El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-01
CARRYING BUNDLES HOME AND
SHOPPING IN PERSON WILL PAY


M where so It seems people being urged to carry
," the small parcels home" And they carrying
them You more filled with bundles on FL
Pasos streets every afternoon than you ever would have
dreamed seeing years ago Then bundle carrying
comparatively Now everyone rch and poor alike
does It. II saves deliveries It IS advertised as means
Of lowering prices and VIII probably have that effect unless
whatever saving there IS through decreasing deliveries IS
offset by advances manufacturers and JOobers costs
At any rate cutting deliveries does Just that
much reliable merchants VIII pare their prices
spondingly. II movement which has found favor not
in e. Paso only but generally throughout the country for
merchants everywhere trying TO educate their patrons
to cs small 1arreIs home Tie LARGE ones are delivered
before unless the purchaser has his wagon hand
and IS willing to make the delivery for himself
Soon many young fellows working as delivery men viii
be going TO In many their places viii not need
TO be nec Those who would III them can 90 something
Of productive nature For delivering parcels Is not pro
ductive labor 1t convenience luxury, according
to the nature OF the goods delivered but II IS nonproduV
Therefore should be abolished in far possible
matter Of principle at time when labor for producing
is very much IN demand.
With the carrying-parcels- movement has come
personal shopping There IS Of II among all classes
Of people than for years past We had become nation OF
telephone shoppers often dissatisfied with the goods sent
but going back to the telephone order matter
Of convenience Now we have gone back 10 the practice of
the days before the telephone into general We
going to the store to buy We picking out what
want rejecting It If unsatisfactory, buying with close atten
ton to price well quality, and then carrying It home
Americans better buyers more economical buyers
saving of than before the
That small beneficial lesson the has forced
upon US It has forced Il upon US BY bringing TO the United
States world for food and clothing which has to
be satisfied. The satisfaction Of the demand makes
modities and higher IN price The have
pay the anxious to receive the best possible
our expenditure The telephone method Of buying
satisfactory. So 90 to the goods before
buy instead of buying blndy multiplying costs by
having array possible purchases sent to homes on
approval Having bought carry the goods home our
selves to save the cost of delivery.
This is lust a beginning Many economy remains to
be put into practice before this ends We shall find
ways Of saving which enough to our fathers
gra1dathers but strange and to children
stranger still Perhaps the already heavy burden Of the
very poor VIII be heavier still unless the government
through its various CONTROLS ntervenes for their protection
But for tie great body Of fairly well to do citizens
the extent that they have known real
wsn-these forced economies VIII be blessing Not al
ways perhaps, viii Americans be known as the most
travagant the most wasteful people IN the world.
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the army drawing 258. In the height Of his en-
thusiasm he waived claim TO exemption and peOned
the government accept his services All the other 258
who without dependents should keep that Span
lard In mind
part Of the Irish people crying for complete na
tonA independence But what would they do with free
dom if they got it-besides going bankrupt?
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be known gentleman, scholar and good Judge Of
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