The Pulaskian., 1915-06-11
FRIDAY. JUNE II. 1915.
SELLING VALUE OF A MERcAN- TILE EXHIBIT AT THE
 COUNTY FAIR.

Sold. Did you ever notice that word on card and the card stuck on some article in an exhibit at d Worlds Fair? It will be found in the places where the articles are of great value, and you may look for it among the worlds best sculpture work. At the St Louis Fair just before the fair closed nearly every piece of Italian marble statuery was marked sold, and some of these pieces were worth thou sands Of dollars.
 Perhaps those Italian people who saw the exhibit shipped from Italy thought it was very foolish in the ar lists to ship all of that stone so far away just to let the people over here see it, and perhaps it would have been foolish if that was their intention, but they had another object in view and that object was business They knew that great deal of their exhibit would be sold at good price. some less desirable stuff would go with less profit, but none of it would be loss.
 People who buy articles of that kind do not stop with one piece CT half dozen pieces, the more they get the more they want and above that exhibit in large red letters edged in black was the name of the firm in Italy who made it, and that same firm later on received many an order from America for otheS marble work. See the point, they were selling and aG- vertising at the same time. and such business as that will pay at fair.
 Of course we have no Worlds Fair, nor have we any need of Italian mar ble work in large amounts, but We have factories in our own town that are turning out different kinds of things every day and yet we would not be able to recognize one out of a hundred articles if we were asked where they were made. We can't go to your work shop and see what you are doing. we are busy the same as you and can't spare the time.
 If we cant go to you then why not come to us, we will be at the fair, will you? We will give your homemade goods preference if you will teach us what to buy. We spent thousands of dollars every year outside of the city, county and state for some of the very things that make at home, and we do this because we are not well enough acquainted with each other to know just what we are doing.
 Let's get known to each other at the fair, keep our money at home, when we can so somebody else can handle it, too.
 This reminds me Of little story heard about two Dutchmen. One Dutchman owned a saloon, across the street another Dutchman owned q bakery, they agreed to take a certain piece of money which was the value of glass of beer or loat of bread Each put tin cup in a certain place and each time this piece of money was received it was placed in that cup un- til the Dutchman needed a glass of beer. or loaf of bread. This one piece of money was spent for beer and then for bread until it was worn out. One Dutchman tried to figure out just how much beer he had sold for that one little piece of money in thirty years, and the figures were so large it scared him to death. The other Dutchman heard how he 6ied and e started to figure how many loaves of bread he had given for that money and he went crazy
 l never figured it out, but three glasses of beer a day for thirty years would be some" beer, and three Ioaves of bread for thirty years would be some bread, and no matter how it figured it shows the value of money and what it will do for us if we keep it in circulation.
 If this money had been locked up in a bank the men would have howled a>-~>----~-->-~>--------~-