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Show A GOOD RESOLUTION In conversation with a well-known local man a few days ago told us that he had made but one resolution at the beginning begin-ning of the new year, and that was that he will take more pride in Delta during the months to come than he took in the months already gone. ' We believe that it is the best resolution we have heard of. And if ALL of our citizens would resolve to do the same thing just think what we would have to point to a year from now. The greatest trouble with smaller towns and cities of America today is that they contain too many citizens of the "don't care" type. That is, citizens who are satisfied to let things take their course. Sooner or later, when things do not go to suit them, they develop into knockers. And we all know how quickly a town or community loses the respect of everyone once the the knockers get to swinging their hammers. But in the town when men and women do care, where they take an interest in seeing that streets and walks and gutters are kept in repair; that school buildings and public buildings and churches are kept spick and span, inside and out there the knocker finds his seed of discontent being sown on stony ground and he quickly moves on to some other community, or learns to keep his mouth shut. It is the easiest thing in the world to take pride in your home town, and to stop for a few minutes talk every day with your neighbors about what more is needed to make it still better. bet-ter. It doesn't cost anything to boast of your town's advantages to a stranger, or when you are in another community. All these little things count in the course of a year, and especially when we are all doing it. Boosting the home town gets to be contagious. contag-ious. Pretty soon you'll find outsiders joining in and doing the same thing. The returns are too great to be estimated. So that's why we believe the resolution to take more pride in your home town this year than you did last year is the best one you could make. |