Show PAYING THE FIDDLER E ALL realize that when there la Is dancing going on whether it be tho the fw now new tangled tango or the fashioned old polka or waltz some borne one must pay the fiddler we cannot have music without paying for it nor can we have much of anything in this world without paying for it if we expect any person to do something for us ua we expect naturally to do something in exchange for such favors as we receive if we accept favors abut but evade the responsibility of making any returns for them it will not be long before we discover that the unpaid for favors become curtailed probably we become provoked after the favors have stopped and acknowledge our own stupidity it to Is generally too late when we wake up and then it Is merely the old story over again ot of locking the door after the horse has been stolen many of us in this community devote more or less of our time to the raising of produce of various kinds we have vegetables butter eggs milk eto etc to sell we find it a convenience to sell such products in the local stores some of our business elness bu men buy up the small quantities as well as the larger lots lota and ship all together to the more central markets this facility for disposing of such articles Is a great convenience to us if the local storekeepers did not buy our produce it would be difficult for us to find a market in falak fact there then would be no market for small quantities except at ruinous prices therefore we are favored to a very considerable extent by the fact that our local storekeeper stands ready to buy from us ua this places us under certain obligations the local storekeepers are am entitled to some consideration from us in return HOW MANY OP OF US appreciate AND acknowledge THIS FACT how many of us think of this when we have some cash to spend how dow many of us consider con alder that the local storekeeper la fa entitled to our trade and that we are morally bound to consider him as the proper repository for our orders and the recipient of our trade it Is regrettable that many of us must plead guilty to an entire forgetful ness of any feeling of obligation therefore we send our orders with the cash to the mail order houses to whom we owe nothing we are enticed by cleverly written advertisements advertisement and neatly worded descriptions of goods and merchandise ito 0 o that we deceive ourselves into be I 1 loving them to be true we forget the local storekeeper and his favors we forget that he Is a benefit to the community and to ovary every individual in the community we forget that he I 1 Is affording us an opportunity to dispose of our produce that ho he has his hie money invested in a stock of merchandise that he has selected ted because he believed we would need such articles and would wish to buy thorn them at home every dollar we send away from home to the mall mail order houses brings us closer to tho the limitations of our local opportunities every dollar diverted from local trade adds to the restrictions of our trade facilities at home so that we are not only permitting but we are inviting our local merchants to close up shop and go out of business or to move to some community where abero their efforts effort will be more appreciated by our lack of appreciation ws we are urging our local storekeeper pore to restrict their efforts effort to carrying only the lines of merchandise that are tho the most proff profitable table for them and to cut out alt all goods good that we can buy in the elty city we lore re actually inviting dIs disaster astor LET US AWAKEN TO A realization OP OF THE conditions WHICH CONFRONT US US PLACE limitations ON OUR GARD FOR EXISTING conditions AND LOOK INTO THE FUTURE we can see what the consequences must be if we fall to do our share towed supporting the establishments of our business men in town for th the Is written plainly on the wall shall we read the writing and profit by the message or shall we continue to dance merrily and foolishly on until tho the time shall come when we must pay and how shall hall we pay there will be only one way to pay and ahn t will be with much more thin than the profit we shall ahall have bare derived from our dealing with the mall mail order boas bruseo WH WE WILL PAY DEARLY UNLESS WE AWAKEN TO A FULL OB cir responsibilities AND AT ONCE W we wah to dabies but bat tot lot us chug change the tune m the tb |