The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-02-23
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group of dependent citizens who i'm
agine that politicians, who create
nothing and have nothing to give ex-
cept what they can bamboozle out Of
the other two groups, will somehow
restore them to economic security.
They, in their ignorance, readily pur-
chase the cheaper foreign made prod
ucts, thus using their meager funds
to diminish their chances for reem-
ployment in self-supporting jobs.
These are the three great consumer
groups. They include all the agricul-
tural, industrial and white collar work
ers, and they are the real employers
of this nation. They collectively de-
termine whether we shall have con-
tinued depression or prosperity. If our
housewives decide to purchase prod
ucts grown or made in the United
States-then our workers shall be en-
ployed in growing or making them,
and by such action they could elm
mate our army of unemployed. But
if they buy products grown or made
in foreign lands-they employ the
farmers and workers in other lands,
and cause our own workers to be un-
employed.
Now there are some, who believe
they save by buying the cheaper for
eign made products. This may often
appear to be so, because of cheaper
price, but these people do not realize
that they are being taxed many times
more than their savings-to pay their
share, collected by the government, to
feed and care for the workers that
they, in the purchase of the foreign
made product, cause to be unemploy-
ed.
Millions of our Americans arc un-
employed, because of the failure of
many of our American people to re-
alize these simple facts, with the re-
suit that American factories are de-
caying and new ones are not being
built here. Our heavy goods industry
and our building industry have been
the harbingers in past depressions,
and their revival could have brought
us out of this one. They are the two
industries that have shown little signs
of revival throughout this depression.
Nor can they be revived so long as
the American people will employ for
eign workers in other lands to supply
their needs.
Neither is there any other demo-
cratic solution for the employment of
our unemployed, or the return to pros
perity for America-until the Ameri-
can people awaken to these simple
facts and decide to buy American. Our
American women have it in their pow
er to save America. They have the
power to do what all the legislators,
politicians and industrial lords have
failed to do-and cannot do. With
1870 of the American payroll in their
hands, they are the nations real en-
ployers and they alone have the power
to decide our fate.
A leading merchant in one Of our
Pittsburgh's large department stores
recently wrote me "We are merely
purchasing agents for the public. So
long as the American people demand
cheap foreign made products, we have
to supply them. If the American
people demand American made prod
ucts to protect the American workers,
we shall be glad to supply them and
happy to cooperate. We believe-re-
ciprocity, like charity, should begin at
Ior,,n RJ1t tho JoJJcf from
the American people"
More than a million Of our young
| folks leave our schools annually,
where we sent them to be equipped
to fill jobs, the while we export, the
jobs they have right to expect, to
a foreign country. We thereby defeat
our own aims and labors. Instead Of
patronizing our American industries,
to expand them to absorb our youth,
we brig upon them a sense of use
lessness, the sense of a world without
a place for them, and an abandonment
to their fate. In this frame of mind,
need we question-why our prison
population is showing an appalling in
crease of young folks in their late
teens and early twenties?
In another recent letter manufac
turer writes-"if all these importa-
tions were stopped, we could not only
reemploy all our own unemployed
workers, but many new employees as
we'll"
The American people have the pow
er to end this depression, to employ
our unemployed and provide jobs for
the youth of our nation. TO reduce
their own taxes, and to produce their
own prosperity-if they have the
patriotism and the determination to
carefully examine the source Of pro-
duction of all the things they buy, and
BUY AMERICAN.