New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-09-28
UNCLE SAM KNOCKS AT THE
DOOR.


door. seems to us to be pounding
thunderously right now at tai
door. or doors Of the producer!
of syrup and molasses in Loulsi
ana.
The particular form in which
the summons comes is that the
Federal Government, speaking
through the Food Administration.
has offered to splash the United
States with color, from Maine to
California, directing, urging and
recommending to the more than
one hundred million people resld-
ing therein that they use Louisl-
ana syrup and molasses. Moth
ing more completely desirable
than this has ever been left on
Louisiana doorstep.
Speaking within our own ex-
perience as publishers Of sugar
journal that penetrates into a
great many parts of our country
where the interest in syrup and
molasses is general rather than
specific, we can vouch for the
statement that letters come to US
at frequent intervals asking
where. and how. good and pure
Louisiana syrup or Louisiana mo-
lasses can be obtained. The writ
ers of these letters, scattered
throughout many states, uncon-
sciously censured our producers
of Louisiana syrup and molasses
for lack of enterprise and Tor
committing the blunder Of hiding
their bright light under bushel.
So frequent have these letters
been at times that we have been
tempted, as a piece of personal
and Individual enterprise to buy
a page in some periodical having
a million subscribers and tell ev-
erybody just how good Louisiana
syrup and molasses really is, how
wholesome it is, how translucent
ly it's amber drops descend upon
the breakfast cakes, and how al
together it stands beyond COM
pare, \
Now comes the Government OF
The United States-the same Gov
eminent that has within the past
Twelve months made silk purse
put Of many sow's ear. and per-
formed successful major opera
lions on the halt and the lame
md the blind, industrially speak
ing, and agrees that if the pro-
ducers of Louisiana syrup and
molasses will but furnish the
posters in blue and scarlet, green
and gold, or any other colors
picked from the spectrum that
hey like, they will undertake the
of them into every
nook and corner Of all the states
This distribution Of attractive
printed matter relative to Louisi-
ina products, if undertaken by
private initiative, would credibly
cost something like half a million
dollars, and the United States is
offering to do it free, because it |
wants the people Of the country |
% use the syrup and molasses
produced in this state.
The Government asks the syrup |
md molasses producers to fur
lish the posters. A committee is
at work on the designs
md they have a dozen or more
II these designs already before
hem for consideration, drawn by
vewcomb girls and others. Mr..
D. w. Pipes. Jr., is chairman OF
he committee and his Office is in
a Building. New Or
cans. Mr.. Pipes and his COM
nittee, composed of A. I. Picard,
A. Fl. Gay, G. d. Kemper and
frank Barker, will in a few days
lsk for the money to pay for the
designing and printing of the
rosters. and it ought to be forth
coming with q rush.
If the households Of the Uni!
ed States call for Louisiana syrup
ind molasses. and this Govern
nent-inspired campaign is calcu-
ated to make them do it, it will
men up a brilliant future and in
'es.ructible prospects for Louisi-
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