Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-11-01
HOME INDUSTRIES
DAY NOVEMBER 21ST.

PORTLAND, Ore. Oct 26.-
Thursday, November 2lst, will be
known in Oregon as Home Industries
day by proclamation Of Governor
West and Mayor Rushlight and other
mayors of cities and commercial bod
les. On that day the first conyen-
tion of manufacturers from all over
the state will be held in this city,
concluding in the evening with a
grand banquet given the guests of
the city by the Manufacturers asso-
citation OF this city. That organiza-
tion will expend a thousand dollars
entertaining their guests from all
over Oregon in royal style.
The local committee consists of T.
D. Mann of the Pacific Stoneware
company, Arthur II. Deyers OF Clos
set & Devers, o. +. Heintz of the Pa
cihc Iron Works, A. NJ. Haradon of
Haradon and Son, W. F. Scott of the
Dayls-Scott Betting Co., with Col. d.
NJ. Dunno, chairman of the executive
committee master of ceremonies at
the banquet hall, ensuring a grand
entertainment
One thousand invitations have
been sent out to the manufacturers
all over the state, and with a thous-
and more factories at Portland,
great and small, here is material for
a rouslng big meet of the men who
employ thirty thousand operatives
and produce an annual product of
two hundred millions of dollars.
The program will include an ad-
dress by Governor West on the i'm
portance of the home industries, and
a response by Mayor Rushlight who
himself is a manufactures according
to the terms of the United States CEN
sus which includes plumbing estab-
lishments as factories. There will
be addresses by big men on trans
portation, power, labor and subsidy
problems
This great convention and the
campaign back Of 1t will undertake
to reach all the people in the state
on one day with strong plea for
for the Oregon industries
and to make Oregon a greater aad
stronger state industrially School
children will be given talks by the
teachers on the home industries;
commercial clubs and merchants or
ganizations will be asked to consider
how to enlarge the market for home
products; big land owners will be
asked to consider the advisability of
sites for industries and en-
hancing the value of their holdings
by securing payrolls for home build
ers.
The manufacturers association
have secured the assistance of Col
+. Hofer, president of the State
Press association in the handling of
their publicity work. A committee
has been appointed to raise a s25.-
600 publicity fund to advertise the
products of the Oregon factories, and
with an organization to be known as
the Woman's Home Industries league
reach every home for extension of
the consumption of made in Oregon
products.
There was never a greater move
ment for the upbuilding of the state
than this one for the extension Of the
The energies OF the
state have gone largely into boosting
land values and farm and orchard
products, and the time has come for
a concerted movement to place the
factory along side of the farm and
fruit tract. The manufacturers as
sociation proposes to work hand in
hand with the state deyelODment
league, the chamber of commerce
and all the live organizations in Ore
gon. The work is to be carried on
broad lines for the development OF
every industrial center in Oregon
and to plant industries wherever the
community wants one and will offer
the proper encouragement.
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