Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-09 | Page 24 | California Growers Hit by Imports of Lemons

CALIFORNIA GROWERS HIT BY IMPORTS OF LEMONS t li.v Internationa News Service i BKRKKI.EV, Cal. The aristocratic American dollar which on account of us mgii riting is l greater proportionate propor-tionate value away from homo than here, is doing harm to ih- exporter, according to Dean Walter Mulfi.rd. of the University of California College I of Agriculture. Deajl Mulford says, j "Lemon growers of California must find some way to overcome the handl-I handl-I cap of the exchange rate. Although j the Belling cost this ve.tr was kept I down to the remarkable lowiflguc of j 2.04 per I ent of the delivered value. : California lemons coat the growers not less than 83 a box. while Imported jlemons were selling nt an average of i $2.33 per box. With the present ex-! ex-! change rate the foreign lemon grower can exchange $2.33 for a much larger ' sum in his own cohntry. "There are several ways In which the citrus industry of California ma) be protected. A protective tariff, sufficient suf-ficient to meet the difference In the foreign cost o4" production Is likely to, bo applied. California lemon growers grow-ers will eoniln'ir to produce a high quality of fruit and keep down the! cost of production as much as possible j through the best cultural practices " MUST TOWN PAY FOR COLLEGE TUITION? QUERY (U international Service.) C&MBR1DOE, Muss., Dee, 2 'Frederick Bantee, Harvard's thlrtecn- year-Old intellectual ' prodigy," has I raised a question which has set the best lawyer of his home town of Wap-wallopen, Wap-wallopen, Pa., by the ears. It Is: "Docs the same law which requires a parent to send a child lo school until he Is sixteen nqiilre the community commu-nity to pay for that child's education until ho is that old .'" if it does Sante,- and his father i prominent physician. Intend lo Insist that the town of Wapwallopcn pai bii tnttloii at Harvard until he Is legally 'beyond school age- This the first time the question has 'been raised, nnd the best constttutlon- a I lawyers Of Pennsylvania are frankh i puzzled. "School laws are framed for ordl-'nary ordl-'nary boys, who get through high school about the lime they are of loagl working age." said one legal light plaintively "They are DOt framed for I prodigies. It was not contemplated that our youlh would be seeking d,- grces In great universities before the were out of short Irc-'sers. "Why. tills young Suni a may atjanru all the knowledge In Harvard unil jwant to go to Oxford or the university jof Paris before he is sixteen. Whut i I COUld we do thn?'' i Young Santee, according to hi classmates at Harvard, has a small, boy s delight in the trouble he is eaus-Ing eaus-Ing the disciples of Blackstone "Qaek hom