Show prosperity AT HOME HERE IS NOTHING OF GREATER importance TO US THAN T IT THERE prosperity OF OUR COMMUNITY prosperity AT HOME IS 13 BASED ON LOCAL BUSINESS conditions it if our local merchants and storekeepers transact a largo large volume of business their prosperity Is communicated to every person in tho the entire co oia M 1 the values of our real estate increase wages are ara increased Th there theres erets la more money in circulation and it Is more readily obtained tor for purposes ot of expansion paying for improvements buying luxuries etc in every way we can discover better conditions on all sides when our business men are busy ther T hemil 1 Is every reason in the world why we should spend our ca cah h at home instead of sending it to the big cities by keeping it in circulation in our home community we profit in many ways but it if we send our money to the mall mail order houses that Is the last we hear of it if enough money la Is sent to the mall mail order houses from our community we may easily put our local merchants out of 0 business by diverting our trade from our local storekeepers we can make it impossible for them to maintain their stores every dollar sent out of our town to the mall order houses detracts just so co much from our own individual prosperity as well as from the prosperity of the storekeepers and from the community in general think of the consequences it if we should all send to the mall order houses for our necessities and our luxuries how long would it be before our local merchants would have the closing out sale bale signs on their doors to be followed by the for sale signs on the stores themselves AND WHEN BUSINESS HOUSES ARE ALL advertised FOR SALE WHAT WILL BE THE VALUE OF OUR OWN HOUSES AND LN D LOTS such conditions have actually prevailed in some communities it has happened that the citizens became mall mad and sent to tho the big cities for the greater part of their merchandise the local merchants abandoned the field because there was no business there for them the burden of taxation fell on the various property owners because there were no business concerns to bear tho the big proportion which generally falls to their share property values decreased until there hero were no bidders tor for undesirable real estate the town became dead in the me meantime antime the head of a big mall order house in chicago was drawing an income of over a million and a quarter dollars made possible by the business received by his concern by mall from such communities as the th one above described and from our own community as well as from others other all over the united states every dollar of this enormous income was diverted from storekeepers in small communities every dollar sent in to that great mall order concern amounting to hundreds of millions of 0 dollars annually detracted from the tha prosperity of some community struggling to become a center of population but retarded by the th e shortsightedness short sightedness 0 of the citizens who sent their money out of town in preference to helping towards the prosperity of their own community of course it was all done angly those who sent their dollars to the mall mail order house did not stop to consider that these same dollars dollar would add to the prosperity of the home community if expended at home domn they did not stop to reason that by helping those in their own community they would be best advancing their own interests THIS COMMUNITY NEEDS YOUR HELP YOU NEED TIM THE HELP OP OF EVERY DOLLAR IN ORDER TO MAKE A BETTER COMMUNITY IN WHICH TO LIVE YOU NEED THE prosperity OF THIS COMMUNITY tomake TO MAKE YOUR PROPERTY OF GREATER VALUE AND TO GIVE YOU THE BENEFITS OF A BETTER COMMUNITY IN WHICH TO MAKE YOUR ROME HOME BRIGHTER MORE DESIRABLE AND WORTH MORE IN DOLLARS AND CENTS we must all consider these matters we mout stop and sending our dollars to the mall mail order nooses houses that OUT our operation cooperation co Is necessary to the up building of 0 our community and that for our own owa selfish advantages even with no other motive we must patronize home institutions and keep our dollars at home so ao that they can work tor for the advancement ot of our own prosperity we will all find that it Is a fact act when we consider the question from every view point that we can buy as cheaply and as aa profitably from our local merchants as imm a mall mail order house and we then know what v we are bu buying instead of buying a pig in a poke |