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Show Trade At Home j No mail order catalogue house ever paid a five-cent piece In its life in local taxes or in any way helping to build up or better the home town and community. . They are bloodsuckers blood-suckers who skim the cream and never nev-er contribute a penny to the community commu-nity they bleed. The same is true about the big city merchant. Every dollar sent to him goes immediately out of local circulation they never I send a penny back for any purpose. The home merchant or business man of any kind, on the other hand, pays taxes, con(ributes to every scheme of upbuilding and betterment. He from them it will be upon showing that you have a steady job at good pay. Otherwise he looks at you with the same geniality of a fish. The dollar spent at home goes all around town a hundred limes, and docs hundreds hun-dreds cf dollars worth of business before it gets away, and likely conies right back to the spender, maybe j several times. Even if prices were i much higher at home, which they are :no(, still it. would pay the biggest j kind of dividends lo Ira do at. home, 1 anyway. Nothing will kill a. town Iso quick or so dead as trading away from home. It is falal as hookworm, smallpox or Bolshevism. It. is in fact as bad as home brew. Some people save six bits once in a while by sending send-ing away for job printing, but the stuff they get back is on cheap paper. ; done by underpaid si.-ib labor and never satisfactory. And so it is. generally, gen-erally, with all other goods. From any standpoint, trading away from : home is a bad habit. Exchange. aids those of us who happen to be in trouble. He is our neighbor and our friend; he rejoices when we do well and grieves when sorrow comes our way. If we are out of work or in trouble, 'he lets us have his goods and trusts us for them until we can get on our pins again, which the mail order house or big city merchant ! doesn't do. It you get any credil |