The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-31
Keep One Moving and See What
It will Do for Your Com
munity.
PAYS MULTITUDE o.; DEBTS
When Il Is Sent Out Of Town, fiov,.
ever, to Pay fer What Can Be
Bought at Home 1t Is Gone
Forever.
Copyright.

It is a rather wonderful thing, when
you stop to think about ii what one
lone dollar will 10. if it is kept 1t
work. This has been illustrated in 1t
striking manner on several occasions
by means Of 4 very simple experiment.
# you want 70 see just how important
4 role q silver dollar or dollar BIZ!
is the way to do it. lust attach tai
to the dollar and turn It loos@. wit.
the request that every person Wla
receives the dollar make n note on the
tag as to how he received il. The re-
suit will be an eye-opener.
Here is the way II works: Smith,
the lumber dealer. who first possesses
the dollar. buys some groceries from
Brown and pays for them with the Col
lar. About that time Jones, the plum
Der, who had done some work for
Brown. sends his collector around ami
Brown pays the bill with this dollar.
Jones owes Green, the printer, a small
advertising bill. so he sends this dollar
with possibly some others, to Green
10 pay his bill. Green had just put
the dollar in his cash drawer when
in comes Black. the milkman, to whom
Green owes dollar for milk delivered
Mt his house. Green takes the dollar
out of his cash drawer and pays
Black. For some time Black has OweG
White, the carpenter. for some work
done on his dairy house, so 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 so on, all around the
circle.
What Might Have Happened.
Now suppose that Smith. instead Of
buying his groceries from Brown. had
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 off the milk man:
White. the carpenter, would not have
got the money for the work he had
done for the lniIlsman and Smith would
not have got the money which White
owed him for lumber.
This is all so simple that it requires
Of mathematics to figure it out. Any
one can see that when Smith sends
that dollar to Chicago or some other
city where the mail order houses flour
ish, that dollar is gone so far 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 out most
striking, but is most often overlooked
is that Smith, the man who first spends
the dollar, is hurt just as much when
ne sends that dollar out Of town as Is
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
q hundred dollars does make n differ
ence. Just as one dollar will pay
dozen or hundred snail bills, hun
dred or a thousand dollars will pay q
dozen or hundred big bills. When
Brown. the grocery man, owes thou
sand dollars and can't pay It, he IS
headed for the bankruptcy courts.
When Jones, the plumber, can't collect
the money which IS due him from
Brown or maybe dozen Browns, ne Is
headed in the same direction a. Brown.
And so 1t goes all around the circle
until It hits Smith or a dozen Smiths
who have sent their money out OF town
to add to the fortunes or the mail order
men.
Buyer One Who Is furt.
Thus, it will be seen hat tbs buy
at-home proposition is really self1sn
one with the man who Nrys i. goods.
He is not hurting the come merchant
when he sends his mOIeN out 7 town,
any more than he is urtins himself
Every sensible man knows that his
livelihood depends upon whether bnsi~
ness In his town is good or not. II
business il not good. h. cannot make
good living for himself and his family.
no matter how hard he may work, and
business cannot be good II the buSi-
ness men In the town are not making
money. This Is plair, business propo-
sition for every man and woman In the
community. BY spending their money
at home they are helpi ng the home
merchant only incidentally. They are
buttering their own bread When they
send their money to th'e mail order
house, they are not only hurting the
home merchant Incidentally bnt--a
thing more important tn rheIn-theJ
are likely to be taking p. bread cut