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VOL. XXVII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1916 No. First National Bank New Business This is the time of year to consider and plan the cam paign in all lines of industry. The officers of this strong bank are always glad to assist in your plans and convince you of the advantages of a savings or checking account with us. A. D. MOE President E. O. BLANCHAR Cashier STATIONERY Lord Baltimore Linen box paper 30c; pound paper. Cascade Linen box paper 35c; pound paper. Lotus Fabric Linen pound paper Ustaco Linen Box paper 40c; pound paper. Tulip Linen box paper 35c; pound paper. Smyphony Lawn Stationery, box 50c; pound paper.. Envelopes at 5c, 10c and 15c package 25c 25c 25c 35c 35c 50c Kresse Drug Co. EASTMAN KODAK , AND SUPPLIES 7&e 3eaSJL Store VICTOR iVICTROLAS; and; m RECORDS) COME IN AND HEAR THE LATEST MARCH RECORDS Bank Advertisement No. 82 "The Nature of the Banking Business." By H. S. McKee (SERIES SEVEN) "In a rough way, then, the bank can extend credit to customers about in proportion to what they do to support and maintain this credit struc ture. The homely and practical expression of this is to say that the banks can best help those who help the banks. There is one further qual ification. The bank can safely and properly loan the most to customers who borrow for the short est time. The usefulness of bank credit is great ly increased when it is borrowed by a customer who uses it to serve a temporary need, and quickly repays it to the bank, to be used in turn by another customer, so that a given sum is used by several different customers in succession in the course of a year. Deposits created out of loans of this character are responsive, elastic and serve the whole community. "A permanent standing loan of bank credit to one customer is something like cash hidden in a safe deposit box. It is withdrawn from use ful circulation; it impairs the usefulness of the bank and prevents it from serving its other cus tomers. A bank cannot create a line of satis factory, elastic, circulating credit out of a sod den mass of notes of customers who seldom pay. The bank, then, in order to be of the highest usefulness in the community, must extend credit to the customer who is known to be of high char acter, who is amply able to pay when due, who does not try to borrow more than his fair propor tion or for too long a time, and who does his full part in co-operating with the bank and strength ening it as vital agency in the business life of the community." BUTLER BANKING COMPANY A Bargain Purchase of the O. P. Dabney & Son stock was made after several negotiations. This bargain be came so apparent that we made few advances in the proposed closing out prices and in hundreds of items. Reduced These Figures Beyond All Consideration of Cost This stock has been consolidated with our own to re duced selling expenses to lowest cost. We are adding bargains to the line from our own stock, so that you may supply any want at figures far below the greatest bar gain hunter's fondest hope. We have added extra salesmen and are prepared to serve you promptly. H You will also be favored with our regular credit terms and the popular 5 for cash. Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. Your Credit Is Good. You may pay cash and save 5 per cent & Steamers "Dalles City" and "Stranger" Leave Portland 7 a. m., arrives at The Dalles (1:30 p. ra., daily except Sun day, arrives at Hood River 4:20 p, m. Leave The Dalles 7 a m., arrivea at Portland 6:30 p. m., daily except Sunday, arrives at Hood River 9:20 a. m. Wednesday of each week is set aside as "Stock Yard Day" and then the Pteamer Dalles City will take live stock for delivery to Portland Union 8tock Yards. This service will permit the individual to ship as few animals at de sired and get benefit of low freight rates. For further Information phone 4531 R. ROBERTS. Agent, The Regular Line Announcement Extraordinary ! FOR ORCHARDISTS Our Spray Factory will soon be in operation and a large part of our output will be handled by the Apple Growers Association. For your own best interests help a home in dustry and a home institution and place your orders with the Association. And don't wait too long, if you would profit. J. C. BUTCHER Keep Your Money In Hood River By Having Your Clothes Tailored to Measure by Dale & Meyer We have a large asssortment of novelty suings as well as the ever serviceable blue or black serge or cheviot. DALE & MEYER lOft Third Street Tailors to Men Tailors to Women GROCERIES The Quality is Guaranteed and the Price is Right at the CASH GROCERY Grocery of Quality E. E. KAESSER, Proprietor Phone 1012 lti the Fine Coffee on Eirth, I lb. tins 45c. 3 lb. tin $l.. i U. tint MM Moat of tba beat people in Hood River use k. Sold only at Star Grocery Perigo & Son NEW BUILDINGS RECOMMENDED P.-T. ASSOCIATION HEARS REPORT Existing School Rouses are Declared In adequateSchool Board, Favorable, Takes a Neotral Stand At tba meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association at tba high school builJing last Thursday night a committee ap pointed recently to confer with the school board as to tbe advisability of nee buildings, recommended in its re port tbkt new structures should be pro vided. Tbe committee was composed of F. Davenport, Jr., S. A. Mitchell, P. H. Blagg, Mrs. F. H. Button and Mrs. J. P. Lucas. While members of tbe school board express themselves as favorable to tbe plan as outlined by the committee.Jthey declare tbat they will not wage any campaign for the new atructurea. "As business people and members oi the school board." says F. A. Cram, chairman of the board, "we feel that the proposed investment will be a good one. But we will only go so far as to put the absolute facts before the peo ple and let it go at that." The report of the committee follows: Members of the Parent-Teacher As sociation : We, the committee appoint ed by your hororable body to confer with the school bosrd in regsrd to tbe needs of our city schools, desire to sub mit the following report: We have held three meetings of the committee; at two of these Prof. Mc Lauhglin waa present. Also two meet ings in conjuntion with the school board, to which the alumni and high school associations sent committees. We bave interviewed tbe superinten dent of schools, as well as many of tbe teachers; examined the records of the school for the past Ave years, and re viewed the grounds of both Park street school and the high school. We have looked into the conveniences and equip ment of the schools ; the sanitary con ditions, as well as the earnings and ex penses of the school, and have compared the same with the earnings of former years. We bave examined the records of the number of students in all the buildings, year to year, comparing them with the records of this year. In this connection we find that tbe high school has gathered in tbe pupils of the neighboring districts and departments bave been added which could not have been without this increased attendance; that the cost per pupil baa been low ered in our district because of this in creased attendance. Our district has received only tbe cost per capita of operation for these pupils. The income from this soutce is about $5000 per year. This attendance means much to our high school, and these pupils must be cared for if we wish to hold them and retain the departments as we bave them now. Following is data relative to the district, showing the financial status, as well as the number of pupils en rolled, the cost of rented buildings and other expenditures. Data relative to School District No. 3: FINANCIAL: Valuation of district 12.793.491.14 Bonded Indebtedness 43.000.00 Rate of interest on bonds b'i per cent Interest paid annually on bonds Number of years bonds are issued Date of issue Note: Bonds mey be retired at the end of 10 years and a sinking luna must he treated besrinninr with 11th year. Limit of bonded indebtedness district Tax levy in mills for 1914 Tax levy in mills for 1915 Tax levy in mills for 1916 Amount of tax levy for 1916 Other revenues for 1916. estimated: Tuitions to hign scnooi State appropriation County school tax Delinquent taxes, no data 2.378.00 twenty 1908 139.674.S6 7 9 7 6 20,961.18 4.800.00 1,894.75 7.000.00 tl3.194.75 In addition to the regular expenses of maintain- Ins; schools, the following- should be considered: Rent of manual training building 225.00 Rent of room at Christian church 112.50 Rent of skating; rink prior to 1915 and ' the eouivalent for 1915-16. 100.00 Commencement expenses; rent of hall building- of stage, rental oi cnairs,eio. an.w Rofital of hall Dark by students, est.' . 76.00 Rental of halls for social by students.. 25.00 Total sszz.bo SCHOOLS: Number of pupils in grades 476 Number in high school 210 No. in Pleasant View bldg. 4 rooms. . . Ill No. in Christian church. 1 room 30 No. in Park Street, 8 rooms 267 No. In H. S. bid, grade, 8 rooms. -68 hirh school 210 278 Total number of grade rooms 16 Average number in each room no No. of grade rooms having 2 divisions. H No. of rooms having 80 pupils and over 8 No. of rooms having 30 and more pupils and 2 grades High School: Conditions demanding attention in high school are not the size of classes so much as the arrangement of rooms, buildings and equipment. The rooms for regular book work are mostly small and jammed together, while the rooms for special and vocational subjects are widely scattered and insufficient in either space or arrangement of rooms. Tbe lack oi iaciuties is most nouceauie in the follow ng departments : No assembly room lor student or public meetings, and lor literary pur noses. Manual training shop, removed two blocks and inadequate in sue lor pres ent work. Kitchen, inadequate in arrangement and equipment. Sewing room, temporary quarters. and any permanent equipment for this room not thought aavisaoie. Commercial department, no room for typewriting, a hall being used at this time, unsatisfactory and hard to heat. In considering the wants of our schools now and the possibilities of tbe future we beg to make the following report: At the Psrk street school we find tbe conditions bad in this respect: The srades are crowded, sanitary con ditiona are not of the best, and tbe grounds and builidiiss are not adequate to meet the needs oi me scnoois ; mai the efficiency of the work is being bin dered bv the lack of room. In this connection we find that a room at the Christian church la rented and being used for a primary grade, but this is not satisfactory ; and there is no ether available room for another teacher to relieve tbe overcrowded eondi tion. The report above shows that eight of the 16 grade rooms bave an enrollment above tbe average, and tbat five of these eight rooms bave two divisions, r grades, in the room. This average ia too high and should be reduced, es pecially in the? primary grades. Aa before stated, tbe grounds are too small for a new building, or an exten sion to the present building. We rec ommend in this case the purchaae of more ground, or tbe securing of a new site on Eugene street. As to the blgb school, we find the rooms very much crowded, though the faculty ia doing a very good work at a very great disadvantage. As shown in tbe report, there are now in this build ing 210 pupils, as compared with 125 in '912. Here we find tbe domestic scienee department ' and commercial depart ment and the upper grade pupils from tbe Park street school. We find that this building was not planned for the work aa it ia now given in our high school. Tbe facilities are not modern- the equipment, especially in the sew, ins department, ia inadequate on ac count of lack of space. In one instance tbe ball is used tor work in tbe com mercial department. Tbe mingling of grade and high school students in tbe same building ia not aecuring the best results, and the grade pupils ahould be removed from this building. We rec ommend the securing of more ground lor the blab school, we also recom mend a new buuilding, built so as to take care of tbe manual training de partment, tbe domestic science depart ment, atbietie training room and as sembly ball or audtiorium. In tbe financial report we find an item of $225 for the rental of a build ing for manual training purposes. This building ia located several blocks from the other school buildings. The room is too small and the equipment of a ne cessity inefficient. Too much time is lost by the pupils going to and from this building, and the loss of control of tbe students while off the school grounds is considerable. We would recommend that any plan in building ahould consider the addi tional numbers of children that are to be expected in the district in the future. That none of the sitea on which the buildings are located are large enough. We find tbat while the number of people in the city has decreased, the number of pupils in the schools has increased. This should lead us to the consideration of tbe future and to the number of pu pils we will have when the city again gets back its population. we find tbe additional expense, paid out for rental of rooms, etc., is not se curing satisfactory service in any in stance, and this money would largely pay the interest on a sum sufficient to properly equip the schools of our district. In closing we wish to ask that you do not lose sight of the work our school board is doing. We found them giving much of their valuable time for the benefit of your children, and the future of your school. We think you will find much to commend them for, in the fl nancial report given you this evening. It has been through their efforts that we have secured the able superinten dent and tbe corps of teachers who are doing so much for us and our children, as well as the future of our beautiful city. PARSONS CORRECTS ERRONEOUS REPORT Seattle, Wash., Feb. 28, 1916. Editor Glacier: Will you kindly cor rect an article recently appearing in one of your issues relative to tbe con templated withdrawal ot tbe Kogue River Fiuit & Produce Association from the Northwestern Fruit Exchange and my connection therewith. As far as tbe decision of the Associa tion to cease using the Exchange as its selling medium is concerned, that ahould be entirely with the stockholders of the Association. Personally, as as grower and one of the organizers of both the Association and Exchange, my interest first naturally lies witb a proper selling method employing system and compre hensive distributon and intelligent and experienced operators. I, therefore, have no idea of severing my connection in any way witb the Exchange, as in my belief it is only through a central selling agency of this kind that we can in any way meet the present crisis in the fruit situation in the northwest and overcome so many of the problems and difficulties that are confronting us. The function of the local, or district organ ization, is a most important one and should cover the picking, packing, han dling, assembling and shipping under absolutely correct methods. It then becomes the function of the highly sys tematized and comprehensive central selling agency to market the fruit where the great proportion oi the con centrated efforts of the entire north west can be put financially and morally behind their product, and toe business done in a wholesale manner, rather than retail, aa the problem ia a big one and ahould bave the coraiiated activi ties of many experts. Tbe grower is an expert pioducer: he ahould hire ex perts in tbe next step, or that of the local Association, covering handling and shipping, and they in turn should employ in the technical matter oi iruit distribution, an accurately trained and thoroughly broad central selling agency which can .cover the markets of tbe world from the various districts, and whose activities would not be limited by the production in variety, quality and quantity of any one locality and the consequent restrictions of financial effort on the part of the growers gen erally. It is pleasing to note that the North western Fruit Exchange has steadily gained in the proportionate amount of fruit sold each year of the six years it baa bandied fruit from various sections of the northwest, the most recent ac quisition being the Milton Cooperative Fruit Growers Union, ot Milton, Wash., whose fruit production ia considerable, and its possibities are most promising. Very truly yours, Reginald H. Parsons. PORTLAND APPLE SALE IS BEGUN The Apple Growers Association be gan its second annual sale of Red and Blue Diamond brand Yellow Newtown apples in Portland tbe latter part of last week. Blue Diamonds are selling for $2.40 per box, retail, and Red Dia monds at $2. An advertising campaign in conjunction witb retail grocers is being waged. Last year during a week's time the Association, not being able to export the Newtown applea because of the war, sold 23 carloada of the two grades in Portland. "While we have not so much of the stock tbia year," aaya A. W. Stone, "we are looking for the best of returns." AUCTION MAN SCORESJMVERS TOO SUSPICIOUS, SAYS C00DSELL Present Condition, It is Declared, Would Make Auction Sales of Boxed Apples Unprofitable At a meeting of orchardists ad dressed by him, under the auspices of tbe county granges at the Commercial club Saturday alternoon, E. L. Good- sell, a representative of New York fruit auction interests, characterized the failure of northwestern boxed ap ple growers to receive profiatble re turns from ales of their crocs aa due unqualifiedly to their own actions. You bave condemned your sales agencies and everyone else in connec tion witb tbe trade," he said, "when it is yourselves that you should condemn. My advice to you is to affiliate with some cooperative agency, and these sgencies should secure some neutral marketing expert who is nut a grower to act as a bub or clearing house for them." The fruit industry of the Northwest. the auction man declared, has been op erated like a railway system without a train dispatcher. Mr. Goodsellll voiced an approval of the plan proposed by the Office of Mar kets of the United Mates Department of Agriculture and declared that he would go further and advertise the Northwestern apples as California has advertised its oranges. He de clared that applea from all districts should be marketed under one brand for the porpose of reaching the con sumer, "but J that individual brands, be cause of their value in dealings with jobbers and retailmen, should be re tained, eefore making this statement, Mr. Goodsell, who characterized the Hood River growers as tbe 400 of the apple world, asked that nobody shoot him. "You growers here no doubt think that your brands are of the greatest value," he said, "and they are lor the purposes mentioned. But the consum er is a very impersonal proposition, and some such brand name aa 'Snow Crisp,' for all fruits would reach them." While- Mr. Goodsell cited arguments for auction sales of boxed apples, he declared that under existing circum stances his concerns would not accept box apples for auction. With north west sales agencies for the most part centered in handling the fruit through other channels of trade, he said that auction sales would in all probability leave growers dissatisfied with returns. During past years catalogs of auc tion sales have merely designated brands of carloads of fruit sold by them at certain dates with the price, instead of describing the grade, quality and condition of tbe appleB. This practice has aroused antagonism of boxed apple salea agencies, and at tbe suggestion of some of them," declared Mr. Goodsell, we will publish all infor mation pertaining to sales in the fu ture." The auction man declared that a law should be passed to prevent growers from attempting to sell their crops themselves. He Baid agriculturists should pay more attention to politics, and elect men who would adopt meas ures that would be beneficial to the farming population. On Monday Mr. Goodsell held a con ference with Governor Withy combe relative to the proposed chartering of a ship to carry a cargo of apples to England. He baa met with the gover nors of Idaho and Washington, both of whom, he says, are in favor of the proposition. Next week Mr. Goodsell wili see Governor Johnson, of Califor nia. He says that a saving of 66 2-3 cents per box can be made in shipping apples direct to Europe by steamship lines as compared with the rates charged for shipments through New York city. Mr. Goodsell, who is en route to Cali fornia to confer with fruit interests relative to the distribution of by-products, was accompanied here by Arthur M. Geary, of Portland, who has been engaged for the past two years in the interest of the auction system of mar keting boxed apples. CANADIAN APPLE DU TIES ARE HEAVIER It is thought by local apple sales agency officials that the increased du ties placed by the Canadian govern ment on this fruit will make shipments to the markets of the provinces prohib tory and tbat as a consequence ditnbu tion will suffer severely during the marketing season of next fall. "The duty has been increased from 13 1-3 cents to 33 1-3 cents per box," saya Wilmer Sieg, "and in addition to tbia a war tax of 71 per cent of the in voice is levied. The increased tariffs will have no direct effect on us, but by eliminating from Canada the heavy shipments of C grade product of other districts they bring this large quantity of fruit in competition with our applea in markets of the middle west." It is said that the increased duties have been fostered by fruit growers of British Columbia and Ontario, who hope by means of it to bolster their domestic sales. A government report on the distribu tion of last year's crop of Northwest ern boxed apples up to January 22 showed that 558 carloads were shipped to Canadian points. JUDGE DERBY WILL BE A CANDIDATE Judge Dreby has announced that ha will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the office of district at torney, of which he is at present the incumbent. A graduate of the law school of the University of Oregon, Judge Derby baa resided here 10 years. When Hood River county was established he was appointed the county's first judge. Ha represented Hood River and Wasca counties in tbe legislature in 1911. For eight years Judge Derby was city at torney of Hood River. Keys made while you wait. Shop, Third and Cascade. Tire