The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-02
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for our unemployed citizens so that
they can have their full share of the
things they need in order to keep their
bodies and souls together. Stimulating
production means producing more of
the things we make and grow right
here in America and not what is
grown or produced in other lands.
Now this brings me to the big part
that the women of America can play
in this great campaign to stimulate
production and provide jobs for our
unemployed. The thirty-five million
! women in this country, the housewives
and shoppers who carry the nations
pocketbook can help to quicken the
wheels of production by making firm
resolution to BUY, so FAR AS is
PRACTICABLE, ONLY PRODUCTS
MADE OR GROWN IN AMERICA.
Now this does not mean that we are
asking anyone to foster any prejudices
or blind hatreds, or even boycott
against foreign products. 1t does
mean, however, the stimulation of an
enlightened self-interest. 1t means an
awakening of great national social
consciousness with relation to our re-
sponsibility to our more unfortunate
citizens who are without employment.
1t means being PRO-AMERICAN.
1t means thinking and acting in terms
of AMERICA FIRST-which means
the nation and all the people.
There never has been more stupid
declaration made than that which pro-
claims that the American people are
not buying enough foreign produced
articles. This is a most subtle and
insidious propaganda which is distinct
ly menacing to our own economic well
fare This is economic treason.
For generations our country has
been and still is the worlds best Gus
toner for many foreign products
which we do not produce in our own
country. Some of these products, such
as coffee, tea, spices, tin, rubber, silk
are consumed in America in greater
quantities than in any other country
in the world.
: The ten million men who are look
ing for employment and their twenty
, million dependents however, are not
spending any of their time at after
noon teas; nor can they refresh them
selves with cup of coffee at each
meal. 1t is more than likely that the
coffee grounds are boiled over and
: over again by the poor housewife
Here is one example wherein our un-
, employment situation hurts our trade
with South America.
The other day we read in the daily
press a dispatch from Brazil stating
that over 100000 bags of coffee
, were burned in that country during
the first eleven months of last yeal
because they had a surplus crop that
cannot be sold. What a paradox
: Why, we have right here in America
the land of most abundant resources
and the richest nation in the world
:, thirty million men, women and child
rem who are undernourished who coulC
1 use that coffee if the heads of theil
: families had jobs. Yes, they coulc
: use 1Q0,000,O00 pounds a year. That
I; would be per capita consumption OF
less than four pounds.
= Many of our country's unemployed
4 are found among workers in lace fac
tories, in the match industry; in glass
. pottery and chinaware factories, in tht
glove and carpet industry; in the shoe
industry and many other industrie:
that are seriously affected by the flow
: of cheaply produced products of othel
lands. But it is not industry alone
> that is affected by these foreign i'm
ports The farmers of the nation
= too, are affected for we see hams, ba
con, sausage and canned meats il
: great quantities in the food shops
throughout the land.
No other country in the world j!
so liberal in its attitude towards i'm
> ported merchandise. Many people
think that because an article is i'm
: ported it is better than that which i!
y produced in our own country. This i!
great fallacy. Indeed it is almos
: near idiocy.
, | have been frequently asked tho
, question why /, the General Manager
of the Charles B. Knox Gelatine Com
pany, an institution which it not af
3 fected by foreign imports, should bt
such an enthusiastic supporter Of the
. BUY AMERICAN idea. Why, W.
even enjoy nice export business ant
: sell our products to various countrie!
throughout the world. That is sim
l pie question to answer.
The ten million men and women ou
-: of work and their dependents which
= means an army Of thirty million con
y sumers are not buying their full share
of Knox Gelatine. They are not buy
ing their full share of any products
4 whether they be made in England
France, Timbuctoo or the L. S. A. Blu
: let us find jobs for these people b!
stimulating the production of th'
/, things we make and grow in our owl
country and then and only then vii
economic conditions again become nor
t NAL in America.
= 1t is most encouraging to me ant
!. to my associates in the Made in Amer
d lea Club to note that each day find
more and more women of America be
S coming BUY AMERICAN conscious