The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-06-24

Entered as Glass Matter April 1914 az a Inc 1870
A DOWNWARD REVISION
nth all due appreciation truth of the saying that
w cry worthy of his hire and with naught but the pest
worngman believe the price scale for picking
packing subjected to downward revision
For that the meeting of the ftgrowers at Grandvew
Friday timely The future of the picker and packer
depends solely the future of the orchards II at the emo
profits the latter have been largely absorbed
the of the former the business and employment OF ne
Ter can long endure.
principles undere Of the fruit business
different success
full business is buided
MANY business failure can be
head disproportonate to selling prices
situation which confronts the frugrowers today The
preparation the incurred from tree to train is
proportion market There must either be less
preparation lower for the workers who perform the
different abors incident this preparation Owing to increased
tendency of market prices for several
downward but there has been corresponding
decline in the prices paid for picking and packing The box OF
apples which the orchast sells for dollar costing
box which few he sold for three
dollars
boys earning the Kennewick cherry orchards
working the hay fields in Walla Walla at
day. unfortunate that should have to work
for dollar day. but if because of the present surplus OF labor
there who glad to get employment at this
moral legal business why the ftgrower
should not take advantage of the situation
GETTING ON THE MAP
IITHN THE MONTH Kennewicks cherries have been
w Philadelphia and Churchs
Grape awarded the gold medal all competitors
the Exposition San Francisco In other words
Kennewck surely and steadily getting the and building
reputation the home of the finest fruits the world
For the Church Mfg Company the victory indeed sig
n6cant Two ago Mr. Church experimenting
with grape his kitchen stove his home Second street.
Today he recognized the manufacturer of the finest
the world It big achievement and of which not
only Mr. Church and his business but the community
the whole Northwest should feel proud Two things brought
the medathe superiority of the Columbia River Valley
and the enterprise and zeal of Mr. Church It required to
enter the trade stand against the great
the East whose products known household in the
country and whose financial read in millions Mr.
Church because he knew he had placed under the label of
eastern matter how great how experienced
That ingredient the sunshine of the Columbia River Valley
suGGEsrioN
OUNTY AGRICULTURALIST Lee Lampson ip receipt of
~ letter the county agrcturast Of Wahkakm county
saying the farmers contemplating the placing of large
operative alfalfa hay this district be rather
fareched dream this incident with recent address
which Supt Tyler the Northern Pacific made before the Com
merca club Mr. Tyler told the ubmn how by of special
rates granted by the railroads the greatest hay market in the
world had been built Kansas City, And how that city had
become the central concentration and distribution point for
ticaly hay produced radius of many hundred miles,
The interest of the Wahaum farmers suggests the posi-
by of laying the foundation for hay market at Kennewk
eve that it is at least worth investigation by the recently
gained development bureau Of the Commercial club the Wa
aum advantages coming into the Kennewck
hay with the effort part can't other
market possibilities the purchaser
pondng possibilities the producer Let's take Wahaum
farmers bunch and run down the possibilities
NATIONAL CREED
1.-THE CHICAGO HERALD suggests the following as National
Greed by which the and children of America
affirm their Amercanism:
believe in the United States one and indvsbe; in her