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Show 0 Herald 'Reader' Would Return To Springville Editor Springville Herald, ' Springville, Utah. j Dear Sir: I read your editorial on Home Buying published last week and note that you suggested that readers read-ers of your paper give expressions of experiences wherein they have been affected by home-buying, or the lack of it. For several years I was employed in Springville and while there my family was loyal to the Springville merchants as we did all of our trading there. As the depression advancea I noticed that business began to drop off and finally I was laid off and had to leave theie much to our sorrow. Since my position brought me in contact witii praciically everyone j at one time or another, I was given an opportunity to hear much, and I know that many persons per-sons were doing much of their shopping in Provo, Salt Lake and i elsewhere buying things that ! could be purchased right in Spring- ville just as cheaply. It seemed to me that as times got worse, people grew more and more panicky; and in many instances would drive their automobile 12 to 15 miles to save 10c on a sack of sugar, or a few yards of cloth. We believe that just such carrying carry-ing on by the shoppers of Springville Spring-ville are what drove me and my . family out of town. While I was i not getting a very large salary, all of it went into the trade channels of Springville, and of course was instrumental in keeping some others on payrolls there. While the $100 per month I spent in Springville Spring-ville only left $1200 there each year, which you might say does not amount to much but suppose there or 50 others who have had to leave Springville for the same reason, and each was getting an average of $100.00. That means that $60,000.00 has quit circulating in Springville during the year, because be-cause so many folks do their shopping shop-ping out of town. . That may be stretching it a point, but we all know these things are happening every day that folks who are not employed in Springville as a direct result of home trading, and some who arq, do their trading out of town, and thus they are "biting the hand that feeds them." It's strange,' isn't it, how shortsighted short-sighted so many of us are. If people were .more tolerant of their home town merchants they'd save their-pwn necks in many instances. I don't know whether your Booster's Boost-er's club idea would do any good unless you enlisted every housewife with a pledge. Here's hoping you I get somewhere anyway with your effort to get the good home town folks to trade at home. If you do I might get a chance to return to the town we love bo dearly. Yours very truly, "A HKRALD READER". January 8, 11133. |
