Show Did You Ever Stop to Think 10 loh Edson R R. Waite Walte Shawnee Okla lo Arthur II H. Ta Taylor lor editor of the Greensboro N N. C. C Record says THAT few people consider the di direct direct direct di- di effect upon the individual or orthe orthe orthe the community of buying ones one's needs from out town out of town merchants instead of from the home merchant Every dollar which goes from ones one's own community to another and perhaps a n distant community impoverishes the the one and enriches the other to just that extent If this his process becomes becomes be be- comes general the home merchant must quit business the community loses the amount of his license tax the landlord a desirable tenant of business property Finally the trend is to the reduction of ot competition by the diminution of the number of merchants to the decline in the val val- value value ue of business re realty to the decrease in the purchasing ability of those injuriously affected and in this way all other lines of business are depressed depressed de de- de pressed to an appreciable extent The bargain hunter who becomes a mail order buyer or who goes to a nearby city to purchase goods because because be be- cause he fancies he can save something something some some- thin thing is comparable to the woman who walks two miles and spends an nn hour going and returning in ord order r to save five or ten cents Like as not the cheap purchase is damaged inferior inferior in in- in quality or shoddy We talk much in these post war days of operation co service and sacrifice but are we operating co-operating with our fellow citizens when we snoop around out of town to purchase purchase pur pur- chase goods in a vain vair effort to te save savea a few pennies Are Are Are- we serving our community or our own best interest by depressing business at home What sort of sacrifice can we find in such a course other than that of our own welfare Let W us ua buy at home exercising our best judgment and information through reliable advertising and let the bargain hunters delude themselves themselves them them- selves thus and thus alone may we hope to be real community builders and sharers in the enhancement of values incident to logical and legitimate legitimate mate growth Copyright 1926 l ui I- I |