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SECOND NEWS SECTION i Pages U to 4 - I I slogan pages; general: AND CLASSIFIED .-.1. i h a hvm mi in i u j I v SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR IlimvESTPBffiliUSTIiri OEIflLITY AfiD PUBLICITY ARE THE NECESSARY FACTORS FOR So Writes M. J. Newhouse, of the Oregon Growers Co v operative Association; land Hef Speaks as One Having Authority, On Account of His Experience in Marketing and the Responsible Place He Holds in the Marketing ; - of the Northwest Crop Editor Statesman: -r . Many people are prone to Judge the prune Industry strictly from a local viewpoint. High prices for 4 time, as graphically illustrated elsewhere'. ; will lead . many farta communities to t greatly in crease their prune plantings. New plantings are 'our " hundred per cent greater . In California . today t&an they were 1 0 years ago. TJije Australian government Is " taking an active part in furthering - Its growing dried -fruit Industry, jot which prunes form an . important Item., .Cape 'Colony prunes are now listed on the English market and are to be ; reckoned wltb. American' Improved methods 4 of growing and packing are now he Ing adopted by the Bosnian grow ers, and last . -r year their cheap prunes were a seriously disturbing factor, even Invading-this country as far west asj the Mississippi. France is expected to " be' a factor this year in the European mark et, her ctop being heavy. Nearer home, in Idaho, this year's "disas trons fresh shipping returns is turning the -. growers .to drying as ait emergency. Clarke county and Oregon produced a record crop in 1918. the total being slightly over J 50,000,000 pounds. i - Last year the two sections pro duced 72,000,000 pounds and at that sizes were miserably small. This year, only, lack of drying epace prevented another mammoth production of big sizes. I A Modern Concrete Hons Mi will . ! rri 5y CORA W. WILSON. Jt has been wefl said that "the character of a people may be de tennl&ed by the homes they. Ave in. and that the best monument a man i can erect for future generations 1 ! horn of permanent character. It has been the desire-of man at ..-all times to fcuiid his bouse as well as be could, la Esropean countries , ma sonry construction of brick " and tone has been tsed alnwt exclu arvtly. The ptoreera In this w" try being. depeaient upi th na" terials close at hand buHlog cabins; and from these has evolved the -American : home 1 of to-day. ; Many aerkMM oanaamUona. such . as -Xb ('STeat Chicago fire, the Baltimore '.fire,, the Chelsea fire, have taught u ithat the house: that was the (best oltalaabl. in Colonial days Is ' in suited to the consisted areas of Mrs cities or vb the modera farm f where on fuel -and eJectrical power 4 create seiioas fire basards. m The wise henie ouilder f to-da., knows that aj S perT cent. -Increase h the coat i his house." spent ort Permanent materials that will not burn, -decay, settle or require fre quent maintenance. Is .money well spent that wIB begin at once to earn -r.'3jjls for him. Concrete meets these requirements ' of ' the home tcJr as no other material does, 11 If ITCH PNI . ln - rlV PINING KM I TTL 1IVIN0 EOOM K 1 1 :' , 7 ' iPOECrt ' ' B . i f-arzd ,. r -r" - ' ' f-asTl - - - S : The carry over 1 of last season and a resulting belated market,! is bringing us sudenly face to face with a ' serious problem of distri bution. How . are Wo going to meet it? Shall we have discour aged growers and neglected orch ards? Shall we allow an ipdustry built up at great , cost, to 'find its level by digging up the orchards?, 'i The courage and business sense of growers and business men In Oregon is going to -be- seriously tested. Our entire prune program Is essentially faulty from a: Psi; ness standpoint, If we continue' to increase' production and do" not provide at the same time for equally increased consumption. This increased: J consumption : is possible only In two ways, namely; first "BETTER QUALITY" and second "PUBLICITY." .By Abetter quality" we not only mean a fetter tasting prune but also a larger ' prune. ' .Western Oregon and Clarke' county are es sentially and practically the only sections in the world where the wonderfully tasty Italian,' prune grows to 30-40s and 40-50s. On these sizes we have ordinarily little competition and this year practically none, as the largest European prune is about 70-80 and California's Petite prune this year is turning out only four per cent 30s and 17 per cent 40c but this is strictly a grower's problem Wonders have been done by in creasing sizes by pruning, culti . : f 1 UGGESS CHAMBER! and besides Is the 'most adaptable of all materials. Portland cement stucco Is pleasing and, artistic in appear ance. It does away wrtth frequent 'painting and Is permanent. ' '-The most Important part of build ing a house Is very often accom- ' pushed .before ; actual construction begins. The economy, comfort, con venience and even the appearance of; a bouse are largely dependnt epon the care and thought employed tn devising the plan. A weU pUnned house is a. Joy to .those who live In It. while one that is badly planned costs as nsiueh or more to build and, is a continual source of dissatisfac tion and annoyance. rr So moat fit .our ..beautiful .homes built tp-day r'mnt or : stucco. The feungaiow house shown Is built of 'Stucco and makes a ! charming appearance and would be a pride to any owner. When building onc'a botne bp ve thought to the kitqben and pantrjr , floors. In summer wood , , floors "ifpqnd.,in wlnfer they dry out apd .contracc ?itb 'a' tendepcy to open up the ; cracks between the boards, so It Is advisable-to cement linoleum over a lining of builders deadening felt glued to the floor -. twi fpJt , takes ud exoan- si?n land contraction and giv a permanent waterproof, good looking I noor. easy to keep clean, and If put on when the house ia being built vating and fertilizing. I Quality' further means picking and drying a "good" - prune. , very .- day, growers' association in the North west have their men out visiting dry era and urging growers to leave on the ground what is unfit for human food. ; Deliveries are promptly : turned down .at their warehouse doors if not up to qual ity. This is absolutely a grower's problem and H is only through growers' "organizations, owning their own packing plants, em ploying courteous .but firm 5 re ceiving officials, that this prob lem can be met satisfactorily. The question of increased dis tribution at fair ' prices to the growers can be solved. ' only through a.strong Northwest prune association."' If our quality is good and, maintained on a high plane the Oregon prune must then receive the aid of judicious pub licity. As in the case of the lo ganberry, this cannot be done by the individual ; grower nor by small - groups lOf : growers. Vol ume Is the heart beat of mer chandising such a product as the prune, which finds its outlet the world over. At a cost of only 1-1 2c per pound the Oregon and Clarke county associations ' last year were able to reach the prin cipal markets of this country and Canada, with valuable" publicity about the Oregon prune. In some sections of Canada these associa tions through' advertising were able to increase prune consump- tlon to S: pounds : per person. Nearly two million pounds were sold to western Canada ; in five pound cartons, practically all re peat business with not a . single complaint about quality. - Oregon prune problems are not going to be solved through gov ernment aid, but it Is strictly fa case of self help.' If we work for the 'larger size's and back up our Increasing tonnage by a real hon est to goodness growers' associa tion we can met' any competition that may come along, ' ' ' M. J. NEWHOUSE. Mussolini knows the ancient trick, of keeping people loyal to him by keeping them- mad at somebody .else. . f - 1 CHAMBER 1 2-4 V 14- win .save a lot of trouble and -pense., ; The Interior also must be cpa sldered. One of our most Important .features are the wans which form a background for the Turnishing C the rooms. This should ba a easy matter for the housewife to settle. as never before have vSuch beaotlful, patterned wall papers been 1 avail-. able; not only axe the patterns rich and abundant .with birds and flowers ; but It has , been .admitted some of, the best ; patterns . and colors ' are 1 shown in Inexpensive wan" papera, A large selection of tapestry, scank!. moire stripes and plain moire, beau tiful soft toned Bosch Colonial pat terns and a raft of deUghtful chlnts' rail paper . for -bedroom. Jt this , important .Item is carefully selected .one's main decorative work Is wefl done, and to-day If the exteriors are beyond comparison surely one should plan their " walls and select ' their, wan papers carefully ; so .the- In teriors ef -to-day wUl not be a dia-' appointment.. I i C0.P1.ETB 'SET OP.; WOBKIITK BLUE UIXTS AHB PKCIFICA TIOS O THE HOUSE PICTUaEP TO-tKkT MAT BJB OBTAWE .T JfOMIMAI, COST Bt ADDifcSSlSe .HE UOU3B PI.ATS EnrtOR, ,P, O. BOX 50. too, STATtO!C O, XKVT TOMK CITY,'" Asxiaa JKKB JIOXM TLAJi n. SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY THE PRUHE irJDUSTRY FUTURE, AS It Is a Matter That Concerns Us AII- Different Phases of I ? the Problems That Confront the Men Engaged in the IndustryThe Marketing Problem Is the Big Thing Edftor Statesman: The prune! industry! and its fu ture is a matter that much con cerns the growers and business men' of our state of Oregon during these days. I,-- . j , The grower is wondering wheth er or not, in spite o' high taxes. labor, etc., he can keep going, while the banker and business man is wondering how manjn times 1 he must renew the credit extended to the grSwer, and it it is safe to loan or trust him any more. ' ; The industry has several phases. of which the growing and dryipg. marketing and the net price to the grower are the : chief ones. Each is important, and if we are to succeed here in any one, ;we must master all,, three of them. We cannot look 'after one of them and leave the others to disinterest ed parties. Wis have the prob lems before USL- They: are OUR problems and will only be solved by US. r-. -f - y-'-: We prune. growers; are keeping our noses too'jUear j.the ground, planting, cultivating) trimming, digging borers, etc., working until we are tired' out. raising and dry- ing the stuff.' With a sigh of re - lief, as though our part was done. we 'turn It over! to the packer to do .the rest. All that many know about the rest Is the hard luck story off no market, no sale, low price, -jetc., thatl the buyer, in a nice' suit of clothes aud;a shiplng auto-tells them. j (, - .One can go from one end of our fair state to the other, and find that the growers are cursing this, that and the other.- Either that t was some local manager or packing plant that caused such a low price. , 11 I have heard local men blame the .association' heiFe. j i At, Rose hurg It vu t fie plant there "at Salem, ' there, etc., but the same groWers hung their heads, - and stayed inside their own fences, not even crawling onto the house, roof to get a better look into the out side world. t Flint rKtri Boil and climatic conditions are so favorable to j the growing of prunes in Oregon that it does not require' much team work to grow the prune,'. " Anybody . can grow prunes on prune soil, and by scien tific methods heavy yields can be dbtalned with very few failures. The writer has had nine success ive heavy crops on old trees, f ; The prune tree Is not fussy. It grows on the city lot, highway or back In the hills. away from civ ilization. It does its part by pro ducing Quality prunes," unless the season is against it. : If we needed more prunes it would only be nec essary to whisper in a low voice, "plant more prunes." ' Second and Third Problems. ' Until recently, the marketing of the prune has been left' to dis LET HIE COS LIVE; HIE WILL rEEO THEM flr'D A LOT MORE IVHEJJ HE SET EVE01(T1!C MJUSTED Iff By . ELLA McMTJNN ' If you have no husband or he is la; jail or anything I think it is very nice to work In the cannery and earn a dollar a day. It is a lot easier than to get out In the hot sun and bake your brains pick ing strawberries, or break your back picking tip prunes or scratch your face off picking hops and get aphfe down your' neck or get nine million briars In yoqr fingers pick ing loganberries.' And it is far more feleasanit to have your feath er bed to return to in the evening than a bunch of moldy straw in a corner of a-shack. ; And it is nice to ' have your ? bottle of milk on the porch in the morning and your Statesman .in the yard, or anyway. In ;your, neighbor's; yard, 'than, to use ' the . awtuU ; unspeakable con densed milk that prevails in those berry and hop. yards. . V I And so I do not quite see why all the fruit growers are st anx ious to round up the cannery men and dump' them into the Pacific oceans They should at least have some consideration for the fishes. Anyway, " the : fruit growers are no -wqrse off .than they were be fore, the canneries came. . .But 1 torgot ; to ' say that we also had Jolly .times ip the, cannery, and be sides lo,ur images we often ate a nice ,plnmp strawberry or ' cherry. You ' are not .supposed to do so, according .to Instructions .that are printed -on . your tickets but the tickets are printed In California where the owners live, . I guess - MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1923 ITS SEEfJ BY MR: MILLER Interested packers, who, in turn, have passed them on to gamblers, speculators and profiteers. They are each standing along the mar ket road looking for a chance to get a slice by, buying from the grower at a low price and raising so high that they go on the top shelves in tie .store. Only at Thanksgiving or Christmas " time has a man in fair circumstances felt able to reach them. - 7" ' ' I jan write from experience, for I am from Portland, Maine, and as a boy I remember, the hard shrivr eled prunes that mother bought or the holidays, 'when we 1 must have something extraordinary. After giving us each three or four to chew on, she told us. "Now you can't have any more, or we won't hive any' for the family dinner." Usually, she had to h(de them. . "VThe market fthJenVto' 'ii fair' 'price5 here, and" then, get 'the prunes to the consumer, at prices that they cauaf ford to ,eat them, and -take ' them1- from' the high shjelves andst; tn.eht dhwo aslde' tne sugar,; uonr ana common eais, so1 that, instead of being a luxury, they are ,a , cdmmpn food. This can be done onl by united efforts. through, collective, marketing as sociations, organized by the grow er to protect his interest from or chard to consumer. Next to the "Story of the Cross" the cooperative movement is no doubt the greatest problem of our age. It is going o play a prom inent part in the future welfare of our existence and country. High education Is. producing a string of profit seekers from one end of our road to the other, prey ing upon anyone they have a chance to get a hold on, while, by thet sweat of our. brows, in mud, and long hours at the dryer these days, we are about to unload an other crop, -ft " It grieves me to think of the kid glove gentlemen, with shining autos Who are waiting to screw the price so high that the working class of , people in the .east will at our prunes, because of the price mark.' . ; . ""'..' , Can the marketing problem be solved? Yesi . What Is necessary? United efforts. Who can do it? WE; . L. N. MILLER. Eugene, Ore., Oct. d. 1923. - (Mr. Miller is engaged in prune growing and commercial: drying. His address is Crow Stage, Eugene, Oregon. He is the inventor and distributor of the Miller sanitary prune washer and trayer.. ' He is an expert imdrying problems, fur nishing a complete line of dryer equipment, including plans and specifications.' In a note to the editor, Mr. Miller said that, while he yas very bwry, he could not let the opportunity go by to say a few words about prunes In reply to a request to write for this issue.Ed.) 1 ; and I never heard of anyone being discharged for an infraction of the rule. , And how patriotic we were, too. Promptly at noon all four hundred of us rushed to ,lhe center of the building and burst into a -loud squawking of "The Star Spangled Banner." The ma chinery was shut down, which I think was a great mistake; as we had no other musical accompani ment. I fancy we must have been a moving sight, and sound,' as we went through th e. regular contor tions, the stomach of our aprons being quite spotted from" contact with fruit stains. At first there was one boy who knew the tune and stayed with It through the first verse, but he got a hankering to go t o war, so we bought him a wrist watch and fell upon his neclt and wept. But be fore he got into the thick of the fray the -examining board diecov ered that he had a freckle on his left ear so he did not proceed or get killed or ; anything. after us being out our money on him, too. And on the Fourth of July, out of consideration for the fact that we worked, the' cannery people gave, us an Ice cTfam cone. " ... " ' , Now, no t being' unmindful of past favqrs. I rise to defend the canneries, and If possible 1 hrge that they should be , allowed to live and to suggest what seems the 'only ; remedy t for. this1, loganberry congestion that has so wrought up growers, and .this prune surplus. - Green loganberries are no more fit to he canned than green biack- berries or green raspberries, the parents of the loganberry. They cannot handle ripe logans in boxes or crates, but they can pick them dead ripe and sweet and palatable in cups made of parafined paper at our own mill in Salem. Twenty years ago the Puyallup raspberry people used some sort of cups for raspberries and canned them suc cessfully. ' . , ' And when (people have had ripe logans, RIPE ones, I tell you they will buy freely. ( And when they have Just Juice made of RIPE lo gans, which are not bitter or sour, it will run in rivers from the tanks to the thirsty of all nations. And prune dryers who have the mistaken idea that prunes will not keep unless they are roasted as hard as Walnuts, are killing bur prune Industry, pretty dead. An other thing, our prunes this year, that is Italians, are not first class. The intense ' heat of summer the caused brown rot next the seed in spite of the orchards being well worked." Water, could have saved them, and nothing else could. It is justcas hot or hotter in Califor nia, but they bring water ninety miles to irrigate. .We could get It at 30 miles or less. Enough said. Let 'the . can hers - live. I fancy we shall need them and a lot more when we get everything adjusted in our very productive country.; ' : iL'tf & FREAK WHEATS ARE TAB OB T O G (The following are "Farm Re mlnedrs" from a current bulletin of the department . of industrial journalism of the Oregon Agricul tural college)". This is the open season for the freak wheats. Harvest is about over and many farmers are think ing of what they will sow this fall. Some were disappointed when the thresher failed to turn out as many bushels as the June estimate made in the field. It is the time when the promoters of the freak wheats tell their stories of. big yields and sell the old fakes for several times the market price of better wheat.: The standard va rieties proved by the experiment stations are the high yielding ones and they may be bought -certified seed for but a f market wheat. Don't be led into paying a big price for the Bevea -headed or titanic or other of the poulard wheats that, have failed to produce in the real wheat trials, is the warnlngvsent out by' the station. X: ' l ? Dried beans and peas held over for. food or. seed . should - be fumi gated before permanent : storage to prevent weevil Infestation, ac cording to Lester Lovett, entomol ogist of , the Oregon experiment station. Place the material to be fumigated in gas proof ( containers and treat with carbon bisulfide. This material is a liquid and may The Telephone In Business By far the greater proportion - of business today in this country is transacted by telephone. It has become the ordinary means of; securing prompt and satisfactory results in the business .world Many business firms are extending the use of the telephone to include their transactions over the en tire territory they serve. S - - The essential thing in sales work is service to your, patrons. ' Use of long distance lines will increase the efficiency of your. service andthe expense will be less. j For service to all points ask for Pacific Long Dis tance. Every Bell telephone is a Long Distance station: - ' ' . ' ! 1 5 1 t , I E INDUSTRY SHOULD HIT ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCES If the Producers Can Be Brought Together Closely Enough to Work Out Adequate Plans for-Marketing the Crop, This Will Be the Result, Says Mr. Silver - T - I': 13Jli. a . . unur siaicsman;, h Replying to your inquiry as to our "ideas of prunes: - : If the producers of Oregon con tinue to plant prunes indefinitely and then try to market ithem as independent individuals the prune Industry spells disaster not only for the individuals concerned, .but for an important section of the whole community: - j If the producers of prunes can be brought together j closely enough to , work oat adequate be placed - in shallow ' trays and plced on top of the seed)." Cover the container tightly and allow the gas to act 48 hours. Two table spoonsful to, each fire gallon con Overnight, practically, sands of discriminating men, tired of the commonplace have joined in wel JLJ)' tvMfitnn Km HA4M In making this new; Wriri the ; Thf rarft times,insteadof merely xmoc. tttatis.':u the difference between me commbn," ' " pla and the extraciina kyibntojudge dnglishlypi mp:? tenrj rives yoa anewariWv;tfj . - . V, r l :MJ .S ftm J6r' Vrr'liv.;'. I ; . v " Buying and Selling by Long Distance Telephone is Bringing Satisfactory Results Whenever Tried i The Pacific -Telephone .': Telegraph Company PRICE FIVE CENTS E plan3 for marketing the crop un der some "uniform policy of stan dardizing, advertising and selling,' the prune industry should contin--ue to be one of the most important resources of the state. : Dundee Pruit Growers & Packers, i ' v . W. W. SILVER, Sec'y. (The Dundee i Fruit Growers and Packers ! (incorporated) are what, their name indicates, growl ers and packers off Oregon prunes. Red 'Hills brand is the -one they, use in their; marketing. Ed.) tainer is a proper dosage. Th e gas does not Injure the material or make it unfit for food. . Carbon bisulfide is inflammable and should therefore be kept from fire. tkcw ' , . cigarette we tnhaeffls thXTS , - - smokeyonr : ; 5. & lUl rr i i 'MB. ' ' . mJ ... - "' "TTfc'S ' '-1 1