| Gity Directory.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
Mayor, R. R. Ratton
Recorder, E. VV, Magness,
Treasurer, R. K. McHenry
Marshal, Walter Pascoe,
Aldermen, F. C. Hoyt, J. W. Sisk,
C. M. Edwards, A. H. Saylors and
J. II. Ilolderby.
Council meets first Monday night in
each month.
CHURCHES
Methodist church, services at 11, a.
zn and 7:30 p. in. the second and fourth
Sunday in each month. Rev. Jas. F,
•Jernigan, pastor.
Baptist church, services at 3 p. m.
Saturday before first Sunday, and 11
a. m. first Sunday in each month
Rev. W. P. Jackson, pastor.
Christian church, services first and
'third Sundays in each month at 11 a.
sn. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. J. H. McDon
gel, Pastor.
FRATERNITIES
Rannelly Chapter R. A. M. meets
third Saturday night. I. C. Nuckolls.
E. H. P.; T. H. Hearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 248
meets second Saturday night. F. C.
Hoyt, W. M.;’J. T. Tharp, Sec.
Newark Camp W.O. W. No. 288 meets
■second and fourth Tuesday nights in
month. E. W. Magness, C. C.;0. F.
•Craig, Clerk.
Newark Grove W. C. No. 87 meets
first and third Tuesday nights. Mrs.
C. M. Edwards, Guardian; N. A.
Speed, Clerk.
Newark Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 263
meets the first and third Wednesday
•sights. R. M. Galloway, N. G ; T. M.
Harrelson, Secretary.
Independence Lodge No. 2379 Iv. &
X. of H. meets first and tnird Monday
mights in each month. E. M. Edgar,
Protector; Zed Griffith Secretary.
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I
MENACE TO ALL
Giant Mail Order Concerns
Are Sapping Country of
Its Wealth.
SMALLER TOWNS CRUSHED
By Assisting in the Centralization
of Wealth, Patrons of These In
stitutions Contribute to Their
Own Injury.
(Copyright, 1006, by Alfred C. Clark.)
Every year millions upon millions of
dollars find their way from the towns,
villages'and rural districts of the coun
try to the coffers of the mail order
houses in the cities, and go to the up
building of enormous institutions in
the centers of population. Naturally,
the sources from which the contribu
tions are made suffer accordingly.
Figures ever tell a better story than
words. Here are figures which tell;
a story so stupendous that its full sig
nificance cannot be grasped in a mo
ment, but the mere sight of which are
awe Inspiring:
In the year 1905 two mail order
houses, located in Chicago, did a busi
ness amounting in round numbers to’
$80,000,000. In irhe year 1904 these
same concerns did a business of about
$62,000,000, a gain of $18,000,000 or
nearly 30 per cent, in a single year be-,
ing thus exhibited.
These figures represent the sale last
year of one dollar's worth of merchan
dise for every man, woman and child
in the country by two catalogue houses
alone, and those operating from the
same central point. Dozens more of
varying size and importance are oper
ating all over the country from coast
to coast and from border to border.
A fact not generally known is that
hundreds of concerns throughout the
country which now are doing business
through the regular trade channels are
awaiting only a parcels post law to
unloose literature, already prepared
in many instances, which would pro
ject them into the mail order field, and
this does not take into account the
hundreds and perhaps thousands of
entirely new mail order concerns
which inevitably would spring into ex
istence under such friendly auspices.
The two Chicago institutions re
ferred to, already occupying immense
buildings, found themselves cramped
for room. One of them expended not
less than $1,000,000, and probably more,
for a new home. The other lately has
secured a new location and also will
expend at least $1,000,000 for an im
mense new building.
Anyone who will reflect even casual
ly on the subject must become im
pressed that the influence of the mail
order business is toward the central
ization of wealth, and how enormous
a part it is playing in this direction
will be understood from a second
glance at the figures which have been
given above.
It is due to himself that every patron
of the mail order house should inquire
honestly of himself what the final out
come is to be if the mail order busi
ness shall continue to make the great
strides which have marked its prog
ress during the last half decade.
It is useless to repeat the well worn
argument of the mail order concerns
that they are selling goods enough
more cheaply than the merchants in
the regular channels of trade to leave
their customers more money than
ever to devote to home enterprises
and institutions. The fallacy of this
statement has been proved over and
_
over again by actual and minute com
parisons of goods, as to their quality
and prices. Te refute it finally and
indisputably by a simpler and more
direct method it is necessary only to
ask the reliable business men of any
of the smaller communities to show
the evidence from their books and ac
counts of the harm the mail order
habit is doing their communities.
lc is a truth as old as the hills and
as certain as the rising and setting of
the sun that no country or section of
a country can prosper unless the peo
ple as a whole shall be prosperous.
Such general prosperity as may exist
cannot be retained if the institutions
of the already larger and wealthier
communities are to continue to be
built up by contributions that should
be spent at home from the thousands
of smaller communities.
The need of the country, a desper
ate need upon which the welfare of
the individual depends, is for the
upbuilding and continued progress of
the smaller communities, so that the
wealth of the country may be distrib
uted over the entire country, and not
congested and controlled in large
amounts in a comparative few centers
of population.
Therefore, the man who sends away
from his own community money which
he might have spent at home and per
mitted a fair profit to the home mer
chant to be retained there for the
benefit of the community, is injuring
his community, and thereby the pros
pects for his own future prosperity.
In a large number of instances he is
doing more than this. Unwittingly, or
unthinkingly, perhaps, he is violating
his own principles of right and justice,
for, at the expense of his own com
munity, he is needlessly contributing
profits to the capitalistic combinations
which he continuously cries out are
menacing the country.
The mail order giants direct their
energies particularly toward the peo
ple of the smaller towns and the agri
cultural districts. In hundreds of
thousands of the homes of these the
catalogue of the mail order house is as
regularly received as the home paper.
The man on the farm last year sent a
very large portion of eighty millions
of dollars to two of these institutions,
in one community, alone.
In all sincerity we ask: Admitting,
purely for the sake of the argument,
that the farmer or the resident of the
small community can save a few dol
lars on some of his purchases, or even
that he could do so on all of them, can
he afford to continue to impoverish
his own community, upon which his
own prosperity, the very value of his
land depends?
If he will ask himself this question
and consider it soberly and fairly in
all of its phases, including the many
which cannot be touched upon within
the limits of a single article, we think
his answer must be that he cannot.
The wonderful productivity of this
country has been sufficient to over
come the various adverse economic in
fluences which have existed during the
1 period of years in which the mail or
I der business has accomplished its
greatest growth. Everyone has been
“getting along pretty well.” While the
increasing flow of golden millions from
their source in the land of the coun
try to the already great centers of
money and population has held back
the growth of the smaller communi
ties, it has not yet occasioned a great
disaster. The test will come with the
first pinch of “hard times,” a condi
tion which no country ever has been
able to escape at recurring intervals.
When this time arrives those com
munities will best stand the test which
have best conserved and husbanded
their resources.
JOHN S. POTTS.
> V
The “Man Behind the Plow” last year contributed a large portion of the vast
number of millions which found their way into the coffers of the mail
order houses. The smaller comm unities to which it belonged, and which
were thus deprived of it, suffered accordingly.
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Folk Denounces Mail-Order Idea.
Addressiug a meeting of retail mer
chants in Jefferson city recently, Gov
ernor Folk, of Missouri, said:
“We are proud of our splendid
cities, and we want to increase wealth
and population, and we also want our
country towns to grow. We wish the
city merchants to build up, but we
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prosper. I do not believe in the mail
order citizen. If a place is good
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i born in France; his father was an
American, his mother an Engiisn
woman; his first language was Italian
and he was educated in Germany,
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