The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-11
Clipped Here and There

working in. the fields with teams or
driving loaded trucks along the road.
On the Base Line road, or not far from
it and near the city, are two japanese
3 school houses where the Japanese lam
/ guage and religion are being taught to
/ Japanese children by Japanese teach
J ers. At the Russellville school house
on the east edge of the city 80 per cent
| of the pupils are Japanese or negroes.
/ Quite similar conditions exist in other
directions from this city.
That japanese women and children
! working in the fields on Sunday could
be considered a menace to the Ameri-
can order Of society may seem far
, fetched fear. But unless restricted
and finally extinguished, this is con-
dition that will wipe the American or
der off the Pacific coast as completely
as the Goths obliterated the civiliza-
tion of Rome.
The japanese home as we know it in
America is not an institution. 1t is
but an incident. 1t is not an activity
large enough to occupy the time and
attention of japanese women. The
Japanese women are saved from the
drudgery of the home for the drudgery
of the field. TheyEare producers in the
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the time they are able to balance
themselves on their feet and move
their hands to a purpose.
This order is Oriental and as fixed as
the laws of heredty. These Japanese
schools are established in order that
| the Japanese among us may be kept
perpetually japanese. In these schools
they learn not only the religion of Ja-
pan which makes the Mikado the high |
est object of alteration; but they also
learn that women are of an order in
ferior to men. Americans know we'll
that any civilization that degrades
women will never rise to the plane of |
American civilization nor anywhere
near it.
The japanese are an all-exclusive
race. Where they live white people
cannot live white mans life. They
came here of their own choice in re-
sponse to the desire to share in easy
wealth in America. They seek not the
rough spots in order to tame the will
derness, but the we'll titled and we'll
tanned places. Whether they choose to
stay or to go back to their native land
after having become wealthy is not of
any particular interest to Americans,
for SO long as they stay they will be
Japanese.
AS a rule they are law abiding. in
dustrious to the point ofaphysical ex-
haustion and thrifty to the extreme.
With the increase Of the japanese in
America goes the one day rest in
seven the American home, the Ameri-
can idea of woman as the equal of
man, as the keeper of the home and
the conserver of American morality,
and with these go the rights of child
hood to an age of play.
We cannot hate the Japanese as we
know them. They are likeable in
many ways. But if they cannot be
Americanized, can we afford to have
them OrientaIize US? One or the other
of these conditions will prevail. Port
land Telegram.
Informative figures on the 1921 appl
crop have been compiled by the We
natchee Valley Traffic Association,
showing an average yield for that dis
triet of 348 boxes per acre and an av-
erage production cost per box of $l.52.
Ii was said that costs compiled by
bankers and others were slightly
lower. The association figures can be
taken as nearly correct, however, as
they were carefully worked out, with
every factor included.
Part of the associations report is
here quoted:
Production costs which do not vary
according to the yield per
acre amounted to 1886. rs per acre dur
ing 1921. Production costs which vary
according to the yield per acre
amounted to $.5505 per box. Based
upon a crop of Is, 600 carloads. the av-
erage yield on the 80, $50 acres of ap-
Piles in the Wenatchee North Central
District was 34S boxes per acre.
Computed on this yield the average
cost for the district was $l.5lS2 per
box. (
1.-THE estimated cost per box at diff
ferent rates Of yield for 1921 would be {
as follows:
Cost per box on 200 boxes per acre,
81. 2234; 300 boxes, $1.6740; 400 boxes.
81. 1923: 500 boxes, ST. 2240; 900 boxes, !!
81. .lll7: 700 boxes, 81. obs; 800 boxes,
$.97l4; 900 boxes, S.9247; 1000 boxes,
(. 1872.
''These costs have been very effec-
lively eubstantiated in the whole by
actual cost records turned in by grow q
ers for producing the 1921 crop. In '
nearly every instance costs thus turned 9
in have been a few cents per box
higher than the figures herewith pre-
sented. BETTER Fruit.
Is the word "Oregon," on a can of
delicious fruit consumed in New York,
indianapolis, Kalamazoo or Baltimore,
worth anything as advertising TO this
state? If so. then let US see to it that
we get all that is due us from the a
quality of the fruits we grow here. /
Not long after the year 1S49 the .
,itizens Of California began shouting
the name of their state and reaching !, L
1ut for everything they could lay hand O
)n to advertise it. They came to Ore U
yon for fruit which they label with the O
name Of their state and send it to their B
eastern customers. California traders F
make contracts with Oregon cannerles o
20 label Oregon fruit as California G
'ruit. But California is wise enough
20 make laws that forbid sending Cal
fornia grown fruit out of the state
without g California label on the can.
Oregon thought to have such a law. =
)ut when the lobbyists got through =
putting on the finishing touches, the :,
aw provided only that the box con- :
aiming the cans should bear the word
Oregon" What does a housekeeper R
n Illinois know about the label on the
rate that carried her can of pears In
rom Portland to Chicago?
The California boosters are expert
They talk California C,
light and day. The name of the state
5 printed, whispered. shouted. sung, Il
negaphoned, ding-donged and bill
'oarded everywhere until every infant n
asst of the Rocky mountains knows +,
california, its location and attractions,