The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-06-28

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of soap can be bought for a half cent
a cake less at Bingbang & Co.'S, Chi
cago. than from Brown. their home
grocer. There are a few other prices
that appeal to them, some of them, tc
be sure, on things they never had
thought OF BUYING but appealing for
all that And they argue that they
have right to spend their money
where II will bring them tho best re.
turns.
What Is the result7
The next day a great big bunch OF
letters go out to Bingbang & Co. and
In few days the goods come piling
back. For the time being we will
wave all question OF whether the
goods are or are not satisfactory. To
be sure, Hiram Scroggs makes great
to-do because the trousers he sent for
DO not fit and gets angry when the
local clothler falls to listen attentive
~ TO his troubles, refusing absolutely
TO swap the Bingbang trousers for a
pair OF Auburn trousers. We will
waive all this and get down to the
meat In the cocoanut
This trading out of town is felt at
once by the local merchant whose
sales have fallen off considerably.
Then, too, he notes that the cash GUS
| toners having sent all their money to
| chicago, are asking him to carry them
Bingbang doesn't do this, but the
home merchant is compelled to give
credit.
How II Affects General Business.
The banker getting nervous over
the accounts Of the local store brings
q bit of pressure to bear. The mer-
| chant does the best he can but, In
time, with so much money going out
of town, he gives up and quits. The
store building he was In is owned by
Andrew Dodds. Andrew comes down
town the next day after the merchants
failure wearing an overcoat he has
bought of Binghang. and when he sees
his vacant storeroom, he bushes for
himself. This store room represented
about all his surplus capital and he
may be pressed 70 pay his bills. To
MS chagrin there doesn't seem to be
much chance to re-rent the building
because Smith, across the street. is
wabbling on his business pins since
Wheeler & Wheeze, of New York, I'M
loaded that last carload of mail-order
catalogs-and that store room is even
better located than his Taxes are
due and there isn't enough money In
MS bank account to meet the obliga-
ton. To his utter amazement, An
drew finds that others are in the same
predfcament. The parcels post and
the mail-order houses have been do
Ing rushing business and have
bloodsucked Auburn until she is no
longer a thriving business town.
Dissatisfied families without hold
ings move away. The town board
and the school board get together and
decide not to appropriate money for
high school the next year because
everybody is poor. business is poor
and the town is poor. Your boy was
about to enter the high school, but
now he has to go to work instead
Mother, when you stop to think that
Auburn Is like the town you actually
live in, and like. thousands of towns
over this country, you may begin to
realize what 1t means to tear down
the country town In the upbulldlng of
the great city. You may begin to
realize how many mothers are weep
Ing over shattered dreams, how many
are asking with tear-dlmmed eyes,
"Where is my wandering boy to-
nlght?"
Organize the Women.
You love your boy! You are will
ing to fight for him! Then take up
arms against the parcels post. Or
ganize the women of your community
and begin a systematic campaign for
your boys and your girls. Write your
to help you fight the bat
tie for your children.
The foe you are lighting is striving
to throttle your town, striving to |
close your stores and your churches |
and your schools. 1t is taking away |
from the country with its health and !
its freedom, its morality and its de- |
cency. the chance for you to live other
than a clod upon the land, and it is |
forcing-your boy into |
the city with its filth and its servility. |
It's immortality and its indecency. to |
become a flat-dweller between cold !
and sitting walls, with people above |
and below and around HMM a home |
that has no right to be called a home,
that has no flowers or pure air or
things that ennoble and make men
great and good and pure.
There is no life like the life in the
open. in the country town. 1t is nat
ural and free and unstrained. Look
into the faces of the city street,
mother-lnto the drawn faces, the
Ieerine faces, the distorted faces, the
Iiquor-b faces, the vlce-rldden
faces, the hawk and wolf faces, and
ask yourself, "Shall fight the power
that is building this sort Of men7"
All. will you fight the power? Win
you work for Auburn and your boys
and girls? If you will and get your