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SECOND NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 6 SEVENTY-jSECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON. THURSDAY .MUllMNt;, NOVEMBER 30, 1922 PRICE 5 CENTS Slogan Pages and General News - ' ! t. If r. i :'. ! r c REQUISITES OF THE SUCCESSFUL PpUCTH illSPBFiy CROP i There Must Be Favorable. Harvesting Conditions, in Or der that the Berries May Not Dry Up on the Vines, and the (Question of Help in Picking and Packing Time Is (Also an Important. Consideration. Editor Statesman: In compliance with your Invi tation of the 213 rtt inst., I hereby submit a few thoughts relative to the raspberry jlndustry in West ern Oregon, for the Slogan page of The Statesman: In a general way I wish to say that the production -of this tooth some fruit has a bright future In certain sections of our state. But there are many limiting fac tors to the profitable production of the red raspberry. Among them are suitable soil. This fruit in u fit have good soil drainage to take care of the excess water of the; winter season as well as a soil with good; capillary qualfties to furnish moisture during the growing seasoii In response to fre quent cultivations. The soil must be : well fertilized, preferably a light sandy loam with an open,, porous subsoil Jo afford drain age, i Favorable Harvesting Conditions Another desirable condition is a location that Is' favored by the availability of a high sea fog that the July sun does not penetrate until ten or ieleven o'clock a.m during this harvest month. This condition shortens the heated period of thej day and prevents excessive evaporation at this crit ical period of production (the har vest period). The Gresham dis trict fortunately has all of these - natural advantages, to which we attribute our success in getting larger yields c f choice fruit. The harvest season, here covers a sea son; of from $0 to 40 days, and the! fruit of this last picking is as large and luscious as the first picking. Question of Harvest Help " Another limiting .'factor in ' raspberry production Is harvest help. We cannot keep pace with other Industries in reducing har - vesting costs,, s s the only harvest "ing device w know of Is 'the 'tbtrmb jflid tuo "fingers of the : human hand (pf course our bus iness f of berry harvesting is like ; the fag pickers never depressed because it is always picking up), but I am sure the harvest prob lem will tend to curtail produc tion and must add materially to costs and will have a tendency to OUCH! LAME BACK DUB LUMBAGO Oil - BACKACHE AWAY Kidneys cause backache? No! .Listen! Your backache is caused by lumbago, sciatica; or a strain, "and the quickest relief Is sooth , ing, penetrating St. Jacobs Oil. Rub it right on your painful back, and Instantly the soreness, stiff ness and lameness disappears. Don't stay crippled! Get a small trial bottle of St. Jacobs Oil from and limber up. A iit Is applied you'll wonder what bjecame of the back ache or lumbago pain. Rub old, honest St. Jacobs Oil whenever you have sciatica, neur algia, rheumatism or sprains, as it is absolutely - harmless and doesn't burn the skin. Adv. your druggist moment after confine the industry to territories near large centers of population where hejp is available not only for the harvesting of the fruit but ulno for the canning, which requires many human hands to sort into tlie five grades that the trade demands. i ItarrcliiiK the Berries We have another method of saving the berries that we look upon with much favor: This is the barreling and freezing of the raw fruit, which has passed th experimental stage and is adapted to the handling of all kinds of berries. This plan is simple and cheap and is received with favor by the jam, preserve, jelly, juice, extract and pie manufacturers and will make the handling of a larg er acreage possible. In speculating on the future of the berry business we are forced to admit that the near future is none too bright, owing tb many causes, chief among which is our narrow foreign national policy of trying to live unto ourselves and let the rest of the world go hang, which has depressed 'values in farm products, especially in the middle west (which was one of our best berry markets),, so that they cannot afford to buy our berries. ' This condition is also made more acute by war time freight and express rates, which is a very keen two-edged sword that cuts both ways. I could also men tion the fact that the fruit dealer has not broken away from the habit he formed during the war of doubling the price between the factory and the consumer. These are great economic problems and the. farmer must have immediate relief or go out of business. The truth is, the agricultural horse has been stolen in the past two years and it is a little late to lock the barn,' but better late than never. If foreign exchange could be stabilized aid starving E.trope could take our surplus forvl pro ducts at a profitable price to our farmers, it would surely help our berry market as well as the mark et for all other products, boh domestic and foreign. I may be over concerned, but have always figured that agricultural prosper ity should come first, and if our farmer population of 32,000,000 people were prosperous all other interests would be well taken cire of and prosperity would be gener al. You will pardon this digres sion from the topic, RASPBPER RIBS, but I am sure there is a very sympathetic connection be tween the prosperity of our mid die west farmer and our fruit market. I wish to say in closing that we have built up a purely co-oper ative association of berry growers in this district that is now four years old and has been of material benefit to its 275 members who have in bearing nearly 1000 acres of berries. We have managed to prevent the slump that has brok en the price of other truck, fa ;n products to a price little above the cost of marketing, and unless con ditions grow very much worse we will be able to pay a fair price for the harvesting of the berries and have enough left to pay the taxes and buy tbe baby shoes. Hoping the worst is past, I am, truly yours, D. E. Towle. Gresham, Or., Nov. 24, 1922 .. - , r- I wo t mm V n ' ' 1 TTndtf IT. 8. Government Supervision Cooperation i. i - i s ' - When you open an account with this bank you automatically enlist the com bined cooperation of all our officers and directors, no matter whether your ac count be large or small. We have found that one of the best ways to make our bank grow is to help our customers to grow. MAY WE COOPERATE WITH YOU? United States National Bank "The Bank That Service Built" Member Federal Reserve System SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO if ?F-4 7i ft " v Md xwm- 'You Are Going on a Long Journey." Mother Graham was ""cominjr down-1 with it. and I was wildly anxious to aet her to bed and b3-gin-to minister to her as soon as possiM. I knew U-tter. how! ver. than t. say anything more about i: for a few minutes. Shie was in one o: the cantankerous moods when any insistence on mj part would have sent her into an unreasoning rage. That she wais perfectly capable of going out ankl gttinpr the fuel to build the fire if I did not hasten, I knew per fectly well. So I roe harriedly and went to th door, tossing back the protest I knew f he wanted orer my shoul der. How perfectly absurd, moth er." I said. "You know I'm only too glad to build you a fire at any time." On my way out to the woodpile at Hup hack of the house 1 tapped j lightly on my father's door.; where, by a cljancw for which I blessed .my lucky stars, he had taken Junior for one of the romps j the little chap loves. Mother Graham's Orders "Father, dear," I whispered hurriedly when he had opened the door. "I am afraid Mother Gra ham is coming down with an at tack of influents, although she herself will not admit it. Will you put on Junior's things and take him outdoors immediately? I don't want him to get into the room with her." "Of course you don't," my fa ther whispered back. "I'll take him out at orce. But my dar lingbe careful yourself' I was absurdly pleased as I sped down the hall that he had uttered no protest against my acting as nurse, as so many fa thers would have done. That he ; understood I could and would do i nothing else, and that he approv j ed, I was as sure as I was that ! his heart was torn with anxiety i for me. With a basket of chips In one hand and an armful of li?ht wood held in the other arm. I hurried back to the sittinu room, and in a short tim had a wonderful fire blazing in the k rate, li made, tbe room so warm that I felt most un comfortable, but Mother Graham moved her chair close to the blaze, and bent over it with out stretched hands as if she could not get warmed even with its aid. "Wojild you like a cup of hot tea, mother?" I asked, knowing It would be useless to propose any thing more strenuous until she herself should admit that he was ill. ''I'd like something," she re torted tartly. "I'm freer Ing to death. What are you doing run ning around in that thin house dress without your sweater Go and put it on at once, and then make me some tea. You'll be catching your death of cold, and then I'll have you on my hands for e sfrepe." If I had not known from long experience how loyally and de otndly my mother-in-law would nurse me through any illness, no matter how severe, I should have felt aggrieved at hr ungracious ness. As it was, the only emotion I experienced besides my ever mounting anxiety for her, was annoyance at the prospect of hav ing to wear a sweater In that overheated room. If I could only discipline her, I tenected. as one would a retrac tory child, the problem of earing for her would be much simplified. As it was, I foresaw rn arduous task before me. (To be Continued.) COMES NEXT MONDAY Pendleton Man, as Acting Governor, Will Help Passu on State Budget mm i H 11 Adele Garrison's Xew Thase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE CHAPTER. 173. WHY MOTHER GRAHAM WORRIED MADGE. j The weather must be changing, j Margaret. It's very cold in here. I wi3h you'd start a fire in the grate." I looked at my mother-in-law keenly. She had slept late as, indeed had we all upon the morning following Leila's wedding, but ,ahe had appeared unusually languid and tired at the breakfast table, and the request (The association to which Mr. I Towle refers is the Berry Growers j Packing company, of Gresham, I Oregon. ) tor a fire startltd me as the day was an unusually warm one.' She was sittinp, in a sort of huddled position in her chair, r.nd I observed that the hands with which she was mending one of Junior's little suits were shaking. "I am afraid you are not feel in" well, mother," I said soiicit ous'.y. "Don't you think you would hotter put that up and lie dc-wn,? I am afraid you havi h chili!" i Chill!" she exploded. "If it's a sigh of a chill for an old woman to want a bit of fire on a cold day, why then I nfust have one. You get along and fix that fire unless, of course, you do not wish to use the wood or take the trouble to build it." She .had drawn herself erect in her wrath, and I saw with dismay that her cheeks were flushed, while her eyes had a curious, in flamed, watery appearance, as if she had been weeping. Influenza! The dreaded word .seemed to resound in my ears from the depths of an alarmed consciousness from which it had ; sprung. 1 know the invariable symptoms, for Dicky, Junior, ; Katie, Jim and myself had had mild attacks of the disease at in- tcrvals during the winter. Both I my mother-in-law and my father I had escaped, something for which I was profoundly grateful. , Illness Threatens. I But I was very sure that Four Years More Anyway, Declares Justice McBride 'In intend to stick around here at least four more years, and I have no intention of resigning." was the reply of Justice T. A. Mc Irrlde of the state supreme court, I when asked about a rumor to the 'effect that he intended to resign. As aoon aa Senator Roy W. RU ner arrives from Pendleton . t take over temporarily the rein of the. state government during: the absence of Governor Olcott. the state budget commission will be called into session, to pass on estimates of needed approprt Hons that have been submitted to the' commission by the bead t fate departments and lnatitn. tions. ' : f! All department and institution. piead have sent in tbcJr fistW mates and these are now neing tabulated. What the total wtll amount to has not yet been as certalned. U This is the first year the budg et commission haa operated, ,-: It Is .composed ot the governor, the secretary of state, and the ststp treasurer, and was created at the 1921 session of the legislature. It Is la tended to remove from the ways and means committees of the legislature much ot the labor of slashing appropriation ' esti mates and thereby expedite the business of the legislative session. Senator Rltner who, under the taw, serves In the capacity ot f oV ernor through' bis having been president of tbe senate la 1821, whenever the governor is absent from the state for a considerable length of time; has aent word to Salem that he cannot be here-before Monday of next week. j'l Something . else to worry about tbe Arctic Ocean is get time warmer. I rongheart I STORE CLOSED TODAY THANKSGIVING 1 1 On this day of Thanksgiving we rejoice in turning back three centuries and with utmost reverence salut ing those brave Pilgrims of Progress whose Faith was the; cornerstone of America's noblest achievements . . . . with as deep a sense of gratitude we ac cept this opportunity for expressing our thanks and appreciation for your patronage . . . and so in the sincere belief that contentment, happiness and prosperity will always result from a policy of service to the public, this organization will continue to serve and achieve. THE r , PRIZE WINNERS! MILLER'S DOLL SHOW After being viewed by hundreds of interested peo ple, both young and old. Miller's Doll Show came to a close last night. Eighteen classifications showing 143 dolls in all, character dolls, best dressed dolls, brides, kewpies, for eign dolls, old dolls, etc. A collection of dolls, some of which were gathered from the four corners, as Ma diera Islands, Sandwich Islands, Spain, Scotland, Italy, Holland, England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Norway. In the oldest class were 51 dolls that repre sented an aggregate age of 2500 years all prize win ners will be displayed in window until Monday. Three prominent Salem ladies awarded the prizes as follows: Jeanette Sykes 1st Grand Prize Dorothy White 2nd Grand Prize Lottie Green 3rd Grand Prize Clauda Settlemeier A 1st Otilla Sevick A 2nd Lottie Holcomb B 1st Mildred Smith B 2nd Eva Klink , Clst Marie Breckheimer C 2nd Mary White D 1st Deena Hart D 2nd Neva Stolzheize E 1st Ruth Halvorsen . E 2nd Esther Price F 1st Margaret Turner F 2nd Betty Byrd G Katherine Hileman K Jeannette Scott , Kewpie Mrs. F. Cashman Oldest Doll 93 107 94 G3 118 113 12 39 28 35 23 36 66 106 105 41 10 Phone U I Go Good ti Court at Liberty St. Salem's Leading Department Store f" -I "T "- . . . ..,.:; ill r- I