Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06
BOISE MADE-eooDs FOR BOISE.
Local Consumers Must Demand Home
Products To Make City Greater.
(By Lawrence o. Nichols.)

Cooperation is the word that spells
success for a bigger and better Boise.
There are many people with perfectly
respectable educations who pronounce
cooperation as Corporation
Dictionarily and therefore customar-
lily speaking, o-operation means: The
act of working together; joint opera
ton; the association of a number of
persons for the purchasing of goods, or
for carrying on some branch of indus
try The Boise public market is a
striking example of beneficial co-opera-
ton.
Corporation signifies: "A body or
society authorized by law to act as one
individual"
individuals Must Cooperate.
The city of Boise is corporation
authorized by law to act as one in
dividual." Morally, we fail to use the
authority vested in us by law. Ample
cooperation Is lacking; therefore, we
fail to morally merit the name corpor-
alton. Technically, we are entitled to
the cognomen because Boise has taken
the necessary steps at law to become
and now is lawfully designated as
corporate city. But, we say again, in
moral sense, the appelation is mis-
homer unless there is full cooperation
on the part of every individual citizen
for bigger and better city.
Now ere we PROFOUND our resolutions
on How to Make 1916 a Prosperous
Year" in Boise, let us see our individ-
ual shortcomings; let each and every
unit of this biggest little city in the
west realize just what is needed to be
eliminated and what Is needed to be ac-
CURED, for the process Of elimination is
fully as important as the process OF
acquisition in making good resolutions
perhaps more so, If our resolutions
are to come true" Good habits can
not be acquired without first eliminat-
ing bad ones. Publication cannot oc-
cur until putrefaction is banished. The
state of Idaho could not become dry"
until the late lamented CO "wetness'
ceased.
Glaring Defects.
Undoubtedly the most glaring defect
in our local plan Of cooperation is lack
of patronage of home industry. This is
strong statement, but it is neverthe-
less true. Furthermore, it is a fact
that is recognized by nearly every
business man and every citizen of our
fair city. We do not exclusively and
Loyalty patronize the few local manu-
featuring establishments we now pos
sess. How, in the name OF common
sense. can we expect to acquire more :?
We are not thoroughly loyal to home
enterprise. Why should local enter
prise increase and prosper?
Ciaar Eactorias Rio L. u.4rU
There exist in Boise three cigar fac
t tories manufacturing "a different
brands of cigars, embracing a selection
of blends and prices to suit the require
merts of almost every individual de-
voice of the weed. Yet there are hun
dreds of smokers who never buy a
home made cigar. And yet again there
are many retail stores dealing in cigars
which do not carry full line of these
home products-many, in fact, which
do not carry in stock a single home
made cigar. The aggregate approx
mate sales of cigars alone in Boise dur
ing 1915 amounted to not less than
$165,000, not including small cigars tax
ed at 10 cents per thousand. OF this
aggregate, $4,000 represents in round
numbers the amount of money spent
for home made cigars, as CLEANED by
the writer from all local cigar factories.
These ngures are very conservative,
many cigar men estimating $250, 000-a
quarter of million dollars-as nearer
the amount Of money spent in Boise for
cigars during the past year.
Eleven tweIfths Imported.
However basing our estimate upon
$4,000 yearly total sales, compared
with $4,000 yearly sales of home made
cigars this means that eleven twelfths
of all cigars consumed by Boise smok-
ers are imported. Think Of it! One
man out of n dozen buys the home pro-
duct; or every smoker buys IL import
ed cigars to every one home made
cigar. We cite this industry as the OBJ
ject of one particular instance of non
loyalty on the part of local citizens and
business men for the reason that sta
tistics concerning same are easily OBJ
tainable by anyone who cares TO i'll
vestigate.
Secure Printing Out of Town.
Now let us see what condition exists
in the printing industry, n line of BUSH
ness with which the writer is more IA
miliar, but wherein we cannot obtain
accurate figures concerning the actual
amount of printed matter obtained out
of town. There are eight reputable
printing houses in Boise, several of
which are classed among the most
thoroughly equipped plants for city
of this size in the United States. There
is no need for any citizen of Boise to
send out OF town any order for printing.
There is scarcely anything in the line
of printing or advertising matter that
cannot be produced as efficiently, as
cheaply and thoroughly as effectively
or we'll right in Boise as in any town
or city in the country. And yet there
are banks, laundries, department stores.
wholesale houses and alleged bust
ness establishments and business"
men galore who are yearly sending out
of town for thousands of dollars worth
of printed matter Any printer in
Boise will corroborate this statement,