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Show nation in the world, so we should desire to keep our home community prosperous an erordassvgpeilmd j prosperous and progressive. 1 It is the home business and pro-j fessional men who help to keep 'the community going. He pays his share in local taxes with which to ! keep up the schools and hospitals and to make public improvements, and every dollar spent at home increases business consequently the public as well as the commerical revenue of the city. No one ever saw a clean, progressive progres-sive happy community which did not have active, prosperous and healthy business institutions. It is the town with the best business which has the best schools, the best hospitals and the most modern inprovements. No agency for promoting these progressive conditions is more important im-portant than the home newspaper. The local editor is constantly urging his readers to spend thir money at home and so build up the community in which all his readers must live. He practices what he preaches, and refuses to accept the advertisements of competing businesses in other communities. Therefore it is necessary neces-sary to keep up the local newspaper if we are to have the right kind of progressive and prosperous American Ameri-can communities. BUYING AT HOME MAKES THE HOME TOWN BETTER Most Americans are convinced of the fact that it is better to buy American Am-erican goods than those made in foreign for-eign countries, where American made products can be obtained and it is well to remember that it is equally as sound business sense to buy in one's home city rather than in some nearby city where the goods can be had at home. For just as we want to make and keep America the most prosperous |