The Winslow mail., 1913-05-31
URGES "CET-TO- -GETHER"
MOVEMENT OF MERCHANTS

The following sefexpanitory letter from Mr. w Ping
ton of the Merchants Trade Journal Des Mones Ia was
received this week by of the merchants in our city,
You and the other business your town have contr
buted both in taxes and in donations large money
the developing of the farming community around
1T and IN improving conditions in country You have done
this through direct donations we'll through taxes You
must all bear your share of these burdens and YOU have done
that the people of your community might be
and have spend.
The selling direct by mail have not
helped rather they have you developed this
high degree of prosperity and reaped benefit from it without
contributing toward the bringing this pros
perty.
The Government says you: We will deliver the mail thru
the country if keep roads and bridges The
of doing this your pocket along comes
the maorder house and selling direct
and the benefit those good roads and bridges you put
in, but not pay cent of the expenses
Your has build up agricultural colleges and
state schools that the people Of your might
prosperous that they could work better and have more
to spend This have DONE but the doing
business by mail with the reap the benefit without
contributing its support
From the standpoint of justice economies these concerns
ought to bear their part Of the burden They should made
to assist in bearing burdens of this kind that people
might be prosperous
We thoroughly agree Mr. Pington in what he has to
in his letter regarding the maorder houses and their
mode of doing business But what the Wnsow merchants
doing to alter these conditions that at exist here
certain extent as well other towns Of like size
The people themselves not always to blame
The mail order house. who knows that it's only weapon
fight the home merchant in advertising
liberal proportions and expenditure money year
that fortune in itself Day after day they flooding the
various towns and communities throughout the land with their
cataogs and literature etc. and in that way pull away
from the home merchant Right say
merchant will take moments time and the postoce
some morning when people walk away with their mornings mail
they will notice many and many maorder catalog going
our homes and IN every instance it business
the mal-order house and loss to the home merchant
The Wnsow merchants should have every advantage of
these maorder houses but have they? We think Why?
The lack OF cooperation and push good number of them
The way to fight the maorder house notion put
solid front in the way of good business mems organza
ton and look into these matters and and decide what
best to do in order keep the money home and by fighting
the malorder house with it's ADVERTISING
Mr.. Merchant Did you that in your go
ngs comngs trading and buying naturally the firm
as firms who by their persistent advertising and keeping their
name before you, first in your thought?
When say advertising we do alone mean liberal
amount of advertising in the home paper that goes the
homes of the people whose business you want but acts
words and deeds There thousands ways to advertise
and the merchant should make the most of all of them
We earnestly hope that the order business will soon
of commission Winsow thru the united and persist
ent effort of the Winsow business men.