The Colville examiner. [volume], September 17, 1921, Page 6, Image 6

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CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED FOR STATE-WIDE
DEMAND BY WASHINGTON CONSUMERS
PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON BEGIN TO GIVE PATRONAGE
TO INSTITUTIONS WHICH PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT
TO OUR OWN CITIZENS AND FUNDS FOR
SCHOOLS AND HIGHWAYS
OUR STATE'S OWN
Investigations of Price and Qual
ity Open Eyes of Residents of
the State to Value of Washing
ton-Made Products.
WITHIN' recent months, a feeling
has been sweeping over tbla
fair state that oar Infant Industries,
and others not quite so infantile, ought
to be supportad and encouraged by
patronage on the part of the state's
residents wherever a comparison of
quality and price with those of the
products of other states justifies.
A number of organized bodies have
been doing pioneer work in educating
the citizens of this state to the tact
that there is hardly a necessity of life
being manufactured elsewhere and im
ported into our borders that cannot
be duplicated among our own products
at as low a price as the foreign-made
article, and. in many cases, at a lower
price.
"Washington-Made," the Sign of
Quality.
ii A PROPHET is not without hon-
A. or save in his own country
and among his own people." It is
likewise true that a feeling of preju
dice against goods made within our
borders has existed in the minds of
many of our people. Because a thing
i i produced at home, it has been as
sumed to be Inferior to a similar ar
ticle Imported from a distance.
A good example of this state of af
fairs came up in a town which was
turning out a prize-winning grape
julco. The foreign line was being dis
played regularly in the windows of a
local grocer until the dub women,
who had been making a study of the
possibilities of a buy-at-home cam
paign, went in one after another, to
the number of twenty-five or more,
and demanded to know why such par
tiality should be shown in the face of
the home product's prize-winning qual
ity. The result is that this grocer
now puts in a window display of
Washington grape juice every month,
with a corresponding increase in busi
ness and consequently, of employees
In the grape-juice factory among our
own people.
For the first time, residents of this
state are realizing that the money
they ship to other states through their
zeal in buying foreign-made, that is,
outside of Washington, products, does
not build any schoolhouses or high
ways, and does not provide employ
ment for the people of this state. On
the contrary, they are beginning to
see, this money furnishes capital for
the upbuilding of huge enterprises in
distant cities which pay their taxes
there, thus supporting their own gov
ernmental institutions and utilities,
giving employment to thousands of
their own people.
As the result of such a shortsighted
policy on the part of our residents,
large eastern concerns have been wax
ing fat on the presumption that goods
made at home are inferior simply be
cause they are made at home, distance
seemingly lending enchantment, while
our own industries have been forced
to struggle along under a weight of
home prejudice and the added handi
cap of the dominating power of largo
capital lodged in the hands of in
trenched interests elsewhere, as well
as preconceived ideas of the compara
tive quality of their wares brought out
west by transplanted easterners.
Dense Fog of Ignorance.
A DENSE fog of ignorance which
has beclouded the vision of our
own people is being dissipated by the
educational measures which are
A WASHINGTON INDUSTRY
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"WASHINGTON-MADE," THE SIGN OF QUALITY
Shown above is the plant of the F. S. Lang Manufacturing Co., Seattle, one of the fine institu
tions which is providing employment to the host within our borders and appeals to you for patron
age under the trade name of Lang Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces. This concern employs from ninety
to one hundred fifty Washington workers, 75 per cent of whom are ex-service men.
rapidly being instituted by various
agencies working among the women's
dubs, the chambers of commerce, the
schools, and the newspapers, striving
to Inform the public of this state of
the actual dollar-I'or-dollar value of
OUT own products as compared to the
j foreign-made article.
j His Own Make Under Foreign Label.
HOW little solid ground there is un
der tin; idea that foreign Roods
;ire "jes' nachelly" better than Wash
ington goods is well illustrated by an
occurrence that took place In one of
our stores.
A .sales manager was trying to soil
a line of local products to the dealer
in question, who kept coming back
with the reply, "Yes, but X's brand is
filler than your brand." naming an
Eastern product with which he was
familiar. The sales manager hup
pencil to recognize some of his own
product in the wrappers under X's
label on the dealer's shelves and ex
plained to him that it was not uncom
mon for this same eastern manufac
turer to send to the local house and
buy their product, then place it in
their own wrapper and sell it at an
increased price over what the same
article could be purchased for under
its own label.
i
New Lines vs. Old.
THE fact is that in this new state
of ours, the mass of people are
far less familiar with the product of
factories which have sprung up with
in a few years within our borders than
with articles of foreign make which
were household names from our child
hood days, and it takes a strenuous
light for their lives on the part of
Washington pioneers of industry, who
j are really laying the foundation for
| our future prosperity, to overcome the
weight of long years of familiarity
with products from the older sections
of the country.
There is no question that in many
cares, quality and values alone con
sidered, Washington-made products
speak for themselves.
Take the case of the Washington
'woman who was enjoying a delicious
cup of tea at the home of an eastern
'friend and was so much impressed
'with its quality that on her return
home, she wrote to her friend for the
I name of the brand. Imagine her sur
prise, on receiving a sample package
of the tea from her friend, to find that
j it was put up and shipped east by a
I firm in her own home town.
There are many reasons why our
i state can and does produce better
I quality in many articles than can
other sections of the country. One
reason why we can produce better
I bacon, for instance, is that Washing
ton wheat-fed hogs make leaner and
better bacon than eastern corn-fed
hogs.
We Need Payrolls!
HOW many people in Washington j
will tell you, "We need payrolls," ,
but what are they doing abbut it? Wo
don't know, hut we do know that when
Ihe knowledge of the actual merit of
our state's own manufactured goods
is understood by the mass of our peo
i pie, the woes of Washington manufac
turer! will be reduced to a minimum.
A representative of one industry
states that if this concern, along with
the other plants engaged in the same
industry, were to receive just a fair
share of the business in the state, his
institution could double or triple its
payroll. Think, then, of the possibili
ties of a state-wide determination of
our citizens, to buy, where quality and
price justify, only goods made in
Washington, It means the doubling
or tripling of employment of Wash
ington workers. What sounder foun-v
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dation could be laid for a prosperous
commonwealth ?
What Is Needed.
{<pritM('lTY is America 1! middle
1 name," they Bay, and it must be
come the middle name of Washington
products, if the people of the state are
to know the facts about their state's
own manufactures. The assumption
tnuit be dispelled that when Washing
ton industries appeal direct to the pub
lic through the press tn demand Wash
ington-made goods, it Is the cry of in
ferior quality attempting to sell at a
higher price, for it can lie shown that
such is not the case
Eighty Per Cent Homemade.
WHAT is needed la loyalty to local
products, practice as well as
preaching of buying ai home, not only
among consumers, but liy dealers as
well. A retailer in one Washington
city has been pushing madeathoine
soods so strongly that almost 80 per
i nl of his sales arc (if Hiose articles.
One woman, saturated with the
spirit of this cause, kept demanding
made-in-Washington product! of the
grocer in the suburban community
where she was sojourning, until his
shelves presented a transformation
over what they had been when she
started trading with liini. He gradu
ally replaced his stock of eastern-made
articles one after another with the
kind mentioned by this true Washing
ton booster. Single-handed, she ac
complished more educational work
than volumes of preaching without
practicing could have done.
"Everybody's Doing It."
WHAT the people of Washington
are getting their eyes open to
attempt, has been successfully accom
plished in other places, so that we
know it can be done. Everyone can
be taught to demand Washington
products.
The Latest Thing.
THE latest thing that is under way
to "put over" Washington manu
factures, is a state-wide campaign of
newspaper publicity which will shed
light through the medium of the home
town papers in places now surrounded
by a pall of Impenetrable darkness,
telling the good husbandmen and
housewives the true story of the qual
ity of Washington-made articles and
the name under which they are sold to
the consumer, so that they will be no
longer at a loss to know what to ask
for. "Buy our state's own!"
OPERATE RADIO
MARKET AT FAIR
Will Show Radio Receiving
Station in Actual
Operation.
The state department of agriculture
has perfected arrangements lor a dem
onstration of the working and the
practical value of the proposed broad
cast radio market service which it
hopes to have established, in coopera
tion with the federal department of
agriculture, before long. At the state
fair at Vakima, during the week Sep
tember 19-24, there will be taken daily
and bulletined, market quotations
from Seattle. Tho department of agri
culture will deliver these daily quota
tions at Seattle to Kilbourne & Clark,
who will transmit them to the fair
ground at Vakima, where they will be
received on an inexpensive receiving
set, installed by the same company
for demonstration purposes.
It will be shown that, at a merely
nominal cost, any farm organization
or indeed, any individual farmer who
has a bright boy interested in wireless
telegraphy, can receive, at a regular
hour each day, market quotations from
Seattle, giving exact conditions of the
market as to prices, supply and de
mand, os that shipments to that mar
ket can be made with full knowledge
each day of the exact conditions
vhich prevail there.
BEGIN SHORT COURSE
IN AGRICULTURE JAN. 2
The annual short course in,agricul
ture to be held at Pullman beginning
January 2 and running for eight
weeks was announced by Dean Edw.
C. Johnson last week. Courses will
lie given in crops, soils, horticulture,
animal husbandry, dairy husbandry,
poultry husbandry, veterinary science,
entomology and farm management.
The classes will be so arranged that
students may enroll on January 2 for
eight weeks, or come in four weeks
later and enroll for the remaining
month of the course. Tuition is free.
Two weeks' courses in gas engines
and two weeks' courses In tractors
will be given with a tuitional charge
of five dollars per course to cover a
part ot the expense for laboratory ma
terial.
FALL SEEDING
. ON INCREASE
Many Grain, Hay and Garden
Crops Do Best When Sown
in Fall.
Kail seeding is increasing in popu
larity, says T. H. Bowie of the Inland
Seed company. Its advantages are
.lumeroiis over spring seeding. Farm
■is find that land can he hetter pre
pared in the fall than in the spring.
Pall seeding interferes less with other
york, thereby keeping down the cost
)f production.
In hilly land fall-sown crops fur
lish a cover lor the soil (luring the
winter and prevents washing away of
he soil. In the majority of cases it
usures both growth and early matin
ty which in high altitudes is essen
ial lor successful production.
Most people are familiar with the
iinount of fall wheat that is sown but
he public would be surprised to know
he increasing amount each year of
all-sown clover, alsike, timothy, win
or oats, barley, vetch and rye. Our
market gardeners sow their onion
eed in September to produce green
onions in May, also the spinach for
■arly spring delivery. Many of the
perennial flowers do best when plant
ed in September.
Of course there are some localities
which may be more adapted to spring
ilanting than fall on account of win
:er conditions and spring freezes
vhere snow is lacking but we find
that most farms in the Inland Empire
have much land where fall sowing is
practical. In this connection it is well
o remember that nature does her
owing in the fall and generally na
.ure does a pretty thorough job.
The Inland Empire has been blessed
.vith a bountiful crop. Many of the
eastern states have not been so for
unate. There are already eastern
jash buyers in our midst for some of
.he farmers' products and when the
armers are prosperous the rest of us
,lo not need to worry.
DAIRY CLUBS OF
COUNTY INCREASE
Club Members Backed by City Banks
and Waikiki Dairy Farm Try
for Prizes.
Beginning with the Kit Carson
Dairy club a little over a year ago,
.Spokane county now has four such
clubs. The first club purchased pure
bred Jersey cows and heifers of the
VVaikiki dairy farm, and those which
have freshened are showing excellent
quality, some giving over 60 pounds
of butter fat in thirty days. As a re
sult of this interest in purebred dairy
cows, a herd bull has been purchased
which should increase the production
of the dairy stock of the community
40 per cent.
Cheney has a club of nine members
>wning Jersey cows. They are under
;he leadership of Mr. Hartley and
promises to become one of the strong
fist clubs in the county.
At Spangle the boys all decided in
avor of Holsteins and six heifers and
two cows were purchased. These
■ows are all proving good and some
excellent records are being made. One
leifer with her first calf gave 1380
niiiiii:; of milk and 53.2 pounds of
;utter fat in thirty days. The fur
jhase of all this dairy stock is being
inanced by Spokane banks.
The Bear Creek club has nine mem
)ers under the leadership of Mrs. E.
I. Janney. Both the Cheney and the
Hear Creek clubs have received regls
ered Jersey bull calves as gifts from
the Walkiki farm. The dairy club
members are being offered many at
ractive prizes at the fairs tbia fall,
.says County ClUb Agent W. J. Groen,
md in addition the Waikikl farm has
offered a registered Jersey heifer to
the member making the highest score
in one month's feed, milk and butter
at record, in testing milk with the
Babcock tester and in judging dairy
•attle.
The keeping of live stock enables
the beet grower to make the best pos
sible use of the beet tops, which, in
connection with roughage, easily pro
duced, keeps the live stock in good
condition and enables the farmer to
return the mineral element in the tops
to the soil and increase the supply of
humus which is of especial Import
ance In irrigated sections. Sheep as
well as cattle thrive on beet tops, but
it Is wise to feed them sparingly at
first.
PROSPECTS GOOD
FOR STATE FAIR
Exhibits and Amusements at
Yakima to Excell Former
Years.
In the twenty-five years of its exist
ence as a state institution, the state
fair at Yakima never before held the
promise of completeness that it does
today. The finest live stock in the
state is already entered. The agricul
tural and particularly the horticultural
displays cannot be duplicated in any
other state in the Union and the show
ing fully warrants the high reputation
which this state has acquired in the
world's markets for orchard fruits. The
educational features of no previous
fair were so valuable as those which
will be shown at Yakima this year
from September 19 to 24.
The demonstrations in modern
methods of handling poultry alone
will warrant attendance on the fair
by every poultry raiser who aspires
to learn the best and most economical
methods of handling a flock to make
it pay the largest dividends on the in
vestment. The lessons he will learn
there will pay the cost of the trip and
he will have enjoyment of the other
features of the fair for compensation
for his time.
The only difficulty which the fair
has encountered in the line of procur
ing exhibits has been trouble in find
ing space for all that is offered. The
probabilities are that temporary struc
tures, possibly tents, may have to be
used for showings that properly be
long there, but which did not make
application for space in time.
So far as the amusement features of
the fair are concerned, nothing of this
kind in the previous fairs will surpass
those which have been mustered for
this meet. The automobile races, the
auto polo games and harness races
alone, if given in the neighborhood of
one of the Sound cities, would pack
the ground every day of the meet, and
every man who passed through the
gate to witness them would feel that
he had received full value for his
money. Yet they are but incidents of
the fair, good as they are.
No one who aspires to know some
thing about this great state, its re
sources and its products can acquire
that information so readily or so
agreeably as he can by putting in a I
week at Yakima and attending the
fair every day. In addition to what he
learns at the fair itself, he will come i
away with a definite understanding of
why it is that this relatively small J
valley is today the mo3t prosperous
lection of the United States, the value j
of its output this year far exceeding j
the value of the output of all of the j
mines and fisheries of Alaska.
By using a dish drainer, mother
would soon have a vacation, for it hat
been found that it saves half an houi
per day in a famliy of four.
500 Agents Wanted At Once
TO SELL RADIUM SPRAY
THE WONDER CLEANER
1000 \ises in every home, building,, and farm. |
Agents making big money with our, "Own your
:>wn business," plan. Exclusive territory, adver
tising matter, sales hints. ALL ABSOLUTELY
t'liEE. HURRY —Write today. Tomorrow, to- j
nay is yesterday. YOUR territory may be gone i
tomorrow. JACK D. ALLENBERG CO., S.
301 Shermnn St., Hpukane, Wash.
We Are
the Only
French in the City of Spokane in
the French Dry Cleaning and Dye
ing Business, and we know how
and are equipped to do it right.
The Paris Cleaners
1514 E. Sprague Aye. Spokane
Good Used Cars
GOOD U3EO PARTS
New and Used Gears for
150 Makes of Cars
The Automobile
Clearing House
W. 1212-14 Second Aye.
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON
"^™ I'KOK <7OTTKUIKI> IIKKIiST, Violinist and Conductor, aud
MUE. INA WRIGHT-HERBST, Soprano, for the past 9 years of the Music Department
of the Washington Ktote College, have opened the
HERBST SCHOOL OF MUSIC
it N. 1406 Oth Aye., Spokane. Work in all branches from beginning instruction to coaoh
ing finished performers. Commences in September. Write for information,
SPOKANE'S LEADING CAFES
FOR REAL SERVICE IN
"Good Eats"
You should go to the
BUCKLEY CAFE
THOS. LENTGIB, Prop.
414 RIVERSIDE AYE. SPOKANE
Lunch Counter Service In
Connection
Your Spokane Home
THE HALLIDAY HOTEL
Headquarters for Farmers and
Wheat Growers
JOE PEDDICORD. Proprietor
Winter Vetches
Winter Oats and Winter
Barley
THE INLAND SEED CO.
Spokano, Wash.
"The House of Pure Seeds."
MAIL YOUR SHOES
TO QUAKER SHOE REPAIR
Shoes repaired and returned the same day.
Men's Half Solos $1.40
Lndies' Half Soles 1.15
Kulil.it H.-e!s 60
LLOYD W. DIEHL, Prop.
1325 N. Howard, Spokane, Wash.
I pi;y parcel post one way.
AUDITS COSTS SYSTEMS
LANE, BELL & GILL
Public Accountants
Federal Tax Advisors
Empire State BiilUlirg. Spokane, Wash.
PILES
For Expert Dry Cleaning
Send Your Fine Garments to the
FRENCH CLEANERS AND
DYERS, Inc.
We Fay Postage On Mail Orders.
Third and Washington. Spokane.
ICE FOR THE FARM
Make the Winter serve you by stor
ing tons of ice with my molds.
Guaranteed absolutely. Don't delay
preparations. Write for full infor
mation and prices today.
WARREN LATHAM, Mfg'r.,
Spokane, Wash.
abb ly]f unlrr, yVEjStSfgffi^S^ara^ — *
handsome case. < M her /'
makes for Bale or rent iSfSSfSS^iA I
■\\ lowesi prices. 3EGjS&qH^^*{ jilli
McDonald
CORONA TYPEWRITER SALES CO.
Spokane, Wash.
a— i Col. W. H. Spencer
Auctioneer
I SELL ANYTHING,
ANYWHERE
Stack and Farm Sales a
**^ Specialty
.«> ,-MB Office 107 W Sprague
dm yOi Tol. Main 241
JmmJam—i sfokane, wash.
YOU CAN TRUST THIS
LAUNDRY
You can Bend us youi priceless tuble and
bed linens In the utmost confidence that
they will be carefully laundered and re
lumed to you.
Crystal Laundry
Spokane, Wash.
CRYSTAL CLEANERS
Arcweid Pipeless Furnace
m k^\ 'or °^ an(* new *lousea-
■f Anyone can install it. Keeps
every room warm in the
' Blggg^''" coldest weather on less fuel
than uny other furnace.
Write for booklet and ape-
B cial number price list. Fac-
V^'*''^^" tory to soU Save $70.00.
Seattle Pipeless Furnace
Mfg. Company
3469 Third Avc, W., Seattle, Wash.
/^^\ Book on
VwjFs Dog
/ Diseases
And How to Feed.
AMERICA'S Mailed free to any
PIONEER address by the author.
DOG
REMEDIESI" I' Clay Glover Co., Inc.
118 West 31st St.
New York, U. S. A.
Model Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
SPOKANE'S HIGH CLASS
FAMILY RESTAURANT
Come and Bring the Family
710-11-12-14 Sprague Aye.