The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-08
LADIES ENCOURAGE
HOME INDUSTRY
How the Auxiliary Proposes to
Go About Its Important
Work.
TO FORM BRANCHES
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
Housewives VIII Taboo All
Articles Which DO Not
Bear the Label.

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! and Manufacturers association held Il
wcll-ottcnded meeting at Barratt hall
Friday afternoon and discussed ways and
means for the furtherancc of the purposes
of the organization. Mrs a V. Taylor.
president of the auxiliary, presided and,
before introducing the principal speakers.
briefly outlined the objects OF tho meeting.
She stated that the keynote OF the pur-
pose OF the Ladies' auxiliary was the
patronage OF homo Industries. This, she
explained. did not mean the indiscrimi-
nate purchase OF everything produced
here at home without regard 10 the merit
OF the production 1t meant the encour-
aRement of the production OF the very
best and the employment Of home labor
and home capital
Work of the Organization.
After this brief explanation OF the pur-
poses OF the meeting, Mrs Taylor intro
more fully into details in outlining the
work which the auxiliary had undertaken
After tracing the history OF the Mcr-
chants and Manufacturers association, he
explained that II had recently dawncd
upon the lords OF creation" who made up
It's membership, that there was a whole
lot or work necessary to be done which
they were unable TO perform. They had
been forced To turn TO the ladies for help
and the organization of the auxiliary had
been tho result
There are many things" Mr.. Thomas
declared that Utah can produce as well
us any State In the Union, and there are
some some things which she can turn out in
better quality and at lesser cost than
any country on the face of tho earth"
It's Up to the Ladies.
He cited sugar products and many
Kinds of cloth In which Utah as he de
clareu, led the entire Western country
ana called attention TO the deplorable fact
ihat We stubbornly refuse To purchase
iocaUy-produced articles. II Is up TO the
ladies'. he said. not only to inspire u.s. but
IN IN great measure, To make II necessary
ior US 10 consume what we produce. for
ne ne declared, 1t Is the mothers and house
wives who control the business as well as
foSk inc cradles OF the world.
GcttnS down TO the organizatlon's prac-
veal pian OF procedure. the speaker cN-
plalned that II was the purpose to place
a label ON all homc-produced articles that
arc arc eood and TO keep the label Off all
nome produced articles that are bad This
leoel VIII simply mean To the purchaser
that the article which bears 1T has stood
me ,n test OF a competent and carefully Sc
iSSteu committee aided by the State
chemist and that any locally produced
artlcle which falls TO bear ii is not con-
sidered 10 be what 1t procaims itself.
How to Reach the Merchant.
II Is the housewife only Mr Thomas
tS tsserled VINO can compel the merchant
stores Tor home consumption for she can
t.use TO receive any article which he
attempts TO foist upon her as being Just
as good as" the one she ordered the
presence or absence OF the label being her
mfallible guide.
Mr. Thomas wanted especially to i'm
press ms audience with the fact that the
Merchants and Manufacturers associa-
tlon and the Ladies' auxiliary. which is
ItS IT'S. most important branch. do not com
prise a strictly Salt Lake aggrerntion
It's purposes are State wide and fre-
quent excursions to outlying cities
and a,,{i, towns W.T. have demonstrated that the
presented.
Tested by Chemistry.
Following Mr.. Thomas, Miss LYDIA
Iio!mgren. head Of the domestic science
aeoertment OF the L. D. 8 o., gave q
which she had made chemical tests OF
many OF the local and foreign products
which %hich are In competition in this market
invariably the superiority of the local
product. Many staples. the output of
Utah mills and factories. were mentioned
abroad. TO the positive detrimcnt of the
latter There was a long list OF these
compared necessaries OF life. and. II the
young woman has been accurate In her
Investigations; there Is little room to
doubt that Utah produces Just about
f everything that the normal man requires
cost than II can be shipped Into the
State from any corner OF the earth.
MISS Holmgren also went into the in
dustrial feature OF the proposition, show
Ing how home consumption of home
products would encourage the building
of new. as we'll as the charging of old
hundreds Of young men and women who
would otherwise have to seek the means
OF gaining livelihood outside the state
Liked the London Habit.
Mrs. Lydia D. Alder reminded the
audience Of the magnificent exhibit OF OF
o. ha
store. and extended to all present an in
vmtion to inspect them. She created
some amusement by calling attention to
the fact that some fastIdlous housewives
OF this city had recently discovered
that they had been buying certain
Utah canned goods bearing a London,
aristocratic noses at the same poodaE
all but the label.
Signed the Roll.
The president Mrs. A V Taylor then
called upon the ladies present from the
different counties OF the State who were
willing to undertake tho initiatorv Wore
of organizing branch auxiliarles in their
various home counties TO come forward
and sign the membership roll. The fol-
lowing responded
Mrs Julia A. Richards. Mrs. Minnie TT
Jcnson, Mrs. Olga X. Lee. Box Elder
Mrs. zina Card. Mrs Rebecca Rolston,
Mrs. Nellie Parkinson. Cache county.
Mrs. Louisa w; Jones; Utah county
MIS-, SdTdn y 1tdSpanu summit county.
Mrs. Lucy A. Clark Mrs. Cecilia Steed
Mrs. Eliza A Pitcher Mrs Judith
yelling. Davis county.
Mrs Sarah Houston Garfield county.
Mrs Cynthia J. Wootton, Wasatch
county
Mrs. Eva Helner Mrs. Jane Adams.
Morgan county.
Mrs. Mary F. Ward, Mrs Jane Par
sons, Mrs. Annie j.. Wills. Millard
county
Mrs Nninda Beal. Seyier county
Mrs Emma Beal, Mrs. Ezra Schoe-
maker. Miss Eta Bench. SanDete county
Fire Department Called Out.