The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-17

WILL HAOLODE CHEAP OILS
Farmers Representative Calvin Asks souther
housewives to Buy Only Cooking Fats Mad
From American Oils.
n, Washington, D. c., March 80, 1919.
Editor Cotton Oil Press:
Dear Sir - government of the IInito,
States has an iron-clad law that keeps the ORR
entai laborlng 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 will
MN. The importation of Oriental labor woule
undermine our industrial life; American labor
would go hungry.
Hundreds OF government agents patrol the
Faclflc coast night and day to prevent Orienta
laborers from entering this country.
Why does the Southern housewife take the
products OF cheap Oriental coolie labor into he1
kitchen and exclude an all-American product that
of prosperity? ~
At the outbreak of the war the Government
staolllzed the products of oil mills in the South
ana 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 nv
penny-a-day labor in the Orient from Oriental
cottonseed, peanuts and soy beans.
Ihe Southern vegetable oil miller is now hav-
ing some difficulty in selling mis- alI-American oil.
~ ]11ie lCdu grown cOttOnSeeQ or Dpa-
nuts, because the market is filled to the brim with
Oil from the Orient.
The Southern planter goes home after a hard
days work and probably tells his Southern house
~le OF MS troubles. He doubtless explains that
ne cannot sell seed because the oil miller. in t1rn
cannot sell the oil in the face of unfair competition
with cheap Oriental oil; he observes that some
thlng Will have to be done about it.
ana at the dinner table that evening his South
ern housewife serves good food prepared with
fats, a principal ingredient of which NAV
be cheap Oriental vegetable oil.
1t IS within the power of the Southern house.
VIE TO help the South by the use of the South's
own uneGualed products.
Cottonseed and peanut oils are the cleanes+
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
lat, reaches her kitchen she should be able to say|
''
''That cooking fat was made in America from
ooutnern cott0nseed or peanut oil, and there isl
not a drop of Oriental oil in the can.
linen she Will be IN better shape to sympathize|
WIN ner husband, who just complains that the
;neap oriental oil is preventing him from selling
lis seed to the mill because the miller cannot sell
us oil to the refiner and lard substitute manu-
~
" you gong TO tell that no ORR
'ntal OIL IS contained in the lard compound YOU
)uy? W.
BY insisting that the manufacture so state on
lis label! ~ y"
An If the label is not right the food and drug
aW will apply to that manufacturer.
Let the Southern housewife, from this mo-
tent on demand of her grocer that he guarantee
hat none but all-American vegetable oil is con-
aimed IN the cooking fat she buys.
linen, IN a day not far distant, cottonseed oil.
ne 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.