Show prosperity AT HOME ROME i fir pHERE HERE IS NOTHING OF GREATER importance TO ug UN THAN THE IT jl prosperity OF OUR COMMUNITY prosperity AT HOME IS BASED ON LOCAL BUSINESS C conditions if our local merchants mer chanta and storekeepers transact a large volume of business bustness their prosperity ie is communicated to every person tn in the entire community the of our real estate increase wages are increased there to more money in circulation and it la Is more readily obtained tor for purposes aea of expansion paying tor for ImproTe improvement ments buying luxuries etc in every way we can discover better conditions condl tlona on all sides when our business busl nees men are buey busy thre there la every reaton reason in the world why we should spend our cash at home instead of ending sending it to the big cities by keeping it in circulation in i our home community we profit in many way ways but it we end send our out money to the mall order houses that ie to the last we hear bear of it if it enough money la in sent to the mail order houses from our community we may eastly put our local merchants mer chanta out of business by diverting our trade from our ival 1 cal storekeepers we can make it impossible for them to maintain their store stores every dollar sent out of air town to the mall order houses detracts acta juat just ao 80 m much u ch from our out own individual prosperity aa as well aa as from the prosperity of the and from the community in central general think of the consequences if it we should all lend to the mall order houses forout necessities and our luxuries how long would it be before our local merchants would have the doling closing out aale gate signs on their doors to be followed by the for bale sale signs on the torea stores themselves thema elrea AND WHEN THE BUSINESS HOUSES ARE ALL advertised FOR SALE WHAT WILL BE THE VALUE I 1 OF OUR OWN HOUSES AND LOTS such condition conditions hare have actually prevailed in some communities it haa has happened that the elti zens became mall order mad and sent to the big cit lea ten for the greater part of their merchandise mer chandlee the local load merchants mer chanta abandoned the field because there was no business buil nesa there for them the burden owner owners because there were no bust bual of taxation fell on the wines property abax concern to bear tee the bis big which generally fall falls fn n fotr hare property values decreased until there were no to bidden bidders for andes undesirable real estate the town became dead in the me meantime antime the head of abig mall order house in chicago waa was drawing an of over a million and a quarter dollar dollars made possible by the business received by hia his a concern by mall from ou such ch communities so a the one above described and from our own community aa as well as fro from M other others all 11 II over the united state states diverted from storekeepers every dollar of this thin enormous enor moua income waa was mall small every dollar sent in to that great mall order concern amounting in to hundred hundreds of million millions of dollar dollars annually detracted from the struggling to become a center of population prosperity of some comman community ity the citizens who sent their money of abort short the ta but retarded by helping toward towards the prosperity of their owa own out in preference to unthinkingly those who sent their dollars it waa was all done of coarse course to consider that these same dollars dollar 1 I order hou houte so did not atop to the th ematt mall home community if it expended at would add to U 6 prosperity of the home those in their own community helping they did not atop top to reacon that by they would i be bot ot advancing their own interests teresta In thia THIS COMMUNITY ht ads YOUR HELP YOU NED THE HELP TO MAKE A BETTER COMMUNITY IN OP OF EVERY DOLLAR IM IN ORDER WHICH TO LIVE LIM YOU THE 1 prosperity nO OP OF THIS COMMUNITY OF GREATER VALUE AND TO GIVE YOU TO MAKE MAM YOUR youn PROPERTY THE BENE Fira OF A COMMUNITY IN WHICH TO MAKH YOUR youit HOME BRIGHTER MORIC DESIRABLE AND borth ORTH MORE IN dol DOI LAPS LAR 1 AND CENTS we must all cc alder theae these ets we must top stop end and think before ending sending our dollars to the mall order ordet hoose houses that our cooperation Is I 1 nece neceia community and that for our own ce fifish ad of our building the pe a up home institutions must patronize other mollye we with no vintages tant agea r u yen work for the advancement adran cement of and keep our dollar dollars at home ho me so 0 o that they can our own prosperity consider the question from it in A fact when we we III all al find and that that we can b bay aly as a cheaply and aa as profitably froin from our local view point every mail mall order house aad we then know what we e are bay buy from a me mer chanta as a I 1 instead 0 of buying a pig in a poke T |