Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE [ARTICLE]

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE

Did you ever think very much about the doctor in your town? How he - goes to the metropolitan cities to study things as they are done there. In New York, Chicago or San Francisco he attends clinics always in the hope of discovering something new to take back home, if your doctor doesn’t do this, he is not a good doctor for your community and he doesn’t develop very fast. Now it is the same way with the merchants. The man who boasts about not being away from home for twenty-five years, or even one year is not the best kind of a merchant because every month, every week, every day, sees things changing and changing for the better. If it is for the doctor, the lawyer and even the minister to travel around and see how other people conduct their affairs, why is it not equally good for the merchant. I don’t care whether he keeps a dry goods store or a butcher shop. Get out of the rut and see how they do things in the big towns. The butcher should see the new’ sanitary ice houses; the grocer can note hbw the store fixtures and conveniences are improved; the dry goods man can note systems of providing for the comfort of customers, for educating clerks and for facilities in handling merchandise. There are a thousond and one ways by which a man can benefit by traveling, outside of- all. question of buying. You can't invest money with much more assurance of a good return than you can by’ spending it on a trip to a big city.—Ex.