Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-07
Don't Kill The Goose
That Lays The Golden Egg
IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP


Dollars and he has only thirty cents to his name.
And is looking for a job and can't find one.
The people of this country right now today are facing
ton that calls for common
Let's forget about Psychology and Economics and readustment
and all the other much-talked Of thngR
And use sense.
In every city town hamlet land people telling
each other what the country needs.
But you and that what people United
States need most Of all just now, is Common Sense
If you are shoemaker and the furniture worker the weaver
the halter, the machinist, the miner
And the producers of hundred other commodities you BUY
ing the year, stop buying the shoes You make
And by doing throw you out of work.
How going to get the to buy the things they
producei
You've got help the other fellow produces
he must help to consume what you produce.
To-day country good shape-the troubles exist mostly
in the minds Of the people,
But IL do wake and do buying
won't be long before our troubles will be real
Nations like individuals make themselves sick by worrying
when there is cause for worry.
Is
prevent industrial breakdown in the future
Buy the fellow produces doing today
The excuse of high prices has faded away.
The cutpce of reputable merchants fill the
pages of the daily newspapers.
to-day buy things you have put
buying so long
Keep this fact everlastngiy before you.
you buy the other fellow produces buy
what you produce.
And buying up many thousands of people, not actual
makers of the things consume VIII be thrown Of
Railroad for instance and camsn clerks and bookkepes
and people employed In thousand different ways.
That's about all there is the whole situation.
And all the Senators and Congressman and Governors and
missiOners talk their heads off and can't change it
Men and md %os and %rsg who s well
patriotic endeavor that you gave freely during the War
If the nonbuyng condition continues to exist deness will con-
tnue to increase throughout the land.
Industry industry will close want poverty soup
houses and bread lines will naturally follow
And once our country gets such miserable situation
it will take long and weary time to get out of it.
isn't reading this message cannot
help avert the troubles drifting into by supplying
selves with the things they need
If you haven't the ready cash. use your credit
Do something to help the goods from the shelves of the
retailer who in instances has cut prices to less than he
tualy paid for the goods
Prices down-read the advertisements agai-there
for further waiting.
Buy from the retailer tha he order from the manu-
facurer and him chance to keep his workmn employed
All hepDon all this sounds good but I'll just hang
on to my money and let the other fellow spend his.
Buy nOwPut shoulder to the wheel for industry but
big wheel
And when revoves easily and without strain it grnd
prosperity and prosperity happiness cheerful homes
contented families.
Contrary to the idea that prevail in certain circles
Merchants who sell credit partial payments
urge people to in debt for things they do need
Extravaganza encouraged hand and