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Show THERE ARE TWO SIDES We've done considerable preaching during the past year against the disloyal community spirit and penriclous habit some people have of buying from mail-order houses the very things they can secure in the stores of Delta and at as reasonable prices. But all the time we are doing such preaching we want our home merchants to remember that there are two sides to the question. It is not right for residents of this county to buy elsewhere. else-where. We all know that. But at the same time you shouldn't expect your home-town paper to be continuously fighting your battles if you don't yourself bellevs in the power of printer's ink strong enough to use a litle of it. In most instances people who buy by mail do so with a full knowledge of what they are doing. But in many cases they buy things because they do not know, and are not being told, that they can get the same things here at home. In a lot of instances they would buy the things they order or-der by mail if they saw those things advertised in the home paper. pa-per. The sooner the merchants of this country wake up to the fact that they are doing business at a disadvantage so long as , they are not advertising their wares, while the mail-order merchant mer-chant is flooding the land with attractive and alluring catalogues, cata-logues, the better off they will be. We propose to continue to preach against trading away from home, because we know trading tra-ding away from home isn't right. But at the same time we could preach a much stronger sermon if the papers in which that sermon ser-mon appears also carried the advertising messages of local merchants mer-chants every week. f |