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THE BAINBRIDGE P OST-SEARCH LIGHT.
RIGHTS OF THE CONSUMER
TO COUPONS ENDANGERED
Lobby Will A*k Georgia Legislature To Deprive The Peo
ple Of Benefits From Trading Stamps And Coupons.
Another effort will be made at the
coniine 'eat Ion of the Georgia legis
lature, it in aaid, in deprive the peo
ple of this stale of the benefits they
are now enjoying from the issuance of
trading stamps and coupons.
Although the proposed legislation is
backed by a powerful northern lobby
and is favored by some of the large
City merchants and big daily papers
1n this section, it is noL believed that
the Georgia legislature will pass such
a measure, lively effort made in oth-
er states has proven abortive, al
though mote than fifty such hills hav
been introduced in ihe last three
years. In most states where this big
lobby has been active, the bills have
.almply tailed to pass, arid in Ihe few
states where such laws have been en
acted, iltey have in every instance
later been declared unconstitutional.
The objection to Ihe it ailing slumps
and coupons has come only from large
mcrcanlilc organisations which have
hoped hy legislation to stifle compe
titlon, and from big publications who
have objected to seeing the public
ebare in the benefits of money spent
Tot advertising which otherwise they
might be able to get for themselves.
fTho public bus always welcomed trad
ing stamps and coupons, as they
amount to the equivalent of cash dis
counts and premiums on their cash
purchases. The Idea lhal Ihe public
was not really getting any bonellt,
but simply paid more for the original
article, or got an inferior article, has
been completely exploded by proofs
showing that the goods sold with cou
pons are sold at exactly the same
price and arc exactly Ihe same goods
that competitors of the coupon-using
merchants sell without coupons.
The manufacturers and merchants
naing (lie coupons are enabled lo do
«o, not by charging more for their
wares or selling Inferior wares, but
by the advertising they gel from Ihe
coupons and hy the trade it attracts
to their stores. It is estimated lhal
fully $6,(100,000 worth or valuable
goods are given away <o Ihe people of
Georgia each year through these cou
pons.
This money represents overhead
advertising expense, which ihe nianu
facturers or dealers themselves pay,
believing that they get 15,000,0(10
worth of benefit out of It in advertis
ing nnd attracting business. If a bill
were passed prohibiting the use of cou
■!
| pons, prices on goods would not be
one cent less to the consumer anrl
! would not give the consumer an arli-
j ele one white superior in quality. It
| would simply mean that these manu
facturers and dealers would cease to
I distribute among the people of Georgia
| Ihe $5,000,Out) worth of goods, which
j they now give away annually absolule-
| !y free for advertising purposes.
Trading stamps are not the same as
coupons, yet the proposed legislation
| aims to put them on the same basis,
ud to crush both with the same blow,
trading stamp, strictly speaking,
is issued by a company in the trading
stamp business, which sells its own
system to merchants and makes a
profit out of it. There might be some
objection to the trading stamp on the
part of the small merchant, as he
might be compelled to buy a system
which lie did not want in order to
keep pace with a neighbor who had
pul in the system, but this possible
objection does not apply to the cou
pon proper at all. as Ihe coupon Is
packed by the manufacturer or retailer
in its own article and given away only
with Its own articles and redeemed in
Its own stores.
No instance has ever been shown
where the people have objected to the
system.
They regard the efforts of the lobby
bh a plan to thwart and stifle com
pel ition and deprive the public of a
benefit It is now getting without con
ferring upon it any new benefit what
ever to replace what it has lost.
Nobody but the thrifty housewife
knows how the average Georgia home
has benefited and been beautified by
the premiums from trading stamps and
coupons, for In the homes of every
community, large and small, are found
coupon-given articles of every kind and
description from cut glass vases and
waffle-irons to bedroom furniture and
pianos. Nearly everyone uses some-
thing on which stamps or coupons are
given, the list including Octagon Soap.
Spearmint Gum. United Cigar Store
purchases, Arbuckle's Coffee, Mal
lard's Flours, Pet and Acorn Condens
ed Milk, Quaker Oats and many other
standard goods. The whole family
benefits. The legislator who votes in
favor of this lobby measure to prohibit
stamps and coupons will simply be
voting at the behest of big business
to take $5,000,0110 annually away from
the people of Georgia.—itAdvt.)
SCHOOL NOTICE
I desire to inform the public and
especially the trustees, teachers nnd
patrons of the various schools of the
county that I will be in my office on
Wednesdays and Saturdays of each
week to give such information as
may be required of me. 1 will be out j
visiting schools and away from the
office most of tile time on other days.
Yours very truly
J. B. L. BARBER. C. S. S.
OPERA SEASON HAS
BEEN BRILLIANT
My Customers nnd friends
will use good judgement and
save big money by lay inn in
their supplies now while the
prices arc not so high. “A word
to the Wise is Suflicient.” Ralph
R. Belcher, Wholesale Grocer.
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Atlanta, April 26 — Practically
every home in Atlanta where visitors
are being entertained has had its
quota this week of out-of-town .guests
for the opera, and the season has been
probably the most brilliant and suc
cessful of all on record.
By the time another spring rolls
around the European war may have
drawn into its terrible vortex the
great army the United States is now
preparing to organise and train, but
for the present at least the people of
Georgia and surrounding states have
not felt the unfortunate effects of the
struggle, and they have gone in for
grand opera on a greater scale than
ever before.
It is the socin! side of the season
that appeals more strongly, after all,
to Atlantans and their friends and
kinfolks, than any other, for it is a
season when families come together
again nnd when friends and relatives
are reunited fov a pleasant round of
social function in the delightful sea
son of the year.
BAKED IN SUNSHINE
ia our bread, cake, cookies, etc. Of
course we are figuratively speaking,
but it amounts to that, for our bakery
is clean and bright. And that, in con
junction with the high class products
we offer you, is a big recommendation
You’ll never long for home baking if
you eat our baked goods.
thite Way Bake
Atlanta, April 26—It sites for
army concentration camps could he
secured as easily, and as reasonably,
as they have been in Atlanta, this
detail of the organization of the
country’s plans for possible active
participations ia the European War
would be the simplest of all the War
Department’s problems.
Captain James W. English, presi
dent of the Fourth National Bank of
Atlanta and a veteran of the Civil
i War, started the ball to rolling with
an offer of 5,000 acres of land on the
Chattahoochee river free of all rent,
or for $5,000 a year if the govern
ment insisted on paying something.
And other citizens, following his
patriotic example, tendered sites
either free or at whatever the gov
ernment might see tit to determine,
and thus the efforts of the local civic
organizations to secure the location
of a greater concentration camp in
Atlanta were made much easier right
from the start.
Break your Gold or La-
Grippe with a few doses
of
Experience Is the
Test of Tires
Every tire claims to he the lowest-cost-per-mile
tire.
If you knew the experience of any considerable
number of other tire users,
—that would help you decide which tire makes
good on the claim.
We don’t know about other makes of tires, but we
do know
—that motorists who have used United States Tires
continue to use them;
—that more and more motorists who used other
makes of tires are turning to United States Tires.
These two facts are proved by the amazing sales
increases of United States Tires
—sales increases that are vastly greater than even
the greater natural increase in the number of automo
biles this year over last
—which shows where tire service is.
United States Tires
Are Good Tires
United States Tubes
and Tire Accessories
Have All the Sterling
Worth and Wear that
Mate United States
Tires Supreme.
Sold by Watt Hardware Co., Bainbridge,
IN MEMORIAM
Atlanta Secured Soldier
Camp in Easy Manner
Mrs. S. P. Evans was born in
Thomas County, Georgia in 1870 and
died at Climax, Ga., April 12, 1917.
She was the youngest daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. James W. Jackson.
She united with the Methodist church
in early life, being eoverted in the
notable revival at Bold Spring in
1883 under the pastorate of the saint
ly Rev. H. C. Fentress, from which so
many preachers were called into the
ministery.
In 1890 she was married to S. P.
Evans who died in 1907. Five child
ren survive: Mrs. W. T. Mathis, San
ford, Fla.; Mrs. D. C. Mosley, Climax,
Ha.; Carl Evans, National Guard of
Florida; Joe Evans, Sanford, Fla.;
and Charlie Pete Evans, age 14.
She was a faithful wife, a devoted
mother, a firm friend, a loyal Metho
dist, a devout Christian.
Though her last days on earth were
days of intense suffering, yet her
Christian character gave fortitude,
and she became happier as the end
drew nearer. All that could be done
for her was done by her dutiful child
ren, loving friends, and her physi
cian, Dr. J. D. Chason.
She was buried beside her husband
at Climax, there to await the resur
rection morn.
—Contributed.
‘ While others are claiming Quality we are guaranteeir.g it.”
ARRIVAL
new stock of
NOTICE
On and after May 1st we will not
be able to sell any more milk tickets
on credit. Our friends and customers
appreciate the neccessity of this ac
tion and will not embarrass both
themselves and us by having us to re
fuse them.
Respectfully
4-26-2t XcN.UR’B DAIRY
Guaranteed
in writing
5000 MILES
W E have just received our large spring
consignment of Ajax tires. Better
anticipate your needs, as the demand for
Ajax tires always exceeds the supply.
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