anaheim-gazette 1916-07-13

OPPOSES STATE DISTRIBUTION BUREAU CALIFORNIA FRUIT GROWERS' EXCHANGE SATISFIED WITH PRESENT SYSTEM OF MARKETING GEN. MANAGER POWELL TELLS COL. WEINSTOCK WHY ASSOCIATION TURNS DOWN HIS SCHEME The efforts of Col. Weinstock, state market director, to create a state bureau of distribution, through which all the citrus fruits of California would be marketed under direction of an official appointed by the governor, met with a check when the California Fruit Growers' Exchange declined to endorse the scheme by a unanimous vote of its seventeen directors. In a letter to Col. Weinstock, G. Harold Powell, general manager of the Exchange says that the marketing system has been developed year by year through a period of twenty years, that 66 per cent of the crop is marketed through the Exchange, that the system is satisfactory, and he does not believe that it could be improved under state management. The correspondence between Messrs. Powell and Weinstock is herewith printed, together with an explanatory note by E. G. Dezell, secretary of the Exchange. Mr. Dezell writes: July 6, 1916. TO ALL SHIPPERS:—We are in receipt of a letter from Col. Harris February 18, 1916, the following committee of seven was appointed to take up with the state market director the question of creating a state bureau of information and distribution, with a view of minimizing gluts and famines in Eastern markets for citrus fruit shipments: Senator P. F. Cogswell, El Monte, chairman. A. Gregory, Redlands. W. E. Sprott, Porterville. C. C. Teague, Santa Paula. E. M. Lyon, Redlands. H. E. Swan, Ontario. H. C. Carr, Porterville. The committee of seven, in conjunction with the state market director, met in Los Angeles on Monday, March 13th, and invited numerous shippers to be present and to express their views on the advisability and desirability of such a bureau, which idea, after the fullest discussion, was unanimously approved. The committee of seven thereupon outlined the following as a desirable system to be placed in operation under the direction of the state. Assuming that 90 per cent or more of the shipments can be included in the plan, an advisory council of five is to be chosen by the shippers. This advisory council will in turn nominate an executive head of the bureau of distribution, it being understood of course that such executive head of the bureau will be the most competent and efficient man to be found anywhere in the United States. The prime purpose of this bureau is to create an advisory medium that will be in position to gather from and furnish to all shippers accurate daily information as to maximum needs of the markets of the country for citrus fruits, the furnishing of advice of all shipments and diversions, and such other information as will enable all shippers intelligently to supply the markets of the country with the maximum amount of fruit they can use, and still maintain a reasonable market condition and eliminate the great economic waste of the present system. With all this information at hand, the head of the bureau will give such suggestions to each shipper as will best assist in distributing the crop to the best advantage. In doing this, the head of the bureau will take no arbitrary position in regard to the placing... through a period of twenty years, that 66 per cent of the crop is marketed through the Exchange, that the system is satisfactory, and he does not believe that it could be improved under state management. The correspondence between Messrs. Powell and Weinstock is herewith printed, together with an explanatory note by E. G. Dezell, secretary of the Exchange. Mr. Dezell writes: July 6, 1916. TO ALL SHIPPERS:—We are in receipt of a letter from Col. Harris Weinstock, state market director, in reply to ours of June 21st advising him of the conclusion of our board of directors not to become an adherent to the proposed state bureau of distribution. Some of our shippers have reported receiving copies of the letter to us and evidently it has been given general distribution. We are therefore handing you herewith a copy of our letter of June 21st; also of the letter from the state market director dated March 21st, so that you may have a complete file of the correspondence. Yours truly, E. G. DEZELL, A. G. M. General Manager Powell's letter to Col. Weinstock was as follows: June 21, 1916. Colonel Harris Weinstock, State Market Director, Sacramento, California. Dear Colonel Weinstock: The California Fruit Growers' Exchange, at a regular meeting of its board of directors on June 21, 1916, (all of its seventeen members being present), unanimously resolved not to become an adherent of the proposed state bureau of distribution as outlined in your communication of March 21st. This conclusion was reached after a re-investigation extending over several months of the present distribution of the citrus fruit crop in all markets of the country. There has been no time when the California citrus fruit crop as a whole has been as well and as equally distributed to all markets of the United States and Canada as at the present time; and great progress is being continually made in strengthening the distributing system. The Exchange is a voluntary association of citrus fruit growers organized without capital and operated at actual cost themselves for their benefit. The doors of the Exchange are open to any grower who is not now a member. Those growers who are not now having their products distributed to the best advantage may do so by joining the Exchange. They may thereby have their products sold thru their own organization at the lowest cost of marketing any California fruit product. They may have the benefits of the national advertising of Exchange fruit; and in the large purchasing power of the Fruit Growers Supply company. They may participate in the other advantages which the Exchange gives the producer and which no other shipments, the furnishing of advice of all shipments and diversions, and such other information as will enable all shippers intelligently to supply the markets of the country with the maximum amount of fruit they can use, and still maintain a reasonable market condition and eliminate the great economic waste of the present system. With all this information at hand, the head of the bureau will give such suggestions to each shipper as will best assist in distributing the crop to the best advantage. In doing this, the head of the bureau will take no arbitrary position in regard to the placing of the fruit, but only an advisory one, and the former affiliations of shippers will be fully recognized. The California citrus industry has before it an object lesson in the experience of the cantaloupe growers in Imperial Valley for the last year, which operated along similar lines under the direction of the Federal authorities, and which led to order being brought out of chaos, and eliminated an enormous amount of waste and saved the industry from ruin. Will you be good enough to write me at your earliest convenience and say whether, in view of all the foregoing, the State can count upon your becoming an adherent to the proposed bureau of distribution, and will you further give the state market director the benefit of any suggestions or any criticisms in this connection which may occur to you and which you think likely to be helpful in the creation and administration of the proposed bureau? Yours very truly, HARRIS WEINSTOCK, State Market Director. CALIFORNIA OIL INDUSTRY Oil field activity reported to the state mining bureau during the week ending July 1, 1916, show only 13 new wells starting. The slackening of drilling in the past two weeks seems to be largely due to both scarcity and high cost of supplies, particularly casing. This weekly report marks the end of the first fiscal year for the oil field supervision work of the bureau, which began last August. During that period there have been 485 new wells started. The inspection of tests of water shut off has been of great importance and has particularly caused operators to give more attention to their own field work, there have been 577 such tests. Adandonment of wells has received close attention from the Bureau because damage done by improperly abandoned wells is frequently irreparable after it is once done. There have been 113 such wells where specifications were issued and the work inspected. When a well is deepened or redrilled care is necessary to protect the oil sands from infiltrating... The doors of the Exchange are open to any grower who is not now a member. Those growers who are not now having their products distributed to the best advantage may do so by joining the Exchange. They may thereby have their products sold thru their own organization at the lowest cost of marketing any California fruit product. They may have the benefits of the national advertising of Exchange fruit; and in the large purchasing power of the Fruit Growers Supply company. They may participate in the other advantages which the Exchange gives the producer and which no other shipper is in a position to offer. The marketing system of the California Fruit Growers Exchange has been developed step by step thru 20 years of constant study and evolution. The daily information secured by the Exchange regarding the supply of fruit in California, the consuming power of the different markets, the daily movement of the crop to all markets, the prices, the weather conditions, the supplies of competitive fruits, such as cantaloupes, strawberries and peaches, gives its 8000 members the most complete daily market news service that has been developed for any American crop. At least 66 per cent of the industry is included in the Exchange membership, the organization having recently made the largest gain in its history in the percentage of the crop handled. The board of directors of the Exchange is therefore unanimous in the conviction that the safety and permanency of the citrus industry will be best served by the further growth of the non-profit co-operative method of fruit distribution and sale and thru the handling of the product by the growers thru the agencies which they themselves have created and developed. Yours very truly, (Signed) G. HAROLD POWELL, General Manager Following is Mr. Weinstock's letter recommending the state bureau of distribution: San Francisco. March 21, 1916. G. Harold Powell, General Manager, California Fruit Growers Exchange, Los Angeles, Cal. Dear Sir:— At the last state citrus growers' convention held in San Bernardino on As has been repeatedly stated the most important work of the bureau is the study and correlation of geological facts and well records. Such studies furnish a basis for directing new development work in such a manner that damage to the fields may be avoided which is of course better than repairing old wells. This branch of the work has been only slightly touched because many owners are dilatory in furnishing their well logs. Until such records are available the work of the bureau will be greatly handicapped and operators will not be receiving the utmost return for the money paid out in assessments to carry on the work. The board of review, which acted upon errors in the assessment roll, reports that very few complaints were made. This is remarkable in view of the fact that it is the first time the roll had been made up. Argentina shipped 6,042,289 pounds of meat to the United States in April, Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield announces. Meat imports from other sources were: Brazil, 205,984 pounds; Canada, 1,029,183 pounds; Uruguay, 20,213 pounds. FOR SALE—Heating stove, spade, and long ladder. Must be sold at once. 120 Resh street. ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1916 EXPEDITION SENT TO THE AMAZON COUNTRY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY PREPARING TO CARRY WAR INTO ENEMY'S COUNTRY OBJECT IS TO PROTECT THE U.S. FROM INFECTIOUS TROPICAL DISEASES War is to be carried into the heart of the enemy's country in the campaign to protect the United States against infection by tropical diseases. To carry on during the coming year investigations as to tropical diseases, on the upper reaches of the Amazon, was voted at the annual meeting of the directors of the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research of the University of California as a new development of the work of the Foundation. This meeting was held to decide how to use during the coming year the annual income of $50,000 of the Foundation available for scientific investigation in medicine. Prof. Ernest Linwood Walker will be stationed for a year 1500 miles up the Amazon, in the region of Porto Zelho, Rio Madeira, Amazon, Brazil, a region as yet scientifically unexplored, and there he will make researches as to parasitic infections of man. The undertaking has been aided by an offer of the privileges of the hospital maintained there by the Madeira Mamora railroad, the medical director of the company being Dr. Allen M. Walcott, a graduate of 1907 of the University of California Medical school. 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The undertaking has been added by an offer of the privileges of the hospital maintained there by the Madeira Mamora railroad, the medical director of the company being Dr. Allen M. Walcott, a graduate of 1907 of the University of California Medical school. This is but one of the medical investigations being carried on by the Foundation, for its staff, in association with a number of volunteer workers from the faculty of the Medical School, is carrying on a wide variety of researches in scientific medicine in its laboratories adjoining the university medical school in San Francisco, including studies of cancer, of various infections of the typhoid group, functional diseases of the liver, anaemia, and other problems of profound importance for the health and well-being of the whole world. An important new appointment made to the staff of the Foundation was that of Dr. Alice Rohde as instructor in research medicine, to undertake researches on the chemical side of medical investigation. Dr. Rohde is one of the most highly trained women investigators in America, having graduated from the University of Chicago in 1903, from the Johns Hopkins medical school in 1910, after special training in research medicine under Dr. Walter Jones, Prof. of physiological chemistry; having spent the next three years in Berlin as holder of a fellowship, working there under the distinguished physiological chemist, Dr. Emil Fischer; and having spent the last two years in researches in physiological chemistry in Baltimore in association with Dr. J. J. Abel, Professor of pharmacology in Johns Hopkins university. The Hooper Foundation, to endow which property valued at much over a million dollars was given by Mrs. George William Hooper of San Francisco, is now beginning the third year of its work. The scientific director is Dr. George H. Whipple and the board of directors to which the control of the institution is delegated by the regents of the university consists of President BenJ. Ide Wheeler, chairman; Dr. Henry Smith Pritchett, president of the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of Teaching; Dr. William H. Welch of Baltimore, director of the new school of preventive medicine and hygiene, for the equipment and endowment of which several million dollars is now being given to Johns Hopkins by the Fockefeller foundation; Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt, dean of the university medical school; Director Whipple; E. D. Connelley, of San Francisco; and A. W. Foster of San Francisco, a regent of the university. CO. Agents. Santa Ana, Cal. fluence with the committeemen is responsible for the new marine hospital appropriation. FOREST NOTES About 700 million feet of timber was cut on the national forests in 1915. Experiments with jack pine have shown that it is well suited for making kraft paper. On some of the national forests this tree is used to plant land which is too poor to grow other timber. A new firefighting tool has been invented by a forest ranger in California which consists of an interchangeable hoe and rake. It is said to be the best tool of the sort yet devised. The use of osage orange for making dyes promises to be extensive. The forest products laboratory is making a census which shows that the supply of the wood is more than ample to meet present needs. In parts of the west the forest service is cooperating with the weather bureau in distributing weather forecasts to the settlers. By the use of the forest service telephones many isolated sections are reached which could not otherwise receive the reports. Sheepmen owning bands of lambing ewes will be particularly benefited, as the warnings enable them to get their sheep under shelter and avoid the losses sometimes caused by late spring storms. CAMPAIGN OF ARGUMENT In his history of the American people President Wilson truthfully said that "the election of 1900 was won by argument.* It was in the last analysis of a contest between the radical and the conservative forces of the country and the conservative forces won." And much the same thing will be true of the campaign of 1916. This is to be a campaign of argument notwithstanding the effort of President Wilson to create the impression that the issue is patriotism and that every man who is not for him is unpatriotic. It is not a campaign between the radical forces and the conservative forces, but a contest between the erratic and the constant. amount of wood waste in the manufacture of pulp is indicated by figures compiled by the forest service. Although the pulp industry showed a decline in the last year for which complete figures are available (1914) on account of the increasing cost of raw material and general business conditions, more wood waste was used than in any previous year. Approximately 330,000 cords of waste with a value of $1,400,000 were utilized by 35 of the 200 pulp and paper mills of the United States. It is thought that as the price of cordwood APPROPRIATIONS FOR CALIFORNIA BUILDINGS Many Cities to Receive Money for New Postoffices California appropriations in the House Public Buildings Bill, soon to be reported, amount to $1,625,000, of which $600,000 is for a new marine hospital at San Francisco and $650,000 for the new Oakland postoffice. While the appropriations in the bill have been jealously guarded by the committee, which refused to give out the items until the bill is reported to the House, it was learned that these appropriations are as follows: San Francisco Marine Hospital, $600,000; Oakland postoffice, $650,000; Sacramento addition to Federal Court, $50,000; Venice site for postoffice, $20,000; Santa Monica site for postoffice, $20,000; Placerville site for postoffice, $10,000; Susanville site for postoffice, $10,000; Petaluma postoffice, $50,000; San Bernardino postoffice, $70,000; Palo Alto site for postoffice, $15,000; San Mateo site for postoffice, $15,000; Modesto postoffice, $65,000; Redlands site for postoffice, $50,000. That California has secured such a large sum in the bill for public buildings is due in large measure to Representative Elston, the only California member of the committee, and to Representative Kahn, whose personal interest. And much the same thing will be true of the campaign of 1916. This is to be a campaign of argument notwithstanding the effort of President Wilson to create the impression that the issue is patriotism and that every man who is not for him is unpatriotic. It is not a campaign between the radical forces and the conservative forces, but a contest between the erratic and the constant. The democratic administration is neither conservative nor radical nor anything else definable and dependable. It was conservative yesterday, is radical today and nobody can guess what it will be tomorrow. It blows hot and cold with the same breath. It asks the advice and cooperation of business men but refuses to accept their suggestions. Professes willingness to aid private enterprise, but rapidly extends its policy of government ownership. It expresses concern over foreign competition after the war, but takes no adequate steps to guard against it. It declared a few months ago that we have not neglected national defense and now wants the greatest navy on earth. It pretends to be non-partisan but subordinates everything to party interest. It proclaims its advocacy of equal justice but persecutes one of the soundest banking institutions of the country. It sends ultimatums that do not ultimate. It talks strict accountability and enforces no accountability. It announces one policy one week and a different policy the next. It backsteps, sidesteps, hesitates. It enacts and repeals. It waivers and wobbles. This is a contest between erratic democracy and stable republicanism. WOOD WASTE USED FOR PULP The use of a steadily increasing country and the conservative forces won." Though the pulp industry showed a decline in the last year for which complete figures are available (1914) on account of the increasing cost of raw material and general business conditions, more wood waste was used than in any previous year. Approximately 330,000 cords of waste with a value of $1,400,000 were utilized by 35 of the 200 pulp and paper mills of the United States. It is thought that as the price of cordwood goes up the amount of wood waste used will become greater. The Canadian pulp industry has, it is stated, had a vigorous growth during the last few years and the greater portion of the product is marketed in the United States. An average cost of about $6.50 per cord, as compared with the $10 to $16 per cord which many manufacturers in this country are paying for pulpwood, is the reason given for the growth. It is pointed out that the development of the supplies of spruce and white and red fir in the national forests of the west and in Alaska, together with the abundance of cheap water power, will eventually attract the paper industry to locate in those regions. Suitable pulp timber can be delivered to desirable mill sites for the next 20 to 40 years at prices of about $2.50 to $4 per cord, say experts of the forest service. 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