| Show TRADE AT HOME this story written by aless MIBS audria cameron won second prize which was given by W C tebbs of 0 the southern exchange it la is a question in the minds of many people just what to Is best to do trade at homo home ov or send bend away to some mall order house I 1 say any trade tit at home for two reasons first toy alty ally to your fellow men and colli community welfare wel tare second tho the benefit you yourself receive from this it a man does not give ills his neighbors or fellow citizens his bia support how can call he expect their help in return some people say you can get better products for less lesa money by sending away but in the end of nearly all such cases they go behind when you trade at homo home you know what you are going to buy and the quality of the product you are aio buying A person cannot know for sure what lie ho will got get by merely looking at pictures arld reading tl ft description it Is stretching a persons imagination over a vast area over the thousand or perhaps two thousand miles between pan gultch and chicago kansas city or wherever they may send to oven even think of knowing what the mall will bring to them As tor for the quality of tile the product well wall in most cases cafes it turns out to be a huge joke lot let no me cite you an example of what may Il happen lappell again about two years ago mr air jones sent to a mall mail order house for a bath tub A glowing description of the tub was waa given below a flat flattering ering picture of the tub it was priced very much lower than the bathtubs sold by the local plumber and in bli black k and white it seemed just as good the tub was ordered in due time fifteen or twenty days the tub arrived all crated lind and wrapped in paper and excelsior mr air jones had the local plumber install it of cour course sethe alie sears and roebuck plumber was busy at the time the plumber came and his little five year old daughter was with him while vall ile he was under the floor fixing the pipes his daughter lifted up one end of 0 the tub it if it had been of good quality it would have taken two or three men to lift it I 1 dont think mr air jones has hag I 1 q ever ver quits quite forgiven this little girl tor for it was she who started all the jokes going wh why send away from panguitch Pan gultch for things which can be purchased hero here it would indeed bo be a nul nuisance s ance it if all of 0 tile the people had to send gend their products away to be sold yet people send away away to buy and think nothing n thang of it communities depend almost entire on trade for progress in his opening speech before the student body of brown university president faunce used a phrase that stuck in the minds le of some of his hearers lie H spoke or of the college community as the lite life together and pointed out how ti the le whole university depended on the cooperation of all who were connected with it if this Is true with a college then surely it should be doubly true with our community and citizens we are not cooperating with each other when we send away for things and all nill not patronize our home industries we are lowering the standard of our community instead of raising it wo we are slowly drifting apart in the matter of cooperation A chain is no stronger than its weakest link |
