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Show Use Home Products Lessons of the war have taught us that the more nearly self-sustaining: a nation becomes the more advantageously advantage-ously it will be situated should war unhappily come again. The same principal applies in peace times as well, and the more we are able to substitute home products for those usually imported the better off we shall be from an economic standpoint. With this principle in mind, the the Southwide Cotton Council is urging new and wider uses of cotton, as well as better methods of marketing that staple. It is estimated that the use of cotton bagging alone, instead of imported im-ported jute, might easily absorb from one-half million to a million bales of cotton annually. The idea of giving preference to home products is applicable to states and local communities as well as to nations. Home producers of both raw . and manufactured products should be triven every possible encouragement and patronage. Aside from keeping monev at home, such a policy would makc-pcssible makc-pcssible large savings in transportation charges, give more employment to local labor and enhance local prosperity generally. |