Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-30

and that this same worker ana MS
employer may with equal justice,
complain that the nearby farmer Is
buying hts shoes from mid western
factories or his cotton c'o'n 1'oia
southern mills.
why complain that our native
hides are being sold outside the state
for small returns and then prove
how inconsistent our complaint Is by
buying shoes and harnesses from no.
one knows whereof" Mr.. White asked.
Few, ii any, OF US have taken the
pains to investigate the wearing
qualities Of Maine made shoes. There
are many, second to none. which
have an enviable reputation extend
ing to the Pacific coast. These prod
ucts are raised or manufactured
where consumers may, II they wish,
visit the farms and plants and see
for themselves how and OF what the
products are made. How desirable
it is then to increase the home d.
mand for Maine products. 1t means
buster mills and factories. fuller pay
envelopes, more money with which
TO buy Maine products.
"All indications point to short
age Of pork next fall. The high
price of corn in the western states
has led the farmers there to sell
their corn, dispose of their hogs and
thus the numbers of breeding stock
have been greatly reduced. Thus at
our very doors is opened up the
opportunity for disposing of many
Of our by-products the coming sum-
mer in the raising Of pork that is
bound to bring good price through
the coming autumn"
Arthur g. StanIcS
"Some hundreds and hundreds of
Maine people," asserted Arthur G.
Staples. editor of the Lewiston Jour
nal, the next speaker. make goods
useful for Maine consumers. but
they seem to think it Is q secret.
The best way to begin to sell
Maine people the products of Maine
shops-I am not speaking of ag-
ricultural products, which is the
subject of another spealler-the best
way to sell the goods is to ask peo-
pie to buy them and ask them right
along day by day until they see
nothing before them day in and day
out, but the Maine-made article, and
hear little but the exchange value
of money spent for the Maine pro-
duct, paying wage and profit to
Maine mechanics and operatives, en-
riching Maine industries and endow-
ing our Maine community by the
presence and the benefactions and
the taxes and the Inheritance of the
men and women of competence"
Other Speakers
w. G. Hunton, industrial agent of
the Maine Central Railroad, spoke
of the hopeful development of the
baby beef industry and of the new
egg marketing project. which has
resulted in the formation Of a Maine
Poultry Producers Association, with
headquarters in Portland, which is
to start by marketing the produce
ton of 135, 900 hens.
He urged the production of Maine
apples of standard grade in sufi-
cient quantities to supply large con-
sumers.
w. E. Kendall of Bowdoinham and
William J. Thompson of China urged
more attention to sheep raising.
A broadcasting station to adver-
tise the resources of Maine was adj
vocated by Albert Armstrong of the
Old Orchard Board of Trade.
Other speakers were Edmund II.
Mcdonald, secretary of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce: Roland r.
Patten of Skowhegan, editor of the
Somerset Independent Reporter;
Guy E. Torrey Of Bar Harbor, men,
Der OF the governors council; Ben
Jamin +. Cleaves. secretary Of the
Associated Industries; w. s. Eliot Of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad; and
p. j. Mullaney Of the Boston and
Maine Railroad,