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Show Paint Our Town By the Chamber of Commerce Publicity Committee Not red but clean and beautiful. beau-tiful. This is tourist year hundreds hund-reds of thousands, perhaps mil-ions mil-ions of people are coming through our town. The impression impres-sion we leave with these people peo-ple could easily determine our future Whether brilliant and glowing, or dull and unimpressive. unimpres-sive. We are proud today of Springville because we have been rated a clean and wholesome whole-some place in which to rear a family or a fine place in which to retire, but a sad part, we spend a lot on education and then keep very few of our young people. With times changing as rapidly rap-idly as they are, how long can we hold such a rating? How will the tourist rate us this summer? Are we as clean and inviting as we should be? Everyone Ev-eryone of us better take a little time out and see what needs doing. Other towns are, and the first thing we know we'll be way behind the times if we don't exert' more effort in public pub-lic welfare. And remember this public welfare means the future of every, one of us. Two things impress the traveler. trav-eler. First is the appearance of the entrance to our town, and second, the attractiveness of our business district. If, on entering en-tering our town a . traveller is attracted by well-painted houses, hous-es, green, well-kept lawns and yards, and an inviting business section, they immediately have a desire to stop, and when they stop they spend money and that money is new money, which every individual in the town will have several chances of obtaining, enriching the community far beyond our comprehension. If, on the other hand, our town greets the stranger with a lot of boarded up windows, poorly kept premises, a lot of unpainted buildings or even a hodge-podge mess of painting, then the traveler goes -on his way, rarely remembering there is a town of Springville. We get no new money, we create no new jobs, and we get only bad publicity. Your Chamber of Commerce is well aware of these things, but the Chamber alone can do little to affect a change. They need the help of all the civic clubs and of every individual. They send out a challenge to every club, to .the schools, the churches, the unions and every person who wants to keep this city growing, and who wants to create jobs, so we can keep some of our young educated people home. They believe that all our unemployed could well afford to start the ball rolling by coming forth and organizing organiz-ing a real paint-up, clean-up campaign', which would create jobs, either for themselves or their children or others so that there is less competition in the labor market. Let's have some of our leaders come forth with their ideas and a willingness to serve. |