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Wm Mm $um AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD.Owner and Publisher Subscription Hatea. One copy, one year $2-00 One copy, six months One copy, three months " 5 Athena, Oregon July 16 1926 The State Market Agent says be fore the day of potato grading and inspection in Oregon, a buyer in San Francisco would write that he want ed a car of good potatoes and he would describe as best he could the variety and quality, and the shipper would have to use his judgement as to what the San Francisco man real ly wanted. The judgement of the two might differ as to appearance, size and other features of the stock, and when the car arrived it would be re jected as not coming up to the stock ordered. Such rejections were all too frequent especially when the market price was falling. But under the grading, stenciling and inspection laws we now have, such rejections will not stand. Now the San Fran cisco buyer simply writes for a car of spuds of the official grade wanted, and he gets that grade. For illus tration he wires for a car of U. S. No. 1 and the shipper sends him that grade, with an official certificate at tached, which guarantees that the car complies with the grade ordered in the contract of sale. And that certificate stands good in court. o Sweden's waterfalls will supply the country's households with fresh vegetables in winter under a plun submitted to the government by the Royal Academy of Agriculture, ask ing for an appropriation to finance further experiments with electrically heated and lighted hot houses and hot beds. So far nearly one half of the farm area in Sweden has been eletri 'fied, the "white coal" of the waterfall driving farm and dairy machinery, but in winter fresh vegetables arc usually imported from the south of Europe. Now the academy of agri culture, which does the advance thinking for the Swedish farmers, believes that fresh strawberries, cu cumbers and cauliflowers muy as well be raised inside the country by means of electric heat and light. In i general Sweden is one of the most ! highly electrified countries in the j world, having no coal of its own but plenty of hydro-electric energy. -o- The locomotive, guided by a hu man hand at the throttle, is now termed a stifety device in comparison to its speed competitor the automo bile. The primary reason is that the engineer is not permitted to run the locomotive until he has mastered it? operation. The uutomobile driver buys his car, throws 'er in high and practices for experience on the high way. And that's the reason ny you are eternally depending on "what the other fellow will do" in a hurry up emergency when to think is to net, ami when on the fleeting part of n second the right thing to do may depend on the lives of yourself and those riding with you. Yes. it's "what will the other fellow do," and part of the time it's what are you going to do, that makes or unmakes scores of fatal automobile accidents. An exchange finds that a new type automobile headlight, radically different from any now in use, which will give long range without glare and illuminate the ditches along the side of the road by a wide side beam, has been developed by the General Electric laboratory after three years of experimenting. With upwards of 20,000 people killed each year and hundreds of thousands injured in automobile accidents, ninny of them occurring at night, any invention which tends to remove hazards from night driving, is a public benefaction. A safe automobile headlight is as much of a public necessity today us are suitable electric lights for the home. ment park, else those stranded Warm Springs Indians would have had their "eats." Its a slow rodeo that can't maim steers enough to furnish prov ender for its Indian performers. . -p Oregon sheepherders are drawing down $100 and board per month, and some of them have saved nearly enough money to take a trip to Paris. o ' A refund of county taxes to the city of Salem, makes it possible for the city to carry on for a year with out a tax assessment. Happy Sal em. ; o Out of a total of thirty-seven deaths in Multnomah county for the month of June, eighteen are ascrib ed to natural causes which is not so bad when we come to think of it. o While milady's skirts remain the same, sleeves have been lengthened perceptibly, and costs of dressmaking have increased accordingly. The Umatilla county apple crop is estimated at about 1150 carloads and the Milton-Freewater prune crop for 1926, may reach 1200 carloads, o . Has breadbaking in the home be come a lost art? DISTRICT CONTROLS ,. Operation of the works of the Her miston Irrigation district carried on for many years by the government, passed to the control of the district. The relinquishment by the govern ment of the works was the result of an agreement recently arrived at be tween the district and the govern ment whereby the district agreed to operate during the remaining six months of 1926 on consideration that the delinquent 1923 charges be funded. WHY GOVERNMENT PRICE FIXING WON'T WORK ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED At an informal bridge party last evening at the home of Mrs. J. M. Eubanks, Walla Walla, announce ment was made of the engagement of Miss Helen Eubanks of Walla Walla to Mr. Verne Dudley of Athena. The announcement was made by meana of cards hidden in dainty center pieces made up tof Cecil Brunner roses. Twenty-four guests were present, including Mrs. R. B. McEw en and Mrs. A. L. McEwen of Athe na. The wedding will be an event of the summer. NEW GAME PRESERVE Fred Moes cashier of the Bank of Helix and assistant to Edgar Aver ill, State Game Warden, was here in the interests of establishing a crme nreserve. Watts Brothers ranch will be used as a preserve and the territory from the Henry KoepKe ranch alone the Wild Horse and in cluding the Louis Ringel, Lucien Gagnon and Harry McBride rancnes will be utilized as soon as several game preservers are established. Several hundred young nmese Pheasants will be liberated. PHEASANTS TURNED LOOSE Pheasants from the state game liberated in this vicinity this week. Pheasants are reported plentiful in this section, tne season having been most favorable for hatching. The policy of the game and fish commission is to replenish the pheasant stock with new breed ing fowls each year, and large num bers have been distributed from the Pendleton farm his season. . A REAL HEROINE 1 'I 1 COLLEGE LISTS FILLING Young men are registering so rapidly at Whitman college that it is probable a waiting list will be es tablished after August 1, says Dean Walter A. Bratton of the college. Selective admission is already in ef fect for girls, because registration for all students has been limited to 500. Edith May Adams of Harrington, N. J., the first American School girl to be entered as a candidate for the American Youth Award. The Ameri can Youth and Teacher Award was established by the Board of Directors of the Sesqui-Centennlal International Exposition In Philadelphia as a tribute to the youth and teachers of the na tion. Miss Adams is a candidate for the Golden Eaglette, the highest gift in the hands of the Girl Scouts. She was cited recently for exceptional bravery for remaining Inside a blaz ing building helping physicians to give first aid treatment to Injured firemen. CHAMBERLAIN MARRIED George E. Chamberlain, ex-United States senator and governor of Ore gon, and his secretary, Mrs. Shelton, were united in marriage at Norfolk, Virginia, Tuesday. They will reside at Washington, D. C. Ono of the most persistent fallacies is government price-fixing -on com petitive commodities. There Is al ready government price-fixing in com modities and services where competi tion plays no part In price determi nation. These are railway transpor tation, electricity, gas, telephone and telegraph, and so on. Here govern ment price-fixing is solely to protect the consumer. There are two fatal objections to government price-fixing for agricultural products, which rep resent the most competitive business in the world. These are, first, that it will not work; second, that it is al ways done for the consumer as against the producer. Government price-fixing for agricul tural products would work if at the same time tho government regulated wages, profits, middlemen's margins, the production of all commodities and tho rationing of all consumers. In short, if the population were enlisted in one vast army, directed and ra tioned, price-fixing would work, but otherwise not. If tho price is fixed on the wheat the farmer sells, then he cannot keep on producing wheat if wages or the cost of harvesting ma chinery rise, or if the cost of other material he buys rises. So tho next step would be the fixation of other prices, and yet other prices. The United States government fixed the price of wheat but once in our history, and then it was to benefit consumers, not producers. The gov ernment might, in an emergency, fix some agricultural prices for the pur pose of elevating such prices. Such action would inevitably and speedily lead to outcry from city consumers and a consequent reversal of policy. Indeed, tho consumors, not the pro ducers, are most likely to demand and secure food price regulation by government authorities. The farmer, therefore, who favors any form of governmental price-fixing is working against his own interests. He Is put ting his hoad Into a noose. James E. noylo, Professor of Rural Economics, Cornell University, to the Banker-former. From a statistical source vi learn that the increase in eggs and r 'i.Ury in this country is amazing, icmpaivil vith other animals and popu'athm. Population has a little mere Urna doubled since 1S80, during which time sheep have declined in number, hogs have remained about the sumo milk cows have increased about 25 per cent, while poultry and eggs have increased more than four times. - ' o And now they, tell us ti.at the game of bridge works wonders in mental discipline. All of wi'iih pos sibly explains why a goed bridge player is a peronage , of Ci,ol, calm temperament, and seldom if ever ex plains nn intricate, play until after he has played it. o Many a farmer has sold his hogs for ten or twelve cents a pound and then bought them back in the form of bacon, hams and lard at thirty cents plus. Bulldogging steers must have been a. tame affair at Oak Grove annuo- NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of Maiy E. Schrimpf, Deceased. Notice is hereby eriven that the un dersigned have filed their final ac count and report in the above enutiea 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 nlace for hearinir 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, 192t. E. C. SCHRIMPF B. B. RICHARDS J18J16 Administrators tcecmcea r ares Northern Pacific Enlist MJ- $ VELUOWSTONE JZZZZ ,0 rMKn I 'TAKE advantage of low summer fares East via Northern Pacific, May 22nd to September 15th ! You have a threefold opportunity this summer: To travel East along a route marked by "zooo Miles of Startling Beauty" to do it at low cost and to experience the utmost passenger travel luxury, the Round Trip Fares from Athena to Yellowstone Park $ 33.90 St. Paul 1 Minneapolis Chicago St. Louis -Kansas City New York -Washinjrton Philadelphia 70.35 85.05 80.35 76.30 146.46 140.61 143.07 Dates of Sale May 22 to Sept. 15, 1926 To Yellowstone Park Juno 1 to Sept. 12, 1926 Final Return Limit October 3 1st, 1926. 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