Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-03
Letter MAKES
OF
PLASTER BUYING

A letter from the Los Angeles
chamber of commerce giving an ex-
planation of the purchase of plaster
for use in building the city hall
there has been received by j. w.
Tardy, president of the Borderland
Climate club.
, The letter reads as follows:
Dear Mr.. Tardy:
There seemed to be so much mis-
information about the Los Angeles
city hall plaster at the very pleas
ant meeting last evening that I
thought perhaps you would like to
have more exact statement as to
the facts.
The Los Angeles city hall is now
under construction and local plas-
ter manufacturer learned that some
plaster other than that of southern
California manufacture was to be
used, and started to raise cry that
in a public building such procedure
would be bad eXample-all in the
effort to sell his own plaster The
competitive plaster, by the way, was
not Arizona plaster, but plaster from
Utah One of@fhe city Officials who
is close friend of the Los Angeles
plaster company in question, did give
an interview saying that home prod
ucts should be favored ION basis
sof equal prices Quality and service"
AS a fact, thessplaster used, I am in.
formed, is to be Utah plaster, as the
local plaster, apparently, was not able
u nF on11a1ifxy
The regrettable, fact that a Los An
geles paper 1somewhat mis-reported
the occurrence no doubt led to the
very considerable distortion which
the whole matter received by the
time it sreaohed Arizona.
Let me simply point out. first, that
the policy genunciated by the city Of
ficial in favoring the use of southern
california products is exactly in ac-
cord with the "Trade at Home-Use
Arizona Products movement except
that we always add first the qualifi-
cation of price, quality and service
must be equal. In other words, we
believe that business must be founded
on a sound economic basis. Second,
that the chamber of commerce, far
from taking any part against the use
of Arizona products (Which, as a mat
ter of fact, We're not in question at
al), has always taken the position
that the use of products of the south
west was a. carrying out of the
"home products" idea and, indeed; in
this very job in question, have made
strenuous efforts to have stone from
Boise, Idaho, accepted in preference
to some from eastern states.
This, I trust, will clear UP any
at the bottom of the
attitudeS of the Los Angeles chamber
of commerce and of citizens and pub
lie officials generally. May add,
in answer to the question printed. on
the leaflet distributed last evening,
that southern California at least
fully appreciates the Importance of
Arizona as its "back country" We
are inclined to think that our pur-
chases from Arizona are fully as i'm
portant as Arizona's purchases from |
us, and we know that in supplying
millions of dollars for financing prof.
ects, practically throughout the en-
tire state, in initiating developments
in the form of hotels and other need
ed institutions and in the very active
support which the Los Angeles cham
Der has been able to give to the
advertising propaganda for new resi-
dents for Arizona, we have shown
both our friendliness and our ability
to be of service
Thanking you personally and in
behalf of the chamber of commerce
for the very kind hospitality and
many courtesies which you showed
us yesterday, believe me,
Sincerely yours,
SEWARD c. SIMONS,
Manager, Domestic Trade Department,
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
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