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Show RETAIL TRADE AND COMMUNITY PROGRESS Do pcoplo who buy goods away I from homo stop to think how retail trnde lies at the foundation of our 1 1 prosperity? IK A very largo sharo of the taxes of I 1 any community Is pat dby tho retail I I merchants or their employes. Many II' of the employees may pay -no direct Mm tnxes, but they rent houses on which n taxes nro paid. If tho homo stores IB did not employ theso people, the Bt houses would stand empty, or more IV likely would never have been built. II If every ono would make It n K point to buy goods whonever possl. .' I bio In tho homo town, our merchants H would lncrcaso their business nnd pay more taxes. This would mako I possible moro public Improvements a lower tax rato or both. fl If wo aM got the 'Tluy away from tm homo" fovor, some of our merchants Hi would have to ault, while others B1 would hava to reduce their stocks BJ nnd turn off part of their help. Mnny H housoa would bo vncant. Taxable UM property would fall off, and strict HI municipal' economy would ho noccs- H sary. It would hurt every public Hj scrvlco supportotl out of taxes. Bj When you send money out of IJU town, jou holi pay taxes and secure III' public Improvements somewhoro elso. J ' Hotter keop It nt homo to get our BJC own public improvements with. Send- BJ ing money away Is killing the gooso II that lays the golden egg. While wo IB nro reaching out for pennies wo IB think we nro saving, we nro sub. B trading tho dollars that build up J homo prosperity, and on which our pub'Ic wolll being depends. B Tho success of retail trade Is cs- B ecntlal to tbe town's advancement In all lines of progress. If tho morch- ant and their employes nro doing B well, they contrlbuto freely to tho U churches, lodges, charities, and all B. our philanthropies. Taking money B away from homo trade currents Is H. taking it away from all these inter- BJ cats, so vital to the advancement of BJ tho town. |