Evening star., 1933-11-30
BY RALPH w. PAGE.


q cherished dream of complete control
of the fruit industries render California
a fortunate and we'll pleased laboratory
for the great experiment.
There are 1856 wineries here and 81
more are being rehabilitated," Cali
fornian said. The advantage is almost
exclusively ours. We make 98 per cent
of all the sweet wine and 92 per cent
of all the fruit brandies and all the dry
wine in the United States. If our out
put can reach even half what it was
before prohibition. we will feel the
stimulus more than any other State.
And while economists may debate,
California is reaping the harvest. Mines
like the keystone, that have been closed
SO years, present scenes Of violent ac-
ton: new discoveries are being mace
daily, and the hills are filled with men
already pouring the golden flood into
the Treasury.
Many Projects Begun.
industrial stagnation cannot prevail
against the tremendous public develop
ment under way. California has asked
the Federal Government for S62l ,00O,-
O00 Besides this, We are already en-
gagged upon the preliminarles OF huge
undertakings-the greatest span IN tne
world across the Golden Gate; S50:-
100000 bridge to Oakland; metropoll-
tan water works for the districts IN
Southern California; SCI ,OOO,0Oo In
highway construction.
Under these stimulants, building and
construction in our 81 cities have in
creased 80 per cent over September and
IS per cent over February. Industrial
and factory employment is up II per
cent in the last three months"
The gold fields again are beginning to
remind old timers of the days Of the
Argonauts. Snipers, prospectors and
small lot promoters number lO,OOo.
Accarding to the Division of Mines,
employees of lode and placer mines have
doubled since Spring and are expected
to double again.
Huge Geld Store Exists.
Expert mining opinion confirms the
general optimism. Charles H. Seger-
strom, Sonora, chairman Of the Rare
Metals Committee of the American
Mining Congress, says that upon rea-
sonable estimate there still remains
eighteen billion dollars worth of gold in
the State.
California has made its celebrated
fruit industry by establishing central
control of quality and distribution
through cooperative effort. In other
words the principle Of code is no new
thing On the Pacific Coast The fruit
erd vegetable markets have been Gre
Qtod, doubled and CIpdndtd 10 un'
t-onr1e1-of extent by the identical
r--+l2ods underlying both the industrial
r't's ord the agreements under the
A.! -+ural Administration. The grow
e-5 h~tl the program and assert that 1t
pegs the voluntary control, cOntin-
49, -CjiZe1 bv rScalCitrant mi
r: =. WI 2 compulsory authority and
- = = rt~c1.a it reaches the ideal goal
} IS vc~h and education.
c. C. Tc2gIe, a leading agriculturist,
O. - r,arnbar OF Herbert Hoover's
TT -ocrd and no friend of expert
r~-r'7 c. rcgimentation, took occasion
t. p~'~.t cut that hitherto the co-opera-
I've had been compelled to absorb all
the surplus of the walnut crop, while
the irtividuslist who refused to join,
jeopardized the business by loading the
market and paying none of the cost.
Trade Crows Orderly.
The association, which operated under
a voluntary agreement, had reached its
limit. There was a carry-over which,
with this years surplus amounted to 30
the Secretary of Agriculture readily
signed an agreement at the insistence of
80 per cent of the industry, placing the
price and distribution of the entire crop
absolutely in the hands of committee
All growers are assessed 212 cents a
pound to absorb their surplus, and wal
nuts are moving to market in an orderly
manner.
The citrus growers rushed to the same
haven, and an agreement is now pend
ing for California and Arizona that en-
dows a committee with power to license
growers and pro-rate their shipments to
fit the demand There are also stipula-
tions in the Florida ard Texas agree
ments providing Uniform Control
Committee for the national supply
A closeup picture of all the code sys-
tenn has evoked is provided by this citrus
agreement The majority of those in
the business believe that the California
Fruit Growers Exchange and the CO.
operative organizations, handling only
voluntary majority of the business,
made the California citrus industry. A
decreasing minority has always held out
for an indiscriminate open market. This
minority now, on the point of being
compelled to conform by Uncle Sam.
has discovered the Constitution, old
American traditions. the destruction of
initiative, and the coming of tyranny.
1t recently met at Riverside and in
formed Washington that it needed no
nurse at least not the fruit exchange,
and that there was no surplus of either
grape fruit or oranges.
Hop Industry Improvec.
All California is busy organizing, ex-
cept the gold bugs" and the hop grow
ers. The hop growers. producing half
the crop in the country. are too busy
recording a 100000 profit in place OF
q $4,000 loss to bother with any agree
ments at all.
The fruit growers are prospering
compared to the last years. r. V. Gar
rcd of Santa Clara Valley. State presi-
dent of the Farmers Union, says that
they are coming out of the hale. The
dried-fruit industry has had good
year. There has been profit in lemons
The farmers have little sympathy with
the Midwe2tern striking group, and
are content with the policies Of the
Agricultural Admins ration, and they
a~e ve-y much pleased with the opera
tjoH G. tie Regional Credit Corpora
Central California end, wonderful tt
re'a-e. il getting it I'll back.
According to Edwin w. Stillwell
general manager Of the United Prune
Growers, this business is coming out
under It's own steam. It has increased
the price of prunes from $50 to $50 a
ton in less than year by voluntary
control
The attitude OF California towards
the coordination and self-government
OF industry Is also eXemplifcd by the
petroleum business. Before any codes
we're magine 4 this ,at4tES IndqntFy the vd1g lnTg
lary curtaiment movement, maintain.
ing an umpire to allot production
Here again the principle was hamp-
cred by its voluntary nature The
whole set-up was jeopardized by tbs
town-lot- -driller, the little Independent
who gambled on well, and then sole
his added surplus, cash, to any ON
U,l,c would hlIv