Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-01-19
AN EYE-OPENER.

Some hundred and twenty-fv editors OF TINS
state representing every section of it, were treat
cd to an eye-opener at the newspaper institute
banouet at the University of Washington last
Friday night--an eye-opener OF new klnd' d
revelation as to what their own state manufac'
lures in the line of food and other products for
the home In the treasure bag distributed to
each editor that evening was everything from
shoe-blacking to single, with fapjack flour and
spaghetti and jelly and substitute for eggs ana
many similar things filling up the interval
The banquet that preceded the presentation was
almost wholly from Washington products, only
one or two things, among them sugar, not beng
produced in this state-and Washington Will be
producing sugar before the end of the year Both
the Washington made banquet and the treasure
bag" were new stunts and they constituted most
effective preachment of the fact that the people OF
Washington can, if they but would, buy every
thing they need for their table and surprising
number of other articles that make for home COM
fort from the manufacturers OF their own state.
This week the message is going out from these
editors to their readers all over the state-the
message that, if realized and acted upon, would
give the greatest impetus imaginable to our own
industries. And for many weeks to come the mes
sage will be carried forward for the editors OF
this state are of one mind in the determination
henceforth to exert every effort in the legitimate
promotion Of Washington's manufactures.
Washington.made food products have to COM
pete of course with the output of all the big East
ern concerns Firmly established as these firms
are in that great expanse of the Middle West and
East, the competition confronted by the Washing
ton industry is severe the struggle for successful
marketing Of its products is mighty arduous. But
many are forging ahead and greater strides still
viii be made when Washington jobbers and re-
tailers Join with its manufacturers in pushing
these mefitorious home products, and the con-
sumner is brought to the realization that they are
what he should buy.
The greatest handicap of the Washington manu-
facturer now is that, though perhaps the pubic
should, it does not know sufficiently well yet just
what he does produce. But the hundred and
twenty-five editors Of the state who attended that
banquet do know, for in those treasure bags
furnished by the Fisher FIGURING Mills company,
were applestaH from the Heinrich Bros Brewing
CO. aprons from the Williams Garment Co., Black
Diamond briquets from the Pacific Coast Coal Co.,
ssf3ig' cake made by the Northern Pacific Railway
Co. commissary department, perpetual calendars
from the Imperial Paper Box Co., marshmallows
from the Imperial Candy Co., Crescent Cream cot
Zee from the Crescent Manufacturing Co., Every
bpdy's crackers from the Tacoma Biscuit and
Candy Co., Egis from the Egis Co., Fapjack -four,
from Albers Bros. Milling Co., Fisher Blend -four
from Fisher FIGURING Mills Co., hats from J. T.
Hardeman Hat Co.. jelly from Pride Bros Co., Bel
bingham; Washington macaroni made by A. F.
Gigliope & Sons Co., maps from the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway, olive oil from the John
vittuci Co, Black Bear overalls from Black Man
ufacturing Co., scribbler's paste made by Serb
bler's Ink Paste Co., peanuts packed by Nut
House Co. Inc. pencils and calendars made by H.
g. Brace Co., pencil clips from the Superior
Portland Cement Co., receipt book and pencil,
Carnation Milk Products Co.. candy potatoes,
Northern Pacific Railway Co. dining car depart
Ment Negoln shoe backing and polishers, West
Coast Chemical Co.; salmon, Carlisle Packing Co.,
Bellingham; Ritegrade shingles West Coast Lum-
Sermen's Association; liquid SOAP Tacoma Soap
Co.; souvenir booklet of Seattle, New Washington
Hotel; stamp cases. Northern Life Insurance Co.;
Docs Dippy Duck toys, Rhodes Dickson; wash
rags, Saxony Knit Co.
Take the editors word for it--they're all good.
and if you re skeptcal, try them and for your
self
WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION