Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 49, 1905

with representative of local manu-
facturer, who assured me the brand
asked for, though not his, was MADE IN
Los Angeles, and then proceeded 10
put me wise on soap.
HE showed me in the way or toilet
soaps a delicately scented article
named after one of our parks-the
finest they turn out-a number or
wrapped goods of pronounced quality
and style-on down in price to q cake
made from strictly California olive OIL.
smooth and soft in use, which can ana
should be retailed at cents per CAKE
And every one of the many samples
had a pretty California name. Con-
sidering that the quality, style ana
names appeal to the distant consumer
l wonder why our Los Angeles women
do not compel this concern to enlarge
the factory.
"Then come the bath soap of cocoanut
oil and California borax, the laundry
either white floating or yellow. Time
the washing powder. My friend says:
This contains more fatty acid (the
washing element of the powder) than
any other; but you know everybody
is hollering their heads Off for Cold
Dust because they see two little Mig
gers on the package padding In
bathtub or doing some other stunt,
have Gold Dust. She is just sending so
much money out of Los Angeles ana
hurting home industry
II am not in the soap business, but
it is something every one uses every
day, and besides 1t is easy to figure.
According to statistice the average
family numbers five persons. We nave,
then, in Los Angeles, say, 5O,OOO faml-
lies, each of which will use per month,
our
kitchen soap, four bars washing soap,
half package washing powder aggre-
eating 100000 cakes toilet soap at, say,
71a cents, $500; 100000 bars laundry
soap at cents, $4,000; 100000 bars
kitchen soap at cents. $4,000; zo,0Oo
packages washing powder at 2O cents,
$5000 Total per month, 1925 Total
per year, $390,000.
LET us suppose 20 per cent or TINS is
profit to the dealer and which In any
case would benefit Los Angeles. there
still remains $312,000 to be kissed good
by every year by our community on
this one article alone unless you buy
the home product. Just think what IT
means if such an amount can be Kept
in circulation here!
"And now, the household being
cleansed to perfection, the doctors
wife probably adorns herself for a
trip downtown, but little does she
think that her beautiful ostrich plume
is the product of home growth and in
dustry, which now employs about a
hundred people, mostly women, ana
distributes from perhaps the largest
retail ostrich plume business in the
world. Separate mention of each OF
the Los Angeles manufactures would
be impracticable, as there are more
than one thousand of them, but the
references made may be opportune be-
cause several of the employees are
patients of Dr. Quinine and dozen of
them paid Lawyer Subpoena good
fee organizing an oil company for
them and then number OF them pullt
cottages last winter and the architect
was enabled to buy his wife that long
delayed silk dress from the Boston
store, where his wife's brother has
worked for several years.
"a few of Mr.. Rivets men also built
cottages last winter and some of the
fittings were specially nice. ] heard 1t
rumored the plumber bought them
from a wholesale house which, dur
ing the recent times of stringency.
did not lay off an employe nor fail to
meet a bill when due. 1 understand
the head of the house takes pride in the
fact that his wife is a member of the
Friday morning club.
but back again to ostrich plumes.
I wish every plume could have en-
crossed on its flowing curves the
words Made in Los Angeles and thus
remind the wearer that, If the scores
of less costly articles of daily wear
and use are demanded and insisted
upon bearing a similar legend, there
are other worthy women whose hus-
bands or fathers could then afford to
adorn them with like trimmings.
"Our great wheat crops sails over the
briny deep and provides the bread
and dainties for the tables of King
Edward and the kaiser, and yet there
are still some of the Los Angeles
women insisting on Kansas City or
Nebraska or some other flour at 81 per
barrel more than our own. Flour made
in Los Angeles in 1907 aggregated
about 300, 900 barrels, worth over S2.000,-
900. Los Angeles used somewhere about
300, 900 barrels. How is it that one-half
of this local product, instead of the
mere surplus, was compelled to hunt
an outside market? Simply because
our bread makers have not learned
that their own locality furnishes both
the wheat and the machinery and the
brains and that the Los Angeles mills
place at their disposal the equal of any
flour made.
"Spend as much time only as it takes
to pull on your opera gloves in learn
ing how to handle your home flour and
your home made bread will be the best
ever.
eff you will drink beer which do not
advocate, do not feel it necessary to
have the California barley sent to
Milwaukee or St Louis to be hauled
back here to drink. you paying the
freight both ways. It is losing propo-
siton.
Now, everything made here is not yet
the best, but quality will respond
quickly to the demand for same by
the consumer Demand the home made
article and insist on it's being of good
quality. If not right. complain to the
dealer, who In turn will pass it up
to the manufacturer, and he will make
good to the customer that time and
make the article good the next time
if he has good sense. If no complaint
is made your manufacturer, not being
a mind reader, suffers for fault
which may have been caused by fall
ure of some machine or operator to do
good work that particular minute and
which fault is only disclosed after
marketing.
"You owe duty in this respect to the
manufacturer who plants his money
here, becomes your neighbor, helps
boost our city and is always at hand to
adjust troubles and complaints.
"Since my engagement with the Fri
day Morning club I have talked with
manufacturers wholesalers and retail