Show DEAD TOWN VERY SUM SELDOM RECOVERS community that Is not prosperous cannot attract new residents IS LIKE BIG corporation people are stockholders and when they spend their money away from home they deplete its capital copyright there Is nothing deader than a dead town try as hard as it may 16 conceal the facts the truth Is written all over it so that he who may read no camouflage of bluff rind and bluster can conceal the true situation from anyone who comes within the limits of the community A dead town is dead and all there them Is I 1 to it tho the worst of it Is that once a town dies it stays dead there have been exceptional cases in which dead towns have been revived have taken on new life and prospered but these are merely the exceptions that prove the rule the fact that a town can seldom come back Is easily explained the growing and prosperous town today Is the one that can attract new residents and new capital it Is one that can offer attractive inducements for the location of new industries the dead town offers no attraction to outside capital A man looking for a place to launch a new business or a new location for an old industry is not going to pick out a dead town iio he Is going to select a town in which money Is plentiful a town whose business men are progressive and whose residents as a whole are prosperous and contented there are too many live and thriving towns in the world for a man to risk his future in one that Is dead this Is the reason that a town once dead almost always remains dead town 11 1 like 1 ko corporation there Ls Is just one thing ordinarily that kills a town in the first place and that is a lack of money A town Is just mke like a corporation and the money possessed by its inhabitants Is its capital if this capital Is depleted the town will fall just as the corporation whose capital Is depleted through poor management or other causes falls and just as the corporation which has once failed can seldom retrieve its lost fortunes the town which has failed cannot often come back tho the capital of a community Is d depleted when its money Is spent away from home in EL a way that brings no return benefit to the community it takes no great amount of thought to be able to realize that the town like the individual cannot last long if it Is paying out more money than it takes in that does not mean that a prosperous town Is one in which the people do not spend any money on the contrary a prosperous town Is one in which the people do spend money but it is one in which they spend the money at home As long as the money is spent at home the town gains by having it kept in circulation but when it Is spent away from home either by being sent to the mall mail order houses or by shopping trips to other cities the towns capital is impaired to that extent and it if enough money is spent away from home in that way the town collapses and virtually goes into bankruptcy just as does docs the corporation po ration loa which dissipates its capital the people of a community are apt to overlook the tact fact that they are stockholders in their town and that their fortunes are bound up with those of the community as a whole they do not realize that if their town falls they will fall with it they or many of them at leat send their money away to the mall mail order houses in the great cities without realizing that they aro are impairing the capital of their own corporation and that if enough of them pursue that course they will force their corporation into certain bankruptcy merchants not only ones hurt many customers of mall mail order houses say eay that they are u under der no obligation to trade with th their r home merchants and this may be tr true e they overlook that fact that the business men of a town do much for their community and are entitled in return for what they do to the support of the people in the community but leaving this out of consideration they overlook the fact that they are bringing about their own downfall when they drain their town of its money its capital the home merchant will not be the poly only one that will lil be hurt when the town goes broke the merchant can reduce his stock and cut dov a its his erpen expenses ses and get along some way or lie he can sell out and move to some other town which has not been so blind to its own welfare it la Is the great body of the people of the community including all those who have sent their money away to other cities instead of spending it at home that suffers most when the liard hard times come the time for all the people to pull together for a live town Is while the town Is still live and not after it Is dead for when a town dies it Is a long time dead it if not forever |