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menu. 'sm. ir-j-a-iittsVV3wiiiii9i txur&&.m i -Lft! THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, NOVEMBER 29, 1929 Hi f' High-Grade j ; .Stationary is an Accept able Gift mm nil Sylmar Stationery $1.25 reome Bnae tnemseives ,on refinement and are. care-. tful to let others know it. JjJJSgh-grade Stationery used , In correspondence is just one; "iwav of revealinsr irood taste.' K Sylmar Stationery with its I ripple-bond sheets and mner- : lined envelopes is right up to I the minute in both . quality 1 I and style. Sold only at Rex-1 , all Stores. 1 McFADDEN'S PHARMACY 1 Main Street Athena I Phone 332 THE WORLDS LARGEST CHAIN OFl INDIVIDUALLY OWNfO DBUOSTOBESl ATHENA and SIN - " C. T. Booth ' Successor to "Pink" Third Street - - . Athena Why suffer with tired, aching feet? Regardless of their condition, I can help you E. M MOREMEN , Foot Correctionist 22 W. Main St. Walla Walla Real Estate Wheat. Alfalfa and Stock Land : SHEEP FOR SALE L. L. Montague, Arlington Albers Minit Oats, large, 2 for........:..1...59c Fountain Oysters, 20c or two for...... 37c White Star Tuna, 25c or two for .....45c Silver Shield Tomatoes, 2 cans for 39c The Quality Grocery .''..'"' Phone 561 Alice Eager, Prop. Continental Oil Company - Always at Your Service Athena Service Station Gas, Oils, Greasing Automobile Assessories Tires BRYCE BAKER, Prop. . . Athena, . . Phone 761 . ...... , ...... We're proud of the friends these tires make for us By Zerba It's a real satis--faction to sell tires that make a real friend of every Customer. Goodyear lire mileages average so high that we are building. up .the best and steadiest growing business around here. The service we give watching our customer's tires for them also saves you trouble and bother. ' '. ; ; . We're fixed to give you the most satisfaction at any price you want to pay. Goodyear is able to put out better quality for less money through building nearly twice as many tires as the next largest company. You get the benefit here. Stop in and see ! . : r; -. - - ' " Around Here, too More People Ride On rQQQpBJM Tires Than On Any Other Kind ATHENA GARAGE; Athena, Oregon High School Notes : JUNIOR NEWS STAFF Editor ;....;Stafford Hansell Assistant Editor....."...Myrtle Campbell Alumni...... , Jack Moors Student Body .....'.Arthur Crowley Boys' Athletics..... Roland Wilson Classes............:... Emery Rogers Entertainment Elizabeth Walter Personals Georgie Green Faculty.. ...Walter Huffman 1st to 4th Grades........Curtiss Duffield 5th to 8th Grades Mary Tompkins Subject Classes Herbert Reeder Advisor Miss Beulah Smith Editorial (Stafford Hansell) The only thing that justifies the existence of a school isvthe know ledge that it imparts to the students. Athletics and other enterprises are added to school life. In themselves they are not necessary for the school existence, but athletics give an out let for school spirits and give a chance for' 'exercise. They also take the place of the fist fights of old. Athletic competition has taken a place in some schools that is not proportion al to the benefits derived. Plays and other social enterprises are justifiable because they give practical experience and help gain poise. An education can go for naught if practical ex perience is entirely lacking because the education gained is not used to the proper advantage, but the funda mentals of school life are the first steps to success. It is only too often that high schools are remembered as "they had a very good football team," "they had a bad play cast," or "they had a six foot four inch center," and other varieties of recognition, but few like "their scholastic standing is one of the finest in the state," "they had only five on the honor roll," etc. While athletics and other forms of school life .are . beneficial and neces sary for a school's success, they are not primarily the reason for the schools existence. In their places they are excellent but they should not be compared with scholastic standing. Athletics The first game of basketball will be a practice game with the Mac High alumni December 6. The boys have been clamoring for action and they will soon see it, as the saying goes, "it won't be long now." Faculty Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hansell en tertained the high school faculty and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pinkerton at a din ner party Saturday evening. Those present were Miss Beulah bmith, Miss Dorothy Brodie, Mr. and Mrs. Blatch ford. Mr. and Mrs. "Pike" Miller, Mrs. Areta Gurney, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pinkerton. "Pike" Miller motored to Walla Walla Saturday. "Pike" and his wife and family visited friends in Pendle ton Sunday. Entertainment The Latin club that was recently formed under the instruction of Miss Dorothy Brodie met last Thursday for the first time. Two papers were read, one by Betty Eager on "Food and Drink in Roman Times." The other was given by George Pittman on "Banks, Shops and Inns." The members of the club have chosen as a name, Athenienses, the Latin for Athenians. The group is practicing on several Latin songs. Personals The following students spent Satur day in Walla Walla: Doris Street, Thelma Schrimpf, Carolyn Kidder, Harold Kirk, Mary Tompkins, Walter Huffman and James Wilson. Ralph Moore spent Sunday after noon in Pendleton, Leland Jenkins was a Milton visit or Sunday. Elizabeth Walter was the guest of her sister in Walla Walla over the week-end. Roland Richards spent Saturday in Pendleton. Velma Ross spent Sunday at the Cannon home, where she was the din ner guest Of Frances Cannon. 5th and 6th Grades Melba Montague of the fifth grade was the only individual on the honor roll for this month. A display will be given by the fifth and sixth grades of thwr work, which they have been doing this year on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. The students will gladly welcome visit ors. Clara Belle McCullough of the fifth grade has moved to Montana where she will continue her school work. 7th and 8th Grade Ralph Bruce of Gibbon has entered the seventh grade. Inez McCullough of the eighth grade has moved to Montana. Classes The election of officers for the Latin club took place in meeting last Tuesday. Those elected were: A rloon Mvrick. ' t resident: Mariorie Douglas, vice-president; Betty Eager, treasurer-scribe. The club under the direction of Miss Dorothv Brodie. meets every two weeks on Tuesday night. The mem bers read papers upon Koman customs and literature. The rings for the senior class have mired, -- L ", ..z. Roosting High These Nigjhis ! f Photo of one family of turkeys in the largest flock in Vermont. For Thanksgiving, people in the East usually eat Vermont turkeys, but by Christmas the supply Is so depleted that most of the birds are brought from the West. Goodly Heritage That Is America's Thanksgiving day Is different from other holidays. It lin3 Its own mean ing. It meets a definite human need. That Js why it 1ms survived through the centuries since the Pilgrims land ed on the stern and rockbound coast of New England. It Is pre-eminently a day of home life, of family gatherings and re unions. Naturally it becomes a day when people look backward and for ward; when tliey tal;e stock of what has been accomplished and consider what the future holds out to them; when pareuts consider with thankful ness the happiness they have In their children and when they consider what their children have In store In oppor tunities In the years to come. t i A stimulating hook that, has a, bear ing on Thanksgiving day reflections has Jhe title "Whither Mankind ; a Panorama of Modern Civilization." The editor, Charles A. Beard, a spe cialist on American history, has ob tained the co operation of scholars who have contributed chapters on all the great fields of human activity, The opening chapter we would stress today. It Is by a Chinese, IIu Shih, who discusses the civilization of the East and West. Contrasting Civilizations. We Invite attention to the views of this cultivated oriental because he is In a position to take a detached and fairly Impartial view of western civil ization In contrasting It with the civ ilization of Asia. Often such a view helps us to a better understanding and appreciation of tilings whose out lines are blurred because we are so familiar with them, r Many good people are disturbed over the present outlook. They see about them a world full of selfishness ; o world In which smart unscrupnlous ncss too often Is rewarded with suc cess ; a world In which modern science and invention are at the service of devastating wars, or cater to triviality and crudeness. . . Of what use is it, they Inquire, to be able to talk ever the telephone to some one a thousand miles away, If we have nothing to say? Of what ad vantage Is the possibility of hurrying around in motor cars if we have nothing to do when we arrive? , Are not the luxuries we are produc ing wholesale simply demoralizing our young people? Has the present gen eration the moral fiber of the forefa thers? Have we not, as Disraeli snld, discovered comfort and thought It was civilization? A German savant remarked to Hu Shlh that western civilization had failed. In contrast the civilization pt the West was based on "spiritual principles." ' ' ".""' 1 : Is this gloomy view, evidently the product of the war and of post-war happenings, the view of things as they really are? Is our Thanksgiving Joy simply the superficial Joy of a com fortable holiday? Spirituality and Poverty. . To such gloomy forebodings the words of this Chinese writer are a re freshing antidote. He knows the civ ilization of the Orient and he knows from observation and experience the effect on spiritual values of the abject poverty that results from the failure to master the forces of nature. ' The civilization of a race, he says, Is simply the sum total of Its achleve- Vhal Are Vermin? Just what Is meant by the term "vernilr" is usually a mnt'er of con siderable doubt In most peoples' minds. According to Forest and Stream Maga zine the word applies to any wild ani mal that preys on other game. Ver min, It ays, may be undesirable In some parts of the country and bene ficial In of hers. Ia Connecticut, for Instance, the following animals and birds are vermin to the aull.jrlttcs: Cooper hawks, sharp-skinned l.nwks, goshawks, great horned owl. barred owls, starling, crows, red siulrn-ls, house cats, bobcats, lynx, weasels, foxes, mink, European hares, raccoon, and stunk. , ments in adjusting Itself to Its en vlronnient. Our ancestors of the Stone age who were constantly lighting their environment In order to hold soul and body together had no chance to make progress. It was onl after they had discovered how to deal with their surroundings that they began to forge ahead. Hu' Shlh-finds that the difference between the eastern and western civilization Is primarily a difference in the tools used. In the dawn of his tory Asia and Europe both had the same primitive tools and the same sort of civilization. In the last, few hundred years the West has been nble to devise new tools for the mastery of nature and so has buflt a new civilization, while the East, still us ing the ancient tools, has stood still. Held Back by Poverty. It Is only when men have reached a stage of material advancement that they can paint Sistine Madonnas or compose heroic symphonies. . Twenty-six centuries ago a Chinese statesman said: "When food and clothing are sufficiently provided for, honor and disgrace can be distin guished; and when granaries are full people will know' good mnnners." Benjamin Franklin had the same Idea when he remarked! "It Is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." Asia reached a certain stage In the Invention of tools to help master na ture, and then gave up baffled. The West fortunately learned from the Greeks the restless curiosity that con stantly pushes forward its inquiries. One rested satisfied with the wheel barrow, the other . went on to the steam engine, the motor car and the airplane. Where millions of people are only a short Jump abend of the wolf of starvation, where it Is Inevitable that other millions die every year from In sufficient food, there is no chnuce fpr an enlightened democratic government to develop. Ninety per cent of the Chinese are illiterate. Greek Goat In Sight. It requires an accumulation of prop erty that permits general education for a government to exist that makes human welfare its aim. Imagine a Chinese mandarin or an Indian prince talking to his people about governmental policies that will liberate the energies of men and re sult In happier homes as our states men talk to American nudienees! So what Is the conclusion of the whole matter at this time of thanks giving? Certainly not that we have reached our goal ; not that we have done away with the evils of our so cial order, and abolished the great terrors of unemployment and poverty ; not that we have attained the fullness of life that is open to us. But wemay reasonably feel that we are in sight of the abolition of acute misery and are on the threshold of a great advance. Kansas City Star. 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"Ah." said the officer, "but nik-h wheel?" - . LIkIu dawned on the profcesor. '' "Sly s'ars !" he gasped. "It was the spare wheel I" . Reduction In Electric Light Rates The following reduction in Electric light rates will be in effect on and after March 15, 1929: Residential Rates First 30 KWH hours used,' per month..:.10c per KWH Excess over 30 KWH used, per month....3c per KWH The above rates apply when bills are paid in full within 10 days from date of bill. Otherwise, the rate will be increased by 10 per cent on each item. , Commercial Rates First 100 KWH used per month............lOc per KWH Next 200 7c per KWH Next 300 .. :.........6c per KWH Next 400 5c per KWH Next 1000 4c per KWH Excess over 2000 .:...3c per KWH -The above rates apply when bills are paid In full within 10 days from date of bill. Otherwise, the rate will be increased by 10 per cent on each item. Preston-Shaffer Milling Company r