Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-05-14
PLANTING HoT-BEDs OF DIsTRUsT


Sending away goods unsatisfactory features
when the price less You are always taking chance quality
You always taking a chance color.
BY the time article has returned the of
pOraon to the buyer three times the original fee and
added the first the expected saving becomes nothing
Many times unsatisfactory article kept rather than go
the risk and trouble of returning it to the maorder house
often children tight large
their years because their parents have not figured that the home
merchants courtesy his carrying in stock Of seldom called
for articles his honest endeavor to fit and please his
transportation charges value to the buyer
Most merchants fair and honorable else they would
main business long and they have real desire your
and to hold it by courteous square treatment.
They have profit they cannot continue to give
their customers that treatment which won't
Everyman entitled to fair profit upon his knowledge skill
trade business The coal miner entitled fair wage the
farmer to fair prices the reasonable the
merchant to profit What be reasonable return under the
certain conditions be absolutely insufficient Others
What would be thought goods at the
price and then purchased his family sim
plies in another market
community group individuals interependent one upon
another The man who accepts from his neghbors the patronage
wncn TINS nterdependence implies and then shs share of
community interest by buying outside too selfish be asset
to any town.
In much the interested in the center of
his community ~ =
aus prosperity adds value his land It's stores give
Tor no nconsderable produce It's schools care For h
cnloren Its churches give him opportunity for Divine worship
ana us amusement houses and community gatherings make
n an opportunity to mngle in way with his nei0bo
Close the schools close the churches contract the stocks
cnandise shut the places amusement and the farmers land
not half so attractive to buyers much less to the young peop
on the farm s Psp
Every farming community just as much dependent n ~
sO"n which is the community as the town %
the farmer 80 ~ " epeiueh upon
Ony IN whole-hearfed cooperation can both prosper
Inc pedder who fits through selling stock noood
aOng ETC. responsible for much irritation between
and the merchants His chief in trade is the state
nen tnat the farmers home merchants robbnQ He pava mn
ON the creduy OF his hearers and fills them full of tales about
pAces ana QUANTITIES the most of which exist only in his own fertile
imagination. - ~ 20 "e q
lnoe pedders do not sell sugar nor flour nor salt nor
any otner staple line which the merchant at cost
twenty-five cents advance which he charges on sack of s0a
Goes no more than for the handling prices do not in
the cost OF freight which the buyer must m
D0k Wnlcn the merchant has already included price
worst and the most Objectionable point in the
on this The peddr ss up suspicion between the
which they stir They escape the responsibilities of
md permanent residents and thrive where their
ations are accepted truth. 81
OF course there are excartors - thi ,. ,,... eli
Ong to the community but in general safeguard to the we'll Id
'arred = an
That community is safe where the farmers sufficiently wise
appreciate the fact that anosy against the To- 10
e that he get his prospect thinking acnoniousy of his
To what before in this articles community s
usness upon farmer farmer upon man. both max
sch depends for special services -.