The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-05-29
SPEND SUMTER MONEY IN SUM
TER.
Mail Order Houses Pay no License or
other Taxes. They Contribute
Nothing to Sumtcr's Support, So
Says the Chamber Of Commerce,

The man who makes his living in
Sumter and sends his money off to a
mail order house for goods that can
be purchased at home Is helping to
build up other communities at the
expense Of the purchasers home town.
! Patronizing mail order houses is
sending your money ahead Of your
boy and building up other distant
cities that will appeal to your boy
when by patronizing home enterprise
you help to build up city that will
furnish employment for your boy I'm
his home town.
Is 1t not much better to help your
boys and girls and other Sumter boys
and girls to make a living in Sumter
by spending Sumter money in Sumter
to help create bigger business and
methods of employment. than to help
to make your boys and girls leave
home because there isn't sufficient
business to keep them here under the
influence OF their fathers and mothers.
and under the more wholesome home
influences OF their home town and
churches?
Charleston mercanticle. establish
ments have entered into compact
whereby a great many Charleston
merchants will practice what they
preach about "patronizing home en-
terprises." They are to give Charles
ton merchants. wholesale. houses. fac
tories. job work establishments, Char
lesion men and women, and every
Charleston enterprise and effort pref
erence.
Keeping our home raised boys and
girls at home by furnishing them en-
ploymcnt, and keeping the boys and
girls of Sumter county on the farm
builds up home raised civic pride,
home raised public spirit, 1t keeps up
that family and community pride and
interest. Spending Sumter money in
Sumter has something greater behind
1t than mere commercialism. 1t
means keeping your boys and girls
for yourselves. for your community
When YOU send q dollar to Chicago
New York, and other big cities you
are preparing the way for your boys
and girls tn leave your home. Help 10
keep our boys and girls in our home
town TO build up Sumter. These boys
and girls are too valuable and sacred
TO trade Off to other communities.
The mail order houses Of Chicago,
New York. and other distant cities do
not pay one cent OF license or other
taxes to do business in Sumter. Mail
order houses rent no stores or houses
I'm Sumter. they give no Sumter men
and women employment, they do not
help to provide public schools. paved
streets. water for drinking and for
fighting fires, they don't contribute
one cent towards keeping up the Sum-
ter fire department, police force, or
health department, they contribute
not one cent to build and maintain
our churches. Young Mems Christian
Association. they have no stock In any
Sumter enterprise. Sumters business
establishments do all these things.
They have TO.
Mail order houses give absolutely
nothing to Sumter. Mail order houses
in Chicago and New York do not pro-
vide a single voter to help elect
Sumter county or Sumter city Jofficial
to Office. Sumters mercantile houses
do provide these voters.
The mail order houses of distant
cities don't even send a man or woman
on the road who might leave dollar
or two in Sumter hotels. They don't
even purchase their postage stamps in
Sumter. They give Sumter nothing
that Sumter merchants give Sumter.
and women give literally to every
charitable, church. civic improve
ment. commercial or other effort
Therefore Sumter's business estab-
lishments should have the first op-
portunity to show you what they can
sell you. III Sumters business houses
haven't what you want they will order
II for you as cheap or cheaper than
you can order 1t.
! a man is robbing himself his wife
and children. and his community,
every time he needlessly sends a Sum
ter dollar out OF Sumter. He Is de-
priving his public schools churches.
and his county and municipal govern
ment OF money that Is needed every
time he wastes Sumter dollar by
needlessly buying from mail order