The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-03-13
GOSPEL OF
COOPERATION

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Manufacturer, Merehant and consu.
NOR the Great Triumvirate
Women Of Idaho to Demonstrate their
Buying Power During Home In.
dustry Week, April 1919.
among the women Of Idaho to havo a
Home Industry Week. April II to 10,
Is meeting with most hearty support,
both from the women and the news
papers over tho state. Mrs. Martha
Spangler, of Boise, editor Of the
Idaho Club Woman, the originator Of
and leader I'M the movement, when ask
ed to give some details Of the plan,
said:
I'VE are asking the merchants in
every town in the state to put a
display Of home products in their win
dows that week and make a special
effort to sell the articles at the
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
70 boost, and we hope to show the
people that Idaho club women are a
power when they stand together for
any good cause-for surely loyalty to
our home merchants and manufactur-
ers is deserving Of thel greatest praise.
We are preaching the gospel Of CO
operation to the people Of Idaho-the
manufacturer, the merchant and the
consumer-the great triumvirate that
will make for the growth OF the state
II they work together. Think what
it will mean If every woman in the
state that week asks fer a bar Of soap
made in Idaho. II woman goes to
her home grocer and asks for bar
Of Idaho soap she is helping her own
husbands business. He may be a
DOCTOR a drayman or a dry goods mer-
chant-he has been helped just the
same.
When ten thousand women have
each purchased a bar Of soap, they
have created a market that is worth
noticing. Ten thousand new custo-
mers is quite lot, and they will buy
again. The soap manufacturer will
find business increasing and he
will branch out. He will spend
the money thus received in
hiring more people to do more
work for him. The man who enters
his employ may get sick, and he calls
The doctcr-the husband Of the wo-
man who bought bar of soap. His
wife spends part Of that mans wages
with the dry gooda merchant, whose
wife bought q bar Of soap. The wife
of the drayman gets a new hat, be-
cause her husband had to work over
time to haul the soap the home mer.
chants bought Had those ten thou
sand women sent their money to q
mail order house, how about the soap
manufacturer, the doctor, the drayman
and the merchant.
This system will work out in every
business just as it cid in tile soap
manufacturers. This work is cumula-
tive. If We work together. pull toge-
Their and apply the Golden Rule in a
practical manner, we will all benefit.
I'VE have discovered that one rea-
SON why the manufacturer is not SO
prosperous is because the middlemen
is not pushing the home product a.
strong as lie might Therefore it il
up to the club woman to demand the
home product that is occupying the
back shelf in so many stores. If we
cannot encourage our present indus
tries by patronizing them, we should
close our real estate offices, for is II
right to bring farmers into our state
and then have no market for theil
product?
"The factories will be cur salvation
The farmer can raise the crops, bu
what is the use if they rot in the field
II we have factories for our peas an(
berries and fruit and potatoes We cal
save the waste. II the people O
Idaho will give better support to tn
factories we already have, it will no
be hard to induce others to come
There is plenty EASTERN capital look
ing for investment, but it must NEE
with some encouragement CT practica
nature before it ventures. Manufac
turers with money are locking for loca
tions with cheap power, and we hav
.. an abundance of electric power here
The workingman Is interested in tn
welfare Of his children. and he vii
gladly go to cities and towns that hav