The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-16

is our back country, which just about |
includes every community that has |
progressed far enough in civilization |
TO smoke a pipe or cigarette"
The country that supports Durham |
is the big round world. and you will |
find the sign Of the Durham brands |
OF tobacco on the Pyramids, and on !
the tundra flats of Alaska, on the road
90 Mandeiay and on the long, long
way to TiDperary. Not line Of trade
extends out in any direction from
American ports that does not carry
Durham products. l am told that in
one year one Durham concern has
spent as high as two hundred thou
sand dollars advertising Durham pro-
ducts, and from the tact that [ have
seen Durham trade marks III every
corner OF the globe that I have ever
visited l can readily believe it.
/ have no doubt that the Durham
tobacco concerns and the Standard
| Oil Company have done more to open
| the world to American manufactures
and commerce than any other half
| dozen forces. Both have been aOund
| antly damned by the restless Ameri-
| can, but let me tell you that it looks
| like meeting an old friend to see
man pull from his pocket in the eau
| casus mountains a sack of Durham
tobacco or to see a can of Standard
| Oil in Servia.
Two Great American Products.
There are those who take issue with
| the oil companies and the tobacco
| companies, and coming myself from
the Pennsylvania oil country where
everybody is either on the side Of the
| Standard or against it, thirtyfiVe
years of intimate warfare has given
me the knowledge of the great work
the Standard has accomplished in
making the name Of the United States
a familiar one around the globe.
can easily understand that the to-
bacco companies have done the same
thing. The world is their market, and
they have followed the most modern
American aggressive practices IN de-
, veloping their market from Chicago
to Candahar. and they have over
looked nothing. 1 imagine that Dur
! ham tobacco and Standard Oil are
sold in more stores the world around
, than any other American product.
Durham products are staple. Every
, body uses cotton in one form or an
. other, and a constantly increasing
: number Of people use tobacco.
, | tramp working his way across th
|, country had fifteen cents as his capi
: : tai. OF that sum five cents went fo
: | toba eco and ten cents for sandwiches
. War cuts down the amount OF Whea
flour served to the people. and re
quires the German population t
:, make it's bread of potatoes and Othe
= things in the wheat mixture But n
~ country has undertaken to mix any
= thing but tobacco with the soldier
" smoke. I do not try to explain tn
desire for tobacco. 1 simply see tina
- it is persistent one, and one that tn
countries now at war recognize an
. meet Tobacco is a staple.
, A Town With q Universal Market.
n And there is the story of this re
!" markable town 1t makes its stu
) from the ground to the pacl<in
% case. 1t is unique there. 1t has tn
,r world for what the Chicago man cal
it's back country, or for it's supportin
20 market. 1t is unique there. The CHI
\, cago packing house has no such un
N yersal market The Kansas whes
40 farm has no such universal marke
of The United States Steel Corporate
6 has no such universal market. Notl
n ing has. Durham's products al
o. staple. When people quit buying CO
TO ton products and tobacco products
is likely they will have quit buyir
N. coffins, which is the last thing al
III | Of us use And there Durham's pos
o. ton is unique. And being unique
he lthree separate ways makes it uniq,
n in it's breadth Of it's unusual adval
or tages.
ID. Durham is to me one Of the most i
a teresting towns I ever struck. Son
,s of the people will tell you it is n
ell going to be very big town. Son
will tell you it is. l am with t
zee isers l can not see how in the WOr
as Durham can be anything but b
n and prosperous city and that rig
it speedily, for the conditions that ha