| Show TRADE AT HOME the assessment rolls of this county count reveal that the parowan carowan equitable is assessed tor for taxation purposes this year for the P carowan parowan auto co with win H gurr with marsdend Mars dens with parowan carowan drug co with green green with 1955 matheson Mat beson mat market with 2240 J alma benson 2880 and so on all those busine business is houses are taxed to help build our roads educate our cb children ildren police our city and otherwise maintain our government their names are always prominent among the doners fot for charitable purposes public celebrations tio ns etc we have failed to find however where sears roebuck co montgomery ward the golden rule or any other of the favorite mail order houses ever paid one cent of taxes into this city or ever contributed one me cent toward any worthy undertaking der taking and yet scores of people patronize those companies almost to the exclusion of our local institutions or even worse many of them send all their booey away and then ask to be carried are you guilty do you think you are shooting square with our business men our community or even with yourselves our merchants are a tolerant set or they would get together and compare notes and whenever they discovered that a patron of the mail order houses was running accounts with the local people they would absolutely refuse to extend them single cent of credit until all those local accounts were paid such drastic measures should not be necessary however because every citizen of the community should be for this city first last and all the time rather than for chicago kansas city or some other far off city and should spend his money here there is another side to this trad i ig at home story too the merchant who has a right to expect the patronage of his community also has a moral obligation he must have the things people wish or at least if he be them he be should make an effort to get them immedi atela he owes efto it to the commom commini ty to devote sufficient time to his business to know the market marketto to buy to the best aest possible adv amare e so he can sell to his customers at the lowest figure no customer will object to the merchants making a fair profit if he be knows that the mpr mer chant has bought to the best ble advant advantage aZe but when a customer gets it into his bead head that alq A Ls merchant is just buying because the drummer says he needs it and is not devoting sufficient time to know whether he is buying right that customer Is is in a fit mood to fall for the bargains of Sears Roebuck whether there is just cause for it or not we dont know but there seems to be more than the usual amount of complaint about the service our stores are giving we mention this in no spirit of fault faultfinding anding but rather that the merchants may know and check up on an t their heir methods to ascertain if there is foundation for the complaint no one denies that there is too much money leaving this c community Om for things which should be bought right here we cant grow as we should until that condition ceases it if failure of merchants to give service is responsible then they must mend their ways and in any event citizens must be more loyal to their community and to those who pay taxes and work to make it better |
