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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
SUNDAY-MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1925"
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Some Lies . About Beet Sugar Are '
V J TaH4d,Ey the American Economist
Tjiere la fiuonsK Produced to Make uVPtfoes Lower, tojhe Con
r stuner Most of. the Beet Sugar Concern Are Independ-
' eJ--tbtf SUn.uTactaren Do Not Rob tW Growers V i
Tkd , following it..: from K the
AmferJcattJEcoBLOna'fot'ot, Septem
ber 4th : ) - .., , t j
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; Concerning IJeet Sugar f"
Fre'e-Tradera lind. t&dsa. Interest
ed In : : the- prodtktiofi; importation;
refining and -sale w6r,. forego, sugar
have fig perBlaUnJIjnilsr.epresent
ed the fact aooilt .siigar thafc the
atera.??C PlPftL 8 Al noJt:lXno.w.
what to'belieTe.' -They have been
told so jaajijutMadJiboutaha mat
ter similar to that . told to the cor
respondent whose letter -appears
below, that they, like him, are an-
xions to learn the truth. His let-
Columbus, Ohio. ;
August IS. 1925.
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To tne American. Economist: i
A commission . merchant -oppos
ed to the sugar tariff makes these
statements: . "
. "1. The amount of beet sugar
produced In America Is so small
that its effect on sugar prices is
negligible.
"2. The same people who own
and control the cane sugar indus
try also own and control the beet
sugar and use it to benefit them
selves, not consumers.
"3.. The refiners rob the beet
growers and refuse to pay, them
Just prices for their product
How much of .this is true? What
! are the figures on -total produc
' tion 1 . Is there really no bona fide
competition? ! u
I should be glad to read an ar-
WniclT hare , heen offered, as " far
east as' the Albany district. "
We think that, answers Mr.
Jennings' question:; "Is there real
ly : no bona-' fide competition?"
There j certainly "Is. Had, it .not
teen for the lies of those inter
ested in foreign 'safari rather than
American- sugar," and their, cam
paign for lower rates of duty, 'the
Torapettio&'woaldhaTe'been still
greater, for;'more' sugar-i.beet8
would have been grown. As our
farmer friend puts it:-,"H we grew
enough to supply, the people for
only three months it would mean
a earing of $30,000,000 to the
American consumer."
As to the second statement, that
the same people who own the cane
sugar factories "also own and con
trot beeVaugar.'r we have i to say
that the facts above set forth tend
to show it falsity. There is, how
ever, some truth in that part
which" says that some of the same
people are interested in both cane
and beet sugar. In fact there is
one large beet sugar company
which is controlled by the cane
sugar interests, but, such control
does not extend to the beet sugar
industry in general. As was to be
expected, when an adequate tariff
duty was imposed upon Imported
sugar for the express purpose 'of
developing the beet sugar industry
in this country, an effort was" made
by some ot the seaboard refinery
interests to gain a controlling in
terest in some of the large 6Ugar
TAKE YOUR CHOICE EQUATOR OR POLE-6000 MILES TO EITHER PLACE
r I J ;.- k ir "Uw -tr
h:jy A' ; '--t 71" ..... ... v-r : -
thin mixes ia the state produced
terns Yalued a t, neatly $190,000
4urlng the last sere months of
1924. One of these produces the
Togo stones and, accoirdiat to the
cute department ot agriculture, is
said to be the moat valuable of its
kind In the world. It Is worked in
the manner' of qaartx mtne' f
$ Tne other j8 epof it jprqdticet ij-
dnstrlal sloncs. . There r ttro
totller, gei aad stones'jiateitbyi
ths) department of agricilture as
satire, to Moauna are ocUhedral
other known fappoirt 1ed3ln RjeliaTa6iIds, tactn agates, aad utfeba
sUle, which are not being worke.' stones of fine quality, black' lonr
The output ''M 'alifppei tbndan mallne, yellov and . afio)ty ' to pal,
and most of the cutting U done in rhodonite. ; nxufmalaehtte. jasper
SViuerland. : ; and garnets: - " , , "
"FOtEQCATORlAL. SPOT ON PACIFIC HIGHWlT GETS JAUV MARKER.
Diletante McMillans should have no trouble in this district deciding where they want to go, for the
state capital, search of geographical data has revealed, is just halt way between the north pole and equa
tor. ! All you have to do to decide which. you want to visit is flip a coin it's 6000 miles either wayT
Marking the "polequatorial spot," the Salem Kiwanis club has erected a marker on the .Pacific high
way, three and one-half miles north of Salem. The south side bears the legend, "Salem, ftalf Way to
North Pole," and the explanation, "Lattitude 45 degrees N.,' longitude 123 degrees .W. The other, side
bears the legend "Three Miles to Salem, Half Way to Equator.' Courtesy" Portland Oregonlan.
tide in the American Economist j beet factories and to some extferdt
vu. tuu mujcti iiuui uue """ltney were snccessiui. uui me
knows and will, state the facts purchasers were. later forced to
without coloring. - v ' I sell most of their stock and we
D, A. Jennings. cow know of only one company, in
In order to "be sure of our tvhich the cane sugar people have
facts," we wrote to a man who is a controlling interest. But. one
himself a grower of sugar beets factory can not control the beet
and is also well posted on the sub- etigar industry any. more than one
Ject from other points of viewt
What we shall write will be the
facts obtained from him and from
published statistics, official and
otherwise.
. With regard to statement No. 1,
made by the commission merchant
we have to say that the percent
age of consumption of beet sugar
of domestic production in the
United 'States for the year 1922
swallow can make a summer.
The third statement, namely
that "the refiners rob the Deet
growers and refuse to pay them
lust nrices for their product,' is
answered by our farmer friend:
'Nonsense, ridiculous! and a lit
tle common sense will prove it.
have been, a grower of sugar beets
off and on for 12 years. I believe
that I have a little common sense,
cated, but there are some localities
in which the factories contract to
take the beets' at bo much per toa,
taking their chances on the price
of sugar. These contracts are
made before the planting and the
farmers know in advance just what
they will, get for a given quantity
ot beets.. But it has sometimes
happened that such worked to the
benefit of the refiners and the far
mers were dissatisfied and com
plained. - That is the sole ground
for the statement made by the
commission merchant. v
Sugar beets are among the best
prdklucts the farmers ca ngrow.
Their production does not wear
out! the soil, but, instead, adds to
its 'fertility, which is more than
can be said of wheat and most
othejr crops. The yield is large
and the price is good. What we
need' is a large production of sug
ar beets and an increase in the re
fineries to turn them into sugar.
A larger production would be not
only of immense benefit to the
farmers but ot, untold benefit to
the consumers, for the production
of beWt sugar brings lower prices
for both cane and beet sugar,
whether of domestic or foreign
production.
Proposed for Head
of Ohio State U.
was 16.98 and fori 1923 was 17.89 land do 'you think I would grow
per cent. That is,- over one-sixth
of the sugar 'used in the United
States in those years was domes
tic beet sugar. Does any sensible
person believe- that this is not
enough to have an effect on pric
es? But our farmer friend furn
ishes us with proof that It does af
fect Drlces. "while it Is on I the
market." We quote: i v
"Here is an instance: Ohio and
Michigan begin extracting sugar
beets the second time if such state
ments were true? Last "year in
this territory; so many" farmers
wanted to grow beets that the fac
tories could not handle them all
and the factories declined con
tracts for thousands of acres.
Would- this have been the case if
the farmers Were helng robbed?
Farmers, are. paid, for their beets
on a sliding scale according to the
price of' sugar how could they
about the 10th ot October every I be robbed?"
year. Sugar was quoted on the
sugar exchange la New York the
10th of October, J92S, at $9.50
hundred. On October 17th, the
N. Y. Journal of Commerce had
the following: i
" 'It was reported that Western
Beet (sugar) are offered freely in
at $8.70 a hundred pounds.'
"On Oct.- 18th. the very next
day. the same paper said:
"The beet situation seems to
be the cause of general uneasiness.
It was rumored that Michigan
Ohio producers were offering beet
sugar in territory as far east as
Albany and Harrisburgh and. south
to Lynchburg, Va.
, "Who were uneasy? 7 It was not
the consumers, surely. - i
"On November 2nd, a month af
ter beet sugar began to he pro
duced, the Detroit Free Press pub
lished a wire from its market re
porter in New York City:
M,A price cutting movement
Vas started today by the big sug-
a refiners. Fine granulated sugar
-was reduced to I M0 a hundred
pounds. It is agreed that refin
ers are determined to adjust their
prices to levels that will meet the
comDetition of 'western beets
That is of course true of . the
line beet sugar factories are
not usually called refineries. The
factories called refineries are the
plantsthat take the raw cane sug
ar and' refine it make it into the
various commercial grades of sug
ar. Nearly all the beet sugar fac
tories work with the growers on a
fifty-fifty basis now. That is, the
growers receive an advance of
some ?6 a ton for their beets,' but
the final settlement is on the su
crose (sugar) content of the
beeta and what the sugar brings
in the markets when , sold. Of
this amount, the factory gets half,
and the grower gets half. In
round numbers, the United' States
consumed . five . million tons ot
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coo Pound (abOrO
Law School is befog
mentioned for the presidency of
Ohio btttft UniTeriitjr, ta soe
cejajoii .to Dr. W. O. Thompson,
resigned. Dean Pound recently
declined to become presldt' oi
the Unirerilty of Wisconsin. .
are grown . by independent farm
ers, and their number is now ap
proaching 300,000. Oregon must
join this procession of prosperity
and progress, and Salem must take
the lead with the first factory;
and it should be done this fall and
winter ready for the 1926 crop
ot beets. Ed.)
CAUTION'S REWARD
An Atchison, Kansas, motorist
chants this complaint: "We stop-
pea, tooKea ana ustenea, ana a
bloomin' idiot bumped into our
rear." Motor Mention.
Not Far
Tourist: How , far is
Pleasant View?
Native: "One thousand
hundred and forty-six
boars." Life.
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pnrni a v oiv crn i ar ci f t r
; ADVANCED SIX SEDAN" S 1 755 1 "
it to brakes full balloon tiros and 5 4lac wleol " I i
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sign- ' 1 "". . ' '- - '"".' -; . . '
Rainier State highway com
mission approves proposed Long
Bell toll bridge across Columbia.
territory in which our friend is lo-sugar last lear, and of this
amount a million tons was beet
sugar, . producer In continental
United States. It will be more
this year; but so will be the con
sumption,, most likely. The four
million tons comes mostly from
Cuba. Of the sugar beets grown
in the United States, 95 per cent
Germs Mined in Montana
Increase Fame of State
HELENA, Mont. Widely
known for its mineral resources,
its immense grain fields, its wool
and oil, Montana is acquiring ad
ditional fame for its gem deposits.
Charles B. HttbhfiChmidt, of
Lynbrook, N. Y., a recent visitor,.
said that in his travels he had
found Montana famoujr for Its sap
phires among New York jewelers,
Antwerp lapidaries and European
aristocracy.
Records of the state board- of
equalization show that two cap-
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