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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1921. THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON WETS OVERLOOKED AN EARLY CHANCE, DECLARES IITER By Norman Hapgood United Nn Staff Correspondent Washington. July 13. AS we look over the contest that has been coins on In Washington over the liquor question dur ing the last half year it is evident that the anti-prohibitionists have made no progress. Neither legislators nor admin istrative officials are ready to fly in the face of the obvious meaning of a' con stitutional amendment. Argument by the ton has gone on over the question of percentages, over beer and light wine, and an attempt has been made to -weaken enforcement by the form in which medical rules might be laid down. The trouble with the whole cam paign of the wets has been that it has been mixture of hypocrisy and belated -ness. Washington itself is a favorable atmo sphere in which to carry on a wet cam paign. Fashionable society is naturally wet and Washington has been more fashionable this last winter than in any winter since 1912-13. SOCIAL CONDITIONS CHANGE President Wilson shut down firmly on fashionable life. He looked upon fashion and big business as natural allies and both of them as the enemies of what he was working for. - i would have nothing to do with the Country club, which is the focus of fashionable life on its countryside. Of the two city clubs that are well known most of his cabinet were constantly seen at the more intel lectual, less wealthy, of the two, while today the other club is the place to look for cabinet members But although congressmen and sena tors moved in a fashionable and anti prohibition atmosphere in so far as they found their way into the social life of the town at all, they knew enough about the country at large to realise that for most of them wet efforts would mean disaster. Washington was full of equaling about personal liberty, and other quaint syno nyms, but they were like the barking of a dog that knew he was not going to bite. The dominating fact was that a constitutional amendment had been passed, after something like half a cen tury of agitation and that the purpose and meaning v e. perfectly clear. MISSED THEIB CHANCE I am not writing an argument in favor of prohibition as an original question. Personally I should not have been sorry to see something like the Swedish method of control tried first, but it was not tried. Those who are now interfering with the successful operation of prohibition never lifted a hand to cure the evils of the American saloon by less drastic control. First, we had the original prohibition ists, who talk to us in moral and general terms about wickedness. They diea out, having accomplished little. Then came forces like the Anti-Saloon league, put ting the emphasis on the definite cost of drink; on what it cost in lowered real estate values, in the encouragement it gave to gambling, to prostitution, to cor ruption in politics and in the way it populated jails and insane asylums. Along at the same time came argu ment from the increased complication of machinery. Nobody wanted a chauffeur who drank. Railroad managers did not want locomotive engineers who drank. The pea gw of individual labor by more and more intricately related machinery struck the heaviest blow of all to the doctrine of lais-ses-faire In personal habits. SOUTH HAD BE AL DANGEB In the south there was the special cause that rapidly caused the passing of prohibition laws in those states. A negro erased with drink was more dangerous than a negro deadened with cocaine. After three fourths of the country had gone dry on such considerations the con stitutionsal amendment was pawed. To pass an amendment under our constitu tion is no light matter. It presented the settled determination that had been going on steadily without a setback. The opposition - has tried get back to the original question, which is no longer open. When a careful and serious de cision of this kind has been taken by the people it is up to those of us who were doubtful about it to recognise that the majority has the right to have its policy tried out. The difficulties in enforcement are not hurting the cause of prohibition. They are hurting- the standing of those ele ments that refuse to give the new policy a decent chance. Federal Taxation in Relation to Lumber Will Be Discussed ADVERTISING ROAD 10 SUCCESS, FRUIT RAISERS ARE TOLD Study of federal taxation as applied to the lumber industry will have a prominent place on the program of the midsummer meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers' association, to be held at Seattle July 28 and at Ta coma July 29. Utilisation of by products and prevention of waste in the manufacture of lumber also will be discussed. Following the two-days business ses sions the committeemen will be guests of the West Coast Lumbermen's asso ciation at Paradise Valley, on Mount Rainier, July 30 and 31. Twelve prominent Eastern members of the committee, including John H. Kirby. president of the national as sociation, 'will be present at the meet ing, according to the bulletin. It is recommended that when real estate, including standing timber, is traded for similar property for the purpose of consolidating or blocking out timber holdings, and not for the purpose of profit other than that de rived from economies of operation re sulting from such consolidation, no taxable income should be considered as having been made. The committee also recommended the discontinuance of tax exemption privi leges on municipal and state bonds. Peoria Store Robbed Of Groceries, Goods Halsey, July 13- Thieves entered the merchandise store of Lamar & Lamar at Peoria, Or., some time last night by way of the bacK aoor ana carried away a large quantity of shoes, drygoods, groceries and foqr new auto mobile tires. The loss is estimated at 1300 to $400. No clue as to the identity of the intruders has been found. Advertising will sell Oregon fruit crops when nothing else can. C I. Lewis, gen eral manager of the Oregon Growers Cooperative assocation, this morning told the Pacific coast fruit growers' confer ence at' the Chamber of Commerce. Lewis discussed the values of adver tising and general publicity and pointed out the possibility of securing marvelous results in the world markets through a consistent campaign of exploitation. "The time has come for us in the Northwest to get together on sf great campaign," Lewis said, "levying one quarter to one-half cent a box on all fruit available for marketing. This should produce marvelous results. The prune growers, for instance, are the only ones who have ever resorted to adver tising fruits In the New York subways They were very highly repaid for the effort. SESTETS ABB SHOWN Lewis pointed out the great results attained bv some of the California co operative advertisers, calling particular attention to the disposition or tne iai orange crop, which could not be mar keted in the Bast because it cost the growers $2 a box to put oranges into New Tork as against 9 cents for Italian oranges. Nevertheless, California de veloped other markets nearer home by a judicious use of advertising. "The presence of every one at this conference is an absolute indictment against the present system of distribu tion anH marketing of farm produce." With these words at the opening of his address George A. Mansfield, presi dent of the Oreron Farm-Bureau federa tion, draw tha attention of the fruit growers' conference, to the claim that it is time to Inaugurate some ne system of moving the essential foods and necessities of life from the pro ducer to the ultimate consumer. Mansfield talked on both financing and transportation. The railroads came in for a severe indictment for the man ner in which thev have padded their valuations and then represented this Valuation to the government as a true one in order to show that they are not making a profit on their capital. In flrurine their valuation in cities the railroads have been allowed to add what it would cost them to condemn property and put their roads through at the present time, as well as a "going business" valuation which, according to Mansfield, should not be considered. since if the railroads are operating at a loss their business is not a success and therefore not a "going one" HEBBEBT HOOVER QUOTED Herbert Hoover was quoted as saying that 'Freight rates must come down if sericulture is to survive." The present rate of 96 cents per box of apples is making it Impossible for the grower to make any profit upon his orchard, Mansfield said. It was stated that Danish potatoes could be shipped over seas and landed in New York for less than the cost of transporting potatoes from Pennsylvania to the New York market, yet billions nas been appro priated by the government to pay the railroads a profit upon their bolstered tap valuations. Two things must be dorse, according to the imn the price to the con sumer most be lowered and the price to the producer must be raised. Mane field believes that by a system of form ing organisations and using term con tracts from the time foodstuffs are pro duced until they are In the consumers' hands, this can be accomplished. Amal gamation of existing cooperative associ ations which work on a long term com modity contract would be a big step for ward in this direction, he said. "We might make it so that a Portland child wouldn't shy st the sight of a red cheeked apple." said Mansfield, who told of the crops the farmer could not afford to harvest because of low prices and yet the scarcity in nearby cities and towns of this same article CONSUMPTION 18 CUBT AILED "There Is enough waste In the present system of marketing to soon pay for re frigerating and distribut'ng places in all parts of the country," he said. "If such planes were provided fruits could be placed in the consumers' hands at prices which would not be prohibitive The vicious part of the method now in use Is that the high prices asked by the retailer cut down the use of these fruits until not nearly enough is eaten by the American people." Instances were cited where growers who hsd received leg Ethan 1 cent apiece for fine apples were charged 10 and 15 cents st fruit stands for poor grade apples when they were in the city. 'We must have a different system of SEXD MAIL OBDEBS TO WEIGHT'S Ml FOUBTH STBEET ANNUAL SUMMER SHOE SALE! LOWEST SHOE PRICES READ COME BUY SAVE Entire Stock On Sale Just a FEW of the Bargains Listed Below $Q98 New Strap Pumps $J98 I Black kid, French heels; black kid, Baby Louis heel.; f, -J black suede, Trench heels; black suede. Baby Louis ffijk Vs4 heels; black satin, French heels; black satin, Baby Xfcj wV Loui, heels; brown and black dQ QQ d A QQ S!Ff yvA kid, Cuban beels. 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"In order to heap on producing, farmers must he put on as Arm a foundation as are bankers-" It was declared that the Portland Front Street Dealers' association dic tates to all fruit stands and controls the prices en the local market. A ease was cited where a hotel was boycotted cause It bought a Quantity of fruit without letting It pass through the com mission men's hands. PBESEHT METHOD FAILURE It was admitted that growers' associa tions sometimes suffer a setback, but it also pointed out that It is better to suffer a little once in a while If It Is known where the money goes rather than be et the eternal mercy of someone else who has the say as to what the pro ducer shall get for his labor and prod uce. Present methods have been a fail ure through many years Mansfield said. and he expressed the belief that it Is now time to try a new system. Dance Quarrel Ends In Double Shooting PocateUo. Idaho. July IS. Pedro Val des, a machinist In the Oregon Short Line shops, was shot and instantly killed at t o'clock Tuesday morning, and J. M. Chacon was dangerously injured by la bullet wound through the abdomen as I the result of a quarrel which occurred following a dance given by Mrs. Rebecca Chacon, wife of J. H . Chacon, Is charged wtth the kUttnl of V aides. Bad feeling at said to have existed between the families far some time, and it is stated that the woman was intoxicated at the time of tne ahen ing. LOSES IN IB ACC1DBJTT Csntrahn. Wash.. July IS Albert Be low. Lewis county planter. 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