Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1921-04-25

Stewart +. GelderS,
Managing Editor
SPEND YOUR MONEY AT
HOME-The dollar you spend at
home may again find its way in
to your pocket; the money sent
away from home is irretreivably
gone. More than that, a dollar
turned over five times, passed
hand to hand five times, is as
good as five dollars that are not
passed around. The faster dol
lar is spent the more it is worth.
A community could stage bus
mess boom with a thousand dol
lars in cash if each successive po-
SCISSOR of the cash would pass it
on. That may sound funny at
first but it is a sound economic
principle. Money is only med
ium OF exchange.
The EXCHANGE makes pros
perity, not the medium. Hard
times are not a result of scarce
money; they are the result of
slow cash turn over, of reluctant
buying. The trouble with this
country today is not so much that
money is scarce, but that man
with a dollar is afraid he can't
get another one if he turns what
he has loose.
Fitzgerald could stage a real
business boom today with not
single dollar more being brought
into the town, if the dollars that
are here were started passing
around as fast as they were
year ago. The man who is cling
ing to a dollar for dear life would
have. a chance 60 get and spend
the same dollar two or thre times
if he quit squeezing it so hard the
lady gasps for breath and the eag-
lie hasn't room enough to emit
healthy scream.
And every dollar that leaves
Fitzgerald, in whatever form,
makes it just one dollar harder
to start business boom. And ev-
cry dollar that is spent in Fitz-
gerald contributes just that much
toward bringing back a healthy
condition in business.
| The Athens Banner has the fol-
lowing to say about business con-
ditions, and the success of the
Athens Banner is evidence that
Editor Hugh Rowe knows what
he is talking about when he talks
about business:
Spend 1t Here
i Business conditions have been
bettered. Any merchant will
tell you that. He may not ex-
plain that it is not good, as good
as he would like to see it, but he
will not say it is a lot worse than
he expected it to be.
Home buying of every article
needed would make it great
deal better. Athens merchants
have always carried stocks that
are complete with the best the
market affords and have consist
emily adhered to close profit mar
gins. Can we say that Athens
people have always carefully in
vestigated the opportunities to Sc
cure their needs here, before
shopping in other cities?
Athens merchants are also lib
eral advertisers, and their an
nouncements have caused great
flow of trade to come into the
city. With the present very much
improved conditions existing it is
still a very wise thing for our
people to spend as much of their
money here as they can for goods
which can be supplied over Ath-
ems counters. When you start
shopping, SPEND YOUR MON
EY HERE.
Thomasville Enterprise says:
Home buying is still the sal
vation of the country. The mon
ey that should be spent, that
would naturally be spent, can be
of double use if spent at home and
this has helped Thomasville for
its people have been wise enough
to make their money work for
themselves after they have spent
it.
1t isn't velvet yet, but it is not
far off and the wise policy pur-
sued in Thomasville has left it
in better shape than any town of
its business capacity in the state.
Let's keep the good work up and
we will leave behind all of the
gloom of the DaSt six months