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Show HOME INDUSTRY VERSUS THE "PEDDLER" The patronage of any out of town salesman who is .selling products that could and should he purchased locally, however innocently the purchase may he made, is an indirect attack on the community in which you reside. re-side. Most of us realize that when we stop to think it ' over, yet smooth talking "peddlers" either by personal contact or by mail continue to steal a sizeable volume of business from the home merchant. And the surprising surpris-ing thing about it is that all of us are guilty to some extent, ex-tent, and yet we sit back and wonder out loud what we should do to stop it. Your home merchant is situated in your community, com-munity, and he puts his money back in circulation here through taxes, churches, schools, living expenses, and in countless contributions to organizations and funds. Everyone receives either direct or indirect benefit from the sales of every merchant in the city. On the other hand, the peddler can lay claim to none of these. He can only offer to cut the price on your local concerns, take the money out of town where it helps to build another an-other community. On the surface it might appear that it would be an easy matter to halt the practice, but such isn't the case We all know about it and run into it in our various; lines of merchandising, yet we allow it to continue. Our only suggestion would be "let's think it over carefully before placing an order with the next salesman who .shows up." |