The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-18
WOULD EXCLUDE CHEAP ORIENTAL OILS

WOULD EXCLUDE CHEAP ORIENTAL OILS
Farmers representative Calvin Asks souther
-~as~"A.es 10 Buy Only Cooking Fats Mad
1zom American Oils.
Washington, D. c., March 20, 1919.
Editor Cotton Oil Press:
Dear Slr:-The government of the Unite
States has an iron-clad law that keeps the Orr
entail laboring man out of this country. He i
excluded for one big, principal reason; afte
which trail a lot of little reasons.
The big reason is that he will work so cheapl.
that good American labor cannot compete witt
him. The importation of Oriental labor woul'
undermine our Industrial life; American labo
would go hungry.
Hundreds of government agents patrol tn
Pacific coast night and day to prevent Orienta
laborers from entering this country.
Why does the Southern housewife take tn
products of cheap Oriental coolie labor into he
kitchen and exclude an all-American product tina
is trying to lift the great South to a higher plan
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 furtheranct
of Mr.. Hoover's plans to pile up a surplus of fooc
fats in this country the gates were opened wide
to imports. At that moment tankers plowed theil
way across the Pacific and flooded America with
cheap Oriental vegetable oil; oil produced by
oenny-a-day labor in the Orient from Orienta
cottonseed, peanuts and soy beans.
The Southern vegetable oil miller is now hav
ilS So1l1S OIIl1Su1ty LII SlllllS Ills dl-A1Q0IlCduO OIL
made from American grown cottonseed or pea
nuts, because the market is filled to the brim with
oil from the Orient.
The Southern planter goes home after a hare
days 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
ern housewife serves good food prepared with
cooking fats, a principal ingredient of which may
be 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
,wn 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
ocal store she undoubtedly says:
Send me a can OF shOrtenlng,' or lard CON-
pound, perhaps designating it by it's trade name.
When that can of lard substitute or cooking
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
iieap oriental OH Is preventing him from selling
lis seed to the mill because the miller cannot sell
lis oil to the refiner and lard substitute manu-
,acturer.
how are you going to tell that no ORR
entail oil is contained in the lard compound you
buy?
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 all-American vegetable oil is con-
talned 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.
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