| OCR Text |
Show IDAHO BOOSTEH FOR HOWIE PFI0D0CT3 IS HEBE Robert v Bpangler, former secre tarj of the Twin Falls Commercial Club and publisher of "Se- Idaho First" and "The Idaho Club Woman." monthly magazines of considerable importance to the fiern .slate, ai i ed this morning in Ogden and is spending spend-ing the day getting better acquainted acquaint-ed with the locality! An effort is being made to persuade Mr. Spangler lo remain over tor the general meet lug of the committees having Utah home products week in charge; in view of the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Spangler were the originators of the home IndUStrj movement In Idaho where it proved wonderfully successful success-ful In stimulating the use of home product s, Mrs Bpangler is noted in Idaho club circles for her ontorprlse and activity in club work. "1 am glad to see Utah taking hold of this home Industry movement," Mr Spangler said today. "Of course. Industrial development and manufacturing manufac-turing i In Its verie st Infancy in Idaho. Ida-ho. We have made only a small beginning, be-ginning, but. even so. the manufacturers manufactur-ers ami the people generally found that the home Industry weeks we have h. i apart each year were productive produc-tive of much general good to the stale. In Eoatering the industries we already had ami in encouraging new factories to locate there. The state of Utah and every person residing Within it! borders, must certainly derive de-rive reut nnd lasting benefit from ihls mov . in. hi "In Idaho, during homo Industry I week, we asked the merchants in every ev-ery town to put a display of home products in their windows during that week and we met with wonderful response. re-sponse. The dealers all made a special spe-cial effort to sell products of Idaho during the week with the merit and worth of the state's products that they had not known existed. Eer woman's club in the state held some kind ot home industry event during the week every newspaper in Idaho boosted Idaho loyally. "During home Industry week, the newspapers preached the gospel of co-operation to the people of Idaho the manufacturer, the merchant and the consumer and all worked hand In hand toward the one common end which was merely the upbuilding of the Btate We urged the manufac-turers manufac-turers to show their .appreciation of the work the newspapers were doing I in their behali by announcing through the local paper's advertising column'' the names of their products and similar simi-lar information, especially during that week This was carried out gener-all) gener-all) and, as a logical result, when the week was ended thousands In Idaho had become familiar with Idaho prod nets which prior to that lime they did not know existed." Utah has many more manufactured products than has Idaho, and whll the home Industry movement Is not designed BOlefy to promote the buying ol manufactured goods, they nevertheless neverthe-less benefit strongly "In Idaho we found thnt 'he strength of the movement move-ment was ' largely to the work of the women of the state," Mr. Spangler Spang-ler said W hen you reach the housekeeper house-keeper who does the buying show her that Utah products are superior in quality and cost no more than similar goods from outside, you will find that she will insist on home goods. ".Inst think for a moment what 11 would mean to the farmers of Utah If most of the clothing, the furniture, the cereal and aimed foods, the soap, the brooms, the building materials and other manufactured articles they l"i wee- all made In Utah by men who. with their employes, were in turn buying buy-ing tln lr fruits, vegetables, butter. . ggfl and other larm products Think Ol i'. id! intage to every man. woman wom-an ami child In your state If thousands thou-sands more were here to work in the mills and factories. "Your farmers would have a better market for everything that is now-produced now-produced and your manufacturers would Increase in number. Help the many Industries now here to grow and more will come. That is the object ol" home products week." |
