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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, FEBRUARY 21, 1930 ' AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher . Subscription Rates. One copy, one year . .'. , 12.00 One copy, six months $1.00 One copy, three months ; 7J Athena, Oregon, "February 21.....1930 Clark Wood Says t . "Fluid from a blister is said to t cure the drug habit. Congress ' should be able to raise enough t J blisters in the course of its torrid debates to counteract its 0 pipe dreams." . OPTIMISTIC MR. GRAY In commenting on current condi tions, Carl R. Gray, President of the Union Pacific System, in a recent in terview in Los Angeles, said that un ' employment is on the decrease, that much road building and considerable real estate building are in progress and that the farmer is much better off than a few years ago. Bankers in the Middle West told him that savings accounts, instead of being lower in January as is usually the case, showed an increase. His com pany is going to make details catch up with some of its major develop ments and continue with the general betterment program all along its route during 1930. Rail passenger service, he said, is "dolling itself up a little" in colors, car appointments and service to meet new public de- mands. He does not see in airplane travel much competition to regular rail travel at this time, but admitted that he might be old-fashioned in this respect, adding, "A few years ago I was not much impressed by possible bus competition but now I am in the business myself from Chicago to the Pacific Coast." France met with four other naval powers in conference to consider re duction of armament, and the world has been led to believe that the con ference was being held to reduce armament consistent with reasonable safety to national defense. But evi dently the world, seeking relief from the oDDresive burden of useless and unnecessary naval construction, in its universal desire for peace, has been led astray in its assumption that the conierence wouia give it mat re lief. France, who through Briand, fathered the famous Kellogg pact, recognized by all nations as the .greatest of all actual steps toward prevention of war shows that her espousal of that pact was a subtle farce, now that she demands in the conference gigantic naval increase, totalintr 724.497 tons by 1936. This, from the country that other nations rallied to save in the World War, and which to great extent have assisted in, her rehabilitation since the war, smacks of ingratitude, if not ulter ior motive. It beeins to look like there may bo a wee bit of the Chicago method of conducting municipal affairs down in Portland. The Rose City's chief of police has been stretched out on the carpet for allowing one Mike Reuch to walk out of jail after he had been convicted on a liquor charge and sentenced to serve six months and nav a fine of $500. Relich served three days of his time, walked out, never came back, nor had he paid a dollar of his fine at the time the un usual procedure (for Portland, but common in Chicago) was unearthed. Charles Evans Hughes is back be- 111,1 tVta tminfai In ha nlil nh AS llllllt UIV ' " " " t chief justice of the United States. His appointment to his second tenure on the bench of the highest court in the land brought forth organized pro test in the Senate from members of his own party, led by Senators Borah and Norris. In the final action of confirming Hughes' appointment, eighteen Democrats voted with Re publicans to seat the jurist. Tarty lines were smashed in the scrap, the vote resulting 52 to confirm, to 26 against. ' o Oregon potatoes in storage for sale on January 1 were estimated at 1,558,000 bushels, according to the U. S. division of crop and livestock esti mates. On January 1 a year ago potato stocks in Oregon were almost twice as large, being 2,974,000 bush els. Oregon potato acreage in 1930 will be 43,000 acres if the expressed intention of Oregon growers is fully carried out. This is an Increase of 1,000 acres over the acreage dug in 1929. In an attempt to outstrip death, a Anill.aN.AI1B 1 1 ,A t .ItV ! til- l V I O 111 11 lltl from Wcnatchee, Washington, to San Franscisco. He had for passengers a woman afflicted with cancer and her husband. As a last resort to save her life, which was fast ebbing, the air trip was made to get the patient to California in time to receive treat ment of a new serum recently found by doctors in the California city, and the plane did Us part. Henry Ford has decided to devote the remainder of his life to education. He will use $100,000,000 of the Ford fortune in establishing schools in dif ferent parts of the country, and with characteristic Ford directness iets it be known that he does not wish to be "bothered by suggestions from persons who never made or saved a dollar." He is going to run his schools in the Ford way, and that's all there Is to it. 0' v Mrs. Mary Norton, Democratic congresswoman, from New Jersey, doesn't like prohibition and is tak ing the lead in urging a national vote on the dry law. Her challenge to the drys to allow a national ref erendum on the present prohibition measure is backed by her resolution before the House judiciary commit tee which provides for a plebiscite on the proposition of repealing the 18th amendment. o ' A California jury has awarded $17, 000 heart balm to Delores Salazar, Spanish dancer, - from Ferdinand Pinney Earl, noted artist, notwith standing his answering Delores' com plaint with the statement that she was the aggressor in the affair, "dropping herself into his lap like a ripe peach." ; o The firt woman ever condemned to die on the scaffold in the state of Arizona, Eva Dugan, is passing her remaining days on earth with needle and thread, making her Bhroud Not a bad sort, Mrs. Dugan has many friends in her state who condole her action in slaying a common-law hus band. SCHOOL TOPICS Spring gave way to winter last week, when 13 inches of new snow fell at Wenatchee. Somebody said the weather man wasn't at home. ' o Noah Beery, motion picture screen villian, has been having a real battle down in Hollywood. No pantomime about it. Appendicitis this time. The subordinate Granges of Ore gon have increased to the number 270 and now include every county in the state. . o Fortune or, no fortune, "Death Val ley Scotty" still remains "Death Valley Scotty." in 0 " "Believe It Or Not" by Ripley is sending the crossword puzzle to the showers. yf3 the KITCHEN CABINET iti ((c), 1029, Weftorn Newspaper Union ) "Th htnvler the cross the heartier the prayer: . The Itrulsed herbs most fragrant are: If wind and sky were always fair, The sailor would not watch the star: And David's songs had ne'er been sung If griefs his heart had never wrung." THINGS WORTH "CONSIDERATION A writer In the journal of Home Economics points out the responsibil ity and the example of til llil llll the Amerlcun housewife "" lfllf relation to her foreign !f f I M ne,G,,,,or which perhnps !7vSliyf I lma ncver occur,';d 1 ner. "The slinplo house fur nlsliings, the spotless window curtains nnd the well luunderod cloth Ins, the careful ventilation mid the well ordered household activities of the Amerlcun housewife serve ns o guide In helping tha foreign house wife to adapt her methods of living to those of her foster homeland." The foreign housewife, though un able to understand our language, Is very clever at picking up ideas; The Influence of a good housekeeper ex tends beyond the Intlinnte circle of her family, friends and neighbors and hop servants. It has been potent In the Americanization of Immigrant coining from lands where cleanliness as well as other Important standards are not ns high as our own. , This Influence makes itself felt In a less direct, but none the less real, waj on the commodities Mint all women purchase. "Women as consumers purchase health or luck of It for the member of their Immediate households, hull reedy through their demand for clean. wholesome food and clothing prod uet. they create a supply of com modifies which are available for the les Intelligent homemukcr, who, he ennso of lack of knowledge, Is Indlf ferent to the seopo of-variation Id purcliaseahle products." In keeping her own household healthy and happy, the good house keeper sets standards for others win have not yet learned to manage thch households so elllvleiitly, When sin- buys such tools ns brushes, soaps nm? cleaners for the niceties of good house keeping and when she Insist npi wholesome food, nnd clothing mailt of giwrsnteed material, she Is help lug to keep those standards high. (By E. E. Coad, Supt) The modern school requires a cer tain amount of equipment. . Many 6f the items of equipment soon become obsolete. Maps of Europe, Asia and Africa that were printed before the World War are on a par with the en cyclopedia that states the chief in dustry of Oregon is oyster fishiag. There is a demand for courses in science in the modern high school. But such courses require apparatus in considerable amounts. The science department of the metropolitan high school, ' or the efficient secondary school of private rank, has an invest ment in scientific apparatus that costs many hundreds of dollars. But we are living in the beginning of a scientific age. We need a certain amount of scientific knowledge. Scientific principles must be demon strated to be understood. In the secondary school particular ly, and in the elementary school above the primary grades, the text books are mere guides to learning. Unless these books are supplemented by a usable library of reference books for the pupils to use there is little chance of developing personal habits of studiousness. A bright pupil can take many of the texts and master the complete contents in a couple of evenings reading and study. The school that lacks material and the facilities for real study is doing its best to make drones of its real stu dents. The Athena schools need modern maps- for both the grades and the high school. They need usable ref erence books in many subjects. All science work is handicapped by obso lete apparatus or the complete lack of it. The time is coming when visual methods of teaching will be used in many subjects. It is natural that we learn more readily from what we see and hear. Human beings in the mass have not been habituated to getting information by reading. The time will soon be here when the science laboratory will consist of a library of motion picture films illustrating the experiments by showing a highly trained experimenter demonstrating the problems with the best apparatus available. Such a film will not cost to 'exceed a dollar or two, whereas the apparatus used in the original ex periment may have cost thousands of dollars. Phonograph records will tell the experimenter's story while the film is being shown. Already medical clinics are using this method for the explanation and illustration of difficult surgical operations. When television by radio becomes a usable fact and it will soon much of the work now being done by amateur teachers will be broadcast by experts. Already one state mikes radio reception apparatus required equipment for every school in that state. ' Improving the Foresight Men talk a good deal of the superi ority of hindsight as compared wltli foresight. ... There is plenty of hindsight to govern every human ac tion. What Is experience but hlsd sight? And men have bad every pos sible experience, and told about it Women do not mercilessly review their past, but men do; I never was la a group of men that they did not condemn their mistakes, and warn others against them. All learning Is hindsight; a review of events after they, have happened. And what has happened is the future. E. W. Howe's Monthly. Skulls Ssrve m Purpose Tambourines, bowls and other use ful and ornamental objects made from human skulls and bones- were brought to Chicago recently from Tibet by Dr. Bert hold Laufer, curator of anthropology at the Field museum. 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 $7.60 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. Real Estate Wheat Alfalfa and Stock Land SHEEP FOR SALE L. L Montague, Arlington SIGNIFICANCE OF OLD TRAIL '. (Bend Bulletin) ' ' In the foothills of the Paulina mountains not many miles south of Bend there are deeply worn Indian trails, near which, so forest service men hope, there will in time be found lost springs or underground streams. Presence of an ancient camp site, still marked by tepees, near this trail has led range examiners to believe that there must be water, not yet discovered by the white man, not far distant Interesting as is the theory that undiscovered water exists in the dry Paulina foothills, the trails from the lowland up the side of the mountain, once a mighty volcano, are of pri mary significance in proving that the Paulina caldera, referred to as the site of Oregon's first munition plant, for long ages attracted Indian war riors and hunters, in search of the greatly prized obsidian and game. The trails indicate that the Indians traveled long distances from the basalt-walled Columbia on the north and from Klamath marshes on the south. Obsidian was found in great abundance in the Paulina crater, not as scattered bits of transparent rock, but as a great flow of lava. Deer and other game congregated there from a vast area from the dry midstate plateau on the north and the Fort Rock timber on the east Parties of warriors who met in the crater by chance were, without doubt not always friendly tribes. Where the trails converged, conflicts took place. The discovery 15 years , ago of a mass of skeletons in the crater lava beds appears to be proof of this. Presence on the slopes of the Pau lina mountain,' in the dry area just below the crater rim and Paulina and East lakes, of old Indian camps en hances the opinion that defeated parties retreated down the mountain and maintained a respectful distance while the victors gathered obsidian and killed game in the occupied ter ritory. And at times the camps out side the crater might have been used by the peaceful Warmsprings tribes men, whose advance scouts reported the presence in the caldera of the hostile Klamaths. But regardless of the historical sig nificance of the Paulina trails, it is apparent they were used over a vast period of time, probably even before Columbus sailed westward over the Atlantic. Immediate Effect They tell a story about a tiny ant who gazed longingly but helplessly at the body of a dead horse. Just then a bootlegger's truck rattled by and a case of stuff fell over the end gate and crashes to the ground. A puddle formed and the ant took one sip. Then he siezed the dead horse by the tail and shouted: "Come on, big boy, we're going home." Ranger. Not Spring just yet There are no robins here. 23 Years Ago ; Friday, February 22, 1907 Through courtesy of Senator Ful ton, the Press has received a small consignment of garden seeds for dis tribution among its jreaders. Call early and avoid the rush. ; , Posters are out announcing a mas querade ball to take place at the Athena opera house Friday evening Kershaw's orchestra will furnish mu sic for the occasion. Attorney Peterson has just added to his law library the complete works of "Elliot on Evidence," in four vol umes. The books are full leather bound, and cost $24. Thirty-two sacks of delayed mail came in yesterday. The big sacks for the most part contained news papers and other second class matter. The local office was quite busy for about four hours, George Gross and Cleve Myers assisting Postma3ter Githens. . ' Dan Mclntyre the real estate agent, is down from Nanton, Alberta,, having arrived in town Saturday. .Dan re ports the northern country to be in a flourishing condition. Up there the mercury lies flat in the bottom some times, but without blinking his eyc3, Mclntyre will tell you that the cold is not so severe as it is here, F. S. LeGrow of this city and Oscar and George Drumheller of Walla Walla, who own a large cattle ranch in the Crab Creek country, Washing ton, have purchased an interest in the Walla Walla, Meat Company, one of the largest concerns in the Inland Empire.. The company, is capitalized at $40,000 and is at present fattening 1000 head of cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bostwick have moved into the Hiteman cottage on High street. " :'....- Mr. and Mrs, Jasper Harden are in town from their home near Helix, visiting relatives. Merl Robie, the popular salesman of the Mosgrove Mercantile store, is spending a few days in Tacoma. Louie Keen drove his mother and sister to Walla Walla the first of the week, where the latter is attending school. James Banks, the brother of Mrs. Dickenson, who has been ill at her home during the winter, is reported in a serious condition. ' Lou Hodgens has rented the farm of Jerry Stone west of town and with his family will soon move to the place where they will make their home. : Three children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Johnson, who live north of town, have been afflicted with scarlet fever in a mild form the past week. v ;, , Cards are out announcing the wed ding of Mr. Dean Gerking and Miss Fannie Tharp, to occur in the Chris tian church, on March 6. The couple will receive the congratulations of a large circle of friends. Ed Barrett, the popular contractor and builder, was taken suddenly ill Wednesday while in the barber's chair, with an attack of heart disease. However, he was out in town yester day, although looking rather pale from the experience. 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, February 21 No. 8 The world could not do without men. With only women here, the destinies of the world might be altered by the appearance of a mouse, A. M. Johnson, Editor. Lum Ber, the philospher says that kids can raise themselves but you got to stay home with a cow or she ain't con tented. In the good old days when a neighbor woman told you how many quarts and pints she had put up you knew she meant fruit. ' Lime for whitewash ing the outbuildings. "With all due defer ence, my boy, I really think our English cus tom at the telephone is better than - Baying 'Hello,' as you do." "What do you say in England?" "We say, 'Are you there!' Then, of course, if you are not there, it is useless to go on with the bally conversation." More sunshine in the homes. Build a sun porch and it will be used ebo days a year With screens in summer it gives a cool place, free from flies and in sects. The . little snow we bad can't make a win- iter 'cause one swallow don't make a summer. Some folks after three swallows can't tell a thing about the weather Repair the Fence. Keep the home fires burning. Irate Father: "What 'ts that stuff on my new kiarl wnere nave you been?" Calm Son: "That's only traffic jam." ; Judge (to officer, who had arrested a. man fir hot , wearing any clothes): "What is "this man charged with?" Officer: "Impersonat- M ling a woman. - Sir," said a little blustering man to a re- igious opponent, "I say, sir, do you know to what sect I belong?" Well, I don't exactly know," was the answer, 'but to judge from your snake, shape and size, I should say you belong to a class called the in sect." . ' ' Spring time is clean up time. Repair and re paint those odds and fcnds around the place. LFix the place up' and give it a fresh start for the year. Our supplies do the work. Father: "What did you and Joe talk about ast night?" Daughter: "Oh, we talked about our kith and kin. Small Brother: Teth, mop. J heard them. lie fcaid 'Kin I have a kith' land she said, 'Yeth you kin.'" Exclusively Sold Here Milton Bread . and '-, Pasteries KILGORE'S CAFE Bring in Your Bent and Sprung Axles ; THIS SHOP IS EQUIPPED WITH AN AXLE GAGUE TO STRAIGHTEN AXLES Acetylene Welding and Black " . smithing - -- T- CM. Jones Blacksmith Shop The Athena Hotel MRS. LAURA FROOME, Prop. Courteous Treatment, Clean Beds Good Meals v ' Tourists Made Welcome Special Attention Given : to Home Patrons f U Corner Main and Third ; Athena, Oregon , RELIABLE WATCH REPAIRING Main St H. H. HILL Athena Bell & Gray , Phone 593 Two Auto Truck Drays Always At Your Service City and Country Hauling Twin City Cleaners The firm that does your work as yon want it done, at the Lowest Prices Consistent with expert workmanship. We call for and deliver on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. : We are represented in Athena by Penn Harris : Phone 583 . ,.. , -: ;- T. E. Smith, Prop. Freewater, Oregon , Farmers Grain Elevator Company Grian and Feed SPECIAL A Full Line of Sperry's Chick Feed Phone 382 LEE WILSON, M'gr. It Payso Loot 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..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.......;....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. Preston-Shaffer Milling Company j -... , , mt vn j - : ; .1 Walla Walla General Hospital A modern non sectarian fifty bed hospital, with all up to date modern hospital facilities for the care of patients. - . . X-Ray 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. ; .