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The Floifets' Review 



.Ma«cb 16. 1916. 



tional Canners' Association adopted 



this resolution: 



Beflolved, that Secretary Gorrell be requested 

 to notify D, M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit, Micb., 

 that In the opinion of the canners present at 

 this conyentlon tbelr advertisement wbicb ap- 

 peared in the Saturday Evening Post, issue of 

 February 12, 1" extremely harmful to the best 

 interests of our Industries. 



Not content with that, the following 

 telegram was wired by the Western 

 Cianners' Association through its sec- 

 retary: 



D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich.: 



I note with deep regret your advertisement In 

 this week's Issue of the Saturday Evening Post, 

 and cannot help but believe you were not cog- 

 nizant of its real meaning before beliig published. 

 As it is a gross Injustice to the canning inter- 

 ests of America, •! feel confident, however, to 

 rely upon your deep sense of fairness to make 

 such reparations as the best interests of our 

 business demand, 



G. W. DRAKE, 

 Secretary Western Canners' Association. 



This is from the reply received by 



Secretary Drake: 



We are grateful to yon for refusing to believe 

 that we would consciously do the canning indus- 

 try an Injustice. As a matter of fact, we do 

 not recall ever before having been suspected of 

 trying to Injure anybody, were he customer or 

 competitor. In the present case we confess be- 

 ing bewildered at the resentment our advertise- 

 ment cauted. We have Just reread it, and ask 

 that you also do so. We say: "In winter 

 home-grown fruits cannot be available, but Why 

 unuecessarily rrolong the season of cans?" We 

 say, too: "Do you know that, as a rule, the very 

 choicest varieties of fruit and vegetables can 

 never be tinned, or even brought to market, be- 

 cause they do not poesess fiber or rind or some 

 such protection against early wilting? Start a 

 garden." It did not occur to us that anybody 

 would take offense ^t a simple statement of 

 elementary fact. We do not wish to involve 

 you in long correspondence, but we invite you to 

 tell us freely wherein you consider we are at 

 fault. Wherein was our advertisement a "gross 

 mUrepresentation of facts and an injustice to 

 the canners' business"? 



Secretary Drake replied at length, 

 expressing his satisfaction with the re- 

 sponse or D. M. Ferry & Co. to his 

 telegram and setting forth in detail 

 six exceptions on the part of the can- 

 ners to the advertisement in question. 

 Secretary Drake told D. M, Ferry & 

 Co. that such advertising was wrong 

 in spirit and that its statements be- 

 trayed a lack of knowledge of the 

 facts. He then received this further 

 statement from the Detroit seedsmen: 



The advertisement under discussion was pub- 

 lished "with malice toward none." It passed the 

 same scrutiny to which our advertisements have 

 been subjected for thirty years. We were and 

 are astonished to find that any canner should 

 deny the superiority of the best home-grown 

 fruits and vegetables over those transported from 

 a distance. In tins or otherwise. However, we 

 believe It will be possible for us in the future 

 to encourage nlantlng of gardens without giving 

 offense to canners or anybody else. It will be 

 our pleasure to do so. - • 



In closing the incident Secretary 



Drake wrote: 



Liko you, I will refrain from every possible 

 pretext of argument, contenting myself In the 

 very happy thought that you will refrain from 

 causing to be issued advertisements of the kind 

 referred to. I flatter myself. In the precon- 

 ceived knowledge, as evidenced in my telegram, 

 that you would do this very thing if properly 

 placed before you, and can assure you the abso- 

 lute confidence and respect of every canner In 

 the business, myself especially. 



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