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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1926)
V AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates. One copy, one year $ 2.00 One copy, six months One copy, three months . . ...$1.00 ... .75 Athena, Oregon December 24 1926 With the Cudahy packing company announcing a net income for the year of $4,052.-780; i-ante Fe with a .surplus cf $210,000,000; Pullman company $33,000,000; Southern Pa cific ?:;S8,00(),000; Standard Oil $349, ''W.OOO; Union Pacific $189,000,000; rjncraj Motors $85,000,000 etc., is :l v wondvr that agriculture is look-..-!(? to McNary-Haugcn or any other l.'ndly disposed Moses to lead them o.it of their handicapped wilderness cto the road of protection? , o Old Dad Ilofer, down at Salen-. .otes K. V. Wilcox as saying: "Ji iy farmer wants to take revengr :i the manufacturer, as was hinted '. debates on farm -relief measure. Y taking away his tariff protection, 1 3 can do so only with the certainty i f thereby reducing employment and vstroyinf- part of the market for farm products." Just so. Put why not give the farmer a little of the protection now given the manufact urer. o well as the supply in the farmers' egg crate. If Mrs. Hen could have a sun bath once a day, egg produc tion would increase accordingly. o We can't see that it makes any ma terial difference to a limp pocket book whether you do your Christmas shopping early or late. Athena boasted of one sleigh out fit while "sleddin" was good last week, recalling to mind winter ve hicles of the past. o It makes a difference, alright; the Bambino had a Chrysler at his dis posal while in Portland, last week. Dempsey would have had to walk. o Athena's population is noticably in creased, temporarily, by the return home of students for the holidays. o Here's wishing Andy and Min a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year. The Churches Baptist Church Sunday School at 9:45 A. M. Christ mas Music and Discourse at 11:00 A. M. Topic, Christmas Results. Jun ior Young People at 5:30 P. M. Sen ior at 6:30 P. M. Song and Praise service at 7:30 P. M. Topic, Why The Angels Sang. You cannot exhaust the theme. May the Christmas spirit continue through the year. Sunday School Christmas program Thurs day evening at 7:30 P. M. This is a joyous time for the children, es pecially, hear them in the program. Thursday evening of each week is Prayer and Bible study evening. "O worship the Lord in the beauty cf Holiness." Merry Christmas to all. Christian Church Regular services at the Christian church Sunday. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Endeavor at usual hour. Portland housewives complain thai they are being defrauded by baying "bootleg" potatoes from houye-tu-liouse peddlers. Perhaps they have cause for complaint, for in times gone by it was possible to get a good article of Irish whiskey distilled from spud mash. o In support of evidence of high cost of government, it is cited that it cost the taxpayers of the state o.r Montana $128,433 for 109,155 votes at the fall election, an average cosl of $1.18 per vote. That's nothing; think what votes sell for back in In diana! o Somewhere we read: "Corpora tions may not have souls, but the men who operate the successful omr do, and they are good Christian gentlemen who are constantly help ing to make the United States a bel ter nation." o Old man Chinook took a whack at our snow crop Monday and ruthless ly lifted the white blanket from foot hill and valley. And this was one of the times the old fellow came when he was not wanted. r o Los Angeles papers report that Ormiston "keens mum." Is zat so? Well, here's hoping that the radio operator with a limp will continue to give the public a rest; something that Aimee didn't do. o Klamath Falls will broaden her Main street to 80 feet and build a $ i0,000 jail. There may be no con nection whatever between these mu nicipal improvements, aside from the fact that both may be needed. o Seattle is hunting a place to put her money; not because she has mor.j than she knows what to do with, but because the banks over there refuse to handle deposits at 2 Via per cent interest rate. Can you Neither can we. play "spilliwooble?" : Vernon Miller who spent a few days in Athena, at the home of his ! parents, has returned to Portland. Opinions Conflicting In Congress Over Aid to Farmers Once in a while the small town falls into its own. For instance, The Broadway Theatre al Portland show ed "There You Are," a week after it was screened at the local theatre. And there you are. o Pendleton and Milton presented strong briefs in support of their con tentions for the location of the new Eastern Oregon state normal s.hool, but Lu Grande captured the voles of the regents. Lake Labish district in Marion county can boast of something be sides railroad wrecks :!(5T carloadc of celery have been shipped from there this fall. Athena high school bovs !m ball team won its first scholastic game of the season, and here's Lop ing it will win the series of games scheduled, Springfield donated 250 acres of land for industrial tracts. Now she has a tannery and a meal-packing plant, with woolen and paper mills in prospect. o Two outstanding corn belt cham pions of farm relief are ex-Governor LoVden of Illinois, a republican, and ex-Secretary of Agriculture Meredith of Iowa, a democrat. Lowden is a leading advocate of the McNary-ITaugen bill to enhance faim product prices on the domestic market by removing the surplus, the loss on disposal of the surplus to b? paid by the producers in the form of equalization fees. ' Mr. Meredith proposes the creation of a board that will fix the price be fore planting at which it will buy the surplus after the harvest. If the price is high it will operate to in crease production, if low to decrease it. The cost of the operation would be paid by the farmer in insurance fees. Explaining, the operation of his proposal, Mr. Meredith said: "This commission meeting say it is the secretary of commerce, the secretary of labor and the secretary of agriculture and three or six or 60 other men for scenery to fix these prices, and they get together and the first year it is a guess, the first year it is an average price for the past ten years, or the first year it is based on cost or whatever other way you want to get at it. And suppose you say to the farmer, we are going to j charge you this year 1 per cent on production or Vk on six crops. You tell them March 1 you are going to give for wheat this year $1.25; that that is the demand on the part of the consumer, and GO cents for corn i and other prices. You go through that year, and how much wheat do you get? You get the amount of wheat that $1.25 would encourage the farmer to raise who thought he could make a profit out of it noc the farmer who says he will lose money." Mr. Lowden says that under the plan he advocates the surplus produc tion of the farmers would be mobil ized as the surplus credit of the bankers has been mobilized by the federal reserve system. "We have, therefore, suggested a federal farm board," he ays. "We have proposed that such board should be vested with power of inquiring in to certain facts. These facts are: Is there a surplus of some basic farm product? Does this surplus depress the price below cost of production with a reasonable profit? Are the growers of that product sufficiently organized co-operatively as to be fairly representative of all the pro ducers of that product? If the board finds that all of theso questions must be answered 'yes' it is then empow ered to authorize the co-operative to take control of the surplus. The on ly aid from the government which the co-operative would require would be that the government should dis tribute among all the producers of the particular commodity the cost to the co-operative in handling the surplus. "Neither the government nor the , , government board would determine tne price, wor would even the co operative itself 'fix' the price in any other sense than industry generally determines prices. It, like every oth er industry, would study all the con ditions affecting the particular com modity and from time to time decide upon a price which conditions would seem to warrant. It would simply enjoy the advantages which come from organized selling." Fresh Sweet Oranges Fresh Sweet Oranges $3 per box of three hundred large size. Boxes larger than standard size. Soun.1 fruit and satisfaction guaranteed or money back. We pay express charges. A box of these makes an appreciated Christmas gift. Remit with ord?r ACME ORANGE FARMS, LaGrange, Texas. CLASSIFIED For sale cheap A leather covered Morris chair, rocker and other furni ture. Marcelling Expert Marcelling and all lines of beauty work. Miss Chap pelle, Weston, Oregon. Call 292 for appointment. Jensens Blackpiith Shop Horseshoeing Prices Reasonable Tharp Bros, old stand, Athena Oreg. Last winter trappers captured 2,010 beaver. This winter 2,010 beaver un damming Oregon streams the snm as ever. The Hood River apple crop totalled 4,500 carlcads this year sufficient to put several doctors out of business. Winter Wheat Not Average Winter wheat, which furnishes about two thirds of the total United States wheat production, has been shown on a slightly increased acre age this autumn, but its condition is somewhat under average. Christmas shopping has a tendency to make dad think of something oth er than taxes: o D.J. McFaul, M.D. Office over Inland Empire Bank Pendleton, Oregon The recent cold snap played hob ' Specializing in Electro and Quartz yith co-operative egg associations? ns 1 Lamp Therapy, HI EVERYBODY'S COINCl CALIFORNIA bids you turn back the calendar to summer and come play in the warm sunshine. As an added inducement the Union Pacific now offers special low round trip fares and assures you a marvelous journey on the finest of fast trains. Connections via Portland or Salt Lake City, MAKE TOUR RESERVATIONS NOW PACIFIC C. M. 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