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Show Wtle Creek IV" j gIk BylCB. It's sorrowful to see a friend of many years go bad on you. It's doubly sad, when the souring sour-ing need not have been. Sears, Roebuck and Company have announced that, beginning as of Nov. 2, they are going to open some of their retail stores Sunday afternoons. We and Sears have been friends many years. It began when I was teaching in Lincoln County High School at Panaca, Nevada. Panaca was the locale lo-cale of the county high school, but boasted an indigenious population pop-ulation of about 500. There were only two small general merchandise stores in the town, which stocked principally prin-cipally staple groceries and a few items of work clothing and yard goods. Other things we got by "sending "send-ing away" as the common v practice was called. Sears at Los Angeles became our nearest near-est and most reasonable source of supply. And so it has been over the years, especially since Sears established retail stores in Utah. Things we could not buy locally, we often purchased at the retail outlets. We found their merchandise to be of good quality. If you asked for your money back on any purchase, you got it back, pronto, and no questions asked. I suppose this policy, plus continual and extensive advertising adver-tising through all media, has been responsible for the company's com-pany's remarkable success. This rteail outfit has certainly certain-ly made millions of dollars in profits. That's why we are sorry sor-ry to see the company break its "closed all day Sunday" custom for a few more paltry dollars, which evidently are not needed to stay in business. Rumor has it that another large western states "chain," which has always honored Sunday Sun-day closing, is going to open its stores on the Sabbath. We will be sad to see that happen, too, if and when it does. I think it was Jesus of Nazareth, Naz-areth, who said in his Sermon on the Mount: "No man can serve two masters. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." And so in the opinion of this column, the opening of huge chain stores on Sunday, seems to be leaning a little more toward to-ward rendering service to mammon, than it does in the opposite direction. So long 'til Thursday. |