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Show : WHO PAYS "THE RENT? The next time a peddler rings your door bell, or you receive a catalog from a mail order house, remember who it is that bears the overhead of business expense in your town. The merchants of Bingham Canyon pay rent, taxes, employees and general overhead expenses, besides keeping up their share of community work. They are entitled to your trade and patronage. pat-ronage. The peddler does not pay one cent in rent, he does not even know the citizens here, he does not help this community grow ,and he cares lesg.-He lesg.-He wants your money,, and if you are not wise he will get it. What does he leave you in return? Some shoddy goods to mourn over after he has gone to the next town or out of the state. The mail order house does a little worse than that. It pulls property (in the form of money) and prosperity out of the town into the big city. There are no two sides to this great question of buying at home. It is not an argument wo want. This newspaper does not dispute or even intimate against either the intelligence or community loyalty of its readers. All it wants to do is give these gentle reminders of the duty each and all of us owe to our local industries and business houses. At times we all forget. This duty to our home town is not written in law statutes; no town or city ordinances tell you where to trade or what to buy, and no wild flight of the imagination can concieve that they ever will. The appeal will have to be made and the response will have to come from a community consciousness con-sciousness and loyalty to home. Likewise, a corresponding duty rests with every business man of Bingham Canyon to so conduct his business and render ren-der his service that he will merit the confidence of our citizens and justify the appeals that are constantly made in his behalf. This we believe he is doing and this is why he should succeed. |