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Show """the town doctor ! f (The Doctor of Towns says) - merchants, bankers and professional people are the same as department heads of a store, and the policemen of your community are the floorwalkers. It's always up to the sales force of any business. Your town la a business busi-ness your business and just the same it's up to yon. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction Re-production prohibited in whole or in part. This Town Doctor Article, one of a series of fiftjjMrwo is published by this paper in cooperation with the local Lions Club. o Is there anyone who thinks that is isn't a good idea to make the town in which he lives just a little more at tractive, a little more interesting, a little bit larger, and a little bit better? bet-ter? But, if a man came into your town a stranger and said to any twenty people on the street, or in the stores, "This looks like a pretty good town here," what percentage of the replies do you suppose would be for the town. If he were to put the question to you, what would you say? If you were working in a store and a customer said, "This looks like a pretty good store," and you answered, "Oh, yes, it's all right if you like it," or "Well, it used to be all right," the boss would no doubt fire you; if he didn't, he should! If you answered a customer's inquiry of , "What kind of a store is this," with "slow", "dead,'' "terrible," or any of those unprintable descriptions that you and I and everyone every-one have heard people say about their town, you would be classed as a blithering idiot, mutton-headed numbskull, numb-skull, and a loony nincompoop and who wants to be that? Maybe you have never thought of it. that way. Well, one can't think of everything, but here is something every resident of every city must think about sooner or later, and for your own personal betterment it had better be sooner: Start thinking about your community com-munity as a business look at it just as if it were a store business of which you are a part. Put out of j-our head the old-fashioned idea of your town being something that just happened something that you can't get ahold of an intangible thing so big that whatever you do as an individual won't make any difference differ-ence one way or another. You don't have to he mayor, president presi-dent of a civic club, head of a bank or a store to be important; your vote counts just as much as that of any banker, doctor, lawyer, merchant, or city official, and it's the attitude you take toward your community the things you do for or against it that makes it alive or dead, good or bad, forging ahead or standing still. When industry considers your town, it is the people they want to know about, not just the few shining lights the big boys alone and have their men study. It's you they "feel out," often without your knowing it, and on you, your attitude, how you look at, act toward, and talk about your community, depends on whether their report Is favorable for a new factory, distributing point, headquarters headquart-ers for representatives, or for whatever what-ever they are considering your town. As a citizen you are a salesperson for your community the same as a clerk Is a salesperson of a store; ths |