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Show Shop At Home Plea Produces Results Local merchants are begmning to feel the results of the "Patronize Your Home Town Merchant" campaign cam-paign which has been appearing in the columns of this publication over the past few weeks. The urge to buy at home stressed the facts that increased cost of auto transportation runs in to ' real money. The tire situation demanding demand-ing that the present rubber on the cars be conserved and further, that the fictitious savings made by shopping in a larger town are purely fictitious have been driven home to buyers of necessities. Another vital fact was pointed out Vihen stress was put on the fact that the success of the local merchant mer-chant had a direct bearing on local home taxes. If a community can boast of successful suc-cessful merchants, it is a certainty that a low real estate tax rate prevails. pre-vails. The merchant is usually the heaviest taxpayer. If he is unsuccessful, unsuc-cessful, his taxes naturally will be split up to cover every home in the community. Make it a duty to buy all needed merchandise from your local merchant. mer-chant. When he prospers, you in turn prosper. |