Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-25
DAY WOULD STANDARD
IZE MEASURE AND BOXES
Also Has Bill Reorganizing the System
of Weights and Measures for Use at
Present.


Two bills of particular interest and
import to the Willamette valley and es-
pecially Marion county have been in
troduced in the senate by Senator Day,
Of Multnomah, one of which was for
the standardi2ing OF the berry box in
Oregon and also of the hop measure for
picking purposes. The other was more
general in it's scope and nature, being
a reorganization and Standardization Of
the system of weights and measures in
the state, which was drafted after the
national "model" weights and meas
ures act.
The bill providing for standard
berry box and hop measure is import
ant to both the producer and the con
sumer inasmuch as it not only protects
the producer against the shipment of
berries into the state short-measures
containers in competition with his full
measure product, which has a tendency
to iniure the industry, but the con.
sumer will be assured that, when he
pays out his money for box Of ber-
ries he is not going to be buncoed with
Il false bottomed box and half meas.
ure Of contents The provisions for a
standard op.picking measure are alike
beneficial to the hop grower as well as
the picker, since the grower receives
his hops in Il uniformly picked and
packed condition, which makes them
cure most evenly and uniformly, and
the pickers are all accorded the same
fair treatment in the measurement Of
their days labors.
The second bill, providing for re.
organization Of the weights and meas.
ures system Of the state, calls for di.
yiding the state into not to exceed -four
districts with state deputy to cover
each district, under state supervision
This insures o more uniform and inn
partial enforcement Of tho weights and
measures law, and, according to Depu.
ty State Seoler Of Weights and Meas.
ures Buchtel, after whose recommenda.
tions embraced in his biennial report
to State Treasurer Kay the bill wai
drafted, cannot exceed maximum ex'
penso to the county Of $40 per month
Under the present system Of county
scalers, appointive by the county
courts, the cost to the counties runs as
high as 800 per month and more.
IL also seeks to standardize the sys
tenn Of weight aud measure Of every
commodity in the state and make II
correspond with the systems adopted
by the United States government and
several other states The dry measure
as means of osccrtaining quantity /,
abolished. An illustration Of how states
differ in the use of the dry measure
as q uuits Of quantity is cited few
few facts by the author OF the bin, az
follows; Oregon says a bushcl OF buck
wheat contnins d2 pounds, another
state SO, another 40, nine states say so
Ill stOtcs say As, aud still another II
say 52 pounds, all for the same com
modify and for the same quantity, the
bushcl
"'rho way to avoid this" says Sen
utor Day is to abolish the bushe
weights and provide that all dry com
'modities be Oscertpincd by weight OF
.by numerical count.
These two bills eliminate expense
promote efficiency, and place th,
weight and measure laws on n sensibl,
working basis; are In the interest OF
.ull, and for the protection Of consum
ers generally They protect -personl
shipping into cities; protect merchant
buying from other states; protect IN,
general consumer Fifty three statci
and island possessions now have weigh
and measure laws it is necessary thai
Oregon protect herself, else we viii gc
shipments Of goods and apparatus moi
suitable other places "