El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-25
USE ECONOMY BUT BUY AT HOME
AND HELP YOURSELF AND Ell PASO|

TITHIIE buying made IN FL Paso products, buy other
W things from Fl Paso merchants also. II they are to
encouraged 10 90 after business II Arizona and New
Mexico Sonora chihuahua and West Texas, they should
also be assured Of 100 percent support at home
From your merchant and neighbor buy your groceries
and hams your clothes and your ewe, your garden tools
and your automobile your photograph and your shotgun
Don't ssud TO Fort Worth Kansas City St Louis Detroit
OF Chicago That doesn't help your neighboTs business
OF yous Buying here helps your business or # you
haven't business your home and your job
Il viii help E Paso. e Psso is yours II doesn't De-
long 70 the manufacturers the merchants Il does not
belong TO the wealthy property owners II Paso IS con-
poste Of every individual within its limits The corPoT
atoms exist without people to use their gas ana
electric lights their street AID the things ney manu-
factue The selter and the company could not
operate without people TO work for them The property
would be land poor there were no one 10 occupy
their buildings and rent their houses
Il every individual is essential part OF the eoHInun
y then let every individual assist in building It up Buy
ing your fun capacity FROM your home merchant makes
him prosperous, gives him chance TO employ more people
distribute part Of his profits IN the form OF higher
rzEes. The people he employs occupy homes and ire
higher their wages the patronage they can give
Other firms The better they can live. Home 10y
atty endless chain OF benefits that helps the poor
vel the rieh
reason exercising something than eeono-
my few months ago when the was on and the sol
deTs allies had to be fed and the had to be
financed Economy IS good habit TO be encouraged
But that the is over economy does not not
10 buy but TO buy With We have put off buying
many things that we need Now is the time TO buy these
There could Be better opportunity 10 make these
purchases than IN the directly following the Holt
days The stores vel filled The prices very
high but higher than is justified by the prices the
merchant has 10 pay for his stock the high salaries and
wages be pays and the high rents he likewise has TO pay
Buy literally and whenever possible pay cash and insist
proper discount for cash that you do not pay the cost
CT bookkeeping for credit customers and the bills Of dead
beats Credit IS adudged indispensable in the conduct Of
merchandising but spot cash IS worth something any
merchant and if yours doesn't it. take your cash busi-
who does and let the other merchant your
credit patronage
But buy at home where you the goods you want
and Judge whether they Of the quality you desire
Make Fl Pasos business cooperative league of nations
proposed the BY which cooperation between
The nations Of the world for mutual benefit is be made
possible Cooperation Is the big thing in the world today
Tat and falr play Cooperation and fair play the
for the allies and viii govern the administration Of
World affairs in the future
So let cooperation govern Fl Paso's spirit Every one
should feel he part Of the 100 percent FL Paso and with
out his aid there VII be 100 percent And let It be
100 percent pull-togethsr spirit.