The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-08
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, 1920
THE TIME TO BUY.

should not buy, and there are time:
when he should buy. The present fal
has been time when people have moi
bought and as long as goods were a
top price the people would not buy
certainly not as long as they Were
able to keep from buying. And the
present is no time to buy those
things which are not essential. A
thing not needed now is dear at any
price.
But there are things which mus
be bought. The children must have
clothes and shoes and other wearing
apparel. These things are necessary
and they must go into every house.
hold. Whatever the times the children
in school and at home must be made
comfortable. And the grown-ups, too,
need essential clothing. They need
shoes and they need other things,
ana they will buy these things or 60
in want and the time has not come
When the people should be in want.
The fact is that we believe the turn
ing point has come and that things
will look brighter after the holidays.
Even if prices do not advance we will
have>settled down to the new condi-
tions, hard though they be, and will
have to some extent accustomed our
selves to them. Believing that this is
the case, this paper feels that it
should advise it's readers to buy
not to buy those things which are not
needed; nor those things, which may
be used, but which may be done with
out, and that without discomfort;
but to buy those things which are
necessary to make the people at
home comfortable. The coming of the
Christmas season makes it necessary
that we get rid of the blues for the
sake of the children, if not for our
own sakes, and something must be
bought tor this purpose. They must
be made happy in their new clothes
and with other things which go to
make life easy for them.
But there is another reason why the
people should buy these necessities
now, and that is that these things may
be bought at prices which will COM
mend themselves to even the most
penurious. For several weeks the
merchants in Abbeville have been ad-
vertising their goods at big discounts,
indicating that these goods were be-
ing sold at cost prices. 1t is customary
to read about discount sales, and
sometimes they are not really dis
count sales, but the editor of this
paper, in the last few days, has had
occasion to 60 into the stores in Alb
beville and to find out about these
things. And he has found that all
kinds of wearing apparel, mems cloth
ing, boys clothing, women's suits,
coats, shoes of all kinds and a great
many other things which the
people must have, are being offered
at prices in many instances below
cost. The fact is that the merchants
in Abbeville, or at least those who
advertise in this paper, have made
up their minds to sell their stocks of
goods at cost, and in many cases be-
low cost, in order to make room for
the spring goods. This being the case,
we say that the time has come for the
people to buy, the things which they
must have. The goods are new now,
they have not been picked over and
they are as cheap as they will ever
be again the present winter. A dol
lar now will buy as much as two dol
lars would have bought three months
ago, and these things being on par
ity with the price of cotton, there is
no reason why we should longer wait
to buy those things which we are COM
PEELED to have.
And there is another consideration
for all of US, and it is this: Business
must begin to move somewhere, or
else stagnation will continue. The
merchant cannot buy new goods un-
til h esells what he has; and the
manufacturer will not buy cotton in