The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-09-20
Thursday, September 20, 1917.
BUY AT HOME.


basis of American liberty There is nothing that will dc
to foster community interest than the "Buy Home
movement One of the largest fashion magazines OF the cou
try is advocating the Buy Home movement strong that
has barred all mail order advertising from its pages Every
line of advertising is aimed to send customers to the retail
stores.
The total yearly business of the mail order stores is es
mated $5000000 AS high 20 per cent Of rural retail
buying said be done through the mail order houses
communities will venture the percentage higher
than that
One of the fastgrowng mail order houses claims 100000
recorder customers More than 81 has been taken in on
single day by this With the help of magazine adver
tisng has distributed 100000 catalogues In The
sales of this house alone 1916 $146S3SOO showing
gain 30 per cent For the past five months of 1917 sales
reached 96O19 increase of O7 33302 per con-
The growth of mail order houses the past few years has been
tremendous.
This big magazine forsee the i'll effect upon the pros
perty of the country in general in cenalzng purchases III
one large cities This magazine has therefore thrown
all advertising that takes money away from home and has
aooed for the retail merchant in the fight against
the big mail order competition And time goes by the fight
against the big mail order houses will grow and grow and the
rural citizen who at the present time believes that he safe
guarding the strings of his pocketbook will find that he
been paying tribute to few big concerns far away from the
center of things which he is most interested AS he becomes
educated he will light and that endless flow OF money
over the mail order will With that cessation
greater circulation of home currency will be in evidence and
greater community interest will be the result.
Il certain church in certain valley town has started pro
test against sending cigarettes to the soldiers in the army The
members this church contend that the first place. the Gig
arette evil and in the second place there are but very
few of the young ensng from their congregation whc
tobacco in any form We have no use for the little white
pill but there any number of soldier boys who Go use
them and who will them spite of efforts on the part
Of some people deprive them Of this "tte oy The boys
going face proposition than cigarettes and the
morale of the army will be kept to standard the boys can
some of the things have always been used to in civil
life Give hcm their smokes and may they have plenty OF
them.
II -t-t-
II Now that the county fair and we have heard some
peop make the statement that not to the standard
former years and that the management has fallen down IN
this way and that way pause minute and ask these
pie just question What did you do to help make the fair
After giving this question due consideration and you
find that you have done nothing wouldn't be well to resolve
that in future years. beginning with the next fair will get
behind the with all your strength and genius Ideas
of kind will help put pep into the fair and it will finally
put down and under of the unavorabe comments which
| we have just heard