The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
THE STORY OF TWO
NEW SILVER DOLLARS
STARTED OUT WITH EQUAL
CHANCE TO SERVE COMMU-
NIFTY, BUT ONE STRAYED.


Once upon time in certain south
ern town there were two bright, new
silver dollars. One OF the dollars was
inclined to be wild and wayward-t
other was a stay-at-home sort OF doi,
lar that worked very, very hard and
| had many friends because OF his bene-
| fit to his community.
The two dollars started out IN lite
with an equal chance to serve their
community, but one alas. was spent at
gasoline station owned by foreign
corporation, and was heard OF no more.
Bill Jones, progressive merchant
! in the same town, spent the other
dollar at a garage that sold an inde,,
pendent oil dealers product who had
/ built up his business by serving the
public only the best grade OF gasoline
and lubricating oils and right here the
career OF the busy stay-at-home dol
lar started.
Before night that very day the stay
at-home dollar had sung many song
in different cash registers OF the COM
munity. After leaving the gasoline sta
tion-at the grocer's, and next at the
hardware store, until finally drug
gist deposited it in the local savings
bank :.
But not for long did the busy dol
lar remain idle Within a few days
there was a caller at the bank-no
other than Bill Jones, who had start
ed the dollar on its useful career. Bill
had come for a loan. His business
was steadily increasing and he needed
additional capital. The bank granted
the loan and here again old friends
met-the busy dollar was now jung
ling merrily again in Jones pocket,
helping to serve his community and
| friends.
Now the story OF the wild and way
ward dollar is another thing, and there
| is very little to tell, for it has never
been heard OF since it left home. The
| last time it was seen was the day 1t
was spent in gasoline station OF one
of the big foreign corporations, and 1t
! has been rumored that 1t was sent so
| far away that none of us will ever hear
or see it again.
And so it is with the modern vii
lage or city. For here it is that men
gather together to engage in COM
merce-one with another. Those cities
are most prosperous where its indus
tries are owned and operated at home
and where the profits are kept at home
to benefit their home industries. A
dollar spent with local enterprise may
turn over a dozen times before the
end Of the day and thus benefit the
whole community, but the dollar spent
with a foreign concern is necessarily
one Of short life and seeks its home IN
far away ports
You live in a social world. Upon
your neighbours prosperity depends
your own. When your neighbor has
no money with which to buy, you can
not sell him your goods. Your COM
munity is fortunate indeed if its money
is kept circulating, and the way to
keep it circulating is to make commu-
nitv dollars of it by investing them at
home.
Profits earned by home industries
are deposited in home banks and in
crease home credit, while profits made
by local representatives OF foreign! cor
porations are deposited in distant
banks, and their use as far as the
community is concerned is ended
Your business depends upon the
surrounding community, and as loyal
citizen you will naturally give your
trade to that community, for by so
doing you are indirectly serving your
self
If your home town oil dealer or
garage man can supply you with the
right kind of gasoline and lubricating
oils for your car at the market price
it is your duty to trade with him, for
he has built up his business there by
the side of yours, and it helps your
town and your own business as we'll
1t is not the purpose OF this story
of the wise and hayward dollar to
boost any one mans business nor to
defame another 1t is issued by group
of men who are themselves cOmpeti-
tors, and upon whose present trade
and welfare depend indirectly the wei
fare and prosperity of the south, and
in turn determines your own prosper
ity.
Out of the four million-dollar year
ly profit made in the oil distributing
business in the south over seventy
five per cent of this amount is sent out
of the south each year by foreign cor
porations Yet the products offered the
public by the home-oWned industries
Georgia Oil Company are guar
anteed to be of as high quality as any
petroleum products of their foreign
competitors, and are offered to the
public at the same price.
II the goods and the price are the
same-buy at home and make your
dollars serve your community The
following dealers sell Georgia Oil Cos
gasoline and oils; Dawson Motor Car
Co., Dawson Auto Accessory Co.,
Dawson Buick Co., Locke Mathis Mo
tor Co, Battle Hardware Co, Lowrey
& Davidson Motor Co., w. NJ. Brown.
Parrott-Lee Brothers & Co., Dave
Gamble Garage, H. A. Cook Mercan-
tile Co., City Drug Store, J. c. Pink
Ston.
Bronwood-H A. Petty Co., Foster
1 Bros.
Sasser-G. T. Warner.
Herod-Brim & Co, J. c. Cocker,
J. c. McLendon.
Doverel-Lee & Thornton
Yeomans-J. E. Rigsby.