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THE PRESS, ATHENA", OREGON, JANUARY 24, 1930 IN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates. One copy, one year...'. ; .'. 12.00 One copy, six months ..f 1.00 One copy, three months .75 Athena, Oregon, January 24, 1930 Clark Wood Says ' "It ia much nicer to be sit- ' ting by the lire and thinking how much nicer it is to be sit- ting by the fire than to be J flying with the Arctic patrol; than to be flying with the Arctic t patrol and thinking how much J nicer it would be to be sitting by the fire." A WORD FROM ARKANSAS (Conway, Arkansas, News) It's a common practice, and an un fortunate one, too, that some news papers and seekers after political notoriety don't hesitate to unjustly criticise and abuse public utilities and ftjfer to them as a "power trust" Of course no such thing as a "power trust" exists, and unless com' plete State ownership of power pro duction and distribution is brought about none can exist. Another cry Is that the industry is always asking higher rates, when the fact is that every utility executive who is worth Jhis salt is bending every energy to ward lower rates, because lower rates mean greater consumption in their hope of progress. And whenever a newspaper dares to voice itself in defense of public util ities and asks the proper recognition of them under safe and sane regula tions, the same propagandists will howl about a "controlled press," whereas there is doubtless not a single newspaper in the United States controlled by any corporation or political machine. Were it other wise, these undesirable newspapers would seen be uncovered and put out of business through the publicity which every , fair-minded newspaper would give them. o THE GOVERNOR IS RIGHT (The Manufacturer) To deter people from committing crimes, certainty of suitable punish ment is more effective "than all the moral suasion and psychopathic treatment that penologists can pre scribe," is the belief of Governor Theodore Christian of Minnesota. If, by example, the so-called po tential criminal could be rid of the idea that escape from punishment was 90 per cent certain through par don, parole and legal red tape gener ally, it is safe to say that a 75 pe cent reduction in crime would be noticeable almost over night. As long as laws are not enforced and punishment is considered only as a hazy probability, crime will con tinue to flourish as one of tho biggest industries in the country today, tost ing legitimate business and law-ebid- ing individuals millions of dollar an nually, to say nothing of a countless number of human lives. And the best remedy that many law-makers can suggest is "more laws" for the criminals to "obey." What a joket They merely restrict law-abiding citizens. That the interior department is friendly disposed toward the Umatilla rapids project, as announced in recent dispatches, comes in a measure of good news to friends, of river trans' portation on the Columbia and the Snake. Especially should the Pendle ton East Oregonian feel pleased at the turn of sentiment prevailing at Washington, for to that newspaper credit is due for pioneering the pro posed Umatilla rapids improvement, and consistently supporting it until Portland and other river cities saw the light and fell in line. An investi gation of the Columbia and its tribu taries is now under way by engineers of the war department, which will cost in the neighborhood of 92,000,000 before it is concluded. A practical step In dealing with the common labor problem in this country is seen in the introduction of a resolution by Senator McNary, which authorizes the president to ap point a fact-finding committee to in vestigate the demand and supply of agricultural labor. The committee will find that in the Athena agricul tural district the credentials requir ed of a farm laborer nowadays is whether or not he fs proficient in driving a "cat." That automobiles withstand the shocks of traffic better than they formerly did is due to the all-steel body construction of present models. The best material available is used by manufacturers of motor cars in both high priced and lower classes of motor driven vehicles. Especially is this true of the American made car, and is the real reason for enormous foreign sales. o The airplane carrier Lexington, after performing thirty day service to ths city of Tartfm as m arttxttiaTy electric "juice" plant, pulled up her anchors and departed for the south this week, leaving the Sound city to "mix her own." The Lexington help ed Tacoma a lot. Besides lighting up the town, the gobs of the big craft had a pay day while there. E. E. Brodie of the Oregon City Enterprise, one of the finest fellows in the newspaper game, former American ambassador to Siam, has been given the ministerial post in Finland. The Clackamas knows Ed. to be an expert angler, but now he must lay down the fly rod and buckle on the skii. The sugar industry is left to stand alone as a result of demanding every thing in sight and then some, in tar iff revision. The brawl over rates finally ended by the senate voting to sustain the present tariff rate or. sugar, both Cuban and foreign pro duct. Also the proposal of a bounty was turned down, flat. SCHOOL TOPICS Governor Norblad has let it be known that he is going to be spar ing of paroles. What the annual cost of crime in Oregon amounts to, the governor is not prepared to esti mate. A commission in Cali fornia estimated the annual cost of crime in that state at $70,000,000." ; 1 o With the mercury registering around 25 below in Athena, the crux of winter weather was less of an ex perience than that of Meacham resi dents who kept their stoves hot to prevail against a temperature of 43 below. For the second time in forty-two years, the Willamette river froze over to permit man to cross on the ice in safety. It's a long time to wait between freezes but the incident is worthy of mention. o Shoshone county, Idaho, has a new sheriff, following the removal from office of Sheriff R. E. Weniger, fol lowing his conviction in the Mullan "whiskey rebellion" . conspiracy case in federal court. Pork barrel methods still persist in influencing national legislation to some extent, but the trimming that is coming to lobbyists will curtail this pernicious practice to a noticable degree. o Wonder if that court decree giving jurymen the right to drink the evidence in liquor cases, will make it any easier to empanel juries? THE pi fHCABlNETKI i- , 1 (.mail Wmtern N'WKpupsr Unlun True happiness Iqnves no reac tions. The mind Is at rest with Itself and the consciousness ia filled with the Joy of living. David Starr Jordan. SUGGESTED MENUS , Ilere are a few dishes which the poor people In the South live on. Try a few for a dn. nn save tiie sur plus to help them better conditions: Greens With Salt Pork. Turnip greens .re those most often used, but any greens mny be used. These n re cooked wKh a piece of suit pork In the pot and served together on a hot plntter with , Corn Bread. Take one cupful of sour milk, onehnlf tenspootiful of soda dissolved In one teaspoon ful of water, one egg yolk, one-half ten spoonful of salt, one and one-half cup fuls of corn meal, mix In the order given and fold In the stiffly bentcn white of egg nt the lust, nuke twenty minutes tn a shallow pan In a moder ate oven. Grits and Gravy. Grits Is known as hominy In many parls of the eountryj the smaller form of hominy Is usually monnt. Cook ns a cereal and serve with mont gravy. Soda Biscuits. Mix and sift two eupfuls of flour, one-lmlf tenspoonful of sodn, one tenspoonful of suit, and work In two tnWlesponnfuls of short ening; tuen add one cupful of sour id I Ik. This mixture Is stl(Ttr than link Ing powder biscuit. ttoll out nnd cut into small biscuit. Din edges Into melted fut and place close together In Hie pan when baking. ' Cottagu Cake. Sift one and one half eupfuls of flour with ihree tea spoonfuls of nuking powder. Add one- lmlf cupful of sustir to one-fourth cup ful of shortening nnd when well crowned add a beaten egg. Now add the flour with one-lmlf tenspoonful of snlt and one-lmlf cupful of milk, neat well, pour Into a well greased pan nnd bake forty-five minutes. Wild rubblt Is a good substitute for the favorite possum of the South. Cut up and brown In any good fiit, then place In the oven with a tablespoon ful of water, cover tightly and steam until tender, adding more moisture as needed. Senson the meat well before placing in the oven. Serve with gravy from the pan and bnked sweet pota toes. (By E. E". Coad, Supt 1, Public secondary education, the modern high school, is a new institu tion. It has taken the place of the old private schools and church schools that dotted the land in a former generation. Thirty years ago there were but two or three high schools in Oregon. Public education was not compul sory.. Many pupils then dropped out of school even early in the grades. There was more need for manual labor and less for a trained mind. Better living conditions, machinery to do much of the labor formerly done by cheap labor, a feeling on the part of many people that if their children can go through school they will able to make a living easier than they have been able to, compulsory edu cation laws, and many other factors, have caused a tremendous increase in the number seeking an education and in the period devoted to the process. This increase in numbers has not increased the general level of intel ligence of those seeking an education. Where pupils who were slow to com prehend formerly dropped out of school early in the grades, now they appear in numbers in the high school and in college. As a. result, standards of ' accomplishment in secondary schools and in all schools have drop ped. . ' In the larger cities the problem has been met by furnishing a variety of training suited to different types. The small school cannot do this to the same extent for the cost is pro hibitive. But in the larger schools it is possible, by suiting the courses offered to the needs of the pupils, to maintain much higher standards or work than is possible in the smaller schools. The problem in the smaller school is to direct the energy of the pupils to lines that will best prepare them for the work they are interested in and best fitted by nature to dc. If the individual pupil can be led to establish for himself the bent pos. sible standard of work he is capable of, one could ask no more. This, however, is seldom a fact. There are more people interested in getting out of work than in doing the job the very best they can do it. Youth merely imitates numerous adult ex amples. But it is a mistake to force all pupils in a high school to take a col lege preparatory course when some are not fitted for college training by nature. Many boys have manual dexterity combined with mechanical ingenuity. The world of books and abstract ideas is a closed world to them. No wonder they chafe afcthe restraints placed upon them in a purely academic atmosphere. Pupils connot be fitted to the schools. 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Thereupon they made their vows and struck up the paean, pre pared id face the perils of the cele brated retreat This seems strange to us who have lived to see the sneeze of epidemics destroy more .'men Hum were killed in nit the wun of Oreece. So we feai tlie drafts of alternating wurin and colfl ilsivs Vtuv York Times. Bladder Irregular If functional Bladder Irritation disturbs your sleep, or causes Burn ing or Itching , Sensation, Back ache. Lee Pains, or muscular aches. making you feel tired, depressed, and discouraged, whv not try the Cystex 43 Hour Test? Don't give up. Get Cystex today Put it to the test. See for yourself how quick ly it works and what it does. Money back if it doesn't bring quick im provement, and satisfy you complete ly. Try Cystex today. Only 60c Mc- r addens Pharmacy. - IS. Real Estate Wheat Alfalfa and Stock Land SHEEP FOR SALE L. L. Montague. Arlington Friday, January 25, 1907 Fire started in the jail at the agency on the Umatilla reservation early Sunday morning but was not discovered until the building was" a mass of flames and before assistance could be given five Indians were burned to death. Virgil Zerba, who is attending school at Pullman, Wash, is a new Press subscriber. M. A. Ferguson, editor of the He lix Herald, is holding down a clerk ship in the Oregon legislature. B. B. Richards, the wheat buyer, came up from Pendleton Sunday and spent the day with Athena friends. Misses Myrtle and Grace Hawks, of Pendleton, spent Sunday in this city with their brother, Byron Hawks, proprietor of the Pioneer drugstore. The carload of coal confiscated by the Adams people last week was con signed to Eugene Tausic, the Walla Walla laundryman. He presented his bill and the amount was paid at once. ' , Mrs.; Ora Messner, who has been spending the winter with her sister, Mrs. Ida Gillis, left last evening for Seattle. After remaining in Seattle for a time, she may decide to return to San Francisco, her former home. The dance at the opera house Fri day night was well attended. Sleigh ing was good and many young people from the country and adjacent towns took advantage of the opportunity and came to the ball. The usual good music was furnished by Ker shaw's orchestra. N. H. Pinkerton, who has been in town for several days, returns this evening to his Crook county home. Mr. Pinkerton reports short crops in his section of the state last harvest, and for the next year the crop pros pects, so far, are not very bright. Precipitation, when Mr. Pinkerton left Crook county, had not exceeded four inches during the fall and win ter months. William Mosley, formerly a resi dent of Athena, a prominent member of the local K. of P. lodge and a bro ther of Mrs. P. E. Colbern, was lately married at Eldon, Mo., to a Mrs. Douglas. This news will be received with much interest by William's At hena friends and particularly by seve ral old "baches," who, confirmed and "sot in their ways," always thought they had as good a chance as Bill. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McEwen ar rived home Saturday from California, where they have spent most of the winter. The mixed train from Walla Walla Wednesday was several hours late. The delay was caused by the for ward trucks of a refrigerator car breaking, when a short distance out of Walla Walla. Jerry Stone and Wifl M. Peterson left on the noon train today for Wal la Walla where they will attend the open river convention and will be guests at the banquet tonight. Mr. Peterson, in behalf of the Athena Commercial Association will present resolutions- compiled by Mr. Stone, memorializing the legislatures of the states of Oregon, : Washington, Cali fornia and Idaho in the matter of. re moving the tariff on jute and (rrain sacks. ,-. Clifford Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker; who reside north west of Athena, is reported ill with pneumonia."- ,. Wheat at the different stations on the O. R. & N. has been pretty well shipped out Not much will be held over, except for seed. . The city council of Adams has raised the liquor license ta $300 per year instead of $400 per year as at present. The salary of the marshal, J. O. Garrett, has been increased $10 per month. Friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. John Duffy, who reside south of town, gave them a surprise Tuesday evening by dropping in unannounced. The evening was spent pleasantly and refreshments were served. If you don't think Marville Watts !made some easy money yesterday, ask Claude Estes. Marville was pass ing McBnde s livery stable yesterday when Estes bantered him to ride a certain horse bareback, up to the bank and back, saying there was $5 in it.'-The money was 1 put utf and after a little coaxing the horse made the trip as docile as could be. SUMMONS (Equity No. 4807) In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. Frank L. Silvers, Plaintiff, vs. Edith T. biivers, Defendent. To Edith T. Silvers, the above named defendant: In the name of the State of Oregon: You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed against you in the above entitled court and cause within four week. from the date of the first publication of this summons, which date is set forth below, and if you fail to so ap pear and answer, for want thereof, plaintiff will apply to said court for the relief prayed for in said comprint, to-wit: For a dissolution of the mar riage' contract now existing between plaintiff and defendant. This summons is served upon you by publication thereof for four consecu tive weeks -in-the Athena Press by order of Honorable James Alger Fee, Judge of the above named court and which said order was made and dated the 23rd day of December, 1929, and the date of the first publication of this summons is the 27th day of Decem ber, 1929. . I. M. Schannep, Attorney fdr plain tiff, Postoff ice address: Pendleton Oregon. . D27J24 ' INSURANCE PLUS Every motor vehicle should be pro tected by Public ; Liability and Pro perty Damage insurance.. Cost very little and is worth many times the cost. Every owner , should carry Landlords, .Owners and Tenants Lia bility insurance, only $7.50 and may save your home. This is an age of ambulance chasers and damage suits You owe it to yourself and to society, Neglect may wreck your fortune; it is wasting at the bung hole and sav ing. at the spigot. Liability protects you, life insurance protects your fam ily. We write it and service our policies throughout the policy year, Insurance plus service. B. B. RICHARDS. Tum-A-Lum Tickler Published in the intesests of the people of Athena and vicinity by THE TUM-A-LU M LUMBER CO. Phone 91 Vol. 30 Athena, Oregon, January 24, 1930 No. 4 Editorial We see by the papers that Will Rogers and Joe Robinson are over there trying to fix up the world. It will prob ably mean that Europe will take up the gum chewing habit and carry lariats. A. M. Johnson, Editor ' The burning Question of the hour. Do you know the answer to it? Tum-A-Lump coal. The hottest mined and Oh Boy, so easy to start on a cold morning. Do you want that load sent up today? Phone 91 for quick service. We have everything to build anything. The kitchen in some houses is so small they have to use condensed milk. Our plans always give plenty of room for every room. ! Both in new and remodeling work our architects are the best. And, then you know it is hard for the cows to sit on those lit tle cans. Pome Cowboys roll their cig arettes, The flapper rolls her hose, , -. . The baker first rolls up his sleeve, And then he rolls in dough. Sailors always roll their walk, Scotchman roll their "R- r-r's," , When a crap shooter rolls a natural, He Rolls in a Rolls Royce car. Our service is fast, you get things you want the same day you want them. ' Sign in church bulletin The ladies of the church have cast-off clothing of all kinds. They may be seen in the basement of the church any afternoon this week. Girl: "Have you any green lipstick?" Druggist: . "What do you want with green lip stick?" . Girl: "Well, you see a railroad man is calling on me to-nite." ,'. As the Zeppelin moved over the elephant herd the oldest member said, "There is that new trunk cover I ordered two years ago." THE ICILGORE CAFE Special Prices on Special Lunches for School Children Gerald Kilgore, Proprietor - - Athena, Oregon Bring in Your Bent and Sprung Axles THIS SHOP IS EQUIPPED WITH AN AXLE GAGUE TO STRAIGHTEN AXLES Acetylene Welding and Black smithing C. M. Jones Blacksmith Shop ' RELIABLE WATCH REPAIRING Main St. H. H. HILL Athena The Athena Hotel MRS. LAURA FROOME. Prop. Courteous Treatment, Clean Beds Good Meals Tourists Made Welcome Special Attention Given to Home Patrona Corner. Main and Third Athena, Oregon c I Bejr&Gray ! " Phone 593 Two Auto Truck Drays Always At Your Service City and Country ing Maul , Twin City Cleaners The firm that does your work as you want it done, at the Lowest Prices Consistent with expert workmanship. I We call for and deliver on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. ' We are represented in Athena by Penn Harris Phone 583 f . T. E. Smith, Prop. Freewater, Oregon J Farmers Grain Elevator Company Grian and Feed SPECIAL A Full Line of Sperry's Chick Feed Phone 3S2 LEE WILSON, M'gr. It Pays to Look Well! To look well you should keep your hair properly cut your face shaved and massaged In fact everything in the Barber line. Come in and see Herb Parker and me. Penn Harris Barber Shop ; Agency for Troy Laundry and Twin City Sanitary Cleaners. Phone 683. :, 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....lOc 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 .....10c 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. i v- . ... Preston-Shaffer Milling Company - - , i-c k ii a a h y- rl r I ft , 3 I ) tl l 1 i Hi t ' V i-u , . i -j r t Walla Walla General Hospital A modern non sectarian fifty bed hospital, with all up to date modern hospital facilities for the care of patients. : r X-Kav and bacteriological labortories, washed air ventilation. Only graduate nurses are employed and their ser vices are included at the regular rates which are $3.50 to $6.00 Special nurses extra. Your interest and patronage is solicited. Phone 480.