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IIOUI) MYEK, ORKUOX, THURSDAY, JANUARY
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Hood kiver that in so far as Is possible the products
offered at our maiket are prepared at home. Cattle
are purchased in Portland and brought here for
packing.
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the best
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LOCAL SUPPORT
SECRETARY SCOTT SENDS MESSAGES
Oregon Senators Asked to Support Con
stitutional Amendment Against
Japanese Citizenship
R. E. Scott wired Senators Cham
berlain and McNary Friday, asking
their support of the Phelan" resolution
which calls for a constitutional amend
rr.wt Vnvirtr cimersrin ? uH Japan-
t.:r. ft. AnxnWi M,l. Mr. :-.'oU's
tt ;eg;Mr.s v e: :
"ioi!htur I'helaia piui.o9vd ttr.stitu
tional amendment denying citizenship
to American born Japanese has unqual
ified support of Hood Kiver county.
The problem; here la fast becoming
what Senator 1'helan describes it in
California. We will appreciate your
help."
The AnU Asiatic Association has
called for a special meeting tonight,
when committees will be appointed for
considering the proposed local gentle
man's argeement with the Hood River
Japanese Farmers' Association. The
Japanese, who assert that they are
feeling a prejudicial effect from the
activities of the Anti-Asiatic Associa
tion, offer to prevent further immigra
tion or purchase of land by Japanese if
the organization will temper its work.
While the proposed agreement is re
ceiving the serious consideration of
some of the association members, offi
cials do not believe in any comnrtimiBe,
and it is thought the offer will fail.
Under Senator I'helan's amendment
only persons "whose parents are white,
Africans, American Indians or their
descendants and all personsfnaturalized
in the United States and stibiect to the
jurisdiction thereof would lie eligible
for citizenship."
"In a short time," said Senator Phe
bin, "the Japanese will own all the
best lands in California unless r
strained. It is necessary, therefore,
to deny citizenship to Japanese bom
on our soil and discourage their prts 1
ence, thus preventing race conflicts
and the saving of the white population
from deterioration."
J "This gentlemen's agreement prop
osition," declares Geo. R. Wilbur, "is
really unfortunate. It may lead out
siders to think that the existing Japan
ese population and the whites here are
at sword's oint. This is not the case
at all. We are not concerned about
the Japanese now here, but we do
want to prevent a further inroad of
Japanese, not only to Hood Kiver but
to any other American community. We
are living very peacefully with our
existing Japanese population, and we
have nothing against them as individu
als, but we feel that we must continue
our agitation for an amendment to the
national constitution that will withhold
citizenship to Japanese babies born in
this country. The question is a na
tional one, and one that we must con
sider in the abstract. The proposed
local agreement isjabsurd."
Leroy Child holds a similar opinion.
He points out that a charge of stilish
ness has been made against orchard ists
forming the Anti-Astatic Association
here, in that it was alleged kthat their
activities .were born of a fear of the
competition of Japanese farmers. He
points out that the charge might cer
tainly be sustained if the orchardists,
thinking they might end their own
problems, entered a local gentlemen's
agreement, permitting the rest of the
country to take care of itself.
K. E. Scott, who wired Senators Me
Kary and Chamberlain asking their
support of the Phelan resolution, re
ceived a reply from the former Friday.
Senator McNary telegraphed: "Am
in sympathy with Senator I'helan's
resolution denying citizenship to Amer
ican born Japanese."
LEHEROl FROST
M. B. Waite, pathologist in charge
of the bureau of plant industry at the
Washington office of the United States
Department of Agriculture, in reply to
W. C. Keck, who asked his aid in car
ing for orchards that may have been
damaged by the December cold wea
ther, states that I). F. Fisher, a plant
pathologist of his office, located at
Wenatchee, will be asked to give aid.
Mr. Fisher, the letter states, will
make observations at different points
in Washington and Oregon, to get data
and records concerning the freeze and
to render all possible assistance. Mr.
Waite, who discusses the frost damage
exhaustively, writes :
"In answer to your question about
apple orchards being killed by freez
ing, it may surprise you to learn that
this is a chronical condition near the
northern border of apple culture in the
eastern half of the United States until
the lee side ot the tireat Lakes is
reached, it is an occasional condition
as far Bouth as central Indiana, central
Illinois and corresponding parallels in
the Mississippi valley. In New York
and New England thev had a terrili
cally severe freeze, particularly in the
Hudson valley, in 1904, which killed
many old apple trees. It nearly killed
out the peach orchards, yet where fav
orably located with good air drainage
thev survived a number of years.
While the buds were killed the first
season they bore an unusually heavy
crop the second season. The great
blizzard of 1889 injured a large part of
the peach orchards of northern Michi
gan. Frost hurt a great many fruit
trees over the eastern half of the
United States and as it went south
ward it caught peaches in the central
ueorgia region at six degrees below
zero with the pink of buds showing.
Of course this resulted in serious in
jury. This freeze occurred about the
thirteenth to fifteenth of February.
"Eastern horticulture is full of in
formation of the sort that applies to
your condition. In fact, they have in
their history many occurrences of this
sort. As a rule the entire Pacific
coast, extending as far back as the
Kocky mountains, has been exception
ally free from these northeastern bliz
zards. The modifying influence of the
Pacific is of course the reason.
"There are so manf things to be
considered regarding frost injury that
it is scarcely possible to cover all
within the limits of a letter. Certain
important things, however, should be
pointed out. In the hrst place the de
gree of injury to the trw varies enor
mously with the variety and, species,
the age and conditions of the tree.
The condition of the tree will depend
very largely on the soil, the subsoil,
drainage and moisture conditions, as ;
well as on location and air drainage, j
It also depends Upon the kind of cover i
crops, cultivation, irrigation, etc. I
"Another important thing 1 should
state is that the wood of the trunks
and larger branches may be severely I
olackened without the tree necessarily
being ruined. If the cambium layer is
killed and the bark remains alhe the
tree may continue to flourish and bear,
even more heavily than normally, for
a few years. These severely injured
trees, of course, will have a tendency
to become rotten hearted and short
lived, but they are far too valuable to
destroy. The bark and the cambium
are apt to be the last structures killed
I t 'xi -ve. tierf-ctly dorr: ri', ;,rii
, Hi' I-,- i !4:i to evess ve
moisiuie conditions, setpage, nitrogen
or mild winter weather. We have in
formation about this feeze from other
sources, andjour understanding is that
your trees were in a thoroughly dor
mant condition, at. least were generally
so. Strange to Bay, when the trees
are not thoroughly dormant the cam
hium is one of the first things killed.
The effects in other words are exactly
reversed. This may come from the
trees not being ripened in the fall,
which is possible, but not probable in
your case, or from their being started
into growth again by mild winter wea
ther. The cambium ia an extremely
thin line in cross section. It forms a
layer as thin as the thinnest tissue
paper. Right under the cambium is
the youngest of the apple wood formed
the previous summer. These layers
are easiest killed and often show a
black streak which deceives one into
thinking that the cambium is killed
while it is this young wood instead.
"In general 1 want to caution you
that the trees may not be as badly
injured as they appear. There area
great many types of frost injury, in
cluding the killing of the water sprouts
and young tips, down to root winter
injury. If you had 30 incheB of snow
on the ground that removed root injuv
and in fact injuries at the base or col
lar of the trunk from consideralinn.
Snow is a great protection. I should
expect on your trees that you would
find the worst injury on the trunk just
at the snow line, extending a few
inches below it but mostly above the
snow line and diminishing upward to
ward the tops of the trees, except in
the case of young, unripened wood.
The pith of one year wood and younger
branches or little rings of wood im
mediately surrounding the pith are the
first things to blacken and;discolor.
This, however, has little effect as it
appears chronically in the northern
Mississippi Valley apple orchards most
every winter.
"Frost injured trees make such re
markable recovery that 1 feel like
cautioning you to give all doubtful
cases an opportunity to show what
they can do. If the bark and cambium
remain alive, the orchard should be
given only moderate or normal prun
ing, should be given extra good culti
vation and horticultural care next
spring and summer, ami the decisiun
reached as to how badly the trees are
hurt should as a rule be postponed un
til next June or mid-summer."
Leroy Childs declares Mr. Waite's
letter cheering to local growers. Loc
al effects of the freeze seem to have
been limited to the trunks and larger
limbs around the snow line. Observa
tions have shown the trees to be al
ready recovering from the blackened
effects of the frost damage to the
young wood under bark and cambium.
Kalph Hinnchs, West Side orchard
ist reported Sunday that he did not
consider the damage to pears or cher
ries as or any consequence. Mr. Hin
richs immediately after the freeze cut
branches of both cherries and peHrs.
He has forced these in a hot room, and
they have bloomed as on normal years.
TELEPHONE RATES
ARE DISCUSSED
Members of a committee of city bus
iness men and rural orchardists met
last Thursday with officers of the tele
phone company to ask a revision of a
rate increase recently granted by the
Public Service Commission. The com
mittee asked for an elimination of a
toll charge of five cents for each call
between the Hood Kiver and Odell ex
changes. It was proposed that a rate
of $2 per phone be charged for service
in all parts of the valley, with a dis
count of 25 cents on all bills paid be
fore the tenth of the current month.
At present a charge of $2.25 is made
for city phones and $1.75 for phones of
the Odell exchange.
The representatives of the company,
however, declared that it would be im
possible to accede to the demands. The
protesting delegation was asked to
postpone their activities until the new
rates were given a fair trial. When
asked if the telephone concern would
sell its stock, in case citizens started
an agitation for taking over the line,
Manager Smithson replied in the af
firmative. "The application of the five cent toll
charge," declared M. I). Odell. "has
resulted in an ostracism of the Odell
district. Unless the call is for some
thing very urgent or important people
who have to pay the five cent charge
simply do not call. The charge is a
discrimination against Odell.
Mr. Odell cited instances where
Odell residents, living on opposite
sides of a county road are connected
with different exchanges, one with
Hood River and the other with Odell.
When they talk to each other the five
cent toll rate applies. In one case a
rancher has to pay five cents every
time he talks with his tenant, be
cause their telephones happen to be on
different exchanges.
The telephone company shows an in
crease of 180 subscribers in the past
year.
AVIATORS MAKE"
SAFE LANDING FIERE
R. S. Clark and Walter Lees are the
first aviators to dare a landing at Hood
River. The men, representatives of
the Liberty Motor Corporation, flew
from Portland Friday in 55 minutes,
landing suscessfully on a field1 rear
Alma Howe's Cottage Farm. Mr.
Lees, who piloted the biplane, says the
field can be made excellent with small
work. An automobile brought the avi
ators to the city, where they discussed
future air routes with business men
before flying back, to Portland,.
INTEREST IN
BRIDGE GAINING
BITLER ASKS All) OF MR. SiNNOTT
Congress Irged to Hold lp fascate
Locks Proposition for lull
Investigation
HikxI River people are taking a kei
interest in an interstate bridge to cut -nect
the Columbia river and Nurtt.
Hank highways here. Agitation f. r
such a bridge whs launched t a meet
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J.A. 'lt.tr v tn : ' , ;n
iwUs by :,i-r.u'.t..-i.'.-i.i 1 a; r,ah
individuals were seeking congrcssion..'
authority for building a bruige aero-.-,
the Columbia at Cascade l.i.n ks. Sn I
information was recently received t v
the Commercial Club from Representa
tive N. J. Sinnott. who, in response to
inquiries from C. W. McCullagh, preM
dent of the club, wired and w rote hi n
on the matter, enclosing in the lettei a
copy of the Cascade Locks bill. Mr.
Sinnott's wire follows:
"Private parties are applying fir
ritiht to construct bridge at their u n
expense below Cascade Locks. Chv
ernment had nothing to do with mat
ter except grant privileges. Suggest
you confer with W. W. Ranks, of I'oit.
land, and A. L. Miller, of Vancouver,
Wash., parties interested and endiavor
to get them to change location of pro
posed bridge."
It has been ascertained that the en
abling bill has passed the senate, and
Truman Kutle r.mcmhc r uf a committee
appointed to investigate iho Cascade
Locks matter, has wind l!eito-eht:i-tise
Sinnott to use his influence in
holding up the bill until a full invest -
gation can be made.
Measurements that have recently
been taken of the Columbia here, sh iw
the distance between the tracks of the
O.-W. R. & N. Co. and the S. P. & S.
R. R. Co., crossing the Columbia just
west of the Hood river't mouth and
striking the Washington bank just east
of the White Salmon river, to be tiooo
feet.
It is said that all except about 2, 5 0
feet of this distance could be spanted
with earth and sand embankments.
A deepwater wharf both for Hood
River and Washington points, Under
wood and White Salmon, it is said,
could be constructed w ith the bridge.
Hood River people argue that the
construction of a bridge at Cascade
Locks would probably end the possi
bility of securing an interstate bridge
here. The location here is declared
the logical one for the mid-Columbia,
because it would be more utilttar an.
A highway, crossing the Simce Indian
reservation just north of dlenwood,
Wah., and giving Oregon a direct con
nection with the Yakima country has
been proposed, anil a local liri ge
would serve traffic from eastern Wash
ington points.
HOOD RIVER PLEDGES
FUND FOR ARMENIANS
"If the United States had a few
more Oregons," declared Mrs. O. F.
Lamson, a native born Armenian and
the wife of a prominent Seattle physi
cian, who addressed citizens gathered
at a luncheon Tuesday to organize for
raising $'2,t;(HJ for Armenian and Syrian
relief, "the Armenirfn problem would
soon be solved. "
Mrs. Lamson based her statement on
the act of the state in routing u cargo
of her products next Saturday, the
foodstutls to be supplied the famine
stricken land by the United Slates
Grain Corporation on the credit of the
Armenian nation.
For an hour Mrs. Lamson spoke on
Armenian suppression through iul the
ages, bringing teprs to the eves of lier
hearers, and w lien she finished the
meeting voted unanimously Cor tele
grams to be sent to Senators Chamber
Iain and McNary asking their suitnort
of the Lodge-Williams resolution, which
provides American guaranty of Armen
ian independence as an outcome of the
great war. Recent senatorial discus
sion, Mrs. Lamson declared, has cost
Armenia 100,000 souls. Except for
America offering to share responsibility
for the indenendenee.she said, Armenia
would be no better oil' than before the
war.
The committee of men and women
present at the luncheon pledged that
Hood River county redeem herself for
the poor record of last year, when but
$ti00 quota fur Armenian relief was
raised. The deficit has added to this
year's quota.
Samuel C. Lancaster, in charge of
the state drive for the Armenian fund,
was unable to be piesent. Mrs. Lam
son was accompanied bv Mrs. J. 1. Ihi
rand, of Seattie, and S. S. Hruce, of
Portland. Mrs. Lamson, following the
luncheon, addressed an auuitnie of
women.
W. II. Roddy, campaign manager for
Hood River county, appointed commit
tees to handle details of rawing the
fund. Mrs. Wm. Stewart, Mrs. A. (i.
Lewis and Mrs. (has. fuller were
named to select solicitors to cover the
residential districts. A committee to
solicit the business district is coiiqinsed
of E. O. Ulanchiir, F. A. Cram, J. 11.
Fredricy. J. II. Hazlett, Hugh (I. Hall
and Joe D. Thumison I. R. Acheson
will be treasurer. Representati . es of
ruial districts have been appointed.
That those at the luncheon might
visualize the hunger of Armenian chil
dren, a small glass bott le, showing the
daily ration of the children, exclusively
rice, was set before each plate.
AUTO PARK IS
BEING PREPARED
W. T. Price, who has charge of im
proving the three acre automobile park
donated to the city by the Commercial
club and Volunteer lire t depart merit,
states that the free camping place for
visiting motor touri.-ts will be itady
for eariy spring travelers. Water and
light connections have been made and
numerous conveniences for the travel
ing public are being installed."
The commercial club and liromtn
purchased the plot with funds raised
from concessions last Fourth of July.
The plot is at the west edge of the
'city, a part of it shaded with oak trees.