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Bitoef tow VOL. XXXII HOOD KIVEK, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921 No. 38 I We Will Measure Up i It was said of George Washington that the office of President of the United States was "cut to his measure" it fitted him better than any other man of his time. The life of each of us is cut to our measure it is up to us to recognize and live up to its full capabilities. This institution is doing its hest to fulfill the pur pose for which it came into being to assist the people of this community, through the wise management of finances, to attain their full share of success. On Washington's Birthday this Institution is closed, to honor the memory of a great man who measured up to the work cut out for him. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON For that Cold TAKE Rexall Cherry Bark Improved. Riker's Mentholated White Pine and Tar. Elkay's White Pine Tar and Cherry Comp. Rexall Laxative Aspirin Cold Tablets. Rexall Grippe Pflls. KRESSE DRUG CO. The l&xaJUL Store Come in and hear the latest Victor February Records. A Washington's Birthday "More than all, and above all, Wash ington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which, may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it Is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example." Charles Francis Adams. This Bank will not he open Tuesday, February twenty -second BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System S HE " ,, ,. .. ' . , , i &fG LIBERTY Asks uou bo help! catch a WAN! CHOP all over town; compare values. When you get through you'll say: "Nothing like these values anywhere." If after you buy, you aren't satisfied, we stand ready to make all transactions ood $35.00 SUITS $45.00 SUITS $60.00 SUITS $23.25 $29.75 $40.00 cioi1 J. G. VOGT NATIONALLY KNOWN MERCHANDIS1 Gates it l,MJLsJ ' FRONT VIEW SIDE VIEW5- buil know Her .nstantlu, bij her trickq eqes dangerous smiJe nimble Finders i ?he3 flku Moll piqued bu Psl I SCI Ll A DEAN The DfcnHhd Heroine I If JCCL TO J Supported bu LON CHANEY famous for his roles in 'The rV'.'iaclc MarTand'Tha Penalty Half-Sole Tires 0 gRING your old tires in. We will half,-sole them for prac tically half price and add 5000 miles to them. We are continuing our re pair department, giving the same old-time quality of work and cour teous service. A competent man in charge of the battery depart ment. All work guaranteed. Heights Garage Telephone 3151 SLACK IN YOUR COAL BIN IS MONEY WASTED Eliminate this waste by using This is a clean, HARD coal wtiich Ik.KS SOT AIR SLACK. It i shipped from a I'tali point bejroad Salt I-ke City, so tl.. is somewhat higher, bat you burn 20tO lbs. of clean coal fr.ni ton you buy no waste. Lump for the furnace. Nut for the rangi-. SoUi exclusively hjr HOOD RIVER FUEL tOMPANY Fourth and Cascade Phone 2181 BOTTOM PRICES FOR CASH On and after Monday, February 28th, this Company will operate on a strictly cash basis, and by this means give to our customers the lowest possible prices. GET OUR PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY ELSEWHERE TAFT TRANSFER CO. GROWERS HOLD MASS MEETING COOPERATIVE PLANS DISCUSSED While Committee Was Instructed to In vestigate Further, Undercurrent of Distrust Seemed to Prevail While Hood River orehardists in a mass meeting Saturday afternoon, when the proposition of a co-operative cider and vinegar plant was under dia cuscion, fairly generally expressed the opinicn that returns on cull apples were unjustifiably low, an undercur rent of distrust of cooperative manage ment as a cure for the situation seemed to prevail. Indeed, several speakers frankly opposed any move toward launching a cooperative cider and vine gar plant. K. E. Miller, Udell grower, declared the by-products business high ly specialized and cairying such over head expenses that it might prove dis astrous in case growers decided to enter on a scheme of cooperation for operating a plant. The meeting was called by the Vine gar committee of the Apple Growers Association, composed of August Guignard, S. G. Oxborrow and I). L Pierson, with whom a delegation from the Growers' Welfare Association, composed of West Side orchardists, has been working in securing data. E. H. Van Atta, a New York state manu facturer of cider and vinegar equip ment, was present and addressed the meeting. Mr. Van Atta frankly ad mitted that the expenses of operating a by-products plant under cooperative management might be higher than under private management. He cited that the demand for cider, sale of which was stimulated to a great de gree when the prohibition law first went into effect, had made a marked decline. Mr. Guignard reported-that it would be folly for a new cider and vinegar concern to attempt to compete with an existing plant, said to be one of the largest ifT the country, already oper ated here by the Hood .River Apple Vinegar Co. He said the owners of the local concern were ready to aid with any cooperative plan by a trans fer ot their plant and stock at an ap praised valuation, and recommended that such a course be pursued in case a cooperative plan is launched. Mr. Guignard suggested a plan of financing by the App e Growers Association un derwriting credit of individual mem ber. One of the arguments advanced by those favoring a cooperative cider and vinegar plant was that it would turn into channels ot control the low grade apples of the community and prevent their competition with commercial grades. Mr. Guignard presided at the meet ing and G. R. Frey was secretary. It was unanimously voted at the close of the session to have the committee to pureue its investigations further. S. G. Oxborrow declared that the day would come when Hlue Diamond canned Spitzenburgs would be as fa mous as the- commercial pack is today. John R Edgar pointed out that cull apples in the Dee and Upper-Val ley districts were worthless. I'eter Mohr declared that cooperation, if really put into effect would bring the results desired here. He cited how Denmark has made a national name in dairying and agriculture by the prac tice of cooperation and the utilization of all products ol the farm. An interesting point made at the Saturday meeting by Mr. Van Atta was that the pomace waste from cider mills had a greater value as cow feed. when stored in silos, than corn silage. News, which lasted only a short time. Jn 1877, because of poor health, Mr. Hlythe came to Hood River. He pur chase 1 22 oak-covered acres just west of town. Later an additional 22 acres were added. In 1882 he returned to Portland and engaged for a time in the publication of a dairy and farm journal. After working at intervals for five years for John H. Cradlebaugh, orig inal editor of the Hood River Glacier, Mr. Blvthe purchased the pioneer paper, a claim for wages as typesetter being applied on the purchase price. Mr. Hlythe operated the paper until 1904, when he sold itio the present owner, A. I). Moe. "r. Hlythe wa3 closely connected with the development of Hood River as a fruit certer. E. N. Hlythe, Portland newpaptr man, re ceived his training in his father' office. Mr. Hlythe is past commander of the Oregon department of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Hlythe is a na tive, of England. Her family, how ever, came to America when she was only a small child. Mr. and Mrs. Hlythe were married in Portland In 1873. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Hlythe and daughter, Miss Alice, and Mrs. David Marliir, a daaghter, and son, George Finley Marlor, were here from Pou land for the birthday celebration. LABOR UNION FAVORS JAPANESE MEASURE S. F. BLYTHE CELE BRATES BIRTHDAY S. F. Blvthe. pioneer publisher of the Hood River Glacier, quietly cele brated his 7!th birthday Sunday at a family reunion at Twin Oaks harm. his Frankton home. Mr. Hlythe is retired dean of Pacifi Coast printers. In hia prime, befoie the linotype had come into existence, he had no equal in bis swiftness and accuracy at tne case. At Virginia City, Mont., in 186. and in Portland in subsequent years, working on the old Bulletin, Mr. Hlythe made records that have never been surpassed. You hear frequent discussions to day of our financial stringency, says Mr. Hlythe, but conditions of today ire inconsequential to those of us old timers who lived through lHrd, the year of Portland's great tire. A panic had seized upon the entire country, and our calamity added to our depression. A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Hlythe was living in Uh:o at tne outbreak ot the Civil War. Answering the call for volunteers, he enlisted in the 22nd Ohio Infantry. He saw three years of ac tive service in the Mississppi valley. He was with the army of Grant at Fort Donaldson, Shiloh and Corinth. After his discharge br. Hlythe re- enlisted in Hancock's Veteran s Corps. The corps "was stationed in Washing ton during the trial of Mrs. Surratt and fellow conspirators in the plot to assassinate Lincoln. The regiment was i i charge of the execution. On becoming a private citizen, Mr. Hlythe took the advice of Horace Greeley and headed for the west. Af ter working at Virginia City, Mont.. he returned home, but only remained a short time. He worked for a time in San Francisco and at Sacramento. In June, 1870, Hen Halladay, planning to start a paper in Portland, sent James O'Mara to San Francisco to purchase a plant. The San Francisco Times had just ceased publication, and Mr. O'Mara bought the entire outfit. A foreman for the proposed Portland plant was secured with instructions to find a crew of swift, sober composit ors, and Mr. Blythe was among the printers chosen for the journey north. "We all came up on Mr. Hallady's boat," says Mr.. Blythe, "a party f 10. So far as 1 know I am the only surviving printer of the party. Even the pressmen came from San Fran cisco. The Bulletin lasted for five years and I remained with it. The late Harvey Scott became its editor. When it failed he became editor of the Oregonian, where he made a national name for himself. In 1875 a number of us printers started the Daily Bee. It ran until 1881." Later Mr. Blythe was on the Daily One of the first ofii.ial acts of Hood. River's new labor union after its olli cers were installed Sunday afternoon was the adoption of a resolution en dorsing anti-Japanese leg elation be fore the legislature. The full text of the resolution follows: Hood River, Oregon, February 18th, 1921. Whereas, The question of the leasing and owning of land by Asiatics is now a vital question being discussed by the citizens of the various states, particu larly the states of the Pacific Coast ; and that many of the western state legislatures now in session have pend ing legislation before them with the view preventing the leasing or the sale of land to Asiatics, and Whereas, The citizens of Hood River county. Oregon, were the first in this tate to sense the danger of the prac tice of the leasing or salt: of land to Asiatics have organized an Anti-Alien Land Leae or Ownership League, for the promotion of the enactment of a law to prevent the leasing or the sale of land to any aliens that cannot be come citizens of our country, and Whereas, 1 here is now pending be fore the Legislature now in cession at Salem a bill known as the Anti-Alien Lund Law ; be it Resolved, That Federal Lab'ir Union No. 17616, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and in session assembled endoise the above legisla tion in the interest of the citizenship and the well being of our community and in the greater interest of our State and Nation. And be it further Resolved, That we are not only fav oiable to the exclusion of such land ownership or lease to such aliens, but we insist that all public spirited citi zens of this and other ommunities should see to it thht Ameiican citizens and those capable and willing to be come citizens of our country should be employed on the farms, in the or eharrls, factories, mills and shops to the exclusion of these aliens a above named ; to the end that justice shall be done to the great mass of our citizen now out of employment ; nnd to the further end of maintaining the Amer ican standard of living. Adoptid: February i:Ub, 1921. J. H. MllM, President, A. M. M ore, Seciefary. The above resolution had the unani mous approval of the 18U members of the Union. The tem pur fly labor organization held its final open meeting at the Knights of Pythias hall Saturday nigh:. 0, C. Young, of Portland, or ganizer for t e American Federation of Labor, was present. He remained over Sunday. Rev. W. H. Hoddy made a short address at the meeting. LOCAL FOLK VISIT SALEM MEN SUPPORT ANTI-ASIATIC BILL Anti-Asiatic Association Members Apptal to Legislature Tuesday - Bill Passes Lower House VARIOUS ATTRACTIONS AMUSE VACATIONISTS Various attractions are offered the numerous Howl River folk now spend ing the winter months in Long Beach, Calif. A. D. Moe, who with Mrs. Moe and daughter. Miss Frances, has been spending a time at the southern resort place, writes: Have located most of the Hood River folks except Mika Tibicum, and am on his trail. .' rn Nun; maker can be found eveny afternoon at the Pinochle Club on the pier. A. D. Ramsey and wife are located close in, and likewise Mr. and Mrs. Ward. One of the principal occupations of the tourists is morning and afternoon sessions ot the war congress on toe pier, where weighty questions of state, politics, religion, etc., are discusred. and which always end with each side unchanged in thiir opinions. fishing off the pier attracts many. who sometimes sit all day and go home with nothing ir a 3-inch rUh. How- ever, (H'casi il good catches an made. Mackerel ti-ti boata go out every day 10 or 15 miles, and the deep sea fisher may have a day's sport for $L2i, taking his lunch along, although if it is rough he may not need it, and may even contribute his breakfast to the fishes. A ho'seshoe club holds daily sessions in the park, and although there are a dozen games going at the same time. there is usually a waiting list. Week ends the place fills up and all hotels and rooming houses line their halls and corridors with cots. The Pike" along the waterfront then re sembles a H od River Fourth of July ciowd, and the various concessiors are busy. One can get his choice ot amusements m l a choice of things to eat here. In fact, lunch counters com- Misa Mav 1 who anrually orise most of the riump. Although ! g-it h-rs linghs of apple and pear trees lemons are w ith frm nothing to 50 from various parts of the vailey, fore- cents a box. the profiteers make a oar- ing ihtm to olussoio during tne winter rel of the stuff from one lemon and n."i ths, rt : : he outlook for a charge 10 ce-its a glass. heavy crop of Newtowns and Snitren- 1 his country is having a big oil s burgs here next year was ne- er better, boom, and on every hand brokers areTh- two varieti", which form the holding forth, selling stock and win- larger portion of the local crop, will dow displays show miniature oil fields, have a heavy bloom, as indicated by derricks, etc., while many offer free , tbe twigs forced by Mis Davidson, excursions to nearby oil fields, with a Miss Davidson declares ttiat she bad hot-dog sandw ich thrown in. If one never en a bloom of d'Anjou pears stops a minute to "rubber" at the as heavy as :s indicated, for the comirg alluring bait, a smooth talker is at Beaton. The d'Anjou bought being your elbow to tell you how a few dol- forced by ber are fairly loaded with lars invested will bring a fortune. blooms. A delegation of orchardif ts, membtrs of the Anti-Asiatic Association, who in 1919 initiated an Oregon movement aimeo at the ownership or control by lei of land by Japanese, were pres ent at Salem Tuesday when a bill, oro hibiting such ownership came up for hearing. Through the organization's secretary, R. E. Scott, daily postal cards, carrying argument, against Jap anese ownership and colonization, have been mailed to members of the legis lature. Bxpreseioni Thursday at Salom by Leslie Butler against the proposed anti-Japanese legislation, resulted Fri day in numerous citizens writing to members of the legislature re-asserting their support of such a n ensure. Commenting on Mr. Butler's utter ances, Mr. Scott said: "Mr. Butler's attitude on the Japan ese question must not be taken as in dicative of the general feeling in Hood River valley. It is true that Hood River folk have no fight to pick with the present Japanese residents, but we realize that the time ha come when we must eliminate a further aggres sion on their part here. Mr. Butler has not viewed the problem as the ordinary practiral American citizen. He is a retired business u.an. who for many years has devoted his time to philanthropy and idealism. He peaks In no wise for Hood River county but rather expresses his own feelings. The figures on population as presented by him need some revision. We have now more than 425 Japanese here." The hill wan adopted by the lower house of the legislature " Tue.-day bv a vote of H5 to 24. Both Egbert and Roberts, joint representatives from Hood River and Wasco counties, voted against the measure. A telegram from Senator McNary. asking that Oregon keep hands off, in order that the Hard ing administration may not be embar rassed in settling Ihe Japanese emb lem, no doubt influencei many legis lates, whose stand against the Japan ese is in nowise in d.ubt. to vote rfgainst the measure Tuesday. It is oredicted that it will be defeated in the senate. The loc I anti-Asiatic As sociation, however, continues to sup port the measure, its members declar ing that inch a hill is needed for the protection of local land owners, and that the action of the United States Senate on the immigration bill is not reessuring that the national adminis tration will be abb? to carry out tny effective campaign with regnrd to the Japanese hill. Membetiof tho Anti-Asiatic Asso ciation, present in Salem Tue'day, car ried opies of a letter wratten by Leslie Hutler to Hon. John E. Rdker. Call forifia representative in congress. Last weeTt Mr. Butler happened to be in Salem, accompanying clofe friends, who are strong opponent! of the meas ure aimed at the Japanese. In the S Hirse of a discussion of the matter, Mr. Hutler, called on fbr a statement, made a few short remarks that ap parently were interpreted by support ers of the Japanese legislation as in opposition to Japanese legislation. The elder Mr. Butler was. not avail able Tuesday, hut his son, Truman Hutler, states that the Raker letter, which as written after due thought, is a fair statement of the sentiments of his father. The Salem discussion, on the fart of Mr. Butler, was, it is said, brief and inconclusive, as Mr. Hutler was more of a spectator than a participant. The letter written to Representative Uaker by Mr. Butler last August fel lows : August 10, 1920. Hon. John E. Raker, Alturas, California. . My dear Mr. iiaker : Referring to our conversation when you were here a few days ago investigating the Jap anese situation, V. ere is a very general feeling in Hood River valley that any material increase in our Japanese pop til;. ti n would be a menace to the development of the valley, it is true that w e could use a limited number of Japanese on some of our logged off land that will probably not be devel oped by white eople for mafny years. The problem, however, of having Jap anese settle in a restricted district is rather a serious one and on the whole it would perhaps be better for us to take the position of not favoring any material increase in the Japanese pop ulation rather than to undertake apd restrict the Japanese to sections not now being developed by white people. In other words, Hood River va'ley is one of the most delightful spots in America for permanent homes for Americans and we would not Kiok with favor BU any tendency towards irrreas ing the holdings of the Japanese in the higMv develoted sections now occupied by white iieople. The matter of Amer ican born Japanese children becoming citizens is, of course, a serious phase of this question, and 1 am inclined to think that legislation should be passed denying citizenship to the children of wh cannot I hermel . . ' ecome citizens. The fact that the Japanese blood cannot be assiniilated with ours would seem t make legislation of this kind necessary. If 1 can answer any questions or give you any further information, do not hesitate to call on me. Sincerely yours. (Signed! Ishe Butler. MISS DAVIDSON PRE DICTS BIG CROP rs a j. 3 to