Show small smal towns dont die they commit suicide the following article front from tile tho eaton eatha rapids ot glnn Ml inn nn jour journal rial contains conUi lna sonic teutha which may bo be aptly applied to our own co ity road head it and thon then think tho matter yvor over whon to send your money ou 0 00 town tor for articles arti clos you can obtain front from your homo home town merchant in towns do not die they commit suicide said eald a newspaper recently anil ana it la is truo true it if everybody who his bis money in tilts community would spend hia money in its his own community tile the homo home town would double in population and in a fow it would be 10 prosperous roua why aro are filling stations out of edl all proportion to every other line of business busi nass in number became Ile causo people buy almost nil all or oc their gas gaa and oil at home it Is ia really why people will persist poi elst in spending money out of at town needlessly weijen taio results of this practice are so costly wo we know of one individual in the city now out of a job tula thin particular individual rarely spent A cent in eaton baton rapids oven even when aio could have saved money sonic some two or three years yeara ago tilts this person was informed that if ills practice of at spending money out of town would work himself out of a job entirely and that la Is just what happened ilow how can the business man or anyone else hire employees it if they havo nothing for them to do or any money to pay them when you spend a dollar outside you tako it right out of the j pockets of at sonic somo local citizen and speaking of tile the penny and pound foolish policy uila tills Is 08 it save a i few cents by spending your money in somo some other city and then in ill the course of time find li conditions hero here will not warrant var milt ills hta remaining in some ones employ amplo v tile tho fight Is on in all smaller cities tilts does docs not apply alone to eaton baton rapids rapala it la is a very earlous question and ono one that must bo be reckoned with in the near future just as above the small town Is 18 not dying lt it ta is committing suicide inch by inch its people dolne doing it Ins hf casting tilts this idea off like so many snow allow flakes it Is time and right now whon when oven every individual should give tile tho matter serious thought otherwise therell bo be more vacant stores in the tha city than we regret to report today eaton baton rapids journal |