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Show BOOST FOR MT. PLEASANT Mt. Pleasant June 18th. Editor Pyramid: While reading a short article in a late issue of your paper on the subject of having the interests of our state and its various instutions at heart and patronizing them in pre ' f erence to outside institutions, here by helping our state and its people j to prosper we heanily join in with the author tnereof and the old adage occured to me afresh that "Charity begins at home" or should do so. The principal will apply to our home town just as well as to our state, your humble servant the writer of this is an observer of things as he goes along. He sees mechanics, ciaftmen, trades people and laborers slighted when strangers happen ! along, perhaps presenting a professional profess-ional card or recommendation from ' some other stranger who does not ; in the least way help to build up ' our town but whose only interest is j to get your money and carry it away. The means paid your man for service ser-vice rendered circulates in your town until the stranger gets it. Then it goes away perhaps never to return. The producers then have to export something to replenish this want and sometimes nearly strip the town of the necessities of life which then must be imported again to supply the want. The money paid the laberers of your town enables him to live in your town and sustain his family. It enables him to make premanent improvements on and around his home, beautifying the town in which you and yours live. To patronize your home man is to play the part of the "Good Samaritan" in very deed. The Christian professes to believe that he should "Love his neighbor as himself" but he might love him a little bit enough to give him a chance to live and and prosper in 'your home town. Consider these p lints. Then let your maxim be, First your home town, then your own state, and keep the money circulating as near your own home as possible so that it may come around your way again. Your fellow Townsman. |