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The Food DestroyersBy MarylE. MarcyWhen one of the great Chicago lover 800,000 acres has been added fruit companies had a carload of ba- to the Southern t;ice fields, nanaa dumped into the Chicago river1 Now it is impossible for American in order to force the price up at a rice growers to dispose of their rice Mime when thousands of people were in Asia- The Asiatics raise it cheap-applying to the Bureau of Associated er at home. A larger crop of rice in I charities for aid, someone wrote: America ought to mean cheaper riceIt has remained for the twentieth'and more rice for us.century to produce a race of degen- K rice were raised for food, instead■ rates which will actually destroy of for profits, a large crop wouldfood in the face of its starving broth mean a more comfortable living forers and sisters. The most barbarous human beings in America. With the savage tribes never sank so low as bumper crop has come a fall in the that.” I price of rice.A little later we read the glowing ! So here is what the Southern Rice ______Planters’ Asan-1 Growers’ Association proposes to doi nhreports of the Coffee Planters* Asso-,(,r iation, boasting of the rise in the j with the surplus. We quote from the . price of coffee consequent upon the ‘‘Grocery World and General Mer-j destruction of a few cargoes of cof- chant .; fee. The loss of a small part of the The association proposes that Byproduct one season had enabled the j cry rice grower in the United Statesassociation to raise the price several set aside one-fifth of his crop to beIntrusted 1o the Southern Rice Grow-I cents a pound, instead of lowering it, I as would have been the ease if a few-onextra cargoes had been thrown the market.Now comes the rice outrage. Everyone knows that rice is one of the most, nutritious articles of food.ers’ Association, to be marketed outside of the country to the best possible advantage. Then the rice growers organ goes on to say:The balance of the crop will bring more money than the whole cropittRecently the swamp lands in Texas I wo,ll,i have brought if kept at home.have been drained and an area of lf we could destr°y ■ and a__quarter sacks, getting nothing for it,the balance would bring more thanNOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OFkllREAL ESTATEthe whole would have brought. But I by this plan we get something for theCountv of million and a quarter sacks, and weI get it out of the way.This plan has the cordial approval of bankers, who have looked into it,State of Washington,Snohomish.—ss.SHERIFF'S OFFICE I By virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the Honorable Superior Court f Snohomish County, on the 17th day and big interests outside the associa-1 of March. 1T* 1C,. by the Clerk thereof tion have promised to come in. For ■: the ca '• of Millie Gardner. Plain- this plan to be effective must have tiff versus George B. Jon. s and Mary eve d ( |t ■ A. Jones, his wife: B. T-. Caudill and ' lane Doo Caudill, his wife, whose IK a 't*80 where we ve got to dorue Christian name is unknown to something, and the only feasible I plaintiff; George A Morse and Jane j thing proposed is to get the rice oute’,hi® W’fe' fvh0^ Of the country. It’s a plain, simple,i name is unknown to plaintiff; Her-.....bert C. Payzant, alias H. c. Payzant: ; ,03'cal business propost,on, *ot a! Harry P. Jones, alias H. P. Jones; theory.You maye lose a dollar a barrel on j one-fifth of your rice, but you certainly will make a dollar a barrel moreFred Jones alias Frederic Jones; the unknown heirs of Rachel Jones, deceased; and also all other persons or I parties unknown claiming any right.I title, estate, lien or interest in the l)n ’he remaining four-fifths.I real estate described herein; Defend- Think this over. Workingmenants; .Vo. lot,12, and to me as Sheriff, raised tile rice crops. The bosses who^ NoUcde thereby given, That I will own th\ ,and ^P^iaied these proceed to sell at public auction to cr°Ps- Now these bosses find that the highest bidder for rash, within the laborers have produced more the hours prescribed by law for Sher- rice than ever before—enough more«‘S ,°’C'0C* ^ to toed a million children during theM. on thf Gfh day of May, A. D* 1916, . , .before thf* Court Mouse door of said s'iarP *)lte Die winters cold. Snohomish County, in the State of Thf* workers who planted the riceWashington, all of the right, title and and tended it through the seasons interest of the said defendants above havf! received nothing for their labor named in and to the following de* . ,scribed property, situated in Snoho- a mpagre wage. The bosses, whomish County, State of Washington, to- have produced nothing, possess ail wit: Beginning at a point 177 feet the rich bounty of grain,east and 762 feet north 26 degrees An(1 there is so much rice that theeast of the quarter section corner he- , . . „ ,tween Kc, firms 2:: and 24, Township prlc“ of m'e 18 fall,nK and the South-27 North, Range :: East. W M , as the f'rn Kice Growers’ Association is ask-true point of beginning running thence ing that one-fifth of the life-givingm'rilt Mi degree,- east one hundred crop be destroyed in order to forcefifty-six (156) feet; thence at rightangles east three hundred fifty-fourpriees tip and increase profits.arid 6-10 (.254,61 feet; thence at right Anlt;1 Uu‘rf‘ are- in ,llis broad Hand angles south 'me hundred forty (140, of the Bosses, hundreds of thousands f'-et thence at right angles west four, of men and women out of work-hundred twenty-two and 6-10 f 4 2 2. G) tl, „ ... . , .fee, to the place of beginning, levied thr‘ arp chllflren h never haveon as the property of said defendants '‘ttottgh to eat.above named, to satisfy a judgment And yet -food for a million little amounting to Nine Hundred Forty- ones shall be destroyed in this, the one and 87-100 Dollars and costs of eentury. in the name ofsuit, in favor of plaintiff.Dated this 3rd day of April. 1916., DONADD MoRAE, Sheriff. By J. D. Alien, Deputy.George W. Jyouttit, Everett, Wash Attorney for i’liiintiff.t wentieth the Great God Profits.And this is why the song of Revolution is swelling around the world In ten million throats: Down withthe profit system!
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Everett Labor Journal
Everett, Washington, US
Fri, Apr 28, 1916
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
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