Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-20
A "MADE IN OREGON" DAY.

EOR the purpose Of stimulating
home industries, Of creating a de-
mand for Made in Oregon prod
ucts, for making Oregon people ac-
Uuainted with the things Oregon peo-
pie make, and making our great state
as far as possible a self-supporting
state, Governor West has issued q
proclamation setting aside Thursday
November 2lst as "Home Industries
Day"
The governor advances some very
practical Ideas, too, for he suggests
that on that day men and women in
doing their shopping insist upon Ore
Pon made goods, Oregon grown prod.
ucts, and take no other.
He suggests that manufacturers on
that day, close down for an hour or
two and have q heart-tO-heart talk
with their employees, and impress upon
them the importance Of the movement
1tat they also set the example by
using, where possible, Oregon mad0
machinery in their factories.
It Is further suggested that the mat
ter be discussed in the public schools
and the idea impressed on the minds
Of the young that the way to build up
our state Is TO build up It's industries,
increase It's business multiply It's fac
tories, and so furnish employment for
all.
Oregon IS in many respects un.
CQualed by any state in the Union, and
especially Is this true Of those prod.
ucts that require factories to put them
in shape for use. For instance Ore
gen Is one Of the great wool-produc-
ing states, yet only q very trining
portion Of this wool Is turned into the
manufactured product within It's bord-
ers, Tralnload after trainload is ship
ped to the factories Of the east with
out even being washed or secured, and
eastern factories and eastern labor
clean and spin, dye and weave It into
cloth, and eastern firms and eastern
labor send us our new material their
finished product, increased In price n
dozen or twenty times. It is the same
with fax, and there are innumerable
other things that we ship away, and
have shipped back to us increased
many times in price and eastern cap
ital and eastern labor has added these
values, which we must pay to get our
own products back again for our own
use
Fortunately one OF our greatest pro-
ducts is OF such a nature that the la
Dor upon It has largely to be done at
home That Is our vast timber wealth.
We can't well send the logs away to
be sawed into lumber, probably IL we
could we would, and this source of
wealth alone is incalculable. and II
needs no watching for It cannot get
away.
But II is different with hundreds Of
other things, and It is these we should
assist In having made in Oregon, The
state has a wealth Of natural products
for which factories are necessary to
prepare them for our use. The state
has also the grandcst, most magnih-
cent water power in the world--a con-
8eryatiye estimate would place Il
above 100000 horsepowor-aud this
is now going To waste for lack Of fac
tories to use Il.
We have the products in unlimited
quantity q water power mmeasura-
Bile aud what we want TO do is to get
one turned loosc at the other, with
thousands Of busy hands guiding and
directing the work and thus utilizing
the great gifts u generous soil mild
climate and a grcat-heartcd Mother
Nature has given us.
Instead Of sending away the raw
material and paying others for perfect
ing IL for us, we want to get the habit
OF sending away the finished product.
That has given employment to our own
poep'o and added thousands Of happy
homes 10 our great commonwealth;
and instead Of sending our money east
have the financial stream with its