Tombstone epitaph., 1922-05-14
TRADE AT HOME

| 'You help yourself when you trade at home"
 This is the attitude which citizens of Tombstone being asked take not only for Trade at HOme-Buy Arizona Products Week. which will be observed May 22nd to 27h. but for all time For it is the only possible attitude.
 ..Trade at Home Week. ism for the benefit of the local merchants but for the benefit of resident of the community.
 Keeping Tombstone business in Tombstone will help the merchants and business of the city. it is quite but at the time it will help person
 The main thing which most people overlook when they send from home for articles is the fact that dollar spent outside makes business here dol home. whether it be that of merchant mechanic. miner professional worker Anyone that the citizen can prosper only as the town proser and as the state prospers That is why help yourself when trade at home and buy Arizona products.
 Dollars spent at home stay at home and come back to you; dollars spent away from home come back is tn ewhoe argument Ond. it's prncture proof
 While Trade at Home-Buy Arizona Products Week. is being observed here, will be observed in ai parts of the the Arizona Industrial Congress is cooperating with chambers of commerce everywhere te make the movement statewide.
 Too often the argument Is hurled: You can't buy this or that in Tombstone
 For that regrettable and costly misunderstanding the merchants of this city have blame hut them selves
 We say misunderstanding because it is so imbedded in the minds of people of this city that because the local stores did not complete stocks year or six months ago. that they do not have them This misunderstanding The local stores have improved 80 per cent in the past four months An inspection of their stocks will bear this statement though have take the bull by the horns and make it without the of the local storekcepers. Nevertheless it is plain truth
 It is costly because under that misunderstanding. many people who want purchase a certain article will seek foreign market and soey because they believe that : you can't get it in Tombstone.
 If such the case then out-of-town buying would be justified but begging the pardon of local mer chants for putting into their business affairs want to emphatcay impress the fact that 95 per cent of every commodity that a household needs. be purchased right here in Tombstone
 Where do they get that stuff. That's plain robbery. Talk about profteerng." These charges often hur cd at local merchants.
 Before We condemn let's be fair enough to investi- gate
 If you buy out of town, taking chance get ting what want in blind horse trade and everything else considered. and then some OutOftOwn merchant is conducting business for the fun of 1t, getting by the profits he makes by getting the best of you by substituting.
 We suppose. dear reader. that by this time you in battling humOr and believe that this buy at home pro- paganda is pure bunk. Irregardless, you wrong!
 Just take into consideration the many ways in which you lose through sight unseen bargaining. parallel these certain losses with the possible savings of few dict.
 You will find that you wrong Ill your behef that you can't get square deal from Tombstone merchants but that have the edge the merchants who sit idly by and let you think