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President, Mr. W. E. Jones of Baltimore. It is a sincere pleasure to extend to Mr. Jones the best wishes and congratulations of the International Apple Shippers' Association and a hearty pledge of friendship and close co-operation. To the League we also extend congratulations for the very able President it has chosen and in whose hands the honor and efficiency and progress of the organization are in safe keeping. This same feeling also extends to all the other officers of the League both administrative and executive.

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A Great Big Fish Story

The Five Human Senses Analyzed
Seeing is not Believing

HE five human senses are hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling and tasting. Let us see how far they can be trusted. You can HEAR W. L. Minick of Chambersburg, Pa., and J. Nooney of Jacksonville, Florida, SAY, "We caught these fish." In fact they do SAY so. You can SEE the letters which they have written making a similar claim and SEE the photographic reproduction of the fish and Brothers Nooney and Minick. You might even FEEL of these fish.

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No doubt you could SMELL them and might even have TASTED them had you been on the ground early enough. BUT-we ask you, are any or all of these things any proof that Brothers Minick and Nooney CAUGHT these fish? That is the vital question and on it the human senses throw no light.

We must have recourse to a sixth sense-a sort of inner consciousness. When we do that we have a sort of FEELING way inside that they BOUGHT these fish from a real fisherman at One Dollar per pound. It is true that Brother Minick is dressed some

thing like a fisherman, but you will note he is wearing a first class hat, a linen collar and has his shoes shined. It is suspected he borrowed the suit from the fisherman. Passing the eye over to Brother Nooney, he looks very suspicious. He is togged out to the last minute in the garb of a motorcyclist. The Sherlock Holmes deduction is that there was but one fisherman and hence no extra suit for Mr. Nooney.

Anyway, they say they caught them and had a splendid time. They say they caught them down in Florida. Well, why shouldn't they? Florida is as safe a place to lay the scene as any other. When Charlie Shafer goes fishing, he lays the scene way up in Canada, and when Frank Wagner goes hunting, he claims it is just outside Oshkosh, and you ought to hear the things they tell. Don't mention Geroe-he won't tell where he goes-just puts his finger on his lips and whispers what he caught.

We would like the opinions of our members for publication in The Spy as to whether Minick and Nooney caught these fish.

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Letting Out and Letting In the Light

Go to the Public with the Facts

LSEWHERE in this issue we publish a part of the statements of the Produce and Butter and Egg Trade of Chicago made to the public in the January 1st Prosperity Number of the Chicago Examiner. These statements occupied one and a half pages and were read by thousands of people who have heretofore heard and read nothing but the misinformation so freely handed out during the last few years. Read them. They are well worth reading.

They are well worth reading not alone for the facts but, as far as produce merchants are concerned, because they point the way for every other city. For fifty years the produce merchant has kept a closed mouth. He has heard himself traduced and villified. He has listened while the politician, the editor, the professor and the layman have called him a robber, a parasite feeding on the social body, a useless element of the life of today, and a man swollen with ill gotten gains. He has been attacked all the way from the corner saloon, up through the Housewives' League and city councils to the state legislatures and Congress. He has heard all this and kept still. We admire his patience but deplore his wisdom. Patience ceases to be a virtue after a time and becomes a crime.

The produce merchant has become the Wandering Jew of business chiefly because of his own supineness. Can he blame anyone for kicking him when it's so easy? It's just a little light exercise for the average man or politician or writer to go out and kick a produce merchant. There are never any consequences; no backfire or back-kick.

During the last ten years more libels have been published, more slanders uttered, more untruths stated and more reprehensible

attacks made against the produce merchants of the country than against all other business combined. Truth, knowledge, investigation, intelligent comment and common sense have been ignored.

It is high time to wake up and gird on the armor. We want to remember that a sword is more essential than a shield. Up to date we have left the sword on the wall and grasped the papiermache shield of silence. It is time to throw away that shield and go to the people with the sword of the facts. Drive that sword home through the public press.

Chicago is to be congratulated and commended for the step taken. It is good business and good sense. It is the only logical step to take. It is a necessary step. It has been evident as such for sometime. We know people have been thinking about and discussing it for sometime, not only in Chicago but elsewhere. There comes a time when thought should be embodied in action. Now is that time. The public will hold us in no greater respect or esteem than we hold ourselves. If we do not resent villification and oppose misrepresentation by truth and fact, then we cannot blame the public for arriving at false conclusions.

SPECIAL NOTES

THE MCKELLAR COLD STORAGE BILLS-The final hearing on the McKellar Bills was held before a Sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee of the House on January 4th. Hon. William A. Cullop of Indiana is Chairman of the Sub-committee. We were represented at the hearing and have had the matter up in various other ways. Through Representatives Henry G. Danforth and Thomas B. Dunn of Western New York amendments were suggested on behalf of the fruit and vegetable industry in general exempting them from the provisions of the bills. These suggested amendments seemed to be regarded favorably. Congressman McKellar also advised us that he does not ask or expect the inclusion of fruits. It, therefore, seems highly probable that the Committee will limit itself to considering a measure applicable only to the specific articles named in the bills introduced. If the situation should develop differently than anticipated, ample notice will be given you.

In any event, it is very doubtful if any legislation of this character will be enacted at the present session. The remaining time is short and the program will necessarily be confined chiefly to the appropriation bills.

BOX APPLE SHIPMENTS BY THE PANAMA CANAL— Producers, handlers and consumers of both boxed and barreled apples will await with interest the arrival in New York of a large consignment of Northwestern apples coming via Panama Canal. The freight rate plus cost of refrigeration by the Panama Canal to New York is about 28c per box as against about 60c by rail, a difference of nearly one-half. Practically everything will depend on how the stock carries by this route. If it shall be proven that it

comes through in good shape, the saving in freight will amount to a substantial profit and place boxes in more direct competition with barrels than ever before. The canal is also likely to exercise a material influence on the by-product manufactures of the West. Cheap freight rates would mean a stimulation of manufactures and access to eastern markets on a competitive basis.

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ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

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ARE WE SELLING YOU?

Last week we received an invitation to buy a bale of cotton. Say, Willibald, the way things are going we'll be lucky if we can buy spool of cotton. Gee! If we only had the nerve! What we couldn't do! Had we been born with the rind of some people we know, here's what you would find on these pages from week to week: "On account of the European war the subscription price of this paper has been raised to $5 per year, cash in advance.

"On account of the loss from import duties advertising rates will be increased to 50 cents per inch. Effective at once.

"It being impossible to export prunes to Przemysl, notices of church suppers will be charged for at the rate of $2 each and two tickets to the supper.

"Resulting from the suspension of regular shipping facilities between this town and Gulf of Obigosh, all pumpkins, apples, potatoes, corn, grapes, etc., brought to this office under the pretext of exhibition to the editor will be seized as contraband of war.

"All persons found owing this paper more than a year's subscription will be shot as spies."-(Chicago Tribune.)

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