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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."
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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."
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(! 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.
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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.
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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.
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Nuts to crack two twenty-five
year old trees at Ashland yielded $90
worth of English walnuts this year.
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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.
Adair's Cash Grocery
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with two packages of Mueller's Spag,'
Mac or Noodles. Three Post Toasties
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Mother's Oats with China
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FOR $1.00
Mountain Potatoes, $1; No.l Diamond
Walnuts, SOc lb.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon, for Umatilla County.
In the matter of the Estate of Will
iam P. Willaby, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has filed her final ac
count and report in the above entitled
matter and that the above entitled
Court has fixed Saturday, the 7th
day of January, 1928, at the hour of
10:00 o'clock a. m. of said day, as
the time, and the County Court room
in the County Court house at Pen
dleton, Umatilla county, Oregon, as
the place, for the hearing of said fi
nal account and report. Objections
to said final account and report
snouid be Hied on or before that date.
Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 9th
day of December, A. D. 1927.
HESTER WILLABY,
Administratrix of the Estate of Will
iam P. Willaby, Deceased. Watts &
Prestbye, Athena, Oregon, Attor
neys for Estate. D9J6
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Athena, Oregon
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INTEREST ON DEPOSITS We will pay you interest at the
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on deposits. -
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