The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-06-07
BUILDING BRENTWOOD

Plentvwood will be made into real town when all
the citizens-the businessmen and workers and farm
ers of the county-unite behind real rade-at-home
industry program. 1t never will be
what it can be until that is doneand the policy VIII
be beneficial to all alike: friend and foe will benett
will benefit without regard to politics or religion.
1t is program that can all unite on.
Such policy is the actual expression of community
patriotism and patriotism, like charity, should COM
mence at home.
The uniting of the people of Sheridan county behind
such program would mark epoch in the history OF
the community and would be feat that the commercial
club could point to with pride for years to come for it
would be something to be proud of.
In order to accomplish this thing trade-at-home,
patronze home-indutry slogan must be raised and the
propaganda carried until the idea has conquered the
whole city and country-until every living soul in the
county understands the benefits of such policy to
him, to his neighbor and his community.
The propaganda should pervade the press, emanate
from the pulpit, and leaven the schools 1t should
be consistent and continuous.
1t is not enough to talk of being constructive atho
that helps What we want and must have is con-
sructve deeds backed by constructive spirit. And
the quicker we start putting the policy into practice
the better The sooner will we be reaping the harvest
Now Plentywood has a bottling works, called the
Wildwood Bottlng Works. Harry DeSilvia, proprietor
The Wildwood Bottling Works puts out as fine quail
ity of soft drinks as one buy. Yet number of
the soft drink purveyors import the products that De-
Silvia makes right here in Plentywood Let every
of soft drinks in Sheridan county buy Wildwood
Bottlng Work products, let every soft drink parlol
handle them, and boost them, let the Wildwood Bot
ting Works put out the very best products possible
then watch the little enterprise grow 1t will cost deal
and consumers more, yet it will build up an in
dustry here that will employ several people, establish
several homes, build the schools and make Plen
tywood just that much better place to live in.
The money that comes to Sheridan county comes fo
grain, cattle and Sheep WOOL poultry butter and eggs
We do not ship anything else. With this money w
must pay for every thing we ship n-much of which
labor and much of it must be done other places thai
here The basic of livelihood is agriculture an
all the people here live by that occupation or by serv
ing those who do in way another.
But some of the work that the farm product dolla
goes to pay for be done in Plentywood and in
Sheridan county, and if it were done here it woul
mean that many more people would live here and con
sumo here, instead of in other places.
1t is easy to understand what the policy of doing
erythng here that can be done here would mean
all of us-besdes the dollars and cents it would mea
just that much better community for us ALL
And the way to do this is TO start doing it today
Once the policy is adopted it will become the sourc
of pride to everyone supporting it.