Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
MADE In OREGON DAY
Home Industries Day in Oregon TO
BE Thursday, November 21, by
Vests Proclamation.

Thursday. November 81, will be
known in Oregon as Home Industries
Day by proclamation of Governor
West and Mayor Rushlight and other
mayors of cities and commercial
bodies. On that day the first con-
vention 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 Portland. That organiza-
tion will expend a thousand dollars
entertaining their guests from all
over Oregon in royal style.
The local committee consists of T.
j. Mann of the Pacific Stoneware
Company, Arthur H. Devers of Clos
set & Devers, o. E. Heintz of the
Pacific Iron Works, A. M. Haradon
& Son, w. F. Scott of the Davis-Scott
Betting Company, with Colonel d. NJ.
Dunno, chairman of the executive
committee, master of ceremonies at
the banquet hall, insuring a grand
! entertainment.
One thousand invitations have
been sent out to the manufacturers
all over the state, and with a thou
sand more factories at Portland,
| great and small, here is material for
rousing big meet of the men who
employ 10000 operatives and pro-
duce an annual product of two hun
dred 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 manufacturer, accord
| ing to the terms of the United States
census, which includes plumbing es-
adjustments as factories. There
will be addresses by big men or
transportation, power, labor and sub.
sidy problems.
This great convention and the
campaign back of it will undertake
to reach all the people in the state or
one day with strong plea for sup
port for the Oregon industries anG
to make Oregon a greater and strong
! Or state induct ri aI1y CohooI oh;I
dren will be given talks by the teach
ers on the home industries, CONNER,
cial clubs and merchants organiza
tions will be asked to consider how
to enlarge the market for home prod
ucts, big land owners will be asked t.
consider the advisability of offering
sites for industries and enhancing tn,
value of their holdings by securing
J payrolls for home builders.
The Manufacturers Association
has secured the assistance of Colone
, E. Hofer, president of the State Pres
l Association, in the handling of thei
publicity work. A committee ha
= been appointed to raise a $25,0
: publicity fund to advertise the proc
: ucts of the Oregon factories, an
: with an organization to be know
! as the Womans Home IndustriC
f League reach every home for extel
: sion of the consumption of made
/. Oregon products.
There was never a greater NOV
il ment started for the upbuilding
the state than this one for the e,
q tension of the industries. The enc
= gies of the state have gone largei
! into boosting land values and far
n and orchard products, and the tim
has come for concerted movemer
4 to place the factory along side of tn
farm and fruit tract. The Manufa,
turers' Association proposes to wor
; hand in hand with the State DeveloI
o ment League, the Chamber of Con
n merce and all the live organization
= in Oregon. The work is to be carrie
on broad lines for the developmer
= of every industrial center in Orego
and to plant industries wherever tn
o community wants one and will offe
the proper encouragement.
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