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Show Why Trade At Home! Margaret Huntington, a junior student of the Senior high school, won first place in-the business men's "Trade At Home" essay contest, according to announcement made Wednesday. Wed-nesday. In the junior high school Beth Smith, a ninth year student won first place.. Each year the business men of the city offer a prize of $100 to be given to students of the senior and junior high schools for the best essays written. The winning students and the classes to which they belong turn this money into their respective classes to be used in conjunction with the popularity contest. I The second prize essays in the respective schools were written by Georgia Harmer, a senior, and La Von Huff, a junior ninth grade student. Here are the two winning essays: "1VIIV TRADE AT HOME?" By B'i'h Smith Why trade at home? That ought not be a question but it must be from the results. How can we build up our city if the money we' use to make our town is spent in other cities? Every dollar spent In our community commu-nity circulates around and in some way repays the person. If a person buys a loaf of bread it goc.'o to help pay taxes for the merchant or to support some public cause. The merchants in town are some of the largest tax payers and are often called upon to support some public proj ."ct. If pecple buy here at home more money is brought into the community and more money can be given to taxes. More people can come under employment em-ployment and our city impresses one as every body having work to do and being a busy, thriving town. Naturally the city improves and grows lai ger. If a city is attractive and prosperous prosper-ous looking the public is more proud of it and it attracts newcomers new-comers which is a big factor in success. suc-cess. Our city has a great project which is carried on annually, the at t ex.hi.hit. .This exhibit, of which we are so proud, is not just for the students, but for everyone. We can not c'xpect to carry it on without the help of the public. The merchants mer-chants and clubs usually cooperate and give support t othe art. How much more could they give if in turn the public supported them and traded at home"? Everyone knows the shortest and surest way to success is cooperation. "WHY TRADE AT HOME" By Margaret Ilunilngtmi We cay "Buy it in Springville," Wtfy should wo' buy it in Springville Spring-ville any more than any neighboring neighbor-ing city? Because Springville i. our "home." When wc say "buy j it in Springville," we say "build springville, " because trading at home builds our city. Whim we trade at home, there is more money in circulation here and we are Lui going to be benefitted by it either ( directly or indirectly. More money 1 is going to build up our city and give us more advantages and priv- j ileges. We should trade at home because we owe our trade to our merchants.. When we want support in our schools pnd social activities, wo Expect Ex-pect their h!p and if wc t&poct nelp from the, , .o.:! 1 givo them our suppoi t. Our merchants supply u.-, with tiling " ho re so we won't have to go out tji town to ge't them; they buy licences to operate stores here, the mniuy from which goes to our city treasury, and we should help to repay re-pay the'm by giving them our trade. The story is told of a man who heard of a very rare diamond and was i rur to gel. pci'ion u'.' .1. ' set out to find it. He went from one county to another searching for the diamond. He devoted his entire 'fn in effort to fi id the precious jewel. At last whe'.i he had hunted in every country in the world, he gave up all hopes of securing se-curing the diamond and returned home. Here in his own back yard, he found the jewel he had been searching for all these years. That is what makes it possible for our art exhibit; that's what makes it possible for a government. Trading Trad-ing at home is a veVy vital way to show cooperation. It shows the merchants that the people are behind be-hind them and gives them confidence confi-dence to go on improving and getting get-ting betUV things. Of course there is support of the farmer on the merchant's part for they can buy things from them, and yet it is all cooperation. I am sure we can all see that the cnlv way to grow and become a city of wealth and prosperity is by trading trad-ing at home. I think a fit motto would be, "Trade at home and build your: city." Many people are like' th man who searched for the diamond. Many people go out of town to tiade and cn returning home after failing to find what hey want, they find the'se things here at home. We may ask, " Why do the people peo-ple go out of town to trade?" We often hear one say, "the're is no variety in our city. When we go other places, there is a variety to choose from." It is the pe'ople who can make a variety in our city. If everyone in our city traded at home, our merchants mer-chants could afford to have a larger variety. Our city is large enough that if everyone patronized our home merchants they could have a -large enough variety to satisfy sat-isfy all of us. It is the people of our city as a whole that can make or not make' our city grow. We may say, "It isn't your town; it's you." |