Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-09-28

80 " se"tN tH~ P~o"aNe F'@a
far seeing eye.
Bad pennies sometimes return,
but good ones seldom do.
1t therefore becomes our duty,
when we part with a good penny.
to secure the greatest possible
returns for it. Lost pennies soon
mount into dollars, and the van.
ishing dollar blazcs the way to
poverty and eventual nowhere.
You can save the pennies and
retain the dollars If you will
read carefully each week the
advertisements in this paper.
They will tell you at which
stores you can get the best
bargains where quality is of the
best and price is at The minimum,
where your true interests lie when
you 60 out to spend the money
that comes to you from hours OF
heavy and unceasing toll.
None of US may hope to save
all that we earn, for we must
live, and il takes money these
days to even exist.
We must spend a good portion
of our earnings, often all of them,
and the judgment and care we
use in that expenditure will de-
termine in a considerable measure
the enjoy ment and pleasures of
life.
Ii We buy at haphazEard We
too frequently pay dearly for our
indifferepce and lack of economi-
cal foresight, whereas If we are
prudent and assimilate the know
ledge that is laid. before US We at
least have the satisfaction of
knowing that we have done the
best that we could do under
existing circumstances.
Again we suggest, and en-
phasize, that the wise and pru-
dent course to pursue is to read
carefully each week the adver-
tisements in this paper. Read
them all, everyone of them, for
in little places big bargains are
often found.
High prices are here, and we
as a community can not prevent
what a whole nation must endure.
But we can, and should, prevent
the unnecessary loss of pennies
through commercial indifference
and neglect.
This is not a day of philan-
thropy, and merchants are not
advertising for the sake of hand
ing their money over to the pub
Usher. They are doing it because
they have the goods and make
the prices to back up their adj
vertisements, and it is to the
financial interest of the consumer
to dissect every advertisement
aud take advantage of every op:
portuuity thus afforded.
The expense of reading an ad
is nothing but a little time when
not otherwise engaged. The
savings may run into dollars.
The National Guardsmen are
down on the Mexican border to
defend their country. So wrote
President Wilson to Mrs. Smith
of Winimac, Indiana. As a COM
mentary on this, here is a news
dispatch from Llano Graude:
I'm a double-header baseball.
game today officers of the first
regiment won the first and officers
of the second the last game
This kind of defense of tn,
country" is costing the peopl
twenty million dollars 4 month,
to be paid in fifty-year Panama
Canal bonds bearing three per
cent interest. Good ball grounds
could be provided for fine Guards.
men at home at far less expense
Columbus Advocate.
Another specimen of the silly
fault finding of the Republican
press in the present campaign.
To begin with these papers tried
to prejudice the voters against
President Wilson BY whimpering
about the hardships the poor
soldiers were undergoing. That
lie nailed BY the soldiers them
selves, the tune has been changed