Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-04-24

an Ungenerous Temper-The Safe
Plan Is Always to Do the Task Tina,
Lies Nearest Us.
Copyrighted. 1914, by Thomas J. Sullivan.
or bitterness and may crafty a little
mind or MI ungenerOus temper. but il
no test of reason. truth or manhood.
Ridicule. besides being conscious anu
unconscious. may also be indirect a.
well as direct. negative as well H.
positive. paIalyzing as well as anus
ing. And myriad in number and kind
| are the ridiculous suggestions made
and being made by the enemies and
victims of the mail order concerns in
the hope of stopping their onward
march of progress
DO mere Aants always appreciate
their advantage? Would friend OF
the merchant or dealer have sent his
trst order to a stranger who showed
pictures instead of goods. who talked
on paper instead of face to face. who
demanded pay in advance instead OF
allowing more unlimited credit had
the merchant improved his advan.
tages!
Ought to Emulate Rivals.
1T would seem that after one expe-
rience Of long delays. quite common
| and to great extent unavoidable in
trading with mail order houses. after
one experience Of putting things to-
gether for himself. after one expe-
rience of waiting for missing part.
the friend would not have taken the
trouble to order by mail from II stran-
ger had the local merchant or dealer
always improved his opportunities.
Everything that happens to us leaves
some trace behind it, everything con.
tributes mperceptibly to form US. Yet
| often it is dangerous to take a strict
| account of that. for either we grow
proud and negligent or dOwnc;ist and
diSprited. and both are equally in
furious in their consequences. Always
the safe plan is to do the task which
lies nearest us and which will augur
for our best interests and those Of
others.
If success can be attained by the re-
tail mail order houses. working under
disadvantages. why cannot the local
merchant. who has none of these dis
I advantages. succeed: He can by imi-
tating their methods and practices. by
allowing undisturbed inspection of
goods and by polite and courteous
treatment of all visitors to his store.
thus creating new customers and con-
timing to supply old ones.
In certain Indiana town young
man ordered heating stove. price
$3.50. When the stove came he was
very much disappointed. The stove
was small. while the picture in the
catalogue made it appear large and Or
uamental Had this young man visit
ed his local dealer and inspected the
$S.95 stove he would not have bought
it. but would have selected one for
S12 or Sl+ and would have got the
right kind and one that would have
satisfied his needs.
A Minnesota farmer ordered five
rolls OF barbed wire. After it came
and he had paid the freight he discov,
cred that he could have bought the
same Identical wire from his local
dealer and could have saved 81. also
much time and trouble.
Mail Order Fence In Woodshed.
Another man living in village or,
dered some wire fencing from pic.
ture in Il catalogue. and when it cape
it WAS So cheap looking that his pride
would not allow him to disfigure his
grounds with such Il fence. 50 he stOl-
ed it in his woodshed and bought what
liz waited from his local dealer.
\ al - in little town in Missouri
sent to niie uf the large mail order
houses for u pair of shoes. inclosin:
the shoes came 10y freight: charges
We're - cents. which she paid After
taking the slices home she found they
did not tit. So she repacked them and
sent them back by express. and aftt'
another two weeks wait another nai'
of shoes came 10y freight wilu !h"r,
charges attached. To the lady> dis
may. these shoes were no nearer "A iii
than the first pair She then gave up
in despair aYd visited her local dealer,
crediting her Investment of $2.5ti to
experience.
We should like 10 suggest TO the con
sumner that hp he honest with himself:
buy at horr: help support his OWE
town: make his ow. home more val
liable. Let Mr. Mail Order Nan sell
his good things in his OVID town In
stead of his toolil. you. You fool him
by trading nj home
Let each community hecom" a co
operative commonwealth to the extent
that its citizens shall work together to
build M and sustain that conn unity
working with neighhnrS councillors
included-for the home. town. city.
county and state: lei civic pride and
ambition be fostered: Iet the profeS-
sional Crouch" and dsturber of the
public peace he frowned down: let the
incorrgible offender against the prin
cipes Of square dealing he thrown to
the lions Of public condemnation.
And to the merchant we say-work:
dor -idicnle