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CRATES, BOXES
ARE CONFUSING
Fast-Growing Vegetable In
dustry Has Made Big
Variety Containers
^r^OT°N. Ma>' 1! — Expan
Jhe rarm-procuce contain
KJ5?.UStr>’, Co keep pace with the
increasing fruit and vegetable busi
years has Produced
JTU| t pllCity of crates and boxes
*nany instances amounts to
•onfuslon, the bureau of agricultu
ral economics, department of agrl
Inilture. announced as the result of a
nation-wide survey. The full text
»r the bureau's statement follows:
Chan 1.000,000,000 containers
ETfIf5Uitr^t£,package the aPProxi
wately 1,000.000 carloads of fruits
fu vegetables shipped annually in
*«e United States. These contain
®rs are of five types—baskets, crates
Md boxes, barrels and sacks. There
seven types of baskets; crates
gna boxes have either panel or solid
ends, and there are three types of
barrels. Sacks are generally made
Oi Jute, but investigations are now
being made of the practicability of
Using cotton or other fibers.
Containers in use for shipping a
given commodity vary widelv in dif
ferent sections of the country. For
the same kind of vegetable one sec
f tion may use a basket, another a
[fcrate. a third a barrel, and a fourth
ft sack. Fruits and vegetables taken
Into city markets by near-by farm
ers may move in a variety of con
tainers. In a New England city
eplnach was found on the market
In lettuce crates, egg cases, orange
boxes and hampers.
Many of the variations in fruit
gad vegetable containers will always
exist, says the bureau, because dif
ferent types of commodities require
different types of containers and be
cause monufactures in different sec
tions of the country can readily sup
ply certain types of containers and
cannot supply other types. Inabil
ity to supply other types is the prin
cipal obstacle in the way of adopt
ing a specific container throughout
the country for any given commod
ity.
Discussing possibilities of simpli
fication in boxes and crates, the bu
teau declares that if practicable it
would be desirable to have a uni
form length for apple-box shook*
so that tops and bottoms could also
be used for peach, pear, and other
boxes. Sizes of asparagus crates
fciight be simplified by using the 1
and 2-dozen sizes for bunched as
paragus. Variations in sizes of crates
for cantaloupes is due to an attempt
to make the crate fit the pack.
Instances are etted of large growers
Using an electric saw, with which
Blats were sawn for crates made
each day to fit the melons.
Much confusion, says the bureau,
has existed as to the sizes of cherry
boxes as many as 15 different speci
fications being reported. Attempts
to pack a certain number of pounds
to a box are responsible for these
variations.
California for many years has at
tempted to bring about the stand
ardization of grape containers, but
the demands of shippers’ organiza
tions for variations in sizes resulted
in chaos. At present. 13 different
standard containers for grapes are
provided but a reduction of 10 is
contemplated.
A complete report of the bureau's
survey has been published by the
department of agriculture as farm
ers’ bulletin 1579-F. entitled “Con
tainers Used in Shipping Fruits and
Vegetables.” The bulletin discusses
the containers in general use for
packing specified farm products, and
points out the need for simplifica
tion.
Tom Stevenson To
Inspect Chevrolet
Plant In Michigan
On special invitation of C. P.
Blmpson, zone sales manager for
the Chevrolet Motor company. Tom
Stevenson, local Chevrolet dealer,
leaves Monday on an inspection trip
of the extensive Chevrolet motor
and assembly plants in Flint. Mich.,
and General Motors proving
grounds at Milford, Mich.
Mr. Stevenson, in discussing the
trip, stated that he would be away
approximately a week. He wiil
Join in Dallas 150 other Chevrolet
dealers from the Southwest and go
to Flint via St. Louis in a special
train. Prior to his return he will
also attend a banquet given In
honor of the visiting dealers by
the Chevrolet Motor companv at
the Statler hotel in Detroit. The
dealers will be addressed there by
the general sales manager. Mr. H.
J. Klingler. and other executives
of Chevrolet.
Wealth, Poverty Rub Elbows
In Windy City, Survey Shows
M.NARY BILL
TO AID FARMER
Measure Would Suppress
Fraudulent Practices
In Marketing
WASHINGTON, May 11—A favor
able report on the Borah bill to sup
press unfair and fraudulent prac
tices in the marketing of perishable
agricultural commodities was order
ed unanimously by the senate com
mittee on agriculture and forestry.
This measure was proposed by
Senator Borah, of Idaho, to reduce
the spread in prices between the
producer and the consumer, or, as
the senator stated it, to keep the
farmer from being robb^i on the
wav to market.” It was referred to
by President Hoover in his message
to congress when he recommended
appropriations "to provide for li
censing of handlers of some perish
able products so as to eliminate un
fair practices.”
The secretary of Agriculture Arth
ur M. Hyde, declared in a letter to
Senator McNary of Oregon, chair
man of the agricultural committee,
that the bill “presents a most, if not
the most, effective means of dealing
with the evils to be corrected.”
“The bill provides.” said Secretary
Hyde, “for the licensing of commis
sion merchants that receive fresh
ffuits and vegetables of any kind in
interstate or foreign commerce,
brokers engaged in the business of
negotiating asies and purchases in
such commerce, including producers
selling and retailers buying such
commodities in carload quantities or
the equivalent thereof.
“Under the tezyas of the bill any
persons subject thereto that engage
in unfair or dishonest conduct, as
defined therein, in the business for
which they are licensed, may have
their licenses suspended or re
voked by the secretary of agricul
ture. and the bill provides that any
person who shall at any time carry
on the business of a commission
merchant, dealer, or broker, with
out a license shall be liable to a pen
alty of not more than $300 for each
such offense and not more than $25
for each day it continues, which will
accrue to the United States and may
be recovered In a civil suit brought
thereby.
"The department Is of the opinion
that the bill presents a most, if not
the most, effective means of dealing
with the evils sought to be corrected,
such as unwarranted rejections by
dealers and unfair and dishonest
practices by those subject thereto.
The highly perishable character of
most of the fresh fruits and vege
tables increases the opportunity for
unfair conduct on the part of those
handling them and argues for the
‘testing of the measure with respect
to those handling such commodities
before expanding it to include other
products. From time to time com
plaints have been received indicat
ing the need for legislation of the
type in question.
"The department has given careful
consideration to the bill and believes
that the suppression of unfair prac
tices and the reduction of losses in
the marketing of fresh fruits and
vegetables is desirable, and. there
fore. endorses the general principles
of the bill.-’
The bill has also received a favor
able report from the bureau of the;
budget. A six-month period is given |
to those affected by the bill to ob- j
tain operating licenses. I
McAllen Firm Will
Move Into New And
Larger Home, May 18
(Special to The Herald*.
MERCEDES. May 11 -Baum and
Westerman Saturday. May II mil
more into their new home at Mer
cedes.
The first Baum and Westerman
store was opened in Mercedes In
1924 by A. Baum and A. Westerner.
At that time the two had ounter
space in a building and engaged m a
music and novelty business. They
grandualV branched into men's fur
nishings and in 193«. opened thetr
McAllen store as a men's shop.
Since that time thetr business has
undergone a grad* ml growth until
today it is one o» the eutstandewl
stores of its kind in the Valley aA 1
caters to a clientele drawn from all
sections
“We have always endeavored to
combine quality with sound mer
chandise values." Mr. Baum said.
"Our lines of merchandise are com
posed of nationally known products.
Despite the quality of the stock, we
have such a wide price range that
our merchandise is within the reach
of every purse.
!
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By ROY J. GIBBONS
Central Press Staff Writer
CHICAGO, May 11—Living in that
mile-square area known here defi
nitely as the “near north side” (con
cluesively) places a person as either
somebody or nobody, greatly rich or
unbelievably poor, respectable or of
the gilded underworld of vice.
No similar acreage on earth pre
sents such vivid contrasts.
Here are to be found the highest
residential land values in Chicago
and the lowest, the greatest number
of professional men, more politici
ans. more suicides, more million
aires and more persons in “Who’s
Who” than in ail the rest of the
city combined, it is disclosed in a
study just made public under the
title of "Gold Coast and Slum.” by
Harvey W. Zorbaugh. now on the
faculty of New York university, and
formerly of the University of Chi
cago.
“Gold Coast" Dissected
The “Gold Coast;” the floating
population of Clark street, the near
north side rialto; the foreign colo
nies, the art and bohemian section
around "Towertown” and the drab
of the rooming house streets have
been dissected with a keen pen by
Dr. Zorbaugh.
Chicago society people themselves
wrote the chapter on the “Gold
Coast.” telling of the foibles of so
ciety as they saw them, and reveal
ing the social aspirations and ac
tivities of the local “Four Hun
dred.”
Chicago society, the study states,
is in the hands of cliques of rich
young people, and the dowagers and
social arbiters of yesterday are out.
The old society, based on hereditary
social position, has been replaced by
one of wealth and display, in which
youth sits in the seat of high con
trol.
New Standards Prevail
“One is no longer born of social
position,” according to Dr. Zor
baugh s sociological survey. “Such
position nowadays is gained by play
ing the social game with an eye
on the trump cards.
“The 'Four Hundred’ are those
who have arrived. They form a
self-conscious group to whom the
ameneties of life are of enormous
Importance. For them to violate the
social code is a vastly greater sin
than to violate the Ten Command
ments. They live in a totally dif
ferent world from that of the rest
of the great city of which they arc
a part and of the perogatives of
this world they are extremely jeal
ous.
“The social game is a constant
competition among those who are
‘in’ for distinction and prominence;
a constant struggle on the part of
those who are not ’in’ to break into
circle of those whe are.
“There are certain events of the
season to which ‘the' people are in
vited. such as the Bachelors and
Benedicts gathering, the Some
Bachelors affair, the First and Sec
ond Assembly and the Twelfth
Night party. And if you’re not in
vited to these, you're not of the
upper strata.
“There are besides, the Service
Club Play—a mixture of prominent
people and peopel unheard of; the
Junior League Play and Party, and
opera and certain charity affairs.’
Crashing the Social Gate
About crashing the social gate.
Dr. Zorbaugh has this to say:
“The wiles of the social climber
are many and devious. The most
obvious step is a brilliant marriage,
but this route is open only to men.
The majority of climbers seek to
buy their way into society—not
openly, to be sure, but tactfully and
insidiously, in the name of char
ity.
“Many climb, too. by brilliant
stage management; the ability to
contrive a brilliant salon, with a
celebrity of two. and a few of ‘just
the right people’ as drawing cards,
has accomplished more than one so
cial triumph. The successful 'climb
er' is an artist in self-advertisement,
in getting and keeping her name
in the society columns, in associat
ing with ‘just the right people’ and
‘just the right things.'
“The essence of the game is a
struggle for status and prestige, for
position and influence. It involves
an art of publicity of display and
lavish spending, resulting in a glori
fication of the person to be found
nowhere else in the life of the city
The game, the passion for recogni
tion. is the dominant interest in the
lives of at least a third of the
group known as society.”
The Other Extreme
Chicago's near north side is the
tidelands of city life. It shades from
light to shadow and from shadow
to dark. The "Gold Coast’ gives
way to the world of furnished rooms
and the world of furnished rooms
imperceptibly becomes the slums.
It is one world that revolves about
r 1 ■**’----- ——
The Edith Rockefeller McCormick home on Lake Shore drive, and, be
low. a bread line just a stone's throw from the "Gold Coast"
Lake Shore drive, the home stretch
for scores of millionaires, with its
mansions, clubs and motors, its ben
efits and assemblies. It is another
world that revolves about the Dill
Pickle club, the soap box rostrums
of Washington square or the shop
of Romano, the barber.’
But they all make up tne mile
square area that is Chicago’s near
northside.
BAPTISTS CLEAR
MISSION BOARD
Move to Combine Home and
Foreign Governors Is
Defeated
MEMPHIS Tenn.. May l!._
The home mission board of the
Southern Baptist church today
stood vindicated of charges of loss j
of confidence following the defal- .
cation of more than $900,000 by its
treasurer and started another year
as an independent unit.
An attempt to abolish the board
by combining it with the foreign
mission board and forming the
Southern Baptist board of missions
was defeated yesterday by church
members in convention here.
Clinton S. Carnes, the treasurer.
is in prison for the theft. The
The question of combining the
boards would not have come up “if
it hadn’t been for the big steal.’’
I the Rev. J. J. Wicker, of Richmond.
Va.. said.
The home mission board’s report
was adopted after a motion by Dr.
Frank H. Tripp, of St. Joseph.' Mo.,
suggesting that the merger be made,
was defeated. Moves to liquidate
the assets of the board also were
defeated.
The 1930 convention will be held
at New Orleans starting May 14.
Members of O. E. S.
Hear Officials I n
Instruction Class
^Special to The Heraldt
6AN BENITO, May 11.—Members
of the Eastern Star organization
from all Valley points were here
Thursday to attend the school of
instruction conducted by state of
ficials.
The officials here were Mrs. Birdie
J. Easterling. Del Rio; worthy grand
matron of the state; W. Gregor\
Hatcher. Austin, worthy grand pa
tron; Mrs Mattie Mitchell. San An
tonio. district deputy grand matron:
Mrs. Fay Stevenson. Junction, grand
examiner: Mrs. Ora E. Goolsby, San
Benito, deputy grand matron: and
Mrs. Emma Agar. San Benito, grand
representative of the grand chapter
of Ohio.
San Benito's total of grand offices
was raised to three when Mrs Ella
Orimsell, past worthy matron of the
local chapter, was given the office
of grand representative of the grand
chapter of North Dakota
MOODY REVEALS
* * *
INCLINATION TO
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APE SILENT CAL
AUSTIN. Tex.. May II.—UP>—
Governor Dan Moody may follow
In the steps of former presidents
and write after his term expires.
He has not exposed it to many,
but his secret ambition is to be
come a newspaper man.
“There isn't anything I had
rather do than write editorials.”
he said the other day over a cup
of coffee. “You know, if I could
afford it I would own a news- i,
paper.- |j
A
MATCH CAUSES DEATH
ST. PAUL. Minn —Chris. Mogawl,
a farmer, swallowed a match he
was chewing and it caused his
death.
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