Arizona republican., 1922-05-23
Trade at Home and Stay at Home

A reader of The Republican who either by choice
necessity continuous resident Arizona offers
the suggestion that "trade at home week" should be
logically attended by "stay at home" period of
ffty-two weeks if we get the best results from
any movement whose object it keep Arizona money
from becoming disspated and lost There is some
thing. and very much in this.
If one stays at home he is apt to trade at home.
He may be deluded by the pages of mail order cata
Iogues into sending a little money out of the state
but he likely repeat that offense. If he goes
on a vacation he is almost sure to make purchases
while abroad of things which he could buy to, at
least good advantage while at home to say moth
ing of the amount he separates himself from by the
necessary expenditures Of a long journey.
There was time when there may have seemed
serne justification for vacationiss spending money
abroad. Stocks at home lacking in variety and
prices higher than in many large outside towns
where overstocked merchants were in heated compe-
tHion. But that is not the There is
sufficient variety from which to make selection in
almost any section in this state. There large
stores in only every large town. but in nearly
every small one. In every important mining town
there is at least large store and usually several
well stocked establishments where do better
than in any of the larger nearby cities whose
chants are lying in wait for the suckers" from Ari
Eona. so long source of wealth.
1t used to be the practice of Phoenix in
tending to take vacations to make them the occasion
extensive shopping abroad. It not until about
four years ago that the discovery widely adver
Used that they had pay for goods of the
grade in Los Angeles and San Francisco than they
nad to pay at home.
Under the present system of the distribution of
merchandise no locality has much advantage
another Transportation is but small item in the
cost of articles which make UP ordinary purchases.
Rents make up of the chief items in the cost Of
selling goods and that is one of the reasons why re-
tail prices of merchandise as well as restaurant and
hotel prices are higher in New York than anywhere
else in this country. Advertising rates in the large
cities also appangly high and the sharp compet
ton there makes advertising much of necessity
S place for doing business.
For these and other reasons goods be sold
more cheaply by the merchants of Phoenix, Tucson
and Prescott than they be sold by the merchants
of any metropolis anywhere in the country. and 1t is
be said of merchants that they divide with
their customers the advantage of their cheaper facli
lies for doing business.
Getting back to the stay at home" idea, do
not think it is the notion of reader that
should remain in his home town all the time in his
immediate locality: anyway could not endorse
that. He should take vacation and about
among his neghbors of Flagstaff and Prescott or
Kingman Yuma Tucson, Globe, Miami, Bisbee.
Douglas and Nogales. But the money he would nec-
essarily spend there would be brought back to his
locality, for the people of Arizona moving about
within the state much generally than they used
to do. The money, for instance, Phoenican spends
Flagstaff in the summer time only loaned; it is
returned in the winter The interest is paid
in advance: in the enjoyment the Phoenoian has had
of his vacation; in his renewed strength to resume
his vocation Then next summer the money is re-
transferred to Flagstaff, and But all the time
Arizona money is kept at home. That is the object
of trade home week and that will be the result
of stay at home -fifty-two weeks"