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PLACE OF EMPTY STORES
If we permit the big mail order houses to drive
our business men out of competition, what will we
have left? A place of empty store buildings, an
undesirable place in which to live.
If the mail order houses accomplish their pur
pose it is possible that railroad interests will decide
there is not sufficint business to warrant the stopping
of trains here—because there will be no reason,
then, for traveling men to stay over in our town, no
freight to be delivered to our stores.
In such cases we will be trying to sell our proper
ty, but will find no buyers, for who will think it is a
good investment to buy property in a dead town?
But this is just what we must expect if we keep
sending our dollars to the mail order houses, for it is
only the business of the town that makes the town
possible.
When we send practically all of our business to
the mail order houses in the cities there will no long
er be a necessity for, or a reason for, a town here.
It all resolves itself into the question: “SHALL
WE HAVE A PROSPEROUS TOWN, WITH GOOD
LOCAL BUSINESS, GOOD REAL ESTATE VAL
UES, GOOD WAGES AND GOOD MUNICIPAL DE
VELOPMENT, OR SHALL WE HAVE A DEAD
TOWN, WITH PIGS ROOTING IN THE PRINCI
PAL STREETS, STORE BUILDINGS EMPTY AND
WITH “FOR SALE” SIGNS HUNG UP, NO LIGHTS
AND NO FIRE PROTECTION.
IT ALL RESTS WITH US. WE ARE THE ONES
TO DECIDE.
Common sense and goad judgment tell us to pro-
tect our own interests. If we don’t, who will.
What can we expcet from the mail order houses
after they shall have received our money and the
local storekeepers have been put out of the running.
Shall we expect help and assistance from the mail
order monopoly?
We all know that the mail order houses do not
pay any of our local taxes. They do not support our
schools, or churches, or help to pay for our lighting
the streets or for our fire department.
Every dollar spent at home means added wealth,
added prosperity, added real estate values and ad
ded facilities of all kinds.
Every dollar sent to the mail order houses means
more unfair competition for our storekeepers and
less taxes toward the support of our community.
Which do we prefer? We must make the de-f
cision. Are we for or against our community?
LET’S MAKE IT A LIVE TOWN BY KEEPING
OUR MONEY IN CIRCULATION AMONG OUR
BUSINESS MEN.
Educational Campaign
To Buy In Carrollton
Every dollar you send out of Carrollton and Car-
roll county is robbing our city and county of a part
of its resources. Every dollar you exchange here
through business channels adds to our city and
county’s wealth. Which are you doing—building
here or building elsewhere?
BRICK
Best Brick in Carroll County
(Size 2 1-2x4x8)
PRICES REASONABLE
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY
Prompt Delivery On All Orders
For prices call on A. L. Kuglar or W. O.
Barrow, Sect, and Treas.
Bowdon Brick Co. Inc.
BOWDON, GEORGIA
Wholesale and Retail
WHY HOME INDUSTRIES
SHOULD BE PATRONIZED
The following editorial was
awarded first prize by the Col
orado Editorial Association.
The prize was offered by the
Dry Climate Ink and Roller
Co. Do manufacturers gener
ally really appreciate what the
local newspapers do for the
community in their effort to
encourage industrial develop
ment and make a better market
for the factory output? Read
what editor Bjn*nes says in the
Pueblo-Colorado Indicator:
“When a resident of any
town or community makes the
casual remark that he cannot
see why he should buy of home
merchants or show a prefer
ence for home manufactured
goods he sets the more though-
ful individual to thinking, and
he is apt to think along straight
lines. He has heard a strange
sentiment expressed that wakes
him up, and he is apt to reflect
somewhat after this fashion:
“Now, if all the citizens in
this town talked and felt as this
man does we couldn’t and
wouldn’t have much of a town,
and neither community nor
state would be getting just re
turns for the expense and
trouble it has gone to in build
ing up the community, and for
the civil government it has es
tablished for safeguarding the
lives and property and other
interests of its citizens. It
would not be receiving just
compensation for providing
schools, and parks and jobs for
the wage earners and business
for the merchants to enable
them to make a good living.
Such a man is not giving value
received for what he gets out
of the community of common
interests.”
“On the other hand the
home-patronage and home-in
dustry proposition works some
thing like this: If the local
merchant neglects or refuses to
reciprocate in patronizing
those who patronize him he is
not doing his fair share, either.
If he does not buy his boxes,
brooms and mattresses, for in
stance, of the home manufac
turer or the state manufactur
er, and sends his orders away
for such goods, he gets • the
goods, to be sure, but the out-
of-the-state firm gets the mney,
and thus it is taken out of the
home circulation market and it
lessens the wealth of the com
munity by just that much.”
“And, moreover, the box and
broom makers, the mattress
makers, and the proverbial
butcher, the baker and the can
dle stick maker is deprived of
so much needed employment,
and it hurts, for the local la
borer and salaried person in
town has less money to spend
with the grocer, the clothier,
the dry goods man and every
one else in business; and so be
cause a link in the chain of
natural trade has been broken
the entire chain of economics
is made weaker and less effi
cient.”
“It works the same way
when a family sends its orders
off to Squeers, Sawbuck & Co.,
or other big mail catalogue
house in Chiyork for household
supplies, the struggling home
merchant or jobber and the
state manufacturer or jobber is
deprived of his legitimate
trade, but he is called upon just
the same to contribute to a mul
titude of small benevolences
and enterprises, and he must
submit without protest to be
ing plucked about every so of
ten and occasionally in between
times.”
“So let it be understood that
the business man is a very use
ful and necessary adjunct to
any community, for he not only
affords employment to others
but he is among the heaviest of
taxpayers of the home govern
ment for offensive and defen
sive purposes, so that he is en
titled to consideration and sup
port. It is thus seen that home
patronage has its selfish side
and its loyal side that appeal to
us both going and coming.”
“Reciprocity is a grand and
noble institution when made to
work both ways. It then falls
upon the community like man
na from heaven. It radiates a
sustaining and soothing influ
ence upon all persons and in
terests alike. It is a human
sort of sentiment that needs to
be more generally as well as
more generously practiced. It
is the Golden Rule aplpied to
home building and business af
fairs. It relates to everybody
and everything.”
“If the rule were more uni
versally observed there would
be bigger and better home and
state mercantile, manufactur
ing and jobbing concerns,
more employment and lower
taxes, and there would be few
er voluminous dog-eared cata
logues of the big out-of-state
mail order houses in use.”—
The Manufacturer and Indus
trial News Bureau.
A TOWN’S FUNERAL
A town that never has any
thing to do in a public way is
on the way to the cemetery.
Any citizen who will do noth
ing for his town is helping to
dig the grave. A man that
‘cusses’ the town furnishes the
cofflin. The man who is so
selfish as to have no time from
his business to give affairs is
making the shroud. The man
who will not advertise is driv
ing the hearse. The man who
is always pulling back from any
public enterprise throws bou
quets on the grave. The man
v/ho is so stingy as to be howl
ing hard times, preaches the
funeral, sings the doxology.
And thus the town lies buried
from all sorrow and care.—Ex.
LMERKER.
“UNITED WE STAND”
There is nothing of greater importance to us than the prosperity
of our community. Prosperity at home is based on local conditions.
Let us get together for a better town and county by working in a
spirit of harmony and co-operation.
Not only should we promote the business success of the people and
interests of the town and county in general; but show our apprecia
tion of having the chance tp provide for ourselves the necessities of
life through the prosperity of our entire community.
The old motto of “United We Stand” should appeal to us as being
necessary to encourage what is best for our town, for without unity
we can accomplish nothing.
MORAL:—Don’t upset the Home Town Wagon by pulling in dif
ferent directions. >'
Schools, churches, good roads, streets and all city and county im
provements are supported by these MERCHANTS and BANKERS.
HARRIS HARDWARE
COMPANY
THE
WINCHESTER
STORE
JACKSON’S 10c STORE
5c AND JOc GOODS
Garden and Field Seeds and
Plants
56 PUBLIC SQU ARE
WILEY CREEL
jeweler
Repairing, Diamonds Engraving,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut
Glass, Silverware and China
STEINBACH’S
ECONOMY SHOP
Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing
And Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear
CARROLLTON DRUG
COMPANY
EVERYTHING THAT A GOOD
DRUG STORE SHOULD HAVE
First. Nat’L Ranh Bldg.
CARROLLTON
MERCANTILE CO.
Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing
19 ALA. ST.
JONES DRUG CO.
May We Serve Yon?
ROBINSON & WALKER
GENERAL FARM SUPPLIES
High-Grade Fertilizers
Cotton Buyers
If your NEIGHBOR Is not your
friend, nake him so, hy being his
friend. Trade at HOME.
CITIZENS BANK
MANDEVILLE MILLS
COAL and COKE
MEAL and HULLS
FERTILIZERS
Carrollton, Georgia
“GRIFFIN’S”
ONEPRICE
CASH HOUSE
J. N. JOHNSON
FURNITURE DEALER
UNDERTAKERS
50 Public Square
ROOP HARDWARE CO.
HARDWARE—FURINTURB
Paints, Tires, Gas, Oils
A. J. BASKIN COMPANY
“Your Store”
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, NO-
TIONS, SHOES, HATS AND
MILLINERY GOODS
T. H. MERRELL CO.
One Price—Spot Cash
OUTFITTERS for THE WHOLE
FAMILY
East side Public Square—Next to
Peoples Bank.
KYTLE & AYCOCK
T. J. Aycock, Prop.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Furniture, Carpets, Phonographs,
Pianos, Sewing Machines
NORTON'S BOOK STORE
JEWELRY, CUT GLASS,
BOOKS, STATIONERY
Kodaks and Snorting Goods
8 PUBLIC SQUARE
BOSTON DRY GOODS
COMPANY
ONE-PRICE OUTFITTERS
Satisfaction- our motto, or your
money back
SMITH « CADLE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Buy at home—see what you buy
and get the best for the price
no matter what the
price may be.
THE LEADER
Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, La
dles’ Ready-to-Wear
FOR CASH—FOR LESS
W. L. FOLDS
LINCOLN—FORD—FORD SON
Sales—Accessories—Supplies
Service
Telephone 395 Open All Nlgbt
CARROLLTON HARD
WARE COMPANY
GEENRAL HARDWARE, BUG
GIES, STOVES, PIOWS, ETC.
Agents for Chattanooga Plows
and Norman Buggies
PHONE 74 PUB. SQUARE
WEBB-HARRIS AUTO
COMPANY
STUDEBAKER MOTOR OARS
Tires, Tubes, Auto Accessories,
Gasoline, Oils
32 NEWNAN ST. PHONE 307
“This Is a Studeba&er year.”
THE FIRST NATIONAL
_ BANK
The Oldest, Strongest and Only
National Bank in Carroll
County
SAFETY—SERVICE—SAT-
IS FACTION
MOORE & CLEIN
THE BARGAIN MERCHANTS
OF CARROLLTON
You Will Always Find Us On
The Square
THE FARMERS STORE
Wholesale and Retail
Groceries, Flour, Hay,
Grain and Feed Stuff