The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-24
Communication

Editor OF The Herald Republican:
one time some man there in salt
Lake proposed the organization OF an
Indiana society. similar to the OHIO So
ciety. I fancy-exeept that II would
have been made up OF so much more
talented people. Indiana being famous
for the talent that doesn't live there
any more. And II that Indiana society
had been formed. | would address at
least a portion OF this letter 20 IL. Be
cause Of the hazelnuts they raise here
In oregon.
AS rule IL doesn't lay in the clothes
OF anyone to turn up the nose at ore
Eon or the products thereof. But these
They don't come in punches. as DO the
good old kind in the HoOsier fencerows.
They grow singly. each stingy nut In a
blanket Of its own, and never a blanket
near right when they are shelled. and
they taste pretty good when eaten
except that nothing tastes quite as
good as Il did when you were a boy.
John Burroughs has noticed that
only he says there Is nothing in all
the world as big as Il was when
was a boy" And 70 may be there were
not four or five or six big hazelnuts
in a bunch. and all the nuts bigger
than filberts. and all the meats sweet
and firm and to the last degree wood
sy.' But that is the way memory tells
me they were in Indiana
ton in the beginning OF this letter. let
me continue There was a very wicked
Democrat In the old Hoosier state one
time. who got into contempt of court
II he had lived In Utah, especially II
he had lived in the Third judicial dis
trict, fancy he wouldn't have lived
al all. Which may sound like a HI
bernien society bull. 1t was in the
the year when the fined assistant
city editor of The Herald Repu blfcan
was born. This wicked Hoosfer Demo-
crat printed a very severe editorial in
the Indianapolis sentinel. making an
opposing candidate for office the re-
ceiving end Of his comment: and the
candidate attacked sued the paper for
libel. But before the case came to
trial, the candidate. knowing in his
heart that the editor would prove all
he had said editorially. moved for a
dismissal of the case, and the cour.
dismissed Il. And next morning that
wicked Democratic editor closed a criti-
cism Of the court with the expIetive:
blank blank their cowardly souls
Only he spelled IT out-as 7 dare not.
And the court didn't even cite him for
contempt.
This citing newspaper people for
contempt has always seemed so un-
necessary. The cited Is always SO
willing to admit e.
But aside from hazelnuts. there are
good many other things which make
oregon interesting. For example, there
Is probably no place in the world where
fruit OF all kinds can be raised to such
perfection and in such quantities to
the acre. as here in Hood River valley.
And yet there is no known place where
there are so many pests to be fought
by the fruit raiser. Apple orchards
have TO be sprayed three or four times
every season. and that with a chemical
decoction that smells TO heaven and
four miles around on earth. The trees
have TO be scraped clean of old and
dead bark. until the trunks and
branches are smooth az a madrone in
the spring. The ground has to be
piowed and narrowed and disced and
levelied and worked tin these orchards
along the road look like perfect gar.
dens. And the apples have 60 he thin.