Imperial Valley press., 1923-07-05
SOME ENCOURAGING FIGURES

The record for the 1923 cantaloupe season is not
quite made up, but is not too soon for all of us to
felicitate ourselves upon this year accomplishment
When the last carload has gone out of the Valley we
may take exact and official cognizance of what has
been done.
Meantime the Press wishes to call attention to
the tremendous significance of the proceedtd
More than $4,000 carload are 200 long trains OF this
single product of remarkably fertile valley. When
the uncomprehensible quantity that represents the
labor and expense the hopes and fears the trumphs
of intelligence and diligence, is reduced to simpler
terms 1t may be little more readily comprehended
These would make stirring 120 miles in length
Now for little more mathematics applied to the
situation Let us conceive the crates OF can5aloupes s
crates would make one continuous lime 1878 miles IN
length.
Can you understand that? 1t is not prudent to
reduce this line of crates reaching from Ell Centre to
Chicago to row of melons laid end to end We fear
those who buy them at the rate of two bits for two
money out of the crops while they are not.
3 The result of the season is going to be very sat
the soil in se-caled farming section of the country
make such showing as this Wheat and corn
growers certain to lose money at present prices
or at prospective prices. They are IN bad way as
matters now stand And to make the contrast more
marked in favor of Imperial Valley, profitable sea-
in lettuce must be added to cantaloupe results
Then consider 5OC0 of cotton yet to be added to
this countys otal plus continues flow OF gold Tor
dairy products, poultry and other stuff we give to
the world to keep it eating.
receive their remttances for their cantaoupes we can
all thank our lucky stars that fortune is favorng us
as it is. F8nssa SIS
Bricklayers in New York have their strike to
stabilize wages at $12 day for the next two years
Suppose this example were followed in other cities,
and in other building trades. Suppose all building
wages were fixed at their highest boom level, with
guarantee of keeping them there until the summer
of 1925.
Suppose, then, that capital took its from labor,
and prices of all building material were likewise
stabilized at their peak for the next two years.
The result is easy to forecast. People are having
difficulty enough in paying for houses and other
structures present wages and prices With pros
pect of alienation for two years. what would they
do? r@tese fs,.'
The consuming public, which is to say the building
public which provides the money for the labor and
materials, would go strike itself That strike would
last for two years, and much longer as might be
required to bring costs down to reasonable level
The building industry, on both sides, has done too
much profiteerng already for its own good not to
mention the good of the public.
On mature reflection, we doubt whether this
mer deserves the clothes have bought for it.
Henry Ford may be wrong about using the navy
to enforce prohibition at Maybe what the Sit
uaten needs is Ford peace ship.
One kind of international indebtedness is always
sure to be paid It's the grudges.