Hit Mwa f tm AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates. One copy, one year lJ- One copy, six months H-jJO One copy, three months Athena, Oregon, October 12, 1928 AMERICA'S CROSS OF FIRE This is Fire Prevention Week, and by proclamation of President Coolidge is becoming nationally observed. In this connection one of our exchanges pertinently says: A fire prevention artist aptly pictur ed a great cross amid a sea of flames. Upon the cross he lettered the word CARELESSNESS and called the completed sketch "America's Great Cross". There is a fire every minute of every day somewhere throughout the length and breadth of our land. If, from above, we could photo graph simultaneously all the fires that rage in the course of a year, America would indeed appear as a sea of flames. Two companion crosses, however, should be reared alongside the first one and be labled False Econ omy in Building Construction and False Economy in Fire Protection. These factors, with carelessness, are largely responsible for our shameful annual fire loss which amounted to nearly $500,000,000 in 1927. The organizations that are en deavoring to "lift America's great cross from her shoulders" advocate an all-year prevention campaign, but special efforts are put forth during Fire Prevention Week, which this year falls on October 7th to 13th. An in tensive program at that time aims to center public interest upon the things people should practice all year to make America safer against fire. In the front rank of the organiza tions enlisted in fire prevention ac tivities is the National Board of Fire Underwriters. CRIMPING CRIMINALS We read that at the recent Nation al Shoot, conducted by the United States Government at Camp Perry, Ohio, to give training in use of re volvers and rifles, there were present a great many hundred rifle and re volver shooters from all over tho country. In addition to other contestants, there were 75 police officers compris ing 14 teams of at least five men each, representing such cities as Lob Angeles, Portland, New York, De troit, Seattle, Toledo and Hartford, Connecticut. They were sent to bet ter fit themselves to carry out their official duties in the communities they serve, and thus render better public service. The results of instruction received by these men will be far reaching and each year the number of police officers sent to take this course, increases. Police officers, fully trained in the correct use of small arms, and private citizens who receive similar training in these National Shoots, and who go out and create enthusiasm for this branch of sport and defense, auto matically increase the number of citizens who are better able to pro tect life, liberty and property in this nation. Never did we have a greater need for a straight shooting police force to handle abnormal crime con ditions such as now exist in some of our leading cities. -o- A republican contemporary is elated over the indifference manifested by both the republican and democratic parties over the tariff as an issue in American politics, and gleefully ex claims: "What a pity some of our other important industrial and econ omic questions cannot be settled in this same manner free from political jealousies and mud-slinging." Righto! Why have more than one political party anyway? "Sword Hangs Over Big Radio Net works." Headline. Well, anyway, our old-time friend Damocles has nothing whatever to do with it. The island of Oahahu, Hawaii, re cently held a primary election. Oh- ho, they did? Uh-huh. o Freezing to the controls of an air plane is surer death than shivering in Alaska or Montana. seem to point to the need for authen tic information on which to base a practical remedy. - CLASSIFIED For Rent Newly refin'ished and furnished five-room cottage on Third street. Mrs. Lila Kirk. Lotsa pep dowh Astoria way just now; they're harvesting the pepper mint crop. EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS (Morning Oregonian) The significant note in Dr. Dublin's review of automobile fatalities as given in an Associated Press dispatch to The Oregonian is the disclosure that 65 per cent of all accidents in this group in 1927 occurred to pe destrians, a surprising minority be ing attributed to collisions between automobiles and railroad trains. "Beating the train to the crossing" has been mistakenly assumed to be a chief cause of disaster, perhaps .for the reason that it is more spectacular. The man not in the car is shown, how ever, to be the chief sufferer. To what extent is the latter to blame for that which to him is not a theory but a most serious condition? Dr. Dublin's silence on this question is in itself illuminating. One reason why we are making no progress to ward reducing either the number or the ratio of accidents of this sort is that there is nearly complete lack of data on which to base a conclusion. The fact that the past fifteen years have meanwhile seen the accident rate reduced by 49 per cent on railroads and by 53 per cent on street car lines is, if not a clear indication, a sug gestion as to what can be done under the spur of adequate incentive. The cost of accidents to railroads is con crete and easily visualized, with the result that measures to ascertain their cause have been followed by methods calculated to reduce them to their lowest terms. Everybody's business, as the adage has it, is nobody's business. We shall not have begun to approach the solu tion of the problem of a new order, which has come to stay, but whose un favorable aspects we may hope some day to regulate, until we have made a comprehensive survey and a scien tific analysis of causes. A showing of 25,800 fatalities in a year in a single department of human activity while other departments are moving toward comparative elimination would Range For Sale A first-class kitchen range for sale reasonably. W. P. Littlejohn, Athena. Dressed Chickens Dressed Rhode Island Reds and White Wyandotte spring chickens. Phone 26F15, Ath ena. . For Sale Fine Piano in storage near Athena. Will sacrifice for quick sale. A snap. Write Tallman Piano Store, Salem, Oregon, for full particulars." For Sale Beautiful piano near Hanford must sell immediately. $10 per month. A rare bargain. Write Tallman Piano Store, Salem, Oregon, for particulars. Reward Reward for information leading to recovery of one 3 year old buckskin gelding, no brand; one 3 year old sorrel gelding, brand D; one 5 year old . bay gelding, brand 8. Phone Athena, 135 or 492 collect. H. A. BARRETT. Piano sacrifice in storage near Athena. Partly paid for piano like new. Free delivery. Fully guar anteed. Will accept phonograph or other musical instrument in part pay ment, balance terms to suit you. Write at once to Geo Robison piano adjuster 208 Oak St. Portland, Oregon. The age of airplane pioneering is exacting a terrible toll in human lives eight being listed as the number of sacrifices for last Sunday. When the time comes that the air lanes are safe for travel, maybe there will be a few experienced pilots left to fly the ships after all the novices have gone back to the automobile front seat, left hand side. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of George W. Lieuallen, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed ad ministratrix of the estate of George W. Lieuallen, deceased, by an order of the above entitled Court. All persons having claims against, the said estate are hereby notified to present the same to me at Athena, Oregon, or to my attorneys, Watts ft Prestbye, at their office in Athena, Oregon, within six (6) months from the date of the first publication of this notice. All claims must be verified as by law required. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this J 2th day of October, A. D. 1928. . OLIVE M. LIEUALLEN, Administratrix. Watts & Prestbye, Athena, Oregon, Attorneys for Estate. 012N9 Foley's Kidney Cure Bank Statement Charter No. 4516 Reserve District No. 12 Report of Condition of the First National Bank of Athena in the State of Oregon, at the close of business on October 3rd, 1928. RESOURCES 1. Loans and discounts 582,402.13 2. Overdrafts ' 76.54 3. United States Government securities owned 57,500.00 4. Other bonds, stocks, and securities owned 26,763.44 6. Banking house, 6,062.00 Furniture and fixtures, $338.00 .... 6,400.00 8. Reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 36.069.77 9. Cash and due from banks 136,012.78 10. Outside checks and other cash items 145.00 11. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer 625.00 Total . 845,994.66 LIABILITIES 15. Capital stock paid in $ 50,000.00 16. Surplus 60,000.00 17. Undivided profits net 29,417.50 19. Reserves for interest, taxes, and other expenses accrued and unpaid 2,260.08 20. Circulating notes outstanding 12,000.00 21. Due to banks 18,330.00 22. Demand deposits 311,299.27 23. Time deposits 315,187.81 24. United States deposits 47,500.00 Total $ 845,994.66 State of Oregon, County of Umatilla, ss. I, E, H. Leonard, President, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. 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