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Show PURCHASING POWER AT HOME V Without regard to price, distance or delay, and granting that home pride ""and community duty did not enter into the question, we still would say that your dollar has a greater purchasing power when spent in the home community com-munity than when spent our of it. No prodigy in mathematics is necessary to figure out the simple proposition that a dollar spent in Bingham Canyon is a dollar invested in Bingham Canyon. Communities have no protecting tariffs or trade treaties, or revenue collecting measures as have nations. But when you buy away from home you pay for it. ' The tariff you pay is the loss in general prosperity of the home town; and every citizen, by virtue of the convenience, service and protection that his home community affords him, engages at least in a moral treaty with his fellow citizens. |