The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-05-12

along new lines. 1t is taking up the
slack in the industrial world and as
the people emerge from it they will
develop new ideas that will make for
general and at the same time a
more solid prosperity.
Heretofore the "buy-at-home'
slogan has been preached for the ben
eft Of the farmer. He has been urged
to produce foodstuffs on his farm and
keep his money at home.
In its last issue the Lancaster
News reproduces in it's editorial
columns. with timely comment, the
old story Of the Southern farmer who
gets up at the alarm of an Illinois
clock, buttons Massachusetts, sus-
penders to Detroit overalls. and
washes his face with Cincinnati soap
In Pennsylvania pan. He then sits
down to a Grand Rapids table and
eats Chicago meat and Indiana homi-
ny, fried in Kansas lard, cooked On
Kalamazoo Range. He goes to his
! stable and puts q New York bride on
, a Kentucky mule, fed on Iowa corn;
plows farm covered by an Ohio
mortgage with a Syracuse plow.
When bedtime comes he reads a
chapter from Bible printed In Bos--
ton, says a prayer written in Je-
rusalem. Then crawls under a blan-
ket made in New England, only to
be kept awake by a South Carolina
dog-the dog is the only home pro-
duct on the place. And then he won
ders! He cannot see why he does not
make money raising cotton"
This is all very true, but the very
men who offer this advice should be
the first TO set the example in the
'buyat-home" movement.
We do not like to talk "shop" in
our editorial columns, but we can
not resist the temptation this oppor-
tunity offers to speak a word in be-
half of the printing industry in the
lCarolinas and by way of illustration
to emphasize the need for greater
cooperation between producer and
consumer of home products.
Fifty per cent OF the printed mat
,'te1 used in the two states comes
from the north and west. Ninety
per cent of the printing material used
in America is made by one concern
and the northern and western print
ers buy material and presses from
the same concern through which
southern printers make their pur-
chases. They use the same presses,
the same type, the same material
and turn out the same quality OF
work at the same prices or probably
little cheaper than printing estab-
lishments in the larger cities where
the overhead expense is so much
Heavier, but there are hundreds of
merchants and manufacturers all over
the two Carolinas who preach the
"buy-at-home" slogan to the farmer
and send their orders for CONNER
cial printing hundreds of miles away
from home.
The economic loss to the two Caro-
linas from this one source alone runs
into hundreds of thousands of dollars
every year. If this work were kept at
home it would double the number of
printers and pressmen in the two
states and mean increased business
for merchant and manufacturer.
The Herald was the first establish
ment in the state to print coupon
bonds. We had been replacing the
orders with New York concern and
taking small commission. Bonds
are expensive and we decided to do
the work at home. "You can't do IT."
our first customer told us. We'll
show you," was our reply, "and If
the work is not as good in every par
ticular as that Of the New York cor
Germ the loss is ours"
When We went into the market to
buy the stock We found that the New
York concern which made a "spec-
ialty' OF the bond printing business
was buying its stock from the place
We bought ours-a big establish
ment in Chicago! Since then we have
saved thousands of dollars to South
Carolina.
Do merchants and manufacturers
lii the north and west buy their
printing in the south? Not by long
shot. They would laugh at the idea,
and the idea Of the southern mer-
lchant and manufactu hu,t