The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-06-22
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,,,,, mean several new and up-to-ua''
houses: a lot of work for our ca'
nsn,srs. painters, paper hangers anu ~.
m.son. more work for the MUS
.-,,ch IN turn can offer work to lao-
orars and it will mean busy town
sa,a a. a time when most towns are
looking mighty dull. s,.
This is not an original idea' put
that isn't the question. is 1t prac'-
teal idea? What do you think! Ion
Won believe we have it in US 10 "aAe
WIDEN hum? Write me your op'n'
Ion this subject.
1et,s organize Lynden Forever
Club. II you had made up your ni'" :,
that YOU was going to live here I'll
the days of your life you would pe
busy trying to make this the pest
town 70 live in. The trouble Is most
of us are trying to make it the pest
town to make money in.
Whenever a plan is suggested 1or
the development OF the town the 1irs'
suggestion. invariably. is bring III
more industries 1t is customary
to throw out all sorts OF induce
ments for the location OF FACTORIES
including exemption from taxes TOT
a time. free sites and bonuses. anu
these methods have contributed 30
much toward building up hundreds OF
prosperous municipalities that their
wisdom can not be questioned. Any
thing that will add to our desirable
population, that will give employ
ment to men who support famiiaes
and thus contribute to the general
welfare, is at all times desirable.
But the people who Join heartily
In the work of bringing in new IN
dustries, and who show the greatest
enthusiasm over this feature Of the
public work in which all good cltiz-
ems share. sometimes are the first to
forget that the new industries brought
in and the old ones already here re-
quire continuous support and falling
to get 1t become hindrance rather
than an aid to development.
We are apt to overlook. too, the
fact that the home merchant Is en-
titled to as much consideration as
he factory which We have obtained
by special effort. The merchant Is
4 necessity-even more SO than the
factory: for who cares to live in
where there are no stores.
or where the stores are closed and
barred and the merchants have moved
away, forced to other fields by lack
Of patronage?
The retail store. properly conduct
ed. Is an industry that should have
the support of every loyal citizen.
Our pride In the home town is meas
ured by our willingness to support its
merchants and its industries.
It Is not necessary to build a
Chinese wall around Our community
to refuse to buy outside when we
can do 10 to advantage. But the man
who will send away for something
that he can buy at homef on as good
or better terms needs education and
lacks loyalty. Sometimes. unfortun-
ately. the very one who should be
least liable to this criticism. the local
merchant. IL given to sending abroad
for things which he ought to buy
from his neighbors Then, again,
there is the farmer who finds it
easier to mail his order to big city
than to come to town. Often he is
handicapped by bad roads and thus
has . valid excuse. But he ought to
be able to buy by mail from our
own merchants as safely and as ad-
vantageously as from someone at a
distance with whom he has no ac-
quafntance. II he is not furnished
the facilities It Is time for the i'm
provement Of our merchandising meth.
ods. And he ought to have good
roads that would make a trip to town
a pleasure.
Much remains to be done to streng-
then our local business interest. We
ought to give real support to any
move that will tend to keep our
money at home. American Lum-
herman.
No man ever helped this town very
much by sending money away from
1t.
And nobody he ever sent II 70
ever helped this town very much
either.
Thomas B. Sumner, of Everett. Is
mentioned a. q possible candidate