Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-08-08
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BUYING IN OWN LOCALITY TENDS
TO KEEP THE MONEY AT
HOME.
IF YOU WOULD PROSPER; Then HELP
Supposins All Were Catalog Buyers,
What Would Be the RESULT
Why, Our Town Would Soon
Be Gone.

Be Gone.
Industry is the basis Of all prosper
ity-back of industry is demand.
Without a demand for it's goods or
services no enterprise can live, but
with it all thrive. 1t follows then
that where there is the greatest de-
mand for the goods and services OF
the people of a community, there will
be found the greatest prosperity.
Money has nc intrinsic worth; its
value is derived from the labor it rep
resents and every dollar spent in a
community stands for an equal
amount of labor in that place, pro-
vided all Of the dollar remains in the
community. If 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
iZe their home industries. In buying
al I1SACS p1OuuNO0 l. IASll OWA 4OSoA-
ity all the money spent is kept at
home, it employs labor and produces
wealth and prosperity. OF course
home production can not supply all
our wants. Our demands are too val
led and we must draw to some extent,
on all parts of the world, but it is 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.
If 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 or he has a
grudge against his own community. In
either case he is a detriment to the
community, a handicap upon it's preg-
ress and prosperity.
Every man who earns a livelihood
or draws a salary in a community lis
satisfying a certain demand. he
should therefore create an e~quivalert
demand by spending his money, so far
as he can, in the community where It
was obtained. If he does not do this
helis taking away from his community.
and giving nothing in return; he Is
robbing the community of it's re.
sources, bank account and prosperity.
Population is invariably drawn by
business activity. The growth of Large
cities is due not SO much to climatic
or social advantages as it is to the
opportunities afforded of earning a
livelihood. Some 20 or 30 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. Nov
the situation is just about reversed,
two-thirds of the people are in the
cities and only one-third in the coul-
try. And this growing congestion is
responsible not only for the high cost
of living but also for most of the ez.
listing social and industrial evils. 1t
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 our best en-
ergies to correct them. Education,
right living and right buying and sell
ing will do much to reverse the tile
and get the social machinery running
in better, healthier and more prosper
Gus channels.
One of the powerful factors that has
helped bring about these undesirable
conditions is the lure Of the catalOg
houses, which tend to rob the com-
try districts and small towns of o
large part of their local business and
prosperity. 1t is not that better val
ues can be obtained from these out.
side concerns; it is not that their ser
vice is better. Experience and far
comparisons have in many cases den
onstrated that better results may he
secured by patronizing the home me-.
chants. 1t is simply the lure of the
far-away and the fascination of the
printed page.
An Experiment for the Buyer.
AS 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 a catalog
an item which can be duplicated 10
your home market, avoiding the
leaders" which the mail order house
uses as bait"
Then go to your local source of sup
ply and make a careful comparison
between the mail order article and
the counterpart furnished by the 10
cal dealer. Compare the "innards" OF
each item. Count the threads in each
and compare them as to weight and
texture. Cut into both articles so the
inner construction may be brought tc
light.