Holbrook argus., 1901-05-04
Must Hang Together


vacuum jars.
Must Hang Together
Progressive New York business men
have organized a Get Together Club"
in which they meet once a month,
have a feast at $50 p. m, and then a
free and informal talk on economic
questions for four hours, and the club
has a membership of more than two
thousand employers, embracing many
of the leading manufacturers and mer-
chants. 1 have read some of their
talks" and they are surprisingly rad
ical. Their attitude toward the prob
lens of the day was well expressed
by one of the leading manufacturers,
who quoted Ben Franklin's revolu-
tionary wit: eff we don't hang to-
gether we will hang separately" In
looking over the Cured Fruit Associa-
tons perplexities and tribulations, 1
am reminded of this witty philosophy
of Franklin If they don't hang to-
gether as an association-stay by the
new doctrine of community of inter-
ests" to the extent of securing mutual
protection-they will find their indi-
vidual interests hung as high as Ha-
man.
Apparently, they find another bit of
wit more active in frustrating their
efforts to pull together, as expressed
by the saying that it takes twelve jury
men to hang a man, and only one man
to hang a jury; and that one man has
confidence enough in himself to say
that he never saw eleven such con-
ceited men before. In the case of the
Cured Fruit Association, the one man
who hangs the jury is a stalwart
kicker, who refuses to unite with the
association and sells prunes on the
outside a little under the price fixed
by the other eleven growers, who have
agreed on the verdict that the prune
industry can be made to pay only by
co-operation-by earnest effort to work
together for the common interest.
Angeles Herald.
For Fruit Growers
The announcement that Eugene E.
Goodwin, director of the Pacific Com
mercial museum, has forwarded to the
State Department at Washington Sc
ries of inquiries on markets and crops
of prunes, lemons, walnuts and raisins
in Southern Europe, to be answered by
United States consuls, is of much i'm
portance to fruit-growers in California
for it is proposed to place all the in
formation obtainable before our fruit
growers in such manner as will best
serve their interests. The inquiries re-
late to the crops of the various Sec
lions of Southern Europe and their
comparison with previous crops, as
well as the amount of old stock re-
naming on hand.-Los Angeles Herald
Settlers Take the Land
While in Yuma, April 9, I was told
that settlers have taken up nearly all
the land on the great Algodones grant
recently thrown open to pre-empt1or
as government land. A large number
of squatters were already on it, and
they secured the tracts they occupied
while a rush of people from Arizona
New Mexico and Colorado filed on most
of the available parts as soon as they
were authorized by the government tc
take possession. Commenting on these
conditions. the Phoenix Republican re-
Gently said:
1.-The Algodones tract is close tc
Yuma, its land is as rich as land in
any region. and there is an abundance
of water. All that is needed is the
canals for its conveyance, and it is
understood that some of the present
waterways cross this grant and others
are contemplated AS for title to the
land, that is perfect, as the status Of
the grant has been fought out in the
courts and those who prove up in &C
cordance with law will have not only
a government patent, but the backing
of the same by United States Supreme
Court decision
Shade an Important Factor
1t is a common error to suppose thai
sunlight ripens fruit when, in fact we
all know, if we stop to think, that we
often find the choicest apricot, peach
or tomato hidden away in the foliage
where the sun never gets at it. How
ever, sunlight does add to the color
and fruit exposed to the sun frequently
ripens first on the sunny side. This
fact has led to the error indicated. Oh
course it is conceded that fruit is i'm
proved in sweetness and flavor with
a fair amount of sunshine; but ripen-
ing is a vital process, as Mehan's
Monthly, high authority, justly OBJ
serves, and in this ripening process an
abundance of good, healthy foliage is
the prominent agent in the work. In
short, a bunch of grapes, ripening in
comparative darkness, would be far
preferable to one grown in the full
light with most of the vine leaves