The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-14
ORIENTAL OILS
-.ative Calvin Asks Southern
to Buy Only Cooking Fats Made
--a American Oils.

Washington, d. C., March 90, 1919.
Editor Cotton Oil Press:
Dear Sir:-The government of the United
| States has an iron-clad law that keeps the ORR
entail laboring man out of this country. He is
excluded for one big, principal reason; after
which trail a lot of little reasons.
The big reason is that he will work so cheaply
that good American labor cannot compete with
him. The importation of Oriental labor would
undermine our industrial life; American labor
would go hungry.
Hundreds of government agents patrol the
Pacific coast night and day to prevent Oriental
iab0rers from entering this country.
Why does the Southern housewife take the
products Of cheap Oriental coolie labor into her
kitchen and exclude an all-American product that
is trying to lift the great South to a higher plane
of prosperity?
At the outbreak of the war the Government
stabilized the products of oil mills in the South
and put an embargo on exports. In furtherance
Of Mr.. HOover's plans to pile up a surplus of food
fats in this country the gates were opened wide
to imports. At that moment tankers plowed their
way across the Pacific and flooded America with
cheap Oriental vegetable oil; oil produced by
penny-a-day labor in the Orient from Oriental
cottonseed, peanuts and soy beans.
The Southern vegetable oil miller is now hav-
ing some difficulty in selling his all-American oil,
made from American grown cottonseed or pea
auts, because the market is filled to the brim with
oil from the Orient.
The Southern planter goes home after a hard
lays work and probably tells his Southern house.
wife of his troubles. He doubtless explains that
he cannot sell seed because the oil miller, in turn,
cannot sell the oil in the face of unfair competition
with cheap Oriental oil; he observes that some
thing will have to be done about it.
And at the dinner table that evening his South
,rn housewife serves good food prepared with
cooking fats, a principal ingredient of which may
oe cheap Oriental vegetable oil.
1t is within the power of the Southern house
wife to help the South by the use of the South's
ownu nequaled products.
B. COttOnSee0 and Doan11t oils tho c1oopoo+
best and most economical cooking fats in the
world. Scientific facts prove this. The differ
ence to the South comes in a label on the container.
When the Southern housewife orders from the
local store she undoubtedly says:
Send me a can of shortening" or lard COM
pound, perhaps designating it by it's trade name.
When that can of lard substitute or cooking
at, reaches her kitchen she should be able to say
definitely:
"That cooking fat was made in America from
southern cottOnseed or peanut oil, and there is
not a drop of Oriental oil in the can.
Then she will be in better shape to sympathize|
with her husband, who just complains that the
heap Oriental oil is preventing him from selling
his seed to the mill because the miller cannot sell
lis oil to the refiner and lard substitute manu-
How are you going to tell that no ORR
oil is contained in the lard compound you
BY insisting that the manufacturer so state on
his label!
And if the label is not right the food and drug
aw will apply to that manufacturer.
Let the Southern housewife, from this mo-
ment on, demand of her grocer that he guarantee
that none but alLAmerican vegetable oil is con-
aimed in the cooking fat she buys.
Then, in a day not far distant, cottonseed oil
he greatest food product of the South, will not
begging against the product of coolie labor.
E. A. CALVIN,
Washington Representative Cotton States
Official Advisory Marketing Board.