Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-27
ROTARIANS FEATURE maine
PRODUCTS AT SUPPER SESSION
WITH talk BY JUDGE CLEAvES

held at the meeting on the evening
Of Friday, April Is.
The other officers whose nomina-
tons were accepted at the meetins
last evening were Vice PRESIDENT
Willard r. Purinton; Secretary,
Frederick G. Davis; Treasurer, Ches,
ter A. Fuller; Directors, Harold
Weeks and William j. Warrell. These
six with the immediate past presi-
dent. Everett V. Perkins Will COM
pose the Board of Directors.
OF the 81 present at the supper
session last evening, SO were born
in the State of Maine. and OF that
number % in Augusta. In opening
the meeting President Perkins made
the happy suggestion that OF al
ant were men.
Judge CIeaves' Address
Judge Cleaves in his remarks said
that loyalty to Maine was not simply
trading in Maine in Provincial
sense. He said that people Of this
State have in the past been too
community minded and that there
was not enough attention and en-
phasis upon the State as a whole. To
develop our unsurpassed resources
we must erase the immaginary lines
between communities and between
states.
1.-THE recent pilgrimage of the party
| of 145 Maine people, headed by Gov
ernor and Mrs. Ralph o. Brewster
| to Florida, said Judge Cleaves, was
| worth more to the State Of Maine
| than one million cold hard dollars
| invested in any kind of advertising.
"One of the objects of that trip,
in fact the principal object was not
. to just have good time, but to
place the name Maine in the public
print of the country and to so fix
| the name of the state in the minds
| of the people wherever it was read
| that it should create a desire to see
and visit this state in which the pill
| grimage originated.
I'VE gained that attention and
publicity wherever we went, said
the speaker. "a group of 165 people
from Tennessee, which preceded us
a few days was hardly noticed, and
a party of US from Minnesota, who
followed us made the trip with little
publicity, but in New Orleans they
stopped the big annual Mardi Gras
| parade for the Maine folks cause
we had a governor with us, and stor-
| les of our pilgrimage were featured
in the newspapers of the country.
Judge Cleaves mentioned that re-
Gently he had heard some objection
| to the plan of the Maine publicity
| expenditure because 1t featured the
| recreational advantages. 1.-THE peo-
pie who are doing things in Florida
today, first went there as vacation
lists, and that is just what we hope
will result from bringing million
and half people into this state in
| the next six or seven months to
enjoy our recreational opportunities.
| The speaker declared that loyalty
| to the state was a ty-fifty propo-
sition. The city jewellers must be
| loyal to the farmers and purchase
| Maine raised produce, while in turn
| the farmers owe the same loyalty to
| their neighboring city stores and
| merchants. And all Of the time
| Names people must think of their
| state as an entity.
All-Maine Menu
| The menu for the Rotary supper last
! evening was composed entirely Of
| Maine products and was most attrac-
! lively prepared and served by the Au-
= gusta House management. At every
| plate was bulletin explanatory of the
| several dishes and special items on the
supper menu. The statistics were sup
| piled by the Maine Department of Ag-
riculture and the bulletin was as fol-
! lows:
| Beans-First course, Bean Swager,
made from Maine beans. 5000 acres
| grown annually, yield 10000 bushels,
| also several thousand acres grown for
+, canning as green and shell beans.
| Beef-This lot purchased from L. B.
! Chapman, Portland, who handles
| Maine-grown baby beef most of the
season. Breed, Polled Angus. 10000
beef cattle now in Maine. This num-
| Der must be greatly increased If we
/ are TO take care of our surplus hay.
Jefferson Farms at jefferson are large
| breeders of Polled Angus or baby beef.
Potatoes-34,0 100000 bushels grown
| in Maine this year and for the second
/ time Maine leads all states in produce
| tion. 100000 barrels certified seed sold
| from Maine in 1925, going into "a
| states.
Fish--40,000 fishermen depend on
| the products of Names sea and shore.
| Pickles-Our pickles are from Gar
| neau Evaleth Co., Portland, Maine;
| also packed in large quantities at
| Rockland and other Maine points.
Squash-Produced in large guam
titles, particularly in the Cape Eliz-
| abeth area. where yields of II to 10
| tons per acre are common.
Flour-Our rolls and pie made
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