The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-01-08
BUY AT HOME SECTION
CTh Changes RUM
EACH DEPENDENT ON OTHERS

citizsn Whe Does Not Aid In BuiIdiss
Up Community Can Not Expect
to Have Prosperity
Himself.
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mere was a time in the world when
: man could do pretty much as he
pleased. What one man did was of
little concern To anyone else. Z II had
little effect on anyone else. Those
days are gone. however, and they
never will return. Today. no man can
live entirely unto himself. Life is
complicated affair under modern con-
ditions. No one man in any commun-
ity is entirely independent of all others
In that community.
Organized society. In the form of
governments. national, state and local,
have recognized the new conditions
and have decreed that every man must
observe certain rules in his relations
with his fellow men, He must not do
certain things that would endanger the
health Of other people in his commun-
ity. He must not do such things as
would disturb the peace and quiet Of
his neighborhood. He must remember
that he owes duty TO his community.
Not Question Of Right
A man may say that he has the right
TO spend his money where he pleases ;
that no one can stop him II he wants
to buy his groceries, his clothes and
his furniture In some eity miles away
from where he earns the money TO pay
for them He is right. There is no
law TO prevent him from doing so, un-
less II is the law of seif-preservation.
The man who has the right to send his
money away TO some distant city in
stead OF spending II at home, also has
the right TO SEND his children to that
city 10 be educated In the schools.
which his money belIs TO support, but
he doesn't exercise that right he
sends his children TO the Nocal schools.
the maintenance of which is made pos
sible by the men who spend their
money at home.
Life in any community today is
givesnd-take proposition A man can
not take everything and give nothing
and get away with IL for any great
length of time. He can not take his
living from community and give
nothing hack to help the other fellow
make living. II he cuts OF the other
fellows living. he is bound eventually
to cut of his own. for unless the other
fellow has money TO buy his labor or
his goods he cannot make a living
himself.
You msy say that what you buy
doesn't amount 10 much and the money
that you send away 10 the mail order
houses in other cities can not have any
great effect upon the general business
conditions in your town Maybe II
doesn't amount TO much and maybe IL
won't have any great effect upon the
community's prosperity in Itself. but
what will be the result If every person
In the community. or half Of them, or
q tenth Of them. take The same view
Of the matter. Your business. in it
self. may not amount 10 much. hut
taken together with the business of
hundred others in the community. II
amounts 10 n great deal. II amounts
"a the difference between a prosper
ous community and dead one. II
amounts 10 the difference in the end,
between good times and had times for
yourself and your own family II you
lived on desert isle. il would make
no difference where you sent your
money. because Ii would make no diff
ference whether you had any money at
all or not. But you are not living upon
a descrt isle. You are living IN
modern community. To do everything
possible 10 build NJ that community is
no; only a duty which you owe 10 the
community. tut-mcre important still
1T is n duty which you owe TO your
self.
Taxes viii Increase.
You have children to educate. You
wnrr Ynnr community 80 have good