Show apprehension unnecessary on the street are areto to alie effect that the getting together of our merchants for bodes only price advances that such advances are made possible is obvious of coila course e but to say that such is the real pur pose of the organization as s to shoot very wide of the marl mark the real purpose is to bring about conditions under tinder which all of them may prosper and at the same time better serve the community that those two objects are possible without price advances will be appreciated when the matter is given careful thought elimination of so much duplication of stock will mean less les money invested vest edless less help and less expense it in obber wai making possible lower prices it is quite possible that in many instances buying through an organization in larger quantities will enable them to get better prices thus effecting a saving which can be pasted to the customer other addan tw ta P i to the merchants are that through an organization they can better handle the credit situation than when they are all fighting each other in a struggle for ex istance their buying collectively will elim nate the danger of overbuying over buying if each grocery store for instance krows knows just how bow many cases of cof ape tomatoes peas etc otc to its competitors are buying the tendency to ov er stock will will dwindle dv indle and the same thing is true in case of shoes dry goods and other lines and too much credit coupled with overbuy over nver buy ing both to a great extent there the result of ruthless ruth lesi competition have been the undoing of our business houses in the past but the real benefit should come to the public in the better service which will will be possible by the cutting out of broken lines by bv some and the installing of complete lines of those same commodities by others for instance we have long needed a line of furniture instead of two or three broken lines which rarely carried the things we needed some individual concern should handle mal rna chinery cliine ry a stock of electrical fixtures plumbing supplies would be advantageous tage ous a feeds store where one conald bv ary any kind of chopped or nr whole grain alfalfa or grass hay bay bran screenings and even poultry supplies tanking 0 for rings etc ill 1 I n benl need the getting r bil cinc i lne is s tk tte e most likely th thi ingeme ngwe can think about to bring about those conditions and so we say say that any apprehend sion lest their action for bodes evil i is bwy re iry ve arti ipaty thi that we cs reif pi P rs r s ind listing 1 I tally toa it should bead it the sooner we learn to xii ocal cal institutions more and the in il order houses less of our good in lit in the faster will this community grow even if it does cost it a little more to buy some articles at horne home which is rarely the case tv considered the money expended a home helps to build up home and make inake it a better place in which to live and rear families it has bas been within the observation f ill III of us that when ben the busi business houses hou ses are prospering the town li hums bums those engaged are continually looking forgays for ways to improve their services and the community generally chileon while on theoph the other hand if they are not prospering they take no interest nor does anyone else get inspiration from them to keep things going if by any chance one of them happens to accumulate a few surplus dollars ten to one he will spend it in building a new home or other improvements for which he must buy brick lumber etc produced here and pay for labor of local people and so the money you spent with him may come back to you fromang from any one of a thousand directions bit b it what you send to the mail order house is lost for all time so farasy far as you vu are concerned it seem then that prudence would direct the purchase of less money orders and more merchandise at home incidentally too it should be added that the sooner we learn to give local institutions more and the mail order houses less of our good money the faster will this community grow even if it does cost a little more to buy some articles at home chichis chis rarely the case quality considered si the money expended at home helps to buildup build up home and make it a better place in which to live and rear families |