The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1915-04-02
Help Your Home Merchants.


The following was published in the
Danville Advocate as a special con-
tribution last week, but is so timely
IN Stanford that well known citizen
of this city has requested the /. j.,
to republish it, substituting Stanford
and Lincoln county for Danville and
Boyle county where they appeared in
the contribution:
You citizens of Stanford and Lin
coin county of the travelling man with
the oily tongue and gracious manner.
with his pretty samples and order
blanks and catalogues. There is
nothing he has that you cannot get
from your next door neighbor and
your personal friends, who help you
pay the local taxes, who patronize
you, who extend you credit and who
send you customer whenever the
opportunity offers. Does the out-of-
town fellow help you in any way?
Not bit of it. Recently a seductive
chap, with great scheme of men,
bership in an automobile supply COM
pany, got list of auto owners and
perhaps sold many of them the very
same things they can see displayed
In our own dealers windows. In the
end they will pay dear for their pur-
chases. Are not our garage men COM
petent? Are they not readable? Do
they not help to bear our city and
county burdens? Then why not give
them your support? If you are not
satisfied with your purchase which is
the quicker to correct an error?
When citizen dies there come in
swarms of big photographs of monu-
ments they claim to have erected
(Which they likely never did,, the
marble or monument men from all
over the land. Are not our own men
in that business as tasteful, as COM
petent, as reliable as they? Do they
not buy their granite and marble
from the same people? Do they not
buy groceries, meats, clothing, have
homework done, employ skilled and
unskilled labor? Then why not give
your own townsman a chance? He
makes it possible for you to live and
prosper. Then why not have the OPP
portunity, even though he be a trifle
higher, which in the enc he is not.
Today this entire region is circular
lied by concern with shoes, neck
ties, clothing, hats, gloves, hosiery,
etc. Are not these very same things to
be had in the store where good citi-
zen is trying to make living and
who helps you make yours? Tell the
gentlemen of the tape line and the
shoe measure that you are a charter
member of good standing of the
"Buy in Stanford Club" We heard
a shirt man say say hat he had six
ty of the ''best citizens" of Stanford
as his customers. Are they the "best
citizens?" Decidedly not. Some are
bankers and solicit the business of
shirt merchants. What would they
think if the local shirt man should
say: mo, deposit in Chicago, where
you buy your Shirts" What could the
banker say? This little illustration is
applicable to every line of business
in town. We know a farmer who
bought a $1,000 wagon from a Chica-
go mail order house just $500 less
than his own personal friends in
whose stores he loafs, whose firms
fire warns his toes in winter and
where ice water coOls his inwards in
summer. Does not the Stanford
butcher buy his pigs and lambs, the
housewife her eggs, butter and poul-
try? The proper place for the mail
order mans catalogue and the city
merchants circular rs in the fluted
tin cans that the Civic League put on
the sidewalks That is just what they
are for, and be sure to leave the
wrapper on them and be perfectly
sure to tear them in two so that no
one else be tempted. "Swat the drum
mer," figuratively, forcibly if you
must, but let him go out of town hun
CRY rather than that our citizens
should become so. Make a bonfire
of the mail order catalogue and a
cigarette lighter of the city mans
circular letter. You could not put it
to a better use, and at the same time
treat it so CONTEMPORARY. Stand by
the man who helps you make living.