Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-08-08
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BUYING IN OWN LOCALITY TENDS
TO KEEP THE MONEY AT
HOME.
# YOU WOULD PROSPER; Then HELP

Surprising All Were catalos Buyers,
What Would BE the Result
Why, Our Town Would Soon
Be Gone.
Industry 10 the basis Of all prosper
lty-back Of industry 10 demand.
Without q demand for its goods or
services no enterprise can live, but
with it all thrive. It follows then
that where there ID the greatest de-
mand for the goods and services Of
the people Of q community. there will
be found the greatest prosperity.
Money has no intrinsic worth; Ito
value IL derived from the labor It rep
resents and every dollar spent In .
stands for m equal
amount OF labor In that place. pro-
vided all Of the dollar remains In the
community. II so per cent goes to
some other town Or to eastern fac
tories. then only the remaining so per
cent represents industry in the home
town. This is the great economic rea-
son why loyal citizens should patron
lie their home Industries. In buying
articles produced In their own local
ity all the money spent 10 kept ct
home. it employs labor and produces
wealth and prosperity. OF course
home production can not supply all
our wants. Our demands = too var
led and we must draw to some extent.
on all parts Of the world, but it IL not
to the interest Of the people Of this
town to buy goods produced or sold In
Chicago or New York when the same
commodities are produced Or sold At
home.
II you want this community to pros
per spend and invest your money at
home.
The man who habitually sends his
money east to the big catalog houses
Is either ignorant Of these fundamen-
tai economic principles Of he has q
grudge against his own community. In
either last he 10 q detriment to the
community, q handicap upon its prog
ress and prosperity.
Every man who earns q livelihood
Or draws q salary in q community 10
satisfying q certain. demand. He
should therefore create an equivalent
demand by spending his money, 30 far
as he can, in the community where It
was obtained. II he does not do this
he is taking away from his community
and giving nothing In return; he 10
robbing the community Of its ro-
sources. bank account and prosperity.
Population is invariably drawn by
business activity. The growth Of large
cities is due not 20 much to climatic
or social advantages rs 1t Is to the
opportunities afforded Of earning q
livelihood. Some 90 or so years ago
approximately two-thirds Of the pop
ulation OF the United States was In
the small towns and country districts.
with only one-third in the cities. Now
the situation is just about reversed,
two-thirds Of the people are in the
cities and only one-third in the coun-
try. And this growing congestion IL
responsible not only for the high cost
OF living but also for most Of the ex-
listing social and industrial evils. It
Is not for US to say whether or not
these influences and tendencies can
be resisted; they are wrong and Diet.
rimental to the best interests Of the
nation and we should use U best en-
ergies to correct them. Education,
right living and right buying and sell.
Ing will do much to the tide
and get the social machinery running
In better. healthier and more prosper
GUS channels.
One Of the powerful factors that hal
helped bring about these undesirable
conditions IL the lure Of the catalol
houses. which tend to rob the coun
try districts and small towns Of 4
large part Of their local business and
prosperity. 1t II NOT that better val
ues can be obtained from these out
side concerns; 1t d not that their ser
vice 10 better. Mxperience and fail
comparisons have In many cases dem
onstrated that better results may b.
secured BY patronixing the home mer
chants. It ID simply the lure Of thu
PARKWAY and the fascination Of thu
printed page.
An Experiment. for the Buyer.
Az an antidote to the desire for cat
alog patronage an eastern manufac
turer suggests the following expert
ment for the mail order buyer:
Choose from the pages Of . catalol
IN item which pan be duplicated II