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Show WE CAN'T EXPLAIN IT We've otfen wondered why it is that a smooth-talking si ranger with a flashy front can come into Delta and sell a lot of stuff that usually can be had at our own stores, pocket the money and get out of town with good grace, while if a fellow residing re-siding here tried the same thing he would starve to death the first week. We've noticed, too, that not only are many of our people more inclined to trade with a stranger than a neighbor, but our merchants, as a rule, are just as "easy." A stranger can come through with an advertising scheme that is almost wholly without with-out merit and yet, by the aid of smooth talk and fancy figures he can unload his space or his advertising novelty on the very merchants mer-chants who hesitate and hem and haw for hours when the matter mat-ter of space in their home paper is mentioned. Yet they know that the home paper goes right into the hands of the very people they MUST sell their goods to. We confess that we've never been able to ' figure it out. We've wondered why some people can't refuse a stranger's plea for an order, but can turn right around and tell someone who lives here and who is also trying to make a living that they do not care to buy. Agents come and agents go, and always they take more out of town than they leave in it. Yet there is always a welcome for them at the homes of a good many people, well-meaning well-meaning people, too, who haven't learned to say "no" to a stranger, but can flatly refuse to encourage a neighbor who is a thousand times more entitled to their trade, We can't understand under-stand it much less explain it. X |