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ti INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher SuhscriDtion Rates. One copy, one year U-00 One copy, six months $1.00 One conv. three months 75 Athena, Oregon, Decmeber 16, 1927 DUE TO INDIFFERENCE T"!Yt.ravH!THnce in trovernment is due from indifference arising from a common belief that the "other fel low" pays for it, according to Pro. fessor William B. Munro, of Har vard University. Professor Munro declares that this belief is false, and that the burden of taxation falls upon everyone, rich and poor alike. "Everyone who buys merchandise pays taxes," says Professor Munro "The retail merchant passes his burden along to his customers in the price of his goods. So with everyone who travels on a street car. or es to the theatre, or smokes a cigar. . They all pay taxes, whether they realize it or not. "When the gas company or tele phone company raises its rates, even- slightly, there is a great hue ' and cry with meetings of protest and fiery speeches. Every house holder realizes who's who when it comes to paying gas or telephone bills. But when taxe3 go up, it leaves the great masses unmoved. "Extravaeance and waste bear more heavily upon the poor than on the rich. If we impress upon the public mind this single, simple eco nomic fact we shall make democ racy compatible with economy and we can accomplish it in no ther way." (i TAXES OVER A BILLION Public utilities of the , United States, including steam railroads, will pay more than $1,050,000,000 in taxes this year, amounting to one tenth of the gross receipts of all railroads, street railways, gas, elec tric light and power, express, tele graph and cable and telephone companies. This is a higher per centage of gross receipts than is paid by any other corporate group, while finance, banking and insurance companies come next, according to the Oregon Public Utility Bureau. It is evident that in the privately owned public utilities the public ap petite for governmental services hus found a goose with a large ca pacity for laying golden eggs for the tax collector, but one that may easily bo killed by excessive eager ness on his part. In contrast to this volume of taxes paid by public utilities, it is esti mated that the total cost of federal and state regulation is only about twelve million dollars ayear, or ap proximately ten cents per capita. The mayor-elect of Newburyport, Mass., ran for the office to oppose an element that had frustrated his plans for operating a filling station at a disputed site. After the vote was canvassed he said: "The first thing I will do will be to fire the chief of the fire department. After him goes the city solicitor. He won't be fired he'll be canned. I'm going to smoke out some of the booze joints. The only people who sell booze around here are a lot of foreigners who ped dle bum stuff. Of course, you know as well us 1 do that it is tough Ij close up every one of these joints, but take it from me, if anybody is going to sell liquor in this town it will be a white man." o (! rabbing the coat-tails of the two belligerent premiers of Lithuania und Poland, the League of Nations coun cil at Geneva, have hopes of avert ing a war between their countries. "Tense Feeling" prevails as usual in the Balkans and the flume of warfare may burst fourth any time. Inas much as the present Balkan row was caused by the League when it used Vilnu for a football and kicked it from Lithuania over between the Pol ish goal posts, it seems to be up to the League to unsnarl the tangle. . o Professor Lindemann of Oxford, scientist, advances the theory that twenty years of scientific breeding and training would make apes competent to assume the responsi bility of servants. In that event, the servant question would become n mere matter of selection. o While people hereabouts were con lent to bask in front of the cheery hearth, Portland youth was served Sunday on the slopes of Mt Hood with gay winter sports. Some may like to play with hoary flakes of winter; but give us the good ol' sum mer time, every time. Sutherlin, Oregon is progressive; a large tract of land has been leased there for robbit raising. In passing, it may be opportune to remark that there are parts of Umatilla county not under lease, where rabbits raise hell while raising themselves. wrecks, in which a passenger train crumbled down with a trestle. This year Lake Labish enters history again with the production of 500 car-loads of celery. o Nuts to crack two twenty-five year old trees at Ashland yielded $90 worth of English walnuts this year. o With temperature seven tielow zero Saturday night, Athena shook hands with Old Man Winter. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION (The Manufacturer) In a recent address, Mr. F. W. Robinson, Vice President of the Union Pacific System, reviewed the trend of railroad passenger traffic in recent years. He pointed out that a number of passenger trains in service increased 17 per cent from 1921 to 1926, but that the number of passengers car ried decreased eight per cent. In 1911, the railroads carried ths equivalent of each inhabitant of the United States 346 miles. In 1926 303 miles, or 12 per cent less than jn 1911. In 1926, sleeping car and parlor car revenue showed an increase of 27 per cent over 1921, but revenue from passengers in coaches decreased 26 per cent. Mr. Robinson attributes this decrease to only one cause the automobile, public and private. The railroads are no longer anta gonistic to bus transportation, but feel that as long as the railroads are regulated by both the state and federal commissions they ought reasonably to have protection in the way of regulation of automobile bus ses in direct competition. The fairness of such a regulation is recognized, said Mr. Robinson, "and is being given attention, as evidenced by the fact that some of the states in the Union (very few of them so far) are formulating regulat ory laws that will gring about com pensatory fees for the use of the highways. I sometimes doubt that this regulation is occasioned because of a sense of fairness to the rail car riers, but because the use of heavy trucks and busses has so impaired highways and increased the main tenance cost thot it has been neces sary that charges for the use of the highways should be somewhat in pro portion to the use made of them. . "Regardless of the reasons that may bring about regulation for motor busses and trucks, it is bound to come about because it is logically sound, and eminently fair." builder,- and that ancient hero who held the pass at Thermopylae dearly remembered in lands other than their own. Greatness, of course, is truly international, and pettiness cannot long resist it. Men who have served their fellow, men do not end that service when they enter the mists of death. The in fluence of their lives, as inspira tion to the lives of others, persists beyond granite and bronze. When the three monuments shall have been leveled by the elements, in a century far in the future, the three mortals commemorated thereby shall still retain their immortality. Thirty-seven years ago the writer witnessed at Lake I.abish one of tut! Southern Vucific'a tfVcuio-t train THREE MONUMENTS TO MEN (Morning Orcgonian) It so happened that in the one day there recently appeared three similar items of news respecting that homage which posterity, pays to heroes and by heroes, in the broader sense, one means of coui'se men who are celebrated and re meinhered for their virtue if not for deeds of arms. The race turns often to the memory of its great ones, and is sustained and re freshed by the record. One item told of the approval of a proposal presented to the Nor with city council in England for the erection of a memorial to com memorate Lincoln's ancestral asso ciation with Norwich. Another told of the visit to this country of Dr. Belisario Porras, ex-president of Panama, whose plan it is to rear a monument to Theodore Roose velt, on that spot where the blast ing of the last dikes completed the Panama canal. And the third nar rated a provision in the will of James Stevens of New Jersey, born Demetrios Stathopoulous, who left $5000 for the erection of a monu ment to the memory of Lconidas, which is to stand in the public square in Sparta, Greece. The emancipator, the patriot and THE RIGHT OF PETITION (Eugene Register) Over in Bend the other day they voted on a $22,000 bridge bond issue, and it may be mentioned in passing that they voted overwhelmingly against it. From this the inference may be drawn that the people of Bend feel that they would rather cross the Deschutes in the old ways than to add- further to their funded debt. But it is not the intent here to discuss the attitude of the voters of the central Oregon capital to ward taxation. We are struck by a statement in the Bulletin, having reference to the election. The Bul letin says: "Incidentally, it is worth noting that although the petition to the council asking for this bridge was signed by some 300 per sons only 155 voted for the meas ure." - The right of petition is an ex ceedingly precious right. - A great deal of blood has been shed in or der to establish it, and it is alto gether probable that we should willingly shed much more blood in order to preserve it if anyone should seek seriously to deprive us of it. But, in spite of all this, it is apparently that we do not value it very highly. Someone brings along a petition and shoves it under our noses with the request that we sign it. We do not know what it is all about. The chances are very strong that we care even less. We shirk the job of reading it, and accept whatever explanation is offered as to its con tents. In the end we sign it not because we care a tinker's whoop what is petitioned for, but in order to get rid of the petition bearer. All too often, for all we know, it might be a petition to burn the church and butcher the minister. The result in a very large num ber of cases, is that legislation that is initiated by petition means noth ing at all in the way of popular demand. It would really be a very fine thing for all concerned if every one would refuse to sign petitions unless he knows what they contain, is in sympathy with their purpose and wants action along the lines they suggest. Indian Fishfcg Methods The tiictlmils ii-ril hv the Indians In (lslilng, before the advent of the white man, were quite modern. Starting from the simple device of nt Inching the bait to the end of a line, the pro gresslve order of fishhooks used by the Indians seems to lie us follow?: (a) The gorge hook, a spike of bone or wood, slmrpoiiH nt both ends and fastened nt Its middle to a line, a de vice used also for catching birds; (b) a spike set obliquely In the end of a plain shaft; (c) the plain hook; (d) the barbed hook; (e) the barbed hook combined with sinker and lure. This series dot9 not exnetly represent stages In Invention; the evolution may have been effected by the habits of the different species of Hsh and their Increasing wariness. The mate rials used for hooks by the Indian? were wood, bone, shell, stone mid cop per. The Mohnve employed the re curved spines of certain s-ppcies of cactus, which are natural hooks. Austrian Fowls Lack Proper Neck Covering A peculiar breed of fowls called Naked Neck has come to this country from Austria, where It Is said to have originated. The name comes from the fact that the fowls are desti tute of feathers from within an Inch or two back of the head down the en tire length of the neck and on to the shoulders. This peculiarity of plum age is very marked, and the neck and shoulders have an unnatural appear ance. They are not attractive; In fact, they are very unattractive, and the peculiar sensation to the hand when grasping the naked portion of the neck Is very unpleasant The skin of the neck Is smooth, and, when ex posed to the sun during the summer months, turns red and has a raw ap pearance, as If the blood were gath ered beneath and close to the skin They are very hardy; are but seldom seen, and hare been bred In Austria only as novelties. Berlin Eye Turned on Mane s Action. Berlin. Newspaper speculation v In Berlin on the death of the Rumanian premier, Ionel Bratiano, is largely con cerned, with the possibilities of Prince Carol's return and Dowager Queen Marie's course of action, with the at tendant complications at home and abroad. ' - NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of G. H, Schubert, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all per sons whom it may concern: That A. O. Schubert has been appointed ad ministrator of the estate of Or. II, Schubert, deceased. All persons hav ing claims against said estate are hereby required to present them, with proper vouchers to said admin istrator at his home near Athena, Oregon, or to Will M. Peterson and George R. Lewis, his attorneys, at their law offices in the Stangier Building, Pendleton, Oregon, within six months of the date of the first publication of this notice which is the 18th day of November, 1927. A. O. SCHUBERT, Administrator. Will M. Peterson, George R. Lewis Attorneys for Administrator. N18D16 NOTICE TO CREDITORS " In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of H. McArthur, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned has been appointed execut rix of the last will and testament oi H. McArthur. deceased, by an order of the above entitled Court. All nersons having claims against the estate of said deceased ere here by notified to present the same to me at Athena, Oregon, or to my at torneys'. Watts & Prestbye. at their office in Athena, Oregon, within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice. AH claims must be verified as by law required. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 18th day of November, 1927. MANJJA J. McAKTriUK, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of H. McArthur, Deceased. Watts & Prestbye Athena, Oregon, Attorneys for Estate. N18D16. 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