Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-13
BOOMING HOME
PRODUCTS WEEK
MOVEMENT is GREETED WITH
CORDIAL RESPONSE
MAIL POURING IN ON CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
Stores Put Up Signs Calling Attention
to the Project and Instanta-
neous Enthusiasm Is
Manifested

Prosperity week, during which the
people will use only home products,
which was announced by the cham
ber of commerce in Sunday mornings
Herald as intended to begin Monday,
November 16, started booming ahead
of time yesterday.
Citizens of all classes caught up the
idea with such eager and friendly en-
thusiasm that before prosperity
week. rolls around there will be
big boom for home products in Los
Angeles, while the outside places all
over southern California have fallen
in line.
All yesterday Secretary Frank Wig
gins was kept busy answering mes
sages of approval of the chambers
recipe for good times, which is to buy
products grown ana manufacturers
here and thus keep money at heme'
No such spontaneous response mas
been given any "boost" movement
launched hereabouts as that which
Yesterday greeted the Home Products
and Prosperity Week"
A striking example was furnished py
the mail part of the campaign. Al
8:8b O'Clock yesterday morning the
chamber sent its first formal an->
nouncement to the commercial world
with q request for statement OF
views. At o'clock the letter carrier
threw on Virgins desk twenty-five
responses to the mornings appears
every one of which gave hearty IN
dorsement of the movement anu
pledges of substantial cooperation. =,
If this rate is maintained there VIII
not be a half dozen of the 1871 manu-
featuring industries existing in Soutn-
ern California that will not be actively
interested in the general campaign 1or
a prosperity week."
Stores Catch the Idea
Within an hour after the stores
opened yesterday morning two firms
had placed in their windows, on their
own initiative, signs reading: Were
preparing for Prosperity week anu
will boost home products" and Pros
perity week is coming and Wen SHOW
you the best home products" one Dig
Broadway restaurant suspended sign
in the interior announcing: Durlhs
! Prosperity week. and at all times. we
give preference to home products
Home made pie is just like your moth
er makes"
Secretary Virgins set the fashion
| early by making a rousing appeal TOT
home products In a downtown care
when the waiter brought him bottle
of eastern made catsup.
declared Virgins. IF you haven't got
it you had better get it before come
in again. There are plenty or toma-
toes grown in Southern California, ana
our catsup is just as good as any
imported article. Any Will DO so long
| as ii is Southern Californian"
Secretary Virgins declared 1t Is up
to the people, to make the prosperity
as big as they want to.
'It all depends upon the people
themselves" said he. Buying home
products will make prosperity Just as as
| Individual citizens-have to do tnelr
part in asking for them. 1t does not
| lie so much with the merchant-ne u
get anything that's asked for. But IL
ought to be the duty of every loyal
Angeleno to take the trouble to ask
| for our native goods and then give
them equal consideration, il the quality
| and price are equal. If the public only
knew the home product is generally
better in quality and more economical.
Teaching seif-Relp
"The chamber of commerce believes
our people are merely careless in this
duty they owe our own manufacturers,
| for a more loyal population does not
exist than this. We propose to try TO
| impress the fact in no uncertain way
! In doing so we merely show the peo-
pie how they can help themselves, Tor
on the selfish side the argument is all
on the side of home .roducts"
So reassuring was the response yes
terdav to the chambers announce
ment of Prosperity Week. plans tnat
| the executive committee of the enter
prise at it's meeting declared that an
enlargement of the scope of the plans
all down the line was warranted.
1t was decided to cram every one OF
the six days of Prosperity Week full
of events calculated to interest ana at
| tract the people to home products.
| The public is invited to send In
ideas and suggestions for new features
of the program.
AT present the big features settled
upon are:
A monster "Home Products parade"
with miles of wagons and conyeyances5
loaded down with native goods of all
kinds. The idea is not to have deco
rations. but to make the display of
actual products great and impressive.
A "Button day." when 100000 little
badges will be distributed free.
A "Factory Visiting day." when all
worksbons win be open for public in
A "Giad Hand day." or Luncheon
day" when a collation. will be spread
with nothing but native foods and
drinks. And finally Music day,
when ''boost" songs will be sung in
| the StreelS.
Committees Appointed
AT the meeting yesterday the cham
ber of commerce committees which
| will have the prosperity Week"
events in charge were decided upon as
| follows:
on parade--F. J. Zeehandelaar, W. A.
Hammel. Max Meyberg, A. S. Jones
and j. T. Jantz.
On program-A. L. Selig, R. H. Her
ron, Frank Pfaffinger, B. F. Coulter
and Franklin Booth.
On publicity-Arthur Kinney, J. H.
Rice. w. G. Hunt, Martin Neuner and
w. G. Curtis.
On display-Gregory Perkins, jr., ].
M Schneider, sherman Pease, Bruce
| IT Cass and F. w. Wood.
On finance-Roland T. Bishop, F. W.
King, Frank Simpson, c. c. Loomis
and H. Jevne.
Shot in Quarrel Over Shovel
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