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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, MARCH 7, 1930 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher Subscription Rate. One copy, one year M-00 One copy, six months 1M .One copy .three months.. ... Athena, Oregon, March 7, 1930 Clark" Wood Says'; "f ' f J-: p til t Denial is now made that Cal Coolidge will write the history J r of the United J States in f 500 J t words. r Anyway, he probably t wouldn't ' want . to spare that , many. LET'S FINISH UP FIRST The stand taken by Henry . L. Cor bett against the promotion of new State highway work until the pres ent setup is finished by the state highway commission, will set well with voters and gain for him con siderable support in his candidacy for the republican nomination for governor. Paved, all-year-round high ways have done much to remove country and state barriers and link the nation closer together. Oregon has now two cross-state highways, and until such time as the secondary feeder roads are developed, a third cross-state highway can well afford to await completion. Opportunely and pertinently one of our exchanges remarks sensibly on an important angle resulting from' our present stage of highway development, when it says: . ' "Unfortunately, the farmer hps, to great extent, been left out ol the picture. The average farm road is still at the mercy of rain and snow. It is often a succession of ruts and mud holes. It is a barrier between the farmer and his market. Road building programs should provide for an adequate mileage of feeder or farm-to-market roads. Year-round, efficient, long-wearing surfaces can be constructed at A low cost and without excessive maintenance ex pense. Good roads are the principal thing necessary to place agriculture on an equal footing with other great Industries." A GREAT WORK Probably only a small part of the public adequately realizes the in valuable work dono by fire Insurance on behalf of the homes and industries of the nation, says the Manufacturer. The fire insurance industry has been a leader in revising standards of building construction. It has estab lished the great Underwriters' Labor atories where all manner of electric, gas and other devices used by the public are tested and their degree of safety determined. It has been a vital force in developing the modern fire department, and has led the great fire prevention movement and the war against arson. All this is in addition to its work as a business: The collection and distribution of funds to cover the damage done in specific cases by fire. It has con stantly lowered its insurance rates and has earned only a minimum prof it. It bears a large share of all kinds of taxes. This is a great in dustry, whose work can hardly be ex aggerated. It is a basic factor in all industrial progress. It offers, for a very low cost, protection for! a ono car garage or a gigantic factory. Its benefits accrue to all alike. In short, it is one of the most democratic of all businesses. Every citizen Bhould realize that fire insurance is a basic and necessary element in the develop ment of our industrial civilization. Attorney-General Mitchell has voic ed his disapproval of an effort to make more drastic the law allow ing search of private dwellings in liquor cases. . It is noted that Mitchell's expressed objection has to do with dwellings in the District of Columbia, in that his disapproval was expressed by letter to the senate committee on District of Columbia affairs. William Fox, owner of nearly all theatres in America and a few in Borneo has asked the courts for privi lege of refinancing rather than hav ing a receiver appointed to adminis ter his holdings. In Mr. Fox's case, history only is repeating itself. An iron-clad axiom of the past is that when a man strives to get a corner on the earth, soon or later he cracks. . o ' , . A fish story comes from Spirit Lake, Iowa, to the effect that cattle drinking out of the lake have been pulled in by pickerel and devoured. After reading the story one is inclin ed to believe that the lake has been appropriately named, analogous with the stuff the stockmen around there hav been drinking. o- The Prince of Wales is a bally good pport. He kicked to beat the band when forced to quit African game trails to be doctored for malaria fever, offering to bet a coupla bucks that he would be back on the hunt within a week's tima. A MoOmln' spunky sport, Is he, but a punky rider. ; ; ' ' In the interests of co proposes to reduce the Mexican congress. maybe,' and one that ably followed on this border without in the ing the efficiency of ment. economy, Mexi- membership in A good plan, could be profit- side of the least jeopardiz good govern- Once in a while we hear of Persia, but not often. The latest is that Ahmed Kajar, ex-Shah of that coun try1, recently died in Paris, rated the richest man in the world. He miss ed spending a lot of his fortune, for he died at the age of thirty-two. - 9 . Byrd and his men are out of the ice pack and skimming o'er the blue for home. Enough of anything is plenty, and we'll wager a bunk on board ship feels better to them than a sleeping bag stretched out on the ice barrier. ' -The California - state supreme court has refused a new trial for Asa Keyes, . and the ex-district at torney of Los Angeles county will go to the pen and take a dose of the medicine he was instrumental in giv ing to others. ; . 'O , . The Graf Zeppelin is coming across again. The statement causes little more interest than an announcement of a steamship departure, for the reason that transportation by airship has become an accepted fact; , ' Digging around in Egypt the other day, excavators uncovered another bunch of mummies ranging in age from 2200 to 4000 years. Oh, yeah. But how can they tell how old they are, we dunno. o- Sharkey knocked out Britisher Scott just as he was expected to do, and a small house paid the price to see him do it. Winter fistic shows at Miami are proving to be the bunk. These ."fish pullmans" we read about have set Umatilla river ang lers wondering what they look like, and whether the Umatilla is on tho "in" for trout planting this spring. o ' ; After wooling lumber around in the tariff arena, the Senate took cot ton and sugar to the mat this week and it's dollars to doughnuts that re sults will be the same. e KITCHEN asm mi ((, liat. WraUrn Ntwppr Union.) i It la almost always when thlnga are all blocked up and Impoiilble, that a happening1 cornea. If you are sure that you are looking and are ready, that la all you need. God la turning the world around all of the time. Whitney. , THE EMERGENCY SHELF The housewife who baa a well sup plied emergency shelf is like the man with plenty of money in the bank, always ready for emergencies. The sudden visit of unexpect ed guests has no terror for her, for she knows she has a supply on which to depend. , However, with mnny things at ber hand if she is not care ful, she will fall to remember the availability of such food as a can of salmon. With the salmon add a Mt of chopped celery, cabbage and a sour pickle or two, dressed with the ever ready mayonnaise or boiled dressing, and a tasty salad Is ready. Another snlmon salad Is prepared with a cupfnl of fresh grated coconut or the dried coconut with the sugar washed out of It, adding a bit of chopped pickle or olive. Add a cupful of canned corn to a fritter batter and cook some corn pat ties to serve with chicken or any meat you are serving. A can of tomato soup with a bit of extra seasoning makes a fine sauce to serve over sliced cold meat heated, or any meat toaf. A salad dressing, to which has been added a little chopped onion, capers, an olive or two, will make a most de lectable fish sauce. With thfl canned vegetables to be bought In the market ami those which one prepares at home, one may have hot buttered beets, carrots In butter, asparagus ou toast, and numerous other dishes In short ten minutes of preparation. It does Dot always happen that there is a cold cooked chicken In the lurder, But If so, there Is chicken salnd or hot minced chicken on toast served with a few pieces of tender celery and a cup of tea, making a most savory meal. It is wise to keep a few menus handy to look at hi au emergency when one's mind Is not working as aell as usual. These suggest! n will help in planning a meal, for often there arc good things easy to prepare and ready, which In the Durry of the moment aro forgotten. John D., knows nothing of a price- cutting gasoline war. Of course not The thrifty old oil baron is never bothered with the incidentals and de tails of the oil game. o. Gasoline has taken another flop in Portland. Selling at 17 Vt cents per gallon,., the new . price - is . putting a whole lot of buzz in the buzz wagons down there. " ' ' ' ' Edison is, in search , of another bright Oregon boy to participate in another of his scholarship contests. Now lads, don't all speak at once. . - - Silas. H. Strawn says he is a jack ass for shouldering the financial bur dens of Chicago, and does not want to wear the crown of dictator. Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson, has completely faded out of the picture in Chicago. He has quit talking. o ' Hoover's Tariff Views at Issue Headline. , When was the tariff any thing" else? . - SCHOOL TOPICS (By Supt EVE. Coad) Just what is meant by good sports manship? This question presents a number of phases to the school official. The essential fact of good sportsmanship lies in this: that the rules governing athletic contests and games and those governing the contests in the busi ness world are much alike. Of course there is good sportsmanship and bad sportsmanship both in the athletic and in the business fields. One constantly runs up against the individuals who do not want a square deal but rather a set-up that will enable them to win? They depend not upon their ability to win by superior play but upon what some one can do to enable them to win. If the lessons from the athletic contest are to carry over into busi ness and social life they must be true to life. Hence we must have both kinds of sportsmanship. It is a serious task to sell good sportsman ship to an entire community. But the mere difficulty of it should not result in discouragement. Once a body of students grasp the ideal that it is not mere winning that counts but that it is doing one's best, the problem becomes a bit less diffi cult. One who is beaten fairly after having done his best, accords honor to the better man. The "rotter" al ways has an alibi. Not that all alibis are rotten, however. But the person who relies on anything except his best efforts always has an excuse for his failure. Sports and games are based upon certain definite rules. When these rules are fairly and impartially ad ministered, the "crabber" but indi cates the measure of his sportsman ship. But it is the measure of just about as bad sportsmanship for one to keep silent and take the gaff when an incompetent or unreliable official starts operating. Of course, when one does rebel, one has to meet the jeers of" "poor sport" and the rest of it from those who believe that the only thing in athletic con tests is to win. Unless sports and games teach the lessons of good citizenship they fail in their purpose. The exceptions may serve some purpose as bad ex amples on which to pin a moral. As a people we have submitted for too long to the incompetent in places of control. .We elect self -nominated of ficials to office and then sit back and "cuss" them for doing what they sought the office to do. We would do far better to select the man for the office and then support him to the limit. And when we did get an in competent, recall him at once and seek .one better qualified. The community has a responsibility in connection with athletic games and sports that " it does not often exer cise. The community that is actuat ed by right ideals of sportsmanship will demand that those who control the sports and officiate at contests shall be actuated by the same kind of ideals as themselves. It will use its influence in teaching lessons of the sort of sportsmanship that will carry over into business life and social contacts quite different from the fellow who sits on the side lines and yells, "Get that man! Kill him! Jump on him I Put him out of the game!" and the rest of the senseless drivel used by those who think an athletic contest is. a species of warfare. Real Estate Wheat Alfalfa and Stock Land SHEEP FOR SALE L. I Montague, Arlington i in 1 1 m GUIDING MAIL PILOTS Department of Commerce airways guide Northwest air mail pilots by day as well as by night Each bea con marking the route is mounted on a structural steel tower 65 feet high with concrete base. At the base a large arrow is painted which points in the tiirectionof the next beacon. They are located convenient to elec trical power on high elevations every 20 to 30 miles apart At night the beacons go on ' arid start , revolving automatically at sun down; they go off again at sua rise changing gradu ally with . season. For an instant during each-revolution of the beacon the light goes out. This enables the pilot to see the red course lights and the' code number of the beacon which shines instead. The course lights show the direction of the next beacon and if the pilot is not sure where he is, he can consult his map, compare code numbers and determine his exact position. Lights can be seen ' 25 miles, and in perfect weather, their rays cross each other. Many times there are small acetylene gas blink ers that have a clock control located every few miles between the larger beacons. The airway to the East followed by the Varney Mail pilots goes from Seattle and Tacoma via Portland, through the Columbia River Gorge to Pasco, over the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon to Boise, across the plains of Southern Idaho and skirting Great Salt Lake to Salt Lake City. . A line runs up ta Spokane from Pasco. Other lines carry the mail east of Salt Lake. On the wall, of the dispatch roomt at operation headquarters of the Varney Air Mail Lines in Portland, there is a very unique map of the transport system. As messages come from the various fields along the line over the automatic telegraph teletype system, little tags with the number of the ships enroute and tags with the name of the pilot flying them are moved along the routes on wires. When ships are idle or being overhauled and when pilots ' are on the ground between flights, the tags are hung near the field where they are rest ing. With this Bystem executives and officers of the company are able at a glance to get a graphic idea of all operations at any moment of the day or night. According to L. D. Cuddeback, Vice-President in charge of operations of the Verney mail network, plans are under way to show additional data on this map such as general weather conditions and so forth. . , . . Ten-Foot Snow Drifts Drifts six to 10 feet high, an icy wind, blocked highways, delayed train service, crippled communication and a promise of colder weather were re sults of the snowstorm which center ed its fury on Fargo, N. D., and ad jacent territory the fore part of the week. Only one kind of clouds hover over China war clouds. 23 Years Ago Friday, March 8 1907 . . Charles Brotherton has four teams, with drivers, working for the O. R. & N. .Company. The teams.are used in making repairs to the road bed which was washed out between Eastland and Havana. ..The .company is paying $5.50 per day for "each . team and driver,; , . . r-...V;'i; Duncan Mclntyre, who has been in Alberta for some time, has' returned home. , . ; ::V'VV:XC,..V.; Miss Delia Danner, who is attend ing school in Pendleton,- came up Sunday and spent the day with her parents. V a" ' " David Williams will move his fam ily to Walla Walla, where they will reside temporarily, " before going to Alberta to make their home. ' Mrs. William! Winship and Mrs. Eva Boddy will go tomorrow to Wal la Walla, where they will visit at the home of Mrs. Winship's parents for several days. ; : ; ; ; Maurice Hill went over" to Walla Walla Sunday, and visited his mother, who is' confined in a hospital Mrs. Hill is' reported to be getting along as well as could be expected. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Barrett have arrived home from their sojourn in Salem. Mr. Barrett is much enfee bled from his recent attack of pneu monia while away from home. An excursion train will take many people from Pendleton, Athena and other intermediate points to Walla Walla Sunday to witness the dedica tion of the magnificent new Christian church building in that city. Many from this vicinity have signified their intention of visiting the garden city on that day. Charles Norris is working at an other one of those all-fired fine light harnesses, which he has the reputa tion of making. Every once in awhile Charles turns to and make one of those harnesses, just to hang up for exhibition purposes, but somehow they don't hang very long, for some fellow with a good roadster comes along with the price and then Norris puts up another. B. B. Richards local agent for the Puget Sound Warehouse company came up from Pendleton Sunday. Mr. Richards is conducting the Pendleton office, during the absence of Manager Montgomery, who with his wife, is traveling in the South. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. B. Zerba went down to Pendleton today, where they will remain several days visitn.g friends. . Jack Weir, local agent for the Tum aUum Lumber Company has return ed from a visit to his ranch, in Adams county. - . 'Zoeth Houser, ex-sheriff and well known mining man, is in the city today. Miss Minnie Naylor is over from Whitman college, visiting relatives in this city. Miss Eva Wright has accepted the position of cashier with the Mosgrove Mercantile Company. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Preston made a trip to Waitsburg the first of the week by automobile. Tum-A-Lum Tickler Published in the intesesta of the people of Athena and vicinity by THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Phone 91 Vol. 30 Athena, Oregon, March 7, 1930 No.10 Editorial We have a mighty nice little town herd and by having a Spring Clean-up it couid be made to look better. Why doesn't some club or the City Dads spon ser such a plan? The entire staff of this paper is for it. A. M. Johnson, Editor -. Shorter days and long er skirts. Less to see and less time to see it in is the cry of our fashion editor. .-. Our carload of Cement is here. ' ... This is a "Show Me Age." You would think everyone was from Mis souri the way they have to be shown. But we have plans for all kind; of farm buildings ano homes we are able to show. This is the answer we received as a definition of Anatomy. The anat omy is the human body composed of two parts, the chist which holds the lungs and a piece of liver, and the stummick which contains the fol lowing bowels A. E. I. O. U. and sometimes W. and Y. ... Work Bench Do you need a work bench? We have plans at our office for a dandy. Drop in and look them over. Anyone can build this in a few hours at a very reasonable cost Classified Ads For Sale: Some pieces of lumber in first class shape. Never used. .. .. Home for Sale: Writh all modern conveniences We will build it to suit you. . -.. For Sale: A folding bed by a lady that folds up and looks like a sofa. .-. "The young husband had sneaked in noise lessly some time during the wee hours and be lieved he had slipped in to bed undetected, but; an unpleasant air - of constraint hung over the breakfast table. At last the wife broke the silence. "You didn't get home till three o'clock this morning," she accused. "H-how do you know?" he stammered. "Because when I came in your hat was still warm." - "" You can't wear a law suit ' You can't write wi'.h a pig pen. You can't buy a cap for your knee. We can't keep this up forever. Exclusively Sold Here Milton Bread . and ' Pasteries ECiLGOHE'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 - C. M. Jones Blacksmith Shop The Athena Hotel MRS. LAURA FROOME, Prop. Courteous Treatment, Clean Beda , ..' Good Meala Tourists Made Welcome Special Attention Gives to Home Patrons ' ; Corner Main and Third Athena, Oregon ' RELIABLE WATCH REPAIRING Main St H. H. HILL Athena ; Bell & Cray. Phone 593 . Two Auto Truck Drays Always At Your Service City and Country Mauling Twin City Cleaners e firm that does your work as you- want it done, at I 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 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 Cleanera. Phone 683. Reduction In Electric Light Rates The following reduction in Electric light rates will be in effect on and after March 15, 1929: Resident! &1 Kdics 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 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 wfthin 10 days from date of bill. Otherwise, the rata will be increased by 10 per cent on each item. . Preston-Shaffer Milling Company i- ! I ' !-'! :' f " 1 ! tl ": - V, 1 ' i - - i 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-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.