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Show . BUYING AT HOME : ' It has often been said, "Why patronize that local merchant? Is it solely because you want to keep his good will?" The answer comes in no uncertain terms: that merchant is dependent upon you, but you are dependent depen-dent upon him. Stop and consider what you would do without him, and then measure his value to you and your community in terms of civic and economic-loss if he were to move from our midst.' That local merchant ilves in Bingham' Canyon; he buys what he can in and about Bingham Canyon; he advertises in Bingham Canyon; his $ife, his children his all are here. If he makes a mistake in a business transaction trans-action in his favor, he is here to rectify it. If the quality of his merchandise fails, he is here to make it good. He trusts you, he carries you along financially, finan-cially, charging no interest; he lays awake at night studying how to bring his values up and his prices down to meet an honest and legitimate competition, com-petition, in order that he may remain here and have a just competence for himself and his love dones. Think twice before you spend money out of Bingham Canyon, for goods you can buy here where every courtesy awaits you and every opportunity oppor-tunity for fair dealing is available to you. Besides, you honestly owe this much to your neighbors and fellow townsmen, and they owe their services-to services-to you. Don't let your money get so far away from home. It has every chance of coming back to you if you do not give it too much rope. |