Show MAYBE YOURE YOU'RE RIGHT BUT BUT BUT- J f I Perhaps you ou are are one of those who Is sick an tired d or or reading reading reading read read- the Home Town Merchants Merchants Merchants Mer Mer- ing about Buy at Home Be UBe Loyal to chants etc Being eing a fair minded individual a all l I 1 ca can say Is Maybe youre you're right but but but- You may feel as the gentleman who recently said to me Your saying Try the Home Folks First may be all right and andI I dont don't say it isn't the proper thing but it does get my goat to have bave certain people in many towns always preaching Buy at atHo Ho Home Hoine e to me and then turn around and do the opposite themselves them them- selves selves tf 1 i f 4 i Sa Sad but it is true tru that it is often of oft ten the case casc l Not long ong ago a prominent mer merchant bant sat at his bis desk lambasting lambasting lambasting ing th tn people of his Ilis community with doing business with door to door solicitors and buying elsewhere other things he be had bad to sell He started to give me figures figures and and what do you suppose he wrote them on Stationery he had purchased through the manufacturer of a product he lie sold I called his nis attention to it and he said I never thought of that thatA A tire dealer in this same town said Business is bum because because because be be- cause everybody in this town has the mail order bug A halt hall hour later I saw a statement from this tire store on the desk of ofa a banker banker made out on a bil head printed by a mail order concer con con- cern When told of this the tire man said Well Veil I never looked looked looked look look- ed at it that way t 1 I once heard a druggist give a regular lecture on buying at home and that same evening saw conclusive evidence that members of his did just what he was cussing others for doing He said in reply Well that's a little different I 1 heard a hardware dealer rave recently because a dry goods merchants merchant's wife bought a elsewhere when I told him th that t I happened to knoy that his wife would not buy a dress in town for fear others would know what she paid for it he said Well that's our Such cases as these do get a persons person's goat and that is why I Maybe Z youre you're right but but but- Dont Don't let say you re these few goat getters getters' influence your attitude Because a few people dont don't practice what they preach dont don't cut off yo your r nose hose nose to spite your face by saying Well they do it so why shouldn't I Be big Dont Don't l let t the way of ot doing and thinking of little people pull you down to their level If you dont don't like Buy at Home all right right right- but remember F this Its It's good business on your part any way you look at it and its it's money in your pocket in th the long run to Try the Home Folks First i 1 This article printed by the Chronicle in cooperation with the k s. Delta Lions Club J E |