The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 48, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 March 1920 — Page 6

The Syracuse Journal Democratic Preston Henry Miles, Editor. Published every Thursday, at Syracuse, Indiana. $2.00 a Year Phones: Office, 4—Residence. 904 Entered as second-class matter on May 4th, 1908, at the postoffice at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879. . M Thursday. March 25, 1920 The time has .when the size of a store is limited by the population >of the town where it is located. Any small town may have some hustling' merchants ‘ who reach' out far beyond their own ieighborhood, and draw trade from a whole county or a number of counties. In these days of automobiles, people will go many miles to an attractive store located in the centei oi*a rural district. The people who come across country -to visit such an establishment know that it has many advantages ovdr its big city competitor. Its rent is relatively very small. If it owns its building, construction -and upkeep cost far less. Its expense for help is not nearly so large as the city stores, for the employes do not have to pay high city prices for their living. The country store can beat out the city store all along the line. The reason why in the past the city store got so large a part of country trade, was that city stores were formerly much better advertisers. By many years of persistent publicity, they built up a good will ail over the country. Os late years the country stores 'have gone more into the advertising game. As the result of this better spirit of enterprise, and the favorable basis on which they do business, they are getting back the business that belongs to them. Any store in Syracuse by a determined purpose to build up new business, and by reaching out with the necessary publicity campaigns, can draw in trade from a long distance and retain a lot that has been going to mail order houses and metropolitan department stores. It can usually double its business, and often increase much more than ,z that. A splendid beginning on that

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line has already been made by the live men that advertise in The Journal. Watch ’em, and see ’em grow. They are places in which you can beat out the H. C. of L. - o o No more ice is to be expected to appear on the lake this year, for by all the signs of the zodiac, and with the gentleman at Medicine Hat declaring by the great horn spoon, old tousled hair winter has sneaked out the back door. Perhaps a more welcome spring does not appear on the records. With the early setting in of the cold weather, accentuated by the coal miner's strike, the long tedious months of steady cold, the breakin gdown of the country’s transportion and the attendant continuous struggle to keep a few lumps of coal in the bin, the weeks of scarlet fever' shading into following weeks of; influenza— Oh, welcome, gentle spring! o— —- —o I Our industrial prospects are bright indeed and the feeling of enthusiasm that has taken! . 1 hold of our people will no doubt effect considerable changes in the town during the coming months. , f One of the first changes we expect to see will be the re+ moval of the winter’s accumulation of ashes in our alleys.. About the same time will come th<j work of preparing the flower beds and putting the lawn in shape. Then will come the paining that has been delayed for the last three or four years. ! f • • These are simple changes, but important. We expect still great-, er changes in seeing many of thje vacant lots about town become occupied with fine new residences. There will have to be many new dwellings built if vye are to house the people who will be coming here from other places to work. 0 —.—.—o — Keep a nickel as a souvenir of the time when it would buy something. Os course, not everybody who reaids this can afford to keep a nickel out of circulation in any such souvenirious manner, perhaps, but there are still a few people in Syracuse who did not have! to pay an income tax.

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♦ * * * * AN EARNEST APPEAL • * 4 ♦ By Rev. S. W. Paul. «****« The great “Inter church world movement” in which thirty or more denominations are participating is just now occupying the Undivided attention of not only religious leaders but of the rank and file of the Christian people of America. A complete survey of the needs of the whole world has !been made by men who represent the consecrated leadership of all the churches interested in .the movement. The plans laid to meet these needs are at first thought almost staggering, but when carefully considered are found to be with in easy range of the possible. Briefly they include: Ist. The raising of a colossal fund of a billion dollars or more with which to finance the gigantic task that is immediately before us. The whirlwind campaign to secure this amount begins in most of the churches April 25 and closes May 2. 2nd. The securing of large voluntary recruits to the working force, such as pastors, Home and Foreign Missionaries, Deaconesses, etc. 3rd. A red hot evangelistic campaign that will sweep thousands into the Kingdom and culminate Easter Sunday in a large increase in the membership of the churches. A number of the denominations represented in Syracuse are actively affiliated with the movement, and those that are not, I am sure, will be delighted to see it succeed in the largest possible degree. And while I have no authority from any church or individual to make the statement, yet I want to express what I know to be the supreme burning desire of every church and Christian in the town, that the reader of this note seriously consider the claims that Jesus Christ has on you, and that on Easter Sunday at least you find your way to the House of God. Will not every man, woman and child attend the church of their own choosing Easter Sunday, and will not those who attend and belong to church make an earnest prayerful effort to lead some one to Christ and the church that day? The supernal joy of the Chistian is found in leading lost souls to our Lord.

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