Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-01-16
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1920.
BUYING IN HOME TOWN Is ECONOMY.

1.-THE following summary of the Importance Of
trading with the home merchants is by E. M.
Trowern secretary of Retail Merchants Asso-
citation of Canada. 1t contains many pertinent facts
and is worth the while of every one in Cedar City and
Iron county to peruse it,
II a city town is good enough to live in, and good
enough take salary from, it should be good enough
to buy in If the teachers the preachers the professors
the remen the policemen and the civic servants want in
salaries the most direct route to bring about that
desired keep the money circulating in the home
town. If all the money in Canada got into the hands
Of one two men, business in general would stagnate
The proper and healthy condition is to have money cir
cuated that everyone WILL through his her industry
get of it.
The first expectation Of producer is to be able to sell
his crop after he has grown it, To sell it he must have
customers with money, who able to buy it. The fur
her the producer away from the the the
transportation costs. Farms thriving towns and
cities valuable than those which isolated in
the backwoods. The best way to make the backwoods
farms valuable buy the cities and towns them
COOPERATION COUNTS
Prosperous cities and towns built up through
proper cooperation between retail merchants and their
customers They must work together The customer
ques the retail merchant and the retail merchant requires
the customer If customers send all their money away
to mail order houses for staple goods and expect the
to live the sale Of lamp chmneys eggs and coal
oil they will awaken day find the little store closed
Goods when you want them and where you want them
worth than goods thousands of miles Ten cents
worth Of toothache in the drug store in the
home town is worth to suffering child with an
aching tooth than tons Of the article in Hong
Kong, China.
DOUBLE MISSION
Retail merchants endeavor to locate in places where
they required They have double mission to per-
form; they buy goods suit their customers and they
expxect to make living by selling and caring for them
The better service retail merchant gives his customers
the better business he should receive in return The
service should be mutual and the customer should be
equally anxious that the retail stores in his city
town succeed
The statement that by buying through mail order
houses you are saving the mddemans profit all you
buy is only garng deception, to say nothing whatever
about the question of lack of loyalty to home town.
Let follow the process and if less labor is required
person living town, and whose position depends upon
the prosperity of the receives catalogue In order
that the said catalogue should reach the the fol-
lowing process must take place:
Here enumerated 33 separate and distinct actions
Of them involving great deal of time and expense
the part of the mail order house,
NO ECONOMY
No sane person could say that there is any economy
in that system of doing business especially when fourteen
transactions of the thirty made by the Gov
mail order service less than cost price thus
Of the whole people.
True economy and sound patriotism, therefore cal
upon every loyal citizen of country patronize his home
town and keep the wheels Of commerce moving in the
direction in which most be mutually benefited