HOOD RgEB GLACIER. THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1021
THE LANDLORDS GREED
HAS NOT ABATED
PEAK PRICES are still being asked for rentals.
There is just one thing that is going to check
this profiteering, and that is MORE HOMES.
BUILD NOW BUILD WITH WOOD
.. . . K"ow. th.e,tru(: comfort of real home conveniences, and at the same time help to
lighten the load tor those who may not be as fortunately situated as yourself.
Possibly you may think yourself in the class of those who "cannot afford to build,
but stop Hghi there. This is not the time to THINK ; it's the time to KNOW.
mArJfiPSn&j& ''costs" over with us and if you now think you can't build, possibly
FACTS AND FIGURES may tend to change your opinion.
Everyone who can build should build now. It's public spirited, and it is decidedly to
your advantage if you are now paying rent.
Lumber is the Lowest Priced Building
Material in the World Today
Stop paying rent, and come to know the full satisfaction that only comes with
"A HOME OF YOUR OWN BUILT TO ORDER."
Let us help you with figures and facts. Lei us tell you of the prices we are quoting
on all materials. Let us get together FOR BETTER HOMES AND MORE HOMES.
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Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co.
Everything in "Quality First" Building Materials.
Understanding Service.
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PHONE 4121
4A RealEstate Mortgage is a Mark
of Thrift and Progress"
"YE must have a revival of home owning and
home life. AH other building should give
way for the present to necessary business extensions
and to houses. We can easily double up in the
churches if necessary; there is plenty of room in
them. Intensive cultivation and cooperation in the
religious field would be a good thing for us. We
can get along for a while without memorials and
theatres and ouija board factories, but we cannot
do without home owners. It is a fine thing to have
an automomile when one can afford it, but no one
can afford it until after he has bought a home or
a farm. A real estate mortgage usually is a mark
of thrift and progress, but a chattel mortgage never
is." From an editorial in the Saturday Evening Pott, May
22, 1920.
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Succeeding Bridal Veil Lumbering Co. Hood River Fuel Co.
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WESTERN BOX APPLE
INDUSTRY PROBLEMS
(Dwight L. Woodruff in Better Fruit)
The apple season of 1920-1921 is now
about ended. The curtain will soon be
rung down on the final act and many
in the audience will turn away not
wholly satisfied.
Every industry has its trials and vic
tories, smooth sailing never develops
strong, brave and capable sailors.
No business has escaped the exper
ience of post war readjustment. All
lines of industry are slowly but surely
settling down to a basis of safety and
adjustment to new conditions brought
about by the awakening from the ex
perience of exorbitant prices, big
profits, easy money, unnatural demand
and lax financial methods.
Perhaps no class of producer has
suffered more severely during the bus
iness depression of the past eight
months than has the American farmer,
but among these probably the North
western fruit grower has been as little
injured as any. We are all disposed to
believe our lot the most burdensome
and difficult. It is easy to see the tine
points of the "other fellow's" partic
ular line of business while bemoaning
our own situation.
Statistics seem like dry reading, but
reference to the table below will be
both helpful and cheering.
Wholesale decline in prices between
Februray 1, 1920, and February 1,
1921, as published by the Irving Na
tional Hank, New York City:
Breadstuffa, H2.3; livestock, 38.1;
provisions, 23.3; fruits, 16.0; hides and
leather, 41.1; textiles, 67.1; metals,
35.9; coal and coke, increase, 23.0;
oils, 40.4; naval stores, 50.7; building
material, 9.2 ; chemicals and dru, 6.0 ;
miscellaneous, 60.8.
Thirteen commodities, including the
miscellaneous ' list, show an average
decine of 42.3 per cent, while fruits
only show 16 per cent. Coal and coke
show advances and only two items less
declines than fruits.
A comparative reference to gross
sales at the big consuming centers
show only slight declines on standard
varieties and sizes of apples, hut the
net returns are very much less on ac
count of greatly increased freight
charges, storage rates and other
advances.
Sober thought compels us to admit
we have much to be grateful for.
However, we should not lose sight of
the fundamental fact that no business
can stand still, we must eitner ad
vance or recede, for we are surely now
facing unusual conditions which must
be met and mastered if we would
maintain our rightful place.
lhe most outstanding problems we
have to deal with, as 1 see them, are:
First Transportation charge
Seond - Size and quality of our fruit.
Last Wide d i f f e r e n c e Letween
wholesale and retail prices.
The three problems are closely inter
related, transportation rates innv de
cline and then again, they mav not. If
they do decline, the grower directly
benefits, but his difficulties are not
thereby altogether overcome, as many
would have us believe. Should the
rates remain unchanged, we must rap
idly aller our export methods and use
the all water routes to the United
Kingdom and Continental Europe for
pears und apples.
The question of size and quality of
our western apples is a most serious
one. Fifteen years ago with our young
trees bearing large clean fruit, our
output decidedly limited in quantity.
we had no task to readily dispose of
our crops at satisfactory prices and, in
fact, the buying competition was ex
ceedingly keen. Dealers in New York,
Chicago, Philadelpha ami other large
cities were eager for all the fruit we
could produce.
As our crops increased, the growers
in New York state. New England, Vir
ginia and, in fact, all apple producing
states saw what the northwest was
doing and quickly bestirred themselves
to meet this new competition by sys
tematic spraying, pruning, cultivation,
fertilization, improved grading and
packing methods and while this was
going on, the west had suffered some
serious disappointments low prices,
the result of outgrown selling methods.
This was the direct cause of many
growers neglecting their orchards until
as a whole the northwest produces far
too many second and third grade small
sized apples that come in direct com
petition with apples grown much near
er the large consuming centers which
can profitably be sold at the price
western growers pay for freight.
Trie freight on a box of jumble pack
Ben Davis is the same as on a box of
3 tier extra fancy Spitzenburgs or
Delicious, but the value in New York
is as one dollar is to five dollars. The
one shows a dead loss ; the other a sub
stantial profit which will you grow?
Let us forget the two or three ab
normal years just passed and get our
feet back on earth again. Stop deceiv
ing ourselves into believing that the
only first-class apples come from the
northwest and awake to the fact that
we have some real competition to meet
and it can only be met bv adopting the
most up-to-date and systematic stand
ardized business methods. We should
grow larger, better fruit and consider
ably more care should be exercised in
grading, sizing and packing. There is
not a brand of apples that 1 now know
of but what has and now is suffering
from inferior packing house work.
The question of retail prices for our
apples deserves serious consideration
and careful analysm, followed by con
certed action.
As a rule the jobber or wholesaler
has played fair as regards profits and
distribution, but the retailer, almost to
a man, has not used good business
judgment in his handlings of boxed
apples. Usually his attitude has been
to sell one box at a very big profit
rather than five boxes at a reasonably
fair profit and consequently the grower
and consumer have suffered.
We are partly to blame for this in
starting our selling season at too high
prices. The public is led to believe we
are charging too much and they natur
ally rebel and go on a buying strike.
As a consequence we suffer throughout
the season.
A notable example of the success of
the opposite method is shown this very
season with cranberries. The manager
of the American Cranberry Exchange
controlling a large percentage of all
cranberries grown in the United States
clearly saw the mistake others were
making and pointed out to hit growers
the wisdom of the Exchange opening
prices at $8.60 per barrel instead of
$10, the price the growers wanted,
with the result that the trade and pub
lic took bold readily, enabling price
advances to be made continuously
throughout the season. They remained
for along time at S12 to $15 per barrel
and finished at S21 and S25 per barrel
and this in the face of a big crop and
notoriously doll times.
I he public should be told and retold
throughout the season all about oar
soples. perhaps not mentioning any
particular brand, but festering the
best brands, varieties, sizes, uses, etc.
Particular stress should be Disced upon
the proper sesSbn for different varie
ties.
We should drop local sectional jeal
ousies and work in harmony for the
good of all concerned. The press would
be glad to help if given an opportunity.
We need the help and cooperation of
the legitimate jobber and distributor
more now than ever and they need us.
We should gladly meet them more than
half way, always remembering that no
transaction is a complete success until
all legitimate factors make a fair and
i equitable profit commensurate with the
service performed.
The progressive dealer would wel
come with great satisfaction the stand
ardization of our grading, packing and
selling methods.
It is sadly to be regretted that no
more definite steps have been taken
along the lines of coordinating the ac
tivities of the different highly devel
oped apple growing sections of the
northwest. My thought would not be
to attempt "one big union" idea, but
rather the bringing together of all in
terests on some common ground of
mutual helpfulness, where the prob
lems confronting the industry could be
freely and fairly discussed. Bv so do
ing, everyone would benefit and the
producer and consumer most of all.
At the present time the various apple
growing sections are in a state border
ing on armed neutrality. We should
not lose sight of the fact that we are
all working to the same end. What
helps ooe, helps all and vice versa.
The biggest apple crop for the north
west appears to be just ahead of us.
Are we suitably fortified to meet the
issue? Ours are individual problems
to be collectively worked out.
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hotels were well crowded with the
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TIRE SALE
Present business conditions
force us to sell Tires at follow
ing prices :
$15.25
32 x 34 1 8.75
32 x 1 23.75
33 x 4 24.75
They are all No. 1 Crescent
Tires. This sale will last
through March.
WM. WEBER.
FOR SALE
5 ti re.. rl..w in ir I ! . ap
ples, 80 pears, '"" OO.
2 acres, close in, fair house, all ap
ples, MOO0.OO.
4 lots,2uutilh"UM, for9S0cah.
On the Height. Terms on tl 100.
ft-room boose, 50 a 100 lot, on the
Height. frHi u han.il.-. Iluio.
Farm Loan Bonds, lar.i ' n
tereat at par, excel lent incertroent.
Someelegant on-hard r iwr'u-.,
aor sise, at low prices if ooe has
the cash. But when the other
fellow want to sell. Ordinarily
buyers want to bar srben price
are liifcb. while ther rlxml'l hoy
ben the price are low. Now is
the time to bur.
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Phone 4141.
4th and Oak Streets.
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BARGAIN IN CITY HOME
I will sell for an appealing price my 10-room home
with six lots. The house has toilet and lavatories on both
first and second floors. Full basement and modern heat
ing plant. All kinds of fruit and berries in bearing on
lots. Fine view of Columbia and Mount Adams. Corner
of 12th and Kugene Sts.
L. H. HUGGINS
Tel. 3141
FOR SALE
A slightly used 10-18 Case tractor, extra
rims and lugs, Berling magneto. Having sold
my ranch will sell tractor at a sacrifice.
SILAS JENSEN
White Salmon, Wash.
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