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Berlin Entertains Afghan Ruler IT Ict-L. 5 JK; 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m i m m i m i m 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 m 1 1 m 1 1 1 m i m iiiimiiiiiiiinw WHAT IS EVOLUTION? By JOHN BLAKE i m 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 nil mi 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 11 r AIIWIN, who first called atten Hon to the working of the prin ciple of evolution, was widely honored not only In England, but throughout the civilized world. A young man who taught Darwin's ideas to his pupils was dismissed from the school tn which he taught, and was fined $100. : But the Supreme court of, the state In which this young man lived remit ted the fine. ' That is progress. It Is progress because It is a virtual admission that the court which im posed the fine was wrong. ' For if evolution is a denial of a re ligion In which all men should be lieve, It Is a crime to dispute it As a matter of fact evolution is merely another name for progress, and it is progress which has made the world. There Is no denying the existence of God in stating that His work was done systematically and methodically that He conceived a plan which the forces He created would be certain to carry out. The visit of King Amanullab of Afghanistan to Germany was the first formal visit of a crowned bead to that country since the founding of the republic. The king Is shown with President Von Hlndenburg. For Children's Story Hour There is no sacrilege in tracing the various steps by which this plan has worked, bringing creatures up out of the sea, and permitting them to de velop according to laid-down laws un til finally man with his God-given brain came Into existence. It is not denying God to show how the world Itself was formed from gases and the land was divided from the seas. To one seeking a belief in a Creator evolution supplies abundance of evi dence. No evolutionist would deny that there Is mind behind all this great work, or that there is mind behind the great system of suns and planets which surround us, a system so vast that we cannot conceive It Evolution Is merely the doctrine of progress. ' It is in a tremendous way that the development of the modern locomo tive from James Watt's tea kettle has been, what the progress of building "W E MIGHT as well make the "Squeal, squeal, we might as well make the best of it" "What should we make the best of?" asked Grandfather Porky Pig. "Tell us, Miss Ham, grunt grunt; tell us, Cousin Ham." i "Tea, tell us, squeal, squeal; tell ns, Miss Ham," said Brother Bacon "Grunt, grunt tell us, Miss Ham," urged Sammy Sausage. "Please tell us," said Sir Percival Pork. "Grunt grunt, please tell us, Miss Ham." ' "Yes, squeal, squeal, please tell us. Mis Ham," said Sir Benjamin Bacon. "We want to know, grunt grunt, we want to know," said Mrs. Pink Pig. "Yes, and you must tell us, squeal, squeal," said Mrs. Pinky Pig. ?You surely must, grunt grunt," said Pinky Pig's mother, and Pinky Pig said: .; "Squeal, squeal, we want to know." "Well, grunt, grant," said Miss Bam, "you don't give me a chance to tell you. You grunt and squeal and won't give me a moment in which to tell you anything." "Squeal, squeal," said Brother Ba- In Our Own Front Yard By Douglas Malloch A CHOKE-CHERRY grows in our front yard, And we've looked long, and we've looked hard For something beautiful we might see. And never saw the choke-cherry tree. Bight near the tree a honeysuckle grows, That no one notices, I suppose. We look up town and we look down - . street, With a honeysuckle right at our feet Always somewhere 'else all the won ders are, Or perhaps It's this that we look too far. , We watch the walk where the velvets And we never see our green grass. We drive and we drive, for miles and miles, 1 , While, out In front Mother Nature smiles. There's not a place that we haven't known, Excepting one, and that one's our own. And so for once let ns stay right here And see the things that are somewhere near. , Let the wide world wait until after ward, Till we take a look at our own front yard. ((& 1921. by Douclu Malloch.) con, "we will give you all the mo ments you want, if you will only not ask ns for food. I do not mind, how ever, if yon ask the others for food, but do not ask it of me. "Ask me for moments if you will and I will give you all the moments you want" "How absurd you are," said Grand father Porky Pig. "Why, I would not "I Will Show You That I Am Superior." even bother to say that I didn't want to be asked for food. "She could ask me If she wished, we've got to make the best of and that Is that we've finished dinner and That wouldn't mean that I'd have to give it to ber. "That wouldn't mean anything of the sort." "Oh, yes, I understand," said Miss Ham. "But I must tell you what can't find anything in the Pig Pen, so that it looks as though we'd not have anything more to eat until sup per time." "That's no news to us," said Grand father Porky, "and to think that you got us so excited about such a hor rible thing that was not worth getting excited about" "Grandfather Porky Is right," the other pigs grunted. "Grandfather Porky Is right" " "Oh, very well," said Miss Ham. "But I was going to suggest that as long as we couldn't eat and bad to make the best of it we might make up some poetry." "What 1" grunted ajl the pigs in amazement "Yes," said Miss Ham. "Pigs' po etry would be lively, I'm sure, and it could go down to fame." "We don't know about it going down to fame," paid Sammy Sausage, "but it would doubtless go down Into the mud along with our snouts." "Well," said Miss Ham, "as you're all so foolish, I will show that I am superior and I will make up a poem. Here It Is: I'm a pig. I don't dance the Jig I am not so neat. But I do love to eat! And food I will greet And consider It sweet. "Queer sort of poetry," grunted Brother Bacon, "but It only goes to show that pigs' poetry cannot amount to much, so there isn't any use In try ing to make poems." "Correct," squealed the other pigs. "Correct." (Copyright) Good Things to Eat By NELLIE MAXWELL THE planning of meals "is powerful constant," and a few helpful sug gestions are always welcomed. Jewish Cheese Sandwiches. Work a large-sized cream cheese with one-fourth of a cupful of butter until of creamy consistency. Then add one teaspoonful of chopped capers, one teaspoonful of paprika, two anchovies, chopped fine, one shallot chopped fine, one-half teaspoonful of caraway seed and one-half teaspoonful of salt Mix thoroughly and pack solidly In a small brick-shaped mold. Let stand on fee over night to ripen. Remove from the mold, cut into thin slices and use on rye bread spread lightly with butter and made mustard, as sandwich filling. Press edges together, trim and serve with coffee. Orange marmalade used as sand wich filling for white buttered bread makes a delicious sandwich for an aft ernoon tea. Creoles. Beat three eggs until light, add grad ually one cupful of soft brown sugar. Mix and sift three-fourths of a cupful By H. IRVING KING THE HOWLING DOG IT IS safe to say that the majority men waking in the night to the prolonged howling of a dog feel, min gling with their desire to throw some thing at the brute, a little twinge of uncomfortable superstition. In the first place a dog's howling is a mourn ful thing to bear and then there Is the age-long superstition that a howl ing dog foretells a death in the fam ily. Tennyson alludes to It In his "May Queen" "I did not hear the do howL mother, or the death-watch beat" It la very likely that a dog beloved by his master, will howl for his com panionship when illness deprives biro of It In fact any serious illness In the bouse would probably cause the dog to be neglected by others to a large extent and be would bowl for his accustomed food or companion ship. If the sick person recovers nothing Is thought of the dog's howl Ing. But if he dies one member of the family looks with an awed ex pression and asks : "Did you bear the dog howl last night V "Yes." wlli probably be the reply, "1 have heard him for several nights now." And each secretly believes; or half be lie ves, that the dog's bowling was "a warning." The character of a dug's howl, suggestive of death and deso lation, and the above facts are suf Sclent to account for the superstition. But Just think, gentle reader how many, many times you have heard the dog howl at night and nothing un toward has happened. . . a hy HcClart Newapapcr grndfatel ' of flour with one-half teaspoonful of salt, and one-fourth of a teaspoonful of ginger. Add to the first -mixture and beat three minutes. Add one ami one-half cupfuls of pecan meats. Fill small fluted tins two-thirds full of the batter and bake fifteen minutes. Spread with maple frosting and deco rate with half of a pecan meat (. 12I. Western Newipaper Onion.) : Peace Cicero. Peace Defined Is liberty in tranquillity. - had brought about In erecting St Paul's cathedral or the Wool worth building by using the ideas which re sulted in the first hut of mud In which primitive man sheltered him self from the weather. Evolution is working about us to day, constantly. A part of it is In the brain of man, but man's brain is puny compared to the mind which could devise a system which could continue to go on and on, as It has done since the crust of the earth formed about the fiery interior. Men of religion unless they, are bigots have no quarrel with evolu tion. The facts that it teaches supply the most convincing of all possible proof of the existence of God. (Copyright SAWS By Viola Brothers Short FOR THE GOOSE IF1 TOD lose love, It often, ain't your 1 gen'rally always Is. fault If you tose respect, U Home Ownership Has Influence on Child Every child wants a pet and a sand pile. And they are his inalienable right They should be his; his very, own to romp with and in as ha pleases. Most of all though he should have, home which be knows his daddy owns. It helps his self-reliance. Living In an apartment Isn't the just due of a future President or the wlfe-to-be of a future President The child should have his own play ground just as he has own toys. It means more to him than the careless, unthinking parent Imagines. An independent spirit does not flour ish and grow strong under restraint And more than ever, today, does the boy need spirit Give the youngster his chance. Get him a home. Let him know that it is his. Pep tip his independence. Guard bis spirit as you do his health. Bring him up to look the world in the eye, frankly and fearlessly. Soon er or later he is going to have to take a poke at it New York Herald Tribune. Silence might not be the best de fense, but it certainly Is the most aggravatln'. Answerln insults with sarcasm is tryin to clean off an ink spot with a fountain pea FOR THE GANDER The world ewes every man a Uvin', on'y he's gotta do bis own collect in' When yon talk, talk soft you bit hit bard. But when "Flappers are rather hard to de fine," says Mature Matilda, "but they might be defined as young ladles who think Baton Rouge is a lipstick." (Copyright. ' Cunning and breeding is alike tn this way that the more you got 'em the less you show 'em. (Copyright Will Insects Be Our Rivals? By F. A. WALKER MAETERLINCK, deep thinker and able and entertaining writer, ad vances a new idea. Discussing the life of insects he advances the theory that they may yet overrun the earth and be "the rivals of our last hours and perhaps our successors." There have been a thousand and one opinions of what would happen to the human race in the ages to come what would be the conditions on this speck In the universe when the last day should dawn. But this Is the first time that the writer has ever come across the theory that the In sect life was likely to overpower all the other forces of our planet and be come Its masters. The idea is, however, not so gro tesque as it first appears. The ant Is a thousand times more industrious than man. The spider much more in genious. The bee much braver. And all the Insect world reproduces itself with tremendous more frequency than mankind. To the student of nature there can not be any doubt of the tremendous power In the insect world. As far back as Bible times the most dreaded plagues were the plagues of Insects. In modern days the records of de struction made by the boll weevil, the gypsy moth, the army worm, the lo cust, the potato bug and scores of oth er pests have mounted to millions on millions. - Except that the brain of man has devised methods of extermination the world would long ago have been over run with destroying Insects. Since every attack of Insects has been met and conquered by human Ingenunlty why should Maeterlinck conclude that sometime or other the Insects are to turn the tables on man and become his conqueror? A really greater danger than the in fects lies in the rapid Increase and wider spread of rodent life. The rat nest of this country has reached tn Its annual destructiveness the enor mous annual total of $200,000,000. Perhaps If Maeterlinck bad been as well acquainted with the rat as with the Insect he would bave made an army of rodents our final conqueror In stead of the creeping hosts which he selected. But we may be quite cure that neither rats nor Insects will overcome humanity. The brain that can build the Panama canal, conquer the heights of the air with airplanes and the depths of the sea with under-water ships; that can weigh the sun and compute the forces of unseen stars; certainly that brain will not be beaten Into submission by Insects nor con quered by any lower form of life. If you want to supplement your nat urnl courage a little turn to the sec ond chapter of Genesis and read the twenty-eighth verse and see what God had to say regarding man and the rest of creation. Even Maeterlinck might find It worth while to reread his Bible (Q by McClurt Ne wipe per Syndicate.) Russian Training Ship After Collision An alt view t the Russian truiniug ship making for port after 1U disastrous collision wltb the Italian Steauiei Alcantara, in the English channel. The Italian steamer sank wltb all men aboard save one. Gl VT ommumtu yT Buildmcj Children Take Pride in School Ground The Young Citizens' league, which under the leadership and direction of E. 0. GIffen, of the Oklahoma state educational department, has grown in to an organization of about 75,000 of the school children of the state, de voted to the preservation and beauti fying of school grounds, along with their individual drilling in the funda mentals of citizenship, is preparing for two major events of the spring. One of these is the laying out ot local programs for Improving school grounds and premises. The other ma jor program is the annunl convention at Pierre. The expense of attendance is a matter of the pupils' own financ ing through school entertainments. The movement is attracting wttention of educators of other states, and in quiries are constantly being made as to details of the organization. Look to City'i Future At the meeting in Dallas of the American Society for Municipal Im provements reports, have been made of the plans of various cities through. out the country to meet the needs oi present growth and of future expan sion. Jf any further evidence were needed of the alertness of American municipalities of the larger type it was furnished through this occasion, Men engaged in the planning or actual carrying out of plans told of the pro cedure that is being followed here and there. On certain fundamentals there seemed to be absolute- agreement First determine the needs, those that are urgent and those that reasonably may be expected to become urgent in a very few years, Estimate the costs carefully, relate any Improve ment undertaken to a general city plan, then prepare for a bond Issue and go ahead, subordinating political and every other interest to the wel fare of the city and thus gaining the public confidence and support re quired to make the whole procedure a success. Patching Shingled Roof To repair wooden shingled roofs, an unusually simple and speedy method Is to use slip patches cut from single ply asphalt roofing. These are long enough to reach from the butt of the shingle up to the first row of nails. Lift the shingle up' just far enough to allow a slip to be pushed In place. The sun melts the asphaltura suf ficiently to stick the slip In place. No nails are neded. When a roof has to be patched, first nnroll the roofing on a floor, and brush It well on both sides to prepare the surfaces so they will stick readily. Then divide the roofing into rectangles measuring 3 by 5 or 3 by 6 Inches. As many as 2,500 of these slip shingles can be obtained from three rolls of one-ply roofing. Popular Science Monthly. Wider Highway $ i While dlHcusslng the construction of about 80,000 miles of hard-surfuced roads in the United States during the present year, a writer calls attention to the fact that nearly everywhere road builders are planning to con struct wider highways, particularly where thene highways connect with systems of paved streets In urban cen ters. Wider roads are everywhere In demand. Increased trafilc on our pub lice highways make wider roads a prime essential, and public oflMuls who fall to take this vital fact Into the reckoning make a mistake Home and School Somebody has said the home Is giv ing way to the school as the dominat ing Influence for . good cltlzennhlp. Here is a case where neither one nor the other snould "pass the buk." Youth training should begin at home, but It should certainly be continued In the matter of character In school, and there Is no place along the line where the responsibility con be taken off the shoulders of anybody. Grove Patterson, In the Chicago Journal.