The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-19

Farmers Representative Calvin Asks Southern
Housewives to Buy Only Cooking Fats Made
From American Oils.
Washington, D. C., March 20, 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
aborers 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 Scuth to a higher plane
# 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
IF MIR. Hoovers plans to pile up a surplus of food
Eats 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
s,enny-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
nuts, because the market is filled to the Drlm with
oil from the Orient.
The Southern planter goes home after a hard
days work and probably tells his Southern house
wife of his troubles. He doubtless explains that
ne 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
ern housewife serves good food prepared with
cooking fats, a principal ingredient of which may
he choan Oriental vQUot9h1n oil &
It is within the power of the Southern house
wife to help the South by the use of the South's
own unequaled products.
Cottonseed and peanut oils are the cleanest,
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 lar 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
aot 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
cheap Oriental oil is preventing him from selling
lis seed to the mill because the miller cannot sell
his oil to the refiner and lard substitute manu-
~facturer.
How are you going to tell that no ORR
buy?
BY insisting that the manufacturer so state on
his label!
And if the label is not right the food and drug
law will apply to that manufacturer.
Let the Southern housewife, from this mo-
ment on, demand of her grocer that he guarantee
that none but all-American vegetable oil is con-
tanned in the cooking fat she buys.
Then, in a day not far distant, cottonseed oil,
the greatest food product of the South, will not
go begging against the product of coolie labor.
E. A. CALVIN,
Washington Representative Cotton States
Official Advisory Marketing Board.