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VOLUME 47.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29. 1926
NUMBER 49
Inland Empire Bank
Absorbs Athena State
The Athena State Bank has dis
continued business. The stockhgldr
ers of the institution made arrange
ments with the Inland Empire Bank
of Pendleton, to take over its depos
its, accounts, etc. . Negotiations
which were under way last , week,
were concluded, Saturday and the
transfer was completed Saturday
evening. Immediately after,' the In
land Empire Bank issued a circular
letter to the depositors of the Athe
na State, which reads in part, as fol
lows: "The stockholders of the Athena
State Bank have arranged with the
Inland Empire Bank of Pendleton,
Oregon, to take over , the deposit li
ability of the Athena State Bank, v
"AH deposits including Time Cer
tificates of Deposit will be merged
with the deposits of the Inland Em
pire Bank of Pendleton, at the close
of business, October 23, 192G. at
which place all outstanding checks
drawn on the Athena State bank will
be paid in future."
Also an advertisement announcing
the transfer of the Athena bank's
business to the Pendlqtoa bank signed
by President Eeeder and Cashier
Herr, appeared in an put-of4own
newspaper.
It is understood .that' some of the
stockholders were in favor of continu
ing but the principal oue3 decided thJ
issue by voting to close , the institu
tion. .
M. E. Church
Church school at 10: a. m. Morn
ing worship at 11: a. m. Evening
service at, 7:30. ,
A
Every Forward Looking Citizen Should
Fight for Oregon and Its Development
By BRUCE DENNIS
Author of the Dennis Resolution
When the people of Oregon enacted a state income .tax i:i
1923 they did so because they believed it was just and .right,
They believed it would reduce taxes. At that time they had
plenty of theory and few facts to guide
them.
They repealed that law in 1924 because
it was a proved hard times breeder. It cost
the people of Oregon the staggering total
of $40,000,000 to learn that economic condi
tion absolutely beyond their control are
such in Oregon that a state iacome tax
drives out industries, keeps others from
coming in, reduces payrolls, makes it hard
er to obtain farm loans and strikes at every
homo in country, village town and city.
But our state is again in turmoil because a determined ef
fort is being made to force practically this same law upon the
state this year. Our , people are being asked to ignore plain
fundamental economic facts. They are being asked to enact a
l&w on a "guess" that it will bring good times now, when
painstaking, honest investigation proved that the former tax
Aid drive out industries, capitol, jobs, and millions of taxable
wealth from Oregon, and a new state income tax will do it
r.gain.
' .
Oregon is full of meritorious projects that should be develop
ed. Big public improvements are necessary to open, up our
state, to bring the farms closer to their markets and cities
closer to their base? of supplies. Wealth untold lies idle in
natural resources awaiting the magic touch of development
capital to bring it to the tax rolls, t9 create new payrolls, new
activities and better livelihood for pur people,
Since the last income tax law was repealed millions of doU
lars have been loaned in Oregon by outside financial concerns,
at low rates, on long time, and with repayment privileges nev
er known to Oregon before, If a pew income tax law is enact
ed, and this discrimination aimed directly at these investors,
rates will go up, much of the unloaned funds will be wUhr
drawn, and our people will again face the inescapable fact
Oregon needs capital, but capital does not need Oregon.
This is no time for prattle. It is high time for plain speak
ing, straight thinking and recognition of the hard economic
fact that Oregon's farms, her industries, and her citizens des
perately need capital, and that the only place we can get it is
frem outside the state.
We can drive capital put, but we cannot force it to come in
unless we make it advantageous for it to. do so. Oregon, ninth
state in area, is relatively insignificant economically. 119,000,
000 of America's 120,000,000 people reside outside of Oregon.
Let us remember the industrial city of Detrpit has oyer 100,
000 more people than the State of Oregon, with its 96,000
square miles. Let us remember that 782,256 people here didn't
make enough to file income tax returns, and that only 311 peo
ple in the entire state had earnings in excess of $10,000; that
of Oregon's 6000 corporations pnly 1073 made enough profit
to file taxable reports, that 478 made less than $5,00 and on
ly 183 over $20,000, including all public utilities, lumber mills,
flour mills, factories, railroads, and other industries.
We have 55,157 farms, one to every 15 persons, 2500 indus
tries, one to each 330 persons. What would one indaetrial cen
ter like Detroit mean. to our farms, our home owners, our
workers, our state? Oregon wants them, Oregon wants capit
al and wants to go ahead. Oregon wants to avert economic
disaster, and instead wants to offer capital, new people, new
industry, opportunity to help us grow.
'
That is what the Dennis Resolution is for. It guarantees
that no state income tax can be enacted to discriminate
against development and progress before 1940. It guarantees
to every Oregon family that the state will not tax its ac
cumulations when the bread winner dies. As a arosperity
making measure it deserves the support of every forward
looking citizen. , , .
.
Vote 306 X YES Dennis Resolution.
Vote 329 X NO Offset Income Tax Bill.
V( aas X NO Granire Income Tax BilL
Paid Advertisement Greater
Oregon Assn. J. O.-Elrod,
Chairman. M. S. Hirsch,
. T FranW Tr V. Powers.
B. Yeon, R. L. Macleay, C, q. Guild, J. H. Burgara, w. a.
L-fab,on Executive Committee. 419 Oregon Building, Portland,
Oregon. . . ,
Grange Income Tax Bill.
DEATH ENDS SUFFERING
OF JOHN H. PHILLIPS
After several weeks of intense suf
fering from cancer, John H. Phillips
died at his home in Athena, Monday.
He is survived by his wife, two sons
and three daughters.- Funeral ser
vices were held at the Baptist church
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. '
John , Henry Phillips was born in
Eldorado Springs, Missouri, July 19,
1859, and died October 25, 1926; aged
67 years, 3 months and 7 days. He
was united in marriage to'. Sarah
Jane Couch September 27, 1885 and
to this union were born eight child
ren, five of whom, with a loving wife,
survive. Mrs. Mae Harris of Kan
sas City, Mrs. Anna Dennis of Was
co, California, John Phillips of Mil
waukee, Oregon, Mrs. Cecil Kibby
and Dorwin Phillips of Athena, Hn
is also survived by a brother, Isaac
Phillips of. this place.
He came with his family to Athena
in 1913 and has since continuously
resided here.
He suffered long and patiently and
nothing was left undone by family
and friends to make his last days as
comfortable as possible. Deceased
has been a member of the Baptist
church for thirty years, dying peace
fully and in that supreme confidence
of his Lord. In his passing the child
ren lost a loving father and the wife
a devoted and true husband.
FIRE CHIEF INJURED
Athena friends, of Fire Chief Casey
of Walla Walla, who was accidentally
shot last week while hunting phcasr
ants, will be sorry to learn that Mr.
Casey's condition is critical. The
injured arm was amputated at the
shoulder and since the operation
alarming complications have arisen.
ARMENIAN yUAKE K LLS 400
100,000 Made Homeless by Series of
Temblors.
Leninakan, Armenia. More than
40Q ' persons-- have been killed, hun:
dreds of others mortally injured ant
10Q.OOO made homeless, by earthquakes.
whih destroyed the greater part of
this city of 40,000 inhabitants and 12
thriving towns in the vicinity.
The whole of Armenia has been ter
rified and the destruction amounts to
millions of dollars.
' Leninakan, seat of the largest Amer
ican orphanage in the world, is like a
vast sepulchre of ashes; from time
immemorial Leninakan, formerly Alex
andrcpol, has been a gigantic volcanic
amphitheater due to the activity of
Mount Ararat and Mount Alago? in
the tertiary period, but the city never
before enperieneed such a violent and
disastrous upheaval as that which lev
eled pearly all human habitations on
the great Leninakan plain Friday
night,
Eastern Oregon Is
Favored For School
"Oregon is relying at this time up
on other states to provide nearly 50
per cent of the new teachers who
must go to the elementary grades
each year, while 50 per cent of the
counties v of Oregon and far more
than 50 per cent of the area is un
equipped with normal school facili
ties," says J. A. Churchill, president
of the Ashland normal school and
former state school superintendent,
in a statement concerning the need
of support for the Eastern Oregon
normal school referendum.
He points out that 18 out of the
36 Oregon counties all the large
counties lying east of the Cascades
are dependent either on Western
Oregon normal schools or on normal
schools in Idaho and Washington.
"Monmouth normal," President J.
S. Landers of that institution, who,
like Churchill, is active in the cam
paign for the Eastern Oregon nor
mal, declares, "has reached practical
ly the maximum of its growth under
which it can provide adequate teach
ing training for its students, and the
Ashland normal school will have
reached the same state before it
would be possible for the normal
school in Eastern Oregon to begin
functioning, if. the people support the
referendum providing for it in the
November, election.
"In the meantime Western Oregon
cannot fully supply the normal
trained teachers needed in its own
territory, with the normal schools
new in operation, and Oregon is
losing effectiveness in two ways.
First, we are obliged to draw teach
ers from outside the state, whose in
terests in the state are not the same
as those of teachers whose homes are
here. Second, we are losing Oregon
young men and women who are
trained in the normal schools of
Washington and Idaho and who are
placed by those schools in the teach-
ing systems of those states, instead
of coming, back to Oregon.
"The demand is in excess of the
supply of normal trained teachers in
all the Western states and competi
tion is so keen that the state which
comes the furthest from training the
teachers it needs in its own normal
schools is bound to suffer the conse
quences in increased expenses and de
creased efficiency of teaching."
Thomas M. Osborne Dead
Auburn, N. Y. Thomas Mott Os
borne, famous prison reformer and
former warden of Sing Sing, dropped
dead hero on the street. Osborne was
67 years old.
ARMY RECRUITING
Original enlistments in the Regular
Army for Ninth -Corps Area (Paci
fic Coast States) organizations was
resumed Monday October 11, after
having been, discontinued flincq Sept
ember 18th. Most vacancies are in
the Field Artillery and Corps of
Engineers, Camp Lewis, Washing
ton, Cavalry and Field Artillery,
Fort Russell, Wyoming and the In
fantry at Vancouver Barracks, Wash
ington and Fort Douglas, Utah.
HUNTERS WILL TRAIL
LAST BIG BUFFALO HERD
Two hundred buffalo which have
bsen getting wilder for the last 30
years on a 30,000-acre islands in the
middle of the Great Sale Lake, will
be hunted down during November.
Contrary to the opinion of some
Westerners, who declare the animals
are as "tame as old bossy in the back
yard," the buffalo have become ex
tremely wary and will race en mass-2
from the salty lake shore to the high
est peaks of the island rather than
permit riders to approach them. At
a recent drive five horsemen, rounded
up 100 head t bring them before two
weekly nc-,.,: rel cameras. After
seven hours of horse-killing riding,
two buffaloes, an aged bull and a
cow, stalked up over a ridge, saw the
cameras and galloped up a steep hill
and disappeared among the rocky
ledges above. The rest of the herd
had broken away 10 or 15 at a time
and raced up the numerous gullies to
safety in the mountains.
The herd, which "posed" for one
great moving picture, will be almost
exterminated during the hunt, only a
few being left to keep the species on
the island.
Although there are several hund
red head of cattle on the range, the
buffalo refuses to mix with the do
mestic stock.
Indians have been brought from
the Fort Hall reservation n Idaho
and will act for guides and assistants
during the month of hunting.
REJECTS WORLD COURT
The American Legion, in national
convention, refused to reaffirm its
position it took at Omaha, last year,
when it favored adherence to the
world court. A resolution re-affirm
ing that action, was rejected by a
large vote after speeches had been
made that the world court had be
come a political question, and that
to adopt the resolution would be vio
lating the Legion's constitution which
provides that the organization can
not be used for the dissemination of
partisan principles. The merits of
the world court were not discussed
by those who opposed the resolution,
home in Walla Walla.
MISS RINGEL ENTERTAINS
Miss Emma Ringel entertained a
number of her friends at a party at
her country home Saturday evening.
A most enjoyable time was had by
those present. Games, were played
after which delicious refreshments
were served Those present were:
Misses Thelma Schrlmpf, Lois Smith.
Francis Cannon, Virgie Moore, Em
ma Ringel, Messrs. Walter Huffman,
Wayne Pittman, Harold Kirk, Edwin
and Ralph McEwen,
j High School Notes
Mr. Stolzheise refereed the football
game Saturday between Mcloughlin
second team and Weston at Weston.
Purdy Cornelison, Miss Cornchson's
brother was her guest over the week
end.
Miss Bateman returned from Eu
gene Monday morning.
Mrs. William Sellars of Spokane
visited her daughter, Miss Evylyn
Sellars, over the week end.
Lorena and Itol Schubert were in
Walla Walla over the week end.
Lenore McNair was absent from
school two days on account of illness
' Francis Cannon and Emma Ringel
were in Walla Walla Saturday.
Lois Johnson was in Walla Walla
Saturday.
Roy DeFreece, Arthur and Pal-
berth Taylor and Clifford Wood were
in Pendleton Saturday and attended
the Milton-Pendleton football game.
Thena Russel was in Milton Sun
day.
Pupils of the second grade receiv
ing 100 in spelling for the past week
were Virginia Eager and Teddy . Mil
ler.
Hallowe'en week is always party
time at the school. Miss Rodman's
room had their party Wednesday
evening, Mias Terry's pupils met
Thursday evening. Miss Sellars'
room will have their party from 2:50
until 4 this afternoon. The upper
grades will have their party in the
basement of the Christian church and
the high school will use the school
building this evening. A feature of
the high school party is a basket ball
game between the senior boys and
the other boys of the school. The
teachers will be guests of honor at a
reception given by the Civic club to
morrow evening.
Miss Terry, Miss Sellars, and Miss
Rodman, spent Friday evening at the
home of Mr Henry Barr.
The girls of the Athena high school
have been practicing basket ball and
they hope to have a winning team. A
game has been scheduled with the
Pilot Rock girls for Friday evening
December 17.
George Pittman and Arthur Crow
ley have been chosen captains to
manage the next literary programs
for their room.
The upper grade boys are starting
basket ball as they have not been
able to find any school to oppose
them in football.
A party of pheasant hunters com
posed of Mr. Miller, Arthur Crowley,
Wayne Pittman, Emery Rogers,
"Jack" Murphy and Harold Kirk
went out to the Kirk place and made
a bag of fourteen pheasants.
HARDEN THOUGHT GOOD
Speaking of Athletics at Eugene,
the following is found on the Port
land Oregon Sports section: One of
the best linemen, Wilbur Harden of
Athena, was injured against the Cliff
Dwellers and will not play Friday.
He is a six-foot end and weighs bet
ter than 190 pounds,
Indian Summer
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STANDARD PICTURES
Tomorrow night the Standard will
present Anna Q. Nilsson in First Na
tional's fine photoplay, "Miss No
body," supported by Walter Pidgeon.
Sunday night the picture beautiful,
"A Kiss fcr Cinderella," starring
Betty Bronaon and Tom Moore will
be shown, "When the Door Opened,"
is the picture booked for Wednesday
night.
The Social Side
(By Mrs. R. B. McEwen)
RECEPTION TO TEACHERS
Athena and community will wel
come the teachers of its schools Sat
urday night at eight o'clock at the
high school. A pleasing program haa
been arranged and games and decora
tions appropriate to the Hallowe'en
season will be in evidence. The sev
eral efficient committees from the
Civic club .have been sparing neither
time nor effort to make the affair
a success and it is their earnest wish
that school patrons and friends will
be present to greet the teachers and
to enjoy the evening.
THE ETUDE CLUB
The Etude club was charmingly
entertained Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Lloyd Michener with Mrs.
Bryce Baker and Mrs. Max Hopper
as hostesses. After a brief business
session when Mrs. Archie Mclntyre
was elected to membership, a pleas
ing program "Autumn Frolic" was
presented. Mrs. O. O. Stephens play
ed a piano solo, "Autumn Intermez
zo" in her usual . charming manner.
Sing Along" was rendered as a voc
al duet by Mrs. Floyd Pinkerton and
Mrs. Arthur Douglas. Mrs. Lawrence
Pinkerton gave a reading "An Au
tumn Fantasy" followed by a vocal
solo by Miss Lorraine Terry "The
Enchanted Glade." A Hallowe'en
motif was used in the decoration and
carried out in the dainty refreshments
served by the hostess.
BRIDGE SERIES
Mrs. Ravella Lieuallen and Mrs.
Francis Lieuallen entertained several
groups of friends at a series of
bridge teas this week at the Francis
Lieuallen home in Adams. Lovely
fall flowers with chrysanthemums
predominating were used in profus
ion. Following the play a dainty two
course collation was served by tho
hostess.
MISS PROEBSTEL HERE
Miss Ruth Proebstel was a week
end guest at the R. B. McEwen home.
Miss Proebstel who was a popular
teacher in the Athena schools for' two
years now has charge of the music
.department in Berney school in Wal
la Walla. She is making her home
with Mrs. Otis Whiteman.
ANNUAL HOME COMING
Miss Mildred Bateman has return
ed to Athena after spending the week
end at Eugene, where she attended
the Oregon-Stanford game and enjoy
ed the other festivities of the annual
home coming.
ENTERTAINED AT DINNER
Mrs. II. A. Barrett and daughters
Lucille, Beverly and Genevieve were
hostesses Monday evening at six'
when they entertained, Miss Dorothy ;
Rodman, Miss Evelyn Sellars and '
Miss Lorraine Terry at dinner. The
table was centered with a quaint old
witch who held a spooky candle over ,
the festivities. Little baskets in
orange and black contained dainty '
confections for the guests.
More School Buildings Proposed
Bond Reduction Possible
As the taxpayers of our 18 grant
land counties realize the great relief
and how large is the sum coming to
them through the enactment of the
O. & C. Bill, they are planning new
school buildings, and an increase and
betterment in the teaching staff.
EIGHT MILLONS of dollars turn
ed loose in Oregon this fall is almost
unbelievable, but this is a fact,
thanks to the efforts of Robot N.
Stanfield. In addition to this immedi
ate cash payment, there is a tax re
duction for all time of 25 per cent.
One has only to atik any school di
rector of these counties to realize to
the full the wonderful relief from
burdensome taxes the enactment of
the O. & C. bill has permitted. This
tax relief was only possible by the
holdipg of the Chairmanship of the
Public Lands by Senator Stanfield.
The further relief to be had through
the Forent Reserve Lands can only
be obtained by re-electing Robert N.
Stanfield as Senator for Oregon.
Senator Stanfield proposes to apply
this principle to the Forest Reserves,
which will give every taxpayer in
Oregon an additional reduction of
from 25 per cent to 40 per cen.. Or
in other words will give Orpgon an
increased revenue of from 11 to 15
MILLIONS of dollars yearly, and for
all time to come. With thia sub
stantial reduction in our taxea, und
bonded indebtedness, we may look for
the immediate ccmlng of Eastern
capital and population, and an in
crease in the value of our own pro
perty. This additional revenue could ev
entually permit the repeal of all au
tomobile, road and gasoline tax.
You were denied knowledge of leg
islation proposed by Senator Stan
field, because the Morning Oregonian
has and will sacrifice your best in
terests in order to reek its vengeanco
on anyone daring to oppose its own
aggrandizement. The people of Ore
gon are a free people, owing their
allegiance to their God, their coun
try and themselves, and they will
not submit to be ordered and dictated
to by any Hellish interest, no matter
how powerful that interest or cliqua
may be.
We who have been making homes
in Oregon, establishing industries
and payrolls, or working for wages,
know how hard the struggle has been
to make ends meet. Uhere is only
one hope for us, and that is relief
from the excessive burden of taxa
tion. Robert N. Stanfield, the present
Republican Senator, whose advice
and counsel is sought and respected
by Senators und President Coolidge
alike, has been the only representa
tive Oregon ever had who has been
able to actually reduce taxes. He ia
the enly man who can continue to do
so, as he and he alone can retain for
Oregon the powerful Chairmanship
of Public land.
Therefore, if you want to have tho
I full benefit of reduction in taxation,
and bring the full di-velupment of
Oregon to pass within your lifetime,
you must forget party or personal
I likes atid whims and retain Senator
i Stanfield.
Oregon ran suffer no greater dis
aster than the loss of the Chairman
ship of the Public Land Committee.
(Paid adv. by R. C. Taylor, Port
land, Oregon.) .