Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-21
Nearly 50 Women Enroll, and Campaign Planned to
 Enlist All in Organization.
SUCCESS MEANS
 PROFIT FOR ALL
Ladies Propose to Effect Reduction iil
 Prices Through Cooperation with
 Merchants, Reducing Costs and Gaining Better Prices.

Half hundred Pine Bluff house. wives gathered in the assembly hall ;of the chamber of commerce yester- day afternoon at o'clock, in response to call for meeting for the purpose ,of organizing housewives league, to combat the present day high cost of living.
 The meeting was called to order by Mrs. A. w. Troupe, who acted as tenn porary chairman K. B. Bloom, sec reetary of the chamber of commerce, was asked to address the meeting and his remarks were most encouraging and of much interest.
 Mir. Bloom spoke in part as follows: r."In welcoming you to the use of the assembly room of the chamber of commerce, 1 want to congratulate you on the contemplated organization of your league. 1 have read, with inter- est, great many articles published in a great many metropolitan papers, showing the formation and progress of your league, and it's wonderful ac- complishments.
 Not only has it been the means of saving to housewives from twenty to thirty-three and one-third per cent, in their expense account, but it has done wonders in teaching many inex- perienced housewives the art Of sys- tematcally managing household af- fairs.
 "I hope that you will organize your league and that you will make a sin cere effort to get every housewife, in this city, rich or poor, to become an active and instructive member of it; that you will hold your regular meet ings, which will be largely attended, and where ideas and experiences will be exchanged, from which we can all learn the good lesson.
 PatrOniZe Home Industry.
 'I want to call your attention and ask your sincere and earnest consld- eration of few things that go hand in-hand with your organization. Main ly, that in purchasing articles for the home, you insist that, where such article is made in Pine Bluff, that your dealer furnish you the Pine Bluff mare article.' For instance, and as an example, our canning clubs throughout the county, have had, and VIII nave IulS ldll, lldLy liiouoNiu cans of home canned vegetables and fruits. More than 33,O00 pounds o1 these articles were sold here last year. and they gave as good satisfac- ton as those articles, of like kind, can ned in other states.
 The canning of such articles has assumed proportion that will, we be lleve, possibly this summer, result in the opening and operating of the can nlng factory The opening of the can, nlng factory, with it's capacity of 1O,- Ooo cans a day, would necessarily re- suit in the reopening or re-establish' Ing of box factory and package fac tory by one of our woodworking plants, furnishing, perhaps. 1,QO( D1xes week, and giving employmen1 10 dozen or more families"
 MT. Bloom mentioned the, recent es tanllshment of broom factory legt oy Eaton & Pearson, who are turnins out ten dozen ;brooms each day, ant stated that if the housewives will in slst Tn buying these home made prooms the output of the factory vii ne increased, end the manufacture 0 the handles will mean more work fol