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Show THOSE WHO ROB TI By dogging the Home Town Wheels tf'h-'' ' '"' - f By Thomas J. Sullivan 1 ,? -'A J ' ' ' ';v I .. j . ' ' No town can grow and prosper if its citizens engage in the gentle practice of figuratively cutting each other's throats. It ought not to be necessary to support this statement with argument, but,, to change the .metaphor, there ate an many small towns where the poison of discord and greed have done their work, that the subject is one upon which a trade sermon - may be preached weekly with pro fit. "Invest your dollars and your pride in the home town" will put a stop to this disastrous practice in our commercial life of spending spend-ing money away from the home I town. ' . Patronising- Big City Stores Sobs "" Home Town . The thoughleas citizen and the citizen who has prospered profess Vvl to want ' something better than x their local merchants have in stock, so they send their "order", ' and their "money" to the bigl city stores The farmers and the wage-earners note this practice of their more sucessful townsmen and send their orders and money : to the catalogued house, and in most instances obtain cheap, inferior in-ferior goods, not worth nearly J what they eost Thus, the home town is robbed of its commercial strength, and as the commercial strength of the community is that of its citizenship, those who prac tice sending their money away to ether trade centres, in truth, rob themselves. Every trade centre and center of population is a busi t ness unit, the residents of which largely depend upon one another s for strength and sustenance. Their interests are mutual. - In a community where there are various industries properly ?i balanced by production and consumption, con-sumption, and where the controll ing. medium of exchange credit-' credit-' is on a firm and sound basis, the products of the community are . easily disposed of; prosperity and property values increase, and the ; community and its people are hap : py and satisfied. ' The Down-at-the-Heels Hotae ' "' Town j . But let these same people in - that same community patronize the big city stores and the cata- j"-- - - logue houses to the neglect of ' '' ; their own local reDailers, and we :' have the tragic picture, we so of , r ten see, of the home town "run- down-at-the-heels," sapped of its . , vital strength, its credit, and with a deteriorating population.' Its ' , citizens sent their money to the I big stores in the big cities. What return, did the big city merchants and the catalogue houses give for ; ' this trade? Notaing. They ex-" ex-" changed their goods for the home -town's money, and spent not a ' . farthing in the products of the ', " home town. They bought none . ; of the products of the local "farms, they paid none of the local lo-cal taxes, and none of their mo-ney mo-ney was kept in the local banks. They bought no advertising space ' in the local newspapers they did nothing but drain the home town k of its dollars. To participate in : this disastrous practice is down-A down-A right disloyalty to the home town Let's be loyal and make the home town our citadel of business as i ; well as home. |