Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-05-19
ARIZONA TRADE
 AT HOME" WEEK

General observance of Trade at Home-Buy Arizona Products Week" turnout the state was urged in for nal statement received here yesterday from the Arizona Industrial Con- .gress. The congress recently inaug- rated the Trade at Home" movement and urged that it be conducted in every locality by local civic and com mercial organizations, with the result that the week will be held in practi- 'caly every city and town in the state. The statement follows:
 The last two years have shown as never before the necessity of concert ed ection to restore normal prosper ity in the state and insure the fullest furture development of our resources.
 We cannot alter economic laws, but We can do a great deal to improve business conditions in Arizona, which in turn will better the individual con- dton of every resident. Your prosper ity depends on it's business; its busi- ness depends upon you, the individual. Thus we help ourselves when we make business better, regardless of whether we are in business personally.
 The greatest assistance we can give to business at this time is to keep our money at home, where it belongs where it will play it's part in making conditions better and eventually return to us in some form. By home we mean your home town as we'll as your home state.
 A large majority of residents of every city and town of Arizona trade at home. But many do not. It is the latter whom we hope to reach in this Grade at Home-Buy Arizona Pro- ducts Week.. We can prove to them that it is to their individual advantage to trade at home.
 In some cases people can save mon- ey by buying goods from mail order house. If that were not true mail order houses could not exist. But when you buy from mail order house you lose the opportunity of making your own selection of goods, of seeing the quality and deciding whether it will be satisfactory. And in many cases the momentary saving is so small as to be unworthy of considera- tion. Reckoning the factors of qual- ity and personal selection, home values are always better than the sight-un- seen values you order from catalog.
 There is a second class of people who send their money away from home; The people who visit California or the east every year or two and who put off most of their buying un- til they are out of the state. It is true that this method offers them a wide variety in many instances, but it does not save them money-in fact, generally leads them to spend more. And on the average they can obtain just as much satisfaction by buying at home, or at least in the state.
 Similarly, Arizona agricultural and manufactured products cost no more, and will be found of as good quality, as those which are shipped in. You gain nothing by buying the imported variety.
 Home merchants and home business men and home manufacturers and home farmers are the people who con- tribute directly to the prosperity and development of the state. More busi- ness for them means more employ ment, more invested capital. And more invested capital means more tax able property and lower individual taxes. Better business means more money for everybody.
 You gain nothing by trading away from home. You help yourself by trading at home. There is no choice, once you consider it.
 For these reasons the Arizona In- dustrial Congress urges that every citizen of the state observe Trade at Home-Buy Arizona Products Week" by trading at home and using Arizona products exclusively during the week of May 22nd to 27th. Doing it for one week means doing it permanently. It is a lasting service which We can do for our home towns and our home state-and incidentally ourselves.