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Show COMMUNITIES WITH LIFE NOT ACCIDENT When you iind high class public schools located accessible to your children; when you find a community com-munity of fine churches; when you find all the conveniences of modern mod-ern life at your elbow, just stop and think that this is the result of successful home trade, which has made it possible to create a splendid center of civilization in your locality, if everybody had decided de-cided to trade away from home these things could not exist in your neighborhood. They might exist in some remote city where your welfare wel-fare is never considered, and you might as well be in the wilds of Africa, for all those who had profited pro-fited by the money you sent them would care. A safe and sound bank, a live mercantile establishment, or an industry in-dustry that is commanding business busi-ness in the community is a great asset to every person in that community. com-munity. It is the thing that decides de-cides the stability of the town, and determines the growth of the place and its desirability as a place to live. No person cares to locate in a town where business is uncertain un-certain and shaky, or Where conditions con-ditions are so uncertain that in-j in-j vestments in real estate would be a doubtful venture. And all of these conditions depend in the final analysis on what you are doing with your money and whether the town is receiving the business to which it is entitled. In home trade, however, you are dealing with neighbors and friends. You are dealing with those "Who sorrow with you when your loved ones are taken. You are dealing deal-ing with those who are ready to chip in and help as far as their j means will allow them when you ; and your family are in distress; you are dealing with those who are your joint partners in the joys and sorrows of your home community. com-munity. Disaster to you is disaster dis-aster to them. The welfare of the people of a community is inseparable. Selfish- , ness and shortsightedness exist but it's the liberal, broadminded spirit of live and let live that makes your home community an abiding place worth while. Very few of the country towns of the state offer better business opportunities than they did twenty years ago, and in many of them the prospects are not so promising as they were at that time. One reason for this, perhaps, is the growing tendency to patronize mail order houses and stores located locat-ed in the larger centers. It is worth j nothing that farm values depend in some measure, at least, on the proximity of the property to a good town. Eliminate the country coun-try town, and land values surely will drop. We believe the small town is needed, and that farmers and townspeople are exceedingly shortsighted when they fail to patronize pat-ronize home merchants and their home institutions. |