Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-08
THE GOSPEL OF
COOPERATION
Merchants In Every Town Asked tc
Put Home Products on
Display


10, is meeting with most hearty
support, both from the women and tnt
newspapers over the state. Mrs
Martha Spangler, of Boise, editor oi
the Idaho Club Woman, the origin.
ator OF and leader in the movement
when asked to give some details Of
the plan, said:
I'VE are asking the merchants In
every town In the stats to put a dis
play Of home products In their win
dows that week and make special
effort to sell the articles at that
time. We are urging every woman s
club to start the week with some
kind OF home industry affair. We
have asked every newspaper in the
state to boost, and we hope to show
the people that Idaho club women are
a power when they stand together fol
any good cause-for surely loyalty
to our home merchants and manu-
facturers Is deserving OF the greatest
praise.
We are preaching the gospel of CO.
operation to the people Of Idaho-the
manufacturer, the merchant and the
consumer great triumvirate that
will make for the 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 woman
goes to her home grocer and asks
for a bar of Idaho soap she is help
ing her own husbands business. He
may be a doctor, a drayman or 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 custo-
mers is quite q lot, and they will buy
again. The soap manufacturer will
find business increasing and he will
branch out He will spend the mon
ey thus received in hiring more peo-
pie to do more work for him. The
man who enters his employ may 6,
sick, and he calls the doctor-the
husband of the woman who bought a
bar of soap. His wife spends part OF
that mans wages with the drygoods
whose wife bought bar
Of soap. The wife of the drayman
gets new hat, because her husband
had to work overtime to haul the
soap the home mrechant bought. Had
hose ten thousand women sent their
money to a mail order house, how
about the soap manufacturer, the
ioctor. the drayman and the mer-
chant!
This system will work out in ev-
sry business just as it did in the
soap manufacturers This work is
II we work together,
pull together and apply the Golden
Rule in a pratical manner, we will
LII benefit.
1--WE have discovered that one rea-
son why the manufacturer is not go
is because the middle
men are not pushing the home pro-
iuct as strong as he might. There
'ore it is up to the club women to
demand the home product that is
the back shelf in SO many
stores. II we cannot encourage our
present industries by patronizing
them, we should close our real es.
tate offices, for is 1t right to bring
farmers into our state and then have
no market for their product?
1.-THE factories. will be our saliva
lion. The farmer can raise the
crops, but what is the use II they
rot in the fields. If we have fac
tories 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 win not be hard
10 induce others to come. There is
plenty OF Eastern capital looking for
but 1t must meet with
some encouragement of a practical
nature before 1t ventures. Manu-
iacturers with money are looking
Tor locations with cheap power, and
we have an abundance OF electric
power here. The workingman is in
terested in the welfare of his chill
iren and he will gladly go to cities
and towns that have good schools
and parks. #s
1T is through the loyalty Of the
club women and the aid OF the press
of the state that we hope to accom-