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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11
Jesus Never Stood for
 "Peace at Any Price''

That Jesus was not paclflSt IS the gist of the following quotation from an article in the April American Mag azine entitled My Silent Partner" which gives a new interpretation to the life of Christ as applied to mod ern problems: m
 He went down to Jerusalem at the very beginning of his public work, and all the way along the road he heard the complaints of the peasants about the exacations and oppression of the priests. When he finally reached the city his temper was pretty we'll arous- ed. He strode into that temple and stood like young giant among that noisy crowd of traffickers. He saw the poor come timidly forward and drive their bitter bargains with the priests; his blood boiled. He stopped down and picked up some bits of cord that lay at his feet, and while he watched them he half unconsciously braided them into whip.
 "Then suddenly he strode forward into that wrangling crowd of petty tn eyes, and began hurling their coun- ters to the floor. One after the other he flung their tables and chairs be- fore him: he opened the cages where the doves were kept; he turned their oxen lose upon them. The thieves dropped back amazed; the crowd. quick to sense the situation, flung themselves eagerly at his back And so, his eyes flashing fire, his whip ris- ing and falling across the backs of the skulking crew before him, he drove them forward through the court, un- der the gates, out in the city streets. Single-handed, unknown, without re- putation or authority, he had attacked the stronghold of special privilege, and won. The temple had been swept cleap."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11
URGES NATIONAL
 MOBILIZATION OF
 FORD RESOURCES
Dean Davenport of Illinois College for Extended
 Farming.

Chicago, April 11.-America should mobilize for the production of food as we'll as for fighting, declared Eugene Davenport, Dean of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture in a statement which he has issued defin- ing a plan of the University to organ ize a Civil Military service to be com posed of men disqualified for military Service at theN front and of boys to work on farms rented by the govern ment.
 To show the necessity for elistment in this service, Dean Davenport as- serted that there is not now enough labor left upon the land to produce what America should consume and that unless this farm labor is increas- ed, the food supply twill drop to a level that may easily prove disas- trous.''
 In. his statement, Dean Davenport said:
 For generations food has been so abundant that it has often been ac- tually cheaper to waste than to save. But conditions have suddenly changed over night as it were-and we are having food riots not only in hungry Europe, not only in congested New York, but in Chicago, the very heart of the greatest food producing region in the world. These riots are attri- buted to high prices, but high prices mean something. They do not come of themselves, nor when there is an abundance of food. Therefore, when the police are called out to put down the riots, it is we'll that statesmen and those in authority inquire into the causes, particularly now as we enter the greatest struggle in all history.
 People do not generally know that a real shortage of food exists. They do not know that the last two years have been lean years upon the land, and that as matters stand today, un- less the coming season should be ex- tremely exceptional, serious situa- tion would confront us. When the food supply of Europe was cut down by, war, they-the Allies at least could look to importation, but no such prospect is held out to America. We are at the end of the line, and if we fail that ends it.
 ''Peple generally do not realize the extent to which labor has been desert ing the land for the last half dozen years and erecting conditions of em- ployment that tend strongly to cut off the food supply, for the farmer can not operate his farm on the eight hour plan nor according to union rules. By the use of large and still larger machinery, the farmer has done the best he could to make good the loss. He has worked his boys early and late and still he cannot work hiss acres for high yields Some lands are being abandoned and turned into cheap pasturage. The writer has seen crops plowed under, while he knows of harvests argathered because labor could not be lad for the gath ering. No wonder the farmer works twelve to sixteen hours day, and no wonder considerable number are forced back into the self-sufficing system with no hope of working the land to the Fest advantage.
 As we go into the greatest war of all time, and as our mind is on enlist ment for service at the front, let ev- cry American citizen understand
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11

Tn this way shortage of food may be avoided. Not only that, the ma chinery is at hand for pushing the supply to any desired level, and that. too, while men and boys are getting a degree of military training, which will be of value Nto those who later enter the regular service. The only real question is: will the United, States mobilize us definitely for food as it will for fighting? In considering this question, it is hardly necessary to point out the importance of having no moro food riots in this country while the war lasts.
 "A prominent Englishman was right when he said that food is Americas s greatest possible contribution to the war;"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11

the plants give evidence of suffering because of the lack of moisture, water must, if possible, be supplied artifi- cially. Where a supply of piped wa ter is at hand perhaps the most usual method of irrigation is by sprink1ing with a hose. If sprinkling is prac- ticed it should be done late in the af- ternoon. It is not sufficient merely to dampen the surface; a. thorough wetting should be given. A more sat- isfactory and economical method of irrigation, however, is to open small furrows between the rows of growing plants and to supply water in these ditches from hose or pipe. Several hours after the water has soaked in the dry earth should be drawn back into place.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11
after the war.

and taken up after the war.
 The shortage of small money, and it's retirement from circulation and into countless stockings, has been un- der way for more than two years. It began originally in the occupied por- tions of France, then spread to similar districts in Russia. Its first result was the issue of municipal paper money all over northern France, and the issue of military orders forbidding the ID tives to accept either French or German money but to accept only town 'bons.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11
CULTIVATION OF
 THE HOME GARDEN

The importance of thorough and continuous cultivation in the home vegetable garden is pointed out in a new Farmers Bulletin of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, No. SIS. ''The Small Vegetable Garden" Af- ter the seeds have sprouted or after the plants have been set in their per- manent location, continued cultivation becomes necessary.
 The gardener should never permit the surface of the soil to become bak- ed or even to form an appreciable crust. Constant stirring with hand tools or a wheel cultivator should be practiced between the rows and about the plants. Such a stirring permits the air to penetrate the soil, where it facilitates chemical action and bac- terial activity, destroys weeds which otherwise would utilize large amounts of plain foo, and, finally, conserves the moisture supply. The rake is per haps the gardeners most valuable tool in cultivating. This can be pass ed backward and forward over the ground until it is in an open, mellow condition. Where vegetables grow
 
 necessary to supplement the cultiva- ton tV hand wedding. Small imple- ments are made for this purpose, and may be purchased cheaply. It is well also in some cases to pull up weeds by hand, es<.sacially wher they grow closely about the stalks of the garden plants.
 Stirring the Soil After Rains
 Just as the gardener should be careful in early spring not to dig the ground when the soil is too moist, so he should be careful later in the sea- son not to cultivate too soon after rains. The stirring of very muddy soil 'puddles'' it into a compact, cement like mass in which the plant food is securely locked. The garden will re- quire attention, however. as soon as the excess moisture from rain has soaked in or partially evaporated. Un- less the ground is stirred at this time crust will form almost inevitably Such a crust. besides restricting the plants, prevents the access of air, and also facilitates the loss of moisture through evaporation.
 Irrigation
 When, during prolonged dry spells
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11
WOODMEN ELECT

M. J. Dargan, William H. Chris tianson and T. J. Bennett of Bridge port have been elected to high offices in the supreme camp, Woodmen of the World, of Connecticut. at the con- vention held in Dabury yesterday. Dargan was elected to the office of cead clerk, Lnrlsrlanson. need escort and Bennett one of the head nanag- CTS Head Consul William E. Rob- erts and Mayer Anthony Sunderland of Danbury welcomed the 129 dele- gates present at the convention
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11

Secretary Lansing is considering asking Congress for an appropriation to cultivate large tracts of public lands to increase the food supply.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-11

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
 BOUQUETS
 JOHN RECK A M0N
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
Notice of Sheriff's Sale Under
Execution

Notice is hereby given that by virtue
of an execution issued out of the Cir
cult Court, State of Oregon for Una
tilla County, and to me directed and de-
livered, upon the judgment and decree
rendered and entered in said Court on
the 18th. day of June 1917, in favor of
The Farmers Bank of Weston, Cor
poration as Plaintiff and against F. G.
Lucas as Defendant, for the sum of
Ssas.00 with interest thereon at the
rate of 10 per cent per annum from
Dec. 20 1915, the further sum of $500
attorneys fees, and for $sl.70 cost and
disbursements, which said decree,
judgment, and order of sale has been
docketed and enrolled in the Office of
the Clerk of said Circuit Court, and
whereas by said judgement, decree and
order of sale it was directed that the
following described personal property
in Umatilla County, Oregon, to-wit:
The Northeast Quarter of the South
west Quarter and the South-half of the
Southeast Quarter and the Northwest
Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of
Section Six (6l Township Three t3l
North of Range Thirty seven t37l E.
W, M, and the appurtenances thereunto
belonging, all in Umatilla County, Ore
gon, be sold by the Sheriff of Umatilla
County, Oregon, to satisfy said judg-
ment and all costs;
l WILL ON THE a3rd. Day of July
A. d. 1917 at the hour of o'clock in
the afternoon of said day at the front
door of the Court House. in the City of
Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon,
sell the right, title and interest the said
+. G. Lucas had in and to the above
described property on the 2Srd. day of
December A. D. 1913 or since then has
acquired, at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash in hand. the proceeds
to be applied in satisfaction of said
execution and all costs.
Dated this the 18th. day of June A.
d. 1917
7. d. Taylor, Sheriff.
BY A. G. Funk, Deputy.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22

A Sarcastic Sermon to the Farmers
and Townspeople Who Send for Sup
plies to Mail Order Houses.
The following ten commandments are
offered for the guidance of catalog
house patrons, They were written by
an editor in Texas and like the ten COM
mandments given in the Bible they
should be memorized:
l. You shall sell your farm products
for cash whenever you can but not to
us. We do not buy from you.
2. You shall believe our statements
and buy all you need from us, because
we want to be good to you, although we
are not personally acquainted with you.
B. You shall send the money in ad-
vance to give US chance to get the
goods from the factory with your
money; meanwhile you will have to
wait patiently for weeks, as that is
our business method.
4. You shall apply to your nearest
city to aid you in building good roads
so that you can conveniently get the
goods from the depot, for we do not
build county roads.
s. You shall buy church bells and
church fixtures from US and forward
the money in advance for this is our
business method, and you shall collect
from the business men in your city as
much money as you can for the benefit
of the churches, for it is against our
rules to donate any money for county
churches.
8. You shall buy your tools from us
and be your own mechanic in order to
drive the mechanic from your vicinity
for we wish it so. .
z. You shall induce your neighbor to
buy everything from us. as we have
room for more money-the less money
you have in your community the sooner
we can put your local merchant out of
business and charge you any price we
please.
8. You shall look often at the beauti-
full pictures in our catalog so that your
wishes will increase and so you will
send in big orders although you are
not in an immediate need of the goods,
otherwise you might have some money
left to buy some necessary goods from
your local merchant.
.. You shall have the merchants who
repair the goods you buy from us book
the bills so you can send the money for
his labor to us for new goods, other
wise he will not notice our influence.
10. You shall in case of sickness or
need apply to your local dealer for aid
and credit, as we do not know you nor
care to.-price Current.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
500 Reward, $10O

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in the curative powers of Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list Of testimonials.
Address r. J.. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Druggist, 75c.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
VOTERS WHO DO NOT VOTE.


Obligations Of Citizenship That Are
Shamefully Neglected.
1t would seem that If the people were
greatly concerned over any one thing
above all others 1t would be in framing
the constitution Of their commonwealth
their charter Of government, with
which all laws and institutions are to
conform and the spirit and wisdom of
which enter into the moral fiber Of the
community. The constitution fixes the
rights of the whole people, defines and
circumscribes them, supposedly for
many years ahead. No provision should
ever be written into state or national
constitution that Is not Of sufficient
worth and Of such general application
as to make 1t In large measure
fundamental and permanent principle
of human conduct.
But an examination Of the votes on
the adoption of state constitutions, and
especially on the adoption of impor-
tant amendments to state constitutions,
dscloses the fact that less than one
third of the qualified voters of most
states signiGed their preferences in the
matter. The figures reveal shame
less and indefensible betrayal by the
citizen of his first duty to society, to
his neighbor, to the state and to the
general government.
We cannot study the statistics OF
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
THE MAIL ORDER TEN COM
MANDMENTS

A Sarcastic Sermon to the Farmers
and Townspeople Who Send for Sup
plies to Mail Order Houses.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
Notice to Creditors.

In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Myrtle S. Scott, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
whom it may concern that Will M.
Peterson has been appointed admins
traitor of the estate of Myrtle S. Scott,
deceased. All persons having claims
against her estate are required to pre-
sent them with proper vouchers as re-
quired by law to the said administrator
at his law office in the Smith Crawford
Building in reniieton Oregon, within
six months from date hereof.
Dated at Pendleton, Oregon, on this
25th day of May, 1917.
Will M. Peterson, Administrator of
the Estate of Myrtle S. Scatt, deceased.
Post office address: Pendleton, Oregon.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
Dwarf Trees,

Dwarf trees are suited to small gar
dens. They occupy little space. are
easily cared for. bear sooner than
standard kinds. and they are easily
shaped into bushes and pyramids or
can be used in espalier forms, trained
on buildings, fences or trellises.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
Afraid.

"Yes. proposed. but she said I'd
have to ask her mother first"
"And did your
mo; | was afraid the mother might
accept me-"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
Before the Public Service Commission
of Oregon.

Before the Public Service Commission
of Oregon.
In the matter of prescribing and fixing
standards for grain, hay and other
agricultural products and the pro-
mitigation of rules and regulations
concerning the handling, weighing,
inspecting and storage of grain, hay
and other agricultural products and
the management of public and ter
minal warehouses.
NOTICE.
TO all Interested Parties:
Please take notice that, pursuant to
the provisions of Chapter 333 of the
General Laws of Oregon for the year
1917, public hearings will be held for
the purpose of establishing standard
grades for grain. hay and other agri-
cultural products and the PRONUNCIATION
of rules and regulations concerning the
handling, weighing, inspecting and
storage thereof at the following times
and places, to wit:
June IL, 1917. at 2h2 Court House,
Portland, Oregon, at 1000 o'clock a.
m.
June 10, 1917 Tacoma, Washington.
June 20. 1917 Spokane, Washington.
June u, 1917 at the County Court
House at Pendleton. Oregon, at the
hour of 1000 o'clock a. m.
These public hearings will be con-
Quoted jointly by the Public Service
Commission of Washington and the
Public Service Commission of Oregon,
and all interested parties are urged to
be present and give such testimony or
advance such information as may be
deemed pertinent to the inquiry. 9th
Dated at Salem, Oregon this
day of June, 1917.
-- By order of the Commission,
SEAL L. d. Leedy,
---- Assistant Secretary.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22

She-My dear, can't you manage to
raise me a silk dust cloak? He-By
degrees, darling. I'll have to begin by
raising the dust.--Baltimore American.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
Land for Sale.

No. $3.50 acres, $50 in cultiva-
tion, 10 miles from town; 4-room
house, barn IS head, shed and granary,
good water supply. All in crop. Price,
including machinery and crop, if sold
at once, $40, 900. Reasonable payment
down, balance on good terms. With
or without stock. Partners dissatis-
fed, reason for sale.
If interested in grain. stock, fruit
or alfalfa ranches in Oregon, Wash
ington, California or Montana, address
Condor Realty Co., box "a, Condor,
Ore. ADV.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
Runaway Match.

"People wonder how got my wife.
It was runaway match. ran away,
and she ran after me."-Cassell's Jour-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-06-22
3 A " N ER s ALIVE
ERE mast hen,irn saiSe In the world
Group & LASH
Dentists

In Athena Monday Tuesday, Wednes-
day, other days of week in Walla Walla,
and and Main. lover Third National Bank
Dr.. e. w. cEoGp DR.. c. II. Lash
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-03
AGREE ON u. S. FOOD SURVEY
Provisions Against Hoarding and Reg
uIating Trading Eliminated.

Washington, Aug. 3.-Conferees on
the first administration food bill, pro-
viding for a national food survey and
appropriations to stimulate produc-
ton, reached an agreement. House
appropriations of $14,77O.OOO were re-
duced to $11, ,346, 900, and several SEN
ate amendments eliminated.
The Walsh-P PoindeXter provision
against food boarding, which has been
written into the food control bill, was
stricken out of the survey measure,
as was the provision to regulate future
grain trading on exchanges. The
house appropriation Of $8S5,O0O for
eradication of live stock diseases and
conservation Of meat products was re-
tanned, and $2,5OO,0OO was provided for
government purchase Of seeds for re-
sale to farmers.
The $4,34S,OO0 appropriation for
demonstrations and other general
work in stimulating foodstuff produc-
ton and preventing waste was not
changed.
The senate recessed until Saturday
in the expectation that action can be
taken then on the conference report
of the control measure.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-03
u. S. TO SEIZE
ALL VESSELS
Move Preliminary to Plan of
America and England to
Rule the Seas.
TO CONTROL WORLD SHIPPING
Norway, Facing Starvation II U. s.
Cuts Off Exports of Food, Is
Ready to Release 100000
Tons of Shipping.

Washington Aug. 3.-Plans for TAX
ing over for operation all American
ocean-going merchant ships soon will
be announced by the shipping board.
Charters will be requisitiOned under a
recent act of congress authorizing the
president to commander tonnage for
government uses.
For Control Of World Shipping.
The program Is preliminary to put
ting into operation an agreement be-
tween the American and British gov
ernments for joint control Of the
worlds shipping. 1t Will give the ship
ping board control Of ocean freight
rates charged by American ships and
rate basis being worked out will be
used for building an international rate
schedule.
The chief aim in communicating
charters is to get more ships into
transatlantic service. Many American
coastwise vessels and ships now en-
gagged in the Pacific and South Ameri-
can trade will be diverted to transat-
lantic runs. Their places will be taken
10 IL ldrSe extent NY ueuIISl SHlpS duu
by japanese tonnage.
The plan is to commander charters
and, wherever advisable, let the ship
itself be operated by it's owner under
a government charter.
Norway Is Facing Starvation.
Norway, facing starvation If the
United States cuts off exports Of food
is ready to release a million tons Of
her shipping in return for the privilege
of importing food, principally from the
United States. DR.. Fridtjof Nansen,
head Of the Norwegian mission to the
United States, declared here unreserv-
edly that Norway faced starvation If
the United States enforced an export
embargo against her,
What Norway needs now are fats,
sugar and grain, and, as Doctor Nam
sen expressed it, that Norway would
give O guarantee that none Of these
things would be sent to Germany, goes
without saying.