The Coconino sun., 1922-05-19
''FORWARD ARIzONA"-
 TRADE AT HOME WEEK

General observance of Trade at
 Home-Buy Arizona Products Week.
 throughout the state was urged in a
 formal statement received here yes
 terday from the Arizona Industrial
 Congress" The congress recently in-
 augurated the Trade at Home" move
 ment and urged that it be conducted
 in every locality by local civic and
 commercial organizations, with the re-
 suit that the week will be held in
 practically every city and town in the
 state. The statement follows:
 The last two years have shown as
 never before the necessity of concert
 ed action to restore normal prosperity
 in the state and insure the fullest fu-
 ture 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
 dition of every resident. Your pros
 perity depends on that of your town; your towns depends on it's business; its business depends upon you the individual. Thus we help ourselves when we make business better, re- gardless of whether we are in busi- ness 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 mak- ing 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 scity and town of Arizona trade at home. But many do not. It is the latter whom we hope to reach in this Trade at Home-Buy Arizona Prod ucts" week. We can prove to them that it is to their individual advan- tage to trade at home.
 In some cases people can save money by buying goods from mail order house. If this were not true | mail order houses could not exist. But | when you buy from a mail order | house you lose the opportunity of making your own selection of goods, | of seeing the quality and deciding it will be satisfactory. And in many cases the monetary saving Is so small as to be unworthy of con Reckoning the factors of quality and personal selection, home values are always better than the values you order from ,atalog.
 There is a second-class of people who send their money away from people who visit Califor- lia or the east every year or two and vho put off most of their buying un- il they are out of the state. It is rue that this method offers them a vide variety in many instances, but t does not save them money--in fact, leads them to spend more. Ind on the average they can obtain ust as much satisfaction by buylng t home, or at least in the state
 Similarly, Arizona agricultural and products cost no more, nd will be found of as good quality, s those which are shipped in. You ain nothing by buying the imported ariety.
 Home merchants and home business len and home manufacturers and Il ome farmers are the people who con- ii5ute directly to the prosperity and ,velopment of the state. More bus ess for them means more employ ent, more invested capital. And ore invested capital means more xable property and lower individual xes. Better business means more oney for everybody. You gain nothing by trading away om home. You help yourself by ading at home. There is no choice, zee you consider it.
 For these reasons the Arizona h. strial Congress urges that every cit en of the state observe Trade at ome-Buy Arizona Products" week trading at home and using Arizona oducts exclusively during the week May 22nd to Eth. Doing it for one 'ek means doing it permanently. It a lasting service which we can do r our home towns and our home incidentally ourselves. t tE.orward Arizona"