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Show THE MAIL ORDER- HOUSE A COMMUNITY KILLER Here are some of the many evils of the mail order business: Mail order houses have grown rich at the expense of the local merchant. mer-chant. Every dollar that goes to a mail order house Instead of purchasing from a local dealer, leaves town never to return. Often customers of a local store have transferred a large part of their trade to a mail order concern long before the merchant learned anything about it. The smaller the town the greater the weight of the mail order house on the necks of the local merchants. The interest of the local retailer is diametrically opposed to that of the mail order house. In many en tire states mail order houses are so strongly entrenched that they feet hardly a contest from the local stores. Retail stores are a necessity to every town and hamlet. Spending money at home is a necessity to the prosperity of every town and hamlet. ham-let. Sending money away from home for articles that could be purchased at home is a direct blow to the local retailer, to the local newspaper, and to the local banker to the entire town. Add to this the vast payroll, In ytah for example, which puts comfort com-fort and happiness Into thousands of homes, and the consumer may well conclude to buy the Utah-Made goods from Utah concerns. What interest should the people in any community In this state have in a system which curtails employment employ-ment at home and saps the vitality of the state's Industrial life? Everythime you buy the Utah product you hasten the obsequies of the mail order business. The above statements apply equally equal-ly as forceful to the manufacturer, the wholesaler and the retailer as they do to the housewife. And yet the business men of this town who holler the loudest about "mail order houses" send out of town for over 50 per cent of their printing. |