Show What do we owe to our Although the subject has been well-worn by editorials and articles in the it seems duty of this newspaper to again call attention to false economic values placed by some on purchasing goods outside our own The age-old problem of trying to maintain or build the nomy of an area has been one of concern to every particularly in this day and age of expanding metropolitan Vast shopping centers and merchants bait the communities with tre- and draw a continuous flow of money into these Who benefits by these Is it the purchaser who drives from the Basin to Provo or Salt Lake to take advantage of these Is it the merchant who this trade into his and his One thing and you can bet your bottom dollar on is the merchant isn't giving something for and if he is offering an item much below the regular selling you can be sure he has some gimmick or plan to get his hand in your other pocket to make up the difference in the profit he must Economic studies by groups have pointed out although some items in the so-called discount houses are below regular selling other prices are higher than in most of our local The centers are playing the theory that if we can get them in the we can get some money out of you can be sure the merchant makes out all right on every else who benefits from this type of is the merchant and often other merchants in the same town where you take your It stands to reason that a jaunt to the city will require a service station maybe a meal or and perhaps even a stay over night and often you see other things you need that could have been purchased at Who who stands to Certainly the biggest loser is your own It is impossible for a community particularly one such as the Uintah to perpetuate itself without the continual rotation of Money which must go out of the area for necessary purchases must be replaced by some other such as tourist dollar coming back into the area from some other when the amount of money leaving an area exceeds which is brought in in the way of new there is only one way for the economy to This is exactly what happens when unnecessary ases are made outside the bounds of our We are bleeding the very source of our Can a purchaser save money by doing his in the If we take the results of surveys have been which indicate that prices are not always what they add to this the cost of travel and other incidental costs such as time and wear and add to this the loss to the economy of your and certainly cannot honestly say that the paid We've often heard the old don't owe the local merchant a I'll shop where I can save the Of course we don't owe our local merchants We don't owe anything to our parents and grandparents who built up this area for We don't owe our children since they can always go somewhere else to make a Maybe we don't owe anyone else but we do owe something to We should be able to hold our heads up and have done my part in I've helped build instead of down my community |