east of town was impassable, and remained so until a force of men, assisted by one of the county's cat erpillars, drawing a road-grading machine, relieved the situation, but cutting through the snow and ice is slow work. Sunday and Monday nights . the mercury , hovered around the zero mark, with the result that water pipes in some instances froze up and bursted. P R' member ; J YJHEH WR. AMOTION WAS To 00 ' - I NOW I ' tHH H .vK-. ' ; liefer . .M Sii : iSS'i lliilJIfi il ill BRITISH AND FRENCH DIFFER OVER GERM ANS 'London. The nremlera of France, Italy and Belgium, with -staffs of fi nancial experts met in London for. what Is generally described as the most critical conference of . the four , years' succession of conferences, which have struggled to fix definite and final reparations terms for Germany. The British cabinet rejected the, measures of force for the Ruhr dis trict upon which Premier Polncare of France insisted. Prime Minister Bonar Law inform ed Premier Polncare that British pub lic opinion was overwhelmingly op posed to any military measures against Germany. Polncare had made a demand for the occupation of the Ruhr as a guar ante for a German moratorium. CALLED TO PORTLAND Principal O. C. Hadley left this morning for Portland, where he was called by the death of his father, who has been ill for some time. He recently made a trip there to visit his father, REFLECTION IN ONE'S TRUST Bollef In ' Another's Goodness Well Explained a the 8ympathetlo Affection of Our Own, Trust Is the belief In another's good ness on the Inspiration of your own. The moment you ask for other grounds than this, and withhold your reliance till It con rest on external proof, you cease to trust and stipulate for knowl edge. On the other hand, If the con fiding temper Is so dominant as to blind Jou to opposing evidence and refuse the correction of positive experience, It liecomes a weak credulity.. In both extremes the pure soul breaks with the clear intellect, becoming Its wluve in the one cane, and Its tyrant In the other. The genuine sphere of trust Is found In neutral Instances, whore out ward proof Is absent or In equipoise, and the premunptlons of rlclit uffec tloti have the undisputed field to them selves. And even then, It Is not a mere arbitrary hypothesis, pleasantly flung across the gap of Ignorance to veil it with a curtain of painted cloud; not a mere willingness to live in a happy delusion till the rough winds of reality shall diMslpate It ; but rather, the quick Instinct by which the pure heart recognizes purity, and love catches the eye of love. So that. In Its truu exercise, trust la the Intuitive, appre hension of another's goodness by the sympathetic affection of our owiu James Murtlnenu. Four Women In Irish Senate. Dublin. The senate of the Irish Free State will have four women. mm ten. - v . USE FOR STILLS FOUND Sheriffs and Policemen to Make Con. ventlon Badges of Metal. Vancouver, Wash. Convention badges at the conference of north west sheriffs and police, to be held in Portland next month, will be made out of captured moonshine stills, accord ing to Sheriff Thompson of Clarke county. Each sheriff will be called upon to furnish his quota of copper stills. Until a few weeks ago Clarke coun ty alone could have furnished enough captured stills to make badges for the entire convention, but most ot them were destroyed, together with a large stock of assorted liquors. The conference will be held Jan uary 14 and 15. Bill for Columbia River Survey. Washington, D, C The war depart ment under a bill introduced by Sen-, ator McNary, republican, Oregon, would make a survey of the Columbia river from Vancouver to Priest Rapids, Wash., and of the Snake river from Its mouth to Asotin, Wash.,, to deter mine the feasibility of canalization of the two rivers for barge traffic, ot irrigation and reclamation of the lands along the rivers In event of canaliza tion and of development of hyrdo-eloo trie power. Washington, ' D. C Major General Leonard Wood has tendered his resig nation as provost of the University of Tnnnaip1irnf a anil will a yi a in in fnn. I PlIUP IIBUIU HUM TV tit VUlUUi IU H- ila permanently as governor general ot the Philippines. , John Wanamaker Dead In Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa. John Wanamaker, the world famous merchant and form er postmaster general passed away here Tuesday. He had been confined . there since early In November with a heavy cold. He wasJU , years eld. ,