The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1917-12-22
POWER OF DOLLAR
IS EASILY SHOWN
Keep One Moving and See What
II Will Do for Your Com
munity.
PAYS MULTITUDE Of DEBTS
When II 10 Sent Out Of Town, How.
ever, to Pay for What Can Do
Bought at Homo II 10 Gone
Forever.
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Forever.
(Copyright)
1t In n rather wonderful thing, wher
you stop to think about II whnt one
lone dollar will do. If It Is kept II,
work. This has been Illustrated In &
striking manner on several occasions
by means Of n very simple experiment
n you want to see just how important
n role Il silver dollar or dollar bill
plays In the life Of community here
Is the way to do II. Just attach tae
to the dollar and turn II loose. with
the request that every person who
receives the dollar make note on the
tag as to how he received 1t. The re-
suit will be an eye-opener.
Here is the way It works: Smith
the lumber dealer, who first possesses
the dollar, buys some groceries from
Brown and pays for them with the dol.
lar. About that time Jones, the plum
her, who had done some work for
Brown, sends his collector around and
Brown pays the bill with this dollar
Jones owes Green. the printer. small
advertising bill. so he sends this dollar
With possibly some others. to Green
to pay his bin. Green had Just put
the dollar In his cash drawer when
In comes Black, the milkman. to whom
Green owes dollar for milk delivered
ut his house. Green takes the dollar
out Of his cash drawer and pays
Black. For some time Black has owed
White. the carpenter. for some work
done on his dairy house. 80 now he
takes the dollar that Green has paid
him and pays up what he owes White.
White still owes for some lumber that
he bought from Smith, the lumber
dealer. SO he takes the dollar and
squares up his account with Smith
Smith now has his dollar back. Brown
has been able to pay his plumbing
bill. Jones has squared up with the
printer, and 40 on, all around the
circle.
What Might Have Happened.
Now suppose that Smith. instead Of
buying HIS groceries from Brown, Ind
purchased them from a mail order
house In far distant city and sent his
dollar to pay for them. Brown would
not have had that dollar to pay Jones.
the plumber; Jones could not have
paid his printing bill the printer would
have had to stand of the milk man !;
White, the carpenter, would not have
got the money for the work he had
done for the milkman and Smith would
not have got the money which White
owed him for lumber.
This IL oil so simple that 1t requires
no student OF economics or professor
Of mathematics to figure II out. Any
one can see that when Smith sends
that dollar to Chicago or some other
city where the mail order houses -four
lsh. that dollar Is gone 80 fur. as Smith
and Jones and Green and the rest OF
the people In Smiths town are con-
cerned. That dollar will never come
back to pay any bills In Smiths town.
And the thing that stands cut most
striking, but Ii most often overlooked,
is that Smith. the man who first spends
the dollar, ID hurt Just NJ much when
he sends that dollar out Of town as II
the home grocer from whom he might
have bought his groceries.
Now just multiply this one dollar by
a hundred or thousand or ten thou
sand. One dollar may not seem to
make much difference In the average
town. but thousand dollars or even
hundred dollars does make differ
ence. Just as one dollar will pay
dozen or a hundred small bills. a hun
dred or thousand dollars will pay
dozen or hundred big bills. When
Brown, the grocery man, owes a thou
sand dollars and can't pay II, he II
headed for the bankruptcy courts.
When Jones, the plumber. can't collect
The money which II due. him from
Brown or maybe dozen Browns, he Is
headed In the same direction as Brown.
And 30 II goes all around the circle
until It hits Smith or dozen Smiths
who have sent their money out of town
% add to the fortunes Of the mail order
men.
Buyer One Who 10 Hurt.
Thus, It will be seen that this buy
't-home proposition Ii really selfish
me with the man who buys the goods.
de IL not hurting the home merchant
when he sends bis money out Of town.
my more than he Ii hurting himself.
Every sensible man knows that his
livelihood depends upon whether bust
less In his town II good or not. II
'uElness II not good, he cannot make
'ood living for himself and his family,
10 matter how hard he may work, and
BUSINESS cannot be good II the bust
less men IN the town are not making
money. This II q plain business propo-
ition for every man and woman In, the
community. BY spending their money
I home they are helping the home
nerchant only incidentally. They are
their own bread. When they
end their money to the mail order
ouse. they are not only hurting the
ONE merchant incidentally but--a
hing more important to tliem-they
y likely 20 b taking the bread out
to mouths of their own children.