The daily sentinel., 1913-11-19
ABOUT HOME FOLKS
and
ABOUT HOME DOINGS

business long enough to know the
weak places and also how to remedy
them. 1t takes more than a single
session to gain this knowledge, and
more than one session to see the
wrongs righted. The words of Con-
gresham Ed T. Taylor at the La
Court hotel last week made this mat
ter of service important. The West
ern Slope has had almost as many
representatives in congress the past
II years, as there have been sessions.
l wondered how many of the busi-
ness men who heard him thought as
did that Mesa county could do no
better stroke of public policy than to
eschew politics for a few years and
insist that Taylor represent US
through the formative period in
which this section is now passing. He
has been there long enough to attain
to the second place on two commit
tees, and will be by that token
member of all conference committees.
1t will take any other man, no mat
ter how able, two or three terms to
gain such a position, even II he is
member of a majority, and as MEM
Der of the minority Taylor would still
hold his position. The two commit
tees have to do with matters vital to
our interests.
Another matter which was brought
out that day is the Importance of let
ting your member of congress or the
legislature know what you want him
to do on every line. The corpora
tions and monied interests are al
ways within q stones throw of the
law making bodies, but the common
people can only get hearing by
writing, and this has great deal
more weight than is commonly sup
posed. Your member is glad to get
those private letters from his con-
stituents-they show the trend of
thought among the mass of voters as
nothing else. He will not publish or
use them, but will carefully file
they away and his vote will often be
guided by these silent missives. They
are great stiffeners of the official
back bone. A stamp will not be
wasted whenever you feel like using
one.
Senator Charles S. Thomas refer
red to the same matter in his article
in the Worlds Work for September
on his Adventures with the Sugar
Lobby He says in closing:
could almost always tell whether the
letters l received were for or against
my course A neatly typewriter
document on a formidable letterhead
usually meant harsh criticism; a
roughly written letter or hastily
penciled postal card, meant friendly
appreciation. No legislator has any
grievances against a constituent who
writes disapproving his course; 1t is
his right and it is welcomed, but all
we insist is that IL shall be sincere
not prompted. and often written and
signed by interest parties"
In this column last week there was
an error in the figures given as to
the general average OF the peaches
29c. Manager Fletcher in his state
ment to The Sentinel, gave the gen.
eral average on Elbertas as as IL c.
The extras were 49c; the 90s 42c, and
the 10Ss, CSC. In order that the
average shall be 45c there must have
been very few of the third grade
shipped, and he informs me that this
was the case this year-the grade
ran high. In conversation with the
growers in the Palisade section they
doubt the figures given and call at
tention to the fact that there is but
sc difference shown in the sales of
car lots between the three grades.
and that the best grade should not
be given the high, rating of 21c above
the loss.
The exact figures and number of
boxes of each grade will no doubt
be given when the annual state
ments are made, and we shall be able
to more fully understand the cause
of the general dissatisfaction in the
peach section, which ought not to
prevail If an average of 45c was Sc
cured, and if the association paid
its growers that price there
ought to be a universal sentiment in
favor of eliminating all other organ
iation-we can grow peaches at an
average of that size.