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

currents Of our products almost WIFI
out aim throughout our land.
Herbert Hoover, secretary OF Com,-
merce, in q most thouEhtful DISCUS
sion. epitomising the results Of his
inves tigation over the past decade OF
conditions in our economic life, mas
characterized the wastefulness IN dis.
tribution as the most serious evil
hamperins our development today. =
He analyses many ways in which
this waste is manifested. But hrst
among them he places an unnecessary
number of links in the distribution
chain and an unnecessary NUMBER OF
different chains from the same center
Of production to the same center OF
consumption
"This lesson We have a wonderful
opportunity to apply in the. state Oh
Maine at one end of our national sys-
TEN of transportation. If We can
stimulate the distribution of all the
articles that we produce among the
700. 900 consumers in the State of
Maine together with the hundreds of
additional consumers that enter our
state each year, we shall have low
cred very greatly the surplus freight
and the surplus profit that after all
are paid by the consumers and the
producers Of the State OF Maine.
"Home markets are the key to sue
cessful foreign trade. Let us keep
this motto in our shop and in our
kitchens. The latter is the most I'M
portant because it is from this place
that a great part of our purchases are
made. II the women of our State
are prepared to ask for Maine prod
ucts so far as these are advantag-
cously obtainable, we shall have gone
a long way toward the solution of our
economic ills.
I'VE shall rapidly create q demand
which will standardize and economize
in the development of Maine products
so that they may successfully COM
pete with the products shipped in
from other states. They enjoy real
advantages in quality and transporta-
ton costs and reduction Of inter-
vening profit by reason of their origin
within our bounds.
A Maine Week
1.-THE latter part of February when
. merchandising is ebbing for the rise
that comes in the spring will offer a
wonderful opportunity for the eXposi-
ton of the things that are produced
III NhdlHS. I<ScIy StoIe "'iuoW lhc
State might be advantageously filled
with articles comi.g from the farm
and the industries Of Maine. There
is probably not one of US but would
make a liberal addition to our educa-
, ton as we walked along our streets.
There is a profound truth in the
old saying that charity begins at
, home. This teaches us the lesson
that our country as a whole is con-
I cerned in the prosperity Of Maine. II
We shall make ourselves. so far as
possible. a prosperous and self-sufA-
cient community, we shall be able
thus to lend more strength to the
great sisterhood of states of which we
are a part. In this aspect we may
always remember that there is moth
ing provincial or narrow in the en-
phasis that we are now placing upon
the State of Maine. 1t is simply to
, make ourselves more ready for Ser
vice to the nation in those ways in
which we are uniquely qualified to
serve. The nation can we'll afford to
help those who help themselves. 1t
can Ill afford in these days of econo-
mic readjustmcnt to carry surplus
baggage in it's train"
Address by President West
George +. West OF Portland, pres
ident of the State Chamber and Agri-
cultural League. in his address re-
ported among the activities of the
association the formation of a spec
ial committee on agricultural de-
velopment, the joining with other
public interests and taking an active
part in an endeavOr to procure the
, cancellation of the English embargo
| against Maine potatoes, as well as
the holding Of series of regional
meetings in cooperation with local
chambers.
AN active effort has been made
in the past year to obtain q more
just basis of taxation for farmers,
industries and railroads. and we be-
lieve the burden of taxation should
not bear heavily on any of these
three major business interests Of the
state" said Mr.. West.
Mention was made OF the active
part taken by the Chamber of Com.
merce in promoting road and trail
construction on Mt. Desert Island.
and Of the acting as clearing house
for the raising of $4,000 necessary
to match an appropriation of like
amount passed by the last Legisla-
ture towards the construction of a
Maine State building on the ground
Report of Manager Cummings
In reporting the work of the or
ranization during the past year. A.
l.. T. Cummings of Portland, its
mana ger, pointed out that the State
Chamber has been OF some assist
ance in encouraging carload ship
ments of native Maine beef cattle
for Maine markets, an enterprise
started and still maintained through
the efforts Of William G. Hunton, in
dustrial agent of the Maine Central
Railroad.
He stated that the State Chambers
appropriation was the means of
starting the movement for cooper
ative marketing of Maine eggs, the
result of which was the organization
of the Maine Poultry Producers AS
ISOLATION. He spoke of the other
branches Of enterprise in which the
association has been actively en-
gagged and stated that the officers
have tried to be of every possible
assistance to local commercial. agri-
cultural and civic organizations.
Charles M. White
Charles M. White. chief OF the di-
vision of markets of the State De-
rartment of Agriculture. speaking
to the members declared that the
producer of Maine apples Is prone to
complain that the workmen in the
! nearby manufacturing towns are
eating western and southern fruit.