The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, March 08, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text? f mm let i tPj ! VOL. XXVIII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1917 1 1 1 r 'III - ll BurpeeYSeeds Grow The most complete assort ment we have ever shown from this world famous grower, is now on display and at growers' prices, with permit to exchange or return your over purchase. Our stock of Spencer Sweet Peas include the latest novelties. Prices on Garden Tools & Ranch Tools And steel goods generally are high. But our contracts were in excess of the year's needs, so we are able to of fer prices that show a large saving. A wonderful line or orchard tools. Crockery, China, Glassware Broken lines in thousands of choice pieces at prices be low factory cost Your china closet can be restocked at small outlay by taking ad vantage of this less than one-half price.'' Furniture Is alwaysodd if desir able and this department is overloaded with goods at prices we can never hope to repeat. The best bargains wehave been 'able to .offer in years. No Trading Stamps But All bills subject to 5 cash discount or 2 if accounts are paid at end of the month. Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. KODAK TIME Always ase Autographic Films with Autographic Kodaks We always carry a complete stock of Speed and Non Auto graphic Films. If it isn't an Eastman, it isn't a Kodak.,. Bring your films for developing and printing to us as we do it right and promptly. Kresse Drug Co. THE REXALL, STORE f" Come in and hear the latest March RecordsEastman Kodaks and Supplies Victor Victrolas and Records, $13 to $40 We are selling Schillings Best Line with a Money Back guarantee if you are not satisfied after using them. Kaesser's Grocery Grocery of Quality, E. E. KAESSER, Proprietor Phone 3192 STRONG BOXES PROVIDED at LOW RATES FOR THE SECURITY OF VALUABLE PA PERS AND OTHER PROPERTY OF CUSTOMERS First National Bank Hood River, Oregon Member of Federal Reserve System The Fashion Stables Cars To and from Parkdale are running on changed schedule. Automobile now leaves Hood River daily at four o'clock instead of four-thirty. Cars leave Parkdale daily at seven thirty a. m. except on Sunday. Parkdale-Hood River trips are made every Saturday night, machine leaving at six-thirty. Travel right, when seeing the Mid-Columbia district and tell your visiting friends about the excellent service of The Fashion Stables Telephone 1201 Hood River, Ore. Attention Orchardists! Our warehouse will hold only a limited supply of spray materials. In view of the serious car shortage situation and a possible tie up from a railway strike, we urge that growers begin to haul their spray, in order that we may refill the ware house and thus secure enough stock to supply the needs pf growers for 1917. Your co-operation is needed to prevent a possible bad situation. Your purchases of spray may be made through Gilbert & DeWitt, Kelly Broa., Fruit Growers' Ex change and Apple Growers Association or direct. J. C. BUTCHER. White -River Flour Makes Bread Having the Old Bread? Flavor AT YOUR GROCERS Prompt service and satisfaciion for our patrons. These are some of the things that we incorporate in the principles of our business. We invite your better acquaintance during the year, 1917. ARNOLD GROCERY CO. Niagara Brand Lime-Sulphur Spray A standard solution at a reasonable price. Call for your requirements at the Fruit Growers' Exchange or come direct to our factory one mile west and one mile north of the Valley Christian church. One-fourth mile east of Stanley-Smith planer -on the Belmont road. Accesible to West Side. Odell districts without the heavy haul of Hood River. Phones 5622 or 6627. NIAGARA SPRAY COMPANY. Orchard Must be Sold Quick 36.90 acres, Willow Flat, deep soil, 30 acres bear ing, best varieties, good bungalow and barn. Will bear close investigation. $300 an acre-Think of It??? This place sold for $21,600 four ye&rs ago. Chance of a lifetime. Act quickly. Phone or address owner. L P. BRUCE, 211 Lumber Exch. Bldg., Portland FROST DAMAGE WASSEVERE DAVIDSON VIEWS APPLE MARKETING Transportation Companies, Says New York Agent of Association, Must Better Service to ex JUST ARRIVED! A new line of samples, including all the latest designs in Tweeds, Worsteds and Cheviots. Come in and look them over. MEYER, The Tailor 108 Third Street Rubber Stamps AT THE , GLACIER OFFICE Because of an altered failure properly safeguard fruit from the treme cold, the transcontinental rail way lines penetrating the Northwest ern apple district, according to H. F. Davidson, who was here last week on a brief business trip from New York city, has caused the fruitgrowers of the Northwest this season a million dollar loss. I do not make this statement out of any antagonism for the railway companies," says Mr. Davidson.' "The lines have endeavored to help all they can. Conditions, however have been such the past fall and winter as to show the railways woefully lacking in equipment to handle the Northwestern apple crops. 1 do not think it will be necessary for me or any other fruit grower to do more than give the rail ways a hint, for it means much to them that the apple industry is main tained on a paying basis, for North western railways haul no freight that pays them a better revenue than ap ples. "Because of the car shortage last fall it was impossible for the rail way companies to move enough of the fruit to eastern storage to supply the winter market Consequently these apples were transported in Decembe r and January, just at a time when the severest weather was prevailing over the entire distance traversed. Much of the fruit arrived in New York in a frozen condition, and in addition to the actual damage, caused a depression of the market. I believe that the cars of apples, with frozen fruit in them, de spite the fact that the larger portion of the product was unhurt, sold for 25 per cent less than if none of the apples had been frosted. Most of the shippers availed themselves of the heater ser vices provided by the transportation companies, but even so these apples were hurt almost as badly as those shipped under the old tariffs, which priovided no heaters. A considerable portion of the fruit arrived badly tainted with the taste of oil or gas, and the eastern barrel apple men were given a fine chance to advance their old Story to the effect that Northwest ern apples lack the fine flavor of the eastern product. ' rractically all of the damage was caused by freezing through the floors of the cars. And besides this, because of the heater service much of the fruit would arrive showing numerous discol oration spots of the size of a dime. The car floors are not properly insulat ed. If railway companies are going to carry apples in the dead of wintertime. it will be necessary - to put in better floors. In my opinion a cork filling could be placed in the floors at no very great additional expense. Unless these Irost proof cars can be provided by the tranportation companies it will be necessary for them to haul in the late tail to eastern storage terminals a sufficient quantity of the fruit to feed the markets from December 15 to March 1." Mr. Davidson pays the highest com' pliments to Northwestern growers for their strict observations of packing rules the past year. He declares that the fruit has never given the dealers better satisfaction from this stand point. While the British embargo has creai ed a' great speculation among North' western fruit men, and while the con' dition will seriously affect their busi ness, Mr. Davidson declares, basing his assumptions on general trend of the market conditions of all food prod uets and the Rhortace that rjrevails. that Northwestern growers should by no means be thrown into a panic. "The food shortage is so severe," he says, "that all products are selling at extremely high prices. In comparison with the staples, such as potatoes, bread products, cabbage and onions. apples have been selling at a moderate figure, and yet at a price that is bring ing in the grower a profitable return. Unless the crop of next year's apples is phenomenally large I believe that it will be consumed and that the prices paid will be profitable to dealres and growers alike. Except among the very poorer classes of people, who alter thev have Durchaed the actual necessi ties of life have no funds left, apples are being bought in larger quantities than usual. The condition is assisting us fruit men in our camnaign of edu cating the great mass of consumers to the food value of fruit, and tnus tne future distribution of apples is being advanced to just that much greater decree. ' Yet, I don't care how poor a family is. I have noticed from my observation through New York's East Side the past winter, that they nearly always man age to buy a little fruit. I have seen vast quantites of the poorest kind of annles on the stands down in the East Side districts being sold from the fruit stands at a penny a piece ana even cheaper. The quantities of such fruit moved are really surprising." Mr. Davidson says that he has trans ported 50 per cent more apples the past season than ox tne mo crop. "And if the British embargo had not been clapped on. " he says, "I would have exported at least another 150 car' loads of apples. I have shipped a total nf 300 carloads of Hood River apples to England this season. We have lost 25 carloads of fruit, four cargoes, from German submarine raids. Twenty cars of this fruit were from Hood River, All, however, were well protected by insurance. "Not long ago the rate on apples across the Atlantic was raised from 661 cents to 91) cents per box. While most shippers declared the rate vs exorbitant. I stood for the raise and shipped heavily with the result that am having a large quantity of apples arriving in England now. Because oi the embargo. I have already received word that an advance of two shillings, 50 cents per box. has been made in ap pies. Hood River has about 25 car loads of varieties in eastern storagi that should be exported but that will have to be sold on the domestic mar- Let. But through the increased price we will receive for the fruit exported and just now reaching England we will more than break even.". Mr. Davidson declares that the close of the 1916 apple marketing season has been one of the biggest but most de lightful surprises fruit men have ever had. When the enormous stocks from all points were reported last fall it was freely predicted that the season would close badly. Instead of a slump, the market has shown an ad vance of from 20 to 60 cents per box. The freeze that recently prevailed over the south, killing vegetables, it is said will further create a demand for fresh fruit. Mr. Davidson says it is the general opinion that England has declared the ppie embargo as a reciprocity move for Australian orchardists. "The Australians." he says, "have been heavily taxed, and to even up things the government will limit its imports to products from Australia. But one of the biggest reasons for the embargo was to keep the money at home. Already this year I have taken $300,000 out of England. While I have shipped more heavily than any of the others, there haVe been 20 others ship ping apples into England this season." McCULLAGH NAMED DAVIDSON IS OUT The members of the board of direc tors of the Apple Growers Association Saturday named C. W. McCullagh to succeed Wilmer Sieg as sales manager of the organization. Mr. McCullagh will arrive here the middle of Arpil and make preparations for handling the strawberry crop. The new manager had his fruit training, in Chicago. On coming west he was in the fruit business at Seattle. For five years he has been sales man ager of the Yakima Valley Fruit Grow era Association. Mr. Sieg. who will leave May to be come sales manager of the Earl Fruit U., at bpokane, pays the highest trib ute to his successor. Mr. McCullagh. " he said, ' is one of the strongest fruit men of the Northwest. He is a man who will add stability to the Hood River industry." n. r. Davidson, who tor the past two years has been export representa tive of the Association and of other Northwestern fruit sales agencies in New York city, announced Saturday night that the apples of orchards owned and controlled by him would next season be withdrawn from the Association and shipped independently. The announcement of Mr. Davidson, who after a week here, left Sunday to resume charge of his New York office, came on the heels oi the Association directorate's appointment of Mr. Mc Cullagh. A part of the members of the Asso ciation desired the appointment of Mr. Davidson as the agency manager, but concessions demanded by Mr. Davidson in his acceptance of the position, cre ated opposition on the part of the ma jority of the board membership. v "Our withdrawal from the Apple Growers Association," said Mr. David son, "does not mean that we are going to organize a competitive sales agency here, it is not our purpose to solicit tonnage. I will maintain my New York office and continue to sell the fruit from my own orchards, and for some of my former associates" of the days when the Davidson Fruit Com pany was a large local marketing fac tor. I shall also continue to represent in the eastern and export markets other Northwestern sales agencies." Mr. Davidson said that he would re turn to Hood River in May. As to4 whetehr or not he would participiate in the coming season's strawberry deal, he , said he had not decided. By an amalgamation of all local sales agen cies in 1913, the Davidson bruit Com pany became a part of the Apple Grow ers Association. Mr. Davidson says that the local storage plants owned by the DavidsoVi Fruit Co. will still be used by the Association, which, under a lease of 1913, will control the plant for six yearn UPPER VALLEY SURVEY SHOWS SMALL GRADE SENATOR LANE IS REPUDIATED STONE STARTS CONCERTED ACTION Message of Commendation Sent to Presi dent Wilson -Party Lines Forgotten by Those Protesting Filibuster When former County Judge Stanton and the members of the board of com' missioners went contrary to a written opinion of Judge A. J. Derby, district attorney, and ordered a road opened in the southern part of the upper Hood Kiver Valley, u 15. Thomas and r . u Rosebrough, through their attorney, E. H. Hartwig, took the matter to the circuit court, whure Judge Bradshaw sustained a writ of reviews and con firmed by decision the opinion of Judge Derby. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Koseorougn, who were recently in the city, express the hope that a roaa parallelling the route formerly involved in litigation and serving the same patrons but over route that will make possible the elimination of grades and decrease the cost of construction, may be soon opened. While the route, which has now been ordered closed by court decrees, was up before the county court, Messrs, Thomas and Rosebrough secured the services of Engineer R. A. McCalna than and made a survey of their route. beginning at the same point and ending at the same point, it was shown that the cost of construction would be an proximately $3,000. as compared with $4,000 for the Hannum road, and the maximum grades shown were less. "Our road," said Mr. 1 nomas, "ran only 55 rods east of the Hannum road. Except for Mr. H annum and Mr. Kose brough all of the residents served lived to the east of both routes. "These roads were originated before the Uooer Vallev grange was organ ized, and while one of them will be a connecting link with the proposed Cooper s Spur road, on which work has been done, agitation for a road in this community was proiec.ed before the Cooper a Spur road was thought of. Miss Jones Makes Annual Visit Miss Laura B. Jones, soliciting for the Volunteers of America, - made her annual visit to Hood River last week Miss Jones declares that she meets with a hearty response from Hood River business men. "The home established at No. 12. East Seventh street, Portland," says Miss Jones, "has been of inestimable value to friendless girls in the big city, Girls who make it a practice to stop there are from excellent families.". Members of the board of trustees of the Portland home are: B. Lee Paget. H. L. Corbett, Dr. E. T. Tucker, John Perhaps never in the history of Ore gon was a public representative of the people more unanimously denounced by a community than was Senator Harry Lane by the citizens of Hood River Monday. Because of his participation in the filibuster in defiance of the President and in killing the Armed Neutrality bill, Senator Lane has aroused varying expressions of anti pathy, disgust and repudiation from the people of this city and environs. No recent national news has resulted lo cally in so profound a depth of feeling. Repudiation of Senator Lane was ex- firessed spontaneously and without so icitation. D. I. Stone, a whitehaired frontier rancher, whose place is on the head ways of the West Fork, is responsible for ft concerted action on the part of business men and ranchers in the city. Mr. Stone called at the Glacier office Monday morning and asked : "Is any thing going to be done to shut this man Lane off? if any paper, showing how we resent his action is going to be cir culated, I want to sign it. A number of representative citizens and Mayor Dumble, all of them expressing a sim ilar sentiment to that of the aged raneher, were consulted and Monday afternoon a 200 word telegram to Pres ident Wilson and a briefer one to Sena tor Lane, both signed by 45 leading Hood River citizens. Republicans and Democrats, were forwarded to Wash ington. The telegrams, prepared be forehand and circulated for an hour among business houses, were turned down by but one man. The circulation of the documents was unique, in that each signer as asked for the sum of 25 cents, a portion of the telegraph toll. News of the preparation of the two telegrams was circulated quickly through the city, and numerous citi zens called at the office of the Glacier that they might add their names to the list of those protesting Senator Lane's action. Along with the telegrams to Presi dent Wilson and Senator Lane, it was proposed to send a message of com mendation to Senator Chamberlain, but an opposition to this was expressed on the ground that it was not neces sary for a man to be patted on the back for having done his duty. A number of private messages, however, were sent to Senator Chamberlain de claring that Oregon expressed a pride in at least one of her United States senators. The message to Senator Lane fol lows : As Oregonians & loyal American cit izens we note with regret and chagrin your act of participation with, the Sen ate filibuster to defeat the armed neu trality bill and embarrass the Presi dent. Your . action in this wise, send ing abroad the apparent false impres sion that America is divided and that President Wilson in severing diplomatic relations with Germany lacks the sup port of the people of America more than anything else is drawing the Na tion closer and closer to war. Your action does not set well with your constituents." The message to President Wilson opened with the following paragraph : as private citizens oi the state of Oregon we wish thus to apprise you of our repudiation of the act of Senator Harry Lane in his failure to cooperate with you as chief magistrate of our government in meeting the most seri ous crisis the country has faced in re cent years. Senator Lane does not represent the sentiment of his constitu ents." The message expressed the belief of the signers that the president would be justified in proceeding to protect Amer ican uvea on ine nign seas, louowmg the act of the filibuster, without await ing congressional action and ended with an appeal for a law providing for uni versal training." Just as he was preparing to open a session of circuit court the messages were presented to Judge Bradshaw. of The Dalles. He signed both, declaring that all loyal American citizens in the state must today feel ashamed of the acta of Senator Lane. Judge Brad shaw is a Democrat. Although both signed the telegram. both District Attorney Derby, Demo crat, and City Attorney Reed, Republi can, expressed an unwillingness to ap pend their signatures to a message so mud. in signing the message Truman Butler, Republican, declared that he had expected no better from Harry Lane. Senator Wilbur expressed the follow ing opinion of Senator Lane's actions : is it possible that a United States senator from the state of Oregon helped in insulting tne resident and dishonor ing the Nation? Is it possible he has not felt the temper of the country and did not know that the people of Oregon were In this hour loyal to the republic's chief? In the closing hours of the last congress it was not the time, nor was it the duty of these senators to quibble over niceties of legislative expression, nor the close question of the serious ness of war-making power. A mixture of senatorial pacifism and jealousy of the executive authority nowever conscientiously well intended, forces us into the international lime light with hung heads and reddened cheeks. It was a crisis that was not met. Immediate war with Germany may or may, not come pray God that the great wisdom of the President may avoid it but, thanks to action of the bonehead, piffle minority in Sunday morning's senatorial session, we stand accused of being false to our ideals and have shattered the confidence of and lost our poise before the nations of the world, of which we have so lately be come the recognized leader." While during past years Hood River citizens have not been backward in in voking the recall against local officials unfortunate enough to arouse public denunciation, opinion as to applying the recall against Oregon's filibuster senator, Harry Lane, is unfavorable for the reason that it is thought that a recall would not reach Senator Lane. "I am ready to head a fund to recall Hary Lane," says Dr. J. D. Guttery, president of the Commercial club, $ s -A i s s. peach and i. w. r leischner. (Continued on Two Psge)