The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-10-08
AS THE EDITOR SEES 1T.

AS THE EDITOR SEES IL.
How would you like to journey to
the nearest city for a pound OF sugar
or a yard of muslin, or a spool OF
thread, or a smoke?
You would make some noise II fore
ed TO such an extremity-and then
more noise.
You would say-and justly 50 that
a town i'm which you cannot buy a
pound Of sugar, or a yard of muslin,
or a spool # thread, or a smoke, is a
mighty poor excuse for a town ana
not WORTH living in.
Yet our merchants can only AFFORD
to keep these Things for your CON
yenience rs long as you buy other
things from them.
Itis not doing this town any good
10 buy tue little things here and then
chase off to q city or send to a cata-
Ioque house when you want something
on which the merchant has a chance
to make a dollar.
Neither Is it doing you any good,
for the prosperity OF each citizen is de
pendent to a large extent upon Che
prosperity Of the community as a
Whole.
Weare not telling you something
you DO not know.
We are simply refreshing your mem
ory In hopes that the time may come
when oar people viii conclude that a
town that is worth living in is worth
trading in.
That's all.
There are unmistakable indications
of a coming change in our economic
condition, and this, we hope, will
bring many thousands of our wander
ing boys back to the farm.
Banks throughout the country are
tightening up on loans, and are call
ing in those made for speculative pur
poses.
The public is ceasing TO buy as ex
trayagantly as Of yore, with the result
that manufacturers are OF necessity
curtailing h ir output.
This is throwing thousands of men
out Of employment, and many OF
them are experiencing difficulty in
finding other sources of earning a
Iiy lihood.
AS a rule the farm hand who rush.
ed OF to the city is the least exper'
perienced in these trades, and it is
but natural that he should be among
the first TO be laid OIL.
What more sane course could he
pursue than to return to the farm,
where he is an expert and employ
ment is always awaiting him?
Speed the return Of the wandering
boy. He is welcome before he arriv
es.
Joy reigns in the heart of the Am
erican housewife.
She is nightly pleased-even tick
led and all because of sugar.
Every day she reads in the daily pa
pers Of how the falling sugar market
is squeezing the profiteering gambler
who loaded up on that staple an(
Ehave been been Withholding it from
the market in order 10 compel her t.
pay exorbitant prices and clean u
fortunes for themselves in a few
months time.
She reads that many of these gamb
ling hoarders have lost large sums o
} money through the slump in price
| others are in financial distress, an'
some ire on the verge of ruin.
h And she smiles.
} Their frantic walls are as sweet t
T her ears as is the taste Of honey to
hungry bear.
JOY be with you, sister. Laugh on
Nand laugh heartily.
We laugh with you.
The wag Of a dogs tail invariabl
I means friendship, out the wave OF
| human hand often covers a world o
secret enmiGy. And still, we wouldn'
care to state that the dog is more T.
be relied upon in his actions thai
mankind.
: A COMMUNITY CREED.
; / believe in tire integrity of the people