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Show I WHO MAKES THIS TOWN? H It isn't any one man, or any half doz- H en, or dozen. It is every person in the H town; as well as those who are making a H practice of coming to town. H We have citizens who are so 'modest H and retiring that they imagine their in- H fluence is of np value, or has no weight ! that it makes no difference to the town H i whaj they do or do not do. H J They are mistaken. H j We have become so accustomed to the H j progressive citizen that we expect to hear H from him on any subject of an impor- H tance. We would be mpre or less nonplus- H sed if he did not come to the front. H - But it is the action of the quiet and re- ; tiring element' that adds impetus and H puts real life into a movement for civic im B j provement. They may not assume to be leaders, but when they get behind and H push the weight is so great there is no H ' such thing as a premature halt. H - Little wavelets lapping up on the sea- H shore alvays precede the great tidal H . wave that sweeps everything before it. Hi It is so with community life. H In each community there are a few . who are always promptly active in every H f good movement. They are the little wav-H wav-H " es that never rest, that are ever creeping H up the beach, advancing and receding, in-H in-H cessantly on the move until they create H the great wave of public sentiment that moves irrestibly on to victory and a- i enlevement. H It is the mass of quiet citizens who con- H stitute the bulk of that public sentiment H , It4s the citizen who possibly thinks that H ' his own individual opinion has but little Mr influence upon community life. It is the H one who acts after others have talked. You, therefore are one of the number H J who makes this town. H You are expected to aid in jnaking it B even a better town. B You can do it, if you will. Box Elder B Journal. |