anaheim-gazette 1915-06-03

THE MUTUAL ORANGE DISTRIBUTORS WILL MAKE SELLING AGENTS DIRECT EMPLOYES OF THE ORGANIZATION Since their organization six years ago this concern has demonstrated in the most practical way the soundness of the basic idea underlying their organization; viz: the marketing of the orange crop by the growers. This organization is under the absolute control of a Board of Directors, chosen from the members of the different organizations by the growers themselves. All of the directors are growers. They elect the officers of the Association and fix their salaries; they have complete supervision over every detail of the organization and are its court of last resort, writes Arthur Gregory, General Manager in the Citrograph edition of the Riverside Press. The organization is conducted on a strictly mutual basis in fact as well as in name. During the season a certain sum per box is set aside for marketing expenses after all expenses are paid, and the amount remaining is returned to the growers. The cost per box for marketing has never been excessive and the constant growth of the organization is the best evidence that the growers have been satisfied with its management. This organization has gone further than was ever hoped for at the beginning. The cardinal purpose of its organizers was to furnish a marketing outlet which should be run at cost. This object has been accomplished in the fullest measure and additional benefits have followed. This organization of growers now commands the respect of other organizations, of jobbers, and of the public the variety of products controlled for sale, will be an all the year round proposition. This will allow agents to be placed in the smaller cities of the country where representation is now had through brokers who also handle the products of competitors. It will make possible the establishment of foreign agencies and promote an export business to take care of our surplus crop. It will make all selling agents direct employees of the organization, working solely for its interests. It will make possible the employment of more selling agents and procure a higher grade of men. It will bring the grower almost into direct touch with the retailer and smaller jobber for the reason that the products can be bought in the smaller cities from the local home jobber, instead of from a few large centers as now. The expense of foreign agencies has been one of the reasons export business in oranges has languished. It will now be possible to secure adequate representation at low cost. It will enlarge the local markets in that the new selling agency has a larger variety of products to sell, and will increase the buying. As to cost, it means a most substantial reduction. The present selling agencies are duplicates one of the other. Under the new plan there will be but one good agent, and with slightly increased force he will be able to take care of the entire business in his territory of all the concerns interested. It will reduce the cost of advertising and it will reduce the marketing cost all along the line. All of the officers and directors agree that it should at once reduce marketing cost twenty-five per cent, and in the near future even more. The comment among orange growers and shippers since the entrance of the Mutual Orange Distributors into this organization has been that they have made a ten-strike, and that it should result in great saving annually to the growers who are members. PROTECTION IS FIRED Because it Shutts Products of Other It is not so hard a workingman may cause of socialism but I cannot unite man who works for a low tariff party nation the young nations of the east foremost in every high standard of ship of homes, motions, the mass and clothed, the spent by the work so on. We have telephone and tele world; 40 per cent age of the world, 40 per two nations that is more than that of Europe. Gompers has so workers of this county live as the worker then our working more than twice of any nation in prove that most owe in every avenue o been made under protection. For 253 years o colony and a nation of Jamestown people were a vest in this nation $149,000 under a low tariff to 1914 our working ed the vast sum of and during the la administration our invested $39,000,000 banks alone; or $ organization is the best evidence that the growers have been satisfied with its management. This organization has gone further than was ever hoped for at the beginning. The cardinal purpose of its organizers was to furnish a marketing outlet which should be run at cost. This object has been accomplished in the fullest measure and additional benefits have followed. This organization of growers now commands the respect of other organizations, of jobbers, and of the public generally. The brands of the various associations have become staple and command the highest market price. Many new markets have been made possible for the organization because of their strength, and most important of all, it has removed the speculative features from every course. The profits have remained in the pockets of the growers belonging to the organization, and during the six years they have been in business these profits have amounted to many thousands of dollars. The organization in the beginning former its own selling agency, maintaining representatives in all carlot markets in the United States and Canada. It has always been a most efficient organization, and has been enlarger from time to time to keep pace with the increasing supply. The cost has been as low as possible consistent with good business, and its results have been satisfactory. The director and officers of the organization have recently brought about the affiliation with other large growers' organizations, which is destined to be one of the most important in the history of California orange industry. It should be said that these affiliated organizations united with the Mutual Orange Distributors, because of its successful record, because of its careful management and because of its stability. Nothing succeeds like success has once again been illustrated. During the early part of May an agreement was reached by the management of the following organizations to unite their marketing facilities under one management, to be known as the General Sales Agency of America. The organizations included in this agency are as follows: The Mutual Orange Distributors, with headquarters in Redlands, California, The California Vegetable Union, headquarters in Los Angeles; the North American Fruit Exchange and Tropical Fruit Company, headquarters in New York; the Northwestern Fruit Ex- ENGLAND'S WAR BUDGET Following are points from the speech in which Mr. Lloyd-George introduced his war budget in the house of commons: It is quite impossible to present a true estimate at the moment. The operations of the coming summer will alone enable us to form a dependable notion regarding the dura*on of the war. During the first eight months the war cost £307,416,000. In addition we advanced £52,370,-000 to the Dominions and our allies. About 2,900,000 more gallons of spirits and 17,000,000 more gallons of beer than was anticipated were consumed last year. While there was an unexpected increase of £1,000,000 on tobacco—largely due to gifts to the troops. As a consequence of the war £458,-000,000 has been added to the nation-and it will reduce the marketing cost all along the line. All of the officers and directors agree that it should at once reduce marketing cost twenty-five per cent, and in the near future even more. The comment among orange growers and shippers since the entrance of the Mutual Orange Distributors into this organization has been that they have made a ten-strike, and that it should result in great saving annually*to the growers who are members. The Distributors have headquarters at Redlands. In the organization are about 1500 growers, distributed over the state, and forty packing houses are under its control. Their trade mark brand Pure Gold has come to be recognized as a hall mark of quality and is accepted at its face value in the markets of the world. Beginning with 400 cars annually, in 1914-15 six thousand cars will be shipped, and next year's product will show a corresponding increase. The officers are John Yarnell of Highlands, president; A. B. Cowgill, Secretary; A. Gregory, general manager; L. F. Case, general sales manager, all of Redlands. The affairs of the organization are run by a board of directors of fifteen members, all orange growers from various sections of the state. The Anaheim Orange Growers' Association, of which N. B. Walter is manager, is a member of this selling agency. I might use man illustrations, providing vantage to all our detective tariff. But attention to the China which we labor hard and so long such a law? We Chinamen from coining our jobs with on a few cents a day different but man coming here and the goods which China coming through taking your job? Great and intelligent union unanimously any reduction of it. It is because they against the product And right here is a Cuban tobacco cigars high. This factories to move freida. The cigarmakers' pa told me that our 40 per cent higher consumer buys for exactly the same when they were prothis high tariff then benefited in 40 per cent have made Tampa city of 7,000 to one 35,000 people are bled of the New England factors, thus gliving management of the following organizations to unite their marketing facilities under one management, to be known as the General Sales Agency of America. The organizations included in this agency are as follows: The Mutual Orange Distributors, with headquarters in Redlands, California, The California Vegetable Union, headquarters in Los Angeles; the North American Fruit Exchange and Tropical Fruit Company, healquarters in New York; the Northwestern Fruit Exchange, headquarters in Seattle, Washington; and the California Fruit Distributors, headquarters in Sacramento, California. This new organization is to handle the entire output of these six concerns. The Mutual Orange Distributors handled six thousand cars of oranges and lemons last year; the California Vegetable Union are the largest shippers of California vegetables; the Northwestern Fruit Exchange handles the major part of the apple crop of Oregon and Washington; the California Fruit Distributors, which handles sixty-five per cent of the deciduous fruit crop of California, and the Tropical Fruit company, which is one of the largest shippers of bananas. Their officers are Thos. O'Nelll of the California Vegetable Union, President; Charles E. Virden of the California Fruit Distributors, Vice-president, and A. Gregory of the Mutual Orange Distributors Secretary and Treasurer. The other officers and directors are selected from the officers of the various companies interested. Let us briefly see the great advantages of this new connection to the Mutual Orange Distributors. The first and greatest advantage undoubtedly lies in the enlarging of the market. To begin, the selling organization is under the absolute control of the concerns interested, and because of During the first eight months the war cost £307,416,000. In addition we advanced £52,370,000 to the Dominions and our allies. About 2,900,000 more gallons of spirits and 17,000,000 more gallons of beer than was anticipated were consumed last year. While there was an unexpected increase of £1,000,000 on tobacco—largely due to gifts to the troops. As a consequence of the war £458,000,000 has been added to the national debt, which now stands at £1,165,802,000. During the year we must pay £50,000,000 interest on borrowed money. While affairs are being wound up after the war their will be armies in occupation. War expenditure will reach £2,200,000 a day. We are raising money not only for ourselves but for other countries. Amount to be raised in 1915-16, if war lasts another six months, £790,458,000. Amount to be raised if war lasts another year, £1,136,434,000. Present taxation will bring in £270,332,000. Deficit if six months' war, £514,346,000. Deficit if twelve month's war, £862,322,000. No new taxes now. Deficit to be borrowed or raised by a new budget a few months hence. Income tax doubled, as announced last November. Liquor taxes to be modified. New beer duty suspended for a fortnight. WANTED — Carpentering, jobbing, painting, tinting by contract. Exchange part for groceries, furniture, electrical fixtures, feed or what. Prices low; satisfaction guaranteed. W. F. Baker, R. 5, Box 62, E. South St., Anaheim. 4-29-4t PROTECTION IS BEST FOR WORKINGMEN Because It Shuts Out the Finished Products of Cheap Labor in Other Countries It is not so hard to understand how a workingman might espouse the cause of socialism, or of prohibition, but I cannot understand how any man who works for wages can support a low tariff party. We all know this nation the youngest of all the great nations of the earth, has become the foremost in everything that makes for a high standard of life; such as ownership of homes, money in savings institutions, the masses well fed, housed and clothed, the amount of money spent by the workers for luxuries, and so on. We have two-thirds of all the telephone and telegraph wires of the world; 40 per cent of the railway mileage of the world, wealth equal to that of any two nations, and a wage system that is more than 100 per cent above that of Europe. And as President Gompers has so well said, if the workers of this country were content to live as the workers of Europe live, then our working people would be more than twice as well off as those of any nation in Europe. Statistics prove that most of this great advance in every avenue of economic life has been made under the system of high protection. For 253 years of our existence as a colony and a nation, from the settlement of Jamestown to 1860, our working people were able to save and invest in the savings institutions of this nation $149,000,000. That was under a low tariff period. From 1860 to 1914 our working people accumulated the vast sum of nearly $2,000,000,000 and during the last year of the Taft administration our working people invested $39,000,000 in the savings banks alone; or $90,000,000 more uncompel our workking people to compete with that kind of labor?—F. G. Gordon in the Muncle (Ind.) National Republican. SAVED FROM ITS OWN IGNORANT ACT European War Has Served to Offset The Effects of Free Trade Party Domination If ever a party was saved from its own economic ignorance or perversity by an outside event, this European war has saved the Democratic party of our day from the plain evidence of its own folly. The war has been a double life preserver for the Wilson administration in this case. It has not only operated exactly as a protective tariff would have operated in the matter of imports, by holding them down to reasonable and non-competitive proportions, but it has greatly enlarged our balance of trade against Europe by reason of the enlarged demand from Europe for our eatable things, which we happened to have in abundance, and for munitions of war. Thus by a wholly fortuitous combination of circumstances, with which the Wilson administration had no more to do than with the sides of the Bay of Fundy, it has secured all the advantages here at home of a protective tariff, except the public revenue which it lost by making as nearly a free trade tariff as it could, and all the advantages of increased sales in the foreign markets, in spite of its systematic effort to secure an increased sale for foreign gods in our market. To speak about "the grave disturbances caused by the gigantic European war," as Mr. McAdoo does, as if it had been an abstacle to such prosperity as we now have, when obviously it has been the main cause of keeping American producers out of the business again, but where will he find the means since he has already hanging over him a debt of half a million francs and the goods that secured it are in Germany? It is a serious problem... For 253 years of our existence as a colony and a nation, from the settlement of Jamestown to 1860, our working people were able to save and invest in the savings institutions of this nation $149,000,000. That was under a low tariff period. From 1860 to 1914 our working people accumulated the vast sum of nearly $2,000,000,000 and during the last year of the Taft administration our working people invested $39,000,000 in the savings banks alone; or $90,000,000 more under the Payne-Aldrich tariff in one year than they had been able to save in all the 253 years of a low tariff. During the decade from 1900 to 1910 our farmers doubled their farm wealth, accumulating more than $20,000,000,000 of wealth in that ten-year period of a high tariff. It took our farmers 253 years under a low tariff to accumulate farm wealth to the value of $8,000,000,000, but from 1860 to 1910 they accumulated $33,000,000,000 in farm wealth alone. I might use many pages with like illustrations, proving the enormous advantage to all our people of a protective tariff. But let me call your attention to the Chinese exclusion act, which we labor men fought for so hard and so long. Why did we pass such a law? We did it to keep the Chinamen from coming here and taking our jobs with his ability to exist on a few cents a day. Now, what is the difference between John Chanman coming here and taking your job and the goods which he produces in China coming through our ports and taking your job? Why is it that the great and intelligent cigarmakers' union unanimously protests against any reduction of the tariff on cigars? It is because they want protection against the product of low wage labor. And right here is a point. The tariff on Cuban tobacco is low, on Cuban cigars high. This caused 30 cigar factories to move from Cuba into Florida. The cigarmakers' secretary at Tampa told me that our wages averaged 40 per cent higher than in Cuba, yet the consumer buys his Havana cigar for exactly the same price that he did when they were produced in Cuba. By this high tariff the cigarmakers are benefited in 40 per cent higher wages, the consumer is not harmed and we have made Tampa grow from a little city of 7,000 to one of 35,00, and those 35,000 people are buying the products of the New England mills and shoe factories, thus giving employment and finished goods to the value of five million to ten million francs. The banks had advanced him a half million francs. The security for that advance is gone. That man will say after the war: "I am not played out. I want to put my industry on its feet again," but where will he find the means since he has already hanging over him a debt of half a million francs and the goods that secured it are in Germany? It is a serious problem, but it will be solved. "Another great difficulty is in the restoration of our plants, the replacing of our machines. Under existing conditions it seems likely that it will take two years for machine constructors to furnish what we shall require. Perhaps we shall have to call upon the American ingenuity to help us in working out the difficult problems, but they will be solved, for never was the spirit of our manufacturers and workers so strong as today." MUST BE TRUE THAT THERE IS A HELL If Not, the Question of the Day Is, Where has American Business Gone to? A story was told in 1895 in which a Universalist and a Jew were at variance. The Universalists loudly proclaimed that there is no hell. The Jew disagreed. The Uni persisted that there never was, was not, and never would be such a place. The Hebrew came back and said: "If there is no hell, where has business gone to?" The Uni took to the woods. The Jew had him. Twenty years have passed. This is 1915 and the country is again minus the Uni, but full of Jews who are asking where has business gone to, and the almost universal answer is that it has gone to the place the Uni said did not exist. The truth is that 1895 and 1915 are deadly parallel years. Why should not 1915 be in line with the years of the Mcpinley, Roosevelt and Taft administrations? The Theanswer is as easy as can be. The with the years of the McKinley, Roose-Taft years have been reversed, and the hand on the dial of 1915 points back to 1895. But thanks be that 1917 is now as near as 1897 was to 1895 in Grover's day. Thanks, too, that as Grover hied away from the White House to Ney Jersey in 1897, so will Woodrow Wilson check his baggage... pa told me that our wages averaged 40 per cent higher than in Cuba, yet the consumer buys his Havana cigar for exactly the same price that he did when they were produced in Cuba. By this high, tariff the cigarmakers are benefited in 40 per cent higher wages, the consumer is not harmed and we have made Tampa grow from a little city of 7,000 to one of 35,000, and those 35,000 people are buying the products of the New England mills and shoe factories, thus giving employment and wages to our own people. Everyone in America is benefited; no one is harmed. If the cheap products of the Chinese, the Japanese and the low wages of Europe come into competition with our labor it means two things in the long run, namely, lower wages and no wages. You may say we do not need to fear the Asiatic laborer's products, but we do. Why, United States today is buying more goods from Japan than any other nation. A great underwear mill in Hong Kong is sending its goods right into New York city. Chinese producers are sending tons of pig iron into the city of Seattle. Last July more than $800,000 worth of woolen and worsted goods came into this country from Bradford, England, alone, and from that same city more than $50,000 worth of cotton goods were imported. Mr. Underwood, the Democratic leader, in summing up for this Democratic tariff, said that it would increase imports of foreign goods to the extent of $250,000,000 annually. That means that our working people will produce just that much less goods; it means what every low tariff has always meant in the past, and that is low wages and less work. The average wages in the textile mills of Japan today are less than 17 cents for 11 hours' work, and in those mills there are 62,000 children under the age of 14. Is it wise, is it just to The above estimate is based on confirmed facts only. It more than bears out the estimate of a German publicist, who after a visit to the German front, stated that the war booty sent from Northern France to Germany in the form of cereals, sugar, metals, wool, leather, etc. amounted to $500,000,000 during the first six months of the war. It is supposed that his figures were based on the requisition price, said to be very inferior to the market value. On the latter basis the actual total would be far in excess of the German figures; the estimate for the textile industries alone would so indicate. It is known that the Germans took nearly all the raw material and finished goods in the great woolen manufacturing centers of Ie Coteau, Roubalx and Tourcoing, where America buys heavily of the finer woolen fabrics. They also emptied the linen factories, with the exception of those at Armentieres, where they were driven back too soon, and at Lille, where they have recently begun to requisition these products. The territory occupied by the Germans contains more than 80 per cent of the woolen and linen industries of France; the consequence is a shortage of all these products. The army is seeking hundreds of thousands of yards of canvas for tents that these industries are unable to supply. Cotton, tried as a substitute, proved unsatisfactory. "The financial problem resulting from this state of things," according to this authority, "will require more serious study after the war. A commercial and industrial activity such as we have never seen will be witnessed in France, but the setting in years. Why should not 1915 be in line with the years of the Mcpinley, Roosevelt and Taft administrations? The Theanswer is as easy as can be. The with the years of the McKinley, Roose-Taft years have been reversed, and the hand on the dial of 1915 points back to 1895. But thanks be that 1917 is now as near as 1897 was to 1895 in Grover's day. Thanks, too, that as Grover hled away from the White House to Ney Jersey in 1897, so will Woodrow Wilson check his baggage for Princeton in 1917. Then the pendulum will swing again the same as it did twenty years ago. Furnace fires will be relighted. The wage earner will be called, and the acclaim from the forge will have the ring of chimes. The shutters on the factory windows will be taken down, the closed doors will be unlocked, prosperity will come into his own again. In closing, thanks to Senator Kenyon for the reminder of the Uni and Jew debate. A prosperity shouter was present, his smile departed, and his face suddenly elongated to 5,280 feet, the length of a mile.—Marlon (Ia.) Register. HUGE DOCUMENT IS RECORDED Recorder Justine Whitney of Santa Ana was called upon to record the largest decree in judgment which she has been asked to place on the books of the county since she assumed the duties of her office. It was the Quiet Title cases of Yorba Linda, in which the decree was made that all the properties in dispute should be quilled to the present owners. The case was on the calendar, technically, as Josephine E. Hammaker, et al., vs. Charles Milline, et al., and in the case of the plaintiffs, the et al meant 140 in number. There were dozens who were known as John Does, numbers one to twelve. The filling fees were a little more than $50. 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