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Mr. Kime: Personally, I am very 
willing to include them both. 
Mr. Sample: I have another sugges¬ 
tion and that is with reference to the 
speaker’s suggestion of 1921 and ’22. I 
would suggest that 1921 be eliminated 
and make, it ’22. It is the kind of fruit 
that is offered the visitors that is killing 
all the advertising that has been done. 
The northerner coming down here to eat 
ripe grapefruit and oranges goes into the 
stores and gets fruit that would not be of¬ 
fered by a Dago stand in the North and 
that is why they don’t like Florida fruit. 
Another thing, we don’t have fruit avail¬ 
able in September for orange week. Now 
everybody that is an actual grower and 
not just a commission man who wants big 
prices will agree, with me in this. Janu¬ 
ary or February is the time for a grape¬ 
fruit or orange week and I would like to 
see it a combination week. 
Mr. Skinner: Undoubtedly this grape¬ 
fruit problem, as Mr. Sample has men¬ 
tioned it, is the real thing we are up 
against, because we are producing it so 
fast, but I want to relate an incident that 
has happened this winter in the Hillsbor- 
ough Hotel in Tampa and in St. Peters¬ 
burg. There is a professor there who 
is called a dietitian, who professes to cure 
certain diseases. He was arrested for 
using the mails to defraud. At his trial 
he, had as many men as are here present, 
men of my age and older whom he had 
surely cured, and the court threw the 
thing out without ever letting it go to 
the jury. It came out in the trial that 
each of these persons, these men and 
women, mostly men, were using the juice 
of four grapefruit every day and some 
of them lemons in addition. I want to 
tell you it increased the consumption of 
grapefruit in the Hillsborough Hotel 
more than twice over and one of the gro¬ 
cery men told me that he just could not 
keep grapefruit in his store; they took 
them out as fast as he could get them in. 
Yesterday I heard some man make the 
remark that a physician at Lakeland had 
written some people that he had been fol 
lowing up the uses of grapefruit juice and 
that he had found that a grapefruit re¬ 
duced blood pressure. Now, if grapefruit 
is advertised to do that and if it does it, 
we are going to have, a big market for it 
if you will just let the market grow. 
Mr. -: If people threatened with 
influenza will simply undress and go to 
bed, abstaining from all food entirely 
for just two or three days and drink noth¬ 
ing but orange juice, they will be both 
sustained and cured and go out on the 
fourth day. 
Mr.-: I think it may be of in¬ 
terest to members of the Society to know 
that within the past week we have had 
the first reports of scientific investiga¬ 
tions as to the vitamine content of grape¬ 
fruit. Those of you who read the Cali- 
fornia-Florida advertisements of citrus 
fruits know that during the last year or 
two we have been rather guarded in re¬ 
ferring to the vitamine part of the or¬ 
ange. We did it because we did not know 
very much; even the medical authorities 
at first themselves were just a little bit 
leery as to just how far claims could be 
made in that connection. Different state¬ 
ments were made as to the vitamine val¬ 
ue of oranges. You understand, of 
course, that the claim is that the vitamine 
