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fore but never with the time as suitable 
for action as at present. We need these 
things, this advertising to the winter vis¬ 
itor, this greater interest among our own 
people. The glory of achievement be¬ 
longs to “us.” Let us then follow the ad¬ 
vice of this “Hercules, the Strong,” put 
our united shoulder to this problem and 
make progress. 
“Squeeze out some golden orange juice, 
Stir in some sugar sweet, 
Fill brimming full with fine chipped ice, 
Then drink—’Tis Florida’s finest treat.” 
Dr. Fairchild: I would like to make a 
suggestion and I would like to preface it 
with an experience I had during the war 
trying to popularize dried vegetables. A 
Californian got into the game of market¬ 
ing dried vegetables and arrived in Wash¬ 
ington with a carload of all kinds of dried 
vegetables with the idea of having Pres¬ 
ident Wilson start the ball rolling. Some¬ 
how or another he. got into my office. 
I said to Mr. H-, “You can’t get 
President Wilson to eat your dried vege¬ 
tables.” The next idea he had was a 
luncheon to which he would invite the 
members of the. cabinet and others and 
this luncheon was to be entirely dried veg¬ 
etables. I had had some experience in 
trying to popularize some of these things 
and so I said, “Don’t serve more than 
three kinds anyway.” He thought that 
would be a good idea, but I saw him leav¬ 
ing the office where he. had these things 
stored with an “armful of vegetables. That 
luncheon remains in my memory and will 
always remain there. I was invited to 
it as a member of Mr. Hoover’s staff, 
which was invited as a body. I was par¬ 
ticularly interested in dried vegetables be¬ 
cause there is such a promising field in 
dried vegetables. He started off with 
dried spinach, dried cabbage, dried Brus¬ 
sels sprouts, dried carrots and dried on¬ 
ions on the beefsteak. By this time even 
the waiters had become much amused 
over the situation. The people ate these 
things, but this particular friend of mine 
on Hoover’s staff, a young lady that I 
was very anxious to get interested in 
these things, went back and was deathly 
sick. 
Speaking now as a man who comes 
down here every winter, I am heartily 
in favor of an orange, week. I have never 
been able to understand why Florida does 
not challenge California to get competi¬ 
tion of this orange business. There is 
no topic of conversation that is more in¬ 
teresting and more frequent among 
northern visitors than whether the Flor¬ 
ida or California orange is the best. Now, 
why is it not desirable during your or¬ 
ange week to pick out men whose veracity 
on this subject is as reliable as members 
of the Supreme Court, stage it in one of 
your citrus centers here and challenge 
California to sell their best citrus fruit 
to you and have a try out on this citrus 
business and let the northerner know 
whether the California or Florida orange 
is the best orange? You would get a tre¬ 
mendous amount of business out of it if 
properly handled and, personally speak¬ 
ing, I believe they would go down in de¬ 
feat. 
Mr. -: Mr. Chairman, I would 
like to ask Mr. Kime if he anticipates in¬ 
cluding grapefruit in his orange week? 
