The Washington times., 1920-10-16
FOstered, Not Hampered

Eight years ago the raisin industry Of California was
in insolvent circumstances The growers to had lost
money year after year. with only accidental profit
and then to tide them They mortgaged they
were poor they worked hard and just intshgenty
in their vineyards and poorer the longer they
stayed it, Thousands Of Of raisn grape vines
dug The young difted to the cities; they were
not willing to be sers Of the asin packers organisation
For years the growers and the business mon in the
raisin district towns groped plan Of cooperation
that would work. They studied the organization plan of
California Fruit Growers Exchange which the orange
association and of other branches Of the California fruit
industry Some of these methods applicable to the
raisin industry others not Finally in 1918, the Cali
forna Associated Rasn Company evolved and
organised.
On foundation Of cooperation built the prosperity
of the industry At the acreage began to grow The
associated launched great campaign and through
widespread intelligent advertising taught the people of the
United States to rasns. The State Of California set
apart Rasn Day especially to advance the interests of the
growers. Consumption of raisns steadily mounted with
production which in the disastrous years prior opera
ton amounted in 1912 tons of which 10000 tons
were consumed until the total product for 1919 in
creased to 10000 tons.
AS result of the intelligent and consistent coopera
tion of these thrifty growers great area comprising 2OO
900 acres of CALIFORNIA; fertile SOIL in the San Joaquin
producers prosperous and happy Their vineyards
most of them small, eighteen being the average
Back to the and' something other than hard work
no recreation and grinding poverty, in that district
And il, is the in every other district where the
growers the producers comparatively organised to
market the products Of their toll without the intervention
Of middeen organisations and pcesqueezin specula
who force rnous prices to the and producers
and then turn about and force runous prices of the
consumers compel them without Every intelligent
producer and intelligent consumer knows the simple truth
of these conditions and their
The and cities of the great California raisin dis
tic prosperous Activity prevails everywhere. Album
dan employment and high mark the social phase
the Raisn Belt The word cooperation accounts for
absolutely all of this success.
Now mark the results to the consumers.
There not any complaint about the price of raisns
that 60 into the homes and the tables of people The
price of rasns does not put them beyond the reach of
industrious class They abundant and they will
tnue to be abundant the growers operative organza
tion is destroyed by Attorney Palmer legal
concert with John W. Preston, former United States
toney San Francisco who is appear in the cause
the independent packers in proceeding brought by the
Department of Justice against the California Rasin
Growers Association the grounds that it is an organ
zation in restraint of trade!
On the contrary, already shown, instead of trade
being restrained the great Rasin Belt California one
of the most prosperous and active areas the people
of the towns and cities of the farms and vineyards cons
tung Of the finest general markets the Pacific Coast
and moreover not housewife hotekeeper cafeteria
complains about the prohibtve COST OF RAISINS when
everything else is so costly in comparison!
Does the Federal Administration propose to bring ruin
to GREAT COOPERATIVE GROUP OF INDUSTRIOUS