The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-03-04
ITO MUCH WORK"

/ Tried TO snow q local merchant
that if he advertised he could inter
est people to buy in his store. l
pointed out that over a half million
dollars of perfectly good Lambert
vile money is spent in Trenton each
year. Tlshowed him that the adyer-
Using done by Trenton merchants
made their goods attractive, and as
a result people went from here to buy
those goods.
This local merchant reared back i'm
his chair and replied: eve don't want
any more people trading here. 1t
makes too much work.
Ye gods and little fishesi
1t was enough to make mule laugh
loudly and with great mirth!
And yet this merchant admitted
that the way things looked now he
would likely do $4,000 less business
than last year!
In the meantime this merchant and
dozens of others are constantly COM
planning of high taxes. They growl
against their assessment being made
too high. They complain that the
streets are rotten; that the water
mains are not sufficient for pressure
during big fires; they refuse to give
the children of the city a decent
school; they let the library hobble
along like crippled old bag; they
see dozens of small boys scampering
mischievously about the town with no
recreation of Y. NJ. c. A. or Boy
Scout activities to train them; they
see their sick carted about the coun-
try to secure hads in city hospitals
while the town has none; AND THEY
REFUSE TO INCREASE BUSI-
NESS IN LAMBERTVILLE BE-
CAUSE ITS TOO MUCH WORK"
In the meantime Trenton is taking
a half million dollars yearly from
Lambertville. Trenton is reaping
benefits from Lambertville trade that
enables Trenton to have paved streets,
modern libraries, American Legion
homes, up-to-date water and sewage
systems, schools of the highest eff
cheney, Y. NJ. c. A. and Y. W. C. A.
buildings, Boy Scout activities, modern
hospitals and public Fairgrounds with
band concerts in summer.
And the benefits of one half a mil
lion dollars from Lambertville are
helping to do that for Trenton.
But in Lambertville it is impossible
to keep shoes decent when having to
wade its muddy streets; it is impos-
sible to find modern fiction and refer
ence books in the library and it can
not afford to keep open all the time;
it is impossible to put running water
in the High School because of the lack
of pressure; it is impossible to pro-
vide common deecncies in toilets for
the schools for the lack Of water and
sewage; it is impossible to provide
Scoutmasters who can train idle boys;
it is impossible to build u community
house where gymnasium and recrea-
tlonal activities might take place; it
is impossible to provide Fairgrounds
and band concerts for Lambertville.
But Lambertville is helping pro
vide these things for Trenton, simply
because Lambertville is not industri-
GUS enough to keep her own money
and provide for her own needs first.
People buy the things that are adver-
tised. Trenton merchants believe in
advertising. Lambertville merchants
mot all of them thank heavens!) do
not believe in advertising.
Yet Lambertville can provide Lamb
ertville with shoes and stockings and
drawers and shirts and dresses and
tooth paste of the identical same
makes that are bought in Trenton.
AND THEY CAN DO IT AT A SAY
ING TO LAMBERTVILLE BUYERS.
They save the local buyer first of all
his car or train fare; they save them
high store rentals; they save them
excessive clerk hire; and greatest of
all they save them the annoyance of
misfits and dissatisfaction. Local buy
ers always have a comeback with
local merchants. The local merchants
can always give greater satisfaction.
And yet some of these merchants
refuse to raise hand in an attempt
to keep this half million dollars in
Lambertville. If that half million
dollars We're kept in Lambertville its
benefits would be derived in taxes and
employment for the betterment of the
town. 1t would enable the town to do
for itself what it is now doing for
Trenton.
Have you ever heard of sleeping
sickness?
Well, don't tell the Public Health
officials, but this is where Rip
Van Wrinkle started the fad!