The Dickinson press., 1915-12-11
SOCIETY WOMEN OF OHIO TOWN RECEIVE RUDE SHOCK
BECOME HIGHLY INCENSED WHEN BUSINESS MEN REFIJS1
TO AID CIVIC BEAUTY LEAGUE.

(Bv David POWell)

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LADIES SEE THE LIGHT AND TAKE THE PLAY.
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so arranged that everyone sending in a article could feel almost sure of
$3.50 PRIZE FOR SHORT ARTICLE.
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fit of his experience and knowledge if we are in doubt n uncertain rs to
Just what we need. This advice is ver- valuable but rarely appreciated.
9th. Because if e spend u money with u home merchant when
we have got the cash he gets to know us and If we get hard up he will
give us credit which W e cannot get from distant concerns.
7th. Because about thirty cents of every dollar that is spent here at
home stays here and is distributed to the rest Of is in the way of wages,
"ses:j 'e5"s st i as: fs: s sse n 'ssyss f ssa s si1: sis sRs t bst ! R" s%af tt sz ies
of it goes to swell the merchants private bank account.
9Th. Because on home merchant employs u sons and our daughters
and our friends. The amount of patronage given u stores will regulate
not only the number of people employed, but the scale of wages paid as
well.
9th. Because the more business that is done here the faster and big
ger W. town will grow, thus increasing the value of property and the
farms of the surrounding country.
10th. Because our home merchants want omr trade tomorrow as we'll
Is today and they re always going to give is a square deal to get it and
keep it..
The distribution of the pamphlet containing the foregoing reasons,
The great effectiveness of the scheme lay in the use made of the bulk of
the reasons submitted. 1t "a very generally found that at least ne of the
ten reasons submitted by every contestant had some special merit and
these were printed on cards bearing the name and address of the person
writing it. Watchers were appointed to report the names Of every resi-
dent Of the town returning from Cleveland with a package, and from other
shipments. By the next mail each of those people would receive n or
more of these treason cards" submitted by someone who lived in their
same block or immediate neighborhood. The second ofense brought a
dozen Or SC, and a continuance of the practice brought a flood of them at
every repetition. T.
SOME OFFENDED, BUT ULTIMATELY CONVERTED.
During the first stagessof the campaign many Of the recipients we're
inclined to take ofense at the persistent bombardment, but eventually they
matter before them at the neverto be forgotten meeting, and it was but a
few months till it was a rare sight to see shipped n carried lnoth the town
anything that could be purchased at home. "- 81
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