Show mUNI COMMUNITY SUICIDE One of the strangest phenomena witnessed In most towns and small smail cities is the apparent eagerness with which many otherwise good citizens contribute to ro the tendency to ro commit community suicide These citizens will often show uncommon uncommon un un- common zeal In boosting any move movement ment to obtain city Improvements to promote the location of at new Industries industries Indus indUS- tries to secure better educational facilities fa facilities facilities fa- fa and so Yet many of these same ame proud boosters will wUl deliberately engage in a practice which nullifies all their otherwise laudable efforts efforts- and wonder why their town doesn't go eo ahead I j We refer to the suicidal habit of all off buying away from home iThe j i The enormous growth of at the mall mail maUl order habit In recent years is largely largely large large- ly 17 responsible for the failure of many communities to make the progress their natural advantages should make possible The money that ought to ro be kept at home for the expansion of or local tra trade and Industry Is 11 sent away to distant cities never to r re re turn The Wood lifeblood of prosperity is Allowed to ro ebb ch away through the tho In Indifference in- in difference or thoughtlessness of the persons who ho should set set an example example ex ex- ample of local 1 pride and loyalty A A. trifling saving here and there usually more Imaginary than real is sufficient to cause the average citizen to forget torget his his' duty to his hla community and to himself which If it performed would me mean n far more more in the direction of local prosperity than all his other boosting efforts put together Why boost in one direction while committing community suicide In an an- other |