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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, DECEMBER 12, 1930 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner nd Publisher Subscription Ratee. ... One copy, one year 12-00 One copy, sis months $1.00 One copy. three months Athena, Oregon, December 12, 1930 THE WRONG DIAGNOSIS (From the East Oregonian) The first annual report of the fed eral farm board with accompanying advice that farmers cure their own troubles by reducing production would be more impressive were it not for the spectacle of wheat selling at $1.78 a bushel in Paris. France and the United States are in the same world and the French wheat growers face the same world conditions that bur growers do and in proportion to population the French farmers raise nearly as much wheat as do the farmers of the United States. But in France the wheat price is high, there is no unemployment there, nor is there any business or industrial slump. The nation is prosperous whereas in the United States the wheat price is very low, there is busii ness depression and unemployment. How does that happen? A report from Paris, from a reputa ble news agency, tells the story. When the French farmers had misgivings last year over their own large wheat crop and the large crop throughout the world they made certain sugges tions to the French government. The French officials had the good judg ment to realize that the growers knew something about the farming game and listened to their story. They not only listened but they acted. A de benture was provided and the tariff duty on wheat was increased to oo cents a bushel. The good results that have been achieved and the prosper ous conditions of France indicate that the French officials acted wisely. The United States government un der the administrations of Mr. Cool idge and Mr. Hoover has not taken the advice of farmers with reference to the farm subject. Always the ad vice of other men has been taken. Doubtless the advice was sincere but it came from men who do not actually deal with the problem and whose fortunes are not directly involved. The course taken was faulty because it is based upon a false analysis of the situation and it is not possible to form correct conclusions when the diagnosis is wrong. j The American farmers are being treated for a trouble that requires no treatment from the government but the government has taken no effective stepB towards correcting a wrong that the government itself inflicts up on agriculture and does so by legis-j lation. j Were overproduction the cause of farm distress and indirectly the cause of the general business slump it would not be necessary to have a marketing act or a farm board. The farmers themselves are the best and most re liable doctors when that subject re quires attention. As a matter of self interest they always try to produce such crops as will earn the most money and to abstain from growing crops that do not show a profit. They have good advice, too, from county agents and extension workers and other specialists whose reputations are at stake and who try to talk sense. Their advice is widely followed. Those who think the farmer knows nothing about crop control and the ups and downs involved grossly underestimate the farmer's common sense. The real grievance ot the export farmers, who compris most of the agricultural productive forces of the nation, is that they have had to Bell in a world market while their production costs are inflated by our tariff policy. That is an unfair arrangement. It means that their financial barrel has an outlet that is larger than the in take. No business can operate suc cessfully year after year under such an arrangement. If the railroads had to run their business on such a sys tem the carriers would go bankrupt and railroad service would be wreck ed. The farmers have a right to demand that the unfairness be eliminated and that if for reasons of domestic policy the country does not wish to do so that an offset be provided. There is a just claim for redress and a just claim should be paid and paid by those who" owe the bill. In a measure the farm board has recognized the soundness of the claim but they deal with it evasively, not candidly. They act like their job was to discount the claim as much aa pos sible and talk the creditors into get ting along without a fair settlement. That Is not the way to settle a debt The fault may rest with the president rather than the farm board members. Mr. Leeze and his associates are splendid men personally and they are unquestionably doing much good. The Chicago price Saturday was nearly 20 cents above the Winnipeg price which phowi that result may b accom plished under the marketing act but they are not doing enough. When wheat sells for but 57 cents in Pen dleton and at $1.78 in Paris there is a discrepancy that is noticeable. When they advise farmers to cure the trouble by reducing production President Hoover and members of the farm board discuss a subject they are not familiar with and they suggest in effect that the people responsible for the injury that has been done should be absolved from responsibil ity and that the victims should crawl out of the .hole the best way they can, if they can. That is not correct dealing. It is not a good policy for this country to pursue and the whole nation has paid heavily for the mistake. With de creased farm buying power industry and business suffer, factories operate on a part time basis and men are thrown out of work. On top of that nearly eight million people have moved from farms to the cities in the last four years and those people swell the ranks of the unemployed. The scheme does not work. We could forgive the president and his advisors if they would recognize the situation and deal with it frankly even if they did not accomplish all that is hoped for. It is hard to for give them when they camouflage the issue. When they pass up the true story and talk about overproduction they mislead the country, they but delay application of the right methods and they delay the return of prosper ity. In substance their story is that the trouble is due to the stupidity of the grower and that is a falsehood. If there is stupidity it is not on the farm but at Washington and the French situation proves it o Nitrate of soda would be an excel lent fertilizer for blue grass lawns according to the following statement made by Oregon State College: The application of 200 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre on the farm of R. E. Bates, Corvallis, has in creased the carrying capacity of five acres of Blue grass pasture from 600 to 992 pasture days this year, accord ing to records kept by Mr. Bates and the county agent, who were cooperat ing on the trial. The nitrate of soda was put on in two applications, the first one June 15 and the other August IB. The pasture was irrigated. The first spark of humanitarianism evinced by the soviet rulers is given the world in the commutation of death sentences to 10-year prison terms of the five prominent engine ers who confessed to plotting against the soviet government for interven tion. The commutation was decided by the central executive committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub lics, which declared that since the de fendants had confessed and repented, the soviet power could not be guided by a mere desire for revenge. u Portland bakers have come to the assistance of Portland charity organ izations by offers of bread contribu tions, one firm offering to supply 10,- 000 loaves daily. o Winter registered the lowest tem perature in Athena for the season, when the mercury dropped to 22 above, Monday night o Reflecting upon European condi tions, we might say they could be worse. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING The reeular annual meeting of the stockholders of the First National Rank nf Athena. Oreeon. for the nlafinn nt Airortnra for the ensuing year and for the transaction or. sucn other business as may lawfully come before it, will be held in its office, in Athena, Oregon, on luesday, January 13th, 1931, at the hour oi two o ciock m. Dated December 12tn, iju. F. S. LeGROW, Cashier. CLASSIFIED Frick's Metal Weather Stripping is Best. NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla uounty. In the Matter of the Estate of Charles Norris, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has filed her final account and report in the above entitled mat ter and that the above entitled Court has fixed Saturday, the 10th day of January, 1931, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock a. m. of said day, as the time, and the County Court room in the County Uourt house at renaieton, Umatilla County, Oregon, as the nlace. for hearing of said final ac count and report. Any person desir ing to rile objections to saia nnai account and report should do so on or before that date. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this l'iin day of December, 1930. VELMA B. SCHUBERT, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Charles Norris, De ceased. ' - Watts & Prestbye, Athena, Oregon, Attorneys for Executrix. viuv Ben Bateman v.vnoH-. in Bodv Correction uses hand vibration, posturing, diet, mas sage baths, corrective exercises and sun lamp ana rays, memm gjm-nnau-a Hiwific for each case. Office in Foss house in North Athena. Dr. W. Boyd Whyte CHIROPRACTOR Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton. Oregon. 57 J Dr. W. H. McKinney Physician and Surgeon Dr. Sharp's Office Office Hours at Athena 1 to 5 p. m. Phone 462. Office Hours at Weston 8 a. ra. to 12 noon! Phone 83. Calls made day or night DR. BLATCHFORD Dentist Post Building, Athena. Phone S82 WATTS A PRBSTBTB Attorneys-At-Law Main Street. Athena. Oregon State and Federal Court Practice PETERSON & LEWIS Attorneys at La Stangier Building, Pendleton, Oregon Practice in all State and f edera. Courts. RELIABLE WATCH REPAIRING Main St H. H. HILL Athena 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 H. A. Frick Carpenter and Contractor Pendleton Phone 1392J Specializes in Metal Weather Stripping Eves examined, glasses properly fitted at Schneller's, 39 East Main, Walla Walla, Flowers Crepe Paper Flowers of all kinds made to order. Drop into the Finch tailor shop and let us show you some samples. Mrs. Eva Reynolds. Bruno Weber Blacksmithing AND Repair Work Prices Reasonable Successor To . JENS JENSEN Pleads Guilty to Sale and Possession B. B. Richards, when in terviewed by the Press man, pleaded guilty to the sale of the best insurance obtainable for the money and possession of more policies in reserve ready at a moments notice for your use and purpose. A policy for every hazzard. . B. B. RICHARDS, Insurance 23 Years Ago j Miss Ollie Key has accepted a posi tion as saleslady in the Mosgrove Merchantile store. Carpenters are at work making im provements on the Henry Dell cottage The interior is being changed consid erably. Chas. Keen was in the city Satur day. He had recently been at Hot Lake, where he received a weeks treatment for rheumatism. Glen Saling is harvesting his potato crop on Wild Horse Mountain. He employs squaws to pick up the spuds and sack them. Miss Millard, the accomplished in structor in vocal music at the Normal school at .Weston, was in the city Wednesday ' evening, attending the Baptist reception. Mr. and -Mrs. H. O. Mansfield left Tuesday evening for the East. They will visit Mr. Mansfield's old home in Hopedale, Ohio. They will be absent from Athena for about a month. Mark Moorehouse and Miss Blanch Horn, prominent young people of Pen dleton, were united in marriage Sat urday evening. The groom is a son of Major Moorehouse and the bride comes from a pioneer Umatilla county family. , Friends of Miss Dolly Bloch are in receipt of news from her at her home in Spokane, stating that she is gain ing very slowly after the severe oper ation to which she submitted some weeks ago, in the hope of regaining the use of her limbs. For a time last week Marshal Ghol son was engaged in the sheep business Some thirty odd head were driven to this city from Walla Walla by a young man named Wilder, who was in the employ of Reinhold Harras. It appears that a party other than Harras was on a deal for the purchase of the sheep and succeeded in buying them. The young man was arrested here on the charge of stealing sheep, and taken to Walla Walla. Later the matter was compromised, Wilder was given his liberty and Mr. Gholson re leased the stock on order from the sheriff of Walla Walla county. The Manasse stock has been all marked and packed for shipment to La. Grande, by Mr. Wood. Several young ladies have been employed dur ing the" present ; week to wrap the goods for shipment. James Henderson, of the Mosgrove Mercantile Co., will spend six weeks at his old home in Brooklyn, New York. Thos. Armstrong "of Milton, will take his place in the store until he returns. Venard Bell of this city and Miss Verna Vanslyke, oft Weston, were married in the latter city yesterday, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Vanslyke. The young people will make their home on the Bell farm on Wild Horse creek. Wednesday the record run was made at the Preston-Parton company's Mill B. in this city, when 727 barrels of flour was ground. During the 24 hours in which the run was made, Manager Watts says nearly 3500 bushels of wheat was consumed. The mill is grinding an export flour, and the com pany has so far experienced no trou ble as a result of the financial crisis. Ringlette Permanent EASY AS A MARCEL, BEAUTIFUL, LASTING "The Choice of Women who Care!" 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HARRIS' BARBER AND BEAUTY SHOP Phone 492 '''"v":: ' The Military Bird The wild geese and ducks are arriving on their annual migration from the great north. The goose, the noblest of all game birds, is the only bird who conducts his affairs in military order. He flies in perfect formation, wears a beautiful uni form and places sentinels when in camps. He is a wary fellow and it is the keen sportsman who can out-general him. : ' For the accommodation of the particular and discriminating hunter, we carry a stock of U M C Ammunition. Our Remington long range loads will out shoot, shell for shell, any make or brand of heavy, long rajige loads on the market. Gallaher's Garage J. E. Gallaher Athena Phone 471 l BRYCE BAKER, Prop. . . Athena, ... Phone 762 Transfer Bell & Gray Thone 593 Two Auto Truck Drays Always At Your Service City and Country Hauling 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. December 12, 1930 No. 47 Something new for your Christ mas Gift Buy it at the Tum-A-Lum. Paint it yourself. Put up in 10 minutes. "On-the-WaU" IRONING BOARD CABINET (8.00 No recess required "On-the-Wall" MEDICINE CABINET . $8.40 -Hangs to Wall "On-the-Wall" PHONE CABINET $4-00 Screws up quickly Editorial Please Mr. Santa Claus visit the Tum-A-Lum. This year, you can take Mother home a nice new ironing board cabinet or a medicine cabinet for the bath room or a new phone cabinet a shelf or a mirror for the door. Then Father can set it up in a few minutes and Mother will take lots of delight painting in nice colors. Maybe you might want a can of our fine paint and a brush for her. O' course wo want you to come right away or we might have to deliver it after Christmas. A. M. JOHNSON, Editor. Unfinished (Knock-down) Furniture Smoking Stand $1.20 Sewing Cabinet . $2.15 Magazine Rack 60 Drawer Chest' '. 2.75 Book Case 2.25 Students Desk 3.50 Card Table 1.10 Sewing Stand 2.15 TABLES and CHAIRS Many other useful articles We Have the Best Eastern Fried Oysters Hot Tamales Chili Beans ItlLGORE'S CAFE Continental Oil Company Germ Processed Motor Oil ; Athena Service Station "Service With a Smile" Automobile Accessories Tires Farmers Grain Elevator Company Grian and Feed SPECIAL A Full Line of Sperry's Chick, Feed Phone 382 LEE WILSON, M'gr. . We Have the Agency For the Macy Tailoring System of America Twin City Cleaners Phone 492 T. E. Smith, Prop. Freewater, Oregon 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 daya irom 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 ....7cperKWH Next .300 . . ,.....6cperKWH. Next 400 .5c per KWH Next 1000 4c per KWH Excess over 2000 ...3. ....ic per KWH fmm 5!t! i'e J,a,tesppIy when bi" Pi in foil within 10 days ' wnon ?ach item. 0therwise' rate will be increased by 10 per Preston-Shaffer Milling Company