The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-03-03
Keep One Moving and See What
It Will Do for Your Com
munity.
PAYS MULTITUDE OF DEBTS
When Il 10 Sent Out Of Town, How
ever, to Pay for What Can Be
= Bought ut Home 1t Es Gone
Forever.
(Copyright.)

ID u EhlucT WOuucTlul luluK, WHEN
YOU stop to think about it what one
lone dollar will do, If 1t is kept at
work. This has been illustrated in q
striking manner on several occasions
by means of very simple experiment.
If you want to see just how important
role a silver dollar or dollar bill
plays in the life of a community here
is the way to do 1t. Just attach tag
to the dollar and turn 1t loose, with
the request that every person who
receives the dollar make note on the
tag as to how he received 1t. The re.
suit will be an eye-opener.
Here is the way 1t works: Smith,
the lumber dealer who first possesses
the dollar, buys some groceries from
Brown and pays for them with the dol
lar. About that time Jones, the plum
Der, who had done some work for
Brown, sends his collector around and
Brown pays the bill with this dollar
Jones owes Green, the printer, a small
advertising bill, so he sends this dollar
with possibly some others, to Green
to pay his bill. Green had just put
the dollar in his cash drawer when
in comes Black, the milkman, to whom
Green owes dollar for milk delivered
at his house. Green takes the dollar
out Of his cash drawer and pays
Black. For some time Black has owed
White, the carpenter, for some work
done on his dairy house, so now he
takes the dollar that Green has paid
him and pays up what he owes White.
White still owes for some lumber that
he bought from Smith, the lumber
dealer, so he takes the dollar and
squares up his account with Smith.
Smith now has his dollar back. Brown
has been able, to pay his plumbing
bill, Jones has squared up with the
printer, and so on, all around the
circle.
What Might Have Happened.
Now suppose that Smith, instead Of
buying his groceries from Brown, had
purchased them from mail order
house in far distant city and sent his
dollar to pay for them. Brown would
not have had that dollar to pay Jones,
the plumber; Jones could not have
paid his printing bill the printer would
have had to stand off the milk man !;
White, the carpenter would not have
got the money for the work he had
done for the milkman and Smith would
not have got the money which White
owed him for lumber.
This Is all so simple that 1t requires
no student of economics or professor
of mathematics to figure 1t out. Any
Aene can see that when Smith sends
Ia that dollar to Chicago or some other
city where the mail order houses flour,
ish, that dollar is gone so far as Smith
and Jones and Green and the rest OF
the people in Smiths town are con-
cerned. That dollar will never come
back to pay any bills In Smiths town
And the thing that stands out most
striking, but Is most often overlooked
is that Smith, the man who first spends
the dollar, is hurt just as much wher
he sends that dollar out Of town as Il
the home grocer from whom he nigh
have bought his groceries.
Now Just multiply this one dollar b!
hundred or a thousand or ten thou
sand. One dollar may not seem t.
make much difference in the average
town, but thousand dollars or evel
/ a hundred dollars does make differ
ence. Just as one dollar will pay
dozen or hundred small bills, hun
bred or a thousand dollars will pay
dozen or a hundred big bills. Whel
Brown, the grocery man, owes thou
sand dollars and can't pay 1t, he
headed for the bankruptcy courts
When Jones, the plumber, can't collee
the money which Is due him iron
Brown or maybe dozen Browns he
headed in the same direction as brown
And SO 1t goes all around the circi
until Il hits Smith or a dozen Smith
who have sent their money out OF tow
to add to the fortunes Of the mall orde
men.
Buyer One Who 10 Hurt.
A Thus, II will be seen that this blu!
at.home proposition Is really a selfs
one with the man who buys the good
He is not hurting the home merchar
1 when he sends his money out OF tow
any more than he is hurting himsel
Every sensible man knows that n
livelihood depends upon whether bus
ness in his town Is good or not.
business 10 not good, he cannot make
good living for himself and his famll
no matter how hard he may work, an
business cannot be good II the bus
ness men In the town are not maxim
money. This Is plain business prop
sition for every man and woman IN u
community. BY spending their moh'
at home they are helping the non
merchant only incidentally They a.
buttering their own bread. When TN
send their money to the mail ora
house. they are not only hurting u
home merchant incidentally but
thing more important to then-tn'
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