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Show 'CONSUMERS' WEEK" mm me Buying a Home Campaign AVeek AVill Begin April 14. Plan?; are being made to make the coming com-ing "AVest ern Consumers' week," which this year will begin Monday, April 1-1, an unprecedented success. The purpose of this week is to educate and reawaken western people to the advantages of pa tronlzing homo industries, j The consumers' week plan was founded I in VJ12 in Idaho by a lew women. The next year all of Idaho joined the movement. move-ment. This vear "Wop torn Consumers' I week" will be celebrated in Utah, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Washington. Washing-ton. Oregon, Wyoming, IV ew Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. The campaign of education is carried on in a very simple and Inexpensive, but effective, manner. AH local dealers are to exhibit in their -windows or other conspicuous con-spicuous places- home and western products, prod-ucts, and at the same time furnish in-f in-f or ma t ion where these brands can bo bought. In tiiis way consumers are taught the profit of patronizing home industries. The slogan of this movement has been stated tersely by Governor Boyle of Nevada; Ne-vada; "First, buy tite products of the I home town; second, buy the products of I the home state; third, buy the products of ! the western states.'- i As a result of this campaign waged by 1 the women of the west during the past I six years millions of dollars that would ! have been spent in the east have been I spent in the west. This means that this money has been spent at home to develop mines, farms, irrigation projects, In fact, every branch of industry. Thereby business busi-ness has been materially stimulated and the west as a whole has been gven impetus. im-petus. Monday at 2 p. m. there will be a meeting meet-ing of the T. "tab products commit tee ;U the offices of thei Utah Manufacturers' association in the Kearns building to devise de-vise ways and means of cooperation with the Federation of AAromen's Clubs to make this "AS7 es tern Consumers' week" an unqualified un-qualified success. This week Mrs. Robert M. Spangler will tour Idaho in the interest of this move-, move-, ment and work out plans with the vari-; vari-; ous women's clubs for the observance of : the week. |