The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1915-11-05
Putting II Up 70 you.

b,T being too insistent upon any
one subject. but the welfare OF opr
community should be uppermost
in the minds OF every legal citizen.
and that welfare calls for q few
very pertinen. remarks At this time
Of the year.
Between nos and the 18th day
OF December many thousands OF
dollars will be spent by the people
IN the purchase OF holiday articles.
The manufacturing cost OF those
articles must OF necessity 90 TO the
factories scattered broadcast over
the country. That can not be help
ed.
But there il another cost which
should be seriously considered by
every person. who has any regard
whatever for future welfare OF this
town and this community. That
cost is the retailers profit on the
sales.
To make this community prosper.
ous and keep IL go, ii is necessary
that those profits be kept at home.
and that can only be done by pat
ronlzing merchants who live here
md conduct their business here and
spend their own money here.
No citizen has the nigh, to feel
that it is all right for him to send
mis- money away from this com-
munity because he 10 only one
person and his money will not be
missed" II is just such people
who are building up the great cent
era OF population by stranglne The
rural business interests all over the
country. They are the people who
produce hard times in the country
towns and farm sections OF ever!
state, because they are millions II
Number,
Let us bring il home TO you. Sup
pose every person in this town and
the farming section around here
should buy all Of their goods from
business houses located in other
sections OF the country or state.
How long would our stores keep
their doors open. and how long
would you be able to buy even
pin or nail in this town?
And il everybody kept on sending
their money all out Of town and
community, how long would it be
before we had no more money to
send, and when we found the com
munity pauperized where would We
turn for relief?
The profits OF local industries
both town and farm-~represent the
money that is kept in circulation at
home. II those profits are sent
away we can not long expect to
have any money in circulation IN
our midst, for other people in other
places will have II; and We will be
getting poorer and poorer all OF the
time. and our community will be
getting deader and deader, until in
time no one would care even to
live here.
Certainly no sane person would
want such condition OF affairs to
exist here.
But WHAT'S the remedy you say? |
1t is both sane aud simple.
Quit doing your shopping cut OF /
town and buy goods from home |
dealers. That il, buy everything |
you ear here.
Don't be carried away with the
false idea that you can buy cheaper
somewhere else, for you can no, |
II you want shoddy and worthless
goods you can find plenty OF cay
stores and firms who thrive on sell.
ing country people just such rotten
atuH at few cents less than you
would pay your home dealer for a
Z lod article that he il willing to
guarantee,
But you can not buy n reliable ar
Iicle elsewhere any cheaper than
you can buy the same article right
here at home.
We are pushing the buy at
nome" slogan in this community
aud we want you to Join US. We
IRE not doing this in order to en-