News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-07-17
Keep One Moving and See What
1t Will Do for Your Com
munity.
PAYS MULTITUDE OF DEBTS
When 1t Is Sent Out of Town, How
ever, to Pay for What Can Be
Bought at Home 1t Is Gone
Forever.
(Copyright.)

II Is d ialueT WOuueflul Cnlng, Wnel
you stop to think about it what on
lone dollar will do, if it is kept a
work. This has been illustrated in
striking manner on several occasion
by means of very simple experiment
If you want to see just how importan
a role a silver dollar or a dollar bill
plays in the life of community herr
is the way to do it. Just attach tag
to the dollar and turn it loose, will
the request that every person who
receives the dollar make a note on the
tag as to how he received it. 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
Der, who had done some work for
Brown, sends his collector around and
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
| to pay his bill. Green had just put
| the dollar in his cash drawer when
in comes Black, the milkman, to whom
Green owes a dollar for milk delivered
at 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, 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 milkman and Smith would |
not have got the money which White |
owed him for lumber.
This is all so simple that it requires
no student of economies or professor !
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 Saiths town are con-
cerned. That dollar will. never come
back to pay any bills in Smiths town.
And the thing that stands out most
but is most often overlooked,
is that Smith, the man who first spends
the dollar, is hurt just as much when
he 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 a thousand or ten thou
sand. One dollar may not seem to
make much difference in the average
town, but a thousand dollars or even
a hundred dollars does make a differ
ence. Just as one dollar will pay a
dozen or hundred small bills, hun
1red or a thousand dollars will pay a
dozen or a hundred big bills. When ,
Brown, the grocery man, owes a thou
sand dollars and can't pay 1t, he is
headed for the bankruptcy courts. !
When Jones, the plumber, can't collect
he money which is due him. from {
Brown or maybe a dozen Browns, he is {
beaded In the same direction as Brown.
And so it goes all around the circle L
Until it hits Smith or a dozen Smiths
who have sent their money out of town
o add to the fortunes Of the mail order !
men.