| Show small towns dont die they Commit Suicide the following article from the eaton baton rapids minu journal contains some truths which may be aptly applied to our own community comm iun read it and then think the matter over aver when tempted to send your money anoney out out CB 00 town tor for articles you can obtain from your home town merab merchant ant towns do not dio die they commit suicide said eald b a newspaper recently and it Is true if I 1 everybody who mateos makes his money in this community would spend his money in his own community tho the home town would double in population and in a few years it would be prosperous why axe are tilling filling stations out ot of all proportion to every other line ot of business in number because people buy almost all ot of their gas and oil at home it Is really why people will persist in spending money out of town needlessly ahn the results ot of this practice are so costly we know cofone ot one individual in the city now out of a job this particular individual rarely spent a cent in eaton rapids even when toe he could have saved money some two or three years yeara ago this person ww was informed that it if his bis practice ot of spending money out ot of town would work himself out oat ot of a job entirely and that Is just what happened how can the man or anyone else hire employees it they ha haviel nothing for them to do or any money to pay them when you spend a dollar outside you take it right out ot of tho dockets pockets ot of some local citizen and speaking ot of the penny wise and pound foolish policy this ia 48 it save a few cents by spending your money in some other city and then in the course ot of time find your husband out ot of a job because business conditions here will not warrant hla his rema remaining luing in some come ones employ the tight fight la Is on in all smaller cities this does docs not mot apply alono alone to eaton rapids it Is becoming a very serious question and one that must be reckoned ned with in the near future just as mentioned above the small town Is not dying it la is committing suicide inch by inch its people doing it instead of casting this idea oft like so many snow enow flakes it Is tune time and right now whoa when every individual should give the matter serious thought otherwise therell be more vacant stores in the city than we regret to report today eaton baton rapids journal |
