The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15
ADVERTISER NT
DID YOU EVER WALK A
PLANK?

Lay a plank on the ground and
million people will walk it
without thought of losing bal
ance. Lift it twenty-five feet
high and only one in a thousand
will dare to walk it. Lift it a
hundred feet and not more than
one in a million will venture up
on it.
Which shows that courage is
only a matter of confidence in
duced by habit and education.
The head Of this corporation
has always made the business
his recreation, and the untiring
effort to better the store and its
service to the people Of Benning-
ton has been an endless source
of pleasure.
We have after thirty years
just begun. Give us another
hundred years of life and we'll
have almost an ideal shopping
place. There may be some mis-
takes yet made but if you will
observe, it's the men who make
mistakes that lead the world.
The perfect people work for
them.
We are passing through the
greatest change the world ever
knew and the final set Of rules
are going to be written by the
men and women who have the
courage of education to walk the
high planks.
The business head that dares
stand and read the hand writing
on the wall, draw his conclusions
therefrOm and act accordingly,
may make some mistakes, but
the crowd through fear that
runs away without reading is
liable to be one hundred per cent
perfect with mistakes.
Today there is no standard of
value. A pound of Russian ru-
bles is worth less than half a
rOtted melon. Millions of dol
lars worth of merchandise is on
the market today whose only
virtue is the fact that in the
making it gave some one a wage
to keep them from starving. ii
is not merchandise made for you
or me to wear. II has no worth.
Such stock is a menace to
many as it is simply camOu-
flage of value. Some apples with
apparently perfect skins are
specked to the core and defy
detection until cut. And SO with
this shOddy worthless truck that
has no virtue except to the mer-
chants who sell it to make a
profit.
We're going to send men to
our State Legislature one of
these DAYS who will make a law
compelling shOddy clothing to
be labeled as such. A law that
will compel the yardage of a
work shirt to be stamped upon
the garment.
When such time arrives you
will be able to drop into any
store without fear of leaving
your money and getting nothing
for it.
Until that time your only
safety is getting your require
ments filed in those stores with
regulations for dealers in goods
of merit.
Bradstreet's index number OF
the price of wearables stands
today at 1876. It's peak of war
prices was 1914. In 1913 it stood
at 100.
This is the whole story re-
duced to figures. II means SIM
ply this, that a suit of clothes
that cost you SIS in 1913 now
is worth on the present market
basis S35.
This store has suits at $40,
S25, $50, S35 $40 and S45. Less
than this we do not dare to go
because all our garments, re-
CARELESS Of price, are guaranteed
to give you perfect satisfaction
Why should you buy piece dye
work shirts cut from unshrurE
fabrics cheapIy put together and
with only Is yards of cloth T.
the dozen used even though yOJ
can get them at 69c, when YOU
can get the best work shirt made
for Sl.0O?
This store has the courage &c
walk the high planks Of bust
ness; to call a spade a spade.
We merchandise without fear
or favor. We have no war mer
chandise to dispose of, Every
thing is crisp with newness
Prices are right.
All merchandise that we are