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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR I (The Doctor of Towns) j " gays W!1Y DOES A MULE STICK HIS HEAD THROUGH A FENCE You have seen many a mule reaching for grass on the other side of the fence. He gets his ears stuck, his neck scratched and his throat cut up, when there is just as much, just as green, and Just as high and luxuriant luxu-riant grass right under his very hoofs. Jid it ever occur to you to ask the question why he does that? There is reason it's because he's a mule. The same logic and reasoning applies ap-plies to people in many communities who insist on buying their needs in some other town, from mail order houses. Now, do not misunderstand this is WTitten with only the intent of placing plac-ing blame where blame is due. Not now, nor at any other time, does this writer overlook your side of the question. There are many merchants wno do not deserve your consideration but which ones do arid which ones do not? There's no law of statute or reason that even implies that you should buy anything from any merchant, mer-chant, If that merchant is so behind the times, or is of a disposition that he does not tell you "what he has to offer and now, Invite you to buy it and give you a "reason why" you should buy It from him,' In preference to anyone else, whether that anyone else be local in some other town, a mail ortler house, or a peddler- The only way for you to be sure of those who are deserving is to give your local merchants a chance to serve you. Then, if they do not do their part, that's different. A merchant that does not go out of his way to get what you think you want; that does not arrange his store and his stock, train his help and create an atmosphere to please; the merchant that does not sell you the way you want to be sold, who continually con-tinually cries about business and still does nothing to please, satisfy and serve you, when he has the chance that merchant is not deserving. deserv-ing. You make your own money it i3 yours, and you have a right to spend It where you please, with whom you please and for what you please, but stop and consfder your condition, If the community was taken away from you. The community can get along without you, but if the community was completely taken away from the source of your income, then what? It is a business proposition. Every time you buy something for the same or more money, quality considered, from anyone or anyplace other than from your own community, it is costing cost-ing you money. Everybody laughs at a mule. So "Try The Home Folks First" Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction Re-production prohibited in whole or in part. |