The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-12-30
OPTIMISM OVER
FUTURE VOICED
STONE BACK FROM EASTERN TRIP
Association Manager by New York Inter
view Wins Fame Akin TO that of
Frank Branch Riley

After six weeks spent at Washington,
d. c., New York City and other east
ern points in the interests of the Apple
Growers Association, A. w. Stone re-
turned last week optimistic over the
ultimate outcome of the marketing of
the 1920 crop as well as the general
future outlook of the industry. Mr..
Stone, who visited various eastern
warehouses where the Association has
apples stored. says that the demand for
the larger sizes is good. The foreign
demand will take care OF the most of
he smaller sizes, he says. While Mr..
Stone says the exchange prospects are
still uncertain, he thinks that the
! larger percentage of NewtoWns, espec-
tally the smaller sizes, will practically
all bring control price in England.
Even though the pound does not adj
vance on exchange growers, with the
! fruit bringing the control price, will
realize profit from English sales.
The apple industry" Mr. Stone
says, "seems to have reached a point
of stability. While many food com
modities have shown a sharp decline in
prices in the face of shortage, the
decline of apples, although the country
produced bumper crop the past
season, has been comparatively slight. "
Mr.. Stone says that the water move
ment of apples from the Northwest
through the Panama canal is now an
absorbing topic in apple marketing
circles. He believes that the high
freight rates now obtaining and the
obstacles that the raj lines are throw
ing in the way of apple shippers by
endeavorng to eliminate storage in
transit privileges will be only tenn
porary.
"These high rates" says Mr.. Stone.
'and the accompanying obstacles to
fruit shipments by rail will lead to
water lines equipped with boats for
handling all classs of freight from the
Northwest. If the railways pursue
their policy of advanced rates, the
situation, in the final analysis, must
result in cheaper water rates or
cheaper rail rates, or both. The tenn
porary injustice will, in fact, work for
the future welfare of the industry"
Mr. Stone. who while in Washington
met with the internal revenue depart.
ment to confer with officials rs to the
income tax of non-proft sharing CO.
operative organizations of growers,
declares the session satisfactory.
On his return Mr.. Stone has shown
friends a copy of "The Pennsylvania
Register" daily newspaper issued by
the big new hostelry for the informa-
tion and entertainment of its guests
The issue of December II carries an
article, entitled, Romance and Delight
Abide Within Skin of the Humble APP
pie. i" The story has caused Mr.. Stone s
friends and associates to refer to him
as the Frank Branch Riley of the ap-
pie industry. The interview follows:
"Name me the oldest fruit in the
world, and ! will show you the most
romantic and most delightful de-
clared A. w. Stone, general manager
of the Apple Growers Association of
Hood River, Or, who is a guest of the
Hotel Pennsylvania.
Probably Eve knew we'll what she
was doing when she at the apple, for
there is no fruit in the world so good
for the complexion, declared Mr..
Stone. "The apple has always been
known in this country, but because
Hood River fulfills more exactly the
necessary conditions as to soil and eli
mate, it has become known as the
greatest apple raising district in the
United States.
''There is an old legend among the
Indians of the Pacific Northwest that
among the Cascade mountains there
was peak of purest white covered
with perpetual snow. The Indians
Worshipped this mountain as a deity,
and they said that its foot at the edge
of a beautiful valley, was a fountain
of water fed by mountain streams Of
melting SHOWS. Now, it was said
that near this fountain and watered by
it there grew a mysterious tree held
sacred by the Indians. This tree pro-
duced fruit so perfect in texture and
so delicious in taste that the Indians
believed it had a peculiar health Civ
ing quality, and that sick man at
once became we'll on tasting of the
fruit. There were even some who
regarded the fruit as did Ponce de
Leon the tabled fountain of youth and
believed it the source of eternal youth.
The Indians gathered in council be
meath its branches and smoked the
pipe of peace there as they settled
their difficulties.
NHcD tue WHllt man CAME W LHlE
country he bathed in the fountain and
partook of the fruit. Being less spir-
itual in mind than the Indian and more
mercenary he made it propagate.
Soon in place of one tree. great or
chards came into being, and from them
came the famous Hood River apples.
I'VE have an adage out in my
country, An Apple Day Keeps the
Doctor Away
Apples contain gallic acid. one Of
the most necessary elements of the
human system, aud also sugar in its
most assimilable form. In addition
they contain carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen, caught and imprisoned from
the sunshine. When you eat an apple
you eat a gum allied to the fragrant
medicinal gums Of Araby and phos
phorous in the only form in which it
is available for assimilation as the
source Of all brain and nerve energy