The daily sentinel., 1914-05-30
Clenwood Post
Lauds Campaign
For Home Goods

IL wayered in his loyalty to west
eru Colorado and whose paper has
bqan telling force in the advance
menr Of Grand junction as much as
his own city. has the following 10
saw about the home products cam
uaign in this city. A. a view of the
man on the outside the editorial from
the Post should prove to be food for
thought for local retailers and con
sumers.
Grand junction newspapers have
inaugurated "a movement and have
undertaken to work up sentiment
in favor of the use of home manu-
featured products. The idea is
good one and the movement will
work to the benefit of the entire
community So long as there is in
the community a flour mill that
turns out such a splendid product as
the Mesaflour which their local mill
puts out and so long as such excel
lent butter is manufactured from To-
cal cream as that put on the market
by the Jensen creamery and so long
as the Currie Canning Company buys
the tomatoes, peas. beans and corn
of local growers and turns these
products into the finest of canned
goods, thus rendering market for
products that otherwise go begging.
so long as these conditions obtain
there should be but very little canned
goods or butter or flour shipped in
from outside points
Those local manufacturers are
creating and maintaining a market
for local products and they should be
encouraged in their laudable efforts.
They are creating prosperity and
should have the thanks of the people
who are benefited by their opera
tons. You would naturally think
such a statement superfluous. Natur-
ally you would suppose that the peo-
pie OF that community were glad to
purchase the home products and that
tEe mercants We're pleased to encour-
age and advise them to do so, but,
strange as II may appear. when the
newspapers, who are always the
leaders In good works II given half
show, started their home products
campaign they found the grocery
shelves filled with canned goods put
up IN other states while creamery
butter made in Denver, Nebraska and
utah was recommended to consumers
ana Denver and Longmont flour was
recommended in preference to a bet.
Ter article made right at home out
OF homegrown wheat.
you can scarcely believe that a
people could be so thoughtless or SO
alsIoyaI to the needs of their neigh
oors ana the community. But the
auo'e are conditions which the news
papers discovered. And now all is
changed. Since the matter has been
called to the attention of the mer.
Vuahts and their customers. the latter
Sle demanding and the former are or
products.
Wonder if the people of that COM
huhlty, manufacturers, growers and
consumers, realize how much this
WIN add to the prosperity of the
,oulihunlty in the short space of one
year and we wonder further if all
cue people realize how much of
ueot OF gratitude they owe to their
He%spapers for setting them right
we are none of us such very bad
people. At all events there are
lot oi mighty fine people in this
unity, but some of us need to
"''e our mistakes pointed out to us
OCCASIONALLY, and no force in the
community is as well qualified to do
nat very thing as is the local news
paPer We look for great additions
TO the prosperity of Grand Junction
,nu mesa county as a result of this
In ppnortune newspaper campaign
III oehalt of home products.