Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-03-14
HELP CALIFORNIA TO
OBSERVE ORANGE DAY
March 18th Is Day Set Apart
For Greatest Of States
Festivals

California's great festival, Orange
day, will be held thrs year on March
IS. The whole country is invited to help
in its celebration. All that those liv-
ing outside Of California need to do to
take part in the celebration is to buy
oranges California oranges-eat some
of them, and give the rest to their
families and friends,
California has done great service to
this nation. She has contributed large
" to its mineral and vegetable wealth,
she has provided mild climate where
those who cannot endure the rigors of
an eastern winter can spend winter
months in summer sunshine.
The first real gold that came from
her soil was in tiny grains which were
discovered in the yellow clay around
Suffers mill, near Sacramento.
The disclosure of that gold deposit
led to a successful search for more gold
and brought thousands of immigrants
across the plains and around the Horn
| to find out what wonderful country
/ California was.
And those who settled in the central
and southern parts Of the state fouGd
that the golden oranges, planted by the
/ Spanish missionaries, were Just as val
uable as the golden grains that were
taken from the placers and left in the
pans after the gravel had been shaken
out.
Orange growing is now a great Cali
fornia industry-one of the greatest
and most important industries in the
world
At the time when apples stored fol
the winter are becoming dried ant
worthless-when there are no berries
grapes, peaches or pears save those il
the windows Of the expensive fruiterel
or the greenhouses of the wealthy, tn,
oranges are in the golletn piles on ev
cry fruit stand and within reach o.
everybody.
In them is the fruit acid that i
necessary to keep the digestion in per
feet condition They are suited to th
most delicate invalid. They are goot
before breakfast, at lunch, at dinner
between meals.
Children can eat them until they cal
eat no more, without any injurious eff
, feet.
), Even nursing babies can sip the iuic
when most foods are too strong fo
their tiny stomaehs.
Everybody can eat oranges, and i
everybody would eat them there woul
be far less work for the doctors.
Furthermore, far larger proportio
) of children would grow up to becom
: healthy and vigorous men and womeI
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If you help California to celebrat
this important festival you win get tn
5 orange eating habit.
1t was in California that nature wa
taught to grow oranges without seed
oranges with thin SKINS and plump, dc
licious sections filled with health, gi,
] ing juice.
The few trees that the old missional
= les planted have had countless multi
r. tude of descendants, and other tree
have brought from all parts of tn
= world where oranges flourish best.
e Besides the orange orchards al
groves of lemons and figs, and very II
Gently the date has been imported frol
Arabia and made to contribute its shar
toward feeding the nation.
q
i California is a rich and wonderft
: state, a land of opportunity mad
Waterproof by the balmy winds tina
4 blow from the Japan current, and wit
! an exhaustless soil that can produce a
most any known product.
You should visit this state and pic
. the oranges off the trees, where yo
! see the ripe, golden fruit, the youn
= green fruit and the blossoms CROWN
. all at the same time.
If you cannot do this, you can {
I least buy California oranges Orana
day, or before Orange day, and eat
many as you can, making sure to ha,
+ abundance to give to the children.
! You will help a great state obser,
) a real holiday, and you will acquire
! habit that will prove of endurir
I, benefit.