Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-25
Community That Is Not Prosper
ous Cannot Attract New
Residents.
IS LIKE Big Corporation
People Are stoolsholdsrs and Wien
They spend Their Money Away
From Home They Deplsto
lts Capital
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There is nothing deader than q dead
town. Try a. hard a. It may to con-
eeal the facts, the truth 10 written al
over Il 20 that he who runs may read.
No camouhAge Of bluff and bluster can
conceal the true situation from anyone
who comes within the limits Of the
community. A dead town n dead and
that's all there II to It
The worst Of Il 70 that once q town
dies It stays dead. There have been
exceptional cases In which dead towns
have been revived. have taken on now
life and prOspered, but these are mere
" the exceptions that prove the rule.
Tho fact that o town can seldom
''cOme back" ls easily explained. The
growing and. prosperous town today
is the one that can ATTRACT new resi-
dents and new capital. II ls one that
can OfIer attractive Inducements for
the location Of new Industries. Tho
dead town offers no attraction to out
side capital. A man looking Tor q
place TO launch q new business OF q
new location for an old industry, 10
not going to pick out q dead town.
He 70 going to select town In which
money is plentiful. town whose busi-
ness men are progressive ana whose
residents, a. 9. whole, are prosperous
and contented. There are too many
live and thriving towns In the world
for q man to risk his future In one
that 10 dead. This u the reason that
q town. once dead, almost always 10
mains dead.
Town Like Cooperation.
There is lust one thing, ordinarily,
that kills a town in the first place and
that IL n lack Of money. A town IL
inst like n corporation and the money
possessed BY It's inhabitants Is its cap.
ital. II this capital is depleted the
town win fail iust as the corporation,
whose capltal "a Glepleted through Door
management or other causes, falls.
And lust az the corporation which has
once failed can seldom retrieve its lost
fortunes the town which has failed
cannot often 'corne back" s
Ths canital NJ n community IN de.
nleted when its money n sDent away
from home in n way that brings no
return benefit To the community. II
takes NO great amount of thought to
be able 10 realize that the town, like
tha individual. cannot last long II it
n DavIng ont more money than II
takes IA. That does NOT mean that a
proeDerous town n one in which the
Deople do not spend any money. On
the contrary. a prosperous town IL
one in which the people do spend mon
ey but II Il one IN which they spend
the money at houe. An long AZ the
money Is spent at home, the town
gains BY having 1t kept In circulation.
Dut wnen II Gspent away hrom nome'
eitner Dy Deang sent 70 tne man OtueE
houses or Dy shopping tripS 70. otnet
cities the towns capatal - impaired
70 tnat extent ana u e4ousn money -
spent away irom nome N tnaI way,
the town coilap"es ana Virtuaiiy SOes
INTO bankruptcy !ost - uoes tne cor
pOrauOn winch uiSSlpAteS tts Capa'A'
The people OF q community are apt
to overlook me fact tnat tney are
'StockhOAderS IN their town and stnaF
their fortunes are bound up with those
OF tne community - Mngle. 1ney
90 not realize tnat ~ tneir town ralls
they VIII fail with u They-or many
Of them at lease-send their money
away to the mail order houses In tne
great cities, without realizing tnat tney
are impairtng the capital OF their own
corporation ana mat II enough OF tnem
pursue that course they win FORCE tnelr
corporation Into certain Dankruptcy'
Merchants Not Only Ones Hurt
Many customers Of mall order
houses say that they are under no