Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-11-25
COMMUNITY
COOPERATION
(By r. v. Holland in Nampa
Leader-HeIald.)

(By r. V. Holland in Nampa
Leader-Herald)
If you have children to educate, 1
you are Interested In local conditions
or religious affairs, If you own, Of
expect to own home, OF other prop
erty in your community, few min
utes' thought viii convince you thai
1t is decidedly to your best interest
to patronize your local stores at al
times, provided investigation proves
that you can do so to as good adyan
tage as elsewhere.
l realize that there is certain
class of merchants-and they are
still represented in many towns and
cities-who will not handle standard
products and who expect buyers to
pay exorbitant prices for goods of
unknown or doubtful quality and or
igin-merchandise on which they can
demand wide margins of profit.
This class of "storekeepers, how
ever, represents comparatively
small minority and is fast going the
way of the prehistoric dinosaur and
the nearly extinct mossback farmer
who don't have to read nothing
about farming"
Villages, towns and communities
develop in accordance with the
amount and quality of effort put
forth by their citizenship, and pro-
gressive. right-living people who have
long since learned that it is neither
profitable nor pleasant to live In
nom progressive communities. In near
ly every locality are fathers and
mothers whose sons and daughters
have been forced to leave home in
order to secure profitable employ
ment that should have been afforded
locally.
If you live on farm you want
good roads, schools, churches, tele-
phone service, mail delivery and a
convenient market In which to dis
pose of your products and from
which to supply your wants.
If you live in town you want, in
addition to the above, good streets
and sidewalks, wholesome amuse-
nents-those things that go to make
a community worth living in.
These advantages are the natural
outcome of, and are limited to the
growth and condition of your locality
which is in urn dependent upon the
'xtent of local trade activities.
Did you ever see neatly good
own that did not have good stores?
The two go hand in hand.
personally know of an instance,
within the past year, where a very
Wealthy man refused to locate and
establish modern store in town
# some three thousand population
or the reason that an Investigation
eveloped the fact that the better
lass of residents adhered to long
landing policy, or habit, of doing
raotically all of their buying in the
torres Of nearby city, or by mail.
On the face of it, this town had
lerely failed TO secure a new store.
IN the other hand, think for a min
to what this rich, aggressive man,
18th the up-to-date store he would
ave put in, embodyingOis ideas and
lethods, would have meant to the
Immunity. 1t would have afforded I
for a number of men a
nd women and would have helped l
develop new lines of trade. The ]
wnerIs personal and business taxes n
ould have meant much within them ID
lives. e
Bear in mind that home trading is II
most vital element in community Il
cfare and progress. Consider care
lily the fact that a portion of every a.
'llar spent i'm local stores finds its
ay to some essential function for Ia
e support and development of the a,
'ighborhood, the general prosperity
which you must necessarily share 81
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Increased local business means the al
ssibiity for securing additional h
'dern public conyendences and lux &C
les, additional trading, education, in
ligious and social advantages, con- ST
luently, increased individual wealth III
d opportunity. to
Your local merchants are entitled ed
your patronage, provided they Of
you the right kind of merchandise ed
the right price, and you owe 1t to tx
irself and your community to ex. &C
d Vt to them. an
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