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Athena, Oregon July 23 1926
INTELLIGENT OriNION
' The Manufacturer says: It is the
goal of each of us, no matter what
tour politics, to arrive at intelligent
opinions on all affairs that concern
us, and many more besides, we ti.v
to consider all the facts in each case,
weigh them, and finally come lo
some sort of conclusion. We do at
tempt to judge wisely, and, in our
own minds, arrive as nearly as pos
sible at the truth, that greatest of
all human ideals.
Our circle of concern has material ly
widened in the last few yea:s
largely due to the Great War and
subsequent activities in international
affairs. Our newspapers devote
much more space to world problems
and foreign events, and Americans,
collectively as well as individually,
are coming to know more about oth
er countries and other peoples. We
are forming opinions on these matters.
When we try to form conclusions
on problems in the international field,
we are frequently at a loss for basic
facts to guide us.
This condition occasions much of
the interest in the plans for the Wal
ter Ilines Page School of Interna
tional Relations that is to be found
ed at Johns Hopkins University. This
pioneer agency for studying world
affairs will have one object find the
facts, the accurate, impartial facts
and make them available so that
sound opinions may be formed.
THE LAST ANALYSIS
Senator William E. Borah says:
tunnel through a mountain, wine, wo
men and cards converted the slum
bering village into a roaring frontier
town with all the trimmings, over
night. Then wholesale arrests fol
lowed, the town was cleaned up, and
old timers allege it is a good place
to live in. .
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"County Has Good Record," reads
a headline in the East Oregonian ov
er a news item conveying the infor
mation that more felons had been re
ceived at the penitentiary from Uma
tilla county than from any othe in
the state except Multnomah county,
But is it a good record?
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Chaliapin, the greatest artist mod
ern Russia has produced, is quoted
as saying to Krassin, soviet ambas-
sador to England: "You talk ot a
workers' government. They have it
in the United States, " the country
where the worker knows what he
wants and is always able to get it.1
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One of the D'Autremonts has been
located again, and in no less a fam
ous place than the summer camp of
the President of the United States.
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Button, Button, b-u-t where was
Aimee ?
"The supreme test of a free govern
ment is the right of the people to
write and unwrite its Constitution
and its laws. The supreme test of
good citizenship is to obey the Con
stitution and laws when written. To
disregard our Constitution, to evade
it, to nullify it, while still refusing to
change it, is to plant the seeds of
destruction in the heart of the na
tion is to confess to the world that
we have neither ' the moral courage
nor the intellectual sturdiness for
self-government. I do not believe
the people, when the hour of reflec
tion comes, will pursue any such
course. They may have their dif
ferent views upon the liquor ques
tion, but after all there is a deco
seated and lasting devotion in the
hearts of the people for orderly and
constitutional government. They
know its worth. They know what it
cost. Most of nil, they know that in
the last analysis the people are the
ultimate guardians of constitutional,
liberty."
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FROZKN KINDNESS
The world is full of kindness that
never is spoken, and that is not much
better than no kindness at all. The
fuel in the stove makes the room
warm, but there are great piles of
fallen trees lying on rocks and on
tops of hills where nobody can get
them. These do not make anybody
warm. You might freezo to death
for want of wood in plain sight of
these fallen trees, if you had no
means of getting the wood home and
making a fire of it. Just so in a
How Wylackie Indians
Capture Their Fi$h
Before beginning the fishing opera
tions It was Incumbent upon them to
eat up five small deer which they had
brought Into camp, William Kent
writes, In the Yale Kevlew, concerning
tile Wylackie Indian tribe. This was
a worthwhile performance. The deer
were skinned and hung up near the
fire. The Indians sat around, each
with a sharpened stick. They went to
the pendant carcasses and cut off
strips which they then partially broiled
and swallowed, and continued in this
occupation without napkins or finger
bowls for about fifteen hours, at which
time they exhibited considerable dis
tention. From time to time the
stripped bones were handed out to the
nondescript do's that nlways signalize
an Indian camp. After this sumptu
ous repast both people and dogs were
able to endure several days of fasting
without complaint.
However, after a due allowance of
sleep, our friends went out for fish,
and it was a most interesting perform
ance. Out of respect for us they re
frained from the easy use of dynamite
and put In practice an ancient method
of getting results.
Going to a deep pool in a rock cleft
they beat upon the water with
branches, threw In stones and scored
the school of fish until, like so ninny
small trout, they took refuge under
the banks. Then an able-bodied In
dian stripped nnd, taking In his hand
a small scoop net without a handle,
dived down Into the Icy depths. He
swam under the rocky bank until only
his legs were vUlble In tlic clear wa
ter. He succeeded In getting n big
fish Into the net and came in triumph
to the surface to drug him out In shal
low water. We who considered our
selves fishermen were forced to praise
and admiration of such a feat. I com
mend It as real sportsmanship.
Put Implicit Faith
in Power of Twins
Among certain savage tribes In
southeastern Africa twins are regard
ed as the children of heaven and are
believed to possess the power of con
trolling the elements.
In times of drought the people will
dig a hole In the ground, put the
mother of twins In It and pour some
of their precious water upon her. They
believe that this will cause rain to fall.
When a thunderstorm occurs the
family. Love is what makes the par-1 people appeal to a twin to "talk to
ents and children, the brothers and j heaven" on their behalf. In many
sis;ters happy. Hut if they take care cusea tu niedlator is a mere child, hut
never to sav a word about it. if thev tho natives have Implicit faith In his
keep it a profound secret as if it j
were a crime, they will not be much '
happier than if there was not any
love among them; the house will
seem cool even in summer; and, if
you live there, you will envy tho dog
when anyone calls hint "Poor Fel
low." J. G. Holland.
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power to persuade the thunder nnd
lightning to go away and leave them
in peace. As soon as the storm has
abated the youngster Is reverently
thanked for his Intervention.
Revised forecasts of wheat produc
tion received by the department of
agriculture have changed the pros-1
p.-ctive crop in 12 countries .n tho
nurthern hemisphere to 1,897,000,000
bushels, compared with 1,880,000,000,
bushels last year. The crop in Eu-,
lopean countries is expected to be
somewaht less than last year's, but
the decrease in indicated production
is more than offset by the prospec
tive increase in tho United Stales.
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In th" press dispatches we read
where the Tartars over in Russian
Armenia found a tartar in Paul Phil
lips, Seattle man, who is working in
near east relief, when a band of
raiders attempted to drive off cattle
belonging to the orphanage under
charge of Phillips. Merely an in
stance where Tartar met a tartar
and a tartar won.
Soundings by Echo
The new method of taking sound
ings, now used on shipboard, Is called
the echo method. It has several dis
tinct advantages over older methods,
such as Increased rapidity, lower op
eration cost and greater accuracy The
outfit employs no lead or line and con
sists chiefly of an electric transmitting
unit which sends sound vibrations
through the water. As they rebound
from the ocean's floor they are regis
tered on n receiver in the ship. The
depth of the water Is determined by
noting the lapse of time between the
sending and receiving of the signals.
The apparatus Is set into operation
simply by pressing a button. The re
sults are registered visually, so that
the navigating otlleor can determine
the depth as easily as he can tell time
by looking at a clock.
ALLEN BELL
DRAYMAN
Phone 21
While there are probably not so i
many oO-bushel wheat yields us ex-!
pected, theie will be enough flour in I
the Athena community chest to last i
through the winter.
Transfer and Express
Prompt Service
When SOCO men arrived at Tye.j
Washington, to bore an eight mile
Dealer in
ICE
Guitar Long Famous
as Musical Instrument
In the National museum at Naples
Is a statue of Apolio, the god of music,
seated and holdiiig the clthara a
small harp-shaped Instrument from
which the lyre was derived as long ago
as 1700 B. C, according to a writer in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In
Greece the cithara was used both to
accompany the voice in song and in
epic recitation and as a solo Instru
ment at the national games. The
Greeks of Asia Minor transformed the
clthara into the guitar, and later still
the application of the bow to the guitar
resulted In the violin. The Moors car
ried the guitar into Spain, a country
where, as In Italy and France, it has
always been regarded with the highest
favor among all classes. In the early
part of the Seventeenth century 'an
Italian guitarist was court musician In
England,' and playing the guitar be
came a fashionable accomplishment.
In the Eighteenth century it was pop
ular In court circles In Germany; about
the beginning of the Nineteenth cen
tury Sor of Barcelona, one of the great
est guitarists, again brought it into
favor In England; and in the latter
part of the Nineteenth century special
Interest In the guitar appeared in the
United States.
Oldtime Wedding Cake
Finds Stout Defender
Whatever the moderns may think of
the news that tho wedding cake is
abandoning its Gothic complexities of
decoration, it Is certain that one rath
er famous cook would have been hor
rified at the change. . Readers of "Pen
dennls" will remember that when
M. Alclde Mlrobolant wished to sig
nify his undeclared passion for Blanche
Amory, he sent up to her a specini
dinner, the dishes of which were de
signed from beginning to end to sym
bolize her maidenly virtues and his
own admiration for them. He wound
up with "an Ice of plomblere and
cherries ... In the form of
two hearts united with an arrow, on
which I had laid, before It entered, a
bridal veil In cut paper, surmounted
by a wreath of virginal orange flow
ers." If Monsieur Mlrobolant could
do so much with a mere ice, to what
heights would his . symbolism have
soared In the architecture of a wed
ding coke? It is clear that he would
have bad no sympathy with a cake
which depended on a classical sever
ity of line for its effect. Manchester
Guardian.
The Calm, Clear Mind
The more wheels there are In a
watch, the more trouble they are to
take care of. The movements of ex
altation which belong to genius are
egotistic by their very ifature. A
calm, clear mind, not subject to the
spasms "and crises which are so often
met with In creative or Intensely per
ceptive natures, is the best basis for
love or friendship. Observe, I am
talking about minds. I won't say the
more Intellect, the less capacity for
loving; for that would do wrong to
the understanding ond reason; but,
on the other hand that the brain often
runs away with the heart's best blood,
which gives the world a few pages of
wisdom or sentiment or poetry, In
stead of making one other heart hap
py, I have no question. Oliver Weu
dell Holmes.
Market Division New Ready
Washington, D. C Secretary Jar
dine, acting promptly to carry out the
cti-operative marketing laws signed by
President Coolidge just before ad
journment of congress, has created a
division of co-operative marketing in
the agriculture department. At Its
head he has placed Chris L. Christen
8en, who has been in charge of the de
partment's co-operative marketirg
work for two years.
r 'caiucm at, iMinoan scnool,
Falem, Or. Dr. E. C. Hickman,
!'"0.iU'nt of Kimball school of theo
logy, formally handed in his resigoa
;ion at tho annual meeting of the board
if directors held in "this city.
Wonder of Nature Is
Vision Given to Birds
The vision of birds Is an amazing
thing. A vulture soaring almost out
of view sees a carcass lying perhaps
in a quite inconspicuous position; a
kestrel hovering at a height of 100
feet, spies a Bouse creeping about in
the grass ; a gannet cruising round 200
feet above the sea observes a fish
swimming some distance below the
surface, says W. W. White, in the
Nineteenth Century Magazine. .
The gannet's sight is by no means
the least remarkable among keen-eyed
birds, for It has to penetrate water as
well as air. 'A gannet's hurtle on iflsh
beneath well expresses the action. At
once it checks its flight, poises for a
second, half closes its wings, and dives
with tremendous speed. There is a
curious corkscrewlike motion in the
downward swoop, and at the moment
of entering the water the long, pointed
wings are folded.
Filipinos Ask Complete Independence
Manila. At the opening session of
the Philippine legislature Friday both
houses unanimously adopted a con
current resolution in favor of "imme
diate, absolute and complete Inde
pendence." '" '
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Farm Loans
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Blacksmith Shop
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Courteous Treatment, Clean Beds
Good Meals
Tourists Made Welcome
Special Attention Given
to Home Patrons
Bingham 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
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