The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-24
Saturday Night
From the Community Builder

The man who goes down town Sat
urday night and sees the lighted
streets. the Illuminated stores and
| throngs of happy people perhaps does
not stop to think what pays for it all.
1t is not paid for by taxation, for If
so it would be a burden. 1t is not
paid for by contribution, because that
would not be practicable or posi-
BILE But it all costs money, and
something must pay for it. 1t is paid
for by the money that is spent at
home.
The merchants reinvest their prof
its largely in better stocks, better
stores and better facilities. They
pay their shares of the cost of paving
the streets and laying the sidewalks,
in doing many things. So it Is plain
to be seen that the busy street that
people enjoy on Saturday night is
paid for by themselves, is their mon
ey returned to them in the shape of a
better town.
When you go into a local store and
buy goods from a local merchant
you do not get only the goods. You
get the thrifty town, paved streets,
the schools which your children at
tend, the churches which preserve
the moral atmosphere of the commu-
nifty, the things you enjoy and use,
which you and the merchant and the
manufacturer pay for in common.
You can send the money to some 9th
err town and get the goods; but you
cannot get these other things. Even
if you think the price is smaller 1t is
larger in the long run, since you get
less in return for your money
1t is plainly evident, then, that the
more of your money you spend at
hcme the more will you get for your
money, the quicker will the cross
roads become a village and the COM
a town with all the conYen-
fences and none of the incOnven-
fences of the metropolis. The more
money you spend at home in patron
izing local merchants, in building a
house for yourself, III investing IN
real estate, in dressing better and
living better and feeling better the
more will you be able to have and
to enjoy these things.
Why make the fatal error OF hurt
ing your town instead Of helping IT,
Of diminishing your town instead OF
it, of damaging your town
instead of improving it since you
cannot hurt or hinder your town
without hurting and hindering your
self?
Why teach your children that the
,ity is the place to trade aud eX-
)ect to teach them that it is not the
)lace to go? Why constantly en-
courage them. when they marry, to |
cave the home town and settle IN |
some larger place? Why be the
land to break the home ties, to sep
rate yourself from your children?
The more you spend at home the
more attractive will your town be
O the coming generation and the
more pleasant to yourself In your ola
.ge. If you have friends here is
where they are. When you make
over of your money you make roVers
# your children and of yourself.
you make your town a poorer place
n which to live instead of q better
me.
The money we earn let us spend
n securing the largest return for II.
f YOU send your children away they
nav never return. If you send your
money away it may never come back.
Jour prosperity, your happiness,
our children are likely to follow
our money wherever it goes. why
lot spend 1t where your children VIII
row up with it, where 1t WIFI 90
-ou the most good now and give you
he most comfort in the future: