American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-03-06
GOSPEL OF COOPERATION
PREACHED BY WOMEN
Manufacturer, Merchant and Con-
sumer the Great Triumyirate.
DAY SET APART FOR TRIAL
Women Idaho to Demonstrate
Their Buying Power During Home
Industry Week, April 14-19.

Home Industry Week, April
A to 10, is meeting with most hear
ty support both from the women and
the newspapers over the state.
Mrs. Martha Spangler, of Boise,
editor the the Idaho Club Woman,
the originator OF and leader in the
movement when asked to give some
details of the plan said
1--WE are asking the merchants in
every town in the state to put
display of home products in their
windows that week and make a
special effort to sell the articles
at that ime. We are urging ev-
cry woman's club to start the week
with some kind of home industry
affaire. We have asked every news
paper in the stat OF boost and
We hope to show the people that
Idlhao Club Women are a power
when they stand together for any
good cause-for surely loyalty to
our home merchants and manufac
turers is deserving of the greatest
praise.
We are preaching the gospel of
cooperation to the people of Idaho
the manufacturer, the merchant
and the consumer-the great trium-
virate that will make for growth
of the state if they work together.
Think what it will mean if every
woman in the state that week asks
for bar of soap made in Idaho.
If a woman goes to her home gro
Ger and asks for a bar of Idaho
soap, she is helping her own hus-
bands business. He may be
doctor, 1rayman or a dry goods
merchant he has been helped
just the same
When ten thousand women have
each purchased bar of soap, they
have created a market that is worth
noticing. Ten thousand new GUS
toners is quite a lot, and they will
buy again. The soap manufactur-
II viii find business increasing and
he will branch out. He will spend
money thus received in hiring
mole people to do more work for
him The man who enters his en-
ploy may get sick, and he calls
the doctor the husband OF the
woman who bought the bar Of soap.
His We spends part of the mans
wages with the dry goods merchant
whose wife bought bar OF soap.
The wife of the drayman gets a
new hat, because her husband had
to work overtime to haul the soap
the home merchant bought Had
those ten thousand women sent
their money to mail order house
how about the soap manufacturer,
the doctor, the drayman and the
merchant.
This system will work in every
business just as it did in the soap
manufacturer S. This ork is cumu-
lative. If we work together, pull
oogether, and apply the Golden Rule
in a practical manner, we VIII ali
benefit.
We have discovered that one rea-
son why the manufacturer is not SO
IS because the middle |
men a re not pushing the home pro-
duct as strongly as he might. There
fore it is upto the club women to |
demand the home product that Is
occupying the back shelf In so
many stores. If We cannot en-
courage our present industries by
them, we should close
our ealestate offices, for is it
right TO bring farmers into our
state and then have no market for
their product?
THE factories will be our saliva
ton. The farmer can raise the
crop. but what is the use if they
rot in the fields If we have fac
-ores for our peas and berries and
fruit and potatoes we can save
the waste. If the people of Idaho
will give better support to the
factories we already have, 1t will
not be hard to induce others to
,ome. There are plenty of East
ern people looking for investment,
jut they must meet with some en-
of practical nature
before they venture. Manufacturers
With money are loking for locations
With cheap power, end we have
IN abundance of electric power
,ere. The workingman is interested
II the welfare of his children, and
le will gladly go to cities and
owns that have good schools and