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Show COMMUNITY SPIRIT STATISTICS show that the big cities of the country are growing faster than the smaller small-er ones. There are exceptions, but this is the rule. One of the principal reasons for this onmious tendency is lack of community spirit among so many people. "When a person buys supplies out of town, he helps some other oth-er place to grow. His support permits a merchant in some other place to inlarge his business, hire more clerks, and pay more taxes. The mer-' mer-' chant thus favored does nothing noth-ing in return, except to sell his goods at a price that can usually usu-ally be equaled or bettered in a home store. When you buy goods at home you help your home businessmen busi-nessmen to increase their business, busi-ness, to draw more help from other places, to pay more taxes, tax-es, and do more to support all homo institutions. It pays to think what will become of your money after you spend it. i)o you want it to help your own interests, or those of some . larger city? |