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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?
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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:
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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
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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,
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Athena, Oregon
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( A Mercantile Trust)
To Our
Customers
You need your money
And I need mine,
If we both get ours,
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But if you get yours
And hold mine too,
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F. T. CHAMBERLAIN. PROP.
Athena, Oregon J Phone 761
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DR. S. F. SHARP
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Athena, Oregon
DR. W. G. COWAN
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Athena, Oregon
THE ATHENA MARKET
We carry the best
Meat
That Money Buys
Kippered Salmon, all Kinds of Salt Fish. Fresh
Fish, Oysters, Crabs, Clams, Kraut in Season.
A. W. LOGSDON
Main Street ' Athena, Oregon.
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DRS. A. D. & R. A. FRENCH
OPTOMETRISTS
French Optical Parlors
15 E. Main St rhone 653
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ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Shaffer Milling Co.
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equipped mills in the Northwest, of the beat selected Bluestem
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Athena, Oregon.
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