Show TOWN GRAVE DIGGERS in nearly every town may bo be found quite a number of persons who consider themselves leading elt citizens zells but who in ili brath aro are helping to dig a grave for their town they do it through their failure to support the institutions which make the town what it is they do it by sending away tor for merchandise which might be bought with equal advantage at home they do it frequently through thoughtlessness but mol more mole e often through sheer disregard for the welfare of the community of which they are a part the doctrine of buying at home brime Is not advanced solely in the interests of the individual merchants it is advocated because every citizen of a town is to a ertain certain extent dependant upon every other citizen for his own prosperity business men are sometimes as greatly at fault as anyone else in the matter of out of town trading it if the shoe dealer sends away tor for his automobile tires and the au automobile toino dealer sends away for his furniture and the furniture man sends away for his clothing and so on how can they all expect to build local prosperity all the tine fine talk about civic pride that we may indulge in ili will never make a town so long as tile the life of the community tho the cold cash Is ia spent elsewhere A man may inay mako make boosting speeches until he is black in ili the face but unless lie he spends his money where he makes it he is a gravedigger grave digger |