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Athena, Oregon June 25 1920
THE TREND OF FASCISM
Reviewing the career of Premier
Mussolini in Italy, and to what it is
leading, a London correspondent con
cludes a long article with the follow
ing warning:
"Thus Fascism, even thouph it may
not immediately lead to war, is in
compatible with lasting international
peace or that ideal of permanently
outlawing war which has gripped so
many people during the last few
years. But the answer is clearly not
to drift along as we are today and
as we did before the Great war. It
is to meet fairly the claims Italy
can put forward on the grounds ol
population, but also to make it clear
that any attempt to put the new
Prussianism into practical effect will
meet with the same uncompromising
resistance as it met in 1914.
"From either point of view the con
clusion is the same. It is that the
problem can only be dealt with by
the nations collectively. Only so can
they find Italy that legitimate place
in the colonial sun to which she
may be entitled. Only, so can they
make clear to her that the lure of
militarism now being waved before
her can do nothing other than lead
her to the same end toward which it
led Germany.
"There is little doubt that the pro
gressive peoples, in their reaction
from the war and their pursuit of
wealth and pleasure, have largely
forgotten a lesson which sesmcd so
clear during the Great War, tha les
son that nothing short of effective
international organization for peace
can prevent recurring world war.
They have been content to drift, with
the inevitable result that militarism
has already made considerable head
way in re-establishing its hold on
mankind.
" 'Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty.' Wars never originate sud
denly. To those who have been asleep
they may seem to come like a
thief in the night. But the seeds of
war are planted long before they
blossom, and they come to maturity
slowly. Those seeds have been
planted in Bolshevist Russia and in
Fascist Italy. Unless the rest of the
world organizes in time to insist that
justice, freedom and peace shall be
given to all, they will eventuate in
war as certainly as similar seeds of
war, planted in Tsarist Russia and
I'russian Germany, eventuated in
war."
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RAILWAY ECONOMY
With the Southern Pacific as well
ns other railway companies, rigid ec
onomy is enforced and practiced in
all departments of operation and
management.
In 1925 the company received an
average revenue of 1.382 cents for
Imuling a ton of freight one mile,
"therefore, a ton of freight must be
hauled approximately 2.2 miles to
produce gross revenue sufficient to
purchase three cents worth of pins.
That, however, is only half the story.
As operating expenses alone use
up roughly 71 per cent of the gross
revenue, the railroad must haul a
ton of freight approximately 7 and
one half miles, before it can go into
the market and purchase the paper
of pins. Out of the remaining 29
per cent has to come overhead and
taxes.
"The price of pins," said Mr. Dy
er, "illustrates the amazing import
ance of little things in railroading.
By having pins made of steel instead
of the usual brass, we were nble to
save more than $1,500 a year.
"Hundreds of little economies such
ns reusing old twine from incoming
packages, making baggage mats out
of worn-out air hose and utilizing old
locomotive boiler tubs for .telephone
conduit effect savings of tons of
thousands of dollars annually. These
standards of rigid economy, extend
ing into every phase of railroad op
eration and administration, are large
ly responsible for the fact that rail
roads still are able to show small
profits instead of deficits."
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The state market agent calls at
tention to the fact that these arc the
days of various and conflicting crop
estimate reports, sent out to flirt
with market prices, and we read of i
bumper crops, of failures, depending
on the source of the reports. But do
we ever read of estimates of produc
tion of manufactured products, of
shoes, clothing or any standard ne
cessity articles? The heads of in
dustrial concerns run their own bui
nejs and the government doenn't
:u:iid out nny bulletins concerning
their output. If they over produce
the information is not given to the
world, and if a surplus has to be
sold cheaply abroad the foreign
prices does not fix the home price.
But with cotton, wheat and other ag
ricultural staples, the. pYlcs at fcptoe
is determined by a few big men in
London what they will pay there
will be the market price here. Farm
ers are asking what the manufact
urers get, and it would seem that
congress should give them the same
BAPTISTS AT IIERMISTON
A party of Athena people motored
to Hermiston Sunday afternoon to
attend the Baptist Young Peoples
Union district rally. A most inter
esting program was presented and
protection. Any industry that has those present felt well repaid for the
trip. The party going from here in
cluded; Mrs. Bollinger, Mrs. F. L.
Pittman, Kohler and Reeve Betts,
Margaret and Dorothy Lee, Darwin
Phillips, Ted Walden, Granville Can
non, Frank Williams, Juanita Wood
ruff and Belle Anderson.
to sell its products at the prices ol
lower-standard Europe and yet has
to produce them under the high Am
erican standard, that industry is
certain to fail after a matter of tinv
o- i
From a British Columbia paper we
learn that success has attended ef
forts made to induce Mexican millers
to purchase a portion of the wheat
they need from Canada. During 1925
shipments were made through New
York brokers and later direct from
Canadian exporters through New
York. Now shipments are being
made through Vancouver via Pana
ma Canal to Vera Cruz and Tampico.
This is a new market for Canadian
wheat and promises to be an increas
ing one. In the eleven months end
ed February, 1926, Mexico took 110,
068 bushels of Canadian wheat, this
being more than double the quantity
taken in the same period ending Feb
ruary, 1924.
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Who knows but that in the old con
vention days the Mellons and other
machine politicians of Pennsylvania
paid more than a paltry million and
a half to get themselves and their
henchmen into office. Even so, the
same election methods may be em
ployed now and investigation proves
that they are but the provisions of
the primary law result in bringing
the rascally useages of the dishonest
politician into the light of publicity,
with possible prosecution awaiting
them.
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One of the best cartoons we have
seen in many a day is by Thomas in
the Detroit News and reprinted in
the Oregon Journal. Uncle Sam is
depicted as the Judge of the bench,
He asks the big Pennsylvania politi
cal boss in court, "Why did you
spend all that money?" The boss re
plies: "It's all the fault of the pri
mary system I used to buy a con
vention for next to nothin'."
Master of the Rolls
Once Not Empty Title
In the days before printing, the old
records were always written In a form
which niuile them literally a roll, says
the Dearborn Independent. One sheet
of parchment was used and the next
one was sewed to Its bottom edge, and
the process repeated until a document
might consist of a hundred or more
sheets, or skins, ns they were then
called, all sewed together In one long
strip. A piece of wood was then fast
ened to either end in the manner of
a modern map and the strip rolled up
from the bottom Into a great roll or
bundle. The render began at the top,
slowly unrolling one end as one rolled
up the other end on another stick.
From this form rolls came to stand
for manuscripts, particularly official
manuscripts or court records. The
keeper or master of the rolls was then
the high olllcer who kept the records
of the English courts of Justice. To
day the president of the chancery di
vision of the lilsh court of Justice in
England, ranking next to the lord chief
Justice of England, Is called the master
of the rolls. Originally the master of
the rolls had the custody of the rec
ords, but In the course of time this
charge became merely nominal.
President Signs Good Roads Bill.
Washington, 1). C President Cool
idgo signed the federal good roads bill
under which the federal government
appropriates $75,000,000 to aid the
states in highway construction during
the next three years.
"Ma" Sunday uoes to nou.-.-.
Staunton. Vn. -Suffering a recur
rence of a stomach I rouble of loan
duration, "Ma" Sunday, wife of the
evangelist, loft Staunton for the Mayo
brothers'' hospital at Rochester, Minn.,
where she will undergo an examina
tion. Dancing to Paradise
It Is the belief of the Ponnpeans, a
tribe of South Sea Islanders, that un
less you are a good dancer you will
never go to heaven I
According to their creed, every soul
passing to the "Great Beyond" Is
obliged to cross a bridge guarded by
demoniacal watchmen waiting to
pounce upon him and draw hltn down
to the lower regions.
If, however, the soul Is able to
dance across the bridge the watchmen
will be so engrossed In studying the
movements that they will forget their
duty and, before they have time to
realize It, the soul will slip past them
Into paradise 1
ALLEN BELL
DRAYMAN
Phone 24
Transfer and Express
Prompt Service
Dealer in
ICE
DIED SUDDENLY
Mrs. Edith Pearson, aged 67, who
for 'many years had made her home
in. Echo, dropped dead at the
home of Mrs. Elizabeth McGinnis at
Pendleton. Mrs.- Pearson was calling
at the McGinnis home and had just
seated herself in a chair when her
death occured. Heart disease is
thought to have been the cause.
WILLIAM McBRIDE HERE
W. M. McBride of Portland, pas
sed through Athena, the fore part of
the week on his way to Walla Walla,
where he was called by the critical
subject to a certain mortgage there
on in the sum of $18,500.00 to The
Prudential Insurance Company of
America, dated January 19th, 1924,
payable on or before 10 years, in an
nual installments as follows, to-wit:-beginning
on the 1st day of February
1927, and on the same day in each
year thereafter $550.00, and the bal
ance of said principal sum payable
on the 1st day of February, 1934,
with interest at the rate of 5 per
cent per annum, payable annually.
We will receive bids upon said des
cribed property at the law office of
Watts & Prestbye at Athena, Ore
gon, up until 10:00 o'clock A. M. Sat
urday. July 3rd, 1926, at which time
we will dispose of said property to
the highest bidder.
Dated this 4th day of June, 1926
J. V. BELL
CATHERINE BELL
Administrators with the will an
nexed of the Estate of John Bell, De
ceased. J4J2
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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
In the matter of the Estate of W
R. Taylor, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned have filed their final ac
count as administrators of the Estate
of W. R. Tavlor Deceased, in the
County Court of the State of Oregon
for the County of Umatilla, and that
Saturday, the 10th day of July 1926
at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. of
the said day, at the County Court
illness nf his Hane-hter. Mrs. Edith
Lumsden, who was recently operated ?omITi" Curt ,Houe ,in P.enle
on at a hospital in Walla Walla.
SCOTT'S WHEAT
J. N. Scott brought some sample
heads of wheat to town Wednesday
from his farm west of Athena. Of
the Federation variety, in common
with other fields in this vicinity, the
prospect was "good to look at."
Mrs. W. T. Purcell of Weston last
week received a very substantial
prize in the way of a check which
was given in a contest recenty con
cluded.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL
MEETING
Notice is hereby given to the legal
voters of Union High School District
No. 7 of Umatilla County, State of
Oregon that the Annual School Meet
ing of said District will be held at
the school house; from 2:00 o'clock
p. m. to 7 o'clock p. m. on the fourth
Monday of June, being the 28th day
of June, A. D. 1926.
This meeting is called for the pur
pose of electing one director and the
transaction of business usual at 3uch
meeting.
Dated this 17th day of June, 1926.
LAWRENCE R. PINKERTON
Chairman Board of Directors.
Attest: ERNEST A. ZERBA
J18J25 District Clerk,
ton, Umatilla County, State of Ore
gon, has been hxed by the said Court
as the time and place for the final
hearing and settlement of said ac
count.
All persons interested are hereby
notihed to appear at such time in
said Court and file any objections as
they may have to such account or
any part thereof.
NELLIE TAYLOR
SHELDON D. TAYLOR
Administrators of the Estate of W.
K. laylor, Deceased.
R. I. Keater, Attorney for Admin
istrators. Address Pendleton, Oregon.
CLASSIFIED
For Sale Thoroughbred Poland
China male pigs. A. A. Mclntyre,
Athena. Phone 25F15.
Will trade Phonograph for Piano.
Pendleton Music House, Pendleton,
Oregon.
For Sale Work horses and mules.
Ralph Dowd, Weston, phone 14F14.
Radio Set to trade for Piano. Pen
dleton Music House, Pendleton, Oregon.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Maty
E. Schrimpf, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned have filed their final ac
count and report in the above entitled
matter and that the above entitled
Court has fixed Saturday, the 17th
day of July 1926, at the hour of 10
o'clock a. m. of said day as the time
and the County Court room of the
County Court house of Pendleton,
Umatilla County, Oregon, as the
place for hearing said account and
report. Objections to said final ac
count and report should be filed on
or before said date.
Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 12th
day of June, 1926.
E. C. SCHRIMPF
B. B. RICHARDS
J18J16 ' Administrators
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of John
Bell, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that under
and pursuant to an order made and
entered in the above entitled matter
by the above entitled Court on the
ord day of February, 1926, we J. V.
Bell and Catherine Bell, Administra
tors with the will annexed of the es
tate of John Bell, deceased, will pro
ceed to sell to the highest bidder for
cash in hand all of the right, title,
interest and estate of John Bell, de
ceased in and to the following des
cribed realty, to wit:-
The SEV4 of Sec. 33 and the
SWV of Sec. 34, Tp. 5 N. R. 34
EWM, Umatilla County, Oregon.
The estate herein is the owner in
fee simple of said described realty,
For Sale Span of 5-year-old geld
ings, well broke. Ralph Allen, Athe
na. Phone 24F11.
For Sale Small phonograph and
oil stove. Mrs. Andy Rothrock,
Athena.
Joe Clemmons has Rhode Island
Red friers for sale at 30c per pound,
live weight. Will dress them on request.
For Sale or Trade Four horses,
harness and wagon for sale, or will
trade for good milk cows. Sterling
Parris, Athena, phone 24F22.
Messenger Service Bobbie Lee,
messenger and errand boy. Phon?
375.
Marcelling Expert Marcelling and
all lines of beauty work. Miss Chap
peile, Weston, Oregon. Call 292 for
appointment.
Marcelling Miss May-"tanning.
Phone 582. Athena.
Piano sacrificed for quick sale; a
beauty and a chance to save some
real money. Terms are easy at $10
monthly. For particulars write to the
Pendleton Music House.
J. L. Harman
BlacksmithiDg
Oxy-Acetylene Welding, Delivery and
Truck Bodies Manufactured
Main Street Athena, Oregon
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Athena, Oregon
DR. W. G. COWAN
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Athena, Oregon
ingham Springs
Dolph Thompson, Manager
The week-end Recreation Resort for Athena and vicinity. Good
Hotels and cabin accommodations at reasonable rates. Swimming
and fishing, picnics etc.
Dances every Saturday night
Real state
Insurance
Farm Loans
Cheap Money
B. B RICHARDS,
Athena
Jensens
Blacksmith Shop
Horseshoeing
Prices Reasonable
Tharp Bros, old stand, Athena Oreg.
DRS. A. D. & R. A. FRENCH
OPTOMETRISTS
French Optical Parlors
15 E. Main St Phone 653
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