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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, FEBRUARY 28, 1930 VI' i ! N INDEPENDENT NEW8PAPER j F. B. BOYD. Owner and publisher , Subscription Ratee.. One copy, one year . . . . $2.00 One copy, six months 1.00 One copy, three months ............ .75 Athena, Oregon, February '28, 1930 Clark Wood Says "The coalition senators do not J need to be advised, perhaps, as to Hughes Who in the su- t t preme court. ' ' t LOSES BET AND HIS CAE A certain gentleman bet his friends he could drop a lighted cigarette in to the gasoline tank of his car and that the cigarette would simply be put out His friends took him up and the teat was made. ; When he dropped the.f cigarette there was no hesitation or delay he lost his bet and his car, too. AH he gained were some painful burns, a lot of excitement and an entirely , new knowledge of the properties of . gasoline! , , Perhaps the gentleman had read somewhere that liquid gasoline will not ignite an exceedingly dangerous half-truth. You can't have gasoline in an open vessel without also hav ing the deadly dangerous gasoline vapor. And the glowing butt must first pass through the vapor, which is ignited by the smallest of sparks! This incident should be a warning to all that gasoline Ignites easily Great property damage results every year from accidents with petroleum and its products and from their m:s use. Reports to The National Board " of Fire Underwriters for the year 1928 indicated a total fire loss from this cause of over $15,250,000. ."' . You wouldn't play with dynamite. Give gasoline the same degree of re spect! Manufacturer and Industrial Review. LOG-ROLLING PRACTICE In an article in the American Mer cury on "The Twilight of Legisla. tures," Huffman Nickerson illustrates how politicians go about their busi ness. "One of the worst legislative vices has always been that known as log-rolling," says Mr. Nickerson. "In simple times an individual building a house had said to another, 'If you will help me roll my logs, I will help you roll yours." In legislative practice this meant that Legislator A would agree to vote for an appropriation to benefit the constituency of Legislator B if in return B would vote for money to spend in the district 'represented' by A, and so on down the line." Mr. Nickerson was once a member of the Assembly of New York State, And so knows what he is talking about, Modern legislation, to a great extent is merely a matter of trades, As a result, the nation as a whole suffers from a vast amount of unnecessary conflicting, unenforceable or other wise inadvisable legislation. The public must pay the bill in taxes for log-rolling politics, and it . comes high. o In the "selection of North and South America's sweethearts," Mia mi, Florida, has extended an invita tion to Athena to furnish a contest ant in the first annual Miami nation al beauty pageant of bathing girls, to be held March 7 to 11 inclusive. We are a long ways from Miami, but we'll venture the guess right here that there is pulchritude in Athena that wouldn't look out of place in anybody's pageant. o "... The zero hour for mergers seems to have arrived. The Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways have amalgamated under the name, Great Northern Pacific Railway. On top of this comes the announcement of the merger of Standard and Vacuum Oil companies, with ramification all over the world and handling almost a tenth of petroleum products, with combined assets of nearly a billion dollars. In the opinion of the state tax com mission, intangible taxpayers, in order to protect themselves against heavy penalties and interest in case the law is sustained, Bhould file their returns and pay their tax within the time required by law. This announce ment was made by the commission following the filing of a suit which attacks the constitutionality of the intangible tax act o Reading between the lines, France is wearing a mask when she asks for a huge navy at a conference called for the purpose of finding a way to disarm the navies of the world. Be hind the mask is the demand that France be guaranteed protection against attack from without and perhaps generous financial assistance for within. More .and more is the nation begin ning to realize Chicago business men are in earnest in Waging their anti- crime war. Probably they have come to realize that with the elimination of the racketeer business will be on a business basis. , No less a personage than Mabel Walker Willebrandt proved herself human when she paid a fine for speeding, faded from -a courtroom side door and left a battery of cameramen out front, "singing in the rain!" " . A Portland lass became tired of the beatings given her by an older brother, had him arrested and while he languished in "jail, married the sweetheart he objected to taking the matter into her own hands, as it were. ' Now Rumania fears Russia, and despite reassurances is apprehensive that a conflict is imminent. We thought the Balkan war cloud was punctured when the Turk began the process of civilizing himself. The French have again called on Briand; this time to help out with a reconstructed delegation to the naval disarmament conference in London, indicating again that what Briand puts his brand on, goes. Lindy has been having a lot tit fun with gliders lately, and Mrs. Lindy has joined in the sport with her husband, which gives concrete evidence that the Lindberghs are Will' Rogers says that us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does. " ' ' ; SCHOOL TOPICS The Lane county jail at Eugene is full and running over three prison ers with no where else to go, were transferred to the Multnomah county jail for Eafe keeping. . . o The latest racket from Chicago is that a man and a girl, bandits, held up taxi drivers and forced them to re move their pants to prevent pur suit. ' ' ; Among the things the king of Spain does not want to do on his ex pected visit to London is dancing. Let the old top go to a movie instead. Dr. Clarence Spears, the new Uni versity of Oregon football coach, has arrived from Minnesota. . He already owns Portland and Eugene, the KTICHEfl CABINET , l3, Wostsrn Ntwapaper Union.) ' The happiness of any hop can ba murdered by any two people in It, each determined to have his or her own way. Riches or poverty, position or obscurity have nothing to do with It. Home happiness Is built on unselfishness and sym pathy and forbearance or else not built at all, but scattered Into ruin." RUSSIAN AND CHINESE DISHES From Russia we have the following soup and kasha with Russian tea: Borsteh Soup. Take a two-pound soup bone, cover with two quarts of cold water and bring slowly to the simmering point ; cook until the nieut Is nearly ten d e r. Meanwhile chop foui to six beets, peel and cut up three pofutoes, fry two sliced onions, one small cubbage bead, one leek In four tnblespoonfuls of tweet fat Combine the vegetables, cover with the strained meat stock and cook until quite ten der, adding the meat cut from the bone, salt and pepper and two table- spoonfuls of vinegar or one sliced lemon. Thicken with flour for the gravy and serve each portion with a tnblespoonful of sour cream. A hara bone may be used and a hnlf pound of sausages cooked five minutes In stilt water, then sliced In thick slices, add to the soup. .Russian Tea. Make tea as usual and servo In , glasses with quarter slices of lemon and orange. From Chinese we adapt the follow ing to suit our tastes : Chop Suey. Slice three-fourths of a pound of lean pork one-eighth Inch thick, cut Into Inch squares. Take one cupful of sliced onion, three cup- fuis of sliced cabbage. Fry pork un til brown, add onions and cabbage, a tenspoonfut of salt and two cupfuls of water or nieut stock; cook fifteen minutes. Thicken with two teaspoon fuis of cornstarch mixed with one- fourth cupful of water, add two table spoonfuls each of dark molasses and vinegar, one and one-linlf teaspoon fuls of sufur. Simmer five minutes or until smooth and well thickened. Chinese Rice. Wnsh three cupful of rice and cook In a deep pan with live cupfuls of boiling water. Slmmei over a slow lire until nil the water Is absorbed. Do not stir or add water. This ma; be kept hot for several hours. . f i (By E. E. Coad, Supt.) ; The attitude of the pupil toward the school and the work of the school is a clear indication of the efficiency of the pupil. ., Many pupils come to school the first day full of enthusiasm and eager for the experiences to fol low. Others have to be brought, on that first morning, in rebellious mood. Then their antipathy must be overcome sometimes a difficult task. We are creatures of habit. And be fore a habit can be formed there must be the right attitude inculcated toward the prospective habit. There are a great many personal ; habits which lend themselves to studious work. Just what these habits and at titudes are and how best to form them should be given greater con sideration than is being done by the training school for teachers. Such institutions seems to think their chief function is methodology. But, in absence of right attitudes and habits, methods can be of slight service. If the right habits are essential to ef ficient results in school and few people would deny the fact and right habits must be preceded by right attitudes to be made effective and operative, then it is reasonable to assume that right attitudes and right habits should have a more definite place in the training of the teacher than they are given at the present time. The fact that teachers do not understand or recognize these at titudes, much less know how to bring them into being, the fact that they do not agree upon the right personal habits which should be developed in order to facilitate the work of the school, or what their duty is toward their inculcation, would indicate that there is a rich field here for exploita tion by the powers that be in the training institutions. Since habits grow out of attitudes it is important that the proper attitude be encour aged. Among them may be: inter est in School achievement, willing ness to work, admiration for those who do good work, pride in achieve ment, willingness to accept responsi bility, perseverence, shame for any thing less than one's best efforts, Among the personal habits which the good student must possess may be mentioned: liking to study, visualiz ing, recording ideas, evaluating, fol lowing directions, independence, re viewing, studying for a specific pur pose, selection, classification, organ ization, orderliness, etc. This does not begin to exhaust the list by any means. This study of the character istics of the successful student should prove highly beneficial. Why it has never been undertaken in a serious way with the motive of emphasizing the vital importance of right atti tudes and habits to the embryo teacher is difficult to comprehend That it has never been done is more or less a trite truism. . First Lady's Worries Mrs. John Adams, wife of the sec ond President, foand It necessary to bring with ber much of her own china when she took over the duties of first lady, and with disastrous results to the china, judging from a letter writ ten to a member of ber family shortly after ber arrival, deploring the fact that "many things were broken or stol en." Her efforts to replace the miss ing pieces evidently were fruitless, for she remarked later In the letter that "Georgetown affords nothing." De troit News. , Locomotive Signals One short whistle of a locomotive i meant apply the brakes; one long, sta tion whistle; two short whistles are given In response to hand or lantern signal from one of the crew; two long and two short for road crossing; one long and three short mean flagman re turns from west or north; five long, flagman returns from east or south, three long, train parted ; three short mean to back; a series of short mean cattle on the track. 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. Real Estate Wheat Alfalfa and Stock Land SHEEP FOR SALE L. L. Montague, Arlington . OH, THESE NATURE LOVERS! (State Game Commission). A paragraph of a story on cougar, or mountain lion, which appeared re cently in The Nature Magazine and found its way into Literary Digest as a reprint, has somewhat aroused Harold Clifford, state game warden, who like others who are interested in the preservation of deer and other game have no love for the "big cats." "The United States Government does not consider mountain lions as game, but merely as creatures so contemptible that professional hunt ers are hired at five dollars a day to do away with them," reads the para graph in question. "The government uses tax money for this purpose, but the Government through the depart ment of agriculture, does not actually send men to kill the beetles on my fruit trees. It only tells me how I may kill them. As I climbed the mountain (this after witnessing the slaying of a big cougar) I wondered whether the American people were giving a square deal to their only native lion." t ' ' According to Mr. Clifford the only deal the cougar is entitled to is in shape of a bullet. "Only the most - fanatical nature lover would waste sympathy upon a cougar," says Mr. Clifford. "This predatory animal is more destructive to deer than the most vicious ele ments of nature and the combined game law violators. He lays in wait in the favorite haunts of deer and kills them at the rate of one a week. Once having made his kill he devours the vitals of the animal and leaves the quarters to other animals. When hunger returns he goes forth and kills another deer. "Our game department is making a determined effort to rid the Oregon woods of cougar. We desire encour agement and cooperation rather than sympathy. Out of our game pro tection fund which is obtained entiro- ly from the sale of licenses we offer a bounty of $ 25 to each man who kills a cougar. In addition to this we are this year offering cash prizes total ing $500 to the men who bag the most cougars in the year which ends with June. Our problem is to con serve and protect deer and this may in a great measure be solved by kill ing every cougar that infests the mountains." 23 Years Ago , Gentility Left Off Mrs. Golmnn had recently engaged a new maid- She was a thoroughly good girl, truthful, honest, very will ing and obliging, but she lacked tact One evening, when her mistress wss going out to dinner and the theater afterwards, the maid noticed that rope of pear's was missing. "Oh, madam," she cried, "where are jrour lovely pearls tonight?" "Fm not wearing them, Winnie," re plied Mrs. Goldman. "I don't fancy them tonight." ' ; "Oh, what a pity, ma'am 1" exclaimed the new maid wistfully, "An' they make you look so like a real lady V " Friday, March 1, 1907 Clark Walter is reported seriously ill at his home in Walla Walla. Sun day his son John was summoned from Athena, and took the noon train for Walla Walla. Word came yesterday that Mr. Walter has rallied and was considerably better. Maurice Hill is assisting in operat ing at the telephone exchange today. W. O. Read, principal of the Adams public school, was in the city yester day. Frank Coolidge the jeweler, is in Portland. He will return home the latter part of the week. Mrs. Charles King and children will leave soon for Hermiston, where her husband has been employed for some time. . ' . ' i Dr. Fred Lieuallen, who . recently sold his drug store in Helix, has lo cated in Portland, where he will practice his profession. Every member of Alex Johnson's familyi except one boy is down with the scarlet fever. Dr. Sharp is the attending physician. "The ' Johnson home is three miles northwest of Athena. The stores and business houses in Athena were closed this afternoon from one until three o'clock, in re spect to Edward Manasse, whose funeral took place at two o'clock, in Walla Walla. The county roads west of Athena are in a deplorable condition. Road supervisors are employing men and teams in repairing the highways so that travel can be resumed with some degree of safety -- City Recorder Chamberlain will en gage in wheat-raising on the reserva tion. He purchased work horses and farm implements from the Naylor es tate and is now negotiating for land on the reservation. , The annual meeting of the Athena Fire department takes place tonight at the city hall. This is tho general department meeting at which the fire chief and other department officials will be elected. The members of the different companies are requested to be present. ' Lafayette McBride, who came down from Sumpter last Friday, accomp anied by his brother Tim, was a guest of his two brothers, William .and Harry of this city. Mr. McBride has been in the mining country for sever al years, and was forced to come out on account of being afflicted with rheumatism. The top of the market for 197,000 bushels of wheat was paid by J. Z. Smith, representing the Kerr Giffcrd company of Walla Walla during the past week. This is the largest amount of wheat purchased there by all deal ers since the close of active sales last i fall in anything likeythe same period of. time. The sales were made on the basis of 57c for club, and 60c for blue- stem. - . Mrs. George Banister arrived home yesterday from Pendleton, accompa nied by her neice, Miss Bertha Gross, Miss Ada Ely accompanied her mother, Mrs. Henry Pinkerton, to her home in Weston, and will remain there the balance of the week. 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 the Athena Hotel MRS. LAURA FROOME, Prop. Courteous Treatment, Clean Beds Good Meals Tourists Made Welcome Special Attention Given to Home Patrons Corner Main and Third . Athena, Oregon , i RELIABLE I WATCH REPAIRING Main St H. H. HILL Athena Bell & Gray ' Phone SS3 Two Auto Truck Drays Always At Your Service City and Country Mauling 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 v : : ; Company f-- : Grian and Feed SPECIAL A Full Line of Sperrys Chick Feed Phone 382 LEE WILSON, M'gr.. Tum-A-Lum Tickler ...'.- Published in the intesests of the people of Athena and vicinity by THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Phone 91 Vol. 30 Athena, Oregon, February 23, 1930 No. 9 Editorial It is well said that Adam and Eve were the pioneers in the housing business but they were smart enough to own their own home. Styles then were pretty scant Adam dressed in leaves of absence. Styles in homes have changed some since then but a house isn't a home if it's rented. A. M. Johnson Editor ... A clever girl is one who makes you think she is taking dinner with you and not from you. . .. . . ' ... - I am interested in building. Without obli gation to me please give me your ideas as to cost and construction of the things checked below. Garage ' Sun room : Sleeping Porch Floors Roof Porch New Home Attic room Lawn fixtures Otherwise Name , Address --. The teacher was giv ing the primary clas a talk on flowers. "Now children," she . said "who can tell what makes the little flowers spring from the seed?" "God does it," answer ed one little girl, "but fertilizer helps." ... Garden furniture is easily and cheaply con structed. . Attractive fences, seats, summer houses, and arbors are a few of the types. Look over our detail plans for these additions to your summer comfort. . --- Helpful Hints At the , side of the door drive in a 1 good strong nail and sharpen the protruding end. When the landlord calls for the rent, greet him with a smile and cai-. fully back him against tfte nail. When he leaves there will be a Irent in his pants that should satisfy him. Our architectural de partment can desie-n anything from airplane hangars to zebra crates. lit is a service to a.ir customers. .- Raymond: "What would say if I were to throw you a kiss?" Cathleen: "I'd say you were the laziest man I'd ever met." ... Grace "Oh, John! Is that a bull in that field?" John "Yes, it is, and I wish you'd stop using that lipstick." Tad: "Dad, how do they catch crazy people?" Dad: "With rouge, powder, permanent waves, smiles and sweet nothings, my boy." Exclusively Sold Here Milton Bread and Pasterie CILGORE'S CAFE If Pays 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. Perm Harris Barber Shop Agency for Troy Laundry and Twin City Sanitary Cleaners. Phone 583. 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....l0c 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............l0c per KWH Next 200 ......M.......:..M...........................7cper 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 Mils are paid in full within 10 days Irom date of bill. Otherwise, the rate will be increased by 10 per cent on each item. Preston-Shaffer Milling Company 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"y 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 48a ,