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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1928)
Mot xm iN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher Subscription Raten, One copy, one year One copy, six months fl-00 One copy, three months -1 J Redmond has placed herself on the map by recently shipping forty-three tons of honey to Germany and Holland. Athena, Oregon, February 17, .1928 St. Helens recently expended $5, 000 more for a new school building than for a new theatre $35,000-$30,-000. We are reminded of the fact that Bend, Oregon, for years nationally famous for its low fire loss, is to receive a new insurance reduction based on the purchase of another modern pumper fire engine. Insur ance rates are based on actual risks, as shown by actual reports. Where the people are careful, where the f're departments are capably equipped and operated, where the building reg ulations are such as to reduce the fire hazards, insurance rates drop. They drop far more as a rule than the equipment and department costs rise. No town ever made more prof itable investments than good fire fighting equipment. The net result of reductions in fire losses permits carrying increased amounts of in surance while decreasing its cost. Criminal prosecution for careless or wanton fires will check the present reign of red terror. o Over the span of 38 years' news paper work in this county, the Press man has no recollection of receiving on his desk a special edition of a country paper that compared in excellency with the 45th anniversary edition of the Hep pner Gazette Times, now before us. This special number would be a credit to any publication in a city of 25, 000 population, and it puts it over anything we have ever seen in the special edition line coming from any where out of Eastern Oregon or Eastern Washington. In typography, makeup, presswork and illustrations it is big city caliber, and the read ing matter neasures up to other superlative features of this splendid special number of Heppner's good newspaper. Typical March weather in February 'presages an early spring, when ! "signs" do not fail. cases make an effort to be a credit to his alma mater is not unreasonable, is peculiarly timely in view of the present need for sound leadership, and is wise under all the circumstances. Wonder if we'll have to "Hooverizo"' again, after March 4th, next? TELEVISION AND SOCIABILITY (Chicago News) Recent experiments and successful demonstrations in , television warrant the prediction, according to laboratory workers in electrical industries, that within a few years machines will be available for use in homes whereby vision by electric transmission will be made as familiar a phenomenon as audition has been for years. Television in the home, some say, will revolutionize society, sport, Men and STUDENT DISCIPLINE LIMITS (Morning Oregonian) A Eugene correspondent who is. all 'amusement and education wrought up over the discipling of cer- women will stay comfortably in their tain university students for offenses own drawing rooms and from easy which are not denied but were com-'chairs will watch concerts opera, con- 'mitted "off the campus and outside of school hours" solicits The Oregon ian's opinion of the procedure. He ventions, games, theatrical produc tions and lectures. They will see as well as hear the performances that is welcome to it. The Oregonian be- are of interest to them. Almost every Sieves that a university, fully as the United States senate, is fairly en titled to pass on the quality of those (whom it admits to its fellowship. It believes . that the intellectual side of thing will be brought into the home, and on evenings, holidays and Sun days there will be little reason' for leaving it. Those, who venture upon such the student's life, to which the writer speculations overlook one fundamen "The United States has long had a protective tariff policy which seeks to equalize the price , between the foreign and the domestic product, thereby encouraging industries and farmers, building up employment and stabilizing investments. The theory is sound, as this nation has proved, remarks a contrary republican ex change. Un huh; so far as concerns industry, but not for the farmer, thank you. The long drawn out dis cussion over the McNary-Haugen bills have shown the protective tar iff schedules up in their true light shown them to protect industry at the expense of agriculture. 'lhe United Spanish War Veterans of Salem are boosting Carle Abrams, secretary of the State Board of Con trol, for secretary of state. The Press is in receipt of a circular letter, sotting foith the capabilities and qualificotions of Mr. Abrams. These includo being Oregon-born, graduate of an Oregon state school, service of distinction in four wars, membership in Oregon legislature, four years editor of Pacific Homestead, three years member of State Board of Control and a good, all-round citizen. All of which leads us to say the Spanish War Veterans certainly have 1 something to boost for. Events of importance in Athena next week will be district confer ence of American legion posts and Boy Scouts Parent's night entertain ment. Athena is pleased to meet the legion men, and joyful for the oppor tunity to extend .her patronage to tho scouts. The Weston Leader comes along with this one: "Reports from Hav ana indicate that there is more be tween North and South, America than the Isthmus of Panama." Just how big is Warrenton, may be drawn from the recent statement that 2000 acres of townsite lands sold for $10,000; and it wasn't a good day for selling town lots, at that, o Out of the chaos in the political firmament, one indisputable, con clusive expose has been uncovered; Newbcrg is staunchly and unequivo cally for Hoover! alludes, is only one of several con cerns of his teachers. It believe moreover, that a university, or any other institution of education, owes a duty to those of its undergraduates who are willing to comport them selves in accordance with certain i generally approved standards. Corn ling down to particular instances, it 'does not think that clandestine stu dent carousing is condonable on mere ,ly geographical grounds. By what re finement of sophistry can we say what is wrong on one side of an in visible boundary line is right on another? What are the aims of a college ? Among other things, to inculcate de cent respect for the amenities of good society, to impress the student with the desirability of clean living, to teach morality in its best sense. If the correspondent thinks that only the "intellectual" life is worth living, then he cannot read the plain signs of the times, and if he holds that school authorities have no duty beyond that of ministering to the intellect in the abstract he is out of touch with the current view of that obligation. We shall assume for the purpose jsend their children away from home wish them to have the benefits of ex cellent companionship no less than of competent scholastic training. Is the general reputation of a university limited to that which occurs on its campus? Or does it rest on many imponderables, including the behavior of its students in the classroom and out? We incline to the latter opinion, which is freely proffered in extenua tion of any measure which may be found necessary or expedient in order to impart to a college the attributes of character which are sometimes, if inelegantly, called "tone." The right to choose among appli cants for largess that public educa tion nominally bestows seems to The Oregonian to be inherent in the sys tem. It sees no reason why under graduates who are unwilling to be have themselves under all circum stances as befits gentlemen, or who are openly hostile to reasonable rules and regulations, should be permitted indefinitely to crowd an already over crowded roster. It thinks the require ment that the student shall in all tal consideration namely, that, as philosophers and psychologists agree, man is a social animal. The home and 'the family circle even when enlarged by the presence of relatives and close friends will not completely gratify the social instinct. Human beings are themselves an attraction and their presence furnishes an agreeable change to other normal human beings. Opera, cnocerts, plays, sermons, lec tures, political conventions, scien tific and literary meetings will con tinue to be attended even if televis ion is perfected to the last' conceiv able degree. To observe gestures and facial expression mechanically reg istered is not enough. There are finer and subtler radiations that can be felt only in the actual physical pres ence of one's fellows Human nature is a marvelous, mys terious thing. It absorbs and assinii lates much, but it remains essentially the same. Television will not destroy sociability. THE BEST AND THE WORST (Oregon Journal) LOOK at Lindbergh. . Then look at the younger youth down in the Los Angeles prison. At 26, the first is the best known and most admired lad in the world. At 19, loathed by ' millions, es teemed by none, the other waits in a prison cell for the final ghastly reckoning. Presidents, kings, cabinets, con gresses, parliaments, the great and near great, the high and the low of earth, seek for, bow to and admire the one. The other is an outcast, scorned and despised even by his fellow-criminals, hardened and , des perate though they be. The two are the antipodes of hu man life. They are perhaps the most remarkable expression of American youth as it can be and as it un happily chooses sometimes to be. In the world's homage to Lind- DR. S. F. SHARP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon Xn Cure Coitfltipytton Korevor IVUc Oiiwiirots C'uml.v Cullmrtic. 10ear25h--' J ' lo noli' .it MW'.ts it f'lml mnett Introduction of the motor car first, and now the general use of the tract or in farm work, have certainly put the skids under old Dobbin. Boy Scouts will entertain us next Wednesday. Boy Scouts are good scouts, so wc all will be with them next Wednesday evening. o - Uncommon reading this, from the land of sunshine and flowers; wind storm at Glendale smashes the dick ens out of things. ROWE'S CASH GROCERY Successor to Adair's Cash Grocery. Prices Same as Before Come, Try our Bargains Fresh Sweet Potatoes' Bulk Mince Meat and Bulk Sweet Pickles. Mrs. Alice Eager, Owner DELIVERY & PHONE, 561 MODEL CLEANERS " 3. H. BOOHER, Prop. " TENDLETON, OREGON, THONE 521 Quick Service and Good Work t TVe Call for Clothing on Monday and Deliver on Thursday. Agency at "Whitehead's Shop. ' w with ork Your Grouo V P 0 Plows and International Discs Harrows and Springtooths v".cv -Syw ?sn$P'i Me They are Dependa None Better! ROGERS & GOODMAN (A Mercantile Trust,) ATHENA, ORE bergh and in its execration of th-3 other, do not the boys and girls, the fathers and the mothers, of the public visualize the . mightiest moral of the century? 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