The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-07-08
AT HOME

G7HERE IS NOTHING OF GREATER IMPORTANCE TO US THAN THE
CONDITIONS. FL" j.
ness their prosperity is communicated to- every person in the entire COM
munhy. .r. -
The values of our rea estate increase. Wages are increased. There is
more money Gym. in circulation tIi o and it is 5 more readily ndig,s obtained tain for purposes II
In every way W can discover better conditions on all sides when our
There is every reason In The world why we should spend or esh at
or home community W e profit IN many ways
But if W e send vi money to the mail order houses that is the last we
munhy we may easily put our local merchants out of business. By diverting
to maintain their stores. .E.
Every dollar sent out U ~ town so the mail mo order houses .ss' =. a",ss.s lust. Just
Of the sorekeepers and from the community in general,
houses es4 for o our mt necessuies and our r Injuries ms How long would it be before
our pe foil followed BY the "or sale" signs on the stores themselves?
AND a m1 WHEN H R1i THE r. R TH5n EsS, Ho us ou ARE aw ALL za ARyHR 1Np Pd FOR
Such conditions have actually prevailed In some communities l ISo: 1t has n.
happened that the citizens became san "m mls order d. and 1a sent ne to the big cit.
doned the field, because there va n 0 business there for them. The burden
les concerns to bear the big proportion which generally falls to their share
Property values decreased until there were no bidders for undesirable real
In the meantime the head Of a big mail order house in Chicago was
the business received by his concern, by mall from such communities a the
n above described and from 0r wv" community as we" as iron" others
Every dollar Of this enormous income "a diverted from storekeepers
In small communities. Every dollar sent in to that great mail order concern,
amounting to hundreds Of millions of dollars annually, detracted from the
but retarded by the shortsghtedness of the citizens who sent their money
out of town in preference to helping towards the prosperity of their own
oS4 COURSE. It ws all done unthfakingly. Those who sent their dollars
to the mail order house did not stop to consider that these sam dollars
would add to the prosperity If the home community if expended at home.
Thew did O stop o reason that by helping those n their W community
hy would be best advancing their W interests.
THIS COMMUNITY NEEDS YOUR HELP. YOU NEED THE HELP
OF EVERY DOLLAR IN ORDER TO MAKE A BETTER COMMUNITY IN
WHICH TO LIVE. YOU NEED THE PROSPERITY OF THIS COMMUNITY
To Make YOUR PROPERTY OF GREATER VALUE AND TO GIVE YOU
THE BENEFITS OF A BETTER COMMUNITY IN WHICH TO MAKE
YOUR HOME BRIGHTER, MORE DESIRABLE AND WORTH MORE IN
DOLLARS AND CENTS.
We must Ill consider these matters. We must stop and think, before
sonhne our dollars to the mail order houses, that u cooperation is neces-
sarv 10 the upbulding Of ur community and that, for Jul W selfish adj
snd Keen or dollars al home sc that they can work for the advancement Of
our W prosperity.
Ue will all find that it is a fact when we consider the question from
avrvv view point that we can buy a cheapy and as proftably from VI local
nerchan as from a mail order house, n We the know what We arr buy
in instead OF buying a pig in a poke