Show r at atHe He is Un American Un-American American who Puts Self Wealth Above the Commonwealth ti I f it- it I The Cost of Our Local Improvements J r I From all parts of the tho country come como reports o of great activity rin t r tin tin in towns and villages in the matter of public improvement Noth Noth- ling could be bo more encouraging providing the problem is is sensibly semi semi- bly attacked but if your 1 villages begin to run wild and act without with- with of them are arc brewIng brewing brew- brew lout lout out a proper perspective of finance then many ing ling serious trouble Taxation is on on the tho jump almost every every- where The Tho amount of taxes now pai l b bt people Pa lis is larger than the whole foreign trade of ot the United Stat States both incoming The sum total of taxation is four times as great us Ui I Ithe the American profit on all foreign trade I In Germany is heard the cry that taxation has brought utter ruin rain to the people We hear the echo from France and alsofrom also from England Let us not forget forget the that law of economics is 13 f Hot not national It is universal America cannot escape tho the effect than Great Britain or the tho the of exchange taxation exchange taxation any more can benighted of The business of the world today needs more capital than ever IThe Tho trouble Id is the man on the street does not grasp the first rules rule Ii Df f national business building x With restricted capital business cannot expand It requires more money to harvest and market a hundred acre crop than it is to expand and nd floes does a ten a acre re crop and if American industry prices be kept within the normal liquid capital and legitimate credit must be increased We cannot have our cake and eat it If It the money of the nation is spent because of a sudden Budden craze for improvements improvement something else elso will have to go by the board L f Business Ships to Success F d P. P Mann Diann is a merchant in Devils Devil's Lake North Da Dakota ota Ho He sells a half million dollars' dollars worth of goods every He has built his hiJ Sear in a tawn of five thousand population business from nothing His capital has been intelligence He tandi rands today an inspiration for any small town merchant who to build a paying business on a sound foundation There Thoro Are aro thousands of merchants who flop along without any r I 1 Dim aim im except an instinctive desire to accomplish These lire fare the tho merchandising derelicts The ship that reaches port in in time Limo me to win the tho cargo is one that is steered with a B definite purpose purpose pur pur- pose roso and along a course courso thoroughly charted Mr Dir Mann Diann frankly says his success is one of two things things sen sen- sen aible eible buying and vigorous newspaper advertising He lie spends money in newspaper advertising than any small merchant in the United States The Tho answer is Ii he do does doe more business th thin than n nany any small merchant In the United States I 1 J Half tho the local merchants in small towns see ceo in ill advertising nothing bathing but typographical announcements The money they waste in direct by br mail advertising is astounding ing The Them Theto is IB la f not noth skilled advertising man in the whole of ol the United States who h II W 4 ses ea a advertising except as a supplement to th thC newspapers newspaper r. r Without the newspaper tho rest U Is useless If It we fail to learn b by bho the ho experience len e of others wha have hAV succeeded e than wo we all be ni I la lii tKo the marcK of orli marJ Mar field I Field ln J P. P are not I io Q o S gad r l J |