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Thursday January 17, 1935
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THU i»R!CE OF CITRUS FRUIT
As was expected and freely predicted,
the Valley’s citrus fruit industry is having
mighty hard sledding in this, the first sea
son of maximum production.
No mattef what the reason, growers are
not receiving a sufficient amount for their
fruit to pay expenses, and when interest
on the investment is taken into considera
tion, added to a reasonable salary for
supervision and that sort of thing, there is
not a citrus grower in the Valley but is
losing money.
What the cause or the causes we cannot
say.
No doubt but that general conditions
the country over have something to do
with the low prices being received by the
grower.
No doubt overhead, notably freight
rates, have something to do with current
prices at this end.
And again no doubt but that the pres
ent disorganized state of grower and ship
per has still more to do with it
In spite of a 40 per cent decrease in the
Florida crop, due to the freeze which hit
the citrus belt of that state in December,
land the consequent cut down in Florida
shipments, we find grapefruit being quoted
out of the Valley at $1 per box, fob.
And peculiarly, we find that Valley
grapefruit is bringing more on the auction
markets of the country by far than it* is
bringing when quoted out of the Valley at
fob prices.
Ai stated above, we do not feel qualified
to pass upon the exact causes which have
brought about this condition.
But we do feel qualified to state, and we
believe it sticks out like a sore thumb on
a violinist, that the disorganized state of
grower and shipper is a considerable con
tributing cause.
Shippers are disorganized on almost any
subject in connection with the marketing
of grapefruit, from a national advertising
campaign on up or down the line.
They disagree on proration, they dis
agree on the minimum price to be quoted,
they disagree on the elimination of un-1
classified shipments, they disagree on
everything in connection with the industry, j
Growers are unorganized, although this
condition is being remedied by the opera
tions of the Texas Citrus Growers League,
and right here there is a warning to ship
pers. The time is coming knd coming soon
when the citrus growers of the Valley are
going to refuse to continue longer as the
“goats” of the industry.
If the present chaotic state of affairs is
not straightened out, and that in a hurry,
we are going to find the citrus growers tak
ing over the deal and dictating in no uncer
tain terms what prices will be paid, what
and how much fruit shall be shipped and
many another provision that shippers no
consider as their peculiar province.
There is too much money invested in the
Valley’s citrus industry to allow it to be
ruined by prevailing tactics.
Many Differ on Foods
In Arthritis Cases
By DR. MORRIS FISHBCIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association,
and of Hygela. the Health Magazine
Various authorities estimate that Inflammations of
the joints end rheumatic conditions are due to Intes
tinal causes In from 20 to 40 per cent of cases. One
group insists that the taking of sugars is largely
responsible, and they cut down on such substances.
Another group claims that overeating of protein
foods, such as meat, eggs, and fish, may be harmful.
You can see that people who regularly overeat
ought to eat leas and those who are overweight should
take smaller amounts of carbohydrates. The sick
person is likely to suffer in the nutrition of his tis
sues. and It may be hazardous to out down too great
ly on protein fods.
Some faddists insist on omission of all acid fruits
and vegetables. The foods commonly called acid
fruits include tomatoes, oranges, grapefruit, and
lemons. Actually these foods contain weak acids
which are oxidized In the body and the end result is
alkaline
• • •
You should remember, moreover that such foods
represent the primary contribution to the diet of
vitamin C and that they also provide a good amount
of vitamin A. They are really essential to any well
balanced diet and there is nothing to show that they
should not be included in the diet of a person with
arthritis.
Quite recently some faddists have insisted that a
person with a rheumatic condition should not eat a
mixed diet and that the presence of protein in the
stomach Interferes with the digestion of starches.
This is another Indication of the lack of knowledge
of physiology.
Meat and potatoes, which are especially rich in
protein and starch, have been eaten for thousands
of years. The digestion of starch * begins in the
mouth because the saliva is important In digestion.
• • •
This process may be temporarily interrupted in
the stomach, because starches are not digested in the
presence of acid from the gastric Juice. However, the
digestion of starch is again resumed when the food
passes from the stomach into the intestines, where
the juices are alkaline.
It has been pointed out that such animals as the
dog, the cat, and the cow do not have ferments in
their saliva for digesting starches and that in such
animals, which live chiefly on foods containing
starches, all digestion of starch takes place after the
food has left the stomach.
Another group of faddists says that persons with
arthritis should est foods tending to alkalinity The
human body is a self-regulating mechanism which
must always incline toward alkalinity, and it is
rather silly for people to attempt to make any spe
cial effort to keep the body on the alkaline side.
The inefficiency of state prosecutors is responsible
for many criminals being at large today.—E. W.
Puttkamraer, national secretary of the Association
of American Law Schools.
The trend is toward more wholesome and 1ms mor
bid literature.—Carl H. Milam, secretary, American
Liorary Association.
There * no sound argument for paying the bonus to
fellows like me —U. S Senator Sherman Minton of
Indiana.
By changing a man's health, we can change his
whole viewpoint.—Charles F. Kettering, automotive
engineer.
Some coaches lose sight of the fact that the game
belongs to the boys, not the coaches.—Coach Dors is
of the University of Detroit.
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WASHINGTON'
By George Duruo
Gestures- Many folks—even some
New Dc ‘aim—have wondered why
the president should revive the
World Court issue instead ol con
centrating strictly on his domestic
economic knitting. Calloused old
timers say the answer is simple.
Every administration strives to
have some great peace gesture to
which it may point with pride.
Mr. Harding had his Washing,
ton Arms conference and first
trotted out the World Court This
came just after the close of the
World War when the people knew
they wanted peace even If they
didn’t want the League of Nations
to preserve it.
Mr. Coohdge maintained his
customary sphinx-like silence and
let the senate ratify the World
Court with reservations which
were nromptly rejected by other
world powers. Thereafter he con
fined himself to putting over the
Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war
as his contribution to internation
al peace.
Mr, Hoover took a whirl at the
World Court with the Root-Hearst
formula as a basts for adherence.
Our foreign neighbors turned a
thumb down on portions of it be
fore a final vote. So Mr. Hoover
turned to affairs at home, which
were getting pretty hot, managing
during that period to put over
the German debt moratorium as
nis big international gesture.
• • •
Gone—There will be talk aplen
ty before this senate finally votes
overwhelmingly to Join up with the
Worm Court but the opponent*
lack organization.
Borah of Idaho and Johnson of
California will be two of the out
standing speakers against Amer
ican entry* Just as they always are.
Yet neither is an organizer who
cares to devote the time and en
ergy* to lining up a militant min
ority so closely knit It could wear
the majority down and even
swing public opinion around.
Back in the days of the League
of Nations fight, the real spade
work for the senate irreconcila
ble* was one by Lodge of Massa
chussetts. Moses of New Hamp
shire, Watson of Indiana and
Brandegee of Connecticut. All are
now gone.
• * •
Convenient —It is interest mg to
note that Joe Robinson of Arkan
sas, democratic leader of the sen
ate, and NOT Key Pittman ol
Nevada, chairman of the Foreign
Relations committee, took the lead
In pushing the World Court.
It is hard to believe but some
folks here are mean enough to say
that Senator Robinson is paying
another installment on his hoped
for seat on the United States Su
preme court.
By the time there is a vacancy
the highest tribunal wifi be oc
cupying its new home, the magni
Janaary 17, 1835.—Mowe Austin,
father of Stephen F. Austin, was a
native of Durham Connecticut. Be
ginning life as a merchant in Phil
adelphia. he was subsequently a
manufacturer of shot and sheet
lead at Ausunville, Virginia There
Stephen F. Austin was born In
1799 Moses Austin moved to a place
near St Genevieve, Missouri (then
Spanish Upper Louisiana*, where he
prospered for a score of years. Then
came a business depression in 1819.
A bank, in which Austin was a large
stockholder, failed, leaving him at
the end of a path which had prom
ised a life of ease Undaunted, he
came to the Spanish Province of
Texas to procure a colony grant.
His application was at first abrupt
ly refused by the Spanish Governor
in San Antonio, who ordered him
to leave the country immediately.
The dramatic meeting with Baron
de Bastrop, a friend of former
yeans, of* whose presence in San
Antotuo Austin was until then un
aware. has already been spoken of
as a moment when chance seems
to have stepped in to become the
beginning point of an empire. Baron
de Bastrop had persuaded the
Spanish Governor to a friendly at
titude toward Austin, who left San
Antonio on this day in 1821 to re
turn to Missouri to adjust his tan
gled affairs. “If you live to return,
you may count on my assistance in
every way that duty and circum
stances will permit,” said Governor
Martinez. But it was not to be so.
Texas was to know another Austin.
flcent Grecian temple of Justice
Just across the plasa from the
capitol. The senator lives modestly
In the Methodist building, on the
apposite side of the street from
the new court building. We watch
ed it rise from a site on which
once stood a federal prison for
Confederate soldiers. If and when
he lands the job the majority
leader will be unwearied by his
exertions in walking to It.
• • •
Personal — Senator Huey Long
is scaring the life out of the radio
broadcasting companies.
Emperor Long has passed word
around so it would get back to the
broadcasting people that he intends
to see to it that lie is in charge of
any and all radio legislation which
may be put up the Senate Inter
state Commerce commission.
Now Huey is well down toward
the bottom of the democratic mem
bership. Unless he strong-arms his
way In. there is little chance he
would be made chairman of a sub
committee dealing with anything so
Important as radio.
Nevertheless, the microphone boys
are seeing visions. They can't help
recalling that all European dictators
grabbed the radio first thing. Also,
the other night Long arbitrarily
took half an hour cm the air and
when he learned his network
didn't reach the west coast, made
them re-broad oast ft. Meanwhile,
he‘« acquiring his own personal
station down in New Orleans.
• • •
Whispers — There’s something
About Washington that tames them
all, sooner or later. Out on the
dustings aspirants to congress
make plenty of fantastic pledges
but when they get there they slip
[into the conventions.
Take the latest case on record—
that of Rep Joe Lee of Oklahoma
| He promised his constituents he
would be "the noisiest freshman in
| the house.” Now he reneges and
j avers he finds a fellow can get
further In congress on gumshoes
"The Man ’ Bilbo, of Mississip
pi. promised £o "raise more hell
' than Huey Long, according to
campaign reports, but so far he is
: singing a by-low tune.
• • •
It's the same old story. Jeff Da
I vis of Arkansas (not to be con-1
I '.used with the president of the
| confederacy ), vowed on how he
would “walk down the aisle of the
1 senate and take the oath In my
j stocking feet.” Came the day and
ONCE MORE
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he wore well-shined brogans—even
rode In an auto, much to the sur
prise of his constituents.
Joe Bailey of Texas swore he
would never wear a dress suit. Yet
he did. And "8ockless Jerry” Simp-1
son of Kansas tidily wore socks.
Howdy” Martin of Text, never
made good on picking his teeth
with a Bowie knife. But what vote
getter the promises were, each in
its time and place!
Peru exported most of her goods
lo Great Britain and imported most
of her purchases from the United
States in the first six months at
1934 _ •
CHAPTER I
r ALE HENDERSON looked up at
the whirling, silken spludles.
White and lustrous and beautiful,
they whirled la their mad dance.
Round and round, round and round.
There was nothing about the
long, gray room with its noisy ma
chines, its <0 women workers,
bands moving up and down, damp
ing on bobbins, snapping them off.
nothing about the afternoon slowly
drawing to a close to hint to Gale
Henderson that this was to be the
most eventful exciting day of her
23 years.
Gale bent her head aa ahe
snapped off a bobbin. She waa
thinking that ber parse contained
exactly 94.53. with pay day still
five days away. Maybe her brother
Phil could spare her a little some
thing—
The ringing of the bell cut-in
sharply—the bell that waa release
for the day shift. Machines slowed.
Into the corridor trooped men and
women, talking cow, hurrying. Jos
tling. some of them laughing. Gale
found herself pressed beside small,
gamin faced Joeie Grid ley.
“Gosh, am I glad this day's
over!" Joaie said fervently. "Goin’
to the dance tonight?"
Gale shook har bead.
"I thought you and Stevo—"
Joaie began, interrupting herself
to look queatloningly at the other
girl.
“I've got a dozen things to do to
night." Gale said. "Maybe Steve
will go. though.
Josie laughed scornfully. "Fat
chance of Steve goin* anywhere
without you! I wish It was me!
Steve’s the best-looking fellow in
the spinning room."
They turned a corner and were
separated, as others pushed for
ward. Gale went into the cloak
room, took her hat and coat from
a locker. It waa a worn coat, dara
bins originally and only a trifle
faded. Har hat waa blna, too.
brimless, showing light brown
waving hair. Gale’s gray eyes
looked at the world beneath dark,
wide-curving brows. She had lips
that were generous, expressive.
Gale Hendereon, lacking raal
beauty, possessed that rarer qual
ity—a vital, stirring attractiveness
that challeugaa Interest "Person
ality" It le called usually, for want
of a more definite term.
A minute liter sbe was outside,
feeling the cold January air
against her cheeks. Gale breathed
deeply. She saw a familiar figure
waiting a dozen yards ahead and
hurried forward.
“Steve!" she called.
Steve Meyers’ square shoulders
bulked large in the short fleece- ;
collared coat "Late, aren't you?"
be asked.
• • •
CTEVE‘8 eye* were blue and bis
° cheek* ruddy. His waa no face
to cause Hollywood motion picture
director* to glance twice in hit d!
recfion. but Joels Grldley waa not
alone In considering him "good
looking." College athletic directors
wroaid have eyed the broad back
appreciatively.
Gale nodded In answer to bis
question. "I stopped to talk to
Josie," sbe said.
They walked in alienee for a few
minutes. Than Stove said. "Tamil
Cale Henderson
let eat two more from the spin
ning room tonight"
"Two more! Oh, Steve 1 *'*t’s
going to happen?"
“Don't ask me."
| “But they can't Just keep cutting <
down all the time—turning people
off! What about the rest of us?
How do any of us know It won't
be us tomorrow?"
“You don’t need to worry about
that."
"I’m not so sure. But It wasn’t
myself I was thinking of. It’*
Phil—
“Phil’s all right"
“Of coarse he is. But he’s so
young—only 19. He—well. I can’t
halp worrying about him. Thara’a
so much Phil has missed—dropping
out of school, tha way ha had to.
when he was so anxious to go on.“
“Everybody can't have what they
want in the world," Steve Meyert
said grimly.
The girl looked at him quickly.
"I know." abe said. "You gava up
school, too, didn’t you? But you’ra
so—so strong and abla to taka car*
of yourself. You always know Just
what to do and how to do It Phil’s
not lika that Besides, yon did
finish high school. Phil bad to quit
in his aecond year."
“What’s got you so worried about
Phil? Anything special?"
Gala shook her head. "No" the
said. "Only the way be talks. Ha j
goes around with Jo* Gillespie and
Frit* Moon tnd that crowd and ba’a
getting a lot of wild idea*. About
everything being against people
Jig*.*ot any money, and
getting even with the rleh. When
anything happens at the mill—like
people getting fired or getting pay
cuts—it makes him worse. I can’t
make him listen .to me. Maybe yon
could talk to him. Stere."
"See what I can do," i\e promised
They walked in silence for see
eral momenta Then Gale said heel- j
tattngly, "Steee, do you resdly
think things are going to keep on
this way? Is It because the com
pany isn’t making any money that
they’re letting so many go?"
The man laughed harshly. "Ton
don’t think Thatcher’s missing any
of his throo meals a day. do you?”
"No, of course not It’s just the
last six months—while Mr. West
more was sick and since he died—
that they're been cutting down so."
"Sure. Since then Thatcher’s
been running things to suit him
sell Before, he took orders from
Mr. Westmore. Thatcher’s still
general manager but be might as
well own the place. I don’t sup
pose Mrs. Westmore knows any
thing about what’s going on—"
"There’s Brian Westmore,” Gale
added. "He doesn’t know anything
about ft eithor. Orer in Paris
supposed to be learning to be an
artist. Wouldn’t you think hs’d
hare come home when his fathtr
was so sick?" J
• • •
OTEVE did not answer the ques
^ tion. “I used to see Brian West
more," be said, "when I was a kid
—Brian Westmore. son of the rich
James Westmore. wearing his little
blue sailor suit and riding on his
pony. All l had to ride on wfpi
wjfeiy,: •: '
the backs of delivery wagon*—
when ths drivers didn’t sso ms and
make mo get off!"
“Brian Westmore wa* at Stat*
when 1 was there" Gale said
thoughtfully. “We were in the tame
history class. Of course I didn't
know him—but he sat three Best*
in front of me. across the aisle.1*
“And now he's in Paris." Steve
reminded her. “and you’re in the
mill."
| “Tee—I'm in the mill."
Long ago Gale had forbidden her
self thoughts of self-pity for the
sudden ending of her college course
two years earlier. There was no
use pretending it hadn’t been heart
breaking. equally certain that there
wsa nothing else that could be
dona The money Aunt Adelaide
had left for her niece's education
so that Gale could become a teacher,
bad to go for doctor's bills and
medicine when her fsther—hearty,
strapping Tom Henderson — was
taken ill. never to work again.
Gale had come home at one*.
Tom Henderson’s salary as a me
chanic in the silk mill had been
a good one. The Henderson chil
dren wore among the few in the
mill village to continue schooling
beyond the upper grades. Thtir
home was one of the best In the
neighborhood. Their mother had
been dead since shortly after Phil's
birth, but Tom Henderson had In
sisted on keeping his children wit
him. There was always son
woman in the village glad to do
the Henderson’s eooking, cleaning
and washing for n few dollars each
week.
Thu* Gale had frown up. a bit
more mature, with more of a sense
of responsibility than moat young
sters her age. The dream of col
lege, of life away from tha mill
village, had always been before her.
The realisation of that dream,
the two years at State, had baen
exciting *ones. Exciting, challeng
ing, swiftly eventful, delightful.
Memories of those days had bsea
put away along with Gale's tevt
books.
• • •
AS quickly as school days had
ended came the disillusionment
when she tried to find work. At
first Gals would not hear of her
brother leaving high school. Her
two years’ college training made
her confident that thera waa work
the could do, work that would aarn
enough to keep up the Hendersons*
home Her eollega fund would Hde
them over in the meantime
But Gale was Inexperienced and
thera were no Jobs—eren for those
with experience. Trying times.
Hard times Men out of work,
standing in bread ilnee. Women
asking for charity to keep their
children fed end warm. A few
weeks' searching brought a des
perate awakening to the serious
ness of the situation. Gale was
glad to becoma a mill girl. Sba
earned |14 a waak In the mill and (
waa sura that in time It would be .J
more. .
The 114 did not stretch as Gale
had hoped. One day when Phil *
announced with determination that
he was not going back to school,
sba did not oppose him.
Brother and sister had worked
in the silk mill ever since. Their
earnings paid the hills for thalr
living, their father’s and for hie
medical treatment Gale took on
the duties of cook and housewife
as well as thosa of mill girl.