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Show RUDYARD KIPLING ON MEDICINE HAT Ottawa, Ontario, Doc. 21. Rudyard Kipling, according to a special dispatch dis-patch from Medicine Hat. his written writ-ten a characteristic letter to citizens of that place after being informed i that the town contemplated cbunglug I its name. i "So far as I can make out from what I heard when I was with you in 1907, and from the clippings you enclose," Mr Kipling writes, "thc chief arguments for the change arc "1 That some United States Journalists Jour-nalists hae some sort of Joke that Medicine Hat supplies all the bad weather of the United States, and "2. That another name would look better at the head of a prospectus I "Now, as to the charge of brewing bad weather, etc., I see no reason on earth why white men shnild be blufTed out of their city's birthright by an imported Joke, Accept the charge Joyously and proudly and go forward proudly as Medicine Hat. tho one city officially recognized as capable capa-ble of freezing out the United States ami giving the continent cold feet ' Believe rue, thc very name is an asset, and as years go on will become more and more of an asset. It has no duplicate in tho world. It makes men ask questions. It has the qualities of uniqueness, Individuality, assoeia tlon and power. Abovo all. it Is the lawful, original, sw eat-and-dust-won name of the city, and to chauge It wojiM be to risk the luck of the city, to disgust and dishearten old timers, tim-ers, not in the city alone, but the world over, and to advertise abroad the city's lack of faith in itself." nn |